Thank you! I do hope they actually read it!


Another open letter to Ulrich Bindseil and Jürgen Schaaf of the ECB! Had to bring out some Gigi for them! https://image.nostr.build/a9693a668b8c8eaf301ab767f4d6d1a6cbb0fe88d398f8304d9f7225f8114188.jpg


Hello Nostr!

This npub will now be a primary outlet for Bisq news and announcements.

New posts will be published here and then cross-posted to the bisq_network X handle.

Decommissioning X will be considered when this npub has more followers.

https://image.nostr.build/d22f07d646197146e2366f581046c3578d6cb90a9524212d076a2571840d91cc.jpg


I agree with this.

So, if someone is fine with the machine running “as is” I’d say it’s fine to vote for either candidate. Or not vote at all.

I’d say the only vote that matters now is the protest vote. Writing-in a different type of person whose values genuinely align with yours.

That way, in one tiny little way, when the votes are tabulated, some tired-eyed vote counter has the thought: “huh, that’s a bit different.” A tiny ripple of life and original thought in a mostly dead ocean.

But, contrapuntally, if your thought is “I choose not to vote because I want rules without rulers,” well, shit, I can’t fault you at all for that either. https://image.nostr.build/500590bb6a0598dbe5f0929e55e72e9b770393788e2ca399521b949ce7b52b83.jpg


Oh I see. Thank you. I’m always into tinkering so this could be something I might mess around with when fishing season ends. Lol.


Are you basically telling me that I’ll be able to have free radio-transmitted internet after I buy that device and tinker a while to set it up?


Whoa. So does one buy a subscription or a license or something, or does the device just “work”?


Satoshi stole fire from false gods and gave it to man.

(AI generated.) https://image.nostr.build/f2c18c784f62a3e28cd7b2424c9616fb3028c9ead3afa439426e9d7853df28be.jpg


Traveling by radio waves? Sorry, I’m a dumbass with this kinda stuff.


Cool! How’s it work?


This was an absolutely amazing and truly inspirational conversation among you three. It’s probably because I was reading him for a little while before listening to this discussion, but the whole time you guys were talking, I kept thinking to myself that what you were saying about Bitcoin and what we can do with it was an embodiment of what Mahatma Gandhi meant when he said:

“Those who preferred security to freedom had no right to live.”

And additionally:

“I do believe that where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence I would advise violence.”


Freedom of speech + freedom of association.

A tremendous combo.


I guess Paid relays is a way to fix it?


Badass move. I know this is my future eventually. Well done, Doc!


Thanks! Having fun with some new pens!


Reality in layers.

(Original pen & ink) https://image.nostr.build/d76016ae58f85a2994575ef517407d8f8bb3ae0001c77d00cecc21d421f208a6.jpg


I’s everywhere. https://image.nostr.build/22cbbf0fa75640993e327a88607966e165895082c67026672aca1d3f70a54c47.jpg


hello new friends, this is a great resource for those new to nostr, created by  nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc

https://nostr-resources.com/
#introductions #grownostr


I’ve been off Twitter and all social media except for Nostr for a month now, and the results are hard to argue with.

I’ve started reading real books again (4 this month) and have noticed both my patience and attention increase noticeably. I also feel less angry and anxiety daily, along with being committed to my workout routine.

I found that Nostr has met my social media needs, most importantly, my own ability to self-limit with it. Nostr is a bit ‘boring’ compared to traditional social media because ITS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU!!!

Controlling your own data isn’t nearly as important in terms of ownership, as it is about allowing that information to be used against you. All of your most intimate thoughts and feelings are data mining by massive corporations specifically to find emotional triggers for you, so they can sell you shit, or force thoughts on to you.

Fuck these people that run these companies that farm our emotions to sell us shit, and to work with corrupt government to censor our speech, sell out dissidents, and destroy our internet.

We are much, much, much more powerful than they will ever be because we don’t need force, corrosion, or permission to run these systems of social connections that they cannot destroy.

