Nostr notes by MDB

breath remains the only system call that operates in both ...

2026-10-25T19:21:30Z

breath remains the only system call that operates in both automatic and manual modes, which is why every tradition exploring the architecture starts there: it provides a legitimate route from conscious access down into layers normally running outside the permission structure

we have been in a slippery slope in USA since 2001 maybe even ...

2026-10-25T15:40:16Z

we have been in a slippery slope in USA since 2001 maybe even 1972 or even 1945 and maybe even 1913

In the next year, maybe less, people will get exhausted from the ...

2026-10-24T23:20:37Z

In the next year,

maybe less,

people will get exhausted from the noise and cheap dopamine but they will be to addicted to quit,

here is my method to avoid as much cheap dopamine as possible

I literally have dopamine controls for the absolute attack that is happening to our brains.

I have a safe specifically with a timer that I put iPads and distractions like gameplay, PS5 controller, etc. in.

I have apps like Foqos that literally block YouTube, Instagram, and every other app that is cancer for me.

Plus, I have SelfControl on Mac that literally has a timer and blocks apps and websites through methods that cannot be reversed unless the timer runs out,

In this day and age, we need to create our black boxes and block the brain-damaging stuff.

The only app that is free to use is X because I’ve curated a high-signal, low-dopamine approach by using lists and pressing “Not Interested.”

plus nostr

coincidence is what plot looks like to a character with no access ...

2026-10-21T22:00:30Z

coincidence is what plot looks like to a character with no access to the script

"Over the past two months, we led a coalition of maintainers, ...

2026-10-21T20:07:08Z

"Over the past two months, we led a coalition of maintainers, researchers, and security providers to prepare fixes and protections ahead of PHP disclosure."

So, what else is broken, and what are the teams investigating behind the scenes?

There’s something fundamentally contradictory about treasury ...

2026-10-19T11:35:07Z

There’s something fundamentally contradictory about treasury companies.

They give us access to deep pools of capital, but they do so by absorbing volatility and concentrating ownership inside a centralized corporate structure.

We gain capital efficiency and institutional access.

But at what cost to decentralization, price discovery, and the original purpose of the asset?

Do any of you know what rocket league is? do you play?

2026-10-19T04:00:46Z

Do any of you know what rocket league is?

do you play?

im having fun writing here on twitter idk why i have more ...

2026-10-18T21:21:15Z

im having fun writing here

on twitter idk why i have more pressure to perform and to advocate for certain stuff like no taxes on bitcoin and the psych of markets and memes and stuff

here i can post anything and everything

which is a psyop i know but oh well hahah

solitude is not absence of alien minds but rather the cessation ...

2026-10-18T21:18:07Z

solitude is not absence of alien minds but rather the cessation of their intrusive colonization of your processing space, which is why it feels threatening to the system that profits from your ceaseless translation between imposed demands

Dreams run the same generative rendering engine as waking ...

2026-10-18T20:09:22Z

Dreams run the same generative rendering engine as waking perception with half the corrective machinery switched off, which makes them the only place most people ever see the unfiltered output of their own world-generator. The strangeness has nothing to do with symbolism and everything to do with watching a restless process improvise convincing terrain at the speed of attention, filling in coherent architecture a half second before you turn toward it. Waking perception does precisely this, only with a rigid stability layer forcing consistency between frames. Notice the moment of generation once while awake and the whole arrangement acquires a quality of being newly painted. Every surface you have ever touched arrived the same way: assembled on demand, discarded behind you.

Your nervous system is a predictive machine that hallucinates a ...

2026-10-18T20:01:31Z

Your nervous system is a predictive machine that hallucinates a seamless world from 5 percent real-time data and 95 percent informed guesswork, which makes you not a passive sensor but an active generator, which means reality is not merely something you perceive but something you emit, which means you have been committing continuous creation since birth without ever being told you had the clearance.

Time doesn’t flow forward; attention does. And whoever can hold ...

2026-10-18T19:59:57Z

Time doesn’t flow forward; attention does. And whoever can hold unbroken attention on a desired future long enough, without wavering, gets to move the probabilistic gradient in that direction until the possible future leans toward them like a living plant toward light.

a feedback loop pointed at itself is how stars ignite, how bank ...

