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 can some there please just open a nest and walk around, so we can put voices with faces nostr:note1l40vje0tnr43vpnludyjxchrxajtk9xasut3h8x5e8pclam70c5srdvkkg 
 ocean opsec is fire 
 I’d you tag him in enough bitcoin questions he’s bound to answer one? Maybe bring back Cassie. 
 Why isn’t coinjoin the default for bitcoin transactions? Why aren’t miners the coordinators? 
 @shawn not recommend 

too many interesting tangents, goes soft on WEF and Kissinger, some nuggets but too much time will be spent to find them https://image.nostr.build/8e938d575d04078b2f12a0ceaf59feb4e5852c910c5916a8eb3cdf94a12720a5.jpg  
 if npubs don’t pay clients there will be no growth, if npubs and clients don’t pay relays, there is no nostr

the only way social nostr grows is if other npubs or outside advertisers pay npubs 
 The folks calling for million+ dollar BTC in 2024 are not serious people. 
 bearish 
 keep GitHub weird 
 a picture is worth a thousand words 
 state attack 
 the masculine urge to drop a screenshot in a GitHub open issue 
 what does this have to do with bitcoin? 
 Sometimes feedback is great and welcomed. Sometimes feedback is bad and it needs to be killed wit... 
 this is terrible advice 
 great advice 
 i have to be the hottest person in imos for some reason 
 pics or it didn’t happen 
 Walmart greeter has been activated 
 times are so bad you’re trying to win sats from an intern 
 people on the internet aren’t free because they don’t have privacy and you can’t have freedom without privacy 

let me explain 
 Hi. Freezing in South Carolina. 

#introductions 
 Bitboy is a piece of shit

Welcome to nostr 🤙 
 Mind your Ps and Qs 
 best mining informercial i’ve seen 

need a timeshare closer 
 blanket swag 🤌 
 we all know who did this menu 
 “The State shouldn’t exist, we know that, but um while it does, can we use them in anyway?” 😂 
 guy won’t stop talking about non bitcoin related subjects 
 “asymptote of chip efficiency” 
 Preston Pysh 👀

shit just got real 
 happy to not see any clients or relays simping for war criminals 
 we should go back to CPUs, as god intended 
 that’s a nice space heater you got there sir 
 a cowboy hat? that’s a surprise 
 looks more like a mechanical bull at a conference kind of guy 
 “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
― Thomas Campbell 
 cut the cord #bitcoinmining 
 What's your favorite animal?

Rabbits, horses, or elephants? 
 humans 
 PoW gives you freedom, but it can’t give you privacy

and i’m told you can’t have freedom without privacy 

ergo… 
 PoW without privacy is what then? 
 without anonymity it’s not bitcoin, it’s just surveillance 
 The Ocean is the largest habit on Earth. 
 mining? mining what exactly? 
 I know family that won’t touch bitcoin unless it’s in an ETF so they can put it in their retirement account, 5% allocation from normies, what do? 
 why? that would just drive up the price for myself? 
 they won’t buy until ETF, it’s not about censorship resistant money for them, they just want the tax benefit 
 the ETF will be a few clicks on a computer and no need to understand anything about bitcoin 

“Whitepaper? nah, I’m good” 
 Dear 2140 plebs, good luck 
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 full send 
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 teach me 
 I still haven’t recovered from the loss of Mailbox

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