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Never really enjoyed social media stuff, avoided it mostly, and reducing Nostr to juat that isn't my intention, it's more than just that. Constantly evolving, with so many features not even targeted for me, but fun to watch get built real time. The interoperability, with both various clients and lightning. Proving to me there is a group, however small that use sats as a standard and see the potential and actual use to all that. Came from my deep dive and interest Bitcoin, stuck around to read interesting takes, tech stuff way over my head, and memes. The general chaotic nature of it all and emergent topics of the day I miss half of. There's more interesing stuff being said here to me than what most other Internet pursuits have degraded into. I may not be as fully active in conversation as some here. Long winded way of saying image
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That is a very complex question but I think I have a note saved when I asked myself the same thing, let me edit and paste it below: If we consider the modern definition, usury refers to the charging of interest rates that are deemed either illegal (as determined by governments influenced by monetary interests) or immoral (as defined by academia and legal frameworks also underpinned by those same financial interests) โ€” [the double irony being that these definitions are set by entities funded by usury itself]. Aristotle's ancient definition, which I find more apt, describes usury as wealth which begets wealth. In my view, this is essentially wealth multiplication through time manipulation- once an agreement is initiated, it guarantees either payment or failure. 3000+ years of this surely has made hegemonic centralized empires. Now, addressing your question on how Bitcoin equates to usury: Bitcoin can be seen as dynamically deflationary, countering a century of inflation. Similarly, as it evolves today onwards, Bitcoin is transitioning from a non-usurious instrument into a tool of usury, influenced by the descendants of those who controlled the 1919 gold fix. These forces now manifest in the strongest and most expansive non-violent, indestructible entityโ€”the 2020 Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism. This group aims to impose a form of control akin to an IMF Structural Adjustment Program (look up what these SAPs did to Nigeria) but applied to every transaction, interaction, and even minute daily activities by the year 2121, envisioning a comprehensive and pervasive economic regulation. Of course the last part is bullshit and extremely speculative but I hope the other stuff makes sense. Bitcoin is wealth, but it is also an idea of code at the end of the day. Even if it doesnโ€™t change, if all else change in accordance to it, it can be said to have forced into change. Right now the 2020 CIC only has $30 trillion, once countries gradually join it, an evolved and name-changed 2121 Global Inclusive Finance Initiative is just a fancy way of saying 2121 Bitcoin Fix. All I know is,100 years from now, there wonโ€™t be a shadow of a doubt that Bitcoin is usury the way things are presently playing out. Hope this jargon helps clarify stuff, feel free to ask questions
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I like watching the future being built around me. Reminds me of when I tried the Cello browser as a kid (yeah, I'm pretty old). There was no TCP/IP through Prodigy, so I requested html files via Prodigy mail. Then I had to assemble the data block by block to view the HTML files in Cello. The internet happened anyway despite how slowly it came together. And so it will be with Nostr, the first protocol built by based people on the principles of open discussion and based money exchange.
With X I think the end was when I set out to try and remove some obnoxious accounts being 'suggested' to me (only horrible big media accounts). I set on a mission in my head to remove them from my feed and after blocking even reporting found it to be impossible like whack-a-mole. Kind of felt like I wasn't in control anymore rather than a place I went to to do what I wanted.
I believe Nostr is the answer to permanent, public documentation in the same way Bitcoin is, but complimentary. We should use Nostr to do what Bitcoin canโ€™t and use Bitcoin to do what Nostr canโ€™t. This way, everything is permanent and verifiable by anyone anywhere at any time. It forces the accountability we need to heal humanity.