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The excess of connection has created new despots. The answer is not a return to the solitary silo, but the construction of a public square where every voice is sovereign and no one can impose silence. A minimal protocol, a wire stretched between strangers, which resists not with walls, but with the simple, inexorable geometry of decentralization.

Bitcoin and the Limits of Transparency: Institutional Corruption The common narrative points the finger at the corruption of financial and political institutions, as if it were an external evil. Bitcoin, as a trustless system, eliminates the need to trust a corruptible intermediary. However, corruption is a deeper and more pervasive phenomenon: it is not just bribery, but cronyism, opacity in public tenders, mismanagement of public affairs, chronic inefficiency. Bitcoin can make it harder, for example, to print money to fund cronyistic public works, but it cannot prevent a ruling class from allocating resources (now in bitcoin) in an equally inefficient or corrupt manner. It can prevent monetary inflation as a form of hidden taxation, but it does not replace the need for transparent institutions, the rule of law, and an active citizenry. It solves a powerful tool of systemic corruption (fiat currency), but it does not eradicate the human tendency for corruption itself, which would simply find other avenues for expression if the institutional context remains rotten. #Bitcoin #Corruption #Institutions #Transparency #Trustless #RuleOfLaw #ActiveCitizenship #Nostr #plebchain

When a system presents itself as a "family", it is often creating an inclusion/exclusion mechanism. Family rhetoric is among the most powerful because: · Creates a sense of emotional belonging · Justifies demands for unconditional loyalty · Dark power dynamics with the language of affection The real family doesn't ask you to stop thinking.