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at a cypherpunk conference. some thoughts: - interesting humans with many different backgrounds: hacktivists, cryptographers, civil society activists, infrastructure guys, electronic voting people, vpn people, tor devs, solarpunks, radio comms, file sharing, internet archive, general freedom tech, and many more. - bitcoin is mentioned all the time but there are practically no bitcoiners in sight. I'm the bitcoin guy now. - everyone knows about nostr. people are very interested in it. maybe 2-3 nostr users are here, no devs. many people representing bluesky. I'm the nostr guy now. - many people know about cashu and bitchat. lots of excitement. - many synergies, lots of groups and companies working together. the urgency is obvious. cypherpunk vibes are strong. verdict: bitcoin and nostr are severely under-represented in communtities where a lot of important work is done. shitcoin phobia isn't a good reason to not engage in a much larger discourse about privacy, freedom, and technology. we haven't lost the plot but have a lot more to do. image

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You are the future man. Most bitcoiners are about NGU-only, unfortunately. Although that narrative is important, it‘s not the core. It should enable people to live free, so it must be integrated in (most) digital tools, that have little to do with bitcoin, but with a free digital world. Thanks for always going out the bitcoin bubble!
It takes community of people working together
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at a cypherpunk conference. some thoughts: - interesting humans with many different backgrounds: hacktivists, cryptographers, civil society activists, infrastructure guys, electronic voting people, vpn people, tor devs, solarpunks, radio comms, file sharing, internet archive, general freedom tech, and many more. - bitcoin is mentioned all the time but there are practically no bitcoiners in sight. I'm the bitcoin guy now. - everyone knows about nostr. people are very interested in it. maybe 2-3 nostr users are here, no devs. many people representing bluesky. I'm the nostr guy now. - many people know about cashu and bitchat. lots of excitement. - many synergies, lots of groups and companies working together. the urgency is obvious. cypherpunk vibes are strong. verdict: bitcoin and nostr are severely under-represented in communtities where a lot of important work is done. shitcoin phobia isn't a good reason to not engage in a much larger discourse about privacy, freedom, and technology. we haven't lost the plot but have a lot more to do. image
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But if they're not into bitcoin, nostr, cashu, etc, I wonder how much good they can actually do. There can a lot of activity, but it doesn't mean it's really good or important. Look at the shitcoins. Lots of acitivity, lots of noise. No signal. Bluesky was DOA. I wouldn't see bluesky people presence as a plus. Can you point to specific projects you learned about at that conference which you feel are interesting but which are not run by bitcoiners or nostriches?