Every time someone gets exiled from their own digital home, the need for Nostr becomes less ideological and more inevitable. View quoted note →

Satoshi’s greatest gift wasn’t the code. It was the silence that followed. The code proved the idea works. The silence proved no one owns it. He left so Bitcoin could live. No cult. No leader. No face to corrupt. That isn’t mysticism. It is design. Removing himself was the final patch. The human vulnerability was fixed by absence. The silence still matters. Because it keeps speaking long after he stopped.

Every generation has its idol. Ours is comfort. Comfort numbs the drive that once made men dangerous. The drive to build, to fight, to protect, to repair, to bring form out of chaos. We have replaced the glory of doing with the illusion of appearing.

Christian men must come to understand that there has been a vast conspiracy to neuter them. They must decide before God that they are done cooperating with this demented program. You need to be masculine without permission. Without a license from the civil magistrate. Without a stamp of approval from effeminate elders. Without a permission slip from your wife. The modern world sells you autonomy. Liberation from binding commitments. But you’re not fully alive when you’re untethered. You’re fully alive when you’re bound to something worth dying for. Your wife. Your children. That covenant is your glory, and your responsibility before God is total.

Bitcoin and Nostr aren’t merely technical alternatives. They’re assertions that individuals should retain the unmediated ability to speak and transact. Permissionless systems don’t ask whether your views are acceptable. They function regardless of social approval or institutional gatekeeping.

The “platforming” discourse has become absurd. Engaging with someone isn’t endorsement. Responding to disagreement isn’t amplification. It’s just conversation. Public speech is an arena, not a throne room. When you speak publicly, you invite response. Follower count doesn’t grant immunity from being wrong or shield you from correction. It shouldn’t. The best ideas aren’t fragile. They improve through collision with opposing views. Truth emerges from open discourse, not from gatekeepers deciding who deserves to be heard. I’ve been corrected here on Nostr. I’ve changed my mind. I’ve learned things. That’s not weakness, that’s the entire point of thinking in public. The notion that engaging with someone “smaller” somehow elevates dangerous ideas is patronizing to everyone involved. It assumes audiences can’t think critically. It assumes you’re the arbiter of acceptable thought. It assumes disagreement is contamination. Real intellectual confidence means welcoming the challenge. If your ideas can’t survive contact with opposition, they probably weren’t that solid to begin with. Free markets of ideas require actual freedom. Not curated gardens where only pre-approved voices get watered. The discomfort of being challenged is the price of growth. This is what open protocols enable…spaces where truth seeking matters more than status protecting. Where dialogue isn’t a threat to your position but an opportunity to refine it. Engage openly. Be corrected freely. Build better ideas together. That’s how we all get smarter. Gm and Pura Vida

Politicians discovering Bitcoin is like boomers discovering Spotify…lots of noise, no clue where the music comes from.

Productivity is not a burden but the expression of our purpose. Let’s not make the same mistake the boomers made. Let’s build lives that never lose their sense of purpose.

Truth doesn’t need armor. Just freedom. On Nostr, we let it hunt.

Nostr is not a social network…it is the refusal to be socially engineered. It erases the choke points that make censorship profitable.

The farther we are from the money spigot, the poorer we get. Inflation isn’t an accident. It’s a daily heist, sanctioned by law.

Centralized power hides behind comfort. It never needed truth, only reach. Control the narrative, own perception, and people will beg for their own censorship. Every hierarchy carries its own flaw, and those who crave power learn to weaponize it. The only antidote is to build systems where corruption makes no economic sense.

Nostr and Bitcoin are not slogans or investments; they are tools that invert the incentives of control. They do not persuade the mind so much as liberate it from needing permission.

If truth had a price, who would set it? If speech had a gate, who would guard it? Read How We Wield Nostr and Bitcoin Against Institutional Control and find out why the answer can’t come from them. View article →