A parasovereign system is one that nobody owns, nobody can dictate, and nobody can erase: it is an idea that persists independently of institutions or authority.
Richard Martin
RichardMartin@primal.net
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I equip leaders to achieve strategic alignment through nested hierarchical action, harnessing initiative for maximal effectiveness with minimal friction.
Attempts at total sovereignty—totalitarianism, high modernist projects, centralized control economies—always encounter parasovereign resistance and workaround. These orders often prove decisive in undermining the sovereign itself.
Running Bitcoin Knots, DATUM mining to Ocean pool, running Bitaxe and NerdQAxe++.
What are you doing to ensure Bitcoin decentralization and monetary integrity?
Sovereign is inward and upward, parasovereign is outward and downward.
Bitcoin and Nostr are not chaos. They are highly structured left-hand orders — ordered, but outside sovereign legibility.
They are not “unruly,” but they are illegible to the sovereign’s symbolic hierarchy.
This is what makes them parasovereign: they sustain order without reference to the sovereign state.
Bitcoin and Nostr are left-handed.
Be ornery!
Bitcoin’s future isn’t guaranteed by difficulty, decentralization, or incentives alone.
It survives because people act to keep it on-mission.
If you won’t fight drift, you’re letting it die. Steward it, or lose it.
@Bitcoin Mechanic
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Inscriptions aren’t the core issue—they’re a symptom.
The real fight is over whether users will defend Bitcoin’s purpose, or accept whatever emerges from neglect, miner incentives, and parasitism.
Culture shapes code. Complacency is capture.
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I’ve said it before, echoing Mark 2:27:
“Bitcoin was made for people, not people for Bitcoin.”
Praxeology: in an engineered system, means (code, protocol, rules) serve the end (human monetary freedom).
Get that backwards, and you become a subject of the system, not its user.
Bitcoin isn’t a god.
It’s an engineered parasovereign system, built for one purpose: sound money via unmediated P2P exchange.
Ref: @Bitcoin Mechanic, YouTube, 13 Aug 2025 — he warns: Bitcoin doesn’t “fix itself.” It’s stewarded, or it drifts.
A lot of people emit opinions here but can’t defend them logically, much less present empirical evidence.