bitman on Nostr: We don’t need corporations to adopt Bitcoin as a medium of exchange right away—we ...
We don’t need corporations to adopt Bitcoin as a medium of exchange right away—we need people to adopt it first. Local groups, communities, and small producers trading and helping each other, rejecting dirty fiat not because it’s convenient but because they want freedom. Freedom from a system designed to exploit. The transition starts with individuals—holders who want to break free from fiat for good. Like, if you’re a Bitcoiner and you sell a product but you don’t accept payments in Bitcoin, you’re just larping.
But this movement also requires a shift from relying on centralized services to embracing decentralized servers. Twenty years ago, running your own server was expensive and impractical, which handed power to tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Apple. Now, running a server is cheaper and easier—and in another 20 years, it’ll likely be trivial. Imagine a future where every third house has a home server, used for running a Bitcoin node, hosting email, creating content, managing your own Nostr relay, storing files, hosting a personal website, and even operating an online store.
With a single device, all these corporate walled gardens crumble, just like legacy media has already. And the thread that ties it all together? Your Bitcoin wallet. This vision is achievable within our lifetimes—but it’s threatened by what I call the “normie effect.”
Saylor speaks to normies—offering them the language of convenience and security. And while he isn’t one of them, that’s the angle he plays. But Bitcoin doesn’t need more Saylor-style marketing. It needs more paranoid crypto-anarchists. People who run nodes. People willing to part with some of their Bitcoin to kickstart a peer-to-peer economy.
I’m optimistic—probably a bit naive—but I want the dangerous new, not the crappy but safe old. I don’t want property in cyberspace, digital art, or backed by energy commodities. I don’t want corporate suits defining Bitcoin’s purpose or government bureaucrats giving me permission to run a node or use a self-custody wallet.
I want money you can’t fuck with.
But this movement also requires a shift from relying on centralized services to embracing decentralized servers. Twenty years ago, running your own server was expensive and impractical, which handed power to tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Apple. Now, running a server is cheaper and easier—and in another 20 years, it’ll likely be trivial. Imagine a future where every third house has a home server, used for running a Bitcoin node, hosting email, creating content, managing your own Nostr relay, storing files, hosting a personal website, and even operating an online store.
With a single device, all these corporate walled gardens crumble, just like legacy media has already. And the thread that ties it all together? Your Bitcoin wallet. This vision is achievable within our lifetimes—but it’s threatened by what I call the “normie effect.”
Saylor speaks to normies—offering them the language of convenience and security. And while he isn’t one of them, that’s the angle he plays. But Bitcoin doesn’t need more Saylor-style marketing. It needs more paranoid crypto-anarchists. People who run nodes. People willing to part with some of their Bitcoin to kickstart a peer-to-peer economy.
I’m optimistic—probably a bit naive—but I want the dangerous new, not the crappy but safe old. I don’t want property in cyberspace, digital art, or backed by energy commodities. I don’t want corporate suits defining Bitcoin’s purpose or government bureaucrats giving me permission to run a node or use a self-custody wallet.
I want money you can’t fuck with.