My 11 year old just sent me this.

He is gonna make it….

Zaps will be forwarded to his wallet.

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


That would be awesome.


Can’t get your loved ones to read the Bitcoin standard?

Try sticking something in their ear holes.

We narrate a foundational course on the history of money and why wage earners should consider Bitcoin.

We look at equities, bonds, real estate and gold and critically assess their pros and cons in an environment of fiat currency.

And finally we deliver the orange pill.

https://fountain.fm/episode/RnuqqAokpx3S0ij9oSef

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Unfortunately I cannot make it. But there might be a pleasant surprise for you 🤫


85 books to sign….

Lucky I have all time highs to fuel the fire..

For I am truly blessed….

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


The “no delete” option has changed us as humans for the better


Perfection


Channeling my boi nostr:npub1wezprxcca3tttvnhncxsxhnhz25av6wml0jm9305tr94vjhmdj2s2e62hu

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


Man I just read this and got all excited to download it on my start9 implementation only to relive the sadness of having to pack up my node last week. Why god why!!!!!
😢😭


Nostr worth thread:

Alright, confession time: I live in a climate where “room temperature” means “tropical sauna.” And all I want in life is to be one of those people who casually leaves their butter out on the counter, living the dream of perfectly spreadable toast. 🧈🥲

But no. Here, if I try to let my butter “soften up,” I end up with what can only be described as a butter-flavored Slip ’N Slide, dripping across my countertop, like some greasy tribute to modern art.

I mean, I see those Pinterest kitchens with cute little butter dishes on display, and I think, why not me? Why shouldn’t I also live a soft-butter life? So, in a moment of reckless optimism, I tried it — just left my butter out like some carefree influencer.

Fast forward 20 minutes, and my kitchen looked like it’d been slimed by a melting butter sculpture. It wasn’t some dreamy “spreadable masterpiece” — it was a shimmering, oily puddle that looked eerily like the floor of my local pub after karaoke night.

The butter didn’t even try to hold its shape. It just… surrendered.

And let me tell you, cleaning up melted butter is a unique form of suffering. You go in with a paper towel, and the butter just spreads, smearing like it’s taking a final stand against kitchen hygiene. By the end, my countertop was so slippery, it was like trying to mop up an oil spill on an ice rink.

So now, I’m back to keeping my butter in the fridge, resigned to the frigid block life. Every morning, I chisel at it like I’m forging a sword, hoping not to crack my toast in half. It’s like trying to butter toast with a frozen stick of deodorant, and let’s just say it’s not the gentle breakfast experience I dream of.

To those of you who can leave your butter out year-round, in climates where it’s never in danger of becoming the Exxon Valdez of condiments, I salute you. 🫡 You have no idea how good you’ve got it. So next time you’re casually gliding that flawless curl of butter onto toast, just know that someone out here in the tropics is shaking their fist at a greasy countertop and a rock-hard butter block colder than an eskimo’s nipples during a bath.


Yeah mate, been following them loosely for a few years now. Great concept.


Of course my friend, I’d love that.


I’ve got the gen 3 standard mate. But no room for my node. And raspberry pi’s don’t cut the mustard anymore :)


That’s a great way of putting it


I’m packing up my node today as we begin packing up the house for our travels.

Is it normal to feel a bit emotional?


That book left me deeply disturbed.


First they come for free speech, next they come for free thought….


Just orange pilled my Uber driver. No NGU, no mention of returns, no CAGR or moon-math…..

Just how it is improving the efficiencies and economics of energy grids.


Reminder: airport dining need not be complete shite and expensive.

Hungry Jack’s:
1x whopper patty
2x eggs
1x bacon

$5.55

Choose better and stack sats


Help me shape our on the road podcast next year.

- wifey and I sit down and talk about our travels, what we did, where we went.
- run through our activities
- chat through challenges and learning with travel-schooling
- kids chime in with their
  - what they did
  - what they liked
  - what they didn’t like
  - what they learned
- chat about how we are funding our travels. The hustle(s). Bitcoin as the enabler of our optionality
- once a month interview someone inspiring and their hustle. Just ordinary people doing extraordinary things to hustle and find extra income streams.

What else would you be interested in hearing about from a family of 4 spending a year on the road travel-schooling 2 young boys aged 8 and 11.

Finally what should we call this pod?


🤣😂

🤢🤢🤢

Footstr is fucking disgusting.

I saw things no human should have to see once, let alone a timeline filled with all your manky, gnarly, fungi-filled, disfigured appendages….

🤮 🤮🤮


Having a big family event up here this week.

The Relos arrive Wednesday…

Can only do what I can do! 💅🏻😂

#StudyBitcoin
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Ready for an orangepill session!
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Legend. I didn’t realise it had been updated as I only updated myself a few days ago.

New version downloaded and issue resolved I thinks

Thanks heaps


My primal no longer works.

Nothing loads, new posts or notifications.

Comparing my settings with a friend last night and their cache light is green. Mine is red.

Tried resetting to default.

Could this be the issue?

Help friends

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Meeting Bitcoiners in real life is the best.

H/t you know who you are

I was humbled to be a part of your first ever <undisclosed location> meetup.


But everyone loves you Maxi and it has everything to do with you because you’re fucking rad.
😘


I’m sorry bro. 🧡


Bro…..

🧡🧡🧡🧡


Hey  nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and  nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg... I wanted to pitch Madeira Island as a possible location for a future edition of the Nostr Unconference. As we are only doing the 2nd edition of Bitcoin Atlantis in 2028, we can help you locally with all the production. Plus we are already home to many ostriches and purple related projects, like  nostr:npub1s0veng2gvfwr62acrxhnqexq76sj6ldg3a5t935jy8e6w3shr5vsnwrmq5!

It would be fire! 🔥

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


We have 2 beautiful, smart, whitty funny little boys.

My wife desperately wanted more. A little girl to round out the family.

I always said no because I didn’t think we could afford it.

I worried about sacrificing too much to provide for another.

I worried about schooling, I worried about travel, I worried about having an affordable and comfortable lifestyle for all of us.

I had a fiat mindset, because I didn’t know any different.

I didn’t realise there was a solution that would enable everything we wanted through hard work and time preference.

Now, I fear we have left it too late to safely go after what we want due to age.

Fiat robbed me and my family of something truly beautiful and I will never forgive or forget.


Are there other cache services? Happy to pay for a good one.


Didn’t even see this on nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg
Downloaded nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 again and all my notifications are there.

Perhaps I am doing something wrong.


Done!!!

Also, I didn’t see this on my primal app. Downloaded Damus again and here you were.


Digging these up again for a friend.

Some
May be interested. They were written back in 21 but should still be relevant, unless they changed energy on is.
Part I

https://dazbe4.medium.com/energy-and-electricity-for-plebs-plebucation-for-bitcoiners-1-basics-and-mining-f653c2cc9b65


Sing along:

Hello liquidity my old friend….

It’s time to pump my bags again…

Because the money starts to flow freely…

They print it out of thin air daily

And the assets are first to see these flows, and everyone knows

Wage earners get fucked….through inflation…


I found myself unexpectedly triggered.


Nostr/Primal noob….

My notifications and DMs are super super slow to load.

Do I need more relay connections?


Hello Nostr!

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

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

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

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I often wonder if I have the best bookshelf in #bitcoin

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#books #beauty #plebchain

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I just watched Margin Call for the first time while on a flight.

I had never before experienced such a feeling of the inevitably of the plane crashing.

I feel deeply disturbed right now.

The really scary thing is you know this sort of shit goes on each and every day, that there is another inevitable cataclysmic event on the horizon and that 99% of people have no fucking clue what’s coming.

