Worst smell on the planet


Looks easy


Incredible


2.5 lbs in the first flush.

#chestnutmushrooms #gourmetmushrooms #shroomstr #foodstr #mushstr #bitcoin https://video.nostr.build/bc70dc733407f65a8cb8ea37bb0c1d4655ea6475393e5f71843f89207e44a78f.mp4


Buy again, is good advice


You’ve probably seen GreenpeaceUSA's Bitcoin report by now, and my response (if you haven't been blocked).

Here’s six things that every environmentalist, Bitcoin advocate, regulator, policymaker and media representative should know about GreenpeaceUSA.

I've had this information for over a year, but have held back on going public with it until now because there were initially signs that GreenpeaceUSA would be open to engaging with environmentalists within the Bitcoin community.

With them now blocking me from commenting on their tweets, all hope of that has now ended. So here's what I can tell you about GreenpeaceUSA, and their campaign that have not been aired publicly until now, and which may surprise you.

Firstly, some context: I’m a former volunteer environmental campaigner with Greenpeace. I once risked arrest to stand up for causes I believed in, including an anti-GMO campaign against McDonalds which was successful within 6 weeks, and hailed as an example of how creative direct action can yield fast results. One of the differences: we talked to McDonalds (something no one at GreenpeaceUSA is currently doing with the Bitcoin community).

I know a number of people in the environmental movement, and I would like to thank them for their honesty in whistleblowing on a thoroughly misguided campaign from GreenpeaceUSA from start to finish.

1. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign does NOT have the backing of Greenpeace International. In fact, other branches have asked questions of GreenpeaceUSA’s tactics, and even said that their campaign is damaging the Greenpeace brand, and has resulted in the loss of subscriptions.

2. Within GreenpeaceUSA, there are a growing number of voices of discontent. There is a growing division between some of the younger crypto-neutral or crypto-friendly millennial in their base, and the directorship of GreenpeaceUSA

3. As we know, GreenpeaceUSA did receive a $5Million donation from Ripple’s chair Chris Larsen to run an anti-Bitcoin campaign. What you probably do not know is that within Greenpeace, several staff have questioned whether this is ethical, or in the spirit of an organization that says it relies only on grassroots funding in its sign-up pledge.

4. Some members of EWG and SierraClub, particularly younger members, were not enamoured with their organization’s collusion with GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign. EWG has not engaged in anti-Bitcoin rhetoric since 6 April ‘23.

5. The head of GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign has stepped down and is no longer any part of GreenpeaceUSA. At the time of his stepping down he was reported by a source within GreenpeaceUSA to be questioning the wisdom of the campaign.

6. Within GreenpeaceUSA, we know from multiple inside sources that the Change the Code campaign has been widely acknowledged to have been “not particularly successful”. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign got off on the wrong foot right from the start, by antagonising environmentalists within the Bitcoin community, such as me. Here’s its half-time report (TL;DR, the worst performing environmental campaign I’ve ever witnessed). https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/greenpeace-environment-attacks-help-bitcoin… Now, the campaign is in more disarray than ever, resorting to tenuous ad hominem attacks against Satoshi Action, based on the discover that one of their supporters is a climate denier. True. Well, guess what: one of their supporters is also a plant-based, tree-hugging, climate-activist & meditation teacher: me. That’s the beauty of Bitcoin: it pulls people in from across the political spectrum: we are as diverse as society itself, and that’s what makes us strong. As I wrote recently, “when the ship you’re standing on is sinking: it doesn’t matter if you’re on the left of right side of it.”

I hoped GreenpeaceUSA would end their anti-Bitcoin campaign before their credibility and relevance to the new generation of millennials they are currently disenfranchising is completely severed.

But it seems at the moment they are more intent on doubling down on misinformation. Their leadership must change for them to ever have hope of becoming a true voice for the environment again.


Touch grass


We are all just along for the ride in this life brother. I feel ya, I have felt very out of control for periods of my life when struggling with frequent panic attacks.

May not do anything for ya but grounding/earthing has helped me a lot.

Much love 🫂💜


My understanding and appreciation of bitcoin has been shaped by a handful of essays that brilliantly capture its unique properties and potential.

Here's my reading list:

⛪The Bitcoin Reformation by Tuur Demeester
"The 21st century emergence of Bitcoin, encryption, the internet, and millennials are more than just trends; they herald a wave of change.."

👑Masters and Slaves of Money by Robert Breedlove
"An exclusive right to produce money without regard for competitive market pressures is an apparatus of enslavement"

🥇Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money by Parker Lewis
"It does not matter how complex bitcoin is. At the end of the day, bitcoin becomes an A/B test. The need for money is real and individuals will converge on the form of money that best fulfills the function of exchange."

🏎Economics of Bitcoin as a Settlement Network by Saifedean Ammous
“Using Bitcoin for consumer purchases is akin to driving a Concorde jet down the street to pick up groceries: a ridiculously expensive waste of an astonishing tool."

💯The Bitcoin Central Bank’s Perfect Monetary Policy by Pierre Rochard
"The BCB enforces the strictest deposit regulations in the world by requiring full reserves for all accounts."

🐂The Bullish Case for Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati
"If Bitcoin exists for 20 years, there will be near-universal confidence that it will be available forever, much as people believe the Internet is a permanent feature of the modern world."

🏴☠Bitcoin Becomes the Flag of Technology by Balaji
"Bitcoin is not about accomplishing change through folk activism. It's a network-based phenomenon which has accomplished a revolution in monetary policy through a billion private actions."

🛑Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? by Alex Gladstein
"The rich and powerful will always design systems that benefit them before everyone else. The genius of Bitcoin is to take advantage of that.."

⏱Bitcoin is Time by Gigi
"if we want to have trustless money in the digital realm, we must remove any entity that creates and manages timestamps and any single entity that is in charge of time itself."

😈Everyone’s A Scammer by Michael Goldstein
"Long term investors should use Bitcoin as their unit of account and every single investment should be compared to the expected returns of Bitcoin."

🛶Bitcoin is Venice by Allen Farrington
"Modern banking is the legacy of a problem that technology has since solved. [Bitcoin] is a foundation to scale the next great phase of economic progress."

🖨Stone Ridge Shareholder Letter (2020) by Ross Stevens
"You can stay on the Fiat Standard, in which some people get to produce unlimited new units of money for free, just not you. Or opt in to the Bitcoin Standard, in which no one gets to do that, including you."

📡Bitcoin Miners Beware by StopAndDecrypt
"No matter who you are, or how big your company is, your transaction won’t propagate if it’s invalid."

🧩Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better by Gwern
"The interesting thing is that all the pieces were in place for at least 8 years before Satoshi’s publication.."

🎓Why the Yuppie Elite Dismiss Bitcoin by Jesse Myers
"When you’re in the ivory tower, you think the term 'ivory tower' is a silly misrepresentation of your very normal life; when you’re no longer in the ivory tower, you realize how willfully out of touch you were with the world."

🧰Decentralization: Why Dumb Networks are Better by Andreas Antonopolous
"Bitcoin allows any application to be developed independently, without permission, on the edge of the network."

🐚Shelling Out: The Origins of Money by Nick Szabo
"if money is not just coins or notes issued by a government under legal tender laws, but rather can be a wide variety of objects – then just what is money anyway?"

🪨It’s the Settlement Assurances, Stupid by Nic Carter
"You can create something which looks cosmetically similar to Bitcoin, but you cannot replicate the settlement assurances which derive from the costliness of the ledger."

🦈The Greatest Game by Jeff Booth
"The best way for people to understand how important Bitcoin is for the future, is to first understand how the existing system amplifies insecurity and how a change to a different monetary policy would produce infinitely better results."

⚖Bitcoin Reveals Exchange Rate Manipulation and Detects Capital Controls by Gina Pieters
"Bitcoin can approximate unofficial exchange rates which, in turn, can be used to detect both the existence and the magnitude of the distortion caused by capital controls and exchange rate manipulations."

🫂Bitcoin and Me by Hal Finney
"When Satoshi announced Bitcoin on the cryptography mailing list, he got a skeptical reception at best. Cryptographers have seen too many grand schemes by clueless noobs."

Links to all essays: https://www.teachingbtc.com/essays/


I love you


Ya I know, and the fact that it could be hidden for over 100 years.

Conspiracies are literally just spoiler alerts at this point


Me and the Nostr fam stackin sats and sending notes while the rest of the world is falling apart https://video.nostr.build/e88b98e6371b64f6a291d370a07765d9faa6d567875391d2824a8ebba5f573aa.mp4


That was my favorite part of the book by far


'People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.'

Ayn Rand

https://cdn.nostr.build/p/gDZO.png
#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney


Govt imposes 30% tax

Public miners can't survive

Hash rate plummets

Asic fire sales

Plebs buy everything up

Mining becomes more decentralized

More coins become no KYC

Govt collects even less tax now, hfsp

W


My favorite is Bank of America


Would No-Coiners sell right now, if they had any #Bitcoin ? 🤔 https://video.nostr.build/49ba6cc7fd68342b03f5f880e603a314d0b186bef06bb46c607584ddc67fefa5.mp4


Oh no, not again

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Someone out there wishes they had the amount of money saved you do.

Someone wishes they just looked like you.

Had the same strength you do.

Had the same family you do.

Remember today to count your blessings & fix your perspective.

You may not be where you want to be, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be thankful for where you are. You may just be in someone else’s dream position.

It’s not where you are that’s the problem, it’s your perspective. Never forget that.


I don’t want revenge, I want a ranch.

I don’t want to be right, I want a ranch.

I don’t want to rub their faces in it, I want a ranch.

I don’t want in, I just want out.


Couldn’t agree more


Momentum Meditations

Value 4 value guided meditations start in 16hrs 20 mins.

3 per week for 3 weeks.

https://bitcoin-consciousness.com/momentum-meditations-2/


The GOAT for sure and it’s not even close.

The day he died was one of the few times I’ve seen my dad cry.


The GOAT Neil Peart. https://image.nostr.build/b99a04ecdbad7593acb64f989661b76036e95e2c4b5d4f10b22eccd311e69ffa.jpg


Raiders


The government is literally stealing your life with taxes and fiat monetary inflation…

As a conservative example:

You start working at 20.
You work until you’re 65.
You pay +/- 33% of your income in taxes.

The government takes 1/3 of your working life…

They have stolen **15 YEARS** of your time, energy, and work.

