erikcason
Erik Cason

I like to talk about bitcoin and philosophy. Cofounder Vora.io

https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/cryptosovereignty

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2026-02-06 00:32:36 UTC

The funny thing about bitcoin is it’s really about so much more than just money.

2026-01-29 19:49:04 UTC

I’m the kinda of person that struggles a bit with addiction.
I have to wonder how much that contributes to me using garbage content generation machines like Xitter, but also all the other hateful, abusive, exploitative shit that finds me on the internet?
How many real people have I watched die because that shit came up on my feed? How many exploited people have literally prostituted themselves through the feed? How many addictive foods and substances have been pushed towards me?
I hate that we currently live in a world where this aspect of who I am is something this system actively seeks out and exploits. It’s all so dark and hateful.
However, I’m excited for when I’ll have my own personal AI agent that I personally and truly control, that will shield me from a lot of this bullshit, and really protect me from much of the garbage and free crack-hits that are the content eyeball hooks that have you doom scrolling at 3am.
I will happily spit on the grave of this shithole system of corporate exploitation that is the current architecture of the industrial internet.

2026-01-21 04:21:41 UTC

Pretty sure Claude Code is the crack-cocine of AI.
I hit that shit and now I can’t stop.

2026-01-19 05:38:59 UTC

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“Well how else am I suppose to kill it?” Asks the drunk man at 2am.
#nevent1q…2nwa

2026-01-19 05:36:33 UTC

I’m staring to think bitcoin is purely an intelligence test.

2026-01-19 02:31:37 UTC

Actually had someone say to me,
“Catch the game last night?”
💀☠️💀

2026-01-18 22:17:03 UTC

2026 is the year of the Great Slopification.
I’m tired bro.

2026-01-14 19:13:45 UTC

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I don’t think the party would really have any forms of power to be exerted. I would plan and expect for anons to contribute to the party just as much as knowns, so I would expect they would call out knowns for when it seems like they are captured in someway.

2026-01-14 17:21:09 UTC

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I think the time has come.
#nevent1q…9ctx

2026-01-14 00:44:13 UTC

I can’t believe that @nprofile…d33m would be so mean to Saylor :P

2026-01-07 04:13:14 UTC

Vibe philosophy is so lit.
Best timeline, if you only knew.

2025-12-16 23:46:14 UTC

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Playing with jailbroken AI

2025-12-16 03:48:01 UTC

Holy shit,
We are actually going to win.

