In other news: Blacksmith sentenced to 48 months jail; his knife was used to stab someone. This follows the incarceration of an automobile manufacturer, as one of his cars was used for a bank heist. https://image.nostr.build/e752e49812e7ca4fa733e1858dda24192deaf733ef261d7de26e120111f21fa6.jpg


GME and Roaring Kitty brought me to Bitcoin. That whole saga showed us how un-free and susceptible to manipulation the stock market is.


Yes


Is your computer a tool to liberate and protect you, or is it being used to control you?

If the latter, what can you to change the situation?


Peace out everyone 🤘


They're that big forreal


LOL


I got games, too


Push push push🫸


I LOVE THIS SONG


🫨🫨🫨 Skrillex, Hamdi, & Taichu - Push 🫨🫨🫨


Killers in the jungle🔪


Listen, do you hear that?


Whoaaa that transition


Yep


Fred..again


Lotta kids don't know


Four Tet is an OG


I was at Elements last year and his set ALMOST got cancelled, it was crazy


I love Skrillex's new music


I think measuring IQ by solving artificial riddles is not the right way of doing it. Whoever lives the happiest life is the winner, and therefore has the highest IQ.
Bitcoin is not so much a matter of solving riddles, but primarily about making the right moral choices, and only secondly math, economics, etc.. And making correct moral choices is one of the first prerequisites before anything else in achieving happiness. Solving riddles and everything else won't matter if moral choices are incorrect.
Those who abandon morality to any degree, fail to notice the important detail, fail to decide the right priorities in their lifes. Where is Intelligence Quotient in that? What is now called IQ should be renamed to RSS (riddle solving skill).
Those who have already understood bitcoin but don't have any savings yet, may have not earned them yet (young) or may have been robbed by the fiat system. Either way, they will accumulate their savings soon.
Those who have savings but don't understand bitcoin yet, don't deserve them, i.e. they are the ones who robbed the former ones. These two types will have to switch places eventually.


This is a lifelong ego check. Replace "ASIC miners" with anything
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Some videos already have comments blocked


Some thoughts:

1. People will only follow people they consider more successful than themselves. If I’ve read Bitcoin culture correctly a) Bitcoiners don’t flaunt their wealth and b) a Bitcoiners perception of success is different from the ‘mainstream’ understanding.

2. A key part of becoming a Bitcoiner is the realisation that the establishment have played most people for fools; it’s not easy to admit that you’ve been part of the problem, not part of the solution for much of your life.


That was fast ⚡


Scammer


Nostr is for anyone, not everyone


Ironically it is ahistorical to sweep the breaches of trust by governments under the rug, or to assume that such centralizing eras are the norm for human societies--they're actually the anomaly. Harari isn't a historian, they're a propagandist


Good morning.

New Dashboard module just dropped: Interplanetary Bitcoin

 https://image.nostr.build/4fc052e071b5526f88025db0356a5ad788653d24742ebe5a3584eff31a3e59ed.jpg


lolol we got there though


Blackberry 😋


Were these the "bitcoiner lists" you were referring to, Matt? https://w3.do/fkvbEm4L


You have a price? Oof


lolololol


it was FUD wasn't it


Forreal https://image.nostr.build/f81c2d97869cd4bf2377f125864a076dba9fddb1ebbef053949bcf8396733c62.jpg


They can have fun being slaves 🤡


Bitcoin isn't a cult but it has cults


Especially with your kid, too...take care 🫡


this could be us
https://void.cat/d/JN3xj2Zhju6cbJdLFJgiMN.webp


A successor to SWAT 4 and old-school Rainbow Six. Check it out. I'll play some games with y'all, too
#gamestr #ReadyOrNot
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#Pepethon is back frens 🐸 https://i.nostr.build/5Gr9g.jpg


So I searched 'joinmarket' on birdsite and found some interesting discussions.

nostr:npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s I want to take issue with something you wrote: "In contrast, the coordinators in samourai/wasabi/joinmarket interact with the other users, creating/sharing psbts, validating info, kicking trolls out, and taking fees".

Note that (and this is common to other of your posts there) you're referring to Joinmarket as a protocol with a coordinator, because the taker is the coordinator for each coinjoin that it wants to do; but please realize that almost every person reading this will not grok the subtlety. To them a coordinator is a static coordinator. Also you say at the end "taking fees" and this is *in no possible way* a correct description of Joinmarket, since even if you treat the taker as "one time coordinator" (correct), they pay fees, they do not take them. Considering the sensitivity of this issue I *really* don't think it's OK to write that, since it's not true.

The whole paragraph *strongly* suggests that Joinmarket uses the same model as the other two, whereas in fact it's almost purely p2p, especially in the recent structure where directory nodes act only as name servers essentially, and peers then negotiate coinjoins over their own ephemeral onion services.

(Taker/maker is not a static role and in fact it's good for people to switch between them).


Great show


Has nostr:npub13qdgdr8m0glkmgfh65rpx6deh6pd80875p2cpnum7pkdr0g709dqpdhau6 ever written anything about the block template problem?


Correct. Fuck you money is not an amount


LOLOL
Really can't make this up 🤡


At least you're here with us


Where we're going, we won't need "financial institutions" 🚀👨🚀


:Bitcoin:


i've firmly become of the opinion that anyone who is on #nostr who is agreeing with the culture changing meme of "omg bitcoiners" is blatantly funded by glowies

unfollowing any of you who post that shit

way too many people think that miraculously non-imprisoned snowden is some kind of a hero, where was his time in gitmo? manning has more credibility to me, and he looks like a basket case to me

and the assange? also, so much creepazoid i can't even begin to express how weird it all looks, straight up theatre if i were to just say the straight version

no, bitcoiners are here to stay, and we are the backbone of nostr, and any attempt to turn this into the Gmail of social networks is not going to take all of us away, even if they wear the cloak of our legitimacy


MOST OF ALL, nobody is stopping anyone from doing what they please on Nostr, so why resort to "culture changing?" That mindset is fiat as fuck and that shit might have worked on Xitter/Bluesky/Mastodon but not here


Thanks 😁
People would get a lot further building the Nostr they want to see instead of petitioning to change the culture or bashing bitcoiners. Nostr was founded BY BITCOINERS and downplaying Bitcoin's role in creating this protocol is missing the entire point. Also, have they considered that some people dedicated their lives to Bitcoin? What are they supposed to do?


