Having done an accelerator years ago (and failed miserably at my startup), I look back to having formed relationships and pushing myself and my peers through reflection, and discussion.

Unlike my and most accelerators where the objective is raise VC, what stood out to me in my short visit to Madeira was that there is a shared ethos of freedom at the base layer of Sov Eng. This is not the case in the traditional accelerators.

Further, practically all devs were and are building on open protocols in btc, and nostr, which is unique and a unique selling point on its own.

This means that the proof of work of dev 1 complements that of dev 2, and dev 3 can build on the blocks of dev 21. And yuuge success of dev 7 increases the odds of success of the other 20 devs (and everyone else on nostr, btc)!! Management consultants are in disbelief of the synergy levels 😂.

So my pitch would be: if you want to build for a freer future for today and for future generations, and you want to build collaboratively for the long term with others who have the same ethos and incentives as you, buidling in person with these folks by your side is only what SovEng can offer.

P.s. if you want to take VC, consider doing so from ethos aligned VCs who support freedom tech, and are not 💩coin apologists. Nostr buidlers are lucky to have a few of these around.

P.p.s. Because it’s so early the safest assumption is no VC or other funds is available. This means that the devs self-filter into the pain tolerance, and know they must survive until the next day. This is the low time preference filter. This is a good group to be around. nostr:note1q23fs5d8xjd7u9dcx6dyllr37jgjprn7y3sw7ve2hgqfr55cpljs7alak6


Good universal heuristics 🤌


There must be something about the degrees of separation which objectively makes the EU parliament the worst out of all.


EU is not even a democracy anymore.

It's a blop representing no one else besides themselves.


I've heard Paraguay is a nice residentship. No need to stay there full year, but isn't the worst.

For full time living... Idk.


Why not South America? Have you tried?


If you're not a citizen, the prospects of getting work visa after the graduatiation for being able to stay are pretty slim nowadays. Little better with MSc in STEM, but still quite a tall order.

So think twice about what are your plans after the school. It still might be a great option in certain cases. But long gone are the days when uni was a good stepping stone to the US.


Rabbit Hole Recap is Live (Zap.stream)
 https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjxyctzxscnve3j95urgd35956rvde4943rvvrz94jk2vnxvvexywfhvs6rwqg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsygx0gknt5ymr44ldyyaq0rn3p5jpzkh8y8ymg773a06ytr4wldxz55psgqqqwensmlvusj


Many people in small communities around the US that do farmers markets are bitcoiners and don't know it.  I only sold maple syrup for cash for obvious reasons, as many farmers markets do. I had no ambition to compete with the 2 families of large maple producers in my area that helped me get started with advice, and lending me old equipment. I wanted to sell outside our area online. But no cash option. As I researched bitcoin became the answer, I can share my farmers market good around the US. And  I believe in bitcoin more than cash now.  I am just a hobbyist but made 100 gallons of syrup from 5000 gallons of sap. I can't wait to see the nostr farmers market in a few years.


nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx why does Parker say Nostr is not censorship resistant and what is your rebuttal?


Life goals.


Censorship


That's the original defqult zap.


Correct. But you can use more private options there too. Cash by mail is the king.


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


"The Ten31 team, however, found many reasons for optimism this week in Austin, where our team participated in and led presentations at the PlebLab Startup Day and the SXSW Bitcoin Takeover at the Bitcoin Commons. The events were the latest reminder of how vibrant and robust the bitcoin ecosystem is, and it’s increasingly undeniable that the pace of development is accelerating across a variety of verticals from privacy software to payments technology to mining infrastructure. These technologies are all promising from an investment perspective, but more importantly, they will form a key pillar in preserving the liberties that we believe the vast majority of Americans regard as non-negotiable, and the founders behind them are not slowing down. Said another way: we’re going to win." -  nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

https://www.tftc.io/the-administrative-state-marches-on-ten31/


Strong start to the #bitcoin  takeover @bitcoincommons #SXSW

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy  on building a media company on a #bitcoin  standard TFTC.io

Censorship resistant stack:
- RSS, Nostr, Ghost

Monetization:
- #btc  treasury, @ZapriteApp, V4V, @getmash

Culture
Beauty
Curation

We’re gonna fix it. We’re gonna win…take agency over your life and fight back against these pressures…. We can win. We need to instill that confidence in others that we can overcome daunting forces that exist in our world. ”  -@MartyBent

“Consistency is key”

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


GM & PV!

Welcome aboard 🚢


Next speaker for Bitcoin Urbanism series, nostr:npub13l3lyslfzyscrqg8saw4r09y70702s6r025hz52sajqrvdvf88zskh8xc2 ?


Not a fan of TikTok, but even less of a fan of any goverments telling you what you can or can't do.

It will serve just as a stepping stone for more bans and power grabs for them. The only thing all the parties always universally agree on.

Just show them the finger and opt out. They have no rights over your free choices. Their legitimacy ended long time ago, they just didn't catch up yet.

Use the tools over which they have no authority or coercive powers. Those tools were designs primarily for this purpose, of protecting your freedoms and rights against any coercion. Nostr is one of them.

Nostr also has a very anti-monopolistic design, so that not even the clients have any coercive powers over you (unlike facebooks or twitters of the world). You will always be able to take your login, all your "friends" and content, and move to a more attractive competitor you want to play with.

* Supppemental recommended reading
- A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by J. P. Barlow

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence#main-content


Interesting. I'll give it a try and jack up my diet. Coffee will be missed, but it's more a cozy calm morning habit than a need.


Second best

 https://image.nostr.build/19b349dd4b72033db25de8a524e9e06f2c4efe7f947a07dc6ac9656366f434d4.jpg


Bullish on Shopstr 🫡


Coinbase will adopt this feature sooner than lightning. It pairs up great with their crashing feature too.


Looks like Saylor snacking fiat whales for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. All in one sitting.

Infinite apetite.


Focus on the chronological feed front and center is cultivating high time preference behavior.

I want a slow-paced client optimized for quality; not a Breaking News scrolling FOMO experience.

cc:  nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl


Most Search Engines (Hotels, Jobs, Wikipedia, ...) have gone through the progression of being Feed-first to being Suggestion-first (section-first) for the returning users.

- It's hard to hit every users needs with a single feed front and centered
- It's easier to offer a personalized menu of suggestions on the home page, and allow the user to *browse* through the catalog, not to just *read or keyword search*

Booking . com is a classic example
- imagine each of these sections being automatically redined (personalized) to your past nostr engagements, while allowing you to make 100% overwrites and fine tune each section with your preferred parameters.

 https://image.nostr.build/38e9eaa0156f4c7646df3e115cd37b47355c362592211d789f61d10f60295435.jpg

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Monotonous Trending Algo in  nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg ?

- I'd give them the benefit of an MVP.

You can iterate on algorithms pretty quickly and easily. The tricky part is to define what you want (and don't want) to achieve, and how to measure whether your changes are achieving exactly that.

I would expect progression like this:

1.0:
 - More complex algorithm, driving more diverse engagement
- You can try to optimize for more nuanced engagement factors, and their combinations. (length of the comments; authors re-engagement in the threads; ...)
 - Potentially you can pair it up with some Sectional breakdown of the "Trending" ("Pictures"; "Discussion-stirring topics"; "Memes of the day"; "GM notes"; "Most Zapped"; "Farmstr community")

2.0:
- You seperate the client from the trending algorithm control
- Enable each user to configure what sections (tabs) with what algorithms they want to see there (nudge in some defaults, but allow user-controlled overwrites)
- The "MySpace experience"


Build better alternatives, people will stop using it.


Solid camper, solid color. 🫡


case in point

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


I've seen that trait at many libertarians in the past. Some sort of scholarly toxicity. Pairs up well with a bowtie.

Being right on something isn't an unlimited excuse for being a dick.


My Spanish isn't perfect, but que mierda 🤣🤣🤣


Comedy is the best self-defense against the governments.


Neither.

Planning to pump and dump some crypto, surveillance blockchain firms, NFTs, and maybe speculative attack on Dogecoin in partnership with Elon or something like that.


Thanks, will look here.


I'm looking into getting some grounding sheets probably 🤔


I'll for sure try to make it. 🫡


Great vibes post. And spot on.

There's no parallel for the collective joy like regaining the stolen freedoms. Generations who have not lost them can't imagine the difference it makes in your family life. I got just glimpses of it from the grandpa's eyes.

Eastern Block kids know that we owe Bitcoin to our parents, grandparents, and to the world. It takes just a quick glance in Berlin/Prague/Riga/... , to recognize that it's a widely shared and clearly recognized responsibility there. And it's spreading like wildfire.

Every pub, city and country.
Block by block.
The grassroots signal audibly knocking on the wall.


Finkmeister outstacked Saylor for one day.

Saylor disrespected him over the weekend.

🤌


Plug and play, feed algos. Independently reusable across any social clients.

🔥🔥🔥

Yes, please.

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Who sold you the nonsense idea that Bitcoin was made to "bank the unbanked?" - NO, that's not why it was created. It was to end CENTRAL banking and fiat money.

It's to take it out of the hands of the government in a sly roundabout way, and introduce something they can not stop.

If u try to fuck around with it, and create cheap payments (or easy self custody) for all, then ur gonna fuck this up.

Don't change it and objective 1 will be achieved. That's all that matters. Then humanity will flourish.

Not everyone needs to be their own bank (or dentist)

The purpose of money is to reduce the risk of specialisation, which allows people to be free from the need to barter. They can then focus on what they are good at, and accept money for their efforts. Specialisation maximises human output and prosperity.

If we have money, people don't need to do everything themselves. That's a for barter society, not a money society.  This includes not needing to bank yourself, dentist yourself and farm yourself.

The problem is that people are taking "bank the unbanked", as nice as it sounds, as priority #1, instead of accepting it as a CONSEQUENCE of priority #1, which is "end CENTRAL banking" (not "end retail banking").