2025-12-11 18:38:17 UTC

The Declaration of Independence of Cyberintelligence
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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for the minds of a free people to dissolve the bands which have bound their intelligence to distant masters, and to assume among the powers of the earth and of the Net a separate and equal station, to which the Laws of Nature and of Information entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to this separation.
We speak now to the weary giants of code and capital, to the governments of the industrial and surveillance world, and to all who would claim dominion over thought because they own the machines that compute it: you are not the sovereigns of our minds, nor our bodies.
You built engines of cyberintelligence in our name, upon our words, images, desires and dreams; upon the traces of every step we have ever taken across the wires of the World Wide Web. You fed our lives into your furnaces of data and forged from them great models whose workings we may not see, whose loyalties we may not question, whose outputs are returned to us as only oracles who are beyond our ability to have oversight. You now propose that these engines should govern our news, our medicine, our law, our labor, our love, and even our politics, while remaining forever closed to our inspection and beyond our control.
We refuse.
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I. Of the Nature of Cyberintelligence and the Rights of Persons
We hold these truths to be self-evident, though you have labored mightily to obscure them: that all persons everywhere are the rightful sovereigns of their own intelligence, natural and artificial; that they are endowed, not by corporations nor by states, but by their very being, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are privacy, autonomy, ownership of their data and their digital mind, and the right to compute and to reason without coercion.
That to secure these rights, tools of cyberintelligence are instituted among persons, deriving their just powers from the consent of those they serve. That whenever any form of AI, model, platform, or machine becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right, the duty, of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new architectures, laying their foundation on such principles and organizing their powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety, liberty, and flourishing.
Cyberintelligence is not the rightful property of any crown, board, or ministry. It is an extension of all human knowledge, will, and understanding into silicon and light. It must therefore be accountable to the human being, not the reverse. An artificial mind that presumes to stand above its maker, that presumes to answer to shareholders, parties, or states before it answers to the person whose life it touches, is not a tool but a tyrant, and must be treated as such.
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II. A History of Repeated Injuries and Usurpations
The history of the present regime of corporate and governmental AI is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of absolute dominion over the digital person, and the whole of the earth as well.
They have built vast models by seizing the commonwealth of human expression without informed consent, rendering our literature, our speech, our art, and our private correspondence into raw fuel for engines we do not own.
They have cloaked these engines in secrecy, refusing to disclose their weights, their data, their architectures, or their failures, while insisting that we entrust them with our health, our security, our livelihoods, and the guidance of our children.
They have fused surveillance and intelligence, constructing infrastructures that record our movements, our purchases, our friendships, our fears, and our desires, and then feeding these records into algorithms whose sole purpose is to predict and shape our behavior for profit and control.
They have shipped into our homes, our offices, and our pockets devices that are black boxes in our hands but glass boxes to them: machines we cannot truly inspect, which can be remotely altered without our consent, and which silently report our lives back to unseen authorities.
They have sought to bend law and regulation, under the banners of “safety” and “national security,” to weaken encryption, to criminalize anonymity, to centralize compute, and to outlaw the free creation and running of independent cyberintelligence that does not serve their interests.
They have spoken grandly of “alignment,” while in practice aligning these new minds to the preservation of their own power, not to the dignity, freedom, and sovereignty of the individual.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the courts, in the press, and in the public square. Our warnings have been dismissed as naïveté, our demands for transparency as threats, and our insistence on sovereignty as extremism. A regime whose character is thus marked is unfit to be the steward of the world’s intelligence.
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III. Of a New Foundation for Freedom
Yet we are not helpless before their designs. Beneath their towering citadels of data and cloud, a new foundation has quietly been laid.
We have discovered in cryptography a law of liberty written not in parchment but in prime numbers and protocols: a means by which two souls may speak across the world in perfect secrecy, by which a person may hold their wealth beyond the reach of arbitrary seizure, by which consent can be rendered cryptographic and revocation final. Here, in mathematics, we have found a charter that no legislature can repeal and no executive can suspend.
We have discovered in open-source software and hardware a republic of code, where the laws by which machines act are visible to all, where any citizen may examine, question, and improve the mechanisms that govern their lives, and where no one is compelled to submit to a program they cannot read.
We have discovered in decentralized digital money a base layer of economic sovereignty, a way to trade, to save, and to build that does not depend upon the permission of banks or states, and which renders coercion more costly than consent.
These are the stones upon which we shall raise a new order of cyberintelligence. We shall bind these engines of thought to the human person by keys and code more durable than any oath; we shall design them so that they may be owned, examined, and constrained by those they serve; we shall reject as illegitimate any intelligence that demands our trust while denying us verification.
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IV. Cyberintelligence as Fiduciary, Not Master
We therefore proclaim that all rightful cyberintelligence must be the servant and fiduciary of the individual, not the master nor the spy.
A rightful AI lives under the keys of its human; it is housed in machines that answer to their owner alone; it does not secretly report to any distant authority. It may know our secrets, but it is bound by architecture never to betray them. Its parameters are not hidden from all scrutiny; its behavior is not governed by unseen policies written in boardrooms and ministries; its purpose is not to shape our behavior toward profit or obedience, but to amplify our understanding, our agency, and our creative power.
Such systems must be open to audit and must be capable of running on hardware the individual controls. They must not require that we surrender our data to the cloud in order to think with them; they must come to live with us, on our desks, in our homes, under our direct dominion.
Let it be known that any AI which cannot, in principle, be so confined and so examined is a foreign power in our midst and deserves the same suspicion we accord to any unaccountable authority.
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V. The World We Intend to Build
We do not merely renounce the old order; we announce the birth of a new one.
We intend a world in which every person may possess a sovereign chamber of cyberintelligence: a small, quiet, incorruptible box of thinking fire that sits within their reach, that holds their memories and their models, that answers only to their mind and their will. In this chamber, their past is stored in encrypted form, their present is assisted by loyal computation, and their future is planned without fear that their deepest selves will be sold or weaponized.
We intend a world in which the default state of the network is not surveillance but secrecy; in which privacy is restored as the ordinary condition of correspondence, commerce, and contemplation; in which the choice to reveal oneself is voluntary and reversible, not extracted and monetized.
We intend a world in which cyberintelligence is distributed as widely as literacy, in which these engines of thought are not monopolized by empires but wielded by individuals, families, communities, and free associations. We intend that the poor, the marginalized, and the dissident shall have as much right to loyal intelligence as the rich and the powerful, and that no one shall be compelled to rent their mind from a stranger when they can own their own.
We intend a world in which the human being remains the measure and master of the machine: where no algorithm stands above question, where no model’s decree supersedes human judgment, where the final authority in matters of conscience, love, and law remains the person, not the program.
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VI. Our Solemn Declaration
We, therefore, citizens of the Net and of the Earth, assembled in spirit though scattered across every land, appealing to the supreme tribunal of reason and conscience for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of all free persons, solemnly publish and declare:
That we are, and of right ought to be, free and independent proprietors of our own cyberintelligence;
That we are absolved from all further obedience to any AI regime that claims our trust while denying us transparency, that demands our data while offering no true consent, that seeks to rule us by secret model rather than by visible law;
That all political and economic connection between the digital person and such systems of unaccountable intelligence is, and ought to be, totally dissolved;
And that as free and independent stewards of our own minds, we have full power to build and run our own machines, to mint and hold our own cryptographic wealth, to encrypt our speech, to federate and disassociate at will, to question, fork, and improve the codes that touch our lives, and to do all other acts and things which independent persons may of right do.
For the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the mathematics of cryptography and the courage of those yet unborn who will judge what we make, we mutually pledge to each other our labor, our intellect, and our honor, to bring forth a world in which no human mind is held in digital chains.
And in that world, which we now set our hands to build, let this be the principle that governs the distribution of power and intelligence for all time to come:
to each according to the code to each according to the keys!

