What's the best way to support #noagenda by paying with bitcoin? 🤔
Seems to be only via paypal at the moment...

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human psychology 101
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Without Apology
🚨 It's the “Paul Rosenberg” reminder of the month.
Take 15 minutes of your life to listen and re-listen to at least this podcast...

https://parallelsociety.libsyn.com/without-apology


What you say is so true, it's like a constant fight against their own insecurities and lack of life meaning, pushing them to the all-knowing authority or credentialized bureaucrats.

When drifting outside of banal conversations with normies, I usually stick to passing nuggets of personal responsibility and critical thinking examples.
What seems to wake them up is:
- I personally don't care if I change their point of view
- It's coming from someone who has "his shit together," in a loving relationship, with well-behaved smart kids and a meaningful job


Jeremy Kauffman is the man.
New Hampshire FTW! https://i.nostr.build/YuxVqA90MZoSxfEe.jpg


> La liberté ce n’est pas « le droit de faire tout ce que l’on veut », mais plutôt « le droit de faire tout ce que l’on veut avec ce qui nous appartient.

Pulp Libéralisme, la tradition libérale pour les débutants (#French Edition) (Tourre, Daniel)


highly recommended 😋
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Looks like there is a JSON format issue with https://bitcoinnostr.com/.well-known/nostr.json
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> Au cœur du libéralisme, il y a cette affirmation fondamentale que le droit n’est pas une création politique mais une institution antérieure à l’État, attachée à notre condition d’être humain et qui s’impose à lui. Nos droits ne sont pas accordés par la loi, selon le bon vouloir des gouvernants. Ils sont naturels et inaliénables.

Pulp Libéralisme, la tradition libérale pour les débutants (#French Edition) (Tourre, Daniel)


... withdraw from the game and to start building something better.

https://freemansperspective.com/youve-been-robbed/


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Wrote a blog post explaining why I am bullish on e-cash without Blockchain!

https://blog.nicolas-dorier.com/posts/cashu/


after opening a new public channel, it worked! got my lightning payout this morning, thanks! 🤝


it was a SuIcIdE !!! 🤪


BRILLIANTLY PUT.

"WHAT'S THE MESSAGE OF WORKING IN A CUBE IN A ROOM WITH A SYNTHETIC DROP CEILING AND DRY WALL ON THE WALLS IN FLUORESCENT LIGHTING AHEAD OF YOU AND NO PRIVACY AT ALL? WHAT'S THE MESSAGE?"

https://cdn.satellite.earth/81b8b068d36b1e68b928e6ac5ff0df65dd994a92c7830e39530951acf123d568.mp4


Prebunking, trying to preemptively protect people before [the] damage occurs, is much more effective than debunking. So what the media described as a psychological vaccine against fake news is really based on the psychological theory of inoculation. So just as injecting yourself with a weakened dose of a virus triggers the production of antibodies to help protect you from future infection you can do the same with information by preemptively injecting people with a severely weakened dose of fake news.

https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/psychological-inoculation-vaccine-for-fake-news/


Bull Bitcoin Announces Launch in France: A Call to Reclaim Sovereignty

https://www.bullbitcoin.com/blog/bull-bitcoin-announces-launch-in-france-a-call-to-reclaim-sovereignty


A great real life example of civil disobedience around FDR's Executive Order 6102.

What will you do when they come for your #Bitcoin?

https://freemansperspective.com/golden-disobedience/


I really like anything Paul Rosenberg writes. 🤩


Nostr will be lit when we start having people like Dave Smith on it. https://v.nostr.build/JcVCWwe3mDQ4jTyR.mp4


> Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
— John Wayne

https://freemansperspective.com/gain-confidence-courage/


Nostr today

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Dave

https://i.nostr.build/QyX5Rvg6FNVCgVDM.jpg


“But… but… that’s risky”

Everything is high risk if you’re a fucking pussy.


> There is no blueprint for freedom. There will be no great plan to follow.

https://freemansperspective.com/right-time-will-never-come/


I have been a long time Amethyst user on Android/Calyx.
Highly recommended!


I already got some onchain payment ;)
I just really want to make lightning payouts work.


Thanks for replying!
1. yes
2. yes
3. it's not!?
4. just connected it

So it looks like my channel with ACINQ have been silently failing for a while 😟

> Peer transient failure in CHANNELD_NORMAL: channeld: Owning subdaemon channeld died?

Lightning node management is exhausting 😭

I am going to try to find out what it is...


the myth of authority
https://www.bitchute.com/video/phrCugPgcnAz/

reminder for all that need a refresher.


#AskNostr
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PSA https://video.nostr.build/e4f6325bb892ec6d38f505f7227a06b83aef07a7b39604a438cf044ea4675bd3.mp4


 nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42 is keeping it real at the #btc2024 #bitcoin
https://video.nostr.build/15df140760b6fb5f7c31ae089badded4556a9a13fc8c5b949c75e1a0fbe1a9f9.mp4


THIS IS A BIG ONE FAM.

SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH THEIR TEAM DURING DEVELOPMENT. PRIORITIES ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACES. FOCUSED AND DELIBERATE.

https://proton.me/blog/proton-wallet-launch


Question for  nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze
How can I find out if a BOLT12 lightning payout is working?
I've setup my offer following your instructions, but never received any payments. And if it is not set up properly, how can I remove the offer from the dashboard?

My dashboard just says: "Estimated Time Until Minimum Payout
Lightning ⚡"

Thanks!


Good morning. Today is a good day. The US Government has agreed to release TDev on bail according to a letter filed on July 3rd.

TDev's defense makes incredibly smart arguments, stating that the US Government's prosecution is as "aggressive as it is expansive, akin to charging Apple for  cybercrimes commited with MacBooks. And like such a charge, it impermissibly uses criminal law to affect policy change. He is facing  charges he can, should, and will contest at trial."

Putting the charges in context, the defense states that "to stop Bitcoin wallet providers from providing privacy and security services, or to  force them to police their customers as banks must, the government has not sought to change the law, or even FinCEN’s guidance on it."

The letter states that the US Government "has prosecuted individuals operating a service they had every reason to  believe was legal, and stretched to decorate the charges with  decontextualized quotes that attempt to sketch out their agreement to  criminal transactions the government does not allege they knew about in  advance or explicitly agreed to".

Full article:
https://www.therage.co/william-hill-release-on-bail/


Fucking hell 😔


don't worry, it's a parody.
even though, I can imagine pyschos thinging it's a good idea. 😬

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-comedian-who-made-ai-generated-parody-to-silence-babies-on-planes-met-with-anger-1.6363733


https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1806087719174492269
Tucker showing how it's done. 🤩


I'm not trying to make you guys wrap yourself in tinfoil— almost nobody needs to be as paranoid as I am, and even I am tremendously lazy about opsec these days. The key is *awareness*: to simply be cognizant of what kind of records you're generating as you go about your life, so you can make informed, reasoned judgments about how much of it you can leave hanging out, and what parts of it you'd rather pay an effort-tax to shield from appearing in somebody's (or everybody's) database.


link fixed (at least for Amethyst) 😉
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Your vote doesn't count.
Voting is pointless.

