Nostr, Curated Thoughtfully

A Nostr magazine, for those who want to know more

Hello and welcome to my community blog. I manually curate the selection of events, from my own hand or those of writers I follow.

Central Planning is a Problem for Charities

Financial Repression and the March Toward Serfdom

Careful, Icarus

On Medieval Marriage

Is Nostr Actually Censorship Resistant?

Payment Superchats

The Palantir World Order

Strategy is Just an Insurance Company

Private communications over public infrastructure

NIP-13

Highlights

View highlight: The Palantir World Order
The stablecoin is the company scrip of the surveillance state; accepted everywhere within the system, worthless outside it, and increasingly the only monetary form the system will permit.
The warmth of collectivism, delivered through the infrastructure of control. This is the monetization of serfdom.
The Palantir World Order
View highlight: Careful, Icarus
Silent payments aren't a panacea either, mind you. They are meant to be non-interactive, as Calle pointed out. And on top of that they will create on-chain transactions just the same, bringing fee pressure and bloating the UTXO
Careful, Icarus
View highlight: Financial Repression and the March Toward Serfdom
The future of European financial sovereignty depends on individuals who refuse, quietly and relentlessly, to comply with their own impoverishment.
Financial Repression and the March Toward Serfdom
View highlight: MBS26: Why Muslims Must Embrace Nostr
what kind of human being the tech expects, and what kind of human being the tech produces.~ @npub1uzf...57h3
MBS26: Why Muslims Must Embrace Nostr
View highlight: The Abundance Cage
This, then, is the genuine counter-vision: not the passive receipt of government checks, which extinguishes the motivation to adapt and surrenders economic agency to the state; not the resentful rejection of technology, which is as futile as opposing the power saw; but the active deployment of powerful tools (AI, robotics, the entire apparatus of automated production) by individuals who own sound money, whose savings are protected across time, whose capital accumulates at the pace of their own discipline and not at the discretion of any central authority. In such a world, the arrival of a more powerful machine is not a threat to be compensated for. It is an inheritance to be claimed; another instrument added to the workshop of a free people who own their labour, own their money, and bow to no sovereign for the disposition of either.
The Abundance Cage
View highlight: Bitcoin Is Time
As soon as money goes digital, we have to agree on a definition of time, and herein lies the whole problem.
Bitcoin Is Time