My dad ran a diner for 35+ years, and my mom spent 30+ years working an administrative job at a hospital. I grew up middle class, a child of Greek immigrants. My dad retired 2015, my mom 2019.

In 2013, I gave my mom some Bitcoin for money that I owed her. She said she'd hold. I made sure she would by keeping custody of it. 😂

They started DCAing small amounts of BTC in 2016 and never stopped. I have years worth of texts from my mom proudly proclaiming she bought the dip!

The few sats they managed to save outperformed my mom's 401k by miles. Now they live where they always wanted to, and just built an extension on their modest home. They wanted more room for when their grandkids visit. 🧡

It couldn't have happened without Bitcoin.

It feels good to know I was there for the people who took care of me.


Accept no imitations😅👸🏻🇸🇻 https://image.nostr.build/26836ffc9736e308e8ffb542db518bb63d4f9fb958aa1b9d293f165da5b35b35.jpg


Wow! thanks. I have to 5th this now


S9 hashing on direct DC solar and AC PSU hybrid system
https://v.nostr.build/ZF3imFr3BxzP6Y7u.mp4
Here I have an S9 powdered both by the 12v DC output of a solar charge mppt controller and the output of an apw3++ plugged into an inverter. The output of the solar charge controller is wired directly to DC output lugs of the PSU. As the clouds roll by the output of the solar power decreases and the PSU delivers more power from the inverter. This same technique can be used by plugging the PSU into a grid powered outlet instead of the inverter. It's basically a way to subsidize the power consumption of a miner with solar power directly. It's pretty cool to watch.
#bitcoin #bitcoinmining #plebminer #homemining #offgridmining #solarmining #offgrid#solarpower

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Nobody seems to realize that they are both right!. just not in the same time frame. Saylor is right in the short term because regardless of how successful Bitcoin is we probably won’t see the collapse of credit in our lifetimes. Saylor is a pragmatic business person that has a lot of skin in the game and will not go against the financial system that he lives by. Saifdean understands economy and is right in the long term because there is no lender of last resort in a bitcoin standard period. Now, I think Saif showed more composure and really tried to explain his point based on economics. Saylor on the other hand was not listening and even accused Saifdean of wanting to make credit illegal. And,compared Saifdean to a communist I think Saif took it really well overall. Definitely not Saylors best interview.


I just bought my first radio (IC-705) thanks for the recommendation!. Any tips on antennas and/or match boxes?


Ievan Polkka (feat. Bilal Göregen) [Club Remix] - The Kiffness


Max Keiser was electric back in the day on Keiser Report. It's so rare for someone to be that insightful *and* entertaining, especially when talking about issues of such high importance. He has improved many ordinary people's lives. He will be remembered among the very best investors, historians and philosophers of our time. #Bitcoin #GIABO


I’d be happy to contribute to and use my public platform to bring attention to legal defense funds for people who build open source privacy tools, or for legal attempts to push back on unconstitutional government financial surveillance.

I just need to know that they are credible from people I trust.


my two sats #bitcoin
https://m.primal.net/HtUy.mov


the more something needs fixing the more broken it was in the first place

i can't believe this needs to be pointed out


The real question is Who isn’t #asknostr


I’m confused…but hey “understanding is not a prerequisite for cooperation” #dan


#BreakingNews: Crazy stuff happening here in the #UnitedStates overnight.

A cargo container collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in #Baltimore, Maryland. At least 7 vehicles were reportedly on the bridge at the time.

https://wtop.com/baltimore/2024/03/key-bridge-in-baltimore-collapses-after-hitting-large-boat/


new wrongthink just dropped 👀

of course, anybody scientifically and statistically literate who spent 1-2 hours looking into this knows it all already, but the production quality might serve to snipe some of your normie friends out the cult of misery, poverty, sickness, and death:

https://vimeo.com/924719370


We should meme “Magic internet PROPERTY” instead of “magic internet money. nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m  #Bitcoin


