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2025-03-18 10:45:44

GM
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Artwork from 'Behemoth' by @nprofile…pck2
Read the full story on our blog:
https://21futures.com/post/fiction---behemoth
#bitcoinfiction #readstr #books

2025-03-12 08:34:48

GM
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2025-02-27 08:04:24

Supplying the Slugs - read by author, TM de Saavedra.
For a full interview, and more from the story, watch the 21 Futures Podcast Season 2 Episode 4 (link below).
https://m.primal.net/PNAq.mp4
https://youtu.be/uZiUG1Uq6GY?feature=shared
Financial Fallout is coming, March 14th.
#fiction #scifi #lovecraft #slugs.

2025-02-16 15:40:24

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2025-01-31 09:15:50

GM, writers
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2025-01-01 22:55:51

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Skills which early bitcoiners don't necessarily possess in droves.
I'd say skills like storytelling, communication, and empathy.

2024-12-01 22:17:29

FICTION PERSPECTIVE: A Lodging of Wayfaring Men by Paul Rosenberg
Though the book was written several years before the world knew of Satoshi Nakamoto, ‘Wayfaring Men’ has since become a legendary text for libertarians, freedom lovers, and bitcoin enthusiasts.
Paul Rosenberg has contributed to dozens of books and hundreds of blogs and articles in the freedom space. However, it doesn’t seem like Rosenberg has published many other fiction titles. Therein lies both the strength and weakness of the book: it is a powerful message delivered in the form of fiction, rather than rhetoric.
‘Wayfaring Men’ is a tale of two brilliant men and their quest to open free markets via the Internet in the early 2000s. James Farber, economist, and Philipp Donson, deep thinker and philosopher, battle the FBI and NSA to bring freedom to the world via the ‘New World’ of the Internet.
The two men aim to spread a completely private and encrypted online free market contained within a computer game. This will result in a global network of markets able to operate in a system outside of government regulation and forced taxation.
This story was produced during the era of digi-cash, e-gold and Liberty Reserve, currencies and Internet markets that failed or were shut down. What makes it resonate so much with bitcoiners is that the success of Project Gamma (the free market in the book) rests upon unbreakable encryption and decentralization.
The most exciting portions of the book document the heroes’ intelligent maneuvers and high-risk plots to throw the FBI off the scent. As the markets spread, the US and world governments employ more and more desperate means to stop the outflow of tax dollars and control of productivity. For example, Farber, Donson, and their teams of engineers have broken no laws, which leads the FBI to seek treason charges (in addition to spying on a host of law-abiding citizens).
It’s difficult to put this book into a genre. It’s part thriller, part life story of the main characters, and part Utopian manifesto. The elements of the story include romance, religion, loss, and geopolitical change. Yet most of these are not fully developed or explored, rendering the story itself ‘wayfaring’.
The villains of the piece are not entirely clear either. Two young FBI agents begin the hunt for those behind Gamma, dealing with the moral dilemmas of legality in different ways. The array of characters involved in the project seem crafted solely to deliver the project to its conclusion rather than giving the reader the ability to connect with their struggles and flaws. Perhaps the real hero is the concept of free trade.
The structure of the novel wanders too. The story sprawls across character backstories, years of progress on the project, truncated scenes, and unclear jumps in the time and location. Essays and opinion pieces which did not fit into the story are adjoined in a pair of appendices.
If you are a fan of flowing descriptions, deep character explorations, and literary craft, this is not the novel for you. Wayfaring Men delivers clear and functional prose to meet its lofty ambition — outlining our path to freedom.
But for all its faults, you keep reading. You root for the protagonists to succeed because you want the same thing as they do. Essentially, packaging this idea as fiction opens up a whole new audience — those who neglect reading heavy non-fiction manifestos.
Overall, I would describe this as a poor novel, but a powerful book. I found myself recommending it to a fellow freedom enthusiast straight after reading it. Those who are wired to more functional and utilitarian thinking will appreciate the story of how we wrestled freedom from the jaws of enslavement.
Philip Charter, Editor.
p.s. Thanks to @npub1klk…x3vt for the recommendation.
check out his recent audiobook recording of Wayfaring Men if you please.
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2024-11-22 19:45:31

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That's when the problem started. I set up Primal wallet and could zap in browser and via the app.
I am traumatised from using Alby. So complicated. Guides so confusing.
When I uninstalled the extension, I lost the ability to zap sats from my Primal wallet in browser.

2024-11-22 08:48:07

Having trouble with the Primal wallet when using Primal in browser.
It got disconnected and now I can receive but can't send zaps.
In app it works fine.
How can I reconnect the ability to zap in browser?
#primalwallet #zaps #nostrhelp #wallet

2024-11-19 21:20:20

Live pictures from 21F HQ.
Our exhausted editors Betty and Balthazar are willing you to zap this post.
They believe they can hodl the sats until they are worth enough to buy a sweet Harley and ride off to a land where the quantity of treats is not strictly controlled.
Who are you to crush that dream?
⚡️⚡️⚡️
#catstr
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2024-11-15 06:59:31

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It was working before I installed Alby.
On set up, I funded my Primal Wallet and it could zap accounts in app and in browser.
Now it only works in app.

