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Frank01945

Decentralized, Digital Economies & Democracies
Our democracies and economies are being shattered by oligarchs who claim that democracy and freedom for all cannot work and we should trust only them. While good people struggle to reassemble their democracies, we need to design and start to implement replacements for our deeply flawed systems that allow oligarchs to buy politicians and judges.
Bitcoin, distributed, decentralized and secure, is an important economic step for humanity. NOSTR, also decentralized and integrated with Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, is a young, decentralized social network. Simple Proof offers truthful timestamped verification of data. Fedimint shows the potential of distributed networks of value, secured by the bitcoin network.
The Digital Democracy of Taiwan (TDD) shows that a pro-social, moderated democracy can garner widespread public participation and confidence. And the Tibetan government in exile is a model for a global system of support for the people of Tibet, in spite of the Chinese Communist Party.
From these examples, we can envision parallel systems of economic and political freedom and democracy, built upon the foundations of these and other technologies. AI will help.
Communities can be of any number, size and geographical location. From two friends, to many relatives, to neighborhoods, towns, cities, counties, craft and trade unions, universities, states, nations, beliefs, political views, and the world. Fedimint can accommodate them all.
Public / Private keys assure identity, while Zero Proof Knowledge protects identity.
Communities draw up their own charters / constitutions and appoint moderators (like Reddit) to keep discourse within community standards, while trusted members manage keys. All through encrypted communication (like Fedi and Nostr?).
Anti-social media by countries, bots, and actors trying to monetize discord and hatred, are countered by spotlights and humor (like TDD). Communities can choose to operate by direct voting or through representatives, with all information available to all. TDD’s system is optimized for consensus and mutual aid. TDD takes difficult issues, like abortion, and finds the parts that “both sides” agree with, like preventing unwanted pregnancies, leaving a remainder of disagreement and minimizing the dissonance.
In some ways, we are all alienated by current systems and rulers. We are all communities in exile from what is possible for humanity. There are people in the US calling for a “shadow cabinet”. Imagine a “shadow government” for all institutions, daring to invent and consider better ways to do things, with whistle blowers honored instead of demonized.
As Jeff Booth notes, productivity is growing so quickly that there will be more than enough for everybody. We add, there will only be enough if oligarchs don’t get to seize, hoard, squander it. We seek others, particularly those with the technical knowledge to see what is possible and how to start.

2025-03-13 17:10:09 UTC

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@nprofile…j5w9
Please consider
#nevent1q…uj2g

2025-03-13 17:09:16 UTC

@npub1sg6…f63m @npub1a2c…w83a @npub1cn4…3vle @npub1yn5…pl4h @npub1s05…eyhe @npub1yvt…z9q9 #note108a…4ll0

2025-03-13 16:39:00 UTC

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Keep up the good work. So far, we have zero readers on this app.

2025-03-13 16:27:57 UTC

Thoughts for Nostr:
Decentralized, Digital Economies & Democracies
Our democracies and economies are being shattered by oligarchs who claim that democracy and freedom for all cannot work and we should trust only them. While good people struggle to reassemble their democracies, we need to design and start to implement replacements for our deeply flawed systems that allow oligarchs to buy politicians and judges.
Bitcoin, distributed, decentralized and secure, is an important economic step for humanity. NOSTR, also decentralized and integrated with Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, is a young, decentralized social network. Simple Proof offers truthful timestamped verification of data. Fedimint shows the potential of distributed networks of value, secured by the bitcoin network.
The Digital Democracy of Taiwan (TDD) shows that a pro-social, moderated democracy can garner widespread public participation and confidence. And the Tibetan government in exile is a model for a global system of support for the people of Tibet, in spite of the Chinese Communist Party.
From these examples, we can envision parallel systems of economic and political freedom and democracy, built upon the foundations of these and other technologies. AI will help.
Communities can be of any number, size and geographical location. From two friends, to many relatives, to neighborhoods, towns, cities, counties, craft and trade unions, universities, states, nations, beliefs, political views, and the world. Fedimint can accommodate them all.
Public / Private keys assure identity, while Zero Proof Knowledge protects identity.
Communities draw up their own charters / constitutions and appoint moderators (like Reddit) to keep discourse within community standards, while trusted members manage keys. All through encrypted communication (like Fedi and Nostr?).
Anti-social media by countries, bots, and actors trying to monetize discord and hatred, are countered by spotlights and humor (like TDD). Communities can choose to operate by direct voting or through representatives, with all information available to all. TDD’s system is optimized for consensus and mutual aid. TDD takes difficult issues, like abortion, and finds the parts that “both sides” agree with, like preventing unwanted pregnancies, leaving a remainder of disagreement and minimizing the dissonance.
In some ways, we are all alienated by current systems and rulers. We are all communities in exile from what is possible for humanity. There are people in the US calling for a “shadow cabinet”. Imagine a “shadow government” for all institutions, daring to invent and consider better ways to do things, with whistle blowers honored instead of demonized.
As Jeff Booth notes, productivity is growing so quickly that there will be more than enough for everybody. We add, there will only be enough if oligarchs don’t get to seize, hoard, squander it. We seek others, particularly those with the technical knowledge to see what is possible and how to start.

2025-02-06 15:24:59 UTC

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A world of tolls? To use the road, the highway, the library, the school, the street lights, the water tap, the bench? Most societies have had a commons. The Common good.

