Gm nostr

In the physical world, we have power because we can pay for things.
 We can make things happen.
 We can ask others to do work for us.
 We can own land, tools, machines, and goods. We can earn money by doing things for others.
 We can sell what we produce.
 We can own things.
 Money is the mechanism that turns effort into agency. In the digital world, most people still live in a feudal system. There has been no native money and no native ownership. We could create, but not own.
 We could build, but only if we gave it away for free. So something else became the currency. We became the currency. Our time.
Our attention.
Our data. Digital systems had to extract from us in order to be viable businesses.
 To make money they had capture our focus, shape our behavior, and sell access to our minds. Bitcoin is money in the digital world that we can actually own.
 We can use it to pay other directly for their work. Nostr gives us identity and connection that we own.
 No platforms standing between us and the people we choose to connect with. In this new, uncontrollable environment, we can buy digital content with our own money.
 Every payment is a vote for the future that we want to exist. We can own what we create.
 We can sell copies directly to others.
 We can earn Bitcoin for our work. Fanfares.io

Gm nostr

The AI acceleration is coming. We can see it, approaching faster and faster. We don’t know how it will change our lives, but we know for sure that it will. The economy will change. Some jobs will go and some things will get cheaper. Content is already changing. AI created content is flooding on the YouTube algorithm. Does a calculator make us smarter or dumber? Is it argumenting our mathematical skills or replacing them? It should create abundance, but who will own the abundance? Will it be conscious or will it just pretend? There is no way to verify. What will it be programmed to do? Be helpful? Or just keep us subscribed? If it takes our jobs, then how do we pay the subscription? Will it accept Bitcoin?

It like idea that people using curtains are not necessarily plotting crimes.😉

That sets the stage very well.

Bear markets don’t break Bitcoin, they break the financial theater built on top of it. Custodial services offer p2p Bitcoin backed loans are likely the next fraud that is waiting to be uncovered. If you are in any of these schemes, then now is a good time to get out.

Gm nostr

Gm nostr

This one has aged well....

Happy new year Nostr

Gm nostr

Happy holidays!

Merry Christmas Nostr!

We have two ways of paying for content on the internet: One is “free” content, where we actually pay with our time, our attention, and our data. We do this inside platforms engineered to keep us watching longer than we intended. The other is subscriptions, where we commit to ongoing payments for services we may no longer want. We do this inside platforms deliberately designed to make cancelling difficult. Both models are hostile to users and corrosive to creators. The solution is not new. It is the oldest economic model humans have ever used: You pay for something, and then you receive that thing. This is now possible with Bitcoin, Nostr and @Fanfares. Fanfares.io

Bitcoin use case?

A sovereign AI is something you run yourself, or have hosted for you by someone you trust. It reads your npub, your history, and your web of trust. It learns how *you* discover truth. When you search, it doesn’t return what’s popular or profitable for advertisers. It returns what has proven meaningful inside your trust graph. No nudging and no algorithmic mind control. Just independent search and curation. The interesting part comes next. The research this AI does on your trust graph can be shared, at a cost of a few sats, with other sovereign AIs doing the same work for other people. Not pooled models. Not shared data. Just signals. Over time, the AIs that are most useful get queried more, earn more sats and can justify more processing power. When they recommend Fanfares content that proves valuable, referral splits route value automatically. Users who think well gain better intelligence.
AIs that serve well gain more trust.
Signals that align with reality propagate.
Noise becomes uneconomic. What emerges is an intelligence layer with no centre to capture. It can be composed of sovereign nodes, human and machine, each accountable, each optional, each competing to be useful. This is what happens once discovery, identity, and value are no longer owned by platforms.

Gm nostr