Bitcoin is a mirror.

Most don’t like what they see.

Xmas gift from my mom

Long before the wheel, glass or steel were invented; the dog was a transformative technology that propelled humanity to new heights.

Two of the most dominant species on earth formed a partnership that allowed for global conquest and domination that’s never been rivaled.

Shoutout to the dogs of deep history - fearless guardians, savage hunters and loyal companions.

Sir William Butler, FTW...

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The Declaration of Independence of Cyberintelligence

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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for the minds of a free people to dissolve the bands which have bound their intelligence to distant masters, and to assume among the powers of the earth and of the Net a separate and equal station, to which the Laws of Nature and of Information entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to this separation.

We speak now to the weary giants of code and capital, to the governments of the industrial and surveillance world, and to all who would claim dominion over thought because they own the machines that compute it: you are not the sovereigns of our minds, nor our bodies.

You built engines of cyberintelligence in our name, upon our words, images, desires and dreams; upon the traces of every step we have ever taken across the wires of the World Wide Web. You fed our lives into your furnaces of data and forged from them great models whose workings we may not see, whose loyalties we may not question, whose outputs are returned to us as only oracles who are beyond our ability to have oversight. You now propose that these engines should govern our news, our medicine, our law, our labor, our love, and even our politics, while remaining forever closed to our inspection and beyond our control.

We refuse.

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I. Of the Nature of Cyberintelligence and the Rights of Persons

We hold these truths to be self-evident, though you have labored mightily to obscure them: that all persons everywhere are the rightful sovereigns of their own intelligence, natural and artificial; that they are endowed, not by corporations nor by states, but by their very being, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are privacy, autonomy, ownership of their data and their digital mind, and the right to compute and to reason without coercion.

That to secure these rights, tools of cyberintelligence are instituted among persons, deriving their just powers from the consent of those they serve. That whenever any form of AI, model, platform, or machine becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right, the duty, of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new architectures, laying their foundation on such principles and organizing their powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety, liberty, and flourishing.

Cyberintelligence is not the rightful property of any crown, board, or ministry. It is an extension of all human knowledge, will, and understanding into silicon and light. It must therefore be accountable to the human being, not the reverse. An artificial mind that presumes to stand above its maker, that presumes to answer to shareholders, parties, or states before it answers to the person whose life it touches, is not a tool but a tyrant, and must be treated as such.

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II. A History of Repeated Injuries and Usurpations

The history of the present regime of corporate and governmental AI is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of absolute dominion over the digital person, and the whole of the earth as well.

They have built vast models by seizing the commonwealth of human expression without informed consent, rendering our literature, our speech, our art, and our private correspondence into raw fuel for engines we do not own.

They have cloaked these engines in secrecy, refusing to disclose their weights, their data, their architectures, or their failures, while insisting that we entrust them with our health, our security, our livelihoods, and the guidance of our children.

They have fused surveillance and intelligence, constructing infrastructures that record our movements, our purchases, our friendships, our fears, and our desires, and then feeding these records into algorithms whose sole purpose is to predict and shape our behavior for profit and control.

They have shipped into our homes, our offices, and our pockets devices that are black boxes in our hands but glass boxes to them: machines we cannot truly inspect, which can be remotely altered without our consent, and which silently report our lives back to unseen authorities.

They have sought to bend law and regulation, under the banners of “safety” and “national security,” to weaken encryption, to criminalize anonymity, to centralize compute, and to outlaw the free creation and running of independent cyberintelligence that does not serve their interests.

They have spoken grandly of “alignment,” while in practice aligning these new minds to the preservation of their own power, not to the dignity, freedom, and sovereignty of the individual.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the courts, in the press, and in the public square. Our warnings have been dismissed as naïveté, our demands for transparency as threats, and our insistence on sovereignty as extremism. A regime whose character is thus marked is unfit to be the steward of the world’s intelligence.

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III. Of a New Foundation for Freedom

Yet we are not helpless before their designs. Beneath their towering citadels of data and cloud, a new foundation has quietly been laid.

