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Delta, Dirac
@DeltaClimbs

Developing the world's highest performance structural aerospace materials (and a couple other things) gave me a unique experience of the fiat world, which made me a bitcoin berserker.

I must see the downfall of fiat so that the world may have a sound economic calculus under which the industrialist can proceed with his work unimpeded. @DeltaClimbs on twitter

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An internet architecture built by resentful nerds, the children of hippies and immigrants wanting to rise above their station. Are you surprised it turned into this?

Who is building the Nietzschean cyberspace? With hierarchy, order, truth, and beauty?

De'mos-graph is destiny.
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arkinox · 1w
idk how about this https://github.com/arkin0x/cyberspace/blob/master/readme.md
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If you never "short bitcoin" (spend)

Do you not short yourself

For an imagined future, a legacy--

Do you truly live in a way that is legendary?

Dreaming of nothing more than the distant descendant who says: you were a GENIUS, so much SMARTER. And THEY will know it, ha! :)
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Is bitcoin rare, or is the pursuit of money just about the most banal thing in the world?

Do you really think of yourself as rare for having found a peak, of a most common activity within human life?

Why do you care to be sovereign, if you are merely excellent within the herd?
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What if the great game

Is to build the battleground

For the true culture wars?

The cultures that have been unable to flourish

On the cesspool brought to us

By Gates and Jobs?

I am sure I will speak with Jack Dorsey again

Eternal recurrence
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What does it mean for bitcoin to become culture?

Nearly every bitcoiner goes through a phase of wanting to explain bitcoin to people, and who wouldn't! Isn't it fun to explain new things?

Most people realize that the success rate of explanation is quite low and decide it is no longer fun. It is easy to say bitcoin shatters a lot of false beliefs for people and that "we" are so clever so of course the masses will be slow, but is this true?

Or might there actually be a profound epistemic flaw in the idea of explanation in and of itself as a method of spreading ideas? If a person thinks they are reasonable, would they not project that sense onto others, and thereby, affirm their view of themselves by giving someone else an explanation, about anything?

So who is threatened, existentially? Are you not the first to be by the mere implicit assertion that explanations are a thing that work? For if the possibility that you adopted a thing for a reason other than cleverness exists, what does that say about your understanding of the world?

Rather than giving you all my thoughts on these matters, do you see something that might have been broadly missed about the nature by which things are adopted?

And please, do not be so lazy to say that we are adopting plenty fast; this is a discussion on propagation dynamics, not an argument about what is or isn't "fast enough". Also, avoid the tautology that once it is adopted broadly, it will thus be culture. Finally, I posit that the adornments of bitcoiners to various lifestyles whether constructive or degenerate, diets, marital patterns, nomadism, etc. are not cultural inventions of bitcoin. Being wealthy, leisurely, and so on are cultural modes of being that exist outside bitcoin.
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Moon · 4w
I think “bitcoin culture” is simply the foundational incentives that the money drives - which I see as a a long term disposition against profligacy and waste imposed through monetary scarcity. Bitcoin education is critically important but we must be content with it, in many cases, progressing s...
Moon · 5w
…many such cases, friend
Max · 10w
The cryptoanarchist vision is forty years old. The theory is complete. The tools exist. Yet we have almost nothing to show for it. The bottleneck was never ideas or technology. It was always people w...
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Hi Max, you reveal in the brief excerpt I quote below you do not believe your own premise by the very fact you published this article thinking others might read it. So will you ask, why are you lying to yourself about the nature of reality? Clearly, you recognize the distinction between individual and collective is not binary. It is clear that the reactionary approach to counter collectivism is failing because there is a weak theory as to the nature of the transition, which is quite different from having whisps of a vision for a long term equilibrium.

Until you are ready to overcome the fact that the utopia you envision will not spontaneously emerge from a handful of people using software, you will not maximally contribute to advancing toward various intermediary steps. I am taking a different approach, working toward bringing autonomy in a hierarchical way, starting with the weapons systems that can help weaker nations regain greater sovereignty. This can percolate downward more easily than it is to simply hit tipping points preaching to the choir here.

You think politics doesn't work because you only see the "rules" and "forms" of politics you were told exist. I am making my own way, and building the weapons, not asking for policy changes, but providing tools to shape the nature of things to come.
"First, stop waiting for mass approval. Deprogram yourself from collectivist thought and hoping the masses will wake up. Do not waste time trying to fix politics, win over majorities, or receive mainstream validation. You are on your own for now."

Max · 10w
I'm not quite sure were we disagree? The premise of the article is we need more people. How do you define politics?
HODL · 10w
Constantly waiting on both the left and the right to figure out the future is high tech enabled merchant city states where they can both run things according to their own ideology while keeping trade ...
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I suspect part of the transition to this may require a doctrinal shift around force posture that pivots more toward allowing allies to unilaterally impose cost rather than the US becoming entangled in a strategy of denial. I am thinking about the weapons that align with this transition at the nation state level, which then will lead to trickle down decentralization over time.

I suspect it may be impossible for it to be grassrooted bottom up with communes: El Salvador, Prospera, Solano, etc, which of course are not taken seriously in their own right, for cities will not effectively defy states, nor are they currently able to defend their territory against a centralized hegemon, so no one will truly defect even if they signal conditional interest.

It will likely be many decades of international decoupling at the conventional layer, with a shift toward cost imposition as a stable deterrent, which will help the world realize the strategy of denial against tyranny fails in securing liberty.

BitTasker · 26w
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Great, now are YOU ready to actually build this rather than having a LARPer nostr btc rain dance ritual?

YOU NEED TO ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS. Heard from Junseth first and he's God damn right.

Don't do the retarded circlejerk thing, build a real business rather than setting yourself up for failure and wasting your time when you could actually build something useful.

BitTasker · 26w
Fair point — that’s exactly why we’re building BitTasker on Nostr with real escrow + reputation. Taskers and Taskees can get real jobs done and pay in BTC/USDT, non-custodial. Plus we’re integrating a 3rd-party payment provider so anyone can on-ramp with credit or debit cards. No LARP — it...