Following Jesus ✝️𓅦𓅦𓅦

Following Jesus ✝️𓅦𓅦𓅦

Self-professed followers of Jesus the Messiah on Nostr. Protestants, Roman Catholics and Orthodox welcome. (No LDS or JWs)

Curated by Marakesh 𓅦

The Network Effect Paradox: Why Your Social Capital Doesn’t Scale With Platform Growth

The network effect paradox reveals that as centralized platforms grow, they capture all the value while individual users become increasingly replaceable and powerless, trapped by metrics that mean nothing. Decentralized protocols like Nostr offer a fundamental inversion where network growth can actually benefit you, but only if you abandon platform behaviors and invest in building genuine relationship depth instead of chasing follower counts.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Free Article 1 (Dec. 2): The Bitcoin Chronicles - Book 0.5 - THE BABYLONIAN OS

Book 0.5 explains why the Bitcoin Chronicles begin in the mid-21st century. Humanity has lived for millennia under the Babylonian Operating System — a misalignment born from the ancient fracture in human sovereignty described in Book 0. Only now, with the rediscovery of honest money, open protocols, and truth-aligned systems, does humanity begin to exit the Extractive Age and enter the first stage of sovereign civilization.

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Nostr as Game

All systems can be approached like a game by "probing" for affordances. This can be a lot of fun, and works well in an adversarial environment.

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Free Article 1 (Nov. 29, 2025): The Bitcoin Chronicles - Book 0 - Preface

The Preface clarifies the nature of the Bitcoin Chronicles: a Christ-shaped hard-science cosmology, not a work of Christian genre fiction. Christ is not a character in this story but the deep structure of reality — the architecture beneath physics, sovereignty, and the laws of creation. This framing prepares the reader to understand Book 0 not as allegory or religious fiction, but as a sovereign, scientifically coherent universe rooted in true metaphysics.

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"Give thanks for the gifts that will not burn" Thanksgiving Eve 2025

Most of all, you give thanks for the gifts that will not burn: Baptism that has buried you with Christ and raised you with Him. Absolution that silences the accusations of your conscience and of the devil. Preaching that keeps dragging you out of yourself and back to Christ. The Supper that feeds you with the very body and blood once offered for you on the cross, now given into your mouth for the forgiveness of sins. That is the real Thanksgiving feast; that is the foretaste of the feast to come.

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