Every centralized system depends on one lie: “The boundary is real.” But there’s always a mile. One mile past the rule, past the restriction, past the illusion. Bitcoin is the mile past central banks. NOSTR is the mile past censorship. Self-hosting is the mile past Big Cloud. 3D printing is the mile past manufacturing monopolies. Humanity wins the moment it starts walking.

Dry county logic: “You can’t buy alcohol here.” Reality: “Cool story, I’ll drive one mile over the line and come back with a case.” Absurd rules collapse when reality is one mile wide. Decentralization is people stepping over the boundary and not coming back.

Telecom wasn’t just a career. It was one of the biggest fiat-era illusions: endless billing for work long completed monopoly pricing on infrastructure already paid off rent extraction disguised as “service” a failing model propped up only by inflation innovation that plateaued 15 years ago a workforce trapped by sunk-cost inertia Telecom became a money printer disguised as a utility. Unlike Bitcoin nodes, which: don’t bill don’t inflate don’t rent-seek don’t charge for access don’t double-dip Telecom was the exact opposite: One installation → infinite billing cycles. Like if Bitcoin charged you daily “maintenance fees” for using the same blockchain. Absurd. But normalized under fiat. The copper network was paid for hundreds of times over. 1960s: funded 1970s: funded again through rate hikes 1980s: funded again through “modernization fees” 1990s: funded again to prepare for DSL 2000s: funded again through broadband surcharges 2010s: funded again through “network improvement fees” 2020s: funded again through “infrastructure recovery charges” Every decade… the same physical wires… paid off 10 more times.. That copper should’ve cost residents: $0.00/month after 2003. But the rent extraction continued — because fiat allows the illusion. Fiber played the same trick — paid off instantly, billed forever. The moment fiber was laid: governments subsidized it customers paid installation fees monthly bills recouped cost in year 1 overage fees milked customers corporations booked record profits The physical cost of fiber is a rounding error compared to what gets charged. Another infinite revenue stream from a one-time job. Fiat loves that model. BTC will kill it. Telecom is one of the first industries that will get flattened by transparency.

USPS and UPS shipping Delta-8… while THC was still “Schedule I.” LMAO. That was one of the greatest contradictions of modern law. You had: DEA calling THC “dangerous” FDA pretending it was “unsafe” States locking people up for flower Meanwhile USPS: “Yeah, we ship Delta-8 gummies by the thousands every day.” This is what happens when centralized authority runs on illusion, and reality runs on incentives + loopholes + innovation. The law became the punchline.

If I were running cattle today, I’d be building a protein lab on my land right now. Not next year. Not “when the market shifts.” Today. 3-D printed food is moving faster than folks want to admit. It doesn’t replace nutrition — just the old model of scarcity. This isn’t anti-cattle. It’s pro-survival for the ranchers who see the curve early. Farms won’t disappear. They’ll transform. Land stays valuable. Water stays valuable. Local trust stays valuable. Only the business model changes. Abundance is coming either way. Only question is who adapts in time.

Pushed a small BCI update today. RPC over onion works — Tor just asks for patience.