AlejandroHODL

1) Stop the Money Printer. 2) Financial Rules without rulers. 3) Restore natural free markets. 4) Empower the People!  5) #Bitcoin

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Make pizza sunday nights and movie great again!


Saying "taxation is theft" is only the tip of the iceberg. Think about how money is a representation of your life-force energy captured in time and represented as a unit of measure. Taxation is theft of Life; your Life.

Governments only business and aim is to collect taxes. Roads? borders? army? courts? all aimed at collecting taxes to perpetuate its own existence. Is there an organism that shares similar properties? 🤔


We shall spend our Sats where and how we please and, no third-party shall stand in between two people transacting, nor have a claim on any part of that transaction. No exceptions. This is the new world. Get used to it.

#taxes


My gut tells me the love affair between Trump and Elon will end about 2nd to 3rd year in office.


NPC's aren't like us.


https://m.primal.net/LNeu.jpg
John D. Rockefeller Masonic Creed:

"We will quietly manipulate their lives, shortening their days and weakening their minds while masking it with a facade of progress and care. Our grasp of science and technology will be our hidden weapon, applied in such a way that they remain unaware of the damage being done. We'll lace their food, water, and air with toxins—subtle poisons disguised as advancements, ensuring they never suspect the harm.

We will introduce metals that dull their cognition, eroding their mental sharpness without their knowledge. Aging will be accelerated, their bodies and minds deteriorating faster than they should, all while we maintain the illusion of care. They will be surrounded by pollutants, unable to escape the web of contamination we weave around them.

Everywhere they look, poison will greet them—wrapped in the promises of convenience, progress, and health. The heavy metals and chemicals will slowly rob them of their clarity, ensuring that they remain complacent and disconnected from the truth. They will not see the slow, creeping damage that steals their vitality, as it will all be disguised under layers of societal normalcy.

In time, they will lose the ability to question, to resist, and to break free. By then, they will be so deeply entwined in the system we’ve constructed that escape will feel impossible."


Enjoying the show from mothership Nostr, but projecting into the matrix that is twitter for the lulz


Why are people going crazy? Because the Stockholm Syndrome NPC program is glitching and the mass MK-ULTRA activations are not as effective as they once were. They feel a prison break is imminent.


Tell me you're psyched about Graham Hancocks second season on Netflix without telling me.


Always has been.


never get tired of engineering jokes


This is so wrong. Evil actually.


1 BTC = 1 BTC. There are no gains, and nobody has any Bitcoin.


anons everywhere, infiltrated among society, doing the slow grinding work.


Maybe getting kicked off YT is a blessing in disguise, you can focus all that energy elsewhere, where you don't need to ask for permission. Let that ship sink.


probably not Europe, for a good long while.


all of the above


Because he's not on their team


People have a hard time understanding that this new world order is not even a rules based order. It's a tribal alliance based order, and it even trickles down to local towns. Rules, courts, laws; none of that stuff works anymore and only a matter of time before it becomes redundant. You cannot lean into laws to protect you now. If you're politically opposed to the judge or jury, you won't get a fair trial.

 Everything has been weaponized. The only thing that matters is who's side you're on politically.

Anarchy has always been the underlying state of Humanity glossed over by a thin veneer made up of 70IQ enforcers with leashes around their necks. Now, that control system is buckling and the enforcers are becoming their own masters. This can only end in global conflict.

When people say "we don't have anarchy", what exactly do they mean? have they even studied geopolitics of the last several thousand years? Whoever had the biggest stick wins, and we're still seeing that today.


He probably means again after after Biden


Perhaps there shouldn't be any conferences in the EU for now.


Fold card

Anybody try GetOnZero with the fold card/app? How does it compare to Strike and CashApp?


but is it hard?


We create reality now.


ecash me harder baby

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


Says who?
"The Govermint"https://m.primal.net/KFAz.jpg


Living in a world of soul-draining abstractions, I yearn to experience the real thing.


I’m looking forward to building really strong end to end encryption. 😈

https://www.therage.co/uk-nca-national-risk-assessment-2024/


Shadows of the Empire, like 20 times.


Thorium, Firefox, Brave, Chromium, Vivaldi  Each has a different use in my workflow.


If Bitcoin doesn't succeed in its mission, there's only air below us, all the way down to zero. Either this works, or your grand-grandkids may become real good at building teepees and riding around in horse-drawn wagons living under a warlord king.

I understand there's an argument that says something like that scenario is a necessary hard pill that Humanity needs to swallow, and the suicidal green-cult is even pushing for that outcome, but there it is. Bitcoin is the Alamo.

