Building Fanfares.io. Nostr is the next layer of the internet. Bitcoin is what stands between us and financial self destruction.
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Last Notes npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat Do you want to extend the bitcoin issuance beyond 21m in order to fund the war? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat Don't leverage your bitcoin. If you use it as collateral, then you are giving up ownership of your bitcoin. In all markets, the price tends to go where it causes most pain for most people. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat GM npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat It is always darkest before the dawn 😉 npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat GM nostr npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat I live through the Brexit referendum with that man in charge of the bank of England and I can tell you that I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat That's what they said to another open source developer about 16 years ago npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat The Power of Open Source: Code That Can't Be Controlled The elimination of gatekeepers we explored in the previous chapter rests on a crucial foundation: open source code. Like all the sovereign tools it builds upon, Fanfares will be completely open source upon launch. Anyone can examine its code and verify how it works. This isn't just a development choice—it's an essential aspect of genuine digital sovereignty that ensures these systems truly give freedom to the users. When code is open source, it takes on properties similar to mathematical discoveries. Once a mathematical theorem is proven and published, it can't be unproven or controlled. Anyone can verify it, use it, or build upon it. The knowledge becomes permanently available to humanity. Similarly, open source code becomes part of our collective capabilities, impossible to suppress or control. This creates a stark contrast with traditional platforms. YouTube's algorithms remain secret—creators are not given visibility of the rules of how their content is promoted. Facebook's code stays proprietary—users can't examine how their data is used. Twitter's systems are closed—no one can verify how information flows. Spotify's payment calculations remain opaque—musicians can't audit their earnings. Fanfares works differently and that is largely due to the giant protocols on whose shoulder it stands. Bitcoin's code is completely public. Lightning Network implementations are open source. Nostr's protocol is transparent. The entire stack is verifiable, from the base monetary layer through to the user interface. There are no secret algorithms, no hidden mechanisms, no black boxes. Users don't have to trust the system—they can verify exactly how it works. This transparency creates something fundamentally different from previous attempts at digital freedom. Early social networks became controlled platforms. Initial peer-to-peer systems got shut down. Alternative currencies were stopped by regulators. Decentralized services were captured by companies. But you can't shut down open knowledge. You can't capture mathematical certainty. You can't control protocols that belong to everyone and no one. The open source nature of these tools creates several powerful properties that ensure their resistance to control: - No kill switch exists because anyone can run their own instance - No central control emerges because no one owns the protocols - Evolution continues unstoppably as anyone can improve the code - Perfect transparency prevails as all operations can be verified This creates fundamentally different incentives than traditional platforms. Value comes from solving real problems rather than capturing users. Success depends on actual utility rather than market control. Innovation focuses on fundamentals rather than lock-in. Competition happens through implementation rather than restriction. The ecosystem grows organically through its openness. Multiple clients can emerge. Different approaches can be tested. Users have genuine choice. No single point of failure exists. The system strengthens through diversity rather than consolidation. Consider how this plays out with Fanfares. Other teams can build compatible systems. Creators can switch between implementations. Communities can run their own instances. The core functionality can't be controlled or stopped. The system's value comes from its utility rather than artificial scarcity or network control. This makes these tools fundamentally resistant to the fate of previous digital freedom attempts. You can't shut down what anyone can run. You can't control what everyone can verify. You can't capture what inherently belongs to all. The open source nature of these tools ensures their permanent availability as human capabilities. The challenge isn't technical anymore. The code exists. The protocols work. The knowledge is public. The challenge is social: learning to build on these open foundations rather than trying to capture and control. We're creating something that can't be uncreated. Once people understand they can have money that can't be controlled, communication that can't be censored, and value exchange that can't be stopped, this knowledge can't be erased. Like the invention of writing or the discovery of electricity, these tools fundamentally expand what's possible for human society. And like those discoveries, once revealed, they cannot be unrevealed. The open source nature of these tools ensures that they become permanent additions to human capability rather than temporary innovations that can be captured or controlled. The future belongs to those who understand this permanence and build upon it rather than fighting it. The tools of sovereignty aren't just another technology trend—they're humanity's new baseline capabilities. They represent not just technological innovation, but permanent expansion of human possibility. The revolutionary aspect isn't just what these tools do—it's that they can't be stopped from doing it. 