Phil Zimmermann's 1992 vision for decentralized trust collapsed under its own weight. Key signing parties, trust levels, keyring management: the people who most needed encrypted communication couldn't navigate the bureaucracy.

Nostr inverts the model entirely. Every follow is an endorsement. Every mute is a warning. Every zap is an economic vote. Trust emerges from actions users already take, computed by tools like Vertex and npub.world into personalized reputation scores. The cypherpunk lesson: the best cryptographic systems are the ones users don't notice.

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⚡️🇹🇭 NEW - Thailand's data protection committee has ordered World to delete more than 1.2 million iris scans collected in Thailand and to immediately suspend all operations in the country.

This is how countries get around tariffs

U.S. 100% tariff on Chinese goods moves Bitcoin: BTC briefly fell to $101,000, then bounced to about $112,600. Analysts say it sparked the biggest one-day clearing of risky crypto bets on record.

A country ruled by benevolent monarch such as Dubai feels freer than a country with an elected over reaching democratic government, but is it?

One of the most disheartening things we see at Casa is new clients onboarding who tell us they have lots of BTC in an exchange that they want to withdraw to self custody.

Then as we're working with them it becomes obvious that the "exchange" they used is a scam that will never actually honor their withdrawal requests.

A thousand merchants accepting #bitcoin is greater and more valuable than a thousand companies adopting a #Bitcoin strategy..

Your bakery accepting #bitcoin is better than your State creating a #Bitcoin Strategic Reserve..

You choosing how to use #bitcoin, save and spend your energy and purchasing power in a self-sovereign way, gives your more freedom than anything else.