And for what?

For roads? (LOLOLOL)

For a broken education system?

For a medical system that wants to keep you sick and medicated?

For the military industrial complex which gets rich off foreign forever wars you never agreed to?

And while they are stealing 1/3 of your life, they are PRINTING MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR, stealing MORE of your time/energy/life force through the destruction of your purchasing power.

The taxes you pay don’t even fund the government; an ever-growing pile of national debt does, fueled by money created out of thin air by the Federal Reserve System. The dollars in your bank account are worth less and less every year, as your purchasing power is systematically destroyed.

I am grateful #Bitcoin exists so I can opt out of this nonsense and save the value of my time and energy.

Anyway, have a beautiful day.


These are awesome nostr:note1m2clngq76gvjdg8p8cpn2ksjggdsjal2z3j56pcmeja53ufsmc8q73r04g


Attention Nostriches!
My wildlife charity website was in dire need of a massive upgrade and overhaul, so I asked around on Nostr whom could help rebuild it and nostr:npub16yvvw6g8dn9pqmh6uymjcsmy69lpdj0zch7jjy4sk67rpespc6gs596q7y offered his expertise.
Well what a brilliant and talented web designer he is!
I am completely blown away by the quality, timing and execution, to say he is great is an understatement- he is brilliant!
Thank you so much Doe!
Next time you’re looking for a web designer look no further than Doe, you’ll be thrilled.
Oh and the best thing is that you can pay him in sats - it’s a win win!
💜🧡🫂
#nostr

https://avoiceforwildlife.org


Idk why I love this so much


I like my social media shaken…..

No-str


Hop on the back, we’re going to stack hard sats


Always has been


Sometimes I come here to post something and get sucked into reposting so many solid notes that I forget what I was going to say.

That’s #nostr for ya.


Losers write letters to politicians

Winners write letters to boards https://i.nostr.build/dmWO.jpg


In all seriousness though my favorite quote was:

“Not people figure something out, something is there to be figured out”

That’s a thinker


Main take away was that the first person to create cologne and perfume had just smelled a skunk


Might have to listen to it twice


Katt Williams on Rogan is pretty entertaining


A lot of people tonight https://image.nostr.build/f128ca00806db0046a0025aba3e7f0bc8ab15e2da054554510a4435a2e94b045.jpg


Children often seem to be willing to give everything to anyone, we slowly lose this as we age but people seem to regain this urge when they are close to death.

We crave ultimate humility and selflessness. It’s in our nature.

At least from my observations.


Incredible quote my friend, no exaggeration I could ponder this one quote for an entire day


Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

J.R.R. Tolkien


Think through your life, pick out everyone that you have looked at as a badass, they have balanced extremes very elegantly. I guarantee it.


Be kind but also firm.

Be rich but also humble.

Be strong but also flexible.

Be disciplined but also humorous.

Wisdom is balanced between the two extremes.


Normalize this message nostr:note140yth5lqp45u6er3yymye4mv7ld83nq3gtujcnundgdu5cnk2jssnffa42


I will never financially recover from these goats


GM


I’m just saying his content has helped me orange pill a lot of friends and family


I think Breedlove is a standup guy for the most part


Ya I’ve been following Abaxx for years because it is one of my larger equity positions, they just become the 1st approved exchange and clearinghouse in the past 10 years (so this doesn’t happen often). They are very focused on changing collateral system, and making futures contract physically deliverable which should get more capital back in the hands of actual producers.

Anyway with their managements mindset I could totally see them integrating bitcoin payments for global commodity trades……ceo Josh crumb is a bitcoiner I’m like 80% sure.


This is quite interesting to me. nostr:note1t9efkecpnvwmsxas3q9mr0f5t0mccnfrnndjvnnujsu74ne86d8svmryvy


Ya lol


I think about a cabin in the woods often. Once a week? Maybe, but certainly multiple times a month, and I know I’m not alone.


stay humble https://i.nostr.build/jQjg.jpg


I bet Abaxx exchange changes this within next 3 years……calling my shot


I really relate to this 💜


Great show today on RHR 🐇

My favorite part:
HUMBLE ENOUGH

Here’s the link if you want to be even more bullish than you already are. 👇🏽

https://www.youtube.com/live/wDN04q2jDnA?si=SdHK799OzCsI44oZ


That’s always my answer, usually gets a long pause then they say real estate lol


That $100 short on #Bitcoin in my book. Not gonna happen.


I’m a big fan of hooking up with my wife.


Give him a hug and say good luck buddy


Dem pushups are showin my friend


The absolute best


The scientific method was revealed in a man’s dreams………sounds scientific.

TRUST THE SCIENCE. lol nostr:note1pg25f2gnpxjhpdxc8zl0jwy943wnx55hr7whcq4aq8uxzlak62dq6gxpv7


And the printer has barely gotten warmed up


Nostr would be nicer if the same reposts didn't go forever


I had some whiskey tonight so I’m with ya


Still can’t believe someone wrote this headline on a day #bitcoin pumped 10%

nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m is signal.
The rest is noise.

https://m.primal.net/HfcO.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HfcP.jpg


Cities are shitcoins


Feels like becoming a whole coiner is going to become incredibly hard very soon.


Did 100 pushups a day 😂🧡


Oh heck ya!


nostr:npub1ahxjq4v0zlvexf7cg8j9stumqp3nrtzqzzqxa7szpmcdgqrcumdq0h5ech I absolutely loved the talk with Grant Williams. He is one of my favorite people to listen to and you knocked that interview out of the park! 🧡

Keep fighting the good fight.


How you know nostr will win: you feel better being here.

I am sure some can relay when I say that quitting other social media has made me feel happier day to day. I don't know if it's the authentic interactions, or the lack of algo, or both, but nostr is the happy place.


When you’re old and you think you’re neat, take off your shoes and smell your feet.

Grandpa always said that.

Thought some of us might need to hear that today, hard to stay humble, but it’s of utmost importance.🧡


Beautiful


Completely agree, and it often leads to great motivation and ideas


I’m still brave


Super elite, all world team


Carbon Tax
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts ReceivableTax
Airline surcharge tax
Airline FuelTax
Airport MaintenanceTax
Building PermitTax
CigaretteTax
Corporate IncomeTax
DeathTax
Dog LicenseTax
Driving PermitTax
EnvironmentalTax (Fee)
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment (UI)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Gasoline Tax (too much per litre)
Gross ReceiptsTax
HealthTax
Hunting LicenseTax
HydroTax
InheritanceTax
InterestTax
LiquorTax
LuxuryTaxes
Marriage LicenseTax
MedicareTax
MortgageTax
Personal IncomeTax
PropertyTax
PovertyTax
Prescription DrugTax
Provincial Income and sales tax
Real EstateTax
Recreational VehicleTax
Retail SalesTax
Service ChargeTax
SchoolTax
Telephone FederalTax
Telephone Federal, Provincial and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
WaterTax
Watercraft RegistrationTax
Well PermitTax
Workers CompensationTax
THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 60 years ago, & our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middle class, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What happened?


Bitcoin e-Cash mints "micro banks" is a super power.

It's literally one-button "Free Banking" for everyone.

Start a Free Bank here https://www.enuts.cash


You will have your day in the sun my friend.


Much love my friend. Let us know if there is anything you need.


Would be cool to have a purpose-built nostr client around it as a wrapper, so you can watch together, discover, comment, etc.
nostr:nevent1qqsvnp438ejppgpgdvepnjx0c6339zu77jg8ufsurxtt3x4wl2ywxaqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzypssvegyv9lw0yu8qg0p3jylk7w3mk7ru7llr88j9x85q3n0su27jqcyqqqqqqg4zmm9c


Sounds like a central banker


I've made some more changes to NostrNet AI. Now it stores your chat history locally, and of course, no login is required.

Last but not least, I recently found a nice UI library, so upcoming updates will have a polished look.

Click on "bot" icon on top right corner: https://nostrnet.work
https://i.imgur.com/WLqCCBZ.jpeg


Been there my friend 🫂💜


Elderberries are badass


I struggle with saying no as well.


I’m Force2B and I believe that the universe owes you nothing and neither does anyone else. If you truly want something you must learn to provide it from scratch for yourself and the ones you love. This includes peace and love, to provide it for yourself it must come from yourself, look inward more than looking to info provided from the outside world.

Also I’m and ex-Civil Engineer, I love: Bitcoin, proof-of-work, math, gardening, and the little moments throughout the day where you fall in love with a stranger because you see them do a selfless act and they didn’t know you were looking.

Also a big fan of whiskey.


This is one of the better replies 🤙


If you’ve studied network effects you’ll know the first cohort to adopt a new network is massively influential on development, there’s a form of path dependence from the userbase which isn’t immediately obvious but becomes apparent over time. Think of things like zaps and how that directionally leads devs and subsequent use cases.

There are downsides to having Bitcoiners as your bootstrap but I reckon your about 1000x more likely to succeed with them as a cohort over some degens who are only there because their views and what they want to be social about is repugnant to the vast majority of other people.

Bitcoiners don’t HAVE to be here on nostr, they want to be here. At least devs know they have a low time preference user base who will put up with some rough edges if it means users can get outside “the system” and remain self-sovereign.

This is unlike the pedos and Nazis and furries who were forced to migrate elsewhere because other places didn’t want their message on their platforms. Those are fickle bootstrap cohorts who will move on to the next place that allows more extremism than now and won’t feed back to Devs what they need to grow the place.

In 10 years, with hindsight, this will appear obvious. It’s not obvious to most people today though. We are the lucky ones who get to see this thing from the beginning. nostr:note1q7ttle22uy70jh52pchp0pyk9du08y49n5zkrk2t6wel49py2lmsh6hjua


The only thing more dangerous than a safe life is a boring one.


Seems unreliable


This is top 1% of the notes that currently exist on nostr. Very thought provoking and very important IMO.


Wow, deep


Anybody wanna open a lightning channel to me? My inbound is kinda trash right now. Maybe like 1 million sats? Can open one back to you. Would be greatly appreciated!
https://i.nostr.build/YwE6.jpg


Gonna need a differential equation class to figure this one out


Even people that still believe in political systems might convince themselves that people did not go into politics with the intent to do this……..but it is getting to the point where it is hard to deny this is consistently the outcome. nostr:note1j5z2wxwfsv7w9cd4u3ekps0rcqkh6j03wsxmnsknaytn9s3hdwrshe867t


I think if non bitcoiners thought about this long enough, some things would slowly start to click for many of them. nostr:note1f6n2rkr5cgfqxd6f2539mc0xelx5844wn4mcdcdlxuxfvhcspd2slk5apy


I have 3 free range eggs scrambled every morning with some melted extra sharp white cheddar (aged over 2 years) on it every morning.

