> "We don’t want to buy Bitcoin on our own. We will wait until we’re there with you."
>
> — My parents

*Welcome to the latest issue of the Bitcoin For Families newsletter. This issue covers the cold storage setup I’ve planned for my parents.*

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## Setting up cold storage for my parents

My parents have finally decided to buy some bitcoin.

They’ve heard me talking about the demise of the US dollar and the Euro but I doubt that they have decided to buy some bitcoin because of that.

They are saving in bitcoin because they know that I save in bitcoin and they think it is prudent to put a very small share of their net worth into the same asset that I use for my savings. And I’m ok with that.

My parents use laptops and are comfortable with technology at a user level but they are far away from feeling comfortable doing something totally new.

Therefore, I was not surprised when they said that they would like to buy some bitcoin but, that they didn’t want to do it on their own, that they would wait instead until they are with me so that I can hold their hand throughout the process.

They will be visiting the beautiful Pacific Northwest in a few weeks and in preparation for their visit I have ordered everything that they’ll need to securely hold some bitcoin:

- [Coldcard Mk 4](https://coldcard.com/)
- [Data only USB cable](https://store.coinkite.com/store/magusb-c)
- [16 GB microSD card](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CV344WJ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_43XMW06BECZ42QWZXEZG) x 2
- [microSD reader](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CV344WJ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_43XMW06BECZ42QWZXEZG)
- [Seed plate](https://store.coinkite.com/store/seedplate)
- Plus the [Sparrow](https://www.sparrowwallet.com/) wallet to be installed in their Macbook Air

I will be using my own seed plate [puncher](https://store.coinkite.com/store/drillpunch) so no need to buy one for them.

The focus is on simplicity:

- They need to feel very comfortable with the requirements of self custody their money, buying more bitcoin and sending it to the Coldcard.
- They need to feel capable of sending bitcoin to another wallet if they need to.
## Coldcard setup

- The Coldcard will be setup with a 12 words seed. 24 words is overwhelming and not necessary.
- The 12 words will unlock wallet #1 with a small amount of bitcoin.
- A simple word added as a passphrase will unlock wallet #2 with the rest of their bitcoin.

The passphrase will give them peace of mind. They will know that even if somebody steals their seed plate, they won’t lose their money. This would include:

- If a bad actor inspects or confiscates their seed plate while they are traveling back to Spain.
- If they need to disclose the seed under duress.

They can share this word with my sister and I without sharing the seed and know that if they pass away, only we will be able to access the funds once we get hold of the seed plate.

The Coldcard will have two pins: the real one and a pin setup to brick the device. The brick pin will be taped to the back of the device so that if someone steals the device, they will surely try that pin and render the Coldcard useless. My parents will know to NEVER use the pin taped on the back.
## Seed backup

The Coldcard will be backed up to one of the microSD cards. The other one will be used for air gapped transactions.

The Coldcard, seed plate and back up microSD card will be stored together in the same place where they keep their passports.

## Buying more Bitcoin

I’ll import the details of both wallets into the Sparrow application and show them how to generate a new bitcoin addresses if they buy more bitcoin and need to transfer it from the exchange and into cold storage.

They will buy KYC bitcoin. Trying to get them to buy non-KYC bitcoin at Robosats is just too much.

## Selling Bitcoin

I will show them how to approve an air gapped transaction. I will also write down the steps in a document saved on their computer and record a video while executing the steps.

An air gapped transaction is more complex than receiving bitcoin but hopefully they won’t be selling bitcoin anytime soon so they just need to feel capable of doing it _if needed_.

## Hot wallet

While they are here, I will also install the [Phoenix](https://phoenix.acinq.co/) lightning wallet in their phones so that we can settle bills easily back and forth once they’re back in Europe.

I can remotely do this with my sister as well so that the whole family can start sending bitcoin back and forth to each other.

## Additional references

BTC Sessions has a fantastic tutorial on the Coldcard. It is a long video but very comprehensive.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FAYmE5-40PQ?si=hkGo3vOv-0XSR3zE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>

And conveniently, Guy Swann just released an episode on [Basics of key management](https://www.fountain.fm/episode/UreRLJJcDUOWO2Aft0qU) (the trick about taping the brick pin to the back of the Coldcard is from this episode 😁).

And that’s it. Please let me know what you think about this setup as well as what you would do different in the comment sections below.

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# Recommendations
## Ben Goggin

Ben is the deputy tech editor and NBC News. He has 9.4 million followers on Twitter and yesterday (May 26th) he joined Nostr to find out what is the deal with this social network that Jack Dorsey keeps talking about.

Within a few hours of joining he had already discovered the power of being able to not only _Like_ but actually reward other people with money (_zaps_) for notes they publish that you find valuable.

Follow him on [here](nostr:npub1xm8eqzpz69yaf98zs88fene26wcca3hqfueg4qkdxm8kv2v547mslhzdar) to get a fresh perspective from somebody who is not a bitcoiner on the first decentralized social network: Nostr.

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## What did you think of today's newsletter?
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See you again next week!
— Alejandro

This newsletter is for educational purposes. It does not represent financial advice. Do your own research before buying Bitcoin.

My parents didn't want to buy Bitcoin on their own. They wanted me to do it for them so I came up with a setup for them to be able to manage their Bitcoin even when I'm not with them.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqn8xet5w35kueedw4cz6cm0d3jz6um5daexzem994nx7u3dd4uj6urpwfjkuarnqgsv3hm2azrvwydsapad7fx6qxql2zql9djn5cdz8vg9tgmqyg5n5psrqsqqqa28yt3zz3


Since nostr communities didn't really took off, I take back all the shit I gave to hashtags, they are pragmatic and work.
If I don't follow you, here's some of my followed hashtags you can use so that I see your note: https://i.nostr.build/kZjVV.jpg


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Media and kind:1063 event storage can be separate. It can be separate entities that charge differently or not at all


We can't trust any communication anymore unless it's cryptographically signed. This article introduces the centralized standard being proposed by big tech and an alternative based on Nostr. I would greatly appreciate your feedback on the suggested approach.

https://i.nostr.build/J66mO.png

https://habla.news/u/alejandro@bitcoinforfamilies.com/media-provenance-with-nostr


> "You can't trust any communication anymore unless it is cryptographically signed."
>
> — [Guy Swann](nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev)

With Artificial Intelligence, anything can be created and put in a video. A community called the [*Content Authenticity Initiative*](https://contentauthenticity.org/) is promoting a centralized media provenance standard to address this problem.

> I believe Nostr can provide a better, and decentralized, solution.
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## The problem

Allow me to illustrate the problem with two sample fake videos.

[![](https://i.nostr.build/J66mO.png)](https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=oxXpB9pSETo)

This is an easy one. The video is telling you that it's fake.

But what about this one?

[![](https://i.nostr.build/dwwVE.png)](https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=BBbWYbWBNQs)
This short YouTube video has 4M views and realizing that it is fake takes some digging around that most people don't have the time or patience for.

> I know it is fake because I searched for the original Joe Rogan podcast episode with Miley Cyrus and saw that he was wearing different clothes for the interview than what this short video shows. This tells me that the two clips, although real, belong to different episodes and Joe Rogan was not making fun of Miley Cyrus.

This is an insidious video that uses two authentic clips of Joe Rogan to create a false story and rack up views.

## The centralized solution

The [Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity](https://c2pa.org/), C2PA, is the standard body developing the new media provenance standard. It has some heavy weights behind it: Adobe, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Intel, ARM and lots of corporate media companies.

Which really makes me wonder: why has it not taken off?

Their solution is not a bad solution, except for **one teeny tiny** problem: **it's uses a fully centralized architecture**:
- Identity is centralized with Central Authorities issuing X.509 certificates to validate the authenticity of the signature of the author.
- The information containing the provenance of a video is uploaded to the cloud repository of a provider that you, as the consumer of the video, must trust is not manipulating the information.
- The standard allows for self-signed certificates for when anonymity is required, but it considers this to be an exception, and as such, restricts the usage of self-signing certificates to only instances where the consumer (validator) has manually imported the self-signed certificate, limiting the broad adoption of anonymous material.

To see the system in action with a picture, open the link below and click on the *cr* icon on the top left corner of the picture to see a pop-up menu with the provenance information. You can go a step further by clicking on the link *Verify on ContentCredentials.org* at the bottom of the pop-up menu.

https://adobe-cai.smartframe.io/p/img_20211028_173913_1637592139900/3b4a09bdfec70cde02b69400de8c28e7

## The Nostr solution

The C2PA specification is built with one use in mind: the distribution of media from a limited set of producers (e.g., corporate media) to a large set of consumers.

The architecture implies that there will be one or two main stream media editing applications (e.g. Adobe) and that the number of Certificate Authorities will be small. It is not meant to scale on the supply side.

> This system is not built to protect the communication of regular people.  They can't seriously expect regular people to pay a Central Authority to maintain their digital identity.

That's where Nostr comes in. With its decentralized and permission-less architecture, Nostr can deliver media provenance for the masses at no cost and with no central authority acting as the Mnistry of Truth.

