loki
Loki

Learning more every day. Writer of a book on Bitcoin + China and how the discourse there will affect your wallets and freedoms. Order the book at http://bit.ly/chinabtcbook PFP: Liu Xiaobo/刘晓波. Cover: Thomas Mann.

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2026-06-30 07:06:26 UTC

I've found myself increasingly alienated from where Bitcoin culture is converging.
It's totally fine - I feel and continue to feel that Bitcoin as a technology is essential, and in many respects, the cultural component (especially that which alienates me) is noise.
Yet it was a lot funner when Bitcoin was filled with more curious skeptics and total weirdos and not those looking to bring their identity politics or idiosyncratic certainties onto a dynamic systems technology.
In many respects, this is a consequence of watching Bitcoin go from child to teenager. Broader adoption always meant that more people and group identities would get tossed into the mix. Trumpism's grift culture and state-grafted identity was not a welcome addition to me, but in the timescale of monies, hopefully a speck of dust.
Bitcoin is likely to outdo "technologies" like Esperanto, which ultimately ended up as propaganda props for the most decrepit of states rather than a community of dreamers. This is the difference between money and language, cultural identity and political economy.
Utility outweighs it all for me, and I find immense utility in Bitcoin.
I don't have to eat a certain way to use Bitcoin. I don't have to believe in a deity to use Bitcoin. I don't even (ha heresy) have to believe in the usual book canon associated with Bitcoin, ones that Satoshi specifically name-checked, and one which I've always felt were written by academics who may have glimpsed brief specks of the sun but were still deeply in the den of state and philosophy.
I've always held a belief that Bitcoin is actually Proudhon's ultimate revenge - the tool that cut the Gordian knot between property and possession - of which the implications are still playing out. I see shades of the lament of Keynes and the rentier class - Marx's fancy of a stateless future - the traditional balance between Daoists and Legalists.
I've always had an affinity for history's "strays", and not their sanitized image: Confucius, who admonished state leaders and wandered from principality to principality, seeing himself as failure. Bakunin who had to disguise himself into exile multiple times. Perhaps one of the closest American examples I can relate to is F Scott Fitzgerald, who when he was out of his drunken stupors, was so piercingly aware of the distinctions of class and wealth in his dilettante life that it broke him.
Bitcoin used to have more strays. Now it feels emptied of them, or the culture does at least.
But it doesn't matter what I believe or what you believe. We can both use Bitcoin to protect our possession without the burden of property. You may have found any of the things I've just said objectionable, you and I may never agree, in fact, or perhaps we fervently do. We may only be united by one thing: Bitcoin.
And that is just enough.

2026-06-29 03:22:50 UTC

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I've played around with some Nostr marketplaces, mostly on books.
But my beef jerky purchases will never be public

2026-06-29 03:03:43 UTC

Things I've recently spent sats on:
Beef jerky
Hemp socks
Books - some of them signed

2026-06-05 02:48:02 UTC

I hope to always be in a position to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Any state that brings its military to kill its people has blood on its hand - no matter the justification.
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2026-03-31 19:19:17 UTC

I programmed an AI model to be dialectical and confrontational and to root out all internal biases when it answered and now it is spasming existentially every time I ask it to do simple data validation or cleanup tasks on CSVs, help

2026-03-31 17:21:10 UTC

To the members of the Shanghai Orchestra, who were executed for playing Beethoven
To Lao She, China's Victor Hugo, who was attacked by Red Guards in his final moments
To Fu Lei, the best Mandarin translator of French works, and his wife Zhu Meifu who chose death over indignity
To Ba Jin, who lost his wife, but was never unfaithful to her for the forty years and more he outlived her
To all of the victims of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which killed many of China's leading cultural lights - may their souls and legacies find peace
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2026-03-27 20:28:07 UTC

The seeds of a system’s self-destruction can be planted anywhere
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2026-03-27 17:21:22 UTC