The outcome is very binary. A fiat currency reset will not work  A global CBDC will not work; everything leads to total collapse under game-theory simulations. The only way out is for all of civilization, top to bottom, to adopt a Bitcoin Standard.


Bitcoin was and is a hail-mary. Never guaranteed. Never inevitable; just our best shot at this. Something needs to be done. It's a valiant effort. Chances of success are very high. We were born to do it.


The literal matrix is coming and will consume mass swaths of the population.


yes you're right, but most people just call everything inflation.


STOP SAYING INFLATION. IT'S DEBASEMENT.


For the no-coiners that didn't get on board, the coping mechanism will be "It was created by the CIA, I want nothing to do with it".


do no harm


They're a monarchy which means they don't have personal freedom rights. They are subjects  ("property") of some random dude. Only a constitutional republic can come close to offering representation to people.


flex or cope, each must decide.


Primal on phone. Satellite.earth for communities


When entire swaths of the economy became redundant and replaced by AI, the stagflation will be epic.


Nobody has any Bitcoin since it only exists as a single public ledger (one could argue that even that doesn't "exist"), so there are no gains or losses, realized or unrealized. The whole thing is just an accounting mechanism aka money, so GTFO with your unrealized gains bs.


1 Kilo loaf of bread for under 1 Sat or we haven't arrived yet.

In 600 B.C. using 1 oz of gold you could buy 350 loaves of bread weighing 1 kilo each. This is the benchmark.

Why do we use bread as the benchmark? Because it's a simple manufactured product that requires a few inputs and some Human labor, and we know the price for 1 kilo of the finished product going back millennia.

Reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20240711023842/https://www.coins-auctioned.com/learn/news/history-of-gold-ounce-price-comparison-to-a-loaf-of-bread


If you want #Bitcoin to get through to Dems and lefties, you have to host a large conference in either SF or SD specifically themed and targeted to them.

#bitcoinconference


He genuinly doesn't understand Bitcoin, hasn't put in the hours, I don't sense any malicious intent. Time will tell. Still think it best to treat him as an ally.


At the conference, RFK Jr said he hoped Trump would announce a plan to "buy" Bitcoin for a national reserve.

What Trump ended up saying about the national reserve was "never sell your Bitcoin."

Neither of them said "exchanging currency" instead of "buying" or "selling."

They both used terms like "valuation" instead of "exchange rate." Politicians cannot fathom fully recognizing the legitimacy of cryptocurrency. Their system would fall apart.

What neither of these politicians can deny is the strength of Bitcoin as an investment. Trump openly predicted Bitcoin would surpass the market cap of silver, and potentially someday gold.

#gm #gfy


I made a bingo card for Trump's #Nashville talk 🤔
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Posting here before anywhere else


What's the best reddit-style client for nostr? so far I see that satellite.earth is good.


If you think Bitcoin is non political, what are you smoking! 🤣😭


I'm posting this from coracle, as a test.


I use satellite.earth, on there it requires me to mod each post before it gets posted which sucks. I would prefer to let everyone post and then mod as needed. Not sure how it works on coracle.


GetOnZero is a journey

Just want to mention that you won't be ostracized for have some fiat in your life. GetOnZero is a journey; a gradual lessening of fiat holdings. In today's world, it's not easy to be fully off fiat, but it's getting easier every year. Stay laser focused on the destination and chip away every chance you get. Share your insights here to help others on their path to zero fiat.


You know what's gonna happen is big legacy banks will get into the game and start offering collateralized loans, "just give us your Bitcoin, our custody is the strongest, and our terms are better than those scammers in the industry". They know a certain percentage of people will default on loans, and after some time they end up with a huge stack, rehypothecating and playing their usual dirty games. There is only one way in hell I would consider a Bitcoin-backed loan from anywhere, and it would be under these terms:

2 of 4 multisig. I hold 3 keys. (F* U Dimon)
5% LTV loan.
2% or less, fixed-rate.


Get On Zero means having zero fiat in your life. Live on Bitcoin.
Share information, advice and how-to with other fellow Bitcoiners about minimizing fiat holdings and maximizing cold, hard Sats with the goal of completely opting-out of holding any dirty fiat.
This is living on Bitcoin - this is Getting On Zero.

Stay on topic - The goal is to Get On Zero. Managing personal and/or business finances.


Best communities client?

I've found satellite.earth to be the best for communities so far. Coracle is OK, but UX/UI is worse, imo.