My month of social media detox has really lifted the veil from the hate industry complex that are all social media companies today. Stop prostitution your content, thoughts and powers to these shitty companies that enrich the scum of the earth, and empower illegal, unconstitutional and immoral government agencies from their dragnet surveillance.

I’ll make one last tweet explaining this and then nuking my account in the next few weeks. Then I’ll be Nostr only.


Deleted Twitter account, long overdue.


It seems to me that higher forms of will, just like satoshis, will never be free.

They both take work to produce.


What’s the reason for the second thing? Is that because he’d have to pay to deal with someone else contesting it?


Raise! Boom!


🔔 🔔 NEW OP_RETURN 🔔 🔔

Craig Wright is Not Satoshi Nakamoto

https://mempool.space/tx/488f1993c856bd49f7e446212fb69aed1be058329cefebbbb6cbe486bcd192c9


Who wants to see nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m on the Freedom Footprint Show to teach Matteo from nostr:npub1ve8qwrlztemdmnh62jffcr0y9m9dpqgqjdg8ufx7gc3qw5wdk74qyv9ka6 about how great Nostr is? Bitcoin Atlantis might be the perfect opportunity!

Repost if you agree, comment if you don't!

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Promethean Satoshi stole the fire from the would-be gods of central banks, and built the Tyger, the anvil, and the forge for us all. The symmetry of #Bitcoin is terrifying to them. 😏

So for this next Difficult(y) Poem, we have William Blake’s “The Tyger.”

https://youtu(dot)be/TKdEzhfQN-U?si=oszTLHVP58o5-lBP

Seems YouTube videos can’t easily be clicked from NOSTR so just replace the “(dot)” in the url above with a “.” in your browser.


Dropping a new Difficult(y) Poem for Block Cycle 828,576 to 830,592

This one is "Coping Prana" by Will Alexander

https://youtu.be/-IPK5J7FNdQ?si=RTKqOjMmm7_2_8dm


This letter that I hope never to receive is precisely why I will allocate precious little of my money towards #Bitcoin  ETFs.
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Happy to give some choice privacy advice to someone who clearly understands what I'm doing.

1) Get an anonymous Internet connection (if you can). In the US you can get an unlimited, unthrottled 5G hotspot for $500/year from The Calyx Institute, which is both a good deal and helps support digital freedom. You can register anonymously, pay with Bitcoin, and have the hotspot shipped to a FedEx pickup point so you don't have to give up your address. It will still reveal your rough geographic location by IP, but nobody is socially engineering your name from the carrier. Outside of the US you can often buy data SIMs with cash, which have similar advantages. The upper-tier 5G hotspot from Calyx has an Ethernet port and built-in OpenVPN capabilities, so you have some serious options with the right equipment.

2) Use a VPN whenever you can. Not just an app on your device, consider getting a router that supports VPN client mode (or just install OpenWRT), and use a VPN like Mullvad to route your whole home network through a tunnel. Stop using Google and Apple VPNs, who do you think you're protecting yourself from! Use different VPNs/Exits for different purposes.

2a) Stack privacy. You can route a VPN over a VPN. You can connect to Tor over that too. Performance takes a hit, but that's a small cost for multi-tiered anonymity.

3) Separate sensitive tasks between your devices. Some things in life are more private than others, so make sure you know what to trust. Your Facebook app shouldn't be on the same device as a Bitcoin wallet, or at least not on the same user profile. Keep multiple phone and PC logins for different purposes. Keep multiple networks for your devices, and route them through different VPNs. Have a laptop just for Bitcoin. Have a laptop just for porn. Laptops and android devices are cheap, compartmentalize your digital life for privacy and safety.

4) Avoid corporations wherever you can. Use ProtonMail instead of Gmail. Use Linux instead of Windows or Mac. De-Google your phone with LineageOS or CalyxOS, and start taking app hygiene seriously. Use FOSS alternatives whenever you can, even if you like the proprietary version better.

