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.

Politics

Central Planning is a Problem for Charities

Economy

Financial Repression and the March Toward Serfdom

Bitcoin

They Called Bitcoin a Bubble. The Real Bubble Was AI All Along.

Society

On Medieval Marriage

Nostr

Just calling it Open was not enough — so we built it

Specifications

Curated Publications

Economy

The Palantir World Order

Bitcoin

Careful, Icarus

Nostr

High Agency in the Agentic Era

Specifications

Highlights

View highlight: Bitcoin Is Time
We need a system for participants to agree on a single history
[...]. The solution we propose begins with a timestamp server.
—Satoshi Nakamoto (2009)
Bitcoin Is Time
View highlight: They Called Bitcoin a Bubble. The Real Bubble Was AI All Along.
The number that keeps repeating: most AI spend still cannot show a defendable return.

Not "might not." Cannot.
They Called Bitcoin a Bubble. The Real Bubble Was A…
View highlight: High Agency in the Agentic Era
It feels like drinking from multiple fire hoses that constantly change direction.
High Agency in the Agentic Era
View highlight: Private communications over public infrastructure
Private communications usually depend on encryption to protect message content. But encryption alone is not enough to make a communication system private. You may encrypt what you say, yet still expose who you are talking to, when you are talking, how often you are talking, where you are connecting from, and how large your messages are. A third party can still learn a lot. This is metadata leakage, and in many cases, it is enough to build a revealing picture of relationships and behavior between different parties without reading a single message. Metadata is not "just data." It is actionable intelligence.
Private communications over public infrastructure
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: Project Alexandria
We are making a big, beautiful library... and you are going to build it for us. Anyone, anywhere can therefore publish or republish any document they wish, with Nostr, and store it wherever they have a relay, and view it on any client willing to display it.
Project Alexandria