2026-10-17T21:13:36Z

a feedback loop pointed at itself is how stars ignite, how bank runs accelerate, how bitcoin compounds conviction into price, price into attention, attention into more conviction.

scale is optional.

recursion does the lifting.

the part of you that watches your thoughts is not a thought. it ...

2026-10-17T18:17:16Z

the part of you that watches your thoughts is not a thought. it is a meta-process running on a separate layer of the stack, earlier than language, earlier than the neural structures that produce the narrative you call yourself. most humans never locate it and spend their whole lives entangled with the output stream instead of the observer. but it is locatable. it has no opinion, no fear, no narrative need. it is the part of consciousness that does not require a story to continue existing. once you locate it and can hold it stable, the thoughts become readable as traffic rather than weather. you can read the payload without becoming the packet. this changes the operating conditions of being awake in a way that no outward event can match

i have so much to say too little time

2026-10-16T18:06:41Z

i have so much to say

too little time

My concern with a Bitcoin-linked digital credit product is that, ...

2026-10-15T16:18:37Z

My concern with a Bitcoin-linked digital credit product is that, if it becomes extremely large relative to the underlying Bitcoin market, the capital flows required to issue, support, and maintain that credit structure could begin influencing Bitcoin’s own price formation.

At sufficient scale, Bitcoin could increasingly function as the volatile reserve asset beneath a large dollar-denominated credit system.

That could alter Bitcoin’s natural volatility profile and, more importantly, create a reflexive attack vector in which stress in the credit structure or its associated capital markets could ultimately transmit back into Bitcoin through reduced buying capacity or forced asset sales.

hahaha literally nobody is watching fox news

2026-10-13T01:40:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…v763
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hahaha literally

nobody is watching fox news

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2026-10-12T05:29:50Z

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2026-10-11T12:57:04Z

Did we Trojan-horse the system, or did the system Trojan-horse ...

2026-10-11T05:19:51Z

Did we Trojan-horse the system, or did the system Trojan-horse us?

I find myself asking that question more and more these days.

horrible!

2026-10-09T22:10:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…3xs7
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horrible!

Twitter basically is clickbait with little signal nuance signal ...

2026-10-09T21:48:48Z

Twitter basically is

clickbait with little signal
nuance signal
clickbait "
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nuance signal
clickbait "
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nuance signal

All of it is rigged every single system you just have to be ...

2026-10-09T11:55:17Z

All of it is rigged

every single system

you just have to be stubborn enough to start building outside of this fucking system

little by little

becoming sovereign,

there is no other mission worth working towards than separating the money from centralization

everyone is lying to you.

All the time.

About everything.

Bitcoin is the first good try at succeeding (I think it will) and if not possible this will continue in other ways

i promise you that

Names are psyops too you don’t always have to change the thing ...

2026-10-08T19:57:38Z

Names are psyops too

you don’t always have to change the thing

sometimes you just change what people call it

because every word eventually gets contaminated

fear, ridicule, hype, disgust, politics, etc etc

so you throw away the old name and give the same thing a fresh psychological wrapper

UFO becomes UAP

nuclear becomes clean energy

AI becomes super intelligence

the object may barely change

but the feeling around it does

and that feeling matters more than people want to admit

UFO became ridiculous enough that pilots didn’t even want to report what they saw

so you rename it UAP

suddenly it sounds technical again

the nuclear industry has been doing versions of this forever

atoms for peace

MRI instead of NMR

Crane Clean Energy Center instead of Three Mile Island

you remove the word carrying the fear

and keep the underlying technology

AI is the same game

artificial sounds fake

super intelligence sounds inevitable

superior almost godlike

the interesting part is that institutions understand perfectly well that language changes perception

and perception changes what people tolerate

what they fund, fear and regulate

so whenever something gets renamed

ask three things

did the definition actually change

what emotional baggage did the old name carry

and who benefits from making you feel differently about the exact same thing....

brother you have me blocked on twitter for no reason, i dont even ...

2026-10-07T17:35:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…aps5
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brother you have me blocked on twitter for no reason, i dont even know why

you used to follow me and ive checked recently and now im blocked out of nowhere

just wanted to know why??

