If you can't spend your wealth without permission, you have no wealth.
“I WAS WRONG”: Bitcoin, Nostr, AI & The Reality of Freedom Tech Adoption | Matt Odell
I sit down with Matt Odell for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of Bitcoin, Nostr, and freedom tech in an era of accelerating AI surveillance. Matt opens up about why he returned to X after two years on Nostr only, what he got wrong about adoption timelines, and why he still believes open protocols are the only credible path forward. We get into the tension between self-custody and custodial convenience, the
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1 If you can't spend your wealth without permission, you have no wealth.
3 I also didn't expect 90% of influencers were going to go join MSTR clones.
10 And some random schmuck at a tech company can just like type into his computer like, 11 where is Matt usually on a Wednesday?
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It's fundamentally an IOU.
I also didn't expect 90% of influencers were going to go join MSTR clones.
I felt like at least some of them would hold the line.
Anthropic is also weird too, right?
They're run by Effective Altruists, which is basically a cult.
It's the same cult SBF was a part of.
And they like literally think they're making God.
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I sit down with Matt Odell for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of Bitcoin, Nostr, and freedom tech in an era of accelerating AI surveillance. Matt opens up about why he returned to X after two years on Nostr only, what he got wrong about adoption timelines, and why he still believes open protocols are the only credible path forward. We get into the tension between self-custody and custodial convenience, the surveillance threat posed by AI-powered data harvesting, and how Odell thinks about building resilient, censorship-resistant systems from his own self-hosted stack at home.