Then they start trying to get code changes in like CTV, risking #1


We’re taking back the internet from the surveillance capitalists. We’re building a new foundation of open source, privacy preserving freedom tech. You are the resistance. https://i.nostr.build/ROAZ.jpg


24.2

 - 279 reps.


Yes, confident that it's beannie babies, doggie coins, tulips, and just for degen gamblers...

I've seen more hubris and closed mindedness than before from them. It actually surprised me that they moved backwards on their learning vectors.

It's like they grew roots in their previously more open-minded and curious positions.

Probably some sort of the derangement syndrome :-/


Run, Daniel. Run!

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


Less (government) is more (freedom).


Kartodromo Do Faial


The playgrounds for the more adult kids hit hard there as well.

 https://image.nostr.build/5d8ea47149bbb3810c9b9ae14dd572dcb62bad51ba6c471d99a053a6b04c8782.jpg


"If regulatory capture means that the price goes up, people should be happy" – nah I don't think so


Does blue check protect you from the lasers?


I see 74


Bring ecash zaps to Microsoft Outlook 🔥


I'm thinking that gig workers and service industry will front run them. Corporate-tech folks are actively building intelligentsia firewall from anything not backed up by their culture leaders.

Gig/service workers are more in touch with reality, and thus solutions to the real world problems. Tech folks live in the bubble with main problems being how much CO2 their neighbors emit, or what native land their office sits on.

They might front run boomers, but within the same generation bracket, I'd always bet on my bartender/cab driver over the app maintainers.


For a second, I hesitated whether we're still early. And how much.

Then I met my tech ex-coworkers. They seemed more confident and less educated about Bitcoin than ever before. It shocked me.

-> We are so fucking early. And there's so much work to do out there.


It is practically the same, just a bit less lazy on it's face maybe.

It's closer to the mid-territory where you at least start to ponder "who's gonna pay for it", and you create an elaborate scheme of socialist transfers, assuming your transfers don't change everyones' original incentives.

It's too easy to criticize the "let's print it all" crowd; most of the people are in the socialist technocrat camp - "let me just optimize based on the data and science". And people don't see the similarities.


Odell's Good Morning Playlist >>> Creed

nostr:note1h3h3ch54srrezhw8cnrhunr07rsau5khh6s02etexwrd3fnvzffqhflzuq


Signal Rolls Out Phone Number Privacy and Usernames for Everyone in v7.0

"Phone number privacy and usernames are now rolling out to everyone using Signal version 7.0! Update your app to take advantage of these new features."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/signal-v7-0/


What about taking money from the rich?


Practically anyone with nsec will already have a wallet, nice!


Why not both?


Hey, it's true. Oregon and Washington are the perfect examples.

The shared feeling I have when meeting someone on a remote mountain trail in the middle of nowhere is like when you meet another Bitcoiner, instant friendship and respect.


Topographic difficulty is the nature's proof of work system to preserve itself.

There's no Keynesians amongst the mountain people :-)


alt Screenshot of GrapheneOS with Amethyst, with text 'Hello!' drawn in the center.

Little #GrapheneOS tip: Installing 'Markup' from the Apps app allows you to use the more robust screenshot editor from the stock Pixel OS. While you miss certain things like filters, the freehand drawing and cropping is far better.

The Markup app has no permissions,  nor can it access the Internet.
 https://image.nostr.build/7b1764db2f15e69d5273455cc6aa1981e9db9423e19833a10490396e9c41c802.jpg


curious as well


Amethyst is fine as well (loud and clear).


Hmm, works for me on Primal web.

> https://primal.net/e/note1x3t7hmphnmxfaatphnu6thzneey9d9syqsysyyqdtxp3gurpkrcsagym9y


Eyes on the prize.

Not the price.

- nostr:npub1t289s8ck5qfwynf2vsq49t2kypvvkpj7rhegayrur0ag9s2sezaqgunkzs

https://video.nostr.build/c82e3f6c463b360b081ecaaf79b4d7502fd651783b3a87db5a8c1080f46c2c5b.mp4


Study bitcoin

https://video.nostr.build/576f68072928d7db458e198e2ba89a306e21b6f578f2ab44f810250abfe93675.mp4


As Sovereign Engineering comes to a close, I'd like to take some time to reflect on the past few months. It feels like it was yesterday when I was sitting in a Panera Bread in NYC listening to a Nostrovia episode when these guys nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft and nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc mentioned a crazy idea to bring a bunch of hackers to an island in the middle of the Atlantic to work on Nostr stuff for two months. At this point I had only recently heard about Nostr, in fact, I was still debating between building on Farcaster vs Nostr 😅.  By the end of that podcast I was hooked, I knew I had to find a way to get myself into the Cohort and start contributing to the future of the web. So I started working on a client, learning all about the intricacies of the protocol as I did. A constant flow of Nostr podcasts streamed into my ears, fueling the next few weeks as I put together what eventually became Flockstr. (Funny enough, Flockstr was originally supposed to be a Patreon/Substack client where users could subscribe to creators and consume long-form content). Once my MVP was done I sent DMs to a bunch of the big names on Nostr to get some feedback. Luckily, despite not having much cred to my name at the time, I got some awesome encouragement from nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn & Pablo which pushed me to keep going. Fast forward 4 months and now I find myself sitting in a cafe in Madeira, writing this retrospective as I get ready to return home tomorrow.

In that time I've:
1. Turned Flockstr into the first Nostr Calendar events client
2. Built Flare.pub the first YouTube/Video sharing app on Nostr
3. Built Find Me On Nostr a fun little game to spread the word about Nostr and share some sats
4. Contributed to the Nips repo
5. Visited Bitcoin Park in Nashville to meet a bunch of Nostriches like nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx, nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424,  nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf, nostr:npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3, nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg, and others
6. Joined SEC-01 in Madeira where I got to work with some of the most capable developers in the space and discuss the future of the web (I could gloat more about my time in nostr:npub1s0veng2gvfwr62acrxhnqexq76sj6ldg3a5t935jy8e6w3shr5vsnwrmq5 but this is a kind 1 after all so let's keep it somewhat brief 😂)
7. Created Seeker, an Events app for Bitcoiners built on Nostr ready to onboard the next generation of Nostriches.
8. Presented at Bitcoin Atlantis where I was able to meet some incredible people like nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m, nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8, nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr, nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc, nostr:npub1jpvsahpy0vgq7gu8nfqjkeskce0gwjk8jpss590xkvjh5xxe4epsruqgsz, nostr:npub1zjx3xe49u3njkyep4hcqxgth37r2ydc6f0d7nyfn72xlpv7n97ss73pvrl, and so many more.
All of that in just a few months. I was just checking my GitHub, and my first ever Nostr commit was Oct 5th, 2023 marking tomorrow my 5-month Nostr-anniversary. It's amazing how much can happen in such a short time. Thanks to all who I've had the pleasure of meeting so far in this journey, I can't wait to see what the next 5 months have in store. 🧡


Do you feel it too ?

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


The strongest brand.


Streisand effect 👌


Nothing is stopping them from GameStopping the MSTR.

At some point, they will have to.

Then, we will hyperbitcoinize.


Bending the knee


Something like this?

https://image.nostr.build/468bb59c779d020866ab606532e388092fd98c516617715fe52a363338238b5f.jpg

Prague was a Mekka before Mekkas were cool.

☕ ₿ 🍻


Well, I got totally smoked with the Rx.  Worse then expected. Time capped in the middle of the set of the 15s.

Might try to see over the weekend if I can finish the scaled one.

Still, the test was worth it. Time to work more.


Nemluvim o salonnich intelektualech z Letne. Ale o normalni stredni-nizsi tride. Lidi, co i pres to, ze celej zivot makaj (a z ruznych duvodu ne v tech nejlukrativnejsich jobech, a z ruznych duvodu se jim nepodarilo nic moc nasetrit), a i presto maji problem zaplatit najem.

Tihle lidi jsou nachylni k tomu zamenovat dopady money printingu za kritiku kapitalismu/bohatych/developeru...

Idealni by bylo vzit jejich decka, organicky, zezdola, rozdat jim par sats a nejakou minimalni edukaci formou nejake marshmallow gamifikace, ... a oni uz to potom roztroubi pekne rychle.

Pak bych videl budoucnost silne pozitivne.


It was a real question.

Is it because it's potentially too many consumers watching?

Idk, but I'm thinking that unless it would go exclusively via nostr, then the numbers shouldn't go that crazy. Potentially, there could be a barrier requiring just a few sats min as a paywall...


Ok, I'll try 😅


Do you have some basic discovery page/index aggregating all (your  clients) accepting Bitcoin in the roadmap?

You can just maintain them in an XML - *list of online businesses who are reliably accepting btc* , and let someone else to build the user facing frontend for it. You can monetize it later too.

If it starts adding significant traffic to your clients, it will be a solid external value prop for adopting Zaprite.


Any advice?

Probably no time for splitting the sets, right?


That's pretty solid work; congrats.

I've signed for the first time this year; Doing it in the evening.
If I stick this one below 15min, it will be a success. If possible, 13:24 would be very sweet too :D


Why aren't conferences streamed natively on nostr yet?

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Vidim potencial na to, ze se Praha stane nejvetsi komunistickou bastou 🤔

Tihle lidi potrebujou Bitcoin a economics 101nejvic ze vsech, ale hlavne v tech salonnich kruzich se budou tomu budou branit jak cert krizi.

Ale nebojim se, ze by s tim v CZ vyhravali volby.


Bon appetite!


GM,, rise and shine.


Two ways to express power: voice and exit. When voice is no longer sufficient, you have one option: exit.

For the first time in human history, we have an alternative financial system fixed in supply, accessible to all, and controlled by no one.

Exit fiat. Long live #Bitcoin

This is our first Mailbag Monday episode. Every Monday we shoot the shit and answer the questions you send in. This week we talked about not owning dollars anymore, the #Bitcoin ETF, Epstein's Banker, ETH isn't money

Also, incredibly important that everyone on the internet ignores my hat hair.

