I deactivate X account for good today. Too much time wasted on outrageous material fine-honed to drive 'engagement' while feeding little but anger and other upset. Enough. I can't believe I spent an hour or more every day on it this long.

Obviously we must build and used crypto and systems that are not trackable or stoppable by the decrees of rulers.

It was meant to survive and will survive if we use the right opsec and encryption and privacy tools. Those cannot be stopped. It is crucial to master their use and build more such infrastructure before more of the prison doors close.

To deny freedom and privacy to everyone because some might abuse it makes freedom and privacy impossible impossible. Lightning is going through 3rd party major nodes decreasing privacy and security. This is not remotely better than Monero.

Teenagers are not children that need protecting from the internet. They very much need open sources of information outside parental control. Besides your teenage kids are likely to be better at tech than you are.

The Bible is full of contradictions and myths. Not a valid guide except for some general decent philosophy in places.

Some sort of event bus decoupling would work. one time hash associated with request. Requester subscribes to information with that hash. Any simple IP logging defeated by VPN. No tracking by public key.

Are there other options than parting with a nostr private key?

Do people even notice how polluted the original revolutionary spirit of Bitcoin is when it is spoken of in context of trad fi protect? Or do they only think that perhaps it means "price go up"?

So taxes paid in Bitcoin don't go to Federal expenses but to the 'strategic reserve'? So deficits increase?

So Bitcoin loses all its promise and become merely more trad fi. Really sad.