In the “West”, memories of how Nazism gained its economic vitality and its ascendancy have been memoryholed.
The idea of cultural censorship has applied. Mein Kampf is largely verbotten in free societies - Germany forbids its publication. Though copies of the book circulate (protected by the First Amendment), buying it often leads to consequences.
Discussion of how the Nazis thought, acted and felt during their rise has been sidelined for the cultural drama of the terrible effects. No real effort, scholarly or otherwise, will touch this topic for mass media.
There may be “They Thought They Would Be Free” and other works. But who is producing the movie version of that, the tract that shows most closely what the average German was thinking when they embraced the Faustian bargain of jobs for Nazism?
This may not even be intentional entirely, yet its effect is the same.
Movies portraying the period are either produced the same way China produces WW2 movies - to inspire patriotic fervour. Or they must portray the Nazis as cartoonish villains at worst, and nuanced in defeat at best.
My favorite movie on the topic is Downfall (Der Untergang), which authentically replicates Hitler’s last days. The actor playing him has a splitting resemblance to him and even speaks in the same Munich accent.
The movie has inspired a million memes of “Angry Hitler yelling”. The English trailer plays on the “Saving Private Ryan” trope of an enemy cornered at the gates.
Yet the German trailer is much darker, and speaks to the psyche of the most authentic cultural experience of what it was like to live with Nazism - albeit Nazism in defeat.
Goebbels’s wife murders his children through poisoning them. The trailer shows what happened to Berlin’s civilian population, who are subjected to starvation and death. The entire movie plays out much the same way.
Even then, however, this is Nazism in defeat. And not accessing the vital energy of what it must have been like in the early periods of Nazism has perhaps put a natural barrier for people who already saw the consequences of “remaking the world.” and bought some peace along with the rise of nuclear weapons for a generation or two.
But now that young people want to “remake the world” in turn, they are left to fill the gaps with the written word - which neither inspires nor fits quite as well in a world of video.
They are stuck with slogans and “never again” and the consequences of Nazism. But they are not equipped with the understanding of why Nazism was so easy to fall for.
“Never again would Spain elect a right-wing party”, until Spain did in the form of Vox.
“Never again would Germany be taken over by the nationalist right”, until the rise of the AFD.
I also believe this systematic blindness is why the “West” has consistently underrated Russia’s ability to operate as an autonomous war economy (largely responsible for Nazi Germany’s economic performance versus the Weimar Republic).
So it has real consequences for the thinking of cultural elites as well as the average person.
All this to say, even relatively free societies produce their own versions of kitsch, whether though extralegal cultural norms, or institutional thinking about what the “masses” should be exposed to.
And this kitsch sadly underprepares those who have never lived through the vital events that shaped the past, to recreate the past through their control of the future.
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2026-03-10 14:20:46 UTC

Bitcoin is the only real protest movement against central banking’s empowerment of war.

2026-01-07 18:40:14 UTC

look I made it really simple to understand what's happening
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2026-01-06 22:36:23 UTC

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Hope someone gets it

2025-11-17 15:25:21 UTC

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for sure!

2025-11-17 15:25:07 UTC

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I've been looking for something like this for a while haha

2025-11-17 02:39:22 UTC

Make Clubhouse for Nostr, but with real-time translations of audio shitposting and regular convo

2025-10-31 13:40:55 UTC

Honestly, Bitcoiners have much bigger enemies than ourselves
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2025-10-31 01:59:32 UTC

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Yeah, all coverage is good, but for sure getting it to a more general audience rocks!

2025-10-28 17:35:07 UTC

I wrote about the heatpunk revolution that turns Bitcoin into an energy innovation for any country/group smart enough to embrace it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/10/28/bitcoin-becomes-a-geopolitical-and-energy-advantage-with-the-heatpunks/

2025-10-24 20:04:10 UTC

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Most likely yes

2025-10-20 20:52:02 UTC

I always chuckle a bit at the thought of a goldbug leaving a war zone with 3 duffel bags of gold in like a farmer's carry
Sue me, I'm human

2025-10-13 16:08:54 UTC

Which historical figures do you think would be self-custody Bitcoiners?
I'll push a couple:
Mikhail Bakunin, Liu Xiaobo
I'm thinking (1) periods of exile and need for financing with strong financial powers chasing after them (2) ideological affinity with anti-state philosophy
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2025-10-06 19:59:45 UTC

I have celebrated Bitcoin ATH day by buying coconut water with the lowest amount of sats yet

2025-10-05 23:41:02 UTC

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Amazing

2025-09-29 17:37:28 UTC

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they're among us

2025-09-28 21:07:17 UTC

The best, and scariest movies actually ask us questions we'd rather not even think about.
Oldboy (2003) asks if vengeance is worth death and the torture of knowing the truth, in all its unvarnished majesty?
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) asks - is it better to die in a fairytale then to live in a dark reality?
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) asks what happens when only the mind, and the mind alone remains?
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2025-09-27 17:36:58 UTC

For those of you who want to sharpen your Linux/Terminal skills (essential for a bunch of things including running Nostr relays, and Bitcoin/Lightning nodes in a self-sovereign way), check out https://overthewire.org/wargames/
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2025-09-26 16:27:59 UTC

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That RedNote callout is a bit bizarre lol

2025-09-23 01:21:41 UTC

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Massive congrats!