2025-02-06 15:14:49 UTC

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Amazing, thanks

2025-02-06 15:14:29 UTC

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Wow! Thanks

2025-02-05 22:00:39 UTC

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Great photo, did you take it?

2025-01-31 00:51:08 UTC

How does #bitcoin relate to #ETs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t37-SKj4rtY

2025-01-30 20:43:28 UTC

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Still not resolved

2025-01-30 20:14:44 UTC

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Go to bed with Oligarchs, wake up rugged.

2025-01-28 13:36:36 UTC

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I reached out to them and have not gotten any response. I still cannot connect to my wallet on Primal. It may be a simple user error, but I don’t know what?

2025-01-25 21:04:05 UTC

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I actually signed up twice, by mistake. I canceled the monthly and paid the yearly. Much more than seven dollars per month.
Meanwhile, Primal will not allow me to connect my wallet. It gives me the message : warning. Email is already associated with another wallet. On Damus I have an Alby wallet Connected, but I can’t get past the warning page on Primal. Anybody have any ideas for me?

2025-01-25 18:55:31 UTC

#help linking my #wallet? When I try to activate my wallet, I get the message, “warning – email is already associated with another wallet”. On Damus, my email is associated with an Alby wallet. I cannot get past the warning message screen. Any ideas?

2025-01-25 17:10:43 UTC

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I have reached out to you in the past and never gotten a response. Why?

2025-01-25 17:00:10 UTC

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I have a wallet connected on Damus. It is the Alby wallet. When I go to connect a Wallet on Primal, it sends me to activate Wallet, then gives me a warning that the email address is already associated with another wallet, and will not let me proceed. Can you help me? Thanks.

2025-01-25 16:12:31 UTC

How? #note1utr…yx6q

2025-01-25 01:02:53 UTC

Who is holding the keys? #note1m2t…3vvn

2025-01-23 20:39:46 UTC

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I hope you are right. Do you think that the effects of broken money will diminish as bitcoin adoption grows? If so, how.
#nevent1q…t00v

2025-01-23 20:37:44 UTC

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interesting, how did they achieve the near perfect alignment?
#nevent1q…tam7

2025-01-15 14:56:06 UTC

When TicNostrTok? Is there such a project? How can I help?

2024-11-23 17:24:10 UTC

I knew that ………not #note1yfv…237c

2024-11-20 19:39:34 UTC

Only some. Others understand the coordination that needs to occur at each level of government. #note1usf…p2td

2024-11-18 14:29:10 UTC

How was the obelisk made? I just read, fingerprints of the gods by Graham Hancock. #note1tph…hwza

2024-11-13 14:52:16 UTC

Substitute “right” for “left” and what have you got? Same road, a ditch on either side. But since you picked one, have you read a summary of Project 2025? #note1pwu…5uc8

2024-11-07 18:26:30 UTC

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Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock.

2024-10-04 21:49:54 UTC

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So sorry

2024-10-01 21:22:01 UTC

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Yes, the money is broken. Bitcoin offers economic strategies, and we also need political and social strategies. Social movements have created what is good in the world and are needed to defend the laws that are good from the corruption.
We simply cannot give up in all other domains. There are social movements everywhere, though they are often invisible because the billionaire controlled mass media does not want us to get other ideas .Bitcoin is a social movement as well as a political and economic one.

2024-09-30 19:19:48 UTC

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Jeff, I love your work and find it a little two dimensional. Markets exist within legal frameworks, and we also have an obligation to pay attention to the legal framework to minimize corruption. In the US, corrupt corporations have taken over much of the government.

2024-09-18 13:07:06 UTC

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On this app, I can see what you wrote, but I cannot see what Will said. How can I see that and follow the thread?

2024-09-16 20:15:30 UTC

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A Shit coin?

2024-08-27 20:57:20 UTC

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When I try to add a Wallet to Primal, I am told that it already exists, but I cannot put sats into it. The receive button is grayed out.

2024-08-14 15:09:35 UTC

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I cite you all the time now asking the question, are you in it just for yourself or are you in it for everybody?

2024-08-11 18:00:43 UTC

East Palestine cover-up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcUIu4b5h1c

2024-08-11 11:38:08 UTC

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What if Elon IS the Empire? Or at least one of its leaders?

2024-08-10 22:15:49 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCqAO-PWTRo
Nuclear madness!

2024-07-31 13:18:46 UTC

I just read The Creature from Jekyll Island about the creation of the “Federal Reserve “ by the richest bankers in the world. Their goal was to make the US government, the taxpayer, responsible for bank failures. They succeeded. #note105k…e6rc

2024-07-30 00:43:52 UTC

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Hi Allison!

2024-07-16 16:19:31 UTC

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Do you agree with that? If so, please say more.

2024-02-16 14:51:59 UTC

This is what oligarchy, autocracy, and dictatorship looks like. Those who think that democracy is outdated, should consider the alternatives. #note193n…kqj2

2024-02-09 22:17:27 UTC

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What is it?

2024-01-19 00:57:35 UTC

We are his pack animals. NOSTR inSTEAD #note1p0w…dze0

2024-01-04 15:50:42 UTC

F #note12kx…tgrp

2023-10-30 20:17:35 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkbAayPUjtM threats to democracy

2023-10-08 21:10:57 UTC

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Never forget that our government is controlled by corporations and billionaires who would dismantle it to make more money for themselves