The virtue signaling over non-bitcoin content on Nostr is incredibly grating at the least. They should GFY and make the non-bitcoin content that they want, even if they're trifle-ass shitposts


PSA:

tons of VC money and hype mongering mainstream media shilling only gets you a short term victory

long term victories are harder, more bitter, and in the end the guys who fought them are remembered while the 5 thousand VC funded startups that didn't focus on building a neutral protocol are forgotten

Names like QNX, Compuserve, AOL, where are they now? almost nowhere, because they were hostile to open standards

and requiring a weak 2fa to sign up to the protocol is a hard pass for me, i've already been victim of more than a few KYC leaks over the years and account hijacks, more than i ever wanted to suffer

definitely not going back to that shit, twitter was the last place i was willing to go, as a last ditch effort after long ago abandoning endless advertisements on facebook

even today, with google's monopoly, i am not constantly assaulted with advertising to use email

why should social be any different

instant turn off if the protocol is gonna try and push me to buy some new hot token shit NFT bored monkey bullshit, at all, at all

i can't even stand it when i hear people who claim to know about computer science and infosec praising stupid fluffy bunny bullshit

it's fartcaster, and woo-cast... not buying it, idgaf it will be forgotten before 2026


The Minecraft kids are coming for your corn. Be aware freaks! https://soundcloud.com/junsethsworld/interview-with-a-social-engineering


Like babies taking candy!


NOSTR EXCLUSIVE


Yes that's one of the reasons why I love e-cash, it favors Uncle Jim types as custodians


Joinmarket


Coinjoin


LOL great analogy 🤣


My favorite Nostr chatbot 😂


A monster like SMS/mainvolume?


Def happening right now


Tax?


The Clown Mob 🤡


The incumbents


I don't think Nostr devs have to choose


All good, e-cash allows three dudes in a shed to offer fully-backed sats and dollars to Africans. Best timeline


Probably just a compliance hoop they needed to get jump through. Like offering Lahey a $50 to fuck off type thing


Also I don't use Primal and don't have to


KYC is the illicit activity, but at least it's opt-in for Primal


Agreed


Fuck JBP


Some things require to be doxxed


Agreed, do both. Public face, and nyms for "skunkworks"


Should probably start buying politicians tbvh, and I hate lobbying more than anyone can imagine


Papa Odell 🫃


Unfortunately we still need to import from the fiat economy right now


🤔 Strange


Which client? Amethyst doesn't show zaps in the comments...yet


sup Pablo


They should GFY and make non-bitcoin content, then


They dovetail into each other


ikr


Lex is the softball champ


BUT YOU ARE, too bad I don't make the rules lol 😛


Personal responsibility is one of the reasons why I'm starting to think there's no such thing as "orange-pilling"


lol


People have more control over things than they suspect/told to believe


ty


Just Mempool? Damn


What timechain calendar are you using?


"freedom"tech™©®


Exactly. Look at Microstrategy and their Bitcoiner™ fanbase


I like "sovereign tech." Still wondering if "freedom tech" can bee saved though


as i sit here listening to the sound of the nearby church chiming the 11th hour and the peaceful quiet of this beautiful little cloud-capped valley i have a moment of bliss

unhappiness mostly comes from the stupidity of other people... when it isn't being constantly pushed in your face you notice the world around you

not perfect, but getting better, even if the bad guys have got an apparent coup de grace in process in actual fact that's them about to be wiped from the planet


That's not a controversial opinion. I've never been a Kendrick head either


:joggingnostr:


:Bitcoin:


₿ased


There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift, that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination. The elders say, we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water. And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally. Least of all, ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the people we are waiting for!


What do you use to live on a sats standard? Been thinking about this a bit lately


I find this hilarious, honestly. They're trying to make men seen more dangerous as to put limits on them; apparently the "tactic" being used here is "collective negotiation." I know women who have their heads screwed on straight and they wouldn't even dream of saying something this retarded


https://image.nostr.build/7ed69b285b6fd713df9d6fbf80c1ac0c7e8ba2f1b420484e6b21931c99e92b96.jpg
Still, this problem was solved decades ago with player hosting (for non-MMOs ofc)


That event is from Flockstr. Didn't know Coracle had it too


AAAAAAAAAAAA


All of it is downstream.
• Private payments are meaningless if your value can be confiscated through arbitrary counterfeiting.
• Settlement assurances don’t exist if the supply isn’t scarce.
• Ownership of a UTXO means nothing if its relative value has no guarantee whatever because the monetary unit is arbitrarily defined by some other institution.
• Decentralization doesn’t matter if it doesn’t protect the rules for *what a bitcoin is.*

It makes no difference if people understand it or not. It’s still the simple truth. The $100 trillion value proposition is to create a verifiable, state resistant monetary system. Literally nothing else matters, nor even works if that isn’t secured.

Any particular person’s failure to understand this is irrelevant. As long as #Bitcoin continues to be 21 million, all the rest remains possible.


Everyone gets the community they deserve 🧡

Don’t worry. Saylor shitcoining on bitcoin is just another notch on bitcoins belt. There will be many more. Expect them 🫡


Boost this note if you miss nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk


You have a great point about living away from large cities and being out of reach of the Clown Mob. I should try it


I don't think anarchism is utopian, either. I see it as the mean in a digital age, and it's important to be ready for it


I've never seen a statist argue against anarchy in good faith, ever


I like to call them the Clown Mob 🤡
Taxes are white envelopes. I wonder how many statists would've folded to mafia racketeering during the Gambino days


This is the way. Keeps them untangled and there's a lower risk of straining the cable


:Explosion:


Make no mistake where you are.
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Surely it'll keep us safe from the recent acts of lawfare. Come to think of it, Coinbase was ahead of the game! TY 🙏


lol 🤣


Although I have done dozens of paintings in the last two years, did you know that before that I had only done five paintings in thirty years?

If only I had had more self-esteem now I would have done hundreds of paintings.

One should never be crushed by the judgement of others, but neither should one's own.

#art


I understand why people want to take action, though. They've probably seen spooks get away with horrible shit and probably have no faith in a Creator who will Judge them. Sometimes, nothing can be done. Only sometimes, though


Air dryers blow doodoo air everywhere


Especially if the statists are right in thinking that governments form naturally


the main thing we need is a clear understanding of psychopathology

such individuals should not be granted decisionmaking power, ever, ever, ever


I love Bitcoin mining and think that it is one of the greatest innovations in history in multiple ways, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize it. https://i.nostr.build/VwZlB.jpg


Love to see it 😀


That's why I avoid certain clients


I'm calling them Chainanal from now on 🤣


Microstrategy's speculative attack on USD has been going on for 3.5 years--completely unabated. That's very suspect


Nostr might be able to fix this.

Some of you may recall, I posted a number of times my ideas around how relational contracting would enable distributed ridesharing and other markets without needing escrow.
https://image.nostr.build/d635968dd1abec42fa6846b48db160c62be1bcb26cf67bd248350fc6b57d2df1.jpg


It’s weird that libertarians and Bitcoiners are obsessed with property rights, but hardly ever talk about Wickard v. Filburn.