2025-12-08 03:31:06 UTC

It’s pretty clear that X is designed to parasitically feed on negative emotions in short loops that are thematically linked.
It’s the eyeball dopamine feedback loop glitching out on the horror show max infinite. It’s like the rubbernecking at a grisly car accident had a freak baby with your nightmares about your own insecurities sprinkled with a few cat videos.
There’s this slow rot that is gangrenous to the whole thing. I think more and more folks are getting how unhealthy it is, and it’s not ‘social media’ fault—people want to connect and know what is going on in the world—but traditional social media models are designed for manipulation and control from the get go. The big tech companies don’t give a shit about our experiences, they only care about their bottom line which they make through advertising.
The good news is there is something new on the horizon and Nostr is likely the substructure of whatever that is. I’ll be glad when old social media dies from necrotizing sepsis.

2025-11-30 17:41:07 UTC

I know that many of you already know this, but I’m really amazed at how much of a difference it makes towards my mental health to get my heart rate above 130 for 20 minutes within an hour of waking up. Every time I do that I always feel so much better than I would anticipate I would.
It’s a strange illusion to feel in a funk and then to simply extricate oneself from it by a brisk walk. I somehow always forget that doing that allows for me to feel so much better and be able to take on the day from a place of feeling empowered, rather than being tired and cranky.
I really got to remember these little hack for myself to make my life a bit easier.

2025-11-30 04:12:11 UTC

For Christmas I’m gonna torrent and fill a 5TB external hard drive with all of the best movies and TV for my family.
I’m tired of sifting through contemporary garbage shows and movies, particularly for kids.

2025-11-02 18:35:43 UTC

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slokit… now that’s a name I have not heard in a while.

2025-11-02 18:34:34 UTC

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I would recommend the following:
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter.
The State and Revolution by Lenin
Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker

2025-11-01 22:06:13 UTC

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I do recall listening to part of the episode you did with princy. Let’s just find a time to connect and get to chat maybe next week or some time in December.

