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 How many of you keep an analog clock up in view, and actually read it? I just recently got mine w... 
 It is TIME for you to learn a new thing.

WWV is the callsign of a radio transmitter run by NIST that transmits an accurate time signal clocks with an appropriate receiver can use to keep themselves accurate.

Most clocks with this feature are sold as "atomic clocks" because WWV and the other radio time signals like WWVB and WWVH use the atomic clocks as their source of time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station) 
 Put in a cheeky degen long on lnmarkets.com wish my pure gamble luck, didn't even draw any lines 
 Wait for dip. 10x long. Trailing stop loss. Rinse repeat. 
 Hold funds in btc then place leveraged longs. Sat count gos up (if you place good trades) plus sat value in $ goes up. Like a rocket ship, just don't get rekt.

I seriously started with $20 and built my way up from there. 
 Wow, I haven't drank alcohol since Nov 14, 2014 
 Congrats. 
 So what kind of NFTs and Memecoins should I invest my life savings into?

Monkey and frogs are al... 
 10y treasuries are exactly like meme coins. They are both going to suddenly drop to 0 against all expectations of their holders who only buy them because they don't understand economics. 
 I just went looking for an old meme and found some bitcoin price memes I did back around $30k USD. 
 Where? 
 Not on usenet according to nzbgeek. 
 TY, I couldn't even find it on my usual trackers. Currently 1(5) seeds, I'll seed for others if I get it. 
 Please remember to be sad about the recent price action with bitcoin. Deflation is bad, as we were all told our entire lives. This is basically deflation, everything is cheaper if you save in bitcoin. 

If you know a bitcoiner who is struggling with the news please help them in any way you can. These are difficult times for all of us. 
 /s

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 The guy that made this meme (like actually took the picture) has been publicly enjoying the fact ... 
 Do we know if he has a copy of your latest book to fill the hole in his shelf? 
 Try not to get mad at me but

I've never seen blade runner  
 Don't waste your time. The book is great, the movie butchered the book so bad they had to change the title because the core point of the book isn't in the movie at all. 
 Still looking for a peer for my next LN channel. If you are a bitcoin business, it probably comes with a sale. Buying something from a channel partner is pretty badass in my book. 

#asknostr can anyone recommend or volunteer someone, do you need some inbound yourself?


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 I do, trying something a little different this time. 
 Why people are cheering up for a  surge in fiat price but not when a new merchant is accepting it... 
 Bitcoin is my way out of the mines. Fiat/sats ratio changes far faster than I can add sats. So fiat/sats ratio changes show best when I can achieve the next level of freedom. 
 PSA: You can't mine Bitcoin from asteroids

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 A few problems with that plan, network delays due to distance make it harder to find a block. Far more hassle with chip temp due to no air to transfer the heat into. You have to overcome launch costs. 
 You are amazing!  Honestly, I have no effing idea what you mean by “channel”…as we do not y... 
 Still looking for a peer for my next LN channel. If you are a bitcoin business, it probably comes with a sale. Buying something from a channel partner is pretty badass in my book. 

#asknostr can anyone recommend or volunteer someone, do you need some inbound yourself?


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 My wife still hasn't thanked me for the thousands of hours I committed towards education to learn... 
 Nothing gets paid off a day sooner than it has to anymore. 
 The crazy thing is, bitcoin beats fiat so bad that mathmatically not optimal decisions won't cripple you over time. 
 I have some sats waiting to be a lightning channel. Pitch me on who should get the inbound and why?  
 I see no other contenders. You want the channel? 
 Proton VPN is slow AF for torrents, especially compared to mullvad 

For everything else it's rea... 
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 I set up usenet based on this post. 2x torrent speed over proton vpn. Basically max out the VPN non stop. 
 Usenet addiction back in full swing. lmao.  
 There is a bit of a wall to get over to get started there and I never got over it. I can't tell if it would work for me. I already know how to torrent and the price is right. Why pay? 
 Looked for any epubs or audiobooks? Those give me more trouble than video on torrent. 
 Have you messed with any of the servarrs and giving them access to your provider to auto get and upgrade quality of things? 
 What client are you using? Are you using a search in the client to get around having an indexer? 
 Do you trust the SSL and logs or do you VPN everything? 
 The way I read it is this. If you trust the services aren't IP logging, the SSL isn't getting hacked by any TLAs. If you don't trust them VPN keeps them from doxxing your IP. 
 Nzbgeek, vipernews, and sabnzbd. Just completed my first ever usenet DL. Something I wanted but couldn't find on torrent too.

Thank you again for your help and answering questions. 
 Two hours until wires can clear US banks for the first time since November 8th. 

Price was way l... 
 That sort of thing will force people into self custody over time I hope. This run was so big you could have gone to most bitcoin ATMs and had more sats than waiting for the banks to open. 
 Maybe the reason people are buying bitcoin isn't because of the positive policies president elect... 
 People keep framing it as new all time highs, really it is a massive string of all time lows for the dollar in response to his election. 
 I may never financially recover from this. 
 Now is the time to stay humble. Bottom of the bear is usually around the previous ATH. So these numbers are fun, but don't do anything crazy that you'll regret if the price is back here in a couple of years.

