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I just tested building a browser plugin, it was easier than I thought. Here I'll walk you through the steps of creating a minimal working example of a browser plugin, a.k.a. the "Hello World" of browser plugins.

First of all there are two main browser platforms out there, Chromium and Mozilla. They do some things a little differently, but similar enough that we can build a plugin that works on both. This plugin will work in both, I'll describe the firefox version, but the chromium version is very similar.

What is a browser plugin?

Simply put, a browser plugin is a program that runs in the browser. It can do things like modify the content of a webpage, or add new functionality to the browser. It's a way to extend the browser with custom functionality. Common examples are ad blockers, password managers, and video downloaders.

In technical terms, they are plugins that can insert html-css-js into your browser experience.

How to build a browser plugin

Step 0: Basics

You'll need a computer, a text editor and a browser. For testing and development I personally think that the firefox developer edition is the easiest to work with. But any Chrome based browser will also do.

Create a working directory on your computer, name it anything you like. I'll call mine hello-world-browser-plugin. Open the directory and create a file called manifest.json. This is the most important file of your plugin, and it must be named exactly right.

Step 1: manifest.json

After creation open your file manifest.json in your text editor and paste the following code:

json { "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Hello World", "version": "1.0", "description": "A simple 'Hello World' browser extension", "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["<all_urls>"], "js": ["hello.js"] //The name of your script file. // "css": ["hello.css"] //The name of your css file. } ] }

If you wonder what the json file format is, it's a normal text file with a special syntax such that a computer can easily read it. It's the json syntax you see in the code above. Let's go through what's being said here. (If you are not interested, just skip to the next step after pasting this we are done here.)

• manifest_version: This is the version of the manifest file format. It's currently at version 3, and it's the latest version. It's important that you set this to 3, otherwise your plugin won't work.
• name: This is the name of your plugin. It can be anything you like.
• version: This is the version of your plugin. It can be anything you like.
• description: This is the description of your plugin. It can be anything you like.
• content_scripts: This is where you define what your plugin does. It's a list of scripts that will be executed when the browser loads a webpage. In this case we have one script, called hello.js. It's the script that we'll create in the next step.
• matches: This is a list of urls that the script will be executed on. In this case we have <all_urls>, which means that the script will be executed on all urls. You can also specify a specific url, like https://brave.com/*, which means that the script will only be executed on urls that start with https://brave.com/.
• js: This is a list of javascript files that will be executed. In this case we have one file, called hello.js. It's the script that we'll create in the next step.
• css: This is where you can add a list of css files that will be executed. In this case we have none, but you can add css files here if you want to.
• //: Text following these two characters are comments. They are ignored by the computer, You can add comments anywhere you like, and they are a good way to document your code.

Step 2: hello.js

Now it's time to create another file in your project folder. This time we'll call it hello.js. When created, open it in your text editor and paste the following code:

js console.log("Hello World!"); That's javascript code, and it's what will be executed when you run your plugin. It's a simple console.log statement, which will print the text "Hello World!" to the console. The console is a place where the browser prints out messages, and it's a good place to start when debugging your plugin.

Step 3: Load and launch your plugin

Firefox

Now it's time to load your plugin into your browser. Open your browser and go to the url about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox. You should see a page that looks something like this:

Click the button that says "Load Temporary Add-on...". A file dialog will open, navigate to your project folder and select the file manifest.json. Your plugin should now be loaded and running.

Go to a website, any website, and open the inspector then navigate to the console. You'll find the inspector by right-clicking anywhere within the webpage, and click "Inspector" in the drop-down menu. When opening the console you might see some log messages from the site you visited and... you should see the text "Hello World!" printed there, from our little plugin! Congratulations!

Chrome

Open your browser and go to the url chrome://extensions/. Click the button that says "Load unpacked". A file dialog will open, navigate to your project folder and select the folder hello-world-browser-plugin. Your plugin should now be loaded and running.

Note the difference, of selecting the file manifest.json in firefox, and selecting the folder hello-world-browser-plugin in chrome. Otherwise, the process is the same. So I'll repeat the same text as above: (for those who skipped ahead..)

Go to a website, any website, and open the inspector then navigate to the console. You'll find the inspector by right-clicking anywhere within the webpage, and click "Inspector" in the drop-down menu. When opening the console you might see some log messages from the site you visited and... you should see the text "Hello World!" printed there, from our little plugin! Congratulations!

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As you can see this isn't as complicated as one might think. Having preformed a "Hello-World!"-project is a very useful and valuable first step. These setup steps are the basics for any browser plugin, and you can build on this to create more advanced plugins.

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Hello, fellow Nostrich!

Nostr is a brand new phenomenon and there are a few steps that will make your onboarding much smoother and your experience much richer.

👋 Welcome

Since you are reading this, it’s safe to assume that you already joined Nostr by downloading an app (e.g. Damus, Amethyst, Plebstr) for your mobile device or opening a Nostr web client (e.g. snort.social, Nostrgram, Iris). It is important for a newcomer to follow the steps suggested by the app of your choice – the welcoming procedure provides all the basics, and you won’t have to do much more tuning unless you really want to. If you’ve stumbled upon this post, but don’t have a Nostr “account” yet, you can follow this simple step-by-step guide by nostr:npub1cly0v30agkcfq40mdsndzjrn0tt76ykaan0q6ny80wy034qedpjsqwamhz.

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🤙 Have fun

Nostr is built to ensure people can connect, get heard, and have fun along the way. This is the whole point (obviously, there is a plethora of serious use cases, such as being a tool for freedom fighters and whistleblowers, but that deserves a separate article), so if you feel like anything feels burdensome, please reach out to the more experienced nostriches and we will be happy to help. Interacting with Nostr is not hard at all, but it has a few peculiarities when compared to traditional platforms, so it’s ok (and encouraged) to ask questions.

Here’s an unofficial list of Nostr ambassadors who will be happy to help you get onboard:

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All the nostriches on the list were also awarded a Nostr Ambassador badge that will make it easy for you to find, verify and follow them

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⚡️ Enable Zaps

Zaps are one of the first differences one may notice after joining Nostr. They allow Nostr users to instantly send value and support creation of useful and fun content. This is possible thanks to Bitcoin and Lightning Network. These decentralized payment protocols let you instantly send some sats (the smallest unit on the Bitcoin network) just as easily as liking someone’s post on traditional social media platforms. We call this model Value-4-Value and you can find more about this ultimate monetization model here: https://dergigi.com/value/

Check out this note by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 that is a great intro to what zaps are.

You should enable Zaps even if you do not consider yourself a content creator – people will find some of your notes valuable and might want to send you some sats. The easiest way to start receiving value on Nostr onley takes a couple steps:

1. Download Wallet of Satoshi - probably the best choice for those who are new to Bitcoin and Lightning for your mobile device.[^1] Note that there are many more wallets and you are welcome to choose the one that suits you best. Also, don't forget to come back and back up your wallet.
2. Tap “Receive”
3. Tap the Lightning Address you see on the screen (the string which looks like an email address) to copy it to the clipboard.
4. Paste the copied address into the corresponding field in your Nostr client (the field may say “Bitcoin Lightning Address”, “LN Address” or anything along those lines depending on the app you are using).

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📫 Get a Nostr address

Nostr address, often referred to as a “NIP-05 identifier” by the Nostr OGs, looks like an email and:

🔍 Helps you make your account easy to discover and share
✔️ Serves as a verification you are a human

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Here's an example of a Nostr address: Tony@nostr.21ideas.org It's easy to memorize and later paste into any Nostr app to find the corresponding user.

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To get a Nostr address you can use a free service like Nostr Check (by nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624) or a paid one like Nostr Plebs (by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424). Both offer different perks, and it's up to you to decide which one to use. Another way of getting a Nostr address is using a browser extension. Find out more about this approach here) .

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🙇‍♀️ Learn the basics

Under the hood Nostr is very different from traditional social platforms, so getting a basic understanding of what it is about will be beneficial for any newcomer. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting you should learn a programming language or technical details of the protocol. I’m implying that seeing a bigger picture and understanding the difference between Nostr and Twitter / Medium / Reddit will help a lot. For example, there are no passwords and logins, you have private and public keys instead. I won’t go deep into that, ‘cause there is a handful of exhaustive resources that will help you grokk Nostr. All of the ones worthy your attention are gathered on this neatly organized landing page prepared by nostr:npub12gu8c6uee3p243gez6cgk76362admlqe72aq3kp2fppjsjwmm7eqj9fle6 with 💜

Info provided by the mentioned resources will also help you secure your Nostr keys (i.e. your account), so it’s important to have a look.

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🤝 Connect

Ability to connect with brilliant [^3] people is what makes Nostr special. Here everyone can get heard and no one can get excluded. There are a few simple ways to find interesting people on Nostr:

• Find people you follow on Twitter: https://www.nostr.directory/ is a great tool for that.
• Follow people followed by people you trust: Visit a profile of a person who shares your interests, check the list of people they follow and connect with them.

• Visit Global Feed: Every Nostr client (a Nostr app, if you will) has a tab that lets you switch to the Global Feed, which aggregates all the notes from all Nostr users. Simply follow people you find interesting (be patient though – you might run into a decent amount of spam).

• Use #hashtags: Hashtags are a great way to concentrate on the topics you like. Simply tap on a #hashtag you find interesting and you’ll see more notes related to the topic. You can also search for hashtags in the app you are using. Do not forget to use hashtags when composing notes to increase discoverability.

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🗺️ Explore

The mentioned 5 steps are a great start that will massively improve your experience, but there’s so much more to discover and enjoy! Nostr is not a Twitter replacement, its possibilities are only limited by imagination.

Have a look at the list of fun and useful Nostr projects:

• https://nostrapps.com/ a list of Nostr apps
• https://nostrplebs.com/ – get your NIP-05 and other Nostr perks (paid)
• https://nostrcheck.me/ – Nostr address, media uploads, relay
• https://nostr.build/ – upload and manage media (and more)
• https://nostr.band/ – Nostr network and user info
• https://zaplife.lol/ – zapping stats
• https://nostrit.com/ – schedule notes
• https://nostrnests.com/ – Twitter Spaces 2.0
• https://nostryfied.online/ - back up your Nostr info
• https://www.wavman.app/ - Nostr music player

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📻 Relays

After getting acquainted with Nostr make sure to check out my quick guide on Nostr relays: https://lnshort.it/nostr-relays. It’s not the topic to worry about at the very beginning of your journey, but is definitely important to dive into later on.

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📱 Nostr on mobile

Smooth Nostr experience on mobile devices is feasible. This guide will help you seamlessly log in, post, zap, and more within Nostr web applications on your smartphone: https://lnshort.it/nostr-mobile

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Thanks for reading and see you on the other side of the rabbit hole.

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[^1]: Do not forget

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What I always liked about twitter was that it was never one place. You had all these sub-communities, yes, but the open nature of it allowed for wild interactions and the breaking of bubbles.

It was public square, dive bar, office water cooler, nightclub, and philosophy department all rolled into one. And you never knew who you were dealing with, and when those various "places" would interact.

My approach to twitter was always to never take things too seriously, and that's my approach for #nostr still. There is wisdom to "it's just a tweet bro" and I still believe that the secret to life is to send it, whether it be note, tweet, or in general.

Because you never know who you're dealing with, a great strategy is to assume that the other person is fourteen, or drunk, or really high, or senile, or all of the above. You wouldn't be mad if a stoned 14yr old would say something stupid to your face, so why be mad online?

I hope that we can rebuild what twitter used to be and what it was supposed to be, and transcend it. I believe that we're halfway there already. Given enough time and attention, I'm confident that we'll manage to build what so many on #nostr dream and hope for.

Zaps are already transcendent in that sense. As are cryptographic identities. Putting the user in control (as opposed to platforms) will be key to all of it, and I'm beyond excited to what is coming down the line with DVMs and even more exotic things.

The responsibility is on us to build it right, and to educate users as well as encourage them to take matters in their own hands. Nothing in life is free, not even freedom. We'll have to fight for it, and we'll have to take responsibility for ourselves and our actions.

Much needs to be built, much education needs to be done, much rektucation still needs to happen. But I remain optimistic, because the building blocks are there. Bitcoin works. Lightning works. Nostr works. Not perfectly, but it works.

I can't wait to see where we'll be in 5 years from now. It's wild to see where we are already. This is happening, and it's all happening because of you guys: focusing on the good that freedom tech can bring, pouring your time, money, effort, and attention into it.

I'm very grateful for that and to be part of it all. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I've said it before and I'll say it again: the future is bright, we just have a lot of building to do.

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Re-posting it here as long-form because threads on nostr still kinda suck, unfortunately.

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Building a Community

Bluesky has successfully built a thriving community on its initial test server, complete with its own norms, culture, and even inside jokes like "sexy alf." Far from being just a test server, it has become an entity of its own, boasting a community of 600,000 users.

Facing Conflict

However, not everything has been smooth sailing. The server has also been a battleground for significant conflicts. A fundamental difference exists between those who advocate for an open, decentralized protocol and those who prefer a more actively managed social space. This gap between the driving vision of the project and the evolving values of its community has led to tensions within the Bluesky team.

Addressing the Challenge

The merits of both a federated social media protocol and a rigorous stance on policing bigotry are clear, but these two goals are not entirely compatible. What if they didn't need to be? The current Bluesky server could continue to operate as a standalone entity with updated software, while the company also launches the atproto network using the same software.

Accommodating Users

Users could then choose whether to stay on the existing server or use key migration technology to move their accounts to another server that is part of the open network. This would enable users to maintain the same identity across both platforms, offering them a choice in their user experience.

Managing Speech

On a fully open, decentralized social media protocol, managing speech the way many early Bluesky adopters would like is challenging. Although you can block or mute undesirable users and content, you can't entirely prevent them from using the protocol. This underscores the inherent tension between what early adopters want and the open-source, open-protocol direction the company is taking.

Examples of Exclusivity

Case in point: some fediverse servers either don't federate at all or only do so on a very limited basis, like certain Japanese servers. This shows that exclusivity is possible, and the current server, with its 600,000 users, could continue as its own standalone entity.

Empowering Users

What if the current server were handed over to its users for management? Bluesky the company would continue to develop software that could be used both for this specific instance and for the larger network. Digital democracy tools could be employed to allow users to vote and select a management team responsible for both technical and trust and safety issues. This would provide the community a direct voice in shaping their online environment.

Funding the Transition

Operating Bluesky isn't without costs, so funding is crucial. Potential sources could include Bluesky LLC, crowdfunding, or foundation donations. Once operational, the community could explore sustainable business models to continue financing trust and safety measures.

Conclusion

This proposal aligns with Bluesky's original vision of empowering communities to manage themselves. By giving control of the current server to its users and continuing to develop software that can be used both by this standalone instance and the larger network, we can create diverse digital spaces that meet the needs of all users while maintaining the vision of an open social media protocol.

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The annals of photography history are dotted with names that have profoundly transformed both the medium and the way we perceive our surroundings. Foremost among these luminaries is Garry Winogrand, whose legacy endures as one of the most defining exponents of street photography. But what underpins his style, and what renders his work perennially iconic?

Nurturing Influences and Pedagogy

Before delving into Winogrand's aesthetic realm, it's crucial to comprehend the milieu that nourished his vision. Educated in the wisdom of Alexey Brodovitch and drawing from the legacies of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and significantly, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Winogrand nurtured a distinctive approach to photography. While Cartier-Bresson championed the notion of "The Decisive Moment", Winogrand immersed himself deeper in immediacy, spontaneity, and sheer authenticity.

The Aesthetics of Turbulence and Daily Life

What is notably salient in Winogrand's oeuvre is his abdication of traditionally "pretty" aesthetics. He reveled instead in the tumult, chaos, and freneticism of daily life. His snapshots, often taken in haste and with a tilted horizon, convey a tangible energy, thrusting the viewer into the heart of the action. This skewed horizon, though disorienting to some, is a hallmark that lends dynamism and challenges convention.

His choice of apparatus—a Leica M4 paired with a prefocused wide-angle lens—speaks to his intent to seize fleeting moments, those that dissipate as swiftly as they manifest. He was not ensnared by technical perfection but was ensorcelled by raw emotion and underlying narrative.

A Panoramic View of North America

Winogrand's craft is essentially a tapestry of North America during the 60s and 70s. Much like Robert Frank before him, Winogrand encapsulated the essence, contradictions, and complexities of a transitioning nation. Beyond mere documentation, he pondered the role of mass media in sculpting perceptions and attitudes.

Immediacy as the Essence

Much of Winogrand's allure lies in his ability to be profoundly present. His "shoot from the hip" style, paired with his astute anticipatory prowess, ensures his photographs resonate with a refreshing authenticity, even decades on.

Moreover, his ventures, whether "The Animals" or "The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo", aren't mere assortments of images. They are profound commentaries on society and the human state, testimonials to his ability to peer beyond the veneer and unearth profound significance in the mundane.

In Summation

Winogrand's adage, "I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs," encapsulates his philosophy toward the art form. He wasn’t endeavoring to craft a reality but to uncover how that reality unveils itself through the lens.

Garry Winogrand, with his renunciation of traditional perfection and his ardor for spontaneity, reshapes our understanding of what it means to be a photographer. His legacy serves as a poignant reminder that beauty often emerges from the unlikeliest of places, and authenticity invariably eclipses contrivance.

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Hello, fellow Nostrich!

Nostr is a brand new phenomenon and there are a few steps that will make your onboarding much smoother and your experience much richer.

👋 Welcome

Since you are reading this, it’s safe to assume that you already joined Nostr by downloading an app (e.g. Damus, Amethyst, Plebstr) for your mobile device or opening a Nostr web client (e.g. snort.social, Nostrgram, Iris). It is important for a newcomer to follow the steps suggested by the app of your choice – the welcoming procedure provides all the basics, and you won’t have to do much more tuning unless you really want to. If you’ve stumbled upon this post, but don’t have a Nostr “account” yet, you can follow this simple step-by-step guide by nostr:npub1cly0v30agkcfq40mdsndzjrn0tt76ykaan0q6ny80wy034qedpjsqwamhz.

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🤙 Have fun

Nostr is built to ensure people can connect, get heard, and have fun along the way. This is the whole point (obviously, there is a plethora of serious use cases, such as being a tool for freedom fighters and whistleblowers, but that deserves a separate article), so if you feel like anything feels burdensome, please reach out to the more experienced nostriches and we will be happy to help. Interacting with Nostr is not hard at all, but it has a few peculiarities when compared to traditional platforms, so it’s ok (and encouraged) to ask questions.

Here’s an unofficial list of Nostr ambassadors who will be happy to help you get onboard:

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All the nostriches on the list were also awarded a Nostr Ambassador badge that will make it easy for you to find, verify and follow them

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⚡️ Enable Zaps

Zaps are one of the first differences one may notice after joining Nostr. They allow Nostr users to instantly send value and support creation of useful and fun content. This is possible thanks to Bitcoin and Lightning Network. These decentralized payment protocols let you instantly send some sats (the smallest unit on the Bitcoin network) just as easily as liking someone’s post on traditional social media platforms. We call this model Value-4-Value and you can find more about this ultimate monetization model here: https://dergigi.com/value/

Check out this note by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 that is a great intro to what zaps are.