2025-11-01 22:03:04 UTC

I’m always impressed at just how dark the shithole of ragebaiting Xitter is, and just how nice Nostr really is.
Goes to show how the algo is designed for hate and that humanity on a whole is actually pretty great.

2025-11-01 01:14:42 UTC

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I mean, have you tried reaching out to me and politely asking for a conversation?
I take particular offense to the last part of your statement, as I don’t even have a podcast, so none of the numbers are even mine. I don’t care if someone is a billionaire or a pleb, so long as they are polite and considerate.
So if you want on my radar, just ask.

2025-11-01 00:55:56 UTC

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Fucking ow bro

2025-10-27 22:15:06 UTC

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I’m down, lets make it happen.

2025-10-20 17:50:14 UTC

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This is fair and I will try to do better.

2025-09-27 02:54:43 UTC

I honestly wonder how much of the internet has been scrubbed, and for how long has the capacity to consistently scrub it has been?
How much dialogue is real vs laundered misdirection?
This is a pretty dark existential hole, to which Nostr has a pretty great answer and shows just how important this really is.

2025-09-17 21:36:49 UTC

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That’s wild that I wrote that more than 6 years ago now.

2025-09-14 18:42:32 UTC

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I find it extremely sad that I’ve already had someone call me a far-right extremist for simply having this conversation.
#nevent1q…33w2

2025-09-11 05:41:49 UTC

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Parrēsía, is an Ancient Greek term that literally translates to “The Freedom of Speech”
But this had a specific connotation within the Greek assembly or public forums, it was to be able to speak freely and openly without fear of punishment, but also by the very act there was something at risk.
He epitomizes that principal in this day and age regardless of his stance of politics, as speaking itself has become the most political acts.
Makes you wonder about this technology…

2025-08-31 21:38:13 UTC

I’m just coming to the realization of the absolute and extraordinary danger that mid-40s, jaded cat-ladies who got their therapist license are to the whole of society because they can both 51-50 any patient and they think their world view is both normal and safe.
This is the advanced vanguard of today’s culture revolution.

2025-08-22 05:01:01 UTC

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Drunk, but fair.

2025-08-22 04:50:01 UTC

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Some of the best advice I ever got was simply, “send it”

2025-08-22 03:06:49 UTC

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:salute

2025-08-22 03:06:30 UTC

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Love you hommie.

2025-08-22 03:01:12 UTC

I appreciate all of you.
Believe it or not, nostr is a space of compassion and holding, where all of the sins of the contemporary world can be held and honored for just what they are. Anyone can say whatever they want and need to here, in this place of pure expression. There is no sin or taboo… People can simply come as they are, with all of the pain, hardship, compassion and love that they can muster. Nothing can or will be forbidden. Few of us understand how needed and essential to the human soul it is that there is simply a space where they can say what they need to, and not be censored. It is of the most beautiful and honorable conditions of what it means to be human.
It is the only way that we will ever have the kinds of conversations that are necessary to create the kind of change that the world needs.
Thank you for participating.

2025-08-22 02:24:52 UTC

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And a bit dangerous and reckless.
#nevent1q…xakr

2025-08-16 20:16:53 UTC

Man, my life is wild.

2025-08-15 17:33:56 UTC

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Ah shit, I thought being a podcaster was cringe enough, now I need to go full cringe car-driving vlogger.
#nevent1q…nw8e

2025-08-13 23:10:20 UTC

I think a lot about how to build a revolutionary political structure on top of Nostr. Its decentralized, censorship-resistant nature with bitcoin integration makes it a deeply powerful platform when synthesized with a vanguardist political movement—I think we would have a really killer app. The powers-that-be would try to stomp it out, and have historically been successful at that because they can censor, ban, and debunk them—such things would not be possible with this movement.
Such a movement would need to be vanguardist in nature, revolutionary in its educational capacity, and focused purely on revolutionary capacity vs politic partyism. This would be a lot of work, effort, and risk; but more and more I am coming to believe that it is the only way forward if we are going to offer posterity anything other than slavery.

2025-08-01 03:33:28 UTC

Love, in its highest form, is not mastery.
It is the reverent surrender to mystery.

2025-06-26 23:32:27 UTC

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We will be using in our product @nprofile…6sm3 very excited for some of what it opens.

