nostr:nprofile1qqsx8zd7vjg70d5na8ek3m8g3lx3ghc8cp5d9sdm4epy0wd4aape6vspz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn94n3hjy has been following the true price of Eth ( v BTC) You are getting out of the wrong side of the pairing. Welcome to the right side.
I must have clicked the wrong link. What I saw was
- the Swiss flag making me feel warm and cosy about super security, discretion and privacy
- 1.5% commission
- bank account
Great job of stating the case for bitcoin and introducing newbies to the idea of DCA
but non KYC? . Come off it.
The Spanish news is telling us food prices in Spain just rose 1.8% because of rising cost of electricity and fuel. No thought to mentioning that since April the ECB has increased the money supply from 16.1 to 17.1 trillion euros.
One big fiat club and we aren't in it and worse, we are paying the members' subscription. BTC is the solution to the economic mismanagement, no fuss, no protest just disengage.
Family member bought some BTC in 2021 at 66k and watched it plummet from that day on. They didn't sell but everyone else in the fiat family has been rolling their eyes the last 3 years at any mention of BTC being the future of money. Of course their fiat money has no future having already lost about 20% since 2021, if they are lucky.
Recent message I received - it must feel quite exciting again for anyone owning bitcoin.
I'd say that after 3 years of stomach churning learning experience, the word is vindicating rather than exciting.
They rolled their eyes again when I said this time next year BTC will hit the moon.
If history repeats another family member will buy a small amount at this cycle's ath around 400k. And watch it plummet and drive everyone else to distraction with complaints about how much they lost.
Fortune favours the brave. Well done. And your were prescient. Not much is said of 2019, all the focus about obvious writing on the wall for Why Bitcoin, took off 2020 covid. But 2019 was the year the wheels were well and truly working loose with the economy.
More people know about the current economic problems than understand the causes. And of those who understand the causes, almost none, relative to the total number affected, have a clue that there is a solution.
Bitcoin can solve so much. Number Go Up is a brilliant attractant. Spending hundreds of hours reading up on and reading around Bitcoin is some of the best use of time spent on self education possible. But if my experience is anything to go by, you only grasp how Bitcoin can fix so much, after going through a full cycle and then some.
That's a 5 year apprenticeship. The last generation that had to study that hard were probably the generation working in the 1950's!
How many students these days study anything specialised for 5 years? Relative to the population, very very few.
It has taken me 5 years to grasp that Bitcoin only fixes shit if it is circulating, not from hodler to hodler but from one lightning wallet to another.
During my 5 year stint of duty, of suffering every emotion, mainly despair and multiple talks to self that I'm not going to give up even if I have to go hungry...it would sound counter intuitive that now's the time to start spending sats big time!
In a bull run, especially this pending one with BTC heading for shirt busting mega numbers in dollar terms,
Bitcoin doesn't solve problems if you are holding, hoarding, gloating at how much you are earning doing nothing but chart watching.
Build economic activity p2p. Earn BTC with a plan in place to immediately spend it on someone asking for BTC for their goods or services - to avoid cap gains tax.
Don't take a loan because,, back to the top, we are still so early. Unless you are Saylor, loans are in the future still.
Thanks for listening to my recollection of various input from OGs.
Any input welcome 😁
I last had flu, the bone aching shaking wipeout flu, not a cold, 50 years ago. I have never had a flu jab, and This year I have had two bouts, one in June wtf and coming out of another now.
Speaking to a couple of friends of a similar age who are also very healthy as a rule, share similar stories. I don't travel at all, but they both have had exposure to international work environments.
I have clearly not gained immunity from exposure after my first June episode.
I'm not mentioning the c word here because that has not been diagnosed. The word is there are some plain and simple nasty flu strains floating around the world these days. And if that's the case, a flu jab seems like an even less effective proposition than when flu was somehow predictable, a jab was based on what strain is flourishing in Australia and it would still get office workers, school kids and OAPs in homes.
Any thoughts or insights?