That doesn't mean you should ignore politics. Because politics won't ignore you.


The Bushido of Bitcoin.

Almost two years, six drafts, and 125,000 words later, The Bushido of Bitcoin is nearly complete. Before the book’s release (next 2 months) I will:

1. Make it available for pre-order (discounted)
2. Drip-feed snippets from the book, in the form of quotes, lessons, etymology progressions and insights, wrapped in beautiful visuals.

What is The Bushido of Bitcoin?

This is not another book about the history of, or justification for sound money. Neither is it concerned with how Bitcoin works, or how and why it will win.

This is a book about the behaviour, virtue, culture and civilisation of greatness.

It seeks to answer the question: “What happens when Bitcoin wins?”
Who do we become, after we’re the socio-economic elite of the world?

Will we become a new parasitic class?
Will we become self-indulgent degenerates?
Or..
Will become men and women of virtue?

It’s not enough to just say “Bitcoin Fixes This.”

We must actively develop the virtues which give rise to a culture of excellence, for this is the only kind that can reclaim and rebuild civilisation.

Starting tomorrow I will introduce you to the Ten Virtues making up The Bushido of Bitcoin.

They're glimpse into the the book, which itself will follow the historical and etymological genesis of these virtues with an in-depth historical and philosophical analysis on how they were developed and embodied by the greatest leaders and warriors throughout history, along with the lessons we can draw from them as we embark on a new age that demands heroism should we want to claim back civilisation.

What lies before us may be a “clown world” but hope is far from lost. We’ve been here before. Many times, and against greater odds.

This is our generation’s opportunity for a re-conquista.
This book is written to remind you there is something greater inside of you, and the only way through hell, is forward.

I hope you find value in the up-coming content, and that should you pick up a copy of the book, it greatly inspires you.

For more, check the link in my bio.
Thankyou

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also:
- blink twice to accept cookies.
- or blink five times, squeeze your left hand, look up for 3 seconds, and bend your right leg to opt-out


Watched DEATH ATHLETIC last night (paid w lightning + ZEUS)

Highly recommend all Bitcoiners check it out, even if you’re not into guns. Lot of things we can take away from Defense Distributed’s battles and victories.

Executive produced by Samourai https://image.nostr.build/c267dcbd4906153fbd5dca5e7ff362c50c53deb44a2a889458f186edf8cdbe91.jpg


oh, I see... geyser.fund 🤦♂


thanks for reminding me of this!

how did you pay with lightning? Their btcpayserver only offered onchain and monero.


https://m.primal.net/IGMr.mp4

This is Iran in 1979 just before massive numbers of COLLEGE STUDENTS  in Iran were led to believe their government was "oppressive" and decided to call for change though protests and violence.

There is a reason such people are considered "useful idiots".   Iran was a modern, safe and quite free nation before it fell to Islamic Militant Rule.

So was Egypt, so was Iraq, so was Afghanistan.  Seeing a pattern yet?  The difference here is about 50 million Americans who are not willing to let this shit happen are heavily armed.

Think about that every time a politician uses the term "gun safety regulation".


Agreed, I also add one more reason and that is you can't truly own these fiat assets. Someone else has private keys.

Once you know the power of true private ownership, everything else feels like a scam.

https://freemansperspective.com/why-i-no-longer-invest-in-stocks-and-bonds/


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You claim ultimate control of our property and our decisions, of our travels and even our identities. You claim ownership of humanity far beyond the dreams of any Emperor of any previous era. Understand clearly: We reject your authority and we reject your legitimacy. We do not believe that you have any right to do the things you do. You have massive power, but no right to impose it upon us and no legitimacy. We have forsaken you. We are no longer your citizens or your subjects. Your systems are inherently anti-human, even if all their operators are not. We are not merely angry young people. We are fathers and mothers; aunts, uncles and grandparents; we are business owners and trusted employees; we are mechanics and engineers and farmers. We are nurses and accountants and students and executives. We are on every continent. This is not a burst of outrage; this is a sober declaration that we no longer accept unearned suffering as our role in life.


Gall’s Law states that all complex systems that work evolved from simpler systems that worked. If you want to build a complex system that works, build a simpler system first, and then improve it over time.

https://personalmba.com/galls-law/


💯 indeed.
also applies to the phone itself, calyx, and probably graphene, does that.


This is so retarded it's not even funny.

1. DIDs go nowhere, ever. Sorry but I've done them for over 5 years.
2. It's an INEFFICIENT ripoff of ion
3. Saylor is using bitcoin as his own personal and corporate data store
4. He actively participates in the defunding of developers in order to keep the chain as something that only he can afford to use.

But back to point 1, don't worry, it'll go nowhere.

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Did you ever stop and *really* think about what it means to "do a Satoshi Nakamoto"?

Context for my weird question: I have met many, many bitcoiners over the years. Many of them take a stab at keeping privacy by doing some combo of: not revealing name, not revealing location, not revealing face. Etc. So often, if I happen to meet them in person, they end up revealing the things that they were hiding online. Quite literally a mask came off (pre covid!) once we started drinking - a simple, funny anecdotal example of what I mean. Many complain about photos being taken, many focus on always using a pseudonym. I'm sure most people reading recognize these patterns of behaviour.

I can see the purpose, up to a point, so this is not criticism. It's a little like me doing coinjoin "here and there" - you don't expect to defend yourself against a hyper powerful aggressor, only against a casual criminal looking for an easy score.

But if you do want *real* defence against *strong* attackers, you have a huge problem. These half-measures will be useless, perhaps worse than that, if you get overconfident, because the determined investigator only needs *one* strand to pull on, and the measures I describe above, which are almost always rules only half-stuck to anyway, don't cut it, at all.

Which brings me to my point: is it even possible to "go all the way"? Clearly it is; Satoshi Nakamoto is not the only person who's ever done it, but it's pretty damn rare at the very least.

Imagine what it would mean. If you are engaged in a serious project, that takes let's say at least a year's worth of full time work, then you are going to do that for no reward. Not just, no money, people do that quite often when it comes to things they genuinely enjoy, but no recognition, no social context, not even "oh I won't bother you because I know you're busy with that project". Nobody will say that because nobody will know. Imagine doing a full, intense 8 hour day of work (more likely, split over many days) and knowing that there will *never* be a direct reward of any form, for that. And then doing it again, and again.

What's more, you don't just "not get a reward". You have to do almost double the work, to ensure that at every step, every pushed commit or technical discussion, does not expose anything at the network trace level, or the language, vocabulary etc. Managing tricky pseudonym accounts, handling the headaches of Tor etc. I'm not trying to say it needs super-genius level tech skills, I'm trying to say it's a massive amount of effort.

Could you do that? I daren't even ask the question of myself, because I'm almost sure it's a no. But to *imagine* where that kind of motivation would come from, that's what fascinates me.


Our new territory of freedom is completely dependent on imports from the fiat territory of slavery.