You should enable Zaps even if you do not consider yourself a content creator – people will find some of your notes valuable and might want to send you some sats. The easiest way to start receiving value on Nostr onley takes a couple steps:

1. Download Wallet of Satoshi - probably the best choice for those who are new to Bitcoin and Lightning for your mobile device.[^1] Note that there are many more wallets and you are welcome to choose the one that suits you best. Also, don't forget to come back and back up your wallet.
2. Tap “Receive”
3. Tap the Lightning Address you see on the screen (the string which looks like an email address) to copy it to the clipboard.
4. Paste the copied address into the corresponding field in your Nostr client (the field may say “Bitcoin Lightning Address”, “LN Address” or anything along those lines depending on the app you are using).

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📫 Get a Nostr address

Nostr address, often referred to as a “NIP-05 identifier” by the Nostr OGs, looks like an email and:

🔍 Helps you make your account easy to discover and share
✔️ Serves as a verification you are a human

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Here's an example of a Nostr address: Tony@nostr.21ideas.org It's easy to memorize and later paste into any Nostr app to find the corresponding user.

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To get a Nostr address you can use a free service like Nostr Check (by nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624) or a paid one like Nostr Plebs (by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424). Both offer different perks, and it's up to you to decide which one to use. Another way of getting a Nostr address is using a browser extension. Find out more about this approach here) .

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🙇‍♀️ Learn the basics

Under the hood Nostr is very different from traditional social platforms, so getting a basic understanding of what it is about will be beneficial for any newcomer. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting you should learn a programming language or technical details of the protocol. I’m implying that seeing a bigger picture and understanding the difference between Nostr and Twitter / Medium / Reddit will help a lot. For example, there are no passwords and logins, you have private and public keys instead. I won’t go deep into that, ‘cause there is a handful of exhaustive resources that will help you grokk Nostr. All of the ones worthy your attention are gathered on this neatly organized landing page prepared by nostr:npub12gu8c6uee3p243gez6cgk76362admlqe72aq3kp2fppjsjwmm7eqj9fle6 with 💜

Info provided by the mentioned resources will also help you secure your Nostr keys (i.e. your account), so it’s important to have a look.

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🤝 Connect

Ability to connect with brilliant [^3] people is what makes Nostr special. Here everyone can get heard and no one can get excluded. There are a few simple ways to find interesting people on Nostr:

• Find people you follow on Twitter: https://www.nostr.directory/ is a great tool for that.
• Follow people followed by people you trust: Visit a profile of a person who shares your interests, check the list of people they follow and connect with them.

• Visit Global Feed: Every Nostr client (a Nostr app, if you will) has a tab that lets you switch to the Global Feed, which aggregates all the notes from all Nostr users. Simply follow people you find interesting (be patient though – you might run into a decent amount of spam).

• Use #hashtags: Hashtags are a great way to concentrate on the topics you like. Simply tap on a #hashtag you find interesting and you’ll see more notes related to the topic. You can also search for hashtags in the app you are using. Do not forget to use hashtags when composing notes to increase discoverability.

https://nostr.build/i/0df18c4a9b38f1d9dcb49a5df3e552963156927632458390a9393d6fee286631.jpg Screenshot of https://nostrgraph.net/ dashboard by nostr:npub1ktw5qzt7f5ztrft0kwm9lsw34tef9xknplvy936ddzuepp6yf9dsjrmrvj

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🗺️ Explore

The mentioned 5 steps are a great start that will massively improve your experience, but there’s so much more to discover and enjoy! Nostr is not a Twitter replacement, its possibilities are only limited by imagination.

Have a look at the list of fun and useful Nostr projects:

• https://nostrapps.com/ a list of Nostr apps
• https://nostrplebs.com/ – get your NIP-05 and other Nostr perks (paid)
• https://nostrcheck.me/ – Nostr address, media uploads, relay
• https://nostr.build/ – upload and manage media (and more)
• https://nostr.band/ – Nostr network and user info
• https://zaplife.lol/ – zapping stats
• https://nostrit.com/ – schedule notes
• https://nostrnests.com/ – Twitter Spaces 2.0
• https://nostryfied.online/ - back up your Nostr info
• https://www.wavman.app/ - Nostr music player

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📻 Relays

After getting acquainted with Nostr make sure to check out my quick guide on Nostr relays: https://lnshort.it/nostr-relays. It’s not the topic to worry about at the very beginning of your journey, but is definitely important to dive into later on.

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📱 Nostr on mobile

Smooth Nostr experience on mobile devices is feasible. This guide will help you seamlessly log in, post, zap, and more within Nostr web applications on your smartphone: https://lnshort.it/nostr-mobile

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Thanks for reading and see you on the other side of the rabbit hole.

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[^1]: Do not forget

@ 00000001:a21169a7

Reportage and opinion photography is a complex and multifaceted art form that encompasses a broad range of approaches and styles. It can be understood as a statement or a suggestion, an interpretation of the world around us through the lens of a camera.

If we consider that any photograph is a selected and parcelled snapshot of the photographable universe, then it's reasonable to think of photography as a mirror, a reflection of ourselves in relation to the world around us. The captured image can reveal as much about the photographed subject as it does about the photographer, unveiling their perceptions and feelings about reality.

Within documentary photography, there are two predominant ways of selecting what will be photographed, two attitudes that reflect different world views. The first is the "decisive statement," where the photographer clearly points out certain moments considered decisive for their interpretation of the facts. This attitude focuses on significant moments and events, selected for their relevance and their potential to convey an opinion about life.

The second attitude is one of "suggestion" or insinuation. Here, the photographer leans towards moments and situations that seem inconsequential, with the intention of conveying to the viewer a suggestion rather than a clear statement of reality. Rather than highlighting decisive moments, this approach seeks to capture the essence of everyday life, the details that often go unnoticed but can reveal much about human nature and the world in which we live.

Robert Frank, The Americans.

A notable example of this approach is Robert Frank, who in the 1950s distinguished himself by rejecting the concept of the decisive moment in reportage. Frank criticized Cartier Bresson, claiming that the latter was more interested in formal beauty and composition than in the true emotional impact. Frank defended the idea that any moment could be decisive, a revolutionary idea that contradicted the traditional notion of the decisive moment.

Cartier-Bresson

Authors who practice the reportage of suggestion focus on inconsequential and non-central moments of a situation. Their choice of what to capture and how to do it differs significantly from those photographers who seek the decisive moment. Instead of focusing on the main events of a story, these photographers give prominence to scenes and moments that others might discard due to their apparent argumentative banality and formal inconsistency.

These photographers often seek an existential experience rather than an audience. They are not interested in popular acceptance, but in exploring and understanding their own experience of life. Many of them photographed from "within," using their own biography as raw material for their images.

The use of artifacts, such as grain, blur, moving images, use of poor cameras, disjointed frames, etc., not only does not pose a problem, but is sometimes desired. These artifacts function as poetic imprints on the image, suggesting that if life can be confusing, it can also be represented that way. Nan Goldin

Some contemporary photographers who follow this approach include Nan Goldin, Corinne Day, and Natacha Merritt. Like their predecessors, these photographers explore personal and private topics with relentless honesty, bringing taboo topics to light and seeking themselves through photography. Although their approach is personal, their ultimate goal is to capture universal feelings of love, friendship, pain, and sadness. Their work stands in opposition to traditional journalistic reportage, offering a unique and deeply personal vision of life.

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سلام، دوست ناستریچ من!

ناستر یک پدیده جدید است و چند گام برای آسان تر کردن ورود به آن و غنی تر کردن تجربه آن هست.

👋 خوش آمدید

از آنجا که دارید این متن را می خوانید پس احتمالا پیش از این با بارگیری یک اپ موبایل (مثلا داموس، اماتیست یا پلبستر) یا باز کردن یک کلاینت وب ناستر (مثلا اسنورت سوشال، ناسترگرام یا آیریس) به آن پیوسته اید. مهم است که تازه واردین گام های پیشنهادی اپ مورد نظر را پیروی کنند - مراحل آغازین تمام اطلاعات پایه را ارائه می کنند، لازم تنظیمات خاصی انجام دهید مگر آنکه تمایل داشته باشید. اگر به این یادداشت برخورده اید و هنوز "حساب کاربری" ناستر ندارید، میتوانید از این راهنمای گام به گام تهیه شده توسط nostr:npub1cly0v30agkcfq40mdsndzjrn0tt76ykaan0q6ny80wy034qedpjsqwamhz پیروی کنید.

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🤙 خوش بگذره

ناستر ساخته شده تا مردم بتوانند وصل شوند، شنیده شوند، و خوش بگذرانند. هدف کلی همین است (مسلما کاربردهای جدی زیادی از جمله ابزار آزادی بیان برای مبارزان راه آزادی و افشاگران هم وجود دارد اما این بخش درخور یک مقاله جدا است)، پس اگر احساس می کنید چیزی مشکل است به هریک از ناستریچ های با سابقه مراجعه کنید و ماخوشحال می شویم که کمک کنیم. تعامل با ناستر اصلا سخت نیست، ولی در مقایسه با پلتفرم های سنتی کمی پیچیدگی دارد، پس پرسیدن سؤال کاملا طبیعی است (و توصیه می شود).

لیست غیررسمی از سفیران ناستر که با کمال میل کمک می کنند تا در ناستر جا بیفتید:

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به همه ناستریچ های این لیست نشان سفیر ناستر داده شده تا یافتن و دنبال کردن آنان آسان تر باشد

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⚡️ روشن کردن زپ

زپ یکی از تفاوت هایی است که ممکن است پس از پیوستن به ناستر متوجه آن شده باشید. زپ به کاربران امکان می دهد تا با ارسال ارزش بی درنگ، از تولید محتوی مفید و جالب حمایت کنند. این امکان از طریق بیتکوین و شبکه لایتنینگ فراهم شده است. این پروتکل های پرداخت به شما امکان می دهند که به‌طور آنی مقداری ساتوشی (کوچکترین واحد شبکه بیتکوین) بفرستید، درست به راحتی لایک کردن پست کسی در پلتفرم های سنتی رسانه اجتماعی. ما به این مدل می گوییم ارزش-برای-ارزش و می توانید درباره این مدل عالی کسب درامد اینجا بیشتر بخوانید: https://dergigi.com/value/

این یادداشت tr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 که زپ را به خوبی معرفی کرده است را نیز ببینید.

بهتر است زپ را فعال کنید حتی اگر خود را تولید کننده محتوی به شمار نمی آورید - مردم احتمالا برخی یادداشت های شما را ارزشمند خواهند یافت و می خواهند مقداری ساتوشی به شما بفرستند. آسان ترین راه دریافت ارزش در ناستر فقط در چند مرحله است:

1. کیف پول ساتوشی را بارگیری کنید - احتمالا برای کسانی که در بیتکوین و لایتنینگ تازه‌کار هستند بهترین انتخاب مناسب دستگاه موبایل است. توجه کنید که کیف پول های بسیاری وجود دارند و می توانید از هر کدام که می پسندید استفاده کنید. ضمنا، فراموش نکنید که برگردید و از کیف پول خود بکاپ بگیرید.
2. "دریافت" را بزنید
3. روی آدرس لایتنینگی (رشته ای که شبیه آدرس ایمیل است) که در صفحه می بینید بزنید تا در کلیپبورد کپی شود.
4. آدرس کپی شده را در جای مربوطه در کلاینت ناستر وارد کنید. (همان جایی که می گوید "آدرس لایتنینگ بیتکوین"، "آدرسLN" یا عباراتی مشابه این).

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📫 یک آدرس ناستر بگیرید

آدرس ناستر، که اغلب به آن "شناسه " می گویند، شبیه آدرس ایمیل است:

🔍 کمک می کند حساب کاربریتان به راحتی شناخته و به اشتراک گذاشته شود
✔️ به عنوان تایید کاربر انسانی عمل می کند

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مثالی از آدرس ناستر: Tony@nostr.21ideas.org _ این برای به یاد سپاری و سپس وارد کردن در اپ ناستر جهت یافتن کاربر مورد نظر آسانتر است._

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برای دریافت آدرس ناستر می توانید از خدمات پولی مثل ناسترچک (ارائه شده توسط nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624) یا خدمات رایگان مانند ناسترپلبز ارائه شده توسط (nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424) استفاده کنید. هر دو مزایای خود را دارند و انتخاب هریک به تصمیم شما بستگی دارد. راه دیگر دریافت آدرس ناستر استفاده از افزونه مرورگر است. در این باره اینجا بیشتر یاد بگیرید.

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🙇‍♀️ یادگیری مقدمات

در پشت صحنه، ناستر با پلتفرم های اجتماعی سنتی بسیار متفاوت است، بنابر این درک مقدماتی از اینکه ناستر چگونه کار می کند برای تازه واردان مفید است. اشتباه نکنید، من نمی گویم باید یک زبان برنامه نویسی یا جزئیات فنی پروتکل را یاد بگیرید. منظور من این است که داشتن دید کلی تر و درک تفاوت بین ناستر با توییتر/مدیوم/ریدیت بسیار کمک خواهد کرد. برای مثال، هیچ گذرواژه و ورود به حسابی وجود ندارد، به جای آن شما کلیدهای خصوصی عمومی دارید. من وارد جزئیات نمی شوم زیرا منابع مفصلی برای درک کامل ناستر وجود دارند. تمام منابع قابل توجه در این صفحه راه‌اندازی توسط nostr:npub12gu8c6uee3p243gez6cgk76362admlqe72aq3kp2fppjsjwmm7eqj9fle6 با 💜 به دقت گردآوری شده اند.

اطلاعاتی که در منابع یاد شده موجود است به امن نگه داشتن کلیدها یا به عبارتی حساب کاربری تان هم کمک می کنند، پس مهم است که نگاهی به آن ها بیندازید.

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🤝 اتصال

امکان اتصال به افراد بااستعداد[^3] ناستر را خاص کرده است. اینجا همه می توانند شنیده شوند و نمی توان کسی را اخراج کرد. چند راه ساده برای یافتن افراد جالب در ناستر وجود دارد:

• برای یافتن کسانی که در توییتر دنبال می کنید:https://www.nostr.directory/ ابزاری عالی است.
• برای دنبال کردن افرادی که معتمدین شما دنبال می کنند: نمایه کسی را که با او علایق مشترک دارید ببینید، و لیست کسانی را که او دنبال می کند بررسی کرده و با آن ها ارتباط بگیرید.

• خبرنامه عمومی را ببینید: تمام کلاینت های ناستر (اپ ناستر به بیان دیگر) سربرگی دارند که خبرنامه عمومی یا همگانی را نمایش می دهد، که تمام یادداشت ها را از همه کاربران ناستر نشان می دهند. یا اینکه کسانی را به نظرتان جالب می آیند دنبال کنید (البته باید شکیبا باشید زیرا ممکن است به مقداری مطالب اسپم بربخورید).

• از #هشتگ استفاده کنید: هشتگ ها روشی عالی برای تمرکز روی مطالب مورد علاقه هستند. به سادگی روی یک #هشتگ بزنید و یادداشت های بیشتری در ارتباط با موضوع خواهید دید. و نیز می توانید هشتگ ها را در اپی که استفاده می کنید جستجو کنید. فراموش نکنید هنگام نوشتن یادداشت از هشتگ استفاده کنید تا احتمال دیده شدن آن را بیشتر کنید.

https://nostr.build/i/0df18c4a9b38f1d9dcb49a5df3e552963156927632458390a9393d6fee286631.jpg تصویری از داشبورد https://nostrgraph.net/ ساخت nostr:npub1ktw5qzt7f5ztrft0kwm9lsw34tef9xknplvy936ddzuepp6yf9dsjrmrvj

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🗺️ کاوش

پنج گامی که برشمرده شد شروع عالی برای بهبود تجربه شما در ناستر است، اما هنوز امکانات بیشتری برای یافتن و لذت بردن هست! ناستر صرفا جایگزین توییتر نیست، بلکه امکانات آن نامحدود است.

نگاهی به چند پروژه جالب و مفید ناستر بیاندازید:

• https://nostrapps.com لیستی از اپ های ناستر
• https://nostrplebs.com/ – NIP-05 و سایر مزایای ناستر را بگیرید (پولی)
• https://nostrcheck.me/ – آدرس ناستر، بارگذاری رسانه، رله
• https://nostr.build/ – بارگذاری و مدیریت رسانه و بیشتر
• https://nostr.band/ – اطلاعات شبکه ناستر و کاربران
• https://zaplife.lol/ –آمار زپ ها
• https://nostrit.com/ – یادداشت زمانبندی شده
• https://nostrnests.com/ – مشابه اسپیس توییتر
• https://nostryfied.online/ - بکاپ اطلاعات ناستر شما
• https://www.wavman.app/ - پخش کننده موسیقی ناستر

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📻 رله ها

پس از آشنایی با ناستر حتما به راهنمایی که درباره رله های ناستر نوشته ام سربزنید: https://lnshort.it/nostr-relays. البته این موضوعی نیست که در ابتدای راه فکر شما را مشغول کند، ولی برای مطالعات بعدی مهم است.

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📱 ناستر در موبایل

تجربه خوشایند ناستر در دستگاه موبایل نیز ممکن است. این راهنما کمک می کند بدون هیچ مشکلی به اپلیکیشن های ناستر در گوشی هوشمند خود وارد شوید، یادداشت ارسال کنید، زپ بزنید، و غیره: https://lnshort.it/nostr-mobile

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ممنون که خواندید و شما را در سرزمین ناستر می بینم.

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• スペイン語：nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624
• オランダ語：nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub1equrmqway3qxw3dkssymusxkwgwrqypfgeqx0lx9pgjam7gnj4ysaqhkj6
• アラビア語：nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub1nje4ghpkjsxe5thcd4gdt3agl2usxyxv3xxyx39ul3xgytl5009q87l02j
• ドイツ語：nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub1eseajvcuqgk6dy98zndje76hcd485zwmhjx4ztgnw4yruq68lhxq45cqvg
• ロシア語：nostr:naddr1qqxnzd3cxg6nyvehxgurxdfkqyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgunfvd5zumrpdejqzxthwden5te0wp6hyctkd9jxztnwdaehgu3wd3skueqpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezu6twdaehgcfwvd3sz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ekkjmr0w5hxcmmvqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszenhwden5te0ve5kcar9wghxummnw3ezuamfdejj7mnsw43rzvrpwaaxkmn2vu6hydtvv94xuu34xv6rxwrwv33hj6ned3nhzumjdee8guf4vae8xdpex4mrgvn3vvmxzamndg6r27tnxulkyun0v9jxxctnws7hgun4v5q3vamnwvaz7tmzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctvqyd8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtn0wfskuem9wp5kcmpwv3jhvqg6waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3e8qmr9vfejucm0d5q3camnwvaz7tm4de5hvetjwdjjumn0wd68y6trdqhxcctwvsq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd46hg6tw09mkzmrvv46zucm0d5q32amnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skueqprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yct5dyhxxmmdqgs87hptfey2p607ef36g6cnekuzfz05qgpe34s2ypc2j6x24qvdwhgrqsqqqa286qva9x by nostr:npub10awzknjg5r5lajnr53438ndcyjylgqsrnrtq5grs495v42qc6awsj45ys7

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こんにちは、親愛なるノストリッチさん！

Nostrは全く新しいムーブメントです。はじめの一歩をよりスムーズに、より豊かにするためのいくつかの手順をご紹介しましょう。

👋 ようこそ

これを読んでいるあなたは、すでにモバイルアプリをダウンロードしてNostrに参加しているはずです (例：Damus, Amethyst, Plebstr)。もしくは以下のウェブクライアントかもしれません (例：snort.social, Nostrgram, Iris)。初心者の方であれば、選んだアプリに合った手順に従うことが重要です。ただし、最低限必要な手順はどのアプリにおいても基本は同じですので、ベーシック以上のことを知る必要はありません（もちろん、知りたければトライしてみましょう）。もしあなたが、この記事を偶然見つけて、まだNostr【アカウント】を取得していない場合は、以下のリンクをご覧ください：いちばん簡単なステップリスト by nostr:npub1cly0v30agkcfq40mdsndzjrn0tt76ykaan0q6ny80wy034qedpjsqwamhz.

