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Cybernetic ⚡️ Counterculturalist

I hope he is coping well in today's world after being locked up for so long. A lot has changed since then.

While everyone is talking about #Trump and the #BitcoinReserve, I'll ask again briefly, will the Epstein list now be published?

Give that man a cookie 🍪

Or Zap if you agree. ⚡️😂🤘

Replying to Avatar Jeff Booth

If #bitcoin stays decentralized and secure, it is imposing the first global free market the world has ever seen.

Productivity gains flow to broadly to society in free markets through deflation.

Everyone gets richer every year and competition to provide value increases driving a cycle of unprecedented prosperity.

But, if you are pricing #Bitcoin in USD, you are still in the system of extraction and centralization which must centralize faster through the extraction of the productivity gains that should flow to society in the form of lower prices.

The two systems are incompatible!!

And…It is a confusing topic because we have no reference for what a global free market looks like……so many people will get rug pulled (eventually) by not choosing self custody and running nodes. Instead trusting institutions and a paper derivative of their #bitcoin.

Why: because it will appear they are getting wealthy (in USD) Protecting the decentralization and security by running nodes and being constantly vigilant for new attack vectors will seem like a stretch! For most people pressing the easy button in an ETF or other centralized entity will seem like the right thing to do which ensures faster centralizing.

That centralized system of extraction MUST eventually attack Bitcoin or fail.

This may be a long time out. Ie - if I was on the other side of the fight - I would make my system as easy to integrate to bitcoin as possible and use the natural biases of humans against them. Ease of use, trust in institutions, time, etc so they didn’t “need” to worry about self custody and understanding how the protocol works.

Those on building on #Nostr, Bitcoin, Lightning, Ecash and spending their time contributing on this open protocol and teaching others are on the front edge of the greatest change the world has ever seen. From extraction to cooperation.

Stay vigilant, stay focused, run a node, and tune out the madness of the system of extraction trying to drag you back into its centralized structure.

For the opportunity to exist, It had to be this way!

We are so early.

Thank you for everything Jeff.

Specially for all your books and knowledge you’ve been shared.

I hope that those who get rugged, will learn from their mistakes. 🤞 ⚡️

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GM

GM. #FreeRoss at day one. ⚡️

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If you’re bullish. Zap ⚡️

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What is your favorite song to get up to at the moment?

#musicstr

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VzbEtG6wElA

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

—Eric Hughes

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

March 9, 1993