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Persistent provocateur of deliberate thought | Advocate for radical individual sovereignty | Occasional composer | Reformed Christian - Find my music here 👇🏻 https://wavlake.com/album/257a5d0f-bb0f-48a0-8875-5a2624c955a6

New album “Beautiful Devastation” is on all major platforms now. Although I’d prefer you use a V4V protocol for those zaps!! Give me some feedback please.

https://video.nostr.build/442dbf7de5c25443870eed92f76e347b2ac814a70a0a5a7ed60816dad91b4ed1.mp4

Gm Nostr. ☕️

Freedom isn't about doing what you want, it's about not needing what everyone else is addicted to.

Now go crush today and I’ll catch y’all in a bit. PV.

Yup. This is what I’m referring to brother. There is serious sacrifices and structures that have to be in place. And I understand that it’s difficult. But worth it, absolutely.

We have one chance to raise our children well. Don’t let them drift through formative years distracted by the chaos and empty promises of their generation. Be intentional. Be present.

Nostr is best used to state the obvious and most culturally controversial topics. Including…

The fact that decentralization doesn’t automatically create better discourse. It just removes the ability to blame centralized gatekeepers for our own intellectual laziness.

That “censorship resistance” means protecting speech you find repugnant, not just speech you happen to agree with this week.

That most people claiming they want freedom of association actually want freedom from consequences of their associations.

That building parallel systems is harder than complaining about existing ones, and most revolutionaries are better at manifestos than maintenance.

That value for value models only work if people actually value the thing enough to pay for it, which is a market signal some creators don’t want to hear.

That your keys, your notes, your responsibility also means your mistakes, your reputation, your problem.

That we’ve simply moved the trust assumptions around, not eliminated them, and pretending otherwise is intellectual dishonesty.

The real test of any protocol isn’t its technical specifications. It’s whether it can survive its own success without replicating the exact power structures it claimed to replace.

Discuss.

I was waiting for this comment

Besides flat screen TVs, what else has deflated over the last decade?

How do you buy your coffee? Whole, ground or Pod refills?

Either way you can buy some small batch roasted coffee the way you brew your coffee from my boys own coffee roasting business through their square store. You can pay in Bitcoin peeps. Their coffee is amazing. Boost this note!!

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Sowell would likely say that even Bitcoin involves trade offs, that giving up monetary flexibility means giving up tools to respond to crises. Fair enough. But perhaps the real trade off is between short term political convenience and long term civilizational trust. If so, Bitcoin isn’t utopian thinking. It’s the most Sowellian position of all.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Yes. So underrated. Thanks for the zap brother