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🤙 楽しもう

Nostrは、人々が確実につながれ、意見を聞いてもらえ、そして、その過程を楽しむことができるように設計されています。これが重要なのです（もちろん、自由の戦士や内部告発者のためのツールであるなど、深刻な使用例もたくさんありますが、それは別の記事で書くことにしましょう）。ですから、何か難しい感じることがあれば、経験豊富なノストリッチたちに声をかけてください。私たちは歓迎します。Nostrでの交流は決して難しいものではありませんが、従来のプラットフォームと比べるといくつか特殊な点があります（でも何も心配することはありません）。

非公式 Nostrアンバサダーリストはこちら：

nostr:naddr1qqg5ummnw3ezqstdvfshxumpv3hhyuczypl4c26wfzswnlk2vwjxky7dhqjgnaqzqwvdvz3qwz5k3j4grrt46qcyqqq82vgwv96yu

リストに掲載されたすべてのノストリッチには、Nostrアンバサダー バッジが授与されていますので、簡単に彼らを見つけることができ、また、フォローすることができます。

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⚡️ ザップしよう

Zap（ザップ）は、Nostrに参加したら最初に気づく違いの1つです。ザップはNostrユーザーが即座に価値を送ることを可能にし、便利で楽しいコンテンツの作成をサポートします。これはビットコインとライトニングネットワークによって実現しました。これらの分散型決済プロトコルにより、従来のソーシャルメディアプラットフォームで誰かの投稿に「いいね！」をするのと同じくらい簡単に、satoshi / sats（ビットコインネットワークの最小単位）を即座に送ることができます。私たちはこのモデルをValue-4-Value（バリューフォーバリュー）と呼んでいて、この究極のマネタイズモデルについての詳細は以下をご覧ください：https://dergigi.com/value/

おすすめ記事 by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 では【ザップとは何か？】詳しく書かれてます。

あなたがコンテンツクリエイターでないとしても、ザップを有効にすべきです - 人々はあなたの投稿のいくつかに価値を見いだし、あなたにsatoshiを送りたいと思うかもしれません。Nostrで価値を受け取る最も簡単な方法は、以下の2ステップです：

1. Wallet of Satoshiをダウンロードする - ビットコインとライトニングを、スマホで初めて使うなら、おそらくベストチョイスのはずです[^1] なお、他にもたくさんのウォレットがありますので、ご自分に合ったものをお選びください。また、ウォレットはバックアップを必ずお忘れなく。
2. 【Receive / 受信】をタップする。
3. 画面に表示されているライトニングアドレス（メールアドレスのように見える文字列）をタップして、クリップボードにコピーします。
4. コピーしたアドレスをNostrクライアント内にある、対応箇所に貼り付けます（対応箇所には【Bitcoin Lightning Address / ビットコイン・ライトニングアドレス】や、【LN Address / LNアドレス】などのような記載があり、使用しているアプリによって異なります）。

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📫 Nostrアドレスを取得しよう

Nostrのアドレスは、Nostrの諸先輩たちによってしばしば【NIP-05 identifier / NIP-05識別子】と呼ばれているもので、電子メールのように見え：

🔍 アカウントの発見と共有を簡単にします ✔️ あなたが人間であることの証明に役立ちます

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以下がNostrのアドレスの例です：Tony@nostr.21ideas.org Nostrアドレスがあれば、どのNostrアプリであろうが、対応するユーザーを簡単に見つけることができます。

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Nostrアドレスを取得するには、次のような無料サービスを利用できますNostr Check (by nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624) または有料サービスですがNostr Plebs (by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424) もおすすめです。どちらも異なる特典を提供していて、どちらを選ぶかはあなた次第です。また、Nostrアドレスを取得するもう1つの方法は、ブラウザの拡張機能を活用することです。この方法の詳細はこちらをご覧ください。

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🙇‍♀️ 基本を知ろう

Nostrは、従来のソーシャル・プラットフォームとは大きく異なるため、基本的なことを理解しておくことは、あなたのような新しいユーザーにとって有益です。誤解しないでほしいのは、プログラミング言語やプロトコルの技術的な詳細を学べと言っているのではありません。私が言いたいのは、NostrとTwitter / Medium / Redditの違いを理解し、より大きな視野を持つことはとてもためになるということです。例えば、パスワードやログイン機能はなく、代わりに秘密鍵と公開鍵が使われています。でも、難しくはありません。Nostrを理解するのに役立つ膨大なリソースがありますのでご安心を。このきちんと整理されたランディングページ by nostr:npub12gu8c6uee3p243gez6cgk76362admlqe72aq3kp2fppjsjwmm7eqj9fle6 には、💜とともにあなたが知るべきすべての情報が載っています。

これらのリソースが提供する情報は、あなたのNostrキー（つまりあなたのアカウント）を保護するのにも役立ちます。

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🤝 つながろう

優秀な [^3] 人たちとつながる能力こそが、Nostrを特別なものにしています。ここでは誰もが話を聞いてもらうことができ、誰も排除されることはありません。Nostrで面白い人を見つける簡単な方法はいくつかあります：

• ツイッターでフォローしている人を探す：https://www.nostr.directory/はそのための素晴らしいツールです。
• 信頼できる人がフォローしている人をフォローする：同じ興味を持つ人のプロフィールを見て、その人がフォローしている人のリストをチェックし、その人とつながろう。

• グローバルフィードを見てみる：すべてのNostrクライアント（Nostrアプリ）には、すべてのNostrユーザーの投稿を集約したグローバルフィードに切り替えるタブがあります。興味のある人をただフォローしてみましょう（我慢してください - グローバルフィードでは大量のスパムを見ることになるかもしれません）。

• ハッシュタグ # を活用しよう：ハッシュタグは好きなトピックに集中するのに最適な方法です。気になる # ハッシュタグをタップするだけで、そのトピックに関連する投稿がさらに表示されます。また、使っているアプリでハッシュタグを検索することもできます。発見力を高めるために、あなたが投稿する際も、ハッシュタグを使うことをお忘れなく。

https://nostr.build/i/0df18c4a9b38f1d9dcb49a5df3e552963156927632458390a9393d6fee286631.jpg スクリーンショット https://nostrgraph.net/ ダッシュボード by nostr:npub1ktw5qzt7f5ztrft0kwm9lsw34tef9xknplvy936ddzuepp6yf9dsjrmrvj

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🗺️ 探検しよう

ご紹介した5つのステップは、あなたの経験を大幅に向上させる素晴らしいスタートになったはずです。ですが、もっと新しい発見をサポートし、楽しむためのさらに多くのツールがあります！NostrはTwitterの代用品ではなく、その可能性は無限大です。

楽しくて便利なNostrプロジェクト・リストをご覧ください：

• https://nostrapps.com/ Nostrアプリ・リスト
• https://nostrplebs.com/ – NIP-05の取得とその他のNostr特典 (有料)
• https://nostrcheck.me/ – Nostrアドレス、メディアアップロード、リレー
• https://nostr.build/ – メディアアップロード管理 (などなど)
• https://nostr.band/ – Nostrネットワークとユーザー情報
• https://zaplife.lol/ – ザップ統計
• https://nostrit.com/ – 予約投稿
• https://nostrnests.com/ – Twitterスペース 2.0
• https://nostryfied.online/ - Nostr投稿のバックアップ
• https://www.wavman.app/ - Nostrミュージックプレイヤー

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📻 リレー

Nostrに慣れたら、Nostrリレーに関するクイックガイドをぜひご覧ください：https://lnshort.it/nostr-relays 最初のうちは特に心配するようなテーマではありませんが、あとになればなるほど、間違いなく重要なテーマとなります。

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📱 モバイル版Nostr

スマホでも、スムーズなNostr体験ができます。このガイドでは、スマートフォンでNostrウェブアプリケーションにシームレスにログイン、投稿、ザップなどを行う方法を説明します：https://lnshort.it/nostr-mobile

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読んでくれてありがとう、そしてラビットホールの向こう側でお会いしましょう

nostr:npub10awzknjg5r5lajnr53438ndcyjylgqsrnrtq5grs495v42qc6awsj45ys7

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[^1]： 忘れずにチェックしよう

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June 2018. Shanghai.

Cruising down the Shanghai East-West Expressway, riding shotgun in my friend’s BMW M3. The car is silly Americana. Captain America decals adorn the exterior, while the interior is Iron Man red and gold. Several large stuffed animals crowd the back seat — Peppa Pig, Winnie the Pooh (both inexplicable, irreverent quasi anti-government memes in China). All the while, Black Panther and Darth Vader bobbleheads nod along atop the dashboard. For many in China, and Shanghai particularly, personal vehicles are the medium for coded expressions that would be too garish or sensitive if made more publicly.

https://i.nostrimg.com/f29c7dde5549edc1eed5a5223a60b40605bd1c622b6bab747b13a5b7fa598d44/file.jpeg (Pictured: The ideal yuppie bachelor car in Shanghai. You may not like it but this is what peak achievement looks like.)

Outside a hazy, spring night fog colors the city like something out of a Simon Stålenhag painting. The neon-lit Bladerunner tetris set of Shanghai office complexes blurs by just beyond the tinted glass as we cut lanes at speed. Kids See Ghosts blasts loudly on the sound system. We hit the Julu Road (巨鹿路) junction, where the city’s two main expressways meet in a loping tangle of concrete and asphalt. And like clockwork, all connections go out — cell, bluetooth, radio — the car goes silent.

This always happens at this spot. I ask my friend about this. He thinks the police are running a high-end signal jammer at this location to prevent people from flying drones over the junction - which he learned at the cost of one of his own high-end DJI models...Perhaps triggered by the state’s technical show of force, a serious change comes over him for a moment. He glances over, "It's all bullshit, you know," pointing up to the dark sky beyond the windshield, "They have to keep the lights on. They have to convince us that the control everything. If they fail, we will just eat them." “Let the ducks roast,” he says to himself after a contemplative pause, his eyes trailing off into the far distance.

But moment passes quickly. A few moments after we pass through the junction, all signals and service reappear, stronger than before. Kid Cudi’s blaring “I feel freeeeeeeeeeeeee” bursts onto the car’s speakers at full volume. Political talk ceases and the entire thing immediately becomes a long forgotten memory.

In any case, it’s Friday. The bars are open, the clubs are calling, and we’re coming in HOT. That’s what matters. Today was a good day in Shanghai.

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An Introduction to Life On Mars

Where to start? Folks in the US who have only known me as a bitcoiner often ask, “But how could you live in China?” I always chuckle at this question. Not least because its usually almost visibility dipping with the asker's absurd and exaggerated fantasies about China as a cartoonish 1984-style brutalist dystopia. That said, it is a question that I have given much thought to myself, especially now as a bitcoiner with all the many ways bitcoin has changed my views on things.

And this brings me to a series of far deeper questions — What is authoritarianism, really? Can it ever be benevolent? And how does one become attenuated to it to such an extent as to no longer notice it, if they ever noticed it at all?

https://i.nostrimg.com/2182fd6d38b9eeee65d0400b2659a5be500508cb6ccec34717d2e0a2e19ae878/file.jpeg (What people picture when they ask me about China)

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The best way to explore this is to just answer the very first question directly. I very much could live in China because it was RAAAD. I had a great time there and I enjoyed almost every minute of it. In many entirely non-dystopian ways being there was like living in the future or a vision of what it might be like if we (the US) hadn’t forgotten how to have nice things — High-speed rail available at every street corner! Bristling skyscrapers erected in mere days! Wifi bandwidth so cheap and abundant it jumps right out of the stream straight into your frying pan! Gold nuggets for everyone! Everything, now with 30% MORE BEEF!

The thing is, my life in China was good. At that time, the cold, collectivist CCP machinery was fully invested in delivering a jubilee of comforts and diversions to even the relative urban “haves.” Additionally, I came to China as a very well educated, very well paid American with an existing foundation in Mandarin, shuttled in under the wide auspices of a deeply connected global consulting firm. With such well-earned badges of globalist statism, I was afforded a ticket to freely mingle with China’s largely Western-educated, upwardly-mobile urban economic elite. In fact, this was a thing that was rather encouraged…

All this being the case, it is no surprise that I had such a “good” experience. It was always supposed to be that way. Irrespective of the deeper reality, nothing was ever actually supposed to feel authoritarian for me during my time in China. These conditions similarly held true for my particular class of Chinese friends (except that there were certain cultural obligations and political allegiances that it was understood could be called up in full at any moments’ notice).

As an African American, I must admit that in more than a few ways it was possible for me to feel much freer in China than in the United States. I certainly didn’t ever have to worry about being shot in the back by some speed-freak neighborhood watchman or unhinged police officer. And I slowly adjusted to not having to keep my head on a swivel if I heard loud popping sounds in a mall or crowded venue.

No, the Chinese police never bothered me. No, no shadowy state security agents ever interrogated me for my “suspicious” Americanism. No, women didn’t clutch their purse when I walked by (in the States I’ve had this happen midday, while I was wearing full business attire…). People were either ambivalent or genuinely curious to speak with me. In essence, I experienced the joys of simply being left alone by the system. Something like what I image most White Americans experience in the US. So reader, you might already know this, but I can confirm, it was GREAT!

https://i.nostrimg.com/cbdee50436016ab0554830b97b07c72510305752efce8ce6b28c42d7bb5dd1e1/file.jpeg (NGL, China had me out here feeling like this for a hot minute)

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Super-Capitalism Is That You?

And beyond my direct personal experience, there were other observations that may seem counterintuitive. For instance, at street level, there was a kind of vivacious, raw free market-ism unlike anything you can find in the West. An ever changing flurry of ramshackle stalls and street vendors. Don’t like the sweet cherries this shop has or the owner has a bad attitude? Then leave! There’s literally 7 other sellers of the same thing on this block alone. And it was like that for most food and daily household consumer products. I could observe market price discovery for goods fluctuating daily, in real-time, sometimes even by the hour.

When I lived above a particularly boisterous commercial street I once saw someone lease a storefront for six days, fill it with heavy traditional Chinese household furniture which I was told “had gotten lost from the factory.” They blew through the inventory starting with signs advertising 20% off on day one, which progressed to 95% off in their final 12 hours of operation. They sold everything so thoroughly that I suspect they probably even sold some stuff that didn’t belong to them like the fixtures that were already in the space when they moved in.

And then, not even two weeks later, 11 days later, the exact same location was reopened as a hotpot restaurant — everything, and I mean everything, had been redone, the floors, the walls, the installation of restaurant equipment, everything. The food was delicious, but I struggled to believe that the health or fire safety inspector had approved any of it, nor that they had real permits for anything they were doing.

Were there laws and regulations on the books ostensibly to control such wildcat commercial activity? Sure, but 天高皇帝远 heaven is high and the emperor is far away, as they say. Now understand that, at street level at least, this was happening everywhere across a city of 26 million people, and then again everywhere across a country of 1.4 billion people.

https://i.nostrimg.com/bf516da1ba165f3a4d1a0694345980e43516d381b002b4e81aac49d7fdae8b6f/file.jpg (Chinese street vendors: a nigh uncontrollable wild force)

By all indications, both felt and seen, people appeared to be fully free to do business and make money while wading in the warm waters of technological modernity. Perhaps they didn’t talk about politics, but that hardly seemed to matter and no one really seemed to care.

It was easy for me to come away feeling that China was a nation of laws rather than enforcement. Maoist austerity might be signaled outwardly but inside its an open, high-octane laissez-faire free-for-all. Conversely, my own cultural history in the US suggested a place of enforcement over law. Signaling egalitarian and meritocratic piety but running on an engine of apartheid justice system, state asset forfeiture, imminent domain, and mass poisoning from Iran-Contra to Seed Oils and OxyContin.

Irrespective of the deeper reality, nothing was ever actually supposed to feel authoritarian for me during my time in China.

So what of it then? Am I here to suggest that China is some Garden of Earthly Delights while Western ideals are a brazen sham? Not so, not so. Rather, my experience brings the realization that in an authoritarian system, it all depends on who you are. And further, that such divisions are central to the maintenance of authoritarian power. I find deep relevance in this, particularly in enabling us to more fully recognize authoritarianism wherever it exists — in China, in the US, or anywhere else. Let me share another story to illustrate.

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September 2018. Xinjiang Provence.

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Kashgar, Xinjiang Province. Dust and white heat. I am on a corporate boondoggle in the desert. A plus-one at a rival consulting firm’s Greater China Summit. Like Neo-liberal Wise Men, we galavant around on silk-laden camel-back, we visit the Potemkin village to congratulate ourselves on how well the local ethnics are living, we enjoy a Khan’s Kurultai of exotic roasted meats, red carpets in the sands, Oxbridge 30-under-30 Bedouins on the dunes — you could all but see the Harkonnen spice harvesters out in the distance…

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And the whole time, we are all participating in a collective act of not-seeing the obvious police state all around us. Heavy roll gates, tire spikes, ID checks, mirrored undercarriage sweeps, and vehicle searches for the locals at every nexus of critical infrastructure — gas stations, hospitals, hotels, shopping centers. High-tech police convoys, armed foot patrols, and absurdities like bamboo-thin teenage paramilitary security guards in loose-fitting fatigues and fake Yeezys disinterestedly half-watching the public square while scrolling TikTok (called Douyin 抖音 there) on counterfeit iPhones behind their riot shields.

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Out on the sands, I overhear a firm partner, a Westerner, marveling at the scale of the event wondering at what location could outdo this next year. I interject to suggest Pyongyang. He is not amused, but I certainly am. Later, just when I’m thinking I might be the only one noticing any of this, a tall Indian firm partner, a man built like rugby player, sensing that I was a company outsider (and therefor could potentially give honest answers) asks me what I think of “all of this” in a tone that immediately betrays his meaning.

“In China, I assume that wherever you can most see and feel the hand, is wherever the grip is also most tenuous,” I say. He nods in furrowed-browed approval and we leave it at that. A few months later, perhaps, the New York Times would chronicle this wild corporate exhibitionism in an absolute tear-down piece deeply critical of that firm’s (and all consulting firms) aiding and abetting of authoritarian regimes around the world...