Want a new phone or a new computer or a new house or medical treatment or air travel or anything else? You need to import it from the fiat territory of slavery because we produce none of it domestically in our territory of freedom.

We can flip this the other way around by being more efficient and more capable than the fiat territory of slavery, producing value in ways that they can't, making their economy dependent on us and OUR FREEDOM!

The greatest part is that YOU can start making this happen RIGHT NOW  by improving yourself in ANY way. This makes you more productive and more capable overall, which makes our territory of freedom more productive and more capable.

Things seem down right now, but all they've done is show their hand and awaken a fucking DRAGON!

BECOME THE BLACK SWANDRAGON THEY DIDN'T SEE COMING!


I encourage you all to fight.

Have they been able to close eMule or Bitorrent? No because they are p2p protocols. In the same way, neither could they close bitcoin or lightning because they are p2p protocols.

They will go after you if they know who you are, obviously if you are a registered company they have it easy.

They want to control bitcoin through KYC, they also want to control the on and off ramps.

Nobody ever said this was easy, ETFs were the first trap, it's all part of the plan.

What is left for you to do? fight and create an alternative economy to the FIAT currency because bitcoin will continue to increase in value by the simple fact that the Fiat system will try to take over as many Bitcoins as possible through the ETFs, through the banks themselves that will end up buying Bitcoin directly or indirectly and even through the central banks.

Don't look at the finger, look at the moon, don't fall into the trap of fear, try to live outside the state, there is no other friend.

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Lightning has indeed carved out quite the user base for itself, but it's by no means ready to adopt the entire worlds coffee payments, time to be realistic about scaling kids

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/lightning-bottle/


Hey feds, remind how many bankers you've managed to arrest from the likes of HSBC and Deutsche Bank for actual criminal money laundering... I'll wait.


I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be.

I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral.

I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone.

That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.


They’re trying to cancel the guy that created nix/#nixos. I’ve been in the nix community for about 10 years and I’ve never heard of any of these signatories. Why are we still doing this childish cancel culture nonsense in 2024? Don’t like the leadership? Fork off.

https://save-nix-together.org


https://academyofideas.com/2024/03/why-democracy-leads-to-tyranny/
to watch/listent/read... a good summary of the scam that is democracy.


True to some extent.

The second option has several practical limitations:

 - you will most probably still be the menu even if you are at the table. The influence of minorities (and we are a minority) is miniscule in democracy and very often backfires. Yet being at the table has huge opportunity cost. I used to be at the table and the impact was much worse than reading a book in my bathtub, which is what I now do whenever I feel the urge to be at the table.

 - we have a strategy to not being the menu that actually works today. It's called cryptoanarchy, it works. Bonus point - it pisses off the non libertarian normies a lot. They waste their lives in infinite debates, campaigns and voting and we can create our lives today.

- it hurts our minds and our integrity. We know that majority coercion is violence, we can participate and consider it self defense, but it takes a huge toll, it damages our internal world and integrity.

There is really a more saddening view than watching a libertarian changing things the old way. You hear the words speaking of their experience, but they sound like a cry rather than speech.

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3 years ago we started a food waste collection program at Yellow Barn. I ran around to all the Home Depots and got them to donate 150 buckets to our cause, and there was the start of our first circular system.

The compost program is a micro-business we operate, where our community pays a monthly fee to support us driving out to their home to swap their bucket weekly. Many members sign up for egg subscriptions and order other goods from the Stalk Market, which we then deliver on-route!

The food scraps come back to the farm to feed our pigs (and piglets 😍), or used as a feedstock in our ASP compost pile.

The pigs churn and fertilize the soil, and the finished compost is layered in before planting.

Eventually, all the fruits, veggies, and flowers that grow from that soil can be delivered to our members.

I very much envision a time not too long from now where when our members first sign up for the annual farm membership get half their dues credited back to them in Bitcoin, which they can use at the market, for events, or to tip their farmers.

The farmhands can then be paid in Bitcoin, pay their rent in Bitcoin, and sell their products or crafts to the community and receive Bitcoin. The goal would be to help everyone in our community actually SEE the energy circulate through the ecosystem. And that kind of transparency creates quite a bit of awareness and empowerment for all parties involved in the circularity.

More to come 🐷

#bitcoin #circularity #regenag #economics #socialdesign #farmstr #pigs #escapethematrix
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Using it as a buffer when I DCA corn from my exchange... as soon as it reaches a nice size, I move it to my cold storage as 1 UTXO.


I'm liking it so far.
If you need more convincing 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiuuglRCchQ


New version of https://learnmeabitcoin.com is now online.


excellent! Happy it helped you.


I've been using https://mailinabox.email/ for a while...


#agoristr

https://cdn.satellite.earth/4a433116573b180703f7e50988ccdbdfdc0444263d2aec6800c5256432332627.mp4


OK, I have an initial Nix package of Bisq 2. I haven't gotten past the Tor initilization:

https://image.nostr.build/b1d401670639395f284614fee91dbb04b35f284a3664327b328fb14444c6a443.jpg

Perhaps it's a network issue on my side.

If you want to give it a go, run: nix run github:emmanuelrosa/erosanix#bisq2

If you have a 4K display, then you way want to use this:

$ nix shell github:emmanuelrosa/erosanix#bisq2
$ bisq2-hidpi

#nixos


Democracy is an illusion https://i.nostr.build/mlrWK.jpg


Hey nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev and nostr:npub1ajv7m32k0cpgzha32qszsh304qusjvwwmavus0ttktzldms4xzusuftppj 👋
Have you already done a podcast together?
I would definitely enjoy it! 😉


the beauty of living in Santa Claus country. 🎅


probably fine in Chinada though... 🤣


"A shame on every democracy"
https://v.nostr.build/zdD0Y.mp4


The current world and its structures are built on fiat. This includes the conflict lines that are weaponized to divide us.

Ignore it.

Focus on what unites us.

Focus on sound first principles, sound money, and everything we can build on top of that to make a better future.


An easy way to explain the failure of government.

For decades the government tried stop "drinking and driving". This included billions of tax payer funded stupid ads no one listened to. Along with destroying the lives of many who were NOT IMPAIRED at all at their time of arrest.  Arrests were based on a subjective number not actual impairment.   A number that varied state to state like how long a blade a knife you could carry there could be.

And after all this drinking and driving along with accidents caused by drunk drivers were never really reduced.  Any reduction happened in the 80s when the laws were first put in place from that point on, it was pretty much the same for 30+ years.

Then in 2009 Uber was founded soon followed by Lyft. It was so effective that some police departments (mostly unions) said it was causing a lack of "revenue" because they wrote so few DWI tickets. Governments from federal to local fought it all the way. The average DWI will cost a person 10-20K minimum even if found not guilty. Most of this is grift that goes to the state one way or another.

California's government attempted to put all ride share drivers out of business with laws against independent contractors. This led drivers to form corporations and LLCs just to stay in business.

Las Vegas literally pulled some of the first Uber drivers over at gun point and were pushed to do so by the cab lobby and the mafia that runs the Vegas cab business. The city of Austin tried to outlaw Uber/Lyft as well, again spurred on by Austin PD and police unions.