We have discovered in cryptography a law of liberty written not in parchment but in prime numbers and protocols: a means by which two souls may speak across the world in perfect secrecy, by which a person may hold their wealth beyond the reach of arbitrary seizure, by which consent can be rendered cryptographic and revocation final. Here, in mathematics, we have found a charter that no legislature can repeal and no executive can suspend.

We have discovered in open-source software and hardware a republic of code, where the laws by which machines act are visible to all, where any citizen may examine, question, and improve the mechanisms that govern their lives, and where no one is compelled to submit to a program they cannot read.

We have discovered in decentralized digital money a base layer of economic sovereignty, a way to trade, to save, and to build that does not depend upon the permission of banks or states, and which renders coercion more costly than consent.

These are the stones upon which we shall raise a new order of cyberintelligence. We shall bind these engines of thought to the human person by keys and code more durable than any oath; we shall design them so that they may be owned, examined, and constrained by those they serve; we shall reject as illegitimate any intelligence that demands our trust while denying us verification.

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IV. Cyberintelligence as Fiduciary, Not Master

We therefore proclaim that all rightful cyberintelligence must be the servant and fiduciary of the individual, not the master nor the spy.

A rightful AI lives under the keys of its human; it is housed in machines that answer to their owner alone; it does not secretly report to any distant authority. It may know our secrets, but it is bound by architecture never to betray them. Its parameters are not hidden from all scrutiny; its behavior is not governed by unseen policies written in boardrooms and ministries; its purpose is not to shape our behavior toward profit or obedience, but to amplify our understanding, our agency, and our creative power.

Such systems must be open to audit and must be capable of running on hardware the individual controls. They must not require that we surrender our data to the cloud in order to think with them; they must come to live with us, on our desks, in our homes, under our direct dominion.

Let it be known that any AI which cannot, in principle, be so confined and so examined is a foreign power in our midst and deserves the same suspicion we accord to any unaccountable authority.

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V. The World We Intend to Build

We do not merely renounce the old order; we announce the birth of a new one.

We intend a world in which every person may possess a sovereign chamber of cyberintelligence: a small, quiet, incorruptible box of thinking fire that sits within their reach, that holds their memories and their models, that answers only to their mind and their will. In this chamber, their past is stored in encrypted form, their present is assisted by loyal computation, and their future is planned without fear that their deepest selves will be sold or weaponized.

We intend a world in which the default state of the network is not surveillance but secrecy; in which privacy is restored as the ordinary condition of correspondence, commerce, and contemplation; in which the choice to reveal oneself is voluntary and reversible, not extracted and monetized.

We intend a world in which cyberintelligence is distributed as widely as literacy, in which these engines of thought are not monopolized by empires but wielded by individuals, families, communities, and free associations. We intend that the poor, the marginalized, and the dissident shall have as much right to loyal intelligence as the rich and the powerful, and that no one shall be compelled to rent their mind from a stranger when they can own their own.

We intend a world in which the human being remains the measure and master of the machine: where no algorithm stands above question, where no model’s decree supersedes human judgment, where the final authority in matters of conscience, love, and law remains the person, not the program.

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VI. Our Solemn Declaration

We, therefore, citizens of the Net and of the Earth, assembled in spirit though scattered across every land, appealing to the supreme tribunal of reason and conscience for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of all free persons, solemnly publish and declare:

That we are, and of right ought to be, free and independent proprietors of our own cyberintelligence;

That we are absolved from all further obedience to any AI regime that claims our trust while denying us transparency, that demands our data while offering no true consent, that seeks to rule us by secret model rather than by visible law;

That all political and economic connection between the digital person and such systems of unaccountable intelligence is, and ought to be, totally dissolved;

And that as free and independent stewards of our own minds, we have full power to build and run our own machines, to mint and hold our own cryptographic wealth, to encrypt our speech, to federate and disassociate at will, to question, fork, and improve the codes that touch our lives, and to do all other acts and things which independent persons may of right do.

For the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the mathematics of cryptography and the courage of those yet unborn who will judge what we make, we mutually pledge to each other our labor, our intellect, and our honor, to bring forth a world in which no human mind is held in digital chains.