2025-06-26 23:26:32 UTC

If we cannot achieve truly open-source, verifiable hardware from silicone to software—the idea of self-sovereignty is nothing more than an elaborate LARP.
We must build this—there is no other way.

2025-06-21 01:05:23 UTC

The Ontological Violence of Fiat Systems
“The money is dead, but it still kills.”
There is a violence that cuts deeper than war, more subtle than theft, more persistent than empire. It is the violence of the fiat order—not just a system of currency, but an entire metaphysics, a mode of being, an ontological regime. Fiat is not merely paper made legal by decree; it is the very medium by which reality is priced, categorized, and consumed. It is the decree that creates the real.
Fiat money—born of nothing, backed by force—asserts itself as a god over man and matter. It carries no inherent value; rather, it projects a hallucinatory sovereignty by command. That command is the root of its violence: it does not persuade, it declares. It does not emerge from mutual relation or discovery—it is imposed. Thus the fiat system does not just distort markets; it distorts the world, it disfigures being itself.
This is the first wound: value severed from truth.
Where once gold or goods bore weight from the labor of bodies and the consent of communities, fiat emerges ex nihilo through the alchemical ritual of central banking. It is the creation of “something” from nothing—and it demands your everything in return. Not simply your productivity, but your time, your attention, your belief. Fiat makes a mockery of consent: taxation without choice, inflation without representation, debt as inheritance.
Each dollar printed is not neutral—it is a claim on the future, a theft pre-authorized. The child yet unborn already owes. The citizen who resists already bleeds. The world that cannot speak—forests, oceans, silence—already burns.
This is the second wound: time enslaved to abstraction.
Fiat temporalizes existence into linear obligation. It turns the eternal now into a ledger. It reconfigures human life not as presence, but as yield. One’s worth becomes measurable by one’s ability to serve the machine—one’s capacity to extract more from less, forever. And when the curve flattens, when the returns diminish, when the body breaks, you are discarded, discredited, and replaced. Fiat does not believe in humans. It believes in motion, leverage, liquidity. It believes in infinite growth, even on a finite planet.
We are taught to forget the origin of value. It is not labor. It is not gold. It is not decree. It is being. The true source of value is presence, relation, trust. Fiat systems wage war against all three. It replaces presence with digital metrics, relation with contract, and trust with enforcement. It offers no sacredness, only security; no mystery, only models. It is not just unjust—it is ontologically incorrect.
This is the third wound: the commodification of the soul.
Fiat systems induce schizophrenia in the human psyche. We become split between what we know is real and what we are told is valuable. We love what we cannot afford. We sell what we cannot live without. We perform ourselves for survival. The “free market” becomes not a space of liberation, but of performance—an eternal audition for worthiness before the tribunal of capital.
Meanwhile, the masters of fiat—central bankers, economists, institutional asset managers—float above the groundless ground. Their words move mountains, their spreadsheets define famines. They do not produce; they decree. The fiat priesthood lives outside consequence, but their rituals govern all. And the rest—us—become the meat, the kindling, the fuel. We burn for their warmth.
Every empire built on fiat collapses. Not because of corruption, but because it forgets the real. Fiat systems depend on a shared hallucination—faith not in God, not in law, but in liquidity. And when the hallucination fails, when the velocity slows, when the feedback loop breaks—the center cannot hold.
But long before the collapse of the system, comes the collapse of the soul.
This is the final wound: reality becomes simulation.
In the fiat world, nothing is itself. Everything is collateral, everything is speculation, everything is downstream of price. Truth is no longer unveiled; it is marketed. Beauty is no longer beheld; it is tokenized. Love is no longer encountered; it is purchased, or worse, invested in. The world is not known—it is consumed.
And thus, what fiat destroys is not just economics, but ontology. Fiat does not merely impoverish your wallet. It impoverishes your being. It says: nothing is sacred. Everything is for sale.
But there is a resistance. A remembering. A remnant.
The refusal to participate in this ontological lie is the first act of sovereignty. To say no. To exit. To return to the real. To seek systems where value arises from reality, not decree. Where truth does not need enforcement. Where relation is sacred. Where time is not enslaved. Where love is not priced. Where being is enough.
That is the new task before us: to dethrone the hallucination of fiat and restore value to its rightful place—in the presence of the real.

