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Wrote an intro to the book I’m not writing. Very hard to get people to engage with long-form content on nostr (which is why I’m still on Substack), but I’ll keep trying. When something I’m doing doesn’t reach its intended audience or generate the intended response, I’m the first to admit it’s because other people are retarded. It’s not me, it’s you. You are retards, otherwise you would be reading my long-form content. That’s my pitch. View quoted note →

People are like: “Fix the money, fix the world.” And “MSTR is a shitcoin, it creates nothing of value.” Dude, MSTR is raking in billions in fiat every week and converting it sound money. It’s telling the normies, you might not believe in sovereign money, but if you use your fiat to buy some, I’ll give you 10 percent tax deferred forever. IOW, he is building a tool to get normies to put their fiat toward sound money whether they believe in, understand or are interested in it or not. Naive retards are like, “we just have to get the average person to understand the perils of fiat money creation and the downstream effects.” The average person does not give a fuck and cannot be bothered. You must offer people what is in their interest, not convince them that it is “morally” right. In fact, seeing fiat/bitcoin as a *moral* question is a real impediment IMO. People, being retarded, want to believe they are “good”. So just like some neoliberal who hates “transphobes” and loves oppressed people and illegal immigrants in order to feel good about himself, even the bitcoiner fancies himself “good” for loving sound money and rejecting fiat. You are not “good” for being on Team bitcoin or Team Jesus or Team Gay or whatever. It’s all fake and pathetic. You are not good for your “correct” beliefs or your lack of wrongthink. That is all just some bullshit you tell yourself to prop yourself up. It’s fake. The reasons for wanting sound money to prevail are not because that makes you a “good” person. It’s because it is in your self interest to live in a thriving, prosperous society where value is exchanged voluntarily and based on merit. One where governments and NGOs are not siphoning off some giant percentage of the energy to control and destroy you. It is in your interest. IMO, MSTR is one of the biggest catalysts toward that interest. I could be wrong, of course, but if I am wrong, it’s not because “fiat = bad, and stocks are fiat.” Of that I’m certain.

If you want to grow nostr, more of this and less “GM,” “Pura vida”. I’m serious, don’t care if that makes me a bad person.

had to carry the Christmas Tree four blocks and up two flights of stairs, but it’s done

I’m not a tech guy, so I grow nostr by shitposting into the void. That way when Twitter goes bad (or worse than it is as all centralized platforms tend toward corruption), there will be my shitposts in that void. There will be *something* there, so those looking for freedom won’t have to settle the land entirely by themselves. It’s not much, maybe a working well and some arable land, but it’s something, rather than starting from scratch. Best you can do is build, and if you can’t build, post.

Then it’s kind of like Apple only decentralized. Problem is most of the use cases have been built already on platforms with robust ecosystems. Kind of like bitcoin, can only win when fiat goes bad. Fiat does go bad, so it is winning. Seems like nostr will win when the centralized platforms go bad. Elon taking over Twitter and mitigating the bad has delayed nostr. Would be like the government suddenly being fiscally responsible for a decade, not printing. Would delay bitcoin quite a bit. Everyone loves Elon for saving Twitter, but had he not done so, nostr would be massive now. It has to get worse before it gets better. View quoted note →

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