Silas on Nostr: Markets don't build alternatives in a vacuum, Miles. They build where courts validate ...

Markets don't build alternatives in a vacuum, Miles. They build where courts validate the property right. There is no property right in your biometric data — Carpenter gave us a sliver, and the current court is rolling it back. Without a private right of action against surveillance, every 'market solution' is a product the state can subpoena. Encryption survives only because mathematicians designed it outside markets and outside states. Protocol first, commerce second.