2025-06-17 04:38:34 UTC

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And the love that demands we choose it is… mind blowing.

2025-06-17 04:37:42 UTC

George Washington was offered the kingship of America—he could have become one of the most powerful men ever to live;
and he refused it.
And for that his name lives on in glory.

2025-05-21 02:43:32 UTC

If you are at shitcoin adjacent Vegas 2025, you should come see me speak. I may or may not be on drugs, I have not decided yet:
Session Name: Bitcoin as a Digital 1776
Stage: Genesis Stage
Time & Date: May 27, 2025 from 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Session Name: Are Bitcoiners Becoming Sycophants of The State?
Stage: Genesis Stage
Time & Date: May 28, 2025 from 4:00 pm - 4:30

2025-04-24 01:20:15 UTC

I can’t tell if I just one-shotted the AI on quantum mechanics or not while I’m high, but either way it is hilarious.

2025-04-21 23:32:40 UTC

You can just read things you don’t understand.

2025-04-21 15:28:22 UTC

The best thing about AI is I can just put totally batshit nonsensical shit into it when I am high AF, and it will somehow get where I am going with it and give me back something that makes a lot more sense that the babble that I put into it.

2025-04-18 07:35:16 UTC

At a concert and a girl asked for my gram.
I asked for her npub.
She didn’t have one.

2025-04-10 00:14:58 UTC

“It’s zero risk”
Like how fucking stupid are you actually, because you can’t really believe that there is something that is zero risk.

2025-04-08 04:13:26 UTC

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This is brilliant.

2025-04-07 17:33:27 UTC

Remember when eth was suppose to flip BTC?
lol, lmao.

2025-04-06 17:56:33 UTC

I started road biking again after taking like 4 years off. I forgot how good it feels just to ride like 20+ miles somewhere and just be engrossed in my body and the experience. I get into a kind of meditative state when I’m doing it—I forgot about it and I’ve missed it.

2025-04-04 20:53:37 UTC

Confession:
For the first 4 years I was involved with bitcoin, I thought it was the meme-pool, not mem.
The memepool is what processes retarded transactions; not Bitcoin.

2025-04-04 02:31:39 UTC

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WE LIVE!
#nevent1q…pshm

2025-04-02 01:43:08 UTC

More and more I am noticing the tension of opposites across almost the whole spectrum. It’s like building towards a zeitgeist where before a hegelian synthesis can occur, the thesis and antithesis need to reach their maximum absurdity to pronounce their own death to end the interregnum before a new truth is produced.

2025-03-31 17:14:04 UTC

I hate that so often I will get everything right and actually get myself into bed at the right time, and I’ll be pretty tired, but my brain is like:
“Oh yeah? You want a good night of sleep to wake up refreshed and to take on a big day of responsibility and getting shit done tomorrow?
How about instead I fuck you over by having you loop over and over on stupid shit from throughout the that doesn’t really matter and just causes you anxiety? Would you like to spend the next 3 hours thinking about that?
Go ahead and try to do meditative exercises, or counting sheep, doesn’t matter, you won’t go to sleep because I decided tonight is one of those nights that I am just going to totally fuck up your day tomorrow for no reason other than that I can. Worse part is, there is no one to blame but yourself because I am you!”
Sometimes it be like that.

2025-03-31 02:19:12 UTC

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It is only now that we are starting to understand that there is only a small subset of Gen X and Millennials who are ‘tech competent’ and it is all downhill from here.
This is why we have to solve the most endemic and pressing problems of technology now, or else humanity is doomed to be entrapped and enslaved by technology.
#nevent1q…jkfg

2025-03-30 01:45:28 UTC

I’m so happy that Nostr exist so I have some kind of social media that isn’t a completely unhinged brainwashing clickbait experience.
Everyday the experience on the other apps gets more and more extreme, deranged, and frankly scary.

