Happy Almost God Candle #Foodstr
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Some sort of water bird. Those look like webbed raptor feet.  Liver, heart, & Breasts.  Let me know what it is.


Chicago’s Finest. #Foodstr

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I’m not sure what happened but my post is changing to someone else’s post every time I refresh however it’s under my name. Wierd.


WRONGTHINK

I just got fired for wrongthink.

Then I find out that my bank account’s been frozen, too.

I try to get an Uber back home but no cars will pick me up.

How did Uber find out I committed wrongthink?

I check my phone and apparently I’ve been banned from Instagram for the same reason.

Then a social worker knocks on my door and takes my son from me.

They tell me I’ve endangered my son by exposing him to wrongthink.

The State will now house and re-educate him, ensuring that he is only exposed to Government-Approved facts.

I feel my heart rate increase.

I try to turn some lights on, but it looks like my power has been disconnected.

I remember that I have some cash upstairs, so I decide to use that to buy some food whilst my bank accounts are frozen.

But the grocery store tells me that it can’t accept cash. So now I can’t even buy food!

I think I have some vague recollections of people warning me about the dangers of a cashless society…

I call all my friends for help, but none of them want to talk to me. They’ve all been warned about my wrongthink.

They know that if they talk to me on the phone for too long, they’ll get punished as well.

I call the police to see if they can help me.

They say no, but I’m referred to a Government-Approved Mental Support Officer.

I tell her my situation, and she listens carefully.

Once I’m done, I hear the Officer get extremely excited.

She tells me that the Government has a new solution they’re trialing for people in my situation: a Euthanasia Care Package.

She says it’s my best option.

The best thing is that it’s $0 up front! They just charge a 58% tax on my estate.

I ask if there are any other options, as this seems a bit heavy-handed.

But she says that Euthanasia is perfect for people like me.

She stresses that it’s a voluntary decision, but then adds that the Government will continue to deny me services until I opt in to the Euthanasia Care Package.

I sit on the floor of my living room in despair.

How could all of this happen to me?

And just because I noticed that the TV was telling me lies?

I didn’t even break any laws.

These days it seems that there’s one set of rules for the people who repeat what the news tells them.

And another set of rules for the people who speak out about the continuous stream of inconsistencies and outright lies that we are force-fed every day at 6pm.

And these lies coming from the TV seem so obvious to me.

So I wonder how other people don’t notice them. Why don’t they say anything?

And then after a while I realise that they must notice them, but they’ve been forced to ignore their own eyes by this machinery of coercion.

You see, governments, media, and corporations are now so interconnected globally that they can move in unison to unperson anyone who doesn’t say that 2 + 2 = 5.

And so I was unpersoned for wrongthink.

As if I’d committed a crime.

But I wasn’t tried by a court, I was tried by this new judicial system.

Where there’s no evidence, no trial, and no judge.

Just a verdict and a punishment. https://image.nostr.build/6f113aceca586f65b002c038f8b300daf22562b073aa0b71633267f4be3b23eb.jpg


Boston is Beautiful
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This is the reason I don’t go to the gym.


Promote Common Sense.


Here is a personalized Nostr recap of TABConf 6 here.

I really do believe we made another historical event as a top 20 bitcoin conference of all time. No price discussion. No political discussion besides a bit of freerossing. Big focus on tech and steps towards progress. We experimented with some really cool ideas that worked out this year which we will be expanding on next year.  Some examples were an emphasis on hardware, rotating debate panels, and rapid explainer game show.

Really looking forward to having TABConf also have a minor focus on meshtastic and doing long range mesh networking. Perhaps we will even connect  nostr:npub1cst99sheckxrllnh9pw093mls775tdx80x99mq096pkl2t9r9swqsugekj to  nostr:npub1theparkprcs70dcs437ke9zzwsr6u60f8flu7rg28m30438aep9sd94dha in the future.

The first ever TAB awards (Tabbies) happened this year. I think for a first pass it went pretty well.

Looking forward to having more Nostr involvement next year, perhaps people reading this may feel inclined to run a Nostr specific room or do an entire Nostr day at the same venue next year. Let me know if you want to plan this!

I believe TABConf is the only truly open source conference that is organized, and I hope we can keep expanding and improving the uX to make people feel comfortable getting involved.

We are selling tickets for next years conference already (Oct 13-16, 2025) mark your calendars. Tickets are all inclusive, there is no class of tickets and you aren't marked like cattle with an unremovable wristband.

Hope you consider coming out and building next year with us.
If you feel like you aren't technical enough, you are missing the point. There is something at  nostr:npub17yqgpat6e6ensd78jqhj4c3ef03uq04uqu3z05rhjnlk67lwm8wq9w5269 for everyone.

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

Enjoy this video of me walking around talking to a few awesome people at TABConf 6 this year in the general hacker space.


Happy Sunday Ya’ll - Braised Oxtails with Saffron Risotto.  #Foodstr
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https://zbiotics.com/pages/how-it-works.

This is an unbelievable product.


Corrected. Thanks for the heads up.


Canceling my Canva account right now.


Cassoulet with Sous Vide Duck
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RalphChampagne

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." - C.S. Lewis


Before Bitcoin - Music was a way to speak out against the establishment.  Let’s not forget that we must find our groove, the glue that pulls it all together.

https://youtu.be/VpzYLOmU_B0?si


Chicken Piccata con Fungi. #Foodstr
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Giddy Up


'The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.'

Leo Tolstoy

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#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney


Cleaning out the refrigerator coconut chicken curry.   #Foodstr
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So Wild

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#Foodstr
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I just realized that I have never been Zapped.