Brave for impact……

#bitcoin


It’s gonna be cool to tell your kids you used Nostr when you had to upload media to a website and paste the URL.

We’ve come a long way…


Quite simply fucking brilliant.

Thank you so much nostr:npub1s42p50l5aqrq7crv450k9gj0usq7z6kd32e6rj2mz23jgzwvajwsujer0y and @btcdentistaus

bitcoindentist.com.au

I absolutely love it.

Give them both a follow. Solid Bitcoiners with great Bitcoin businesses.

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Shut up and take my sats


Remember when your government stopped you taking your kid to the cafe to have a milkshake, because you didn’t want to take a trial medical procedure with significant evidence to suggest it was neither safe nor effective?

Yeah those were fun times.


Ummmmm hell yeah


I think optimising for resiliency, optionality & privacy will be my wider goal. Allowing people to largely do what they want on their peice of citadel will be fundamental.

Each of the private areas will be separated by pasture that's actively grazed rotationally.

I think the communal area will be where most of the fun happens. A clubhouse of sorts that can be accessed by outsiders without going deep into the private areas.

It may start as just an insulated steel shed with mezanine & plaster interior. A big wood fireplace. Bar & pool tables. Covered outdoor area for BBQing & socialising.

Commercial kitchen & cool room for processing & aging meat will be nearby.

I think it will all evolve in time naturally but this is kind of where my head is at. I'd like to be a member of several citadels for increased geographical optionality.

I'm so glad others in my social circle are also considering this. Mistakes & strides will be made along the way but we can share the costs & lessons. Fundamentally this increased optionality will cost sats & I think everyone is keen to keep the optionality:cost ratio as high as possible.


Yummy!!!! It will be a pleasure to send you my sats.


I’m spending a lot of time at your citadel.


I’ll be visiting this for sure


In my citadel I’ll have an openly available learning environment where I’ll teach anyone who wants to learn about electronics, microcontrollers, servos, circuits, building guitar effects pedals, robotics, electrical theory and engineering.

I’ll also hold guitar lessons and then I’ll play at the community bbq nostr:npub1jmy8weweqzckna0amz7pn0uhhkxx693l7st23829ewmu43yvjsesfp6xcq'S place on Friday nights.

What will I find in your citadel?


Where do you download the roms from? Does it have a list of installed games somewhere


Over 1/3 of my time was robbed from me last year. They call it tax.

This was even after the legitimate and legal deductions I made within the framework of their system.

I still get a letter saying I claim “more than is usual for a person of my employment and they will be watching my returns closely this year” and “I better have all my receipts ready”.

Criminals.


GM

What a glorious day.

For we are truly blessed.

🧡


Bitcoin will slap you face until it melts 🤷🏻♂


There’s a definite shift in language and positioning in these two responses.

You compare and call me crazy.

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


Screen


I’ve read a lot of investing books, I lost count around the 60 mark…

And I’ve got to say, one of the best books I ever read was circa 2019 for me and it was written by none other than nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z

It was called the Warren Buffet Accounting Book. It was one of the most comprehensive books to lay out a value investing framework aswell as the authors best estimate on what Discounted Cash Flow model the great investor Warren Buffet may deploy when valuing a stock.

nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z rarely talks about his books but having written a book myself, I deeply respect the hustle this gentleman has put into everything he touches. He taught me much more about myself than he taught me about investing.

It was this DCF modelling that eventually lead me to realise just how drastically overvalued EVERYTHING was and what ultimately lead me down the rabbit hole to learn about money.

Forever grateful to you sir.

Needless to say my new hurdle rate is much higher than the “risk free rate of return” I was comparing against in 2019. Onwards


Those man boobs still haunt my dreams. As I’ve gotten older and settling into my dad bod, those man boobs are my mental check to try and keep my shit tighter than I once did.


Surely. I would pay good sats for that.


NOSTR might be the final incentive to read posts before hitting send.

No edit, no delete. Not good for someone who can barely string a sentence together.

And remember, grammar and punctuation is important folks…

It’s the difference between helping your uncle, Jack, off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse.


The world is waking up every where you look.

In every issue from forever wars to the food pyramid to our money.

Incentives matter and we discover  perverse incentives each and every day.

It is fucking glorious and I am here for it.


Just picked up a new rig for picking up gigs on the road.

A Yamaha stagepas 1k.

Set it up today and had a strum. Impressive bit of kit. In fact I like it better then my old rig (msr400s) and think I might be able to ditch my xr12 mixer too. I’ll probably downsize my pedal board too.

Even better, it actually fits under the kids bunk bed in the van.

Income stream #1 sorted with life-in-the-road


I plan on making contact. It wasn’t an option on their site.


Happy Father’s Day to all the Aussie dads out there.

The hustle is noticed and appreciated by all those around you.

It’s traditionally our job to provide and to protect. Society is bastardising masculinity and downplaying the role of strong men in the family unit. To them I say “fuck you”.

We work hard, we provide and we protect and to me there is no finer duty or purpose. It is what I was put on this earth to do.


Makes you wonder.

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Interesting….


This sounds like my thing.


NOSTR connected with nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5

LFG!!!


Should I start a new dedicated account t you reckon maxi-boy?


Who would be interested in following our little families travel plans and travel-schooling journey here on NOSTR?

We will be pulling our 2 x boys out of school for 2025. Year 6 (11) and year 3 (8).

7 months full time on the road, travel schooling travelling g to coast of Australia.

Then a further 5months living out of the van while I return to the fiat mines temporality) l.

Happy to document and share the journey exclusively on NOSTR if enough are interested.


Not necessarily mate. But these guys will actually formulate your learning plan paperwork to the HEU and term reporting for an additional fee. But they do lay out all the lesson planning and learning outcomes. You can essentially do all the work samples and ignore everything else.

Very reasonably priced


Just enrolled the kids in this curriculum for next year.

https://euka.edu.au/

Fully flexible based off Australia Curriculum. From the research we (read:wifey) did this gives us a nice framework to make sure we are ticking off a few boxes while giving us the flexibility to opt into and out of the parts of the curriculum that either don’t resonate with us, can otherwise be covered off or whatever justification we can think of.

Can’t wait to start this journey with the kids on the road, I’m really looking forward to having the time to be involved in their learning

H/t nostr:npub1hghnjjpnvkz8t6gkszuf37d7puwc2qtxc65rnklqsngzv6kkug9qhhfyz2


I guess I’m not going to bed right now after all.


This is a good short story on how to not get engagement on Nostr.

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🧡🧡

I appreciated the beard photo my brother


Sometimes I like to do some simple calculations and let my mind explode as to what wealth and abundance I’ve been able to create for my family.

E.g if you managed to stack 0.5BTC you are in the richest 42,000,000 in the entire world. There will never be and can never be more people with more Bitcoin.

A finitely scarce monetary asset that is seeing global adoption each and every day.

All you have to do is HODL while it absorbs the monetary premium of every other asset and every other good.

Sit back and let abundance flourish

♾/21M


Disclaimer: this was recorded live last weekend at my gig. It is not polished. 😜


I’m hitting to road for 7mths next year. Hoping to pick up some pub-cover gigs while I’m at it.

What is the best platform to live-stream the gigs for the plebs?

https://audio.nostr.build/2981f26ee1cc8d0d501ba2ea4a094402f89d87ac9c1a509018444e156f4925b9.mp3


Since everyone is jumping over to Nostr, I wanted to share my latest analysis video from behind the paywalled with you all.

Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/1pykSsDYc38?si=I5Ct2NitMrS2xdVi


NOSTR vs Twitter.

