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 Set up my own nostr relay.   Simpler than I thought with relaywiz! 
 Thanks for the podcast!  Great info.

https://fountain.fm/episode/ylh1NQhyHXALTd0HzHua

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 The Streisand Effect in action 
 The Streisand Effect.  Many learning about VPN for the first time. 
 Great show!

https://fountain.fm/episode/oxUIX2ZSuVjpEnle2cKY

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 GM Nostr! 
 Privacy improvement tools for n00bs so far:
Chat: Signal
Social: Nostr
Email: Proton mail (or oth... 
 That's my exact setup 
 THE MOST ACTIONABLE WAY TO PREVENT SLAVE TECH DYSTOPIA IS TO FOCUS A SHIT TON OF MONEY AND SUPPOR... 
 Satoshi had several funders supporting his work according to his email correspondence 
 Hello Nostr,

Rockstar is trying to make me trigger you all with an anti nostr post but I refuse ... 
 Enjoyed reading your book! 
 GM nostr!  🤞💪🏻 
 Sorry if I’m going to sound dumb, my I’m not sure of what I understood about this graphic is ... 
 Low net worth = you drive a toyota because you have to
High net worth = you drive a toyota because you understand the value of money and not wasting it on depreciating assets so you can invest in better assets 
 Those who are using custodial lighting wallets I would suggest to switch over to the nostr:npub1m... 
 “Do you know others it doesn't work with besides strike and primal? They're actively looking into it.”  I’ve found that I can’t send from River to mutiny via lightning.  Fails every time. 
 Stupid question (especially to miners) but will/should the block size ever increase? 

Seems like... 
 Keeping blocksize small is essential to maintaining adequate fees to support miners.  Eventually, very few will transact on the baselayer, mostly nation states and large corporations.  A "war" was fought over blocksize.  Check out https://www.amazon.com/Blocksize-War-controls-Bitcoins-protocol/dp/B08YQMC2WM 
 GM Nostr! 
 I love the integration.   I've had no problems sending to my self-custodial LN and back.  I can't send or receive from Strike with error of no route found.   The QR scanning appears to be broken on my iOS installation.   A black screen pops up and it shows a video recording icon at the top but no image is shown.   
 No luck with restarting iPhone.   Hopefully they can resolve it. 
 Done.  thanks. 
 Honestly, I’m curious what a “pig butchering romance scam” is. 
 Was Hemingway on to something? “"The first panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permeant ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic
opportunists." —Ernest Hemingway.  #Bitcoin fixes this.

https://m.primal.net/HOVd.jpg
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 Learned something new today! The sheaf toss.  It' a traditional Scottish agricultural sport event originally contested at country fairs. A pitchfork is used to hurl a burlap bag stuffed with straw over a horizontal bar above their head. https://m.primal.net/HNcs.mov 
 zapping everyone who replies to this note for no particular reason 
 I replied! 
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 Hamas are raping and murdering civilians, women and children in their homes and you say Israel is "failing humanity."  Please get a grip on reality. 
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 You mean like giving 6 billion dollars to terrorists?  Seems pretty ghoulish 
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 They're already here