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In any case, the lamb roast is firing up and the evening’s next round of festivities are about begin. That’s what matters. Today was a good day in Kashgar

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⚠️TRADE OFFER⚠️

This is how the machine works. Nothing is free. There was a near explicit trade being made. Those of us from the favored classes would ignore overhanded oppression of the disfavored out-groups and the sharper appendages of machine would ignore us in return.

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Nestled snuggly in the pleasure garden of this CCP-approved social, economic, and educational elitism, wealthy Chinese and visiting Western globalists are supposed to come away believing that what others decry as harsh authoritarianism is in fact, quite benevolent, benign, enjoyable even. From there, it requires only the tiniest of logical jumps for them to assume that their experience is most representative of the greater whole in China, because surely this must be so, right?

From such a vantage then, it becomes all befuddled monocle popping, trembly-handed tea spilling, and frazzled, indigent top-hat ruffling while looking out on any dissenting and oppressed people and wondering “Why are they so loud?”

Incentivized by the plush velour “benefits of membership” in Chinese statism, it is easy to come to view protesting voices, those struggling for justice and freedom, as dunce-hat complainers, salty haters, red-faced and tear-strewn Wojaks, or simply spiteful, back-bitting losers whose problems with the system would evaporate in short order if they just learned to follow the rules, better themselves, and fix their aberrant cultures...

And well done then! This is what the authoritarian system wants, fundamentally NEEDS— to estrange you, through a compromise of comforts, from moral rightness and to replace that with the false rightness of naked self-interest on one hand, and the threat to absolute violence on the other. O, what machines we have made!

In China, those close enough to the system to experience it as a warm embrace rather than an icy dagger are supposed to understand that it is the Uyghurs struggling against mass detention and cultural erasure who are in the wrong. Similarly, for those thusly appointed in the US, it is supposed to be all but self-evident that the same goes for African Americans struggling against mass incarceration and open-air summary executions by uniformed agents of the state.

To the authoritarian all such trouble-making peoples need to be corralled, controlled, and if required, crushed — but in the short run, they need your help to do it. It will always be done in the name of some manner of “social harmony” their doublespeak for the ossification of the status quo and the authoritarian’s power along with it.

In this world, the in-group, the favored classes, whoever they may be, by whatever lines such distinctions are drawn — class, race, sex, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation — are led to believe they are safe as the authoritarian’s well-loved and much needed allies. But in the end, in the long run, it is the biggest rugpull of all. In such a system, all are Santiago’s sheep, to be meat for the slaughter in times of need.

So how does it feel, Western Anon? What people does our system eat to ensure that you may be comfortably overfed?

And so we become attenuated to such things in so much as we are benefiting from them. Or least, we believe that we are benefiting from them. In our age of the hungry ghost nation-state, it is so very easy to look past the true nature of the thing, or even to buy into it and to project it, when it is not YOU being targeted.

But understand. This is no benevolence. That you are not being targeted — for now, today — is an active, calculated, and entirely self-interested decision on the part of the authoritarian power structure. It is nothing that can be counted on. And whether you realize it or not, it is a decision that is reassessed at every interaction. If nothing else, the pandemic has shown us all this in the starkest relief.

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If you are allowed to persist in a state where you may believe that all is well, that the thing is benevolent and here to help you, it is only because it is more useful to the animal for you to remain asleep. Understand this, and ask your self — why?

And what is authoritarianism then? Fundamentally, I’ve come to understand authoritarianism as something like the grand political end-point of force. The might-equals-right heuristic at civilization scale. It is the ever-present implicit threat that going against some Big Man’s arbitrary diktat will result in violence, be its physical, economic, social or otherwise, being levied against you to bring you to heel. It is that mindless power which flows from the barrel of a gun…when you have the gun and others do not. It is the system of rulers unbounded from rules.

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What We Must Fight

As bitcoiners, this is what we fight. In all its forms, wherever it exists. We must recognize that ALL authoritarian systems and their operators, irrespective of any apparent, surface level ideological conflicts, are in fact like brothers, arms interlocked, in the maintenance of global authoritarianism itself. The principle struggle of the new century is the people against their own governments the world over, rather than the peoples of one nation or group against those of another nation or group. Though do not put it past our current political helmsmen (and women!) to try to steer us all in that dismal direction as a means for distraction that serves their self-preservation.

Bitcoin provides a potentially very powerful tool to the people in this epochal struggle. Bitcoin enshrines a new self-evident and inalienable right — the right of every individual to be an economic actor on a fair monetary protocol. At scale, this moderates the state’s capacity to perpetrate financial violence against both the individual and the collective. With bitcoin, no one is illegal. The protocol imposes no requirements and demands no allegiances, all may transact freely, always.

Value, once obtained in bitcoin, if held securely, cannot be seized. Nor can it be stolen through the occult dark arts of currency debasement. With bitcoin the individual is empowered — able to passively opt out of a predatory financial system, able to move their wealth across borders without restriction, able to actively resist an unjust government free from the threat of total definancialization — and all are welcome.

But bitcoin is just a tool, and just one of many. Fundamentally, the people are the movement and the movement is the change. We must never forget this. We must be both active and steadfast in building the futures we want to live in. Bitcoin is just a tool, but if we use it, perhaps we can one day have freedom — without anyone's authoritarian "characteristics" this time, but perhaps still with 30% more beef.

~Moon

As always thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed! In case you missed them, be sure to check out Journey Into Bitcoin 01, 02, and 03. Always more to come soon!

Follow me on twitter: Michaelyouknow

Postscript

In the spirit of inter/multi-disciplinary bitconery, here are a few top notch recommendations that to me are related to elements in this piece.

Music: Something In The Way of Things (In Town), The Roots; Bulls on Parade, Rage Against the Machine; Who Will Survive in America, Kanye West

Movies: Four Hours in My Lai (1989)

Readings: City of Silence, Ma Boyang; Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret, The New Yorker

Use The Tools

Liberate your education:

libgen.is — Most books today exist on the internet, for free

Archive Today — Information wants to be free. Too much of it today sits behind absurdly extractive paywalls. (Bitcoin lightning payments can resolve this for both content users and producers)

Liberate you food: The Beef Initiative — Trade real, honest money for real, honest food

Liberate your security: DEFCAD— May you never need them but always know what tools are there

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October 2013. New York City.

Visiting. I am shopping downtown and my card is declined. I try it again. DECLINED. I find an ATM around the corner. DECLINED. I call the bank’s fraud department. They say they can’t help me. I find the nearest branch. They say they can’t help me.

Puzzled, I think hard — I had just deposited a sizable check (signing bonus from the consulting firm that would be my post-MBA employer) into my account…could this be the issue? I hop on the subway for the long slog up to Morningside Heights, to return to the branch where I made the deposit the day before. Arriving at the branch, where yesterday they happily received my check, I am now greeted with suspicion and hostility.

“Thank you for your loyalty and congratulations on your new job” was replaced with an interrogation by the branch Asst. Mgr. — “Why did you have the check?,” “ How did you get the check?,” “Who gave you the check?…” After about 20 minutes of this, they tell me that my check is“bad.” And because of this, the money will not deposited and my account will be frozen until further notice. No further explanation is given. My protests are ignored.

At 5pm, the Asst. Mgr. goes on her 1-hour “lunch break” and I’m told that the branch manager, who I can see playing on in his phone through the glass walls of his office, is “in very important meetings” for the rest of the day. The branch closes at 6pm.

I am forced to leave, dejected and confused, the situation wholly unresolved. I have traveled cross-country to New York City to deposit my signing bonus only to find myself stranded in the Metropolis, completely cut off from my finances, and all but directly accused of check fraud by my bank.

Thank goodness I was raised to I always travel with a bit cash…

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Gatekeeping Is An Act Of Love

I did not have a term for it then, other than perhaps wacky-mustache cartoon villainy on the part of the bank. However, I now understand that what I experienced in that moment in 2013 was definancialization.

The bank, being the omnipotent gatekeeper standing between me and my money, decided to demonstrate that it was not, actually, my money. Rather, insomuch as it was in their custody, it was their money that they just let me believe was mine for the sake of some vague social convenience.

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Without an iota of exaggeration, this bank had, literally, a direct record of every single relevant financial datapoint on my person. I am certain that there was no better body of data indicating the near statistical impossibility of me attempting check fraud than the bank’s own customer file on me — a 3LA case file couldn't have done better...

Further, this being the location serving the Columbia University community, customers showing up with large checks from marque consulting firms was undoubtedly both commonplace and frequent. And yet, for reasons unknown, I was interrogated and had my account frozen, including money completely unrelated to the check deposit. To this day, as far as I can tell, this was all because someone, somewhere inside the bank decided that they didn’t believe that I could or should have a check of such as amount from such a company.

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Things were ultimately resolved the next day. But only after I showed up at opening and sat outside of the branch manager’s office for several hours. Once it was clear that I wasn't going anywhere they finally, begrudgingly decided to take a second look at my situation.

It was around the same time that an inexplicable attitudinal reversal swept though the branch and it was back to all smiles and “Thank you for your loyalty…” My account was unfrozen. They even fast tracked the entire check amount into my account, on a Friday afternoon no less — something they previously said would take 7+ business days. It was all just damage control.

I assume this was because they got internal word back that my check, was, in fact, real — making their little interrogation game woefully unnecessary, if not outright discriminatory. And because a cursory glance at my customer file suggested that I might be just the type of person with the professional reach and savvy to pursue some type of legal/media action in response. Simply put, it now behooved them to play nice.

During this entire saga, it was their schizophrenic whiplashing of behaviors that I found most bizarre and offensive. They were the Judge, Jury, and Enforcer over my finances. They had the latitude to behave with impunity — and they knew it. There was, of course, never any recognition from that bank that something objectively wrong, deeply strange, or even just wildly inconvenient had happened. I was simply left to wonder, “Why?”

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A Slow Burning Thing

Understandably, the experience left me with a deep mistrust of banks that was both specific and personal — as opposed to the general African American cultural-historical mistrust, or the popular, populist Occupy/99%/MAGA zeitgeist mistrust of the day — though it certainly helped with both of those too.

Stranded in the metropolis, completely cut off from my primary finances — all but directly accused of check fraud by my bank.

I felt that I was completely trapped. The most I could do was change banks, simply swapping one capricious Bridge Troll for another. I saw no alternatives, and so I believed there were none.

Instead, this experience marked the opening act of what I now look back on as a long, headfirst slide into financial nihilism. At the time, I was operating under the naive and Talented 10th and elitist belief that my education and corporate credentials would shield me for these kinds of “misunderstandings.” Not so, not so.

With this illusion shattered, my shock and anger manifested as a period of high-octane, consumerist mania. If access to my money rested on the benevolent grace of the bank, I was better off converting it into things that could not be so easily taken or withheld — clothes, meals, travel, experiences, collectables,— and so I did. I spent money just to prove that I could — as though it would somehow cause harm to the vain gods of retail banking who had wronged me.

https://i.nostrimg.com/787fe778cad4e400129745ed907db57a328ba8e8da2ec32b693284264acf6fbe/file.webp (BEHOLD! Blowing several thousand dollars on clothes to prove that “no one could tell me what to do with MY money!” That said, I was FLY AF at business school that Fall...)

My desire to save in the banking system took a massive hit. Over time, this morphed into lazy ambivalence, if not total disregard, for the habit altogether. Rather than extinguishing debts, or building up savings, I would go on to burn through the entirety of my bonus and almost all of my excess income during my years in consulting with absolute gusto.

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Widening the scope, there were certainly other contributing factors to the chaotic state of my finances in the years that followed — gambling, chief among them (but those are stories to be explored later). Regardless, this was a pivotal moment in hardening a destructive “IDGAF” / “nothing matters” approach to personal cash management that would stay with me for a long time.

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Missing Bitcoin

Reflecting back, this was easily my biggest “bitcoin miss” — a situation where present bitcoiners imagine how fabulously wealthy we might be if we had just understood bitcoin back then. Bitcoin certainly did exist in October 2013. In fact, it was sitting around 200 USD per coin and would hit 1000 USD a month later.

But alas, I had not even heard about bitcoin yet. And even if I had, my reaction to my bank’s malfeasance probably would have been aping into bitcoin on Mt Gox only to be obliterated by an even more devastating loss when that exchange collapsed in February of 2014. Truly, I shudder to think what that might have done to my psyche at the time.

So I “missed” bitcoin and my financial disillusionment would continue on. And It wasn’t just the situation with the bank, it was everything. Even long after I had shaken off my initial rage at being temporarily unbanked, I still chose not save. Though I couldn’t fully articulate it, I felt the act of saving to be pointless in the face of the ever-ascending price tags of the trappings of “responsible” Boomerist adulthood.

Homeownership, a “respectable” (re: large and expensive) wedding ceremony, and the cost of raising even one child through to college all seemed laughable financial fantasies to me — even if, on my earnings, this should not have necessarily been the case. Once I had accepted these things as impossible, my mind made them real…

And while there are plenty of criticisms that can be lobbed my way — after all, my personal financial mismanagement during this time was just that, personal— the recognition of personal responsibility does not erase the truth about the regressive behavioral incentives that our present distorted money system imposes on people.

Such is the nature of financial nihilism — why should I sacrifice to save or plan for things that I did not believe were achievable? I could see myself living the carefree, mobile, and high-cashflow consulting lifestyle perpetually in the now but I could not see how even that would afford any type of stable, rooted future afterwards. In that state, living high on the hog, nestled snuggly in rented comforts, was the end unto itself.

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How's Your Trading Going, King?

For many American Millennials, adult life has been an endless mad scramble to surf the Kali Yuga as the world careens from one mind-melting and testicle/ovary-shattering calamity to the next. 9/11, Byzantine wars in the desert, financial collapse, The Great Recession, global pandemic—each of these events obliterating whatever meager economic gains we might have made in the interim.

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And, of course, the answer to each of these “once in a century” events has been to create ever more money to keep the music going. In parallel, every cash-rich Boomer with two brain cells, a generous pension, and the assurance of comfortable social security has raced to the exits to get out of dollars and into stocks and real-estate. Layer on an explosion of loose credit and a self-referential flywheel emerges — and it becomes easy, convenient actually, to believe that these two asset classes “alway go up.”

Such has been the experience of Millennials, Gen Z, and anyone counting themselves in the dwindling middle class — from 2002–2022 median home price has increased from 182,000 USD to over 450,000 USD, while median salary has only increased from 42,000 USD to 54,000 USD during the same period. Being the people, who as a group, command the lowest income and own the least homes or corporate equities, we have been forced to sit by, watching in numb, glass-eyed stupor as this asset inflation — and now just regular ol’ price inflation — rockets ever-skywards.

For those lacking the excess capital for property and stock investments, this dynamic is a regressive tax that favors immediate consumption to maximize declining purchasing power over savings, resulting in extreme financial fragility. And for those fortunate enough to afford significant investments, they are still incentivized to chase evermore speculative investments (which are often just toxic malinvestments themselves) and/or to join an increasingly parasitic rentier class just to beat inflation.

This is how FOMOing into objectively absurd “stonks” like Peloton or Zoom gets to be hailed as “making your money work for you!” How extractive landlordism (i.e. allocating newly created money to yourself via preferential loans, using that money to collectively drive up home prices, and then turning around to bleed rents out of the very people for whom your previous actions have made homeownership cost-prohibitive) becomes lauded as “F.I.R.E — Financial Independence, Retire Early!” And why blowing all your income on Cheesecake Factory, vape pens, and vacationing Tulum on credit is cool because of that one time Drake said “You Only Live Once!”

Despite whatever appearances to the contrary may be, people, generally speaking, are not stupid. Most people simply react to incentives. Many “irrational” human social behaviors are, at least minimally rational responses to irrational or perverse incentives — it is Charlie Munger’s “If you have a dumb incentive system, you get dumb outcomes” at scale.

Though I couldn’t fully articulate it, I felt the act of saving to be pointless…

Given this, we should all understand that our society’s present fetish towards speculation, rent-seeking, and over-consumption on debt are the more rational choices when money — the money that most of us have to work for — can be freely and infinitely created out of thin air and saving is perpetually debased. If the only expected return on the activity of saving is reduced future purchasing power, it should be no wonder that so few in our society engage in it. Perversely, in most cases today, one would have to be "stupid" to save...

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And note, I do not mean to disparage stock or property investment as a rule. There is a role for them in any healthy economy. However that role is certainly not to be a proxy for stable money. Yet this is how both are presently being leveraged in our economy, our society, and in our minds.

The rush into housing and stocks is simply a function of people seeking to trade infinite fiat or things that they believe are more scarce or will generate returns. This creates an artificial “monetary premium” in these assets — a portion of price existing only because the asset is being used as a substitute for money. And this momentary premium has now become wholly confused with the “real value” of the asset just as “saving” and “investment” have taken on interchangeable meaning for the average person.

Consider now if technological advancements enabled a new, truly scarce, infinitely divisible, uninflatable, permissionless global money to emerge organically from zero…

Eventually the very same people running up home prices and stock valuations would realize that there is no shortage of land and housing can always be build upwards, that stocks can always be diluted, and that control over either can be rescinded by decree — as we learned from Robinhood/Gamestop and renter (but not mortgage) forgiveness in 2021. And when this realization does happen, if such a new truly scarce, infinitely divisible, uninflatable, permissionless global money does exist, that is where they will turn…

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The Long Way Home

In all, I would take 8 long years before I finally came to a deeper understanding of bitcoin — the meantime was spent floating through the hazy morass of working extremely hard and making “good” money but never really getting ahead. At absolute best I was treading water and at worse I was just sinking more slowly than some of those with whom I might be compared…Understanding bitcoin has completely changed all of this for me. Bitcoin fixes this.

First, bitcoin makes definancialization much more difficult. Gone is the worry that the bank, because I violate someone’s preconceived notions of who should or should not not have money, would be successful in an endeavor to cut me off from access to / control over my stored wealth. Bitcoin, unlike money in the bank, or even homes & property, cannot be seized or frozen by writ by a hostile actor — whether company or state or fellow man.

Second, bitcoin restores the act and objective of saving. As a saver, bitcoin allows me to project wealth into the future with full confidence against debasement. I can rest assured that any amount of bitcoin I own will always be x/21,000,000 of whatever total value humanity has decided to store in bitcoin. Shielded from the grift of monetary manipulation, I am freed to think and act longer term and I am unbound from pressures to speculate, gamble, rent-seek or worse, simply to avoid falling behind.

Finally, bitcoin provides a deep wellspring of renewed hope for the future. Grand or utopian as it may sound, I can certainly say that the statement rings true for myself and many other bitcoiners I know. Its not that bitcoin magically solves all of our problems, rather it is that bitcoin demands a fundamental change in worldview. Once we are freed to store wealth securely for the future, we come to a fuller realization that it is the more fragile things in life, the things that get discounted by the demands of the fiat rat race — family, community, relationships, reputation, ethics, stewardship, truth — are most important. Buttressed by the benefits that bitcoin provides, we feel energized to set about pursuing, building, repairing, and protecting these things. And we can more easily see that most other things simply don’t actually matter.

They say that bitcoin passes you twice. First as a party boat, then as a lifeboat.

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A Fire In The Master's House Is Set

Finally, in closing, I’d like to provide the real life, stunning conclusion of what happened with the bank, or at least the branch, from my story.

