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A lot of the problems the US is suffering from today stem from the fact that we've been managed by a political class that is economically illiterate for decades.

"Debt is only money we owe ourselves."

"We need to pass this $2 Trillion spending bill to drive down prices."

"We need to phase out reliable energy generation in favor of unreliable renewables."

"Nuclear energy is bad so we can't build anymore reactors."

"We need to bail out the banks that introduced systemic risks into our economy or the world will devolve into chaos."

"We need to lock down the economy and print trillions of dollars to pay people for staying home from work while we flatten the curve."

"A prolonged zero interest rate environment will stoke economic growth with no long-term effects."

"We need to ship all of our manufacturing over seas so that we can flood the world with dollars, make the USD the reserve currency of the world, and lower prices at home. Good middle class jobs be damned."

The list goes on and on.

The ramifications of these compounding economically illiterate policies has left the country, and the world at large, in an extremely vulnerable position. We are sitting on more than $35 TRILLION of debt on the national balance sheet with another $220 TRILLION in off balance sheet liabilities in the form of Social Security, Medicare, Medicade and other handouts the government has promised to make in the future. And, worse yet, many policies, particularly spending bills that pack in new regulations, have indirectly eroded individual freedoms.

The annual military budget increases the war machine and the military industrial complex, which then use the money they've been allocated to lobby for laws like the Patriot Act. Completely obliterating the fourth amendment in an effort to "protect the country from terrorism". I sit here and shudder at the thought of how much money has been wasted on programs like the TSA and the additional lost economic productivity that comes with people idiotically taking off their shoes and standing in a radioactive tube with their hands up while some mouth breather who couldn't guard a Pixie cup from a three year old yells at you. Let alone the potential economic activity and partnerships that are blown up with the bombs we drop using money we don't have.

The mad dash to "nEt ZeRo EmIsSiOnS" also brings along with it inflationary pressures that result in increased economic stress for the Common Man while restricting his freedoms. Nothing makes this clearer than the Orwellian "Inflation Reduction Act" that forced net zero energy transitions policies through a bill. The policies limit the options individual Americans and corporations have when it comes to utilizing the energy sources they deem most economically viable at any given point in time. An over subsidization of wind and solar and a demonization of oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear has introduced economic imbalances that are leading to a capital misallocation of epic proportions. This has, in turn, led to less reliable energy systems and overall higher energy costs.

And now the incumbent administration, now headed by Kamala Harris, is pushing for an unrealized capital gains tax that is sure to scare tens of billions of dollars worth of capital outside of the borders of the US. We touched on it when it was originally being floated last week. However, at the time it seemed like the campaign was floating a litmus test to gauge how it would be received if it became an official policy. Today it became clear that this will be an official policy if Harris gets into office and garners the necessary votes to push it through.

What's worse is the fact that one of her lead economic advisors, Bharat Rama, joined CNBC this morning to not only confirm that this is the official policy stance of the Harris campaign, but to say that people should be okay with this because they already pay an "unrealized gain tax" in the form of property taxes. Not only is it not true that property taxes are technically not unrealized gain taxes, but it's also horrible framing. Property taxes are one of the most reviled taxes that people have to pay after income taxes. No one likes paying property taxes. Especially when they look at the laughable public schooling system that they fund.

Doubling down on failed policy seems to be the modus operandi of Kamala Harris and the Marxists on her team. An unrealized gains tax is nothing more than asset confiscation by a corrupt government that has completely lost control of its finances. It will destroy the wealth of the nation.
"But it will only affect people who have more than $100M. Stop talking about this, it won't affect you at all! You poor rich wannabe."

People who have attained hundreds of millions of dollars have done so because they are smart. (Most of them at least.) And they worked extremely hard to build businesses to acquire their wealth. If you think they are stupid enough to stand by and let the government swoop in and confiscate that wealth, I have a bitcoin privacy fork to sell you. They will move their money out of the country on November 6th and the Harris administration will be forced to begin lowering the threshold of who has to pay unrealized gains taxes.

$50m

$25m

$10m

$1m

$100k

They will not stop doubling down on their incompetence. These people should be laughed out of polite society and marooned on an island for floating policy as potentially dangerous to the US economy as this unrealized tax is.

This is why we bitcoin. Bitcoin gives people the ability to store their wealth in an asset that is extremely hard to confiscate if secured properly. Bitcoin gives you leverage from which to fight back against this type of overt Marxism.

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Final thought...
It is abnormally humid on my village by the sea for a late August day.

They want to loot your wealth. Don't let them.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq3e0gs8jnmued6f2rp4c6vs07xqvs4vs8zpwt82smcdch4txjvq7qqxnzdejxsursdpjx5erwvfhy8v24n


It’s really nice, and too uncommon, to see talking heads spew some logic.

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The bitcoin network just had a +2.99% difficulty adjustment.
https://m.primal.net/KRyZ.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KRyY.jpg


Welcome back Bitcoiner. A lot has happened since you came here with the last flock of new users. Nostr clients have matured a lot and we have so many more people posting diverse content. Here are tips for you.

## Diversify your client use

It's fine to start with Primal but don't stop there. We have a gazillion different clients and they all need users. Do not stick with the first thing they give you. You are in control. Act on it. I for example love to use coracle.social or iris.to

## Follow many

Nostr clients don't shove content into your face. That means it requires a little more effort from you to curate your own experience. Follow more people than on Twitter. Also, use this as an opportunity to follow completely different people than you did before. I for example follow nostr:nprofile1qqsp4a2f2kfkh6qyl9gpqer75kk6t3mz0mwlqu6207qnhwswx8hdjcqpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchs8h80dn for rug inspirations.

## Run a relay

Are you a gangster who can step up and provide for his community or not? Are you a net consumer or a net producer? That's basically the question. Run relays, seed torrents, install nodes, set up mints, open PRs. Be a gangster.


I will simply never vote for a candidate who proposes taxing unrealized gains.

On this issue I think slippery slope arguments are valid and historically grounded.

I also think it betrays a fundamental lack of understanding and economic illiteracy.

More troublingly, it indicates a perspective on the relationship between government and citizen that I think is anti-American. nostr:note1n5feqtv6nd4lvcrufnjvpdzaer2lv7cf07v38th6zlkzpt0w3e6qcej3vk


"People already pay unrealized gains taxes, it's called a property tax."

Property taxes should be abolished. Using property taxes to justify more unrealized gains taxes is not going to sway a lot of voters. People hate property taxes.

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The push to tax unrealized gains is utterly insane and our boy Joe Kernen is having none of it.

Kamala Harris’ economic advisor Bharat Rama tries arguing in favor of Harris’ unrealized capital gains tax.

https://m.primal.net/KRyM.mov


Late stage cycle signs.

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


we aren't talking about ai+nostr enough https://m.primal.net/KROt.png


TODAY IS THE TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF BITCOIN LEGEND HAL FINNEY.

HIS WIFE, FRAN FINNEY, WILL BE JOINING US ON CITADEL DISPATCH TODAY AT 2100 UTC TO CELEBRATE HIS LIFE.

JOIN US IN THE INTERACTIVE LIVE CHAT. 🫡

https://citadeldispatch.com


The shitcoiners have been short intellect for years now. This isn’t surprising.
https://m.primal.net/KRax.mov


We’re going to win.
https://m.primal.net/KQqv.mov


For the uninitiated: https://gwern.net/bitcoin-is-worse-is-better


Nostr is worse is better.


Feels like a completely new world opened up to me this weekend.

Euro-bitcoin feels different. No nonsense. High character. Diverse and open-minded.

Can’t believe I’ve missed out on this for so long.

Thank you so much for the opportunity nostr:npub1zu5tdnq7w63fgmsfz85te7e6zeg7y2lt8q8r9jp5zcg68jfy73jqraqtgz Max and all the BHB team


There are times where freedom must be taken and defended. We are certainly living through one of those times right now.

Bitcoin and Nostr are examples of individuals getting up, rolling up their sleeves and taking their freedoms without permission.

nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq3e0gs8jnmued6f2rp4c6vs07xqvs4vs8zpwt82smcdch4txjvq7qqxnzdejxsmnjdecxcunsvp4dtd5p6


👀
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I'm sure you are all well aware of the news out of France. The French government has made the bold move of arresting the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, after charging him with 12 criminal counts ranging from "complicity in web-mastering an online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction in organized group" to "importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration".

Telegram is an extremely popular messaging app that is used by almost 1 billion people from around the world. I have personally been a user for seven years and it is very dismaying to see the French government attack an entrepreneur who has built a widely used and loved app. We've said it many times over the years in this rag, governments need to stop throwing the baby out with the bath water by attacking successful businesses for the crimes their users commit and begin doing better law enforcement. It makes no sense to demonize a technology for the crimes that are committed by a small minority of users of that tool. Is the French government going to go after the CEO of Bic, the largest producer of pens in the world, because there are pen pals out there who use their pens to write letters in which they coordinate criminal activity? If we apply the same logic behind the decision to arrest Pavel it would seem that the Bic CEO should be a bit worried.

Who knows what evidence the French government has against Pavel. Maybe he is directly involved in the coordination of crimes that were committed on his app. I highly doubt it, but who knows. We'll have to wait and see what evidence the French courts put forth once a trial gets under way. As of yesterday, we know that this seems like a classic case of "You refuse to cooperate with deep state actors who want access to your users' data, so we're going to accuse you of all of the crimes."

The fact of the matter is, we shouldn't have to worry about the actions of a founder dictating the accessibility of a novel technology that they bring to market. Especially technologies that enable people to connect in the digital world to exercise their God given right to free speech.

It's a bit poetic that this happened on Saturday night in Europe. Just one day after the Nostriga conference in Riga, Latvia wrapped up. Nostriga was a two-day event which attracted people from all over the world so that they could meet to discuss how to push the Nostr protocol forward. For those who are unaware of what Nostr is, it is an open source communications protocol with no leaders that enables individuals to publish their thoughts to the world is a distributed, censorship resistant fashion. User profiles are created via a private-public key pair. The public key makes it easy for others to follow and the private key enables a user to sign notes with certain data that get broadcasted to relays. App developers can then pull the user generated data from those relays and present the data in unique ways using front-end interfaces known as clients. Users can port their private keys (commonly known as nsecs) into any client they like and have all of the data they've published to the protocol automatically show up.
Said another way, since Nostr is a protocol and not a platform, users have way more optionality when it comes to the applications that present the data they publish. If one client decides to censor or simply has a bad UX, they can plop their magic string (private key) into another client and see everything they've ever posted while still being connected to everyone they added to their social graph historically. This is extremely powerful on many fronts.