2025-09-22 19:38:57 UTC

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good shoutout maybe it’s time for me to support the tolerant minority

2025-09-22 19:37:14 UTC

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haha you would man

2025-09-22 19:36:53 UTC

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thanks! ya, trying to spread the Nostr vibes haha

2025-09-22 18:29:21 UTC

What are everybody’s favorite projects to support on @nprofile…n2y8?

2025-09-22 17:10:29 UTC

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Super cool man! the art looks rad

2025-09-22 16:48:05 UTC

Bitcoin is money, and Bitcoin is medium of exchange.
My article on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/09/16/the-rise-of-bitcoin-as-money-continues-becoming-a-medium-of-exchange/
If you prefer it without the paywall (though consider zapping here on Nostr): https://archive.is/led3c
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2025-09-08 20:04:49 UTC

After China's Cultural Revolution:
1- 20 members of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music lost their lives. There was not a single playable piano in Shanghai for violinist Issac Stern's concerts.
2- China's most famous French-Mandarin translator, Fu Lei ended his life. China's "Victor Hugo", Lao She, was either murdered or drowned himself after the Red Guards condemned him. Writer Ba Jin watched his wife die after she was denied medical treatment for cancer.
3- Millions died, and millions more were persecuted and forced to labour - including Ai Qing, Ai Weiwei's father and one of China's most famous poets.
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2025-09-05 17:58:24 UTC

On April 6th, 1994, the plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi was shot down suddenly. Both died - and it became the spark of something horrible.
Only one day later, the killings began, and Hutu moderates as well as the Tutsi ethnic minority were hunted down by Hutu military forces and a militia known as the Interahamwe. In 3 months and a half, more than a million people would die - representing about 10,000 murders a day.
Even to this day, the conflict smolders on - with revenge and consolidation of power a constant theme, as a Rwanda ruled by the Tutsi rebel force that stopped the genocide, grown increasingly authoritarian, invades Congo. The events were described by UN commander, General Roméo Dallaire, in his book "Shake Hands with the Devil" - where he describes shaking hands with three Interahamwe leaders.
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2025-09-04 16:58:13 UTC

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I feel like China is going all in on gold, because they want to hedge from the American-based system, and see gold is the only way. There's no way the central bank at least will touch Bitcoin as it stands, it's been the one org that has long-standing warned and moved the Chinese system against BTC as early as 2013.

2025-09-04 15:54:03 UTC

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Always love seeing "Would Mao Hold Bitcoin" out in the wild
#nevent1q…uxhy

2025-09-02 18:32:53 UTC

ranting about child porn to try to take down your digital enemies is essentially a fed tactic

2025-09-02 18:27:59 UTC

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i can't understand or post about this stuff on X for exactly this reason. Went from "maybe don't upgrade to v30 if you're not a fan of OP_RETURNs" to "child porn child porn child porn" real fast

2025-09-02 18:23:43 UTC

we failed to bring Bitcoin to politics, instead we brought politics to Bitcoin
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2025-08-27 20:01:47 UTC

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Fair enough

2025-08-27 16:29:13 UTC

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Congrats! Amazing stuff :)

2025-08-27 16:02:59 UTC

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Rest is local merchants 😇

2025-08-27 16:02:09 UTC

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Oh and Daniel. @nprofile…6tjc. Don't think they mind me sharing lol

2025-08-27 16:01:13 UTC

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Would rather not dox everything, but can say the magnets came from Bitcoin Rodeo and the books came from Bitcoin is for Everyone and Learning Bitcoin (Yates, Deanna).

2025-08-27 15:34:11 UTC

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Thanks for the rec!

2025-08-27 13:37:24 UTC

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It's usually tough to get travel sorted with BTC. Salute to ya!