A few months later, I received a middle of the night call from a lawyer friend in New York with whom I had discussed the situation. I pick up the line and the first words out of his mouth are “Where are you right now?” Once I assured him that I was not in New York, nor had I been in months, he shares — I shit you not — “That branch. Where you had that problem. Well, it all but BURNED TO THE GROUND...”

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In fact, it was a 6-alarm fire, of some still apparently unexplained origin, that raged for nearly 30 hours, gutting the building completely from top to bottom. Thankfully, there were no serious injuries and the fire didn’t cause any major damage to the adjacent apartments or businesses. But man, what a way to go out! I feel like there’s a lesson in here somewhere, but I couldn’t tell you what it is...

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In case you missed them, be sure to check out Journey Into Bitcoin 01 and 02. As always thank you for your time to read and engage. More on the way!

Postscript

In the spirit of inter/multi-disciplinary bitconery, here are a few top notch recommendations that, to me, relate to elements in this piece.

Books: The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho; The Fiat Standard, Saifedean Ammous

Music: Liberation, Outkast; Poetic Justice, Kendrick Lamar; New Millennium Homes, Rage Against The Machine

USE THE TOOLS: I believe that every person with exposure to bitcoin should have a fundamental minimum skillset that includes the ability to manage 1) self-custody and 2) buying/selling bitcoin permissionlessly. Here are some helpful resources:

Robosats: P2P bitcoin exchange using Lightning over TOR (pro-tip, use gift cards as your method of exchange for maximum privacy)

Bisq: P2P bitcoin exchange over TOR desktop app

A Final Though

It is dangerous and naive to assume that centralized exchanges and banks will always be there to allow retail users to buy and sell bitcoin. If and as the prevailing government-corporate power structure feels threatened by bitcoin, this may change.

Governments may shut down or seize bitcoin from centralized exchanges, and banks may block consumer transactions that they believe are related to bitcoin under the guise of “consumer protection.”.

Bitcoin is often a tool that you don’t know you need, UNTIL YOU NEED IT. But when you do need it, you REALLY need it and you better hope you can get your hand on some. The same can be doubly said for holding bitcoin in self-custody and knowing how to buy/sell bitcoin permissionlessly. USE THE TOOLS.

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December 2017. Shanghai.

It is mid-December 2017. In Shanghai. And I have just fallen victim to a crypto rug-pull scam.

A few days prior, I had been recruited into an “enthusiasts” WeChat group (WeChat is China’s premier social app, think FB + IG + CashApp, all in one, and then in Mandarin) for a Chinese crypto token. A friendly-faced Laowai (China’s half endearing, half slur for foreigners, particularly, white foreigners) had approached me at Cages Bar — a uniquely Chinese oddity of a place, a sprawling “American Sports” themed bar complex and a haunt for lost Westerners of all sorts — to share the good news.

This new friend, managed to sell me that this token would be the Honest-to-God FUTURE of supply-chain traceability. And what luck! Through meeting him, I was to join a group of favored insiders, privy to pre-market information on this earth-shaking new technology. Even luckier was that I was joining this group mere days before the project’s “biggest announcement ever” which was sure to send prices “to the moon.” It all sounded so very exciting!

Fast forward three days. The announcement has just dropped, token prices are moving quickly and parabolically to the upside across exchanges. Except for Binance. Where all of us in the group had our tokens. Inexplicably, Binance goes down at the EXACT moment when this news is released — “Due to recent increase in user growth, Binance will be preforming a system upgrade shortly after 2017/12/18 10:00 AM (UTC).

The upgrade will take approximately 20 minute” their message reads. Simultaneously, on another exchange, a whale (massive token holder, capable of single-handedly moving the market) liquidates several million dollars worth of tokens. By the time Binance is up and running again, the token is on a similarly parabolic price collapse. Never to recover.

I can confidently say that it is by such magic, one may turn several thousand dollars into several tens of dollars in mere days, or perhaps even just minutes!

Welcome to Shanghai! Welcome to Crypto!…I guess…

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The School of Rug-pull Fundamentals

Here, I received a foundational lesson in the mechanism of “crypto." Specifically, rug-pull scam 101 - by which nefarious but convincing crypto marketeers target technologically ignorant retail “investors” to be the exit liquidity for the project founders and earliest backers.

The WeChat “enthusiast” group I had joined was nothing but a pump and dump shop. The group members, rather than being privileged insiders were full-on dupes - serving as both free marketing hype and the exit dumping ground for the project founders. Peer-pressure, social proof, and faux camaraderie were applied by the truckload to induce us to promote the token and to bring in others, yet when the time came, we all found ourselves locked out of the party by forces seemingly far above and well beyond our comprehension. And this is when the real insiders exited.

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However, on that brisk Shanghai winter evening in 2017, I knew none of this. I was the worst, or rather the best kind of mark — the kind with enough broad educational and professional achievements as to be very self-assured in their own intelligence while also being completely oblivious to their area-specific ignorance and inexperience - particularly on this "new" technology, called "the blockchain."

That I was possessing of such qualifications should surprise no one who has ever worked with management consultants. At the time, I was one — bright-eyed and bushy tailed, newly minted on a full-time international assignment to China. In reality though, the depth of the information asymmetry arrayed against me in this situation was tantamount to me having negative information while fully believing that I was some kind of anointed insider. What fun!

So how did I get here? Well...

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Borderless

I landed in Shanghai in January of 2017, a stranger in a strange land. My arrival in Shanghai uncovered an interesting problem. A few months in, I realized that all of my money was sitting in RMB, in a Chinese bank account, yet I still had financial obligations in the United States, dominated in USD, along with a fast-dwindling USD account balance to support these obligations...

It was at this time that I discovered that the process to transfer money outside of China was arcane - requiring at least two months of planning, several trips to the Chinese tax authority, reams of paperwork, AND support from an internationally accredited employer. In short, a bureaucratic dog-and-pony show replete with unnecessary but entirely purposeful friction and obfuscation. But such is the squarely anti-free market Great Game of big-power nation capital controls.

It was this problem that spurred my first contact with bitcoin. I was searching for the best and most efficient way to transfer money to myself across borders. This eventually brought me to various articles and YouTube videos about bitcoin. From there, I got a Coinbase account (which worked in the China at the time), linked my bank account, and figured out LocalBitcoins - through which I could buy bitcoin peer-to-peer in RMB, and then transfer that bitcoin back into USD.

FUN FACT: While bitcoin had already been “banned” by the Chinese government several times by 2017, it was still legal to trade p2p. Also the largest RMB-for-bitcoin sellers on LocalBitcoins all appeared to be Africans. And I mean to the tune of thousands of bitcoin moved volumes. It would seem that perhaps large Chinese bitcoin holders may have been using Africans as plausible deniability frontmen to move in and out of large sums of bitcoin over Chinese social payment rails. The More You Know!

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And just like that, I managed to Forrest Gump my way right into one of the most relevant, important, revolutionary — and in the West, overlooked — use cases for bitcoin - making money borderless, facilitating international value transfer in a way that completely obviates the rent-seeking artifice of arbitrary financial controls. But for all of that, I still couldn't see it. I was happy with what bitcoin did for me in that moment, but I failed to see any larger implications - I thought of it a novel, but certainly not anything ground-breaking. Further, my trust in the system was still too strong - believing on some deep level that the banks, both Chinese and US, truly wanted to help me but where beholden to cumbersome processes and regulations imposed on them from above.

Even in this very first exposure to bitcoin, it addressed a real and pressing problem for me and dramatically improved freedom of access and utility of my money - allowing me to transfer money back my USD bank account on-demand. I had a problem. Bitcoin fixed it. And all of the villagers rejoiced! …Or they would have if that had been the end of it. But as fate would have it, my first brush with bitcoin also coincided with the breakout of the wild 2017 bitcoin & crypto bull market run.

Initially, I just bought a bit of bitcoin to solve a problem and thought little of it. But when the bitcoin price started to take off (aka Number Go Up, or “NgU” in internet parlance), I had to take another look. But this time, I would be caught in the balmy, Icarian up-currents of tech speculation and good old fashioned get-rich-quick greed. But, me — I was in it for the technology, of course...

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All My New Friends

And so, I began to research bitcoin and then "crypto" more deeply. In so doing, I “learned” that while bitcoin was “the father of all cryptos,” it was actually “old” technology. Bitcoin was slow, environmentally wasteful, limited in capability, and destined to be overtaken by newer, “better,” cryptocurrency technologies such as Ethereum or XRP. Knowing no better, I accepted these silly falsehoods, convincing myself that bitcoin’s core value was simply its tenure. Being more established, bitcoin was just a marginally less volatile asset in a sea of horrendously volatile, and otherwise interchangeable, crypto tokens.

But there was opportunity here too, I sensed. The real innovation in the space, I believed, would ultimately be led by other projects. That being the case, my incentive then was to “study the space and place calculated bets" (an MBA euphemism for wild-eyed speculation). Why hold onto Bitcoin’s AOL, when Ethereum is clearly going to be crypto’s Google? With any new technology, the first mover is always overtaken by a more innovative copy-cat, right?? RIGHT???

Moreover, I was desperately in need of Western friends. And knowing I’d find them in droves wherever there was speculative money to be had, I dived headlong into the Shanghai “crypto scene.” On the standard “Hero’s Journey” this is where a mysterious but benevolent, Gandalf-like mentor would have appeared to shepherd me through the peaks, valleys, and pitfalls of this new space. Obviously, this is not what happened. Instead, over freeium beers in the vaunted Millennial Chic common areas of so many Shanghai WeWork offices, I would meet some of the most colorful characters of my time in China...

A whip-smart but spectacularly sketchy Baltic fellow of significant, though indeterminate means who argued that any blockchain project that managed to successfully prevent supply chain malfeasance who see the project founders dismembered by some Eastern European mafia. Only half-jokingly, he suggested, at his direction.

A Middle Eastern “precious metals trader” who I later ascertained was probably more akin to a conflict minerals smuggler looking to use excitement and ignorance around “traceability on the blockchain” to wash his wares.

A South Asian “crypto-entrepreneur” who claimed to have a method, leveraging "blockchain technology," to swap large sums of physically delivered Chinese cash (think suitcases full of red bills) into infrastructure investment projects in Myanmar.

Several personally modest but obviously wealthy South American scions riding out political instability in their home countries while funneling money into ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings - crypto's answer to IPOs) with reckless abandon.

An American who shared, unsolicited, his pre-China 3LA (Three Letter Agency) background at first meeting, though I suspect he may have been telling a dangerous and stupid lie.

An obvious sex-kompromat honey-pot Chinese couple who described themselves as “crypto-observes” and who were, at a minimum, actually gathering intelligence for something. Fit and flirty in a way suggestive of some kind of open-door polyamory, and a little too fluent in English. Seemingly at every event and always hugged up onto any Westerner that seemed to be gaining influence in the space.

And finally the long tail of Moonboys (idiot gamblers who fashion themselves tech/investment mavens), minor conmen, “cross-border currency arbitrage” consultants, LBH (Loser Back Home) English teachers, broke college students, and an ever shifting menagerie of hypemen-simps riding the coattails of Shanghai's laowai crypto-influencer of the week.

It was in this fast-moving and footloose “Anything goes and we’re all gunna get rich AF!” environment that the December supply-chain token “opportunity” appeared to me. And of course, dazzled by fantasies of instant and meteoric crypto wealth, I went for it and I got burned right along with all the other Lambo-chasing chumps.

I was the worst, or rather the best kind of mark — the kind with enough broad educational and professional achievements as to be very self-assured in their own intelligence while also being completely oblivious to their area-specific ignorance and inexperience.

But in retrospect it could have been far worse. I could have put more money into the rug-pull or it could have been a straight-up wallet draining scam. And while I still had miles to go and years of learning ahead of me before fully eschewing “shitcoining” (the act of buying non-bitcoin crypto tokens in a state of deeply degenerative and highly speculative mania), this experience did, thankfully, give me the frame of reference to avoid further, similar insider malfeasance going forward…for the most part...

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Do Cryptos Dream of Electric Stupidity?

The silver lining here was that the speculative extremes and clearly questionable mental acuity of some of my new “crypto friends” gave me pause and cautioned me to anchor, relatively speaking anyways, to rationality and search for truth, as my consultant training so demanded. Though, I cannot in say good faith that this was intended in an entirely ethical or altruistic way at the time... After all, the fundamental role of a management consultant is to understand the truth more deeply than others so that you may choose when to best reveal or obscure it for social, political, and or economic gain — especially when you've assessed that you significantly outclass those around you intellectually.

That said, being an American (and so legally barred for participating in many ICOs) and a rare résumé on the scene, I came to be viewed - hilariously - as something of “the adult in the room,” to some. I would even eventually even sit down with a few founders to advise on their well-intentioned but deeply flawed and over-engineered crypto projects...

As I rode the 2017 bull-market wave up and then back down again (and where greed intervened to prevent me from selling the top, or even at a relative top), my perspective on the space matured.

Why couldn’t anyone articulate what actual, real-world problem their project was solving?

Why were so many projects’ assumptions around token usage (and therefore value) based on artificial needs that the project protocol itself created, or worse, inexplicably bizarre misunderstandings of incentive-driven human behavior?

Even the most lucid and well-presented project I encountered was still predicated on several other paradigm shattering technologies coming to the fore. They may as well have ended their pitch with “And as you can see here — when SkyNet, teleportation, Replicator, and Lightsaber technology all reach ubiquitous global scale (and we project this happening by Q3 2021 ± 3 mo) our protocol will be poised to capture MAXIMUM value, etc etc…”

The entire space came to resemble an unironically earnest masterclass in absurdity. Because that is, ultimately, what it was. And so, I developed expertise in tearing crypto white papers apart over their gibbering technical Esperanto and nonsense logic, ideally, in front of as many people as possible.

I made no attempt to hide my annoyance at every new project’s “graphic salad” or “Flying Spaghetti Monster” tech stack representation, alway a meaningless clownshow of sleek-designed neon-pastel toned boxes, cylinders, arrows, and lines indicating some much "obvious value."

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I came to regard every crypto project as, at absolute best, a solution looking for a problem. A viewpoint that still holds to this day. No “cryptocurrency expert” I’ve spoken with, no matter how well-educated or well-meaning, has ever been able to articulate to me how a given “blockchain” solution solves any real (non-speculative, non-gambling, non-financial crimes based) problem better than existing solutions, imperfect as those may be.

Anything goes and we’re all gunna get rich AF!

But most of all, I was perturbed because we had very much not gone “to the moon.” If anything, my crypto holdings seemed to be, boldly, charting a path for the Marianas Trench, perhaps an equally ambitious though categorically different feat.

This disillusionment with “crypto” though healthy in retrospect, unfortunately also spawned an apathy towards bitcoin, what would ultimately become a long pause that significantly slowed my bitcoin understanding.

If there was any mentor in this situation, it was the market itself, all cruel vagaries, malicious intent, and so many rows of glistening, blood-stained teeth. As the long 2018–2019 crypto winter set in, defeated and financially depleted, I, like so many others, assumed (rightly) that crypto was a scam and (wrongly) that bitcoin was “dead.” I resolved myself to let go of all expectations so that I might be pleasantly surprised if the bitcoin price ever, for some unfathomable reason, did recover.

How could I have known how many unfathomable things would transpire both in the world and in my own life by the time that this would actually come to pass…

比特币死了！比特币万岁！(Bitcoin is dead! Long live Bitcoin!)

Thanks so much for reading Part 02 of my story! I look forward to any comments or feedback, it brightens my day and inspires me to keep writing! And in case you missed it, you can read Journey Into Bitcoin 01 here.

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Postscript

In the spirit of inter/multi-disciplinary bitconery, here are a few top notch recommendations that to me are related to elements in this piece.

Music: Can’t Con an Honest John, The Streets; Dip, Young Fathers; Everything Is Recorded, Everything Is Recorded

Movies: No Man’s Land (2013), Shang-Chi (2021), The Message (2009)

If you’re ever in Shanghai: Sober Company (fine dining, 4 bars concepts at venue, 1 is hidden), Speak Low (Shanghai’s original speakeasy), The Odd Couple (East Meets West Pac-Man Bar)

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Edward Weston, initially recognized as a prominent pictorialist, played a crucial role in the evolution of photographic art during the 20th century. His trajectory marked a notable transition towards a new conception of the medium, leaving behind pictorialism to become one of the leading exponents of Group f/64 and elitist photography.

A distinctive feature of Weston's work was his relentless pursuit of maximum sharpness and tonal range in his images. This aspiration was evident in all his works, from his stunning landscapes to his innovative still lifes. Herein lay his genius: the ability to capture the purest essence of his subjects with a precision and clarity hitherto considered unattainable.

Weston pioneered the technique of previsualizing the final result in photography. This involved imagining and planning the final appearance of the image even before shooting the camera. To achieve this, he developed what became known as the Zone System, a method that allowed to control and modify the brightness of an image in a very precise way.

In his photographs, Weston often decontextualized his subjects, employing neutral backgrounds to further enhance the intrinsic identity of the object. This technique led to the creation of some of his most iconic images, in which each object becomes an autonomous entity, freed from the distractions and influence of its surroundings.

In addition to his extraordinary technical ability, Weston's capacity to infuse a sense of "radiation" into his images contributed greatly to his enduring influence. Through his refined technique, Weston created images so powerful and emotive that they impressed the viewer, eliciting an emotional and visceral response.

Weston also took his vision and technique beyond his studio. On his travels to post-revolutionary Mexico, he joined a revolutionary movement and published his work in their magazine. This experience not only broadened his artistic perspective but also left an indelible mark on his corpus of work, adding a new level of depth and context to his photographic approach.

In summary, Edward Weston exemplifies the evolution of photographic art in the 20th century. His transition from pictorialism to modern and elitist photography, his constant search for sharpness and tonal range, his innovative decontextualization of objects, and his radiant technique, all contributed to his enduring legacy. His influence is felt not only in the generations of photographers who followed him, but also in anyone who appreciates the ability of photography to transform the ordinary into extraordinary.

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The following is a collection of Tweets posted on Twitter that documented my entire heart surgery process, from finding out I had an issue, through the surgery, and finally throughout my recovery process. If Elon decides to remove old and unpaid content, I do not want this part of my life to vanish from the Internet. At the time, it was extremely important for my mental health to talk about this whole process and it was therapeutic in my recovery process, reading all of the responses as all of Bitcoin Twitter was behind my success. Thank you all of your kind words, love, and support during this whole process. May my Tweets live on through nostr.

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Nov 28, 2021 I had open heart surgery 4 days before my 3rd b-day. I've led a healthy & active life since then, zero issues. I had an echocardiogram last week. The results were not good. Heart valve replacement may be in my near future. I am freaking the fuck out. I'll know more on Dec 6th. 😫

Dec 6, 2021 Update: I had my cardiologist appointment today. He said to not worry for now and continue to exercise and live life. In 3 months get another echo done. He doesn't believe the previous other results since I have zero symptoms and wants to do his own interpretation.

Dec 6, 2021 He said if the other results were correct, I may need valve replacement in 6 months to 3 years. However, he doesn't believe the local hospital's results as I said above. He can't form an opinion just yet. He said not to worry over and over again. For now, I'm staying positive!