Sorry but Nostr is my Instagram now…..
Completely charmed by beautiful Cartagena. https://image.nostr.build/159a8a2e7e92880a871e467275fbb54c150234ac670e0308e426d8da3dc6d670.jpg https://image.nostr.build/32e4cfdad870fc7b37d2bc82ac92ee3247fe4a7638327265e2fc964e64dbb44b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f95245e89a3b3e92dc53d110b4771f21b9abf6eeba3262a86669a76cca290cd1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5211e0bc660aabd422c7436c476c598a7ff0d60c3eefa08b477a84d9c9d7ad0d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/75464af57c7355ddce58bd7d20d3514e4af80cc312808da53e8c0bb121e47f86.jpg https://image.nostr.build/559f1995f85d4ca71704adfdc4826047c6f773082824d0b7d5b5900397827e65.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3b5f17aef6c40ffaa989da8b17783b3056fdc12a3dd3a4433e764460de1641ce.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b7577eb68e87afe890344f7bf74518a8dc45e49853cb7d1b1fecbb8b40fa8492.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6e8ab36a313a824313c4dbdf65bec4bfae4970e40421f5915c32c389b6b1859c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/326a4ab9bac98d9cafc5fa0e25b3c3486929d6944b9744aa394cfe3a1d37bf1c.jpg


The Millenial Dream

Go to school, study hard, get good grades so you’ll be accepted into University, go into debt for a degree or else you’ll be flipping burgers.

Get your degree and enter the workforce 50k in debt. Entry level jobs are impossible to find between outsourcing and the lack of practical skills Grads bring to the table.

Get lucky and find one, grind 12 hour days, pay half your income to the Government for Services you don’t use, pay increasing rents as the real estate bubble inflates, get promoted and job hop to bump your income to keep pace.

Save for a house deposit, 20% of the median house which is now 10x median income so it takes a decade, get there and it’s not enough for even a dogbox apartment let alone a house, now banks won’t lend to you with rates over 5%

Can’t afford kids. The food is killing you. Dating is ruined between instathots and red pill chuds. Get lectured daily by Boomers who don’t understand the world. Watch rampant corruption and cronyism destroy your politics, immigration destroy your community, and fiat destroy your purchasing power.

Fund wars you oppose. Bail out banks you hate. Pay welfare to ideologues who demand more and more nanny statism and taxation. Subsidise renewable energy which increase your power bills. Wait in long lines at the hospital for your subpar care.

Do all that in the hopes you’ll eventually be fortunate enough to be exit liquidity for some Boomer who sold you this dream..

Or The New Millennial Dream

Move as much of your wealth into #Bitcoin as possible. Watch the crumbling from the sidelines whilst starving the entire system and protecting your purchasing power.

Wait out the Boomers til your digital real estate on the ledger is the new asset in demand, then instead of selling it to them, take the reins over the system as the new financial elites and dismantle this entire shitshow. Eliminate the parasite class. Detach the welfare state. Reduce government to a competitive service provider which cant extract wealth at will.

Set entrepreneurs free. Let markets work. No more free lunches. No more cantillionaireing. No more nonsense laws.


#zap #btc #bitcoin #nostr #meme https://image.nostr.build/5af031581595e3ef1c632896da59284b1c917a947300f96122d94270ed14d742.jpg


At this pace we have a supply shock on #bitcoin memes


Dollar denominated mortgage is a depreciating liability. If your cash flow works why pay the mortgage?


https://i.postimg.cc/1zz8stnH/son-daughter-bitcoin.jpg
#memes #bitcoin
*disclaimer: these are not real people so I don't need their approval to post their faces on internet*


bitcoin_reddit < bitcoin_tweeter < NOSTR


Supposedly a lot of Bitcoin services are down. All systems are a go at Strike.

US users can buy bitcoin with their bank, cards, direct deposit and wire transfer.

African users can now buy bitcoin and USDT with mobile money, bank transfers, and cards.

The other 60 markets we support can also buy bitcoin with their debit card. More market expansion coming, next one in about a month.