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Bitcoin rising! npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat GM Nostr npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat This one is must watch https://youtu.be/whAsxYKOfI4?si=nnXG9fo_46eEdhvO npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat JUST IN: Tether buys 8,888 Bitcoin worth $750 million in Q1 2025 👀 npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat Where is that? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat Crypto is in the process of dying. This cycle has completely failed to deliver an alt season. No alt coin has anything to match the utility of lightning and nostr. I personally believe that this what is holding the BTC price down. There is insanely bullish news happening for Bitcoin, but many that hold bitcoin also hold crypto and are not fully aware of the difference. As their total portfolios are failing to meet their expectations, they are exiting their bitcoin positions. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat GM Nostr npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat GM Nostr npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat GM Nostr npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat Satoshi gave us online money that we can own. @nprofile…wjy3 gave us online identities that we can own Soon we will have online content that we can own and sell copies of @nprofile…wm3s npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat GM Nostr The Paypal founder were trying to create something very much like bitcoin when they first started the company. They pivoted away from that, but that was what they believed in. Now that they have been instrumental in getting Trump to power and are actively participating the government, it seems that we are rebasing the dollar onto a Bitcoin standard. "The PayPal Wars" by Eric Jackson provides interesting insights into PayPal's early objectives and evolution. According to the book, PayPal didn't start with the mission we associate with it today. The company began as Confinity, founded by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek in 1998. Their initial product wasn't a payment service but rather software for secure transactions between Palm Pilot devices. Their early vision focused on creating encrypted software that would allow mobile devices to become "digital wallets." The pivotal shift came when they discovered that users were most interested in the email payment feature they had developed. The company quickly pivoted to focus on this capability, recognizing its massive potential. Their objective transformed into becoming the "new world currency" - they aimed to create a global currency system that could replace traditional banking and potentially even national currencies. Peter Thiel often described their mission as creating "the WeaponizationOfMoney.com" - a financial system that would give individuals sovereignty over their money and protect it from government control and inflation. This libertarian vision guided many of their early decisions. 14:36 Nick 402 baby! We are so close. The HTTP 402 "Payment Required" code was basically not used until bitcoin was a thing. It's exciting to be using it... just a nerd thing :) 18:16 npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat When Tesla moved the market by 17% by saying that they had bought 1.5bn of bitcoin the price was 44k. That is half of the price now and Gamestop has enough cash to buy three times as much in dollar terms. Gamestop are also planning to issue debt in a MSTR style in order to buy more. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat That essentially describes bitcoin. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat Perhaps the price is being controlled by an entity or a group that want to accumulate at lower prices? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat Bitcoin still has a finite supply. 🤔 npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat We are just waiting on the banks to get their ducks in a row then? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat GM Nostr News that Gamestop is going to invest their $4.6bn cash pile into bitcoin is insanely bullish for Bitcoin, but the price has not moved at all. This is just one of many bits of news that would have sent the price soaring in 2021. Does anyone have any thoughts on why this might be the case? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat This is just the beginning npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat The killer app is coming friends. Just be patient. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat https://m.primal.net/Psrr.jpg 📣 A new Bitcoin venue has been onboarded and we are going to celebrate with a meetup! Hi everyone! We are celebrating the onboarding of a new Asuncion bar to Bitcion on Saturday 29th March at 8pm at Rock and Roll, in Centro (map link below) 🍻🙌 This event is a complement to the usual monthly meetup. A more casual meetup and a chance drink beer and some very nice Welsh whisky with Bitcoiners from around the world and local bitcioners from Asunción! 