Longer aged cheese has almost no lactose and lots of probiotics….its helped my digestive tract a lot to stay away from too much lactose, including cheeses that are hardly aged.


The Carnival of Venice is occurring now.

Venetian masks are sometimes used to symbolize decadence. But historically, there was a lot more to them than that.

Centuries ago, Venice was a highly stratified society, meaning big gaps between the wealthy nobles and the commoners, and between men and women. But the Venetian carnival, and any parties where the masks were worn, were opportunities for the nobles and commoners to mingle as equals without knowing or caring someone's social station.

The masks removed identity, and along with it, removed many consequences of interaction. People could speak their mind and interact more thoroughly without the heavy restrictions of the social stratification. And they could be critical of the current social structure without it necessarily being tied back to their identity. If society is open, then perhaps anonymity is rarely needed. But if society is closed or repressive, then anonymity is a tool to change minds while minimizing the consequences to the individual.

And Venetian masks were all different and beautiful, coming in all manner of styles and colors. The wearer could express themselves without revealing themselves, similar to how we might think of a social media avatar today, but in the real world.

Authoritarian/fascist governments on multiple occasions banned the carnival and criminalized the wearing of the masks, because anonymity and social equality were perceived as threatening to them. But as those governments fell, the carnival and tradition returned.

Anyway, good morning Nostr.

https://m.primal.net/HaYG.png


one of my fav quotes ever


very interesting, thanks for sharing. It's seems that public AI models that are baised, defeat the purpose of AI in my opinion.


what's going on?


haha so good


The greatest wealth is to live content with little.


corporate


I got a bunch of seedlings already going strong in my basement, getting excited for this spring! I think I'm going to try throwing some potatoes and carrots in the ground soon as it seems like it might be an early spring :)


few


Two of the most revolutionary breakthroughs in finance:

1. Continue to lower the reserve requirement towards zero.

2. Pay off debt by going further into debt.

Genius!

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A decade ago I was in my car at a stoplight, and there was a bunch of seagulls eating a discarded bag of fast food in the intersection.

When the light turned green, the car in front of me went slowly to give the seagulls a chance to fly away, but they didn't. Instead, the car's tire just slowly ran over a whole pile of seagulls, who just kept going after the fast food as they were run over. I just watched horrified as this played out.

Every once in a while, I just wonder why the seagulls never got out of the way despite how slow the threat was.

Anyway, looking at the bond market reminded me of this again today.


Happy President's Day
https://image.nostr.build/5dca63114249a59c098c221b4a9468d62635b874ff9bc807c0a23ed8cdb731c6.jpg


doing the Lord's work


We need to fix lightning UX before zapping will be successful, and custodial wallets is not the solution. The reliability of custodial lightning has been going down.


Gradually then suddenly. Math checks out.


In terms of meme dreams nostr has the dream team


What if I’m being silenced but I’m also stupid


Boy am I lost


100 pushups per day then drink a couple of these bad boys and you are well on your way.


nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct is killing it. Own your data. Route your own payments. Verify everything yourself.

Beautiful.


All day


Haha so gooood


This is why grounding is so important


incredible


13 yeats ago.
Tin Can.
Turnagain Pass.
Alaska.

https://video.nostr.build/101a16b41b66ccd94fd8dc4ff2b5c710796fa0f0523113cbc53d221c26cc5a90.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=400x300&blurhash=%23YJH%25Ot1%7Ep_2jYM%7CNGWBM%7BE9%3FaRiWAs%2Cayj%5Boet79bNIRPRkt7ofofofWBM%7BRlxtaet7%25LoJWBa%7DoJIVWWt7Rkj%5Bt6WBj%5BWBaxNHofofRjofxaWBRjoKWWR*ayoyafoet7&x=8e95b917f065deb9773527154a186ae0c99e1c57e808731f0cdba43d62084511

#selfie
#snowboard
#boardstr


perfect this is exactly what I was looking for, thanks so much!


very cool video though!


you live a beautiful life my friend.


If I wanted to get local businesses to accept bitcoin over lightning while maintaining nodes for them (or just having my own node they all route through) would the best way to do this be through Zeus?


actually pretty simple to make from scratch!


love it


We launched a thrift shop in the township, at Ekasi Center, and all prices are denominated in sats only.

No fiat prices.

All the clothes we sell are donated to the organization and sold for a token amount to township residents.

Obviously, it's not about generating an income. We often receive donations of clothing and, in the past, we would've distributed these clothes for free, to those in need.

We're effectively still doing that, as items are 'sold' for next to nothing. But there's now an educational component attached to it which involves an exchange from fiat to sats and at least two #Bitcoin transactions.

And, hopefully, the question: "What are sats?"
#[0]  Doing marvelous job in spreading awareness at grassroot level


I’m convinced there are only 3 reasons to do anything.

1. Out of necessity

2. In the hope of a better future

3. For someone else

It’s beautiful when all 3 align, and there are several instances where working on bitcoin adoption has struck me to be all 3.


There is no red, there is no blue, THERE IS NO TRUTH, besides the present moment for you.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-bitcoin-did/id1317356120?i=1000645297868


Anyone know of a good turnkey product that I could point US small-medium businesses towards?

nostr:note1lcqgheeh65pxxhn878n6w2ms4pfcy59u9zqyevmu6lsq4mkt9ajq0fkdvy


incredible, well done


What is the best way for companies in the US to accept bitcoin and keep track of all necessary taxes?

I have a buddy who builds websites for small to mid sized businesses and I want to help integrate bitcoin payments to websites if the customer chooses to.


1 million seconds is about 11 days.

1 billion seconds is about 31.5 years.

1 trillion seconds is about 31,710 years.

As of 2024, global debt is projected to reach $310 trillion…

If money is at the forefront of how we express value to one another, then it’s clearly obvious why we are seeing a  breakdown of basic logic, if you have no measurement stick of value in a interconnected society, which encourages people to share their authenticity over social media, it’s no wonder why we can’t agree on basic principles like 2 genders…

This is why nihilism has made a comeback, reality itself is incomprehensible, and our lives are hard to understand, but having a system that is just as incomprehensible as reality doesn’t make things easier, it just adds more confusion to people who are lost in the darkness…

Don’t get sucked into the system of numbers, the only number that should matter to you is this:

1 in 10^2,685,000.

That is your odds of currently existing right now, make experience the forefront of existence and cherish every moment. Spread positivity, love, laughter, and wisdom. Don’t let the system trick you.


I've been trending towards this way of thinking the past year as well.

Quantum physics has really been showing us how relative reality can be, and it got me thinking about how much one's beliefs shape their reality.

If one's reality is relative and reality is all we have, then it seems truth can be relative to the individual as well. We all want to believe that truth is absolute but when trying to relate to others this can put up barriers.

Like you said respect is the ultimate path to building relationships and it seems to open so many doors to joy even with someone who fundamentally has a different reality than you.


beautiful my friend. One of the best notes I've read since being on Nostr.


My thought for today:
Speak and live the truth as best you know and believe it.

I may not always agree with you.
There may be times I cannot even support you, because of my own beliefs about what’s true.

But I will always respect you.

Respect is a better foundation for a strong friendship than mutual beliefs. And having a friend who challenges you is more rewarding than a comfortable one.


when the mind is quiet, you see beauty everywhere.


Same, I just love boating


Haven’t played that in years, might have to fire it up.


RuneScape?


one of my favorite reads of all time, so so good.

nostr:note12wn3ctczdwdtrg0vpwzemn95c7mgz7qea6et90hecqlx79tcvu8qdj9tk8


completely agree


what if my craft is saving bitcoin


#grownostr
https://i.nostr.build/rVg3.jpg


This is honestly getting absurd and quite scary. So many regular joes that start to dip their toes into BTC as debt spirals progress are likely going to have very little control of their own keys.....defeating the purpose of the network.

Hopefully we combat this with flawless UX in peer to peer KYC-Free exchange networks.

nostr:note1pl2hh0dklrtd98knlftur9qwzgnz0g2euxkkd05fa5tjtkgtan7s09ynhd


love this, never realized that's why they named it. Very clever.
https://m.primal.net/Hcas.png


The wait is over.

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umbrelOS 1.0 is a complete rebirth of umbrelOS, engineered from scratch for unparalleled stability, UX, and security.

Rolling out on March 18, 2024, for our Umbrel Home & Raspberry Pi users. And in April 2024 for our Ubuntu & Debian users.

The new Umbrel Home? It's supercharged with the new Intel N100 chip, a faster 16GB RAM and a 2TB SSD.

It's a powerhouse: 5x faster vs Raspberry Pi 4, 2x faster vs Raspberry Pi 5.

We're excited to introduce it at just $399 / €369 / £319.

Shipping worldwide starting today.

https://video.nostr.build/03796bba17f95803a374a62be016c9ff8f660f64586bfae42590fa71ffa09718.mp4


Ya, I have a very similar situation where the wife and I have minimized most of our expenses. I would like to bring in a little money but it’s really about staying busy and working on things that excite me.


Thanks this is great, means a lot.


I’ve noticed this lately as well


Nice! Ya I was on the construction side as a field engineer for 3 years and then design for 4 years.


ya good idea, im guessing they mostly use electrical engineeer but maybe they have some civil work needed at some of their sites!


haha sometimes, engineers do as well. No one creates as much pain as the state and local agencies that have to sign off on everything though!


I appreciate the encouragement 🫂


Nice we are from the same I industry, I worked closly with a lot of architects!


I quit my civil engineering job a few months back and have been seriously comsidering trying to help out a bitcoin/nostr company if I could.

I would ideally look for part time work I could do remotely, even if it was kinda like a freelance setup where I could just be paid by task.

My background was working a lot of CAD softwares but I doubt they translates much to the bitcoin space. I'm a good problem solver and great with mathematics!

Anyone have any ideas of how I could assist in the bitcoin or nostr space or anything materials I should start studying to develop skills that would be relevant?

