When Cypherpunks wrote that privacy is necessary in order to establish democratic society in
PRIVACY, FREEDOM & NOSTR with UNCLE ROCKSTAR (THE Bitcoin Podcast)
"When Cypherpunks wrote that privacy is necessary in order to establish democratic society in digital age, that's a profound statement, because you do look at states in which people do not have privacy, they can't have freedom in the digital age."
- On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with UNCLE ROCKSTAR.
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1 When Cypherpunks wrote that privacy is necessary in order to establish democratic society in 2 digital age, that's a profound statement because you do look at states in which people do not 3 have privacy, they can't have freedom in digital age.
4 I think, again, this is where we are lucky to be living in this time when Nostra is still 5 just starting and you can build an identity on Nostra and start publishing notes, distributing 6 your thoughts, finding that authentic part of you that isn't expressed fully and seeing 7 where it will get you because that's really what happened with me.
8 I would love to see if what happened to me inspires more people to, they don't need to 9 put on a mask, they can put on a helmet or they can put something on and just separate 10 their public identity from private identity.
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digital age, that's a profound statement because you do look at states in which people do not
have privacy, they can't have freedom in digital age.
I think, again, this is where we are lucky to be living in this time when Nostra is still
just starting and you can build an identity on Nostra and start publishing notes, distributing
your thoughts, finding that authentic part of you that isn't expressed fully and seeing
where it will get you because that's really what happened with me.
I would love to see if what happened to me inspires more people to, they don't need to
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"When Cypherpunks wrote that privacy is necessary in order to establish democratic society in digital age, that's a profound statement, because you do look at states in which people do not have privacy, they can't have freedom in the digital age."
On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with UNCLE ROCKSTAR.
We discuss the political landscape, the importance of privacy in the digital age, and the role of developers in creating freedom tech, the impact of social media algorithms on discourse, the potential of Nostr as a privacy-preserving protocol for open source development, and the necessity of building parallel systems to foster individual sovereignty.
ROCKSTAR'S LINKS:
Nostr: https://primal.net/rockstar
X: https://x.com/r0ckstardev
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