#asknostr
Back in the 70s I remember a family friend who was an exec at a national meat co. And when asked why chicken was being injected with water he nearly had a new one ripped by the indignant wives when he said because the public demanded it. It was no sense. Who sat around thinking I really need to ram this carcass with water.
The body has an appetite until we have consumed sufficient nutrients to sate it. You need less food if its jammed full of nutrients. So like most top quality produce, good food is not as expensive as it seems. A hard sell, because it's only apparent over a period of time.
Just been for a follow up appointment at hospital. Doctor checking my notes said
a) my blood analysis was great except b12 count was a little low
I'm
b) my blood analysis was taken in February.
I replied, good job I'm healthy and good job I made a few changes to my diet since Feb, ie I haven't been strict vegan for many months.
B12 deficiencies would explain a couple of misfires, which is why I had the blood tests in the first place.
Sorry vegans but after 5 years doing my best to follow the plan, any diet that requires a supplement is not for me.
I have no beef with Primal functionality, except their horrendous approach to wallet top ups, billing in bed with Google. That raised alarm bells for so say anonymity. I have never linked an old Gmail to anything on Nostr yet there it is winking at me at top up time.
FWIW, if you are one of those men that responds to the call to do all the heavy lifting and physically tough manual jobs, think ahead.
I can introduce you to 3 people who could work anyone into the ground. Until their backs went. For some it starts mid 40s, others get to mid 50s, but all here now with the same condition, wear and tear on their spine.
It was nothing especially to do with wrong sort of lifting, just bits wearing out. All end up with yoga or similar to realign and retrain the body, all living on just a final straw lift away from that grim searing bolt in the lower back for no good reason, turned to stone or on the floor.
I sit here as one of those 3, nursing myself through another few days of excruciating movement until everything loosens up for a few more months. Your health is everything. Sure it feels satisfying to battle through, to feel a sense of achievement to smile despite just wanting to lie down and dream of happier times when making a cup of tea was easy, but what a waste of energy.
We aren't machines. Especially don't fall for the games of exploiters of young strong people. You know, the boss who gets you to move shit by hand to save them money on a proper machine etc. They mean no harm really, but it is you who could pay most dearly.
#healthstr #homesteading
You sound very young to be suffering like that. Need to put your brains before brawn now.
As you say, it's the mental adjustments that are hardest. As a species we can be a bit dim accepting limitations.
What I didn't realise is that your head is connected to your back.
I used to break down physically every 2-3 months, spend 2 weeks hobbling then feel physically fine and get back to doing too much, not realising the mental impact.
I don't recommend falling into that trap.
Take care of yourself. Cheers
Want to know one reason why #flooding is getting worse? #nature was designed to be green. No green, no absorption of water. With no green, there is more dissipation of heat, drier soil, vicious cycle.
https://image.nostr.build/55cfd10b3f1fdced856ee14b1037f9099cbccc5f09789c41da8cdc6c65da3a02.jpg
If your position is that the climate is changing, whatever the reason, then stop helping accelerate the effects by supporting lifestyle choices that mess with Nature.
If you think man-made climate change is a hoax, there is a lot of truth in that, but do us all a favour and please don't carry on as normal, messing with Nature.
Either way the recent flooding has the mark of man all over it and everyone, regardless of politics or fleeting grasp of climste science, needs to take responsibity for the impact of nature on society. (Note I didn't say it the other way round. That was to make it real.)
I am of course beyond reproach myself living a simple life eating local food, most of the time and not too fussed about being uncomfortable from time to time. :)
Just the computer, a phone, internet, the long tail infrastructure needed to support that, as well as clothes from who knows where, dependence on occasional transportation.
Yep, it is complicated.
But fundamentally I don't mess with the land that I am the current guardian of, so I sleep OK under fire from whatabouterists who don't have the resolve to make changes to what they know in their bones is a terrible direction of travel.
Totally agree. I think it also generates a good appreciation for energy. When you see the sun outside and flick through the dial on the inverter inside and watch the magic happen in real time.
