I'll make a case for Javier, not "the politician Javier" and certainly not the "bitcoiner Javier". I don't believe any change will come out of voting, so I don't do it. That being said:

I'm from Argentina, I've always lived here.

The first time I hear about Milei it was trough a frind, one of those friends that you know they don't know much about politics or economy but that sparked my curiosity in the austrian school of economics and Atlas shrugged wich was the first step in what ended up being my journey down the Bitcoin rabbithole.

Javier Milei, since 2016, started to appear on TV making a case for closing the central bank, full libertarian, recommending one book after another. His charm and hilarious bursts of angry against some statist clown has proven to be an amazing tool to expose an enormous amount of people to libertarian ideas and that is what he called "the cultural battle".

Bitcoin and Milei: Javier has talked about Bitcoin in the past, I think before even he started his career in politics, and as far as I can tell he was consistent in his view as a tool against central banking.

No one in his or her right mind will argue that he is a bitcoin hero, and I don't know why some people portraits him like that besides the casual mentioning of Bitcoin here and there.

What I find valuable in this is that today, a big chunk of young people supports him, who knows how valuable that is in forming future generations of freedom loving people. For those who are not from here I can't even start to explain how far was the oberton window regarding economics and now we have a guy (with a crazy hair lol) that talks about making the streets private, talks about secession and even literally talks about demolishing the central bank.

I know that I ended up knowing about bitcoin thanks to him indirectly though, but still. I agree with you that you should kill your idols at some point, also the shitcoin stuff with CoinX, I agree with that, but what I don't understand is how can you not have at least some perspective in the positive side of this.

Even me as someone who advocates to not trust any politician and don't vote can appreciate that whatever he is doing is pushing forward the freedom ideas, who knows what impact that can have. I find this interesting to see, at least from people here and even for people outside Argentina.

I was thinking about the same, I have always been suspicious about eSIM phones.

How can anybody tell if this is not a honeypot?? That will be a fair place to start, maybe they are legit but I don't know...

LMAO

The NSA does (?)

I don't agree, I think it should be Briar for anything that doesn't require more than sharing text or images.

I've heard some concearning things about Matrix but take me with a grain of salt

Have you tried Blixt? afaik is like Phoenix but you can manage who you open channels to, a full LN node in your phone.

I'm using Phoenix for now, but is the next on mi list!

I'll add both

underrated

sad but true! hey are you on nostr??

I like this idea, there is a logo available for exactly this for those who want to adopt it

Your question deserves a lot more academic attention I think, I really don't know how we got "used to" this inflation but maybe it has to do with all the propaganda that is feed into the news and willful blindness

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are you on nostr?

You just payed sats on a platform to comment that paying with sats on a platform won't catch up lol

I think for some people the Bitcoin journey will start backwards. Playing with "magic internet money" and after a lot of time they will end up as sovereign individuals.

That is for some, those "orangepilleable" ones, othes just won`t get it, never, period. And maybe it is the way things needs to be, who knows... they will just go along with the masses, but rest asure someone needs to start that fire.

Just tell them how government works with the help of the good old Ron Swanson:

they can take it from there...

Why? easy, imoi:

Show them the problem and they will ask for Bitcoin.

Hey, bienvenido! estas en nostr?

You certainly got truckers with balls, that is for sure. There is hope still

As an Argie myself I can confirm this 100%, is just the way how masses of people learn, you trhow them a problem an they develop over time social institutions that solves that problems, for us until Bitcoin it was fleeing the Peso and saving in dolars (cash, never in banks) and this is a "know how" developed after several crisis.

Painful learning, but the most antyfragile learning.

I feel the same moral imperative. I'm making tiny business cards to share with merchants for this same reason, at least to spark the curiosity in some of them and give the necessary tools to those who want but don't know how to start their orange journey.

"everybody fails to do the jump the first time" - Matrix

Is true for almost all bitcoiners, why would be any different for a platform? IMO They will fail until the first of the big platforms adopts the future.

I think nostr will benefit greatly by using the stacker news model of "pay-to-do", you don's suscribe to a server but leverage the micro tx hability of LN to pay per note, pay per reaction.

I think that the Zapp will kill the "like" buttom, so having it now could be an example of skeumorphism.

In a more sophisticated approach we might want to think about where a relay operator expends the most and monetize in the bases of that. Is it bandwith? is ti storage? a combination of both?

I think the same, in fact I posted a note on nostr yesterday about that. SN can be fresh air for him due to the low spam and business model. Here you don't feed the trols, the trolls feed you with their sats.

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