### Nostr identity

The Nostr solution uses Nostr profiles as identity. You can create your profile without permission from anyone and it's your responsibility to build the reputation of that profile either face-to-face or through consistent online interactions.

The application retrieving the provenance for a video (e.g., a web browser plugin) will use Nostr to retrieve the latest kind:0 event of the author and display his or her information to the consumer of the video.

### Nostr events hold media provenance data

[NIP-94](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/94.md) defines event type kind:1063 that contains the description of a media file and a series of tags including the URL to the file, the hash of the original file and the hash of the files after processing by the server storing the media.

The Nostr version of the media editing application would upload the media to e.g. creatr.nostr.wine and publish an event kind:1063 with the URL, hash and other relevant provenance information. The event is signed by the author, cryptographically tying him or her to the media. The event would be sent to multiple relays ensuring censorship resistance.

The web browser plugin playing the media would calculate the hash and query any of the relays for an event with the tag matching the hash of the file. Alternatively, the system could also use perception hashes to account for clips and crops.

NIP-94 would need to be modified to support embedded kind:1063 events. A video like the second example above would have a kind:1063 event signed by the author and this event would contain two additional kind:1063 events, both signed by Joe Rogan, one for the video of the Miley Cyrus interview and another one for the second video.

The browser plugin could show a:
- Green icon: for signed and validated media that is fully unmodified (e..g a full length video created by Joe Rogan).
- Yellow icon: for signed and validated media that contains multiple clips, all signed and validated as well (like a signed version of the second video above).
- Red icon: for an non-validated media file or a signed and validated media file where not all clips are signed and validated (like the current version of the second video above).
## Challenges ahead

The main challenge is adoption. A I said before, I'm surprised that the C2PA system has not taken off given who is behind it.

In my opinion, Twitter, Facebook, Threads and WhatsApp are the main distribution channels for fake videos and it will be nearly impossible to convince Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to support a Nostr-based solution instead of the C2PA solution.

> Let's turn the main strength of our enemy into their weakness. Let's make Nostr clients the place where you come for cryptographically signed videos.

We need three things:
- On the authentication side: a Nostr client capable of signing media files, uploading the media to the desired repository, and broadcasting the enhanced kind:1063 event to Nostr relays.
	- This could be a standalone app or a plugin for media editing software.
- On the validation side: a Nostr client capable of querying relays for kind:1063 events containing the hash of the media being played
	- This could be a browser plugin or integrated with existing Nostr clients for a better experience.
- Relays that accept write and read actions for kind:1063 events

A possible business model would be for the relay to charge per kind:1063 event stored (one time and monthly fee for maintaining it). The company offering the *provenance relay* could  provide the authentication client or could also accept write request from FOSS authentication clients.

> What do you think? Please leave your thoughts in the comments below and repost for visibility.

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# Recommendations
## Average Gary

Gary is talking the talk and walking the walk, spreading the love of Bitcoin in Virginia through the [Shenandoah Bitcoin Club](https://shenandoahbitcoin.club/).

You can follow him [here](nostr:npub160t5zfxalddaccdc7xx30sentwa5lrr3rq4rtm38x99ynf8t0vwsvzyjc9).

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## What did you think of today's newsletter?
Your feedback helps me create the best newsletter possible for you.

Please leave a comment and checkout comments from other subscribers and readers.  I love hearing from the Bitcoin For Families community ❤ 🙏🏻

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See you again next week!
— Alejandro

This newsletter is for educational purposes. It does not represent financial advice. Do your own research before buying Bitcoin.

We can't trust any communication anymore unless it's cryptographically signed. This article introduces the centralized standard being proposed by big tech and an alternative based on Nostr. I would greatly appreciate your feedback on the suggested approach.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqdk6etyd9sj6urjdamx2mnpde3k2tthd96xsttwdaehguszyryd76hgsmr3rv8g0t0jfksps86ss8etv5axrg3mzp26xcpz9yaqvqcyqqq823cttyx7q


Using Obsidian has the benefit of keeping a local copy of all your long form notes. This is particularly useful with drafts. You don't want a glitch with the server to drop your draft when you're 90% done.


I use Obsidian and once I'm happy with the article I copy / paste to habla.news.


Why nostr:
- You own your identity
- Your speech stands on its own
- You can run your own everything
- You own and control your social graph
- You are free to say and do anything, but you are not free from consequences (non-repudiation of cryptographic signatures)
- You can proof realness via proof-of-work, either directly or indirectly
- Proof-of-work is what allows you to successfully combat bots, spam, and trolls, as it brings real cost to destructive actions
- Ownership and realness allows you to build and curate webs of trust, which allows for canonicality without central authority


Good evening.

I’ve been getting a lot of questions re: The Fed and QT.

Going to make this as simple as possible for everyone.

The Reverse Repo (RRF) is basically a slush fund where excess cash has been parked since QE 2020.

The Treasury has been using the RRF to fund its needs by issuing short term T-Bills.

The RRF is down to $500B from a peak of $2.5T.

When the RRF is drained, the Treasury needs to find new capital. It will do this by issuing longer dated Treasuries.

This will cause the banks to use their reserves.

There are currently $3.5T in bank reserves.

When bank reserves drop to $2.5T the Fed and Treasury get nervous.

Why?

Because they worry about another liquidity crisis like Sept 2019 when the overnight rates spiked when banks basically ran out of liquidity at the same time that the Treasury issued a pile of unexpected debt.

There are a number of reasons for this I won’t go into.

And so, when the RRF is drained or near drained, the Fed slows QT (selling the bonds they bought in 2020-2021 to add liquidity in the markets. This is also what helped create the excess slush fund of RRF).

And then, when the reserves hit $2.5T, QT ends.

Why?

The Fed cannot compete with the Treasury for liquidity at that point.

Because the last thing the Treasury can have is disfunction in a Treasury auction.

And so, QT ends.

And the next step will be?

QE.

More cowbell. More. slush fund.

Wheee.

Hope this helps. Have a great night.


It is very easy to violate the rights when no one is trying to oppose.

It is easy to ban #PoW in the #EU, develop very discriminatory language in policies since just a few bitcoin miners ready to defend themselves and meet with regulators.

Same easy to put very restrictive rules for cash and p2p transactions if just a few voices are standing in defense of financial freedom and privacy rights.

But solidarity of bitcoiners and human rights defenders can make the change. We can’t do all work alone.

We need your support, guys.

We have all instruments,l in hands, but we need to act jointly.


Quickly! Sell me all your bitcoin before it goes to zero


From now on I will do these queries with ChatGPT


With English not being my first language, sometimes I have some expressions in mind and I'm not sure exactly how to spell them so I resort to searching hoping that the search engine will be smart enough to give me the right spelling...

Boy, aren't I happy that I used my personal computer and not my work computer to search for the right expression for "teeny tiny".

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


Wow. Now I need to watch this


And ProtonVPN


I recently migrated from Vaultwarden to ProtonPass and I'm very happy with it.

I'm now using ProtonMail, ProtonDrive, ProtonCalendar and ProtonPass and couldn't be happier with the company and the service.


What can I say? I've only had big dogs.

Sadly, I'm dogless now, but if / when I get a new dog, it will be either a German Shepherd or a chocolate Labrador.

In the pics: Indy (German Shepherd), Rio (husky) and Coco (chocolate Labrador).

https://i.nostr.build/3PP8Z.png

https://i.nostr.build/wGG8x.jpg

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/21/1239835753/french-bulldog-most-popular-breed


Hello world this is a test post. I’m totally blind and I am trying at Damus and seeing if blind and visually impaired people like myself can use this first NOSTR client for IOS devices.


Welcome!


Everyone eventually needs Bitcoin nostr:note1dkaq67zfpsyxa88d2pq9ajyk5qukzzu3r4c9whwwcc35wsx6mp3sxfwspp


If there is one thing you can count on, is that people in power will abuse it. So I’m 💯 confident that time will help everyone see why the world needs Bitcoin


This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in a while. What’s wrong with these people?


Thank you for sharing your story. The respond was stupid and the author is dutifully muted now


Great suggestion! Wasn’t aware that the movie is available on YouTube nostr:note18p0tdprper57lwlmkmgds7aulvy2vd4y8u2qww565rhjg2nfwqssq6tkxk


GM and throwback to the early 2000s 😁

Do you have an old phone you just can’t throw away?
#phonestr https://i.nostr.build/yqqxm.jpg


Happy birthday!


In a free market, the top priority of any business should be to become a monopoly.

It’s doubtful they will succeed but if they do, then it must be for a reason.

With that said, this only works in a truly free market that also includes informed buyers.

The reality is that most markets are manipulated by the government and most buyers are not informed.


Olá, sou nova por aqui no nostr! Sou nutricionista e vou compartilhar conteúdos sobre o assunto!

Hello, this is my beginning at nostr! I am a nutritionist and will share something about this universe!
#introductions


"Plaintiffs may proceed with their lawsuit, which claims social media companies — like Meta, Alphabet, Reddit and 4chan — profit from the racist, antisemitic, and violent material displayed on their platforms to maximize user engagement."

It's going to be hard for centralized social media companies to disassociate themselves from the algorithms they have created and that maximize anger and hate to drive engagement.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/tech/buffalo-mass-shooting-lawsuit-social-media/index.html


Thank you for sharing such intimate story. Truly, those two frog squishmallows were meant for your girls.