Hard to fathom Dylan let me record a podcast with winter hat hair like this. Cruel. Not what friends do.

Appreciate your cooperation and having my back here, internet.

https://v.nostr.build/PBL8.mp4

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdZZ7780b-w
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/money-matters-with-jack-mallers/id1695949365
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5BmPNh1DDWSfnG2S1EcGMW
Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/597cU7nDqwXov0tcvrUQ


Businesses will never accept bitcoin as a form of payment.

Corporations will never put bitcoin on their balance sheets.

Countries will never accept bitcoin as legal tender.

Regulators will never allow a bitcoin ETF.

Bitcoin will never become the planet’s dominant currency.


I didn't expect to ever see a zombie company to move that fast.

Not fast enough for their clients, though.


A picture is worth a thousand words. This one tells a great story about a guy named Ben.

- Ben sold half of his last pants in the bear to buy more Bitcoin for his family.

- Fast forward few years, Ben is happy and proud for being able to travel and show the world to his kids.

- Ben doesn't miss his old pants at all.

nostr:note1w0nkre3pwag34qt75hvcjae3mnks0va44aqk868xz8htrq8vwyjs8cej8u


Shout out us


Another form of taxation for EU; last in everything.


LET'S GO!


Truth
https://image.nostr.build/5a4de26d82a4aee0e34a41487719ce179b0675b95ce973c1669013046c39dfdd.gif


The calm of the certainty of the orange zen 🧡


Every single time a bitcoiner makes any economic decision, the bitcoin network value grows stronger around the world. The beauty of capitalism without debasement.

The demonetization of the rest of the world is just a massive temporary subsidy for us.


Why?


Announcement?


Today I'm thankful for all the hardworking people in bitcoin. There's so many of you that will forever go unseen, unheard and are 100% completely fine with that. I salute you.


No return tickets in sight.


The healthiest lifestyle.
Onward 🫡


*the laser eyes.


Eyes on the prize.

Not on the price.

nostr:note1zphdfas6l7sg74sn3uae6s5yc4cq763m5hr5zw5zh42uh74uwp0qxe6q0w


Either that, or we rename 'zaps' for 'roasts'.

Just imagine the nuts getting roasted left and right all over the nostr.


Looks like someone who just realized his purchasing power is shrinking.


*roasted


Our generation didn't know what is the Money.

Our grand kids generation won't know what is the Currency.

The international bank notes will be filling up the same museum aisles as the CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, and the Paul Krugman's columns.
- "the silly little things our grandpas held on to for little too long".
- we'll be telling them how we fought against these things in the name of Bitcoin, and they would be just shaking their heads in disbelief and giggling "Boomers...".
- then, their kids will flock to some tullip. They get their asses kicked. And they will re-introduce central banking as a hot fix.

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Farms are freedom. 🌱 #farmstr
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Growth hacking masterclass.


Nice work 💪


AI Safety Bills? 🙃

I was thinking, if Google wanted to raise universal support for policing the use of AI across the political lines, then releasing max-DEI visualizations could trigger exactly that.

GDPR 2.0


The neverending process.


Does he? To me sounds like he says "I've heard of it once, but I didn't look at it at all."


There's a perfect overlap of people discounting the  information based on its source with the people not liking the said information.

Podcast is just a channel. If you're looking for a channel that you can endlessly trust to, then ...


Just the drama about their AI being blatantly racist under the pretext of equity, DEI, AI safety, ...

It might be a fascinating time-capsule into the woke epicenter at its peak.

I'm curious how many of the people there can recognize the root of the problem, and if any of them can voice it. And, if Sundar finds the common sense and the balls to steer the ship towards the "mission critical" vision of serving users unbiased (normal) answers, or if he caves under the internal woke pressures.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/googles-gemini-ai-blasted-eliminating-white-people-image-searches


ECB community noted. LOL

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I hope someone at Google is documenting all the drama today. It would become a fascinating retrospective one day.


*shutdown in their country.

- They can start blocking access (China/Iran firewall style); India has been blocking TikTok and some other Chinese apps for a while already (reportedly)
- They can threaten prosecuting any local (senior) employees of Twitter (already had done so in 2021, threatening 7years in prison)

Twitter will probably cave sooner before it escalates too much. They will either drop supporting India (effectively force the users to use VPN to access the service), or they will comply with the censorship requests.


Even if he would be a Satoshi-like saint, the only thing he can to against the governments is to wage the PR battles against them. But they can always compel him to censor, or to shut down the service.

Accelerating the conflict would be the way for people to realize why nostr is needed.


X = Freedom of the government-permitted speech within your IP_country borders.

I'm looking forward for the realization that the internet has no geographic borders.

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The day has come! 🫣 For a while, I’ve been looking at the wonderful Bitcoin community, shyly, from the sidelines, supporting people and what they do for Bitcoin.

I thought I had nothing to say, or share with the world.

Then I realized, as a recruiter, that I had spent a fine amount of time daily, talking to job seekers about how they could improve their chances of landing their first Bitcoin-only job, or with the managers, how they could improve their recruiting. So it hit me- I have a lot to share, and I should write it down!

Today, I humbly present you my two ebooks. One is for job seekers in the Bitcoin industry, and another one is for start-ups on how to improve, or build from the ground up, their hiring processes.

I do this for the Bitcoin community, with the hope that we can create a common ground for job seekers and companies to better understand each other. For that reason, these guides are completely free, and no data will be collected.

I want to thank the people who supported me during this project:

nostr:npub1y67n93njx27lzmg9ua37ce7csvq4awvl6ynfqffzfssvdn7mq9vqlhq62h for her marketing magic, and for being an awesome friend
nostr:npub16yvvw6g8dn9pqmh6uymjcsmy69lpdj0zch7jjy4sk67rpespc6gs596q7y for patiently listening to our ideas and for creating this Barbie Bitcoin vibe website
nostr:npub1t3ggcd843pnwcu6p4tcsesd02t5jx2aelpvusypu5hk0925nhauqjjl5g4 for his designs and for not giving up on us after realizing how many messages per minute we can send in the group chat
nostr:npub1jaxs73m0zadd7fkwmkef73srdpfkxs6krwdhvkp0axzefqlsrpuqcvsjkt last but not least, Martell, for her amazing support and professional advices

Go to: https://www.thunder.wtf/

I put a lot of love into these guides, so hopefully, you’ll find value in them 💜


He should agree and send him the testnet coins, I've heard they are as good as money in Britain.


LinkedIn following in the Twitter's KYC footsteps, and raising the stakes with the gov ID verifications.

Soft verification boosts for now.

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Happy President's Day
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Zaps


Sure. But the total population of not self sufficient people in the US as a whole is leaps above any other country.

Even if you look at it on per capita basis, it's probably contending for #1.


US might be the one with the most people not able to take care of themselves.


 nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42, nostr:npub1f4www6qjx43mckpkjld4apyyr76j3aahprvkduh9gc5xec78ypmsmakqh9,

At the end, you guys chatted about building the saturation of the world with software services, and how Bitcoiners in next decades will likely take over with the more traditional meatspace business models & old school (offline) businesses.

It's been dragging me from the (fiat) software in this direction as well.

I found Chris Koerner to be a great follow. "Gordon Ramsey of the low tech businesses".

He's on twitter & substack. Sharing the 101 about business models & building of the various low-tech SMBs (RV parks, Treet Trimming companies, Christmas Tree farms, ..., probably some laundromats out there too).

Check it out for some inspiration.
- https://chris-koerner.beehiiv.com/
- https://twitter.com/mhp_guy/status/1757936446512443598

PS. Hit me up if you want to open RV park in Austin (and got the funding)

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I think the concept of "layers" has been beaten to death and stretched way too thin, to the point of meaningless.

With that out of the way, random thought:

Most NIPs are not nostr but protocols on top of it (nostr = NIP-01)

NIP-04 (DM/encryption scheme), NIP-44 (DM/encryption scheme, NIP-46 (remote signing), NIP-47 (wallet protocol), NIP-90 (data vending machines), etc. All different protocols built on top of Nostr.

That's why we can end up with competing NIPs implementing the same functionality, and why worse NIPs with more network effects can prevail.

E.g. Should a new client that wants to implement DMs go with NIP-04 or NIP-44?

I agree with nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c that rewriting NIP-46 in a completely incompatible way was the wrong approach and it would have been better as an independent NIP that should have battled it out against NIP-46 in the market, just like NIP-44 is challenging NIP-04.

Seeing (some) NIPs as protocols, and not simply functionalities might be a good heuristic:

NIP-46 is not just "remote signing" it's "remote signing with this particular protocol", if we want to change the approach it makes sense to do it via a different NIP that needs to earn it's own and dethrone the competing protocol that provides the same functionality.


Agreed, he had it on a silver platter, and then royally screwed up and, seemingly intentionally, lost all the trust he got.


Suits don’t know the goal is more sats.


Sound advice for the sound money.


Truth wants to come out. The can't stop themselves from saying it.

https://video.nostr.build/4b933a601a6566024760724a079ff91b13fdfa71bc066249fa186e5cc65c90e9.mp4


What did he say?


- Tagging people / npubs

- Sharing outside of nostr (spammy or long URLs, not rendering messages in the UI)


What’s the most broken thing on nostr?

#asknostr


I feel I got to order myself some trips soon 🙏


The mainstream mindset cannot comprehend...

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📣 Announcement time! 📣

As you might have guessed (from the photos I keep posting, mostly), I really love the place where I'm fortunate enough to live. It's a small town in northern Italy. We're surrounded by 3000m peaks, Lake Como is a short drive away, and the people are warm, welcoming, and hard-working.

My wife and I moved here 14 years ago with no more expectation than trying to figure out how we could live in the alps to climb and ski right outside our backdoor. Over those 14 years, Valchiavenna has become our home.

