"In my eyes, one of the most common playbooks used by the ruling class is to identify a life-essential resource everyone is using, introduce a new and quote, "better version" of it, and widely promote that new option until the old one is completely displaced.
And then once a market monopoly is established, tighten the screws until the replacement is far worse than what preceded it. But there is no longer any real alternative to it. This has happened in agriculture, education, transportation, medicine, and most recently, social media." — A Midwestern Docter
We grew up thinking “the internet is forever.” But what happens when links die, archives vanish, and yesterday’s truth is memory-holed? In this episode, I explore The Great Vanishing of Information and share my thoughts on why so much gets lost — and how Bitcoin, timestamps, and decentralized tools might be the only way to preserve history.
Check out the original article: The Great Vanishing of Information (Link: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-vanishing-of-information)
Links Mentioned
- Pay with Moon – for creating limited prepaid cards to test subscriptions (Link: https://paywithmoon.com/)
- The Bitcoin Company – another option for prepaid cards and privacy purchases (Link: https://thebitcoincompany.com/)
- OpenTimestamps.org – timestamping service using Bitcoin (Link: https://opentimestamps.org/)
- Simple Proof – project for voting records and timestamp verification (Link: https://www.simpleproof.com/)
- yt-dlp – command-line tool for downloading YouTube content (Link: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
- DownloadHelper - for saving media (Link: https://www.downloadhelper.net/)
- Nostr – decentralized social protocol (Link: https://nostr.how/)
- Pears Peer-to-Peer stack (Link: https://pears.com/)
- Wayback Machine – internet archive for deleted/old websites (Link: https://waybackmachine.it.com/)
- Sci-Hub – access to scientific papers (Link: https://sci-hub.st/)
- ResearchGate – for academic paper PDFs (Link: https://www.researchgate.net/)
- whale.to (Link: http://whale.to/)
- educate-yourself.org (Link: https://educa