These are just a few examples.

Despite all this ride services survived and thrived and have done more to reduce DWIs and accidents caused due to them than 4 decades of state endorsed violence and warfare on our own citizens.  They did more than billions of dollars in PR campaigns paid for with stolen money.

The solution is Always in the free market. The impediment to these solutions is ALWAYS government.  People were never unwilling to take a cap home from the bar.  It was the cost, the difficulty of getting one in many places, how long you had to wait, etc.

Why was getting a cap a problem?  Government and their regulation of the Taxi industry in a protectionist racket.

#grownostr


No hello.

https://nohello.net/


A very good summary of the Unabomber Manifesto by @oldbooksguy.

The Unabomber Manifesto🧵

Ted Kaczynski’s IQ: 167
Harvard admission: At 15
Youngest ever math prof, UCB: At 25
Money spent by FBI to find him: $50+ mil

The manifesto attacks modern civilization like nothing else before or since

13 best insights from a Philosopher-Terrorist👇🏻

1/ Kaczynski lists the 4 big problems with modern civilization:

- “Excessive density of population”
- “Isolation of man from nature”
- “Excessive rapidity of social change”
- “The breakdown of natural small-scale communities such as the extended family, the village, the tribe”

2/ The big difference between the primitive civilization and our contemporary world is that before, individuals had a lot of autonomy while the state was largely powerless to penetrate into the everyday life of people

Kaczynski argues that modern tech suddenly flips this balance

3/ The balance of power between individuals and the larger “system” flipped when machines made much of human labor obsolete while simultaneously allowing big corp and big govt to observe, track, exclude (social media bans, stripping away bank accounts) anyone being naughty

4/ Uncle Ted on how modern life STEALS your sense of agency:

“Primitive man, threatened by a fierce animal, can fight in self-defense…the modern individual is threatened by many things against which he is helpless: nuclear accidents, carcinogens in food, increasing taxes.”

5/ Ted Kaczynski writes:

“The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man’s environment..it is to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.”

6/ With robots doing most work will people find work in “service industries”?

Kaczynski says no

People will reject the “pointless busywork” of  “driving each other around, making handicrafts, waiting on tables” and embrace dangerous outlets: “drugs, crime, cults, hate groups”

7/ Kaczynski against Leftism:

“Leftism is in the long run inconsistent with wild nature, with human freedom and with the elimination of modern technology. Leftism is collectivist; it seeks to bind together the entire world (both nature and the human race) into a unified whole.”

8/ Kaczynski devotes a large chunk of his manifesto attacking leftism

But in a powerful paragraph, he argues that the conservatives are fools too

9/ The system knowingly destroys intimate bonds between people because it wants to SOAK UP all the loyalty and energy of individuals for itself

Kaczynski writes: “The technological society HAS TO weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently.”

10/ A “democracy” with advanced tech is less free than a “dictatorship” with primitive technology

A low tech society has “no rapid long-distance communications, no surveillance cameras, no dossiers of information about the lives of average citizens”

Easier to “evade control"

11/ Can we go back to small-scale communities?

Kaczynski says no because we are  “enmeshed with and dependent on large-scale systems like public utilities, computer networks, highway systems, the mass communications media and the modern health-care system.”

12/ Next step?

A retvrn to nature...

Nature is Kaczynski’s “counter-ideal to technology” because it is self-contained, “beautiful,” and already has “tremendous popular appeal”

The technological civilization must expand wastefully to survive, is ugly, and is largely despised

13/ Kaczynski on the importance of aims:

“Secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonistic & demoralized, even though they have power. This shows that power is not enough. One must have goals toward which to exercise one’s power.”

fin.

13/ Kaczynski on the importance of aims:

“Secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonistic & demoralized, even though they have power. This shows that power is not enough. One must have goals toward which to exercise one’s power.”

fin.

13/ Kaczynski on the importance of aims:

“Secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonistic & demoralized, even though they have power. This shows that power is not enough. One must have goals toward which to exercise one’s power.”

fin.


Y’en a marre d’être gouverné tout court.
😉

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As predicted, eventually someone with laser focus (not laser eyes) will enter the Bitcoin market, and make the process of controlling and using Bitcoin as easy as WhatsApp, without compromise or the need for any education.

Bitkey is the first global scale company to achieve the hardest part of this. The focus - very sharp, the user experience - extreme simplicity.

By removing all "thought barriers" from its operation, people using this device and service can just get on with using Bitcoin. That's more important than anything. It is a beautiful mix of safe storage and everyday use.

The vast majority of users on Earth will never read about Bitcoin just as they have never read about SSL or POP3, but everyone is using the web and email.

This has to happen in Bitcoin for it to reach and touch everyone, and it has to reach and touch everyone for it to do the work it was designed to do.

This development, like Bitcoin itself, starts off quietly, then all of a sudden, it's everywhere, with the side effect of forcing everyone to rise to its high standards.

As it was with the iPhone, before it, all phones had mechanical push button keyboards. Then, seemingly all of a sudden they were all relegated to the dustbin, and the expectation was "keyboardless".

You're seeing the beginning of something like that here with Bitkey. This single event could be the beginning of the very much needed sea change in the thinking behind delivering Bitcoin services to the public.

Well done that Bitkey team!

https://bitkey.build/bitkey-starts-shipping-today/

https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/nostrcheck.me_4951410842165091871710407501.webp


https://i.nostr.build/vGORP.gif Bitcoin Audible is 6 Years old today. 🎂 🍾 🎉

An incredible thank you to everyone who has followed, listened, and gone on this crazy journey with me! https://i.nostr.build/yqOLA.png


The fiat debt system destroyed your youthful "I make a difference" attitude

#Bitcoin is giving the "I make a difference" attitude back to us

Allow yourself to change and make a difference

I'm 46 and I have the youthful optimism of an 18 Year Old

It's a fountain of youth


hypnotic 🤩
would be cool if he accepted BTC donations... doesn't look like it though...


A Statist Bitcoiner Manifesto

Written by Richard Greaser
https://www.bugle.news/the-statist-bitcoiner-manifesto/


An important question that almost none of bitcoiners are asking.
Instead many want compliance and regulation for Bitcoin...

https://m.primal.net/HiIE.mp4
#bitcoin


Three Meshtastic nodes are active in Cape Town for off-grid communications during disasters or just to meet your neighbours

https://image.nostr.build/1587f64b96b88ebef3e79216219540adbc212da44650848a8eb764088bd5036a.jpg

Myself and two other ham radio operators have established 3 Meshtastic nodes that will operate 24/7 to help build out more connectivity across Cape Town.

We are using license-free 868 MHz radios, so anyone can buy these cheap (ish) devices and get connected. The more nodes we have, the better the connectivity gets across the whole city. These radios will keep messaging going regardless of whether there is Internet or not. So if we hit Stage 8+ load shedding and cell towers and Internet starts to go down, this messaging network will still work.

