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Imagine being on the Bilderberg 2025 participants list when the whole planet is waking up… Here is the full list (these people are not #cypherpunks): Stacey Abrams (USA), CEO, Sage Works Production Maria Luís Albuquerque (INT), European Commissioner Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union Diego del Alcázar Benjumea (ESP), CEO, IE University Marco Alverà (ITA), Co-Founder, zhero.net; CEO TES Magdalena Andersson (SWE), Leader, Social Democratic Party Anne Applebaum (USA), Staff Writer, The Atlantic Gabriel Attal (FRA), Former Prime Minister Murray Auchincloss (CAN), CEO, BP plc James H. Baker (USA), Former Director, Office of Net Assessment, Department of Defense Patricia Barbizet (FRA), Chair and CEO, Temaris & Associés SAS José Manuel Barroso (PRT), Chair International Advisors, Goldman Sachs International Valérie Baudson (FRA), CEO, Amundi SA Leonor Beleza (PRT), President, Champalimaud Foundation Fatih Birol (INT), Executive Director, International Energy Agency Ana Botín (ESP), Group Executive Chair, Banco Santander SA Albert Bourla (USA), Chair and CEO, Pfizer Inc. Børge Brende (NOR), President, World Economic Forum Magnus Brunner (INT), European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Rafal Brzoska (POL), CEO, InPost SA Ebba Busch (SWE), Minister for Energy, Business and Industry Patrice Caine (FRA), Chair & CEO, Thales Group Nadia Calviño (INT), President, European Investment Bank Henri de Castries (FRA), President, Institut Montaigne Jack Chambers (IRL), Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Reform and Digitalisation François-Philippe Champagne (CAN), Minister of Finance and National Revenue Jack Clark (USA), Co-Founder & Head of Policy, Anthropic PBC Kate Crawford (USA), Professor and Senior Principal Researcher, USC and Microsoft Research Christopher Donahue (USA), Commander, US Army Europe and Africa Paschal Donohoe (INT), President, Eurogroup; Minister of Finance Mathias Döpfner (DEU), Chair and CEO, Axel Springer SE Nicholas N. Eberstadt (USA), Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, AEI Daniel Ek (SWE), CEO, Spotify SA Börje Ekholm (SWE), CEO, Ericsson Group Øyvind Eriksen (NOR), President and CEO, Aker ASA Stefano Feltri (ITA), Journalist Annemiek Fentener van Vlissingen (NLD), Chair, SHV Holdings NV Jane Fraser (USA), CEO, Citigroup Chrystia Freeland (CAN), Minister of Transport and Internal Trade Thomas L. Friedman (USA), Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times Alexander Gabuev (INT), Director, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center Kristina Hammer (AUT), President, Salzburg Festival Kevin Harrington (USA), Senior Director for Strategic Planning, NSC Demis Hassabis (GBR), Co-Founder and CEO, Google DeepMind Connie Hedegaard (DNK), Chair, KR Foundation Rebeccah Heinrichs (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute Anne Heraty (IRL), Chair, Sherry Fitzgerald ana IBEC Jussi Herlin (FIN), Vice Chair, KONE Corporation Pablo Hernández de Cos (ESP), General Manager Elect, Bank for International Settlements Mellody Hobson (USA), Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments LLC Wopke Hoekstra (INT), European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth Jeremy Hunt (GBR), Member of Parliament Pablo Isla (ESP), Vice-Chair, Nestlé SA Micael Johansson (SWE), President and CEO, Saab AB Conni Jonsson (SWE), Founder and Chair, EQT Group Alex Karp (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc. Julia Klöckner (DEU), President Bundestag Wojciech Kostrzewa (POL), President, Polish Business Roundtable Stephen Kotkin (USA), Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Michael Kratsios (USA), Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Henry R. Kravis (USA), Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chair, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. André Kudelski (CHE), Chair and CEO, Kudelski Group SA Dmytro Kuleba (UKR), Adjunct Professor, Sciences Po Geoffrey van Leeuwen (INT), Director Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO Jean Lemierre (FRA), Chair, BNP Paribas Enrico Letta (ITA), Dean, IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs Thomas Leysen (BEL), Chair, dsm-firmenich AG Robert Lighthizer (USA), Chair, Center for American Trade Erkki Liikanen (FIN), Chair, IFRS Foundation Trustees Martin Lundstedt (SWE), CEO, Volvo Group Sanna Marin (FIN), Strategic Counsellor, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Michael McGrath (INT), European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and the Rule of Law Arthur Mensch (FRA), Co-Founder and CEO, Mistral AI John Micklethwait (USA), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP Zanny Minton Beddoes (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist Kyriakos Mitsotakis (GRC), Prime Minister Mario Monti (ITA), Senator for life Satya Nadella, (USA), CEO, Microsoft Corporation H.M. the King of the Netherlands (NLD), Michael O'Leary (IRL), Group CEO, Ryanair Group Kajsa Ollongren (NLD), Fellow, Chatham House; Senior Fellow, GLOBSEC Murat Özyeğin (TUR), Chair, Fiba Group Dimitri Papalexopoulos (GRC), Chair, TITAN S.A. Samuel Paparo (USA), Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command Édouard Philippe (FRA), Mayor, Le Havre Patrick Pouyanné (FRA), Chair and CEO, TotalEnergies SE Alexandra Prokopenko (INT), Fellow, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center Gideon Rachman (GBR), Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times Rolly van Rappard (NLD), Co-Founder and Chair, CVC Capital Partners Katherina Reiche (DEU), Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy Birgitte Ringstad Vartdal (NOR), CEO, Statkraft AS Nicolas Roche (FRA), Secretary General, General Secretariat for Defence and National Security Mark Rutte (INT), Secretary General, NATO Diogo Salvi (PRT), Co-Founder and CEO, TIMWE John Sawers (GBR), Executive Chair, Newbridge Advisory Ltd. Gundbert Scherf (DEU), Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Helsing GmbH Brian Schimpf (USA), Co-Founder & CEO, Anduril Industries Eric E. Schmidt (USA), Executive Chair and CEO, Relativity Space Inc Wolfgang Schmidt (DEU), Former Federal Minister for Special Tasks, Head of the Chancellery Maroš Šefčovič (INT), European Commissioner Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency Christian Sewing (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Bank AG Radoslaw Sikorski (POL), Minister of Foreign Affairs Mehmet Şimşek (TUR), Minister of Finance Jason Smith (USA), Member of Congress Jens Stoltenberg (NOR), Minister of Finance Wes Streeting (GBR), Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Alexander Stubb (FIN), President of the Republic Mustafa Suleyman (USA), CEO, Microsoft AI Lawrence Summers (USA), Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University Peter Thiel (USA), President, Thiel Capital LLC Laurent Toulemon (FRA), Senior Researcher, INED Robert Uggla (DNK), Chair, A.P. Møller-Maersk A/S Valentino Valentini (ITA), Deputy Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy Luis Vassy (FRA), Director, Sciences Po Karel Verhoeven (BEL), Editor-in-Chief, De Standaard Jacob Wallenberg (SWE), Chair, Investor AB Marcus Wallenberg (SWE), Chair, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB Beatrice Weder di Mauro (CHE), President, Centre for Economic Policy Research David van Weel (NLD), Minister of Justice and Security Sophie Wilmès (INT), Vice-President, European Parliament Fareed Zakaria (USA), Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS Gerhard Zeiler (AUT), President, Warner Bros. Discovery International #bitcoin #bilderberg