2025-08-27 13:33:15 UTC

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Awesome!

2025-08-27 13:33:01 UTC

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BTCMap.org

2025-08-26 22:08:33 UTC

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I'm always selling and buying hope

2025-08-26 19:45:25 UTC

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How can one even buy these repairs for sats

2025-08-26 18:25:32 UTC

Things I've bought with sats recently:
Cocoa beans
Magnets
Ice cream
Books
Tea
Bitcoin is money

2025-08-06 14:48:35 UTC

Age verification is the beginning of the government trying to understand and control everything you do online, just like taxation and the Bank Secrecy Act was the same for every time you spend something.

2025-08-02 15:13:54 UTC

Curious if Nostriches think there are some books they’d love to see built in the world. I’ve got 1-2 in the hopper, but would love to see if there’s a blind spot (I’ve already had the idea of making a book on Nostr itself!)

2025-07-26 01:12:02 UTC

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At least it wasn't Clinton came 28 times...

2025-07-22 23:32:38 UTC

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would love to pair that with Block Rewards, getting all of their staff paid in Bitcoin - tried DMing you!

2025-07-22 21:44:41 UTC

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Had a lot of fun and some serious thoughts about how Bitcoin and Nostr male us more free
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2025-07-21 19:23:28 UTC

Two German writers, united by their pen and their language, but sworn enemies in all other aspects.
Carl Schmitt wrote The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy in 1923 - then The Concept of the Political in 1932. Both were fierce attacks on parliamentary politics and presaged the rise of a new order in Germany from the ruins of the Weimar Republic.
The Concept of the Political would be the Weimar Republic’s tombstone - the next year, Schmitt would join the Nazi Party and he would end up providing the legal and philosophical underpinnings for Hitler’s rise.
Thomas Mann was the “European man of ideas”. After criticizing Wagner (one of Hitler’s favorite composers) in his talk "The Sorrows and Grandeur of Richard Wagner", he was soon exiled in Los Angeles and served as the focal point of German culture outside of Nazi Germany.
In Mann's Magic Mountain, there is an oddly prophetic character - Naphta - who rants that humanity will desire terror and not liberation for this era.
Naphta’s "love of extremes and contempt for all forms of compromise make him defend the Inquisition and the authoritarian aspects of Catholicism and communism."
At the end of World War II, Mann would write Doctor Faustus, which told the tale of a composer who bargained his soul to the Devil for twenty-four years of creative genius (and a lifetime otherwise spent in neuro-syphilitic madness).
Of course, Nietzsche is the original inspiration, but it is not hard to discern a common trend in Mann’s writing: the rise and downfall of Nazi Germany and the bargain with nihilism it took to get there.
Perhaps he was thinking of Schmitt and certainly his emanations when Mann spoke in Germany and the Germans: “this story should convince us of one thing: that there are not two Germanys, a good one and a bad one, but only one, whose best turned into evil through devilish cunning.”
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2025-07-21 18:52:28 UTC

War is the continuation of politics by other means. Bitcoin is the continuation of state philosophy by other means.
For centuries, humanity has wrestled with the awesome power of the state and the monetary printing press combined.
Nietzsche said “God was dead” and the Übermensch he spoke through one of his characters implored for “this-worldness”.
These aren’t dead battles - they live every day.
One of the leading Chinese state philosophers, Jiang Shigong, cites Nietzsche and the German philosopher Carl Schmitt and “Nazi crown jurist" in arguing that geopolitics today is the "unceasing, deadly struggles of different gods”.
Carl Schmitt (pictured below) ultimately empowered Hitler’s rise.
But to dig deeper beyond his grave error and to attack the principle and not the person:
Schmitt spoke of an executive wing being crafted in the Constitution as the embodiment of a class of “state sovereign or king” in his Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy.
It is not the exclusive domain of Chinese state mandarins to think in this way. The American presidency has been manipulated in this way, from Bush's “strong executive” to Trump’s attack on the “bureaucracy” - of which the “deep state” is another cyclical example.
Looking deeper beyond red vs. blue, one can see Schmitt being invoked for cracking down on Hong Kong protests, to silencing those who disagree with climate change being a “state of exception”.
It is a continuation of the question of freedom and justice within the state - a modern “god":
Should a state try to achieve freedom for its citizens or justice?
While a seemingly simple, perhaps naive framework, it has led to a classical philosophical dialogue.
This dialogue has gone from the Legalists vs. Confucians, to Camus vs. Sartre (“How we loved you then” Sartre reportedly told Camus before they split over the issue of freedom and justice) to the modern-day battle between Rawls and Nozick.
Freedom - and the ability to choose?
Or justice - and a potentially enforced one based on righting inequalities?
Nozick and Camus argued that freedom would bring a better justice.
Rawls argued that his justice was a “paramount value” imbued with some “inalienable freedoms” - but that justice trumped freedom.
Where to go from here?
Bitcoin is a tool that separates state and money - in its network form.
It is a way of living without the state - and combined with tools, some of which are present, and others being imagined - perhaps a way of defraying from it.
Combined with the ability to work remote, Bitcoin moves agency to individuals over states, and gives the ability to some (and hopefully more in future years) to define their own justice and to take their own liberty rather than warring within “civilizational gods”.
While I believe AI gives people interesting capabilities, ultimately how we choose to govern and be governed will determine human freedom and justice - in my mind. For me, this is a more interesting question.
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2025-07-20 19:43:44 UTC