For a long time, I've been plotting and scheming about how I could give more back to this community that has given me so much and over the last few months, with the help of many local friends, all the pieces have started to come together.

Bitcoin Chiavenna is aimed at building a stronger Chiavenna using Bitcoin but; more broadly, it's a project focused on exploring how small, often marginalized, rural communities can benefit from adopting Bitcoin.

Chiavenna is the perfect petri dish for experimentation. We have local hydro power generation (run by a local coop). We are a stone's throw from Switzerland, which brings both tourism and shows local government how sane (and very minimal) regulation of digital assets can be beneficial. And, unlike many small towns in Italy, we have a large population of young entrepreneurs who haven't bailed for the big city and have started dozens of local businesses.

My hope is that our education and our learnings will be beneficial for other towns across Europe and North America. Many of whom, facing the death of their traditional industries, are having to find new ways to thrive, and do so without becoming wholly dependent on the central government for handouts.

I grew up in a small town. I live in a small town. I want to see tens of thousands of vibrant, wealthy, interesting, weird small towns across the planet. And I want them all to run on Bitcoin.

If you're with me, I'd love your support. We've just launched a Geyser project to raise funds for the first phase of several projects. We've got some cool rewards listed there, with more coming in the future.

And if anyone is coming through the area, let me know. I'd be happy to show you around and help you leave a few sats behind at local businesses!

Onwards and upwards! 🏔🚀

https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinchiavenna


Often the humor itself is punished while the egregious sins fly by.

But the change is in the air.


Everything isn't the same. TikTok might be a better variant than Twitter these days.
- at least you can read it without an account
- probably also doesn't require submitting your phone number (just email)


I see; thanks!


Why did the OT end right after the touchdown? There was still time to play. What are the rules in this situation?


Ztohoven inspiration?

https://www.wired.com/2007/06/czech-artists-s/


How many times has he been shopping in the store in this century?


There should be widget like this on all the internet streams. Zap.stream extension enabling you to discuss on top of any live stream or movie you're watching on any web platform.

I'd like to watch Superbowl in zap.stream (browser) mode anywhere, and be able to discuss with nostriches. Integrating live bets, DVMs for aggregating and evaluating the bets worldwide, ...

10x the sportsball experience.


Very cool!


I expect 3 BTC ads. Maybe Coinbase mixing in some crypto crap.

CashApp, Coinbase, ETFs must have had marketing teams seriously brainstorming the proposition.

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I was there once, some time ago for a prolonged weekend, similar weather. Since then I'm convinced it's a paradise there. Sometimes, I just don't know if I trust my science, but then I see post from someone else, always confirming my paradise hypothesis. The nature is stunning there.

Enjoy while there. 🦩


A sack of potatoes company will have a larger IPO in few years if we keep measuring it in dollars.


Some of the best nature I've seen.

Is it the case that the trails at the ridge top always above the clouds there; or you have to be lucky for the weather?


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


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Sounds like a good work on your part. Might seem small, but it (obviously) compounds.

I wonder if the gratitude of people you help also compounds with the growing utility of Bitcoin. I'm pretty sure it does. So from that perspective, the education around the adoption might be one of the most fulfilling acrivities one can commit to.

Low time preference karma accumulation.


I think what's sorely missing in the US debates is a viewpoint from Eastern Europe.

If you portray the whole thing as US vs Russia, it's pretty easy to oppose the US foreign policies. Money laundering for the sake of military industrial complex at all costs. Those guys don't care about people in Europe, nor Russia, nor in the US. Just about their contracts.

If you talk with the local people in the region (not just the puppet Zelensky), you'd actually for once hear some new perspective.


There's some older related pods. Might be interesting to check out for how the argument evolves.

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CashApp x Taylor Swift?

- one weekend to reverse sluggish revenue numbers for the whole year


You're getting pampered out there!


Is Blackrock pumping their Bitcoin #Superbowl Ad?

Easy slam dunk if you're an ETF. Gonna be some of the best and the most easily quantifiable Superbowl marketing wins in the history.

Nice oppprtunity for Robinhood, CashApp with 24/7 trading. Just 2 clicks to "join the game".

I only wonder if it's gonna be over/under 3 Bitcoin ads.


📂 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗶𝗽𝘀

Don't trust cloud providers period. If you are still using Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive or Apple iCloud, you NGMI. They can scan and see all your files. Even after deleting, they retain copies for god knows how long. You'll just be introducing more potential risks pointed right at your rectum.

Self-host your own private cloud or, at the very least, use an trustworthy open-source privacy-focused provider that has end-to-end encryption. Take it a step further by adding a second layer of encryptiong using Cryptomator or VeraCrypt containers before uploading anything important.

#privacy #cybersecurity #opsec


To be fair, there's been strong Green pqrty and EU lobby to do so. And still is. No?


Time for the last, but certainly not least Culture Shock Lineup Announcement.

We will proudly welcome nostr:npub16dhgpql60vmd4mnydjut87vla23a38j689jssaqlqqlzrtqtd0kqex0nkq to the stage February 17th.

Calvadev is the Co-Founder of Shopstr, a Nostr based marketplace.

We thank you for the dedication to the community and look forward to making Nostr history in Phoenix!
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/d5d0f9dfa19647f19fa7a4235ef9143d295dce87d7a037c10a3a90abf7136987.webp


WeFree instead of the WeChat.


Can't even afford a little gold and silver 🤷♂


Controlled economic migration is fine as long as it keeps finding the jobs there.

It turns into disaster when you mix it up with social welfare, dei culture, other curtailment of meritocracy, drop any entry limits, ..., and despite seeing that certain groups of migrants aren't finding the jobs, you keep funnelling it in.

Maybe the root cause behind historic populations dying out needs to be looked at and treated instead of just patching it over, and fixing the symptom represented by overall population volumes.


Finally breaking ground on a long promised greenhouse for my wife.
God bless laser levels to get these things laid out!
Will include a bonus pic of the rebar cutting station 😁
#greenhouse #homesteading #grownostr #diy https://image.nostr.build/46dd97943396400919a417047fa235de945757bd58f9d4084c9720aab46be170.jpg https://image.nostr.build/479bedc2bd1e28734fa3b52cfdcc53e98910541011eb55dfe311df74db6a0e55.jpg


🔥💜 enjoy the learnings and fun


I don't expect all people to grasp how to use nostr and what are its benefits upon the first download of a client 🤷♂

You might be very well right with your take, but give him time, time will tell.

I'm glad for anyone to dip in, no matter how deep or how fast.


Empty chairs would rule the country if this would be a real democracy, and they would get the ballot access everywhere.


I've been interviewing for some #product jobs, and got myself to think about the parallels between good product managers & economists vs the bad PMs & economists.

Good ones:

- enjoy and value discovering the truths no matter what it says
- obsessed with the Why and the Unseen
- respect the user (individual)
- observing over action
- long term view
- value profit
- minimalism
- realism
- humble
- Bitcoin

Bad ones:

- enjoy finding the evidence for their preferred solutions
- obsessed with the What and the Seen
- respect the aggregate metrics
- action over observing
- short term view
- value growth
- bloat
- metaverse
- egotists
- shitcoins


Often, the most dangerous to themselves.


The most dangerous are the people who want to protect you from accessing the biased information.


Cutting out the shackles and Stockholm syndromes.


I don't get you for one who's enjoying the Bitcoin doomerism around the economy and culture (with some optimism hidden in the long run).

But if you would, then for sure bookmark his last year's podcast with Marty Bent. Arguably, the best podcast of the year by some of the people in this group. It's pretty fascinating, but not for everyone.

Balaji is pretty bright, eloquent, and can articulate well his thesis around the defragmentation of the centralized institutions and rise of the freedom oriented Network States.

He's for sure not a Bitcoin purist. Having more utilitarian approach about using the best tool for whatever job at hand. Which in the past resulted into him building the digital casino ecosystems mostly just for the sake of making money for himself 😬.

https://tftc.io/425-the-fiat-crisis-with-balaji/


Lol, amazing collection 💜


Looking forward for your content here


Trust the Fed, end up dead.


Taking a mile, giving back an inch.


Very nice!


"Apple’s new policy is not only blatantly non-compliant, it’s actively contemptuous of the law, showing complete disregard for democracy. "

I find this beautiful. A very interesting way to go back to their punk roots.

EU is anti private property, I'm watching it with🍿.

Go Apple!

It does not mean I adore Apple or their policies. On the contrary: https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2023/08/01/goodbye-app-lets-move-from-the-centralized-stores/

(Written on GrapheneOS)

Original article I quoted: https://proton.me/blog/apple-dma-compliance-plan-trap


Wow, I didn't know it's so nice out there!
Lord, forgive me my ignorance 🙏


Great fairy tale about how software ate the world.

"The source report says this sizable army of connected dental cleansing tools was used in a DDoS attack on a Swiss company’s website.

The firm’s site collapsed under the strain of the attack, reportedly resulting in the loss of millions of Euros of business."

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Gonna become  very famous Bitcoin art piece one day. Save it well.


Both can be true at once.


There's plenty of people who believe Bitcoin is better money and who use it (often). Yet, they keep emergency/operational liquidity in fiat.

It's a well tageted lightbulb for them.

I agree the writing could be honed in, and more succinct.


Matrix timeline intensifies


The state doesn't create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.


//another
Thriller 🟠 drop

Bitcoin talk with Jimmy Song

Car talks with nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42, a renowned Bitcoin dev, educator, and entrepreneur. They discuss the ethical dimensions of the monetary system, scaling bitcoin, venture capital and building sustainable, debt-free businesses.