Mar 7, 2022 Well, it's been three months. I had my follow up this morning. I have severe pulmonic regurgitation. I now need to speak with a specialist and see what my options are for surgery. Neat. 😭

Apr 12, 2022 Well, it looks like I'll need full open heart surgery again to replace my pulmonic valve. Bonus: I'll be part pig. So, I have that going for me. I was assuming that if I had to have this done it would be much less invasive, so I'm not overly impressed at the moment. 🫤

May 11, 2022 Today I had to get a CT scan of my heart in preparation for the May 27th surgery. All went well. I have no other heart issues. It's looking like I'll be in the hospital for 4-7 days, depending on how fast I recover. I should be fully 100% recovered by the end of August. ❤️

May 20, 2022 My grandfather with me 39 years ago, days after my open heart surgery. He taught me to hunt, fish, golf, and I'm sure taught me a thing or two about drinking beer and partying. 😂 He was a great man. He won't physically be with me next Friday, but I'm sure he'll be watching over.

May 25, 2022 Two more sleeps. My mind is racing with an incredible amount of thoughts and emotions now. It's overwhelming. I love you all. Thanks for all of your replies and DMs over the last couple days, weeks, and months. I appreciate it immensely. ❤️❤️❤️

May 25, 2022 Two more sleeps. My mind is racing with an incredible amount of thoughts and emotions now. It's overwhelming. I love you all. Thanks for all of your replies and DMs over the last couple days, weeks, and months. I appreciate it immensely. ❤️❤️❤️

May 27, 2022 LET'S GO! I am alive and doing well. I was on a ventilator until 8pm. That was horrible. I will read all of the comments that you all posted on Katie's updates. Now I need to rest. They want to get me up and walk at 11pm. 🤯 I love you all and your support had helped so much 🧡🧡

May 28, 2022 The amount of love, compassion, caring, and appreciation from everyone blows my mind. Thanks for all of your comments and DMs. The positivity though all is this has helped me get through dark times and now it's helping me get through pain. You are helping me immensely. 🤯❤️🧡💪

May 28, 2022 Today has been a rough day. Lots of chest pain when breathing. But, I apparently am doing something right, because I have been upgraded to a regular room. No more ICU for this guy! My ICU nurse told my new nurse that I'm strong. ❤️💪🔥

May 29, 2022 Using this to document my journey. Last night was not good at all. I had tachycardia and AFib for hours. It was scary as fuck having my heart beat the way it was at 160bpm. They gave me new medication to bring it down and stop the AFib irregular heartbeat. It's now at 101.

May 29, 2022 I was very scared. Katie was able to come and stay the night with me and be my personal care nurse. That made me feel much better having her here with me. Hopefully the meds continue to do what they're supposed to. Fuck. Anyways, I may not Tweet much today. Love you all. ❤️

May 30, 2022 Today has mostly been a great day progress wise. I ate a lot. I've walked more today than I have previously. My doctor told me I might be going home tomorrow, it all depends on what happens with my last drainage tube. Fingers crossed that it's draining properly now. 💪❤️

May 31, 2022 Morning walk crushed. Breakfast crushed. Feeling stronger. My drainage tube is still draining so we'll see what the surgeon says, but I probably won't be coming home today according to my nurse. It may be another day. Better to be safe. I'm feeling good though. Let's go! 💪💪❤️❤️

Jun 1, 2022 Today's plans: Crush morning walk, crush breakfast, CRUSH MY LAST X-RAY AND HEAD THE HELL HOME! Fingers crossed. 🤞🤞❤️❤️💪💪

Jun 1, 2022 On my morning walk I went into a slight AFib. The nurse and PA said since I hadn't had my morning meds to control that yet, that that could be the cause. They're going to increase meds and monitor me for another 24 hours. That sucks, but again, I'd rather be safe. Ugh.

Jun 2, 2022 GM! I miss my kids. I miss wearing normal clothes. I miss my house. I miss my doggy. I better go home today or I guess I'll just keep working to get well enough to go home. 😂 I'm still progressing forward. I have a chest x-ray scheduled later this morning. Fingers crossed.

Jun 2, 2022 I JUST GOT CLEARED TO HEAD HOME AFTER LUNCH. FUCK YEAH. LET'S GOOOOOO💪💪💪

Jun 2, 2022 I am home! I have some family that needs some loving. Enjoy the rest of your day!

Jun 4, 2022 Last night I slept in bed thanks to a reclining pillow, the first night our living room chair. I was so happy to sleep in my own bed. I walked around our yard about 9 times yesterday. My goal is to do that plus a little more every day. I'm still in a lot of pain, but meds help.

Jun 4, 2022 I still have a long way to go recovery wise, but having Katie and the kids here helping me along the way makes it easier and gives me a reason to keep pushing forward through this. Thanks again for all of your past and future support. You all are fantastic.

Jun 6, 2022 My wife went back to work today. My son and daughter are in charge of taking care of me. My kids are fantastic. They made me breakfast already and helped me check all of my vitals. My daughter really shines here. She's such a little nurse and caretaker. ❤️❤️

Jun 6, 2022 I'm still in pain, but I'm not in as much pain as I was a couple days ago. I'm walking around a little better and a little more every day. I really hate just sitting around and not doing anything, but it's hard to do much else besides watch TV. I am enjoying my patio though. 💪

Jun 16, 2022 It's been a while. It's time to update this thread! I am doing great, IMO. I have lots of energy. I feel great. I can do a lot more than I previously could. I still have a limited range of motion due to my sternum being broken and still healing. i.e. I can't wash my back or legs.

Jun 16, 2022 I started back to work yesterday. I was cleared to do 20 hours this week by my doctor and I'm hoping to be cleared full time next week. I work from home, so if I can sit in front of a TV, I can sit in front of a computer, right?

Jun 16, 2022 My home nurses have been absolutely fantastic.😂 My kids make me breakfast every morning. And I could not have done any of this without my rock star wife. Words can't describe how much she's done for me throughout all of this. I am looking forward to continuing to improve. ♥️

Jun 16, 2022 You all have been absolutely wonderful through all of this too. I appreciate all of your love, support, and check-ins. Seriously. It means more than you know.

I have a check-up at the end of the month to make sure all is well. I'll update again in a couple weeks after that appt.

Jun 28, 2022 My doctor said everything looks great. He said it doesn't look like I had open heart surgery a month ago.💪 He said I have zero restrictions and that I can resume normal life. I can drive and I can go out on my boat! ❤️❤️❤️ I'm so happy right now! 🔥🚀

Jul 15, 2022 I started cardiac rehab this week. After 2 sessions the nurse said I'm on "Week 4" already. She doesn't believe with my initial intake stress test if I'll really be able to improve on it that much. 🤣 TL;DR I am a rock star and kicking ass. Feeling great. Life's great. 😍

Aug 28, 2022 Yesterday was 3 months since my open heart surgery. I'm going great! I'd guess essentially back to normal. My sternum is still not fully healed, that'll take more time, but energy and capability are basically back to what I was like last summer. I'm very happy with the results.

Aug 28, 2022 I'm very happy to be able to exercise daily, go boating on the weekends AND swim and paddleboard. I was annoyed that I couldn't do these things a month ago. I had a cardiologist appt. two weeks ago. He said he hopes the valve lasts me the rest of my life and to see him in a year.

Aug 28, 2022 As a final post to this thread, I want to thank each and every one of you again that commented, liked, shared and DMed me throughout all of this. The love and support from Twitter and the #Bitcoin community was unfathomable. You all made a difference in my life and my recovery.❤️

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August Sander (1876-1964), a prominent figure in documentary photography, played a pivotal role in challenging and resisting Nazi ideology through his work during the difficult years preceding and following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany.

Sander's most famous project, "People of the 20th Century," stands as a testament to this silent resistance. This monumental body of work, portraying a broad cross-section of German society, presented a bold challenge to the Nazi notion of a "superior race".

Sander's strategy was to humanize all the people he photographed, regardless of their social status or race. His approach was neither to glorify nor denigrate, but simply to portray people as they were, a vision that was in stark contrast with the Nazis' racial ideology.

Furthermore, Sander sought to dismantle the Nazis' rigid racial and social categories. In "People of the 20th Century," the range of subjects is impressively broad: aristocrats, peasants, artists, manual workers, women, men, Jews, non-Jews. By juxtaposing these different categories, Sander underscored the diversity and complexity of German society, thus challenging the Nazi notion of a "pure race".

Despite the resistance he faced, Sander's courage never wavered. His photographs were confiscated and destroyed by the Nazis, and his book "Face of Our Time" was banned in 1936. Yet, Sander persisted, and while he was forced to switch his focus to landscape photography to avoid further confrontations, he continued to document his time's Germany until his death in 1964.

Sander's resistance to Nazi ideology was not frontal or violent, but subversive and silent. His camera became his weapon, and his photographs, his resistance. By capturing his subjects' humanity, he demonstrated that diversity, far from being a threat, is a source of richness and vitality in a society.

August Sander's work remains a powerful tool for understanding the social and political context of Germany in the first half of the 20th century. At the same time, his work continues to be a reminder of the importance of preserving and respecting human dignity, regardless of race, religion, or social status. In this sense, Sander's photography not only documents the reality of his era but also offers a powerful critique of Nazi ideology and a more inclusive and humanitarian vision of society.

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If for Henri Cartier-Bresson the essence of photography was the decisive moment, for William Klein the defining factor is commitment. This assertion, made by Raphaëlle Stopin, curator of the 'William Klein. Manifesto' exhibition, couldn't be more accurate. At 91 years old and with multiple facets to his name - photographer, painter, filmmaker, publicist, writer, and activist - Klein has left an indelible mark on the landscape of art and photography with his irreverent commitment and radical approach.

Born in New York in 1928, Klein transformed mid-20th-century photography, creating an aesthetic language that evokes the rawness and emotions of a post-war society still to be rebuilt. Through his lens, we see a vibrant, dirty, mestizo, and ever-evolving New York. His unconventional approach, which mixed with the subjects he portrayed, broke with the standards of photography of his time, resulting in images that the white, Anglo-Saxon elite of the era found distasteful. However, his honest and committed vision ended up paving a new path in photography.

Klein began his creative journey in painting, where he already displayed a unique, free, and transgressive language. His entry into the world of photography happened fortuitously, by photographing his own paintings, and it was in 1956 when his vision exploded onto the scene, with the publication of 'Life is Good & Good for You in New York: Trance Witness Revels'. This work, the fruit of his immersion in the wild side of New York life, became a revolutionary manifesto that subverted the traditional principles of photography.

Klein's photographs were never just images. They were bold statements of freedom and experimentation, going against the conventions of his time. It was with his legendary book about New York that he became a disruptive figure in photography. Despite being published in France, Italy, and Japan, this book took 40 years to be published in the United States, a fact that evidences the rejection his raw and uninhibited gaze of the city caused.

But Klein was never content with just being a photographer. His enormous cultural baggage, inspired by figures such as Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, and the Bauhaus, propelled him to explore other forms of expression. In his work, we see the fusion of photography with painting, the 'painted contacts', where he applies paint to contact sheets with large brushes, creating a fusion of disciplines that is surprisingly innovative and evocative.

Today, at 91 years old, Klein continues to work, reinventing himself and reinterpreting his archive. Although his pace has changed, his commitment to his art and his language has not diminished. His legacy endures, and his influence continues to be visible in contemporary photography.

Is Klein a Leonardo of photography? Perhaps it's not an exact comparison. But, just like Da Vinci, Klein has shown a diversity of interests and skills that rivals any Renaissance polymath's. And, unlike Da Vinci, Klein is indisputably wilder and more committed.

In summary, William Klein is a visionary, a provocateur, and an iconoclast, whose work remains a source of inspiration and a challenge to today's artists and photographers. With his committed, free, and innovative gaze, Klein has demonstrated that photography, like any form of art, should always be an act of commitment and revolution.

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Robert Frank, born on November 9, 1924, in Zurich, Switzerland, was the child of Rosa (Zucker) and Hermann Frank, of Jewish origin. Though his family managed to remain safe during the Second World War in Switzerland, the looming threat of Nazism informed his understanding of oppression, invariably seeping into his subsequent work. Frank was drawn to photography partly as a means to escape from his business-oriented family and home. He was mentored by various photographers and graphic designers before he crafted his first handmade book of photographs, "40 Photos," in 1946. At the age of 23, Frank migrated to the United States, seeking to broaden his photographic horizon. He found employment in New York as a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar. However, the rigidity and artifice of fashion photography failed to satiate his creative yearning. He soon quit his job and embarked on journeys through South America and Europe, creating a second handmade book of photographs taken in Peru.

Upon returning to the United States in 1950, Frank began to experience a transformation in his photographic perspective. Influenced by his disillusionment with the frantic pace of American life and its emphasis on money, he began to perceive America as a place often desolate and lonely. This vision is reflected in his subsequent photography.

The aesthetic context of the subjective photography of the 1950s, which Frank adopted, was marked by a paradigm shift in how photography was understood and practiced. It involved a move away from the apparent objectivity and neutrality that characterized documentary and journalistic photography, to adopt a more personal and subjective approach. Images ceased to be seen simply as faithful representations of reality to become the photographer's personal interpretations.

In this context, Robert Frank stood out for his direct, unadorned style. His photographs did not aim to beautify or idealize reality, but to capture it as it is, with all its imperfections and contradictions. For Frank, the camera was a tool to explore and question society, rather than merely documenting it. His most emblematic work, "The Americans," first published in Paris in 1958, is a chronicle of his journey through 48 states of the United States. The book, composed of 83 images selected from 28,000 shots, offers an unconventional and critical view of American life. Through his images, Frank portrays a society marked by racial and class inequality, loneliness, and helplessness. The images in "The Americans" are often dark, blurry, and off-kilter, contributing to a sense of unease and instability. Robert Frank continued to work intensely throughout his career. Here is a list of some of his most representative works, ordered by year:

• 1946: Published his first handmade book of photographs, "40 Photos."
• 1947: Moved to the United States and began working for Harper's Bazaar.
• 1950: Participated in the group exhibition "51 American Photographers" at the MoMA and published his second book of photographs from his journey through Peru.
• 1955: Received a Guggenheim Fellowship to travel and photograph the United States, a project that would result in "The Americans."
• 1958: Published "The Americans" in Paris.
• 1959: "The Americans" was published in the United States.
• 1961: Had his first solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.
• 1962: Exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
• 1983: The French magazine "Les Cahiers de la photographie" devoted two special issues to his work.
• 2008: A new edition of "The Americans" was published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its first publication.
• 2009: The exhibition "Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans" was shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Robert Frank's influence on contemporary photography is undeniable. His subjective and critical vision opened new pathways for understanding and practicing photography, shifting it away from conventionalism and closer to a more artistic and personal conception.

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Este artigo foi censurado pelo estado e fomos obrigados a deletá-lo após ameaça de homens armados virem nos visitar e agredir nossa vida e propriedade.

Isto é mais uma prova que os autoproclamados antirracistas são piores que os racistas.

https://rothbardbrasil.com/pelo-direito-de-ser-racista-fascista-machista-e-homofobico

Segue artigo na íntegra. 👇

Sem dúvida, a escalada autoritária do totalitarismo cultural progressista nos últimos anos tem sido sumariamente deletéria e prejudicial para a liberdade de expressão. Como seria de se esperar, a cada dia que passa o autoritarismo progressista continua a se expandir de maneira irrefreável, prejudicando a liberdade dos indivíduos de formas cada vez mais deploráveis e contundentes.

Com a ascensão da tirania politicamente correta e sua invasão a todos os terrenos culturais, o autoritarismo progressista foi se alastrando e consolidando sua hegemonia em determinados segmentos. Com a eventual eclosão e a expansão da opressiva e despótica cultura do cancelamento — uma progênie inevitável do totalitarismo progressista —, todas as pessoas que manifestam opiniões, crenças ou posicionamentos que não estão alinhados com as pautas universitárias da moda tornam-se um alvo.

Há algumas semanas, vimos a enorme repercussão causada pelo caso envolvendo o jogador profissional de vôlei Maurício Sousa, que foi cancelado pelo simples fato de ter emitido sua opinião pessoal sobre um personagem de história em quadrinhos, Jon Kent, o novo Superman, que é bissexual. Maurício Sousa reprovou a conduta sexual do personagem, o que é um direito pessoal inalienável que ele tem. Ele não é obrigado a gostar ou aprovar a bissexualidade. Como qualquer pessoa, ele tem o direito pleno de criticar tudo aquilo que ele não gosta. No entanto, pelo simples fato de emitir a sua opinião pessoal, Maurício Sousa foi acusado de homofobia e teve seu contrato rescindido, sendo desligado do Minas Tênis Clube.

Lamentavelmente, Maurício Sousa não foi o primeiro e nem será o último indivíduo a sofrer com a opressiva e autoritária cultura do cancelamento. Como uma tirania cultural que está em plena ascensão e usufrui de um amplo apoio do establishment, essa nova forma de totalitarismo cultural colorido e festivo está se impondo de formas e maneiras bastante contundentes em praticamente todas as esferas da sociedade contemporânea. Sua intenção é relegar ao ostracismo todos aqueles que não se curvam ao totalitarismo progressista, criminalizando opiniões e crenças que divergem do culto à libertinagem hedonista pós-moderna. Oculto por trás de todo esse ativismo autoritário, o que temos de fato é uma profunda hostilidade por padrões morais tradicionalistas, cristãos e conservadores.

No entanto, é fundamental entendermos uma questão imperativa, que explica em partes o conflito aqui criado — todos os progressistas contemporâneos são crias oriundas do direito positivo. Por essa razão, eles jamais entenderão de forma pragmática e objetiva conceitos como criminalidade, direitos de propriedade, agressão e liberdade de expressão pela perspectiva do jusnaturalismo, que é manifestamente o direito em seu estado mais puro, correto, ético e equilibrado.

Pela ótica jusnaturalista, uma opinião é uma opinião. Ponto final. E absolutamente ninguém deve ser preso, cancelado, sabotado ou boicotado por expressar uma opinião particular sobre qualquer assunto. Palavras não agridem ninguém, portanto jamais poderiam ser consideradas um crime em si. Apenas deveriam ser tipificados como crimes agressões de caráter objetivo, como roubo, sequestro, fraude, extorsão, estupro e infrações similares, que representam uma ameaça direta à integridade física da vítima, ou que busquem subtrair alguma posse empregando a violência.

Infelizmente, a geração floquinho de neve — terrivelmente histérica, egocêntrica e sensível — fica profundamente ofendida e consternada sempre que alguém defende posicionamentos contrários à religião progressista. Por essa razão, os guerreiros da justiça social sinceramente acreditam que o papai-estado deve censurar todas as opiniões que eles não gostam de ouvir, assim como deve também criar leis para encarcerar todos aqueles que falam ou escrevem coisas que desagradam a militância.

Como a geração floquinho de neve foi criada para acreditar que todas as suas vontades pessoais e disposições ideológicas devem ser sumariamente atendidas pelo papai-estado, eles embarcaram em uma cruzada moral que pretende erradicar todas as coisas que são ofensivas à ideologia progressista; só assim eles poderão deflagrar na Terra o seu tão sonhado paraíso hedonista e igualitário, de inimaginável esplendor e felicidade.