Appreciate it.


it's a t-shirt


nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m I saw you while watching the Super Bowl and have decided you are just the best.


any appetizer you want with a crushed up ambien sprinkled on top


they were the underdog


No way it is bigger than saying GM


Bush babies https://video.nostr.build/eee22996f765e1622f9c9b9764624071d0c357c5b434d30b737feec54b1723b4.mp4


That’s really neat. I’ve never seen anything like this before.


Use BSD or Qubes instead of Linux... nostr:note1szzrxmz3tlzynsw02yq849ymzftcrx764smk5d28awxspvjxptps0wjzhu


Whoa that’s incredible


I woke up early this morning to shoot some pic.

It was a Lucky Day, and this is one of the best pict I've shoot with my 500 f4 Lens.

I know is not perfect, but I never done nothing like this before, I'm  so happy! 🤩 🤩 🤩

#photostr #photography #nostr #noAIphotoplease #keepphotographyalive #photochain #coffeechain #zap #btc

https://www.francopastorino.com/_Nostr/fight_1.jpg


*grounding


For anyone who hasn't tried sleeping on a geounding mat of some sort, it is a must try.

Literally like magic.

GM


block 210,210


Oddly satisfying


just the best


I've never had one


get a grounding pad to put your feet on when you sleep and you will wake up with little or no pain throughout your body most mornings.


Hashrate always ripping
Society be slipping
My tea I be sipping
The case for bitcoin is gripping

GM


Hope you’re ready https://image.nostr.build/4f058fe83071b2a88cbda98e3d1ae9317237cfbc346a5348d0ce4ca9dcc95319.jpg


The Fed ends


Maybe shitting on politians and public figures is playing into their hands. Simply talking about them validates them.


guess what, everything is an opinion. We can prove almost nothing to ourselves. Reality is a thin vail, tread lightly with your own and enjoy when you align with someone else's


90% of what we think we do


I don't think you can get more impressive


what if.........we don't need any of it.


absolutely, no problem my fren


lol I know, but that is what everyone is going to say about everything in 2 years. just getting everyone ready for that.


crazy that this entire thing is Ai generated


comgrats my friend life seems to swing from valleys to mountain tops, hopefully the coming years are on the mountain top for you and your family. 🫂💜


Really love this


I have a YouTube channel with almost 11,000 subscribers and they have paid me about $14 a month in ad revenue for the exact same videos I share on NOSTR with only 2k followers.

NOSTR zaps on the other hand have made me an average of $30 a month, and it's all in sound money.

What platform is more rewarding for creators 💪?


gotta catch up to Primal


this is for the "housing never goes down" people
https://m.primal.net/HbSw.jpg


It’s just endless propaganda from all sides.


This hits hard https://image.nostr.build/d6faa63db643459c09bef82f7e9e5fbfe3743f83a8905a0bda9570558a0f760a.jpg


trust yourself, gain lots of wealth


paradise


great to hear you are starting your own thing. Godspeed.


This guy is the man. Fucking fearless trader & saw Bitcoin early too. Sound advice. https://image.nostr.build/439e31d9990dd06937f50c610b146b8f86a79d505a4c6a53b30c6ba69ff55e2e.jpg


I did in the past, then my boating accident happened.

Nothing to worry about anymore.


Those old geezers are always right until they aren’t


Been the plan from the beginning


Well said


That’s so dope


Grammys = The capitol in Hunger Games


Ya that truly breaks my heart


Looks like there is a really wide range https://image.nostr.build/815dca38c315c7943c5f19561a7453756f7cb5909e345b583470c9cc12e04789.jpg


Maybe black tea isn’t quite that high


I think a cup of green tea is like 40-50 mg where black tea is 70-100 mg


Ya sencha is just kinda the everyday drinking green tea in Japan, it is a little high quality though because it is just leaves no stems.

I mostly stick to green tea cuz I don’t do well with lots of caffeine, wish I could drink more coffee and black tea because I love the taste of them.


Blackcurrant sounds real good


Nice, I pretty much just drink green tea (Japanese sencha) but I love an earl grey every once in awhile


I’ll what type of tea do you drink?


Easy to forget how special earth is

https://sove.rent/media/public/7361a9dfce0c24b4801163c375adbfb91a238f115d1e15b6217c1976ad592e2c.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=320x320&blurhash=U33S03_N%3Fc-%3B.8-%3BxuoLRjM%7BITD%25NGM%7BIUIU&x=a6db437fe5ed58beb3bcdfd83ad01a5a79c0f4cb7aea87b729e3e7d790b63397


Game of thrones


I hate that our organized legal system even allows for this to be possible, burn it down. All of it. Then piss on the ashes.


Quite literally no


i believe in this dude.
not sure why.
its not because he does everything right, or gets everything right.
it has something to do with his heart, and honesty.
pray for people like this. they’re a target. nostr:note12ge3gjwd00lfzs8jgqm9sq49e88t4nhe3ag3tasfpsmns82gmc6qah0q0u


The universe owes us nothing, and neither do our peers


Do you believe you're worthy of higher realms?

I believe in you.


A rock thrown in the air. It loses nothing by coming down, gained nothing by going up.

- Marcus Aurelius, chief OG stoic


That’s funny shizz


Coldcards are the best in my opinion, get 3 of them and set up a 2 of 3 multisig with sparrow on a desktop/laptop is great!

Sparrow wallet software and coldcards are from different companies 🫂

Sparrow is free software to download :)


This is breathtaking


This is gross nostr:npub1cf3zeytdnwgwzz5pk2ax0vvmmlzad03xcft4d50ejrfhsh8pxcdsefx7gk


In case anyone wanted to follow Robosats Nostr channel, nostr:npub1p2psats79rypr8lpnl9t5qdekfp700x660qsgw284xvq4s09lqrqqk3m82

 They are hard to find cause they use their npub as their display name.

They are in process of maintenance so main site is offline, but their second site is working just fine. Open you TOR browser and go to dex.robosats.com for a simple, streamline, nonKYC, p2p bitcoin exchange.
#bitcoin #nostr #grownostr


Made some big leaps in the past year because I started playing every week! Hopefully I can get sub 10 handicap by the end of 2024!


Asking someone if they vote is my quick way of gauging their capacity to think critically.


Congress has less than 20% approval ratings
And 90% reelection rates.

But sure. Vote harder.


Ohh lol, I’m around 10-12


You mean what tee blocks? I usually play white or blues. Played whites today.

Do you golf?


Good day. https://image.nostr.build/7b223a6c7e8829b1eeed626e0b155d9cb1161b814949c3a530be85485e7fab5a.jpg


GM! How are you today? ☕💜🫂 Here comes our (me and nostr:npub1ezw0xm0w52rd4yfdg9zlw9qvwdy46alzelklkefptrd203m37tuq4djmeg ) video 😘
#damusrecap
https://v.nostr.build/z2Q4.mov


100% use river, they also have best custody……but you should try to take into your own custody once comfortable!


Good Morning Friends ☀

#Coffeechain #Plebchain
https://video.nostr.build/2ffb5373a93990dd9daae4f782c966db265f433e9b3261d9cbc629ce544934a8.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=544x960&blurhash=%5DZFi70RjWUxujY_4WCj%3FxuRk%25hj%3FRkt7oe-payjYt6j%5Boat7RkWBs%3BIVWVf6aykCV%5BWBWBaxoeadf5f7WBWCNGRjWCayWB&x=9de90176b4262b52cafe77a8566642cef399f973fc67175e094ed4e327a1a2f5


To be fully self sustainable/sufficient


YES


Not gonna lie, I love doing pushups


GN 🫂


The power of the ordinary person doing extraordinary things is indomitable. That’s what scares them, that’s why they’re panicking. Let us not stray from the focus we all have to completely change the broken system 🔥


Chiefs 9ners 🙄


LIONS


Wow Lamar


Great answer


Good shit


Very interesting, thanks for sharing


I’m hoping for a Ravens Lions superbowl, that would be amazing!

I’ve been become a big Goff fan


It is truly getting demonic


Me, in my home office


Very neat


👍 good talkin’ I enjoyed it my friend


Incredibly impressive.


I think you and I are talking about different things. You are talking about consistencies we choose to accept on different levels (stop signs on a local community level, nostr between you and I, ect.) I am referring truth, specifically that no one person can prove that their reality is truth because you can never know if some other entity has experienced the same moment in a way that opposes your logic. You don’t know what you don’t know and we sure as hell can’t see into the future yet so you never know if everything completely changes tomorrow, instantly your prior truth becomes untrue. Anyway if no one person can know that their reality is truth I think it is funny that we think if we get enough people together saying the same thing it now becomes truth, I just see this as voluntary acceptance of a consistency that we have noticed to date (but can still change in the future as our understanding science and physics often does).

I know none of what I am talking about has any tangible value that can be acted on, but I do think this framing should lead to a little more humility and open-mindedness…….and unending questioning which I think is good.

Keeps life interesting, when there is never a finish line. There is always more progress and possibilities.


21 million


For more than 20 years, Christian Moullec has flown with birds.
With his microlight aircraft he guides migrating flocks of vulnerable species and orphaned birds .
https://video.nostr.build/e4d3ed12260607f4eac71e907983614a51e672889fdf8c656b2b1d63a43f123b.mp4
#birds #man #nature #amazing #world #videos #animals


Yep same experience for me, search is wack


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An absolute all-timer https://image.nostr.build/01b640398aa8b1a2288c70e6999989d75ff18e7e574bf2f3b0c6d33ce032bc04.jpg


Until they reach fair value of infinity


I think when that happens it will be the biggest shake up in wealth gap


Trust me I know the bitcoin supply will not be changed…….but I don’t think humans are even close to knowing what factual reality is (if there even is one). Since everyone’s experience is relative to themselves, when someone says there is an objective shared reality they are coming to that conclusion from their own logic shaped by their relative experiences and perspectives which contradicts something being objective.

All we have is our logic, and our logic is relative to ourselves. We can agree on things to the extent that can be expressed through understandable channels (language, emotion, mathematics, ect.) but this is not proof that there is objective reality. There are only moments in time where we agree on things that can be conveyed. We are all swimming in our own water and you never truly know what someone else’s reality is.

This is just the way I see things, I don’t think it is truth and I’m usually changing the way I think about reality quite often because I’m constantly thinking about these things! I enjoy it 🤙


Quite mind blowing


Makes the it a possibility in his reality


Was thinking the same thing the other day, almost seems like human nature leads to propaganda


Ya lol what a joke, traditional media is soooo dead


Two of the most important people on the planet right now! History will look kindly on them.