Good morning Paulo


Welcome and followed! Get a lightning address at getalby.com and plug it in to your nostr profile so that we can zap you


Wait, so Tik Tok doesn’t want you to say “I posted it on Medium”? Wow


I’ve resisted creating a telegram account. I like the idea of SimpleX…although it has taken me forever to get enough people to move to Signal so I’m not moving in the near future.


Is there a way to add liquidity to an existing channel on #Mutiny like with Phoenix?


Thanks for the heads up. The picture is tilted. It’s actually 8-9 inches away from the siding


Hard truths. nostr:note146yqp5trlae5wtaqy8zu73hku02xatue49ejrns05tlxm8f8jc6qlclhz4


Bitcoiner 🙋🏻♂


#webergang

If only I could get my hashtags right 😂


Proof of work.

#webstergang https://i.nostr.build/DjjA4.jpg


#weber4life

I can even smoke brisket with a Weber 😁


What would qualify as fat?


Good article from unchained about it here https://unchained.com/blog/too-many-bitcoin-utxos/


Maple brined pork loin on its way

#foodstr https://i.nostr.build/WGG5V.jpg


I can foresee a boating accident soon… nostr:note1jkxfa6898vnnjl22k4ad2w2zftv5jpqk7pen0jsjkedaljl9686sh4f35d


Some well-meaning people want the government to give basic income to all citizens. They think that this will help people struggling, but they are wrong. What will help people is if the government stops robbing them through debasement of their purchasing power.

https://i.nostr.build/DjjKa.jpg

https://habla.news/u/alejandro@bitcoinforfamilies.com/ubi-is-not-the-solution


> "If you live in Canada, you should be aware that there is a serious proposal to establish a universal basic income. Drop the cynicism for a minute and just imagine if we let ourselves have nice things."
>
> — CautionWIP

Some think that if the government gives money to the people, then things will get better. **They are well-meaning but they are wrong.** For things to get better, we first need to determine what got things wrong. And the answer is too much government spending. So more government spending won't help. It will actually make things worse.

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## You're being robbed every day

Why are people hurting?

The chart below shows the official purchasing power of the US dollar referenced to January 1st, 2000.

![](https://i.nostr.build/BRRRZ.png)

A dollar earned at the beginning of the year 2000 is now only able to buy you 54.5 cents worth of goods. Any savings you built between the year 2000 and now, have been rendered useless by the relentless devaluation of the US dollar.

Has your salary increased by 84% since the year 2000? If it hasn't, then your ability to buy goods has actually gone done. Your financial status has gotten worst.

> All your hustle, all those long days and hard work you put in to get that promotion, to get that coveted salary increase. All that work, was erased by the government, taken away from you though the silent yet relentless debasement of the US dollar.
>
> The US government made sure that you worked hard for nothing. And if your salary increase was below 84%, then the government made you work for an effective salary reduction.

I arrived to the US in July of 2007 with a startup. I worked really, really hard, traveled 100 days a year, hustled and bustled until our startup got acquired by a big company. And then I kept working equally hard in this bigger company. All to bring stability to my family. A home. Financial security. The possibility of paying for college education for my kids.

Yet again, when I compare my salary when I first arrived here and I look at my salary now. I need to factor in the fact that $1.00 from July 1st, 2007 is now worth 67.1 cents. That means that my salary had to go up by 49% just to keep up with the debasement. All my hard work, taken away by greedy politicians who only know how to spend other people's money.

> The constant debasement of the US dollar is the reason why people are hurting. You need to increase your salary by anywhere between 50% and 85% JUST to maintain your economic status in this country.
>
> This is the reason why people can't afford a house, rent, food. This is the reason why we have so many homeless in the country. The reason why there is no middle class any more.

## Why is the government debasing the US dollar

So why is the government doing this? Why are they debasing the purchasing power of the US dollar?

They do it because they like to spend more than what they collect in taxes. This gap translates into a deficit and the deficit translates into money printing. Every time that the government adds more money to the economy, it is diluting the purchasing power of the money that is already in the economy. They know it. And they track it. That's why there is an official chart like the one I showed you above.

Politicians promise you to manipulate the market to *lower your costs* and then they turn around and spend more to get your vote, knowing that this  is what will actually impoverish you.

They also say that a 2% inflation rate is good or to put it bluntly: "*Robbing you little by little is good*".

>That is the real gaslighting happening in this country today.

## Spending less and letting the markets work is the solution

**Spending more to pay a basic income to all citizens is not going to help. It's going to have the opposite effect by adding more debt and triggering the printing of more money.**

What we need is to stop debasing money. We need for the government to spend less so that it can actually pull dollars out of the economy and increase our purchasing power. We need at the very least for the government to stop debasing the money any further.

Because once people feel comfortable saving, they will start investing, growing the economy, improving their financial prospects and once again, making the American dream a reality. We all want to improve our prospects. We just need a level playing field. A field where you don't get automatically and systematically rugged by your own government, doing things *for your own good*.

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# Notable notes

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# Recommendations
## Rogue Bitographer

Rogue Bitographer is one of the featured photographers sharing his art through [Creatr](https://creatr.nostr.wine/). Check it out and support him on his Creatr [page](nostr:npub18u5f6090tcvd604pc8mgvr4t956xsn3rmfd04pj36szx8ne4h87qsztxdp).

You can follow him [here](nostr:npub18u5f6090tcvd604pc8mgvr4t956xsn3rmfd04pj36szx8ne4h87qsztxdp).

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— Alejandro

This newsletter is for educational purposes. It does not represent financial advice. Do your own research before buying Bitcoin.

Universal Basic Income is NOT the solution

Some well-meaning people want the government to give basic income to all citizens. They think that this will help people struggling, but they are wrong. What will help people is if the government stops robbing them through debasement of their purchasing power.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqth2cnf945hxttwda6z6argv5khxmmvw46xjmmwqgsv3hm2azrvwydsapad7fx6qxql2zql9djn5cdz8vg9tgmqyg5n5psrqsqqqa28zlvh4n


They will regulate every business to death


A cause worthy of your sats nostr:note1atrk6amqsssuhp95kvnz3nv4uqrrvj2qtftrcpu5ghgxjxm2vmas4pw4sf


Where can I get more info about shopstr.shop? The website has no info. I don’t want to set up an account until I know more.

#asknostr


Cars can collect and share an abundance of data with insurance companies, advertisers, and others. It can seem impossible to figure out what your car is sharing, but it is possible with a little effort (and a lot of patience). Here’s how. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-figure-out-what-your-car-knows-about-you-and-opt-out-sharing-when-you-can


I live in the Seattle area now. I was born and grew up in Malaga


👁🌈✌

#pleb #citadel #garden #grownostr
https://youtu.be/GLlvQbjrGnE?si=1lH1tRB4sf9ZbV8N


Beautiful place close to home 😍


I have to feed 4 teenagers so I buy plenty of stuff at Costco and Kirkland organic items are typically very high quality.

But  a t-shirt?


WTF? What are these people smoking?


Just saw somebody walking around with this t-shirt. And I’m wondering, WHY? Why would you do that?

https://trendteeshirts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Kirkland-signature-2020-Classic-Mens-T-shirt-600x600.png


The keyword here is “adversarial”. We can clearly define “foreign controlled” but who gets to identify a network as adversarial and what’s the criteria?

I hope this bill gets killed in the senate. It’s Orwellian.


I can’t wait to read the judgment 🍿


Wait, did they keep 5,689 Bitcoin on somebody’s phone wallet? 😳😬

Glad they now have it on cold storage.

nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 , maybe you should send them a seedplate just to be sure…


Thanks! How do you check the integrity of the packages downloaded from the aurora store?


Thanks for the prompt response.

Does the flashing process interfere with the eSIM?


Welcome!


Considering switching to nostr:npub1c9d95evcdeatgy6dacats5j5mfw96jcyu79579kg9qm3jtf42xzs07sqfm from iOS.

Will I be able to load regular Google Play apps on the phone?

Thanks 🙏 #grapheneOS


Another great resource for Nostr newcomers: My recent podcast with nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424!

It's the perfect "101" discussion, covering everything from how zapping works, to WTF "clients and relays" are, to pro tips for gaining followers quickly, and much more!

Check it out 👇
https://youtu.be/_jrkUXDReqI?si=MEapybl2kkXJ6TZ0


Then start using another relay.


Nostr, do your thing!

Throw a follow to this new nostrich! nostr:note1sqfjptvq829cygjwdjde27e6n5p8j3vwx4wws2gylptsmxq6thfstyzck8


You got your lightning address going! 👏🏻


BSV died today.


That last tweet 😄

Bitcoin didn't die today. BSV did.


nostr.wine and filter.nostr.wine.

filter.nostr.wine is the key relay. This relay aggregates and publishes events from and to a wide range of public relays so that I only need to query one relay but I get the benefit of being connected to a large set of relays.


I don't like what Elon is doing with Twittet, but damn, Space X is so effing cool.

