🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 👑 The Sovereign's Appeal "Just as the course of the Nile is dictated by nature, and not by a foreign kingdom, so our wealth should be governed by a mathematical law, and not by the decrees of distant or declining empires. I have seen sovereigns in distant lands freeze the goods of their people. Bitcoin is a treasure that no invading army can confiscate and no foreign power can devalue. It is our economic sovereignty, carved not in stone, but in the code, for eternity." - Cleopatra VII

The Nostr paradox is that technical decentralization, while stripping away every intermediary, does not dissolve social power but crystallizes it into a "crypto-aristocracy". Digital reputation, accumulated as algorithmic capital in the network's early layers, becomes a non-transferable, non-displaceable emergent property. Thus, the horizontal dream flips into a graph feudalism, where protocol sovereignty is perfect, but social influence is predetermined and passed down through co-option. #GraphFeudalism #CryptoAristocracy #DecentralizationParadox #NostrCritics #Algorithm #AskNostr #Decentralization #CensorshipResistance #Nostr #Moderation #Fediverse #wotathon #FreeSpeech #OpenProtocol#NostrGrowth #NostrAdoption #WoT (Web of Trust) #NostrFeedback #NIP (Nostr Implementation Possibility) #NostrCritique

The (Over)Reach of Gangster Imperium, from Venezuela to Gaza

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The (Over)Reach of Gangster Imperium, from Venezuela to Gaza | Dissident Voice

The Trump administration’s military aggression against the people of Venezuela proves the dictum: US/Western imperialism is gangsterism on an int...

The only act of authentic sovereignty in an ecosystem designed to capture and rank every connection is the voluntary construction of void. It is not an escape, but a silent protest etched in absence: the refusal to provide even a single data point to the mechanism that turns trust into algorithm. Thus, the end-user defeats the game only by leaving the table, transforming technical isolation into the ultimate form of unfiltered expression. #Paradox #WebOfTrust #AlgorithmicResistance #NostrCritics #Algorithm #AskNostr #Decentralization #CensorshipResistance #Nostr #Moderation #Fediverse #wotathon #FreeSpeech #OpenProtocol#NostrGrowth #NostrAdoption #WoT (Web of Trust) #NostrFeedback #NIP (Nostr Implementation Possibility) #NostrCritique