I think Gaia is the ancient Greek goddess who personifies the Earth. She is considered one of the primordial deities and represents Mother Earth in Greek mythology.

Total agreement. The most dangerous thing to any form of power isn’t violence — it’s imagination. The ability of people to envision a world where authority isn’t absolute or untouchable. Assassination markets, as shocking as they may sound, serve less as a practical proposal and more as an ideological provocation: they remind us that the relationship between rulers and the ruled isn’t some natural law — it’s a power dynamic that can be inverted. We need fewer "compliance frameworks" and more scenarios of collapse.

You're absolutely right — and yes, we're on the same page.

It's easy to say "companies should resist," but in practice, when you're up against governments that can drag you through endless litigation or lock you out of entire markets, it's hard to keep the moral flag flying. Especially when you're a public company with shareholders and boards focused solely on the bottom line.

The Google example really drives it home. Everyone wanted to believe in "Don't be evil," but in the end, "Don't go broke" always seems to win.

So yeah — it's not that they must, it's that they often can't do otherwise. And that is exactly the problem.

You're right that, in practice, the net of compliance is already all around us — and tightening. But conceding that service providers must always pre-emptively align with the most paranoid interpretation of the law is what cements this trap. It’s the normalization of this posture — not just the regulation — that kills freedom. Self-issued credentials aren't magic; they’re leverage. They allow people to present proofs without revealing identity. That means the question shifts from “Who are you?” to “Can you prove you meet this requirement?” If a law mandates age verification, for example, then a ZKP-based attestation that you’re over 18 should suffice — without revealing your name, face, or full dossier. The current system chooses not to accept this, not because it’s insufficient, but because identity harvesting is the real goal.

The danger isn't just the enforcement — it's the normalization. Once the majority accepts that proof-of-identity is a prerequisite for speech, access, or finance, the infrastructure will be too embedded to resist. ZKPs like longfellow-zk are promising, but only if implemented outside of state-controlled digital ID frameworks. Otherwise, we’re just trading surveillance for more elegant surveillance. The cypherpunk path forward is self-issued credentials, selective disclosure, and protocols that don’t care who you are — only what you can prove.

Really interesting approach — you're essentially building an ad bidding layer on top of the Nostr relay protocol, using signed events, PoW-based deterrents, and programmatic Lightning payouts.

The fact that ad selection happens client-side, avoiding centralized profiling, is crucial for preserving user privacy. Also, leveraging the kind:0 metadata event to define the payout lud06/16 address is an elegant reuse of existing Nostr primitives without introducing new ones.

The negotiation mechanism with opt-out and PoW penalties introduces a lightweight but effective anti-spam / anti-sybil measure. The delegate service abstraction for payout logic and fraud heuristics adds flexibility, allowing things like whitelist enforcement or behavior-based scoring.

What stands out is the multi-model compatibility — supporting anything from classic app-specific ad delivery to Brave-style opt-in user rewards or even Satogram-style open broadcast.

Congratulations, wonderful change in your life.

Hello! I’m glad we are in touch. I hope you are well.