“Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the Matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts, I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.”

Boss Fiat, encountering Satoshi

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Just boarded an eleven hour flight to Cairo. Going to spend the whole time doing a final proof-read of Broken Money to find the straggling typos that me and my editor missed, so my formatter can fix them in the final manuscript.

It’s funny- no matter how many rounds of editing you do on a book, there are always still some there.

Write code, stack sats, disregard the politicians and bureaucrats

Explaining nostr to traditional folks:

Nostr has no team, no leadership, no funding, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.

And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.

It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.

There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.

It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.

There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.

Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.

Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.

If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).

The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.

At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.

Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.

Someone just reached out to me, if I can connect them to management at #nostr , they wanna ask them to sponsor a booth at a tech conference…

7yo: “Daddy, what’s a private key?”

i didn’t think we’d get here already 🥲

YES

Nostr noob:

“Ok, I’ve sold all my shitcoins, stacked and secured my Bitcoin.”

Devs:

“Great now decipher Cashu nuts and don’t talk back.”

Stop Asking for Permission

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When we speak of permission, it inherently implies the existence of an authority - a figure, system, or rule that has the power to permit or deny. In many contexts, this notion is necessary. An army has little chance of succeeding without some chain of command. However, when it comes to one's personal agency and creative expression, the seeking permission is a barrier to the free flow of ideas, innovation and entrepreneurship - the very things that build civilization.

By its very nature, creativity is unrestricted and boundary-less. It thrives in environments that encourage spontaneity and exploration, where the fear of crossing lines or breaking rules is absent. However, if you find yourself constantly asking for permission, you unintentionally erect mental barriers that hinder the birth of novel thoughts and actions.

Asking permission from an authority unrelated to your creative pursuit is an affront to your agency. It can subtly suggest that you don't have the right, capability, or knowledge to make decisions about your own work, thereby undermining your autonomy.

Yet, this is not to advocate for reckless abandon or uncontrolled chaos. There's a balance to be struck. Knowing when to ask for guidance and when to trust your own judgment is a critical part of maturation, growth and development. However, the seed of any creative process must be allowed to germinate in the fertile ground of personal agency, unhampered by external dictates.

The magic of creativity truly manifests when you free yourself from the shackles of constant permission-seeking. When you ungate your mind, you invite a broader spectrum of ideas, enabling the birth of concepts that may have otherwise been deemed unattainable or unconventional. Unshackle yourself from the need for permission so that you can be creative and free.

Vision Pro

Ahh the weekly DDoS

The IMF wrote up a list of their top 10 complaints about El Salvador. #Bitcoin Bonds are #1. 😎

Energy

#bitcoin is so confusing

@Miprimerbitcoin en Guatemala LFG

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