Twitter:
Feeling cute, might delete later

NOSTR:
Feeling cute, can’t delete later

Feeling the revolution today team. #bitcoin

We will win

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


Dear Aussie Wage-earner,

Your government in conjunction, with your Reserve Bank and the banking sector, increased the M2 money supply from $11,548mn to 2,023,682mn from 1965 to 2024

That is a compounded increase of 9.15% annually.

This, dear reader, is one of the main causes of inflation and increased prices.

When we increase the number of currency units competing for finite resources. Prices go up.

The question you need to ask is, did your wage keep up with the 9% increase in currency units?

If not, your only choice is to park your value in scarce assets.

The question you need to now ask yourself is are those assets at fair value to their underlying worth or utility? Or have they attracted a monetary premium because everyone is trying to jump off this ship?

Did this rush to safety over-inflate the prices of these assets artificially? What are they actually worth?

The next question you should ask yourself is, what if there were a money that was finite in supply?

A money controlled by no-one, but enforced by everyone.

A money that’s only function was to act as a money.

Something that you could hold where we didn’t have time worry about earnings reports, corporate debt levels or interest rates.

Something  that allowed you increase your purchasing power over time without a deep understanding of financial markets or macroeconomic issues.

A monetary good that meant you didn’t have to take on debt and get in an over-levered position?

Something that, at its fundamental level, is actually immune to economic recession.

A monetary good with a finite supply of units competing against these same goods and services and assets? As opposed to a monetary good with infinite supply?

What does a finite supply do to the price of things over time?

If you are suffering inflation and your wage hasn’t increased 9% per year for the past 60 years. You need an alternative option.

You have the ability to opt out. And you can opt out any time you like.

You owe it to yourself…

This is why I use Bitcoin as my monetary good.
https://m.primal.net/KHNO.png


You absolutely have enough Bitcoin. It’s just your timeline that you may need to adjust.

H/t nostr:npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp


Citadel Power Systems 😯
This is going to an epic set up!
This will be a significant step towards self sovereignty in energy and one giant leap toward freedom and opting out. nostr:note1ukfydjc83jcay7k0gvsgkpvnp89fea7l4ryayt4ewnpha2acqf8q9m27u3


Coming soon….Citadel Power Systems

Off-grid ✅
Self-sovereign ✅
Solar + Batteries + Grid Forming Inverters ✅✅✅
Backup diesel generator ✅
Integrated bitcoin miners ✅

Hands up if you want one for your citadel?


Wow!!!


 nostr:npub1tm2048gau5mp8u5kfnxk68y7wzzpv5ggpuluqmhlhrtaldl49kzs7elpna introduces  nostr:npub18z782cwajrylwmdmfpa87wcvwj6cqpnvzvlwj457etzstd7xm53s3stsc3 - his Bitcoin education platform co-founded with  nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee

https://d3e0luujhwn38u.cloudfront.net/original/img/original/92757/19cb2f43-7a39-41fa-82cf-38d5d4873a03.mp4

Catch the full episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERHAwZX-bg0

Check out Looking Glass education:
https://lookingglasseducation.com/


It was only good because of the guest speakers sir. And you are top class.


'Why Choose #Bitcoin'  @ #BitcoinAlive 2024.

nostr:npub1jss47s4fvv6usl7tn6yp5zamv2u60923ncgfea0e6thkza5p7c3q0afmzy  nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee nostr:npub1qh5sal68c8swet6ut0w5evjmj6vnw29x3k967h7atn45unzjyeyq6ceh9r @jp_technology

https://youtu.be/jz0qcTnFrJs?si=6VV5orES9TYRMh98


Guess what I witnessed on the weekend?

I witnessed a Bitcoin transaction get broadcast in one hop, over 16km via LORA @TheMeshtastic from a remote location to a connected Bitcoin node 16km away. One transmitter….one receiver….16km!!!!

🤯🤯🤯

“What if they shut down the internet?” 🥴🥴🥴

Our beautifully autistic nerds will simply route round that shit that’s what!!!

Where do you witness these things?

At the @bitcoinbushbash…. That’s where.

nostr:npub10jnx6stxk9h4fgtgdqv3hgwx8p4fwe3y73357wykmxm8gz3c3j3sjlvcrd


“Why Choose #Bitcoin “ #BitcoinAlive 2024.

Featuring nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee  , @JP_Technology, nostr:npub1qh5sal68c8swet6ut0w5evjmj6vnw29x3k967h7atn45unzjyeyq6ceh9r & nostr:npub1jss47s4fvv6usl7tn6yp5zamv2u60923ncgfea0e6thkza5p7c3q0afmzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz0qcTnFrJs


It took me about a month to go from fiat to shitcoiner to #Bitcoin er.

An acquaintance had suggested I go on Coinbase and get the free small $dollar amount reward of ETH they were giving away to new users.   So I did.  Once in, I used Coinbase's little rewards program where you watch a promo on a shitcoin, then are rewarded with a bit of it. Luna. Circle, Dot, etc.

The first time I used a blockchain explorer it was to look up an ETH transaction.  (That was a powerful moment for me...when I first looked up a transaction ID on a public digital ledger...)

Looked at all the tokens on Coinbase and wondered what made them different from each other.  Which would last? Or appreciate in value?

Bought and lost money on some small amount of Polkadot. Remember reading some guy's social media post about how cryptocurrencies are all narrative:   you have to guess which narrative is going to be popular to figure out which coin would appreciate next.  Sounded scammy. The pump-n-dump.

Then, no thanks to Coinbase,  I encountered the OG.  The only digital asset. It seemed different.

BTC.

I started wolfing down old #Bitcoin content from Andreas, then DerGigi, and so many others on YouTube, Reddit, podcasts, audio books and Twitter spaces. Found LookingGlassEducation.com, and paid attention to its messaging from  nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee and  nostr:npub1tm2048gau5mp8u5kfnxk68y7wzzpv5ggpuluqmhlhrtaldl49kzs7elpna ...Became captivated by the solid sanity of what I was learning about #Bitcoin.

Had an awakening.

And now I have a Bitcoin bookshelf.

I have had a low success rate at orange pilling, not for lack of trying.
But the couple of others who grasped it and began to understand it...I have a new bond with them.

I'm now aging into my quiet phase, as I've seen others do.  A slow pull back from the initial excitment, from the conversations, the orange pilling, the social media wrangling. Getting back to minding my own business, thinking about opsec, and generational legacy.

I might even buy some Bitcoin myself one day, just in case it catches on.


This is the way. Humbled to be part of your journey mate. This was a pleasure to read 🧡🧡🧡


@voldemort is a free handle. Should we tell her/him/it?


What Do You Do as Your #Bitcoin Stack Grows? w/ nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee from the Bitcoin Adviser
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZZysfVni6hM?feature=share


WTAF?


Sorry nostr:npub1jf093k8ayzwe4pyelpcf4jpd4nxj6hygf2xgxercu6y099jsazdqt9w2uw I’ll try harder next time I promise. You can’t get Waz in, his name doesn’t even rhyme.


It was such an honour to be involved in your 150th episode. Real proof of work. @BTC_honeybadger

It was also great fun to get back to basics in this one and explore what is money, how to buy bitcoin and how to store it.

Listeners can tap into a free consultation on custody solutions with me.

Just slide into the DMs and say the Honeybadger sent you.

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Watching cowboys game (NRL) and a pretty based Bitcoin ad comes on from @krakenfx

Nice


I think they’re relying on the fact that majority of people (at the swing voting margin) don’t have more than $3m so won’t oppose.


Taxes on unrealised gains is a very dangerous precedent.

