This is the best and most concise article I've read on deflation permitting money since @Jeff Booth "The Greatest Game"! A highly recommended read. Well done Luca Ferrarese!

Inflation by Design, Deflation by Technology: Preparing for a Hybrid Monetary Order

In 2020, Klaus Kraemer and colleagues published a representative survey of 2,000 individuals in Austria. Their findings were striking: across all g...

Die psychologische Kraft von Bitcoin von @Niko Jilch:

A really good interview by Sephan Livera with #[0] about Bitcoin as a way to Cryptosovereignty with Truth, not authority making legitimacy:

"Here I stand, I can't help it!" musings on the reformation and the fiat grace system by Markus Turm "Although Pope Leo X recognized the danger quickly, he couldn't stop it, luckily today's central banks are still laughing at Bitcoin." https://portal-einundzwanzig-space.translate.goog/news/hier-stehe-ich-ich-kann-nicht-anders?l=de

The crushing power of AI conformism - Chat GPT is a Trojan bomb by Manfred Schneider for NZZ "One must remember the artists, writers and scientists who belonged to this avant-garde, including Walter Benjamin's "new barbarians", because they tried out radically new languages, forms and ideas. To name just a few: Karl Kraus, the Dada movement, the Bauhaus, the Schönberg school, James Joyce, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, anthroposophy, quantum mechanics. They are examples of powerful creative defiance against the violence of common sense thinking. Only such a departure could save us today." Resonates with Erik Cason's #[0] Cryptosovereignty

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#Bitcoin is a way to bring mutual benefits to people labelled "helpless" in the fiat system through the Cantillon Effect, while containing the bandits and "stupid" people. The latter two still benefit by playing by the rules whether or not they like it...

Thx to Ijoma Mangold for presenting the "orange pill" for the interested German public at Dussmann in Berlin together with Wolfram Eilenberger last night. It was a pleasure to listen to you & it's a pleasure to read! I hope it'll be made available for an international audience, soon.

#Bitcoiners don't want the Lambo, they want the ability to move freely.

#Bitcoin is for sale but incorruptible. h/t #[0]

#Bitcoiners don't want a Rolex but the time⌚⌛ h/t #[0]

With the Ides of March 2023 "Keynes is dead, and we’re in the long run." h/t Liam McCollum

Do they know about #nostr yet or will that take another 14 years? "Just got off of a zoom meeting with Fed, Treasury, FDIC, House, and Senate. A Democrat Senator essentially asked whether there was a program in place to censor information on social media that could lead to a run on the banks."

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Just got off of a zoom meeting with Fed, Treasury, FDIC, House, and Senate. A Democrat Senator essentially asked whether there was a program in pl...

"I’m going to suggest there’s seven different reasons people care about Bitcoin: 1. Inflation resistance 2. Theft resistance 3. Censorship resistance 4. Cost reduction 5. Self-enforcing contracts 6. Wealth redistribution 7. Revolution" An essay by Anthony Towns / ajtowns (can't find him on nostr yet):

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Reading #[0] this morning I realized: Fiat is the currency of the dark triad. You don't want to build a society on that but when you do, you must not wonder why the machiavellianists are in power...

New Bitcoin Rapid Fire pod episode by #[0] with Svetski (not yet on Nostr afaik). "An honest, open reflection on past behaviour, lessons learned, & how best to move forward. Also covered his experience publishing ‘The UnCommunist Manifesto’ & the notion (& importance) of ‘beauty’"

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The Real American Conspiracy: Stupidity & Greed, A True Idiocracy "The True ‘Invisible Hand’ Is Not Borne of Evil, Not The WEF, Or Some Grand Malthusian Conspiracy" by Mike Hobart (not yet on Nostr afaik) on how the fiat system creates a magnet for sociopaths

The Real American Conspiracy: Stupidity & Greed, A True Idiocracy – Mark E. Jeftovic is The Bombthrower

"We should ban the use of Switzerland immediately" 😄 Excellent content by #[0] Ioni and Knut that could use more views :) Bitcoin: Orange is the new green

"Those who support freedom of speech should be interested in seeing nostr succeed. Here's why you should give it a chance." #[0] Why Nostr Matters

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Why Nostr Matters

Nostr is a new protocol for censorship resistant speech and social sharing. It has great potential but has plenty of challenges to overcome.

Imho Jason P. Lowery's softwar thesis has credence because it's naive to think nation states are quickly dissolving within two decades in favour of sovereign individuals living peacefully in anarchy. Yet #Bitcoin will have an impact on nation states, just as gold did over time. Global debasement of money, the search for modern trust anchors & game theory of the Triffin's Dilemma are but three reasons, why some form of softwar, even if it doesn't play out the same way as laid out in the thesis are to be considered.