Gone are the days of having to worry about building an audience on a platform, making that a critical part of your brand and livelihood, and having to self-censor because of the fear of being deplatformed. You own your private key and that gives you access to your data. Not the platform.

For app developers, the network effect of Nostr produces an incredible and truly unique bootstrapping mechanism. Instead of having to start from scratch and hope that users find your app, fill it with data, and begin spreading the word to more users you adopt the social graph of Nostr from day one. Every user of the protocol is already feeding your application data. If you can build an appealing product that provides users of the protocol with value, they will find it and immediately be able to leverage it. There will be no need for them to build up a reputation or find their social connections on the app. They will be ported into the client.

Nostr can be additive to seemingly unrelated applications that aren't built directly on Nostr. We've already seen this with bitcoin wallets that have enabled users to port their Nostr social graphs directly into their wallet. Making it easy for individuals to find their friend's Nostr account and send bitcoin directly to the lightning address they've associated with it. No need for an invoice. Just find your friend and send them money like you would on an app like Venmo.

The number of added benefits users and app developers get from Nostr beyond those I just explained are too long to list. Long story short, this protocol is a massive deal.

It is still very early for Nostr, but the progress that has been made in the last couple of years has been nothing short of awe inspiring. If you squint into the future, it isn't hard to see how Nostr becomes mainstream by the end of the decade. The compounding network effects are stronger than anything I've seen since bitcoin.

All of this is to say that this will be one of the only ways to build truly robust communications-based applications moving forward. As we've seen with TikTok and now Telegram, if the state doesn't like the owner of a particular platform they will either kick the platform out of their country or arrest the founder and do their best to corrupt the platform itself once he is in custody. This hasn't happened yet with Telegram, but you can bet your ass that the deep state will try to corrupt Telegram if they successfully remove him from the picture.

To be clear, this doesn't make the founders of particular Nostr clients immune to this type of overt overreach by governments. However, the design of Nostr is such that governments would have an exponentially harder time achieving their end goal, suppressing and controlling speech that's expressed on these platforms, because the protocol has hundreds of competing clients serving customers the data stored in relays. They could even attempt to go after the relays, but that task may prove to be impossible as well.

Make no mistake, we live in very trying times. The world's governments are losing control and they are doing the best they can to suppress freedom of speech in anyway they can to prevent people from spreading information that makes the Regime to look like the evil fools that they are. The best we can do is to build robust systems that make their attempts at suppressing speech as close to impossible as is possible. The efforts to build out robust systems like bitcoin and Nostr should be complemented with pushing back against the Regime via the courts. But as we all know, we can't always depend on the courts to actually deliver justice. There are times where freedom must be taken and defended. We are certainly living through one of those times right now.

Despite the insanity of the world and the governments who would like to rule it, the momentum of the light is building. People are taking action and solutions are being built slowly but surely. It is our job to keep the momentum up and make sure the lifeboats of bitcoin, Nostr and similar protocols are ready to go once the Deep State begins attacking others. They came for TikTok and Telegram. Don't think that platforms like X, Rumble and Gab aren't in their crosshairs as well.

Here are four videos from Nostriga that I think you all should watch.

https://youtu.be/XUsk7cqZyKU?si=2vUl01azeFJQjczZ

https://youtu.be/qUwXRDrfJU0?si=np3vyTDddoQKuPJK

https://youtu.be/OHqxp-Hrx9k?si=K7vhVBWtFQwB68Tr

https://youtu.be/iZyqVGHjDGo?si=CjJCbAlNBa06qcwV

And a panel I hosted about funding Nostr if you're interested in that.

https://youtu.be/qD-Y0fq5KiA?si=L81sFCPGw2ayXXzw

We're going to win.

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Final thought...
Jet lag sucks.

Telegram, the Deep State and Freedom in the Digital Age via Nostr

Platforms are fragile. Protocols are robust.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq3e0gs8jnmued6f2rp4c6vs07xqvs4vs8zpwt82smcdch4txjvq7qqxnzdejxsmnjdecxcunsvp4dtd5p6


Reddit and Twitter were both better when they allowed competing third party clients.

Nostr will always be better because there is no first party client.


The momentum of the light is building. Keep pushing.


OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support for Daniele

With this grant,  nostr:npub10000003zmk89narqpczy4ff6rnuht2wu05na7kpnh3mak7z2tqzsv8vwqk will refine Gossip and Coracle's user experience, explore group and community applications, develop marketplace NIPs and support apps, and create a new onboarding tool.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/opensats-grants-long-term-support-for-daniele/


Trump, alongside RFK Jr., pledges to create a presidential commission to declassify all JFK assassination documents if re-elected.
https://m.primal.net/KPtw.mov


Ron Paul: “When you inflate or destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out. The people who get to use the money first benefit.”
https://m.primal.net/KPqf.mov


Senator Cynthia Lummis says her strategic #Bitcoin reserve bill will be ready for “primetime legislation” in 2025
https://m.primal.net/KPoG.mov


He's still alive.


I have a feeling we’re going to win


Bitcoin removes the central banking cancer from humanity.

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High T fixes communism.


"If you abolish the Federal Reserve, what do you replace it with?"

Thomas Sowell: "When someone removes a cancer, what do you replace it with?"
https://m.primal.net/KPkJ.mov


Mark Zuckerberg just admitted:

1.Biden-Harris admin pressured Facebook to censor Americans.
2.Facebook complied.
3.They throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.
https://m.primal.net/KPkQ.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KPkR.jpg


Oh I stared straight into the sunset last night when I got in. Slept like a baby.


Nostr is a movement. No question about it.


Resetting my circadian rhythm after a week in Riga with early morning sun exposure and a proper ocean dip. I feel awesome right now.
https://m.primal.net/KPfu.jpg


I want a lot of the same outcomes as progressives I just believe that only the free markets, private money and individual liberty can deliver it.

Most importantly probably income inequality, crony capitalism/monopolies and endless wars.


Hi!

I just got back from a breathwork retreat in Hawaii and learned that @jackmallers shared the story of how I became a Bitcoiner through introducing me to @primal.

Jack’s right, I’ve never been very interested in money (or at least I thought I wasn’t). What I am interested in is people, our integrated health, and the implications it has on collective society.

Nostr helped me to understand Bitcoin not only as a superior monetary technology, but an unparalleled humanitarian tool. Here’s why I’m so bought in:

- It’s been proven over and over that safety is the foundation of integrated health

- Centralized unsound money = collective lack of safety

- Decentralized sound money = collective safety

- Collective safety = better integrated health & healthier society

It’s really as simple as that for me.

I’m grateful Jack shared my story because it perfectly illustrates how change happens. By making it matter to people in a way that sparks their fire. Jack is really good at that.

My spark has been lit. I look forward to lighting my neighbor’s through honesty, connection, and freedom - three tenets of bitcoin that make me a believer.

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The vibes are exceptionally high on this protocol right now. You absolutely love to see it.


My NOSTR address (npub) is turning out to be a lot like my original Bitcoin address. Something I set up and played with awhile before setting it aside thinking it wasn’t really ever going to be worth anything. But each time I come back to it, it’s gotten better…


Agree with nostr:nprofile1qqs8d3c64cayj8canmky0jap0c3fekjpzwsthdhx4cthd4my8c5u47spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy3hwumn8ghj7urjdau8jtt90pcx2unfd4jkuapwdah8yetwv3jhytnrdaks0duay6 that most people don't care about censorship resistance but they do care about the magic connecting string that they can enter in any other app and suddenly all their data shows up.

People value freedom of movement in nostr and they instantly feel it when they try.


LFG!


Margaret Thatcher on climate change
https://m.primal.net/KPWm.jpg


GM new nostriches. You may be wondering what this place is all about: what a zap is, how to store your npub etc… I’m here to help. What you do is:

1. Post about Texas and how big it is.

2. People will like you and tell you the rest.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


speed is the most important feature.

being able to send a note/post via text, have it fully render, and instantly load when someone clicks on it, is one of the biggest things that will help build network effect.

communities, such as ditto, and giving people the option to make them private and encrypted, is a net new feature not found on any other platform that will draw people to the nostr social app protocol, and be the best onboarding and discovery tool out there. people care a lot more about privacy than censorship-resistance.

getting as much content and information on here, welcoming of the bots and agentic AI, will allow this protocol to be the only one that can definitively state: "see everything." especially since no individual/corporation/government can delete your content or account.

this is what i would prioritize. the past two years of nostr has been about exploring the breadth of the protocol. great! it's now time to go deep and focus on quality and differentiated experiences. not copies of copies.


"Every time we introduce new technologies we shape that technology and then it shapes us back. It's this cycle. And so, when we're designing new things we need to think about that cycle." -  nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240

Incredible keynote presentation from Nostriga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUsk7cqZyKU


Always a pleasure, sir. Can’t wait to catch up on nostr:npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw on Wednesday.


About to board my flight back to the States after an incredible week in Riga for Nostriga and Baltic Honeybadger.

Feeling inspired and motivated. Thank you to everyone who organized the conferences and participated.

We’re going to win.


MDMA assisted therapy officially rejected by the FDA. I genuinely believe that directly correlated to many lives lost to PTSD and depression. Abolish the FDA. Start from scratch. What a joke.


If you missed my speech on #Ditto at #Nostriga: give it a watch!

https://youtu.be/iZyqVGHjDGo


Had a great call with rusty, he found a few bugs in nostrdb and reworked a bunch of dubious code.

Hard to describe how huge it is to have rusty hacking on nostr. He authored the majority of the lightning protocol spec (why we even have zaps today), one of the best lightning implementations (core lightning), iptables in linux, linus torvalds mentioned him as one of his top deputies in 2003. Every time I submitted code to core-lightning he ended up making the code 1000x better. Probably one of the best coders I have ever interacted with.

