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 GOOD MORNING NOSTR 🚀 
 "I think the simplest way to think about Nostr is this.

"Suppose that you are a writer and I lik... 
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 MOST BLUE CHECK BITCOINERS SPENT THE LAST FEW YEARS FOCUSED ON TWITTER ENGAGEMENT RATHER THAN STA... 
 Brutal 
 “IF YOURE GONNA ENGAGEMENT FARM DO IT ON NOSTR” - @ODELL 
 Bitcoin is a funny game where the only winning move is to play 
 Good morning 🫡
be the change you want to see #nostr only 
 My last tweet before being Sim swapped and hacked on the bird app was a reply saying something li... 
 Yessir 🫡 
 Stop using sms for 2fa 
 FYI, looks like nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe was hacked ... 
 #nostr only 
 Tik Tok has over 100 million monthly active users in the US. Banning Tik Tok means huge numbers of Americans will have to rely on Google and Meta, which the government can censor.
#nostr fixes all of this 
 The people telling you to not spend your bitcoin don’t realize that bitcoin is the means not th... 
 Few 
 A warm sun on your skin is arguably the cure to most problems.

Really. 
 Facts 
 everything but Bitcoin is rigged 
 I just heard the scariest story in a while. Someone told me that they had been traveling in China... 
 Fuck that 
 Volatility is good 
 Tesla sold 75% of its Bitcoin at $29k. 
 Elon coping and seething 
 Daily cope and seethe 
 bitcoin-backed ecash is free banking by the people 
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 Blue checks still don’t get it. Bitcoin is the exit. Never sell, spend as necessary 
https://image.nostr.build/b3d2f3378f4981fb3eac938ea2e2b47cba9b368b9903bd6eb28b8383c5599be7.jpg 
 Coinbase trying to turn off the buy button again 
 One of my favorite presentations 
https://youtu.be/Z6qzEYxBYcQ?si=plYTRWLxTkjHYBTs 
 STAY HUMBLE 
 Microstrategy is ripping. Speculative attacks will continue 
 What about eNuts? eCash seems promising for low fees and poor internet.

nostr:nevent1qyvhwumn8gh... 
 Phoenix is hard to beat 
 Nice what’s your go to? 
 ecash is magical feels like first time sending a Bitcoin transaction 
 Set up the gossip client on macOS with little snitch running. Super informative seeing all the connections being made showing how nostr works under the hood 
 The past two years of bitcoin conferences I have been at have been bear market conferences.

And ... 
 So bullish 
 running Gossip 
 you don't need to be a developer to contribute to nostr, AT ALL.

your time, energy and attention... 
 Stoked to be here 🫡 
 Bitcoin Twitter ratios disinformation so hard you literally have these “finance” blue check accounts who just engagement farm the traffic? Interesting dynamic. 

https://image.nostr.build/fe8f81057fafddf2b39f472cf1f6e97b655886b78f2ee77554f9207e42cc6ee0.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/a92b4a7294b76a6c80fd5c5fcc681686c1ae0d8e05d585b51185cf9c07b463ec.jpg 
 Lmao 
 Interesting, the ability of central banks to print money played a role as well 
 If you’re someone advocating for Bitcoin and freedom tech on Twitter/X but inactive on nostr that’s a problem 
 Silver is a shitcoin 
 Imagine your government built upon open protocols that they can’t own, control, or manipulate... 
 Central banking fails 
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