Seems like a cuck


With phones in everyone's pockets, we've eliminated boredom.

But also eliminated contemplation along with it.


HODLing and using Bitcoin can be a strange path to follow. At first, you want to try and 'save people'.

Then after a while, you realise you can't save them because lots of people don't want to be saved.

Help the people who are willing to listen, and be patient about it.


I am yes sir


That’s being kind. Doing something with an expectation of something in return is called being nice


The people that don’t understand why NOSTR is so important are the same people that don’t understand why BITCOIN is so important


I was thinking this morning about how we leave LED lights on all the time and don't even care, yet our grandparents would walk around turning off the lights whenever they left a room, and it got me thinking about the real #debasement adjusted electricity cost of 1960 vs today.

In 1960 an oz of #gold was $35, and a kwh of #electricity was 2.6 cents. So you could buy 1346 kwh for an oz of gold, which you could earn with 12.7 hours of labor at the #medianwage of $2.75/hr. This also meant you could buy 105.8 kwh of electricity with an hour of your time. A #lightbulb would use 60 watts, so would use a kwh every 16.5 hours.

Today an oz of gold is about $2600, which you can earn in 76.74 hours at today's median wage of $33.88, and the cost per kwh of electricity has "gone up" to about 16.5 cents meaning you could buy 15,757 kwhs with an oz of Gold, and you can buy 205.33 kwh with an hour of your time.

Relative to gold electricity has dropped in price 91.5%. But #wages have dropped in value relative to gold by 83.45%. So relative to hourly wages, the meaningful metric to people, electricity has reduced in price by only about 1/2.

However, in addition to the price of electricity falling substantially, the #electronics we use are also much more efficient. Today an LED light bulb will use only 10 watts, 6 times less than in 1960, and gives you 100 hours of light for only 1 kwh. 6 times more light for half the price, or 12 times more light for the same price! A 91.7% reduction in cost for lighting our homes relative to our labor hours.

On the median hourly wage today you can get over 20,000 hours of light from a single lightbulb for 1 hour of labor. In 1960 you could only get just over 1700 hours of light. Not to mention the cost to replace the light bulbs going down as well, due to their longer durability. This is a substantial improvement by almost any metric.

But what if wages had stayed the same relative to Gold because the world lived on a sound monetary standard the entire time?

If in 1960 an oz of gold could buy you 1346 kwh which would give you 16.5 hours of light each, that works out to 22,209 hours of light per oz of Gold. Since it would take you 12.7 hours to earn that oz of gold, 1 hour of median labor would get you 1748.74 hours of light.

Fast forward to today, cheaper electricity + more efficient electronics, an oz of gold will give you 15,757 kwhs of electricity which can power an LED bulb for 100 hours each. So an oz of gold now gives us 1,575,700 hours of light vs 22,209 hours in 1960. This means if wages had stayed the same relative to Gold then you would get 124,070.9 hours of light from an hour of your labor, instead of the 20,000 hours you can actually get today. All vs the 1748.74 hours of light you could get for the same hour of labor 64 years ago.

124,070.9 / 1748.74 = 70.94

71 times more light for the same amount of gold, thanks to efficiency gains in our light bulbs and improvements to our electricity generating capacity bringing the cost of energy down. The world is getting incredibly cheaper all around us all the time, we just don't see it thanks to the FIAT system. Due to this FIAT debasement, 83% of the efficiency/technological gains has been taken from us all. This is the real theft.

Monetary Inflation is theft, the growth rate of the M2 is the true inflation rate, not the CPI. Inflation doesn't just rob us of our past earnings in the form of our savings, it reduces our future earnings too by debasing our wages.

₿ clears the fog of debasement we've been living under, truly revealing the world of abundance we live in TODAY. If we embrace its simplicity as the best savings instrument ever discovered and/or created by humanity, then we will all truly prosper having freed ourselves from the yoke of bondage that is the centrally controlled FIAT currencies of the world.

You really don't need to work so much. Have a new perspective, lower your time preference, live as frugally as possible within your means and do whatever you can to save as much of your money in BTC and you will be free of the drudgery much more quickly. Buy second hand whenever possible, learn how to cook at home and buy tools that assist you in that endeavor such as a quality blender / slow cooker / pressure cooker / rice cooker / bread maker etc. When you're free, you'll be able to use your time for more useful and important endeavors such as thinking / writing / inventing / volunteering and so on, and also have more time to spend with your family and friends.

Contrary to what many today feel, life is worth living and it can be much more meaningful. The future is bright and full of hope, you just have to leave the cave to see it.


