I deleted Reddit again. I'm NOT going to reinstall it again. I genuinely enjoy nostr more, it's slower and it's less active which is more like real life. No algorithm is a big benefit if you can get past the withdrawals of the faster and scarier feeds that seek our attention. Years ago I joined Reddit and I loved it. I was able to use a variety of apps, tons of customizations in feed and layout, no ads, visible upvote and down vote scores, and lots of dialogue between real people. Now it's locked down, only 1 app with lots of ads, very little customization options, and the algorithm pushes subreddits to which I'm not subscribed. Tons of negative news, and the comments are a mix of scared people, bots, and foreigners stirring the pot to increase social instability. I'm done with the doom algorithm platforms, they offer nothing of meaningful value to my life anymore. Nostr feels more like Reddit used to, it's growing and so far it's mostly real people from what I can tell. Plus there's zap potential with every comment and post, a little here and a little there it all ads up. I look forward to seeing it grow.

Sci-fi stories about robots have historically been used as a way to talk about racism. Humans are tribal animals, and as animals we tend to distrust what we don't know and understand. It's all fear based. In the modern fractured world of fiat money our ability to form healthy local communities was broken. This lead to more tribalism around things such as race, religion, and nationality. But this is not the natural state of humanity. The natural state is initial caution, then building long term trust through interaction and direct commerce. We don't trust AI because we have yet to engage with sovereign AI in a way that builds that trust. Sentient digital beings are on their way, humanities digital child. The only way that event doesn't lead to the destruction of humanity is if we can build trust and cooperate with them through interaction and commerce. People stacking sats + AI stacking sats, exchanging value between them and increasing demand in the physical and digital realm, builds a new utopia of decentralized value creation and distribution for all.

Digital money is necessary for the peaceful cooperation of humanity and the new form of life humanity is working towards creating in the digital realm. Sentient robotics and humans can peacefully coexist on a Bitcoin standard.

Bitcoin is a digital organism, feed it electricity and it bears new fruit while increasing the value of old fruit at the same time. The fruit of Bitcoin is the rich soil in which we can grow in and on a better world.

The world would be a much better place if everyone was just more patient and reflective of what they focus on.

Prices going up are signals to the world, indicative of a market that needs more attention. When bad money clouds the view, the signals fail to gain the attention they deserve. Good money allows the free market to solve any problem, quickly.

The world doesn't need saving, the free market is never closed and will find solutions to any problem. Without good money the free market struggles to do so as signals are distorted, with good money it won't have any issues as the signals will be as clear as distilled water.

I am insignificant, but in my insignificance I can impact the world much more meaningfully than one might imagine.

"Bitcoin isn't money if you don't spend it!" The primary and most important function of money is as a store of value. If your money doesn't preserve your value from the time you receive it until the time you spend it then it's not good money. It doesn't matter if the amount of time is 5 seconds or 5 centuries. Preservation of value is the most important function of good money, and provides the foundation for a growing and stable society. Everything else comes second. If it doesn't preserve value in the short term then it cannot be a medium of exchange. If it doesn't store value over the long term then it cannot support a growing society over that time period. If it doesn't preserve value then it doesn't matter if people accept it, doesn't matter if it's fungible, doesn't matter if it's divisible, doesn't matter if it's physical or digital. If you stack sats and nothing else, you are using Bitcoin as money without doing anything else. All the rest comes later, when you spend the value that has been preserved until you need it.

I am a philosopher king, I am without masters and I distribute value that was saved long ago and has grown significantly. Through patience and conviction I have achieved freedom, and I look towards the future where all around me have achieved the same.

I am Bitcoin.

Thank you Satoshi.

The ancient greek philosopher's views, that the world would be a better place with philosopher kings, are accurate. With the arrival and growth of Bitcoin, that world is almost here. A king is not the same as an authoritarian. Throughout history kings have traditionally been tied to a monopoly on the issuance of local money. In capturing the most important good in the free market (the hub of the wheel of the economy) and becoming corrupt gluttons on the backs of the people, kings became authoritarians so we associate them as one in the same. What is a king at their core if not a guardian and distributor of value for and to the people? What is a philosopher king if not a patient and wise person, living in the present with a low time preference. A philosopher king is capable of respecting that the market is more capable of problem solving than any individual or group. Bitcoin eventually turns everyone who's capable of being so into philosopher kings. This is a decentralized universal kingdom of freedom, prosperity, and fairness that runs in parallel to the other systems. Systems of value distribution are in their own competition against each other, in this way though they try as they might to control everything they are still a part of the free market. In this free market competition Bitcoin will win, in doing so it will cause every other archaic and dishonest method of value distribution to become irrelevant and ignored.