Bitcoin Core has been rogue since June 2025. Remove it and run Bitcoin Knots ASAP. 
For the 'it'll never happen' crowd, today, August 1, 2025, is a good day to remember what President Bukele has already achieved in El Salvador. Criminals, from the top down, have actually been arrested and removed from society there. Bukele has proven that 'it'll never happen... until it does'.
Decentralization is individual liberty.
I’m watching Asmongold right now talking about what's coming in regard to tyranny on the Internet, and losing anonymity and privacy online to the evil oligarchs who don't like getting down-voted and ratio'd. It makes me think about the fact that, by and large, ALL content on the Internet is centralized. (Thank goodness that banking is getting decentralized right now.) NOSTR is an attempt to go toward content decentralization, which is an excellent concept.
I think we need to conceive of how to use such developing technologies to decentralize all content hosting on the Internet for average people. And along with that, we also need to be conceiving of ways to eliminate ‘last mile’ Internet service providers as well, since they’re obviously the gatekeepers of last resort. With the advent of bitcoin and Starlink, what can we now conceive of to remove all such gatekeepers from being necessary as part of an effort to guarantee we average people can communicate anonymously and privately on the Internet, without restriction nor fear of any reprisal? NOSTR gives us a window into decentralized and uncensorable content.
I believe we need to explore these ideas and implement solutions to defend our online liberty in the coming generations.
We need decentralized content.
We need decentralized hosting.
We need decentralized Internet connection.
We need tokenized and trustless confirmation of person with zero personal information.
We need content filtering handled by individuals.
We need to decentralize power online and give it to the individual.
As we begin to see BTC rise as we've expected, I am reminded that it's not as much about that tiny increase of value reflected in fiat trash, particularly this early. The importance of bitcoin will become clear later. (This is what a real hedge looks like.) Right now, it's still all about the stacking. The real gains aren't here yet. We're still SOOOO early. This is true even at $1M. It's true at $10M. People can't fathom what the value looks like when fiat is entirely offset by property with perfect scarcity.
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Trump live right now, being interviewed after the most recent assa**ination attempt
Real fascists are the ones who censor speech, and use 'private' (not really) companies, as well as formal govt agencies, to surveil as much of your life as possible into databases, and try to disarm innocent people while protecting armed criminals. They also like to point at traditional non-fascist free people and project their fascism onto them.
As some have noted here, temporarily moving to Swan is a good start point, but a cold wallet like Coldcard or Blockstream Jade should be the final goal. I prefer Swan's willingness to not use Plaid for BTC/USD exchanges & instead use the traditional bank routing/account numbers. I refuse to use Plaid since it requires your user/pass for your bank login—a big security violation. As well, you're trusting a 3rd party service with ALL your banking data/history. River and Strike both use Plaid. (I've found some banks don't even know of Plaid's existence yet. Also, because there hasn't been a report of some kind of hack of Plaid yet doesn't mean it's not a significant liability, similar to exchanges.) The Cash App also uses traditional routing/account numbers, like Swan, but that's a hot wallet. It's good for moving things around or a quick purchase, but not a long term storage solution.
Hah! Vive la liberté!
As in, people valued God's word less. As faith diminishes, so does the beauty of our works. On our own, we naturally gravitate toward brutalism. nostr:note1h2fj9vct0lp608qc9q8ajstnzfjj8gwsj9jan67snyuhz8dusarsewv0xp
I haven’t used this platform as much as I could, really. I’ve been waiting for it to develop. I’ve been wanting something which is as decentralized as bitcoin, and nostr comes across more similarly to a proof of stake system like ETH. As well, it seems the front end software (like damus) is prepared to stop access for content they don’t approve of (looking at the language in damus’ EULA & what one must agree to to use it). So I don’t use damus. But as with all healthy free markets, there’s competition, and so far it seems to be a true enabler of free speech, which is clearly very important.
I didn’t know today was False Dichotomy Saturday. That reminds me, time to add more BTC stickers to the Trump flag!https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_4418445057062501861690052356.webp
Bitcoin is the answer.