That is now Boeing’s logo.  In the fiat monetary system, consolidation by acquisition will lead to one winner over a long enough time horizon.


This is probably an age thing. If you were born in the 70’s -you remember a world that would never accept Covid lockdowns and protocols. If you were born in the 90’s you have a default acceptance of authority that is unacceptable by 70’s standards.


You have to switch to Strike


Life is just fire & math

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Bearssss
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When you say that Nostr can’t scale or that it can be censored, what you are really saying is that an army of developers won’t find a way to relay notes and other stuff.

I’ll take the other side of that bet.


#Foodstr
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I think I’d like to join.


This is one incredible conversation. Please share it with the world.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-bitcoin-did/id1317356120?i=1000665031464


America is a #ConstitutionalRepublic. It is NOT a #democracy.
This is why the left is always screaming about the threats to, or the destruction of "our democracy".

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Scotch Quail Eggs. #Foodstr
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40 Chinese banks were “absorbed” by a new State Government Entity in the last week.  This entity was created for the express purpose of absorbing these failed banks.

How long before dominoes start to fall across the global banking system?
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#screenshotsunday
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GM.

Leftover barbecue dosa
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Summer in Chitown.
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The microphone button is already the only one you need.


I’m not sure why I’m holding on to this, the Pizza was terrible but I’ll trade it for Sats if anybody wants to make me an offer.
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GM

https://music.apple.com/us/album/good-morning/1529803280?i=1529803286


Happy first Sunday, after the first Full Moon, after the Spring Equinox.
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Italian Beef & Hot Giardiniera /thin crust/tavern style/ well done.  #ChicagoThang


Bob Pasani says he’s been neutral on Bitcoin for a long time but a big backer of blockchain and smart contracts.

Bob- Bitcoin is blockchain, the rest are just databases.
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You are obviously shorter than me.


How fitting will it be when BTC posts its first “God Candle” which breaks the ATH before the halving on “Leap” Year?

2-29-24. A day we’ll all remember.


I believe that one day the fiat price you first bought BTC @ along with your thesis for doing so will replace the IQ test as the truest measure of general intelligence.


So you are saying that the larger the better?


What is the optimal UTXO size for the future of fees?  >0.1 BTC?


nice tadik


Big Sky Montana
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Check - from Tabriz and completed 1977
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....and there it is
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Jamie Dimon is not a dumb man.  He's just hoping that you are.


I believe he has a PhD from the London School of Economics In cryptography and distributed systems.  I bet he's thinking a few steps ahead of you and i say that with respect and as a Maximalist.

A lot of future innovation for layer two's and three's will most likely come from shitcoinery and settle on the BTC Chain.


I listened to this podcast the morning It aired on a long walk.  This was what sent me down the rabbit hole.  It's pretty scary how perfectly this has aged.  We all have a rough road ahead.  No doubt about It.


#DroppedVanguard-Joined Fidelity

I think this Is going to be a huge problem for them.


History is going to wipe the floor with this doorknob. (EW)

https://x.com/thebtctherapist/status/1745613988124061869?s=61&t=RMnkHgvk82SiwvWehQ6YUA


50/200 Weekly Golden Cross next week?  Pretty good timing if you ask me.  The beach ball under water is a great visual.


I have a new found respect for Ian Ziering.  Don't take any shit from these MF'rs.


Nostr Theme Music

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HNY!


Does anybody know where the BTC Ski Summit is this year?


I switched from Damus to Primal last night after listening to the Preston Pish interview.  It feels smoother and I love the built in wallet.  Serious improvement.


MicroStrategy's bitcoin acquisition strategy has been really on-point.

I analyze a lot of stocks and see how they manage their shares. Most companies are rather pro-cyclical in this aspect. They buy back a lot of shares when times are good and shares are expensive, and then when there's a recession they reduce or eliminate their share repurchases, ironically when shares are cheap and it would be better to buy them.

A small percentage of companies have more forward-thinking executives that manage to do this more counter-cyclically. They buy back more shares then they are cheap, and they retain more cash or do other things with their cash when their shares are more expensive.

MicroStrategy has been doing this quite well, except it's about the strategy of issuing shares for bitcoin, which if bitcoin continues to be successful will have more impact overall.

When MicroStrategy wants to buy more bitcoin (which is always), what they seem to be optimizing for is how many bitcoin can they get per share. That's what builds shareholder value in this context. So when MicroStrategy stock is trading at a valuation premium relative to its underlying bitcoin, they can take that opportunity to issue more of these expensive shares, and buy bitcoin with those proceeds. When there is not a valuation premium, they can focus more on just buying bitcoin with incoming cash flow, or exploring other low-cost financing.

So far, they have been really on-point about managing this.

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An idea that came up in this episode is to use AR to superimpose the logos of corporate donors over members of congress every time they speak on TV.   Like a NASCAR drivers fire suit with all of it’s sponsors patches.  What an incredible idea.

https://youtu.be/ktKFtxFOX1A?si=pwrPFUebA3sxBwjH


Howdy Neighbor


Not technically but home is only 3 blocks away.


Come back and visit. همسرم فارسی است. https://image.nostr.build/0fbc69f9a6e62e949e332f75dd97740e7b78d6c8a96d6b3dfbac59405a6acce9.jpg


The Cash App won’t tell me why they closed my account  (5 separate requests) but still limits my daily withdrawals so I’m stuck in the slow lane.

They don’t like when you self custody.


I’m not sure why but Cash app closed my account and apparently neither are they.  Sending BTC off of the exchange must be a violation.

They certainly make it difficult with daily limits. https://image.nostr.build/7ed631cbd09e196dee427cf497ace647c4102058855547a3574737ce29a220a7.jpg