Link to 'Building Nostr' by @hodlbod
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AJ
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Thanks for the shout out in the article @bitcoms!
It was great to be at @Nostrshire, representing @npub1frdm...h4dd
Looking forward to round 2 later this year ;)
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After the Utter Shit Show that was COVID, the UK's Crime and Policing Bill wants to introduce "no mask zones" where people are protesting.
Not that I think protest achieves anything, but it's a bit rich that now they want faces on show when people decide to march.
I foresee a lot of people claiming compromised immune systems at protest locations π
Hello Mr @BAO
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And you especially don't buy BTCTC's by taking our a mortgage on your fucking house:
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I look forward to all the stories of people taking out a mortgage on their home to buy Strategy's STRC.
Essentially any leverage that can be taken...
Winner winner, chicken dinner
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Hi Nostr! Can you guess what sort of place I'm at?


Why do I keep doing this?
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It is great to be part of this. Thank you @Talk Satoshi to Me | Proof of Work Magazine
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I love being part of this π
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You don't hate the left enough
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I recently re-read The Cypherpunk Manifesto. These sections stood out:
βIf I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy.β
And
βFor privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society.β
Why these passages in particular?
Because months on I am still dumbfounded by a group of very high profile UK Bitcoiners (business owners, authors, old-hands on TradFi stages) who basically said they didnβt give a shit about privacy and were gonna stay on WhatsApp for the sorts of conversations they were having that should be more secure.
Iβm SUCH a fresh newbie by comparison, and 100% could still learn a lot from many of them. But on this one thing I will never look at them the same again. Not that they care, nor should they.
And yet if they are trying to increase adoption, then without the strong underpinnings of privacy measured alongside the current abysmal state of the UK - they are just setting their fellow countrymen and countrywomen up to fail and fall right into the governments outstretched and thorn-covered arms.
I'm on holiday at the moment and have time to think about these interactions when they pop into my head. But as 2026 takes root for me on my return I really hope I'll forget all about this because it's serving me no purpose at all. Well, almost no purpose aside from the meme I made and stuck in my Nostr presentation at BitFest. I can still get mileage out of that at my next talk in March π
#StillinShock


I must admit, I think it would be better to be a bit more quiet about my utter disdain for 'the system' when talking to normies. I actually don't want to draw too much attention to my developing plans. But it's so hard - I want more people to see what so many of us see.
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