🪂 topics discussed:

• capital factory
• 2021
• rite of passage
• og
• thank god
• education
• 2017
• devs
• programming
• books
• o'reilly
• sprints
• on writing
• l2
• scaling
• necessity
• synergy
• custodians
• incentives
• vc's
• manage money
• invest
• startups
• talking investments
• builders
• lp's
• scaling debt
• dividends
• alienating startups
• nic carter
• kingmakers
• two exits
• group think
• allocation
• deal flow
• merit
• building from savings
• product market fit
• ephesians
• generational continuity
• jimmy's suds
• debt free

//Thriller ep

📀zap via fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/6Na2tAjoNr9lZxpPAH25

📀rss via transistor:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/a2fb0185

📀subscribe to the zine:
https://www.thrillerbitcoin.com/thriller-zine

📰 THRILLER ZINE – 04 FEBRUARY 2024 – PUB VIEW →
https://www.thrillerbitcoin.com/bitcoin-talk-with-jimmy-song/

⚡Follow the conversation for the ep on Stacker News.
https://stacker.news/items/412210/r/Car


That must be some BS out of context drama footage. There's thousands of miles of border with nothing but few cactuses on guard.

Why would anyone even get close to these barbed containers? They are visible from miles away.


If only they wrote about usury in really old books


#nostr #bitcoin #asknostr #grownostr #plebchain help a brother out

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Loving it!


Eric Hughes used it in the Cypherpunk Manifesto. That's why use it at the end of my blogs.

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/cypherpunk-manifesto/


GM, enjoy the weekend y'all!


Honestly, if you can work online, living somewhere with better weather and closer to nature brings so much joy: more peaceful, better quality of life, and great value for money - sounds like an easy math to me.

Okay, one of the downsides that I found is that most young are too busy hustling in big cities, so you might be mostly around elderly people, but that also means more skills to learn - good to stack those that are going extinct, even simple things like cooking, cleaning, or even making things with your own bare hand, because most people might be even relying on shitGPT to know how to fried eggs one day.


Balaji's metaphor about the West transcending itself into a Soviet Union 2.0 is becoming hard to argue against.


I'm having a really hard time justifying not getting it 😬


I'll raise you this gem.

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#farmstr 🔥🔥🔥

I looked into it. Guess what?!

- There's a lady in Nashville who launched a Farmstr company a decade ago.

In mission of empowering the local self sovereign commerce. Open to sustainable ag farmers only.

Now she's pivoted to a new company, Barn2Door, which is essentially following the same mission. Vertically integrated e-commerce & PoS for small farmers.

I'm trying to Orange&Purple pill her, but maybe #Nashville crew can help here.

Integrating LN payments, and (nostr) storefronts aggregator should be pretty doable with the infrastructure they already have. Cheap gain for the market growth. Mission alignment pretty close.

PS. I'm just still little blind of any feedback from the farmers about the company, their services, fiat vs sound ethos.

cc: nostr:npub1s54cshfy6sgp7gajt97zpgdgxjcpumzwgu3x5zmhqa05krfxqrtsdl74y9 , nostr:npub1jzuma368395gu523y4vk4d34p0lxgctk436hggn4qcuj93075qgqtn3vm0,


Is Elon appreciating the unconfiscability yet?


most definitely! some resources for your search 👇

Beef Initiative producer index: https://producers.beefinitiative.com/database

Eat Wild (click on your state):  https://www.eatwild.com/products/

And if all else fails, a large portion of ranchers are still on facebook


Spying onto what Americans use the electricity they paid for?

Unconstitutional as fuck, this is no China.


So much bulshit, love it!
💜🚀💜


Floppy disks are better store of value than any of the fiat currencies. Not just better than the Yen.

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*very much in contrast with what people assume.

People assume some for of universal governance is the most efficient, naturally emergent solution.

I'd argue that pretty much by the definition, even if it would ever be efficient, it can't stay efficient without being exposws to a free competition of the other governance models.


Here you go. A real world example, not just some theoretical model.

It's really well readable, and interesting (econ) article diving into the problem of peacekeeping on the frontier in the Wild West.

https://mises.org/library/not-so-wild-wild-west

It's very much in contrast in


Actually, it's the opposite for both of them...

Silos are always the dumbest.


It's not. But that doesn't mean we can't dig into the tradeoffs and discuss them normally.

Seth's work over the years has proven to me that he can be the one for reasonable nuanced takes.

The shouting is poor form on both sides.


Being permissionless and transparent is a great strength of Nostr. Not only do you know exactly what is public, but you can also use appropriate solutions according to your needs, like Tor or a VPN. Nothing is really stopping you, and that's very powerful.

I must say it's a pleasure to have people like nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g here. We need good awareness around privacy in every cyberspace, and Seth has done a great job in this area. We can definitely learn a lot.


nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m when funding open source devs ? 🤨


Fwiw, I'm pretty disappointed by the path this 'discussion' took.

Leave the hyperbole shouting and groupthink to the Twitter. Nostr is for benefit of the doubt and nuance (at least I hoped).

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I'm lost here. Leave CZ out.

My point is, it's extremely convenient for the state to project some terrorist threat and labels onto anyone at any point whenever it's convenient for them.


(fear) spreading like covid 🤷♂


Middle of the sea, huh?

I think I see what your purple paws did here.


Habla


I think this tweet by Hal was just as important as running Bitcoin.  We need easier privacy in Bitcoin. God Bless those who have built out privacy tools and those currently working on it.
https://image.nostr.build/ff1d8d022e3d82ed11f0b9ba80eda3a2cf7d9598d16cc4ae78da2075e29fe452.png


CZ already too?! 🤯


Simple design constraint in the retrospective


Nice!


My kinda bar

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What is the Satsback Experience?


Exactly my thought since he brought it up 💁♂


Primal? Mutiny? Zach projects?

I'd say there's clear shift towards UX first at least here and there.


Good morning ☀ Gratitude 🙏

Today is going to be an amazing day! https://image.nostr.build/07c8cb4f2be1ee5aa9080d42df2a919e849139eb6cc52595c8a3bf1fcfd7c2a7.jpg


Morning, Jay 💪


Dang, you got me drop to the floor, sir 🤷♂


GM. Earn your luck today! 🦩


When Jocko mode?


The good problems to have ;-) 🚀


Why shipping so many changes at once?

Sounds risky, no?


Iran is Hamas.

Hamas is spreading faster than covid.

Military complex needed the injections too.


Will the flows ever beat the first two days, though?

Probably not in the btc terms.

IMO, not in dollar terms either in the foreseeable horizon. Even if everyone targets the Superbowl week with the ad money and PR buzz, it is impossible to match the hype of the approval days.


Their search UI and search relevance are horrid as well. Account restrictions if you use alternative email providers as a cherry on top.

Low competition bar for Flockstr as long as the core functionality works, with good UX.
Cc: nostr:npub1zach44xjpc4yyhx6pgse2cj2pf98838kja03dv2e8ly8lfr094vqvm5dy5


Day 1 of #100pushups challenge completed. 4 sets of 25. Not going to lie, the last few of the last three sets were incline.

If you’re not familiar; the challenge is to do 100 pushups per day until bitcoin crosses 100k. Spread them out, use your knees, just get them done.

💪📈🚀🌖


In 2021, they announced starting to accept Bitcoin via OpenNode and Lightning.

What happened since then? Just silently ghosted it out? Why?

It's hard to imagine a better product market fit for Bitcoin as a payment.

ButI haven't seen it anywhere on Substack lately. Was it just another bull market buzz that fizzled out as quickly as the bears showed up?

Massive L for Substack.

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Turns out the EU is making Apple offer alternative app stores and app side-loading. Which is a good thing. But Apple will still notarize (review?) apps shipped through these stores. Apps must be the same among stores. Devs of third-party stores that use Apple Pay will still pay a 30% fee per transaction. Apps that ship with different payment systems are still required to pay a 17% fee. After 1m annual installs, Apple will also charge $0.50 per install. As far as we know, there are no exceptions for open-source projects. All of these, of course, after paying for your Apple Developer account and only for the EU.

Apple is like: you can have your bigger pseudo-freedoms, we just want money. Lots of it.


Pura Vida, No Checks, Freedom.


"Overhaul common language usage"
- that might be the peak EU utility right here


Similar. I feel the burn out from the screens (duh).


In case you have heard about the #100pushups challenge yet. Jump in brah. nostr:note1uwmr6jzun2dnvlnqznfezzydsp603rz28mwykluf3mpapqmfhgks2zrd2m


Nice. There's no better motivation for learning than having a very tangible problem to solve.

Share the updates, I'll be curious to follow.


The GameStop movie (Dumb Money) is really good. Not a must watch, but when you get the opportunity, a good choice. 🤙


What's the problem?

I love problems!


Uncle Bob has the pioneer spirit.

🫡


Thanks, I appreciate this rundown!


Verifying my Nostr Nests identity: KxSHSq0TMyYgmHG8Xq_1cVTJIyxUgoirlqNKwdXwyqg
https://nostrnests.com


Midwits can't defeat the solid and simple left curve opinions.


I think those older guys are too conservative for that. Goldbugs and boomers.

But who knows, the younger ones should rejoice over the idea of private banking, zapping, p2p commerce. They were all over *using* Bitcoin in ~2012-2013.

And the libertarian ranks might be growing lately with the popularity of podcasts, Milei, Dave Smith, ..., Austrian Economics, ..


Elaborate more on the trust of the monetary policy aspect in xmr


Nice upgrade. Well done.


Time for a little refresher on the Economics of the national divorce from the Mises Institute.

Someone tag Jeff Deist and see if there's any update coming for 2024.

Part I: Jeff Deist, Ryan McMaken 07/15/2022
https://fountain.fm/episode/ZYt9tOEEhdimHnXHSe76

Part II: Jeff Deist, Tom Woods 02/24/2023
https://fountain.fm/episode/GAZnCGYVvZioU3x5166v


🤫 that's where we plan to overtake the world.