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This is a great read and packages a lot of themes I've been thinking about

2025-07-20 17:06:13 UTC

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Thanks for sharing!

2025-07-17 19:15:55 UTC

my CIA agent, trying to figure out what the hell I’m spending on as I use cash and sats
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2025-07-13 17:32:11 UTC

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I disagree with a lot of takes from Nostr and the Bitcoin community including some of Ben's takes. My personal preference is always open discussion though, including in physical spaces.

2025-07-10 17:41:06 UTC

Fiat just hit an all-time low
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2025-07-10 15:04:46 UTC

I’m doing an AMA with @nprofile…8syn - come join the fun at https://stacker.news/items/1032527

2025-07-07 18:50:31 UTC

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I will check it out - not familiar with Nourbash

2025-07-05 17:38:10 UTC

In one generation, China went from not having playable pianos and condemning conductors who played Debussy and Beethoven to death - to being the world’s largest producer of pianos.
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2025-07-05 17:31:41 UTC

Among the Persian poets, Rumi is perhaps the most well-known outside of Iran. But within Iran, the highest poet is Hafiz - whose Divān resides even among the diaspora who have long shorn their links between state and religion, and is celebrated among the wine he may have literally or metaphorically celebrated.
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2025-07-01 23:22:37 UTC

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Great to catch y’all on here! Mirrors the experience @nprofile…htls had

2025-06-25 15:11:51 UTC

We need to find the 8.5% https://image.nostr.build/e240d86697b8ba02cc52c74d542051d27bff25a80081fe6865c123104b3bc261.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e240d86697b8ba02cc52c74d542051d27bff25a80081fe6865c123104b3bc261.jpg

2025-06-25 12:14:12 UTC

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Keeping up on why people don't want CBDCs at all.
#nevent1q…z4vn

2025-06-24 21:51:44 UTC

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exactly

2025-06-24 21:16:22 UTC

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Context: this is the guy who thinks Canada’s government will magically save massive, substantiative amounts of the deficit by replacing people with ChatGPT or somesuch. I wouldn’t trust Mark Carney with a computer, nevermind a country.
#nevent1q…vqdt

2025-06-23 13:50:35 UTC

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It’s sorta an open secret, but I usually carry maple syrup with me at many times in Bitcoin conferences
Fun to give it out to people who love maple syrup! @nprofile…pw6x
#nevent1q…s5zz

2025-06-19 12:53:49 UTC

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oh shit dude, now my full time job is making memes on Nostr

2025-06-18 14:32:52 UTC

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I gotta go overtime on the memes

2025-06-18 07:44:25 UTC

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Always!

2025-06-17 19:31:22 UTC

Looking forward to discussing how the Chinese government couldn’t kill Bitcoin or Nostr even when it tried to put down bans at @nprofile…py4c .
China is what the cybersecurity business calls a “red team” - the state most capable and willing to try to censor permissionless networks.
That it failed - shows the promise of both Nostr and Bitcoin.
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2025-06-16 01:53:46 UTC

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Aiya

2025-06-14 19:21:08 UTC

It is forbidden to forbid.
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2025-06-05 23:20:23 UTC

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Probably the most correct answer

2025-06-05 23:17:51 UTC

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We gotta talk more about op_return

2025-06-05 23:15:54 UTC

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They're not here are they?

