🤣
Those eyes.


Agreed. Sometimes 'Overthink' is a major obstacle to progress.

To paraphrase John o Donahue...
our inner selves need some mystery and shadow. they don't do well under the harsh spotlight.


love it. Trying to move away from being a table.

it reminds me of the phrasing Allen Farrington used in Wittgensteins money...
what would it seem like if it seemed like...


it's a crazy thought.
"Aaaaah. Silence." Said my brain never.


spotted relaxing on a Greek island...

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


Anger is also self defense.


my family and I have watched it more times than I can count.


All the older studio ghibli movies...
Howl's moving castle
spirited away
Nausicaa and the valley of the wind
etc.

They are rich and deep


GM
LFG


Hey Riddy.
Welcome (as if I'm part of the official red carpet squad for nostr).
Anyway, it might be the best that can be hoped-for from a decentralized organic system relying on the free consensual interplay of individuals to their networks..

Happy days.


Im happy for you to Donate them to Opensats or similar foundation. 👏


Beware the Is-ness of Being.

this is one of my favorite guides. when you hear your mind say..."This IS bad,  or good or terrible or wonderful,  be careful.  IS Fixes ones perception and stops it from responding to more detailed information.


would love to hear a "Choo Choo, motherf....s"🤣


Hey James
Come on in, the water's great


Power law Prediction

Seductive...
The siren song of certainty,
That we are finally
Masters of the future
And slayers of humility's constant work.

Turning and tweaking the knobs
Looking back with crystal clarity
The mind balking at the unanswerable question,
As we shine the imaginary glow of our final understanding
Into the farthest edges of a world whose masters are not yet born.


Love it hodl. Speaking truth to power's grave.


I'm speaking to some game rangers and conservationists soon. I'm needing some references to help explore some ways that bitcoin facilitates and improves this domain. I've got some ideas. love Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers work, need a few more pointers.
Gracias nostr.


I asked one of my readers for a review. Amazon won't let him post because he hasn't spent enough money. Tbh it really touched me and made it feel really worthwhile. I'm posting here first....

"Nell’s pacy, thoughtful romp imagines the disappearance of Satoshi Nakamoto (a pseudonym), the presumed philanthropist-genius developer of Bitcoin. Bitcoin – the tech which promises a marriage of innocence and money, a mode of lucre impervious to human stupidity. Nell’s instructive take on this ignorance is made real through his characters, some of whom will disrupt your habit of sleeping when it’s dark. Their crime in a nutshell: the co-option of money by evil. And Satoshi’s cash, seemingly immune to such co-option, has justifiably rattled men in suits. In counterpoint to his take-down of money, Nell riffs rarefied on Bitcoin as an attractor of goodness-writ-large, and perhaps even consciousness itself. The attractor draws the good guys too, and as they are elevated by Satoshi’s quiet authority and presence, they risk more-and-more to midwife the still-vulnerable technology. Nell’s take on the world’s ills, their rootedness in the corruptibility of money, and the power of tech to circumvent this flaw is a heady cocktail, as is his quirky turn of phrase. He weaves some big philosophy into the action, and some strong, relatable characters who find love, courage and clarity as Bitcoin motivates and moves their being. By the end you’ll think differently about the world, about money, and perhaps about Jiu-Jitsu and cryptography. And you’ll hope, hugely, that Satoshi is okay, wherever he may be."

The Nakamoto Consensus.


Roast macadamia nut pieces with a bit of olive oil and digestive yeast


Amazing. that's exactly what I've never wanted.  None of our dreams haven't been realized.


Nostr anthem

I am not grist for your mill.
I am not a cog to be turned.
I am not your second class masked down and cowed.

I am not the product of your empire fantasies.
I am not your eyeballs for hire.
I am not the mouth for your slick trash slush.
I am not your treadmill jogger.

I am not your drugged up, dumbed down and sanitized body.
I am not your arm to be jabbed.
I am not yours to command.

Don't count me in.
I'm opting out.


I'd be interested.


Welcome new Nostriches! Welcome to Nostr! Nostr has a large and passionate community with an equally diverse and thriving ecosystem. Use this note to help navigate this decentralized and censorship resistant communication protocol.
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Videos:

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Tear down your technical and social silos with myself and several Nostr developers https://youtu.be/SSFVR5ZXOuA

Podcasts:

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it feels like a little bit of an inflection point underway on nostr. interesting. Exciting as fuck


primal and snort


I'd wholeheartedly agree. My contribution is to fill in the silence before the question "Why Bitcoin?".