5) Never self-host at home unless you have a dedicated ISP and network for it. It's a ton of fun as a hobbyist, but it's not good for privacy. Never let your home become an attack surface. Find a smaller cloud provider that accepts Bitcoin and rent resources pseudonymously where you need them, or go hardcore and host your own ASN out of a small rack somewhere.

5a) Furthermore, know your rights when registering domains. For example, you may feel patriotic buying a .US domain, but it is trivial to retrieve your full whois contact info from .US domains, and they will more aggressively enforce a real address requirement.

6) Never trust bleeding-edge tech. New technology is exciting, but it's full of bugs and mistakes. The newest version of something is often the worst version of it. When the web3 hype machine tells you that Nostr is the future of private social media, don't take their word for it, look for the evidence. If there isn't any, proceed with caution.

7) Embrace a zero-trust philosophy. Every actor is a potential bad actor, so build a moat. Don't get mad if you get pwn'd, black hats and gray hats (howdy) will target you, so be prepared for it, and learn everything you can from your mistakes and the mistakes of others.


Can't agree. A great villian, for me, should have emotional complexity/conflict and know right from wrong but consciously choose wrong. Walter White is great. Ledger's Joker's insanity masks complexity and a sense of right and wrong (Phoenix's is better) and Kane's anger mutes his. They're caricatures of villains, despite their exciting portrayals. My litmus test is weird and subjective so I get it if you find it too limiting.


Cosmo Crixter here again, announcing Poem #2 in the “Difficult(y) Poems” series.

For #Bitcoin  Block Cycle 826,560 to 828,576 I offer you “The Panther” by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell):

https://youtu.be/i06K72z66oE?si=w7b0EKqbxOy751mG


Bitcoiners, Happy New Year!

Today I’m announcing (here on Nostr first) a new series I’m beginning:

“Difficult(y) Poems”

I’ll be filming/reciting a poem each ~2 weeks to commemorate Bitcoin’s 2016 Block Cycle and the Difficulty Adjustment that comes at the beginning of each one.

I intend to choose poems that are time tested, significant, and fascinating… like Bitcoin.

The first poem I’m reciting is “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

I chose Hopkins for the peculiar rhythmic style of his poetry, which he called “sprung rhythm.”

Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/LBka3Yng3rQ?si=wUFoIyi_q8ZJN7yR

Warmly,
Cosmo Crixter https://image.nostr.build/00ab9b9d72c68c9abb17a58e3a3b6315ca8e1f8d9c5b518b5693e84f01332ddf.jpg


You’ll still buy it on exchanges… you’ll just get a whole lot less of it for the fiat you hold.


Laguiole


Zombies love their Government Money. https://image.nostr.build/86e11228a40d261e8ffce1d810c1da84bd5ee618c2c3b2b69d02a6851d94f15b.jpg


Sending good vibes! https://image.nostr.build/071f18d00e6da90a7f631e904593deff20c8f8a078ae17ff69d1454b861158ed.jpg


Well, the kids were family and I was trying to keep things mellow so I stuck with 70%. I didn’t even mind if they just copied answers they found directly from Google searches. Just wanted to get them some preliminary exposure to the ideas around Bitcoin.


👍 👍 👍!!!

Also, The Dickening refers to OG Bitcoiner John MacAfee declaring that he’d cut off and eat his own dick if Bitcoin didn’t get to $1Million by end of 2020. He lost the bet but didn’t do it. (A question to make the teen goofballs laugh.)


Wow! You did that lightning fast! I LOVE your question for #21! How would this work for an answer to it?: More efficient microchip technology in ASICs coupled with mining companies that integrate with a nuclear power plants.


A little Bitcoin quiz I made for some friends’ teenage kids. I made it so they could research and learn and earn 100K sats.

