There's this completely unfounded cypherpunk nostalgia (*) among some bitcoiners.

(*) Nostalgia: we had a glorious past full of ideals and now the present is corrupt, we have relaxed on the ideals, we wish we went back to the good old times

I think it's completely unfounded. We could not even imagine in our wildest dreams that we would arrive at the current moment. We had crampy slow mixmasters, command line encryption that no one used and fiat in envelopes and later centralized electronic gold custodians.

You say that there are some services that require KYC, got corrupt by VCs and compliant, not really punk. That is true, but also these corrupted services did not exist at all in the before times you are so nostalgic about.

Do we have more options or less? Definitely more. We are participating in an open decentralized project that emerged into sixth largest reserve currency in the world. And we are only beginning.

Pissed about grandmas with ETFs? Even if you remove them, we are more than 1000x of what anyone expected. We thought we are going to be fringe like the 0.001% PGP users.

We don't need everyone to be cypherpunk. Let others do what they want, we're already winning our game. Their game? Not playing, sorry, too boring.

Today I learned my real friends are on #nostr, not in real life.

You guys have helped me in more ways than any friend in real life ever has and I am truly grateful for that. Right now, there's no way I can make up for what yall have done for me.

Give me some time though.

Nostr is truly something special.

A perfect bled of tech and the right people that can transform lives for the better.

Yall kept me from being homeless once, and now encouraging me to keep fighting through my battles.

My friends in real life - "that sucks"

I love you all.

🫂💜

🔍 Legacy Social Media = Centralized Shitcoins

Think about it - Twitter, Facebook, Instagram operate exactly like worthless tokens:

Centralized control

Print engagement out of thin air

Freeze accounts at will

Founders getting rich off users' data

These platforms are mining attention farms where users are the product, not the customer. 🐑

The Problems:

Complete control over content and reach

Algorithmic manipulation

Privacy nightmare

Government surveillance backdoors

Data harvesting

Fake engagement metrics

Enter NOSTR - the Bitcoin of social media:

No central authority

Your keys, your content

Multiple relays = true censorship resistance

Open protocol, anyone can build

No data harvesting

No surveillance

Simple and elegant

Legacy platforms need:

Massive server farms

Armies of moderators

Complex algorithms

NOSTR just needs:

Public/private keys

Basic relay servers

Simple clients

That's it! 🎯

Want real privacy and censorship resistance? There's only one answer. Everything else is just centralized platforms waiting to rug-pull users.

#NOSTR is to social media what #Bitcoin is to money. Simple as that. 🔑

P.S. Your social graph is too important to trust centralized platforms. 🥩

Trump’s Gaza Gambit: Billion-Dollar Bribe or Diplomatic Blackmail?

Donald Trump just threw down a $3.2 billion ultimatum: #Jordan and #Egypt must take #Gaza ’s Palestinians or lose U.S. aid. His plan? Strip Palestinians of their homeland forever and rebrand Gaza as an Israeli American real estate.

Jordan, already hosting 2M+ Palestinian refugees, refuses. Egypt warns it’s a security nightmare. Europe is disgusted. The world see this as forced displacement—an absolute coercion.

#Nostr, will they cave, or will #Trump’s threat backfire?

Huh, I'm not familiar with it.

I wonder how many people know this.

Here we go again…🫠

At night, the excessive billboards in Cairo look kind of cyberpunk.

A lot of people have heard my moped story, but heres the math on it.

In 2016 I needed $5,000 to pay my wife’s master’s school tuition.

I didn’t have $5,000 cash at the time, but I did have bitcoin.

Bitcoin was trading at roughly $500, so I would have had to sell 10 bitcoin in order to pay the tuition.

I didn’t want to do that so I sold my car instead for $5,500.

I took $500 of that and bought a shitty moped and used the rest to pay my wife’s tuition.

So I rode the moped around the rest of the year and everyone made fun of me. Usually I play this part of the story up, but tbh it didn’t bother me. The people making fun of me were poorer than I was, they didn’t understand bitcoin or the market or even basic budgeting.

When people would make fun of me I would tell them why I was doing what I was doing. Then I would start peppering them with questions about their financial life.

“Oh so you financed your refrigerator? You’re still paying that off huh?”

“You have a timeshare you’ve never been to? How’d you get talked into that?”

People would generally go from laughing at me riding the moped to feeling shell shocked by me popping their bubble of comfortable delusion.

Still I drove the moped and everyone thought I was being weird and ridiculous and silly etc…

At 100k that decision was worth a million dollars.

At a million it will have been worth 10 million.

And at 10 million it will have been a nine figure decision.

100 million dollars.

I only rode the stupid moped for 8 months.

Ask yourself? Would you face 8 months of sacrifice and ridicule for 10 million in the future?

Because there are things you could be doing today that would generate that for future you.

My advice is to have your own moped moment.

Do something a little weird/cringe/out there in order to stack more sats and then check in on the sats in 10-15 years.

I think you’re going to be happy with the results.

There are American LLMs from Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and more.

There are Chinese LLMs from Alibaba, Huawei, Baidu, and more.

What about Europe? There is Mistral, but is it really just it, or am I missing something?

#ai #llm #openai #mistral #europe #europeanunion

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mistery & today is a gift that’s why it’s called the present!

We're all on the same team here folks.

💜🫂⚡️👍

You are not ready to read this, I know.

Three historical figures who fought against communism, history has sold them to you as the bad guys.

They obviously did bad things, but they have hidden all the bad things the victors did that were much worse.

All the communist deaths are whitewashed and there have been many more.

Now you can call me fascist and nazi, only I am not, unlike "normal" people, I read history and history is not black and white, it is not good and bad, be wary of any story that sells you this.

Study the fuck up, read, learn, don't let them fool you, form your own narrative not the bullshit they sell you in school.

All states are garbage, defend yourself and your own family.

#Bitcoin.

Literally the very Pfizer trial documents support this. More people died in the vaccinated group than the placebo. They arbitrarily hand waved away the deaths as “unrelated” without investigating and the FDA just said “ok cool.”