This means that citizens can message for assistance needed, and this can be relayed to City or Provincial Disaster Risk Management. Or in cases of loss of communications during a disaster we can also send out messages to everyone on the network as to where water tankers will be deployed etc.

Apart from the public channel (which is much like CB radio's Channel 19) anyone can also create their own private channels (with passwords) to stay in contact with groups of friends or family. The connections between all radio nodes are encrypted with AES256 encryption, so private messages will stay private even though they bounce across 3 or more other radio nodes to reach the recipient.

You have a phone, so all that is needed is the free Meshtastic app, and a Meshtastic compatible radio device. This is probably bad timing, as right now there is a global shortage of Meshtastic radio devices. The massive global uptake has also made this situation even worse. But the point of preparing for disasters, is to do that well before a disaster strikes.

I've documented a lot of my lessons learnt, as well as given some context to the situation in South Africa for this service at the linked web page below.

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/hamradio/meshtastic-in-south-africa/

#technology #Meshtastic #offgrid #CapeTown #SouthAfrica


Rot in Hell JR.

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And lastly we reduce risk in the building process by integrating design and programming early. Instead of building lots of disconnected parts and hoping they’ll fit together in the 11th hour, we build one meaningful piece of the work end-to-end early on and then repeat. The team sequences the work from the most unknown to the least worrisome pieces and learns what works and what doesn’t by integrating as soon as possible.


worth supporting.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sowell-a-solo-play-about-an-american-genius#/


In the cave, you wear your Apple ski mask. 🥽

https://image.nostr.build/da1d770a0e5732e9ab411bf4f70c8a4d6fa0bf1c17c9a063d071611d5a833e8a.jpg


to avoid YouTube "age warning"...
https://archive.org/details/StefanMolyneuxTheStoryOfYourEnslavement


"You will own nothing and you will be happy."

https://m.primal.net/Hbet.mp4


Next time I see an Apple Vision NPC walking around...
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> I will never get those 2 minutes back lol
> — Uncle Ted, circa February 2024

😂


“The Pandemic showed me that most of my neighbors are nazis who are simply awaiting instructions from a Führer & that's a lesson I can never unsee.”

@americanhodl8 https://video.nostr.build/d2dbaba22e0de5642aca80b03988b1e90d923eb93a10f9553f70ac59343f13f1.mp4


the best feeling 🤩


The world is a mess, but there are a lot of good things happening. The system we live under really wasn't any less corrupt in the 90s or 00s, corrupt people just had better control of the dominant narratives. Which just means their crimes were better hidden & things felt less chaotic. The information chaos of today is the sign that the worst people are losing their grip, & that is a very positive development.

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So there's this progression. First you see something like Cashu when you say, "Oh, it's a custodial lightning wallet with better privacy for users and no accounts." And then you realize, "Oh, I can use this to pay someone who is offline. I just send them a string and that’s the ecash note.” And then you realize, "Oh, this works over long range radio with very low bandwidth. And then you realize, oh, if we trust the same mint, we can actually use it to route  lightning payments without open channels to the mint (the channel is the trust). And we can use it as a lightning wallet for ourselves. And then you can say, oh, we can create these community mints for “islands” that are not connected to the internet.

And then you realize, "Oh, there can be more than one Uncle Jim, and we don't have to trust this one person. We can have shared custody, and this thing has better privacy." And suddenly you realize you are were not expecting anything like this at all when you first saw it, when it began. It has completely different implications than what I was expecting previously.

It's the same with Nostr. It's like, "Oh, this is not a very good protocol. It depends on a few relays and you can’t even store images on it and who would use it." And it's cumbersome. Now there are blogging platforms and communities and marketplaces and AI communicating over it. And there's this innovation that no one was expecting when they first started. It was like thinking about the protocol and trying to judge it by its design, but its use (and implications) is discovered, not designed. Same way you can send a calendar invite over email, or do encrypted group chats over it (DeltaChat).

It’s interesting to see, how we use technologies that in theory should not have worked, but in practice, they do. Bitcoin is one of them. The probability of its success was very low.

A friend of mine said in a podcast with me that Bitcoin’s risk adjusted value is actually better than a decade ago. Yes, you could have bought cheap Bitcoin. But its success back then was very improbable. Now you are buying the asset of the parallel financial system, back then, it was a membership card in a club of geeks. After several that have failed…


MY FAMILY DIDN’T SAIL ACROSS AN OCEAN, TRAVERSE AN ENTIRE CONTINENT, BUILD HOMES, BUSINESSES AND KILL OUR ENEMIES TO STAY FREE, ONLY TO BE DIGITALLY DOMINATED BY SOME RETARD TECHNOCRAT FROM DAVOS

GFY

LIVE FREE OR DIE


Things I had to learn by doing my own research:

•Paying taxes is immoral.

•Decrees from authority are foundationally corrupt and create negative externalities.

•Plant-based diets are detrimental to human health.

•Sugar isn’t okay to consume.

•Seed oils are toxic (and in 80% of grocery store and prepared foods).

•Butter is healthy.

•Cholesterol is protective.

•Meat is the most nutritious human food.

•The news only (intentionally) broadcasts deceitful narratives.

•Inflation is covert and intentional theft.

•Voting legitimizes and entrenches further the criminal Uniparty system.

•Doctors, police and military personnel are (often unwitting) authoritarian enforcers.

•The fiat monetary system is a Ponzi scam.

•Unnecessary consumption isn’t virtuous or helpful.

•Banks don’t have depositors money nor is the money legally theirs once deposited.

•All politicians lie.

•All regulators become captured.

If it wasn’t for the internet and #Bitcoin I never would have been able to figure these things out.

There is hope for a great awakening and I believe we’re all part of the first big wave of this movement. Gives me a lot of hope for the future. Stay frosty frens.


#meme #memes
 Please print this
out and hand it to people who want to force you into anything you don't want to do.
https://m.primal.net/HXUq.jpg


Another great video from our own Bitcoin Canadian treasure. Thanks Ben !

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Bitcoin's purpose is much higher than increasing the net worth of those who hold it (or hold exposure to it). Bitcoin is freedom money and the siren calls of wealth and convenience are on their way to undermine the  mission. Don't get distracted. Our children will be free.

https://tftc.io/prepare-for-number-and-noise-to-go-up/


Understanding Bitcoin transaction fees is highly valuable knowledge. It's definitely complicated, but worth it. Relying on software for fee estimation is lazy and often inaccurate.

Observe the mempool.

Recogne patterns.

Optimize your transaction fees.

Identify opportunities for channel creation and rebalancing, utxo management, replenishment of proxy wallet or cold wallet...

🤙⚡


Do you all love the country you live in?
Because it's about to become your prison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MIESbBnA2k


what a bunch of retards. 🤦♂


Offense (like intent) exists only in a person's head & not in reality at all. There is zero harm in offending people. The freedom to cause offense is 100% necessary to the teaching/learning process. "Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me" is something people used to be taught from young ages. Now everyone has horrible personal boundaries because they are taught that how they feel is everyone else's responsibility rather than completely their own.

