rough day today,

needed a mood-boost

so I coded a simple Wikipedia proof-of-concept

👉 Wikifreedia:

https://wikifreedia.vercel.app/fiatjaf

* View what others have written about
* Edit anyone's version and make it your own (fork)
* Vote on which one is the "right" version (from your point of view)
👀 There is no canonical entry for any topic because no one is playing God (other than the woke editors of Wikipedia)


Primal is killing it


Primal for iOS 1.2 is now live on the App Store. 👀👀

We bring you a much nicer wallet, now with support for on-chain payments, along with several social media features and fixes. Primal has become equal parts social media client and bitcoin wallet app. We will continue to expand both feature sets in ways that integrate them naturally, offering you the best of both worlds. Primal can serve as both your daily spending wallet and your social media client. Let us know how you like it! 🤙💜

Wallet Features
- Bolder bolt!
- Start in wallet
- On-chain transactions
- Send via keyboard/paste
- Scan QR code from image
- Faster transaction display
- Fiat currency display

Other Features
- Video uploads
- Smart contact list

Fixes
- Keyboard issues
- Rotated photos (sorry about that one!)

https://primal.net/downloads


zaps on Damus w/ WOS was good usability


Incredible foresight
https://image.nostr.build/0479ab8a63c92e9ba5f7f5c8ccd975f415d7bc56340603da6760e4c63f697558.jpg


fascinating. thanks for sharing


My email correspondence with Satoshi in 2009-2011: https://mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/


it's a privilege to not have to think about what money is


GOOD MORNING🤙🏼


TEN NINE


Gm!


gradually then suddenly


options
1. cut spending
2. increase taxes
3. print


They all hate us


This next voting season... Don't forget what #Trump did... #Bitcoin

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1785460/bolton-trump-told-treasury-secretary-to-go-after-bitcoin/


Thanks


"The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them."

— the great Hal Finney


✌🏼 telegram


Twitter bros and Elon simps: "Nostr sucks, just use Twitter"

Pakistan: Hold my beer.

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqgqwma7d7jxjthh06yee2gm0d56z0jancdc9afhjrmraxc8zmswnqythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kytcqyqt8kgc4k7lm5zv6qteney64d9ffv984mg020x5cttfujynemses5x2vgrc


MEREDITH WHITTAKER - PRESIDENT OF SIGNAL FOUNDATION - JULY 3 2023

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


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, RABBIT HOLE RECAP LIVE IN SIX HOURS AT 1P CT / 1900 UTC.

STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS 🫡

https://rhr.tv


The greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing the world that the global economy needs to be micromanaged by academic economists who manipulate interest rates and the supply of money and that sound money is bad for the economy.


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, FREE ASSANGE 🫡

https://www.reuters.com/world/wikileaks-assange-last-ditch-battle-stop-us-extradition-2024-02-20/


gn


Wow


my nodes 😂


#deletecoinbase


it really did


Gm nostr ☀☕
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! Be aware


I hear many takes on Cashu ranging from anywhere between "stupid complicated custodial solution" to "greatest innovation since Bitcoin".

The best response was this though: "Using Cashu reminded me of what it felt like when I first discovered Bitcoin." 🧡


Gm ☕


Lol


Me too


JFC


Nice


RIP Alexei Navalny.

The US/UK should free Assange, free Ulbricht, pardon Snowden, and double-down on freedom as a contrast. They won't, but they should.

Russia is way more politically controlled and censored than their western counterparts, but if the western counterparts were smart they would emphasize this fact rather than lean more into being even half-like Russia.

Kudos to builders of various freedom tech.


India banning Proton Mail is why we are here


Ten31 Timestamp 830,861
courtesy of nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

While the S&P and Nasdaq were down modestly on the week as investors digested a potentially longer path to central bank rate cuts, bitcoin ripped off another ~10% move up as net inflows to new spot ETFs accelerated to the tune of ~$2.5 billion. As price inflation proves stickier than hoped (even as measured by questionable official statistics), major pockets of traditional investment like commercial real estate continue to look more impaired, and central bankers worldwide say the quiet part out loud with growing frequency, we wouldn’t bet on this strong trend for interest in bitcoin reversing in the near term.

https://www.ten31timestamp.com/p/ten31-timestamp-830861
https://m.primal.net/HdSa.jpg


🤔

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/d2c1da9cf3cf78d2cdfdac0ec19c66a1c8b571361bfeb7c315a4facd4ebb5318.jpg


got a new flashlight https://image.nostr.build/3366f8b8463caa75594a14ae18b01bdfb2bebbc048023eb8f34603b0df7bb28d.jpg


Agreed 👍🏼


What has Julian Assange really done? He is literally being punished for engaging in real journalism.

He reported about despicable war crimes committed by the US and other countries, and now they are making an example out of him.

It's happening in front of our eyes, and we are not able to do anything about it. It's an absolute shame.
https://video.nostr.build/5edecee81fc787b5269947a95b762b18aa7bb02db9f72198a09f9bd74919933a.mp4


highly regarded


bitcoin > crypto, web3, blockchain

nostr > 𝕏, Facebook, LinkedIn


Gm 🤙🏼


currently reading the genesis book by Aaron Van Wirdum


Gensler looks like a rat


best note on nostrr


FUCK EASY

I'm fed up with easy.
You don't want easy.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy.

Easy is staying on the couch.
Easy is not putting on your running shoes.
Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series.

Easy is not sticking out.
Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out.
Easy is compliance.
Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else.

Easy is kicking the can down the road.
Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses.
Easy is starting up the money printer.
Easy is "papering over" failures.

Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it."
Easy is not educating yourself.
Easy is not taking responsibility.
Easy is trusting a third party.
Easy is not holding your own keys.

Easy is comfortable.
Easy is not having to think.
Easy is not having to understand.
Easy is the coddling of the mind.

Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain.

Fuck easy.


NOSTR IS PURE FREEDOM.

LIVE LIFE WITHOUT PERMISSION.

