Happy New Year Nostr!

I partied hard last night with zero alcohol, cannabis, or any other intoxicants. This year I’m sober, aging in reverse, and expanding my business.

What are you doing this year?

It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

Looks like solar- and lunapunk meme.

ik first image is nanogpt what is 2nd and 5th? NymVPN?

what are those different Bitcoin color logos? Represent tainted coins or different users? Lol

Feed filters and profile filters :D Still need to finalise ember notifications but then it'll be live. Hopefully only days away from release

in my opinion one of the great things about #monero is that it will force crypto to come to terms with its utility function.

being delisted across centralized spaces will force crypto to realize its decentralized promises. it must embrace peer-to-peer practices.

given various obstacles, if the battle is lost there, then there are greater problems facing crypto, as a whole, and not just xmr.

We are living in the construction of a massive-wide #AI fueled #surveillance system where we will become panopticon subjects that will 'behave' in a certain way.

This forced behavior will define who we are because of the cascading effect of the self-regulation of panopticon subjects.

I am also certain that these systems are fickle and not immune to being 'gamed'.

Lots of promises of good behavior, safe spaces, and just mindless acceptance of rule.

But there is no creation of safe spaces by surveillance.

The products will be pushed, the profits will be made, and the promises will be demonstrated.

Is this some kind of totalitarianism that is totally controlling of humans? Surprisingly, probably not.

Profits and financial speculation are sustained by shortsightedness and pillaging of the public and common good.

It's all fickle and all-assuming and there will always be opposition to this.

The threat of automated panopticonism is real, and great powers will attempt to shape the world in its own image.

But humans are creative, and we 'hack' through life and always manipulate our environments through our existence.

Humans will always find a way to circumvent this system. The hackers ethic - we all have it in us to understand and manipulate something to our own desires.

Nothing is complete, and nothing is ever 100% secure and accurate.

There will always be noise.

Embrace this noise; it creates the paths outside of this panopticon.

#privacy

#Monero info: 1 #XMR == 367.34 #USD, 1 #BTC == 280.24 #XMR, UTC time: Wed Nov 12 00:00:03 2025

#include

using namespace std;

int main()

{

cout << "Hello, world!";

return 0;

}

Updates:

-refreshed the UI of the site

-added a Web of Trust Feed which pulls notes from your extended network. It shows notes from people followed by people you follow. Hopefully it is a helpful way to find interesting content and new people to follow within your trust network. The feed randomly samples from your network each time you visit, so you always see fresh content.

>>>M0N3R0 DYN4M1C 810CK 51Z3<<<

51Z3ₙ ≤ 2×Mₙ → Z3R0 P3N4L7Y.

51Z3ₙ = 1.01×Mₙ → 99.98% R3W4RD

51Z3ₙ = 10×Mₙ → 0.00 XMR D34D Z0N3

M4Xₙ = 2×M3D14N₍ₙ₋₁₀₀₎ₙ₋₁₎

R3W4RDₙ = B453 × [1 - (51Z3ₙ-Mₙ)² ÷ (10×Mₙ)²]⁺

TR4N51473:

“K33P 51Z3 ≤ 2×M3D14N → 6R48 FU11 5T4K3

G0 1% 0V3R → 1053 0.02%

G0 10× 0V3R → 6R48 0 XMR, 6TFO H0M3”

N0 H4RD C4P. N0 DR4M4. JU57 M47H 7H47 5C4135

P2P = WH47V3R 7H3 N37W0RK C4N H4NDL3

>>> 5C413 0R D13.

PSA.

Let👏 a👏 nigga 👏cook👏.

The initial client isn't even finished or in a public alpha for testing and people ask me this multiple times a day. Its a pwa in svelte it'll work on your phone. Am I gonna build a dedicated exclusive android app separately and dox myself to get it in the Google app store? No. This stuff is miles off in the distance anyway.

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We aren't trying to be untraced we are trying to have sovereignty.

We aren't trying to hide in the woods and to only come out at night.

We intend to stand in the center of the town square and demonstrate that they cannot take what is ours - that which was rightfully earnt through hard work.