<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Shortfiat wrote</title><author_name>Shortfiat (npub1md…pctp9)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>In the physical world, we have power because we can pay for things. &#xA;&#xA;We can make things happen. &#xA;&#xA;We can ask others to do work for us. &#xA;&#xA;We can own land, tools, machines, and goods.&#xA;&#xA;We can earn money by doing things for others. &#xA;&#xA;We can sell what we produce. &#xA;&#xA;We can own things. &#xA;&#xA;Money is the mechanism that turns effort into agency.&#xA;&#xA;In the digital world, most people still live in a feudal system.&#xA;&#xA;There has been no native money and no native ownership.&#xA;&#xA;We could create, but not own. &#xA;&#xA;We could build, but only if we gave it away for free.&#xA;&#xA;So something else became the currency.&#xA;&#xA;We became the currency.&#xA;&#xA;Our time. Our attention. Our data.&#xA;&#xA;Digital systems had to extract from us in order to be viable businesses. &#xA;&#xA;To make money they had capture our focus, shape our behavior, and sell access to our minds.&#xA;&#xA;Bitcoin is money in the digital world that we can actually own. &#xA;&#xA;We can use it to pay other directly for their work.&#xA;&#xA;Nostr gives us identity and connection that we own. &#xA;&#xA;No platforms standing between us and the people we choose to connect with.&#xA;&#xA;In this new, uncontrollable environment, we can buy digital content with our own money. &#xA;&#xA;Every payment is a vote for the future that we want to exist.&#xA;&#xA;We can own what we create. &#xA;&#xA;We can sell copies directly to others. &#xA;&#xA;We can earn Bitcoin for our work.&#xA;&#xA;Fanfares.io</html></oembed>