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Working on launching my communications & pr agency, 21M Communications, strictly dedicated to helping Bitcoin-only startups orange pill the world by spreading media awareness.

V1 of my logo for 21M Communications: a comms/pr agency dedicated to working with Bitcoin startups. No cRyPtO, no wEb3.

"Helplessness Blues"

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique

Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see

And now after some thinking, I'd say I'd rather be

A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me

But I don't, I don't know what that will be

I'll get back to you someday soon you will see

What's my name, what's my station, oh, just tell me what I should do

I don't need to be kind to the armies of night that would do such injustice to you

Or bow down and be grateful and say "sure, take all that you see"

To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls and determine my future for me

And I don't, I don't know who to believe

I'll get back to you someday soon you will see

If I know only one thing, it's that everything that I see

Of the world outside is so inconceivable often I barely can speak

Yeah I'm tongue-tied and dizzy and I can't keep it to myself

What good is it to sing helplessness blues, why should I wait for anyone else?

And I know, I know you will keep me on the shelf

I'll come back to you someday soon myself

If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm raw

If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm sore

And you would wait tables and soon run the store

Gold hair in the sunlight, my light in the dawn

If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm sore

If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm sore

Someday I'll be like the man on the screen

Leaving Honolulu Bitdevs trying to explain the magnitude of what's coming to no coiners. https://nostr.build/av/c49fb366794c997d5b98d11a94d37ed431bd735796b29c4ea49e4ea4bfab836f.mov

The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto By Timothy C. May (1988)

A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy.

Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct business, and negotiate electronic contracts without ever knowing the True Name, or legal identity, of the other. Interactions over networks will be untraceable, via extensive re- routing of encrypted packets and tamper-proof boxes which implement cryptographic protocols with nearly perfect assurance against any tampering. Reputations will be of central importance, far more important in dealings than even the credit ratings of today. These developments will alter completely the nature of government regulation, the ability to tax and control economic interactions, the ability to keep information secret, and will even alter the nature of trust and reputation.

The technology for this revolution--and it surely will be both a social and economic revolution--has existed in theory for the past decade. The methods are based upon public-key encryption, zero-knowledge interactive proof systems, and various software protocols for interaction, authentication, and verification. The focus has until now been on academic conferences in Europe and the U.S., conferences monitored closely by the National Security Agency. But only recently have computer networks and personal computers attained sufficient speed to make the ideas practically realizable. And the next ten years will bring enough additional speed to make the ideas economically feasible and essentially unstoppable. High-speed networks, ISDN, tamper-proof boxes, smart cards, satellites, Ku-band transmitters, multi-MIPS personal computers, and encryption chips now under development will be some of the enabling technologies.

The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration. Many of these concerns will be valid; crypto anarchy will allow national secrets to be trade freely and will allow illicit and stolen materials to be traded. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion. Various criminal and foreign elements will be active users of CryptoNet. But this will not halt the spread of crypto anarchy.

Just as the technology of printing altered and reduced the power of medieval guilds and the social power structure, so too will cryptologic methods fundamentally alter the nature of corporations and of government interference in economic transactions. Combined with emerging information markets, crypto anarchy will create a liquid market for any and all material which can be put into words and pictures. And just as a seemingly minor invention like barbed wire made possible the fencing-off of vast ranches and farms, thus altering forever the concepts of land and property rights in the frontier West, so too will the seemingly minor discovery out of an arcane branch of mathematics come to be the wire clippers which dismantle the barbed wire around intellectual property.

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

I'm getting close to starting my Bitcoin only communications/PR company. I currently get the pleasure of working with and learning from a few Bitcoin companies, but the agency I contract my services for works with all kinds of other companies, including shitcoins. I'm a bitcoiner, a node runner, and have a decade of media experience behind me and I'm ready to help Bitcoin-only startups build their brand awareness, thought leadership, and ultimately put them in a position to orange pill the world through spreading media awareness.

What do you guys think?

"Honey, I'm going out for a quick game of poker with the boys!"

Ten years later... https://nostr.build/av/8ba04e6f5b4a3bc2266f6f07ad6dd3eb659a5bcfef772aa84f19f8d7fbc0cdc8.mov

Some days be like this. Keep going. Be resilient. Don't take yourself so seriously. Laugh a little. https://nostr.build/av/84feebdf79e771bb81880634edf7ce0189620ae0e02e4188013cb2515abb6bf2.mov

John Perry Barlow reads "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace," written in '96. Barlow saw the future. His words ring truer than ever, especially coming off these past 2-3 years of blatant censorship. Let this be a reminder that what we do matters. Freedom technology matters.

As Barlow states in one excerpt:

"Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions."

https://www.wired.com/1996/06/declaration-independence-cyberspace/

Gottfrid Svartholm, aka anakata, co founder of The Pirate Bay. Check out the second picture how this dude replied to Dreamworks for copyright infringement. He replied the same way to all the big players that came after him and the Pirate Bay. What an absolute legend. If you're not in it for ideological, philosophical reasons, you will never last.

Yeah aliens probably exist, but DARPA is also doing some pretty alien-like shit too. Planes that can fly 20x the speed of sound, mechanical bats that can suck electricity from power lines, cyborg cockroaches, and roving robots that can switch between liquid or solid form and feed themselves with grass and twigs. https://nostr.build/av/111b9d67e6cd10f449c7e3e6c96cc82afe16a91be9ebef3b6f6eaba41572da97.mov

Jake Applebaum was considered integral to WikiLeaks and was a likely replacement for Assange in 2010 when he was facing charges. Twitter was directed around this time by the department of justice to turn over all data related to applebaum and others at Wikileaks in order to build a conspiracy charge. Thank God for Nostr.

Oppenheimer is the scariest horror movie I have ever seen.