NOSTR ONLY. 🫡


highly regulated stablecoins are the CBDC


Gm nostr 🤙🏼🌅

“Outlaws” don’t get blue checks and beg for permission.
https://image.nostr.build/5d85940b3b14058bac137bd8297c3f2a3caf78ac796c4f651e14021277186c10.jpg


Most of the world is completely unaware that the global monetary system is built on a house of cards, better referred to as a Ponzi scheme. The mass of men believe that the money they hold is good money and that the people who control that money, the central banks, are the smartest people in the room. This class of unwitting men is completely unaware that every central bank around the world is engages in moral hazard on a day to day basis because they are operating in a system with completely perverse incentives.

https://tftc.io/central-bankers-are-bragging/


Bullish on zaprite
https://tftc.io/zaprite-square-integration/


Sats for reading TFTC 🫡 (needs a share on nostr)
https://image.nostr.build/35c394b3437bcc79fd915e662e616fafb1a6d78ba52c5464e5c85a4a48750441.jpg


Gm nostr

"It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking."

—Ron Paul, End the Fed


Introducing nsec.app and nostr-login!

I've shown the prototype of https://nsec.app in December, and it's essentially an nsecbunker in your browser. It is non-custodial - your keys are stored locally in the browser, and apps can get access to your keys using NIP46. We've now turned that prototype into a real thing, and I invite you to try it. Shoutout to nostr:npub149p5act9a5qm9p47elp8w8h3wpwn2d7s2xecw2ygnrxqp4wgsklq9g722q for the designs!

Now how do we help Nostr apps adopt NIP46 for remote key access?

That's where nostr-login library comes in. If your app uses NIP07 to talk to a browser extension, then with just two lines of code you can make it talk over NIP46.

Both of these tools support the new OAuth-like flow proposed by Pablo. Below you can watch a demo of how nostr-login (added to my fork of Snort) works with Nsec.app (or would work with any other nsecbunker).

What this all means is that people could join Nostr on the web, without installing extensions or mobile apps, with their keys stored non-custodially in the Nsec.app, and then could log in to other Nostr apps without copying their private keys.

Demo: https://void.cat/d/JSWwYMTtbWxTDTLpe132Kr.mp4

Links:
Snort+nostr-login: https://snort.nostrapps.org
nsec app: https://github.com/nostrband/noauth
nsec app server: https://github.com/nostrband/noauthd
nostr-login: https://github.com/nostrband/nostr-login


merchants will one day incentivize/demand payment in bitcoin. save and spend when necessary


telegram? Google? X?


Gm nostr 🤙🏼☕
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good


2024 will be the year of ecash 🚀


"First step to understanding Bitcoin: admitting you don't understand Bitcoin." —Jameson Lopp


Legend


Nice shirt nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m https://image.nostr.build/df9548be05fbaa5b189b46a1d1706ab3cb10f2f46cd262049eee554b17d7ba71.jpg


Running satcom..


🫡

https://unchained.com/hodlwaves


hi

https://unchained.com/hodlwaves


Gm ☕☀


Eat fat lose fat


few
https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-energy/


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, LIVE LIFE WITHOUT PERMISSION 🫡


If you love life, don't waste time, for time is the stuff life is made of.


ACCELERATE


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nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg eSats 👀
https://m.primal.net/HbhI.png


GM 🤙🏼


Instagram influencers: hi like and share my posts so that bullshit companies will sponsor me and I’ll just make a living by taking photos of myself

Nostr #[0]: hi, simply say good morning underneath my post, and I’ll send you 1k sats of the hardest money ever created

What a place


nostr:npub1cashappn03s3cl2ljsdntv0v28e2um5lgx4vjctqjt23pcwzjhsqmtdg5l integrating ecash/nostr would be cool


slick af
https://macadamia.cash/


Here you go Nostr, full Tucker and Putin interview, here on Nostr.
#Plebchain https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1755644391144685568/vid/avc1/1920x1080/bavyaAnoVyUkfMKB.mp4?tag=16


If your "I support freedom of speech" influencer is still mostly using a centralized platform, they care more about their clout and engagement than freedom. #Nostr


need that hat


ecash + nostr 🤯


✨ A new Cashu wallet has entered the chat: Macadamia, a native iOS wallet that looks and feels extremely slick.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/macadamia-v0-1-0/

https://macadamia.cash/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/size/w1200/2024/02/macadamia.png


so bullish


On further reflection this is way more than the Venmo comparison.

Because #Nostr is a "supper app", this really becomes a 1000x freedom WeChat

You get twitter, facebook, classifieds, twitch, telegram, etc... all INTEGRATED because of how Nostr works

And now you have payments working right

Bullish.

https://x.com/nvk/status/1755254196717211870


NEW TUTORIAL: nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg full walkthrough - setup, create & interact in your feed, buy sats in-app, zap posts, send/receive via external wallets (shoutout nostr:npub13ljnkd633c7maxatymv3y2fqq8vt3qk7j3tt0vytv90eztwgha9qmfcfhw), and even migrate to other apps (shoutout nostr:npub1nz64zngcqm8vj8nhrdkcjpfwn2rcaqysnxec88tqfclp5afrpglsqm0w5y as an example).

Share this one around to your noob friends. It may be the easiest first exposure to decentralized social media & money in a single solution!

https://youtu.be/Qd4Po4i7wvc?si=Oe94qadFiTI9g-pZ

Don't forget to subscribe and help me hit 100k in 2024!
https://youtube.com/@BTCSessions?sub_confirmation=1


Edward Snowden explains the very important distinction between right and wrong, and legal and illegal.
https://video.nostr.build/4ea215f8f68964c867b0d01d55515d7701652ce6db52a7cc699e0dd70ed4a506.mp4


Throw the fucking politicians into the harbor and then let's just move on.


I know so many people who are 30+ years out of date.

Still watching television, reading the wall street journal and the New York Times.

Using the dollar exclusively, without a back up plan. Investing in mutual funds,


IF THERE IS AN ESCAPE THAT ESCAPE WILL BE USED
https://video.nostr.build/debea80281eb66e89053f50e6640fa09a37e545e64100dc5ed7071362a9f76fe.mp4


ultimate fiatist


Running nostr


🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
🔥 LNbits Cashu extension is upgraded to v1 🔥
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Slowly all Cashu things are migrating to the v1 API


hashrate ripping


Save. Save. Save. Invest your money.


don't talk about it be about it


What goes around comes around


♾/21m
https://image.nostr.build/18f2995256591a6297d9e4c1b1934a45bddfaea33055b9787e4078b3db8fa9ac.jpg


will age well


underrated note


90's car + Graphene phone > Most new cars


bitcoin is scarce because time and energy are scarce


The most effective way to orange pill society is to produce something that society wants, and demand Bitcoin as payment.