I seem to recall that without viruses there would be no life as we know it. They are just another stage on from fungi and bacteria and all the other so say nasties that are the building blocks of life on earth.
. Instead of exchanging art for money, exchange it for what you need. For example, Id offer to supply you with a dozen fresh eggs a week for 3 years for the Fargo painting, if I lived near you. 3 years that other people would see your work hanging on a wall, not sat on a dusty shelf. That's my nugget for the day
I humbly and with some trepidation ask what you think of this note. It's coming from a good place, but it's not a happy note. nostr:nevent1qqs99a9vurw5waw7cvtm4sskks95jzdqffhaxp83davg4mqta8llg6gpzamhxue69uhkyarr9e4kcetwv3sh5afwvdhk6tczypa58vwt5nmcmrngf2q6pn6le48lg8stqeq3h2zq6e6u4wu7p4z6xqcyqqqqqqg0u3vp6
Increasingly I think the Nostr protocol has more potential to change the world than Bitcoin.
Reading a few takes on different topics around Valencia and flooding, I'm starting to feel like the crazy person in the room. Could be! @Eric Cason do you think I got the wrong end of the stick?
Valencia floods, I don't get it. Those poor people who lost their lives, is all the attention on helping Valencia for them? I sound heartless when I think out loud that it is not for them
It sounds like politics is hard at work, the typical Spanish media looping footage, talking events to death Aren't they diverting attention away from first principle failures ie decades of poor planning and general hubris to keep on reshaping the environment despite knowing the DANA is a regular event.
This isn't just a failure of politicians. Valencianos know how weather works, and land use/ misuse. Go anywhere in Spain and local knowledge of the land is still very alive and well. It's one of the many reasons why I love this country. There's a lot of "real grounded people" here still. If you think the scale of flooding in Valencia is a left field shock? Sorry, I don't believe it.
society has been shitting on it's own doorstep, reworking cityscapes, landscapes, mountains, rivers and is increasingly getting caught short, caught out. Everyone knows water is cleverer than humans, right?
Instead of lamenting collapsed bridges, question why on earth the bridge was even there. But who's asking those questions?
This episode sounds like same old same old media event. Who shouts loudest..
Nostr can raise voices outside the party line.
We also had insane rains. 5 Kms upstream, 450 mm of rain in 24 hours, infrastructure didn't collapse catastrophically, but enough damage to financially set us back and no help. No help expected none asked for.
We are at 600m, land absorbed most of the rain that fell on it. No fancy drainage or govt infrastructure or grants, just groundcover and terracing to slow down water flow. But still, land has water capture limits. Another few hours of storm our place would have been inundated and adding to the water that had been gushing from the first minute straight off bare and eroded land all around down into the overbuilt environment below. In other words, there needn't have been any drama in the populated centres if thousands of hectares of land all around had done it's job. Who's talking about that?
Places in Teruel, a forgotten part of Spain, were completely flooded out, washed away but nobody from anywhere, let alone bitcoin cares.
Another crazy thought. What if I went around to my neighbours with 20 tons of hillside across their track saying I'm from Bitcoin and I'm here to help. How does that actually sound? Phoney as hell. Opportunist? Weird. I earn euros and I'm here to help. Has anyone in history ever said that?
If I'm missing something here, I'll hold my hands up but
A) bitcoin is money tech, a tool to facilitate action. It is not an identity.
B) Valencia draws water from parts of Spain where local supplies were curtailed - 2 year drought going on til last month.
C) Everyone who plays into the material comfort, super convenient lifestyle is playing right into creating more and more local environmental problems. There aren't enough tax dollars to keep up with that cycle and certainly not enough brain cells or backbone in the ruling classes to deal with the direction of travel.
Shakes head and gets on with life. GN.
When you think the daily grind is hard, take time out to watch this movie https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0386651/
Every time they leave the house they hug as if they will never see each other again, for good reason. That's how tough their life is.
