I think the Bitcoin believers "know". It's like faith, but they'll say "No, it's mathematics!"
We're not really represented either. The ratios of Congress-critters to citizens are so high most people don't know their representatives, and the representatives certainly don't know those they supposedly represent. So it's essentially taxation without representation as well.
> If The #Bitcoin Supremacy occurs—and gold is demonetized and rendered a purely industrial metal—it would imply a gold price of $278 an ounce and a Bitcoin price of $5,171,429 per BTC in purchasing power in today’s dollar.
> Over the long term, I believe #Bitcoin will become the dominant form of money or end up at $0 as a superior money—most likely gold—beats it out.
> Nobody knows whether gold or #Bitcoin will ultimately emerge victorious in the ultimate competition to be the world’s best money.
> ...Bitcoin is purely a monetary good with no industrial or other non-monetary uses. #Bitcoin is either useful as money or worthless.
And if you don't sign it can you be exempt?
I believe in "consent of the governed."
If I don't consent then what is going on here?
> The meeting at Philadelphia in 1787 for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, got the name of a Convention (I believe before long that of a Conspiracy would have been more Significant), [and] paid no more regard to their orders and credentials than Caesar when he passed the Rubicon. Under an Injunction of Secrecy they carried on their works of Darkness until the Constitution passed their usurping hands.
–Abraham Yates, as quoted in Staughton Lynd, “Abraham Yates’ History of the Movement for the U.S. Constitution,” *The William and Mary Quarterly* (April 1963): 223–45.
> The Antifederalists put their libertarian-democratic case staunchly: the rich and well-born few were trying to create a strong government in order to tax and mulct the poorer and productive many for their own power and profit.
Isn't this what America got with the United States government?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/murray-n-rothbard/the-twilight-of-the-antifederalists/
> From the insolence of great men, from the tyranny of the rich—from the unfeeling rapacity of the excise-man and Tax-gatherer—from the misery of despotism—from the expense of supporting standing armies, navies, placemen, sinecures, federal cities, Senators, Presidents and a long train of et ceteras Good Lord deliver us.
–DeWitt Clinton
> The Antifederalists put their libertarian-democratic case staunchly: the rich and well-born few were trying to create a strong government in order to tax and mulct the poorer and productive many for their own power and profit.
Isn't this what America got with the United States government?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/murray-n-rothbard/the-twilight-of-the-antifederalists/
Like Chuck Schumer said, don't get on the intelligence community's bad side because they have six ways from Sunday of coming after you...
Flare.pub is the closest thing so far...
Gold vs. #Bitcoin: The Ultimate Competition To Be the World’s Best Money
> I do believe that Elon proved to be very disappointing on the free speech issue. All of us who worked on the Twitter Files felt the same way. We went in feeling tremendously optimistic that he actually meant a lot of the things that he said about being in favor of all legal speech and, being a free speech absolutist and all these other things.
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> That proved not to be the case. He’s currently disenfranchising thousands of Substack writers, including me. And no one seems to care in the press.
Journalist Matt Taibbi
I didn't vote for Trump either time, nor for his opponents, but I am disgusted by what's being done to keep him from being re-elected, and to maintain the Democrats' grip on power...
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/lew-rockwell/how-the-democrats-plan-to-steal-the-election/
I'd like to see each of the "other stuff" #Nostr apps have a feed (perhaps just an npub, or a dedicated relay one could subscribe to) that shows new content added to that site, similar to an RSS reader. This way one could see what's new there without having to visit each website individually (but once you see something cool, you can, of course, visit that site).
For example, new articles on nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x or nostr:npub1048qg5p6kfnpth2l98kq3dffg097tutm4npsz2exygx25ge2k9xqf5x3nf would be listed and could show up in your feed, if you subscribe to that. Or you can see what new videos are added on Flare.pub, new torrents on DTAN.xyz, new articles on Wikifreedia.xyz, new music on Wavlake, etc.
You would get updates about new content posted on other-stuff apps on your social client, not just notes from other users. This makes social apps like Amethyst, Damus, Coracle, Primal, etc. like the super-apps that are a gateway to all of the cool apps on Nostr, kind of like an Internet browser.
What do you think? #asknostr #askdevs