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Replying to Avatar Guy Swann

Consider,

Twitter could've implemented lightning tips, or honestly payments of literally any kind YEARS ago. But they didn't. Why?

#Nostr on the other hand has accomplished this in no time, and everyone who has experienced it immediately feels what a big deal this is... but why exactly?

Numerous features implemented in Nostr could've been on Twitter all this time.

β€’ Do you think it's because they didn't want to?

β€’ Was it too technically difficult, even though Nostriches pulled it off in a matter of days or weeks?

Of course not, it was POLITICALLY infeasible. Remember how Facebook spent *years* and bookoos of capital trying to create a *whole new currency* just to enable it because there was no chance of doing it with dollars? They were even dragged before Congress to explain why they would do such a thing as enable payments on social media! How dare they! It was easily squashed despite the fact that the list of those backing it was essentially a Who's Who of Silicon Valley fintech.

And what did the Twitter Files teach us? That not only would the suffocating regulatory environment make tips and payments on social media virtually impossible, but the political leviathan refused to even allow them to freely TWEET to their followers! Intelligence agencies were both *funding* social censorship & had direct communication channels to shut down people's accounts, shadow ban, & ensure that "unapproved" opinions simply can't travel through the network.

Like @#[0] said, "this has the power to monetize dissent." Consider the insane power of sharing an "unapproved" opinion to millions of people and being directly rewarded with 1000s, maybe 10s of thousands of private, instant payments while the post has unfiltered, free flow to every last user in the network.

No more "donation services" or "patreons" that take 10% and will preemptively shut down anything remotely against the establishment. No more Go fund Me's fuck stealing millions going to protestors to donate to a "charity of their choice." They are all immediately redundant & pointless.

Instead we are walking into a world with unfiltered, free flowing information and unfiltered free flowing money.

The simple fact is that no large, centralized social platform of any kind CAN do what Nostr does so easily. Because they have a gun to their head & they know it.

This is the 10x value add that is going to wake people up, and it's going to start with ALL the dissenters. We need to find all of them and bring them here.

The simple ability to have direct access to millions of followers, and be able receive payments and tips from them directly, unfiltered, untaxed, with no middle man & no authority whatever involved...

They are afraid as FUCK of that power. And they absolutely should be. Think of what a staggering problem the mere existence of someone like Joe Rogan has presented in the past couple of years. Now consider they attacked him through his network, his advertisers, his payment processors, and a huge targeted propaganda campaign (and fucking LOST despite, 🀣). Now think about the 1000s of others we watched get attacked, banned, deplatformed, canceled, etc...

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Now imagine the past 3 years done over again, except without any of that being possible anymore...

Guys, we are right in the fucking middle of the revolution. It's right now.

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Whoever zapped me 69 sats: I am a MARRIED man! 🀣

Not a great look lol

Thoughts on the future of #bitcoin:

If you were excited about the internet in its infancy (and around for it), you have obviously been vindicated but not exactly in the way you expected.

People back then were not excited about the internet because they didn't understand it. People today are not excited about the internet per se; they are excited about apps, products, and services that exist because of the internet. But they don't really think about the internet itself.

If you were excited about the internet, people thought you were crazy back then and now they would just think you are weird.

Well, it might be like that with bitcoin too.

In the future people will use bitcoin without ever thinking about the protocol. People won't talk about bitcoin, but they will use apps, lapps, and yet-to-be-invented things on layers 2-3-X that make their lives better.

We have no idea what they will be excited about. But it probably won't be bitcoin itself.

We are the crazy ones right now, and we'll be the weird ones in the future when we still care about the timechain protocol, and eventually we will be vindicated by the effects of the energy-money singularity.

So stay weird. Some folks will never understand but that doesn't make you any less correct. We get it. And we are excited about the possibilities and the future.

Pure Vida πŸ€™

Can somebody break down cashu vs fedimint for a nostrich? #plebchain

Replying to Avatar fiatjaf

https://nips.be/ can now be used to refer to unmerged NIPs, for example: https://nips.be/51.

This is cool! But how did you connect the NIP number to the particular PR? What if two PRs compete for the same NIP number?