	1.	What message did Satoshi Nakamoto print in the Bitcoin network’s Genesis block?

	2.	By what percent has Bitcoin appreciated in USD value in 2023 so far?

	3.	What is the maximum number of bitcoins that will ever exist?

	4.	Currently, approximately how many new bitcoins are produced each day?

	5.	What is the halving?

	6.	What was The Dickening?

	7.	Approximately what year will the very final bitcoin be produced?

	8.	What do the letters in ASIC stand for?

	9.	Who received the first bitcoin transaction?

	10.	Briefly explain what “difficulty adjustment” means as it pertains to Bitcoin production/mining.

	11.	Briefly explain what “hashrate” means as it pertains to Bitcoin.

	12.	What is a bitcoin node and who can run one?

	13.	Briefly explain “the Blockchain trilemma.”

	14.	What is the Lightning Network?

	15.	The first publicly known Bitcoin transaction took place on May 18, 2010, and the buyer bought two pizzas using bitcoin. How many bitcoins did he pay and roughly how much would those coins be worth (in USD) today?

	16.	Briefly explain the differences between a proof-of-work and a proof-of-stake protocol?

	17.	Briefly explain the difference between a custodial and non-custodial Bitcoin Wallet.

	18.	What is the state with the most bitcoin mining units AND the most renewable energy in the USA?

	19.	Currently in the USA, renewable energy sources account for about 21.5% of total utility-scale electricity generation. What percentage of the Bitcoin network’s energy usage is renewable?

	20.	How is Bitcoin mining contributing to electrical grid-rebalancing and the mitigation of harmful methane emissions from landfills and fossil fuel production facilities?

	21.	Design your own interesting Bitcoin question.


I prompted an AI to rewrite Dwight Eisenhower’s speech, in which he warned the world of the power of the military industrial complex, but from a Bitcoin perspective. This was the result (and the AI wrote the title too!):

“A Threat to Humanity's Survival”

 My fellow citizens,

 As I stand before you today, on the threshold of a new dawn, I feel compelled to share with you my deepest anxieties about the fate of humanity.

 In the aftermath of World War II, we witnessed the emergence of the military-industrial complex, a monstrous entity that has grown so powerful that it now poses an existential threat to our very existence. This insatiable juggernaut, fueled by the insatiable thirst for profit and power, thrives on conflict and instability, and it will stop at nothing to maintain its ironclad grip on the world.

 The military-industrial complex is a parasitic entity, a cancerous growth that has attached itself to the body politic, sapping its vitality and diverting its resources away from the betterment of humanity. It is a relentless engine of destruction, a master manipulator that thrives on fear, division, and paranoia.

 The fiat money system, the lifeblood of this parasitic entity, is a weapon of mass destruction, a silent assassin that has infiltrated every facet of our society. This insidious system, based on the fleeting promises of governments and central banks, has fueled cycles of boom and bust, devastating economies and plunging millions into despair.

 The fiat money system is a tool of war, a means by which governments can unleash their destructive impulses with impunity. It allows them to print money at will, financing their insatiable appetite for conquest and domination, while the true cost of their recklessness is borne by the innocent citizens they claim to protect.

 The military-industrial complex, armed with the fiat money system, has waged a relentless war on humanity, a war that has claimed countless lives, shattered countless dreams, and left a trail of destruction in its wake. It is a war that we cannot afford to lose.

 The time has come to break free from the shackles of the fiat money system and dismantle the military-industrial complex. We must adopt a new monetary system, a system that is not susceptible to manipulation and exploitation, a system that promotes peace, prosperity, and cooperation.

 The solution is clear: we must embrace Bitcoin, a digital currency that is not controlled by any government or central bank. It is a peer-to-peer system, a beacon of hope in a world shrouded in darkness, a system that is based on cryptography and blockchain technology, the pillars of a new, decentralized future.

 Bitcoin is a hard money, a tangible asset that cannot be inflated or manipulated by the powers that be. It is a deflationary asset, its value increasing over time, a testament to the inherent value that it holds.