This Supreme Court case determined that growing/manufacturing something for your own personal use affects interstate commerce, because the thing you made *might* inflate the supply of sellable goods. You don’t buy from the market, therefore you affect the market, and the federal government can regulate it.

Wickard v. Filburn is used for everything from OSHA to the Controlled Substance Act.

"Substance"… what the fuck is a substance? Everything is a substance, so the government has given themselves the authority "control everything".


#Bitcoin
Bitcoin Mining Pool Centralization (Bad News)
https://m.primal.net/ICRr.mp4


I'd love to see what happens if Ocean mines their blocks


If you are reluctant to call out bullshit because you fear it may jeopardize your social or economic capital, you are not free.


Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.


I can't wait for clients to get NIP-104
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Does Lionel have an npub yet?


Do we now feel foolish for not supporting Tornado Cash legal defense?

I do. Part of my problem is I didn’t research the case clearly enough.


GM

If anyone should be mad at Roger Ver it's me. I have more reason to dislike him than most. I was friends with the guy from 2011 until the bcash split. He oranged pilled me, paid 14btc for baklava, helped so many liberty-minded individuals in NH, and hired me as the first employee at Blockchain(dot)info.

I didn't read about his downfall in Bitcoin in some book or tweet. I had a front row seat.

I don't have the luxury of hating a guy I never met and don't know anything about, unlike most who dislike him.

Have compassion for your enemies. You can disagree with them while simultaneously feeling sorrow for their situation.

I encourage you to give this a try. For your own sake, if nothing else.


lol
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/61360/what-is-the-web-of-trust


Clownbase 🤡


:Bitcoin:


Just don't fucking dance.


If it weren't for that, they'd probably go after him for some sort of securities violation instead


Bitcoin


Statists love this


Nodes on sale 👀


Many people are using a "SURNAME" in forms and documents.

"Surname" is a combination of 2 words, sur means surety and name. Surname is Surety name.

Surety is someone who is accepted to pay the debts of someone else, the ability of someone else's performance. so this is how the government trick you, they don't ask straight questions, they'll say something like "what is your surname?" Whet they're asking is what is your debtor's name? As you fill it out, you're agreeing that you have now become the DEBTOR.

That's how they do it and that will get you into CONTRACT LAW, you are basically forming a contract at that point even though you don't know it, you're agreeing to a contract that isn't even written on paper.

If they ask: what us your surname? They are actually asking: What is your debtor's name? So you are agreeing that you have now become the debtor.

This violates informed consent, if you do not have informed consent on any contract you have the right to terminate the contract. The contract itself is null and void. If you know basic contract law you can see all this stuff and see the fraud.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER !


That's right, fed--in plain sight


Nihonstr


When I share links, I use w3.do
Fuck Bitly


Ref links have mad trackers


So my grandpa

He retired in his mid 40s

Had an ocean front beach house in Florida

His primary residence has like 17 bedrooms….

As a kid growing up I never really thought about any of this

But talking with him now as an adult
Trying to get advice
He’s old and can barely use a flip phone rn

So I wouldn’t even waste my time trying to talk to him about bitcoin, a little background then I’ll tell u something he told me.

So he had like 15 brothers and sisters
Grew up milking cows on the farm before daylight type shit
He didn’t have a toothbrush till he was like a teenager

Lot of land in the family
Hundreds of acres (if not  a thousand)

He hitchhiked and walked putting himself through engineering school at the university of Alabama

He Got a kick ass job at NASA
He was making good money
But then quit one day out of the blue.

Said he was starting his own company

Something fabricators inc… idk
Working with steel and welding and stuff

So all his friends and family members laughed at him
Ridiculing him

Saying how it was a stupid idea and he would never be successful

Well he ended up hiring almost of these people that didn’t believe him… giving them all jobs

He didn’t look so stupid anymore

Anyways so he had this fabrication business and it was going good but. But he had to pay a ton for shipping and receiving

He ended up buying an 18 wheeler. Then another before you know it he was running a trucking company and this fabrication business

That was 2 companies he started
Then he had all this land passed down through the family

So he started strip mining coal on his own property

That turned into a business

Then he started getting more and more cattle and that turned into a business

So now he had like 4 companies at this point and wanted to build a house for his mother

My great grandmother

He was so good at the home building process that he started a construction company too

So he ended up with like 5 or 6 companies and then was able to retire in his mid 40s

So a few years ago I was talking with him about all this

And he was like yea back then

Back  in his day it was a lot easier to do business, start a business, etc

You didn’t have all the regulations, and taxes, and bull shit

He was like shit nowadays you’re doing good working at Home Depot with a 600 pound lesbian boss.

Just a different era

Fiat ruined everything


Snort has it now? Neat


viewing mode*


noStrudel has a viewing now that's kinda like NostrGram


Naked mole rat lmao


lol


Methods to obtain privacy in Bitcoin:

- Joinmarket (decentralized Coinjoin).
- Payments with Lightning (payments through routing are totally anonymous, good method for example to put bitcoins coming from coinjoins in exchanges, you must open a private channel with a good node and through this route to the exchange).
- Liquid Pegouts with sideswap (it is like a swap and you break traceability)
- Bolts (swaps between chains and you also lose traceability)
- Joinstr (Coinjoin through Nostr, soon to be released on the mainnet).
- Mercury Layer (Coinswaps, soon to be released as well).
- Bitcoin Teleport (decentralized Coinswaps with an architecture of makers and takers similar to joinmarket).


You said it yourself - as much as any of us strive toward sovereignty (a valiant and valuable effort), the very technology we depend upon to exercise freedom with Bitcoin or freedom of speech, is the product of the very system we’re trying to fix.

We need bitcoiners as mineral miners, hardware builders, supply chain operators, etc.


Fed exchange


Got proof?


"...replaces the ruble..." They said the quiet part out loud towards the end


Hide yo wife


Sats are the stablecoin.


They're fucked. That's why they're breaking their own laws to criminalize open source software


They're criminalizing open source as a whole. It ultimately won't work, but the clown mob can cause a lot of damage in the meantime


Well they're certainly calling bitcoin money now 😂
Fucking clown mob 🤡🥖🎪


This isn't just an attack on #bitcoin! It's an assault on open source as a whole. The USA is attempting to establish a precedent. Even if you're not in the US, it's only a matter of time before it reaches your country too, and there's almost nowhere safe to escape. The entire world is veering toward a totalitarian dictatorship state. The only recourse is to resist and combat them, but through peaceful means. Technology is available and can be harnessed for this purpose. Act accordingly! It’s started !


You are going to be waiting for a looooong time, actively avoiding this, forming a company is not the solution.


They don't even use cash all the time, either. Land, fine art, vehicles, exotic animals, firearms, people...