I've written what I'm calling Bitcoins adventure textbook. An action adventure novel to Trojan horse the orange pill into fertile minds.

nakamotoconsensus.io


Maybe the distorting gravity of fiat inheritance is lost of the degradation of character and value that occurs with a lot of inheritance situations.

I tend to feel that inherting sound money, along with a deep understanding of proof of work and other principles that make it sound... will allow my children to stay true to themselves and their deeper character .


"You don't change Bitcoin. Bitcoin changes you."

I have felt this firsthand, being pulled and pushed, bullied by Bitcoin. Stepping up. Speaking up. It's a small fractal of the hero's journey, playing out day by day.

Changing long held patterns and habits that dont really serve me...

What is the hero's journey if not holding yourself to the fire of your discomfort and growing from that?


Bitcoin offers a field of value and purpose acquisition that is
-individual
-emergent
-engaged
-enhanced.

Feel it for yourself...
The Nakamoto Consensu


GM

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


Grateful to have met Hermann and Luthando of Bitcoin Ekasi fame yesterday. Humbled and inspired.

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


Protest

A jumble of mismatched words stretched across a bony face.
Too tight and brittle,
Cracking to release the inner light
And inner flood...
Of heat and breath and gasp.

To grin again....
And grit against the grind
Of teeth and jaw and face and heart.

In rough revolt against the paltry sinners who would have us cowed and masked and meek and sorrowful.

Mourning, in unrecognized anguish,
The dear freedom and precious chance
That was so cheaply sold.

Given over to the mean and fearful gods of little and less...
Instead of all or nothing.

While in the reflections of our tear filled eyes,
The conflagration roars
And mankind's promise crisps to ash.

And what can we stack against
Such weighty sorrow?

Nothing more than the fleeting choices,
Freely made.
By one.
Then one more.
Then a flood...
Of men and women standing strong.
Or striding forth in equal and appropriate measure.

Nothing more than a growing army
Of wilful fools and willing jokers.
Who would laugh and dance and wrest the kernel from the fire.
Choosing meme and martyrdom over staid and rapacious normality.

Nothing more than a slowly waking hive mind swarm
Of realization and righteous anger.

Nothing more than a grass roots
Ground swell
Root fed
Upwelling of deep and dedicated believers.

The Hodl army.
Massed and massive....
To gainsay the soulless corrupting rot of decay gripping the world.


Feeling pensive tonight. maybe it's the wine. Maybe the in-between...in between two drives.


Btc blues

I got that perpetual open interest man.
I got that negative funding rate blues.
I got those bottomless market jitters;
That falling knife sweat.

I got those freak charting eyes, man.
And that red candle butterfly.
My hands are clammy from holding on....
I got that China ban glaze.
The ESG got me good.

I got that energy FUD man.
And a FED shock, rate hike expectation.
Gonna do me the only thing I can, man.
And grab me a can of  cool-as-shaved-ice HODL.


Yourself. And how you bring your unique self to add value to your world.


Hey nostr. Checkout my book on Amazon. Bitcoin's first adventure textbook. I'm looking for a few Bitcoin savvy folk to read and review. Please dm me and I can get a copy into your hands.

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


As a reformed lurker, it's sometimes hard to make that little click to interaction from consumption.

I am working against the patterns of a lifetime to interact more.

Bear with me.


True. level 1 smartness often leads to mean one-upmanship and petty superiority.

Deeply understanding something or someone invariably leads to compassion, nuance, and generosity of spirit.


These are some of the speculations that I explore in my book, The Nakamoto Consensus. Did they get him? Did he get away? Did someone help him? it's a Bitcoin adventure textbook, a Trojan horse orange pill.


I have just finished writing a book. It is Bitcoin's first adventure textbook, a Trojan horse orange pill to get the feel for the ideas in the rabbit hole.

it's  a thriller imagining the events around Satoshi's disappearance.

check it out on Amazon


agreed. but the people at a conference aren't bitcoin
Bitcoin is bigger
more important
purer


The problem with Trump became even more starkly apparent. He can't imagine anything being more important than him. can't or won't devote himself to Bitcoin so uses it for attention and votes.