The best part of life is loving and I really love all of you 💜


An absolute all-timer of a note


What if everyone becomes aware of the fact that reality is simply what you believe it is?


Pro tip: When cleaning the kitchen, put on some good tunes, pour a glass of whiskey, and dim the lighting for mood.

And don’t be afraid to get jiggy wit it.


These breathing exercises have worked miracles for me. Start slow though! Just do 1 or 2 rounds to start and don’t inhale as deep as possible every breath, I know some people get nauseous after doing the first time if they push it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tybOi4hjZFQ


I’ve been there!


Thanks I really appreciate it


Underrated quote https://image.nostr.build/565ef16673eadf6407e83c4150496264e28aa9d6cfa2252916edaf1a045b2287.jpg


I love my mom


His laugh is so terrible


With wheat tortillas? 😂


opt out, don’t vote.


Is that’s a picture!


Super nostr:note16wsk32qp2vl95p8thzzh20ewj89vqnsrk0qra8ac70e7dxphlzns8gxcw5


V for Vendetta


*my name


My name is


A must watch once a year, always gets me fired up


Ya I bailed on them and went to River 6 months ago


https://image.nostr.build/d087bb441a3e329ab9640a1cd1b1e24512d00849ca64b5e7e6fad9ef6275cb3e.jpg
#Bitcoin #Nostr #Plebs


Over the past few months I’ve noticed a pretty big shift from an ideological perspective to a more practical one amongst influential developers around here.

It wasn’t long ago that ZBD was catching bullets left and right for releasing a client with an email/password login that held users private keys for them. Now it’s seemingly encouraged as long as it’s nsecbunker run by one of your favorite client developers?

“The node is on the phone” and fully self-custodial lightning for all was a loud narrative until people were actually forced to try it when WoS pulled out of US. Didn’t take long for it to become all about ecash and how to “minimize” custodial risks instead.

I tend to be on the practical side of things so I welcome the shift, but I’d caution against losing sight of why we are here in the first place.


Did I over pay?


I bribed them with 50 million sats


Wit it rock wit it


Love it


We're giving away a BLOCKCLOCK mini from nostr:npub1wu4aye7ll0lnrrg638e90sehzsgpzx5t39t3mwl05aa0d0ap08esdz3vw0

This awesome #Bitcoin art piece can show you live stats from the Bitcoin network. See things like block height, sats per dollar, mempool fees, and much more!

How to Enter:

1. Boost / repost this note
2. Follow nostr:npub1kns8r25ppwc2vpsv5cvhlpk94nfad76k64pkdzfnn704th2hmcksgq3582

We'll pick 1 random winner on January 31 and announce it here on #Nostr
https://bitcoin.rocks/img/nostr/giveaway-blockclock-mini-jan-24-2024.png


But they’re experts!


I love math


What should a recipe app of the future look like?

Personally I hate all the SEO garbage people use as filler in recipes. I go straight to ingredients list.

My wife doesn’t even bother with traditional recipe format, she just watches those fast paced video recipes with captions for instructions.


Same, and not planning on it anytime soon. Not voting means more than voting, full stop.


My list is very similar, I’m gonna be honest though, a lot of them I get sick of because they become a bit repetitive. The one guy I can listen to forever though is nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z , don’t know what it is but I never get sick of him. Just has incredible logic and the gift of boiling things down clearly.


Bro made a wig out of a bamboo cutting board


Only way I ever power mine on, absolutely love it. Full send on the tin foil


The ColdPower is, to-date, one of the coolest Bitcoin-adjacent things I’ve ever seen. H/t nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8

Tin-foil mode activated 😂🫡 https://image.nostr.build/eb55afc3f58edd96f4f3d510ebf23ede5824f8097f0b722c319af70fb6a59e29.jpg


Anyone else need any client design help? Or feedback.

#nostrdesign


You’d be crazy not to take advantage of this offer, builders. nostr:note1fgm2rvrp86w6p93m7pw65atx5n43ff2j2gzwnqn507sfz7sqe9ks9ztnse


I made my own birthday clock and it’s my birthday every other day.

Y’all are behind on presents.


Everything Cramer thinks he owns……he doesn’t really own.


I have thought of switching over to them in the near future so let me know how it goes!


Take a cold shower or do a quick cold dip before working out, always makes it easier for me.


Is that what it feels like?
I’m asking because I don’t know.
I’ve gotten numb to it at this point. 🤣


Lemme tell y'all a story.  Just outside the town of Ringgold, Louisiana there was a field next to an intersection where the rednecks would dump their trash.  One day someone dumped a toilet out there, and it was an eyesore.  More trash piled up til another toilet appeared in the pile.  This apparently triggered the "First Follower" effect and within a few months there were dozens of toilets.  Then something strange happened.  Someone arranged the toilets into a circle. Word got around, and people started coming just to see the toilets.  Teens would party there at night.  Tourists would stop and take selfies.  The trash started getting picked up and hauled to the dump, art projects started to appear.  The Ringgold Toilet Bowl started trending on social media.  All from individual voluntary interaction.  Then the city found out about it, and sent workers to collect all the toilets and art and take them to the landfill.  Now this field is back to being a regular trashy litter ground.  Chaos to order by voluntaryism.  Order to chaos by fiat.

Photography credit: Donald Farley

https://i.nostrimg.com/b846f405db249097f1be873b70950ac73f6aff8204a9a514df7d98563a17fbd1/file.jpg


Very impressive


I believe that love is fundamental to our reality, we are just very poor at quantifying it so we do not include it in “scientific” processes


Think less, feel more


Imagine millions of nodes running open source ai working together to solve problems and create solutions

Helping humanity to self organise according to their needs, their community needs and their locality

It’s going to happen nostr:note10qra3g0f4envq5kl0rt97zsksaj47s4hhqd7knerzcr5z9gy2xlq4jwfhg


Absolutely love it


Get em’


What started you on the journey of looking inward/immaterial?

I really enjoy your energy.


You just got a follow my friend


Not gonna lie, watched this for 2 minutes


I remember learning about this in History class


Absolutely


Pro tip: if you want to level up a cheap lite beer, squeeze a fresh lemon slice in it. 🤙


I’m more of a whiskey guy myself, but ya guaranteed fix.


If you have iPhone you also can hide IP in this way but you still be tracked by Apple 🤷♂ https://image.nostr.build/4bce2f398cb8a81ec8112e4993e9c4656d206c99359a539ade824b47a5485355.jpg


Love this


Is VPN enough?


Love it


Can you imagine if they actually did kill him though……hopefully it would be an international uproar


2 or 3 blocks should be enough imo.
This should create a more fair game for everyone where you gotta be in before the last 2 blocks to take part in any of the original zap bidding wars!

Happy these found a great home. Must share the note for zap to count is genius, but everyone just bidding at the very last blocks, limits your reach.

Love my other wallets I've won though.
Heres a pic after my son playing with it, me throwing it as hard as i can, and leaving it out in the -7 weather in the snow...
nostr:npub1v0tfjv5ahr3c260jtzdk5w48krerrnkg8fmcnc5lpguk0qda04eqzm3m3e , This wallet will probably outlive me...
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Beautiful


Yikes


Killing him may be too obvious. I bet he will be hit with many manufactured scandals though. If he has the slightest misstep in his past, it will be brought to light and grossly exaggerated I can guarantee you that.


Mullvad for the win, thanks my friend


Ya I mean VPNs aren’t a fix-all solution but they should at least make your IP address extremely hard to get ahold of.


Great point, very few things in this life one can actually verify, if any.


I brought this up early on, people should be using VPN at a minimum


Genius


Becoming a big fan of CJ Stroud


Proud of you


So many commercials for different Pfizer vaccines………would love someone to ask Pfizer execs point blank how many of their own vaccines they have taken.

Anything less than “all of them” is very telling.


Ya wait what, what is this


Never enough but it’ll do


I choose hope over certainty 99% of the time, just the way I enjoy living.

The 1% where I choose certainty is in the monetary unit I hold to store value.

Luckily the certainty of this monetary unit gives me hope.

#BitcoinOfCourse


Indeed it is.


Ya I was using 70k


Make your own mayo with virgin olive oil, very easy, takes 5 mins, then get a ranch packet and milk and make your own!

Just have to make sure the ranch packet doesn’t have dehydrated seed oils


My guess is an average around 3 million sats


If a good chunk of the world is paid in sats by 2034, what do you think a year’s salary will be?


Happy Birthday! 🧘♀


Asinine take


Should always be weighing all your options. Smart lady.


Starve them of your attention
Starve them of your data
Starve them of your dollars

Let them feed on your shadow, until none of them are left. nostr:note1prhrxdjfnsymlgpy4njr2p69zsc4rlnjzp4f7lvt7xeyf7cfxtrs7g4688


I think physically delivered contracts will bring about more natural price discovery that puts more money into the hands of producers, which I would love to see.

I may be wrong though.


𝕼𝖚𝖎𝖊𝖙 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗


Lol


Nothing even comes close to Sparrow, well done!


nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a is Abaxx on your radar at all?

Only licensed international exchange and clearinghouse in over 10 years to come onto the market.

Recently received its approval from the Monetary Authority in Singapore and will have physically delivered futures contracts on several commodities starting with LNG and nickel sulfate.

I think I physically delivered LNG contract based out of an Asian port is a huge deal and it’s seems right down your alley.

Would love to hear your thoughts.


I did one in a smoker once at low temp, I think 225 for about 4 hours. Turned out decent. Could probably experiment with different rubs and/or marinade before putting it in the smoker


1.3 million? That’s about 1 week of Jamie’s lunch bills


Loved this conversation. I think some of you will too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6V0qmDZ2gg


If you believe that your government is doing immoral acts, is it your moral duty to minimize or even eliminate giving them tax revenue? Even if it is at the expense of your personal earnings and standard of living?

nostr:npub1qex7yjtuucs6ac49kjujdgytrjsphn5a4pdscu2w3qlprym4zsxqfz82qk really got me thinking about this a few days ago…….I have an incredible amount of respect for that man.


If anyone in here is looking to make some money arbitraging and an 8% p2p spread, there's currently 2000 buy offers and not many sellers on Peach.