If you ever have any issues with a limit, a purchase, or anything at all please don't hesitate to reach out to me. For some reason people assume I'm too busy. Too busy with what? You think I'm not in the trenches right now fighting for every sat? You guys have to understand I really have prepared my whole life for this and it's all I do.

Just DM me, I got you.


With #Bitcoin, you're investing not only in currency but in the rhythm of the future.

https://video.nostr.build/18418eae22f837169e3fc3f81ff088782a99998b2ffcd7f0ae968adb8cb9aab6.mp4


You may not be ready to hear this from @Saylor, but #bitcoin  will cause you to reinterpret the human condition and everything you believe to be true: https://video.nostr.build/e324edca35de278fff007aff01c89a3fdfd15ccea19f733a3516774911e4a8eb.mp4


How are you going to implement the “ Don’t trust verify”. Asking for a friend


For context re: Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre and why there should be no mercy.

My life changed completely on March 29th, 2019. Almost five years ago now.

I had made several tweets, warning people about Craig Wright, and making my opinion about him clear. A matter of very public interest.

I was sent a legal letter on twitter DM, where it was made clear that I either had to apologize and acknowledge Craig as Satoshi, or they would file a libel case against me in UK.

When I didn't comply, Craig and Calvin put a public $5000 bounty on my identity and then firmly doxxed me after finding out who I was.

They proceeded to put private intelligence surveillance on me, that have tried to gain access to my social circle, both online and physically. Presence in 100s of groups. Monitoring my house. Producing regular, detailed reports on all my activity. Travelled where I travelled and so on. And god knows what else. This is still going on today.

I have been continuosly smeared and lied about on social media and in Coingeek, the publication owned by Calvin.

Threatened directly/personally with bankruptcy and worse by Calvin and his followers on twitter, with my real name, on countless occasions.

Anonymous phone calls with indirect threats.

My dad was fighting against cancer when this all started. I was dealing with constant legal pressure and threats throughout his fight. When he finally died late 2020, the legal pressure was at a peak and my funding situation was uncertain.

I've had to give up tons of private communication in discovery, to prove I had not been behind "an organized and vicious campaign against Craig."

I've had to turn down professional opportunities, since a good percentage of my bandwidth has been continuously occupied with defending myself legally. The amount of legal letters, hearings, appeals, judgments etc are beyond belief.

I've lived since 2019, with the constant knowledge that my house and belongings are on the line, and Craig's stated goal of bankrupting his enemies would be reality if I lost.

All the while I've tried to, and largely managed, to shield my child and family as well as possible, but I know all of this has put stress on them as well.

No mercy for these people.
Only Welcome to Law.


Hey fam, I need some help. I just finished setting up my LND server over Tor in a raspberry pi +Zeus wallet.But don’t have any inbound liquidity. I opened some channels but I’m not getting any inbound liquidity from those. Any tips on how to fix my channels?


I want one !


#Meme #Memestr
#Bitcoin #Plebchain https://image.nostr.build/625f35a44294d4e03cd9f2898a03ab2f7dbd02f844f63d3670b7d7ff5fe11b30.jpg


Ever since the infamous Taproot Wizard 4mb block bitcoiners have been alight, fighting to try and stop inscriptions. Inscriptions are *definitely* not good for bitcoin, but how bitcoiners are trying to stop them will be far worse than any damage inscriptions could have ever caused.

Inscriptions work by embedding images or other data into the bitcoin blockchain by using a trick in bitcoin script. They essentially put the data in an unreachable code block followed by the real spending conditions so the user can claim the ordinal/NFT. It is quite an ingenious trick but has broke a lot of the assumptions many bitcoiners were operating under. Previously, the main way to embed data into bitcoin was OP_RETURN, which is basically an op code exactly meant for embedding data but had two problems for the NFT people: it makes coins unspendable and by mempool policy is limited to 80 bytes. Inscriptions has the advantage that their only size limit is the block size and since their data is in the witness, not the output, they benefit from the witness discount, allowing them to embed 4x the data. This broke a lot of bitcoiners assumptions that the theoretical 4mb block would never happen because it'd be silly to have only witness data, however, the NFT people found a way to monetize it. Now this is common place and we've seen tons of inscriptions happen, driving up fees and block sizes.

