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 I'm highly skeptical the Fediverse will be able to sustain itself on the donation model.
https://image.nostr.build/4250fd34e740dfab85b8b709c4de55f9a9e714c0554d0b14787766383b781456.jpg 
 Mad respect for nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp who writes ... 
 Hello, fellow Bitcoiner! How's your trade going? 
 And now for something completely different: my recent foray into understanding the relationship between cholesterol and risk of heart disease.
https://blog.lopp.net/the-myth-of-bad-cholesterol/ 
 I asked midjourney for a cholesterol supervillain. 
 Folks be going crazy over self driving cars that are connected to a network.

It's only a matter of time before someone gets assassinated by a hacker taking control of an occupied car and wrecking it. 
 Oh, please. For all you know, you're also storing a bunch of transactions that were used to buy/sell CP or worse. 
 Exactly 😊 
 Ever go to a gym that has dumbbells all the way up to 100 pounds?

Look at those hundred baggers.

Just sitting there, in pristine condition.

Smirking at everyone for being too weak. 
 Hello big guy, let's have a bet. You give me 1 BTC if it reaches $1M+ during 2024, I give you 0.0... 
 So either I lose a million dollars or win slightly under $50,000 in the best case?

Those are weird terms that incentivize me to be as close to losing the best as possible. 
 The folks calling for million+ dollar BTC in 2024 are not serious people. 
 Free market capitalism is serious business.

Don't hate the players, hate the game. 
 Hi. Freezing in South Carolina. 

#introductions 
 Long overdue! 👋 
 Firearm technology is advancing at a boring pace.

Body armor technology is evolving excruciatingly slowly. 
 Have any of you nerds ever had to replace the battery in an HTC Vive controller? If so, where did you source the battery? 
 Yeah... I came across that one but it's out of stock. 😩 
 Seems like delivery times tend to be around a month 😩 
 Drat, another unavailable product... 
 Sharks have survived for around 450 million years. That makes them older than:

North Star, aka Polaris (~70 MYO)

Saturn's rings (~100 MYO)

The Atlantic Ocean (~150 MYO)

One galactic orbit (200-225 MY)

Trees (390 MYO) 
 Carbon dating and astrophysics? 
 If Wallet of Satoshi becomes popular enough, I'm not sure that being unlisted on app stores in the US is going to be sufficient to save them from the ire of the authoritarians. 
 Eh, but then they'd likely enforce a GeoIP block.

And even then, they could be targeted because a GeoIP block can be bypassed.

Binance & BitMEX tried it and both got burnt. 
 If you are reading this message, you are the Resistance. 
 It's becoming more and more amusing to receive replies from ignorant fools telling me that Lightning Network doesn't work. Somehow I am using it every day... 
 Ate some asphalt today on my bike ride. Somebody dumped some mattresses and a couch on the side o... 
 Oh dear. You and @rabble have not had a good time this week. 
 The thing that made Twitter good was the character limit. Without that now it is just Facebook. 
 Wen character limit NIP? 
 I'm excited to have extremely personalized firewalls for my attention. Autonomous agents should be good at filtering out the noise of online life. 
 I'm not a "gun nut."

I'm a "sovereign insurance policy underwriter." 
 Mastodon plans on "improving conversation quality" by adding a reply nanny like X did.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/improving-the-quality-of-conversations-on-mastodon/ 
 Ain't nobody stopping you from being pessimistic and pluralistic.

Be the nostr you wish to see. 
 I find it particularly odd that my file uploads to Dropbox transfer 10X faster than my file transfers from my USB stick to my hard drive. 
 Crypto critic learns what's wrong with web2.

Will she see the irony?
https://image.nostr.build/7a1d40848269b7e3078b64bed7586cc8746d2140d6c4eb3f93f979bdf25b8a57.jpg 
 Do I wait 3 months for an appointment with a lipid specialist or do I route around the healthcare bureaucracy and pay $100 to get the tests I want performed... tomorrow. 🤡 
 Nostr is by far the friendliest social network I've ever experienced.  
 Don't worry, the asshole laggards will show up eventually. 
 Thanks to the help of a personal trainer, in the last 3 months I've gone from 28% body fat at 175 pounds to 20% body fat at 195 pounds.