We are seeing the consequences of incorrect foundational belief systems playing out. If someone is afraid of getting sick, it's on them to stay home or protect themselves in whatever way they can, they can't require that everyone else stay home until they prove they are healthy. You can't externalize the cost of your fear onto everyone else & not be a tyrant. Sick until proven healthy is no different than calling people guilty until proven innocent. When people invert fundamental principles they transform life into hell, & many will almost deserve it.


La réponse: OUI

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Are we better off?

https://video.nostr.build/3d033d4f5cbe4c5ff4ae1c9e1d1ca44ff0bb232699b51c7dc447c622cb574158.mp4


"To corrupt an individual it is enough to teach him to call his personal longings "rights" and the rights of others "abuses"."
G. K. Chesterton

https://telegra.ph/file/f54afa679fa6900221e43.jpg


Never forget who your real ennemies are.
The state-funded useful idiots...

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It's been on Canadian bitcoiners bingo cards for a long tiime...
Some of us left that communist shithole, the others are building a parallel system to fight and still thrive under that dystopia.


accelerate!

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Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.

https://agora256.com/bitcoin-whitepaper/
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kagi 💯


Looking for a #job? Watch this!

https://video.nostr.build/d37ed0627cb89831d3664d1e487c016164283fe7b17fcc43c5cafbd541e8b038.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=720x1280&blurhash=%5D36kS6%25M00D%25j%5D%25MWBRjofWB00M%7B_3-%3BM%7BM%7Bt7t7Rkay-%3Bt7IUM%7B-%3B9FWBofWBxu-%3BWBt7s%3BD%25%7EqWBM%7BxuIUxut7IUM%7Bxu&x=f72b9e4a17b6736d3adabd52afc71e193d890076816ca489186bb8ed6cbae5f3


It's weird to see some folks acting like LLMs are the path to actual artificial intelligence.

Call me when an LLM can make deductions and have original thoughts without being fed the entirety of the Internet first. That's not how actually intelligent humans work. Of course compressing the entirety of human knowledge into a fuzzy completion machine will make it sound intelligent. You're basically making a lossy encoded compressed version of things actually intelligent people have said, with a modicum of ability to generalize by simple association and statistics.

The Turing test breaks down when you throw enough Big Data at it. Congratulations, you've beat the test. You haven't created real intelligence though, you used big data to build a parrot with a huge vocabulary.


One problem that people face is that they box themselves into narrative corners and echo chambers.

"Not your keys not your coins" is a good one-sentence explainer to tell people to be careful about custodians, especially in such a nascent industry. It's powerful and memorable. Couldn't be said better.

But then some people take that to mean nobody should ever use any custodial service under any circumstances ever. You got $200 in a custodial Lightning app because it's faster and easier than alternatives? You've failed the purity test. You're in a developing country and want to save $100 worth of bitcoin? Better do it on-chain, otherwise it's not yours!

But then some of the same people resist a block size increase to keep the network decentralized (a good thing, imo) and also say that bitcoin will fix the world (I think it can).

But while all reasonable statements on their own, the issue is that statements 1, 2, and 3 don't add up when taken to their extreme.  It has been written about since the time of Nakamoto and Finney on Bitcoin Talk forums that Bitcoin would need to scale in layers.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2500.msg34211#msg34211

So any statement about "Not your keys not your coins" has to be paired with an alternative solution, or a spectrum of alternatives. What if someone can't fit into the one of the only tens of millions of on-chain transactions per month? What if $35 fees is high for the $200 in bitcoin they want to save?

Is holding your bitcoin on an 11-of-15 multisig (Liquid) okay, in exchange for lower fees, faster block times, better privacy, and some additional features? Depending on the amount, I would say yes. It has trade-offs, though, which have to be made clear.

What about a Chaumian mint? What if an app lets a community in South Africa set up a 5-of-9 multisig run by well-known people in the community who would face consequences if they break trust? And the same app can let a smaller community in Guatemala set up a 4-of-7 multisig? And a bigger multi-country 6-of-11 multisig can be set up as well? It's private, interacts with Lightning as seamlessly as Wallet of Satoshi, and can make in-person payments even when the internet is out briefly. Plus, it can be customized via open source add-on modules by the community running the specific mint so that it can also store private data for users, monitor reserves, monitor health of the multisig keys, run applications like Chat GPT payable in bitcoin per usage, run private DMs and group chats, run apps that show you local merchants that accept bitcoin, etc. And what if a user could, within the same app, seamlessly spread their funds out among a handful of different mints that they know pretty well to avoid having all of their eggs in one basket, and then pull into self-custody when above a certain amount?

Maybe there will be more softforks in the future. More flexible scripting to allow more share-ability of UTXOs, for example. But those require consensus, and they tend to come with some trade-offs or code risks, and so they take time.

Bitcoin is an engineering marvel. But it's not magic. It has limitations, and it has a spectrum of solutions for those limitations at any given time. The best solutions solve multiple problems at once: they add scalability, they add speed, they reduce fees, they add privacy, and they add flexibility/programmability all at once, while still being more distributed than trusting some centralized KYC entity.

Bitcoin is peer-to-peer open source money. But it's not infinitely scalable on the base chain. If it were greatly scaled up on the base chain to fit everyone, then only institutions would be able to run nodes and it would be greatly centralized and thus useless. So the solution, known from the start of the Bitcoin Talk forums, is to build additional peer-to-peer open source layers on top of it, allowing for a range of transaction sizes, a range of speeds, a range of privacy, and a range of programmability, all to serve different users' needs, and without compromising the decentralization and security of the base chain. That's the type of statement that needs to be provided along with "not your keys not your coins" for the full context to make sense.


Phoenix is my daily driver. It just works.


go and try to explain lightning's limitations to Noobs. you open a channel, some months ago and one day you have no outgoing liquidity because of variable reserve. 😣
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great podcast! bought the book right away, can't wait to read during the Christmas break 🤩


One of many reasons why KYC is a plague on this industry

Nice list of people and addresses to rob just dropped

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Water Buffalo black belt (fait sur mesure)


THE FOUR PILLARS OF FREEDOM TECH ADOPTION

- EDUCATION
- OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
- BUSINESS INFRASTRUCTURE
- STRONG LOCAL COMMUNITIES

WE NEED TO KEEP PUSHING FORWARD IN ALL FOUR OF THESE CATEGORIES.


Groups are always divisible & expendable abstractions. Only the individual is prime.

People should be free of human coercion so long as they respect others in the same manner. No one has a right to be free from disagreement, or hate, or difficulty, or competition, or struggle. All criminal acts (no matter how you dress them up) stem from the initiation of force or fraud, everything else is just life.

https://i.nostrimg.com/75eeb75a308a5a77da6b30fa14156b26c64d9fc373776c65b479b9eccc9a6792/file.jpg


They gave Noriega a 40yr sentence & let him out after 17yrs on good behavior…..