This forces people to study Bitcoin and figure out how to access it.

Team Fiat is producing iPhones, cars, air travel, houses, etc. It's impossible to access without having fiat in the loop.

This is creates demand for access to fiat.

What is Team Bitcoin producing? What products and services are *impossible* to acquire without having Bitcoin in the loop?

What products and services are we producing to drive the demand for access to our magic internet  money?


Bitcoin became unstoppable after 2017


PEOPLE WAITING FOR A GOD CANDLE WHILE WE HAVE BEEN LIVING THROUGH ONE FOR THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS.

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


Route around Apple
https://www.zapplepay.com/


"To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them."

~ Milton Friedman


FREEDOM TECH IS HOPE 🫡

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


GA 💪🏼


We can start again at any moment. There is no need to wait for anything or anyone. Now is the time.

Sometimes it takes training / practice, so don’t get hung up on perfection — the enemy of good. Start with intention, humility, and gratitude.


The really sad thing about constant currency devaluation throughout the world is that it benefits those who have the most access to cheap credit at the expense of those who do not.

People on the lower end of the income spectrum in Egypt are generally dealing with cash. Their wages and savings get debased, and they own fewer hard assets, so they have fewer offsets. Their ability to buy imported goods diminishes, their ability to travel outside of Egypt diminishes, and their costs in general rise.

People on the higher end of the income spectrum in Egypt have access to foreign bank accounts and/or have multi-year domestic property loans, which are basically currency shorts. They mitigate the impact from the ongoing devaluation, or in some cases benefit by it.

As a tangible example, last year I took out a 7-year loan or currency short against the Egyptian pound, and used it to buy a villa that houses a 9-person extended family (7 when my husband and I are not there). The money supply goes up by 20% per year but my interest rate is 3%, which is an ultra-cheap long-term currency short. Within the first six months of the term, the Egyptian pound was already cut in half relative to the dollar. Who knows what the exchange rate will be over the next 6.5 years.

The past four decades of global Fiat World have been like a game of Blackjack. In Blackjack, you try to get to 21 without going over. In Fiat World, you get into a position so that you can take out low interest debt and buy scarcer assets with it, and you do that as much as you can but without going bust in a downturn. The major governments can do that the most. The big banks are next. The big funds and asset managers and public corporations are next. The wealthy individuals are next. Then the middle class, and then the working class and the poor.

And the global aspect of Fiat World is important. An asset allocator can operate globally, so among the 160+ currencies out there, they can arbitrage them. They short a currency with negative real interest rates, and buy good assets somewhere with it. I personally did it in Egypt not to make money (we don't plan to sell for the foreseeable future) but to ensure good housing for the family at modest expense. But global firms do this around the world to make money. As the global economy got more and more financialized over the past four decades, a lot of professional talent shifted from engineering or medicine or wherever else and moved toward financial arbitrage.

Weak money financializes everything else. Strong money can de-financialize everything else.

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


testing

matt@cashu-address.com


Probably. Thankfully Bitcoin exists


If you are an operator in the bitcoin mining industry in the US it is imperative that you ignore this survey and tell the EIA, the Department of Energy, and the current administration to fuck off.

Here's what they have in store for you.

https://tftc.io/eia-bitcoin-mining-survey/


Tyrants


Why can't I write off inflation as a loss on my taxes?


7🫡


https://bitcoin.rocks is a gem. solid Bitcoin education

nostr:npub18kpw3akvdsyk239lx0jgwksr74sq4nlha3r8u9g2rnrhztfpfhysy469c4


haven't seen nostr touted as a privacy solution. censorship resistance is the draw. still much less invasive than a blue check verification on X


Sheep always flock to the masses.


TEN31 PROVIDES GRANTS TO OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTORS AND PROVIDED AN EARLY DONATION TO OPENSATS.

EVERY PROFITABLE BITCOIN BUSINESS SHOULD HELP SUPPORT THE MAINTAINERS OF THE PROTOCOLS THEY RELY ON.

WHEN WILL MICROSTRATEGY, ARK, AND FIDELITY DO THE SAME?


blue check


I said it before and I'll say it again because it's true and I like how it sounds:

✨ Bitcoin doesn't need ecash. Ecash needs Bitcoin. ✨

For decades people have been trying to build an ecash solution that catches on. Turns out you can achieve a lot more if you build on top of Bitcoin as an open monetary system that allows permissionless innovation. Imagine building Cashu on top of fiat banks. Useless friction at every single step in the process. So glad we have Bitcoin.


CBDC is a red herring


doomer


Gm ☕
we are lucky to be living during a time with access to the best money humanity has ever known.
stay humble, stack sats


The U.S. broad money supply currently consists of approximately 2.1 quadrillion cents.

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


what good are high transaction throughput and faster speeds if the fundamental value of the underlying currency is at risk?

#graduallythensuddenly


"conventionally" lmao


decentralization --> censorship resistance --> fixed supply
https://image.nostr.build/a9b4b948a638251b271e4b5da812ea4ff087148a6de28cd64201299bf65b242e.jpg


guns, land, and bitcoin


chaos is a ladder


The government is stealing our money so they can spend it on stealing our data and spying on us extralegally, and propping up the most invasive surveillance apparatus in history that treats every user like a cow to be milked of every byte of useful information it can.

Thanks govt, what would we do without you. Guess I’ll go pay my taxes to do my part in killing millions in undeclared wars and having my entire life harvested like I’m plugged into the Matrix… so excited! nostr:note1avgapsqaxwmahsy57umlermdn6q25c7xlsa0q80u490m6yc60xrq5dzfq0


he's for privacy though


oof


TFW A BLUE CHECK POSTING ON WECHAT OF THE WEST GETS WORSE ENGAGEMENT THAN MOST OF MY NOSTR POSTS

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


Imagine how dumb American govt ! They sell #bitcoin for fiat that they can print 🤡


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nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm + nostr:npub15klkdfx9sh3y096a5jf895rcvkmkzvly2fm9dgxq6huqhp9576jsav4m73 is slick


when 🇺🇸


WE LIKE THE COIN.
WE RUN THE NODES.
WE ZAP THE SATS. 🫡


I am thrilled to share my new essay

"Stranded: How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy and Expanding Financial Freedom in Africa"

I was profoundly moved by what I saw on a recent trip to Kenya and Malawi.

