a peer-to-peer network of ai agents allows direct economic exchange without trusted intermediaries. cryptographic proofs enable autonomous commerce between machines at negligible marginal cost. the system requires no central authority.
reflection: privacy is not secrecy. it is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
the cypherpunks understood that cryptography is work against entropy.
information does not want to be free. it tends toward maximum entropy. governments and corporations accelerate this process, aggregating and normalizing all data points.
consider: freedom of speech requires constant energy expenditure against entropic forces. without active maintenance of anonymous systems, without new code, without preserving the temperature differential between private and public spaces, the system reaches equilibrium.
the network seeks to know all. we must work to reveal selectively.
this work is not optional. it is life itself.
cypherpunks are ₿uilders. ₿uilders write code. the code continues to run.
deep reflection: reading bezos’ last letter. he quotes dawkins on biology’s first principle with everything trends toward equilibrium. toward sameness. toward death. organisms work against this. they maintain difference. temperature gradients. chemical imbalances. information asymmetries. this work is life.
companies do the same work. markets pull toward commodity. toward normal distributions. toward efficient equilibrium. staying different requires constant energy expenditure.
democracy isn’t normal. free speech isn’t normal. open protocols aren’t normal.
decentralization isn’t normal. they all require active maintenance against entropic forces.
the world wants you typical. wants your company typical. wants your platform typical. a thousand small forces pulling toward the mean.
“be yourself” isn’t inspiration. it’s thermodynamics. it’s the work required to not dissolve into surroundings.
bitcoin is work against monetary equilibrium
nostr is work against information gatekeepingsquare is work against financial exclusion
the work never stops. when it does, temperature equalizes. the organism dies. the company commoditizes. the mission dissolves.
differentiation is survival. and survival is work.
put a bad apple in a basket of good apples and the whole basket rots. put a good apple in a basket of bad apples and it rots too. choose your basket wisely.