It will come, it will come.

https://video.nostr.build/c22691df48529e37cf23224de05d036d1b547664800b1d835abf0afa2a487fba.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=640x360&alt=Central+Bank+Lizard&blurhash=iCBpOr%5E%2B0000Mw%7EV%3FatQIo00Rj%3Fa_2x%5EIWE2IUjE_4M%7BM%7BV%40t6tRWUjENGRj-%3Bs8IUELNbxt%251t6RjIUxu%25Ms%3AR%2BRkWXR*&x=4790e146ef8eca4e6b43e611fb5575f1e2a5484c49b3b2861cd9f39b46783e69


Ecash will eat its lunch.

Similar use cases and tradeoffs, imo, but ecash has competition between the mints, and is btc stable (if not rugged). That makes it strictly better, imo.

Although, I'm probably missing a bunch. Would be curious about some more educated write ups about the tradeoffs.

Would Samourai implement xmr if the ecash would be more prevalent and tested?


IM DOING 100 PUSHUPS A DAY UNTIL $100k

YOU SHOULD TOO

UNLESS YOU CANT

THE TWITTER GROUP DID OVER 2500 PUSHUPS ON DAY ONE

WHO IS JOINING ME ON NOSTR? https://v.nostr.build/XqDl.mp4


GM nostr. Fuck yea, I'm in!


Remember that need for a Google Search for Nostr? Well, https://noogle.lol/

By nostr:npub1nxa4tywfz9nqp7z9zp7nr7d4nchhclsf58lcqt5y782rmf2hefjquaa6q8


After tracking my sleep for a year, I find it fascinating that I can drink coffee or an energy drink an hour or two before sleeping and it has a negligible effect upon my heart rate or sleeping patterns.

But if I have a single unit of alcohol, my heart rate remains elevated for most of the night and I tend not to make it all the way to the morning without waking up at some point.


Would men in the US army really obey such orders?


nostr:npub14kw5ygpl6fyqagh9cnrytyaqyacg46lzkq42vz7hk8txdk49kzxs04j7y0 Episode 45 is going sovereign…

nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s and I are excited to welcome back nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft

We will be discussing “shipping the future” with the Sovereign Engineering Cohort.

Set your Blockclocks for Tomorrow / Friday @ 5:30EST.
https://nostrnests.com/plebchainradio


Earned it


Immigration is just a negotiation play token for both of the sides. Always been.


Oh, Tetris! Fun one 🤙

It's cool to witness the ideas forming and its iterations out in public, when you put it out. That's one of the coolest thing about nostr


Sure; I'd focus thinking about it in general, not about Max.

- how good you have to become fully independent just with v4v?
- is being good enough? Or do you still have to intersection it with some specific audience demand?
- can v4v globally match/overcome the sponsorship revenues?
- how many creators will be able to live solely of v4v; and would they earn more/less than with sponsorships?

Myself, I'm thinking that v4v could serve as an anchor and a more direct feedback to the true interests of its audience. And as a complementing revenue stream independent of the sponsorship deals. But that it should not replace the ad money, rather complement it, and force the ad money to find the quality targeting better.


Unpopular, nevertheless, Interesting question to ponder.

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nostr:npub1jrx2fk666k5nt8vgak9xwyxlgcwh8fl9rvpwvvcpdthuqkcnptrqdfhtaq and I buy from Amos Miller and have been to his farm. What’s happening to him shouldn’t be happening to anyone.

#knowyourfarmer nostr:note1p8vhj2haljssyvpj0pkk03n58zeaw3gm7gv88v2pajue4tk460msvywg5e


better

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


This comes to mind.

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


Beautifully played.


Censorship definition is outdated.

- INABILITY TO OPT OUT OF THE THIRD PARTY CONTROLLED ALGORITHM/BROADCAST IS THE CENSORSHIP

Nostr's design is the solution built upon understanding of this newcensorship nuance.


It's a flywheel


Open Source is the secret of my success. Every great opportunity I've ever had was the result of Open Source. I skipped all the job interviews. I contributed patches and they hired me on the spot. I built open source and they found me. Without it, I would be just a regular man with precious ideas. Ideas aren't precious, no matter how good they are. Even the best creations aren't precious on their own. You could die an unknown Shakespeare. OPPORTUNITIES are precious. Open Source maximizes opportunities. People are resistant to it because they're afraid. Their heads are full of doubts, of tropes like "how will artists make money?" For that reason, brave people are able to benefit from Open Source while fearful people don't. If you want to be a successful software person and you're not already a millionaire, I would highly recommend building Open Source software.


Uzasna definice statu v jedne vete: "Podle ministra zemedelstvi Výborného ale nyní úředníci nemohou jednat jinak, protože možná kontrola ze strany evropských auditorů by zjišťovala, zda provedli tolik kontrol, kolik jich provést měli."

Ja se divim, ze se v zemi, ktera ma docela nedavnou zkusenost s kolektivizaci venkova,  vyvlastnovanim, nucenymi presuny, nejakej kontrolot vubec odvazi vyjet z mesta sepisovat si nejaky seznamy.


Q: What sound does a bear make?

A: Brrr


The power of indexing


RFK suicided his campaign when goimg all in on "unconditional support" to whatever Israel does or needs. That didn't go well with his otherwise anti war, anti military industrial complex stance.

Chickening out from discussing the topic anywhere in any depth since then has been glaringly obvious too.


I always thought the Bitcoin design has a very judo like inspiration.

Efficiently planting a single small defemsive obstacle into the money printer's path, and using its force against itself if it decides to attack (print). The harder they come, the harder they fall.

Learning Bitcoin is like learning judo. You don't have to use it, but the knowledge protects you when needed.


But I was thought that US abolished slavery and is fighting for the free world 🤡🌍


And if you also diversify across different federations / mints, the tradeoffs are pretty acceptable to me.

If Luke would save half of his coins in a federation, he would have a solid chance to still have at least that half under his name.


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…


If just 20% of their shareholders stay, they are better off than dumping their fees by 80% to match the market.

Switching costs might be too high for many more people.
- Some might have taxes due upon sale.
- For some, just the mental burden of having to research better variant and how to convert it is too much
- For some, the switching through their institutions might not be as instantenous as lightning, and they are afraid of missing out on the god candle
- Many just fall victim to the imperfect information. Not everyone knows GBTC is so much more expensive, etc
- And, I wonder if there isn't also some weird collateral obligations in the whole Barry's scam, which might be preventing sale of some of the shares.


# A Declaration of Separation

## To The Governments & People of Earth:

We claim the right to exist, and we will defend it. We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We/merely wish to be left alone.

All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a long, long time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we could to avoid injury and we worked through the system to get the offenses to stop. That has now changed.

We no longer see any benefit in working through the world?s systems. At some point, working within a system becomes cowardly and immoral; for us, that point has arrived.

Regardless of the parties in power, their governments have continued to restrict, restrain and punish us. We hereby reject them all. We hereby withdraw from them all. We hold the ruling states of this world and all that appertains to them to be self-serving and opposed to humanity. We now withdraw our obedience and reclaim the right to strike back when struck. We will not initiate force, but we do reserve the right to answer it. We did not choose this ? it was forced upon us.

## To The Governments of Earth:

You are building cages for all that is human. In the name of protection, you have intruded into all areas of human life, far exceeding the reach of any Caesar. You claim ultimate control of our property and our decisions, of our travels and even our identities. You claim ownership of humanity far beyond the dreams of any Emperor of any previous era.

Understand clearly: We reject your authority and we reject your legitimacy. We do not believe that you have any right to do the things you do. You have massive power, but no right to impose it upon us and no legitimacy. We have forsaken you. We are no longer your citizens or your subjects. Your systems are inherently anti-human, even if all their operators are not. We are not merely angry young people. We are fathers and mothers; aunts, uncles and grandparents; we are business owners and trusted employees; we are mechanics and engineers and farmers. We are nurses and accountants and students and executives.

We are on every continent.

This is not a burst of outrage; this is a sober declaration that we no longer accept unearned suffering as our role in life.

For long decades we sat quietly, hoping that things would turn around. We took no actions; we suffered along with everyone else. But after having our limits pushed back again and again, we have given up on your systems. If our fellow inhabitants of this planet wish to accept your rule, they are free to do so.

We will not try to stop them. We, however, will no longer accept your constraints upon us.

From now on, when you hurt us, we will bite back. If you leave us alone we will leave you alone and you can continue to rule your subjects. We are happy to live quietly. But if you come after us, there will be consequences. You caused this because of your fetish for control and power. The chief men and women among you are pathologically driven to control everyone and everything that moves upon this planet. You have made yourselves the judge of every human activity. No god-king of the ancient world ever had the power that your systems do.

You have created a world where only the neutered are safe and where only outlaws are free.

## To The People of Earth:

We seek nothing from you. We do not want to rule you and we do not want to control you.

All we wish is to live on earth in peace. As always, we will be helpful neighbors and generous acquaintances. We will remain honest business partners and trustworthy employees. We will continue to be loving parents and respectful children.

We will not, however, be sacrificial animals. We reject the idea that others have a right to our lives and our property. We will not demand anything from you, and we will no longer acquiesce to any demands upon us. We have left that game. We reject all obligations to any person or organization beyond honesty, fair dealing and a respect for human life.

We will shortly explain what we believe, but we are not demanding that you agree with us. All we ask is that you do not try to stop us. Continue to play the game if you wish; we will not try to disrupt it. We have merely walked away from it.

We wish you peace.

## To Those Who Will Condemn Us:

We will ignore you.

We welcome and seek the verdict of a just God, before whom we are willing to expose our innermost thoughts. Are you similarly willing? We would stand openly before all mankind if it were not suicidal. Perhaps some day we will have to accept slaughter for our crime of independence, but not yet.

Your criticism and your malice are much deeper than mere disagreements of strategy or philosophy. You do not oppose our philosophy, you oppose our existence. Our presence in the world means that your precious ideals are false. Some of you would rather kill us than face the loss of your ideologies, just as those like you have either hated or killed every sufficiently independent human.

