Is anyone aware of any plebs or orgs building accounting software for bitcoin and fiat, which is not already or moving towards a cloud based spying solution?

This is what I took out of this podcast: In the physical realm, he who has the largest stick controls the thing. In the digital realm, you don’t own anything, only control things via signing and secret key management. Cryptography (verifiable secret messages) is what minimizes violence in the digital realm and enables us to have a sly round about way to cooperate and plan; communication, exchange, savings, capital flight. This is why I think key management is the most pressing issue to work on, and why FROST development (FROSTR, BIP-340) is so important. I can’t think of anything more important, which is why I am trying to level up so I can contribute towards its development. View quoted note →

I have faith (Christ) -> Which means I have hope -> Which means I have reason to -> Which means I will act differently, whether in the face of adversity, conformity, or comfort. Christ Bitcoin 🤝 FROST 🤝 NOSTR

Dear Bitcoiners, crypto bros and statist “stable” coiners. I see you.

With AI - the average dev can level up quick. The average entrepreneur can compete with Silicon Valley. But it can also lead you down wild goose chases, where run fast but the wrong direction. It can also lead to insecure systems, as people create tech they don’t fully understand. Low time preferences and sovereign individuals are about to shine, so fucking hard.

Oh the glory to be, A part of His story. The rise, the fall, The horrific beauty in it all. To see, to sing, The joy of simply Being.

GM NOSTR. We started a book club, studying Philosophy, guided by the brothers @Erik Cason & @Jesse Posner The first book by Giorgio Agamben, is Homo Sacer - Sovereign Power and Bare Life. One of the first pages I see this quote: “Only within a biopolitical horizon will it be possible to decide whether the categories whose opposition founded modern politics (right/ left, private/ public, absolutism/ democracy, etc.) - and which have been steadily dissolving, to the point of entering today into a real zone of indistinction - will have to be abandoned or will, instead, eventually regain the meaning they lost in that very horizon.” And I can’t help but think, there’s largely two reasons for the idiocracy we see today. One is heightening time preference from the money printer, mixed with technological abuse and dopamine addicts who have short attention spans. The other, is also because of the money printer, which is academia and communications network persistently push propaganda to justify xyz - and in doing so, have bastardized and confused nearly every descriptive term we use today. It’s so hard to have a meaningful conversation in modernity, because even though we use the same terms, people have different understandings and applications of the term itself. It’s like the Tower of Babel, but within one set of language and it’s incredibly frustrating.

I feel this deeply. It’s nice to have walked away from that shit show, and to have found another campfire with some awesome people. Bitcoin cures hedonism / nihilism, at least it did for me. I see that it did for many others too; hope, it’s a magical drug.

First attempt at ravioli! Delicious, but ugly.

Polishing the logo - what’s your thoughts? #asknostr

Bitcoin unifies various languages as it pertains to exchanging value, but it does not attempt to reach heaven. Thesis: Gold - good for savings (value over time), poor for exchange (value over space - divisibility, fungibility, portability) Low time preference cultures > high time preference ones (Democracy - the god that failed us). Antithesis: Paper: Finishes golds promise, abstracting ownership through a central ledger made gold more saleable over space and time, but with centralization and a big honey pot, rugs are pulled. The tower toward heaven destroyed, because the trust should have never been placed. History, and the boom bust cycles, both short and long term debt cycles, is littered with examples as to why this trust should have never been placed. But consent can be manufactured. Synthesis: We find ourselves hurtling towards a digital financial system, one which embellishes that unwarranted trust to the most extreme sense (Social credit system with “private” CBDCs).. where centralized authorities decree the total supply, who can and can not access it.. it’s the ultimate means of control.. Or Bitcoin, its symmetric opposite; finite and uncensorable. It’s clear to all those participating which one is more likely to win. We either win this battle or dishonor and violate the social contract to such an extent that few can comprehend. I’m all in, I’ve found my Tribe, we’re starting to build amazing products and services, and life is good.. But I can’t help but notice the weird bed fellows we find ourselves surrounded by. When I was in ES for Plan B recently, I couldn’t notice that all the “OG” bitcoiners were pro Tether, saying they’re going to bootstrap the lightning network, and enable us to send $ over lightning without KYC… Then Tether released their BrainOS - a literal transhumanist brain chip… but don’t worry, it’s open source! I then realized Max Keiser is an investor and big proponent, even though he dunks on fiat and other CBDCs.. Then I found out Brock Pierce and his connection to Tether.. Then that Tether is moving their HQ to ES… Then that Stark was dating Aaron Swartz when he was going through those issues… And my “paranoid” mind can’t help but connect all these dots and “coincidences” in a “conspiratorial” fashion.. but everything is pointing to Mark’s Bitcoin Dollar thesis being the most accurate warning in neon… It’s good to be aware of all the good possible, but this post is a reminder to you all, don’t loose sight of the goal: Uncensorable savings and transactions, fuck the social credit system, whether it’s “private”, public or some quasi in between. If “we” fail, our children our doomed. “We” can’t fail, “we” must succeed. Find your Tribe, don’t fall for psyops, build, we can’t just wait it out and hedge both ways.

It’s ironic that convenient options always turn out to be the most costly and inconvenient in the long term. Finding your Truth, and acting on it honorably is a narrow and more lonely path, full of suffrage, wisdom and joy. Thank God there is help and good people along the way.

GM! Time to work so not all of them come true 😂

How the state and cypherpunks must feel when us plebs and NPCs start learning how cryptography works.

Successfully made my first FROSTR post: note1z6p7fyfhc8rnlt73jzzx8a99qh9dh9cyxjdt5e6l868ax6nnuw0srhef5r

“Extremely unsafe & violently untested” 😂 Let’s play ball.

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