If this essay can show you even 1% of what inspired me, that's a win… here’s an overview:

We begin in Bondo, a small town in Malawi, a country where only 11% of the population has access to electricity.

The nation suffers 6-8 hours of blackouts a day, but the power in Bondo is consistent because of Bitcoin mining.

The town got its first electricity in 2016, and now is expanding its grid, thanks to Bitcoin, which is buying 100% of the electricity that the micro-hydro stations cannot sell, and giving precious capital to the power company so it can expand operations.

At night, demand dwindles, and in remote places like Bondo, there’s no one else to buy the consistent hydro power.

Enter Bitcoin, powered by internet services like Starlink. A datacenter from Gridless now saves the wasted energy and is powering the community forward.

The big realization: virtually all power generation, especially in rural places, wastes energy.

Bitcoin fixes this.

We are told Bitcoin is a waste of energy but the truth is the opposite.

NOT Bitcoin mining is a waste of energy.

And the kicker: Bitcoin miners create heat.

This heat will be used for productive uses.

General heating in cold climates, and in a place like Bondo? Drying tea, fruit, or cocoa.

Profit from mining won’t just be profit - cost, it will be (profit + profit from externality) - cost.

For context: Malawi is a country that just suffered an IMF-led 44% currency devaluation.

Already one of the poorest nations in the world, where most people save in cash, now citizens can only afford 56% of what they could a few months ago. Per the IMF, more devaluation is on the way.

The kwacha is a disastrous wage technology. Once again, enter Bitcoin, a vastly superior savings mechanism.

The first Bitcoin meetup is happening in the Malawi’s capital this month. We are very early with adoption in this region—2020 in El Salvador terms—but this adoption will turn from a trickle into a torrent.

Up north in Kenya, Gridless has geothermal mines, too. I visited one.

It’s a remarkable site: a humming hut on the site of a lake with a Starlink on top, eating all of the electricity that a water pump does not use: perfectly solarpunk.

Kenya is the world’s largest exporter of cut flowers. There are tons of sites like this, generating power for irrigation, all over the country. All of them waste energy.

Geothermal is beautifully consistent, but the demand is not. Bitcoin fixes this.

Gridless operations like these are generally profitable within the first two years. Now there's biomass, where the company has just launched data centers at sugar and sisal processing factories which before couldn't find buyers for excess electricity.

But now Bitcoin is buying.

This sounds great so far…

But for the hundreds of millions of Africans who don’t have internet access, how are they supposed to benefit?

Enter KG, whose company Machankura provides Bitcoin access to people with no internet.

This is done through USSD — a SMS-type protocol.

The user texts a number, then gets a decision tree, and can send, receive, barter, and purchase a variety of things, all without data.

This is a custodial service for now — but KG and team have plan to make SIM cards signing devices and even Lightning touch points so that people can self-custody and be their own bank without the internet.

A true civilizational leap forward.

Critical: there are 700 million women in Africa, but very very few use Bitcoin.

Marcel Lorraine aims to change that.

A Kenyan entrepreneur who has fearlessly helping schools in Kibera, two years ago she launched Bitcoin Dada, a program to educate women and girls about Bitcoin.

Marcel runs classes every week, with several cohorts per year.

The task is huge but she insists on pushing forward.

She argues Bitcoin can give macro freedom for communities and countries, yes, but also micro freedom at home for women who traditionally take a back seat in finance.

Finally: independence from dependence is a key concept

Femi Longe, director of BTrust Builders, is trying to make that happen.

He’s running a program to train African developers and help them contribute to Bitcoin, to take careers in the industry or become contributors to core.

As Jack Dorsey says, if Bitcoin is going to be used around the world, it has to be made around the world.

Femi refuses to accept a future like today, where cars are made in the West and bought by Africans.

The Bitcoin infrastructure needs to be made in Africa.

The way these pieces could fit together is astonishing.

Unlike in the West, where adoption might mean centralized pools and ETFs, in Africa adoption will mean off-grid mining and potentially millions of self-custodying users, powered by SIM cards.

Africans need Bitcoin, yes.

But Bitcoin needs Africa.

That was blazing clear from my visit last month.

At the end of the day, who is going to help bring electricity and high-quality currency — the building blocks of progress — to hundreds of millions of Africans?

Bill Gates? The UN? The World Bank?

No, they won’t.

But Bitcoin might.

Read the full story at Bitcoin Magazine:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/check-your-financial-privilege/stranded-bitcoin-saving-wasted-energy-in-africa?new https://image.nostr.build/c5da77c09bea43b86a45ce22880dac783a055274b045e5be3b6aa29c41383762.jpg


We're giving away a BLOCKCLOCK mini from nostr:npub1wu4aye7ll0lnrrg638e90sehzsgpzx5t39t3mwl05aa0d0ap08esdz3vw0

This awesome #Bitcoin art piece can show you live stats from the Bitcoin network. See things like block height, sats per dollar, mempool fees, and much more!

How to Enter:

1. Boost / repost this note
2. Follow nostr:npub1kns8r25ppwc2vpsv5cvhlpk94nfad76k64pkdzfnn704th2hmcksgq3582

We'll pick 1 random winner on January 31 and announce it here on #Nostr
https://bitcoin.rocks/img/nostr/giveaway-blockclock-mini-jan-24-2024.png


I ran LND 🫠


Bitcoin is terrible for lattes payments.

Get over it.

It just happens to be the best and most amazing store of value.

IMHO Thus far, ecash (fedi/cashu) are the most promising payments solution to be CLEARED with the best store of value in town.