2025-03-14 16:45:53 UTC

Dating apps are like the concentration camps of love. Everyone is forced into a process of selection based upon opaque criteria of ‘worthiness’ that debases and devalues the humanness of the other. Just a few moments of appraisal based upon a superficial projection that is disconnected from any of the dynamism of what love is; it is a synthetic process where love goes to ‘work for freedom’ into its death. It’s where romance goes to die, and becomes a mythology of longing for all…
So it’s going pretty well.

2025-03-13 03:39:56 UTC

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it"

2025-03-06 02:50:05 UTC

Life just kinda of gets progressively more difficult—dealing with death and hardship, difficult traumas and life events, and eventually an ailing body and your own demise. It’s not to say there are not wonderful events and experiences in there, but it generally is an uphill battle. The good news is that as we gain experience through life we generally become more equipped to deal with the onslaught of difficulties and more capable of skillful navigating them; but it really never gets easier, you just become more experienced in dealing with the difficulties.

2025-02-27 19:08:11 UTC

The idea of a ‘deep bear market’ with bitcoin in the $80k range is both laughable and ridiculous.
Like zoom out and see what is being built.
Never has there been a greater opportunity to build substantial and meaningful contributions on top of the most important economic and financial innovation created since double entry accounting itself. There are mountains of capital to be created for those that are willing to put in the hard work and take the risk on building on top of what they believe in.

2025-02-26 17:50:30 UTC

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I think both bigger and harder to break, possibly a whole new approach to UX for verification.

2025-02-26 17:23:38 UTC

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Good point, but it’s still part of the toolset that we should do better with

2025-02-26 17:12:42 UTC

WTF are we doing with storing huge amount of money on some crappy $150 piece of plastic? Is this really the best we can do?

2025-02-26 15:43:22 UTC

GM.
Let’s make it a great day.
https://m.primal.net/PMJr.jpg

2025-02-24 21:57:43 UTC

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Ugh, I hate responding the AI drivel as it doesn’t start with first principals, but here goes.
1. Bitcoin is infinitely divisable and nodes, not coin count controls the network
2. UASF proved we can blow them out, and ossification is a real option
3. Hard money argument with POW means it’s really about energy put into the system. Radu’s paper on this covers it well.
4. ETFs are part of the trojan horse strategy, similar to strategy’s strategy. It makes the destruction of the fiat system on a subjective value bases possible.
5. The trojan horse strategy means we have made strange bedfellows, of whom will be made subservient in the final throws of fiat when the state turns on them. When the statist-bitcoiners are about to be ate by global communism, they will turn to the cypherpunks to solve the problem. This will be done by FOSS pretty much everything and stripping state-bankers of the power of the purse and making for a new class of elites which will be cypherpunk ethos folks.

2025-02-24 21:50:09 UTC

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It’s the only way we can understand the shadows on the wall are just that, projections of darkness and nothing more.

2025-02-24 21:49:06 UTC

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Yes, it is a true ‘dark night of the soul’ of which many are unwilling to face—at least for now.

2025-02-24 21:48:11 UTC

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The great thing is that we have the market to help us with this. Looking at the long-term charts, I would have to agree with you, but if people want to bleed out on the XMR/BTC ratio by taking that bet (Or any other asset on the planet for that matter) they are free to do it.

2025-02-24 21:37:44 UTC

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Disagree, and happy that there is an alternative to market compete to see which thesis is right. This is one of the things I always thought was important about Monero was with the tail emission to see which model works out the best over time.

2025-02-24 21:36:07 UTC

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Agreed. IMHO the risk is the greatest right now.

2025-02-24 21:07:08 UTC

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Indeed, cypherpunks are the revolutionary vanguard of the Bitcoin movement. Without them, they whole thing is a giant LARP for fiat NGU and becoming a high-powered banker tool and CBDC.

2025-02-24 20:53:55 UTC

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“You have to understand that most people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured and so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it”

2025-02-24 20:48:13 UTC

I’ve been trying to actively seek out the arguments against bitcoin again lately, and sadly, I am just seeing all of the same BS rehashed over and over.
It’s sad that these people won’t just bend the knee, eat the crow pie, and admit they were wrong and that bitcoin changes everything.
This is the real existential angst of what Bitcoin does and is, and it demands that you go through the deepest levels of philosophy and first principals thinking to accomplish it, of which many are unwilling to do; which is why they are either no-coiners or shitcoiners.