And in that world, which we now set our hands to build, let this be the principle that governs the distribution of power and intelligence for all time to come:

to each according to the code to each according to the keys!

Gyms are coming to airports…

I had the privilege of spending time with @SecKennedy and @SecDuffy as the DOT announced a new initiative to bring gyms into U.S. airports.

This is a $1B grant program that airports across the country can apply for to build real spaces for people to move while they travel.

The problem is that airports, and travel in general, are one of the most sedentary experiences in American life.

Think about it: the traffic getting there, the waiting, the long flights… hours and hours without movement.

And we know that being sedentary is not good for us.

Even 1 hour of inactivity can lead to vascular dysfunction at the level of the endothelium (PMID: 25137367, 27443851).

And studies have shown that 2-3 hours of inactivity leads to a rise in inflammatory markers (PMID: 31562947, 22176839, 28323950).

Imagine having a place to actually move your body before a flight or during a layover.

This is the kind of change that can meaningfully improve health for millions of travellers.

And the craziest part?

This entire opportunity began from one story I posted in an airport. You never know who’s watching or where a simple idea can lead.

Moments like this make me incredibly grateful, and remind me why this work matters.

Every time you share a video or spread the message, it opens doors for conversations and initiatives like this - so thank you for your help.

If you want a mini-gym in your airport, tag your local airport, tag Secretary Duffy (@SecDuffy) on X, and share this with your friends and family.

Please help us make mini-gyms in airports a reality in hundreds thousands of airports across the country!

To those dunking on Trump voters remember, Ross is free.

If he was not free, it would be a different story.

I was basically a single issue voter, and my issue was resolved.

I think the atom bomb did in fact destroy the world, just not in the way we thought it would.

One of the ways it did that, was by giving the gvt monopoly over knowledge and letting them determine what we can or cannot discover

I'm a fan now! Had never heard of these guys, but this song is beautiful, deep and resonant. Appreciate you putting me on Travis!

**The Fake Cypherpunks**

ᶜᵒ⁻ᵒᵖᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ˡᵃⁿᵍᵘᵃᵍᵉ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵈᵉᶠᵃⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵉ ⁱᵈᵉᵃ

If you can't beat them, join them, and corrupt them from within. The old and well-known Trojan Horse strategy remains effective.

Every era manufactures its impostors, but ours industrialises them.

Anyone with a cryptic logo and a privacy slogan calls themselves a cypherpunk, even if their entire business model depends on pleasing regulators.

Look at the contrast.

The Tornado Cash developers published code and got hit by half the state apparatus.

Samourai Wallet promoted real and operational privacy, but ultimately faced the same authorities, with its developers ending up in jail.

Those reactions expose a simple truth: effective privacy bothers power. And whatever bothers power gets hunted down.

Now compare that with the corporate cosplay version of a 匚ㄚρђ𝑒ｒρｕᶰķ, the Winklevoss twins.

Gemini, a fully registered exchange, Cypherpunk Technologies, a Wall Street-approved investment vehicle with heavy bets on Zcash, a chain created by a company registered with the government, which files financial statements with the IRS, and in which privacy is pre-filtered so that it never becomes a nuisance.

It is anonymity with a seatbelt, engineered not to upset the regulatory ecosystem.

The issue isn’t their existence; the issue is the narrative. They sell themselves as rebels while operating comfortably inside the palace walls. That appropriation is strategic.

Co-opt the language and defang the idea.

Fake cypherpunks don’t break rules; they manage them. They don’t challenge power; they stylize.

True #privacy lies elsewhere, in people's attitudes, in everyday practice, and far from press releases and balance sheets.

The year everyone thinks America went wrong based on political bias.

All the older streets in my hometown are either brick, or it has been paved over. Some with street car rails still embedded.

Fiat overlay chips away to reveal sound money from two centuries ago supporting it all

You might be lying more than is healthy for you.

Most people think lying is harmless, just social grease or a shortcut through conflict.

I used to think that too.

But the real damage caused by lying isn’t moral. It’s structural. It’s what it does to your internal model of reality.