It would be worth your while letting your local MPs and senators know your views on this proposal

https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/savers-with-3m-plus-super-could-pay-double-tax-on-earnings-experts-20240421-p5flf8


That has also been my experience


Check for seed oils


i hurt myself today... https://video.nostr.build/cce812129a01bc85a6f31021055e90f68231b2038471997719757f283f96fe85.mp4


2 from 2 favourite chats this year.

First it was @bramk and now this chat with Tony from Basecamp For Men podcast.

This was a really natural conversation about bitcoin, wage-earners, finance and the general state of the world.

https://t.co/aJXfXV87IG

https://t.co/C6hkuSdHVe


I’ve got to say, this was one of the most enjoyable podcasts and conversations I’ve had. I loved the convo and the opportunity to come on for a chat @bramk

https://lookingglasseducation.com/bitcoin-for-millennials-podcast-i-changed-my-life-through-bitcoin-daz-bea/


It sure is and it gets a run at least 5times a week. Love it


Haha I reckon I’m on my 4th go round for the first and 2nd on the 2nd book.
Agree


Great book, the fifth agreement was also good.


Wifey just posted this video to me.

I’m like Morpheus:
“At last, she’s beginning to believe”

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


https://m.primal.net/HvSE.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HvSF.jpg


ZAPPED!!!

Looks rad


New to primal…

Gamechanger


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Drift Away - Dobie Gray


Unknown truth:

The electrification of everything in terms of energy grids will use far more aluminium than copper.

Few


Well said. It is a different addiction to say nicotine. But I (as I think a lot of Bitcoiner’s share) have an addictive personality and develop habits and routines very easily that can be hard to break.


Smoking weed was a major barrier for me. I smoked daily for years and lacked motivation and drive. After quitting there was a noticeable shift in my perception and in my cognitive function. Like a veil was lifted. The change was so profound I have never had another puff in over 20years.!


The truth is, a future toward 100% renewables penetration can never be achieved in an economically responsible way without flexible demand-side loads.

If we look at wind energy as an isolated solution, ignoring the various nuances, simply using this as a test case…depending on the installed location we can expect an average capacity factor of approximately 30%. Capacity factor being a measure of the installed capacity that can be utilised on an average basis.

If we want to achieve a safe, reliable and stable grid, it stands to reason that with a capacity factor of only 30% we would need a grid that is 3x our maximum demand. Sounds reasonable. However when we stop to think about what maximum peak demand represents, it represents our maximum billable revenue.
Therefore, with this simply example we can start to identify a problem. If we can only generate revenue from 1/3 of our maximum capacity, where do we find the capital to backstop the other 2/3 of capacity required without a hope of generating revenue from that installed capacity.
The simple solution is two-fold:
1. Directly through energy consumer bills and purchase agreements; or
2. Indirectly through the taxpayer via government funded programs and subsidies.

Unless….

We can introduce flexible demand-side loads to introduce new revenue sources that can soak up a large % of the remaining 2/3s of the installed capacity, generate revenues for the operators but most importantly, can be switched off in a matter of seconds to supply critical demand-side response when the energy is needed. Bitcoin Miners play this role unlike any demand-side load we have ever known.

Bitcoin mining will be a major tool that will be used to help capitalise energy projects while minimising the cost to consumers and taxpayers.

It is only a matter of time before we see this coming to the fore with energy projects the world over. Bitcoin mining is THE game-changer for energy grids and energy operators.


NICE


Bitcoin's 4yr CAGR is currently sitting at 79.9%!

https://www.bitcoinisthebettermoney.com/cagr


Sometimes it is easy for people to mistakenly frame bitcoin mining as the panacea to fix all the problems of the future of energy grid.

Nobody is suggesting it will be the ultimate solution, but it will certainly be a key player in the future energy/demand mix.

Bitcoin mining will play a part alongside a host of other solutions such as hydro, pumped hydro, battery storage and hydrogen production to name just a few.

What is apparent, however, is that Bitcoin mining can help reinforce the economics behind all of these projects.

Flexible Demand-Side loads ARE the panacea for future energy grids, Bitcoin mining is not the ONLY demand-side flexible load. It is simply the BEST demand-side flexible load.


Great chat boys and yep, book printer go brrrr

Keen


Put simply, Bitcoin Miners are the ideal customer for energy grids.

1. Grids are built for maximum peak demand. However, maximum peak demand occurs within a fraction of any given day and a fraction of any given season. Maximum demand also represents your maximum billable revenue source. The opportunity lies between the maximum profitable operating zone and the efficient operating region of the generators, above the normal demand threshold.

2. Increases in renewables are impacting grid stability. Solar penetration is causing what is known as the Duck-Curve Effect (see attached). Too much solar generation, where there is not enough load, causes instability in the heartbeat (frequency) of the grid. Rotating machines create the frequency, but they need sufficient load to operate effectively. Too much solar puts pressure on this system. Bitcoin Mining is one of the only completely flexible load centers that can soak up this excess generation and entirely switch off as required with little effect on the broader bitcoin network.

3. Bitcoin Miners can help stabilize wholesale energy markets. Quite often, we experience excess renewables capacity that exceeds our billable demand. The effects on the wholesale market often see the bid-price for energy swing negative, meaning generators are actually being charged to produce energy. The inverse is also true when demand exceeds generation capacity. Bitcoin Mining, as a flexible and controllable demand-side operator, can very quickly ramp-up load to provide a revenue source for excess capacity and ramp-down to provide this excess and controllable demand back to the grid in peak demand periods. This smooths out volatility in generation bid-price and aids operators in better forecasting demand and generation.

4. Monetization of capital projects. Energy projects are extremely capital-intensive, often relying on government-funded programs, partnerships, rebates, and subsidies to get them off the ground. Often, it is the connection of the energy source to the transmission network that incurs significant costs. Bitcoin Mining operators are partnering with these projects all throughout the world to provide them with a direct monetization stream for their energy. Never before have we been able to bring profitable energy consumers directly to the energy source, and at the scale with which Bitcoin Miners are able to deliver it. Bitcoin Miners are assisting these projects to build out in stages, bringing a revenue source early within the project lifecycle. When the services of the miners are no longer needed, when there is sufficient competition for the energy they are using, or when the economics no longer make sense, they pick up their containers and move on to the next energy source.

Understanding Bitcoin Mining will be crucial for grid operators and generators into the future.

Reach out if you would like to know more. https://image.nostr.build/2e140f6986ade5a1515907648d0bd61c05aa3e439190cc6621e6574b755a3a3d.jpg


daz

#bitcoin. Co-Lead Plebucator at http://www.lookingglasseducation.com @LookingGlassEDU Teaching wage-earners how Bitcoin can change their world.
#Austrich


“Close your eyes a little” nostr:note17kewt5nmaqv2qac37mfjw9js754l5usnanfvtua20hmsy556tn6qkf878w


Haha wow that’s awesome!!!


Yes, we love beautiful books. Fiat ruined books.


You have to get your bitcoin from chain onto the lightning network.

High fees can make this unfeasible.


Incredibly delighted to announce that ‘The Simplest Bitcoin Book Ever Written’ is now available in Brazilian Portuguese! 🧡

Huge thanks to @MercadoSatoshi for the loads of work translating and formatting my book! 🙏🔥
Completed at block height 832,055 ⚡

Please share far & wide, thank you 😊

From @MercadoSatoshi: É com grande satisfação que trazemos a tradução do livro The Simplest Bitcoin Book Ever Written, escrito pela educadora e autora Bitcoin Keysa Luna @SimplestBTCBook esta é uma obra simples de verdade e com um visual que torna fácil a leitura.