Inscriptions are an attack on bitcoin. Inscriptions are not going to kill bitcoin, but none the less, it is an attack. Exploiting a trick in bitcoin script to use the witness discount for embedding data is definitely hurting the network, blocks were never meant to actually reach the theoretical limit and it is a problem that it is happening. Nodes will be more expensive to run and this will hurt decentralization of the network. However, now that it is happening and common place, we cannot stop it.

In retaliation bitcoiners are proposing ways to "stop" inscription and these will do far worse damage then inscriptions will ever do. Almost every proposal to stop inscriptions boils down to preventing these transactions from getting into the mempool. The mempool is the battle ground of bitcoin transactions and we need to preserve it. The mempool only works if it the premier way to get the highest fee rate transactions to miners. If we lose that guarantee, people will move to centralized systems and we may never get the mempool back. Filtering spam transactions from the mempool will not stop inscriptions, at best it will delay them by a week. The people buying inscriptions are morons, but the people selling them are not, they already have back channel communications with mining pools and if we cut them off from the mempool, then the only pools getting these fees will be the shitcoin aligned pools. This has already happened to many shitcoin networks where their mempool was killed off for one reason or another and now the primary way to broadcast a transaction is through a centralized api. This essentially creates a permissioned network, where even if anyone can run a node, if you don't have access to the transaction broadcasting api, you cannot access bitcoin. We are currently seeing congress try harder and harder to regulate nodes, miners, and wallets as money transmitters and losing the mempool will make this problem 1000x worse. There is also serious security problems without being able to do trustless fee estimation if we lose the mempool, but that is out of scope of this post.

Further, filtering transactions based on "spam" metrics can lead us down a dark path. The most economical way to transact in bitcoin is *not* the most private. Today the most popular way to get privacy for your on-chain bitcoin is doing a coinjoin. Coinjoins are not necessarily economic transactions, you are merely spending to yourself along with a bunch of other people. If we set precedent that you have to justify the usefulness of your transaction to not be considered spam, soon people will find a way to exploit this to try and get coinjoins and other privacy techniques excluded from mempools for being spam.

With all this being said, if bitcoin is going to work, we shouldn't need to care about inscriptions. The promise of bitcoin is a global monetary network backing the entire financial world, if that is overtaken and its primary use case is a NFT trading platform, then bitcoin was doomed to fail in the first place. We have seen many shitcoin bubbles for over the past decade and this one is no different. The shitcoiners will eventually run out of fools to buy their scam and things will go back to normal, but we can't shoot our self in the foot trying to stop things prematurely, when we can just wait them out.

#SaveTheMempool

Inscriptions: the cure is worse than the disease

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzdesxgerxdp58yenyvejqgswrlemlh2wgqc4jkds3d8ueqj9a2j3gcm7r48v9tskdd6rxsd7rtcrqsqqqa28wdzn0j


This is a graduation thesis, you know?. Is not a book. and why do you demand answers?. Is a darn good thesis with some mind blowing ideas in it. Even you concede that. The tone of your critique makes your intentions look a little off to me.


“RaGe AgAinsT ThE MaCHine” required proof of vaccination during Covid to attend to their concerts


Similar to war, weather pushes for technology development. Making it very difficult to calculate the net benefits / costs. The problem is not having the “means and methods” to thrive in the harsh environment. I rather not shy away from challenges. It gives me a chance to learn.


I dream of changing my own small world in ways that align with my principles(pragmatism, humanity and logic). I try to invest my energy and time on ideas that have a clear effect on a human or a group of humans in the most humane way possible. I get turned off by ideas that end up in logical contradictions (i.e coerced experimental vaccinations, mandated pronouns, communism, etc).
I create buildings in properties that allow humans feel protected and independent so they can project themselves into a better future.
One day, without much coordination, without much distraction from my work. I hope to wake up and find out that millions of others have also been doing the same at their own corner of the world.
Bitcoin has brought me hope that this will indeed happen.


Yay!