If you are here on #NOSTR, that means you already are on decentralized social media. You most likely already have #Bitcoin too, which is decentralized, sound money. Keep moving in that direction. Look into other decentralized technologies like #Linux for your computer's operating system or homesteading #off-grid concepts like #Earthship. The more decentralized of an ecosystem we have the stronger network effect and the stronger our individual sovereignty will be.

No one should work for what another man can create out of thin air.

What lightning wallet are you all using to connect to NOSTR in 2025? #asknostr #plebchain #Damus

If you ever need evidence that they are either ignorant of bitcoin even though "strategic reserve" and/or this system is so trapped that "there is nothing stopping this train". View quoted note →

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If you are wanting to take your #Bitcoin knowledge to the next level, there is no better source than the @NakamotoInst. They have one of the greatest bitcoin-related document library out there. Free pdfs on cryptography, computing and economics.

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#Bitcoin is not a permissionless database, it is permissionless money. This database has strict rules that need to be adhered to and safeguarded to be able to be used as the best money. They are trying to shift the focus of BTC away from its monetary use to a platform. #NodeWar

Decentralize everything in your life. #Bitcoin for your money, #NOSTR for your online discourse, #Linux for your OS, #Earthship for your homestead, #3DPrinting for your manufacturing. Is it more work? Yes. Does it offer more sovereignty? Yes, and that is the goal.

You are either fighting for the SEPARATION of money and state or you are enabling the MERGING of money and state. On which side are you? #Bitcoin

#Bitcoin Knots keeps getting adopted! #NodeWar

What is this even for? Checking that the person is not a cyborg passing as a human illegally? This is a modern techno-communist version of having your neighbor keep an eye on you all the time on behalf of the government. Having to be ID by peers - right out of dystopia. Start learning how to use your own tech. Start using Linux for starters and try to understand as much as you can how the internet and networks work. Will it be hard? Yes. Is it impossible? No.

One of the counterpoints to the Knots alternative is that it is basically only @Luke Dashjr maintaining it...and that changes with adoption of that implementation. Which is what everybody running Knots would like to see. More developers in Knots. #Bitcoin #NodeWar

I would say this quote from Aristotle can easily be construed to apply to individual sovereignty. "Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. - Aristotle

The only way to achieve a #Solarpunk future, where technology serves us, instead of enslaving us, is through #Bitcoin. Fix the base incentive structure of civilization or keep watching it burn.

This is what complacency gets us as a population. Ditch convenience and exercise your sovereignty. You are giving to the state something your children will never see again. Don't just buy #Bitcoin, have it in self-custody, this is the revolution.

Knots keeps growing. Up and inching its way towards 5th place. People keep voting with their feet and doing the proof-of-work to show what they actually want #Bitcoin to be. If you haven't changed to Knots or do not run your own sovereign node yet, do not hesitate - look to understand what is happening and take action. May you choose the right Node in this war. #NodeWar

Money is a ledger and a ledger is a database. But not any database, a very specific database. A monetary database. Anyone arguing otherwise and looking to expand this definition of monetary database to include any and all types of data is looking to reduce #Bitcoin 's specificity as money. If #Bitcoin is not the best money it can be, it will fail - make no mistake about it. May you choose the right Node in this war. #NodeWar

Understand, be vigilant, and above all be ready to fight for what is important. #NodeWar #Bitcoin What are the potential consequences of removing the OP_RETURN limit? "The known issues are bad enough. Nobody is even considering the unknown unknowns at this point." - @Luke Dashjr

Hopefully the #NodeWar brings the focus of bitcoiners back to the original mission. The separation of money and state. Fix the money, fix the world. If you sell your soul to gain the world, it was all for nothing. #Bitcoin

One of the subtle but effective tactics on this #NodeWar is the subversive shift on #bitcoin being perceived as bitcoin "the money" to bitcoin "the database". Do not fall for it. Study and understand the fundamentals and stay focused. May you choose the right Node.