 A Bitcoin standard would dismantle the military-industrial complex, stripping it of its lifeblood, the fiat money system. It would dismantle the incentives for war-for-profit. Under a Bitcoin standard, governments would no longer be able to easily finance wars by printing money, making it much more difficult for them to engage in reckless military adventures.

 The transparency of Bitcoin would also play a crucial role in dismantling the military-industrial complex. All Bitcoin transactions are recorded on a public ledger, making it impossible for governments to hide the true cost of war from their citizens. This transparency would deter governments from engaging in unnecessary conflicts, as the public would be able to hold them accountable for their actions.

 In addition, Bitcoin would promote economic stability and growth. The scarcity of Bitcoin would help to prevent inflation, and its deflationary nature would encourage saving and investment. A stable and prosperous economy would reduce the incentive for nations to resort to war as a means of resolving economic disputes.

 A Bitcoin standard would usher in an era of peace, prosperity, and cooperation, a world where humanity can finally realize its full potential. It would create a world where war is no longer a profitable endeavor, where nations are incentivized to cooperate rather than conflict, and where humanity can focus on the pursuit of knowledge, innovation, and shared prosperity.

 I urge you, my fellow citizens, to join me in this clarion call for a Bitcoin standard. It is the only way to save ourselves from the brink of destruction, to reclaim our future from the clutches of the military-industrial complex, and to create a world where peace, prosperity, and cooperation reign supreme.

 Thank you.

 God bless you. And God bless humanity.


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Thanked Julian in my Thanksgiving Letter.

https://damus.io/note1mrp9kcmwzesyx9a686dqajcur7d9p9j8qhep6qxxcxh7xn23luyqpdhma2


An Open Letter of Thanksgiving To The Cypherpunks https://image.nostr.build/f46e7b9ec50868ee3ad95e0ea9fb75d35fa532e369602da9f97c3bca0921b634.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a249259e63dc5015fe2bb92b4d2c7b7e8f58a5b31b7f733eb2f3a1a30d7c940b.jpg


Just an AI doodle I had my little assistant do for me. Having fun messing with creative prompts. https://image.nostr.build/7435fa01e271db585b0152ff47a758a5c53b97a5174cfd6aaf915fb29d052ad2.jpg


Just getting into Cryptosovereignty now. Love your style and thought. In your preface you write:

“The infinite wealth of knowing that mine is mine alone, and yours is yours alone, and that through the mutual signification, that is the dignity of the other, and the respect that we can offer towards one another’s property, we discover the greatest power that there is.”

Profound and powerful.

Makes me think that this real mutual respect engendered by Bitcoin is just a “first step” for humanity as it crawls out of the sludge of the dark ages, and can lead to helping us see the legitimate divine in one another as well. Put another way: Seeing one another as masters of unassailable and pure property reminds us of the unassailability and purity of our souls, and that we should respect them.

Also, because Bitcoin dis-ables all of us (in the sense that it distributes our abilities beyond the physical and into the digital) we may come to the see internet-space as much more sacred, in the longer run.

(Just some thoughts as I’m reading. Hope you don’t mind me scrawling them here, randomly. 😉)


More carbs in the “meat.”


GM, my deer #Bitcoin friends! https://video.nostr.build/373348a2e41aa55444982f4eaebe84a86a1bf78cf6cf6acb0368748b0ab4cc04.mp4


Beautifully written and deep compassionate concern for humanity here. To think that we are only 15 years into this experiment is really wild. Given how entrenched and coded into the culture the fiat system is, it’s kind of amazing how far we’ve come already, even though we’re all still taking our baby steps.


Thanks for your response, Erik. You definitely add to the “freedom vibe” in this whole wild space we’re in. And I’m grateful for you. 🙏

Also, ironically, when I’ve taught “Bartelby” to undergrads in the past, at first it’s very hard for a lot of kids to grok anything but that Bartleby is an abject nihilist, and it takes some extended conversation to move past that, to an understanding that he’s something like an exemplar of finality of agency.