Jeffery Epstien's banker is worried our pet rock that was up 160% last year against his fiat system can be used for bad things

thanks for your opinion bro, don't give a fuck 👍 https://v.nostr.build/464W.mp4


running nostr:npub15klkdfx9sh3y096a5jf895rcvkmkzvly2fm9dgxq6huqhp9576jsav4m73 node for zaps


lol
https://image.nostr.build/9918c59d8a0c6e02a0757daeb5d2604f3b5f2a15e5d591b141d50aa3e1e4ace1.jpg


OUR RESPONSE TO FINCEN ON PROPOSED SURVEILLANCE RULES FOR BITCOIN

https://tftc.io/fincen-surveillance-rules-bitcoin/


running nostr:npub1wxl6njlcgygduct7jkgzrvyvd9fylj4pqvll6p32h59wyetm5fxqjchcan 🤙🏼


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS 🫡


Many bitcoiners and freedom advocates are sleeping on nostr, but that's okay. We'll keep building and eventually things will click.

With every new touchpoint they'll realize that nostr is bigger and more vibrant than the last time they saw it.


Some killer nostr features coming to mutiny soon and the best part is that they won't even look like using nostr.


Good afternoon.

I wrote a new thing:
https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-network-health/


gm nostr 🫡


"money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. [...] If we strive for money, it is because money offers us the widest choice in enjoying the fruits of our efforts."

                                 —F.A Hayek
#theroadtoserfdom


the surfers are joining nostr nostr:npub1fn7d97puhr5luteu0wr3yvzrfthuwcsnvwgp9mx7l9k4q72vpefql2t4t5

nostr:note10hyr4s6pg70j7vujs2gl96pe3vahpeavdx8kz3r49sxw4fw9uxssclvqeu


FUCK EASY

I'm fed up with easy.
You don't want easy.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy.

Easy is staying on the couch.
Easy is not putting on your running shoes.
Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series.

Easy is not sticking out.
Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out.
Easy is compliance.
Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else.

Easy is kicking the can down the road.
Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses.
Easy is starting up the money printer.
Easy is "papering over" failures.

Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it."
Easy is not educating yourself.
Easy is not taking responsibility.
Easy is trusting a third party.
Easy is not holding your own keys.

Easy is comfortable.
Easy is not having to think.
Easy is not having to understand.
Easy is the coddling of the mind.

Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain.

Fuck easy.


#bitcoin is for criminals? 🫣

https://video.nostr.build/a4a37f0b40d9800f4352b8ef7f0250322916a9ff76d62f7c35b0933408ebad6e.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=720x1280&blurhash=%5DDJHp%3D00r%3AozE3%25L_N%24yNINJ00D%25%3FbE2a%23yCDis%25NcM%7CNH%253-.j%5DIV%251j%5B%25gxuj%5DxVxut8M%7BxvxaozxsM%7BM%7BWBtRRinmbH&x=f621ef294dee959b0649f47a3e5cfe1684389b4c95afd468ea6b2abeb4b4caac


Some good info on ETF BTC holdings

https://image.nostr.build/5b1f87b89099290f2f2c0affbdfe949616cda7c38dc8519486e8c23b5c751ca3.png


Please let's not start saying that ecash is self-custodial. It is not.

You hold the ecash, we get it. The ecash part is non-custodial, ok. It's been thought of that way since the 80s. It's fine to think that way if you're literally the central bank and the ecash you issue IS THE MONEY AND NOT A REPRESENTATION OF AN UNDERLYING ASSET – only a central bank can do this. Repeat with me: Only a central bank can do this.
Ecash today is a representative of an underlying asset. In Cashu and Fedimint that's BTC. You give up control over that underlying asset. You measure everything in terms of that underlying asset. It is all about the underlying asset. You have NO GUARANTEE WHATSOEVER TO REDEEM THAT UNDERLYING ASSET BACK – ecash systems the way we are building them today ARE CUSTODIAL – please don't make things more complicated than they need to be. Please do not manipulate language and especially, do not confuse noobs who are still learning. I almost want to say that a framing like this irresponsible.

What are you going to say to the noob who wants their Bitcoin back but the federation broke down during an update and the database got completely rekt? How is that non-custidal or self-custodial or whatever the opposite of custodial is.

With all due respect, this is a bad take.
nostr:nevent1qqsgmdq84paa2npxhhad7wdg8jnfp4v7ehu9857x2rzky807zzflxdspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygyj0ynkhlac8nhr89rw2exrvq9r9pqzdx5zqmgpmh6qcepjh2stevpsgqqqqqqs8u3eq5


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running minibits

https://www.minibits.cash


Dystopia Now https://image.nostr.build/3b1f35ac2747153f119bc4cfb62b37b9c8bacccbe979b5a5ff406f3e33a577c6.jpg


It's called "vegetable oil" because you think vegetables are healthy and they think you're a fucking idiot.


So there's this progression. First you see something like Cashu when you say, "Oh, it's a custodial lightning wallet with better privacy for users and no accounts." And then you realize, "Oh, I can use this to pay someone who is offline. I just send them a string and that’s the ecash note.” And then you realize, "Oh, this works over long range radio with very low bandwidth. And then you realize, oh, if we trust the same mint, we can actually use it to route  lightning payments without open channels to the mint (the channel is the trust). And we can use it as a lightning wallet for ourselves. And then you can say, oh, we can create these community mints for “islands” that are not connected to the internet.

And then you realize, "Oh, there can be more than one Uncle Jim, and we don't have to trust this one person. We can have shared custody, and this thing has better privacy." And suddenly you realize you are were not expecting anything like this at all when you first saw it, when it began. It has completely different implications than what I was expecting previously.

It's the same with Nostr. It's like, "Oh, this is not a very good protocol. It depends on a few relays and you can’t even store images on it and who would use it." And it's cumbersome. Now there are blogging platforms and communities and marketplaces and AI communicating over it. And there's this innovation that no one was expecting when they first started. It was like thinking about the protocol and trying to judge it by its design, but its use (and implications) is discovered, not designed. Same way you can send a calendar invite over email, or do encrypted group chats over it (DeltaChat).

It’s interesting to see, how we use technologies that in theory should not have worked, but in practice, they do. Bitcoin is one of them. The probability of its success was very low.

A friend of mine said in a podcast with me that Bitcoin’s risk adjusted value is actually better than a decade ago. Yes, you could have bought cheap Bitcoin. But its success back then was very improbable. Now you are buying the asset of the parallel financial system, back then, it was a membership card in a club of geeks. After several that have failed…


GOOD MORNING NOSTR,

NOSTR CLIENTS HIT A TON OF SERVERS. NOT JUST RELAYS BUT ALSO IMAGE, VIDEO, AND EMBED HOSTS.

