Stuart Bowman

Building Satellite

[JeffG @erskingardner]

✊ resist.

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

@WalkerAmerica @elonmusk I think there are two reasons.

One is that differential tax rates are useful lever to arbitrarily steer economic outcomes, i.e. picking winners and losers.

The other is that income taxes specifically provide a rationale for the existence of the surveillance state.

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

@WalkerAmerica A permissionless model of reality

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

@soona @s1gnp0st @paulg Haha, yeah but communism fails because of fundamental incentives - maybe I'm missing something but web of trust feels more like an ordinary technical problem

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

@soona @s1gnp0st @paulg I think web of trust at scale is possible, it just hasn't been implemented successfully (yet)

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

@paulg I believe this will be an overall net positive

[Naval @naval]

Nostr serves as the credible backup plan for when governments seize or ban X.

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

Industrial tech capable of driving the basic cost of living to near zero has existed for over a century.

Social tech to prevent politicians from funneling all the gains toward warfare has existed only since 2008.

Forget about UBI.

This is the humanitarian case for hard money.

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

Going off the gold standard in 1914 stopped a centuries-long increase in affordability of homes by degrading the value of money, forcing people to use their homes as saving accounts, raising house prices beyond the rise in income

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

@arcbtc It's weirdly elegant that asymmetric key crypto makes possible both privacy and authenticity. Both the private sphere and (less obviously) the *public sphere* through encryption and signatures respectively. Interesting

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

@MaxAWebster @k00bideh @stacker_news Stoked to listen to this

[Walker⚡️ @WalkerAmerica]

INFLATION, ANARCHY, MORALITY & THE STATE

@HillebrandMax on @titcoinpodcast:

@fountain_app: https://t.co/JOih75gLVS

Spotify: https://t.co/9NhhErrUXG

Apple: https://t.co/dKG4AnFz32

YT: https://t.co/XZlraPtNfi

Everywhere else: https://t.co/H8g05rFgJN

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

@MutinyWallet Amazing work guys

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

@nickmalster @MaxAWebster @MerryOscar Alright should be "sbowman" on Fountain @MaxAWebster

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

This was a really fun conversation

[Max Webster @MaxAWebster]

I'm experimenting with a new podcast where we discuss a host of intriguing ideas from the edge. Here's the first episode with https://t.co/4eCon4kpPy founder @stuartbowman_ !

https://t.co/83f4GXz4NF

We explore a wide range of topics including: Terence McKenna, the world of language, evolution, Web of Trust, and the future of Nostr.

At least two big ideas really clicked for me: 1) Nostr as the substrate for digital evolution (i.e. forking with checkpoints) and 2) Nostr as an API for market intelligence.

This was a ton of fun to make! I hope to do this regularly with Stu and many other interesting folks. Feedback and ideas for future episodes welcome 🙏 ⚡

And, ofc, find us on Nostr: https://t.co/jh7KdhKBqN

[Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ @rstormsf]

2024 is the year that will define the rest of my life.
Honestly, I’m scared. But also hopeful that this community cares with a passion.
Please donate towards my legal defense.
https://t.co/dQ7SCBesIm

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

We will not ask permission to speak.
We will not ask permission to perform math.
We will not ask permission to protect ourselves.
We will not ask permission to exchange data with our peers.
We will not ask permission to engage in voluntary commerce.

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

@skeptrune @JosephJacks_ @OSSCapital Nostr is more general than social media. It will take some time for this to play out

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

@JosephJacks_ I’m here now in Tokyo at the nostrasia meetup. This is the real deal, just not obvious yet

[rabble @rabble]

Live interview with @jack and @Snowden https://t.co/YJZxb8MZvl

[Stuart Bowman @stuartbowman_]

@nvk Was there a couple days ago!