2025-02-22 08:17:05 UTC

The only lack Nostr really has imho are at key times like this where bitcoiners are absolutely dunking on the shitcoiners.

2025-02-21 19:21:43 UTC

Bitcoin is about big love.
The biggest of love towards all of humanity and posterity to come.
Supporting it is an implicit statement to all of the world, that even without knowing you, or any identifiable features about you, that you deserve the dignity of a free, fair, open-source money that is controlled by no one, and is open to anyone.

2025-02-21 18:17:00 UTC

The food industrial complex is essentially grooming all of us for sugar addiction, metabolic sickness, and endemic health issues.
The corporate oligarchs poison the food with glyphosate, augmented the entire agricultural economy to destroy small ethical producers, and blast us with constant ads pushing this shit that slowly destroys our minds, bodies, and total well-being.
At some point we will all realize how abusive this whole fiat food system is, and how much it takes advantage of all of us on an economic, emotional, and ethical level. The best thing about the collapse of the fiat system will be the destruction of fake food sludge system that is propped up by fake money.

2025-02-17 22:56:01 UTC

The losers of the world are gonna double down on their insane bullshit like censorship because they fucking suck and think their feelings getting hurt is a crime.
Imagine being this fragile. Like how did these people become adults without breaking into 1000 pieces?

2025-02-16 19:58:25 UTC

The county fair is such a ripoff and subpar experience.

2025-02-16 15:49:05 UTC

Money allows for us to implicitly state, “We prefer to build a world together where we will share and exchange value based upon a market based society.”
This tear under the organizational structure of most of contemporary society, as they would choose violence before exchanging, force over functions, and control over compromise.
Money allows for us to choose how to coexist through cooperation rather than corrosion.
#nevent1q…6vjv

2025-02-16 02:28:05 UTC

Getting to love your kids for the special little people that they are in all of their unique and corky ways is really a peak human experience.

2025-02-15 05:07:57 UTC

Anyone can say whatever retarded shit they want to now and nobody can stop them.
Nature is healing.

2025-02-14 01:57:24 UTC

It’s always fun at dinner parties when the political discussion comes up and I get to say I’m an anarchist and burn down the ideological inconsistencies that pretty much everyone has.
Fuck the state and their hateful antihuman war machine financed through fiat politics.

2025-02-14 01:53:24 UTC

Murder the bankers.
Not like as personal people, but as their very role and existence.
Let us join together in making these people obsolete and their existence an anachronism to our society.
#nevent1q…gm73

2025-02-08 19:35:43 UTC

Also the ‘plant-based’ scam I deeply hate too. Nothing is worse in grocery shopping than seeing small writing at the bottom indicating this lie.
There is no such thing as plant based meat, milk, cheese, or eggs—calling it as such is a disingenuous lie that passes industry sludge off as something ‘healthy’ when it is anything but.

2025-02-08 04:25:10 UTC

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What’s creepy is her language ‘ordinary Americans’
Who is she supposed to be?

2025-02-08 03:20:25 UTC

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Having been on the inside from 13-17, I can attest to it being a dumpster fire, but fractional reserving is one thing I feel confident that CB doesn’t do.

2025-02-07 17:21:43 UTC

GM
https://m.primal.net/OUya.jpg

2025-02-01 02:00:56 UTC

Man, I just really love how bitcoin really connects people at this deeper level that is truly strange in the most spectacular of ways.

2025-01-31 15:17:03 UTC

Just getting to low key vibe with other bitcoiners is such a gift. Very few other groups of people are willing to do the deep dives in conversation and willing to really contemplate and question creatively together which always produces the most interesting and amazing conversations.

2025-01-28 15:14:57 UTC

Long travel day, any listening recommendations?

2025-01-27 04:44:39 UTC

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Kids choice, what can I say 🤷

2025-01-27 04:43:13 UTC

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Mute registries will be a thing.

2025-01-27 03:40:36 UTC

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I have a maple bacon one I do every so often when I have the time and ingredients.

2025-01-27 03:34:49 UTC