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-3


Justice is served nostr:note1nq43l6nv46ap2grm58e7ypcfpzq8ytj7adthl7dd3g7uvpjvt3nqlnelrs


Yes! Sign in using your nsec private key. Which you should never share with anyone.

They show the same content because both do the same thing:: pull your notes, your profile, the list of people you follow, and the notes of the people you follow from multiple relays.

That’s the beauty of Nostr. Your data is truly yours.

If twitter closes your account, you’ve lost your tweets. Nobody can close your Nostr account.

You configure your client to publish your notes to multiple relays and that effectively ensures that you will gain access to your notes in the future.


First post on Nostr! I like everything outdoors, traveling and decentralization.

#introductions


Welcome to Nostr!


Primal and Nostur are two different Nostr clients. You can use either or both. Both will show the same content.

Primal has a built it wallet. You can also go to getalby.com to get a wallet with a lightning address and plug that in to your profile.

As for NIP-05, there is a post on the #introductions hashtag that explains how to get one


Giving this try as an alternative to either X or TT

#introductions


Just checking out the first decentralized social media platform. Pretty excited about this one especially since my content seems to violate all the other social media weapons policies. If you’re into Knives and other EDC gear, stay tuned.

https://www.beardedbargainedc.com

#introductions #edc #everydaycarry #knifelife #edcgear #firstpost

Other Socials:

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@BeardedBargainEDC?feature=shared

FB: https://m.facebook.com/BeardedBargainEDC

IG: https://www.instagram.com/beardedbargainedc

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@beardedbargainedc

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@BeardedEDC https://image.nostr.build/29bb7baba9201050c5668cda78811dceabb6263d88e2db2a4a78f8e90037e4a3.jpg


Welcome! There is no algo here so people will find you through hashtags and reposts.


Welcome! No policies here. And no algorithm either. People will find you through hashtags and reposts. If someone doesn’t like your content then they just mute you and move on 😁

My 2 cents: get a Lightning address at getalby.com and add it to your profile. People will zap you tiny amounts of bitcoin if they like your notes.


🚨ATTENTION🚨:
We have a Bitcoin Veteran who runs a Citadel in Walker County, GA with a PTSD mission

He just received notice that a rock quarry is about to be approved less than a mile from their location. This means BIG EXPLOSIONS… while guys are trying to heal from… BIG EXPLOSIONS

CALL TO ACTION: Looking for an attorney who can file an injunction as this property is not zoned for mining and they failed to notify the public prior

Please DM with any information
https://m.primal.net/Hjyc.jpg


Don’t get fooled. The Biden administration hasn’t suddenly warmed up to Bitcoin. They now see it as the new cow to milk. The new industry to suck from. nostr:note10lmjczchjygde3pnxvjcrp4cvr3y06mqjz7zs3rkdmu5lc86qxfswmthtp


What you are describing already exists mostly. The SIP protocol does exactly that. The only thing missing is that SIP uses email or phone number as ID.

With a modification to use NIP-05 or npub, 2 SIP clients could perform a VoIP call.


It’s a negative but as long as the new shares are used to buy more bitcoin, the impact I think should be minimal since the end result is more bitcoin in the treasury.

Owning Bitcoin is better than owning MSTR. Owning MSTR is better than owning S&P500 in my opinion.


I can’t move my 401K to a Bitcoin IRA until I change employers so I’m thinking of using MSTR as proxy. The stock value should go up as the value of Bitcoin in their treasury goes up. For the same number of outstanding shares, market cap will go up


So many memories...


You are a good son. Clearly a reflection of a good mother.


Let's bring back an extinct massive animal and release large numbers into the tundra...

What a great idea! What could go wrong?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/09/world/woolly-mammoth-elephant-stem-cells-scn/index.html


It took 16 years to add the first trillion of dollars to the national debt. It took 100 days to add the 34th trillion to the national debt.

https://habla.news/u/alejandro@bitcoinforfamilies.com/a-trillion-a-quarter


> "If the government can print unlimited amounts of money out of thin air, why do they collect taxes? The real problem is that you pay high taxes only to uphold the *illusion* that you are funding the government, which you are not. The government is funded by money printing."
>
> — President Nayib Bukele

The TARP bailout of 2008 was very controversial, with many people strongly opposing to it. The total value of the program was $700 billion dollars. At the time it was seen as an ungodly amount of money.

Now we add 1,000 billion dollars to the national debt every 100 days.

![](https://i.nostr.build/gdkO.jpg)

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## From 16 years a trillion to 100 days a trillion

The chart below shows how many years it took to add the next trillion to the national debt.

The first trillion took longer than the 16 years on the chart. Unfortunately, the Federal Reserve data only starts on January 1, 1966 and at that point the national debt was 320,999 million USD.

The debt crossed the first trillion during the 3rd quarter of 1981.

Since then, the US government has been racking debt

![](https://i.nostr.build/K9Ek.jpg)

> We're heading towards 4 trillion dollars of new debt per year. Soon the whole annual budget will be paid by debt.

[![](https://i.nostr.build/r2G2.png)]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omt50rGZ4n8)

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# Notable notes

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# Recommendations
## Anil

Anil just made all his Bitcoin educational material free. And he reimbursed the money to all the people who had previously paid him for the material!

You can follow him [here](nostr:npub14hn6p34vegy4ckeklz8jq93mendym9asw8z2ej87x2wuwf8werasc6a32x) and find his courses [here](https://bitcoincourse.io/).

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— Alejandro

This newsletter is for educational purposes. It does not represent financial advice. Do your own research before buying Bitcoin.

It took 16 years to add the first trillion of dollars to the national debt. It took 100 days to add the 34th trillion to the national debt.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qq2xztt5wf5kcmrfdahz6cfdw96kzun5v4eqygxgma4w3pk8zxcws7klyndqrq04pq0jkef6vx3rkyz45dszy2f6qcpsgqqqw4rs9mlc9s


Speculators are coming… https://i.nostr.build/XWd7.jpg


Just had knee surgery this afternoon...

https://i.nostr.build/QGX7.jpg


Here is my take on the issue: https://i.nostr.build/YJJA.jpg


Welcome back!


Hello and welcome! Get yourself a lightning address at GetAlby and add it to your profile so that we can zap you


Welcome! Get yourself a lightning address at GetAlby so that we can zap you


No audio for me either. Both Damus and Primal.net.

The boomer says “I don’t think so deeply” after dismissing Bitcoin 😂

Here is the original: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/03/04/bitcoin-rallies-above-67000.html


15:06 Moscow time.


I put it up there with The Lord of the Rings.


Just saw #Dune Part Two on an IMAX theater.

Impressive. Make sure you watch it in as big a screen as you can find. https://i.nostr.build/nza7.jpg


Bear markets are for builders. We're in an informational bear market. Now it's the time to build the tools to help us fight censorship. They need to be ready and available to the masses before the next pandemic.

https://habla.news/u/alejandro@bitcoinforfamilies.com/now-is-the-time-to-build-information-tools


> "If you truly believe in anti-censorship, then you need to show it, you need to be here"
>
> — [Jack Dorsey](nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m)

Bitcoiners often say that bear markets are for builders. And they're right. Bear markets, when no one is paying attention to Bitcoin, is the perfect time to build the tools that will be required to onboard the hundreds of thousands that will flock to Bitcoin once the new bull market arrives.

It just dawned on me that we're in an information bear market. In between censorship events. Now is the time to build the tools and onboard millions of people to un-censorable social media.

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## The COVID pandemic was an information bull market

March 2020. That is when we needed information the most. Governments knew it and they acted quickly to make sure that we only saw the information they wanted us to see.

Trust the experts, they said. And simultaneously they made sure that we could only listen to the experts who happened to agree with the government. The other experts, the ones who had opinions that did not align with the government were ruthlessly silenced. Their social media accounts closed and their medical licenses threaten or taken away.

1984 had arrived and the White House had become of Ministry of Truth, requesting social media companies to delete posts; even those containing stories of true vaccine side effects, because they could lead to vaccine hesitancy.

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube all complied with the White House, FBI and CDC and censored any expert who could lead people to think differently.

The COVID pandemic was an information bull market and the Ministry of Truth won. It was able to control the message and suppress any dissenting opinion.

Just two examples of experts silenced:

Dr. Malone was the first doctor to publish papers describing mRNA as a potential way to signal the body to produce a target protein (e.g., vaccine) and Nature described his work as a landmark experiment. His research in mRNA didn't stop there and he did additional contributions to the new medical technology.

Dr. Peter McCullough is a leading internist, cardiologist and epidemiologist with 1,000 publications and 685 citations in the National Library of Medicine.

And it was not only experts. During the pandemic, saying that the COVID virus was created in the Chinese lab in Wuhan was sufficient to get your social media account closed. Now, the official position of the US government is that the virus most likely came from the Chinese lab in Wuhan.

## Getting ready for the next information war

Governments, social media giants, and the dictator wannabes at the World Economic Forum (WEF) are preparing for the next information war.

### Google
Google has updated its definition of sensitive event. During sensitive events, they give themselves permission to do whatever they want to protect the "ground truth".

> A "Sensitive Event" is an unforeseen event or development that creates significant risk to Google's ability to provide high quality, relevant information and ground truth, and reduce insensitive or exploitative content in prominent and monetized features. During a Sensitive Event, we may take a variety of actions to address these risks.