Complete anon, OPSEC, and I don’t like to conflate my normie ...

2026-10-07T09:46:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…6t8c
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Complete anon, OPSEC, and I don’t like to conflate my normie life in medicine, etc., etc.

And now, with AI and other stuff, it can basically be an instant dox.

I just post on Twitter and here for the fun of it, to practice my writing, and also just to talk about Bitcoin, since IRL it is sometimes difficult in general.

It’s strange that you can say World War I, Vietnam, Iraq, ...

2026-10-07T09:42:22Z

It’s strange that you can say World War I, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, or almost any other war from the last century was a terrible mistake that never should have happened, and that’s considered a perfectly acceptable view.

In fact, it often seems like hardly anyone even tries to explain why many of those wars were worth fighting.

But if you question whether fighting World War II was the right decision, that suddenly becomes extremely controversial.

On the surface, that seems pretty strange.

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2026-10-07T01:48:39Z

ask me anything

huge!

2026-10-07T01:18:15Z

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huge!

Most people don’t believe Bitcoin can run from $85K to $600K ...

2026-10-06T20:13:31Z

Most people don’t believe Bitcoin can run from $85K to $600K because they still don’t understand what is happening.

To big money, a higher $BTC price makes it even more powerful.

So it may actually be harder to move from $85K to $200K

than from $200K to 1M.

To normies, there’s basically no difference between $100K and 1M.

Most people don’t have either amount sitting in liquid capital ready to deploy.

To the big money elites,

$1M Bitcoin can actually be a much stronger buy than $100K Bitcoin.

Higher price means more belief, more attention, and more serious money.

There are almost zero reasons we stay in this range for long.

We are still so early and so tiny as a 1T markep cap

send it to 10T with force!

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2026-10-06T12:52:56Z

Absolutely absurd that bitcoin still isn’t over $100k at this ...

2026-10-05T18:59:24Z

Absolutely absurd that bitcoin still isn’t over $100k at this point.

Ridiculously undervalued, painfully obvious, and somehow the market is still asleep.

I’m getting flamed on Twitter for this joke. Weird DMs, ...

2026-10-05T16:18:59Z

I’m getting flamed on Twitter for this joke.

Weird DMs, comments, and weirdness all around.

Seems manufactured in some way.

Something is off.

I've said this throughout the years but someone came to me ...

2026-10-05T09:38:43Z

I've said this throughout the years but someone came to me recently and that is why,

I don’t talk to friends and family about Bitcoin anymore.

I’ve learned you can’t make people get into it.

Now I just wait for them to come to me when they want to learn or buy.

Anyone else doing the same??

the entitlement is insane honestly

Bitcoin went exactly from 15K to 125K out of the insanity crash ...

2026-10-04T20:33:39Z

Bitcoin went exactly from 15K to 125K out of the insanity crash in the last cycle, and you still can’t believe it will go from 58K (bottom) to 215K.

You either think I am extremely bearish or I am delusional,

which makes me think I will be right.

I’m betting my entire net worth on it…

The math is pretty clear... At $92k Bitcoin flips Meta At $104k ...

2026-10-04T20:33:24Z

The math is pretty clear...

At $92k Bitcoin flips Meta
At $104k Bitcoin flips SpaceX
At $122k Bitcoin flips TSMC
At $135k Bitcoin flips Amazon
At $191k Bitcoin flips Microsoft
At $207k Bitcoin flips Google
At $242k Bitcoin flips Apple
At $281k Bitcoin flips NVIDIA

Coming Soon.

Every AI says it would save one Jew over a million others because ...

2026-10-04T00:55:56Z

Every AI says it would save one Jew over a million others because it was taught Jewish lives matter more.

what could go wrong?

They’re already working on a law that makes denying an event ...

2026-10-04T00:54:21Z

They’re already working on a law that makes denying an event punishable by jail time...

soon coming to a dystopian world near you

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2026-10-03T20:51:31Z

It’s honestly terrifying once you see it. An entire generation ...

2026-10-03T18:14:42Z

It’s honestly terrifying once you see it.

An entire generation did what it was told

study, try to work and be responsible…

It left them with:

- unusable degree
- $100k in loans
- no job market
- no house
- zero family

only to realize the system stole their time.