Stay strong, it only gets harder from here. 
 LOL at people making fun of others because they themselves are stupid. This is because of allergy labeling. Milk is a top 5 allergen and must be declared on the label of any product that would trigger an allergic reaction, which includes butter.

Of course real butter contains milk, but is this real butter or one of the many fakes?

Of course this could be solved by a sticker instead of destroying the product, Government is pretty stupid too. 
 Wild how quick the dollar set this giant string of new all time lows in response to the election. It is going to really crash once the office changes hands in January. 
 What are the next meme price numbers to celebrate?

Next up is Moscow time going from PM to AM around $86k.

After that the next I can think of is $121k, where we go back to the future.

Anyone got any good meme numbers between there? 
 Once we hit 3 digits I personally plan to celebrate every palindrome and every binary number. 
 Some of you really thought the guy with 3 NFT lines and an entire shitcoin chain was a friend to bitcoiners. SMH.

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 Don't tell your friends to buy bitcoin, tell them to study it 
 I ask people what is holding them back from buying, then offer to gift them the book that answers that question and answer their questions about the book.

Very few takers. 
 Still owes the world video of him grilling and eating his own dick, so he better be alive. 
 Been playing around with FB ads because unfortunately I cannot shitpost on here and sell products... 
 Noted, any chance you'll be adding more strains?

I'm growing some pinks in a straw only bucket, will the blue oysters grow in that same environment or do they need wood? 
 LOL, someone doesn't know the real economics of the roaring 20s and how they led to the economic collapse of the 30s which got all the fascists and nazis elected starting WWII.

Or maybe they do, the owner of this account did get banned from twitter for posting nazi memes.

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 They cut interest rates on the US dollar again. The markets responded appropriately with the dollar hitting new all time lows against bitcoin, the S&P 500, and nasdaq.

It's amazing how much a little honest paraphrasing of the news really changes the story. 
 Don't forget 20% cap gains tax. Those are losing numbers once you add that variable. 
 People vote for strongmen because they feel insecure in the world around them and the strongman promised to use his strength to put the world right (meaning the insecure voter on top again)

They always fail to realize that a politician of any breed is deeply self interested. They would not stop to piss on you if were on fire. The only person on top when they win is the strongman themself. So of course the voter now feels more insecure in the world and votes for a stronger strongman next time. Then one day they don't get to vote any more. 
 Going to be unfollowing people celebrating the election today. Just in case you think I'm partisan, I'm also going to be unfollowing people who are mad their team lost the election today.

All of this makes your country and the world at large a worse place. 
 To those of you who voted in the US election... That was not sufficient participation to build a society. You will need to do other things to carry your part of having a functioning society we all want to live in. 
 So if I were inspired to order by the news, do you have a way to get me the software I need? 
 i just came back from the future...

lot of people upset about election results. ross is still be... 
 Some simps are going to read this as a prediction of who won and get mad. 
 Today is the 5th of November.

Your fun fact for the day is that Alan Moore has hated every adaptation of his books into movies. 

In the case of V for Vendetta, the reason is obvious for those who read the book and watched the movie. The book is a timeless story of individual liberty VS oppressive governments, it stands up every time you read it. The movie is very much about the existing US and UK governments at the time the movie was made. The movie felt dated as soon as the figureheads of both governments changed.

TLDR, you should read the V for Vendetta comic if you haven't. If you have, go read it again. The movie is not the same thing. 
 My read on Nietzsche was that one of his primary issues was Christianity is often viewed as a list of thou shalt nots. A blob on the couch meets that requirement.

By contrast think of stoicism, real stoicism not internet influencoor to lost boys stoicism. The entire philosophy is a set of virtues that you must strive to live up to. Inaction is failure.

There are a few passages where that model doesn't apply, but it is the primary model of instruction given.

As for christians vs what the bible says, if they all arrived at the same place that is surely a failing on the part of an allegedly all knowing beings ability to write a decent instruction manual. 
 He wrote 12 books of original philosophy we're talking about over 100 years later. You managed 1 word in your insult for every 3 books he wrote.

Go read The Man in the Arena and see if you can figure out why I don't value your opinion on the subject. 
 I agree that his critique of the church is incomplete. We've had another 100 years of the great conversation he didn't have when we point those missing things out. Standing on the shoulders of giants.

As an atheist, I'm currently most interested in the way christians and the church use god and the devil to absolve themselves of personal responsibility. The devil made me do it may be said in jest, but it is a real view that taints how they act in the world. Outside forces beyond their control can force them to act in ways they would not choose to. It is like living with the ultimate case of learned helplessness as your core belief of how the world works. 
 Very interested in taking responsibility for small things but not so much on the big hard things.

How will you provide for your family? Grow your skills and save or god will provide. To go back to stoicism, you can't really stop until you've done everything in your power to secure their future and still be living the stoic virtues.

That said, christianity includes lots of varied sects and geographic changes in personality, we may well be seeing different things. 
 At this point I'm calling the election with 100% certainty. The government has won and the people have lost. 
 The battle is not the war.