Most of the current buy offers are in:
Germany
France
UK
Spain/Italy

400 Swiss Franc is the average transaction size.

You don't have to necessarily be in those countries, the fiat payments methods accepted are:

Sepa, Revolut, Paypal, Wise & Liquid USDt are the most popular online payments methods
-For local people in portugal/swizterland etc there's also local payment options.

If you want to give it a try, just download the app at https://peachbitcoin.com/ and if you want to get your trading limits lifted, just email steph@peachbitcoin.com about it.https://m.primal.net/HXzc.webp


Excited to be kicking this off.

ego death capital raising $100 million Fund II

In 2021, ego death capital was officially launched as a venture capital firm. Andi Pitt, Nico Lechuga, and I, along with Preston Pysh, Lyn Alden and Pablo Fernandez as advisors, saw an emerging opportunity to invest, through ego death capital Fund I, in companies that would both accelerate the Bitcoin ecosystem and allow us to work alongside some of the most amazing entrepreneurs of our time. Most of the “smart” money at the time still hadn’t realized that #Bitcoin was emerging not only as the preeminent store of value, but equally important, the first layer (tied to energy) of a new peer-to-peer decentralized internet of money. Because of this, many venture funds didn’t understand the difference between Bitcoin and everything else, which is probably still true today. Bitcoin was scaling in layers and there was now an opportunity to build enduring businesses on a stable and secure foundation. The thesis of Fund I was to take advantage of that asymmetry in knowledge and help the best entrepreneurs build value for users. The #Bitcoin ecosystem at that time was still quite small. We raised $25.2 million in Fund I + a $7.5 million SPV to ensure a disciplined focus on companies that could be enablers of the transition underway.

We’re extremely proud of the entrepreneurs in our Fund I portfolio companies, their teams, and their success to date. So far in Fund I, we have led funding in Fedi, Breez, Synota, Relai, and Wolf, along with two companies in stealth. Our thesis proved correct, and many of our portfolio companies (as well as others in the broader Bitcoin ecosystem) are now experiencing incredible growth, with much more expected on the horizon. Real companies, bringing real value to users – and growing as a result.

In 2024, the funding market still hasn’t caught up to the opportunity, and a significant gap exists in Series A funding for Bitcoin only companies. This makes sense because a majority of venture capital still doesn’t understand the transformative nature of the Bitcoin protocol nor how it is emerging in layers. Without this key knowledge, it would be hard to understand the profound shift this entails to businesses in the future. This leaves Bitcoin only entrepreneurs not only pitching on the value and metrics of their business, but in parallel trying to “teach” capital that has been burned with their crypto investments about a new protocol. To add insult to injury, it is many of these same Bitcoin only entrepreneurs who warned of the various scams in the crypto/web3 market in the first place. It’s not a stretch to say that those building on Bitcoin prefer a partner who understands and is focused on it. For any entrepreneur, it is hard to imagine building enduring trust with a financial partner who doesn’t share your world view.

One of the most exciting things about the Bitcoin space is the extraordinary talent it attracts from all over the world. Having a front row seat at the profound shift that the internet demonstrated and how it attracted the best and brightest, I honestly didn’t think I would have another chance to experience it. Instead, we’re experiencing something even more powerful than the rise of the internet. An exponentially growing talent pool of entrepreneurs, users, and capital who fully understand that the most profound challenges of our time are unable to be solved from the very system creating them. Who instead of trying to optimize from within that broken system, have decided to focus their time, talent and capital on a parallel system built on Bitcoin that changes the world.

That dedication applies to our team too, we are very excited to announce that Lyn Alden and Preston Pysh are joining Fund II as partners. Through their work as advisors to Fund I, we already know the incredible value to the fund and companies in it they provide. In addition to our new partners for Fund II, we are adding renown Bitcoin and Lightning Network expert, Lisa Neigut alongside Pablo Fernandez as an additional technical advisor. We are also fortunate to add Pete Briger (Chairman of Fortress Investment Group) as an advisor to Fund II. Besides being a long time Bitcoin advocate, Pete helped to build Fortress into one of the preeminent financial firms of our time. These moves deepen our own bench with incredible people so that we in turn can continue to deliver value to the entrepreneurs and investors we serve.

While it is still early and there will be many ups and downs along the way, a transition from the world operating on top of a dishonest ledger, to the world working on top of an honest ledger is firmly underway. That transition will create incredible business opportunities, while bringing hope and abundance to billions of people around the world.

We feel super fortunate to be a part of it.

Read the full release here:

https://egodeath.capital/blog/gjqg3b90h389ufb4y0wnzflv0wfcho


From January to October 2024, solar storms have the greatest impact on aircraft communications, so there are always various aircraft failures around the world recently, and you can take fewer planes during this time, just in case.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/01/14/solar-max-sun-activity-storms-aurora/


Just watched Oppenheimer for the 1st time.

Makes me distrust politicians even more. Unless they are misrepresenting history in the film, which would make me question media conglomerates even more. Either way it’s all shit.

Great film for forcing you to think through what you believe.


Either governments are easy marks & hire poor quality contractors, or 👇🏼 are towing the CBDC line & spreading mining misinfo
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Some bad public policy is coming down the pipe...
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Everyone has one thing they spend more than they should on, for me it’s golf


Alright, one last push nostriches! Thank you to all entries, new friends and old, thank you for your support 🙏🏽 nostr:note1eqgzmlgdv64n3tqc0xd37vntkz9wg5xwhhmxv8vgxecjng0q2qcqycpq6u


Andreas was a big orange pill for me, very articulate with why Bitcoin 🤙🔥 nostr:note1jud5fwsshad6kz38eta3fueesl0jfsjyeywq5cwu607m3kfrx97sndwen7


I have a pitch call coming up today with someone from the Crypto world who has decided to build on Nostr instead of using blockchain token schemes.

He’s going to build reddit using Nostr 👀

Anyone angel investors want to join the call?


Love to hear this


You nailed it, division is not addition. If it is, we are wrong about the underlying physics that is beneath all the science we are so confident in these days, lol.


People are such surface level thinkers it has become astounding


Grant Williams…..he has increased my conviction in bitcoin more than anyone even though he isn’t much of a fan of BTC himself


Listen to this Pod and you'll learn a hundred times more about Bitcoin than by listening to the 500th podcast episode about inflation, low time preference, Austrian economics, or toxic tradwife steaks.

https://youtu.be/oIHNkzPp8vM


Green Bay 👀👀


Sometimes, for me I’m happier because I do more things for myself and make things from scratch……but it does reduce your available time to earn money


If you minimize paying for convenience, your cost of living drops substantially


Any recommendations on reading material? I’m actually looking for some new stuff


I got a crossover 3 iron over the holidays (20 degree), gotta say I think it is my favorite club.


Beautiful spot!


Pretty great, I’ve gotten into golf recently so I’m spending a lot more time outdoors! What have you been up to?


I absolutely love this! nostr:npub175hdheqn0arfdgywe9n2rze5eaf0j2mlz0xp5kq30vy57jqsncdqy2tpe9 nostr:npub14hlzw4sywt23drreaqs8ruf00dsrnnv5hfnyu49g2hpheq836umssur6nl


🍊 BITCOIN ART GIVEAWAY 🍊

Tag two friends, Repost, and FOLLOW nostr:npub1mfndvgwstwm604jvrt07p6nyy898mdsdzzyumx9sdn8u6r4za4uqck6f8v & nostr:npub1qrdghhevjhszzdx74whtnkudwdmler9wlnsz96xrkmtqjhpk72ts44wmc5

For a chance to win a black & gold Guy Satoshi Daiji Printed Circuit Board ⚡ https://v.nostr.build/YzrG.mp4 https://i.nostr.build/w6xJ.jpg https://i.nostr.build/3Wql.jpg


It’s really cold, who’d of thunk


Nobody knows.

Nobody knows absolutely anything about the true nature of reality, in my eyes God exists, and the only thing that we can truly understand with certainty is the felt presence of immediate experience, morality and good and evil is a tricky subject, when looking outward into the world we can get a grasp of what good and evil is, and if search deeply within we understand that embracing emotions such as love, happiness and compassion amplifies the good within. So ask yourself what is the highest good?

The true notion of God in my opinion is inconceivable, just as how our everyday lives about the true nature of reality is, but if we begin to look inside and amplify the emotions of good we get a glimpse of where God is… everywhere.

"Man cannot see God because man knows not humility. Man cannot see God because he looks out and beyond, and not within. Man cannot see God because man does not see himself as he is, or see himself in his fellow man. And man cannot see God, because God is not only of heaven, but of earth, and of hell."


Wow, I think you are the first person I have come across that literally thinks exactly like I do. Well put and I couldn’t agree more. This is stuff I think about all the time 🫂


COLD, HARD MF SATS OR GFY

#EADETF https://image.nostr.build/ba79c80b303a1973e0894e9ac040fd54c30627bd1f3b446397889a530e7fe72a.jpg


That’s so awesome


When you run into your demons, dance with them, and fall in love with everything else.


Give him a couple weeks 🤞


Couldn’t agree more


I love those


I quit my engineering job 6 months ago for the same reason, I haven’t gone back yet but am definitely looking for simpler job to minimize taxes and free up mental capacity


And cold dip


Yes


For you real world proof of work fans, I think this thing is about to go nuclear.

https://twitter.com/grn_investing/status/1745130355303330126?s=20


Might mess around and throw some garlic in there too


100% Wool Bitcoin Beanie Hat
160,000 sats

Price includes FREE shipping. USPS First Class with tracking for US customers.

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This hat is:
Adult Small/Medium
100% Wool

Keep Bitcoin on the brain! This hat features a folded ribbed brim to fit snug on your head and warm on your ears. The design features Bitcoin and zaps with borders in waves and block chains.

The wool is free from all dyes. It is made from yarn that is blended from different colored sheep fleeces. To care for this item, hang to air out or hand wash. Do not machine wash.

Check out my other listings for hat of different sizes, colors and materials.

How to buy? Send me a message and I will send you a lightning invoice. Once payment is confirmed, please send me your address and I will ship your item out within 1 - 2 business days.