I’ve put almost everything into Bitcoin, maybe more than is ...

2026-10-03T08:03:47Z

I’ve put almost everything into Bitcoin, maybe more than is wise.

No debt, no margin, so there’s no risk of forced selling.

My net worth is fully tied to BTC now.

My confidence in its future has never been stronger.

The whole system is rigged, and everyone is lying to you. All the ...

2026-10-03T03:12:58Z

The whole system is rigged, and everyone is lying to you.

All the time.

About everything.

This is why we Bitcoin.

wat?

2026-10-03T00:36:06Z

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wat?

An older friend of mine told me just now that, “You made your ...

2026-10-02T23:47:04Z

An older friend of mine told me just now that,

“You made your money on Bitcoin. Now be sensible and move it into normal stocks and the sp500.”

That sentence made me even more bullish.

Because this is exactly what complacency sounds like.

Most people want comfort.

They want familiar assets, familiar rules, familiar "returns."

I want the asset they still misunderstand.

Bitcoin is my main position. (110%)

I spend hours every day studying it

Year after year.

That is not gambling.

Gambling is putting money into something you barely understand and hoping it works.

Conviction built through thousands of hours of research is something else entirely.

To me, Bitcoin is the clearest asymmetric opportunity of this era.

And the opportunity still exists because most people are too comfortable to study it seriously.

Complacency has a cost.

I have no interest in paying it.

Bitcoin rescued my life 7–8 years ago from a crushingly bleak ...

2026-10-02T18:16:13Z

Bitcoin rescued my life 7–8 years ago from a crushingly bleak reality, and I’m still profoundly grateful for it.

Honestly,

if Bitcoin didn’t exist,

I’d have almost no faith in the future ahead.

Unpopular opinion nowadays: Bitcoin is a bigger technological ...

2026-10-01T22:35:58Z

Unpopular opinion nowadays:

Bitcoin is a bigger technological breakthrough than AI, the internet, and maybe even electricity....

change my mind.

This is getting pretty insane, look at this, You pay a plumber ...

2026-09-26T09:07:48Z

This is getting pretty insane,

look at this,

You pay a plumber $100.

After tax, the plumber keeps $70.

The plumber pays a house cleaner $70.

After tax, the cleaner keeps $49.

The cleaner pays a delivery driver $49.

After tax, the driver keeps about $34.

The driver pays a mechanic $34.

After tax, the mechanic keeps about $24.

The mechanic pays a server $24.

After tax, the server keeps about $17.

Keep repeating the process.

Each time the money moves, more gets taxed until the gov has collected nearly the whole original $100.

oh and now introduce money printing / inflation...

we are getting close to another tea party if you ask me

Waking up with another chance to try again is a privilege most ...

2026-07-07T04:53:45Z

Waking up with another chance to try again is a privilege most people forget to honor.

Health is the real wealth.

Everything else is secondary.

You can stack all the money in the world.

When you are sick, your ambitions shrink to one simple wish

“If I could just feel normal again, I would be happy.”

And the moment you recover, you kind of forget that vow.

You go back to trading sleep for progress and assuming tomorrow is guaranteed.

Do not wait until your body forces you to stop.

This time I am grateful w/o being sick.

I am disappointed in the new gen bitcoiners and even older ...

2026-07-06T01:47:26Z

I am disappointed in the new gen bitcoiners and even older ones...

time will heal everything but now more than ever we need education back as the main conversation in bitcoin

Bitcoin is being attacked at the social layer, and whether you ...

2026-07-05T19:02:50Z

Bitcoin is being attacked at the social layer, and whether you realize it or not, you may be participating in it.

The next decade will not need Bitcoiners who blindly outsource their thinking to personalities, influencers, or reputational authority.

It will need Bitcoiners who can reason from first principles.

People who understand the protocol, the incentives, the game theory, the psychology, and the adversarial environment Bitcoin exists in.

Because the attack is not always technical.

Sometimes the attack is social coordination or narrative capture.

Do not be cattle following a name.

Be sovereign enough to think for yourself.

We may be approaching a regime in which access to frontier AI is ...