When you say 'Forward' or 'Back', your lips move in those directions.
	-ManofProto, Jan 2014


Maybe you should ask if you really want that


Piece of history: Julian Assange's 2010 Oslo Freedom Forum talk, delivered the last time he was a free man

It's a remarkable talk, I suggest watching it

He gave it right after releasing Collateral Murder, before his ability to travel was frozen

Six months before the banking blockade, one year before the Bitcoin fundraiser began

But most of the points remain fundamental

"The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency"

https://m.primal.net/IyCg.mp4


Saw this coming years ago, I actively unsubscribe and now I get maybe 5-10 a day


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Crocs should never meet a man’s feet or anything similar looking


I’m so bullshit right now

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Great note by nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8  👏👏👏

Safely, most people will not use #Bitcoin until they are forced to…

Likewise, most people will not use #nostr until they are forced to…

Most are too lazy and incurious to use either. They will have to get smart by force, not by choice. They will be pushed by the broken system, rather than pulled by the new system.

Early adopters of both Bitcoin and Nostr are rewarded, while the laggards are left with the scraps. nostr:note1n0744y39lvz23ay05ca6nag2qxmsl77gtpyge7djcm57pzjfh53sas2elr


You have sound peer-to-peer censorship resistant digital cash, if you can keep it.


Another common term the youngins use is “the universe”


If the word ‘God’ carries too much baggage for you, for any reason, consider replacing it with:

Ātman
Cosmos
Eternal Tao
Ultimate reality
Ground of being
Totality of being
Self of the world
Higher dimensional self
Consciousness collective
Which than which there is no whicher

Whatever term you prefer, it is but a symbol for that to which it points. https://image.nostr.build/48dfa9a13e9cefc4a10a9cb86343964ff906814324ee3350f30fbe449b4c137c.jpg


Same, just got into neo platonism. John vervaekee is a really interesting listen on the breakdown of the topic


SATaistician

              🏴☠ 13% 🏴☠
Global warming proponent.


I’m thankful most people are intellectually lazy. More sats for people that care about the future.


It’s not financial advice, it’s life advice, secure as much #BITCOIN AS POSSIBLE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.


My GMs are reserved for fren only. Go fuck yourself, everyone else gets a sharp short hi/hey


GM

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ZEUS will never block payment to our competitors’ wallets, disparage or belittle anyone trying push Bitcoin adoption forward, or give up on trying to ship self custodial solutions.

We will, however, continue to push the limits of what is possible on Lightning in order to provide an amazing payments experience, in a self custodial manner, for as many people as possible.

The app store release of ZEUS v0.8.0, featuring our embedded node(“the node is in the phone”), OLYMPUS LSP, self custodial Lightning addresses, and rebrand, drops in December. Much more will follow in 2024.

We’re grateful to everyone who’s come along for the ride with us and we’re excited to help onboard the next wave of Bitcoiners.

✌


In 5-10 years they’ll say the new #BITCOIN OGs are the ones that got in before the etfs.


Shitcoins rug pull shitcoiners, BITCOIN RUG PULLS FIAT.


The pool is flooded right now. 58+ per v


“Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."


We’re all V https://image.nostr.build/8bfe4cf9635a61b6021be619b5ec059cff7dc045e7ab1a6e83fa8049a2b26012.jpg


“Remember, remember
The Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason
and Plot. I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.”

#GuyFawkesDay #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/ed3ec20c5db6588dde790bd0b4eac8defdcf4bcdbf73c8a83ba46ce6f714d840.jpg


GN

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If you watched it during peak Covid for the first time you might literally shit your pants. Besides watching it then, it’s an instant classic for those in the anti state bitcoin adjacent worlds


15 years later, still the… https://image.nostr.build/dfca32302abbbc744fb5b1f17d065afef0185360a8b370b719ad1e4518a7beea.jpg


Don’t ask if it’s possible. Ask how would they do it? Answer: they can’t, because they would have already


Thought about this for a while, came to the conclusion it’s always been a bull, and if you came to the conclusion you don’t have enough, you in fact have enough


Always has been.


Why did you ruin that


Pain and suffering is a persistent part of the human condition.

Short term you can try to avoid it, but it’s unavoidable.

So thats a losing proposition.

The only thing to do is get comfortable enduring pain.

Pain will a constant companion.

Make your peace with that now and push forward without seeking to avoid it. https://image.nostr.build/9f633ef767c164d2fdd974cd9973eaae53b50ccb99e0ab0bd3aec8c270126d30.gif


If your principles change depending on the situation then you do not have principles at all; you have prejudices.


Why? Pool clear?


If #Bitcoin doesn’t fix it, #Nostr probably does.


"Masses will not buy bitcoin. Masses will earn it." —Suheb Saubyk


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We’re all Ferdi at heart https://image.nostr.build/2bff4985fe6dd88f0d4dec3f867bcee12463821dabd2d2c7b224dc2f8a6ade3d.jpg


Ya I was young and was on MySpace then fb took over and I was only on it for like a year


Idk I’ve been off the book for 15 years


Tried to post this multiple times on Twitter/X and it kept failing…

Removed the word “nostr” from the post and it posted…

Perhaps just coincidence…

Perhaps not… nostr:note1qpk3pqxrt6uzynp3hfp7urq4yezlv0k72c48n9mawr7k09ltyuuq9su4fs


Modernity didn’t end slavery, it just innovated.

