The Evolution Of Trust
Short Fiat, 10/16/2025, 4 engagements
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Reuniting money and messageRestoring consequenceBuilding what comes after platformsEscape the Matrix - https://api.fanfares.live/s/axRQkZ
The Blob In Education
Short Fiat, 10/13/2025, 2 engagements
9/25/2026, 1 engagement
Welcome back Julian Assange!
This article gives a really good write up.
9/21/2026, 1 engagement
This is a really good article about the dream of the cypherpunk manifesto and a description of how Bitcoin and Nostr are starting to fulfil that dream today.
https://fanfares.io/s/TuFkd_#pay
The more detailed description is paywalled for 2100 sats and I think that it is worth it.
Give it a zap and see for yourself!
is now published on Fanfares!
Check out this beautiful track...
9/8/2026, 41 engagements
The internet has spent twenty years optimising for attention.
is an experiment in optimising the internet for value
9/5/2026, 4 engagements
The podcasting world has figured out that western government debt is unsustainable.
I was very worried about this 20 years ago. Now I am very bored with it.
Just accept that whatever you think you have in the bank or in financial assets isn't really there. It is a huge game of smoke and mirrors where everything that you think you own, is in fact a derivative that guarantees you nothing.
The money that you think you have saved, has been lent to the government and they have spent it. Some of it on stupid wars, some of it on COVID payouts and some of it on government salaries.
Sadly, this a flaw in democracy. We vote for the government that can most effectively convince us that they can spend our savings forever without consequences.
Self custody bitcoin and physical assets such as gold and land are things that you really own.
9/3/2026, 3 engagements
This guy
is smashing it on Fanfares.io!
He is publishing an article every day and earning good sats!
9/3/2026, 5 engagements
A bitcoiner needs a hand here...
9/1/2026, 72 engagements
Check out this exclusive article on Fanfares!
It is great for practicing your spanish.
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8/26/2026, 129 engagements
Does anyone know where I can buy Bitcoin shaped silicon moulds for making chocolate?
8/18/2026, 3 engagements
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If someone can copy my voice with an AI, then can they phone up my bank and transfer my fiat money out?
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Writing was the first information retrieval system.
Before writing, knowledge lived mainly in memory, speech, ritual, apprenticeship, and oral tradition. That meant information was fragile. It had to be remembered, repeated, embodied, and transmitted face to face.
Pen and paper changed the structure. Knowledge could be stored outside the mind. Records could outlive the speaker. Contracts could outlive the handshake. Laws could outlive the ruler. Accounts could outlive memory. Maps could outlive the traveller. Stories could outlive the tribe. Science could accumulate across generations.
That was not merely “communication.” It was retrieval. A written record lets future people ask: What happened? Who owes what? What was agreed? What did we learn? What failed before? What pattern repeats? What can be trusted?
Civilization advanced because information became more durable, searchable, transmissible, and cumulative.
Then each major leap improved retrieval again:
Writing stored information. Libraries organized information. Indexes located information. Printing scaled information. Newspapers accelerated information. Telegraphy sped information. Photography captured visual evidence. Radio broadcast information. Television made it immersive. Computers made it processable. The internet made it globally accessible. Search engines made it searchable. Social media made it socially routed. AI makes it interpretable.
But each improvement introduced a new corruption risk:
Writing allowed bureaucracy and propaganda. Printing allowed pamphlet wars and mass ideology. Newspapers created advertising-funded editorial incentives. Radio enabled centralized persuasion. Television created image politics. Search created SEO manipulation. Social media created engagement farming. AI can create synthetic persuasion at scale.
So the history of civilization is partly the history of better information retrieval. The recurring battle over whether retrieval serves truth, power, money, or manipulation.
The next step cannot just be faster retrieval. It has to be better-governed retrieval.
Not governed by a ministry. Not governed by a platform. Governed by incentive structure.
Human progress has always depended on better information retrieval. The internet gave us global retrieval, but corrupted its incentives. AI gives us enhanced retrieval, but risks amplifying the corruption.
Fanfares adds consequence to retrieval, so the system can begin selecting for value instead of attention.
5/26/2026, 1 engagement
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1984 didn't imagine the most effective aspect of the surveillance state. Centalised digital money.
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Why Fanfares?
Advertising made the web cheap to visit and expensive to trust.
Every “free” click pushed value into black boxes and pulled creators into platforms that rent their own audiences back to them.
A sovereign hyperlink flips the charge: pay a few sats to unlock what a real person stakes their reputation on.
Consequence returns; spam becomes uneconomic; discovery becomes a market again.
5/6/2026, 1 engagement
Amazing podcast. Everyone should listen to this.
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Productionready.org
Bitcoin for beginner's!
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