As COVID has taught us, treat all videos coming from China with extreme skepticism View quoted note →

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that's why a good old price tag on premium things is the most honest thing out there you can't just put stuff out there for free and then demand people to donate you enough money for a living It's the purest test of the market: sufficient demand at a given price = value and growth ; insufficient demand = your effort is not economically viable or valuable donations/tips are fun but leave too many things in the fog - to the point where you don't know what the f to think if users have an option not to pay then most won't - few will but that's just charity View quoted note →

It's clear that tipping/zaps/value4value don't work as a sustainable business model for anyone trying to seriously monetize here on Nostr. Put simply, not paying is the path of least resistance. What could have a chance of working is the ability to subscribe to certain (high value) user feeds and/or pay-to-read notes. It seems to me that this could shift the incentives and boost/increase the content value and creator economy here on Nostr.

I've always wondered how much capital the century of fiat money has stolen from our civilization—something impossible to quantify today. As such, we all struggle to explain to normies what's been taken from them via covert fiat slavery. It's like telling fish they live in water. Well, @npub1gdu7...6nak wrote an alternative history book about civilization and life without fiat madness. There's probably no one better to pull this off. Looking forward to finishing this one asap.

the key problem with all of the judges putting FOSS privacy developers in jail is that they all sound fucking retarded as if they have no clue what they're talking about View quoted note →

using bitcoin ftw View quoted note →

It's so nice to see everyone flocking to Nostr every time there's a major outage It is a Schelling point View quoted note →

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it baffles my mind every day that most people think they live under capitalism

too much hubris and focus on useless financial engineering privacy devs going to jail while KYC offerings take root strategic seized bitcoin reserve maybe a bull that never was is what's actually deserved atm View quoted note →

@Contra gets it View quoted note →

The simple truth is that no matter how much bitcoin price goes up, you're still going to live in an increasingly penalizing surveillance state, and you won't leave your 'GENERATIONAL WEALTH' to your children if you don't invest in freedom rails, products, and services today. Slave tech vs freedom tech is an arms race that can't be won by ideology or moral stance, no matter how right you think you are. You're up against people with no morals at all. Your growing purchasing power is like a tiger in a zoo, put out there for the pleasure of your ego. Unleash it. Its the ultimate vote that changes everything. On a more positive note, the 'GENERATIONAL WEALTH' probably wouldn't do your children any good anyway, as is the case with most inheritances. You know what will actually do them some good? Building like their fathers did, against all odds and with whatever they had.