GM


I have a confession...
I'm causing the Btc price drop.

I stopped doing my 100 pushups to 100k a few weeks ago.

Starting up again so expect more green in the chart.


Sovereign

The They that is Them,
that are those who were Us
And before that, We
Who stopped caring, maybe.
Who stopped feeling, maybe.
Who forgot that I exist in me,
This other side of the screen in front of your eyes.

And I occupy space.
I occupy a universe that is not yours or theirs to command.

I choose for me
How to live and who to love
And how to care for them on the other side of my eyes.
And what risks to take....and hold.
And when I take a risk,
I change a risk,
Knowing I am singular, discrete.
And not subject to stochastic rule.
The bell curve outlier...
To be the one in one thousand and one who dies.

A map is not the territory.
And a map of me is not the territory of me, the thoughts and idle sparks and more...
The body flow.
The rivers and woods and contours.
The weather of me.

And all this terrain of me
Wills into life, a voice that says...
"No thank you."

I honour my stars for direction not their charts.
I obey my fullness not their emptiness.
I consecrate my courage not their fear.
I sanctify my body not their politics.

I am mine own.
Not theirs to own.


So good. Homemade bread, with butter and cream cheese and a good apricot jam is hard to beat of a morning.


great job.  love the blind Hermes motif


Reformed lurker -breaking the hsbut


This was written in darker times...

Btc blues

I got that perpetual open interest man.
I got that megative funding rate blues.
I got those bottomless market jitters;
That falling knife sweat.

I got those freak charting eyes, man.
And that red candle butterfly.
My hands are clammy from holding on....
I got that China ban glaze.
The ESG got me good.

I got that energy FUD man.
And a FED shock, rate hike expectation.
Gonna do me the only thing I can, man.
And grab me a can of  cool-as-shaved-ice HODL.


I felt my way into this thing.
Underpinned by cavernous warehouses...
With humming fans and green unblinking eyes.
Electric dragons hoarding digital gold in metal caves.
And in pulses adding their million buzzing circuits to the hornets swarm.

I felt my way into this thing.
The dream fabric of an anonymous crypto shaman.
Ephemeral yet compelling,
Nowhere and yet everywhere.
And the echo of his drumbeat chanting still holds the rhythm,
The base note of the tribal heart.

Let's feel our way into this thing.
The final weight and measure of the human arc,
 The elliptic curve of complex spaces,
Holding flourishing,  centering.
A distributed conductor, giving preference to neither bow nor string.
So tone and pitch and key can marry in overarching transcendance.


I've been working on the art of writing poetry for the last 3 years. I managed to keep to a daily discipline of one poem a day until about 6 months ago. I'm going to start to post what I feel.is worthwhile. I'm hoping it kindles the discipline again. a lot of it is inspired by the meaning, potential and implications of Bitcoin.
I hope it strikes a chord now and then.


Enough

Breathe in and breathe out
Like a sob or a shout...
So we do what we can
To slake thirst in a drought.
And no...
It's not enough
It's not enough.

It's the rhythm we feel
That connects us to steel...
The rod in our spine
It's yours and it's mine,
When we do what we can
When it's life on the line.
And no...
It's not enough
It's not enough.

When we're crushed by the wheels
Of progress that steals
The food from our mouths
And the air from our lungs
Til gasping we raise
Our eyes to the Lord
And say...
It's enough
It's enough.


Soon going to launch the first multi-currency Cashu ecash wallet as a progressive web app. So stoked about this, here is an exclusive preview for you Nostr!

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


I'm not trading so well. Probably one of the best not-traders out there.


Day 2 of 100 till 100k.


Hey nostr. Trying out some newness. let me know if it hits.


Orange glow

The rush, the crush, the dash for cash to stash and
smash the walls and halls and malls of
old gold that's sold for less of the mess and more of the stress than before
while more and more score the mark of cain
the spark of pain that all told is so so cold.

Rather,
farther and farther out where air and care meet
in the breath of innocence...
we see the glee, the sigh, the sign that me and thee
might win and, skin aflame, another game is played
deeds are done and none are blamed ... all who ask can bask...
in the Orange glow.