GM. Another hike to start my weekend. Arucas, Gran Canaria.

Some thoughts on 's approach to socials. I saw one of his X posts yesterday. It had hundreds of likes amd reposts. But he didn't even write it. The tweet was a soundbite composed and published by his custom AI. It's designed to engage the 300k humans of X that follow him while he spends time on Nostr (where he wants to invest energy). Part of me thinks this is smart. It's a win-win. X gets retweetable soundbites true to Jeff's vision, and Nostr gets pure Booth energy! I can't help thinking that this only works for those who have already built a big position (300k followers) amd want to syphon the value into the new digital economy. It's like Saylor's strategy to transfer fiat's energy into bitcoin. This act also fortells how legacy socials will die. Bots will post, and eventually, only bots will read. But humans will always need a place to congregate, a place to spend their energy. We will do it in the places that offer real value, i.e. networks which aren't owned by tech billionaires and Mag7 corporations. Everyone on Nostr is moving to #nostronly, even if they don't know it yet.

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Dal and rice. (red lentils)

We are early...

I would do the same if I had another 299,500 followers in X, haha.

Yes. No shade from me. I admire Jeff's honesty about the process and the execution. If anything it proves beyond doubt that the incentives on X are all wrong and that we are in a transition phase when human and AI value is diverging.

If my solo miner wins a block, I'll zap 21% to good causes on Geyser and shitposts on nostr.

Shitchat™

"Hey, mom. I've finally become a journalist! My topics? I write about bringing down Big Tech and building parallel systems outside the bounds of hideous government overreach... you proud?"

My housemates wish you all a GM-filled day.

What's the best book on Nostr? Explanation of the protocol NIPs Development of the eco system Potential uses etc. Looking to get up to speed, but please, for the love of God, don't send me to GitHub. I like to read prose, not code. Videos welcome too. #asknostr p.s. GM.

Just cancelled my subscription to Google One Drive. Proton migration complete. 👌 Next up, buy a Google phone, so I can escape using Google's operating system 😂

This store's name makes me absolutely furious! They have 200+ locations in Spain and I see them EVERYWHERE. (I also live near a motorcycle accessories shop called Helmet's World 🤣)

CHAPTER 14 - The Orange Pill Five years ago, I knew nothing about finance. I couldn’t even answer the question ‘What is money?’ Then, one of my clients asked me a different question: “Do you know what causes inflation?” was one of my first coaching clients. I was targeting publishers who wanted to improve the quality of their English writing, and he runs an independent press for Bitcoin and self-sovereignty books. In the Bitcoin community, we talk about the concept of ‘orange pilling’ — helping others to understand the benefits of Bitcoin and escape the Matrix of our financial system. In reality, it’s not as easy as taking a pill; the necessary knowledge requires a long process of learning about economics, history, fiscal policy, computer science, game theory, money, energy, maths, and other topics. There is often one ‘unlock’ moment (for me, it was suffering through 20% Covid inflation and finally taking action to combat it). After that, the real learning starts. Niko guided me towards many books on the topic, and I began to ask questions about why our financial system is rigged against us. Bitcoiners favour open-sourcing everything and are against gating ‘intellectual property’. The fact that Niko would provide all his eBooks to me for free made me question my approach to publishing (and the whole industry itself). Perhaps I’ll reflect on this in a later issue. A few months after we finished our coaching sessions, I hit upon an idea. I’d just been ghosted by a publisher who had initially shown interest in an anthology idea of mine (a book of nomad stories). Instead of giving up on the idea of editing a book of stories, I suggested the concept of Bitcoin fiction to Niko. He is a big sci-fi fan and saw the value in ‘orange pilling’ people via stories (almost all Bitcoin books at the time were non-fiction theses). In late 2022, was born. I only wrote one of the stories in ‘21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain’, but bringing an anthology to market requires a LOT of time and input from the editor. I defined the concept, advertised the call for submissions, communicated with all the authors, drew up terms and contracts, selected and edited the stories, worked with the Konsensus Network (the publisher) on the book design, cover, and images, created a marketing plan, set up socials, then a website, blog submissions guidelines, merchandise, and more. I travelled to a conference in Madeira to promote the book and meet the publishing team (including Niko). While the book has not sold thousands of copies, it’s an important proof of work that furthered the concept of stories and fiction in the Bitcoin ecosystem. 21 Futures has become a bigger project, with podcasts, merchandise, a second book, and an animation in development. All of this became a flywheel of momentum for my involvement in the Bitcoin space, generating more opportunities, leading me down countless rabbit holes, and allowing me to make plenty of friends along the way. Those sessions with Niko changed my life, and I’ll be forever grateful to him for his patience, guidance, and support (even though he was the one paying me, LOL). I used to wonder what it took to become an editor, a publisher. For years, I had corrected and edited my students’ work, as well as my own. Essentially, you take the leap and learn as you go (taking courses, reading books, listening to authors). I’ve since edited several books in the space. There is another saying in Bitcoin that rings true for me: “You can just do things.” *** Catch up on previous issues of Unphiltered - the first 20 years of my writing life on Substack and Nostr reads. https://unphiltered.substack.com

GM! Did you know, from 1993 to 2010, there was a daily morning show in the UK called GMTV? What kinds of things would you expect from a daily Nostr-ized GMTV in 2026? #nostr #tv #GM