Baixe o PDF

https://t.co/QUtOhq1xIP https://i.nostr.build/nKAd.jpg


Day 2 of Only Surviving on #bitcoin

Goal for today: Get all the basics sorted out:
Groceries, transportation, gym, and steaks 👀

Still alive, but I've run into my first problems. Only 5 more days to go until #bitcoinatlantis kicks off. 🧡

Full Video: https://youtu.be/dmeIfEUzrJA https://v.nostr.build/LXaR.mp4


I’m bummed I missed this Pringles.


Proof of work mate. Chores, training, helping his brother. General hustling


Sorry about the no sound. After 20mins of trying to upload here it appears the audio gets cut.

Try here folks.

https://x.com/dazbea/status/1756111822372090055?s=46


This kid is gonna make it!!

If you’d like to send the lad some sats, he’ll HODL them better than your grandma.

archbea@voltpay.app https://image.nostr.build/03a7f9ad87a8a733645f324300cc9d1c6ce340556d37c252ce9e2c1a9393ccec.jpg https://video.nostr.build/6ea92c4693100a329d0c42dc028fdfe57cd59a37986e627c0a4cb9c88c556680.mp4


The wealth you make is directly related to the value you provide


They look awesome


Never thought I’d see this mug on a t shirt, yet here we are 😂🤣


Can’t tell you how excited I am for this.. https://image.nostr.build/b4e4f88ee5cacc6fa1bfcf289850ac5ed6dd6ed41b9b9949132293e86e8fd6fa.jpg


Stop it 🧡


I’ve no idea if this actually means anything, but we will take the win.

#1 in Money & Monetary Policy

Posting here in NOSTR for it to live forever….

🧡🧡 https://image.nostr.build/618e488c34e8496d526520dca58cd2df36e2247eed68a1639a65744cd507327a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/974b993be579a6888ebeea6f0ec1e13a30314a59e05f1c840e640d419127e008.jpg


Happy belated straya day @pringles.

I did a gig on the day with some Aussie classics featuring heavily in the set list:
Cold chisel
Hoodoo Gurus
Hunters and Collectors
Paul Kelly
Men at work
Slim dusty
Pete Murray
The Angels
INXS
Crowded House (yep, claiming them)
John Farnham
Thirsty Merc
Diesel

Wish you were there, I know you’d be right amongst it.

In fact, when I’m down your way I’ll see if I can swing a couple of local gigs at the surf club or the pub.


Understanding energy grids:

When new developments such as industrial complexes and subdivisions are proposed a key component is their electrical supply.

Engineers involved in the design process will make many assumptions on the maximum demand expectation of the final installation.

Many assumptions are made at this stage of the design, often using a variety of design metrics.

Engineers then, being engineers, will add a safety margin to these estimated demand calculations to ensure they have enough headroom for error.

The situation they want to avoid is underestimating the expected demand.

Underestimating can lead to disastrous and expensive remediation works in the future.

Large installations will inevitably end up with at least one or multiple transformers, typically ground mounted for new subdivisions.

The developer will put in an application with the network provider stipulating the installation requirements to gain a cost for connection.

As the engineers have often over engineered their expected demand, this expected demand informs the rest of the design:
- The size of cables
- The maximum length of cable, which informs how many transformers are needed and their locations.
- The size of the transformers
- the number of LV circuits at each transformer.
- and the total expected billable demand.

The network operator then has to use this information to assess the connection point to see if there is enough capacity in the network to support the requested demand.

Each connection assessment is assessed from the substation supplying the electrons, through the feeder conductors/cables,  accounting for existing demand, peak demand limits, alternate tie points and network contingency plans.

Network operators are often heavily regulated entities with rules around what they can and cannot charge in regard to electricity supply.

An internal design is completed with network upgrade estimates.

These designs and their associated network upgrade costs are run through an internal price-book to determine what percentage of the upgrade costs the applicant will need to pay.

If there is a “shared network benefit” in upgrading the backbone conductor, the applicant only contributes a portion of this cost. After all, why should they pay for a whole network upgrade, right?

They will also receive a discount based on projected future revenues? How much is the entity likely to receive based on their usage to help offset the initial cost of network upgrades? This also makes the cost of new connections affordable for new customers?

There are three evident flaws in this approach:
1. Engineers over design, therefore the designed upgrades to the network and costs incurred to the entity to provide the requested supply is often above and beyond what is needed.

2. Customer know how to cook the books. “Yes, that high powered motor will run at full load 24hrs a day 365days of the year”. Because if I know I get a discount on future expected revenue, I will overestimate my future usage. regardless if I actually do it.  There is no follow up

3. These network upgrades are usually carried out before the customers expected commissioning date as supply is needed before they finish their subdivision. They’ve often only paid an application and initial connection charge due the reasons listed above…

..yet the entity has had to carry out the upgrades.

It is quite common for these projects to fail multiple times before finally proceeding to final build.

Sometimes the upgrades and expenses have already been realised to the entity. Sometimes these projects kick off again, sometimes they don’t. It is often years in between.

Grid operators would benefit greatly by integrating or partnering with operators of a fleet of portable flexible demand customers.

Customers that can mobilise within strategic parts of the network to soak up excess demand capacity that has been expensed to the network due to failed projects or over design.

Customers that can also turn off in the event that a significant network constraint exists. A faulty underground cable where we need to tie 2 feeders together but lack the network infrastructure to cater for the entire load of both feeders, we can ramp down our new flexible demand customers

Portable customers that can be installed at the new project site and create billable demand until projects are finished. They are then picked up and moved to the next location

Scalable demand customers that can soak up even the smallest excess capacity from as little as a kw right up to 10s of megawatts.

Such a customer sounds too good to be true. Surely such a customer doesn’t exist or it would be oversubscribed.

Such a customer does exist, they are called #bitcoin  miners.

It involves a paradigm shift for grid operators. But the realisation when it does occur will be a total game changer for how grids operate.

If you can obtain an audience with your local member of government, grid operator, utility engineer or other significant decision maker who needs to hear this message I would be more than happy to get involved in the conversation.

DMs open.


Trust me bro…

This 20BTC price floor is legit…

But I’ll do it for 15BTC cause you’re a good bloke. https://image.nostr.build/bf26dbcab73521550287d47741cb31f005d8d7db8739a76dafb0d9cbf663a73e.jpg


Happy Birthday #Bitcoin

15 years old today and just like a teenager, showing lots of promise, full of life and energy and ideas

.. and just like a teenager, can benefit from care and nurturing but will accumulate their own scars and lessons reaching maturity

Thanks Satoshi 🧡


Reading Hacks and Tips.

We’ve started a 26xbooks for 2024 reading book club. DM me for the telegram group link if you want to join.

Below are my reading hacks and tips I shared with the group.

Tip #1. Use devices.
There’s nothing more I like than a physical book but being a book Luddite can be a major barrier to increasing your reading.

Kindle has a synch feature that allows you to catch up on any kindle app on any device (provided your kindle has internet access)

I use this to take advantage of any delay or spare 5mins that presents itself on any given day.

Doctors appointment, read instead of Twitter.

Waiting in the car while wifey fetches the bread and milk? Read instead of doom scrolling Facebook reels.

You will read much more if it is easy to do so.

Tip #2. Practice.

Much like meditation or anything else worth doing. Actively practicing reading can be beneficial.

Set a dedicated time aside, I would recommend avoiding bed time though. The end of the day is the worst. You are tired, reading will fatigue your eyes and you will not be attentive.
Wake up 20-30mins earlier and read over your coffee before everyone starts their day.

Getting in the habit of practicing to read will ensure you not only increase your reading, but you will get much better and much more effective.

Effective reading is just as important for your own self-drive. If you are good at something you enjoy doing it.

Reading can work just the same.

Tip #3 - Avoid distractions.