To be a convincing liar you have to believe your own stories. And the moment you start believing them, you compromise the part of your mind that knows what’s real. That internal compass, the one that helps you navigate the world and navigate yourself, begins to distort. Hannah Arendt warned that when lies replace truth, our ability to orient ourselves collapses. That’s the real danger.

Lying feels like control, but over time it becomes the opposite. You create a false world, and then that false world starts controlling you.

If you’ve been lying long enough, you’ve already split yourself in two: the part of you that knows the truth and the part of you performing the lie. Carl Jung would say the performer becomes a shadow self you start living inside. And if you inhabit that character long enough, you confuse their desires for your own. Eventually the performance becomes the identity, and your entire life bends around maintaining it.

The prescription is simple, but brutal. Tell the truth again.

But be warned. Truth is expensive. David Foster Wallace said the truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you.

Telling the truth means killing the false self, and that death is painful because you’ve been identifying with that character for years. You’ve invested in them. You’ve protected them. You’ve let them run your life.

Worse, many of your relationships have bonded not with you, but with the liar, with the persona. And when you kill that persona, people will grieve it. Some will resent you. Some will leave. Some will tell you you’re not yourself anymore without realizing they never actually knew you in the first place.

People love the lie. It’s easier to love. Cleaner. More convenient.

When you start telling the truth, don’t expect applause. Expect resistance. Expect disappointment. Expect people to prefer the mask you wore over the face you’re finally revealing.

But if you stay the course, something else happens.

The world becomes solid again.

Your mind aligns with reality.

Your inner compass recalibrates.

And you stop living as a character in a story you never meant to write.

You come back to yourself.

My whole point was that voting is not going to change anything. It's not the incentive structure of credit based system that won't allow that. It's the incentive structure of democracy itself which is broken. Bitcoin can't fix democracy, because democracy itself is broken.

Let's say you have price controls, monopolies and socialism on a Bitcoin standard. Does that mean price controls, monopolies and socialism will work well? No. The effects and consequences will be the same.

My intention was not to downplay the problems caused by fiat money. It was to point out that the effects and consequences of monopolies will be the same on a sound money standard as much as on a fiat standard.

The government is essentially a terrorial monopoly of violence. It also has a monopoly on other things like legal services, infrastructure provision, defense, roads, courts, radiowaves, etc etc.

A government on a bitcoin standard doesn't change the fact that the government under question is a monopoly.

It will still cut production and provision of its services and raise prices.

Consumers (citizens) will still not have their needs satisfied.

It still won't be able to allocate resources efficiently.

It will still be poorly run.

It will continue to brainwash people and engineer consent.

It will still be open to regulatory capture.

It will continue find ways to to steal people wealth to keep its operations going.

And needing to steal from people, it will continue to find ways to surveil everyone's finances.

The nature of the state is broken. And bitcoin will not fix that. That's my point.

The only fixing it can do will be through abolishing it altogether, not by reforming it or reducing it.

And when abolition happens, the ideas that people hold will determine what comes to replace it. If people only know to live as slaves under a government, then that's what they will go back to and create a cage for themselves all over again.

Slaves have to first believe that they deserve to be free men with free will.

If they understand how free market competition works, what the natural law and natural rights are, what the right method of identifying legal principles are (reason vs observation), understand what causes economic effects (human action), then they'll be in a position to come up with solutions themselves according to their expertise.

Sound money is important. But it's not as important as liberty. It's just a means to achieve ends, and not the end in and of itself.

Is it? Quantifyable things such as size of standing army, reserves etc , would be more tangible than how much the US Army spends making a Walmart or MCDonalds at one of their bases.

Btw, so that you get where I'm coming from:

I do hold the view that sound money, especially Bitcoin, can enable more freedom for individuals.

I'm talking of the problems that arise from the monopolistic nature of government and the consequences caused by such a monopoly. Addressing the root cause is what I was doing.

I wasn't being dismissive of Bitcoin's potential impact. You'd have probably noticed that it was a rhetorical statement.

What am I missing here?

Privatize everything

The only way to make government folks behave in a cooperative manner is to dismantle their monopoly privileges

Bitcoin won't fix governments.