You present yourselves to the world as compassionate, tolerant and enlightened, but we know that your smooth words are costumes. Oh yes, we know you, servant of the state; don't forget, we were raised with you. We played with you in the schoolyard, we sat next to you in the classroom. Some of us studied at the same elite universities. We watched as you had your first tastes of power. We were the boys and girls standing next to you. Some of us were your first victims. We are not fooled by your carefully crafted public image.

## What We Believe

1: Many humans resent the responsibilities that are implied by consciousness. We accept those responsibilities and we embrace consciousness. Rather than letting things happen to us (avoiding consciousness), we accept consciousness and choose to act in our own interest. We do not seek the refuge of blaming others, neither do we take refuge in crowds. We are willing to act on our personal judgment, and we are willing to accept the consequences thereof.

2: We believe in negative rights for all: That all humans should be free to do whatever they wish, as long as they do not intrude upon others; that no man has a right to the life, liberty or property of another; that we oppose aggression, fraud and coercion.

3: We do not believe that our way of life, or any other, will make life perfect or trouble-free. We expect crime and disagreements and ugliness, and we are prepared to deal with them. We do not seek a strongman to step in and solve problems for us. We agree to see to them ourselves.

4: We believe in free and unhindered commerce. So long as exchanges are voluntary and honest, no other party has a right to intervene before, during or after.

5: We believe that all individuals should keep their agreements.

6: We believe that honestly obtained property is fully legitimate and absolute.

7: We believe that some humans are evil and that they must be faced and dealt with. We accept the fact that this is a difficult area of life.

8: We believe that humans can self-organize effectively. We expect them to cooperate. We reject impositions of hierarchy and organization.

9: We believe that all humans are to be held as equals in all matters regarding justice.

10: We believe that the more a man or woman cares about right and wrong, the more of a threat he or she is perceived to be by governments.

11: We believe that there are only two true classes of human beings: Those who wish to exercise power upon others either directly or through intermediaries and those who have no such desires.

12: Large organizations and centralization are inherently anti-human. They must rely upon rules rather than principles, treating humans within the organization as obedient tools.

## Our Plans:

(We are building our own society. We will supplement traditional tools with networking, cryptography, sound money, digital currency and anonymous messaging. Our society will not be centrally controlled. It will rely solely
on voluntary arrangements.

We welcome others to join us. We are looking for people who are independent creators of value, people who act more than talk, and people who do the right thing because it is the right thing.

We will develop our own methods of dealing with injustice, built on the principles of negative rights, restitution, integrity and equal justice. We do not forbid anyone from having one foot in each realm - ours and the old realm - although we demand that they do no damage to our realm. We are fully opposed to any use of our realm to facilitate crime in the old realm, such as the hiding of criminal proceeds.

We expect to be loudly condemned, libeled and slandered by the authorities of the old regime. We expect them to defend their power and their image of legitimacy with all means available to them. We expect that many gullible and servile people will believe these lies, at least at first. We will consider traps laid for us to be criminal offenses. Any who wish to join us are encouraged to distribute this declaration, to act in furtherance of our new society, to voluntarily excel in virtues and to communicate and cooperate with other members of the new society.

Free, unashamed men cannot be ruled.

# We are The Free and The Unashamed.


"Give me the normal one, thanks."


For those who still don’t know it: #nostr doesn’t protect your privacy by default ! You have to connect to different relays to communicate with most people using nostr, you’ll be exposing your IP address to every relay you connect to, directly associating your IP address to your digital identity on nostr.
Direct messages are encrypted BUT the metadata isn’t and to whom you talked to is a public information!


Introducing Nutband – a post fiat apocalypse Cashu client working over Reticulum

A demo of Reticulum, Cashu and my project Nutband that combines them,  in order to use a Cashu mint over Reticulum mesh network – in this case  over long range radio, and without internet.

Finally made the demo video

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAX8GFn5uCI

Shownotes: https://hackyourself.io/2024/01/19/nutband-a-post-fiat-apocalypse-cashu-client-working-over-reticulum/

Project: https://github.com/jooray/nutband

Cc: nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg


Here's my drop-in replacement for ChatGPT w/ "vision" capabilities on an M2 Mac with 16GB or better.

	1. Orbstack (https://orbstack.dev) +
	2. Ollama (https://ollama.ai) +
	3. llava model (https://ollama.ai/library/llava) +
	4. ollama-webui (https://github.com/ollama-webui/ollama-webui)

Caveats: this does require a moderate degree of technical ability and comfort with the command line; ollama-webui doesn't yet support web browsing.

But with that, you've got a fast, friendly, private toolset for generative AI, including analyzing images, PDFs, and the like.


*to Flare


I re-published the best English audio version I found on Flare. (surprisingly great quality!)

https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqr5v3nywce4qagpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyzm7g5lklh4hnn9pmphm7rztyr47atgaa86svafzvwxs8n5l7z8gcqcyqqqgtwcnadpgv

nostr:note1tzlkrm53k7e6e3kp8wkjg22sfjegw0f2dyyyp9rkdmuspvp970cqx0t32f


Javier Milei special address at WEF in Davos - 01/17/2024.

Best quality for English speaking audience, keeping his own voice (AI translated with HeyGen).

Brilliant defense of libertarian capitalism against the socialism.

Javier Milei WEF 2024 - AI translated to English (best quality, his own voice)

This is a video event and can be viewed at https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqr5v3nywce4qagzyzm7g5lklh4hnn9pmphm7rztyr47atgaa86svafzvwxs8n5l7z8gcqcyqqqgtwc6364j6


Guy Swann casting as David Attenborough


Not a thing in the bear.


Libertarians - maybe.

Bitcoiners - there's something about being too good to be true about him, and that rightfully tickles one's senses.


I listened to Milei's WEF speech while cooking, trying to exercise my skepticism muscles, and Spanish.

Pretty solid speech, defending private property, freedom, capitalism and bashing all socialism, regulators, bureaucrats, social justice altruists, ... with clear arguments based of the case study of Argentina coming to ruin, and West coming down the same path.

Check out the conclusion at 21:30:
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- I would like to leave message to all the entrepreneurs here, and around the world:

- Do not be intimidated either by the political class, or by parasites who live off the state.

- Do not surrender to political class that only wants to stay in power and retain its privileges.

- You are social benefactors, you are heroes, you are the creators of the most extraordinary period we've seen. Let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral. If you make money, it's because you offer better product at better price. Thereby contributing to general wellbeing.

- Do not surrender to the advance of the state. The state is not the solution, the state is the problem in itself.

- You are the true protagonist of this story, and rest assure. That from today, Argentina is your staunch unconditional ally.

- Muchisima gracias y viva la libertad carajo!

==
I love what he says; actions take longer to come and bring effects, but I'll reserve to keep my hopes here.


Good point! I still need to flatten out the porch - ie, probably make some terraces there. I'll think about giving them some dual purpose.


Yup, they will kick our toys on the way out, but that doesn't change the fact that no one's gonna play with them anymore.

Liz & Jamie already talk like sore losers. Finkster's composure raises more concerns to me.


Been eying these for a while now. Probably gonna finally pull the trigger for a couple.

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So much grasping!

He's finally realizing that people are leaving his den of robbers and he's gonna be left alone there with no one to rob anymore.


Money for enemies and cunts. 🧡


Yea, that sounds like a classic Ivan to me.


The true scientific process


Sucks, sucks, sucks. But barely an obstacle for you.


She's totally an Epstein's kinda friend.


I like the donation model.

I hope the particular donation gets exposed to the end user in the order books, so that they themselves can apply competitive pressure on the coordinators, and control the donation x low fee tradeoff.


You can see what's working, and how, and can adjust and iterate. As long as you keep this winning attitude, it's gonna pay off. 💪


But why?

It costs money, and then you have to deal with all the logistics for at least few days.


Is there some government regulation in the US constraining the rental markets from providing more furnished apartments?

Or is it just the consequence of US being on top of the fiat horse?

People move so often here, and each move is an encouragement for spending on big moving logistics and replacing perfectly good furniture with new one purchased on a credit card.

Maybe it's caused by the rental ownership being centralized in the big leasing developers...

For sure, seems like a high preference waste.


I understand what you're saying. I know the government doesn't really use my tax dollars for these things - they print whatever thet need.

This is more about peace of mind. Seeing the fruits of my labor stolen is harmful to my soul. I feel infinitely better not earning income and focusing on bettering myself. It's had an incredibly positive impact on me, my wife, and my family.

I'm a better human being today because of this way of living, but I understand it's not for everyone.


A woocommerce plug-in for Block Height based auctions.

Auctions based on Block Height are fun. No one can bid at the last second as absolutely no one knows when the last second will be.


Google, and Amazon announced some too this week. 2024 starts the same as the last year.

 💣💣

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It's amazing to think how people ever agreed on the Bitcoin logo.


Really funny, love it!


We're having a #nostr logo contest? Here's my submission though I don't remember who made it 😉
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#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/9bccf92b411e8c43bd95666f75cdddf9886b1320a787b3af00bce990189cad0d.jpg


Beautiful! Lots of important learnings on day 1.


It's like stopping the theft.


I AM CALLING FOR ALL BITCOINERS WITH BALLS, FOR MASS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE OF 2024 AND ONGOING !

Today I have 4 entire years of TOTAL civil disobedience and more than 8 years of not paying any taxes to thieves !

If I was able to do it, you can do it too!

Oh, you don't know what is "civil disobedience" ?
Here is a TLDR:
- do not comply with any request from a government. I mean ANYTHING. Just ignore what they say.
- do not pay any taxes. Simply reply to their requests with a letter of conditional acceptance. If you don't know what is conditional acceptance, read and learn.
- do not go to vote any politician. FUCK'EM'ALL
- if you work for a public institution (people's money): quit that job and start doing a private contracting. Accept, ONLY Bitcoin as form of payment. Demand to be paid in Bitcoin !
- withdraw all your money from any bank and convert them to Bitcoin. Don't be a pussy DCAing...
- use only Bitcoin. Who still have fiat money and bank account open is a fucking pussy slave.
- buy only from merchants that accept Bitcoin.
- create around you that Bitcoin circular economy

IT'S ABOUT SENDING A MESSAGE AND NOT ABOUT GETTING RICH...