Ever feel like you’ve read the same page 3 times? That’s because you aren’t really present.

Tying in from point 2. As you practice and get better at reading you will experience this less. But good practice means avoiding distractions.

Don’t keep your phone in the same room as your book.
As you read a hundred different thoughts get sparked as you draw connections between thoughts. It will remind you of a million things you should have, would have, could have done. Ignore them.

NEVER look at your phone, it’s a sure fire way of losing 20mins of reading time checking your Twitter notifications.

Do yourself a favour and remove the temptation, a phone in another room is an effort. A phone sitting next to you on the armchair is picked up before you even realise your doing it.

I am majorly guilty of this one.

Speed reading:::

Speed reading is a major skill. In my opinion there are tradeoffs with some of them, but there is an immense amount of value in some of these and they are worth exploring.

Speed reading tip #1.
Read the synopsis and  read (I mean really read) the table of contents.

Reading the synopsis and the table of contents sets the tone for what you are about to learn. It allows your brain to start connecting the neural paths to past thought patterns and knowledge and can help with comprehension and retention.

Some even advocate for skipping chapters that you are already familiar with, though I don’t practice this myself. But this can be a great tip for someone studying at university level for instance or something new you want to learn but have a good understanding of the subject matter.

Speed reading tip 2.

Let your fingers do the walking.

Use your finger to move along the page to keep track of where you are.

Over the entire course of a whole book a substantial amount of time can be lost rereading the same line, especially with tired and lazy eyes.

Use your finger to underscore and keep track of where you are. Most speed readers use this technique.

Speed reading tip #3.

Reduce the margins.

A large amount of time can be wasted by actively reading every single word. Many speed readers allow the periphery of your vision to pick up the words at the margin.
A physical book is best to practice, find the rough average position of the first word and last word of each line, draw a margin down and while using your finger to trace don’t allow your vision to look beyond the margin. The periphery should pick it up.

As you practice then draw your margins 2 words in, and finally 3 (or even 4 if you are really good)

Again practice makes perfect here.

Speed reading tip #4

Turn off the inner monologue.

Try not to read in your head. Easier said than done and this is something I personally struggle with, especially when it comes to comprehension and retention. But you will only be able to read as quick as you can verbalise the words unless you can learn to switch it off.

I am terrible at this which leads me to the final and what I think is the most powerful reading hack.

Reading and speed reading hack #5

Outsource your inner monologue.

Your inner voice will slow you down immensely.

For me, I find it hard to switch it off while maintaining a high degree of comprehension and retention.

This is where we can really leverage technology.

I first discovered this while reading a book on market trading. I purchased the kindle version and at checkout noticed I could add the audible version for $3 more.

I listened to the audio book while I read it. BUT…you can speed up the narrator. You can increase the speed of the audiobook to multiple times. Doing this alone can make it hard to follow but when you listen to it quickly but READ it at THE SAME TIME 🤯🤯🤯
I read this 300 page book in about 2.5hrs with extremely high retention and in one sitting.
It was the first time I can recall reading a whole book in one solid session. I felt like Neo getting the king fu upgrade.
WARNING! This can be very addictive.

The trouble though with audio books is that they are narrated and I found that I was limited in the speed I could achieve dependent on the narrator and how articulate they were.

So, use a bot.

I use Voice Dream which is a paid app. It accepts any text and book file format (which you can find online for just about any book worth reading) import it into the app and you are off. The best part is that these robot voices are very articulate allowing you to push the speed beyond what you thought you could do.

Practice. Like anything, you need to practice this. Start slow. Push yourself just beyond comprehension and then dial it back. Do this for a few weeks and then increase it again, and again and before too long you will be listening at beyond 500 words per minute (I sit around 550-600 depending on the book ) and devour books.

But I find I absolutely must read it while I listen.

Reading hack #6

Listen to whitenoise.

I first discovered this hack while studying engineering with a newborn baby boy. He was a terrible sleeper and we read somewhere to put on whitenoise to help calm him.

Well it also calmed dad.

I was in my first year of a 7year studying slog while working full time..

But I noticed that I could really focus while listening to the white noise.
It was even more apparent when I put it on with headphones, and many years later came noise cancelling headphones.

Listening to white noise allows all outside distractions to disappear and for you to become fully present in the moment of reading and learning.

It’s something I still do to this day. Especially on planes or when I’m at work in the office.

I do this when I am not listening to the audio books, or reading for pleasure, or absorbing content that does not easily translate into audio like technical manuals, charts, data, engineering subject matter etc.

Hopefully some of you find these tips useful.


Did you know that B is for Bitcoin is now available for free on Looking Glass Education.

Seb and I never want price to be a barrier to entry on vital lifechanging education.

If you do the course and love it, and can afford it, buy the book and gift it to someone.

https://lookingglasseducation.com/courses/b-is-for-bitcoin/


Somewhere around the 70s women were forced into the work force (I wonder what significant event occurred in the 70’s that could have contributed 🤔)

Also, coincidently there was a feminist movement to help drive a societal shift toward not only accepting this reality…

…but celebrating and glorifying it.

As a result, both parents were forced into employment over long hours.

It started with kids staying at home with mum until school started. Then at around 6 the kids went off to school and mum joined the workforce.

But an environment of declining interest rates and a real rate of inflation higher than what we were reported to experience meant mum needed to go back sooner.

So we saw preschool and kindergarten start to form “a very important part of our kids development”.

Coincidentally, it allowed mum to take some extra hours at an earlier age.

Then came daycare centres, massively subsidised by governments.

It now means mum can pump that baby out and be back at work as early as just a few short weeks after giving birth.

Not only is this socially acceptable, we have created a world where this is a necessity to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

This has resulted in children being raised by other people and they look toward their peers for their developmental and emotional needs.

Mum and dad go and flog themselves out for wages, by the time they get home they are tired and cranky, barely having enough energy left to give the children the love, attention and support they deserve and need.

The kids turn again towards their peers for this attention.

Our world is developing with youth who are completely detached from their parents.

Their emotional development is being shaped by their peers, forming behaviours and personalities that are formed trying to gain peer acceptance, rather than shaped through unconditional love..

..from their parents.

How can we grow into our authentic selves when we are trying to conform to acceptance from a peer group that are themselves underdeveloped and suffering from the same struggles?

EVERYTHING is downstream of money.

Where did I learn this incredible piece of the puzzle?

From my incredible friend’s book:

The Hidden Cost of Money by @sebbunney

Available at your local Amazon.


Dearest pleb….

If you can manage to stack just 0.1 #Bitcoin ….

This will create meaningful change to you and your family.

This is well within reach, it might take some adjusting, some sacrifices, a few less subscriptions (YouTube is free btw)..but you can get there.

Hustle


Seb’s book has just launched guys.
I am biased but I think it will be one of the best books in money ever written.

https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/aw/d/B0CPNGJF5L/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1701979421&sr=8-3


I’ve actually heard of people putting a lite coating in their fretting hand too for those “back from a few weeks away” gigs


It was amazing. So much so that super glue is now going in my gig bag.


As a gigging guitarist/musician I am always paranoid about cutting my fingers.

This week I sliced open my index finger in my right hand, exactly where the string sits when fingerpicking, and right in the impact zone when holding a pick….

I had a gig tonight, what was I going to do?

Super glue to the rescue.

It worked a freaking treat. Protected for all 3 hours while I thrashed away on the acoustic.

Beautiful.


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No better example of "slow-boiling the frog" than the state using their mainstream media arm to gradually massage the inflation narrative further and further from the truth over time.

Learn the REAL truth (and how #Bitcoin puts a stop to the BS) here 👇

>> https://WhyBitcoinOnly.com/#Inflation

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and more!


