You tolerate other people ten times more if you know ahead of time that you have a shared principal with them. You'll disagree around the margins but realize you're basically on the same page.

Back in like the 1950s USA, people felt that sense with their neighbors, church, and even government. They might disagree on things, and there were some shitty downsides to that (anyone not in the majority) but they were like, flag-waiving Americans. So a question is how to recreate that, and more broadly than it once was.

And ironically, as shitty as the authoritarian economic and legal situation is in many ways, people in Egypt today feel that way today. There's a substantial sense of unity or shared ideals, aside from a small percent of extremist outliers. That's true for many developing places.

One of the major strengths of the "bitcoin community" is this set of shared identity. Bitcoiners will loudly argue with each other, but they know they have at least one foundational shared agreement. That's healthy.

There were times, at like conference side-parties, where I noticed I was standing in a friendly discussion circle with like an anarcho-capialist to the literal right of me, a progressive to the literal left of me, a human rights advocate from an authoritarian state in front of me, a billionaire capitalist with pragmatic politics also in front of me, and us standing in a circle happily talking and basically friends. It's because we have at least one shared major principle that brings us there. A unifying factor for which, as we enter discussions for which we might disagree, we know we can build common ground upon.

As certain countries get hollowed out, and as neighborhoods become more remote and distinct, I continue to believe that local in-person bitcoin communities are absolutely profound. Regular meetups help exchange local fiat with bitcoin P2P, help educate people on the latest tech, help bring people from different viewpoints together, etc. Absolutely essential.

The only thing of consequence that he said during the entire time was to reiterate that he will commute Ross’s sentence.

#FreeRoss nostr:note1qc6ytxe9f06r8qy9puplprchqftrh8var3cdatwjgwgnuwj22cdsp7l5w2

buncha democrats probably who bought it up so they could dump it now

i'm stoked anyhow, it's gonna pump my bags, for sure, it gives hope of a bigger peak for this cycle, which might mean i actually can buy some land and building materials and hire dudes to build shit and have my dream bunker and sheep farm/dairy in the mountains

and because when people have their first lightning payment experience, it's gonna be big if it happens in large numbers, they will be scrambling to keep this from going viral, it flipped me - my first lightning transaction set me on a new trajectory and i think it will do that for a lot of people, given a little grounding in the economics of money

The right to self custody, run nodes and privately transact without taxtion is the foundation of this particular policy.

What is better?

No persecution and the gov buying bitcoin

OR

More persecution and the gov buying bitcoin

Stop pretending that we are going to end the state by holding ₿

I like testing GUI clients, but I find building them incredibly tedious.

Low-key glad that they're getting so easy to automate, now, because I can write all the logic up and can then say, "And now build me a Svelt client for that. With pink sparkles."

Then I just have to test it and fix it, which is the fun part.

You can't install both? That's silly.

Honestly everyone but Trump here is pretty solid on a lot of things.

As far as people who have comparable fame, who would you rather see on the list? nostr:note1rhn82fq74ws0gc4yecdgwxhxgfh7j42tsfax36skldnu485dacjstfccey

These #PsyOp are like Russian dolls, there are many layers (of deception) to them.

Name ONE thing the government ever made better by getting involved.