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This is Bitcoin

Perhaps the most engaging, and interesting “what is bitcoin” presentation ever. Sending it to everyone that still lets me talk to them about bitcoin.

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What makes explaining #bitcoin and #nostr so hard is the fact that they exist outside the worldview most people live their lives within. Asking someone to adopt them is like asking someone to stand where there's no ground or breathe where there's no air. Fiat has warped how people see everything and people take the new view as normal. Nothing lines up with that reality when you explain the problems Bitcoin and Nostr solve, so you're automatically dismissed. Telling someone their worldview is corrupted makes people fearful and closes them off to reason.

I don't know a better way to explain Bitcoin than by letting people feel enough pain from fiat to start questioning why things are so messed up at a fundamental level, and then introducing them to Bitcoin. Otherwise, there's no motivation to learn.

The orange line is the global liquidity in dollars.

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Following the thesis that Bitcoin is a proxy for global liquidity, European war bonds will cause the price of Bitcoin to explode.

Please European rulers, approve the war bonds, I feel sorry for you Fiat NPCs, everyone here is looking out for their own interests (Except the Fiat NPCs).

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Welcome to all those who have realized that there is no fixing a centralized system from within the centralized system.

Giving your energy to either side of issues within that framework only robs you of your time and energy.

It’s early here but it is the future!

#Bitcoin

#Nostr

For those that are new to Nostr, hello!

What’s cool about it is that Nostr it is an open source protocol. It is not a centralized company, but rather is a protocol that individuals and companies can build upon.

This means that you can use many different applications to access it, or even build your own. And it means that there is no central authority that can take down posts or delete accounts; there are different servers operated by different entities that are storing the data. And there is no central algorithm for determining what posts people see or don’t see.

You can hook up a bitcoin lightning wallet to send and receive tips (“zaps”) on posts. Nostr itself is not a blockchain or crypto and has no token, but the Bitcoin blockchain does complement it well via zaps.

Nostr is still relatively small, and a bit rough around the edges. But the community here is great, and familiarizing yourself with the technology and concept is useful in a world of centralized social media. It is a new method of decentralization that balances various trade-offs in a novel way, and the protocol can be used for a lot more than just social media.

Welcome!

A very good summary of the Unabomber Manifesto by @oldbooksguy.

The Unabomber Manifesto🧵

Ted Kaczynski’s IQ: 167

Harvard admission: At 15

Youngest ever math prof, UCB: At 25

Money spent by FBI to find him: $50+ mil

The manifesto attacks modern civilization like nothing else before or since

13 best insights from a Philosopher-Terrorist👇🏻

1/ Kaczynski lists the 4 big problems with modern civilization:

- “Excessive density of population”

- “Isolation of man from nature”

- “Excessive rapidity of social change”

- “The breakdown of natural small-scale communities such as the extended family, the village, the tribe”

2/ The big difference between the primitive civilization and our contemporary world is that before, individuals had a lot of autonomy while the state was largely powerless to penetrate into the everyday life of people

Kaczynski argues that modern tech suddenly flips this balance

3/ The balance of power between individuals and the larger “system” flipped when machines made much of human labor obsolete while simultaneously allowing big corp and big govt to observe, track, exclude (social media bans, stripping away bank accounts) anyone being naughty

4/ Uncle Ted on how modern life STEALS your sense of agency:

“Primitive man, threatened by a fierce animal, can fight in self-defense…the modern individual is threatened by many things against which he is helpless: nuclear accidents, carcinogens in food, increasing taxes.”

5/ Ted Kaczynski writes:

“The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man’s environment..it is to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.”

6/ With robots doing most work will people find work in “service industries”?

Kaczynski says no

People will reject the “pointless busywork” of “driving each other around, making handicrafts, waiting on tables” and embrace dangerous outlets: “drugs, crime, cults, hate groups”

7/ Kaczynski against Leftism:

“Leftism is in the long run inconsistent with wild nature, with human freedom and with the elimination of modern technology. Leftism is collectivist; it seeks to bind together the entire world (both nature and the human race) into a unified whole.”

8/ Kaczynski devotes a large chunk of his manifesto attacking leftism

But in a powerful paragraph, he argues that the conservatives are fools too

9/ The system knowingly destroys intimate bonds between people because it wants to SOAK UP all the loyalty and energy of individuals for itself

Kaczynski writes: “The technological society HAS TO weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently.”

10/ A “democracy” with advanced tech is less free than a “dictatorship” with primitive technology

A low tech society has “no rapid long-distance communications, no surveillance cameras, no dossiers of information about the lives of average citizens”

Easier to “evade control"

11/ Can we go back to small-scale communities?

Kaczynski says no because we are “enmeshed with and dependent on large-scale systems like public utilities, computer networks, highway systems, the mass communications media and the modern health-care system.”

12/ Next step?

A retvrn to nature...

Nature is Kaczynski’s “counter-ideal to technology” because it is self-contained, “beautiful,” and already has “tremendous popular appeal”

The technological civilization must expand wastefully to survive, is ugly, and is largely despised

13/ Kaczynski on the importance of aims:

“Secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonistic & demoralized, even though they have power. This shows that power is not enough. One must have goals toward which to exercise one’s power.”

fin.

13/ Kaczynski on the importance of aims:

“Secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonistic & demoralized, even though they have power. This shows that power is not enough. One must have goals toward which to exercise one’s power.”

fin.

13/ Kaczynski on the importance of aims:

“Secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonistic & demoralized, even though they have power. This shows that power is not enough. One must have goals toward which to exercise one’s power.”

fin.

This is wild 👀

The global competition for #Bitcoin  accumulation entered a completely new phase 😮