my voice disturbs everyone's inner demons and that's a good thing cause why are they even in there like that

a balance of power

aesthetics and stuff.

I dream of privacy and good acoustics

wokeness is the infertility of the mind.

Bitcoin and Wokeness were always incompatible.

Bitcoin is immunity from globalism.

consensus.

furthermore, I don't care if you are a Bitcoin core developer who hates Donald Trump's guts and wishes to undermine Bitcoin to prove a point. you will not succeed. I understand that there was a quaint moment in time where Bitcoin seemed immune to the outside world, but that time is long gone. while maintaining code is very important, so is venturing outside and hunting down all known predations, so to speak, before they arrive at the doorstep. I'm an idealist and an optimist but I'm also a realist. nobody wants the government to interfere, but why wouldn't you want the government to support? isn't that ideal? isn't that exactly what has been done in El Salvador? open your aperture, or maybe just stop relying on alcohol to take the edge off the realization that this isn't 2008 or 2009 or even 2012 anymore. maintaining code isn't going to make anyone rich, though it is necessary and valued, but a sidepoint of Bitcoin is to increase the likelihood that more people become rich. that said, we are literally 15+ years into it and there are more shitcoins than ever. this is absolutely about sentiment, as all markets are, and there is a certain *very gen x* sentiment that highly values inertia. at the end of the day, if words make price go up, then mission accomplished; but if words make price go down, then there's something to be addressed. Bitcoin can and should be used as both a global currency and a reserve asset. while there are no overlords here, this is very much economic markets management 101. decentralization doesn't mean rudderless. "where there is no vision, the people perish..."

over a decade of dilettantesque cultishness ended the moment words were written which reoriented what the community believed the future of The Coin would be about. many, many hurdles to progress were accomplished via proper communication, but you wouldn't know that if you were just sitting there waiting for things to go boom. don't even get me started on how complacency could have killed our beloved coin, and how these internal battles have already been fought and won. nobody is asking you to maintain the code if you won't maintain a code of honor in respecting those who may have a little more leverage than you in making the future great for everyone. some people really want the vision for the future of the coin to be free of religion whilst making a religion of the coin that is devoid of a future. nobody said that these things were going to be specifically beneficial to the atheists and agnostics of the world, so don't get mad when all the rest begin to openly utilize the combined power of their beliefs and the money which supports their freedom, for the furtherance of their faith-based missions. it will be a full circle moment for some of us, and a long overdue one.

I am sorry that I had to dethrone you, but it was necessary due to your misguided political ideologies and alliances, and it was long predicted that this would be the case, and so it was. things have massively improved since then, despite my own occasional missteps and overreaches, which were understandable given the circumstances, and negotiable considering the gravity of yours. however, we will never forget the legwork it took to cultivate a community while the 'project' was still in its infancy. it is in the best interests of all that we remain in solidarity during this time of tumult and schism.

the reason why I initially hated Twitter was because I anticipated that the minimization of ideas might create vulnerabilities in social cognition – a type of hypermemetic subscription to thinly-veiled falsehoods in the name of concision – and this could have dire consequences. needless to say, as with most assessments of modern technologies, I was right; at the same time, where would we be without it? perhaps, not even Nostr would exist without that precedent. we might never know. I am quite happy to say that I was never actually influenced by the culture of twitter, and I would never want to be, though it was nice knowing that the tool was available whenever I was ready to use it, and I did, and I never want to go through that again.

in either the year 2008 or 2009, I tweeted maybe twice, and I don't remember what I tweeted, but I was like, "I fucking hate this," and then went back to writing my first album on my acoustic guitar.

question: do you ever have moments where you're like, "who the fuck WAS I ten years ago?"

tbh, the only reason why people have a distinct disliking of me is because I talk about Jews under the harsh light of reality, and they of me; though, I have found myself far more beloved than they, despite being partly, negligibly, and allegedly, Jewish myself. I love relays because, truly, things do get relayed back to you, and in a timely fashion; specifically, if you consider the nature of collective consensus, one might gauge the success of their own expositions on certain topics to be heightened by the near-immediate turnaround of feedback. relays don't innately disfavor the loquacious, as was and is the problem with legacy social media and its attention-span reductionism. I do prefer the Nostr protocol for this reason, and another: if miljan braticevic, for example, hates people who say true but unsavory things about Jews, his whole app can go fuck itself and I will still be here.

question: do you have stamina?