Em virtude do seu comportamento intrinsecamente despótico, autoritário e egocêntrico, acaba sendo inevitável que militantes progressistas problematizem tudo aquilo que os desagrada.

Como são criaturas inúteis destituídas de ocupação real e verdadeiro sentido na vida, sendo oprimidas unicamente na sua própria imaginação, militantes progressistas precisam constantemente inventar novos vilões para serem combatidos.

Partindo dessa perspectiva, é natural para a militância que absolutamente tudo que exista no mundo e que não se enquadra com as regras autoritárias e restritivas da religião progressista seja encarado como um problema. Para a geração floquinho de neve, o capitalismo é um problema. O fascismo é um problema. A iniciativa privada é um problema. O homem branco, tradicionalista, conservador e heterossexual é um problema. A desigualdade é um problema. A liberdade é um problema. Monteiro Lobato é um problema (sim, até mesmo o renomado ícone da literatura brasileira, autor — entre outros títulos — de Urupês, foi vítima da cultura do cancelamento, acusado de ser racista e eugenista).

Para a esquerda, praticamente tudo é um problema. Na mentalidade da militância progressista, tudo é motivo para reclamação. Foi em função desse comportamento histérico, histriônico e infantil que o famoso pensador conservador-libertário americano P. J. O’Rourke afirmou que “o esquerdismo é uma filosofia de pirralhos chorões”. O que é uma verdade absoluta e irrefutável em todos os sentidos.

De fato, todas as filosofias de esquerda de forma geral são idealizações utópicas e infantis de um mundo perfeito. Enquanto o mundo não se transformar naquela colorida e vibrante utopia que é apresentada pela cartilha socialista padrão, militantes continuarão a reclamar contra tudo o que existe no mundo de forma agressiva, visceral e beligerante. Evidentemente, eles não vão fazer absolutamente nada de positivo ou construtivo para que o mundo se transforme no gracioso paraíso que eles tanto desejam ver consolidado, mas eles continuarão a berrar e vociferar muito em sua busca incessante pela utopia, marcando presença em passeatas inúteis ou combatendo o fascismo imaginário nas redes sociais.

Sem dúvida, estamos muito perto de ver leis absurdas e estúpidas sendo implementadas, para agradar a militância da terra colorida do assistencialismo eterno onde nada é escasso e tudo cai do céu. Em breve, você não poderá usar calças pretas, pois elas serão consideradas peças de vestuário excessivamente heterossexuais. Apenas calças amarelas ou coloridas serão permitidas. Você também terá que tingir de cor-de-rosa uma mecha do seu cabelo; pois preservar o seu cabelo na sua cor natural é heteronormativo demais da sua parte, sendo portanto um componente demasiadamente opressor da sociedade.

Você também não poderá ver filmes de guerra ou de ação, apenas comédias românticas, pois certos gêneros de filmes exaltam a violência do patriarcado e isso impede o mundo de se tornar uma graciosa festa colorida de fraternidades universitárias ungidas por pôneis resplandecentes, hedonismo infinito, vadiagem universitária e autogratificação psicodélica, que certamente são elementos indispensáveis para se produzir o paraíso na Terra.

Sabemos perfeitamente, no entanto, que dentre as atitudes “opressivas” que a militância progressista mais se empenha em combater, estão o racismo, o fascismo, o machismo e a homofobia. No entanto, é fundamental entender que ser racista, fascista, machista ou homofóbico não são crimes em si. Na prática, todos esses elementos são apenas traços de personalidade; e eles não podem ser pura e simplesmente criminalizados porque ideólogos e militantes progressistas iluminados não gostam deles.

Tanto pela ética quanto pela ótica jusnaturalista, é facilmente compreensível entender que esses traços de personalidade não podem ser criminalizados ou proibidos simplesmente porque integrantes de uma ideologia não tem nenhuma apreciação ou simpatia por eles. Da mesma forma, nenhum desses traços de personalidade representa em si um perigo para a sociedade, pelo simples fato de existir. Por incrível que pareça, até mesmo o machismo, o racismo, o fascismo e a homofobia merecem a devida apologia.

Mas vamos analisar cada um desses tópicos separadamente para entender isso melhor.

Racismo

Quando falamos no Japão, normalmente não fazemos nenhuma associação da sociedade japonesa com o racismo. No entanto, é incontestável o fato de que a sociedade japonesa pode ser considerada uma das sociedades mais racistas do mundo. E a verdade é que não há absolutamente nada de errado com isso.

Aproximadamente 97% da população do Japão é nativa; apenas 3% do componente populacional é constituído por estrangeiros (a população do Japão é estimada em aproximadamente 126 milhões de habitantes). Isso faz a sociedade japonesa ser uma das mais homogêneas do mundo. As autoridades japonesas reconhecidamente dificultam processos de seleção e aplicação a estrangeiros que desejam se tornar residentes. E a maioria dos japoneses aprova essa decisão.

Diversos estabelecimentos comerciais como hotéis, bares e restaurantes por todo o país tem placas na entrada que dizem “somente para japoneses” e a maioria destes estabelecimentos se recusa ostensivamente a atender ou aceitar clientes estrangeiros, não importa quão ricos ou abastados sejam.

Na Terra do Sol Nascente, a hostilidade e a desconfiança natural para com estrangeiros é tão grande que até mesmo indivíduos que nascem em algum outro país, mas são filhos de pais japoneses, não são considerados cidadãos plenamente japoneses.

Se estes indivíduos decidem sair do seu país de origem para se estabelecer no Japão — mesmo tendo descendência nipônica legítima e inquestionável —, eles enfrentarão uma discriminação social considerável, especialmente se não dominarem o idioma japonês de forma impecável. Esse fato mostra que a discriminação é uma parte tão indissociável quanto elementar da sociedade japonesa, e ela está tão profundamente arraigada à cultura nipônica que é praticamente impossível alterá-la ou atenuá-la por qualquer motivo.

A verdade é que — quando falamos de um país como o Japão — nem todos os discursos politicamente corretos do mundo, nem a histeria progressista ocidental mais inflamada poderão algum dia modificar, extirpar ou sequer atenuar o componente racista da cultura nipônica. E isso é consequência de uma questão tão simples quanto primordial: discriminar faz parte da natureza humana, sendo tanto um direito individual quanto um elemento cultural inerente à muitas nações do mundo. Os japoneses não tem problema algum em admitir ou institucionalizar o seu preconceito, justamente pelo fato de que a ideologia politicamente correta não tem no oriente a força e a presença que tem no ocidente.

E é fundamental enfatizar que, sendo de natureza pacífica — ou seja, não violando nem agredindo terceiros —, a discriminação é um recurso natural dos seres humanos, que está diretamente associada a questões como familiaridade e segurança.

Absolutamente ninguém deve ser forçado a apreciar ou integrar-se a raças, etnias, pessoas ou tribos que não lhe transmitem sentimentos de segurança ou familiaridade. Integração forçada é o verdadeiro crime, e isso diversos países europeus — principalmente os escandinavos (países que lideram o ranking de submissão à ideologia politicamente correta) — aprenderam da pior forma possível.

A integração forçada com imigrantes islâmicos resultou em ondas de assassinato, estupro e violência inimagináveis para diversos países europeus, até então civilizados, que a imprensa ocidental politicamente correta e a militância progressista estão permanentemente tentando esconder, porque não desejam que o ocidente descubra como a agenda “humanitária” de integração forçada dos povos muçulmanos em países do Velho Mundo resultou em algumas das piores chacinas e tragédias na história recente da Europa.

Ou seja, ao discriminarem estrangeiros, os japoneses estão apenas se protegendo e lutando para preservar sua nação como um ambiente cultural, étnico e social que lhe é seguro e familiar, assim se opondo a mudanças bruscas, indesejadas e antinaturais, que poderiam comprometer a estabilidade social do país.

A discriminação — sendo de natureza pacífica —, é benévola, salutar e indubitavelmente ajuda a manter a estabilidade social da comunidade. Toda e qualquer forma de integração forçada deve ser repudiada com veemência, pois, mais cedo ou mais tarde, ela irá subverter a ordem social vigente, e sempre será acompanhada de deploráveis e dramáticos resultados.

Para citar novamente os países escandinavos, a Suécia é um excelente exemplo do que não fazer. Tendo seguido o caminho contrário ao da discriminação racional praticada pela sociedade japonesa, atualmente a sociedade sueca — além de afundar de forma consistente na lama da libertinagem, da decadência e da deterioração progressista — sofre em demasia com os imigrantes muçulmanos, que foram deixados praticamente livres para matar, saquear, esquartejar e estuprar quem eles quiserem. Hoje, eles são praticamente intocáveis, visto que denunciá-los, desmoralizá-los ou acusá-los de qualquer crime é uma atitude politicamente incorreta e altamente reprovada pelo establishment progressista. A elite socialista sueca jamais se atreve a acusá-los de qualquer crime, pois temem ser classificados como xenófobos e intolerantes. Ou seja, a desgraça da Europa, sobretudo dos países escandinavos, foi não ter oferecido nenhuma resistência à ideologia progressista politicamente correta. Hoje, eles são totalmente submissos a ela.

O exemplo do Japão mostra, portanto — para além de qualquer dúvida —, a importância ética e prática da discriminação, que é perfeitamente aceitável e natural, sendo uma tendência inerente aos seres humanos, e portanto intrínseca a determinados comportamentos, sociedades e culturas.

Indo ainda mais longe nessa questão, devemos entender que na verdade todos nós discriminamos, e não existe absolutamente nada de errado nisso. Discriminar pessoas faz parte da natureza humana e quem se recusa a admitir esse fato é um hipócrita. Mulheres discriminam homens na hora de selecionar um parceiro; elas avaliam diversos quesitos, como altura, aparência, status social, condição financeira e carisma. E dentre suas opções, elas sempre escolherão o homem mais atraente, másculo e viril, em detrimento de todos os baixinhos, calvos, carentes, frágeis e inibidos que possam estar disponíveis. Da mesma forma, homens sempre terão preferência por mulheres jovens, atraentes e delicadas, em detrimento de todas as feministas de meia-idade, acima do peso, de cabelo pintado, que são mães solteiras e militantes socialistas. A própria militância progressista discrimina pessoas de forma virulenta e intransigente, como fica evidente no tratamento que dispensam a mulheres bolsonaristas e a negros de direita.

A verdade é que — não importa o nível de histeria da militância progressista — a discriminação é inerente à condição humana e um direito natural inalienável de todos. É parte indissociável da natureza humana e qualquer pessoa pode e deve exercer esse direito sempre que desejar. Não existe absolutamente nada de errado em discriminar pessoas. O problema real é a ideologia progressista e o autoritarismo politicamente correto, movimentos tirânicos que não respeitam o direito das pessoas de discriminar.

Fascismo

Quando falamos de fascismo, precisamos entender que, para a esquerda política, o fascismo é compreendido como um conceito completamente divorciado do seu significado original. Para um militante de esquerda, fascista é todo aquele que defende posicionamentos contrários ao progressismo, não se referindo necessariamente a um fascista clássico.

Mas, seja como for, é necessário entender que — como qualquer ideologia política — até mesmo o fascismo clássico tem o direito de existir e ocupar o seu devido lugar; portanto, fascistas não devem ser arbitrariamente censurados, apesar de defenderem conceitos que representam uma completa antítese de tudo aquilo que é valioso para os entusiastas da liberdade.

Em um país como o Brasil, onde socialistas e comunistas tem total liberdade para se expressar, defender suas ideologias e até mesmo formar partidos políticos, não faz absolutamente o menor sentido que fascistas — e até mesmo nazistas assumidos — sofram qualquer tipo de discriminação. Embora socialistas e comunistas se sintam moralmente superiores aos fascistas (ou a qualquer outra filosofia política ou escola de pensamento), sabemos perfeitamente que o seu senso de superioridade é fruto de uma pueril romantização universitária da sua própria ideologia. A história mostra efetivamente que o socialismo clássico e o comunismo causaram muito mais destruição do que o fascismo.

Portanto, se socialistas e comunistas tem total liberdade para se expressar, não existe a menor razão para que fascistas não usufruam dessa mesma liberdade.

É claro, nesse ponto, seremos invariavelmente confrontados por um oportuno dilema — o famoso paradoxo da intolerância, de Karl Popper. Até que ponto uma sociedade livre e tolerante deve tolerar a intolerância (inerente a ideologias totalitárias)?

As leis de propriedade privada resolveriam isso em uma sociedade livre. O mais importante a levarmos em consideração no atual contexto, no entanto — ao defender ou criticar uma determinada ideologia, filosofia ou escola de pensamento —, é entender que, seja ela qual for, ela tem o direito de existir. E todas as pessoas que a defendem tem o direito de defendê-la, da mesma maneira que todos os seus detratores tem o direito de criticá-la.

Essa é uma forte razão para jamais apoiarmos a censura. Muito pelo contrário, devemos repudiar com veemência e intransigência toda e qualquer forma de censura, especialmente a estatal.

Existem duas fortes razões para isso:

A primeira delas é a volatilidade da censura (especialmente a estatal). A censura oficial do governo, depois que é implementada, torna-se absolutamente incontrolável. Hoje, ela pode estar apontada para um grupo de pessoas cujas ideias divergem das suas. Mas amanhã, ela pode estar apontada justamente para as ideias que você defende. É fundamental, portanto, compreendermos que a censura estatal é incontrolável. Sob qualquer ponto de vista, é muito mais vantajoso que exista uma vasta pluralidade de ideias conflitantes na sociedade competindo entre si, do que o estado decidir que ideias podem ser difundidas ou não.

Além do mais, libertários e anarcocapitalistas não podem nunca esperar qualquer tipo de simpatia por parte das autoridades governamentais. Para o estado, seria infinitamente mais prático e vantajoso criminalizar o libertarianismo e o anarcocapitalismo — sob a alegação de que são filosofias perigosas difundidas por extremistas radicais que ameaçam o estado democrático de direito — do que o fascismo ou qualquer outra ideologia centralizada em governos burocráticos e onipotentes. Portanto, defender a censura, especialmente a estatal, representa sempre um perigo para o próprio indivíduo, que mais cedo ou mais tarde poderá ver a censura oficial do sistema se voltar contra ele.

Outra razão pela qual libertários jamais devem defender a censura, é porque — ao contrário dos estatistas — não é coerente que defensores da liberdade se comportem como se o estado fosse o seu papai e o governo fosse a sua mamãe. Não devemos terceirizar nossas próprias responsabilidades, tampouco devemos nos comportar como adultos infantilizados. Assumimos a responsabilidade de combater todas as ideologias e filosofias que agridem a liberdade e os seres humanos. Não procuramos políticos ou burocratas para executar essa tarefa por nós.

Portanto, se você ver um fascista sendo censurado nas redes sociais ou em qualquer outro lugar, assuma suas dores. Sinta-se compelido a defendê-lo, mostre aos seus detratores que ele tem todo direito de se expressar, como qualquer pessoa. Você não tem obrigação de concordar com ele ou apreciar as ideias que ele defende. Mas silenciar arbitrariamente qualquer pessoa não é uma pauta que honra a liberdade.

Se você não gosta de estado, planejamento central, burocracia, impostos, tarifas, políticas coletivistas, nacionalistas e desenvolvimentistas, mostre com argumentos coesos e convincentes porque a liberdade e o livre mercado são superiores a todos esses conceitos. Mas repudie a censura com intransigência e mordacidade.

Em primeiro lugar, porque você aprecia e defende a liberdade de expressão para todas as pessoas. E em segundo lugar, por entender perfeitamente que — se a censura eventualmente se tornar uma política de estado vigente entre a sociedade — é mais provável que ela atinja primeiro os defensores da liberdade do que os defensores do estado.

Machismo

Muitos elementos do comportamento masculino que hoje são atacados com virulência e considerados machistas pelo movimento progressista são na verdade manifestações naturais intrínsecas ao homem, que nossos avôs cultivaram ao longo de suas vidas sem serem recriminados por isso. Com a ascensão do feminismo, do progressismo e a eventual problematização do sexo masculino, o antagonismo militante dos principais líderes da revolução sexual da contracultura passou a naturalmente condenar todos os atributos genuinamente masculinos, por considerá-los símbolos de opressão e dominação social.

Apesar do Brasil ser uma sociedade liberal ultra-progressista, onde o estado protege mais as mulheres do que as crianças — afinal, a cada semana novas leis são implementadas concedendo inúmeros privilégios e benefícios às mulheres, aos quais elas jamais teriam direito em uma sociedade genuinamente machista e patriarcal —, a esquerda política persiste em tentar difundir a fantasia da opressão masculina e o mito de que vivemos em uma sociedade machista e patriarcal.

Como sempre, a realidade mostra um cenário muito diferente daquilo que é pregado pela militância da terra da fantasia. O Brasil atual não tem absolutamente nada de machista ou patriarcal. No Brasil, mulheres podem votar, podem ocupar posições de poder e autoridade tanto na esfera pública quanto em companhias privadas, podem se candidatar a cargos políticos, podem ser vereadoras, deputadas, governadoras, podem ser proprietárias do próprio negócio, podem se divorciar, podem dirigir, podem comprar armas, podem andar de biquíni nas praias, podem usar saias extremamente curtas, podem ver programas de televisão sobre sexo voltados única e exclusivamente para o público feminino, podem se casar com outras mulheres, podem ser promíscuas, podem consumir bebidas alcoólicas ao ponto da embriaguez, e podem fazer praticamente tudo aquilo que elas desejarem. No Brasil do século XXI, as mulheres são genuinamente livres para fazer as próprias escolhas em praticamente todos os aspectos de suas vidas. O que mostra efetivamente que a tal opressão do patriarcado não existe.

O liberalismo social extremo do qual as mulheres usufruem no Brasil atual — e que poderíamos estender a toda a sociedade contemporânea ocidental — é suficiente para desmantelar completamente a fábula feminista da sociedade patriarcal machista e opressora, que existe única e exclusivamente no mundinho de fantasias ideológicas da esquerda progressista.

Tão importante quanto, é fundamental compreender que nenhum homem é obrigado a levar o feminismo a sério ou considerá-lo um movimento social e político legítimo. Para um homem, ser considerado machista ou até mesmo assumir-se como um não deveria ser um problema. O progressismo e o feminismo — com o seu nefasto hábito de demonizar os homens, bem como todos os elementos inerentes ao comportamento e a cultura masculina — é que são o verdadeiro problema, conforme tentam modificar o homem para transformá-lo em algo que ele não é nem deveria ser: uma criatura dócil, passiva e submissa, que é comandada por ideologias hostis e antinaturais, que não respeitam a hierarquia de uma ordem social milenar e condições inerentes à própria natureza humana. Com o seu hábito de tentar modificar tudo através de leis e decretos, o feminismo e o progressismo mostram efetivamente que o seu real objetivo é criminalizar a masculinidade.