They gave Ross Ulbricht 2 Life Sentences.
#FreeRoss

Extra Footage from filming #DeathAthletic discussing Ross Ulbricht’s unjust sentencing. https://video.nostr.build/dc00b6260256d3f11bcac198e1e60ae5e1b66ea488f66167bce3d003d32472c4.mp4


Here's to #Bitcoin #Nostr & all tools built by people pursuing truth with integrity.
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Pat Metheny & me 😄
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wen onlygrans ?

I’d sub https://i.nostr.build/GnZG.jpg


I'm using a pair of TP-Link AV100, Ethernet over powerline for the miners in my garage (which is built like a Faraday cage, so WiFi is a no-no), it just works.

https://image.nostr.build/bdf3e66a73bb42c87e6bc46f4f578f57eabe0b386f7677cc33bb7ec5839928c7.jpg


what's ChatGPT?


oh Nostr, never change 🙄
here is an address that might resolve:

https://legend.lnbits.com/nostrmarket/market?naddr=naddr1qqjrzd34v5ukzepn95exzdpn956rzwf4943rycn995urxefnvfjn2vnpv5cnxqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdsq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46qz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq35amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2aszyql2lzq2ur0aegjlquxunc280zlacshtu2k08smuveczt2542dz6wqcyqqq82scg8l9vn#/


There are two ways to win the Turing Test. The hard way is to build computers that are more and more intelligent, until we can’t tell them apart from humans. The easy way is to make humans more stupid, until we can’t tell them apart from computers. The purpose of this book is to help us avoid that second path.

https://moralcodes.pubpub.org/pub/1mn2q39n/release/5?from=39&to=350


Revenue model aligns their incentives with the user's instead of pleasing advertisers and the cultural war "du jour".

Also, they really seem more user centric in their product design methods (ex: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalized-results.html#personalized_results)

Of course, in the end, the present does not guarantee the future and they might have allegiances that will turn them against focusing on being the best apolitical search engine 🤷♂ Until then, I am satisfied with my search results, and try to support a sensible business model based on the customer instead of some random third-parties...


Have you tried Kaji ? https://blog.kagi.com/age-pagerank-over

It's been my daily driver for the last 2 months, very happy with it.
We've been trained to not pay for search, but it's important we do. And you can pay with Bitcoin.


The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to obey.

https://freemansperspective.com/the-only-thing-necessary-for-evil-to-triumph-is/


that would be amazing.
it's the number one app I use on my Calyx.


💯 that's how I would define it too.


define KYC for fun?


On my way to the post office... right fuckin' now! 🚀


Logged into a fairly vanilla, dormant twitter account this morning...

They've cornered the Depression as a Service (DaaS) market. Plus KYC.

I only want to see what my brothers are building - not what strangers are destroying.

NOSTR only.


Gros upgrade du stack Bitcoin sur  nostr:npub1ag0rawstycy7nanuc6sz4v287rneen2yapcq3fd06972f8ncrhzqx7zpqz cette semaine avec l'addition d'un noeud Lightning *based af*.

🤙Core Lightning

Shoutout à nostr:npub186hcszhqmlw2yhc8phy7z3mchlwy96lz4neuxlrxwqj6492ngkns76zr0q pour les massifs efforts de développement d'infra et pour l'article d'introduction sur le site web (hésitez pas à lui envoyer des tips sur sa Lightning Address hari@agora256.com) :

https://agora256.com/bitcoin-lightning-comment-ca-marche/


A global digital circular economy needs decentralized communications infrastructure first.


⚡Nouveau sur Agora256⚡

Introduction au Lightning Network ; ce réseau de paiements instantanés bâti sur la timechain Bitcoin.

À LIRE ⤵

https://agora256.com/bitcoin-lightning-comment-ca-marche/


discovered clboss... feels like dark magic to watch it do its things in the logs... 🤩


oh yeah, you are a contributor nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s !
thanks for the great work! 🙏

I am really enjoying my new node. Nix + Bitcoin is a no-brainer.


...they want to reduce.


https://www.bitchute.com/video/I15fcW5K32D5/

morning watch.
thanks nostr:npub1vj43synn2jr97nwvc3yfp5nucwcacnsr9d2z2kc33yhuz4utugnqqtj5wl


i would love to quickly see how many of my followers and follows also follow the user. might be a good step towards evaluating the inferred trust for that user.


if only 😅


nix-bitcoin is the shit. 🤩
is the team on Nostr?

https://nixbitcoin.org/


Protect nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf at all costs. This level of candor is witheringly rare and increasingly crucial. #pacificbitcoin https://v.nostr.build/mQqx.mov


so confident in their own invention that they are still wearing a mask to protect themselves (and others™) 🤡🤡🤡


thanks man, I got you 😉


No shipping to Quebec !? Why?
is this something new nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8?

> Quebec Residents. At present, Products are not offered to persons domiciled in Quebec. Consequently, if you are domiciled in Quebec, you cannot purchase the Products. We cannot ship Products to Quebec addresses.


anti-human scum.


Probably so that they can finance their "aim to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere" 🤷♂


I'm giving away this ColdClutch to the highest zap at block 809515

https://image.nostr.build/cc8427a54c2d7aaa2b4abb047a21b5b87c807751211fd291f5abe00987e42afb.jpg


Kagi search unlimited for $10/month payable in #BTC 🤩

https://blog.kagi.com/unlimited-searches-for-10


"Asking to Be Paid in Bitcoin is a Conscious Decision & It's the Only Thing You Can Control"

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In my experience, this is not a chicken and egg dilemma as to which comes first. There is logical order. Humans first must reasonably expect a good to store value (over some time horizon) in order to trade their finitely scarce time–which translates to the output of their labor–in return.

"Humans first must reasonably expect a good to store value (over some time horizon) in order to trade their finitely scarce time–which translates to the output of their labor–in return."

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Hey, is there a Bitcoin friendly analogue to 99designs?

Can’t even get a logo design without doxxing myself… crazy

Or are there anonymous prepaid cards 99 would accept?

Or can you just make us a better logo?


fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

https://m.primal.net/HLez.mp4


everybody's worst mother in law...
fuck them and their dystopia.


"Creativity is the path to wealth, mental and financial, and creativity requires a high level of understanding focused on solving specific problems."

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"Decentralized systems act more like biological ones. As long as there is a seed of that decentralized system alive somewhere, it will grow back."

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Power has a gravity to it.

Power has a gravity to it. Those that have some are usually able to use what they have to gain more. Which, in turn, increases their ability to gain even more.

"Power has a gravity to it."

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En attendant une plus grande maturité du réseau et du protocole Nostr, aider chaque communauté à mettre en place son serveur d'acceuil Matrix et le connecter avec d'autres communauté aux alentours serait un bon intermédiaire aux alternatives populaires actuelles: telegram et autres groupes facebook...


Ayn Rand answers the question, “but who will build the roads?”

