A dollar buys less than a 1000 sats... sat/cent parity next! After that, hopefully some more meaningful measurement of purchasing power?

Damn this is powerful stuff. What a presentation! Makes me think...

Bought Primal Premium 💪 It's good to have free things, but you get what you pay for... I was having trouble with connections to the free relays, and thought it would be good to support Primal anyway. Will be interesting to see how my Nostr experience improves!

Why accelerating the collapse doesn't mean the phoenix would rise from the ashes And how you can find a life of freedom today, without "tearing down the old"... Inspired by this great thread by Will Tanner:

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Will Tanner (@Will_Tanner_1) on X

As the election arrives, one thing that must be understood The accelerationists are wrong. A Kamala victory wouldn't lead America to collapse or c...

Based on Will's "what not to do" thread, I wrote a blog post on what we SHOULD be doing. You're now reading the short version. Read the whole post here:

Accelerate pockets of freedom | High Future Preference

In short: trying to accelerate a collapse may just lead to ongoing and continuing collapse, not necessarily a fresh start. We (the productive people) need to focus on accelerating the positive alternatives, not on tearing down the fabric of old society as the socialists do. We can find ways of existing outside the stranglehold of the legacy states, not necessarily fully insulated from them, but sufficiently separate to have a "good enough" level of freedom. There are no perfect solutions, but that doesn't mean no solutions! My primary hope is for the Free Cities idea to maximally push through to reality, even if it's currently facing serious headwinds.

Free Cities Foundation | Building a better future.

While that fight continues, there are other simpler & faster solutions. Perhaps the simplest & most practical, the Aleph Citadel in Argentina allows you to live a life of relative freedom from the state. It's not theoretical perfection, but it is real. Anything real is infinitely better than some non-existent ideological dream.

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Some of the other planned solutions: -Seasteading movement (all kinds of great stuff, check them out)

The Seasteading Institute – Opening humanity's next frontier

-Praxis Nation (theoretical but still interesting)

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Praxis is building new cities to support those solving the world's hardest problems

-Maybe Elon will get us to Mars! Whatever happens with those ideas, I see their main importance as long-term stability and a solution for people who don't necessarily have a location independent source of income. If you have location independent income, there is no reason to wait. You can have a life of freedom today! Just get on the move, and you are most of the way there in liberating yourself. International lifestyle is the age-old method of practicing freedom. Sovereign Landing makes it easy!

Sovereign Landing - Go Lightfooted! | Sovereign Landing

@Max spitting absolute fire on this Nostrovia podcast with @gsovereignty (link to the full podcast episode at the end of the post). This part of the conversation was such gold that I made it into a separate clip: This part of the conversation is about the book Second Realm:

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Second Realm: Book on Strategy - Liberty Under Attack Publications

In Second Realm: Book on Strategy, Smuggler and XYZ build upon the framework laid by the likes of Samuel Edward Konkin III, Hakim Bey, and many ano...

(you can download and listen to it for free) My highlights from the conversation in text: [Gsovereignty] ...We can also orange-pill the world by hiring everyone... [Max] Yeah, cause ultimately free people are productive people and productive people want to build stuff... Not just do we need to produce services and goods in the 2nd realm that cannot be acquired in the 1st realm, but likewise there is a demand in the 2nd realm that cannot be provided or satisfied in the 1st realm... and so then 1st realm agents will migrate into the 2nd realm in order to produce those goods and services for 2nd realm inhabitants. [Gsovereignty] I think I will take that hint and start referring to the bitcoin world as the 2nd realm [Max] Yeah it's a perfect fit... ... (Second Realm) It's a book on strategy, how to build a productive parallel society that gets humanity through this dark time of parasitism. We need to have people continuously producing, DESPITE the enormous amount of theft that is going on, and we need to build tools and strategies that make being productive cheaper. There is a gigantic demand in this area, and therefore huge opportunities for value creation and profit. So, this is ultimately I think what is going for us, like back during the Soviet regime: you had the Soviet economy, centrally planned and everything going to shit and rotting and no value being created at all, and you had the much more liberal western societies with more free market producing enormous amounts of incredible things. You just see the two markets and centrally planned slavery societies always underperform property-rights based freedom societies, like always has, always been, will always be... just because of economic reality. So in the long run we will see exactly the same thing happening again: the first realm, centrally managed, fiat-controlled and slave/theft based system is going to dwindle and further decrease in capital. It will devour itself more and more, and as it is dying it will have to devour itself even at a faster rate, just to keep up. While simultaneously the free world will produce things that we cannot even yet imagine, at a scale we cannot even fathom... ...and that will continue to increase, as we continue to write the code that decreases the cost for doing so, and we're not stopping to write the code! The full episode is here:

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Nostrovia - The Original Nostr Podcast • Max Hillebrand (Wasabi Wallet) • Listen on Fountain

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