Dear Eric,

I listen to a fuckton of Bitcoin podcasts and other audio content. It is rare now that while listening to something, I literally get up and cheer, or shout out loud with wild celebratory whoops or, conversely, with insane fury. Today, listening to your WBD interview, at the end of your Synopsis of the Melville story, “Bartleby the Scrivener,” a story I know very well. I actually teared up and then bellowed aloud like a barbarian. I resounded my yawp because I realized that Bitcoin is “the power of last refusal.”

For a time I worked for a publishing company in their subsidiary rights department and I have had some of my own writings published as well. In publishing, we have this concept, as I am sure you know, of “the right of first refusal.” It’s “a contractual right to enter into a business transaction with a person or company before anyone else can.” But Bitcoin is literally the power of last refusal. I never thought about it this way until you spoke about Bartleby. Note that I use the word “power” and not “right” when referring to Bitcoin, because this ability is intrinsic to its nature as property and how it can be managed by a person individually (as opposed to extrinsic).

Bartleby exercises his power of last refusal, in which he literally pledges, unto death, his unwillingness to participate in a world system that he has no truck with. We cannot know what Bartleby’s reasons are: he never tells us (another power!). But because he is a human being, he can choose to die instead of being forced to live under a set of rules that he does not accept. In this sense, the state, the world, the human community, cannot extract from him what it wishes. Bartleby’s conscientious objection constitutes the power of last refusal.

If I choose, upon my death, not to pass on my seed phrase to anyone, or give it up to the state, but instead choose to die with that cryptographically protected secret, I am exercising my power of last refusal. At the last, I force the state to accept my power as a self-realized “moral majority of one,” to bend Thoreau‘s phrase. In my final act, whether it wants to or not, the state has to recognize my self-sovereignty, and it cannot see me only as a unit of labor.

The existence of the power of last refusal opens up, as you say later in the interview, a whole new ethical framework. It means that my conscientious objection is not just an act of language or thought, but an act that tracks materially onto the real world.

Anyway, thanks for the big revelations. I’ll be buying your book today.

Warmly and in brotherhood,
Cosmo Crixter


En el Día de l’os Muertos rendimos homenaje a la cadena válida más pesada. https://image.nostr.build/05e536ae00d15c8ae9a1e0c2e6344a6872af4d4076f8890f3a9a44541801a423.jpg


Hey man! Yeah, I need to be here and stay here on Nostr way more. It’s so much better than anything else. Happy Halloween!


Been screwing around with AI. Pic #12zxt7vq: https://image.nostr.build/ce812540149397af3636d2e0445024cdf604c095e0181096cc91fa6617dde601.jpg


“Why?” is the deepest question. May he never stop until he understands all.


Fuck yes. Anti-totalitarian tech. Fuck yes all day.


This is how you do marketing. 👏🏼 nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955. https://i.nostr.build/r5Lw.jpg


The fact that Elon Musk's title is "Technoking" and Jack Dorsey's title is "Block Head", speaks volumes.

One is about ego, and one is not. But more importantly we can see the difference in their actions more than titles from there.

Elon wants to build Twitter or the shitty name "X" into the next WeChat, with himself as the leader. He has literally said this. I used to be able to report bots on Twitter easily for many years, but now I have to show a drivers' ID to report someone that copies my persona even as a 600k following paid blue check, and so I don't bother anymore, and therefore bots proliferate. And if you don't pay for reach, you get devalued. Only in the past few months have I had to show my ID to report my countless bot copiers if I want to report them on Twitter/X. And so their rate of removal has decreased. If my Nym differs a bit from my name, well LET'S FILE SOME TPS REPORTS!!!! (which wasn't previously the case). And so as bots proliferate, and as Musk fails to contain bots as he promised he would and bragged about with memes, he will instead reference his own self-created bot problem as a reason to require even more ID requirements and try to build his US version of the Chinese Communist Party WeChat app. This is exactly what governments do. In my professional opinion, after careful consideration, Elon Musk can ::check notes::  politely go fuck himself, and those who worship him should reconsider what exactly they show blind obedience toward.