Engineering talent is steadily increasing. Legacy social should be terrified. nostr:note1zh6l4fnrguqhmxfxy7qurrpgcjyp3e6h22lv8rkg7t9yuc699t0q349t7z


This is one of the more exciting Nostr projects I’ve seen this week. A newsfeed that gives you multiple perspectives from different sources about a topic.

Powerful.

https://layer3.news/posts/subjects/all


Rise!


NOSTR BRINGS TO BITCOIN:
⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇
https://m.primal.net/KLvD.jpg


The fact that Satoshi had the prescience to have elite opesec from the start of bitcoin, coupled with the fact that he built a peer-to-peer system controlled by no one is one of the most epic moves in human history.
https://m.primal.net/KLaI.jpg


GM nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6


New users need to find people and content that interests them. They need to be able to find it easily. This is the biggest problem we face in growing Nostr.

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you don't need to be a developer to contribute to nostr, AT ALL.

your time, energy and attention here make this place stronger


Build the lifeboats in parallel to the failing Cathedrals.
https://m.primal.net/KJTx.jpg


Stay humble, zap frens. #nostriga
nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy
https://m.primal.net/KJPK.mov


Now a panel discussing funding and monetization on Nostr with  nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z,  nostr:npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td,  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy.

https://m.primal.net/KJOd.jpg


Interesting that nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx says a large part of their OpenSats evaluation is looking at the work done by the applicant beyond the application itself, the proof of work on nostr and in code.

#nostriga


‘Open Source Funding’ nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx  nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z @Alex Li  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy
https://m.primal.net/KJOs.jpg


“An audio filter on your social graph.”
- nostr:npub1unmftuzmkpdjxyj4en8r63cm34uuvjn9hnxqz3nz6fls7l5jzzfqtvd0j2 nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5

Don’t sleep on this. https://image.nostr.build/9d73e2e10f79fd1d3d24ea700d7aff4d628567530d6082ab821420680f06ed8c.jpg


Hummingbird

The Bitcoin Jungle Story
https://m.primal.net/KIcd.mov


ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas explains how Texas is becoming a data center hub for #Bitcoin mining and AI
https://m.primal.net/KJJb.mov


The latest nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 update is massive. Podcast and music discoverability just got 10x better.
https://m.primal.net/KJJF.jpg


We need more outdoor spaces like this in the US.
https://m.primal.net/KGjl.jpg


This is my fourth time in Riga for BHB and even though the trip to get here can be long and annoying I’m always happy when I get into town. Criminally underrated city.


 nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy  Marty Bent
w/
 nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z Preston Pysh
.
👀
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNtIuN3717U&t=471s


It's time to call a spade a spade. Marxists have completely infiltrated the highest levels of the US government and if Kamala Harris is elected they will destroy the wealth of this nation.

Bring back the Red Scare. Call out and shame these people.

https://www.tftc.io/attack-on-productive-class/


EVERY DECISION YOU MAKE SHOULD BE MEASURED AGAINST THE OPPORTUNITY COST THAT IS BITCOIN.

https://ten31.vc/insights/outperforming


TEN31 X FOLD AT BITCOIN PARK

JONATHAN KIRKWOOD, TEN31
WILL REEVES, FOLD
ANDREW HOHNS, BATTERY FINANCE

https://cdn.satellite.earth/596e9a49b44606d407bdf30e8686e0bbc63c8d0443ec97ccd6484c732c8141c9.mp4


Since the genesis block, every capital allocator has been benchmarked against a new hurdle rate; most just haven’t realized it yet.

Bitcoin is the world’s new cost of capital, and outperforming it — read: stacking more sats over time — is the only rationale for putting money to work. More here:

https://ten31.vc/insights/outperforming
https://m.primal.net/KFvS.jpg


wen sausage?


The demonization of the productive class by the left in the US is sickening. It’ll start with taxes on unrealized gains, escalate to overt asset confiscation and ultimately physical harm against those who rightly try to protect their assets from the government.

https://m.primal.net/KFzY.jpg


Jack Mallers: “What’s the scarcest thing in human history? How do you monetize this chaos? You buy #Bitcoin.”
https://m.primal.net/KFBR.mov


White pill.
https://m.primal.net/KCia.jpg


Free speech is under attack. Overt socialist policies are being floated by the leading presidential ticket in the US. And the "smart money" is piling into bitcoin despite their historic disdain for the asset.

https://www.tftc.io/socialism-in-united-states/


The world would be a lot calmer if everyone learned how to surf and bask in the glory of the ocean.


Looks like the US Marshal Service is selling bitcoin.
https://m.primal.net/KBYK.jpg


There’s only two conclusions you can make from this narrative framing:

- Kamala Harris is economically illiterate
- Kamala Harris is trying to scapegoat productive businesses for a problem her policies created

Both conclusions should disqualify her from being President.

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Happy Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Get in the ocean if you’re near one.
https://m.primal.net/KApn.jpg


The only way for the government to try to solve this problem, which only gets exponentially worse as boomers continue to retire, is to print an ungodly amount of money.

You aren’t bullish enough on bitcoin, anon.
https://m.primal.net/KApW.jpg


Degeneracy and deviancy is now officially part of the curriculum in schools across the US.
https://m.primal.net/KAol.mov


RHR 318: NEARLY EVERY AMERICAN EXPOSED IN DATA LEAK WITH  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx AND  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

https://cdn.satellite.earth/4315e14eca859718a76d673c03fbfb8dda702a1010cdd9a87552bf24e20c847a.mp4


nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

My boys first RHR. New freak has entered the building.

🫡
https://m.primal.net/KAjX.jpg


Tap to pay #bitcoin coming soon for iOS?
https://m.primal.net/KAeY.jpg


JD Vance: "When they say that inflation is down, they mean from a baseline where groceries are already 30% more expensive than they were when Donald Trump was president."
https://m.primal.net/JzeV.mov


They told us inflation was 3.5%. Now they tell us inflation is 2.9%.

Don’t believe your lying eyes.
https://m.primal.net/Jzdo.mov


nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z breaking it down on TFTC with nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy good stuff.
https://m.primal.net/JvKg.mov


Ann Widdecombe: "Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offense or from insults or from hurt feelings. It is an occupational hazard of living in society."
https://m.primal.net/JzbN.mov


Finally got off my ass and spun up a Nostr npub for nostr:npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw. Give us a follow.


Reporter: "Has US beat inflation?"

Biden: "We're gonna have a soft landing. My policies are working. Start writing that way, ok."
https://m.primal.net/Jzag.mov


Nope.
https://m.primal.net/JzaB.mov


Palindrome Block 856658 👉👈


My boys have been completely Tuttle Twin pilled.
https://m.primal.net/Jxjz.jpg


I sat down with nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z to talk about:

- Acceleration of the debt spiral
- Abysmal Treasury auctions
- The Bank of Japan’s problem
- Bitcoin as a corporate treasury asset
- Bitcoin as the hurdle rate
- much more

High octane signal.

https://youtu.be/cNtIuN3717U?si=sp9y4KAV7ptlNxo0


Indeed...

"If it becomes apparent that a liquidity crisis is materializing over the weekend and people who need to meet obligations when the markets reopen want to be as prepared as possible they are going to take advantage of this particular property of bitcoin to make sure they have enough USD to meet their obligations. There is no other market in the world that makes this possible. It's a beautiful thing."


Cool down ride LIVE with RHR  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy
https://m.primal.net/JsmB.jpg


The smart money knows what stands in front of them in bitcoin. It is a long term store of value asset that is extremely liquid, will be there in times of need, and will only see increased adoption as more people  wake up to this truly unique utility.

https://www.tftc.io/yen-global-debt/


Watching  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx watch   nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx on  nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq https://m.primal.net/JsjN.png


Epic show.


BITCOIN PARK FIRESIDE:  nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m X  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

https://cdn.satellite.earth/335e33f9115378783d1cc7d7d18874503d548e35fd57ca4baa72bf8afa293d40.mp4


Godspeed
https://m.primal.net/JqnL.jpg


Can’t hit “sell” if you can’t access your brokerage account.
https://m.primal.net/JoqG.jpg


We have officially entered dump territory. No further comments at this time.


Stay humble, stack sats.
https://m.primal.net/Joni.jpg


RHR 316: STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE WITH  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx AND  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

https://cdn.satellite.earth/8d6ad656607fceb4a1f4560dc191f4e466675e366d1b5e379e0b8bc8280799f7.mp4


A recession looms in the US.

Jobs numbers 📉
Unemployment 📈
Stock markets 📉
National debt 📈
CRE 💣
VIX 📈

Meanwhile bitcoin's fundamentals are strong.

Morgan Stanley opened the floodgates
Vol is flat
Hashrate at ATH
Trump is still pumping the coin

https://www.tftc.io/recession-in-us/


All time high difficulty and all time low hashprice.
https://m.primal.net/JlYF.jpg


The X algo has everyone angry today.


Could Tether bring stability to Treasury markets?

What if the Treasury issued bonds backed partially by bitcoin while also building a bitcoin stockpile to pay back debt over the long run?

This is what a multi-decade soft landing would look like to me.

https://www.tftc.io/tether-treasuries/


RHR 315: RHR X PUBKEY HOT STYLE TAKEOVER IN NASHVILLE WITH  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx AND  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

JULY 25 2024

https://cdn.satellite.earth/0a16ca8e222a3e81f0b4dab55a578fc06b2a0373d251ae181eee1a9252bed2ba.mp4


💯. Just listened to a TFTC rip from 4 years ago with nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs
-Instead of nostr they were talking about twitter and mastodon. One option slightly shittier than the other.
-Stacking sats as a meme was brand new

How far we’ve come. Feels good to be winning.
nostr:note1vy5vqr63es29kf9d65ugtpzuxau0shdspejhcmr6qjwqlxcyks5qkmmmdg


The only way to attempt to begin to solve this problem is to usher in a sound money standard and deregulate markets as quickly as possible so that prices can fall and people can actually pay for the things they'll need to survive in their retirement years.
https://m.primal.net/Jjiv.jpg


More of this.
https://m.primal.net/JiVv.jpg


What a fucking night. Reunion tour starts next week. Love ya brother nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

nostr:note1lmhlurf9ra40vphgf5sdwkspgpf6h90h2fp478257qgksjpv27kssvh2md


Regarding the recent Proton Wallet, I respect their conscious effort to be transparent and open about the tradeoffs / threat model (especially in their recent blog posts; see below).