Outside of the US? Please message me for a shipping quote.
#bitcoinbeanie #nostrmarketplace #bitcoinmerch #handmade #shopstr"


Or how gradually suddenly has already been


We’re everywhere. nostr:note10u86jl7nr3g34z3dg9mz0xkmmh5s2sf023x0kwn46nwnje7gwjxs9q662y


Always has been


Over the last few months it feels the bitcoin community has gotten more and more jaded on lightning. To be honest, this is for good reason, back in 2017 we were promised a decentralized payment network that would always have cheap payments and everyone would be able to run their own node. Nowadays, the average lightning user actually isn't using lightning, they are just using a custodial wallet and the few of that do run lightning nodes often find it a burdensome task. For us at Mutiny Wallet, we are trying to make this better by creating a lightweight self-custodial wallet and in my opinion we have been executing on that dream fairly well. In this post, I'll analyze these issues and present a new way to view lightning and what that means for bitcoin going forward.

First and foremost one of the hardest UX challenges of lightning is channel liquidity. No other payment system has these problems today besides lightning so this often confuses lots of users. To make matters worse, there aren't any practical hacks that we can do to get around this. Muun Wallet used an on-chain wallet + submarine swaps to get around the channel liquidity problem, this worked very well until fees went up and everyone realized it wasn't actually a lightning wallet. The better solution is JIT liquidity like we do in Mutiny or splicing like that is done in Phoenix. These solutions abstract some of it away but not enough, we often get support questions confused on why some payments have fees and others do not. The fact is channel liquidity is not a usable UX for most end users.

The other major pain point of lightning is the offline receive problem. Inherently, you must be online with your private keys to sign and claim a payment. There is technically an ongoing spec proposal to be able to work around this (essentially creating a notification system of when people are online to receive payments), but it doesn't solve the fundamental problem and still has limitations. There has been a few attempts to get around this, most notably was Zeus Pay lightning addresses. These essentially worked by just creating stuck payments and waited for the user to come online to claim, this caused a ton of problems for people and even forced us at Mutiny to block users from paying them because it caused so many force closures. This is a hard problem because the entire rest of the bitcoin/crypto ecosystem works by just copy-paste an address and you can send to it whenever, there isn't caveats around asking your friend to open their wallet. This is further exacerbated by things like lightning address that requires a webserver to even get an invoice in the first place.

Channel liquidity and offline receives in my opinion are the two most obvious reasons why self-custodial lightning is not popular. When most users hear about any of these, they just think screw that and move to a custodial wallet because it is so much easier. If these were our only two problems, I think self-custodial lightning would be fine, it may never be the predominant way people use lightning, but we could get the UX good enough that we have a significant portion of people using lightning in a sovereign way. However, there are more problems under the surface.

Channel liquidity is a problem, but it is also deceptive. When you have 100k sats of inbound liquidity you would think you could receive up to 100k sats, but this isn't the case, often you can't actually receive any. This is because of on-chain fees, when a payment is being made in lightning you are creating pre-signed transactions that have outputs for every in-flight payment, these outputs cost potential on-chain fees and the high on-chain fees go the more it eats into your liquidity. After we've solved most of our force close issues Mutiny this has been number one support request. Even if you do everything right, understand liquidity and have enough for your payment, sometimes it still won't work because on-chain fees are too high. This is always really discouraging because isn't the whole point of lightning to not have to
pay on-chain fees? Fundamentally, all current lightning channels could become entirely useless if on-chain fees went high enough because a single payment would require too many reserves. Obviously this is hyperbolic, but I hope I am getting the point across that on-chain fees don't just effect the opening and closing costs of channels, even if you are a diligent node runner that only opens channels when fees are low, that is not enough, your channels need to be large enough to pay for the on-chain fees of each HTLC at any future on-chain fee rate. As on-chain fees go up and up this problem will only get worse.

The proposed solution to these reserve issues are things like anchor channels, package relay, ephemeral anchors, etc. These are all well and good but kind of just mask the problem. They do solve it so the fee reserve can be much lower and possibly zero, however with the tradeoff that you need on-chain funds available to fee-bump your force closes so they can actually get into a block. This again breaks the UX for self-custodial users because they _have_ hold on-chain funds alongside their lightning funds so they can do those on-chain fee bumps. The size requirements for their on-chain funds is still dynamically based on how high on-chain fees can spike. Solutions for this can include having someone else bump your transaction fees but this brings basically a trusted 3rd party into the mix and isn't ideal.

When you lay out all the different tradeoffs a lightning node needs to make, especially in a high fee environment, it makes me think, what are we doing here, are we going down the wrong path? Lightning is still fundamentally a fantastic payment protocol but its limitation is that it requires _scale_. Basically every problem I've outlined goes away when you have a large lightning node with lots of liquidity and high uptime so many we should optimize for that. The market has been telling us this for years already, +90% of lightning users are using custodial wallets because it works so much better at scale. So how can we use large scale lightning nodes without custodial wallets?

Combining existing large scale lightning infrastructure with self-custodial solutions sadly, isn't totally possible. The only real way to do that as of now is Muun Wallet which as we talked about earlier, doesn't really solve the problem because everything is just an on-chain transaction. However, Muun was onto something. The architecture of having a simpler protocol interface with lightning is genius and gives us the best of both worlds. We can make fast cheap payments and let the big boys collect fees for running the lightning node. Aqua Wallet just launched which is essentially a Muun Wallet but on top of Liquid, this is a good bandaid fix but doesn't get to the root of the problem.

Before we go further we should take a step back and break down what problems we are trying to solve. Bitcoin has a fundamental scaling limitation through the block size, if we could make infinite, then we wouldn't necessarily need any layer 2s because we could just make on-chain payments. However, we live in the real world and have a 1mb block size limit, and this limits the number of transactions we can make on-chain. Lightning is a huge improvement to bitcoin because we don't need to put _every_ transaction on-chain, we just need to open a channel and can make seemingly countless payments. So why isn't lightning the silver bullet? Lightning lets us move payments off-chain but what it doesn't do is let us move ownership off-chain. Fundamentally lightning still relies on that, at the end of the day, a utxo goes to single user. So even if every on-chain transaction was a lightning channel, we still run into the limit of how many people can actually own those channels. What we need is another layer 2 that can scale utxo ownership and caninterop with lightning, that way we have a way to scale ownership combined with scaling payments.

So how do we scale ownership? Simply put, the answer today is custody, whether that is pure custodial like a Wallet of Satoshi or in the grey area like fedimints and liquid, the only way to do it today is through custody or federated bridges. In bitcoin, the only way to delegate ownership of a utxo to multiple parties is through multisig, however, that requires every user to be online when anyone wants to transact, and when you take go down this path far enough you end up just reinventing lightning.

Are we doomed then? Is there no way to scale bitcoin in a self-sovereign way? Luckily, the answer is no, but we need some soft-forks. Covenants are the way to scale bitcoin ownership. There are a bunch of covenant proposals but at their core what they propose to do is to add a way, so you can have a bitcoin address that limits where and how the coins in it can be spent. This can seem scary, but we already have these in bitcoin today, OP_CTLV (Check LockTime Verify), which was soft forked in 2016, only allows you to spend from a bitcoin address if the transaction has a given locktime, this lets you gate _when_ a utxo can be spent. What the current covenant proposals do is let you gate _where_ a utxo can be spent. With that simple primitive many different protocols can be built that allow for scaling ownership.

There are a lot of current covenant proposals, the main ones being: OP_CTV, OP_VAULT, OP_CSFS, OP_TXHASH, OP_CAT, and APO. They all have different functionality and tradeoffs but in my opinion we should be looking towards activating a form of covenants because otherwise we will likely be moving towards a future of less sovereign bitcoin users.

The future is not bleak however, even without covenants we can still scale bitcoin for the world, just not in the ideal way. At Mutiny, we are full steam ahead on implementing fedimint into the wallet, in my opinion (and the rest of the team's) it looks like the best current scaling solution for bitcoin. Fedimints give us the ability to dynamically share ownership over a group of utxos and is able to interop with lightning through gateways. It is the pinnacle of the scaling dream for bitcoin with current technology and I can't wait to help make it reality while we can.


HAVE NOT TWEETED SINCE AUGUST.

PEOPLE STILL FIND VALUE IN MY YEARS OF CONTENT ON THAT PLATFORM.

MY PROFILE NOW STANDS AS A VISIBLE PROTEST AND INVITATION TO NOSTR.

https://m.primal.net/HWoc.png


This is what real investigative journalism looks like.
Ian Burrell, who was a big #Bitcoin sceptic, came to Africa with us with an open and curious mind. Through the trip and meeting people where they were, found a narrative outside of what he thought.

FYI - Ian is one of the top investigative journalists of our time (and a pretty great human being)
Reinforces how hard it is to stop an idea based on truth, hope and abundance, because “eventually” good people will discover it for themselves.

https://unherd.com/2024/01/the-african-village-mining-bitcoin


I have also done this exact same thing lol


So true


99.9% of the time the most peaceful place your mind can be is in the present moment.

Happy new year 🫂


#Bitcoin #NOSTR #Strength #Determination
Happy New Year! Kick 2024 with 2 giants of mental & physical health! Listen to David Goggins speak and never feel sorry for yourself or anyone again! We are all accountable and we are all capable! No excuses in 2024! Let’s fucking go!!!!!!

https://fountain.fm/episode/Zd94aH7FLW0UR8Wsyfd1


Poopy poopy yuck yuck


At a wedding rehearsal dinner today…….tried to drop some casual nostr and bitcoin crumbs……everyone thought I was a whack job.

See you on the other side.

Of hyperbitcoinization.


Good lord, the honor of all honors


GM


Most bearish thing that has crossed my mind in months


Classic, one of the best of all time.


Truuuuu


Wait what…….he was at your house?


So good 🫂


The world is full of angst and people vent it where there are no consequences and a degree of anonymity.

Unfortunate. Relish your in-person interactions and practice gratitude today 🤙

Stay well yall


Hilarious when people throw shade at nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s. He doesn’t owe you anything. In my opinion he isn’t asking for anything either, just stating his circumstances so people have a heads up for what may come.


Orange world


Great point, my IRAs are all in on ABXXF right but will likely move some profits to MSTR soon.


My mortgage, special levies, travelling to promote nostr, lawyers, paying an employee, its easily reaching 20-30k per month. Its way more expensive running this than anything Ive ever worked on before, and I’m getting paid 2x less


Go cougs


Annoyingly difficult to stop have a pretty good track record throughout history.


I want "annoyingly difficult to stop" engraved on my tombstone

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Big time respect for you Luke! Hope you have peaceful Christmas break with the family.