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Amazing, welcome to the club!

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Orange is the new black. #bitcoin

Orange is the new black. #bitcoin

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Check your "max relays per request" setting. If you are sending/requesting from fewer than than number of relays, coracle will fall back to that number. Coracle wasn't really designed for relay selection tuning, but to "just work" no matter how bad people's configurations were. That could be changed, but it's unclear to me how much it would only work for power users.

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“Anyway, this is where I live now.” 😂😂😂

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Old New Zealand dreams in Westmere. 8 Faulder Avenue 📸 2023, Auckland https://art.kolindin.com/8-faulder-avenue #photography #architecture #minimalism #artwork #artstr #photostr

Old New Zealand dreams in Westmere. 8 Faulder Avenue 📸 2023, Auckland https://art.kolindin.com/8-faulder-avenue #photography #architecture #minimalism #artwork #artstr #photostr

Lol so, I asked my really smart friend Claude Sonnet this question: Based on human history, does Bitcoin and Nostr create a global infrastructure that is genuinely unique to the world? And he gave this answer: Looking at the sweep of human history, what we're witnessing with Bitcoin and Nostr does indeed represent something genuinely unique to our world. To help you understand just how unprecedented this is, let me guide you through the historical patterns that have governed human organization for millennia, and then show you exactly where Bitcoin and Nostr break from these patterns in ways that have never happened before. **The Historical Constant: Geography Determines Governance** Throughout all of recorded human history, one principle has remained constant: your physical location determines which authorities have power over you. Whether you lived under a tribal chief, a feudal lord, a nation-state, or an empire, the fundamental organizing principle was territorial control. The people who controlled the land you lived on controlled your economic and social life. Think about what this meant in practice. If you were born in ancient Rome, you lived under Roman law, used Roman currency, and participated in Roman social structures. If you wanted to trade with people in distant lands, you needed permission from various territorial authorities, had to exchange currencies through their systems, and faced restrictions or taxes they imposed. There was no way to opt out of this system while remaining in the same physical location. This territorial principle created what we might call "bundled sovereignty" - when you accepted the protection and services of a territorial authority, you also accepted their control over your money, your communications, your trade relationships, and your social organization. You couldn't pick and choose which aspects of their governance you wanted to participate in. **The Communication Control Pattern** Let's examine how this territorial control extended to communication throughout history. Every major communication technology has ultimately been subject to territorial control, even when it appeared to transcend borders initially. Consider the printing press, which seemed revolutionary when it emerged. Yet within decades, every territorial authority had developed systems to control printing through licensing, censorship, and control of paper supplies. The Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books, royal printing patents, and government censorship boards all represented ways that territorial authorities reasserted control over this new technology. The telegraph and telephone networks, despite their global reach, were ultimately owned and controlled by companies that operated under the jurisdiction of territorial governments. During wartime, these networks could be severed, monitored, or shut down by the authorities that controlled the physical infrastructure. Even the internet, which many believed would be impossible to control, has proven subject to territorial authority. Governments can block websites, companies can be compelled to remove content, and the physical infrastructure that enables internet communication remains under the control of territorial authorities. **The Monetary Sovereignty Pattern** Money tells a similar story throughout history. Every territorial authority has sought to control the monetary system within their borders, and for good reason - controlling money means controlling economic activity and, ultimately, political power. Ancient kings stamped their faces on coins not just for vanity, but to demonstrate their control over the monetary system. When people used the king's money, they acknowledged his authority. The emergence of central banking in the modern era represented a sophisticated evolution of this same principle - territorial authorities maintaining control over money creation and monetary policy within their borders. Even when people tried to use alternative forms of money, territorial authorities could ultimately suppress these alternatives through legal prohibition, physical confiscation, or control of the infrastructure needed to use them. Gold could be confiscated, as happened in the United States during the 1930s. Private currencies could be banned. Alternative payment systems could be shut down. **Where Bitcoin Breaks the Pattern** Now, here's where Bitcoin represents something genuinely unprecedented in human history. For the first time, we have a monetary system that operates completely independently of territorial control. Let me help you understand why this is so revolutionary. Bitcoin doesn't exist in any particular jurisdiction. It's not controlled by any government, company, or individual. The network operates according to mathematical rules that no territorial authority can change. People can use Bitcoin regardless of where they live, what their government thinks about it, or whether they have permission from any authority. Think about what this means in practice. Someone in China can send Bitcoin to someone in the United States without involving any Chinese or American institution. The transaction is validated by a global network of computers, none of which are controlled by either government. Neither government can stop the transaction, reverse it, or even necessarily identify the parties involved. This breaks the fundamental pattern that has governed human monetary systems for thousands of years. For the first time, monetary