And give you an example of what you can NOT do:

> Claims that victims from certain countries were responsible or deserving of a global public health crisis.

In other words, if the Chinese researchers in the Wuhan contracted COVID, then you can't blame them for making the virus.

### WHO Pandemic Treaty

The WEF is supporting the WHO in the creation of a world pandemic treaty that would "coordinate" the response across countries.

## Decentralized media will save the day
You can't have free speech on a platform controlled by a person (Elon Musk and Twitter)
 or a company (Google and YouTube). They will always have the option to block, censor and diminish the reach of certain opinions.

The Ministry of Truth can always threaten the business with action by the Ministry of Love and force these companies to comply.

We need decentralized social media that can't be censored. We need it to be relevant. We need experts to embrace this decentralized social media and onboard as many people as possible so that when the next information war comes, we can have access to all points of view.

We need to focus on Nostr. Put all our content there. Make it as relevant as possible. Jack Dorsey said it best in the video linked below. Watch it. Listen to what he says. And act accordingly.

Nostr only!

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# Notable notes

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# Recommendations
## Jack Spirko

Host of The Survival Podcast. Follow him to learn about gardening, hunting and fishing.

You can follow him [here](nostr:npub15879mltlln6k8jy32k6xvagmtqx3zhsndchcey8gjyectwldk88sq5kv0n)

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— Alejandro

This newsletter is for educational purposes. It does not represent financial advice. Do your own research before buying Bitcoin.

Now is the time to build information tools

Bear markets are for builders. We're in an informational bear market. Now it's the time to build the tools to help us fight censorship. They need to be ready and available to the masses before the next pandemic.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qq4xummh945hxtt5dpjj6arfd4jj6ar0943826tvvskkjmnxdaex6ct5d9hkutt5dahkcuczyryd76hgsmr3rv8g0t0jfksps86ss8etv5axrg3mzp26xcpz9yaqvqcyqqq823c9svxwf


My mortgage lender is also out. The only reason to use Fold now is the gift cards that give you sats back.


“If you truly believe in anti-censorship, then you need to show it, you need to be here”. 🎯 nostr:note17c546a4nmtzt9pkzzgaehxlljjtrz87jtum69kq8dr0ay90dskgqtxhhp9


👉 TUESDAY MARCH 5 @ 6 PM 👈

The @FOUNDATIONdvcs Workshop Series at PUBKEY NYC begins. 🧊🔐

With: Zach Herbert, nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g nostr:npub15c88nc8d44gsp4658dnfu5fahswzzu8gaxm5lkuwjud068swdqfspxssvx

Unlike your private keys, don't keep this event to yourself. ✍👀

https://www.meetup.com/pubkey-meetups/events/299339076/
https://image.nostr.build/b283a23f9867b59031d6f3ebb271ff2058918dfe8934cc2cd7bf2c5cd8f2cde7.jpg


Tapas en La Rambla. #foodstr https://i.nostr.build/28g5.jpg


Politicians will pick the companies that line their pockets over their constituents every time. Even when doing so actively harms their constituents.

If you still think that government exists to protect you, I have a fantastic deal for you for the Space Needle.

Glysophate is a neurotoxin and the main ingredient of Roundup. It belongs to the same family of  chemicals as Agent Orange and you will find it in all non-organic food.

The EU just said it’s safe to continue using it for the next 10 years. All while the French government is now paying subsidies out of tax money for French farmers who developed Parkinson’s from handling Roundup.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-11-17/eu-approves-glyphosate-weedkiller-10-years-aus-growers-support/103119106


The discussion sounds so moot, considering that Nostr is here already.

With that said, I don’t want the government telling businesses how they should run their operations.

We might think it’s ok because we don’t like the algos but the consequences downstream can be huge.


This is so disappointing 😡


Meanwhile on corporate media… https://i.nostr.build/nKe7.jpg https://i.nostr.build/0wQ2.jpg


Don’t give up a single inch when it comes to privacy.

Good for the EFF to fight this. nostr:note1m2w8sp5ddgqr92h46zgq6hyusx97n94jjmjdehwd26njjt8cm7csfmev5a


Hello from Barcelona. It feels so good to have a real coffee 😁 https://i.nostr.build/DVRv.jpg https://i.nostr.build/RGWM.jpg


It’s paper Bitcoin,  but I expect it to put pressure on price, so I’m stacking as much as I can before the Halfing


I asked them where was the sign with that policy and the woman just pointed at the desk and said they had announced it over the speaker.

Statists


By the time I said “I want to opt-out”, they had already taken the picture and checked me in 😡


Motherfuckers at Delta JFK with their biometrics!

😡😡😡

The minute you approach the gate to board, you implicitly give consent to board using biometrics. They got me before I had the chance to open my mouth to decline.

If you want to opt-out, they want you to go to the check-in desk prior to the start of the  boarding process.


And JFK! https://i.nostr.build/BMoY.jpg  nostr:note1783shkk80n20l9wjqtl2sxepcpdyx0qgmh5pzn8xq7pagzn4n4fsskm3r5


Run a node.  Bitcoin doesn’t survive if you don’t contribute.

We need way more node runners.

These numbers are shameful and this is what losing feels like.

Quit worrying about the price and help somehow.


Grayscale ads at Seattle airport.

Keep stacking before it’s too late. https://i.nostr.build/DVEV.jpg


When money is broken


2023 data


Almost half of the homes bought in my hometown of Malaga, a strong Mediterranean tourist and tech destination, were bought without a mortgage.

Translation: the transfer of wealth from the have-nots to the haves is progressing as planned by the elites.

Fuck them. Buy Bitcoin.


Decentralization. Decentralization. Decentralization.

Btw @damus won’t show the nevent. I had to go to Primal iOS to see it.


¡Buenos días!


X and the Indian government hard at work promoting Nostr. nostr:note16d6lrypetg8x88ukl4hgdqsxf9lthn2dyhcspw35vetda7rvnnkslwxeax


I would start by putting my life jacket on 😁


Game on! 😁 I’ve also signed up for a half marathon in June to have a clear goal in sight.

Wanna join?

https://raceroster.com/events/2024/79348/the-2024-evergreen-half


Thanks! I’m guessing it will be at a Swedish. I have a torn meniscus and the torn part decided to lodge itself in a gap within the joint, just to make things interesting 🙁

So no running now for almost 2 months 😭


I have to wait 2 weeks to get a call from the surgeon’s scheduler to schedule a knee surgery.

I’m in the waiting time for the waiting time for the surgery.

https://i.imgflip.com/8gm8nf.jpg


“It’s required”. What a piece of shit


If you liked the book, you should try the audiobook. You can download it from your local public library.

In the audiobook, after every chapter, the person reading the book and David Goggins engage in a commentary of the chapter and you get more insights into that was going through David’s mind, why he chose to share that, etc.

It’s like getting the director’s cut.

Highly recommended!


Sincerely brutal 😁


Saying that cholesterol causes high blood pressure is like saying  that torniquetes cause bleeding deaths.

And that is the logic used by Big Pharma to sell you statins.

https://bodyhealth.com/blogs/news/is-cholesterol-actually-the-cause-of-heart-disease


Thanks!


Anyone has an invitation code for Relai? I’m setting up my parents with the app

#askNostr


Great run! Congrats


I’ll check it out


Do you have another suggestion?


Anyone there using nostr.build with Mullvad browser?

Mullvad will upload a file with no image content and I have to use Chrome instead.

#askNostr


Today I switched my kids from Muun to Phoenix. Both do a good job of managing on-chain and lightning payments but Muun's fees, specially on a high on-chain fee environment, were just too much.

https://habla.news/u/alejandro@bitcoinforfamilies.com/goodbye-muun-hello-phoenix


> "Muun is fine in a low fee environment, but there could be some serious pain once fees go up."
>
> — [MCBitcoin](nostr:npub1nny7hs59xvcq7nuwm50uy8zel9j4evwrkspqlc9408490e3mn5rs7s6ml9)

Over a year ago, I loaded the Muun wallet into my kids phones and started paying them their weekly allowance in Bitcoin. Today, I've switched their savings in their phones to Phoenix.

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## Muun was a good wallet to get the kids started

My kids have been able to use Muun regularly and that is a testament to Muun's UX. They would send me invoices every Sunday or pay my invoices when they needed to send me money.

I regularly tell them that what matters is how much Bitcoin they have and shouldn't worry about the ups and downs of the price in US dollars, but they are kids after all, and they surely did keep track of their savings in US dollars and Muun made that easy as well.

But things got out of control when on-chain fees skyrocketed. I was paying 6,000 sats to send 60,000 sats 😖

I started holding their allowance to pay multiple weeks at once but that's not right. What message am I sending my kids if I pay them with money that is hard and expensive to use?

So now that the fees are back to reasonable numbers, I've moved their savings to Phoenix.

Will Phoenix do better in a high fee environment? We'll see. I'll be sure to report back here.
## Time to consolidate and move your Bitcoin around

Once fees go up again, I don't think we will ever see fees as low as they are now. So take the opportunity to consolidate UTXOs, open up new Lightning channels and move things around.

