GM - Let's play a game. Change one word in a book title to bitcoinize it. Hashy Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (JK Rowling) The Old Man and the Sat (Ernest Hemmingway) The Little Pleb (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) #bitcoinfiction #Bitcoin #books

"Withdrawals banned. Savings gone. We bartered for our meagre dinner." A financial dystopia in 10 words... Can you write one? #WritingCommunity #dystopia

SOMEONE PHOTOSHOP MICAHEL SAYLOR ONTO THIS TV. Balthazar is a big fan. #catstr

Finding Hope in Financial Dystopia Financial Fallout editor, Alex Boast, chatting to author of 20+ Speculative fiction books, DJ Bodden on season 2 of the 21 Futures podcast. Watch the full episode on YouTube: #dystopia #scifi #fiction #writing

31st October, 2035. You must go shopping. You have 3 hours until the deadline. Then your money disappears. *** Each citizen collects their nutritional basics in exchange for their government issued digital currency. Every movement in and out of your account is monitored. Taxes, surcharges and obligatory purchases leave most people with little money to spend. Financial crime no longer exists. Every penny is accounted for. No off-the-books payments. No under-the-counter deals. No overcharging. No cash. Be careful who you pay. Break the rules and your money is expunged. So you don’t break the rules. Ever. Still, your money has an expiry date. You can’t buy a single portion of meat, a car, a property because you’ve had your quota. And at the push of a button, the bank can double the supply and the currency in your account halves in purchasing power. Spend your money. Spend it now, in the next three hours, or it’s gone. Nobody wanted it this way, but once the central bank took control, there was nothing to stop them changing the rules little by little. So you go shopping. You collect your food. And you know your purchase has been logged and observed. *** Fight CBDCs

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GM, NOSTR! Happy to see more products and services priced in sats on NOSTR. Unit of Account here we come.

FICTION PERSPECTIVE: A Lodging of Wayfaring Men by Paul Rosenberg Though the book was written several years before the world knew of Satoshi Nakamoto, ‘Wayfaring Men’ has since become a legendary text for libertarians, freedom lovers, and bitcoin enthusiasts. Paul Rosenberg has contributed to dozens of books and hundreds of blogs and articles in the freedom space. However, it doesn’t seem like Rosenberg has published many other fiction titles. Therein lies both the strength and weakness of the book: it is a powerful message delivered in the form of fiction, rather than rhetoric. ‘Wayfaring Men’ is a tale of two brilliant men and their quest to open free markets via the Internet in the early 2000s. James Farber, economist, and Philipp Donson, deep thinker and philosopher, battle the FBI and NSA to bring freedom to the world via the ‘New World’ of the Internet. The two men aim to spread a completely private and encrypted online free market contained within a computer game. This will result in a global network of markets able to operate in a system outside of government regulation and forced taxation. This story was produced during the era of digi-cash, e-gold and Liberty Reserve, currencies and Internet markets that failed or were shut down. What makes it resonate so much with bitcoiners is that the success of Project Gamma (the free market in the book) rests upon unbreakable encryption and decentralization. The most exciting portions of the book document the heroes’ intelligent maneuvers and high-risk plots to throw the FBI off the scent. As the markets spread, the US and world governments employ more and more desperate means to stop the outflow of tax dollars and control of productivity. For example, Farber, Donson, and their teams of engineers have broken no laws, which leads the FBI to seek treason charges (in addition to spying on a host of law-abiding citizens). It’s difficult to put this book into a genre. It’s part thriller, part life story of the main characters, and part Utopian manifesto. The elements of the story include romance, religion, loss, and geopolitical change. Yet most of these are not fully developed or explored, rendering the story itself ‘wayfaring’. The villains of the piece are not entirely clear either. Two young FBI agents begin the hunt for those behind Gamma, dealing with the moral dilemmas of legality in different ways. The array of characters involved in the project seem crafted solely to deliver the project to its conclusion rather than giving the reader the ability to connect with their struggles and flaws. Perhaps the real hero is the concept of free trade. The structure of the novel wanders too. The story sprawls across character backstories, years of progress on the project, truncated scenes, and unclear jumps in the time and location. Essays and opinion pieces which did not fit into the story are adjoined in a pair of appendices. If you are a fan of flowing descriptions, deep character explorations, and literary craft, this is not the novel for you. Wayfaring Men delivers clear and functional prose to meet its lofty ambition — outlining our path to freedom. But for all its faults, you keep reading. You root for the protagonists to succeed because you want the same thing as they do. Essentially, packaging this idea as fiction opens up a whole new audience — those who neglect reading heavy non-fiction manifestos. Overall, I would describe this as a poor novel, but a powerful book. I found myself recommending it to a fellow freedom enthusiast straight after reading it. Those who are wired to more functional and utilitarian thinking will appreciate the story of how we wrestled freedom from the jaws of enslavement. Philip Charter, Editor. p.s. Thanks to @Max for the recommendation. check out his recent audiobook recording of Wayfaring Men if you please.

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Having trouble with the Primal wallet when using Primal in browser. It got disconnected and now I can receive but can't send zaps. In app it works fine. How can I reconnect the ability to zap in browser? #primalwallet #zaps #nostrhelp #wallet

Can anyone help me reconnect my Primal wallet to NOSTR (using Primal in browser)? I did have Alby extension installed (which I loathe) and it fucked everything up. Removed it now. I can receive zaps, but can't send them in browser. Absolutely traumatized from trying to figure Alby out. I hate that fucking bee! #zaps #zapping #nostrhelp

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Amazing new fiction on our blog today. Nakamoto origins... https://konsensus.network/read/fiction/shiro/ #bitcoinfiction #bitcoin #shortfiction #sciFi

Tecent #bitcoinfiction on our blog. The Galactic Playbook by @Reed konsensus.network/read/fiction/ This is the satisfying closer in our first anthology 'Tales from the Timechain'. #bitcoin #shortfiction #scifi