So good


I wish you, your families and friends a merry merry Christmas and happy holidays 🎅🎄💜🫂🧡🎉☃🍀🍪✨🤙!
🔊 Sound on and enjoy 🎵🎶💫!
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#Nostr #Bitcoin #Plebchain #Art


My annual node performance tests are now live: https://blog.lopp.net/2023-bitcoin-node-performance-tests/


Open source = natural evolutionary forces


Absolutely love this clip


That’s pretty brutal for setting up moon bases. Think of how much energy we spend to cool down areas with warm climates on earth…..with an atmosphere that can’t block heat during the day I can’t imagine the amount of energy it would take to make consistently livable for humans.


Oh gotcha, so is that what they are referring to with temp, air temp? If so that is way hotter than I ever thought.


Very interesting, glad you are willing to talk about it. Will think about this over the next few weeks in times of meditation


Whoa


What does this even mean? Ground temp? Moon has no atmosphere so it can’t be air temp right?


Good to hear


Honestly such a neat idea


Jon Foreman is a UK-based artist who creates impressive land artworks with stones, leaves and seashells 🪨🍂🐚 https://i.nostr.build/65Zn.jpg https://i.nostr.build/ByZY.jpg https://i.nostr.build/o7dx.jpg https://i.nostr.build/zrBy.jpg https://i.nostr.build/AyZO.jpg https://i.nostr.build/n5da.jpg https://i.nostr.build/jVdV.jpg


Love it


Big Pharma would go bankrupt, and global health would make its biggest recovery in history within a matter of months.
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Microsoft’s agenda is very clear, they want control and surveillance over the flow of information on the internet.

Rather than allow websites to host the content themselves, Microsoft will subvert websites’ authority and post it on MSM .com.  Then promote their bullshit proxy copy on their ad-revenue site via their Bing search.  For example you search “Coindesk Bitcoin ETF” and it gives you “Coindesk via MSM”.

This has quite a few effects:
1) Microsoft leaches ad revenue
2) It creates dependency and submission from the websites that they can’t cut off the traffic from Bing, because the other search engines such as Google and Brave are now ranking the MSM version, and not the original.
3) Microsoft sees all data, not just that you searched then went to the site, but what you clicked or did after.
4) Microsoft controls the content, by picking what to proxy and then promote as trending news.  This is a form of thought control.

Some will say this thought control is benign, but Microsoft’s left leaning censorship agenda is very clear with a partnership with NewsGuard.  As ZeroHedge and the Daily Wire report, NewsGuard uses Microsoft’s Edge browser to display trust rankings like a nutrition label, and no surprise, it gives horrible ratings to conservative websites and flawless ranking to left leaning ones.  One example of the danger of this type of censorship is that NewsGuard openly has financial ties to Pfizer partners and then downranks websites critical of the vaccine, calling them fake news.

Microsoft will insert their left-leaning propaganda into the Windows start menu, innocently pretending it’s just trending news.  Brainwashed Democrats don’t even realize that it’s normalizing an authoritarian society through unquestioned acceptance of government authority.  In fact, Democrats are so shielded from criticism, that when they later read proven, factual, and academic criticism of the government for the first time, their knee-jerk reaction is that it’s “crazy conspiracy theory” because they’ve been so conditioned to never question or criticize top-down control.  This assumption is reinforced literally every time they open a program on Windows.

Sadly many other search engines just get results from Bing, and then mislead people into thinking they are getting privacy.  For example people tolerate Duckduckgo and Qwant getting the bulk of their results from Bing, to try to avoid the data collection of going to Bing directly.

What they don’t realize is that Qwant feeds user data into Microsoft’s ads.  And even more chilling is Duckduckgo being physically hosted on Microsoft’s servers and serving them all the same MSM links with kick-back surveillance on them.  Duckduck is masquerading as a privacy alternative, when they insert 3rd party JavaScript such as “improving.duckduckgo.com” onto the links themselves.  This allows Duckduckgo to learn how long you stayed on even the non-MSM articles, or what your reaction to it is.  They will likely claim this is supposedly to improve the search engine, but considering Duckduckgo is the default on Tor browser, training AI on my choices is hardly the choice for anonymous browsing.

What can you do about it?  Here’s our solutions:

1) Use a variety of search engines such as:
a) MetaGer.org
b) Mojeek.com
c) Farside.link/SearXNG
d) Simplified Privacy even hosts a SearXNG instance for you
e) Brave Search, although it’s hosted on Amazon AWS.  Although Brave does use Amazon, they have LESS propaganda.

2) Try and find the original links and avoid MSM.  For example MetaGer will serve you the originals.  You can also go to the company’s site and see the trending links.

3) If you’re going to use Duckduckgo for variety, then use it for mundane research topics or images, but avoid news.  It’s news topics that get MSM propaganda links more often.

4) Use Linux and not Windows, it’s not as hard as people make it out to be.  You don’t need to learn the command line.  You can learn in under 2 weeks.  Most apps are in a browser now so there’s not the same software compatibility issues there were 10 years ago.  I believe in you.  Now you have to believe in you.


Dream come true view


Talking about the Twitter account not you nostr:npub1cmmswlckn82se7f2jeftl6ll4szlc6zzh8hrjyyfm9vm3t2afr7svqlr6f lol


Talking about buying an African American seems like an extraordinary bad take.


Samzies


Great choice on your end


So so good, most wouldn’t get it


So amazingly beautiful


No I totally agree I just don’t think people know where to get “real” and “organic” food. If they just go to the store and buy things that say “real” and “organic” it’s still crap.

Need to be taught how to grow own food or recognize “real” local food


Putting real and organic in front of everything doesn’t give much towards actionable steps for most people


I got this cover too. Keeps all the leaves and crap out, honestly worth it, stays very clean.

Polar Protector - 100 Gallon Oval Stock Tank Cover Ice Water Therapy Ice Bath Cover Cold Water Cover 100 Gallon Oval Stock Tank Waterproof Rip Proof Tough Keeps Tanks Clean https://a.co/d/42jCMvH


Rubbermaid Commercial Products Stock Tank, 150-Gallons, Structural Foam, Heavy Duty Black Container for use with Animal/Cattle Feed and Water, Outdoor Homemade Pool/Hot Tub/Bathtub and Pet Cleaning https://a.co/d/ixQ4fzT

I’ve been using this for a few months and it works great.


Just get a 100 gallon Rubbermaid tub instead, way better


I love reading with a glass of whiskey/bourbon


Even the smallest act of subversion is preferable to a lifetime of mindless compliance.

#bitcoin #nostr


Fav thing I’ve read in 2023


Ohhhh great point


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Beautiful view


The most important fact of all


21……coincidence? Or was Satoshi just crazy clever with every step they took?


I guess I’m asking how much bitcoin is generational wealth in purchasing power terms relative to everything else in 10 years…….say 7 million is generational wealth in today’s dollars…so what amount of btc will reach whatever the equivalent of 7 mill in todays dollars is in 10 years?

Obviously lots of guessing and assumptions


*is


How much bitcoin in generational wealth in 10 years?


I have a couple family members with bitcoin on ledgers, they have never signed up for any backups or given ledger personal info, how urgent is it to get them on to a bitcoin only device? I have some extra cold cards I could give them but I think it may be a little technical for them.


So true


That flow with that stash 💯🔥💯🔥


Who would have ever thought the RAIDERS could drop over 60 points…..


If you haven't watched Cypherpunks Write Code. Highly recommend it.

I have uploaded it to nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7, thank me later

https://v.nostr.build/nA6q.mp4


This was literally one of my first thoughts when I started hearing mainstream complaints


We are getting to the point where it is best to just avoid society as much as possible


Love this, followed


Nice, thanks


I planted some einkorn wheat as cover crop over winter, neat to see your other greens are thriving amongst the grass, I will have to try.

Does the grass not take them over when they are young? Do you transplant them so they are more established?


Agree, but would you say it is still better than being on exchanges? I still have some family members that use ledgers, I made sure they didn’t sign up for the cloud backup or anything though


Brilliant


What about Lowe’s?


You are one of the most important people on the planet than many don’t know yet Lyn!


Great to hear Joe!


Well done sir


Haha this is actually very common on construction sites, used to be a field engineer…..lock out tag out procedure……


I hope you make good money off this one day!


What are these? https://image.nostr.build/e1520cf770329db140a2c4b765294fd9cb9cf52f45fe35278e9b4bbc598733b1.jpg


Nice


There=belonging, eg. The basketball is theres.

Their=they are, eg. Their going to be late.

They’re=location or state, eg. Can you pick up that ball right they’re?


If you want to take it a step further, growing einkorn wheat is one of the easiest things to grow in almost every climate. OG wheat before it was modified a bunch. nostr:note1guu23ukh3kjf4dqq45cl9z38qrykasmsxtawmdq9lkhdl4nr7fmszs8p05


Learn how to make sourdough……on of the most amazing freedom technologies.

Salt
Water
Flour
Air (starter is literally just using microbes in the air around you)

All ingredients are cheap and bread can sustain human life indefinitely (while just flour and water as a paste cannot, microbes add crucial nutrients).

It’s almost magic.

Here is a loaf I baked this morning. https://image.nostr.build/f298b785d6ba062b90bd5a68a81c834af9315fbd4caf7833873c04cf953042bf.jpg


I love any burger with blue cheese


Honestly, that’s hilarious


Just baked this sourdough loaf this morning! https://image.nostr.build/f298b785d6ba062b90bd5a68a81c834af9315fbd4caf7833873c04cf953042bf.jpg


Love it


And that’s just the island we know about……


Not smart in my opinion, could really get burned by the money printer.

Take as much as possible early on and get it into bitcoin and productive assets.


Love this one, maybe my favorite of yours so far.


Ya I think half a bitcoin is generational wealth in 10 years.


Un-enforced laws are meaningless.

Good luck outlawing bitcoin.

Go ask China.


Absolutely, if you can’t sustain yourself you are not free


Tonight, my wife nostr:npub17meshv2lg6rfyuwzgh349yslllq7aathd55xu0jgjns2ayz6rt2seplm8u said something profound that I had to share:

“For all the lack of trust you have in the government and corporations, you bitcoiners really have a lot of faith in each other.”

🫂💜🥹


I feel that!! Sats all day


Yep, you nailed it.

Also been looking into the new chrome on chrome PGX irons……damn good looking clubs and I’ve heard a lot of great things……my be my next iron set