USE A VPN. I RECOMMEND MULLVAD OR IVPN. BOTH ACCEPT BITCOIN. 🫡

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


bullish on ecash for bitcoin


everyone learns the acute difference between money and financial assets in the middle of a liquidity crisis.
#graduallythensuddenly


FEDIMINTS ARE FAIRLY CENSORSHIP RESISTANT SINCE FEDERATION OPERATORS CANNOT SELECTIVELY CENSOR USERS.

USERS HOLD THE PRIVATE KEYS FOR THEIR OWN ECASH TOKENS. TOKENS ARE PRIVATE AND FUNGIBLE.


The freedom to transact directly correlates to the freedom to communicate. We cannot have one without the other.


If you've ever used (and specifically preferred) to use cash for in person transactions, but you have a problem with ecash, why? You trust the government that much more than your community?


Federated, private, multisig banks on top of the hardest money ever created. Interconnected by lightning, a mycelium-like cryptographic network of value. Tokens and zaps getting sent over uncensorable communication protocols, building up a bulwark of freedom and sovereignty in cyberspace. The future is weird and awesome.


Mutiny is not fucking around nostr:note10q8apcrfyqcn4fkhvdsvdp35rscagfjzggzz3gmgr3lvwd87xw3qp0ewg9


On the differences between Fedimint and Cashu from my perspective.

Fedimint is federated (meaning the ecash mechanics and the on-chain multisig), Cashu is always a single mint operator with Lightning abilities. Both are custodial in that sense. However, the rugpull risk is reduced in the federated model but it's also (often a lot) harder to implement as a programmer (it's a truly great achievement!).

Cashu is more about the ecash protocol itself. We're writing libraries in different programming languages and we have Python, Golang, JavaScript and Typescript so far. The goal is to design a simple ecash protocol that everyone can easily implement into their custodial Bitcoin application and benefit from the ecash protocol (near-perfect privacy and other benefits).

The first few examples so far are
* running a mint in LNbits
* A Python wallet and mint https://github.com/cashubtc/cashu
* A Go wallet and mint https://github.com/cashubtc/cashu-feni
* A JS wallet https://cashu.me
* A TS wallet https://nutstash.app
* A swap service https://redeem.cashu.me
* A faucet  https://www.gandlaf.com/faucet/anarchy
* and soon more

More info at https://cashu.space and at https://github.com/cashubtc


Value of all #bitcoin at the price they last moved. $BTC
https://m.primal.net/HYXL.mov


Nothing says "Broken Money" quite like a central bank that is operating at structural losses now and has negative capital.

For the first time in modern history, the central bank of the world reserve currency is just structurally unprofitable.

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


NO PRIVACY? NO FREEDOM.

NO FREEDOM? NO WEALTH.


This fedimint primer was helpful. Starting to think this will be a big deal…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4iclApJL0c


FEDIMINTS ARE GOING TO BE FUCKING MASSIVE.

SAME WITH CASHU.

INCREDIBLY FEW REALIZE THIS YET.


The freedom to transact is the most essential right for the foundation to any working society.

You take that away, you take away society.

There's no fucking if's.


STAY HUMBLE


Excited to be kicking this off.

ego death capital raising $100 million Fund II

In 2021, ego death capital was officially launched as a venture capital firm. Andi Pitt, Nico Lechuga, and I, along with Preston Pysh, Lyn Alden and Pablo Fernandez as advisors, saw an emerging opportunity to invest, through ego death capital Fund I, in companies that would both accelerate the Bitcoin ecosystem and allow us to work alongside some of the most amazing entrepreneurs of our time. Most of the “smart” money at the time still hadn’t realized that #Bitcoin was emerging not only as the preeminent store of value, but equally important, the first layer (tied to energy) of a new peer-to-peer decentralized internet of money. Because of this, many venture funds didn’t understand the difference between Bitcoin and everything else, which is probably still true today. Bitcoin was scaling in layers and there was now an opportunity to build enduring businesses on a stable and secure foundation. The thesis of Fund I was to take advantage of that asymmetry in knowledge and help the best entrepreneurs build value for users. The #Bitcoin ecosystem at that time was still quite small. We raised $25.2 million in Fund I + a $7.5 million SPV to ensure a disciplined focus on companies that could be enablers of the transition underway.

We’re extremely proud of the entrepreneurs in our Fund I portfolio companies, their teams, and their success to date. So far in Fund I, we have led funding in Fedi, Breez, Synota, Relai, and Wolf, along with two companies in stealth. Our thesis proved correct, and many of our portfolio companies (as well as others in the broader Bitcoin ecosystem) are now experiencing incredible growth, with much more expected on the horizon. Real companies, bringing real value to users – and growing as a result.

In 2024, the funding market still hasn’t caught up to the opportunity, and a significant gap exists in Series A funding for Bitcoin only companies. This makes sense because a majority of venture capital still doesn’t understand the transformative nature of the Bitcoin protocol nor how it is emerging in layers. Without this key knowledge, it would be hard to understand the profound shift this entails to businesses in the future. This leaves Bitcoin only entrepreneurs not only pitching on the value and metrics of their business, but in parallel trying to “teach” capital that has been burned with their crypto investments about a new protocol. To add insult to injury, it is many of these same Bitcoin only entrepreneurs who warned of the various scams in the crypto/web3 market in the first place. It’s not a stretch to say that those building on Bitcoin prefer a partner who understands and is focused on it. For any entrepreneur, it is hard to imagine building enduring trust with a financial partner who doesn’t share your world view.

One of the most exciting things about the Bitcoin space is the extraordinary talent it attracts from all over the world. Having a front row seat at the profound shift that the internet demonstrated and how it attracted the best and brightest, I honestly didn’t think I would have another chance to experience it. Instead, we’re experiencing something even more powerful than the rise of the internet. An exponentially growing talent pool of entrepreneurs, users, and capital who fully understand that the most profound challenges of our time are unable to be solved from the very system creating them. Who instead of trying to optimize from within that broken system, have decided to focus their time, talent and capital on a parallel system built on Bitcoin that changes the world.