I'll be the space-faring metalphage


If I were to hand someone a $20, then have them give me a different bill, is that money laundering?


I hope the rEgULaTiOn advocates are pleased. Fortunately, the clown mob is far more likely to confiscate hash than individuals' sats. All the more pressure to build economies that settle in bitcoin


This is the game that the state is playing. Stay frosty
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Great advice. Hope they've taken self-custody of their bitcoin


Hey nostr, I have some nodes to sell!

Not only could you get some solid hardware (even nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll started selling some of these), but you also get my time & expertise. We’ll figure out how you need me to spend my time to help you - I am looking to be a resource to plebs trying to navigate migrating away from a rpi, devs looking to cleanup their digital environment, or enterprises looking to scale their solutions.

Laptop & desktop purchasers will be guided on installation, setup, & maintenance of their new physical & virtual servers! Proxmox is FOSS software we will use to allow for the commoditization of all of your machine’s resources, allowing you to get the most out of your purchase. With one physical machine, you'll be able to cram a dozen virtual ones inside while I'll show you how to manage their compute/memory/storage requirements and interactions.

These are used ebay purchases, I'm not trying to profit off the hardware, just stacking sats with my time. Shipping or pickup at #chibitdevs included. Until I offload this hardware and complete the hourlies, I’ll be restricting my assistance to these buyers. But, I'll likely eventually offer support for byo hw/sw.

https://btcpay.dimi.gg is now live, please chat with me before a purchase if you have any questions. Payjoin enabled.


Stolen from our friend dstad https://image.nostr.build/c615f9836f1bfa8a3c1dc4b93a4a0fee738fa58cee458c96611e1616b2da27e7.jpg


It's good that people are being introduced to the harsh reality of what we're up against.

It's going to get worse. Just ask Libyans what happens to people who try to opt-out.


Autism


omg lol 😂
The McCormack curse


Still on GitHub/Obtaniun...for now. A real shame, ACINQ is great


Love how everyone is sharing plans with each other ☺


They've given me nostr:npub1taawqsgm9n2rvtj2pcwgqd4mrea4uqpt4hze7t6fxd72rjqng4rsh74pm5 vibes forreal


so, i finally understand why NIP-42 is not working for most clients

- most clients are nearly impossible to configure to test on one relay

- most relays don't support NIP-42

- only replicatr and khatru support NIP-42

so for the time being, us CLI bound relay devs are in a bind, and thankfully, we have people who get what is going on and are going to fund clients that work with our relays... or, mine, in particular

because without auth

there is no private business use case

and without relays with auth

there is no clients with auth

and there is no private business use case

and you all cry about adoption and you are not nagging your relay and client devs to actually FUCKING IMPLEMENT NIP-42 i don't know how fucking many times i have to repeat myself with this

IMPLEMENT

NIP

FORTY TWO


Joinmarket


He’s not one of us https://image.nostr.build/e66ba2eae3f7586a5f0a877f9ebb10eac6d3f0c03628aed2cc8ea406d481f55c.jpg


In the heart of a city that is hostile to Bitcoin, no less


That means you have chosen wisely


I think someday he will post more notes than tweets, but not today


lol
nostr:npub1xapjgsushef5wwn78vac6pxuaqlke9g5hqdfjlanky3uquh0nauqx0cnde https://image.nostr.build/7de07fa5d153e589b7dfe9d3e73770c427c2b6e0393f6b4af6cc1482ed3745eb.jpg


I wish he'd take his FUD hat off and get on Nostr already
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Onward, Evan. 🫡


If you have hip or lower back pain stop crossing your legs (criss cross apple sauce okay but chair leg crossing not… sorry shorties). Causes inner pelvis muscles to overcompensate.

👍🧘🏻♀
🚫🪑

Also… ditch pigeon pose and just do figure 4. Pain is no gain in this instance. Game changers!

👍 4
🚫🐦


I must say that seeing the discussions here about game theory, threat models, and opsec gives me a lot of hope Meanwhile in NGUland I don't think they even know what has happened this week lol


and its main export is US Treasuries


It's ALREADY a banana republic lol


Wow. https://image.nostr.build/0ab6c1403eb8b4e4020bd8be7eb9c88c4104b33b56e68d10d67c213eb9c04df7.jpg


Jeez, major casualty


Schrodinger's Spook


Thanks for reminding me to sell my retirement account


lol I'm about to move across the globe and crawl back to get free lodging 😂🤡
Freddie, Fannie, and Ginnie are insolvent Ponzis and the US gov is trying to bail-in real estate by housing migrants. Just more late stage bullshit


From countries that the US destabilized themselves, mind you


The bitcoiners here are basically financial extropians who know that a better life is possible


I've been in the space for nearly a full cycle and I'm already tired. It seems to me that not many people value liberty at all. The frogs will boil. They need to get fucked hard by the state to face the consequences of outsourcing responsibilities to psychopaths


Decentralized Coinjoins.

https://jamapp.org/ I guess many of you know it, it is the graphical interface to use Joinmarket. On the other hand https://joinstr.xyz/ is another way to make coinjoins in a decentralized way and using Nostr as a communication and coordination layer, this last one is still in the testing phase. We must stand up to the system, coinjoin is not a crime, now more than ever we must continue using Bitcoin, and mixing.


That's why the distinction is important. Defining what P2P is can point to the absurdities that trusted third parties can cause


i think more importantly, USA first, and secondarily EU, are both creating socialist prison systems in earnest, pretty much copying along with what china is doing, and if you think back to how history ran with the last time massive increase in socialism happened, ie, bolshevik revolution, nazi germany, fascist italy and spain, what was the smart move for a pleb at that time?

yes, GTFO!

it's long past the point where it was alreadly clearly past the point of no return, i think at least you can say 2001 was the point of no return, when they started to intensively surveil all communications, banking, transport, and social media barely even existed at that time


Never felt cleaner for real 😂


Is this money laundering?


Self-custody helps you defend your data even if it is KYC'd. KYC is still the illicit activity and we'd be better off going P2P and starving "compliant" services out


Self-custody helps you defend your data even if it is KYCd


This shirt is munition. #Bitcoin


EU has been for a while


This has been the best news all week
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Maybe it won't be a country, but more like a borderless network, kinda like a flotilla


At this rate, we may have to make one


Oh so Bitcoin is money now. I’ll stop paying cap gains for every coffee now.


Just finished reading The Genesis Book by nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5

I knew the gist of the history, but this book really put it all together in a fascinating way.

Personally, my take away is this:

It's clear that the people who built the foundations for Bitcoin understood one thing very well:

Bureaucrats would never accommodate / allow for the existence of what they wanted to build.