A verdade é que — usufruindo de um nível elevado de liberdades — não existe praticamente nada que a mulher brasileira do século XXI não possa fazer. Adicionalmente, o governo dá as mulheres uma quantidade tão avassaladora de vantagens, privilégios e benefícios, que está ficando cada vez mais difícil para elas encontrarem razões válidas para reclamarem da vida. Se o projeto de lei que pretende fornecer um auxílio mensal de mil e duzentos reais para mães solteiras for aprovado pelo senado, muitas mulheres que tem filhos não precisarão nem mesmo trabalhar para ter sustento. E tantas outras procurarão engravidar, para ter direito a receber uma mesada mensal do governo até o seu filho completar a maioridade.

O que a militância colorida da terra da fantasia convenientemente ignora — pois a realidade nunca corresponde ao seu conto de fadas ideológico — é que o mundo de uma forma geral continua sendo muito mais implacável com os homens do que é com as mulheres. No Brasil, a esmagadora maioria dos suicídios é praticada por homens, a maioria das vítimas de homicídio são homens e de cada quatro moradores de rua, três são homens. Mas é evidente que uma sociedade liberal ultra-progressista não se importa com os homens, pois ela não é influenciada por fatos concretos ou pela realidade. Seu objetivo é simplesmente atender as disposições de uma agenda ideológica, não importa quão divorciadas da realidade elas são.

O nível exacerbado de liberdades sociais e privilégios governamentais dos quais as mulheres brasileiras usufruem é suficiente para destruir a fantasiosa fábula da sociedade machista, opressora e patriarcal. Se as mulheres brasileiras não estão felizes, a culpa definitivamente não é dos homens. Se a vasta profusão de liberdades, privilégios e benefícios da sociedade ocidental não as deixa plenamente saciadas e satisfeitas, elas podem sempre mudar de ares e tentar uma vida mais abnegada e espartana em países como Irã, Paquistão ou Afeganistão. Quem sabe assim elas não se sentirão melhores e mais realizadas?

Homofobia

Quando falamos em homofobia, entramos em uma categoria muito parecida com a do racismo: o direito de discriminação é totalmente válido. Absolutamente ninguém deve ser obrigado a aceitar homossexuais ou considerar o homossexualismo como algo normal. Sendo cristão, não existe nem sequer a mais vaga possibilidade de que algum dia eu venha a aceitar o homossexualismo como algo natural. O homossexualismo se qualifica como um grave desvio de conduta e um pecado contra o Criador.

A Bíblia proíbe terminantemente conduta sexual imoral, o que — além do homossexualismo — inclui adultério, fornicação, incesto e bestialidade, entre outras formas igualmente pérfidas de degradação.

Segue abaixo três passagens bíblicas que proíbem terminantemente a conduta homossexual:

“Não te deitarás com um homem como se deita com uma mulher. Isso é abominável!” (Levítico 18:22 — King James Atualizada)

“Se um homem se deitar com outro homem, como se deita com mulher, ambos terão praticado abominação; certamente serão mortos; o seu sangue estará sobre eles.” (Levítico 20:13 — João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada)

“O quê! Não sabeis que os injustos não herdarão o reino de Deus? Não sejais desencaminhados. Nem fornicadores, nem idólatras, nem adúlteros, nem homens mantidos para propósitos desnaturais, nem homens que se deitam com homens, nem ladrões, nem gananciosos, nem beberrões, nem injuriadores, nem extorsores herdarão o reino de Deus.” (1 Coríntios 6:9,10 —Tradução do Novo Mundo das Escrituras Sagradas com Referências)

Se você não é religioso, pode simplesmente levar em consideração o argumento do respeito pela ordem natural. A ordem natural é incondicional e incisiva com relação a uma questão: o complemento de tudo o que existe é o seu oposto, não o seu igual. O complemento do dia é a noite, o complemento da luz é a escuridão, o complemento da água, que é líquida, é a terra, que é sólida. E como sabemos o complemento do macho — de sua respectiva espécie — é a fêmea.

Portanto, o complemento do homem, o macho da espécie humana, é naturalmente a mulher, a fêmea da espécie humana. Um homem e uma mulher podem naturalmente se reproduzir, porque são um complemento biológico natural. Por outro lado, um homem e outro homem são incapazes de se reproduzir, assim como uma mulher e outra mulher.

Infelizmente, o mundo atual está longe de aceitar como plenamente estabelecida a ordem natural pelo simples fato dela existir, visto que tentam subvertê-la a qualquer custo, não importa o malabarismo intelectual que tenham que fazer para justificar os seus pontos de vista distorcidos e antinaturais. A libertinagem irrefreável e a imoralidade bestial do mundo contemporâneo pós-moderno não reconhecem nenhum tipo de limite. Quem tenta restabelecer princípios morais salutares é imediatamente considerado um vilão retrógrado e repressivo, sendo ativamente demonizado pela militância do hedonismo, da luxúria e da licenciosidade desenfreada e sem limites.

Definitivamente, fazer a apologia da moralidade, do autocontrole e do autodomínio não faz nenhum sucesso na Sodoma e Gomorra global dos dias atuais. O que faz sucesso é lacração, devassidão, promiscuidade e prazeres carnais vazios. O famoso escritor e filósofo francês Albert Camus expressou uma verdade contundente quando disse: “Uma só frase lhe bastará para definir o homem moderno — fornicava e lia jornais”.

Qualquer indivíduo tem o direito inalienável de discriminar ativamente homossexuais, pelo direito que ele julgar mais pertinente no seu caso. A objeção de consciência para qualquer situação é um direito natural dos indivíduos. Há alguns anos, um caso que aconteceu nos Estados Unidos ganhou enorme repercussão internacional, quando o confeiteiro Jack Phillips se recusou a fazer um bolo de casamento para o “casal” homossexual Dave Mullins e Charlie Craig.

Uma representação dos direitos civis do estado do Colorado abriu um inquérito contra o confeiteiro, alegando que ele deveria ser obrigado a atender todos os clientes, independente da orientação sexual, raça ou crença. Preste atenção nas palavras usadas — ele deveria ser obrigado a atender.

Como se recusou bravamente a ceder, o caso foi parar invariavelmente na Suprema Corte, que decidiu por sete a dois em favor de Jack Phillips, sob a alegação de que obrigar o confeiteiro a atender o “casal” homossexual era uma violação nefasta dos seus princípios religiosos. Felizmente, esse foi um caso em que a liberdade prevaleceu sobre a tirania progressista.

Evidentemente, homossexuais não devem ser agredidos, ofendidos, internados em clínicas contra a sua vontade, nem devem ser constrangidos em suas liberdades pelo fato de serem homossexuais. O que eles precisam entender é que a liberdade é uma via de mão dupla. Eles podem ter liberdade para adotar a conduta que desejarem e fazer o que quiserem (contanto que não agridam ninguém), mas da mesma forma, é fundamental respeitar e preservar a liberdade de terceiros que desejam rejeitá-los pacificamente, pelo motivo que for.

Afinal, ninguém tem a menor obrigação de aceitá-los, atendê-los ou sequer pensar que uma união estável entre duas pessoas do mesmo sexo — incapaz de gerar descendentes, e, portanto, antinatural — deva ser considerado um matrimônio de verdade. Absolutamente nenhuma pessoa, ideia, movimento, crença ou ideologia usufrui de plena unanimidade no mundo. Por que o homossexualismo deveria ter tal privilégio?

Homossexuais não são portadores de uma verdade definitiva, absoluta e indiscutível, que está acima da humanidade. São seres humanos comuns que — na melhor das hipóteses —, levam um estilo de vida que pode ser considerado “alternativo”, e absolutamente ninguém tem a obrigação de considerar esse estilo de vida normal ou aceitável. A única obrigação das pessoas é não interferir, e isso não implica uma obrigação em aceitar.

Discriminar homossexuais (assim como pessoas de qualquer outro grupo, raça, religião, nacionalidade ou etnia) é um direito natural por parte de todos aqueles que desejam exercer esse direito. E isso nem o direito positivo nem a militância progressista poderão algum dia alterar ou subverter. O direito natural e a inclinação inerente dos seres humanos em atender às suas próprias disposições é simplesmente imutável e faz parte do seu conjunto de necessidades.

Conclusão

A militância progressista é absurdamente autoritária, e todas as suas estratégias e disposições ideológicas mostram que ela está em uma guerra permanente contra a ordem natural, contra a liberdade e principalmente contra o homem branco, cristão, conservador e tradicionalista — possivelmente, aquilo que ela mais odeia e despreza.

Nós não podemos, no entanto, ceder ou dar espaço para a agenda progressista, tampouco pensar em considerar como sendo normais todas as pautas abusivas e tirânicas que a militância pretende estabelecer como sendo perfeitamente razoáveis e aceitáveis, quer a sociedade aceite isso ou não. Afinal, conforme formos cedendo, o progressismo tirânico e totalitário tende a ganhar cada vez mais espaço.

Quanto mais espaço o progressismo conquistar, mais corroída será a liberdade e mais impulso ganhará o totalitarismo. Com isso, a cultura do cancelamento vai acabar com carreiras, profissões e com o sustento de muitas pessoas, pelo simples fato de que elas discordam das pautas universitárias da moda.

A história mostra perfeitamente que quanto mais liberdade uma sociedade tem, mais progresso ela atinge. Por outro lado, quanto mais autoritária ela for, mais retrocessos ela sofrerá. O autoritarismo se combate com liberdade, desafiando as pautas de todos aqueles que persistem em implementar a tirania na sociedade. O politicamente correto é o nazismo dos costumes, que pretende subverter a moral através de uma cultura de vigilância policial despótica e autoritária, para que toda a sociedade seja subjugada pela agenda totalitária progressista.

Pois quanto a nós, precisamos continuar travando o bom combate em nome da liberdade. E isso inclui reconhecer que ideologias, hábitos e costumes de que não gostamos tem o direito de existir e até mesmo de serem defendidos.

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Nostr

Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is a new, simple, open and censorship resistant protocol, currently the developers are focused on building a decentralized social network based mainly on public and private keys.

To achieve this, clients will connect to different relays and publish messages called events. Nostr uses the notion of a simple relay and a smart client that will take care of signing the events using a pair of keys to authenticate the person.

https://nostr.how/the-protocol

With this approach, everything is public, i.e. it is easy to know who you are talking to in the case of a private discussion (message content is encrypted) or how often you publish content.

The website https://www.nostrapps.com/ has some interesting and necessary resources to start interacting with Nostr

For more details, JohnOnChain’s article on Discover Bitcoin (in French) can be read here: https://decouvrebitcoin.fr/nostr/

The mixnet

Nym is building an infrastructure to protect your privacy, this is the first block necessary to ensure total freedom on the Internet.

Similar to Tor or i2p, Nym’s mixnet adds 2 components necessary to achieve their goal and completely protect the users of the network:

• False traffic to prevent an ISP for example to know when a person interacts with a service (website, bitcoin wallet, …)

• Regular time interval in the transmitted information to avoid deducing the application used (telephony, web browsing, …)

It is therefore on this new value proposition that we wanted to experiment with the members of Pineapple Proxy on this infrastructure.

Nostr on Nym

Using Nym’s mixnet cannot therefore protect the metadata generated when a person interacts with the protocol, but it can prevent your ISP from knowing that you are using Nostr, which relay you are interacting with, how many times you connect, or what potential interactions you have.

A second interesting point is that a relay operator can easily link your public key with your geographical location based on your IP.

It is essentially on these elements that we decided to experiment with Nostr-nym, an application that allows any relay operator to make it accessible on the mixnet in order to protect the privacy of users. We focused on a generic application in order to support all relays (future and current).

The only difference for a user will be to specify an nym-client id (similar to a domain name) instead of a URL in their Nostr client.

A crucial step still needs to be developed, the fact that a Nostr client can use a relay only accessible via the mixnet. For demonstration purposes, a command line light client could be developed to test the proposed concept.

So ?

Nostr on Nym is for us a solution that would allow any user to have a right to privacy and freedom of expression without even asking the question thanks to this model that offers it by default.

It’s also the time to collaborate and assemble a common brain to reach the goal of seeing Nostr as a protocol using Nym to carry information. This collective intelligence has already given birth to an explanation of Nostr and a demonstration of Nostr-Nym, all available here.

Ressources

What is Pineapple proxy

We're a zesty collective of whacky, warm individuals who are passionate about making privacy convenient for everyone, an inalienable human right. We believe in collective intelligence, empathy, and collaboration as how we'll make privacy a meaningful reality. Give us a visit on pnproxy.org

Nostr

npub to find:

• No Trust Verify: npub1n8mkcvn56gaj9mk598nu3uyp3mqrwazt0rdxsmwddk3ghesfs46qpwc6ac

• Pineapple proxy: npub1vyvyqme882zq3ajw0r0x975p3akd9llcrlgled98qjd8jjhzl9wqut2pt0

Clients (non-exhaustive list)

• https://snort.social

• https://app.coracle.social/

• https://iris.to/

• https://damus.io/ (iOS)

• https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst (Android)

Complements

• https://nostr.how

• https://www.nostrapps.com/

• https://github.com/nostr-protocol/

• https://www.nostr.net/

Nym

• https://nymtech.net/

• https://nymtech.net/docs/

• https://nymtech.net/developers/

About No Trust Verify

We are members of the #VerifyValley. We support the Nym Technologies network and contribute to it since the testnet. We are happy to strengthen the mixnet with our mixnodes and our gateways.

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I have been in the crypto space for a while, but only recently, I got hooked up on Lightning Network, Nostr and Zapping. This is also my first post on Habla, so please be gentle.

By the way. I am not a financial advisor, and this is not financial advice. These are just services I use, and I decided to share my experiences.

If you are like me, you probably ask, "How to buy and stack small amounts of sats? Does it make sense to buy £10 worth of BTC every week? How much will be eaten up by the fees?" And these turned up to be very valid questions for me. At the level of 10£, fees can be humongous.

As you can guess by the "£" sign, I live in the UK and found myself out of the EU a few years ago. Some banks stopped offering their services to us, and everything suddenly became more expensive. So there could be easier or cheaper options in the EU or elsewhere; I am talking about my limited UK experience.

Binance (minimum £15)

best for balanced purchase automation (KYC required)

Recurring buy with a card. Transaction fee 2.07% = £0.31 My £15 bought me 61992 SATS

Recurring buy with a balance. Binance will charge 1£ for processing a bank transfer. Moving £61 every four weeks and setting weekly buys of £15 would work out slightly better than the option above.

Withdrawals The withdrawals must be manual, and Binance has not yet integrated with LN. Withdrawals to BTC have a minimum of 30kSATS, and the network fee is set to 20kSATS. Minus LN network fees, my Alby LN address was credited with only 41871. That's roughly 2/3 of my purchase, definitely not the best of the deals for small amounts.

Crypto.com (minimum £12)

best for purchase automation of larger amounts (KYC required)

Recurring with a card. it will set you back a whopping 2.99%. Crypto.com will add the £0.45 to the charge on your card.

Recurring buy with a balance. On a positive note, there is no fee for processing inbound transfers(!) Like with Binance, the withdrawals must be manual, and no LN integration exists. Withdrawals to BTC have a minimum of 120kSATS. This means I would need to buy at least £30 worth of BTC to be able to withdraw it. However, the fee is whooping 60kSATS which means my lN address would be credited with only 50%. Wow!

Nexo (minimum top-up £10)

best value - totally manual (KYC required)

Unfortunately, there is no recurring purchase option nor integration with LN so maybe I should not include it, However: There are no processing costs for inbound transfers. The platinum level gives five free withdrawals and requires 10% of the overall portfolio value to be held in NEXO. Assuming that we 'r rather hold our crypto in self-custody - this might not be that hard to achieve.

Mt Pelerin

full stacking automation - especially interesting for small amounts (no KYC )

Located in Switzerland and integrated with LN. It cannot be simpler. You send a bank transfer, and your chosen currency in your selected network will be credited. The list is impressive, and you can even specify your self-custodial addresses. The first 500 CHF worth of transactions every year is completely free. This limit can be raised when holding their MPS token. Out of experience, best to send transfers from the UK in CHF. The Revolut fee is only £0.3. Don't forget to provide a reference number.

Summary

These are by no means all possibilities, just all that I tried. There is also no clear best option. At level £10 a month, Mt Pelerin seems to be a no-brainer, but the more you want to buy, the more complex things will get. I am still on the lookout for better options. Shout if you know of any.

If you'd like to sign up - my referral links are: * Binance - https://accounts.binance.com/register?ref=42469060 * Crypto.com - https://crypto.com/app/btgvb3gp3d * Nexo - https://nexo.com/ref/p0qh72rpbp * Mt Pelerin - https://mtpelerin.com/join?rfr=Vx1MzVyn

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Just revisiting some quick tips for #newbies #pow #public #blockchain users only.

if you just getting started with bitcoin or any pow crypto coins or been using or storing them for a while, you not must forget the roots and fundamentals.

Hot Wallet — It gets connected to live internet at some point in time essentially to sign / send a tx i.e. spending transaction — exposes the private key of the address from in the process

Cold Wallet — It never ever gets connected or online and can always keep receiving inbound amounts Paper wallets are best n cheapest form of cold wallet that can used once n thrown away.

Cold wallets need to either “import”ed or “sweep”ed in order to used or spend — https://coinsutra.com/private-key-import-vs-sweep-difference/

Any thin #wallet is always dependent on connectivity to live up2date node server where-as self-sufficient qt / cli wallet takes a while to sync up to latest block height in order to be usable.

Beginners should always resist the attraction of quick and fast — thin n 3rd party wallets and always start a long learning journey of core wallets of any coin — either “qt” GUI wallet or command line “coin-cli” wallet

Almost all #proofofwork #blockchains i.e. #POW has #node #wallet - everyone who use support he #public #blockchain secures own you coin value

You can run fullnode either on clearnet or over onion 🧅 #BTC has >55% of nodes running in onion out of total 15000+ live fullnodes and 50000+ bitcoincore wallets around blockheight 777000 . Other notable pow chains are #LTC #RVN and rest are babychains for now !

Always delete hot wallet to test practice restoration before sending any large refunds to it to be safe.

Large funds are always best to keep in self custody node wallets rare n occasional use

Final word — Cannot see private key 🔑 or seed 🌱 in any wallet means not your coin. 😲

That’s all for now n Thank you 🙏 ! ⚡️ https://getalby.com/p/captjack ⚡️

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some nostr specific lightning ⚡️ Layer2 wallets with blockchain mainnet option nostr:naddr1qqsky6t5vdhkjm3qd35kw6r5de5kueeqf38zqampd3kx2apqdehhxarjqyv8wue69uhkummnw3e8qun00puju6t08genxven9uqkvamnwvaz7tmxd9k8getj9ehx7um5wgh8w6twv5hkuur4vgchgefsw4a8xdnkdgerjatddfshsmr3w93hgwpjdgu8zdnswpuk2enj0pcnqdnydpersepkwpm8wenpw3nkkut2d44xwams8a38ymmpv33kzum58468yat9qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtngv9kkuet59e5k7tczyqvq5m2zcltylrpetrvazrw45sgha24va288lxq8s8562vfkeatfxqcyqqq823ckqlhc8 related blog post nostr:naddr1qqxnzd3cxyenjv3c8qmr2v34qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qydhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn4wdjkcetnwdeks6t59e3k7tczyp6x5fz66g2wd9ffu4zwlzjzwek9t7mqk7w0qzksvsys2qm63k9ngqcyqqq823cpdfq87

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