2024-10-24 10:05:07

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Just read this one recently. Absolute classic. The first representation of deep cyberspace.
We'll be posting a review soon.

2024-10-12 06:52:20

GM, frens.
I'm new to #catsr and zi need a name.
Can you help me?
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2024-09-28 09:37:13

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GM.

2024-09-18 10:18:53

📢 GIVEAWAY ALERT
We'll gift 21 physical copies of Tales from the Timechain to celebrate our launch date announcement for book 2.
We begin soon...
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2024-09-05 10:07:34

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2024-09-05 08:40:38

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2024-09-02 08:41:03

Accepting the zaps of readers who really meant to click 'more'.
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#catsr

2024-09-02 08:36:36

Who are the best cypherpunks to follow?
@npub1klk…x3vt, @npub1qg8…24kw, @npub1c87…8avm, @npub180c…h6w6
Anyone else?

2024-09-01 09:53:15

The submissions window for Financial Fallout is now closed.
We received more than 3 times the entries we did for our first anthology. Cypherpunk fiction is growing!
LOTS of reading to do in September.
Keep watching for announcements on the authors included.

2024-08-29 22:33:15

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Altered Carbon, Snow Falling on Cedars, or Demon Copperhead.
or even 21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain.

2024-08-29 22:19:27

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Beautiful stories

2024-08-29 22:18:11

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Compelling narrative.
We need less tech chat and more stories.
That's how we make people care.

2024-08-29 13:09:30

Worried you'll be the next Pavel Durov?
Set your privacy to expert mode.
Tips in tomorrow's newsletter.
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Get it here.
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#privacy #bitcoin #libertarian #freedom

2024-08-29 08:45:01

Incredible video, sent to us by 21F author @npub1u25…vqdh
Get in touch if you need video work done.
https://m.primal.net/KTLw.mp4
BUY THE BOOK: https://bitcoinbook.shop/products/21-futures-tales-from-the-timechain?Format=Paperback

2024-08-29 08:36:06

A review of THE MANDIBLES (2016) by Lionel Shriver.
The next 21F book will be an anthology of financial dystopia.
So, I wanted to read and review the best known recent fiction on the topic.
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The book traces the fortunes of the Mandibles, a wealthy family living in a badly decaying New York of 2029.
The US dollar has collapsed, and the family suffer a series of misfortunes which lead to several generations sharing the same Brooklyn brownstone house.
If things are going badly for a family with huge generational wealth, a widespread financial portfolio, and a slew of assets, imagine how bad things are for the rest.
Society breaks down at an alarming rate with citizens fighting for basic necessities and healthcare.
The book provides cutting (and often funny) social commentary on the Western worldview, the US health system, and wealth inequality.
The family fortunes go from bad to worse, and they are eventually forced to leave the city in a Grapes of Wrath style journey of salvation.
The cast of characters is broad, and we see kind and good-natured beings break down to their base form, seeking to survive the next day at any cost.
Ultimately, the story is of a country and of a rotten fiat economy coming to its natural conclusion - hyperinflation.
Be prepared for authorial preaching and summary of big-picture events. The book passes through the depression years of 2029 to 2047 and we miss out on large swathes of the characters' lives.
Throughout, I found myself devoid of empathy for most of the Mandible family.
Yet, the book is deeply affecting. The scenes painted are not only realistic, but are highly likely to come to pass at some point in ALL countries as our current financial system crumbles.
This is NOT a relaxing bed-time read. In fact, it will likely give you nightmares.
More than any book on investment strategy, macro economics, or bitcoin evangelism, this book shows the dangers of continuing on the same path.
It shows the dangers of not learning, not preparing, and not changing our misguided ways.
This book, more than any, proves the importance of stories in the world of economics. It is a stark and real presentation of money, 1,000 times more likely to wake wage workers and the financially illiterate from their slumber.
This is the power of fiction.
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2024-08-28 08:23:55

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2024-08-27 22:25:34

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'tecent' fiction sounds cool, but it's actually 'recent'.

2024-08-27 21:11:44

Tecent #bitcoinfiction on our blog.
The Galactic Playbook by @npub1xgy…gu7s
konsensus.network/read/fiction/
This is the satisfying closer in our first anthology 'Tales from the Timechain'.
#bitcoin #shortfiction #scifi
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2024-08-27 20:54:06

⚡️3,040,000 sats⚡️
That's the current value of our writing prize fund.
You can win it, and it's FREE to enter.
The deadline is 31st August, so get writing!
21futures.com/submissions/
Write your way to becoming a satoshi millionaire.
(and yes, we will pay you in btc)
#WritingCommmunity #bitcoin #cypherpunk #shortfiction