Gm #NOSTR I stand with the oppressed. I stand with the kids of Palestine. I stand with the kids of Gaza.

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Last night I had a conversation with someone I used to know, a guy deeply involved in online game development, coding, and computers in general. On paper, he’s “closer to technology” than me, a musician. But when it came to Bitcoin, I was absolutely stunned by how much disinformation he repeated and how clueless he actually was. What shocked me most is that he said this was the first time he ever spoke to someone who truly believes in Bitcoin as I do. And yet, instead of curiosity, he came armed with half-baked myths—like “you never know, somebody might put something into the code and it just propagates.” I had to stop him: No, man—Bitcoin is open-source. Every line of code is verifiable. Any proposed changes wait months, sometimes years, before acceptance. And governance isn’t in the hands of some shadowy developers—it’s the nodes, fully decentralized, that enforce consensus. This conversation has been stuck in my head because it shows something important: it’s not only “normies” who misunderstand Bitcoin. Even people who live and breathe technology—software developers, coders, game designers—can be completely misled about what Bitcoin is and how it works. And here’s the dangerous part: people like him often have circles of friends who look up to them because “they’re into computers,” so they must know what they’re talking about. But when you take their words at face value, it can hurt you. That’s why I keep coming back to the mantra: Don’t trust. Verify. It’s not just a Bitcoin principle—it’s a character trait, a value you have to live by if you don’t want to get completely lost in today’s world. Because without verification, when you start trusting “gurus” who project confidence but don’t know what they’re talking about, it can destroy you. And honestly, this is exactly what the system counts on: that people don’t trust and don’t verify, making them easy to mislead. That’s why I see places like Nostr as a blessing. At least here, you can find people who actually know what they’re talking about. That makes all the difference.

We always welcome new Nostriches. Please welcome my friend @Sonny He plays bass and can bless us with some nice daily bass miniatures I hope. Music v-log is something #nostr needs.

News circulates of a Russian hacker breach claiming Ukraine has lost 1.7 million troops. Maybe the number is exaggerated. Maybe it isn’t. But even if it is inflated, the truth is already catastrophic. The losses are beyond imagining. And here is the brutal fact: responsibility does not rest only with politicians and generals. It belongs just as much to the intellectuals, journalists, artists, and musicians who pounded the drums of war. Those who shouted for total victory, who promised the impossible, who wrote war anthems instead of questioning the madness. From the very beginning, there were only a handful—like Roger Waters—who had the courage to say what was obvious: force both sides to sit down and negotiate peace. They were ridiculed, silenced, dismissed as traitors. In countries like Poland, where Russophobia was turned into a civic religion, the cultural class chose to outdo itself in hysteria, preaching escalation, glorifying bloodshed, and mocking the very idea of diplomacy. They didn’t order the mobilizations. They didn’t sign the death lists. But they gave this war its soundtrack, its slogans, its false hope of victory. And for that, they share in the blood. It was reckless, it was cowardly, and it will remain their shame.

I might start v-logging on #nostr in Polish language to help build a community here. There is a lot of content in English but rarely in other languages. Is that a good idea?

Let the Nodes Keep Ringing Every empire believes it can swallow the new and domesticate it. Rome thought it could absorb Christianity. The Church thought it could cage the printing press. Wall Street thought it could contain the internet. Each time, the empire miscalculated. Each time, the network devoured the empire. Bitcoin is that rare, domain-shifting revolution. Not another app, not another stock, but a new law of money — born in time to stop humanity from devouring itself through the excesses of debt and control. Yes, BlackRock can buy coins. Yes, nation-states can accumulate reserves. But they are buying Bitcoin on our terms, not theirs. The law of Bitcoin is not written in boardrooms. It is enforced by nodes. This is the first time in history that an asset of this magnitude — the fifth largest in the world — has its rules upheld not by kings or governments, but by ordinary people. Not by miners chasing profit, but by plebs running simple machines, holding the law. The beauty of Bitcoin is not just in stacking sats, but in running nodes. That is the true revolution: millions of non-mining nodes, cheap to run, spread across the world, enforcing rules no empire can rewrite. People ask how change happens. Voting for governments is not change. Buying stock in corporations is not change. This is the only real change: holding a piece of hardware, running software, guarding the consensus of incorruptible money. So let BlackRock buy their coins. Let governments hoard their stacks. What matters is who runs the nodes. Let the nodes keep ringing. Let a million bloom. Then two million. Then three. This is how the network wins. This is how the empire falls. #bitcoin

Who really holds Bitcoin’s law? BlackRock can buy a million coins, nations can stockpile more, banks can fill vaults — but they’re buying into Bitcoin on Bitcoin’s terms. Consensus isn’t enforced by Larry Fink, nation-states, or miners. It’s enforced by thousands of ordinary users running nodes. This is the first time in history that the fifth-largest asset on Earth has its rules safeguarded by plebs. Gold was ruled by kings. Fiat is ruled by central banks. Bitcoin is ruled by open-source code, validated by an anonymous global army of ~20,000 node runners. Even if BlackRock tried to corner supply, the math doesn’t work. They’d need millions of coins — and every coin they buy just pushes scarcity higher, pricing them out further. More importantly, buying coins does not buy consensus. The rules — 21M, proof-of-work, no bailouts — remain untouchable. That’s the bizarre and beautiful part. Never before has the “law” of money been held by those who serve kings, live under kings — and now, by ordinary people across the world. It’s not miners, it’s not Wall Street, it’s not Davos. It’s the plebs who run the software. Bitcoin is a huge experiment with no precedent. Nobody — not BlackRock, not the U.S. government, not China or Russia — knows how it ends. That’s the Trojan horse: they think they’re absorbing Bitcoin, but they’re stepping into a system where they don’t hold the pen that writes the law.

“Oh my God, it’s not a currency. It’s a network.” Andreas Antonopoulos This is possibly the biggest revelation regarding Bitcoin that one can have. Once you see it and believe it, your life takes a radical turn and there is no coming back.