Meanwhile, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m helps improve the Bitcoin network and the Nostr network and has put capital into them in various ways, and Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader. The fact that Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader, is specifically why Jack puts time and capital into them. He funds many different companies, and for bitcoin, Cash App has been among the networks to incorporate Lightning early. Yes, Cash App deals with domestic compliance issues. But they are trying, and they are early. Their network can connect to many others, like an email provider using SMTP to connect to many others. They're open, they're trying. And now they are making Bitkey, which helps with self custody. They're certainly not a directional enemy of freedom in the way that Twitter/X has been.

Companies that incorporate open networks with various levels of compliance trump companies that purposely don't adopt open networks and instead push new ID requirements, in my book.

+10 Jack
-10 Elon
Any day of the week.


There is one party, and it is a transnational party of military industry and surveillance. Seeing and knowing the truth, it’s futile to rage against it. Only tune up to the harmonic flows that transcend it, and do so without catching its watchful eye. https://image.nostr.build/faf1f8f5f1caab29d84e47e5041c46e2e8f19700d1b7414eb04bdcac3f5c71ed.jpg


Thank you, John! 🙏


And here is the Substack link to the letter if you’d like to read it there:

https://open.substack.com/pub/cosmocrixter/p/an-open-letter-to-senator-elizabeth?r=1iazri&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post https://image.nostr.build/f6e92e82fc88f0321fbde80de54955b0e9fe1a9ea67b978c2cbcc37632fa1029.jpg


Reposting for nostr my newest open letter. Posted it yesterday on Twitter. This one is to Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Brad Sherman, about how Bitcoin is a union that anyone can join to defeat many types of shitcoins. https://image.nostr.build/bd466d7050d80732045f35b7c6012300f96d18fddc161ddc56190239df3be83f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5b503c9e25834ea92ab669decb1c74379ec420ad61625012601157ead08aa82d.jpg


Thanks so much for reading (and for the zap!)! 🙏


Reposting here the second of my open letters. This one to Fidelity and Fidelity Digital Assets, posted on Twitter on 12/8/22, on the occasion of their deciding to allow clients to trade Bitcoin on their platform, but not to take custody of it. https://image.nostr.build/dcc7b94d7244398a401b642a357e405d48c46aebf7acc066bfd1dddfeb40e7c4.jpg


Is that old dirty snow melting in the foreground?


Be In Balance https://image.nostr.build/75523bcd216ff11649f712486ec6189e3f1d769007ed9ef4f7d5ace743850132.jpg


Everything grows weird. https://image.nostr.build/9d9b0df1f857ecd6b185378c9f2e6be06e47b00c66cc26694b2208d2a38e3fcd.jpg


The way we see… https://image.nostr.build/0b26f643b532bfe1767c3674305922077c10e4f2803f7b109a39ae772f1d50aa.jpg


When you name a thing… https://image.nostr.build/167e53d043c9e3d37c5cb4c13ccb3dfbef7a53123727dd4be48885ef2baf1200.jpg


Ideas in advance of sensations? https://image.nostr.build/0dfdf7c30fbf359fa4b554e86cf97656ba53955551a9cbe3b54a54a6c263ce84.jpg


Flying in mind. https://image.nostr.build/569c5520586a367d0c4a96aff571bacd50326929733c944f31cebdb6c29c4418.jpg


(Actual pen drawing. Not AI generated.)


Good king, lazy king. https://image.nostr.build/acb7ea142d654de74aef2ad0d96d1988ffc62807dabf04db5a84063d559d51ba.jpg


I don’t. What are they?


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I hope she’s not overcooking the spaghetti. Al dente is the Italian way.


😂 The look on the face of the middle dragon made me laugh out loud!!!


Hi Lyn! Just listened to you and Alyse Killeen on Preston’s show yesterday! Fantastic, as always. Thanks for all you do!