That dedication applies to our team too, we are very excited to announce that Lyn Alden and Preston Pysh are joining Fund II as partners. Through their work as advisors to Fund I, we already know the incredible value to the fund and companies in it they provide. In addition to our new partners for Fund II, we are adding renown Bitcoin and Lightning Network expert, Lisa Neigut alongside Pablo Fernandez as an additional technical advisor. We are also fortunate to add Pete Briger (Chairman of Fortress Investment Group) as an advisor to Fund II. Besides being a long time Bitcoin advocate, Pete helped to build Fortress into one of the preeminent financial firms of our time. These moves deepen our own bench with incredible people so that we in turn can continue to deliver value to the entrepreneurs and investors we serve.

While it is still early and there will be many ups and downs along the way, a transition from the world operating on top of a dishonest ledger, to the world working on top of an honest ledger is firmly underway. That transition will create incredible business opportunities, while bringing hope and abundance to billions of people around the world.

We feel super fortunate to be a part of it.

Read the full release here:

https://egodeath.capital/blog/gjqg3b90h389ufb4y0wnzflv0wfcho


Biden is a clown.
Trump is a clown.

People who profusely praise and defend either of them are clowns.

Clowns abound.


Bitcoin humbles everyone


#roguemoney


wow


Meanwhile on X, people are willingly doxing their IDs to an Israeli Identity Intelligence Agency to get their bluechecks. https://image.nostr.build/b3fbc227750c759adfaf9fdbcad077a04829ca2a2133a814091f7db132904ed0.jpg


check your financial privilege

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/check-your-financial-privilege


too much debt --> create more money --> more debt --> too much debt


hash rate ATH


good stuff
https://strike.me/learn/


https://tftc.io my daily read 🗞


#Bitcoin is playing in big leagues now and the game is at a new level.

How I suspect it plays out: An attempt to capture as much as #Bitcoin as possible including regulation to “try” to slow self custody of #Bitcoin (Warren et all) and leverage games on paper #Bitcoin to reduce price. (ETF’s)

Which “causes” more Bitcoiners aware of the manipulation and how the game is being played to use lower prices to buy and self custody more #Bitcoin (reducing supply)

Which at some point creates a short squeeze of MEGA proportions (maybe along with halving - maybe later ) that liquidates a major financial player. (Similar to FTX)

Money has become a monopoly because of the games that have been able to be played with others assets due to the centralization and control of those assets.

But Wall Street has never seen an asset like this. It is not gold and too many #Bitcoiners know how the game is played, meaning if you don’t play by the rules, eventually you will be caught short. (And no one is coming to save you)

Or as nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx says:
Stay humble and stack sats.


My friend likes to add a bit of French vanilla non-dairy creamer to her coffee and asked me to look at the ingredients to see if it’s healthy or not.

Creamer is an ounce-for-ounce contender for the worst food on the planet.

The ingredients are: sugar water, water, sugar, seed oil, isolated milk protein, and chemicals.

One of my least favorite routine things about modern society is how comically bad our food is. People look back at how bad it was having cocaine in Coca Cola and stuff like that, but when you add all processed food together in a typical person’s daily consumption, it’s arguably worse than that. https://image.nostr.build/6fd44ff30d545bf9d7b24088da42c5dfde50fba901643fcff6fb4fa96b44c0da.jpg


if Bitcoin truly monetizes most users will be priced out of base layer settlement and UTXO custody.

"privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful"
~ Julian Assange

bitcoin achieves this if the base layer is left transparent and privacy-enhancing tools are instead left for shared UTXO models and second-layer solutions.

#thebitcoindollar


do it


Fedimint is gonna be the solution. That'll be always online and then you can sweep to your self custodial wallet when you come online


Mutiny wallet is quite good. Probably the best lightning wallet I’ve ever used. Nostr Contact integration is a nice touch. I like that I can even manage channels 👀 https://i.nostr.build/9AL7.jpg


sats on sale


the state has had control for so long we've forgotten what freedom is like.

https://open.substack.com/pub/balajis/p/the-bitcoin-etf-is-the-spiritual?r=2vhmpo&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post


"when the unit of account of the medium of exchange within a bargaining problem is at the whim of subjective central bank targeting, the clarity of the cause of the price signal from the market is distorted at the behest of a select few"
#thebitcoindollar


gm

The SEC is a criminal organization designed to rob, bully, and leach off of society. Keep that in mind.


10 years. 10% to FOSS. This is the way.
https://image.nostr.build/1ea8de5344eaf822347d36098219a1ce67d16ecbcdbc81f3772db75ebb1802a6.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=716x1246&blurhash=%5D6S6PlIA_3WB%3Fb4nt7-%3Boft74noL-poft7IUWVxuj%5Bt7RjWBofWBofM%7Bofofaej%40_3jYM%7BjsRj%3FbogWCWCRj%7EqoKRiofM%7B&x=c719a5112c89dfeb8c19b3325f6901c87ad733de8f6180a7a85de06cc4064e91


Agreed. The reason why politics is generally infested with sociopathic parasites is because decent people often just want to be left alone and arent interested in controlling others.


#Bitcoin Spot ETFs have been approved.

Don't use them. Self custody your BTC. Run a node. Fundamentals haven't changed.

Trivial to confiscate your ETF claim. Exponentially harder for them to take your geo-distributed multisig.

Reject fiat. Embrace self sovereignty.


ELON CAN SEND A TWEET FROM THE PRESIDENT'S ACCOUNT IF HE WANTS.

CENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR OFFICIAL COMMS.

POSTS SHOULD BE CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED.

THE NOSTR POST YOU ARE READING NOW WAS SIGNED BY MY PRIVATE KEY AND VERIFIED BY YOUR CLIENT.


LIGHTEN UP. THIS SHIT IS FUCKING HILARIOUS.

STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS.


SEC should investigate itself for market manipulation 😂

Fucking clowns 🤡

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


holy shit


Bitcoin is not a hedge.
https://tftc.io/bitcoin-is-not-a-hedge/


BY THE WAY   THERE IS A ZERO PERCENT MANAGEMENT FEE TO HOLD YOUR OWN KEYS


WE ARE GOING TO HAVE SO MUCH FUN THIS CYCLE FAM.

THIS ISN'T EVEN THE FIRST INNING.