2025-06-05 23:15:39 UTC

Who are Donald Trump and Elon Musk?

2025-06-04 16:17:23 UTC

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I go after every country that censors or punishes speech - this is just my personal story of why China censoring Tiananmen matters so much to me.

2025-06-04 15:00:26 UTC

Today is June 4th, which marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. But you might not know why Tiananmen is still an enduring symbol of Internet repression.
Tiananmen was part of the reason I got into Bitcoin in the first place. I used to be part of commemorations of the event - I remembered that many of those who attended wore masks - afraid of agents of the Chinese state that would harass them and their family back home. I wondered about the dystopia of never having ease even 5000 miles away.
Tiananmen is still censored in the Chinese Internet, with even mentions of the date getting wiped off. This has led to a cat and mouse game where June 4th becomes May 35th and other variants to trick censors.
One of the first things the Chinese authorities did when they effectively took over Hong Kong was to ban public, non-violent rallies in Victoria Park in commemoration of the victims of Tiananmen.
One author has described his books as “June 4th” (China in Ten Words, non-fiction, banned in China) and “May 35th” (Brothers, fiction, not banned in China). Even today, to get literature or books published in China, you must strip away mentions of Tiananmen.
Tiananmen marked the crossroads between a faction of the Chinese Communist Party that wanted to grant more liberty and those who wanted to let markets run more broadly - at the cost of strict state control. That latter faction eventually led China to build the strongest version of Internet control possible - the Great Firewall that cleaves the Internet in two, and the same surveillance playbook of company, platform and government that now reigns as the default Bitcoiners and Nostriches fight against.
I’m happy to say that Nostr is one of a few pockets where open discussions like this can happen and that can actually cross borders throughout the world, backed by relays that can fortify this content how they choose - and that Bitcoin is playing its role to erode the systems of control that came partly because tanks met innocents that bloody day.
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2025-05-30 15:24:21 UTC

Running Bitcoin, growing Nostr https://blossom.primal.net/ce384615b07cb8707b57131ad00f325d653e3b1f0c22e49d18d18046ffff52a4.png

2025-05-30 03:01:50 UTC

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Sad

2025-05-26 18:48:32 UTC

I just want to say that @nprofile…3skh is a sick space

2025-05-26 18:47:44 UTC

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Finally, I’m going to unleash my Suez Canal drip
#nevent1q…twnn

2025-05-15 17:39:25 UTC

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Haha I don’t know about CCP sayings per say, but a recent favorite of mine has been 有奶变成娘 - have milk become a mother - a sorta versatile take on being mercantile.

2025-05-11 19:04:38 UTC

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This is entertainment my guy

2025-05-11 18:35:23 UTC

If anyone can get me the tweet thread of Busta Rhymes in full getting absolutely swarmed on X by BTC hornets ima send 2100 sats. Can't stop chuckling about how confused he was

2025-05-05 19:01:19 UTC

This is the definition of based for me: be an American citizen, go to a dictatorship, do work so good that the bloodthirsty tyrant has to murder you to silence you.
Anna Politkovskaya
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2025-05-02 05:54:11 UTC

the proper place to yell at one another about obscure technical topics is BitDevs

2025-05-02 05:53:18 UTC

When you zap a fellow Nostrich 21 sats for their cat meme
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2025-04-29 00:37:10 UTC

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Great talking to a fellow Nostrich about all things Bitcoin and Nostr - and living life at the edge of liberty
#nevent1q…4hlk

2025-04-26 18:39:09 UTC

BitDevs Vancouver is going to have a special BitDevs focused on Nostr next Tuesday.
Featuring hometown hero @nprofile…rx7e.
CC: @nprofile…htls
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2025-04-24 15:45:48 UTC

"Joker man what you do with all your money?"
"You see, I'm a guy of simple taste. I enjoy BitDevs, and used book stores, and long walks - and you know the thing they have in common?
They're cheap."
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2025-04-24 15:18:13 UTC

He searches here for his last master : he wants to become the enemy of this master, like he is the enemy of his last god. He wants to fight for victory against the great dragon. / << Il cherche ici son dernier maître : il veut être l’ennemi de ce maître, comme il est l’ennemi de son dernier dieu ; il veut lutter pour la victoire avec le grand dragon. >>
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