They knew that if they built it, and it worked, the bureaucrats would eventually come for them.

Now it's working.

And I think we'd do well to remember this, and remind new people of this insight that was so well understood by those early pioneers:

No amount pandering will suffice.

If what we want is freedom and decentralized money, we are fundamentally at odds with the most powerful people in the world.

They will not allow us to fit in, not for as long as the tool we have at our disposal has the ability the shift the balance of power.
 https://image.nostr.build/793b2898adb2186cff77966d9f8e8fdea2d38d6cc1d3a19e52cdbaafe4b1846c.jpg


NIP-42 for subscriptions?


LMAO


LOL


Actually that doesn't even make a difference which country, their slavery systems are supranational


Who moved thousands of miles across the globe for this shit?


Criminals protect themselves with KYC


No white envelope for you


Fuck this clown mob


I'll say it forever


KYC is the illicit activity.


So...any pool?


The frogs will boil, unfortunately


Run your own LLMs


Clown garbage


Spam*


Nope


They'd upload some directly into people's brains


Run your own supply chain


3D printed cardboard "food"


420 😶🌫


Marty redemption arc?


lmfao


Do blockheight for showtimes you won't


Yep NYC too


FIAT is a cult


And people say Bitcoin is a cult lmfuckingao


HAHAHAH 🤡


lol


Sup miljan


Psycho logic


I don't represent my country and its sickening criminality


Absolute psychotic statist fuckboy


Let the record show fuck Peter Todd


Do you think that mining will always be specialized? It might be provident for hashers to provide services other than just mining in order to last between cycles


LOL 🤡


No, the DOJ are being real motherfuckers right now


Desperate or bad actors


Yeah, very fucking suspect when I saw that in my pool


BADBANK


Mafia pool


FOMO'd into Runes


GOD I wish they found 840000


Yes, let's fuck them with Stratum V2 🫡


Block template generation is decentralized and not Bitmain's welfare-ass node in every pool


Transparency counts


FPPS more smolPPS


Nah man, real shit is going down. Time to put in work ⛏


I'm happy about 50 sats/vB


YES LET'S FUCKING GO


Yes, Joinmarket is the move. Decentralized collaboration is CRITICAL for coinjoins


A Cypherpunk's Manifesto is more ironclad than that useless parchment


The US Constitution is meaningless, rendered into doilies by thousands of papercuts.


It's nihilistic brain rot. After bitcoin I found out that I hate trading


But muh yield
How can I make my money work for me even I get less yield over time???


It isn't too late to get your house in order, just be sure to do the needful. The next 420,000 blocks could get very choppy
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One of their many desperate moves they've been making recently. I see this debacle as the death throes of fiat


Personal data should not be leakable.
Better yet, try to never collect it, in the first place.


Their coordination process for Whirlpool is centralized. When I found this out I figured it'd draw attention eventually


And it's only Wednesday.


Joinmarket fixes this


Alejandro Muyshondt did not Epstein himself.


Not my feed


Pouring one out for Samourai wallet

https://media1.tenor.com/m/nHaXCV8mRW4AAAAd/pour-one-out-trouble.gif


100 sat/vB will be the new 1 sat/vB 🫠


Yeah, Saylor can fuck off with his "city in cyberspace" bullshit. Sats aren't a real estate shitcoin


GET YOU BOOTSTRAPS UP


lol


Despite high levels of discretion, the conflicts of interest remain. The model itself is vulnerable to this. Growing pains of funding Bitcoin


Yeah same lol


SimpleX is cool but barebones


Make mints


SHITCOINS


All I know for sure is that people from destabilized countries are making pilgrimage to the US, and Freddie, Fannie, and Ginnie are all broke deadbeats. The bread and circus around those matters here are so fucking rampant that it's almost telling in its own way


u got pranked bro


When Bitcoin wins, you will be able to buy guns out of a vending machine.
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"Great replacement theory" is a red herring. Governments are importing people to have this sort of real estate 'bail-in' and to create a new voting class to boot


I low-key think they actually import all these people on purpose to prop up the housing market. Housing prices were deflating steadily, as the population aged and declined, and now everything is crowded like crazy and prices get squeezed up.


Bitcoin scaling proposals are solutions looking for a problem.

Same selling point was used for every new shitcoin project from 2013-2017 until people realised that scale is not the limiting factor in adoption.

Bitcoin doesn't need to scale unless it stops acting  as a financial instrument within the Fiat economy. That can only happen if we as Bitcoiners produce goods and services more efficiently than the fiat economy.


Whenever politicians clutch pearls or attempt to brow beat bitcoiners about money laundering it is important to remind them that the US government is the biggest money launderer on the planet.

The Treasury issues debt out of thin air, the money gets handed to the Department of Defense and they overpay defense contractors 900x for commonplace nuts and bolts, among other things. This leads to obscene profits for the war industry and they shave off a small chunk of those profits to ensure the politicians that will vote for bigger defense budgets stay in power. Rinse and repeat.

This isn’t confined to the war industry either. It happens across the spectrum. Another example is Operation Warp Speed, which was an example of the Federal government directly funding and obscenely overpaying for a COVID vaccine that poisoned people.

What we’re witnessing is the largest “looting of the treasury” in human history. Politicians and the corporate interests that back them are robbing the American people blind. Taking their money directly via taxes, indirectly via inflation and at the same time running up the biggest government debt bill the world has ever seen.

The politicians who enable this and then clutch pearls about bitcoin’s potential to enable money laundering are the scum of the Earth.

We are all being robbed in broad daylight and the thieves are making you out to be the criminal. Truly diabolical

The government is not your friend. It exist to strip you of your wealth and your freedom.

https://m.primal.net/HyRl.mov


Cool


Replace "poor" with "slaves." Some wear golden handcuffs


🤣 I love the AUNT ROXY arc


Starve them out and fade 'em 🫡


The fee FUD will be unbearable but maybe it could inspire home mining


What would he call it? BCH2? 🤡


All he cares about is FIATGOUP
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Fiat maxi


lol
hahahahahahah
"Wealth transfer to anarchists" is a retarded attack vector


FORTY FUCKING BITCOIN 🤯
My brain melted


They'll find some other way to overpay mining fees 😂


Happy 420! Me and my friends are getting ready to send the hashrate up 😶🌫


Nope
Not reading notes from that npub. I don't want to see the carnage


Yes indeed, I see this as wealth transfer. If shitcoiners want to give bitcoin to miners for virtually nothing I won't stop them 😂


40 bitcoin 🤯
I'm still reeling, holy shit...I'm not bullish enough
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I can smell it through my screen


Multisig is the new prenup.


This is Nostr every morning


LMFAO
Thanks for playing!


Companies do not have access to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is permissionless. What companies call "Bitcoin" is fundamentally different, it is permissioned by the State.

