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?


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

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


Good morning! Thanks for all you're doing.


Indeed Lyn..
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Inflation is a cancer that has killed civilizations throughout history. #Bitcoin  is the cure." https://image.nostr.build/6290e53a1bccd2bca5cc70bbc85be8e807c7c6d6ef524fcc17ec76b85cb3a251.jpg


uuuhhhh....
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It's horrible to realize that we are old enough to remember a time when Bitcoin didn't exist. It's great to know that I now talk with humans who didn't exist before Bitcoin.


🫧

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KYC is one of my deepest regrets.


I think inertia is leading us toward a quantified state, in which the costs of tracking and categorizing objects — primarily people, phones, cars, and money — as they move from place to place becomes so low that most institutions are doing it by reflex, without either considering or caring for consequences. Eventually, somebody is going to exploit the gap in information (between what is available to ordinary people, and what is available  to organizations) in a way that causes enormous, historic harm, as happened in WWII when a particular state realized that IBM had compiled a database that was perfect for populating a list of names of those who would soon be marched off to camps. And that was just census data. Now they know what you read, where you go, who you're with, and how you'll vote.

The unfortunate reality of contemporary political thought is that consequences do not exist until they are felt. Rare is the chicken that fears the farmer. That means we've got two options: we either wait for the pain, or we stop waiting for political consensus.

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I think the only event that isn't taxable on my end is donations. Essentially, any event in which I don't receive value in return for the Bitcoin.

I'd abolish the IRS if I had my way, and maybe Bitcoin will help achieved that some day. For now, I have to pay the racket.


I've seen it, but the biggest issue I'm working to solve is the tax implications in the US. The whole FIFO thing and keeping track has been tough. Looking for software to address the issue. Also the problem (a good one to have) of having a lot of extra fiat from my job. Beyond ideology, it makes little sense to not just use it first and then put the extra into Bitcoin. Fees are high at that.


Lol true, but I'd again counter that pleasure can be irrational. I agree with you, I just think that value often exists outside of rationality and reality (in the sense that people may not realize it yet). So in that sense, USD still does have value, even if the value is based on ignorance, theft, and violence. To us, it has no value. I'd love totally on Bitcoin if it were feasible for me right now. Alas, I get closer every year because I'm choosing to.


Not necessarily the same, but this reminds me of how much joy I get from using my ThinkPad (even the newer one) vs a 'sleek' MacBook Air. It's bulkier, heavier, and has far less battery life, yet I genuinely enjoy it more. It doesn't treat me like a moron and respects that my needs aren't just what Apple tells me my needs are. I even run Fedora on it with ease. I've noticed that I like products that give me choice instead of spoonfeeding me whatever the manufacturer thinks I should have.


happy birthday bitcoin 🧡

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Psst

*Then why can you still buy Bitcoin with it?

It clearly does have some value if a state funded by it has the power to make such laws. For now.

Value can be irrational.


Twitter never had days as good as Nostr.

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Both, if the 10k sats happen to be worth $10k.


Nothing creates jobs and improves infrastructure quite like more convoluted tax codes and punishment for trade.

https://www.coincenter.org/new-crypto-tax-reporting-obligations-took-effect-on-new-years-day/

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I'm still going to try to recruit every single Bitcoiner. If you understand freedom money, then you understand freedom communication. It should just be that simple, because we cannot have the freedom to transact without the freedom to communicate. I won't stop until all Bitcoiners understand this.
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I think you're right. Nostr clicked for me as soon as I connected a lightning wallet and sent some sats for a post. I had an "everything will change" moment just like I did with Bitcoin.


Authoritarian countries hate other countries that use this one simple trick: Fuck off and let people be free to innovate.

The U.S. government is eating itself and Americans. We could just be free to build here. We are so vulnerable because we aren't free.


I'm super bullish on 2024.


Many DDoS attacks are using networks of zombie machines. That cost is distributed to the unsuspecting zombie victims. The cost to attackers is usually really low. There are people who sell their zombies for relatively low costs. It seems as though you're trying to make a 1:1 connection that isn't real.


The proponents for base layer change, in my experience, seem to want to reduce security and decentralization for speed. Cool. Go use one of the shitcoins that already do this. I'd rather we experiment on second layers and LEAVE BITCOIN THE FUCK ALONE. Seriously, we need to be more aggressive and tell people to fork off. It's getting ridiculous.


I think people are over estimating how much it matters. Institutions were always going to offer Bitcoin related products. They have to.