😁🙌🍻 https://maps.app.goo.gl/YjgSZfii89Eq1Xda7 npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat Digital platforms have created consolidation of power created a new form of digital feudalism, with creators becoming peasants on platform-owned land. Nowhere is this dynamic more stark than in video content, where YouTube's dominance has created a system of near-total dependency. Just as medieval peasants had no real choice but to work the lord's land or starve, video creators must accept YouTube's terms or forfeit any hope of reaching a meaningful audience. The feudal parallels prove disturbingly precise. YouTube owns the digital land itself - the vast infrastructure required for video hosting and distribution. They control access to the marketplace of attention, determining which creators' work will be shown to audiences. Like medieval lords setting the terms of labor, they establish monetization rules and claim a significant portion of all revenue generated. Most crucially, they maintain the power of arbitrary eviction - account termination without warning or meaningful appeal. Other video platforms technically exist, much as medieval peasants could theoretically attempt to farm unclaimed wilderness. But in practice, YouTube's concentration of audience attention makes building a sustainable creative business elsewhere virtually impossible. The platform's algorithm becomes the new weather - a force that determines the harvest of views and income, yet remains mysterious and beyond creator control. Years spent cultivating an audience can vanish overnight through algorithmic shifts or policy changes. The platform's lordly powers extend into every aspect of creative work. They can insert advertisements into any content, modify how work appears to different audiences, expand or restrict distribution at will, change monetization terms without notice, block access entirely, and even share content with third parties. Creators, like feudal peasants, must simply accept these conditions or abandon their digital fields entirely. Each new policy update arrives like a lord's proclamation - to be obeyed without question or consultation. Each change forces creators to either comply or risk losing access to the audience they've spent years building. The platform's initial rights grab through terms of service enables perpetual control over creator behavior. This isn't just a metaphorical comparison - it's an accurate description of power dynamics in the modern digital economy. Just as feudal lords derived their power from controlling access to agricultural land, platforms maintain their dominance by controlling access to human attention. The tools and terms may be different, but the fundamental relationship between lord and peasant, platform and creator, remains disturbingly similar. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat What is wrong with the internet? https://v.nostr.build/DozCUCXRI5RPsJoa.mp4 npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat Legacy social media is an arms race of data collection. More data means better targeting. Better targeting means higher advertising rates. Higher rates mean more revenue. More revenue means better algorithms. The cycle feeds itself, driving ever more sophisticated systems for processing human attention into profit. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat That seems to be the assumption that most are making. It looks like they are moving to dollar denominated stable coins issued by banks. These coins will compete with each other on things like speed, cost of payment and sound backing. Those that are backed by bitcoin will be preferred. The more bitcoin they hold relative to the number of dollars they have issued, the better. As these various issuers buy more bitcoin to make their stable coin look more appealing, the bitcoin price goes up. Given that BTC is finite and the dollar coins they issue are unlimited, the price of BTC will eventually go up to the point where the value of the BTC held in reserve is equal to the dollars in issue. These dollar stable coins become de facto exchanges as anyone that wants part with their BTC can get newly issued dollars for the deposit. People will have the right to whatever currency they want. They can use BTC if the merchant accepts or any one of the dollar stable coins if they merchant accepts them. If there is one stable coin that is undercapitalised, then they might find that merchants refuse to accept them. The market will naturally shrink the supply of that one and so its BTC reserve ratio increases. The ETFs are in a perfect position to be stable coin issuers. npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat GM Nostr It looks to me like the USA government is moving onto a bitcoin standard. Anyone disagree? npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat Gm nostr We are so going to be in the 🍌🍌🍌 phase npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat "PCR104" nest is live! Come join 🤗 https://nostrnests.com/naddr1qqjrxveevcukzwpj94jxxvry956r2vfj94sn2dp395mxvwf4xq6kzd3sxs6n2qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctczypdsrqatdslry2l56swxkwh0nptz59zgg7m5n92rwf792wdpz3truqcyqqq8vecwgkuae npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 ShortFiat The bitcoin price is currently doing a reverse Wile E. 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