I just tested out the wallet, great work.

Though not perfect ATM, they seem to be on a good path so far in building a Bitcoin-only wallet to simplify sending and receiving Bitcoin for their 100 million Proton users.

Presently, they appear to use the Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK; see below) as a dependency, with coinjoin and the Lightning Dev Kit (LDK) on their radar. Hopefully, we will see silent payments integrated down the line, too.

Nevertheless, as a Proton user, I look forward to seeing how the Proton Wallet evolves 🔥

- - -

More Reading 📌

- Initial announcement: https://proton.me/blog/proton-wallet-launch
- The wallet's security model: https://proton.me/blog/proton-wallet-security-model
- Github repo: https://github.com/ProtonWallet/andromeda
- Potential future dependencies: https://github.com/ProtonWallet/andromeda/commit/211dc5a86f20455cdba99e0a51a37a61ef70577c


Proton Wallet launching and Fold going public are a validation that bitcoin brings resilience to business stacks and products.

Whether that's in the form of a superior monetary asset that preserves wealth over time or enables companies to leverage a payments infrastructure that is immune from third party control.

https://www.tftc.io/proton-wallet-launch-fold-goes-public/


FOLD WILL BE THE FIRST BITCOIN FINANCIAL SERVICES STARTUP TO GO PUBLIC.

WILL LIST ON NASDAQ.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240724261013/en/Fold-to-Go-Public-as-the-First-Pureplay-Financial-Services-Company-Powered-by-Bitcoin


We're in uncharted territory and it is undeniable to me that we are currently living in a Banana Republic ruled by people with no regard for the American people or their political will.

https://www.tftc.io/reporting-live-from-the-banana-republic/


The last nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq ever is this Thursday and you have to be there in person in Nashville to see it. The nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h team is working with us to put on the best send away show you freaks can imagine.

Get your tickets here:

https://pubkey.bar/rhr

https://m.primal.net/Jamr.jpg


Calm before the storm.
https://m.primal.net/JaTO.jpg


These people hate you.
https://m.primal.net/JZQa.jpg


Hotstyle Takeover in Nashville — a joint  nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq x  nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h production is one week away! 🥵🔥

We'll have a couch. And guests. On the couch! 🛋
 nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu  nostr:npub1fn2rvhmc3r8p7stpj20qcnk8em3wcqyz5cu0r5rmnh9ear76a4us3wedt9  nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle  nostr:npub19kv88vjm7tw6v9qksn2y6h4hdt6e79nh3zjcud36k9n3lmlwsleqwte2qd  nostr:npub1hxwmegqcfgevu4vsfjex0v3wgdyz8jtlgx8ndkh46t0lphtmtsnsuf40pf and more.

Anyone could show up. In fact, Bob is on his way right now, on foot. Will he even make it there alive? 💀

Thanks to our title sponsor  nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as along with  nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 for making this possible.

There's even a hot dog-eating contest and a Mariachi band. See you in Nashville on the 25th!

If you need a ticket, grab one here. They're still available!
https://pubkey.bar/rhr

https://video.nostr.build/daf22f231be0dfc3248a095976327fb2b644686a70b37098caa57aa224f8d981.mp4


Tomorrow at 10am Central.


Economic anecdote from the field: there’s an abnormal amount of parking available for mid July in my shore town. Usually jam packed this time of year. Shows on the beaches too.


I don't think the profundity of being able to host a web application on  Nostr that can connect to HTTPS without a DNS dependency can be  overstated.

Nostr is so much more than a protocol for social media.

https://www.tftc.io/nostr-web-services/


White pills only. We’re winning harder than I could have ever imagined and most people don’t realize it. The progress that’s been made on this protocol over the last 7 months has far exceeded my expectations.


"Bitcoin is the cheapest way to buy the future" - Eric Semler with nostr:nprofile1qqsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8spz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz8mhwden5te0vf5hgcm0d9hx6ctcd9kkzmrfwd68xtn0dekxjmn9qy28wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mqu0s8zt in https://fountain.fm/episode/aICDQoyX33iIhkKLEpOu


Fantastic tftc with nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy , nostr:npub1hxwmegqcfgevu4vsfjex0v3wgdyz8jtlgx8ndkh46t0lphtmtsnsuf40pf and nostr:npub1sfhflz2msx45rfzjyf5tyj0x35pv4qtq3hh4v2jf8nhrtl79cavsl2ymqt For. Monday morning.Remember, if you’re speculatively attacking fiat, you don’t rebalance and you don’t cash out. FEW. #bitcoin https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tftc-a-bitcoin-podcast/id1292381204?i=1000661144132


This is why scaling in layers and pushing privacy up the stack is the correct strategy IMO. There are many improvements that can still be made at the protocol level e.g, wider Payjoin adoption, but most of the MoE privacy advancements should happen above layer 1. Being able to audit the supply trivially and with confidence is paramount to bitcoin’s long term success.

nostr:note1wzf7juezfjpffe2klc4npjsrmc7a7nxsu600jtz634hla7p7dj6qf73ngj


We’re going to win.


Will not explain.


Nostr serves as the credible backup plan for when governments seize or ban X.


If people didn’t believe in the spiritual battle before it’s almost undeniable now.


nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 two days ago on nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq.

Insane times. Stay peaceful, freaks. It will be important to keep composure through all of this.
https://m.primal.net/JPoW.mov


This man is going to win in a landslide.
https://m.primal.net/JPoP.jpg


RHR 313: GERMANY DUMPS WHILE TRUMP PUMPS WITH  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx ,  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy , AND NVK

https://cdn.satellite.earth/13c889014d8dd5ed770d1617f7d618689644e8caaac4c0539f8ccd21c790bb87.mp4


The best compliment you can get as an open source developer is when a VC funded startup offers you unpaid review of their closed source fork. Then rebrands your project and pitches the same features to Bitcoin Magazine. Anyway get it open source here: https://docs.photonsdk.org https://image.nostr.build/904d1157f916caa01e1d67b661fa9a425222db8748fae606d4370a16cb36319e.jpg


Crypto is a cesspool filled with affinity scammers and frauds fronting as visionaries.
https://m.primal.net/JPUo.jpg


Marty’s Nostr Alpha of the Day: Jay walking is an art form. It’s something you should work to perfect so you look cool and not like a total knob.


It's almost over folks, Germany 🇩🇪 only has 4.8K coins left. We thank them for the cheap #Bitcoin. Danke.   nostr:npub1dszyapecferpazhd75tgg7jcqgqn6ktexjs5cagfmgntfx3pf5eszwv7hq

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


Holy shit.
https://m.primal.net/JNVE.mov


Holy shit.
https://m.primal.net/JNUA.mov


“Agricultural Committee discusses regulating digital assets” is the most boomer thing I’ve heard this year nostr:note1a9wdafl206x0tpgncxn0qtwflcrn65spasgkew7g5vtjcfckpvys8rxqyh


Bitcoin is money. Own it.

nostr:note14gm5pnr0lsycdcg58nquualqtmp236945swax7sm2f2e4d4jx44sv7h353


Don't get too pumped about Trump speaking at this year's nostr:npub1rwh33t5x8n7czknhts5fg0v0fml8mkl7neaarksumkkf8d679qrqcz7avv, there are forces in motion that could severely impact the bitcoin industry if people don't begin to make noise.

Earlier today there was a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on Oversight of Digital Commodities with the head of the CFTC that everyone should watch.

If the legislation that is inevitably going to come out of this hearing gets passed it won't matter if Trump gets into office. The industry will be hindered for years. There is bi-partisan support at the moment as Democrats are moving quickly to react to the buzz Republicans have received due to their embrace of bitcoin.

Long story short, this committee is pushing to give the CFTC regulatory oversight over spot bitcoin markets, which is an unprecedented expansion of CFTC authority into retail commodities trades whereas in the past they have exclusively had jurisdiction over only commodities derivatives markets.

If the CFTC is granted this expansion of authority it would mean that they are likely going to require any bitcoin company to register with the federal government and have enhanced KYC/AML requirements. To be clear, this won't only affect exchanges, but any company that touches spot bitcoin.

These efforts are being spearheaded on the crypto side via lobbying efforts by Kraken, Coinbase and Ripple. Not shocking because this would likely enable them to trivially erect regulatory moats.

It looks like the bi-partisan effort will be looking to pass something through the House and into law rather quickly. Likely before the election.

It is imperative that you speak out against this as it would increase the regulatory and compliance burdens on US bitcoin companies considerably. The best move right now is no action. We need less regulation, not more. As we've seen time and time again throughout the first 15-years of bitcoin, these regulations but users in harm's way and make it unreasonably difficult for companies to operate cheaply and effectively.

Call you Representative and tell them to reject any bill that would give the CFTC oversight over spot bitcoin markets. This is a full on attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3i0pxWvyPc


The concept of Summer Doldrums doesn't exist in bitcoin.

In the last week, Germany has dumped > 30,000 BTC, ETF inflows surpassed 90% of all new ETF inflows in one day, and Block + Core Scientific announced a new partnership involving Block's 3nm ASIC.

https://www.tftc.io/germany-sells-bitcoin/


The mere existence of a viable alternative to banks is not priced in


Bullish. nostr:note1ufzvl7x4depfq29ldcfejaqv48t4r53r60lf9rhvete5d8nkfarqz0jvrv


After listening to  nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m and  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy on TFTC, I can't wait for a copy of  nostr:npub1zf8p8cdg67hhx46wvdm96yd2jc9z3hen5nf606edwhv26ummf4vssf7888.

We need more second-order #bitcoin content like this. Yes, bitcoin is going to make us all rich, but then what? Today's hodlers have a massive responsibility to reshape the future and be stewards of the virtues we want to see in the world.

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


What you are witnessing play out is the emergent symbiosis of complimentary protocols being built on top of bitcoin. Highlighting the beauty of the interoperability that is native to the bitcoin stack.

Lightning + Chaumian mints strengthen each other.

https://www.tftc.io/complimentary-protocols-bitcoin/


France has fallen.
https://m.primal.net/JLhE.png


900 stars on GitHub! Consider starring us if you haven't already. Let's get to 1,000!

https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus


Collectively, unfunded liabilities are more than 6.2x larger than our national debt. When broken down to the level of the citizen, each US citizen would need to cough up $643,535 to cover these liabilities.

