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 Do we all agree that X is now state-"owned" media again? 
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 Always insist in paying with cash even if they don't have change.

nostr:nevent1qqsqqqx950nz4plgw... 
 ECB bombshell: On Nov 4β€”the night of US electionβ€”the authors of the highly aggressive anti-#bitcoin paper softened the language in their concluding paragraph: 

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 For the women in this space who have had the misfortune of encountering the very few but very lou... 
 i member a time when we paid sats for tits 
 we are here to share stories 
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 Almost a God Candle today. 
 your predictions are mostly  πŸ’©  
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 As we move through another cycle of people and new wave of β€œexperts” coming to understand #Bi... 
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 Do not tell anyone how much #Bitcoin you stacked. Like no one. Ever. 
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 I just spent 20 minutes with my 2 year old boy, pushing a plastic dump truck back and forth acros... 
 even better days are waiting for you - soon you’ll be able to race carrera tracks with him 😎  
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 Glad to see that the incelverse is alive and well on Nostr too.

nostr:note17509xxxqd3m0c2j56pqv8... 
 i donΒ΄t have much hope on that front.
stratum v2 and other improvement will hopefully do it. 
 A Windows update a few years ago was the final straw that made me switch to Linux. Maybe we have a few people at Microsoft whose agenda is to push more people towards Linux πŸ™ƒ  
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 Let’s just rip straight to $100k

Long overdue anyways 
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 I hope they actually free Ross though. 
 Maybe we should start with the non-criminals and bring Snowden back. 
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 After two years full-time here on #Nostr, I'm going to say it again...

It's not a good sign that... 
 crickets time is the best for building 
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 I have always struggled to get myself motivated to lift weight, or work out for that matter, but ... 
 It's like everything in life: the more often you do it, the smaller the inner resistance becomes. You probably don't question every evening whether you should brush your teeth or not. 
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 Hey Nostr, please welcome Prince Filip of Serbia. 

I think  nostr:npub198q8ksyxpurd7lq6mf409nrtf... 
 there are no royals on nostr, just plebs 
 Happy Bitcoin Whitepaper Day! πŸ₯³ πŸŽ‰  🎊 https://m.primal.net/LoVR.png  
 The Phoenix Lights UFO Incident // Full CGI Animation πŸ›Έ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBbEzGIKpLs 
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 TFW YOU HAVE ZAPPED GENERATIONAL WEALTH TO STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS. 
 i already spent generational wealth on pizza, shirts, USB sticks, and socks... 
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 Got in line for automated passport control. Guy in front of me puts his passport in the scanner. ... 
 "13 lines of code" is a rhetorical device used to conceal the complexity OP_CAT brings to bitcoin's social layer

Regulators forcing on-chain KYC compliance is likely just the tip of the iceberg. The real attack surface of OP_CAT is probably far worse than what is known right nowhttps://m.primal.net/LlpR.jpg  
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 OK so, first try with nostr:
I'm using "gossip" (github.com/mikedilger/gossip) because it's open ... 
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 The biggest problem with new #Bitcoin wallets is getting existing bitcoiners to switch.

Why shou... 
 bolt12 alone is reason enough 
 you mean like mostly every other asset too? πŸ™ƒ https://m.primal.net/Lher.png  
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 Voting is probably rigged, and my voice is meaningless on the national level.

But I'll reluctant... 
 i vote for bitcoin 🧑  
 If I had 99% of my net worth in coinbase, I too would be calling you all paranoid crypto anarchists. 
 6 months ago I decided to try to get into a professional shit poster πŸ‘€πŸ₯Š

I’ve been grinding every day, dedicating my whole life and + 1,000 hours to this goal:

πŸ’” Sweat - Fear - Pain - Tears - Injuries - Doubts πŸ’”  
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 imagine accumulating that much and losing it all by trusting third parties… there’s a high pr... 
 ItΒ΄s a matter of -when- the honeypots get breached, not if πŸ™ƒ  
 iam a paranoid bitcoin anarchist 🫑  
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 The idolization of Michael Saylor by bitcoiners is one of the grossest cases of hero worship I've... 
 we told the sheep but they didnΒ΄t want to listen πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ  
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 If they only taught stoicism in schools. 
 CNN und FOX would go bankrupt 
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 At least wages kept up with inflation these last few years 
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 If alcohol is so bad for you, then why did Jesus turn water into wine? 

If it’s good enough fo... 
 Because they didn't have clean water back then, diluted wine was safer to drink. The question is: Why didn't Jesus miraculously produce a water purification plant?