Instead of taking orders from the same master who houses you, modernity spit things in two: wage-slavery and debt-slavery. One master for whom you must perform labor and one who owns the fruits of your labor.

The inherent instability of the system is obvious - whereas the legacy slavery system saw a matching of durations, the system today frequently sees a mismatch of durations, I.e. your employment is terminated but you still have a mortgage.

As long as you have debts to pay, you’re not free, and as long as someone else has the power to order you to be somewhere on Monday at 9am, you’re not free. Both at the same time? That’s a slave.

There are some meaningful differences - although your debt master can sell your debt to someone else, your wage master can’t quite do the same (though, he can just fire you without finding someone else to take you on… is that really better?)

In professional sports, where the team actually does house you and feed you and has you on a contract they can reassign, you really fit a more classical definition of “slave”.

When you consider the Roman gladiators were “slaves”… you have to wonder if they were that different from professional athletes or WWE wrestlers.

But professional athletes are well-compensated and get to keep their earnings beyond their debts. Sure, but until very recently college athletes were prohibited from licensing their own likeness. Again, the parallels to “slavery” as we traditionally understand it are incredible.

When we look back at chattel slavery in the American South, we wonder how anyone could resign themselves to bondage and not fight tooth and nail.

Maybe in the future they’ll look back at TSA grabbing our junk and wonder the same about us.


“Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft. He needs real wealth, in the form of a fishing rod, a compass, an outboard motor with gas, and a female companion. But this ingrained and archaic confusion of money with wealth is now the main reason we are not going ahead full tilt with the development of our technological genius for the production of more than adequate food, clothing, housing, and utilities for every person on Earth.”

— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/980df44fb01e7e7fe7305a2e8e7855a65ecdf25abe3d13ee40fb12222b2a2130.jpg


Agreed Twitter feels like a recycled graveyard


You can be deplatformed, but you can't be deprotocoled.


The world has a huge coward problem.


“You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.”

— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/6c78336751b8bb453a60f604f60930ee16ea090a8565c304fe23a606c4a148e7.jpg


Elizabeth warren trying to pass a bill


If it was legal to kill, doesn’t make it right


.…and they know it’s over duh


They’re making their own laws again to “legally” try to steal our property because they’re pissed we used the tech they made and leveraged the system in our favor to free humanity not just financially, economically and fiscally but through the etheric consciousness resonating at a literal new vibration. A new conscious consensus is here.


nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe great book just finished it. Have you thought about doing a second edition?


Moreover, the crux of the entire story relies on the seemingly least powerful and least capable of all: A Hobbit named Frodo.

Lesson there, plebs. https://image.nostr.build/b8a99e27f0ea4b20971baed05ab8aa709e782b891cd087d2b035790bc27b9025.jpg  nostr:note1s9ethry32l9fq68het0dpcea5asr65srmka3jhrd9g2h8sucn6pqrhe3sx


The real revelation is when people realize that $number go up for x product isn’t the orange pill, but when they realize the sats number go down for the same x product.


You could also make your own


Political Fiat forced every relationship into being a transactional relationship

#Bitcoin will fix this, but it will take time


PSA: If you permanently remove ALL carbon from the air you'd end up killing all trees on earth, and consequently most life on earth—including us.

https://video.nostr.build/1d4cd9d86f22fa22d15cd104446cdd2be26d981c377d9c3502656927a8879e02.mp4


Don’t forget the msn can and does show selective “news”


Fiat inflation in an image.
#Bitcoin fixes this. https://image.nostr.build/a5e2f6a42207dfb71ff0ce08ab56883bb42d4bdd92a9b05fb757897f14da6c24.jpg


Atheism is a gateway drug to communism.

That’s why one of the first things communist regimes do, after taking away people’s guns and eliminating political opponents, is stomp out religious activity.

Statist regimes do not want any ideological competition.

Religious people tend to follow their own inner compass, rather than the edicts of mortal authority figures.

Therefore, religious people are a threat to the statists in power.

You’ll notice people like Sam Harris start out as rational atheists, who support free speech, and generally have common sense stances.

Then, as soon as a “crisis” emerges, all reason goes out the window and fear takes hold. Calls for greater levels of authoritarianism follow. There is a growing sense that people can’t be trusted, and they must be put in their place by the authoritative state that knows best.

Contrast this with religious folks who typically care more about doing what is right than what is expedient.


Wtf https://image.nostr.build/41d07b22514831290ac433b27fa2ca22ec3fad42ea7276ebf8da2a4474c94a9e.png


#Zapathon #Zapan #NostrMemes #Plebchain #Zapaton #Zap

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#Zapathon #Zapan #NostrMemes #Plebchain #Zapaton #Zap

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#Zapathon #Zapan #NostrMemes #Plebchain #Zapaton #Zap

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