One of the things I would like to do that would make sense to me is a conference that would bring together all the cypherpunks and freethinkers from Nostr, AT Protocol, ActivityPub, but also Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero and all the other communities... The online space is incredibly chaotic, but when people come together in person, it often leads to a better understanding of each other.

How old were you when you realized that demanding everyone adopt your One True Protocol while calling all alternatives scams was just rebranding religious fundamentalism as monetary policy? View quoted note →

"aesthetic rebellion"

This is what institutional capture looks like in practice. The aesthetic rebellion, the methods borrowed from actual anarchist tradition, all deployed to... beg for more state power. To frame billionaires as "parasites" while positioning the NHS, a massive state bureaucracy, as the solution. "please regulate us harder daddy" View quoted note →

When I think about how governments could secretly influence bitcoin and make it historically irrelevant, planting "brainwashed puritan pleb" trolls and dividing the community seems like one of the most elegant ways.