As regulation keeps rolling out it will become increasingly obvious that this is a fork and companies are on the wrong side of it.


Who wouldn't?


We made it! Thanks for the sats 🫡


This is true. I've seen it on here


I'm not naive to the fact that they can repeal those protections or find another way to collect fingerprints, though


In the US, it depends on which state you're in. At least that's how it was last time I checked


Milk 😋
I was breastfed but I'm still an ass man


I highly doubt that people who use that "fReE mArKeT" argument as a cover for scammers actually care about freedom. They're dictator-loving centrists at heart


Being skeptical in 2024 is pretty sad. Maybe bitcoin isn't for them. They'll have to face the consequences for trusting fiat currencies


Yeah this feels like BitDevs


Why doesn't Mark get an npub?


Ride or fucking die. 🫡
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It's part of the pump & dump scheme they've been running in the real estate market for a while


Even Earth has been dumping gold 😂


lolololol


i am incredibly happy

that's the note

bloom posting


That's why I like Red Elemental Blast


Using these Twitter-like clients can make it easy to forget that Nostr is a protocol that functions like a sovereign Internet of Things. It can do so much more than notes


Nostr's potential for b2b solutions is being severely underestimated right now


Yeah, I figured I was missing something here


In fiat? Nah. I wonder if it's even possible to share company equities on a bitcoin standard. In my mind, the bitcoin itself is the equity


🎯 Not even to mention that the dollars are infinite. The usurers who run botnets are the type of people to yeet into every credit line in reach in order to remain operational


"If I were in control I'd run it right"

buncha nonsense 😂

people can't even run themselves "right".


Let me know if you ever get Ready or Not


GM. Mining is centralized and block template generation is almost 50% done by one entity (educated guess) and possibly thanks to nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze it hasn’t taken completely over 50%. We need more Ocean clones with transparent block template creation. And we need to price OOB tx out.


and that kid is damned right


Save the Devs. https://video.nostr.build/83069ca8fcee397832ff900315033b9ec63199bc16dd33ef562c715822710096.mp4


https://image.nostr.build/4c96e56a6393400de3d25f4c8f7b7ca8e5976ecacf858079f94067b79293d543.jpg
That says Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System
I dont know thats what i read when i read the bitcoin white paper. I dont know though i just stack...


and people STILL get this twisted 🤣


Remember at one point the largest hodler needs to eat or build something and you can't eat or build if they just hodl..


Traders dont cate about store of value.


Based. Rise the fuck up ✊


#nostr is not about you! nostr is you!


I never knew he was this much of a fucking clownshoe


current mood:

bloomscrolling


Single devs with shoestring budgets are criticized for not having everything ready for everyone. I guess the solution is just to shove everyone into the KYC’d VC funded one with lots of employees. Pretty sad that this is where nostr is headed. I guess this is jacks vision for nostr now so it must be done. The biggest threat to nostr is a handful of influencers who control the funding and can pick the winners. Purple is my attempt at breaking free from this, but I feel like it’s already a losing battle.


Imagine being dumb enough to try and argue one corrupt nation state is more moral than another one.


https://image.nostr.build/25e713a16e15c2b8190e56faafaa58a372b658252f0b559a42f7be30a24357c4.gif
The liquidations will continue until morale improves.


lmaol


Agreed. These fractional reserve maxis will learn the hard way


Hey! Here's a process video of the oil painting for Angel of Indemnity for Magic the Gathering's Outlaws of Thunder Junction set.

#mtgart #MagicTheGathering #mtgThunder #MTGOTJ

https://makertube.net/videos/watch/c7361c71-175e-4e55-8ada-6c4c931cfdd2


I do not want another political economic system build around Machiavellian Principles

And, you shouldn't either


"Bitcoin satellites and fireproof hardware wallets don’t resonate with professional wealth managers."
LOL I GIVE NO FUCK ABOUT WHAT wEaLtH MaNaGeRs SAY
The way that the article suggests that the protocol's adoption depends on institutional investment is very insidious


Fuck them, then


Clearly she's party of the fiatgoup crowd


NO KINGMAKERS


Is he in charge of their bags?


Why would an ETF give any fuck about what Saylor thinks? THAT'S what really gets me


How? His npub is a bot lol


Luke glows in the dark


New theme song for this bull run:
https://youtu.be/ntP8vvswhYM?si=ieyj9eQMdy8RPz_V


It's amazingly cringe arguing with non-developers about why ceasing work on the base Bitcoin protocol is retarded rather than a genius way to eliminate risk.


Fiat incentives to create equity financing schemes like this. Crypto spaces tend to denominate everything in dollars. I wonder if this would still happen on a bitcoin standard, though


Wow, you too?


Vendor capture is a persistent and fundamental danger to any standardisation process.

## What is an open standard?
To understand why there is no single agreed definition, and to let us build a canonical definition, we can start with two observations:

1. The standardisation process is driven by two conflicting economic motives. Vendors see standards as a route to direct profits, while the market at large sees standards as a route to lower costs.
2. As the economy has become digital, the State has become engaged in the conflict between these two interest groups.

We as open source developers must explicitly take the side of "the market at large". We must not accept the definitions of "open standard" produced by vendor bodies. We must absolutely reject all attempts of legacy vendors to stretch "open standard" to include [RAND-licensed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing) standards.

An open standard must be aimed at creating unrestricted competition between vendors and unrestricted choice for users. Any barrier to vendor competition or user choice is incompatible with the needs of the market at large.

## Vendor Capture
Looking at the standards "wars" that plagued the telecoms and media industries, we see that the fight is not over technical quality or process. The war is to capture markets through the use of standards backed by patent pools. The goal of vendors who engage in such standards processes is to become part of the cartel and to kill or capture the other cartels.

Vendor capture is thus a persistent and fundamental danger to a standardisation process. Incompetence and human error are fixable by collective processes and time, as long as standards are free to improve. Vendor capture occurs at any stage in the life-cycle of a standard, from development through to long-term use:

* Vendors capture the standards development groups and exclude open participation in the development process. The standards which result become dumps of the vendor's software, which gives significant advantage to vendor.
* Vendors capture the standard specification through copyright and reduce competition from smaller competitors by making it expensive to simply acquire the text.
* Vendors capture the market by introducing patented technology into the standard, silently or explicitly. When many vendors do this, they create franchise standards ("reasonable and non-discriminatory" at the best of times) that enable cartel-like constructions.
* Vendors capture the market by silently extending open standards. Users who thought they were getting an open standard may instead be buying lock-in.
Vendors capture the standards authorities. They do this by setting up their own (like ECMA) or lobbying existing ones (ISO) to promote and accept their advantageous standards.
* Vendors capture existing open standards. They do this by acquiring key patents, long after the market has committed to the standard. Often, such patents were held originally to "defend" the standard.