“No good will is necessary, only self interest.” - Rand https://video.nostr.build/d3d16950ab162d20041500501a7fa006b3fab1f89414c596e0ae82c662fd724e.mov


good morning nostr, we must be the change we wish to see in the world 🫡

push forward - never stop 🤘


I am not a climate change denier. I’m just not a climate change catastrophist. I’m also a systems expert, and I well understand the risks of making drastic untested changes to complex systems.


nostr:note1eya3nl0rn2g0gdsmp2kh3pcsqgxnkdj0ucw6pcwasjuncf0pfmaqv44cke
It should always be an individual's choice to disclose private information selectively, in a controlled manner, and without external pressure.


There have been many prominent voices pushing for the eradication of online anonymity. Elimination of online anonymity is the digital equivalent of banning cash. In a misguided attempt to crack-down on crime and abuse you rob people of privacy and protection from discrimination when they need it most. One individual may not want a public profile attached to their name, but is still comfortable divulging their information in particular situations. Individuals from all walks of life should be empowered to only provide their identities when necessary and desired.

"One individual may not want a public profile attached to their name, but is still comfortable divulging their information in particular situations."

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If only there was some way out! A way to not attach every click, paragraph read, or comment left to a permanent record. A way to opt-out of this all-pervasive system of individualized discrimination. There is such a way: anonymity. Anonymity used to be the default online. Someone downloading a web page didn’t automatically need to divulge who they were individually. Even when websites had user accounts, they could be disposable and didn’t need to collect so much sensitive personal information.

"A way to opt-out of this all-pervasive system of individualized discrimination. There is such a way: anonymity. Anonymity used to be the default online."

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This is where CoinJoin comes in. A software solution to help solve the basic transactional privacy challenges in Bitcoin. A good analogy is to think of your bitcoins as gold ingots and CoinJoin as a smelting process. Any markings on your ingots are gone when smelted and recast.

"A good analogy is to think of your bitcoins as gold ingots and CoinJoin as a smelting process. Any markings on your ingots are gone when smelted and recast."

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never forget: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-protests-frozen-bank-accounts-1.6355396


The fiat system has various laws that enforce basic and fundamental privacy when using their money. Relying on legislators to uphold your privacy is playing a dangerous game though, as we have seen with a weakening of fundamental rights and privacy over the years.

"Relying on legislators to uphold your privacy is playing a dangerous game though, as we have seen with a weakening of fundamental rights and privacy over the years."

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"Governments divide society into two castes: those who compulsorily give their money to the State and those who earn money from the State..... The existence of elections does not change the essence of this operation."

Hans Hermann Hoppe


Bureaucrats bureaucrating is never a good thing.

https://gdpr.eu/cookies/


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Share this far and wide to help people with their data sovereignty!

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Librewolf on desktop and Mull on android 💯


so true... for a money that is not accepted anywhere... just today, I:
- paid for my search engine plan
- renewed my hosting server
- sent sats to creators
- paid for playing music in a virtual jukebox
- paid someone to cut a tree down

no middlemen, no surveillance and it's only the beginning...


Epic :)

https://nostr.build/av/45ba312b07a035e31d773e24e874b28c611ebbf6d92b35c528158c32e9cca87a.mp4


LFG nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a 🤓

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/63633ed4b0b8f8155ee8484dfb3e68c5b51e1b6e1aec0dd24c6e57f43611e12f.jpg


My take on this so called Bitcoin conference...

- Important and interesting things happen on the secondary stage, the open source stage. The main stage is full of bullshit propaganda and people that have no idea what is Bitcoin and why they are there.
- Bringing politicians and especially presidential candidates on the stage is a BIG mistake. You practically make their political game. These people are NOT there to help you, are there to GET THE POWER over you. You are fooled if you believe that politicians care about you and your bitcoins. Especially RFK, he was put in that presidential race EXACTLY to fool you, to give you false hope, to move your attention from more important things. He will never win any elections, no matter what you will think. He was pushed and trained "to be with bitcoiners" so later can be demolished in the campaign, is just a puppet. The whole political game is rigged and people still do not realize that.
- Bitcoiners don't need any "right" to run their nodes. THEY JUST RUN THEM! Honeybadger doesn't care about any cheap political promise. I don't need anybody to give me any "right" to use Bitcoin. I just use it and I don't give a shit about any politician. Is not their damn business what am I doing with my own money.
- STOP following false idols and figures! Stop giving them a stage where they can manipulate the weak minds with false political speeches.
Here I also explained how I would like to see these conferences: https://stacker.news/items/180224

I will repeat this over and over until more people will understand it:
Bitcoin adoption will happen only when people will learn to be sovereign individuals, not with politicians "help" and speeches.
https://i.postimg.cc/zX2ZDQD1/vader-sovereign-adoption.jpg
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/how-bitcoin-will-save-the-world


I don’t like his view on crypto, but his understanding of economics, what’s happening in the world and putting everything into a enjoyable read is excellent:

https://cryptohayes.medium.com/exit-liquidity-3052309e6bfa


Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.


Great interview Matt! 🙏


I'm sure most people in #Bitcoin circles are well aware of the rampant abuse of the word "capitalism." But I think the word "individualism" might have it worse.

So many people attack #individualism as some sort of naval gazing narcissism, or worse, some atomistic sort of total self reliance stawman, completely lacking trade & cooperation, which I've never seen anyone even sort of advocate.

Individualism (as opposed to collectivism) is just the recognition that the individual is prime. It's the recognition that individual wants, needs, & "rights" (for lack of a better term) trump the "needs" of groups which are just abstractions. It's a recognition that "the greater good" is actually always just some individual's delusion or justification for evil, because collectives are not real entities, & as such, collectives do not have wants & needs or beliefs.

It's ultimately a recognition that people are real, & the personification of our mental shortcuts can be dangerous & destructive.

https://i.imgur.com/Cag1LmR.jpg


I can see this animated banner.

https://i.imgur.com/CZ15Tvn.png


reminder that your IP is visible to every relay you connect to so consider running a vpn such as mullvad.net or ivpn.net, both accept bitcoin


- Open protocols don't die easily
- nostr can't go bankrupt
- All accounts already exist
- Social media is only the 1st use case
- It's an identity and reputation layer
- Many "stupid" things will run over nostr
- (Calendar sync, TODO apps, etc.)
- Private relays will be big
- Pay-to-write is not a paywall
- Paywalls (pay-to-read) = stupid
- NIP-07 kills usernames and passwords
- It will improve massively over time
- Time and attention are horrible graph currencies
- Sats fix this & enhance the social graph signal
- Special clients will replace whole networks
- Pivot to nostr or perish


💯
Anyone who has to use a walled garden, and ask permission to publish and use a permission-less app or protocol like Nostr, is a loser.


Snort.social


Amen.


Like other clients, snort has improved so much in the last weeks! That's why I am bullish on Nostr. 🤩
Native or PWA apps will be a personal preference. I personally will never use a wall garden app store again.


That's my dream. Any resources you can share on best practices?


🤩 I'll keep you updated on my experiments...
Upgrading to the latest version this weekend... https://nixos.org/blog/announcements.html#nixos-22.11


Just started using it. Close to potentially becoming my daily driver.
Steep learning curve compared to a standard Linux distro, but I love the declarative way of configuring a machine, that can "easily" be ported over to others with the assurance of running the same runtime.