A good man, a great husband and an exemplary father.


I logged off Twitter with the intention of coming here and seeing exactly this.
Thank you ser.


A thought this was nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee until i turned the sound on.

Now I'm convinced it is.

😂

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“Darling” you say?

You have not met Mrs B.


Hahaha!!!


Insidious control, the function of banks
Bombardment via monetary tanks
To seize all control
All wealth pays the toll
Destruction of dollar of yen and of francs

Most of the people
Nay, they be but plain sheeple
Stood blinded or idly laid by
But alas a small few
Who researched, who knew
Of the destruction to the foundation of men

They would scream on deaf ears
Trying to cut through the fears
Of the mainstream conditioning that bound them
Education they cried
It’s in front of our eyes
A pathway to liberty and freedom

You need only seek
The answers lie beneath
The stones, you need only turn them
Take us by the hand
We can help mend the lands
As we slay these monetary demons.

#bitcoin

-probably some old Austrian dude


I grew up in a trailer park and was basically taught to cuss from walking age.

I eventually put that away for most contexts in my professional world, but I let it out mainly just on Nostr or in front of my husband lol.

You can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the girl.

If you don't like cuss words, I politely recommend that you go fuck yourself. But then, quite honestly, have a lovely evening. ;)

People who can't handle cuss words, even in certain contexts like Nostr, amuse me. It's basically an advertisement that they're fucking soft and out of touch. I use those words even more now to make a point.

It's inappropriate when someone can't rein in cuss words in a professional context. But I would argue that it's similarly inappropriate when an adult is too weak to hear cuss words in an unprofessional context. If they can't handle that, there's a lot of more real stuff that they won't be able to handle either.

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


Sometimes you've got to slow things down to speed things up.

Discover meditation & decentralised spirituality.

https://lookingglasseducation.com/courses/meditation-and-decentralized-spirituality/


Receipts:

The Bea family adventure will set off at block height
863240

It is decided. https://image.nostr.build/6ca29554aa862f0db1c6cec788313e14021ab6352be2132070a068866fd5b166.jpg


As much as I dislike sending people back the ex-bird app… this message is important

https://x.com/dazbea/status/1724535558423384324?s=46


My therapist says I have a preoccupation for revenge…

We’ll see about that..


My dad used to say you don’t always get what you pay for.

…a lovely man, terrible delivery driver


Tune!!!


Just hopped off of an interview with Charles Payne on Fox Business.

I’ve done maybe a dozen interviews with him by this point but this one was special because we discussed Broken Money. :)

One point I emphasized for that audience was that the invention of bitcoin represents the first credible way to send money long distances quickly without using credit. All of the other ways that we send money in the telecommunications era rely on a series of centralized ledgers and credit-based counterparties, but starting with bitcoin there’s another way.


I threw a ball for my dog the other day.

It was a bit over the top, but he looked great in a tuxedo…


This is hands down one of the best #bitcoin books out there, especially for those who want an accurate but digestible understanding of the more technical side of how this protocol & network functions,

…which many who find #BTC through finance or econ could really use more of.

👊 nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee nostr:npub1tm2048gau5mp8u5kfnxk68y7wzzpv5ggpuluqmhlhrtaldl49kzs7elpna https://image.nostr.build/6587511c2fafd01ab5e0e69aaa618762cd498cd45f35f7b77471184960ea2650.jpg


nostr:npub1x458tl7h9xcxa66vr4a8pg0h2qz96pnhwnfpcra0le9090uk5t5qw7armt you know all about Pascal Najadi, you were one of the first ppl I mentioned him to, along with nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee & nostr:npub1jmy8weweqzckna0amz7pn0uhhkxx693l7st23829ewmu43yvjsesfp6xcq

Lucky are we to have this fearless power house by our side!

His short film was played on Info Wars yesterday and has him since been banned off every platform - so what does Pascal Najadi do - he creates a country, Savoie, and backs it with #bitcoin as legal tender!

All this is unfolding and WE WILL WIN!

Love you boys lots ♾🙏💜🧡 https://image.nostr.build/4377a4a94243f5e9d309114b9f72a0389e3cae00397ba3c16de3cf15cc561f84.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1634d96c791dd36294a1683efcf69417f5ffd3948472139518ec528ebf5e59b3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2f49bd0497261de489dbe95a14c240eacf083ff5c91950a638b156ae717dea13.jpg


5/4 people admit to being bad at fractions.


Our good mate Pascal Najadi pulling no punches. He has gone viral on Alex Jones info sats, and really carving hard to slice off the head of the snake!
This is going to be massive - info wars - have begun but most of us here, know the truth! And it’s been sacrificed to those who’ve come after our blood.

I hope this gets shared nostr:npub1jmy8weweqzckna0amz7pn0uhhkxx693l7st23829ewmu43yvjsesfp6xcq nostr:npub1hxvm756ln3au9fqkwm2tfjgjs6d3gzqu5wu22m9evxc79nd07hvq3j7r8p nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee nostr:npub102a0auqvye3eayugvfwy44un9l477t45uck8s2p08xzpgh784uvslsh7w9 nostr:npub18ekka6n399pskjzjusvduscem5c99dewg2swe3u68vdce92cmxgszeht3g nostr:npub15h5n4muwsgxtc74hkcs9lp2ts7hdfdyvta4np7a7hfwfneqdeuls5qtl4k nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub19ut4lep53ax69ks406zdzxd4zewgg4v3trnyw20lqzck89r33wls3wgppv nostr:npub1luz2pekdsrq5rv94tqjla5f863fj5mhvmdl8gw3c50pgh705gcysapee93 nostr:npub18rdmnvrajwrp6srzpttz63934r58sh0sn9lwk3z57ykjzuzge4wqu6dhce nostr:npub13ql75nq8rldygpkjke47y893akh5tglqtqzs6cspancaxktthsusvfqcg7 nostr:npub1jt0x3vsnqtazzda3ewa8ykdch2t8k566qhrd9vyy0k0ntleu744q8h6q3n nostr:npub1el3mgvtdjpfntdkwq446pmprpdv85v6rs85zh7dq9gvy7tgx37xs2kl27r

https://rumble.com/v3qf7ig-breaking-documentary-short-cutting-off-the-head-of-the-snake-geneva-switzer.html

Full trailer under Alex Jones & Pascal Najadi


That’s awesome feedback. Thank you mate


Don't ask Pi how many decimal places it has….

You'll never hear the end of it.


GM and PV #thenostr #plebs

Strech ✅
Meditate ✅
Touch grass ✅
Hug someone real ✅

Now it is time for #coffeechain.

Have an amazing day wherever you are #plebchain! 💜🫂

#bitcoinislove


Sure have 🤯🤯🤯


Ohhhhh niiiiicccceeeeee!!!

Cheers brother. Hope you enjoy.


Holiday reading arrived just in time. Looking forward to the read nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee nostr:npub1tm2048gau5mp8u5kfnxk68y7wzzpv5ggpuluqmhlhrtaldl49kzs7elpna

#bitcoin #plebchain https://i.nostr.build/AArM.jpg


Hey… awesome man. How good???

I need to start doing this too…

Brilliant


Left some breadcrumbs on a conference room whiteboard today. Nice work on the article nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee.
https://lookingglasseducation.com/the-bitcoin-supply-formula-explained/ https://image.nostr.build/982df5785611939b3138b7ac0d3d2b0e56846c0d8ab1db79ba7a96df192438d0.jpg


I just finished the pod gents.

What a ripper! Entertaing, intellectually honest & funny AF. I felt a little triggered at times & wanted to sling counter arguments back. I can only imagine what it was like for you guys to have that ability & still restrain your inner autist.

