*true privacy isn't something governments *grant* - it's something they *fear*.* View quoted note β†’
*decentralization isn’t when everyone agrees β€” it’s when everyone is allowed to disagree without breaking the system* View quoted note β†’
*The world is probably not going to hyperbitcoinize*
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I do not regret spending 8 years of my life in crypto - Nic Carter \ stacker news ~culture
I do not regret spending 8 years of my life in crypto by Nic Carter No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the oth...
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*The dissonance between your expectations and the reality of crypto will eventually collapse if you believe in a Randian libertarian utopia*
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I do not regret spending 8 years of my life in crypto - Nic Carter \ stacker news ~culture
I do not regret spending 8 years of my life in crypto by Nic Carter No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the oth...
*Build systems that pay it forward, not lock it down* View quoted note β†’
*the legacy internet is not built for authenticity. It is built for extraction. Hidden algorithms push narratives, outrage, fear, and distraction. People think they are choosing, but they are being steered. Sometimes for profit. Sometimes for power* View quoted note β†’
*The missing piece is a more developed discovery ecosystem. A Nostr client acting as a crawler, an indexer, and a curator could build the needed visibility layer. Some early versions exist, but nothing has yet become the widely used tool for this* View quoted note β†’
*what we call "gains" are often just an optical illusion of currency debasement. High asset prices are merely the receipts for fiat printing* View quoted note β†’
*Bitcoin needs pervasive open computing. Hardware-based attestations do not stand against that in principle but in practice it often does. A smart phone has many chips and one of those can be - decoupled from the main functioning of the device - provide attestations but if you want it to attest to the OS being locked down then ... well ... you run a locked down OS or don't have attestations.* View quoted note β†’
*on balance, the organic, regenerative farm that is ...Nostr .... beats the degenerate slums of... β€œX”* View quoted note β†’