sovereignty is separated from territorial sovereignty. People can participate in a global monetary system without requiring permission from their territorial authorities. **Where Nostr Breaks the Communication Pattern** Nostr represents an equally unprecedented break in communication systems. Let me show you exactly why this is historically unique. Remember how every previous communication technology ultimately fell under territorial control? Nostr is designed to make such control architecturally impossible. Your identity on Nostr isn't granted by any authority - it's generated through cryptographic processes that no one can revoke. Your messages don't travel through any centralized system that governments can shut down - they propagate through a network of independent relays that anyone can operate. Most importantly, Nostr allows people to communicate and coordinate social activity across territorial boundaries without requiring permission from any territorial authority. Think about what this means: for the first time in human history, people can maintain persistent social relationships and coordinate economic activity on a global scale without their interactions being mediated by institutions that operate under territorial control. **The Unbundling of Sovereignty** What Bitcoin and Nostr together represent is something we might call the "unbundling of sovereignty." Throughout history, territorial authorities have provided a bundle of services - military protection, legal systems, currency, communication infrastructure, and social coordination mechanisms. People had to accept this entire bundle or face the consequences of living outside any organized society. Bitcoin and Nostr allow people to opt out of specific aspects of this bundle while remaining within territorial boundaries. You can live in the United States, benefit from American military protection and legal systems, but use Bitcoin for monetary transactions and Nostr for social coordination. You're selectively participating in territorial authority rather than being completely subject to it. This creates something that has never existed before: the possibility of genuine voluntary association on a global scale. People can choose which aspects of governance they want to participate in based on their preferences and values, rather than being forced to accept whatever bundle of services happens to be provided by their territorial authority. **The Network State Emergence** What we're witnessing might be the emergence of what some theorists call "network states" - forms of organization that exist across territorial boundaries and operate according to voluntary participation rather than territorial control. Bitcoin provides the economic infrastructure for such organization, while Nostr provides the communication infrastructure. Think about what this could mean in practice. Groups of people could coordinate economic activity through Bitcoin, communicate through Nostr, and organize social structures that span multiple territorial jurisdictions. They could maintain loyalty to these network-based organizations while living under various territorial authorities. This doesn't necessarily mean the end of territorial governments, but it does mean the emergence of competing forms of human organization that operate by entirely different principles. People might simultaneously be citizens of territorial states and participants in network states, choosing which system to use for different aspects of their lives. **The Historical Precedent Question** You might wonder whether there are any historical precedents for this kind of transformation. The closest parallel might be the emergence of merchant networks during the medieval period - organizations like the Hanseatic League that operated across territorial boundaries and maintained their own legal and economic systems. However, even these merchant networks ultimately depended on territorial authorities for protection and legal enforcement. They existed in the spaces between territorial control rather than being genuinely independent of it. Bitcoin and Nostr represent something more fundamental - systems that operate according to mathematical rather than political principles and don't require territorial authority for their basic functioning. **The Irreversibility Factor** What makes this transformation particularly significant is its apparent irreversibility. Once people understand that monetary and communication sovereignty are possible, and once the infrastructure exists to support them, it becomes very difficult to suppress these capabilities without also suppressing the technological infrastructure that modern societies depend on. Think about what a government would need to do to effectively suppress Bitcoin and Nostr. They would need to control internet access, prohibit cryptographic software, monitor all digital communications, and coordinate with every other government globally. Such measures would be so destructive to modern economic and social life that they would be practically impossible to implement in developed societies. This suggests that we're witnessing a one-way transformation in human organizational capabilities. Just as the printing press made it impossible to return to a world where information could be completely controlled by authorities, Bitcoin and Nostr might make it impossible to return to a world where monetary and communication systems are completely controlled by territorial authorities. **The Question of What Comes Next** Understanding the historical uniqueness of this moment raises profound questions about what comes next. We're conducting a global experiment in voluntary association and decentralized coordination, and we don't know exactly how it will unfold because nothing like this has ever happened before. The people and institutions who recognize this transformation's significance and adapt accordingly might thrive in whatever emerges. Those who assume that traditional patterns of territorial control will simply reassert themselves might find themselves increasingly irrelevant to how human economic and social coordination actually occurs. Does this help you see why Bitcoin and Nostr together represent something genuinely unprecedented in human history? We're not just seeing new technologies emerge - we're witnessing the emergence of entirely new principles for human organization that have never been possible before. #bitcoin #nostr

No, I kind of got stuck building a relay management client

No, I kind of got stuck building a relay management client

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