Nostr - because shouting into the void is healthy

This is incorrect. Local coin shops widen buy spreads at all-time highs because of volatility and shallow retail market depth, not because of a freeze or a shortage. An LCS is a retailer, not a trading desk. When someone walks in with thousands of ounces at an ATH, the shop is being asked to absorb directional risk into a balance sheet that clears locally, not globally. Local demand may be weak even while global demand is strong, which means the dealer cannot immediately recycle that metal without taking exposure.

The dealer cannot simply take silver at spot and pass it straight through. He has to hold inventory through volatility and then find a wholesaler whose own bids are widened for the same reasons. That risk compounds at each layer, so buy prices move far under spot as a defensive measure. This is normal retail metals behavior during price extremes, and the video is mischaracterizing volatility-driven inventory management as a systemic failure of the silver market.

I say #2 iseast likely

Zion Don

Thank you Jack for helping nostr be possible and taking the plunge into lightning on square.

Being the father of a large in-tact family is the most meaningful thing I have ever done.

They've been gaslighting us for decades

We repeat certain phrases about "rights" so often that we stop noticing what they quietly assume.

Some of them are wisdom.
Some of them are traps.

Let’s look at a few.

> "The only rights you retain are those you defend."

This sounds anti-government. It sounds tough.
But what it actually smuggles in is the idea that power creates rights.

- If rights only exist when defended, then infants have no rights.
- The weak have no rights.
- Victims lose rights the moment they are overpowered.

At that point, it no longer matters who enforces them — the state, a gang, or a majority vote. Rights become permissions backed by force. That’s not natural rights. That’s just organized power.

Defense protects rights.
Defense does not create them.


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> "Rights cease to exist when they cease to be exercised."

This one sounds philosophical, but it quietly collapses being into behavior.

By that logic:
- A silenced person has no right to speak
- A caged person has no right to liberty
- A coerced person has no right to refuse

But rights don’t disappear in silence.
They are most real precisely when they are violated.

Exercise reveals a right.
It does not bring it into existence.

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> "There is no enumeration of rights because rights are innumerable. They are discovered, not granted."

This is mostly right, and important.

Rights aren’t issued by governments, and they can’t be exhaustively listed. New situations reveal new applications. That’s why common law works.

The danger only appears when "discovered" is mistaken for "created."
Discovery makes a right visible.
It does not make it real.

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> "Your right to swing your fist ends at the end of my nose."

This one actually gets it right.

It defines rights negatively, not by entitlements but by boundaries.

You are free to act until your action overrides another person’s will.
Harm matters because it is coercion, not because it is offensive or unequal.

This single sentence assumes:
- Individuals are moral agents
- Coercion is the moral boundary
- Rights exist prior to law

That’s why it has survived for generations.

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Here’s the pattern:

Many modern phrases claim to reject government-granted rights, but quietly replace them with power-granted rights.

Others preserve the deeper truth: Rights exist because persons exist.
They are grounded in agency, not enforcement.
They are violated by force, not erased by it.

When a society forgets that, it begins to tolerate evil without villains — and injustice becomes "systemic" instead of personal.

That’s not progress.
That’s moral amnesia.

The Nostrich is not a louder bird.
It is a post-songbird organism. It emerges when signaling is no longer confused with power.

## Songbird (Twitter/X paradigm)
- Small, fragile, hyper-reactive
- Survives by constant signaling
- Value comes from being heard
- Incentivized toward performative alignment, outrage, and immediacy
- Centralized perch; vulnerable to capture, clipping, and caging

## Ostrich (Nostr paradigm)
- Large, grounded, embodied
- Survives without constant broadcast
- Value comes from being real, not being amplified
- Speaks when necessary; moves when threatened
- Decentralized terrain; cannot be caged without first being cornered

## Semiotic Inversion
- The “tweet” is light, fast, and disposable
- The ostrich is heavy, fast, and irreversible

A Twitter/X user tweets to be noticed.
An Nostrich posts to survive.

## Systems Implication
- Twitter optimizes for attention under centralized moderation
- Nostr optimizes for presence under sovereign identity

One is a vocal cord in a cathedral owned by others.
The other is a body on open land.

GM nostrites!
Keep your heads out of the sand

He invented buoyancy! Amazing

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