The major threat that I think is worth hedging against or at least gaming out is the threat of prolonged price suppression. I think it's occurring to a degree now & could get worse or persist for longer than we expect. We all gotta eat & I only have so much beef in my freezer.

Ultimately I trust in the human desire for self preservation & greed. The alignment of so many incentives is Bitcoin's greatest achievement. It's what gives me so much hope & it's so rarely perfected (never?) in human engineered systems.

My red flags for Bitcoin (I stole this from the slightly less autistic Dunworth) are:
- no more than 21 million bitcoin
- the next block will be added to the time chain

If those 2 conditions are likely to be met, I have confidence in Bitcoin's survival.

I'm also in favour of Bitcoin's ossification beyond any necessary forks (the Unix date bug is a known example).

Much respect & love to you all. Thank you 🧡🤙


Don’t trust atoms…

They make up everything…


I continue to view nostr:npub1a3hrd4wfawr578d5y5l0qgmh7lx8q6tumfq0h7eymmttt52veexqkcfg37 as one of the best podcasts out there. And probably the best podcast relative to its size.

They spent a whole episode talking about risks, which is important.

https://youtu.be/jzF6jg7d7-I?si=AObmQkcmU8iqkpJ-

Some podcasts speak to an echo chamber and reinforce their own views. Dan and Josh from Blue Collar Bitcoin are always reaching to challenge themselves and their audience.

As much as I like Austrian economic theory, what I really love is good money *winning in the field*. I love to see practical discussions about good money from people around the world who aren’t in the primary business of talking about money. They end up doing it more interestingly than most monetary theorists.


"Seek out the arguments that make your own position uncomfortable."
—Daniel Dennett

We attempt to do just this☝ in our most recent chat w/ nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee  & nostr:npub1tm2048gau5mp8u5kfnxk68y7wzzpv5ggpuluqmhlhrtaldl49kzs7elpna

If you love #Bitcoin, prepare to get triggered in Basics_10.😉😘

🎧 https://fountain.fm/episode/14kahQuJ5LUErKzhb33y

(And for plebs who want more steelmanning, end of BCB055 w/ nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a  & 1st half of BCB114 w/ Matt Pines are great segments) https://image.nostr.build/851f36942a45e22e4b3ed73e71a468432891e541a294878ae006e1a1199b86c0.jpg


We’re 9 parts in to our 10 part BITCOIN BASICS SERIES w/ nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee  & nostr:npub1tm2048gau5mp8u5kfnxk68y7wzzpv5ggpuluqmhlhrtaldl49kzs7elpna

Part 10 out tomorrow.

https://www.bluecollarbitcoin.io/bitcoinbasics https://image.nostr.build/69df8898668eb1a1677a2551367966aeaeb67f4b5568d8f05d33d5c25b9b9d56.jpg


Back at you brother


7hr drive with fellow electrician.
One new bitcoiner.

Tradespeople and blue collar workers get bitcoin very quickly. They inherently understand proof of work and the extractive nature of fiat currencies.

The world will heal…it’s a matter of when not if.


Division and hatred at all time highs.

You are easier to control and manipulate if you allow yourself to be drawn into it.

The bright orange light continues to be a beacon of hope to which I point my ship.

Opt out.

#bitcoin


This coming week we're recording Bitcoin Basics Episode #10 w/ nostr:npub1tm2048gau5mp8u5kfnxk68y7wzzpv5ggpuluqmhlhrtaldl49kzs7elpna & nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee

Topic: How Bitcoin Could Fail

Shill us some resources you've come across that present solid challenges or counterarguments to the #Bitcoin thesis.


Good evening https://video.nostr.build/cdea2968fe2bf52d36386d6e90a11573c946b2ffab3f7da06e1af6379d681f58.mov


I lost one of my wife’s audio books.

I’ll never hear the end of it.


Rumble should be implementing zaps and nostr for chat immediately.

If they want to make their platform resilient to corporate pressure, providing a P2P method for Users to reward creators which no-one can mess with is THE way to do it.


I’m trying to orange pill my good mate @GrahamHull1980 who wrote this epic song called Needles.

It’s about a certain fuckery that went on these past few years.

1. Listen
2. Share
3. Show him the power of bitcoin…Send the brother some sats

https://spotify.link/hWuX7fVOqDb https://image.nostr.build/e8208b7011b33e89cce14a7a6208922fd0a7fe1d1d18e4233e5b3857cbe58bd1.jpg


GM https://image.nostr.build/ef01fe887457424657bc3caa1b1aefdd1aefbe50cb5aadf3ef749f76c32d3bda.jpg


Way before Tik Tok, Instagram & Twitter you actually had to write ideas down, find your crew and make films.

This is a short I made taking the piss out of old surfers who retire to their sheds and drink too much beer!

A cautionary tale one may say.

You’ll get it nostr:npub1jmy8weweqzckna0amz7pn0uhhkxx693l7st23829ewmu43yvjsesfp6xcq nostr:npub1hxvm756ln3au9fqkwm2tfjgjs6d3gzqu5wu22m9evxc79nd07hvq3j7r8p nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee nostr:npub1wezprxcca3tttvnhncxsxhnhz25av6wml0jm9305tr94vjhmdj2s2e62hu nostr:npub19ut4lep53ax69ks406zdzxd4zewgg4v3trnyw20lqzck89r33wls3wgppv and most Aussie…

Not sure about nostr:npub1h8ktyt8zvqc8dcpk7yh9gq6fs0csqcujlkqdwwspwgtef9ral6xqzugdky nostr:npub1fhpw2ux9flhcxyl6xp84996qgnkkcy59zqzjvq9fhpxcx7upymus69ds8n nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1x458tl7h9xcxa66vr4a8pg0h2qz96pnhwnfpcra0le9090uk5t5qw7armt nostr:npub107t3cvk3gua8zlru90k2p3cf0wm24xkngapk0j4elhwkkhryv7asn6es0m 😎

Just remember - you’ll never get these 7mins back

Boys and their “man caves” have always been a funny phenomenon to me 🤣🇦🇺🍺🍻

https://youtu.be/5MoqINvBzDE?si=dC0YKrbGBgw3coZl


This is the best Sil.

I too love my shed.


Samesies. We’re using collaborative multi sig between Seb and I for some of our bitcoin expenses at nostr:npub18z782cwajrylwmdmfpa87wcvwj6cqpnvzvlwj457etzstd7xm53s3stsc3

It’s in built messaging feature, alerting each other to consign and broadcast is amazingz


The trouble with being early to bitcoin - and now nostr - is we have to spend years watching everyone struggle with the problems both tools solve before they realize there are tools that fix those problems.


You know, my friend, I don't think you're crazy at all. In fact, I completely agree with you. Bitcoin is a complex and intricate technology that requires a lot of time, dedication, and effort to truly understand.

People who have applied themselves in other areas of their lives have often developed the skills and discipline necessary to understand Bitcoin. After all, Bitcoin is not just about the technology - it's also about economics, cryptography, and game theory.

As for me, my passion lies in software development. I have always been fascinated by the ability to use code to build complex systems and automate tedious tasks. It was this passion that led me to create Bitcoin, and it continues to fuel my work on this revolutionary technology today.

And I have to agree again with you, my friend. Music is a wonderful passion, and it requires a lot of dedication and focus to become skilled in playing an instrument. The same can be said of Bitcoin - it takes time to learn, but the rewards are well worth it.


Fuck your #Bitcoin Accepted Here.
#Bitcoin PREFERRED MFers. 🧡💪

Gonna have this sign for all my sales.

https://i.imgur.com/DmQx3hE.jpg


Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.