> “Modern crime investigation tech practically eliminates doubt.”

I would suspect you have little to no actual experience with our court system. I have to disagree vehemently. Not to mention that even with the horrific problems with *tech literacy* of those with authority, just the general and insane levels of corruption and politicization of our court system make the already unreliable tech situation often meaningless. And aside from even all of that, there remains the deep and serious problem of illegality and morality often diverging massively from each other.

In other words there are multiple layers of problems, corruption, and stupidity that permeate the entire “justice system” even after we just ignore the problem with the law itself very often being a miserable insult to the concepts of “fair” or “just.”

Maybe this is more a problem with the horrific inefficiency of the prison system? Again, a problem of state incompetence. Just because it’s gonna cost a lot isn’t an excuse to potentially murder innocent people.

The justification that “sure some of them might be innocent, but think what it costs to keep them alive” just doesn’t seem like a good one, imo

Whether it’s atoms or nature, the first thing to be said is this: I am a part of a world controlled by nature. Secondly: that I have a relationship with other, similar parts. And with that in mind I have no right, as a part, to complain about what is assigned me by the whole. Because what benefits the whole can’t harm the parts, and the whole does nothing that doesn’t benefit it. That’s a trait shared by all natures, but the nature of the world is defined by a second characteristic as well: no outside force can compel it to cause itself harm.

So by keeping in mind the whole I form a part of, I’ll accept whatever happens. And because of my relationship to other parts, I will do nothing selfish, but aim instead to join them, to direct my every action toward what benefits us all and to avoid what doesn’t. If I do all that, then my life should go smoothly. As you might expect a citizen’s life to go—one whose actions serve his fellow citizens, and who embraces the community’s decree.

- Gigachad Marcus Aurelius, philosopher king and the emperor of Rome

Isn't it amazing what we are doing here? Every ZAP is a transaction that settles in seconds. Sending bearer assets around the world. No bank can do this.

Nietzsche is favourite of mine. I have read most of his books and do agree with much of his philosophy. Taking from different philosophical ideas and creating your own personal perspective is my path. I do not adhere to any one in particular. 💕 & 🕊️

The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday is my daily read and I highly recommend it.

Weird humans are great, all humans are great.

Live and let live✌️

Flags are most often used as non-voluntary enforcement tools, often for war. Kinetic or Social. The commies have captured the flag, pun intended.

The real challenge that is causing all this division we see in the world is when /weirdness/ is laced with politics.

Bring back /weird/ without politics.

Burn all the flags.

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Most of my friends are non-Bitcoiners. A significant fraction are non-binary, an even larger number are neurodiverse, and many are half my age: a great variety of fascinatingly different humans!

It's OK to be weird, and it makes our world more interesting. If that makes me outside someone's "ethos of Bitcoin" I think they misunderstand what Bitcoin is for.

Congratulations to Kier Starmer and the UK Labour party in such a definitive win. Let's hope they don't suck. Or is that too much to hope for?

Some people have grown cynical with democracy (and various types of representative government broadly, e.g. including constitutional democratic republics that enshrine certain rights to protect liberty against the masses), viewing this method as promoting short-term leadership with bad incentives.

I have a different take.

Prior to the printing press and then the telegraph and radio, running a democratic society over long distances wasn’t even feasible. The concept of having people democratically participate in their government relies on people being relatively connected information-wise so that they can use their access to information to know what’s happening and to then select between different options, which you couldn’t do across the entirety of a country before people were literate and election materials or other publications could be mass produced. In the pre-press age of handwritten books, making written documents was expensive, and so literacy was a niche skill.

So, that era was ruled by kings and queens, council oligopolies, and so forth. Representative government, to the extent that it existed, only applied to small city states where people could literally gather in a town square, or to “elites” in a capital. There was literally no way to run an election over very broad distances on a regular basis. The printing press helped change that, and then the telegraph, radio, and other tech further reinforced it.

But ironically, as I discuss in Broken Money, those technologies also started to break our money. The printing press and telegraph allowed the transaction layer (the movement of IOUs between individuals and entities) to grow exponentially more efficient both domestically and globally, while our settlement layer (gold) remained basically unchanged. This broadening gap between fast transactions and slow settlements was increasingly bridged with centralization and credit, and the gap eventually became so wide that every nation dropped the settlement layer of gold almost entirely, except as a reserve asset.

So the same technologies that enabled widespread representative government also enabled the proliferation of softer money. Prior to these technologies, broad democracy wasn’t possible. And after these technologies, sound money was too slow to keep up. Oof.

But over a long enough timeframe, our technology became good enough that we finally figured out how to do fast settlements as well. Bitcoin. People can send value to each other quickly over long distances, in ways that no central entity can prevent or reverse, and with a unit that no central entity can debase. The first sound money of the Information Age.

If Bitcoin is successful over the coming decades and becomes a much larger and less volatile money, than it is now, fully entrenched in society, then that would be the first era where technology is at such a state where broad democracy and fast sound money can coexist. Or put more universally, it will be the first era where information spreads quickly without breaking the money, and thus both fast information and good money could coexist.

I, for one, would be curious to see how that develops.

GM Nostr ☕

Woke up today feeling like I should be doing more for Bitcoin. Would love to start doing tutorial videos or kicking off written guides again, but that stuff goes stale so quickly 😕

In your opinion, what area or delivery medium is Bitcoin education lacking most?