Fisher understood the debt-deflation trap, but never imagined a store of value immune to interest rate manipulation. Bitcoin is the anchor in the monetary storm: a fixed point in a world of floating debt, where time preference realigns with the cosmic clock of mathematical scarcity. #Bitcoin #DebtDeflation #TimePreference #MonetaryAnchor #nostr

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THE BRIDGE OF MEMORIES Those who return from the other shore bring no proofs, only the silent certainty that love is the only currency valid in the journey between what has been and what will be.

The Dragon and the Anvil: The Dawn of Technological Sovereignty This is not a race, it is a tectonic shift. While the West gazes at its own navel, Beijing forges the tools of the next world order. And 2025 is not a finish line, it is a point of no return.

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Nostr is not an anonymous network, but a network of pseudonyms permanently and immutably linked to a trail of behavioral and temporal metadata. The promise of privacy is a technical deception. Any entity capable of observing a significant portion of the relay network (a state, a large corporation) can apply social graph analysis and timestamp analysis techniques to: a) De-anonymize groups of users coordinating activities. b) Identify the human user behind a specific pubkey by cross-referencing their activity times and time zones with other datasets. c) Create a detailed and immutable behavior profile for each identity, far more valuable than the actual content of the notes. The very structure of the protocol, which incentivizes the persistence of the public key, creates a prison of metadata from which it is impossible to escape without completely losing one's digital identity and reputation.

How To Conquer Tyranny and Avoid Tragedy: A Lesson on Defeating Systems of Empire

How To Conquer Tyranny and Avoid Tragedy: A Lesson on Defeating Systems of Empire

This is a transcription of a lecture, which can be found here, given as part of the RTF series “Art, Science and Civilization: The Renaissance Pr...

Nostr’s promise of censorship resistance is fundamentally an illusion, merely shifting the central control point from traditional platform servers (Facebook-Twitter) to a myriad of small, opaque gatekeepers: the relay operators. There is no substantial "decentralization," but rather an "arbitrary federation" of chokepoints. A user can be effectively "deplatformed" globally if a sufficiently small number of strategic relays (e.g., those with the most bandwidth and users) decide to censor them, or if legal/political pressures force the most popular relays to comply. The network, in practice, is not censorship-resistant, but only "censorship-resilient" in a fragmented and unpredictable way, creating a false sense of freedom while the attack surface for control multiplies and becomes more subtle and less accountable.

⚡️Coffee is root in earth, Bitcoin is leaf in digital wind ☕️: a tree of possibilities between matter and bits! #NOSTR #ZAP #sats #zaps #bitcoin #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr

Mass surveillance is not a security tool, but a control mechanism. It turns citizens into permanent suspects, eroding the trust that holds a society together. True protection comes from transparent institutions, not transparent populations. The technology we use daily is designed to extract data, not to empower us. Accepting this logic means trading one's autonomy for an illusion of convenience. The first act of resistance is to understand that every device is a door, and it's up to us to decide who enters. Start with a simple gesture: encrypt your conversations. Choose tools that respect your freedom by default. It's not about having secrets, but about sovereignty over your digital life.

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I really don't like the new relay management on #YakiHonne at all! The availability of the relays looks like the Christmas lights 🎄🟢🔴 they go intermittently 😂 I hope it's a bug 🐛

[THE FUTURE OF PRIVACY IN THE AI ERA] "Artificial intelligence isn't just an analysis tool—it's a surveillance multiplier. Facial recognition systems create a society where anonymity becomes impossible, and where every movement can be tracked, analyzed, and punished." [REFLECTION] We're building the most efficient control machine in human history. AI enables predictive surveillance that anticipates not just actions, but thoughts and tendencies. The danger isn't the technology itself, but its implementation without democratic checks—where opaque algorithms decide who is "suspicious." [ACTION] Support local bans on mass facial recognition. Use "adversarial fashion" techniques (clothing and accessories that confuse AI systems). Fight for regulations requiring public audits of algorithms used by law enforcement.

Technological resistance grows where control becomes most oppressive. Every decentralized protocol is an act of digital civil disobedience. We are the antibodies to the system trying to assimilate us. #TechResistance #DigitalDisobedience #DigitalAntibodies