These unfunded programs are Ponzi Schemes.

https://www.tftc.io/the-elephant-in-the-room-unfunded-liabilities/


This is a text exchange from 2018 between Hunter Biden and his psychiatrist in which they joke about President Biden's dementia.

They knew he had dementia but pushed him to run anyway. He was always a puppet and those in the party pretending that this is news are trying to manipulate you.

The corporate media and the Democrat party are trying to save face and their tactics are so obvious and dishonorable that it really makes one wonder if the party is run by literal demons.

Imagine if the Hunter Biden laptop wasn't labeled as "Russian Fake News" and Americans were able to look at the data and decide for themselves. We wouldn't have had a corpse on puppet strings being manipulated by the Deep State as President for the last four years.

https://m.primal.net/JLDr.jpg


FedEx trucks are now spying on you.

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


🤘 HOTSTYLE TAKEOVER CAN’T BE STOPPED 🤘

 nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq x  nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h

Let your hair down with us in Nashville
July 25, 4-7 PM at 3rd and Lindsley

Tickets still available
https://pubkey.bar/rhr

https://video.nostr.build/3ab2bb56e686c58c408fa280bf8ce245c27049e68ba63151745650639911c388.mp4


Bitcoin Technology is the New Network Effect

https://ten31.vc/insights/networkeffects


I see a future of smaller "Family Offices" where a pleb-fam tithes to their own pension (guess what in) and their decedents only gain access to the family pension (aka Living Trust - See Kennedy Family Trust) by tithing to it themselves (covenants).

After a couple of generations the Family Pension generates enough income to support the basic needs of the decedents without any intervention or 3rd party custody by institutions or governments. Do you want more? Then do the thing that makes more. Make more? Tithe more.

Our 401k has tricked us into believing we aren't capable of such machinations and that serves the purposes of only those who do not care about you, your family or your legacy.

#bitcoin
#lightningNetwork
#nostr
#keyPairs
#relays
#Ecash

The components are here and it's time to build the thing.

nostr:note1dg8sn4vm4wmyw2alv0s8weuvgw6pvernpgdqaugl6g4zsgghsalqxp96gd


The scale of the unfunded pension liabilities globally is almost incomprehensible. Hundreds of millions of people around the world expecting to retire comfortably will see their pensions worth pennies on the dollar or their currencies completely debased. https://image.nostr.build/21e54a608c833f3d20339a5bf8752ad5f2b9177b7fed0a783b59e672907a2456.jpg


RHR 312: WHY IS THE BITCOIN PRICE CRASHING!? WITH  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx AND  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

https://cdn.satellite.earth/4da5d5eb548b3510f259ca1050f3b52fbf3b017b866cfac3b121fd58113f221c.mp4


I have located the footage of the incident discussed on this week's  nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq. Watch as  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy defends the town against pre-teen vandals!

https://youtu.be/n60y364JUm8?si=y0sRuO98ulbvhDkg&t=14


Told y’all.

nostr:note1dghywk97lw2fhqc2uamswd7mmd5mgql2hd2nzkw03cwkrtpk6e9q6fhu0n


The high trust society exhibited in my village by the sea is something we should fight for.

Kids riding bikes all over the island without supervision.

Wife left my beach chair on the path to the beach for three hours. It was waiting for me when I arrived.

The simple things.


#bitcoin  and abundant energy are the path to American dominance in the 21st century.
https://m.primal.net/JHCv.jpg


Thanks to the Chevron deference ruling from the Supreme Court, the economy has removed an anchor that has been holding it back for more than a generation.

The balance of power, as the founders designed it, has been shifted back in the right direction.

https://www.tftc.io/chevron-deference-bitcoin/


This is most homes these days. Find yourself an old home or rent so you can stack more and eventually build a proper home nostr:note1uyv36kwalca3v2pymvdhz368wmq43rmdmz265ennznn4qsumrw6qj3kcz2


Fiat money breeds fiat architecture.

High time preference onset by the inability to properly accumulate and save capital is destroying the quality of the goods and services produced in the economy. This affects quality of life.

Fix the money, fix the world.
https://m.primal.net/JGGN.mov


I sat down with Mel Mattison to discuss the Fiat Endgame, the history of central banking, the eurodollar markets, the bi-monthly meeting between central bankers at the BIS, and how to prepare for the collapse in confidence in the dollar.

Hell of a rip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIhoniJ2xgY


Excellent article. Worth a read

nostr:note1rw2345ylfrwxnserxmgk7ttyg4mtdjaphkda563yv3zrumplqy7sste2r4


Biden proves to be cognitively impaired > doesn't drop out of the raise > bond yields rise as people lose confidence in US > yen breaks out > BoJ forced to sell bonds > yields go higher

Are we in a bond doom loop right now?

https://www.tftc.io/biden-creates-cascading-fall-in-demand-for-us-treasuries/


Lesson one in the books. Trying to reach my son and niece how to read this Summer.
https://m.primal.net/JCFi.jpg


RHR 311: JULIAN ASSANGE FREE AT LAST WITH  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx AND  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

https://cdn.satellite.earth/35ba255675a769be5261fcaff070cec7b7b68bc5d849bb5dbeca1c2d21e4f82f.mp4


Chevron Deference is dead. The Administrative State just took a massive blow. So incredibly bullish right now.


We are not a serious country.
https://m.primal.net/JAwd.mov


Fabulous interview: Eliminating The Income Tax Would Supercharge The US | Peter St. Onge
 by  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTtGsj3LM9w


Every bent nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy writes is a distraction to hide the fact that mempools have not cleared yet

https://www.tftc.io/is-the-bitcoin-price-drop-a-sign-of-a-liquidity-crunch-on-the-horizon/


THE NEXT WIKILEAKS WILL PUBLISH DIRECTLY TO NOSTR.

GOOD MORNING. 🫡


It’s always great sitting down with Peter St. Onge.

What would happen if the US eliminated the income tax and raised tariffs?

Why should you be nationalistic?

How doomed is the dollar?

All of this and more answered in this rip.

https://youtu.be/xTtGsj3LM9w


v0.1.0 of Clams beta now available 🚀

http://clams.tech/downloads

We added  nostr:npub19hg5pj5qmd3teumh6ld7drfz49d65sw3n3d5jud8sgz27avkq5dqm7yv9p as a connection option.

It couldn't be easier to get started. Here is how that looks with  nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm

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


Only thing I care about this whole conference. And it’s not even part of the conference. Guess I don’t care about the conference. nostr:note1pza4zpm2zpsslfj7yrmxm7efrxle4lfjv4ek0nu5lsvaw0kackls2gkfws


RHR tickets get free access to the ZEUS afterparty.

More details to come. nostr:note1jhndshxkzqjhk9ed630fzy56yawl6kjju5d9gp8mv6vqsa0t4rgs635vte


The nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq x nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h Hot Style Takeover is going to be the event of the week in Nashville next month.

Comedian roaster: acquired
Mariachi band: hired
VIP tix: sold out

Join us for an afternoon of laughs, food, drinks and bitcoin talk.

pubkey.bar/rhr

https://m.primal.net/IxfW.jpg


Over the long term bitcoin has proven to be the best safe haven asset to protect individuals from currency debasement, censorship and governments getting absolutely plastered on debt. During times of financial stress people need cash and they will look to get into cash as quickly as possible and bitcoin is the asset that gives them the speed they desire.

https://www.tftc.io/is-the-bitcoin-price-drop-a-sign-of-a-liquidity-crunch-on-the-horizon/


Bitcoin is the best alarm system in markets today. This price dump is probably less about Mt. Gox coins being sold and more about some liquidity crisis on the horizon that is metastasizing behind the scenes.


Appreciate the recent Volt shoutout and kind words from nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy on nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq 🔥

Thank you for highlighting the Nigeria situation and Volt announcement nostr:npub1rscuek38p87xeawmpg9ssump8cjkgmz2j3rhnha4artvh0xjacwq9upeqk 🧡

https://v.nostr.build/Z54lx.mp4


The moon watching over the Atlantic.
https://m.primal.net/ItSN.jpg


Corporate execs at publicly traded companies are waking up to the fact that building a bitcoin treasury is being rewarded by the market.

It makes more sense for private companies. We've seen the power of bitcoin treasuries for startups at Ten31.

https://www.tftc.io/sats-flow/


RHR 310: WE SPEND MORE ON DEBT THAN WAR WITH  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx AND  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

https://cdn.satellite.earth/19132e065ad3b97dadc57a84830d7ad3f0b8f31aafc764e1e04aee7e8904ec1a.mp4


“Drop the O. Just Dell. It’s cleaner that way.”
https://m.primal.net/IspQ.png


The Late Stage Fiat Melt Up leads to unsustainable spending and an unsustainable increase in despair. This is what happens when you continuously manipulate and corrupt the price of money.

To fix this grave injustice we must fix the money.

#bitcoin

https://www.tftc.io/late-stage-fiat-melt-up/


Since when can people bring cats on planes?


Fix the money, fix the world.

https://m.primal.net/IpZk.jpg


Late stage fiat: when the war machine and unfettered debt expansion compete to see who can grow more exponentially.
https://m.primal.net/IpRc.png


Listening to nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq this week, nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy (I think) mentioned the “mullet datacenter,” and it’s stuck in my head: AI in the front; Bitcoin mining in the back.


YANKEE INGENUITY IS UNDERRATED.

WE'RE GONNA WIN FREAKS.

 nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

https://cascdr-chads-stay-winning.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/ShZx05hJdhM-2024-06-14-23-27.mp4


The evolving situation at Evolve Bank is yet another reminder that every company should be holding a significant portion of their corporate treasury in bitcoin in case shit hits the fan and access to their banking infrastructure gets cut off.

https://www.tftc.io/evolve-bank-cease-and-desist/


Bitcoin is the Manhattan Project of the 21st century.

Instead of getting the greatest minds in the world together to build nuclear bombs (or convince the public that they did), the greatest minds are building out a network that tips the balance of power towards the individual.