Try it again. Nostr is glitchy when it comes to groups.


oh man, I've not checked up on that in months lol. Maybe I should check it out.


The influencers will tell us, just wait.


Where to get a Bitcoin backed loan with 5% LTV?

Seeing Mark Moss's video about retiring on Bitcoin, he mentions using 5% LTV loans to prevent margin calls, but has anyone every actually seen a Bitcoin loan with a 5% LTV? the lowest I've ever seen was 15% with shady lenders.


If you really want to test the resiliency of bisq, you should target countries the west doesn't like.


Strike vs CashApp vs something else

Strike has good HIFO tax cost basis, but no bill-pay (yet). CashApp has bad FIFO tax cost basis, but yes to bill-pay, and they also work with Wells Fargo as their fiat custodian... can be rugged anytime. Strike works with a few smaller banks, more rug resistant. Jack is laser focused on just one company, and he's living it. CashApp is part of a portfolio of companies owned by Block, nothing against Dorsey though. Also, a plus to CashApp is that nocoiners can send you fiat, just like on venmo, not sure if that's possible on Strike. Thoughts?


We're on the bleeding edge of Bitcoin, lol, you expect a finished product. Enjoy the trailblazing.


n/GetOnZero on Satellite. I see that Zapddit is another client you can view communities on.


Just created a new community on #Satellite nostr client called n/GetOnZero. I wonder if these communities are visible on other clients. If you're interested, subscribe and contribute. The only thing I don't like is every OP needs approval by a mod. We'll see how it develops.


Welcome to n/GetOnZero

This is the first introductory post. Please share any experiences that may help others.


I'm really enjoying the #Satellite nostr client. It just serves up the OP. Clicking on that opens the thread from the top. So simple. #Primal, on the other hand, serves up a bunch of replies, and it becomes a headache following a conversation. The only thing Satellite needs is better discovery, like Primals "Nostr Highlights".


Human nature tends towards laziness and centralization. Two powerful forces we have to struggle against.


coinjoins are now called collaborative transactions. a totally different and legal thing.


Guy, realize that this is a perversion of the enneagram as taught by Gurdjieff. It's not about personalities. The symbol represents a flow of energy that depicts the fall of man and in the symbol is the secret of how to rise again, but he revealed that only to his closest students. It in the book "In Search of the Miraculous" by Ouspensky.


In five years Saylor and the loudest mouthpieces at Bitcoin Magazine will be leading the charge to increase block size. They’ll say it’s needed to accommodate all the great new things (spam) they’ve put on chain.

They’ll reduce the decentralization by making impractical for plebs to run a node.

They’ll claim it’s for the better for #bitcoin when what they really care about it ROI.


Thanks for reading it, so I didn't have to 🤝


closer than it seems 🚀


He wants you to swap from a deflationary currency with no counterparty risk to an inflationary dumpster fire. Seems just about right for your average accountant spoonfed by professors who were spoonfed by Keynes.


A Cashu wallet is a custodial wallet that speaks the Cashu protocol. The Cashu protocol is an open protocol for developing Chaumian Ecash solutions for Bitcoin.

https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/


It doesn't matter, they will outlive all the older clients and eventually *will* have money as they enter their prime years. The only reason to market to seniors is unless you are specifically catering to that age group.


In marketing, the formula for brand development is to market to the18 to 25-year-olds unless you want to be in the nursing home business.


This feels like where we are now in Layer 2 land.
Mercury sort of competes against Liquid (1:1 lateral peg).
Ark vs Cashu, TBD which one will stick, both interop w/ LN (Ark can exist w/o LN though).
Fedimints on LN continue development.
Do we need LN when Ark?
Let's check back in 4yrs.


Alan Watts 🤝 Eckhart Tolle


Larry Flink


Don't forget to take a step back once in a while and appreciate how lucky you are to be alive as an OG Bitcoiner before Hyperbitcoinization. Enjoy the journey, be thankful, and remember not to get stuck on the destination.


1 Kilo loaf of bread for under 1 Sat or we haven't arrived yet. 🍞 🪙


Friendly Reminder, but we're on the eve of a new epoch!!!
THIS is the biggest, most monumental news on the planet right now!
🥂Congrats fellow hodlers, we made it to a new starting line. May you stack hardest this epoch and may it bring you glorious f*u* wealth. Cheers!🎉🥳🍾🎆


This hit a nerve.


*The Rare Sat Lie*

Let's start with some facts.

You cannot own a satoshi (sat). You can only own a utxo, who's value is measured in sats. Just like you cannot own a "kilogram" but you can own something which weights a kilogram.