![](https://i.nostr.build/Q358.png)

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# Notable notes

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# Recommendations
## MCBitcoin

MCBitcoin is someone who should have way more followers.

You can follow him [here](nostr:npub1nny7hs59xvcq7nuwm50uy8zel9j4evwrkspqlc9408490e3mn5rs7s6ml9)

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## What did you think of today's newsletter?
Your feedback helps me create the best newsletter possible for you.

Please leave a comment and checkout comments from other subscribers and readers.  I love hearing from the Bitcoin For Families community ❤ 🙏🏻

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See you again next week!
— Alejandro

This newsletter is for educational purposes. It does not represent financial advice. Do your own research before buying Bitcoin.

Today I switched my kids from Muun to Phoenix. Both do a good job of managing on-chain and lightning payments but Muun's fees, specially on a high on-chain fee environment, were just too much.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqdxwmm0v338jefdd46h2m3ddpjkcmr094cxsmm9de5hsq3qer0k46yxcugmp6r6mujd5qvp75yp72m98fs6ywcs2k3kqg3f8grqxpqqqp65w2fnw76


The neighborhood Safeway peddling fear https://i.nostr.build/xrGm.jpg


Damus replaces the npub with the @ username 😂


I think it’s nostr:npub1yrffsyxk5hujkpz6mcpwhwkujqmdwswvdp4sqs2ug26zxmly45hsfpn8p0@npub.cash


I experienced that myself with my kids.


I setup my kids with Muun and send them their weekly allowance in sats. You may want to use Phoenix instead.  I think it’s better but I’m not bothering the kids with switching to another client.


I say thank you if it’s a big zap


What utxo size would you recommend for those consolidating now that we are getting a fee break?

Did some utxo consolidations and migrated some utxos from ledger to coldcard this weekend and I’m curious about what others see as a good utxo size.


Thanks. I understood that part. My question was about the privacy lost by Mullvad users if they run their customer support email with ProtonMail instead of using in-house servers.


> "I've seen so many people say they won't use Nostr because we don't support delete. This is really frustrating, because Nostr DOES support delete, it's right there in the NIP's!"
>
> — [rabble](nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240)

A few days back, rabble posted a note and a blog post discussing the misconceptions about Nostr's inability to delete notes and his perception on how the issue should be approached.

You can read the blog post [here](nostr:naddr1qq2ksje3g9trxujpxymyxjjlg5ckjmmrtguyxqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejqz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj95crztnev94kj6r0dehx2tnrdaksygq0ytqxatqsqf5yalxx3atg2s8gxsk3vzw4pz7dgvfvqw8xr98ckcpsgqqqw4rstvd04e).

His thoughts prompted me to share my own thoughts on deleting stuff on the Internet in general and Nostr in particular. My note got some attention (lots by my meager standards 😆), reposts and comments so I thought it would be good to expand a bit more in this week's newsletter. *Make sure to check out my original note below and the responses. There were very good points made to support also the need to delete notes.*

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## The good old Internet

Before MySpace, Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the social media behemoths came around, the Internet was made of a bunch of decentralized services like IRC servers. You would connect to a server, chat with people, exchange files and know that once you post something, it's out there and completely out of your control.

The Internet is just amplifying the reach of your speech. You can't delete what is posted just like you can't unspeak what you have spoken.

> Posting something on the Internet is like peeing in the swimming pool. Once it's out, you can't take it back.
>
> — Old piece of wisdom passed over to me in the early years of the Internet

![](https://i.nostr.build/R09M.jpg)

I took this advice to heart. And I drill it into my kids every day: **don't share with anyone anything that you wouldn't want splashed on all the high school screens**.

## My approach to deleting Tweets, notes, and other stuff
I don't understand the fear of not being able to delete notes.

Yes, now there is a permanent record of what you say and everyone can see it. It is the price, and the beauty, of having the Internet megaphone.

So use it wisely. Think twice before you post.

The inability to delete has the potential to make the Internet a better place. To get rid of all the bullshit that goes around elsewhere in centralized apps.

Sure it would had been nice to be able to edit tweets to correct misspellings but I believe that an Internet where you can't delete stuff is a better Internet.

I remember one time when I felt for a prank from an Ethereum Twitter user. He, and his followers, roasted me for days, reposting my tweet and having a blast at my expense. I was tempted to delete my tweet but I felt that that would had been an act of cowardice. Better to own my mistake and use all the scorn directed at me to learn the lesson.

## But what if I change my mind?

*But what if I change my mind and I don't agree any more with something I posted 5 years ago?*

Congratulations! You have grown! You have learned new things and now you have new perspectives on life and stuff.

> I pity those who agree with everything they have written on the Internet in the last 20 years.

Change is natural. Change is good. Your past posts are proof of your growth. Why would you want to delete them?

If sharing the fact that you have changed your mind scares you, if you'd rather delete an old post that admit that you were wrong, maybe you should take a deeper look within yourself.

And let me be clear, people who go back through your posts to find something damning that you said 5 or 10 years ago are at the very least stupid and most likely evil, driven by an ill will towards you. They are the problem, not your thoughts from 10 years ago.

## Deleting in Nostr

Like rabble says, you can mark a note as deleted. Some clients and relays may honor the request, some may not. You never know. Rabble's take is that by marking something for deletion you're signaling that you have grown, that you have changed your mind and that that note does not accurately capture your thoughts on the subject any longer.

I respectfully disagree. I think that posting a new note with your new thoughts is a better approach. You can even quote the old note to make sure that everyone knows what you're talking about. Because, for all purposes, you don't know if the note will ever be deleted anyway.

For me, the existence of the old note in conjunction with the new note signifies growth and that is what matters the most.

**Full disclosure**: when I decided to stop tweeting and focus on Nostr, I left the Twitter account inactive with the content still up. But after Twitter started requesting biometrics I realized that it was time to close the account and that had the effect of deleting everything: good (the few) and bad (the many) tweets alike.

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# Notable notes

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nostr:note10558a40e25t42n7a94cwg68t4y4w0g44z240lqvqfkg6ddlfsr8sw5wudn

nostr:note1emj5lzys3vuenjvmdjtqmzlp90znq08w2f57p2t7xakm2t0rssfql2qhr9

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# Recommendations
## rabble

rabble has been working on censorship resistant social media for years. He was working on Planetary and scuttlebutt before switching to building on Nostr.

You can follow him [here](nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240)

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## What did you think of today's newsletter?
Your feedback helps me create the best newsletter possible for you.

Please leave a comment and checkout comments from other subscribers and readers.  I love hearing from the Bitcoin For Families community ❤ 🙏🏻

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See you again next week!
— Alejandro

This newsletter is for educational purposes. It does not represent financial advice. Do your own research before buying Bitcoin.

The fear of not being able to delete notes

I don't understand the fear of not being able to delete notes. The Internet is just amplifying the reach of your speech. You can't delete what is posted just like you can't unspeak what you have spoken.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qq48g6r994nx2ctj94hkvttwda6z6cn9d9hxwttpvfkx2tt5dukkgetvv46x2ttwda6x2uczyryd76hgsmr3rv8g0t0jfksps86ss8etv5axrg3mzp26xcpz9yaqvqcyqqq823cv829ex


A few days back, I shared my thoughts about deleting notes and there were some good responses both supporting and rejecting my thesis so I decided to expand a bit more into it with my weekly newsletter.

Enjoy!

https://habla.news/u/alejandro@bitcoinforfamilies.com/the-fear-of-not-being-able-to-delete-notes


If going the word route, why not 12? 24 is too long and 12 is secure enough for practical purposes.


Thanks for posting this.

Out of curiosity, what are the advantages of Mullvad self-hosting vs using ProtonMail?

I understand that you’re still outsourcing but if we consider ProtonMail as a private email service provider for individuals, is it ok for businesses to use it as well?

It might be easier to get businesses to switch providers than building and managing in-house.


I predict a spike in boating accidents.

Peer-to-peer Bitcoin markets like Robosats are the solution.


Government hard at work destroying businesses:

Thanks to new fees imposed by a Seattle ordinance designed to entitle gig workers to minimum pay, drivers are now earning 50% less compared with the same week last year.

https://i.nostr.build/59wr.jpg


True Bitcoiners hate seeing a price pump.


That would be awesome. I recently switched to Mullvad and would love to try Satcom


Absolutely agree. People change. I have changed a lot since I went down the Bitcoin rabbit hole.

What you say / write at any given time is based on who you are and how you perceive the world at that time. No more. No less.

Deleting stuff is an act of cowardice. It's easier to delete than to say "I was wrong. I have changed and this is my new take on XYZ".

Holding people hostage for what they wrote 10 - 15 years ago is at the very least childish and more often than not evil, based on certain agenda and an ill will.


Hay 3 cosas que no se pueden borrar ni hacer volver atrás:
La oportunidad perdida
La bala ya disparada
Y la palabra escrita


Thanks!


I posed the following question on X:

“If you are a Bitcoiner and you’re still not on #Nostr, what are you waiting for??
It’s a free & open protocol for speech, like #Bitcoin  is a free & open protocol for money.
You need *both* to free yourself.”

