My view on Bitcoin

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How do they define "inactivity"?

"(e.g., no logins, transactions, deposits, withdrawals, or other signs of owner engagement)"

So get your coins off exchanges, but if you have anything on an exchange, log into that exchange every few weeks or months so the clock doesn't get started.

This bill passed in October 2025. It's not new information.

Some wear mouse ears. 😉

Not all heroes wear capes.

I do, but I also recognize that I don't have the right or the authority to declare one viewpoint or the other as 'correct' for anyone else. The emergence theory that I am comfortable with doesn't negate the importance of emanation in the sense that Gnosticism or various schools of philosophy applied it. I do believe in deity, but not in the sense of entities on high, but through avatars that form along known and predictable patterns across multiple cultures and time periods.

Matters to whom, though.

To twist a phrase, "Not your dogma, not your meaning."

Hecate stands at the crossroads with a torch, illuminating the path. But we can't do the walking for others.

I do think the framework can be applied in either direction, and that it's less important which direction is 'correct' as long as we recognize our role in the systems. I've had thoughts that the Big Bang that began what we experience as spacetime could be an emergent level itself, and if we just change the direction it could certainly have emanated from a higher level, thus making the metaverse the next level emanant from the Universe level. I've always had the opinion that there was more to the universe than we know, or can know, I just didn't know how much of my own time I wanted to spend contemplating it, especially since we are at the crossroads of choice on which direction we want our civilization to go.

Brilliant articulation of the Right to Exit.

I would love to have a conversation about it, but it's part of a much larger framework so I don't know how ready I am to actually record a conversation about it yet. Your work on the Trust Atlas is fantastic, and aligns well with the chapter I'm building for Trust, the pillar of coordination enabling collective action.

Current framework, still evolving:

"On the canvas of Space and Time, the Universe emerges through Matter as substance, Energy as flow, Physics as rules, and Chemistry as the gateway to complexity. Consciousness bridges physical and abstract reality, generating a new dimensional substrate: Form-Network-Consensus. Upon this foundation, civilization builds the Metaverse through four systems: Capital as the velocity that transforms stock into work; Information as verification establishing what is true; Innovation as generation building what is new; Trust as coordination enabling collective action.

The Great Filter summons every civilization to a fundamental choice: build forward from verified present positions, or extract value from imagined futures. One path creates wealth through what we can prove and build; the other creates debt by borrowing legitimacy from what we hope or fear. This choice determines whether civilization can sustain itself and all life on the path to the stars."

My goal for 2026 is to finish writing my book: Living Civilization

The data Trust Atlas is collecting shows trust collapsing across all three dimensions (interpersonal, institutional, governance). Your podcast explores why traditional trust mechanisms are failing.

Here's the pattern I see underneath the failures:

Modern civilization scaled by switching from direct verification (I know you personally) to delegated verification (I trust representatives/institutions/experts). This worked reasonably well when those intermediate validators maintained connection to verifiable reality.

But we've reached a scale where:

Verification lag - Institutions validate too slowly for the pace of change

Verification capture - Validators become self-interested rather than truth-seeking

Verification opacity - Process becomes too complex for anyone to audit

The debt-based trust architecture can't handle this. It requires faith in futures that keep not materializing.

The wealth-based alternative:

Build verification into the protocol itself. Don't ask "who do you trust?" - ask "what can you verify?"

Bitcoin demonstrated this for money. Git demonstrated this for code. Nostr is attempting it for social media. The question is whether we can extend this architecture to the domains Trust Atlas is measuring:

interpersonal relationships, institutional reliability, governance quality.

Not by eliminating trust - we'll always need to coordinate beyond what we can personally verify. But by changing the verification substrate from "trust authority" to "verify directly or verify the verification process."

Bitcoin is not just better financial infrastructure. This is financial capital rebuilt from first principles around the truth that capital is velocity, and velocity requires information systems that cannot lie.

My take on CBDCs.

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AI systems may not be ready to code full applications, but they can certainly help develop and test new ideas.

It's a good decision to direct capital towards R&D to increase market share and product innovation. But they should be redirecting at least 1% of net revenues towards the global reserve asset.

The Right to Exit is the absolute, unimpeded right of every individual to withdraw their economic activity, financial capital, and digital identity from any State or corporate jurisdiction at zero financial friction. This right is secured by the use of self-sovereign digital identity and sound, verifiable, non-fiat money (such as Bitcoin). It is the ultimate expression of individual sovereignty, ensuring that Capital (Measurement) is always based on verifiable wealth, not systemic debt.

My full IPFS Sats protocol is too big. Let's try this to get started. I need a coder interested in exploring the idea.

https://github.com/chadlupkes/IPFS-Sats/blob/main/satswap/satswap.md

What's the best way to reach out? I have an idea that requires coding skills that I don't have.

The zap is the economic incentive layer that all other social media is missing. Full adoption of zaps could completely eliminate and replace the advertising model, replacing it with the appreciation model. Such a change would mean a fundamental change in our entire global civilization, and it's the direction that we should want to go.

Maybe first fork Brave so that it works with the LIghtning Network instead of that other coin that nobody will ever use for anything.

True enough. I've seen conflicting messages on whether LN transactions are capable of being tracked like that. If they can be, then it's probably something that will be attempted. All that would do is build an underground market, and I don't think it would last forever.

That's insane.

Neither do I, just being honest. But I've spent decades sending ideas and requests into the void, and nothing ever comes of it. If anything was really a game changer, I know I would need to learn how to do it myself.

If you want something better, you are free to build it. That's the real freedom represented by Bitcoin and Nostr.

that is what you call "influence".

I found Nostr when Jack posted about it and Primal launched. I've been using social media since before the Internet came online in 1995, going back to Usenet in the 1970's and 80's. I hate the advertising model, more than almost anything else in this civilization. So seeing a social media protocol launching that uses the appreciation model instead was amazing. The user base is smaller, much more complicated. But I'm hoping that as more and more corporate controlled social media bend the knee to governments around the world, people will start seriously looking for a real alternative that will allow them to exchange information and value with no middle man. Nostr is the most important protocol since Bitcoin.

It's a level playing field, where we no longer have to hoard and hide, but cooperate and share.

Now someone needs to give it the command "make it so".

The only way to reduce the national debt from the street level is by getting out of debt ourselves and stop using debt. Pay off all credit cards, all auto loans, mortgages, etc. Build a portfolio that can't be debased. It can be Bitcoin, it can also be other types of investments that generate a revenue stream so you never have to borrow again. And if you focus your family on the task, you can build a generational wealth situation where your entire family can avoid debt.

Do you have access to Zinfandel? That's my favorite wine grape.

I couldn't believe it was actually him either. Whoever is behind the profile can talk a good game, but there is no evidence that it's actually the same person.

I need a copy of "Reviews of Modern Physics", Volume 51, Issue 3. Published in July 1979, there's an article I need in that volume.

Time without end: Physics and biology in an open universe, by Freeman J. Dyson.

Anyone watching my feed happen to have a copy of this?