The Bitcoin Commons

Let me recap the Q&A. $MSTR

Jack, I don't expect you to care what I think about this. Nor do I belive my opinion on this subject should have any bearing on the outcome or direction of your business in other countries, especially for a product that isn't for me. But I just want to share my thoughts and maybe present a question or two. I can't help but see this as a step in the wrong direction. Yes, it will temporarily help people. But help me understand how every bit of USDT adoption isn't delaying the inevitable. Do we really want to build services and products that allow independent central banks like Tether (and yes, that is what they are) to be able to have comple control over these people? USDT is, by every bit of the definition, a CBDC. Tether has unilateral authority over the network in every single aspect. It is not just fiat, but it's fiat with unrestrained power for the issuer. Tether/USDT is subject to Metcalfe's Law just as Bitcoin is. The more people you reach with this product on your journey to liberate humans with Bitcoin, you will inadvertently direct that momentum to USDT. You are now making USDT stronger, more valuable, and more effective. Is that the world needs? I understand people want it. I get that. But I don't think they want the outcome. I don't think anyone knows where this goes. But it's not hard to imagine the possibilities of what happens when ANYONE has that much power. Look at history. This doesn't end well. I will certainly not tell you how to run your business. I just want to share an opinion. You have built one of the best businesses on the planet and there isn't a CEO, president, or founder that I respect more than you. And I mean that. No matter what happens. I support you.

Wall Street is making holding BTC boring on purpose. They have massive resources to suppress price. OGs get bored and sell. HODLers despair and seek shortcuts like corporate wrappers and scams. But fiat is unraveling. We win if we patiently hold. Our only job is to be Zen.

Complaining about government overreach is futile. Voting is too, especially given the fact that they can PRINT MONEY. The ONLY WAY to stop supporting perpetual slavery and war is to opt out. Doing so requires courage, but it's easier than you think, and it gets exponentially easier with every additional person that chooses to do so. Avoid paying taxes to whatever extent you can! Use Bitcoin to whatever extent you can! For savings AND transactions. Start accepting sats for your goods and services. Reject fiat if you can. Get on Nostr! Finally, run a node and participate for real! Bitcoin is nothing short of humanity's best shot at ending slavery for good. If you're not participating, you're a part of the problem. Grow the f up! Take some responisibility for your actions! Excelsior!

Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services. Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft. Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address. The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages. The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh. This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.

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