## Free and Open Standard
The term "open" itself has many degrees of meaning from a high wall with a crack in the door to a field with no walls at all. We wish to secure the terminology by adding the word "free", in both its meanings:

* Freedom to use, improve upon, trust, and extend a standard over time.
* Freedom from all costs and tariffs associated with the above freedoms.

The ambition of freedom in this case is the removal of barriers, of friction, and of costs. It is also the ambition of remaining free over time, especially as the value of the market based on the standard increases.

## A canonical definition
From the above analysis that the interests of established vendors diametrically oppose those of the market at large, we can make a simple canonical definition of "free and open standard" as follows:

* A standard is a published specification.
* It is a a free and open standard if it is immune to vendor capture at all stages in its lifecycle.

## Measuring immunity
Immunity from vendor capture can be measured. This is very useful because it gives us a tool to measure how "free and open" a standard is, and to offer concrete suggestions for improving any given standards process or specification.

We look at each aspect of the standardisation life-cycle, from development to wide-spread use, ignoring quality issues, which we assume an open process will detect and improve.

### The development process
In which experts agree to work together to standardise an area of technology:

* What is the cost of entry for experts? If not very low, independent experts are excluded.
* Do vendors form the majority of developers? If so, the standard will be rapidly captured.
* Do all developers grant their copyrights to the standard by contract? If not, copyright and patent claims may be used later to capture the standard.
* Can others freely fork the standard under a "share-alike" license such as the GPL or MPL? If not, a captured standard cannot be freed again (e.g. the State enforces Apple's capture of freeBSD because it was developed under the "free-to-capture" BSD/MIT license).
* Is the standard developed publicly with no decisions being made out-of-band? If not, external reviewers are excluded and vendors can more easily capture the standard.
* Is the process completely transparent and open? If so, vendor capture is easier to see and correct.
* Is there a process for accepting specification translations? If not, foreign vendors are put at a disadvantage.
* Is the development process hosted by an unruggable platform?

While "forking a specification" may seem counter-productive, we consider this an essential freedom at this stage in the standard life-cycle. Sometimes, a standard will become "loaded" with features that favour one vendor and exclude others, and the best way forward is to fork the standard, strip-out those features, and create a competing standards process. The simple possibility of such competition forces a more honest process.

### The implementation process
In which vendors - often also standards developers - take provisional specifications and use them to make products:

* Is the specification text clear and well-engineered? Vendors often inject complexity into specifications to create barriers to competing implementations.
* Are there reference implementations freely available? This promotes a level playing field. Copy-left implementations ensure that closed source derivatives that silently modify the standard are not possible.
* Is the standard free to implement for any purpose? If particular license conditions apply, this is easily used to exclude competitors.
* Can the specification be freely acquired and distributed? If not, cost can be used to create barriers for smaller competing vendors.
* Is there a process for contributing change proposals back into the standard? If not, it is easier for vendor-developers to capture the standard.
* Are there outstanding patent or copyright claims on the standard? If so, vendors are unable to freely implement the standard.

### The certification process
In which the standards group, or other groups, help define what is a valid implementation and help the market measure and compare implementations:

* Are there conformance tests freely available? This promotes a level playing field among vendors. We would argue that copy-left licenses are most appropriate for conformance tests.
* Is certification done by a form of unruggable organisation that itself can be forked? If not, it is trivially captured through acquisition.
* Are there clear rules for building subsets and extensions? If this is part of the standard specification itself, users can demand better behaviour from vendors.

### The deployment process
In which users use standards-based products to construct their own business infrastructure:

* Is there a real market of competing vendors? If not, this is a sign that the standard has been captured.
* Is the standard mature and well-certified? If not, users can be captured by vendors who release incompatible implementations.
* Is the standard free from patent claims? If not, users are trapped by using the standard in any way at all.

### The authorisation process
In which an authority declares its support and recognition of the standard:

* Is the authority backed by the State or vendors? Vendor-backed authorities are by definition captive, and will readily promote franchise standards as "open".
* Is the authority meritocratic? That is, are its decisions taken by experts with proven track records in standards recognition? If not, the authority can be easily captured by vendors.
* Does the authority have clear, transparent rules on copyright and patent claims? If not, franchise standards can be injected, capturing users by deceit.
* Does the authority have a clear definition of "open standard" that represents the economic interests of the market at large? If not, vendors can more easily defeat open standards with franchise standards.


“We can and should stop wall-street from funding devs.”

Homie you can’t even stop morons from putting cat pics on chain. #Bitcoin


Study your history 🫡
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#Bitcoin
Bitcoin Miners Leaving https://m.primal.net/HtMY.mp4


😂 Great show


Months ago 😎


Absolutely based


PV

It’s PEER to PEER

Not PEER to inFluenceR to PEER
Not PEER to gatekeEper to PEER
Not PEER to rEnt seeker to PEER

Direct connection is something that has FIAT has programmed us to not even realize is possible. Remember how powerful you are — you do not need permission, supervision, or acknowledgment. The value of P2P is beyond comprehension.


Been saying this for years, some people gaslight me when I do


It's basic incentives. If Bitcoin is expensive on the base layer, users need banks to hold it for them. This allows all the shady practices of traditional banking to continue. Bank runs are difficult because the network becomes congested and fees climb prohibitively high. Anyone who holds a lot of Bitcoin can become a bank and profit off others. Whether it's Saylor or Swan, BlackRock or Coinbase, this is their incentive.

But Bitcoin is controlled by proof of work, not proof of stake.

Miners are incentivised to maximise on chain transactions, fees x volume. If the fees prevent transactions they would rather scale the base layer.

Users are incentivised to control their own keys to prevent losing funds and having the value of their Bitcoin diluted by fractional reserve banking. They also want the lowest cost nodes, so would rather scale through permissionless scaling solutions.

The block size wars were users vs miners, users prevailed with the UASF for taproot which enabled lightning for scaling, rather than large blocks. There are limits to lightning which is becoming clear.

The next will probably be users vs bankers.

In Bitcoin, be ready to burn your heroes.


Add "taxes pay for anything other than interest on T-bills" to the list


Ahh man I remember seeing them in 2012. RIP Gregg 🥹


How much 5th Avenue building is in one yacht?