The responses I got are indicative of how early we are, and also how the *first* experience someone has with #Nostr is so important. You can see that a lot of folks tried it and got frustrated (likely a year or so ago) and haven’t come back since. Their initial impression is still cemented in their mind, and they have no idea how much the ecosystem has improved in the last year.

The first touchpoint someone has is incredibly important, because like it or not, people DO just books by their covers.

Just some food for thought.
#grownostr
https://x.com/walkeramerica/status/1755341881213399291 https://i.nostr.build/V4nG.jpg https://i.nostr.build/KQjO.jpg https://i.nostr.build/9DjG.jpg https://i.nostr.build/kaV3.jpg https://i.nostr.build/59Lz.jpg https://i.nostr.build/754n.jpg


Those are good points.

If you accidentally disclose something you didn't mean to, there is no undoing. I still think that the benefits out weight the risks.


Indeed 😀  That's why it stuck with me and that's why I use it with my kids


I don't understand the fear of not being able to delete notes.

The Internet is just amplifying the reach of your speech. You can't delete what is posted just like you can't unspeak what you have spoken.

Yes, now there is a permanent record of what you say and everyone can see it. It is the price, and the beauty, of having the Internet megaphone.

So use it wisely. Think twice before you post.

The inability to delete has the potential to make the Internet a better place. To get rid of all the bullshit that goes around elsewhere in centralized apps.

Also, in the early years of the Internet I was told that sharing something on the Internet was like peeing in the swimming pool: once it's out, you can't take it back. I drill this into my kids EVERY day.


Looks good!


Suddenly all the Wall Street pundits are Bitcoin experts 🤡 nostr:note1ht4v9xphreutas34542shqmggev6px0x0cm43lczsnd40dwnrhnsa65je3


I thought Disney had learned their lesson after their statements with their 2023 annual report.

I guess they didn’t.


I still don’t think we disagree. The developed world has no right to tell developing countries that they can’t use coal, just like we did, because our round at using it polluted the air.

That approach is extremely selfish.


I don’t disagree with you. Coal has lifted entire countries out of poverty.

I see the question as a first step in breaking the newspeak thinking.

Then we can start debating pros and cons of different energy sources.


This is a fantastic note on Substack.

But I can’t leave a comment because Substack demands that I create an account.

Talk about value destroying friction!

The possibilities of Nostr are endless. Don’t get distracted by things like the new subscriber numbers shared by Bluesky.

Keep building on Nostr. nostr:note1krf739ruujxexd59fsr3zw79aslwzmfcnfmlcjy9eskaektpvzxqzyjrck


No lies detected. I tried to comment on the note to introduce Nostr but it requires a substack account.

Talk about friction!


Welcome!


🍿 nostr:note1hq39528h4kz5uv6dcpa0v9tmfy5yzqdw5lhwljj7345ywss67xgq9z2vpt


Politicians are drunk with ego


Tap water


Thanks! I’ve been thinking about it


As an iPhone user, this is hard to read. But facts are facts. The Apple is rotten. nostr:note1268vcz2tcv4svu8qs64qml65rpg4z5amt63ys5nzv0ch6dlrjxuqdwrf5a


“I don’t want anybody else issuing currency except me” yells Sec. Yellen. nostr:note1vx0llae93hmasa9dn5v9vvarvflsfalun5d9qkwc80c30gtpqhvqf3d4fl


Great hack! nostr:note1wmax5vmwramcnhcuuhdq25t77lw4mgnx2rl9kcl6mad08585levsyt5esv


Thanks for sharing! This is fantastic


Proper tires and chains will get you through. Otherwise you might end up crashing the car


Good morning!


And no mercy for those bastards!


Thanks!


The halving is coming and this time it's different.

Are you ready?

https://habla.news/u/alejandro@bitcoinforfamilies.com/the-halving-is-coming


https://i.nostr.build/jP8V.jpg

Every 210,000 blocks, the Bitcoin network cuts in half the number of Bitcoin issued to miners as a reward for mining the next block.

As I write this, we're now at height 828,475, so we're roughly 11,500 blocks, or 80 days, away from the next halving.

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## What will the halving do?

The halving itself is very straight forward. The reward will go down from 6.25 to 3.125 Bitcoin.

A lot has changed since the first halving, when the network reduced the reward from 50 to 25 Bitcoin.

The first halving happened on November 28, 2012. The Bitcoin price was $12.35 USD and 75% of Bitcoin had been mined already. Only cyberpunks and people buying and selling on the Silk Road market were using Bitcoin at the time.

Today, the price is around $43,000 USD, 96.875% of Bitcoin will be mined by block 840,000 and users include states (El Salvador), corporations (MicroStrategy, Tether Holdings) and Wall Street (ETFs and trusts).

The demand for Bitcoin is rising with the recent launch of ETFs in the United States. In less than a month, the newly launched ETFs have accumulated 170,082 Bitcoin. That's no small figure for less than a month.

> Once the halving occurs, it will take 3.2 years for the Bitcoin network to issue the same 170,082 Bitcoin that the newly minted ETFs have gathered in less than a month.

The halving will reduce the supply at the same time that the demand increases and at a time when the amount of Bitcoin left is really, really small.

And by now, Bitcoiners are hodlers. 70% of Bitcoin addresses have hold their Bitcoin for over 1 year. 31% have hold their Bitcoin over 5 years and 16% have hold their Bitcoin over [10 years](https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/10-year-hodl-wave/).

## Are you bullish enough?

So what do you think will happen to the Bitcoin demand and price when the halving comes around in less than 4 months?

https://i.nostr.build/BjrK.jpg

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# Notable notes

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nostr:note1l8r4y943axfu0ltn84fd5aj5n6ynz2xy3x4xvtvd9lepvv92z9lq2u9pqj

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# Recommendations
## Farooq

Bitcoin maximalist and a great source of signal.

You can follow him [here](nostr:npub1rqe7upz9nl4jef9wdyx47vfxnt2g3357tl5s8fpt2vkxwlz2s9cq9w3jdt)

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## What did you think of today's newsletter?
Your feedback helps me create the best newsletter possible for you.

Please leave a comment and checkout comments from other subscribers and readers.  I love hearing from the Bitcoin For Families community ❤ 🙏🏻

---
See you again next week!
— Alejandro

This newsletter is for educational purposes. It does not represent financial advice. Do your own research before buying Bitcoin.

The halving is coming and this time it's different. Are you ready?

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qq2hg6r9945xzmrkd9hxwttfwvkkxmmdd9hxwq3qer0k46yxcugmp6r6mujd5qvp75yp72m98fs6ywcs2k3kqg3f8grqxpqqqp65wzfwm8l


And...I answered my own question

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki


🤦♂ I guess what I really need is "uBlock for dummies"


True independents, regardless of past voting records, acknowledge that President Biden is not fit for a second term.

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


Have you done your pushups today?


Note that Dick Cuckerson looks eerily similar to Walker 😉

On a separate topic, now I see why Status exists. I'm copying yours to mine 😄


Thank you! Let me know how I can help


And Walker 😉


So getting jacked to the tits is synonym with dangerous extremism?


I thought I was a family man but The New York times just made me realize that I'm a psychopathic extremist.

nostr:note13595xhlxadtkpqjqa4p5j3quesq8m4n7m7sj222nhe9unzaqfwvq7cl9wa


Managed to replicate it. At the first attempt with Mullvad, Highlighter picked up my profile. It won't show the pic on the profile editor.

I then logged in with Chrome. Profile info still there. Then went back to Mullvad and profile was missing.

Through the whole process, I tried to save "Freedom Tech" category and it wouldn't.

I also noticed that it wipes out the background pic even though the Highlighter profile composer doesn't have an option to set one.

Please let me know how else I can help. Can also do a screenshare if needed.


I repopulated it 😟

Let me repeat the experiment.


¡Por qué! ¡Por qué! Entre nostr:npub14qt30q0an6gwmcl2gnwu5hf6h7pgl68wm6c082asm5l9vdtzu87q0z9htj y tú me vais a matar.


Thanks for logging this and looking into it!

Damus uses my nsec. Otherwise I use Alby. This morning I logged in to Highlighter using the Mullvad browser.

I only recently switch from Chrome to Mullvad so I'm sure there was no previous session or cookie.

The pop-up to approve Alby connection came up and I agreed. Highlighter then showed my profile pic on the upper left corner which I took as the login had been successful.

Browsing through the options, I saw "Complete your profile" and the fields were empty. I was surprised that Highlighter wanted to use different data for my profile but I thought that maybe the intent is to provide more details as a creator so I typed a few things and clicked save.

Could also be an issue with Mullvad. I'm still trying to figure out what works and what not works with Mullvad's stricter approach to web browser privacy.


 nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft, I just rediscovered Highlighter after months without using it. It looks fantastic! But it wiped my profile when I logged in with Alby.

Description, LN address, NIP-05 all gone.


