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Working toward a future built on Bitcoin. Helping founders on the same mission. Hosting trustrevolution.co.

You can't be a nym and be taken seriously. See how that works?

That has zero bearing on the contents of this discussion.

I've paid almost no attention to Charlie Kirk, and had largely written him off. This interview completely changed my mind.

Whatever you think or don't about him or Tucker, this is a profound conversation which Bitcoiners will almost certainly nod along with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-4tNK6dfD4

Replying to Avatar Neal

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Chains-Invisible-Shackles-Economic-ebook/dp/B0FGZR6QJ6

Kindle version is now free for everyone on Amazon until Sunday night.

Every download and review helps get the message out there.

Please share with anyone or everyone.

#bitcoin

Let’s see the power of #nostr

"Calling our monetary system 'broken' surrenders moral clarity and obscures the deeper reality: the system functions precisely as designed, to dominate and extract human effort. The only things genuinely broken are the people it consumes and discards. Economic data vividly confirms the relentless pain inflicted by the objective evil of our monetary order."

nostr:nevent1qqs08cmve3kupua90vmgtfjp2ykgfhs4cd4mm6m3c6gavqzrl6hf60gpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgq3q8zsu6xlfpwdgnrfyzhwpq80ssu83tdew5g7dkzkl4tavsrgzl5ysxpqqqqqqz90ufk4

Conversely, from a wonderful book, The Places That Scare You, "a broken heart is an open heart."

Replying to Avatar ODELL

I'd be keen to see a survey of verified buyers/users vs gen pop.

I'd read the series.

Cleaning out old files, and look what I found. Good times.

I do empathize. I can only imagine what it's like to have an audience/customer base that massive.

Good catch. I'd seen them mention this in a previous newsletter. Respect.

I emailed him about that a few weeks ago. For social, seems he's all in on X, but mostly email.

Going all in on nostr is the new #reckless. I'm here for it.

Proton's new confidential AI product, Lumo, is impressive in my short time with it this morning.

Usage details are fuzzy. I'm not sure what I get as a Proton subscriber versus their Lumo Plus plan, but I assume they'll smooth that out. And I can't find the APK anywhere but Play Store, yet.

Still, strong start.

https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai

"Of course, there’s only one Truth we’re witnessing here: the traditional top-down transmission model of communication is dead."

And here we are, building what's next.

Does the same stubborn determination that holds Bitcoiners firmly in their commitment to Bitcoin prevent many from opening their eyes to nostr?

I have dabbled. Bitwarden is my daily driver, but I'm toying with the idea of moving to Pass, since I'm a Proton subscriber.

I do use Keypass on my Tails USB as a backup.

100,000 sats paid out to nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7qpq0r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7s85uvay for the apps I requested, with more on the way. I'm bullish on this being a superior distribution channel and a serious revenue generator for FOSS devs.

Get your apps up and get those zaps yourselves.

gm, good people. ☕ Have a great week.

📢 nostr:nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgzqtdq0 package bounties

25,000 sats paid to anyone I follow (in my WoT) for packaging each of the following:

★ Proton Calendar

★ Proton Pass

★ Tailscale

★ YAM Launcher

★ CoMaps

★ Transistor (https://codeberg.org/y20k/transistor)

★ Goguma (https://codeberg.org/emersion/goguma)

Payout will be made by zap in Zapstore, following successful installation on my device.👌🏼

The inability to assert privacy is going to drop one's personal bottom line.

https://reclaimthenet.org/delta-rolls-out-ai-based-personalized-airfare-pricing

Replying to Avatar waxwing

What if Jim Bell (actually it was really Tim May's idea) was right? Sure, assassination markets don't exist right now, even if they could exist now, in theory, with anonymizing networks and digital cash. But imagine for a moment that the cypherpunk vision of the future, in which we "transcend" the constraints (barbed wire fences) of the physical world, and manage to arrange commerce beyond the control of governments, using the aforementioned tools, is actually not realistic.

Imagine that instead, people decide to "flip the script" like this: to enforce political will in the physical world by using these same tools. Obviously "assassination markets" described a crude version of that. But imagine a scenario that's more subtle: the government wants to enforce behaviour A in public, and treats !A as a very serious crime. Then imagine person X walks into the street and does !A, but instead of getting arrested by the police around him, everyone instead deliberately turns away. This person X seems to have power that is outside the government somehow .. how?

Imagine that there are cameras all around the street he is on, but not only government surveillance cameras, also drones and perhaps throwaway invisible devices that are recording. Imagine networks of extremely violent vigilantes (but not government! separate ones) that monitor these feeds. Imagine that they dox and investigate people doing things they don't like, and then murder them or their loved ones, or who knows what horrors.

This is all very fanciful in a dark way, but my point is that the view "cypherpunk means we can avoid state power and not challenge it" may miss a ton of subtlety. Notice that in my fanciful description, it's pretty criticial that these "vigilantes" can act somehow anonymously, and that would be the hard part.

Cypherpunk meets cyberpunk.

Another discovery compliments of nostr:nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgzqtdq0. A little finicky to setup, but an impressive alternative if you need access to Big Tech accounts.

https://email.faircode.eu/

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I can confidently say that nostr:nprofile1qqsppdnxpjc82jlm3yn9gawhv7p4nm69a3f80rg5ycw305xned2s0hcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshsz9rhwden5te0v9kxwmeww468smewdahx2tcq7d5tl goat milk + tallow soap is THE BEST HAIR SHAMPOO I've ever used.

I have curly hair which easily gets too dry (opposite of what people might assume) and literally any other commercial shampoo just wrecks it for days. Not this magical bar.

it is now literally the only object in my shower that isn't nailed down, aside from the occasional Bluetooth speaker (for listening to nostr:nprofile1qqsx8zd7vjg70d5na8ek3m8g3lx3ghc8cp5d9sdm4epy0wd4aape6vspz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqzymhwden5te0v9kxwmeww468smewdahx25ymrr2's podcast)

Linux waitlist. Available now for Mac. Looks promising. #freedomtech

https://refine.sh

VeraCrypt is both incredibly powerful and comically complicated. Discuss.

Pro tip, would-be influencers: give credit (and attribution) where credit is due.

"Back, a pioneer in the industry and whose Hashcash proof-of-work system is foundational to securing the Bitcoin blockchain, is expected to contribute up to 30,000 Bitcoin to the Cantor Equity Partners 1, valued at over $3 billion."

My eyes watered reading this one. nostr:note1vtrutrljmh3j0d5g0efc0gvhmql0awl0cp57hzhxxnx6vuj2k72qhn5dqr