Oh, it's decentralized. So when you put your phone number into it, which you're required to do, it goes to everybody? not to just one central service?

Snarp indeed.

I think this is the way. And frankly NOSTR and Bitcoin BOTH suffer from the giant UX debt that emerges from a decentralized protocol and the work and sacrifices that need to be made by the common user to run it in a moderately sovereign way.

And on top of that there is the tragedy of the commons. I think in both Bitcoin and Nostr it arises in a social form. The "community" haranguing the devs is an example.

But these two projects are about free speech. Censorship resistance. <....> is for enemies etc.

But I have hope. We have to resist framing things in binaries.

Because the revolution is not that you HAVE to "be your own bank". It is that you CAN.

The whole world does not need to be using Nostr right now. But we need to be ready for when the world realizes they need it.

And I am learning how to use it. I am not a dev. But I can be a "power user". An Uncle Jim.

Because when the censorship, and silencing, and frozen bank accounts come, a LOT more people are going to understand why these freedom technologies are important.

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Few.

Prescient.

It's something that I don't always see clearly, but the governments of man have always been in competition with the church, because the church is also a government. It's a kingdom, not of Earth.

Jesus' words about what to do with the coin are so powerful in this context.

I know that tiredness.

Wow! So cute! But their home! It's built on a teeny swinging branch! And did one just rip an arc of sharting?

I am pretty sure only mooses are allowed to eat that.

Needed. Thanks Jasmine.