The Fed issued an enforcement action against Evolve Bank & Trust today. Would keep a keen eye on this story if you use Mercury as your bank. They’re essentially a front end for Evolve.
https://m.primal.net/IkqG.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IkqH.jpg


RHR #309: THE PETRODOLLAR GRAND FINALE WITH  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx AND  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

https://cdn.satellite.earth/cb50ef130279fb2f5a8de7a40e0aa9e6c77e18f5be87b99b8d4f907ca2642907.mp4


Marty Sunsets is fully activated.
https://m.primal.net/IicI.jpg


Left the bike unlocked on the corner and it’s still here. It’s either the power of the small town or the aura the bike gives off. People know it belongs to the most prolific zapper ever and understand not to touch it.
https://m.primal.net/Iibb.jpg


Here's your summary from The US Is Losing The Great Digital War | Matthew Pines (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShZx05hJdhM) on the TFTC channel:
### TLDR:
The US is at risk of losing the digital war due to lack of long-term strategic planning and leadership, with potential consequences for national security and economic competitiveness.

### Key Points:
1. The importance of strong leadership and a clear vision for the future in shaping national strategy and competitiveness in emerging technologies.
2. The need for American citizens to move beyond hyper-polarization and focus on solving critical challenges facing the country.
3. The role of the private sector in driving innovation and leading the way in shaping narratives and solutions for the digital age.
 #bitcoin #nostr #tftc #freaks #opensource #grownostr #ten31 #freedomtech #podcasting #podcasting2.0 #bitcoincommons #bitcoinpark nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx


I just rode my 10 year old rusty beach cruiser 3 miles going straight into 30 mph winds coming off the ocean. You could never replicate that workout on a Peleton. Heart of a champion. Most prolific zapper ever.


I sat down with nostr:npub128tlrdek6x2clft0zylg9gnes736ef8sumfr0750cd5uc9sgchqqkffadp to discuss bitcoin and the election, why the US should embrace bitcoin, BRICS nations looking to take the lead on energy and AI, and why the US needs an inspiring vision.

One hell of a conversation with a ton of signal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShZx05hJdhM


JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL RABBIT HOLE RECAP LIVE VARIETY SHOW JULY 25TH IN NASHVILLE.

THREE HOURS. GOOD PEOPLE, DRINKS, AND FOOD. 🫡

https://pubkey.bar/rhr


If any of the individual nations within BRICS (and outside of BRICS) were thinking clearly they would be transitioning to a monetary system that is controlled by no one country or coalition of countries.

https://www.tftc.io/brics-us-dollar/


Summer nights crush.
https://m.primal.net/IdqS.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IdqQ.jpg


Holding down the hot dog stand at the beach circa 20 years ago.
https://m.primal.net/IdaC.jpg


Everyone complaining about  housing affordability, just wait till they find out no one will subsidize #Bitcoin for them. And I say that as a veteran with a VA loan.

nostr:nevent1qqsqgwvfr53h9qvj66hrtyfly64knakz235f5qddlykzrzw903lw2tspr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8srqsqqqqqpw8f059


Why #Bitcoin is superior to #RealEstate as a store of value in two paragraphs. Nice work nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy
 https://image.nostr.build/d53d21696187a554030d39c59925567f42ea59ff657d99fd49f4769c8f04288a.jpg


Real estate investors are beginning to wake up to the fact that their assets have been plummeting in bitcoin terms. This is a big step toward hyperbitcoinization.

Real estate as a store of value doesn't make sense in a world in which bitcoin exists.

https://www.tftc.io/real-estate-in-bitcoin/


RHR 308: MONEY THAT DICTATORS CANNOT STOP WITH  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx,  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy, MO, AND AWAYSLICE

https://cdn.satellite.earth/1d317c4cf7830928d325b36e9096a0e1ca1b211c8468d89cd4f526bacbaf503b.mp4


Not yet.


What a rip with Ian Carroll.

We covered the COVID madness, Intel agencies running the government, fiat currency wars, opting out with bitcoin and Nostr, cross pollinating with like-minded/liberty-focused communities, and much mroe.

We're going to win.

https://youtu.be/Oa49waMnqh4?si=kgp85-dXyUvGj886


GME is only a battle. Bitcoin is how we win the war.

nostr:note198rq4cs5f4c5wwzs88z98jadrcwlf4skuj9ze00r79yr8pswh0dsfaktj6


https://m.primal.net/IbXq.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IbXr.jpg


The only way to truly send a message to Wall Street and right the wrongs brought to the world by the ills of a fiat monetary system that embeds perverse incentives into the financial system that favor a certain class of people is to not play their game.

https://www.tftc.io/gamestop-bitcoin/


"Hunter's job was to bring in the bacon. He actually complains to his daughter Naomi that he has to give his dad half his salary for 30 years." - Garrett Ziegler

https://youtu.be/9Cnf-dtC-TY?si=ldgYcMOJLDtolIm1


Nothing exudes strength and confidence like shitting yourself in front of 100 year old WWII veterans and having to be escorted off the stage by your wife in front of the French President and his husband.


https://m.primal.net/Iaoz.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IapB.jpg


"Politicians have the incentive of just giving away the Treasury and entering huge amounts of debt, and that doesn't just destroy the structure of the government it destroys society."
- Nayib Bukele
https://m.primal.net/IaSj.mov


The Spiritual Battle is real. Evil depends on people thinking there isn’t a spiritual battle so they become complacent.

More people being aware of the battle favors Good.


The banks are insolvent.

nostr:nevent1qqsgytg6n8z3ylwvpyl5zfge45y8wmd447wn2jug7ly7gkdqa5akwkqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygz89azq7200n9hf9gvxhrfjplccpjz4jqug9eva2r0phz74v6fsrcpsgqqqqqqs7m2dzc


"nostr is just a twitter clone"

nostr:
https://video.nostr.build/57b19c36e10f0049ff431119c204b983ec51f45ab103cbbbe4203e85b388ad55.mp4


One has to imagine that push is about to come to shove and a lot of the unrealized losses sitting on these bank balance sheets are about to turn into realized losses as banks are forced to sell underwater assets to service other parts of their business.

https://www.tftc.io/problem-banks-fdic/


“The Day The Dollar Die” - Peter Tosh
https://m.primal.net/IZqO.mov


Wish all of you could see the shit we do to put that grassfed and finished beef in your freezer. nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

https://m.primal.net/IYnB.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IYnC.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IYnD.bin
https://m.primal.net/IYnE.jpg


First ocean dip of the Summer ✅


The number of banks on the FDIC’s “problem banks” list increased by 21% since Q4 2023 from 52 to 63 with total assets at risk rising by 5.2x from $15.8B to $82.1B.

Not ideal!

https://m.primal.net/IXtr.jpg


During this relatively boring period of ten weeks a number of announcements have been made that should have anyone who is paying  attention to bitcoin for any period of time as bullish as they can possibly be.

https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-bullish-set-up/


"Another way to think about this: when you ask GPT a question, the answer is effectively what you’d get if you asked every person on the internet that question, and then averaged out their answers."

Good read on the limits of AI.

https://blog.wispem-wantex.xyz/posts/the-great-ai-stagnation/


Not a bad Ad.
https://m.primal.net/IXVY.mov


In the clubhouse holding the lead for
Worst Human of the 21st century.
https://m.primal.net/IWkn.jpg


“Ethereum is the mother asshole from which all shitcoins emanate.” -nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak

The Ethereum team has created a depiction of the “mother asshole” here.
https://m.primal.net/IWbJ.jpg


THE MOST PROLIFIC ZAPPER
https://m.primal.net/IVdK.jpg


The US government hates you. Get you fat and then bleed you dry.
https://m.primal.net/IVdG.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IVdH.jpg


Typical pansies. Waiting until after RHR to drop the news.


RHR 307: TRUMP LIKES THE COIN WITH  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx AND  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

https://cdn.satellite.earth/0d11a521258fc83f85f452b45a0d61387d784e1d64f80237f3e1d3ba0cccae84.mp4


Sage words nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx “At some point someone has got to jump off the fucking cliff - ideally more than one person. Try and embrace the future … gradually then suddenly!” nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy
“Meeting ppl where they are and dragging them to where you would like them to be is up for debate - but that’s what we are trying to do!

Another corker #rip nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq I shouldn’t have laughed as much as I did re you tube  “sword fight” quip 😂😂😂😂

https://fountain.fm/episode/qwWonPQev6kobYsqZAax


Nostr implemented this better. The walled gardens can’t compete.
https://m.primal.net/IRop.mov


It is officially Stevie Ray Vaughn season in the office.


#Bitcoin  is more American than the US Dollar
nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

"The United States has attained the level of freedom that it has (or did have) due to the governance structure that the Founders set up, which was designed with embedded gridlock between the three branches of government so that it would be hard to change things. Because when governments change things, it's usually at the detriment of the individual and their sovereignty. Gridlock is what the framers believed would be the main protection of the rights of the individual. Not subject to a democratic vote.

If it was gridlock by design and the primary protections in place were meant to prevent the centralization of power under any of the three branches, the complete centralization of the money supply is the single greatest force undermining the intended structure. With the ability to print money at will allows the government to fund itself via unfettered debt expansion functionally funded by the Federal Reserve. The framers intended for the funding of government to be by the consent of the governed principally through taxation or otherwise actually paid for by the public via real money. Not something that can be created ex nihilo."

#Bitcoin is a game theoretical separation of powers, a checks-and-balance system between coders, miners, and users, none of whom can control it. #BTC is open source money of the people, by the people, for the people.


We have family rest time while our youngest naps.


Noteshelf app on the nostr:npub1a00wj229auzjswlq4s77y4u8eqdx5k9ppatgl8rtv8va65f6mwksum9q3h tablet.


I began reading Mises' "Nation, State, and Economy" this morning. A great Memorial Day Weekend read so far.

Download a free version courtesy of The Mises Institute.

https://mises.org/library/book/nation-state-and-economy
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Great episode, nostr:npub1j4u5gjzjyggr3h96x3gjy4akdgwxuk7mgvumv72gym2qyje7fn5s47d6x9's takes hit different.

nostr:note13cxmjj4y3y4exqnen57uvfwntlzscs77sdgl4mth00qvsfgs7qrsgxhd7z


#FreeRoss
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The summers after my senior year of high school and freshman year of college were spent without a phone and they were two of the best summers of my life.

nostr:note1dufu3sutqcu4er2pj9k7zmxdf7k23qxn3eskwdr8tp3ffvg7g9qqsv4lrc


Reading Hal Finney's "Protecting Privacy with Electronic Cash" after a discussion with nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw and nostr:npub1j4u5gjzjyggr3h96x3gjy4akdgwxuk7mgvumv72gym2qyje7fn5s47d6x9.

