The graffiti in Prague bothers me. I strongly suspect it's a remnant of it's communist past where people didn't learn responsibility.

On X you're the product. On Nostr you're the producer.

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Every centralized app ultimately leverages it's position to make money off bilateral transactions. in other words. rent seeking is a constant temptation for centralized players.

If you don't care about virtue, you will be ruled by vice. Shotcoiners, for example, don't care.

Austrian economists that don't understand programming, technology and cryptography will dismiss Bitcoin or attempt to change Bitcoin because of what they don't understand. Programmers, cryptographers and technologists will do the same because of the economics that they don't understand. Stay humble.

As Bitcoin price increases, so does envy about our situation. I talked to @JohnathanBi about how to deal with it looking at envy through the lens of philosophy.

if hurt people hurt people, then journalists must be seriously hurt

I'd like to see Bitcoiners buy profitable businesses and provide value to the communities they're in.

my conviction is stronger than your ability to comply