We don’t see the same internet. Why would you assume we interact with the same LLMs? They probably just mirror you to farm engagement.

How have money/transactions changed? Anything yet? My expectation is full dollarization via stablecoins. Venezuela becomes the Guinea pig of the western hemisphere CBDC

Tell me more

You just “fuck This shit” and don’t use it 🤷‍♂️

Giving my money to somebody who’s going to take on a bunch of leverage, fractional reserve the thing he’s giving me in exchange and use the proceeds to stack bitcoin, who I then have to trust to custody it properly

Or

Stack the bitcoin myself and let you MSTR buyers help saylor pump my position, while trusting only myself in the process



Gee I wonder which is better 🙄

Generals ain’t the best combat soldiers, etc. Knowledge and Practice/application are two different things that are not invalidated when not accompanied by the other.

Intellectuals/academics historically play an important role in society (provided that they’re not captured) but aren’t necessarily “doers”. Society needs both to function optimally. It’s good to be proud of work but work isn’t everything. Strategy and design optimize workers and make them more efficient

Devils advocate:
Some of the best coaches in American sports have been dudes that weren’t really that good when they played or never played in the league they coached in.

Not disagreeing with you. Just pointing out that it’s not simply white and black. Data is data and it’s up to you to decide what has value and what doesn’t. Writing off data because it doesn’t fit some archetype you have predetermined is objectively sub-optimal 🤷‍♂️

Bitcoin existing doesn’t make Gresham’s law go away. The shitty currency gets spent and the good one gets saved. You can buy groceries with gold and silver in Texas but nobody does.

The use case is being able to speak without risk of censorship. We just need more important people saying more important things here. Journalists breaking big stories that otherwise would be shut down on centralized platforms for instance.

The problem isn’t so much the protocol, it’s the people using it.

If you want more people to use NOSTR, create an environment for people who would otherwise be silenced to be free. And I’m not talking about niche Devs.

How Reasearchstr, a place where academic papers can be published that maybe aren’t going to make the lancet because the findings aren’t to the fancy of proctor and gamble or unilever.

Or Teachstr, a place where teachers can get together and form real curriculums outside of the confines of what federally funded public schools can provide.


The value is rules but no rulers right? The natural product-market fit is to cater to environments that thrive with minimal oversight.

The tulip bubble lasted from 1634 to 1637, popped, and never happened again.

Bitcoin has had multiple 1000+% price increases over the last 15 years and is currently chilling at over 100k 🤷‍♂️

It’s become pretty apparent that the Knots stuff is mostly a combination of naïveté regarding the actual effectiveness of filters (they don’t work to stop spam, it’s mostly just virtue signaling/protesting how everything played out) and potentially even some coordinated attempt to cause a fork to separate the monetary ideologues from the base protocol. It benefits the state to create a situation where the minority of financially literate people fork themselves away from where Blackrock and retail will be, guaranteeing their irrelevance and dooming them to be the next bitcoin cash.

And by state sponsored you mean Apple, Google, and the stooges who’s campaigns they pay for