I spent time with a group of volunteers on the Tibet border, who committed to growing and protecting a mushroom trade for the benefit of the local community. Even there, smugglers were working on screwing them over.
I'm sure Bitcoin would solve a few basic problems. Direct fair payments from anywhere in the world direct to villagers for a start.
Really pleased for Formstr, the Dev has been really helpful and I have integrated Formstr into a Ghost website for contact forms, and other form submissions. I will be allocating a decent % of income to regularly support Nostr Devs, nothing life changing like Open Sats, but putting something back in. LFG
Its complicated :)
I have been to a few factories that boast Made in "this country". It's nonsense when you start looking into the source of the inventory of components. "Assembled here" is more realistic.
Even when components are made locally, there is chicanery. A bulb manufacturer got an order from a local aircraft co. It cost the manufacturer 60c to make, but they never realised their bulb was aeronautic quality. Sold it for $60.
Don't you think the main problem is that most people in well off nations want change without doing anything different?
Even if you had 100 live wires on the inside, a libertarian govt would still be looking at a nation where the vast majority would not react well to being told to go make a job.
Not saying it isn't a fine aim, but don't you remember how frustrated Maradona got when managing a team that literally couldn't do what he showed them over and over!
When someone poo-poos an idea of yours they are basically saying " I won't do it so neither should you." Just got to get used to the idea that the black sheep lead the way.
From what I can tell, art is the art of depicting what's in your head. Ideally you have to get it out for your own peace of mind. Artisans come into their own because somebody says draw this or compose that and somehow they can reflect what's going on in a 3rd party's head or interpret their perception. The best ones bring their own view to the table too.
I don't know if my daughter realised yesterday that when she listened to me playing guitar and she was beaming from ear to ear and told me she was feeling the groove, she was actually listening to my happiness at being with her.
Every new application of Nostr should build upward pressure.
10 years of online marketing confirmed to me that social media usefulness (as in blood sweat and tears real economic activity generation, which is the apex guage of energy usage right?!)) is well overhyped and the bad side ( division, addiction and control) is swept under the carpet. So I am here for the Nostr apps that will generate and enable real activity, while appreciating the nuggets of goodness and usefulness in social media.
Don't get me wrong, Nostr is a good social platform because there isn't much idle/ influencer chit chat that doesn't progress "society".
So in my case Nostr activity is going to explode - from my lone exploration and contribution in Amethyst say, to bringing normies who are going to use a stack of Nostr apps that are going to help them build their businesses. And by definition, because their business isn't online content creation, they will appear to be lightweight amethyst users, but in reality they will be empowered by Nostr (apps). Which is pretty cool, I think and why Nostr can succeed..
Only if you know it comes from a safe source. A friend of mine advised me, for the sake of my peace of mind, not to think of all supermarket food as poison, which is how I feel these days as I walk past 95% of the aisles just seeing crap after crap. She then sent me a link to a food content checker which identifies toxic elements in processed products. When a snack is disrupting my endocrines, I don't really know what it means but I lose my appetite for some reason. #growstr #myoliveoil
What happened to the idea that all the heavy lifting for AI is put into compression in the southern hemisphere and they send the tiny packets to the North for simple unpacking.
What if Nostrs flaky relay content delivery was just an excuse to keep certain content out the way.
I jest but when reading extended threads it is hard to get through to the end. Just getting into pubky discussion and whooosh, posts go missing.
There is a list somewhere of mega artists doing V4V. Aren't ColdPlay known for a free album?
Random thoughts:
It's easy for wealthy to implement it now and again.
It's up to us little people to lead though. It used to be called community spirit.
A mentor of mine lived by the maxim, "Work the same for a penny as a pound"
I used to watch Star Trek. Everyone likes to mention the prescience of their "mobile phones" but more interesting is that money wasn't a thing. Perfect abundance.
A good haul. The trouble is there is no way of knowing if you can repeat that success. The only reliable rule is grow good soil and plant stuff in it. If that stuff has a good reason to grow, it will. If not... hopefully you have enough variety planted as backup.
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