AKA lost 10 pounds of fat while gaining 30 pounds of muscle. 
 It's certainly possible, I only remembered the top line body fat % number. 
 I've been lifting a couple years but never had any instruction so I wasn't doing it well.

Been taking a ton of supplements and daily protein target of 200g. 
 90 min of weightlifting 3x per week

2 hours cardio (racquet sports) 3x per week 
 LFG Argentina! 
 Feeling like a day trader because I successfully bought the mempool dip and got a transaction confirmed overnight at 55 sat/vb. 🤓 
 Preaching to the choir here, but you may find this guide helpful if you wish to step up your nostr sovereignty.

https://blog.lopp.net/how-to-exit-x-to-social-network-sovereignty/ 
 I'm not upset that demand for block space is high.

I'm upset that folks are fucking up the circadian rhythm of demand.

Demand is supposed to be LOWER on the weekends, dadgummit! 
 Zapvertising is neat, but not worth my attention for a tiny fraction of a penny.

Need the ability to set a floor of like 100 sats in order for a message to actually be displayed. 
 1 sat zaps are bad; even if I got one every second, I'd be earning way under minimum wage from it... barely over a dollar an hour. That's why it's not worth my time. 
 They aren't free if I'm spending time viewing them. 
 Everyone opens lightning channels at the fee rates they deserve. 
 What are the best services to point new nostriches to in order for them to discover quality accounts to follow? 
 Thanks, please enable zaps! 
 I barely have time to read my own shitposts, much less anyone else's. 
 According to stats.nostr.band there are 20,000 weekly active users who are likely human while there are nearly 2,000 relays.

Although we don't know the distribution of users across relays, it feels like a pretty high level of sovereignty! 
 My keynote from Lugano Plan B in which I present my research into Hal Finney and Satoshi is now available for your viewing pleasure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7etnRAOm5A 
 Either testnet coins are the rarest things on Earth, or I’m doing something wrong. 🙃 
 👋 
 Sent! 
 Wake up honey, a new Bitcoin development philosophy debate just dropped!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WDHrgeS70H0 
 Follow-up:

I got a CT scan of my heart and my calcification score is 0.

Getting advanced lipid panels ordered soon.

Don't trust doctors, verify their assumptions.

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 It's more complicated than just LDL-C, though.

Which is why I'm seeking to get my LDL-P and Adopb measured. 
 🎶 The best part of waking up is meatshake in your cup🎶 
 If you try to compile strfry on a machine with 2GB of RAM you're gonna have a bad time.

On the bright side, it runs fine for single-user purposes on machines with restricted resources. 
 running strfry 
 Getting there. We'll see how stable it runs in comparison to mastodon. 
 Please be advised that depositing directly from or withdrawing directly to a mixing wallet from a Casa wallet will have no effect upon your Casa account other than increasing your on-chain privacy. 😏 
 Casa is primarily 3 things:

1. A mobile app that makes it easy to manage a multisig wallet
2. A recovery key holder (only 1 of N keys)
3. A security consulting / advisory service  
 LoppBot lives!
LoppBot never tires.
LoppBot never sleeps.
LoppBot will answer your Bitcoin questions.

https://www.delphi.ai/jameson-lopp 
 Who hosts the best charts for global nostr stats now? Looks like all the stats sites from earlier this year have died. 
 Sadly I want time series data charts... 
 Broken for me. 502 gateway errors. 
 Ugh, you get one high LDL-C result on a lipid panel and the pharmaceutical industrial complex wants to pump you full of statins. 
 Follow-up:

I got a CT scan of my heart and my calcification score is 0.

Getting advanced lipid panels ordered soon.

Don't trust doctors, verify their assumptions.

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