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 Bitcoin stole the election. 
 I'm 100% in favor of voluntary duty to society. But whether it is time or money we speak of, it is the precious life endowment of the individual involved, and if it is taken by force, it is theft and a violent crime of assult against the life of the person. 
 There's an emerging timezone that suddenly seems less weird, even though it is truly the weirdest of them all, yet is geographically and culturally accepted everywhere. It has an abbreviation of BTC, which means Coordinated Bitcoin Time (which I suppose is the first universal timezone to actually be coordinated and not dictated). 
 Creativity wins. 
 Up, Up, and Away? 
 1. Hollywood overwhelmingly portrays AI as positive and is rarely critical of it
2. The WEF publi... 
 If you don't own bitcoin, you will be owned by AI. 
 GM Nostr! 🌞 
 Gm 
 I'm actually scared of trying new wallets 
do you really check the source code
I'm happy with the... 
 When testing a new wallet, always use a new seed and proportion your amounts to the overall risk. No need to inspect code till you know you're liking it. 
 Happy Birthday to my BFF 🌠 
 **Security Update**

I've got some bad news for you guys. This morning, as I was adding error han... 
 It would be disappointing to know who Satoshi is or was, no matter who he is or was, because the legend is always greater than the man. Credit for the invention of Bitcoin belongs in truth to Providence. 
 Conquering the world. 
 There's reason the acronym NOSTR should properly become NOSTOR. 
 Nostr + cold storage = the future of sovereign identification.
https://github.com/trezor/trezor-firmware/issues/4160 
 This is the way. Next step forward will be for Nostr to support delegation so unrelated subkeys can be authorized to operate a single unchanging public identity. 
 Hardware signing on Nostr will become more relevant in the future, the more we rely on Nostr identities for meaningful (i.e. monetary) purposes. The key (pun intended) is to implement it in a way that is intentional and convenient, much like how we transact with smaller wallets on a daily basis knowing the risk tradeoffs, while for important savings we go through the trouble of using cold signing. The same concepts translate to identity safety. 
 Eureka! I just solved the custodial wallet regulatory nightmare problem. 
 I'm searching for some good resources (guides) to help merchants accept Bitcoin that we could use... 
 1. Onboard owner to LNbits lightning wallet.
2. Onboard all cashiers to BlueWallet, connecting them to owner's invoice-only key.
3. Owner daily swaps revenue to on-chain cold storage.

Bonus: for fiat customers, owner can offer change in bitcoin. 
 Taxi suddenly seems like a good form of mobility.
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 There are people I would pay to chat with, and there are people I don't want to hear from unless they compensate me.

@devs: Go. 
 It sounds like apartheid: "We don't serve your kind." 😆😭 
 Sometimes the simple solution that you're looking for is neither self-evident nor easy to find. Thanks @remix-run for 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎() 
 Glad to see so many implementations with BOLT-12 compatibility! Make it mainstream!
https://strike.me/blog/bolt12-playground/ 
 An existing 10% of the population of the Americas just got KYC bank access to the Lightning network. The battle is not over bitcoin; the battle is over self sovereignty, privacy, and free markets. 
 How do you 🫵 @mention people on Nostr? 
 If 42 is the answer, the question was 21. 
 It is a joy when people you've been orange pilling for a long time finally ask to buy bitcoin from you. It's an unspeakable honor to be that person who gives them some infinite value in exchange for some worthless pieces of fithly paper. Keep those keys secure! 👑 
 GM nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r! ☕️ We're going to t... 
 It's exciting to be supporting our team(s) in Prague this week! 
 Go Team!
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 Did you know?
💡 If you're importing a JS module that in turn imports other modules, you can use an "importmap" to resolve the dependencies.
 
 Ever have one of those crazily busy weeks? 
 Did you know?
💡You can use a DNS CNAME record to create a subdomain, and then reverse-proxy any service or app to that subdomain. Clean and simple and easy to re-wire in the future. 
 Just got my first quasi-order for a lightning node (you know who you are 😉)! Your lightning node is your sovereignty for small/fast bitcoin transactions. 
 I love Amethyst's auto translation. This is the functionality we need, but I wonder... who pays for it? 🤔  
 Amethyst, you're doing a great job, but needs work for small display sizes. Purple-pill poor countries too!
 https://image.nostr.build/78f40222bf79277b0e1c92a0dda7a21791ff6dfe27b4edf81a11ff504c125413.jpg 
 🥳 Congrats to my first on-chain orange-pilled sovereign who got baptized on Pizza Day!🍕

✒️ Behold, I come quickly: hodl that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. 👑
(Rev. 3:11) 
 The sweet joy: LND back online after ~1000 blocks. Waking up in a VM after previously running on physical hardware. Not a sat lost! https://image.nostr.build/e4b03eb467fb98faff5fc2b99a74a73b488d2ed408c275e220d63340d3594463.jpg 
 Cheers to the team at getalby.com ☕️
Keep up the good work on all your products! 
 Bitcoiners! O que vocês acham que falta para ter maior adoção no BTC?  
 We need local non-KYC exchanges (ATMs or in-store OTC) to enable a circular economy. Very few want to accept bitcoin if they can't pay their expenses from it. 
 We need local non-KYC exchanges (ATMs or in-store OTC) to enable a circular economy. Very few want to accept bitcoin if they can't pay their expenses from it.
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 I use chorus for myself and am happy with it, it is very solid and stable for me.

However it is ... 
 I think I'm going to check out Chorus next time I set up a relay.
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 Hello there! 
 Just met with a group Jan organized to talk about Bitcoin community building in our area. Great team, good plans, doing it right. Happy to be part of the effort! Thanks Jan!