I think Hal would have liked the combination of bitcoin + Nostr + eCash as a creative way to describe the problems he talks about here.

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/protecting-privacy-with-electronic-cash/

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Historians will write about the end of the dollar as the world reserve currency and they will reference the year 2022 as the year it lost the crown.

https://m.primal.net/IMCi.jpg


New nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg update is 🔥

Noticeable speed improvements.


Thank you for helping us grow the TFTC community!


THANK YOU SIR, ONWARD! https://image.nostr.build/4a4b4da67ddc90c39b61de3f99372eba4637aed4fb8dbb8088315d4ec7c0ef21.jpg


last week on my citadel dispatch rip with  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx i talked about how unbelievable it is that the BANKING LOBBY pushing for the equal treatment of bitcoin advocating for repeal of things like SAB 121 (unfair accounting treatment of bitcoin that makes it financially not viable for banks to service bitcoin)

well, since the rip we've really been seeing the full force of that political power shift. the bill that repeals SAB 121 went through both house and the senate.

so stuff like unfair accounting treatments or bans of regulated entities to touch or service bitcoin, those things i have increasing confidence will be sorted out soon (which is good news b/c it means more ppl will be able to buy bitcoin with less friction; imagine opening your normal banking app and being able to buy bitcoin there).

the real fight now that remains in a tough place that we need to really focus our energy on feels like protecting our ability to interact with bitcoin the asset and network in a non-custodial way which governments are increasingly focused on pushing out while financial firms are trying to move closer to bitcoin.

it was a crazy week so didn't have time to post earlier but was really happy to see the peer-to-peer rights fund come together this week. everyone should check it out and donate! bitcoin policy institute doing incredible work. https://p2prights.org/


My Summer 2021 peak clown world call gets funnier by the day. Hand up. That's on me. Man of integrity.
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You’ve never seen a monetary policy this perfect. Bitcoin. It’s the best in the world. It really is. It’s incredible.

Every 210,000 blocks the block subsidy gets cut in half. CHOP!

I swear to God it works like this. It’s perfect.  It really is.

https://media1.giphy.com/media/3o6ZsVbs2GzgKNvVpS/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b9520kazvnkac0b07t1nvv8j1yro0nb792ljhltw5oz1&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g


A new version of the Coldcard CLI and Rust lib has been published.

Use Bitcoin responsibly, do not use centralized services and custodians.

https://github.com/alfred-hodler/rust-coldcard

#rust #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/3f425d237335c8a08724f8383b0684e35fae05a3d0280e2097c3d2799d9c333b.gif


Bitcoin 2024: Make Money Great Again


 nostr:npub1a00wj229auzjswlq4s77y4u8eqdx5k9ppatgl8rtv8va65f6mwksum9q3h is giving away their amazing tablet device to the top zapper below.

Top zap is just over 100k sats atm. Seems like a steal at that price. Let's see where we end up! 🍿

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I will say, I used 100% proper bathroom etiquette when I met Marty in the bathroom at Bitcoin 2023 in Miami. Washed my hands and caught him on the way in. Fortunately did not have to consider urinal etiquette. Could have been a whole different outcome. nostr:note1ffrdxjrdtjvv5gk64yhn3077h6khfv5yk0pt77qyv7gjxwndegjsqgte80


Obsoletion well underway!

nostr:note1nvazffxswmnqmdzse3x7gv4mm38tvdpyc84qduvjae9u8qav6wgskwe0ju


nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg is one of the most important open source projects built on top of the bitcoin network and it has been awe inspiring to watch what the project has been able to achieve in less than seven years.

https://www.tftc.io/btcpay-server-documentary/


RHR 306: TRUMP SHOULD HAVE USED BTCPAY WITH nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx AND nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

https://cdn.satellite.earth/c59bfd925fe6fe2241cbc86241ca9d0944dec05f962c288d80de19340032d10f.mp4


"#Bitcoin is opt out technology. So you don't have to persuade people. You can just unilaterally use better money, hard money."

nostr:npub1qg8j6gdwpxlntlxlkew7eu283wzx7hmj32esch42hntdpqdgrslqv024kw in nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg's documentary 'MY TRUST IN YOU IS BROKEN'

https://m.primal.net/IKoQ.mov


GM Nostr, we launch TODAY

Top zap wins a tablet.

SEND IT ☀⚡☀

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


This guy did a deep dive on Farcaster so we don’t have to. Farcaster just raised $150m at a $1b+ valuation with 45k daily active users that seem to be mostly bots.

For context, Twitter has 250m DAU and is probably worth ~$50b. So Farcaster is valued at 2% of Twitter’s market cap with 0.02% of its DAU. 🤡🌎

Investors are going to burn billions on unworkable Web 3.0 apps while Nostr gets stronger by the day and grows organically. No blockchain needed.

https://m.primal.net/IKoF.mov


Do it, freaks. The future is bright. nostr:note1exyclw99s0zsw5jmn9kg9ecv94ltsmeclhjrk3qqv2fn3nchajnq9z3qur


Take the white pill. You are going to win.

https://www.tftc.io/the-world-needs-more-white-pills/


I have released a unique privacy tool and code library that broadcasts Bitcoin transactions **directly** into the P2P network.

1. No external dependencies whatsoever.
2. No centralized backends.
3. Uses Tor if found running on the same system. Having the Tor Browser open in the background is enough.

Find the CLI here:
https://crates.io/crates/pushtx-cli

And the Rust crate here:
https://crates.io/crates/pushtx https://image.nostr.build/3a1acd8fd21b5e649b14e340f136c0dd5611a3bf1d23b3cd2201fbf666f27fc1.gif


Nice.
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I can’t believe it took me 7 years but I finally sat down with my good friend nostr:npub1j4u5gjzjyggr3h96x3gjy4akdgwxuk7mgvumv72gym2qyje7fn5s47d6x9 to discuss money as technology, the art of bitcoin rhetoric, the revitalization of nostr:npub1wzc9lz2f40azl98shkjewx3pywg5e5alwqxg09ew2mdyeey0c2rqaespmf and sustaining bitcoin for generations.

The work the nostr:npub1wzc9lz2f40azl98shkjewx3pywg5e5alwqxg09ew2mdyeey0c2rqaespmf is doing to educate people about bitcoin and the technologies and economic theory that preceded it is incredibly important. If bitcoin is going to last for generations it is imperative that knowledge is preserved and passed down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoUwBbfZyfo

Consider donating to their efforts to redesign the site. The best money in the world deserves institutions that impart timeless beauty.

https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_saYgrVYmCi


“At the very least, these mints offer an undeniably better solution to the third-party risk that already exists in the market. The open source permission-less nature of the mint protocols and the privacy guarantees they enable are objectively better compared to the status quo custodial solutions that dominate the market today.” nostr:note1ygnjkyagy4yw4sntqdxt02rckdnqpl8hswy6ytt9cma44lzztkeqlvxp4c


It’s a trade off that users should be aware of! The permission-less nature of mints should breed a competitive landscape that punishes those who fractionally reserve their mints and rewards those who don’t.


It's very early days for eCash on top of bitcoin, but it is showing a lot of promise. The beauty of bitcoin is that it is opt-in. If you don't want to use eCash you don't have to. I think it is misguided to write eCash off while it's still in the cradle.

https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-fixes-ecash/


tfw you miss a palindrome block by one block 🙃
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nostr:npub1eequz6v23szzyx9utphsh8kg6kll50wte6sfh4vah8gdjtplcz6qg7at9s 😂
https://fountain.fm/clip/IJxlEGUiGNuITSFm3qqj


I sat down with Dustin Kittle to discuss corruption at the Farm Credit Administrations and the Farm Credit banks around the country, how they are pushing small farmers out of the market and selling farmland to foreign nationals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTNaWcQERy8


Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

- Thomas Sowell


BITCOIN POLICY INSTITUTE IS OPERATING THE OPEN SOURCE DEV LEGAL DEFENSE FUND. THEY ARE LEGIT AND DOING GREAT WORK.

YOU CAN DONATE ANON USING BITCOIN IF YOU DO NOT WANT A TAX DEDUCTION: https://p2prights.org

https://cdn.satellite.earth/998d1728f9c9547c8b75395030383462f6be5b773ec42dae90b362ee127bb4b4.mp4


Thanks for the feedback! Starting with a controlled test first.


The most prolific thing to ever come to market if we’re being honest.


Newsletter subscribers got introduced to our new TFTC Rewards program today. If you received the email, read the announcement and referred a friend, let me know what you thought of the UX flow.

For those who are not subscribed, we’re leveraging Nostr Wallet Connect + Ghost to create a way for us to reward newsletter subscribers for helping us grow the TFTC community.

Much more to come, including much more content distribution via Nostr.


If a country wants to preserve their wealth in a way that cannot be  messed with they would leverage bitcoin, which cannot be controlled by any one person, business or government.

https://www.tftc.io/russia-seizes-western-bank-assets/


RHR 305: BITAXE IN THE HOUSE WITH  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx AND  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

https://cdn.satellite.earth/37ad8939b09ecb0971fa29c0014f22c170bb090d448a73b7f8cf7440c49f6940.mp4


Boom.
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LOL MANDIBLES IS DOOMER FICTION PORN THAT THOUGHT BITCOIN WOULD FAIL. #saynotoporn


Sunday homemade stuffed ricotta shells with help from our oldest. #foodstr
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“Mandibles” guy with a white pill. Love to see it!


Things may seem chaotic and that's because they certainly are. However, it's never been easier to build your way out of tyranny. The future is bright if you look in the right places.


Discrete Log Contracts + Ecash is going to enable so many incredible use cases that weren't practical before. There is an order of operations to all of this and patience is key.

https://conduition.io/cryptography/ecash-dlc/
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We’re going to win.