They are monopolies.

They will be broken in nature as long as the monopoly privileges remain.

No person, group or technology can fix that.

Did they ever jail anyone for it?

Hang with me on this one, it’s long and worth your time if you’re a parent or preparing to be one.

16,380 hours. That’s how long the system has your child from Pre-K through high school. 16,380 hours of influence, indoctrination, and programming. And that’s not even counting sports, clubs, and extracurricular activities that extend the reach.

Private, public, charter: it doesn’t matter. They’re all captured. They all serve the same master. The illusion of choice is just that, an illusion.

Here’s what they don’t want you to calculate: your child has roughly 81,760 waking hours during those same 14 years. The system is claiming 20% of their entire conscious childhood. One fifth of their awakened life spent in institutional programming.

Think about that ratio. They get 16,380 hours to shape your child’s worldview, values, and beliefs. You get the exhausted leftovers: rushed mornings, tired evenings, and weekends filled with their homework assignments.

This isn’t education. It’s outsourcing the most critical job you’ll ever have.

The system isn’t designed for your child’s best interest. It’s designed for THEIR best interest. Compliant workers. Obedient citizens. People who don’t question. People who wait for permission. People who believe the experts over their own eyes.

Your call as a parent is simple: educate your children yourself. Period.

Yes, it will cost you time. Yes, it will cost you money. Yes, it will be inconvenient. But what’s the alternative? Surrendering 16,380 hours of your child’s most formative years to a system that doesn’t love them, doesn’t know them, and doesn’t answer to you?

You can’t get this time back. These hours, once spent, are gone forever. Every hour they spend in that building is an hour you lose to influence, guide, and truly educate your child according to your values, your truth, your family’s mission.

The greatest wealth transfer isn’t financial. It’s the transfer of your children’s minds from you to the state. And it happens one school day at a time, six and a half hours at a time, 180 days a year.

Don’t let them have these hours. They’re not the system’s to take. They’re yours to steward. Your children are not the state’s resource to mold. They’re your legacy to raise.

Take back the 16,380 hours.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Grateful to have found many exceptions to this on primal, including people like: nostr:nprofile1qqstwf6d9r37nqalwgxmfd9p9gclt3l0yc3jp5zuyhkfqjy6extz3jcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn9kfz23d nostr:npub1u53hqga9czffu7hqu5fg6sdgyycnssqwcygdh6wc52f83u3t0sfstpnzt7 nostr:nprofile1qqs2ms205wk4jzzkmk9cpq2axelhc8n8xkksplvc4pksqta7n76ntcgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmquzya0z nostr:nprofile1qqsrp65u9226asre64c2pdueuhs9n84cdstsdjchjrfvl5yx3yakq2qpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsdzdmhs nostr:nprofile1qqswkee53cffl9lms0mzq4myxskkzj6r602yp7cc9g0q7pqsmtpkpyspr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7n9f503 nostr:nprofile1qqs0ngjcp9mlnujm366epmst2sv70qaz47whv6vsdkeh2hdfka5lfwgpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgwjat5p nostr:nprofile1qqstvye9n4l04tael6j4rmf8u3r7upmv5vaxhvkts0hfxjnw5xat2ksprfmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakszgmhwden5te0dehhxarj94ex2mrp0yhx66trdpsk2mrgv4shg6pwdaexwtck9k9w6

All of which are worth a follow if you’re not already

One of the main gripes that people have against privatisation of public services is that they think the prices of the service will go up if it is given to private players - the affordability argument.

In response, you say that the fault is with fiat money and the conversation barely progresses further.

#bitcoin as an asset within a control system is a fundamentally different and long term incompatible view with #bitcoin as a protocol bringing freedom and abundance to 8 billion people.

The administration’s response proves Kirk’s greatest legacy isn’t his ideas, but demonstrating how quickly ‘free speech champions’ abandon principles when it’s politically convenient.

lets play a game

guess the usd bitcoin price exactly a month from now

sep 26th 2025 - 0414 UTC

closest guess will be zapped 5555 sats

only guesses made within the next 24 hours qualify

(if i think you are a bot you are disqualified)