You got me there 😂


Lets start the weekend with a bang

I’M GONNA BE A DAD!

jk lol

BUT I SUCCESFULLY ORANGEPILLED MY GF

That is also kind of a big deal right? 🤷🏼♂

#relai #relaisquad nostr:npub1sqzr42dj8vx32yd5jcvvl3ytux45kl0etgf6y2ymjvmd7lqmuwmqk9vk7v #bitcoin #btc #stacksats #buybitcoin #studybitcoin https://image.nostr.build/1f57274129259f67177a113d797e46d1534deda5c4d50734af833f3dcdb0c8cc.jpg


Congratulations! Nothing compares to bringing a life to this world


Still going. Was going before the challenge started 😁


I don’t know. I got the latest Test Flight release and it showed up 😁


Loving the new search feature nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955! https://i.nostr.build/29Q8.jpg


#introductions
Hello! My name is Azuraye. I like geometry, people, and Nature, especially all together. I run a regenerative farm in Boulder, CO and manage the biomimicry of social, economic, and technological design.
Excited to be here!


Welcome!


It’s good to test different models. Only tests will tell us what works best


Had to follow nostr:npub1ra5ch494mk5qgvt0p9mnlypu56vu7ke2plx4k0lxupcfv6x43esqre4rvx


#GroundhogDay is coming up.

Punxsutawney Phil has an accuracy rate of 39% over 135 years.

That makes Inverse Punxsutawney Phil more accurate than your local TV  weather man or woman.

Heed the predictions of Inverse Punxsutawney Phil! 😂


¡Enhorabuena!

Yo aprendí esta lección tarde pero más vale tarde que nunca: busca a una pareja que te haga reír y que se ría contigo.


Hearings are for show. To create clips and soundbites to raise more campaign money.

The senator says he wants to have an honest conversation but engages instead in a game of entrapment.

Parents are responsible for their children.


Great job! Upper left shelf. Under the white tea pot


I agree. I pay for relays and now for my main client as well


Amen


Thank you!


For half the price of X you get infinitely more freedom and the warm and fuzzy feeling of supporting Nostr developers.

What else can you ask for?

If you’re a nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955  user, go ahead and subscribe to Damus Purple. https://i.nostr.build/W9Gj.png


Oh, that sucks. Sorry to hear that


Broken wrist and leg? 😮 Take good care Ben!


#100pushups plus some chin ups for good measure. https://i.nostr.build/AmeL.jpg


Great video!

I use Zerowater at home. I have not found anything better.

https://zerowater.com/


Thanks!


I'm currently benched with a torn meniscus so I've signed up for the Evergreen Half Marathon scheduled for June 8th in Snohomish, WA to have a clear goal for recovery.

Anyone else wants to join me?

https://raceroster.com/events/2024/79348/the-2024-evergreen-half


Hang in there!


I use only 4 across for all my clients:
 - filter.nostr.wine does the aggregation and broadcasting
 - nostr.land, welcome.nostr.wine and nostr.wine are add ons but not strictly necessary


That's like putting guardrails to the air we breathe....


I'm thrilled to learn that there is now research being done under the umbrella of metabolic psychiatry.

We are what we eat and the sooner we acknowledge this the better everyone will be.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/01/27/1227062470/keto-ketogenic-diet-mental-illness-bipolar-depression

nostr:note17z7gnqmhmd3zwhspy0q0zj7gt6tql0q0dgy7tavsufvyp4hjht5qx2d4k9


President Eisenhower was an exceptional military and civilian leader.

The American people should had listen to him when he identified his two most pressing concerns upon leaving the presidency. But we didn't and now both of them have become a reality, threatening the very essence of this experiment called the American Republic.

https://habla.news/u/alejandro@bitcoinforfamilies.com/eisenhowers-nightmare-is-here


> "Each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs, balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost and hoped for advantages, balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable, balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual, balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future."
>
> — President Eisenhower

63 years ago, President Eisenhower, gave a stern warning to the nation on his farewell address. He specifically identified two threats to the American society:
- *We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.*
- *Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.*

Every American should listen to Eisenhower's warning words. Every school should teach its students this address. But they don't.

> The nation didn't listen and his fears have fully materialized. The military-industrial complex owns the Federal budget and the food, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries control the regulatory agencies for their benefit.

---
## The speech

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*Good evening, my fellow Americans.*

*First, I should like to express my gratitude to the radio and television networks for the opportunities they have given me over the years to bring reports and messages to our nation. My special thanks go to them for the opportunity of addressing you this evening.*

*Three days from now, after half century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor. This evening, I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.*

*Like every other -- Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.*

*Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the nation. My own relations with the Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and finally to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years. In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the nation good, rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the nation should go forward. So, my official relationship with the Congress ends in a feeling -- on my part -- of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together.*

*We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country. Despite these holocausts, America is today the strongest, the most influential, and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches, and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.*

*Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace, to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity, and integrity among peoples and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension, or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt, both at home and abroad.*

*Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily, the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle with liberty the stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.*

*Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties: a huge increase in newer elements of our defenses; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research. These and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel.*

*But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs, balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost and hoped for advantages, balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable, balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual, balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress. Lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration. The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their Government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well, in the face of threat and stress.*

*But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. Of these, I mention two only.*

*A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. Our military organization today bears little relation to that known of any of my predecessors in peacetime, or, indeed, by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.*

*Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.*

*Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.*

*In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.*

*Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.*

*Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.*

*Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.*

*It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.*

*Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.*

*During the long lane of the history yet to be written, America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations -- past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of disarmament -- of the battlefield.*

*Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent, I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war, as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years, I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.*

*Happily, I can say that war has been avoided. Steady progress toward our ultimate goal has been made. But so much remains to be done. As a private citizen, I shall never cease to do what little I can to help the world advance along that road.*

*So, in this, my last good night to you as your President, I thank you for the many opportunities you have given me for public service in war and in peace. I trust in that -- in that -- in that service you find some things worthy. As for the rest of it, I know you will find ways to improve performance in the future.*

*You and I, my fellow citizens, need to be strong in our faith that all nations, under God, will reach the goal of peace with justice. May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the Nations' great goals.*

*To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration: We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its few spiritual blessings. Those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibility; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; and that the sources -- scourges of poverty, disease, and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth; and that in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.*

*Now, on Friday noon, I am to become a private citizen. I am proud to do so. I look forward to it.*

*Thank you, and good night.*

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## Alex Gladstein

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President Eisenhower was an exceptional military and civilian leader. The American people should had listen to him when he identified his two most pressing concerns upon leaving the presidency. But we didn't and now both of them have become a reality, threatening the very essence of this experiment called the American Republic.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqwk26tnv4hxsmmhv4e8xttwd9nksardv9ex2ttfwvkksetjv5pzpjxldt5gd3c3kr584heymgqcraggru4k2wnp5ga3q4drvq3zjwsxqvzqqqr4gu83r0tu


I will buy it!


Did you make that leather wrap? It would make a perfect mouse pad as well


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That’s too bad. I hope they recover soon


Half a year per false accusation? What a joke


There is 🔥


This is a great book on leading by example. Bottoms up.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848190-extreme-ownership


What a loser


I’m assuming is multi, multi sig 😁


I think it’s good. Just comes to show the benefits of Bitcoin vs banks


Are they keeping ALL their BTC in that one address?


Join us for the 2nd Annual Super Bowl Football Square Board 🏈🏈

I just bought 2 square boards. nostr:note1gdtz8ng2s039htkesah86hethq7qjmk6hcj8tha5j3ajuscjrk6svhujw9


Fantastic book!


Focus on the fact that you’re back 👏🏻


Yes 😬


Any interest having a football square board for the SuperBowl again? Say 10,000 sats a square, payout will be 200k for q1, q2, and q3. Q4 payout will be 400k.

Refunds will be a pain in the ass. So if we only sell 50 squares, I will cut the payouts in 1/2 and everyone would get two squares per 10k buy-in.

If there’s interest, I’ll turn on the payserver link and start collecting payments.

If you want to play, be sure and re-note it to find others that want to play.

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I’m in!


Free speech is a human right that we need to defend every day.

Otherwise you end up in situations like this one, where Dr. Peterson is mandated by the court and the College of Psychologists of Ontario to take "media training" or lose his medical license because they don't like their media posts.

Nothing wrong about how he treats his patients. They just don't like his media posts.

This is Orwellian and must be stopped.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jordan-peterson-court-challenge-rejection-1.7086681


Just switched to the Mullvad Browser and will switch from NordVPN to Mullvad VPN once my current subscription with Nord ends in a few weeks.

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The anchor knows Bitcoin better than the CEO. Her last comment about holding keys vs buying an ETF was fire


It is! If you haven’t, listen to his podcast with Huberman. There they take a different angle, understanding why his brain works the way it does


This sounds very much like Goggins. If you haven’t read his books, you should check them out. Or the podcasts he has done with Rogan and the latest one with Huberman.


This is a great chart!

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For millennia, our food has been organic.

That only changed once the food industry got greedy and started poisoning our food.


Oh no


Decentralization, and the freedom that comes with it, is the main reason why I love Nostr.

At the same time, decentralization is also its main weakness. With Nostr, there is no central server or company to take care of everything for you. You're in charge of your experience when using Nostr clients.

After some experiments, I've arrived at a relay configuration that I feel it gives me the best user experience:

https://habla.news/u/alejandro@bitcoinforfamilies.com/my-nostr-relay-configuration