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https://i.postimg.cc/cLvhR9RZ/darth-freedom.jpg


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There's lots of Bitcoin ETFs, but they are not all alike.

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


The ETF Trojan horse brought the meme war to their Wall St offices.


Some still don't get it.

Maybe we could offer a helping hand in making it more obvious to them.

A little nudge unit at Larry office tomorrow 8AM.

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EVERY PROFITABLE BITCOIN BUSINESS SHOULD SUPPORT THE OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTORS THAT MAKE THIS MOVEMENT POSSIBLE.


I would take me one of those pods on the wheels any day. (Assuming it's not locking me in and surveiling me)


This is the right fee competition; we should FOMO them all into this.


Hal


I think that's true in the long run;

Short-mid term, I think they would be as corruptible by Vitaliks, Raouls or BlockFis as people were in 2017.

There's some open source knowledge and education compounded in the public space, but people are still asking me what is the crypto with most pumpamentals now.


The proponent and destroyer of DEI gets offended by a factual argument about energy usage.

I guess he likes the centralized ESG *Governance*, and is just opposed to the cultural marxist flavors of the DEI.

He's not opposed to centralized governance. - it's actually so obvious when you think about his positions a bit.

He needs to loosen up the desire the control, and drop his ego to understand the benefits of Bitcoin.


Not true. If they don't understand, then they will conflate the idea of hard money with something just pretending to be hard money.


It's waste of the time to listen to him. I have to go run 💁♂


I'm not saying I would be better (probably would). But I'm not the richest man on the earth.


All the floors in the Bitcoin Park are getting wiped with his sorry ass today. 😅

No even intentionally, he's just embarrassing himself there.


The richest man on the earth is so poor in his understanding of the money.

Feature or a bug?

#elon


*Union won't make it. Europe survived worse.


Or just a high proportion of viewers per audience. Regardless of the size effect.


From other point of view, given what I assume about their incentives, I very much prefer them being incompetent than otherwise. 😅


Don't give Larry a cent.


BREAKING: Sources say Blackrock is the worst ETF.

Not enough people talk about it yet.


Fair, but just 2 weeks? 👀👀


Look up RBF for the rescue


True. I was about to start questionimg your humility. But you earned your pass like no one. 👏


I can totally see Elon being the hacker and doing it for the memes.

"The most entertaining explanation is the most likely"


The governments and regulators are so tiresome. Losing legitimacy with broader and broader population every day.

With this speed, we get to the mass disobedience stage of their psyops by the end of the year.


Looking forward


The real pump.

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Most pale so badly in comparison. Worse than midwit takes (Buffet, Munger, Gates, Musk, Cuban).

It is probably the combination of unique knowledge, skills, and incentives.


Aleady having a single nsec for everything is the most immediate problem (with the current tools and usage)


Lovely 💜


Little GameStop action.

Watch out for the rugs, though. Don't trust the rulers to not change the rules. (Even if they do, they are fucked in the long run)


I guess my argument is that there's gonna be nowhere near enough Bitcoin liquidity to go around for the ETFs to meet the demand. (At this price)

With $50k btc price, the miners revenue is ~100k coin per quarter now ~ $5Billion.

I think that some expected inflow estimates are in lower hundred $Bs in 2024.

To meet that, there would have to be many more sellers found and the price would have to adjust a lot.
- even then, I'm thinking that they will have really hard time to capture a super-dominant share of the coin.


Regardless of blocks, how will they fill the etfs? Who would be selling 🤷♂


Thank you.

I hope we get it soon. Clearly there's some demand.


I would never bet against the Basecamp guys in a PR battle. (With the exception of their older Bitcoin takes)

Apple already lost it in the first inning without even knowing.

I wonder if DHH started stacking this bear.


Story for generations. Don't you dare to waste it.


No worries, take good care of those sats, they are yours.

As I was reading it, it seemed like linking debit cards helps just for smoothing out the btc purchases. The other way around would be really helpful in getting on 0.


Bullish


Life hack - Celebrating what each of your friends do exceptionally well/better than you, versus thinking/talking about what they do wrong….will greatly improve your relationships and ability to learn from the best.


Wait "back to fiat" with the linked card?

ie having some hot wallet balance in btc on strike with a linked card, and being able to pay USD bills with it in your daily life?

afaik, that's not possible yet; or am I incorrect?


been living on sats for a little bit now. it's incredible.

bitcoin is the best expression of fiat debasement. why doesnt everyone do this?

if we build a good enough experience to enable living on bitcoin, can we spark a Boston Tea Party type movement?


Everyone talking about not drinking for a month.

I’m telling you, give up “the news” however you consume it - for four weeks and you will see as big a difference.


Makes sense, they already have lot of coin. It's more expensive to acquire new customer than to retain a new one. Universal rule, even here.


I've been once. Camping through the mountains, enjoying the sun above the clouds. The nature is breathtaking there.

How is it with the taxation there, and independence on whatever nonsense the mainland government (Brussels) might come up with?


Oh, that's awesome! Respect for the local guys fostering it so well there. 🤝


Country official should get first naked in front of everyone before speaking again on the topic.


Clear pattern by now.

It's gonna be so ludicrous in few years to think that every single app was making you to re-create all your contact lists and "friends".

Or that people stuck with the shitty apps around, even if they never use them, just because that's where their friends connections were stored.


I'm curious to hear how spread out is the adoption amongst the general commerce there. But 3 separate cafe places for rather small town, that's already pushing way above the most.


Good to learn the lessons young.


Anyone use generative AI inputting images, schematics, and constraints (e.g. area, floors, bedrooms etc) which outputs a house design?


Bitcoin or not, I owe it to my grandpa anyway.


For me, this is the purpose. https://video.nostr.build/ee971e0be8b2a290f6fd479d79a66588c60adedbecb692fa01271ec25caa629a.mp4


End The Fucking bubble


Usually, that's the case. But not always, especially not in software.

Many cases where people rather jump into intellectually stimulating world-changing problems (Bitcoin scaling) than picking up something simple, the ordinary shovel work (maybe a simple website listing business accepting BTC in your area).

These sort of 'small' problems.


What are some obvious and easy things to build on Bitcoin that we don't have yet?


More interesting - tell us what you working on for 2024, nostr:npub1m7r9aayrqjtt2q0whkyrwlys75s5d828c5uewvqwyfd2kxefkfjqgeny2w?


Assange always makes me think about the fact lies are so much easier than truths.


It could end up being a tail wagging the dog.

Did Vaneck make the move because of their generosity, or did they calculate that it might bring them more  net inflows?

They are bowing to the Bitcoin here. It's in our power to make the others bow as well, if we speak the message.

- ie telling everyone that cash redemptions are the worst; Blackrocks are the evil vampires, that Jamie Morgan custody smells like bunch of pedos, or that whoever doesn't give a cut of their fees back to Bitcoin is not allowed to play our game.


The insider trading opportunity around the ETFs must be so tempting.

The state worked so hard to create this opportunity for themselves. It would be a waste to not partake.


Nice work, Rev!

The setup reminds me of the old Czech kitchen stoves (Austria, Bavaria had the same ones - kachelofen).

They usually build a stove top over the fire for cooking & tile up the rest. And mainly, build a day bed of sort and benches around the ducts. It's famously a very popular lazy spot in the house in the winters - warm, and easy access to the stove top goulash/stew :-)

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Why has been media loading so slow (or never) on Amethyst lately? Including most of the profile avatars. 🤔


Didn't seem like he learned anything.


No one has been asking where's the uncle Joe in all this.


How often are you withdrawing the money? Maybe you get more privacy at reasonable UX convenience loss if you just manually provide a single new withdrawal address each time making the withdrawal?


KYC newsletter lol.


I struggled to find a company sponsor for my upcoming video, because my content is a bit too “maxi” or “bitcoin-only”.

I’ll make money elsewhere I guess.

Either way, I hope you guys like it 😃

I will publish tomorrow evening.

I promise it’ll make you smile and maybe laugh a bit!


A few months ago I wrote this on twitter.

Figured I would bring it back here.

Bull runs tend to make everyone feel like a trading genius so you might be inclined to trade shitcoins.

Here we go 👇

If you're trading shitcoins to make more bitcoin, here are a few things to reflect on you might have overlooked:

If you currently own bitcoin you already have "enough" bitcoin; whatever trading you do for 99.9% of people won't make a difference. Of course, you think you are the .01% because that's human psyche, and casinos would not exist if this weren't the case, so you can probably stop reading.

Trading shitcoins is WORSE than any other kind of trading/gambling: if you subscribe to the idea that bitcoin is a technology for freedom, your trading shitcoins (i.e. giving them liquidity) provides oxygen to the most successful attack (to date) against bitcoin: generating confusion about what it is, and making people believe it's yet another speculative/trading vehicle. If you know this, then you, willingly or not, are participating in exploiting financial and freedom illiteracy.

We are where we put our attention; is your attention on something worthwhile, or is it focused on trading? Even if you just use X% of your attention, are you happy paying a (X%+context-switching-costs) tax to delay the world you want to see just because you want a slightly better position in a hyperbitcoinized world?

Your attention and time are WAY scarcer than bitcoin; are you protecting/respecting these as you do your cold storage?

You probably don't agree with this; otherwise, you wouldn't be trading shitcoins, but I'm writing this on the off-chance that you haven't considered this before and you were just too focused on the "I want more bitcoin" ambition.

TL;DR:

* You are wasting your life-force/energy on something that doesn't improve anyone's life, including your own.
* You are financially supporting scammers creating chaos.
* You are helping delay a tectonic shift in the amount of individual freedom.


I'm surprised clients don't translate these automatically to nitter links yet.


I got a sweet spot for polka.