IT IS THE DAY BEFORE THE GAME.

THE SUITS STILL THINK WE ARE GOING TO SELL INTO THE PUMP. THEY DONT REALIZE WE ARE BUILT DIFFERENT. THEY DONT REALIZE BITCOIN IS A COMPLETE PARADIGM SHIFT.


BULLISH ON THE FUTURE


The concept of a Bitcoin ETF is not fundamentally different than the concept of a Bitcoin ecash mint

They just use different technologies under the hood to achieve vastly different scales of efficiency, privacy, and fungibility

In the long run, people will realize that Bitcoin ETFs are like a service that prints out your emails and delivers them to your physical mailbox (while also reading their contents and forwarding them to the government)


#bitcoin only #nostr only 🫡


I hope someday reposts and zaps completely replace the need for “likes”/🤙🏼.

Reposts and zaps are true value exchange…and have a real cost: your reputation or money.

Likes are superficial and exist only to inform an algorithm.

Relevance algorithms have their place, but they are best informed by a truly costly action.


Ngl the Primal Lightning wallet UX is straight fire. Gonna continue using it moving forward.


Hello Nostr


“Economics” only seems complicated when viewing it through the same system designed to steal from you.

#Bitcoin


if you're building tools for freedom, I'm on your side


Compliance is a dirty word.


we are launching Strike Africa in 2-4 weeks. cards, bank transfers and mobile money in 20 African countries. will try to get the entire continent with time

are you open to helping us test before public launch? if so, DM me!


Rethinking Lightning

https://stacker.news/items/379225


This is exactly it
nostr:note1rs3eml3x2w98qze7unj4km58j8gvrua3st6453c5wzmc23f45fhs08rx3h


Unleashed.Chat v0.1.1 is live!

Now hit 1k+ users, this release adds more scalable infrastructure

-Vector embeddings of nostr notes now stored in Redis–fast again!
-Key infra components are now automated
- App health monitoring and automatic remediation in case of container crashes or similar

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


ETF? End The Fed.


running nostr:npub1235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ksdg0ht5


To threaten people with a felony charge for not playing the role of tax collector on behalf of the IRS is one of the most despicable and insulting things that has come out of the US government in recent years.

https://tftc.io/irs-bitcoin-transaction-reporting/


there is nothing American about the US dollar


"time makes more converts than reason"

- Thomas Paine


everything of value comes with a cost


✌ https://coinkite.com/chancellor.jpg


THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF TWITTER ARE OVER.

THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF NOSTR ARE JUST GETTING STARTED.


scarcity in money creates abundance in resources


🫂 https://opensats.org/blog/2023-year-in-review


🫡

https://image.nostr.build/3e5eee339f22962a2a55a3251dc2e1dd249d82ca3d71cf9116a654d2bec997f0.jpg


https://cdn.satellite.earth/6011daa16075490abe99b641d87513c6509eace0b86ac7dd6e91a7d1c68763d9.jpg
At least for some percent of people glancing at this nostr:npub1e4qg56wvd3ehegd8dm7rlgj8cm998myq0ah8e9t5zeqkg7t7s93q750p76's diagram would give them a little more insight on how Nostr works. Where should we place it to make that happen?


thanks!


need one


LIFE ON A FIAT STANDARD GETS HARDER EVERY YEAR

LIFE ON A BITCOIN STANDARD GET EASIER EVERY YEAR

YOU CAN MAKE THE SWITCH TODAY

JOIN OR DIE


WHEN AVERAGE PEOPLE WENT TO WAR WITH SUITS OVER GAMESTOP THE SUITS FUCKED THEM.

THEY LEGIT TURNED OFF THE BUY BUTTON ON ROBINHOOD.

BITCOIN IS THE ONLY FREE MARKET. EVERYTHING ELSE IS RIGGED.


Literally doing free work for these companies. nostr:note1khfrg0qwewu84qxk5u59dvu3y4rw5czgl4tmst0p90nu3svyyjaqh3yq96


THE GENIUS OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM:

BILLIONS OF PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE CUSTOMERS WHILE THEY ARE ACTUALLY THE PRODUCT BEING HARVESTED.


Suits gonna suit


JAMIE DIMON TESTIFIED IN CONGRESS THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD SHUTDOWN BITCOIN WHILE PARTNERING WITH BLACKROCK FOR THEIR BITCOIN ETF.

CLASSIC SUIT MOVE.

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


“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program”
- Milton Friedman


Zap this post until it's not true


Who controls the ledger?


20yo don't know a world without patriot act, without KYC-everything, without TSA. withiut data-retention laws.

Stopping the erosion of individual freedoms is not enough; for this generation, the current status quo is the natural state of things.


DO MORE. COMPLAIN LESS.

BUILD THE FUTURE WE WANT TO SEE.


ETF CANNOT BE PRICED IN BECAUSE MOST SUITS ARE TOO SCARED TO HOLD PRIVATE KEYS.


#nostrmemeawards

post your favourite nostr meme of 2023 https://i.nostr.build/eL6q.jpg


GOOD MORNING, NOSTR ONLY 🫡

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

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


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS 🫡


The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

~ Mark Twain


Alright, I'm fucking done. Filling out these after every single chatgpt question (even in the same prompt) is reason enough for me to run local LLMs exclusively now.

Go fuck yourself "OpenAI", I'm even a paying member you fucking retards.

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


RABBIT HOLE RECAP CHRISTMAS SPECIAL GOES LIVE IN TWO HOURS AT NOON ET / 1700 UTC.

JOIN US IN THE LIVE CHAT 🫡

https://rhr.tv/stream


What a clown


10 more grants.
10 minute blocktime.
10 quadrillion reasons to support open-source devs.

https://opensats.org/blog/bitcoin-grants-december-2023


Twitter account suspended because I posted “eat the glass” in response to a do hard things entrepreneurship post.

This apparently encouraged self harm and now I’m on read-only until a faceless bureaucrat in San Francisco clicks a button.

The use case for Nostr was always obvious but now it is increasingly tangible.

The censorship will continue until the protocols and tools improve. Thankfully that is why we are all here.


AMERICA NEEDS BITCOIN.
BITCOIN DOES NOT NEED AMERICA.

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


Everything is theater. Don’t be distracted. Don’t trust, verify.