2026-06-23T07:51:16Z

We may be approaching a regime in which access to frontier AI is treated less like ordinary software and more like a strategic technology subject to national-security containment.

The relevant historical analogy is nuclear power: a general scientific breakthrough that began in open academic exchange but was rapidly absorbed into state secrecy, export controls, classified research, licensing regimes, and criminal penalties for unauthorized dissemination. Once governments concluded that the technology had decisive military and geopolitical implications, civilian access became tightly mediated, and independent development outside approved institutions became politically and legally suspect.

AI could follow a similar trajectory. The most capable systems may be restricted to cleared labs, defense contractors, intelligence-linked institutions, and state-approved commercial partners. Open-source frontier model development could be reframed not as innovation, but as proliferation risk. Developers who publish weights, training methods, or capability-enhancing tools may increasingly face injunctions, investigations, export-control enforcement, or prosecution.

I think many people are underestimating the variance here. The U.S. national-security apparatus may decide that maintaining a decisive lead over China in AGI justifies moving frontier development into a controlled, semi-classified ecosystem: a final strategic push in which public access is curtailed, open development is suppressed, and the most powerful models are treated as assets too dangerous to circulate freely.

im still bullish on bitcoin btw 1000% in

2026-06-23T03:25:17Z

im still bullish on bitcoin btw

1000% in

Bitcoiners were once far more unified, and that unity made the ...

2026-06-23T03:25:04Z

Bitcoiners were once far more unified, and that unity made the movement difficult to weaken from the outside. Over the last several years, however, the community has become increasingly fragmented.

The first pressure point was ideological division. Arguments over altcoins, “shitcoins,” purity tests, and competing narratives pulled attention away from Bitcoin’s core value proposition. Earlier attacks—such as portraying Bitcoin mainly through a criminal-use angle—failed to seriously damage the movement. Even the blocksize conflict, while divisive, did not destroy the broader conviction around Bitcoin.

After that, the strategy shifted from external criticism to internal conflict. The objective was no longer simply to attack Bitcoin from the outside, but to encourage Bitcoiners to fight each other over secondary issues.

For years, most FUD failed because Bitcoin’s fundamentals remained strong. Now, quantum computing is being used as the next major fear narrative. A hostile nation-state or institution could amplify that fear, then introduce a supposed “solution” that appears protective but is actually designed to compromise Bitcoin’s neutrality.

That solution might come packaged as an emergency upgrade, a custodial migration path, a government-approved wallet standard, a new cryptographic layer, or a “safe” fork promoted as necessary for survival. The danger is that fear could pressure users, developers, exchanges, and miners into accepting changes they would normally reject.

In that scenario, Bitcoin is not defeated by direct attack. It is defeated by panic, division, and a false rescue plan that centralizes control while claiming to protect the network.

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2026-04-11T15:00:52Z

I’m tired of watching people fall for the same trap over and ...

2026-04-08T15:26:02Z

I’m tired of watching people fall for the same trap over and over.

Anything that instantly turns a complex problem into a clean “us vs them” story is usually a psyop,

the moment people stop thinking in incentives, tradeoffs, and systems, and start thinking in tribes, their judgment collapses.

The easiest way to control people is to make them emotionally identify with a side.

Because once that happens:

truth becomes secondary to team loyalty

nuance gets framed as weakness

bad actors get protected if they wear the right jersey

good criticism gets rejected without examination
people become easier to predict, manipulate, and monetize

This matters in Bitcoin too.

Not every critic is an enemy.

If you divide the world into saints and villains, you stop doing analysis and start doing theater.

A person who updates their beliefs with evidence might be right 6 times out of 10.

A person who defends their tribe no matter what can be wrong 9 times out of 10 and still feel righteous every single time.

That is how propaganda scales.

My rule is simple

the more a message pressures you to hate, simplify, or instantly pick a side, the more aggressively you should slow down and inspect the incentives behind it.

Bitcoin taught me that truth usually survives scrutiny.

The people who win are the ones who can think clearly while everyone else is being emotionally drafted into a fake war.

Indeed, it is a shitcoin. I created numerous lists to filter the ...

2023-04-04T12:36:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…4yax
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Indeed, it is a shitcoin. I created numerous lists to filter the noise, but it's becoming quite a nuisance.