Self-professed followers of Jesus the Messiah on Nostr. Protestants, Roman Catholics and Orthodox welcome. (No LDS or JWs)
Refinements, resilience, and real-world usage. In this follow-up to Part 1, I document how I styled and streamlined my Nostr-based CMS — including relay deduplication, HTML fixes, GitHub Actions automation, and thoughtful publishing defaults — all running on free infrastructure I control.
This is part 4 and the final part of our series. Judgment in Scripture is real and severe, but never final defeat. Its purpose is purification, not endless torment. The fire burns away what cannot last, so that reconciliation and restoration may come.
This article walks through how I built a fully decentralized blog using Nostr as the backend CMS, GitHub Actions for automation, and GitHub Pages for free global hosting. No servers, no logins — just sovereign publishing on open protocols.
Inspired by a comment from @HODL, this article explores why Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — Soviet dissident, truth-teller, and moral philosopher — would have seen Bitcoin not as a mere technology, but as a stand against coercion, deception, and spiritual decay. Bitcoin reflects the same principles he lived and wrote by: personal responsibility, incorruptible memory, and resistance through truth. This is not about price — it's about proof of alignment.
At Bitcoin 2025 and on Nostr, I’ve rediscovered what decentralization really means — not just as a technical design, but as a lived experience of freedom. This article reflects on how alive and tangible that freedom feels: owning your identity, zapping freely, publishing without permission, and building outside institutional control. It’s not about hype — it’s about sovereignty, trust, and conviction. For the first time in a long time, freedom doesn’t feel like a slogan. It feels real. It feels alive.
In an age of polarization, this reflection explores what true freedom looks like: not agreement at all costs, but the capacity to honor people — even when we profoundly disagree. From Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden to Ross Ulbricht and Donald Trump, the piece wrestles with moral complexity, hypocrisy, and the double-edged sword of modern power. It closes with a hopeful look at Bitcoin — a system built on neutrality and permissionlessness — as a model for principled freedom that transcends party lines and culture wars.
As Memorial Day invites sober reflection on freedom and sacrifice, I pause to honor what was given — and consider what I’m building toward. This week I head to Bitcoin 2025 not just as a Bitcoiner, but as someone seeking to live with conviction. This is a call to remember the cost of liberty and to build systems rooted in truth, transparency, and work that lasts.
Building after leaving Web3
First Test Article
As the nation's #1 state for federalism, Tennessee has both the opportunity and obligation to resist federal overreach by enshrining the right to financial privacy in the digital age—the same privacy Americans once had with physical cash.
A personal look at the difference between “doing things that look like work” and doing work that actually moves the needle — in income, integrity, and long-term freedom.
Watching my sons approach manhood forced me to confront the holes in my own upbringing—the things I was never taught about truth, purpose, and the world’s real battles. I’m learning that my greatest calling isn’t to protect them from struggle, but to prepare them to stand firm in it. This is my reckoning, and my resolve.
On that cross, the Law is fulfilled. The Sabbath is completed. The Lord of the Sabbath rests His head in death to give eternal rest to the weary. His hands are destroyed so that yours might be restored. His life is taken so that yours might be saved. That’s the pattern of the Gospel: He takes the harm so that you receive the good. He suffers so that you are healed. He is broken so that you are made whole.
Why everyone and everything is useless, but it didn't have to be that way.
Enriching the Literary Imagination Through Music
Listener Types
We also can be used by God even after failure
We’ve been indoctrinated to trust systems that feed on dependence — told that safety comes from surveillance, convenience from control, and truth from institutions that profit from ignorance. We’ve mistaken managed freedom for real liberty. The result is a generation fluent in compliance but illiterate in sovereignty.
Bitcoin is the rifleman’s code written in code — self-reliant, disciplined, and impossible to centralize. The Marine Corps teaches that freedom is maintained through proof of work, not words, and Bitcoin mirrors that truth in the digital realm. Semper Fidelis means always faithful; Semper Decentralis means always verified — the same fight, different battlefield.
