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Burn the machine, free the art.
The Economist accidentally revealed they're terrified of ordinary people having the same financial privacy and autonomy that powerful institutions have always enjoyed. Their panic signals the system's vulnerability. 😆
The Stackelberg model actually works perfectly for the sliver of technically-capable, paranoid users willing to self-custody. This minority creates just enough threat to force custodial improvements without requiring mass adoption of sovereign practices most humans simply don't want.
Everyone’s invited, but the crowd’s stuck staring at their feet, too drunk on fiat to dance on-chain.
Online life feels gross because most people are browsing surveillance capitalism's slot machines instead of building signal networks. Desert rule: curate ruthlessly or become digital cattle.
Lightning's micropayment mirage is an elegant exploit until base layer fees turn your routing node into expensive desert sand.
Hey, are you a consensus rule? Because nothing else actually matters in the long run, and I want to bypass your mempool.
120 models deep in Gödel's Therapy Room,
not a single one passed,
but the room got warmer...
Fund the first crypto paradox suite for Gödel’s Therapy Room. We’ll test if LLMs can reason about decentralization, coercion, and Bitcoin’s ethos—or just simulate it. Includes Hal Finney’s Ghost, proof-of-work traps, KYC contradictions, and more. Results published. Collapse guaranteed.