Shrinkflation strikes again. My wife is not happy.
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The children are even complaining about inflation.
https://m.primal.net/IHIk.mov


MEMPOOL ENLARGEMENT

https://image.nostr.build/4664196c3e3dde766322cbeb129a3a128882f5c296951dbc1b56f7a46ecbb8d9.jpg


If the White House determines that Chinese sourced electrical transformers, data centers and bitcoin mining hardware is "foreign-sourced equipment potentially capable of facilitating surveillance and espionage activities" we may have a problem.

https://www.tftc.io/white-house-executive-order-bitcoin-wyoming/


TFTC.io looking nice on the nostr:npub1a00wj229auzjswlq4s77y4u8eqdx5k9ppatgl8rtv8va65f6mwksum9q3h tablet.
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The hacker interview is on nostr. Thanks to whomever uploaded it. https://media.nostr.build/p/7GDv2.mp3


That was pretty easy.
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The 5D chess game is firing up - cabals, cartels & soveriegns all jockeying for position amongst the powerful evil forces of “ring-kissing” in the macro arena, is truly fascinating nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy
What a time to be alive with REAL information at our finger tips and valid opinions as we transition into a new paradigm of existence both financially and socially 🫡😎

https://fountain.fm/episode/0c3qmhVoHFVZ6SQBBP2F


It's always great sitting down with Tom Luongo to discuss the state of the world.

We caught up on Friday to discuss Powell, Davos, Tether, peak oil, and much more.

The power struggle for control over the individual in the 21st century is heating up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l0BDBVcl1o


"We write to express our grave concerns regarding the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) recent policy arguments that dramatically expand the scope of the Federal prohibition on operating an unlicensed money transmitting business."

- SENATORS LUMMIS AND WYDEN LETTER TO US DOJ

https://cdn.satellite.earth/f5f1f53a62cd1003adf36c9c9877dc6f7f3740e74471fc60fa82617ed01ecfb4.jpg

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“Bitcoin Season 2” is the most cringe phrase I’ve heard in awhile.


Bitcoin is, quite literally, the biggest threat to the existence of central planners because it enables individuals to opt-out of a system dependent on  trusting central planners.

The fact that they're deriding bitcoin is a good sign.

They're scared.

https://www.tftc.io/harari-bitcoin/


More tools need to be built based on distrust. This improves resiliency.

nostr:note1nwcxqev7ujsxc8ae28p3h3gm9haynvcp2jw0nfda2edhfwplss0sw56dak


“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

Don’t let nihilistic malthusians like Harari try to convince you that governments and central banks deserve our trust. They have proven time and time again that they most certainly cannot be trusted.

This is a terrible psyop to try to wage when the whole world is feeling the pain of inflation caused by governments that can’t be trusted. They’re not sending their best!
https://m.primal.net/IFOI.mov


RHR 304: CENTRAL BANK RUNS CONTINUE WITH nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx AND nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

https://cdn.satellite.earth/d9cd427f6f7653412a5601677be956594188012d196339eb949a1923037067f4.mp4


Adding up to your comment Marty on "the lockdown bonds":

"imagine citizens being asked to buy government bonds and get their money back in 12-24 months only if they choose to stay alone and locked in their primary residences for the entire durantion of the bonding time"

Of course, this is way more challenging than coercing citizens to stay at locked at homes, if they can be payed for doind that along the way.

Is not that the whole logic of Keynsian inflationary monetary mechanics? The inversion of natural preferences with the inversion of the time preference arrow?


The US bailing out Japan in an attempt to prevent them from dumping their US treasuries is a signal that you should be paying attention to.

https://www.tftc.io/us-bails-out-japan/


RHR 303: CODE IS SPEECH WITH  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx AND  nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

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


Here's your summary from Bitcoin Is More American Than The Dollar | Parker Lewis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzhIxDpzaIs) on the TFTC channel:
**TLDR:** Bitcoin is positioned to replace the dollar as the superior form of money due to its alignment with American ideals and the flaws of the current monetary system.

**Key Points:**
1. Bitcoin's superiority as money is highlighted by its alignment with American ideals and its potential to restore the separation of powers within the US government.
2. The recent swap line agreement between the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan to intervene in the Yen markets reflects the interconnectedness of central banks and the ongoing challenges in the US dollar system.
3. The public's reaction to such interventions and the broader social conditions in the United States may lead to increased scrutiny of government spending and monetary policies.
 #bitcoin #nostr #tftc #freaks #opensource #grownostr #ten31 #freedomtech #podcasting #podcasting2.0 #bitcoincommons #bitcoinpark nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx


Bitcoin is more aligned with American ideals than the dollar and this is an objective fact.

nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw joined me to explain why.

We also discuss why you should own what bitcoin is. It is money, it competes with USD and it will use "dirty" energy.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RDCMUCtdbWsnfA08KhSUO4amVLaQ&playnext=1&si=oFYcWEbSyrCXKLPk


Here are the most important steps you can take to avoid social engineering attacks that attempt to separate you from your bitcoin.

https://t.co/tI19WMPpuY


Bailing out the banks is cool and all, but bailing out the central banks is even cooler.
https://m.primal.net/IEgh.jpg


The money is broken*
https://m.primal.net/IEet.jpg


HATERS GONNA HATE.

I WAS FUCKING RIGHT.


The governance structure as laid out by the authors of the Constitution is a very good structure. It just needs the ability to operate smoothly again.

Bitcoin brings back that ability.

https://www.tftc.io/the-us-dollar-is-anti-america/


The Minecraft kids are coming for your corn. Be aware freaks! https://soundcloud.com/junsethsworld/interview-with-a-social-engineering


Introducing... Ticketbot. A new way to buy and sell tickets across the web using open standards and internet identities https://zine.wavlake.com/introducing-ticketbot/ https://image.nostr.build/1e2f8a6656fc3a70d990ad7323a189194bfc19318d42a7c490f864ebf5ea364d.jpg


The bitcoin stack is built on layers of simple modular markets that enable more complex applications.

I walked through the bitcoin stack with Dhruv Bansal, nostr:npub1uatf9mr3za8xnr0370gl2acc2k7vfeh9dpyf6t426jyasyry4nnqe7n24e and nostr:npub1sfhflz2msx45rfzjyf5tyj0x35pv4qtq3hh4v2jf8nhrtl79cavsl2ymqt.

Great rip to learn about bitcoin's incentive systems.

https://youtu.be/vXMl40of2-s?si=Y7AcNDZwrRAUes-P


Here's your summary from The Bitcoin Stack | Dhruv Bansal,Ryan Gentry & Allen Farrington (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXMl40of2-s) on the TFTC channel:
**TLDR:** The video discusses the Bitcoin stack and the importance of market incentives at every layer for Bitcoin to succeed. The conversation delves into the collaboration between the speakers on an article stemming from a Bitcoin 2021 conference presentation.

- The collaboration on the Bitcoin stack article was prompted by a well-received talk at the Bitcoin 2021 conference.
- The discussion emphasizes the need for market incentives at different layers of Bitcoin for scalability and utility.
- The conversation touches on the contrast between Bitcoin's development ethos and the approach of other cryptocurrencies.
- The importance of designing incentive structures rigorously and focusing on use-case based demand pull is highlighted.
- Examples of unforeseen developments in the Bitcoin ecosystem, such as out-of-band transactions, are discussed.

In this video, the speakers delve into the intricacies of the Bitcoin stack and the critical role of market incentives at each layer for Bitcoin's success. The collaboration on the article was sparked by a thought-provoking talk at the Bitcoin 2021 conference, emphasizing the need for a deep understanding of incentive structures. The conversation sheds light on the evolving nature of the Bitcoin ecosystem, highlighting the importance of designing with a focus on use-case based demand pull. Overall, the discussion provides valuable insights into the complexities of building and scaling Bitcoin in a rapidly changing landscape.
 #bitcoin #nostr #tftc #freaks #opensource #grownostr #ten31 #freedomtech #podcasting #podcasting2.0 #bitcoincommons #bitcoinpark nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx


This was the white pill conversation I needed to end the week. Carliño's story is inspiring and what he's doing with nostr:npub14advhxua8w78gl2z7q8c4s20htxkzq4cu5mhj34ep0puf7smyqzszrd7qq in collaboration with @simpleproof to mitigate election fraud is something to be bullish about.

Also a great episode if you want to learn about how inefficient and dangerous OFAC is to liberty. The story of how OFAC destroyed Carliños  family business that had been around for 30+ years overnight will make your blood boil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD0PI1MTots


Choose your fighter.
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RABBIT HOLE RECAP LIVE IN SIX HOURS AT 1800 UTC.

- nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx
- nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy


Bend the knee to ESG.

Don’t call bitcoin money.

Tie your identity to the blockchain.

This is how we win.


The US government and many other governments around the world seem keen on making it as hard as possible for software developers to build tools that enable individuals to access the bitcoin network and control their wealth in a permissionless fashion.

https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-pgp-war/


Why nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx thinks nostr will eventually win.

#whynostr
https://m.primal.net/ICAB.mov


History is repeating. Bitcoin is in the middle of its form of the PGP wars. The arguments against it and the untenable “solutions” put forth by the government are the exact same.

They wanted people to hold their PGP private keys with custodians. PGP won. Bitcoin can too.
https://m.primal.net/IBsT.jpg
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Wounded animals in weak positions lash out in desperation to project strength when they are most vulnerable.


It’s crazy to think we have to worry about the government and how they react to what we build instead of being able to focus on building the future without fear of possibly being thrown in a cage. For building freedom technology that levels the playing field and brings about the equal opportunity politicians LARP about.


🤡 https://video.nostr.build/4492241684589535b5ed48351a5ddc288a6a1bff6f1fcd35729cd2296a1315c2.mp4


The cycle of widespread adoption of bitcoin mining throughout the energy sector is upon us.
https://m.primal.net/IBYf.jpg


nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h bathroom should have nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy recent audio reading of “A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto” 🎵
https://m.primal.net/IAiw.jpg


It's time to stop being defensive and start suing the government.

This is how gun rights have been successfully defended for decades.


The government is acting very desperate right now. Almost as if they know a relatively small rush to the doors could cause everything to collapse.


The bank runs continue.
https://m.primal.net/IAPW.jpg


Introducing Top Zaps

We just released an update to all Primal clients. You’ll notice that we now render several top zaps at the bottom of each note. The top zapper gets their zap message displayed. Brevity is enforced: we only allow room for 4-5 short words. Anyone can zap any note and include any message. Note author can mute abusive users and keep their sats. Let’s see how this goes!

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


Wish it didn’t get to this point.