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Does anyone else sense the Bitcoin space has become too predictable? My gut tells me something out of left field is coming. When I see politicians and corporate suits talking about Bitcoin with smug faces, I laugh. It’s comical. Their pivot to stablecoins tells me I’m right. Bitcoin does the unexpected, it’s going to eat them alive.

Stacking knowledge and experience with Bitcoin today is more valuable than stacking sats today. In the future when the rest of the world floods in, people will trade portions of their stacks for access to the knowledge and experience you have and to avoid the beginner pitfalls. Learn all you can now!

The best place to start is with old versions of yourself. Forest fires burn so they can grow anew.

Alcohol. Two months ago. This is the longest I’ve gone for almost 20 years. The first thing I really noticed was my general anxiety went down and I stopped having existential crises in bed at night.

Yes.

Learn how to be humble and live simply.

A lot of people don’t know what they would actually do if all of a sudden bitcoin made them rich.

There are lessons that need learning before Bitcoin rewards you, for your own good.

Bitcoiners *waiting* for normies to figure out their money isn’t real lol

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Are there still places with vibes anymore? Or did the internet kind of kill it?

I feel like digital spaces have vibes. Nostr has a vibe for sure, but everywhere I go (in America at least) feels flat, steril and homogenous now.

People like to pretend otherwise, romanticizing local charm and it’s fun to do so, but in reality there is no meaningful difference between New York, LA, Chicago, Austin, Miami etc…

The differences feel increasingly superficial. Miami with its neon pink and bad Latin art. New York with its identical minimalist cafes selling identical oat lattes. These aren’t cities anymore, they’re brands. “Keep Austin Weird” feels less like the rallying cry of a bohemian collective and more like a safe corporate brand slogan.

It wasn’t always like this. Cities used to incubate true subcultures that couldn’t thrive anywhere else. Seattle once had grunge music emerging organically from local clubs, distinct in sound and attitude. Detroit was a birthplace for techno and industrial grit that couldn’t have been manufactured. New Orleans had jazz clubs and vibrant local traditions that permeated every street corner authentically. Before the internet collapsed distances, you could sense deep authenticity upon arriving somewhere new. The vibe wasn’t something designed by marketing departments; it was organically woven into the streets, the people, the music, and local myths.

Now, vibes feel engineered and commoditized, reduced to Instagrammable moments and easily replicable aesthetics. I once watched from the balcony of my hotel in Nashville as 200 women waited in line to take the same stupid picture with the same stupid set of angel wings.

Digital spaces, ironically, have become refuges of uniqueness, fostering communities unburdened by geographical homogenization. Platforms like nostr host unique niche communities, from hyper-specific gaming bitcoin cultural milieu to obscure philosophical discussions, that retain genuinely distinctive vibes.

Perhaps we’re now entering a strange inversion, where real-world spaces chase digital popularity, adopting blandness to maximize broad appeal.

In this inversion, digital worlds might become the primary spaces where unique vibes survive, thrive, and multiply—leaving our physical world as little more than a flattened reflection of what used to be.

Nostr is where the vibes are at.

Really well said. I’ve felt this for years. I never get a sense of a distinct culture anywhere. It’s all the same box stores and chain restaurants all with the same fake aesthetic.

I think it’s just a reflection of the corporatization of our world.

My hope is that with the world adopting Bitcoin and people taking back their sovereignty we will also see the resurgence of unique subcultures (in the real world) again, as people won’t have such an allegiance to big corporations.

Most cities around the world are empty and decaying. People have largely transitioned back to living in rural communities where they mostly self govern small local populations. There is a reconnection with the land and the human spirit and people are much more self sufficient. However, we still have access to the knowledge and technology of the 20th and early 21st century and it is important to maintain critical infrastructure to keep power grids etc operational. The average person is not in poverty but life is smaller and simpler. Podcasts and tik tok feeds no longer exist. But the technology of storytelling around a fire to transmit information has become necessary again.