#nostr, how trustworthy is NIP44 encryption? Would it be wise to store my personal agenda/tasklists as NIP17-messages to myself? On my own relay, of course. #asknostr

GM And welcome in the #bullish #bitcorner

**Manifesto of Interdependence** In society, there is a continuous friction between the interests of the individual and the interests of the collective. The individual seeks self-expression; the collective seeks continuity. In our current system, these are represented by neo-liberal, "right-wing" thinking for the individual and socialist, "left-wing" thinking for the collective. These are presented as opposites, yet neither can exist without the other. The individual perishes without the collective; there is no collective without individuals. Although they seem to exist separately, they are two sides of the same coin. I believe there is a way out of polarization when we acknowledge that we are mutually dependent on the other for our existence (in the broadest sense of the word). This also means that both opposing poles must recognize that their vision is not the absolute truth but, on the contrary, an understanding that is relative to the understanding of the other. As long as we fight the other, we are essentially fighting ourselves. If the other dies, we die as well, for who are we without the other? I have no guiding principles, for this is a search we should do together, without laying our rules upon the other.

Focusing on the others, can help overcoming your inner daemons

Back to rehab, the US elections got me back in my news-addiction 🫤

No-coiners or how to overcome your convictions and trust your life-savings into something unknown. A lot, if not almost everyone, of people here have them in their lives: no-coiners. Their expriences with them, often negative, are shared here. They are depicted as ignorant, stupid or anything making them less of a human being. Bitcoiners understand #bitcoin, understand why it is important to #stack , know how to keep and fight for their #privacy. #No-coiners, obviously, don’t know any of this. As if they are #mudbloods The reasons to stay #no-coiner probably very per individual. I can only reason from my own perspective. Having a technical background, I’d like to believe I (at least somewhat) understand the inner workings of #bitcoin. How complex, energy-costly mathematics secure a virtual asset. How millions of node, in distrust of each other, keep their own copy of The #Ledger. And still, there is reluctance to step in. The same reluctance I feel that prevents me stepping into stocks. There is something unpredictable and a feeling of unpredictability those not go well with my savings. Is this risk aversion? Yes, likely it is. I stack up my #sats slowly, because that is the rate that fits me. Although my #FOMO sometimes plays up, wanting me to move our savings for our children to #bitcoin. Afraid it wont have any value at the time I need it. What am I trying to say here? I think that if we really believe that this technology will change the world. That everyone can and should profit from this "being your own bank”. Then I can say having patience with the fears, convictions and shortsightness of no-coiners are virtues we should attain. People have grown up in a world of gravity and we are telling them they can actually fly. Yes this is an uphill battle, but I think that growing compassion in this is may be even more important than the #sats we’re stacking along the way. 🙏

AI requires us in many ways to speed up as individuals, as communities, as society. Are we turning in the prey we used to hunt by wearing it down? #asknostr

So if truth is expensive and lies are cheap, how can open source software be free? #asknostr