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Rafael Carmo
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Bitcoin, freedom of speech, internet privacy and other stuff

What’s the best way to buy #Bitcoin anonymously?

#asknostr

Hello nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx, greetings from Africa! Very happy to be here and to follow you. You are very relevant in your messages.

Welcome bro! Set up a wallet. I just tried to zap you without success

Honestly I have no idea. But 16 years ago I also had no idea of how a technology could make money debasement impossible.

But to answer your question, no, this is not what I had in mind. I don’t mean fight back. I mean something that would make us immune to state violence just as Bitcoin makes us immune to money debasement or nostr makes us immune to censorship.

As nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 said, we are winning, but we haven’t won.

#Bitcoin is making money debasement obsolete.

#nostr is making information censorship obsolete.

But the state still has the monopoly of violence. We still need to make that obsolete somehow. Only then we’ll have the absolute power.

That might be unthinkable now, but so was Bitcoin a few years ago. Keep pushing #FreedomTech further!

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Inspired by nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs, here’s one of my favorite ‘dumbass teenage boys do dumbass shit’ stories:

During the summer between our sophomore and junior years, my friends and I’s favorite way to pass a summer day was fucking around at various parks around town. We’d usually start out the day fishing, but things generally quickly devolved into finding ways to get the adrenaline flowing. We’d catch snakes (2 of which escaped a cage in my basement and were literally never again seen 😂), trap snapping turtles, noodle for catfish, ya know, manly shit. But one day we decided to kick it up a notch, and that’s when things got interesting.

While ‘walking the River’ at one of our favorite parks outside of town we came across some never before seen train tracks. Obviously we immediately did what any red blooded male teenager would do, throw shit at the trains as they passed by! We entertained ourselves for a few hours chucking rocks, railroad spikes, sticks, etc. at the passing trains. But when that inevitably got boring, my buddy Mitch came up with a great idea. Let’s pile a bunch of shit on the tracks and watch the train blast through it!

So, we proceeded to spend the next hour or so piling up railroad ties, big ass rocks, and fallen tree branches onto the tracks. There were a couple of times when someone would say, “that’s probably enough,” then the rest of us would tell him to stop being a pussy and to go get some more shit. Finally, we heard it. The next train was approaching. We hid down the hill behind some trees and waited to see our masterpiece get blown into a million pieces. And holy shit did it ever! It sounded like an explosion when it got hit, and shit literally went flying everywhere. We were cheering, laughing and hollering like apes when all the sudden we hear the train hit the brakes…

It took a minute to register what was happening. The train was stopping, and we needed to get the fuck outta there asap. By the time we collected our wits and started running we saw the train conductor climb out of the now stopped train and yell, “get back here you assholes!”

Holy shit! Time to get a move on boys! We ran as fast as we could, following the river we had been walking when we found the tracks. I lost a shoe at some point and was running half barefooted for what felt like 5 miles (probably like 1/2 mile in reality). We eventually came to a field by a road we recognized and stopped for a second to look back. Thankfully, we’d lost the conductor. Truthfully, I doubt he ever pursued us farther than like a hundred feet, but we weren’t going to stick around and find out what he had in mind for us if he caught us.

In the end it was a successful summer day full of sunshine, adrenaline, and fucking shit up. A dumbass teenage boys dream 😂. And, yes, we did this many more times that summer, lmao. Good times.

Sounds like an awesome childhood!

More importantly: currently we have some of the brightest minds on humanity dedicating their time and energy to the financial market, that in and of itself doesn’t aggregate a lot of value to society.

The actual productive sector is less profitable than the financial manipulation and speculation.

We need the right incentives to bring back the bright minds to create, invent and produce.

Can you imagine where we would be as a species if the incentives were aligned with innovation and production? How many great doctors, scientists and engineers do we lose to the financial market every year?

To me the difference between #nostr and other social media is that on nostr I tend to think ‘how can I contribute here?’ instead of ‘let’s see if I can find something interesting here’ (usually followed by doom scrolling).

Came to fight censorship, stayed because it’s fucking awesome!

#grownostr