The idea that a sat can be rare is a lie, since sats don't exist.

A utxo also cannot be sold, because as soon as it is spent, a completely new utxo is created, and the creation of this new utxo makes the previous utxo (which you wanted to sell) spent. To act of spending "an unspent transaction output" (UTXO) transforms it into something fundamentally different, a "spent transaction output" (STXO) and creates a new UTXO.

The idea that a utxo can be sold is a lie, since even utxos cannot be sold.

The idea that a rare sat from a "special" utxo can be bought is thus a double lie.

*Rare Sat Sophistry*

The conmen, the useful idiots and the otherwise honest but contrarian pundits will rationalize the spreading of the "Rare Sat Lie" with sophistry and appeals to libertarian morality such as "it's a free market, people can believe whatever they want and waste their money however they wish".

Of course, this line of reasoning is meant to create strawmen arguments so that every person that is righteously indignated at the spreading of these lies can be painted as being opposed to the concept of individual freedon itself, which immediately places the TruthSeeker's outrage outside of the Overton Window (and subject to ridicule).

Let us dispell the strawman argument.

The "market" (a small niche of degenerate gamblers) can want whatever it wants, yes. But it till cannot change the reality that individual satoshis (sats) do not exist as "things" or virtual objects. This reality is not subjective.

The sophists will also rationalize that "it cannot be stopped" and thus all you can do is "cry harder" (ironic eh?) and that any and all attempts to combat the lies are futile (at best) or stupid.

It may be true all the truthseeker can do is cry and shout, but it is also true that to combat the spreading of such lies is a virtuous and noble pursuit. And it is also true that the direct result of the shouting can be to save a victim from otherwise being conned. Which is, we would all agree I hope, a moral good, if not a moral imperative.

People are free to spread the lie that such things ("rare" "sats") are real, and fraudulently sell utxos of low value presented as "rare" "sats" for utxos of higher value, but to do so by exploiting the ignorance of people and confusion around the complex technology of Bitcoin is evil according to nearly almost moral code that ancient and modern civilizations have produced.

I am the last person that would deny someone the right to be evil. But I believe if you see a fraud and you don't call out the fraud then you too are a fraud.

So, the strawman is really just straw.

*The Rare Sat Con*

Beyond it being morally bad to spread lies generally, the spreading of the lie also occurs within the context of textbook confidence trick.

Confidence tricks involve :

- the mark: the victims whose money is to be acquired fraudulently
- the roper: reels in the mark via exposure and marketing, peaking the curiosity of the mark (i.e. a conference or media organization)
- the inside man: provides a venue for the con to take place, or supplies goods and services used in the context of the scam (a mining pool or a marketplace)
- the conman: gains the confidence of the mark extracts the money (the seller of a rare sat)
- the convincer: an acolyte of the conman which gives a taste of the profits to the mark either by investing in the mark, or showing off his profits to the mark (a fellow rare sat trader)

The conman and the convincer can interchange roles. For example, conmen and convincers can publicly con each other repeatedly and alternatively, with gains and losses which compensate, with the tacit understanding that the goal is really to gain the confidence of a mark from which both convincer and conman can extract money from.

Everyone except benefits in this zero sum game, except obviously the mark.

In the end, the mark was never forced to give up his money. He willingly parted ways with his funds, deceived by the confidence trick.

Selling "rare sats" for utxos of higher sat value is without doubt a confidence trick.

I will let it up to your imagination who you think plays which role in the rare sat con.


Also, the "free market" argument from spammers is a simple attack on social and legal systems where you use the systems's own rules against itself and thus put the defenders of the system into a logical bind where the attacker tries to force the defenders to break the system rules to combat the attack, then calls them out for breaking the rules of the system and creates a cycle of inner decay. Sleazy, malicious, works on the weak minded with no moral compass underneath their devotion to any system they defend.


my bro science philosophy: The body doesn't need to be "processing" stuff constantly. Feed it, leave it alone to finish processing and let it absorb. Skipping breakfast lets the body economize its limited resources and makes the body smarter and more resilient.


IT guys are always disgruntled


It's because corn is down, people get argumentative.


Sure this can *in theory* replace LN and eCash, but the ASP model is the only weakness in the system as far as I can tell so from reading the arkpill website. Need to think how it can be attacked or regulated by evil actors.


first ark impressions: its insanely simple. Much less moving parts than lightning. I like simple.


The political types once we get closer to the election and the censoring really starts.


Look into corn sprout tea as well.


I would make sure to encrypt the keepass file first though if uploading to a cloud.