What’s crazy and hard to wrap our head around about bitcoin is how strong the alignment forces are between entities with seemingly opposing ideologies (the state vs the people).
Nakamoto’a main message is: Get on a bitcoin standard or perish. No matter your ideology.
Jason may be a spook (if he wasn’t during his studies, he most certainly is now). Still, his message about projecting kinetic vs electric power as strength is an analogy that spooks can understand. That’s all it is, an analogy.
Why was bitcoin created? To benefit the people. The main question now is: if the US adopts a bitcoin standard (say because they want to project electric power ala Lowery), would that be good for the people?
What’s crazy and hard to wrap our head around about bitcoin is how strong the alignment forces are between entities with seemingly opposing ideologies (the state vs the people).
Nakamoto’a main message is: Get on a bitcoin standard or perish. No matter your ideology.
Jason may be a spook (if he wasn’t during his studies, he most certainly is now). Still, his message about projecting kinetic vs electric power as strength is an analogy that spooks can understand. That’s all it is, an analogy.
Why was bitcoin created? To benefit the people. The main question now is: if the US adopts a bitcoin standard (say because they want to project electric power ala Lowery), would that be good for the people?
I met some of these VCs at nostrica.
Do you think there is a misalignment of incentives between VCs (person or funding) and an open permission-less ecosystem?
VCs want to capture and dominate market as it is the best way to make profits, which is a centralization risk.
On the other hand, Nostr yearns to have community-driven governance with a much lower time preference than typical VC cycles.
I’m not saying VCs are dirty. The ones I met were really awesome people. I’m saying there may be forces out of their control that they have to succumb to that puts the openness of Nostr at risk.
Curious to hear your thoughts on this.
No.
Yes, it will be used everywhere for everything. No, it won’t be so much different than now.
Freedom money will change the world. From the bottom all the way to the top.
Digital “trading cards” will be exactly that, and nothing much more than that.
Bitcoin is the only thing that I can rely on for the long term. Everything else could completely change in an instant
Global is a lot less chaotic for paid relays. But free relays are where the good stuff are
#GrowNostr #makeFeed #P2P #V(IV)V #V4V #wasteNotwantNot #MakeNotBuy
The eggs must taste delicious
Thanks for the advice. It is exactly what I need to hear.
I met those ETHeads today, they’re not so bad.. trying to do honest research about a real topic. They have a very different ideology than bitcoiners.
Bitcoin works and is beautiful. Just as Nakamoto intended.
ETH is complex and inelegant. If devs stopped working on improving it, it may very well fall apart.
I’m grateful for ethereum for one thing: showing us what not to do.
Clarity and understanding
Growing clover, hairy vetch, and peas to snuff out the weeds in our garden #growstr 
A #bitcoin is an abstraction of a satoshi, not the other way around.
The best indicator is a straight line fit of the price in log log plot. It shows that on average we should be at 38k, but of course when the move happens it’ll go way past that.
The linear fit is surprisingly good. https://loglogbtc.com