I was seeing all this talk about big tech implementing digital id stuff across the globe this week, and I was thinking about how Bitcoiners and the Cypherpunks need their own bretton-woods-like meeting or something right now. A gathering to put the world on a different path. I'll throw an unofficial beefsteak or meatup if yall wanna get together. I have a vision of something.

They are doing a pincer move. Simultaneously introducing legislation for digital ID and legislation to ban pirate sites that host torrent links. The push is so strong all at once. This is literally what nostr, Bitcoin, and every cypherpunk movement has been training for. Builders need to act fast and work together.

We thought they were gonna have to "9/11 the internet" to implement digital identity. Turns out the government has been listening to the people saying "you can just do things."

Pewdiepie has just gone all in degoogling, self hosting, and running GrapheneOS. One of us! Seriously this might start a revolution of open source contribution and expansion

Unpopular opinion: I don't think we should create new ways for BlackRock, Fidelity, and MicroStrategy to print money to buy residential homes. There should be a limit to this. The real estate market needs repricing downward to lower American cost of living.

This video continues to live rent free in my head. There is a sense of peace with nothing happening.

I miss beefsteaks

Knots vs Core. Sats vs Bits. It aint broke vs fix it anyways. Straight vs Gay We've never been more united in being an unapproachable cult But yeah I'm still picking sides

I keep thinking back to that article "Everyone is a scammer." I didn't read the whole thing, but let me tell you, that title was so precient.

Open Source to subscription pipeline (I don't like it, and it often fails) Step 1: Build cool shit Step 2: Start locking features that are historically self hosted or already built in behind a subscription paywall Step 3: lose diehard users because we are allergic to subscriptions I have regularly donated to open source projects UNTIL they launch a subscription service. I hate subscriptions with all of my being and I want nothing more for them to burn. It's literally one of the reasons I bitcoin is because I view rentseeking with disdain. Projects like Amethyst are my favorite, because they make it easy to one tap zap a donation on every release that I like, and it pays all devs. Maybe V4V doesn't scale, but neither does trying to monetize something that another open source project can provide for free.

Only use Misty Breez wallet if you want to lose approximately 75% of your money to fees, and not be able to recieve zaps less then 100 sats lol

If you're at BTC 2025 and wanna hang, say hi!

Based on my interactions with Lyft passengers, I really think the Cybertruck has the potential to be a late blooming extreme success. The FUD doesn't hold up against "butts in seats."