Sad to say there's several of me. I've learned and embraced it. I have no plans of hiding now. It freed me in some weird way. Obviously, I want this to end, but I'm also in a place where it's all or nothing now. Stack up and come take my stack. Freedom or grave.


Interestingly, I often forget to make the distinction now. I just think in sats until someone brings me back into the fiat pit 😭


True. I wish more FOSS projects would charge. Many would become better.


Good morning! I heard Robin Williams screaming good morning Nostr when I saw this.


Complaining and doom scrolling is a shitcoin. Resist and fight back.

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This is where I'm at. Complaining and doom scrolling is a shitcoin.


I'm not interested in workarounds anymore. People either need to fight back or have fun going back to the dark ages.


I'm talking about the every day person who uses FOSS technology and has no idea how to compile an OS from source. I understand that there are probably ways to slither around in the grass to avoid government over reach, but that's no way to live life and Europeans should resist this. This proposal isn't going to prevent the inevitable fallout. FOSS would essentially be killed in Europe from a Dev perspective. This doesn't just affect large companies.


Don’t sell your #bitcoin to Wall Street 🤝 https://image.nostr.build/7c8803c283756b92e45e60ab422d1a32e620c20895ea70d36c8602da89d236d9.jpg


I'm looking for the single most compelling piece of media for dragging the average person down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. This is a tough challenge. There's just so much. It's difficult to recall what engaged me early on.

I've spent hundreds (into the thousands now) of hours on this field of study. There are so many paths and specialities one can study after entering the rabbit hole, and my perspective has been limited by my own depth of study.

What are good entry points for the average person? I figure it has to be almost void of technical and political topics, but maybe I'm wrong.


Bitcoin does not and cannot exclude states. State adoption will likely benefit humanity in the long run. It doesn't exclude central banks either, but it will either eliminate them or fundamentally change them in ways I imagine can only be better than what they are now.


Exactly. I can't understand why so many people think this is a bad thing. Anyone can join the network, even people you don't like.

THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT.

I would be more worried if people were prevented from using Bitcoin.


I finally got my wallet connected and tested zapping 2 sats to @ODELL (don't worry, plenty more are coming - lol).

I can't explain the feeling I got when I watched the sats go from my donor wallet to a dude online almost instantly. No friction. No cutting a middleman in. I decide to cancel my X premium and give it to Nostr and Primal devs instead.

No more bullshit. Nostr is the future. Bitcoin is now. Everything will change.

I get it now. Fuck. Yes.


I think FOSS and open hardware would at least give people a chance of defending against stuff like this.


Sounds like a really good way to centralize software more than it already is. Imagine having to compile something like an OS to avoid Microsoft, etc. Alas, this is what the EU does with this stuff. All they really do is screw consumers in the long term and strengthen the market shares of the companies they claim to be fighting. They are the only ones that can afford all the regulations.


On a philosophical side not, requiring that a party prove they didn't do something is a bastardization of the concept of justice. The person suing should be the one to prove that they were damaged.


My closeness to the matter comes only from more than a decade in the FOSS space. Europe is on a fast track to brain drain in essentially every technical industry.


Some software makers do abuse the fault clauses, in the sense that they actually don't do their best to secure software, etc. This is more of an issue for paid, closed source software in my experience though. I don't see how you can have any expectations of FOSS, especially when it's free of charge. You paid nothing and had the right to inspect the source. Your inability should be your problem in that case.


Online political fights only serve the oppressors who live in the shadows. Besides, you're probably arguing with a bot anyway.

If I were a state psychopath, I'd deploy bots for both political sides and work on building my power while everyone is wasting their time fighting online.

I'd own politicians on both sides to fuel the fight and reinforce the natural human instinct to seek an outlet (where my social media bots will be patiently waiting to engage).

I'd flood media with distractions and propaganda. I'd create a feedback loop of distraction and fear; a cycle that manufactures despair.

Thankfully, I'm not a state psychopath. I'd rather we all focus on building and winning the fight that matters.

Cyberspace (media) will be where most people lose their freedom, but it's the one place where humans could become more free than ever before... If we focus and build the systems that work for us instead of oppressors.

#Bitcoin and #Nostr are a damn fine start.


Good morning! What a wonderful day to subvert the fiat monetary scam.


I'm highly technical, a Bitcoin maxi, and I understand Nostr. I come back every 3 months or so and it's still a nightmare to use, nevermind setup. I'll come back in 3 months. Primal is by far the best client I've used, but it's still awful to use.


Good morning! I've missed you on X. I'm glad there is finally a usable (for me) Nostr client (Primal).


Voluntary socialism. lol Yeah, good luck with that.