As is tradition lmfuckingao


Podconf is a very real thing. People are trying to control the narrative and sway us towards agendae


How would I ask him? He isn't even on Nostr 😂 his account is a bot lmfao 🤣


LOL


All of the bankerbros can go fuck themselves forreal. So many LARPers came out when the price went up


So true Ivan, so many people told on themselves when their god-king got called out 😂


ever noticed how those who make the most noise about democracy are the ones that don't like it when it applies to them and their progressive ideas?

thank god that there is a conservative majority in the active participants of the bitcoin network

they even try to smear the network with claims of no decentralization because ~40% of blocks come from about 10 different large miners

yes, until that is over 50% it's decentralised

it really is the plebs with their low time preference and their low profit home mining to pools that keeps bitcoin from turning into BSV

and every cycle as NGU that cohort grows faster than the greedy, small minded, short term focused high time preference big blockers and shitcoiners, and the cycle repeats

this is a virtuous cycle, and it is so powerful that it will have a big impact on our society at large, and here you are complaining that people don't agree with your dumb progressive ideas about democracy

nope, that's a nope. that's gonna be a no from me dawg, and me and the rest of the plebs have the upper hand, and game theory supports this

we are in a virtuous cycle and you will all eventually realise you are on the wrong side of history


The latter...for now


The $1.2 Trillion spending bill is gonna hurt


I dunno why, but gas is $1 cheaper in the NY tri-state
Crook County lol


Cool, where'd you meet Nick?


A reminder worth repeating. Also, do coinjoins


Phone since Amethyst is nice like that


Come to nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h


nostr:npub18mmjwlwqsuxgcp7lpmnxs2vjsvq7h9tc2u26zncr9t99xjrzhtsqwx4vcz https://image.nostr.build/d25c01e7d672b9c3f25177235f7fe9687b12cdaa3bb730c4ceaa422e63161282.jpg


Bruh that npub is a bot


Amen. Quality > quantity, Nostr isn't Xittergram


It says a lot that shitcoiners hang out at bitcoin places but not vice versa


The skeptics and naysayers in my life have been debunked over the past 3 years. Guess what they're doing now? Making excuses. It's like some weird show of defiance or something. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch


Fun idea:

A btc mining facility that doubles as a desalination plant that bottles/cans the water, sells it as Hodl'd Water, and uses the profits from the water sales to build more desalination plants in places that need them.

I need a lobotomy 😅


It's like seeing someone grow wings 🫡


SHITCOINS


A good time for coinjoins


Where's his npub?


"We can totally change the system from within, guys!"
People who say this are FEEDING the system they claim to work against lmao fucking LARPers


Yeah I've heard that Bitcoin Twitter is beset with NGUtards, LARPertarians, and tradeoors now that the price went up


A message that bears repeating as those thinkbois attempt to infiltrate the Bitcoin space


Stirring the pot, huh?


Imagine being a food czar


Do they have an npub?


this is why paid relays (NIP-42) and NIP-65 will be huge for #nostr

NIP-42 NIP-42 NIP-42

it's just an event with a couple of tags and wrapped in a different envelope to an event

get on with it

i'm getting really tired of not being able to test my relay's NIP-42 enforcement

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq0vy9tlv6h3f8u5tvcnexdcy50acec2n42ga0y9tz8m2w5k5ffpdqyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcqyrrlequgecjgp70k4rtrxmeqcyt5plnwv0sh2n7am3wgpjunql3xjzsd7ct


If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.

- Robert Higgs


#bitcoin didn't save your life, YOU did.


Don't fall for the misinfo Ben. This concerns a *proposal* for a law, that only addresses CASPs (Crypto Asset Service Providers), not individuals, and would come into effect earliest in 2027 if approved by Parliament and Council unaltered today. Hint: it won't


Shout out to nostr:npub1xkere5pd94672h8w8r77uf4ustcazhfujkqgqzcykrdzakm4zl4qeud0en for being the only shop out of the last dozen to not ghost me & actually give me a rejection letter.

The rest of you need to do better🖕
#bitcoinjobs


#Bitcoin
https://odysee.com/@TraderUniversity:a/shipcoins-on-bitcoin:5


Real Build on Bitcoin here 🫡


Is Bitmag the next FTX? This goes to show that Bitcoin "moderates" are ultimately a liability to everyone, even nocoiners. Once again, good work 🫡


They're gonna be like "See? This is why we need the spending bill! Inflation is good for you, it's buying you a new bridge!" 🥖🎪


🫡 https://video.nostr.build/7899cccdcc6ade123792ca72e8db56b9e0546f31c586801da0282cdd52653d1f.mp4


Another reason to print more fiat


or Bisq and Peach


Fuck the suits 🫡


Beats to stay humble and stack sats to


for the time being, #nostr dev community is mostly ardent fans of the protocol and a lot of bitcoiners and a slow trickle of refugees deplatformed from the silos

we the commoners, us plebs, nostriches, whatever words you like to use, can contribute a little to the growth of the platform by welcoming new users who we see as adding to our network

not necessarily to try and get DAU and MAU numbers up so that VCs shower us with more stupid money

but to make hay out of the sunshine that we can shine on our little field

and definitely not for ideological crusades to "replace the centralised systems" because, honestly, this protocol is still embryonic, it is likely to change a lot over the next few years and it is not positioned to take up massive numbers of new users without improvements in things like discovery and data storage

unlike the silos, we are the main source of funds here, which is why i can't repeat enough times to support your relay operators by paying them subscriptions and using paid relays, and petitioning clients to support NIP-42 so the relays don't run at a loss due to being unable to gate access

this is a long game, and we can remain autistic longer than the ebb and flow of VC driven fads of marketing for incumbent, centralised powers, to steadily grow our market share and thus also, grow the actual markets that we can build in here

i came to bitcoin from the dark web, and it's my opinion that p2p markets are the heart and soul of how decentralised systems grow and give the authorities reasons to sweat bullets

darkweb markets were a key bootstrap cohort of the initial adoption of bitcoin, and p2p markets will be a key part of how #nostr grows and retains userbase, and continues to reduce the world's vulnerability to manipulation of signals


Do not live a fear based life. It is crippling and makes you easily pliable. Safety is not virtuous.


Fucking larper. I miss the bear market already


TRUST ME BRO


I met some people who were fudding signing device manufacturers and told me to use old airgapped laptops instead and I've always known that was bullshit. Thanks again Matt


#Bitcoin
https://odysee.com/@TraderUniversity:a/mac-attack-on-your-bitcoin:2


37% of GBTC has been liquidated in about 55 business days. Just absolutely mind blowing.


Nature is healing


We are building for freedom in Africa, yet bad actors are trying to ruin us. Our African nodes have been hacked. While our customers' funds were not affected, the losses we incurred are so severe we've had to temporarily close our African nodes. This is so sad, we are so sorry 😢


I worked for the state once. I was in the Air Force.

In 2012, They took my appendix when they didn't need to.

In 2016, they vaccine injured me with a round of shots my doc recommended. I got a letter in the mail saying it was a bad batch, but it was completely safe and I should come get another round. Nah, doc.

 I got automimmune issues from that, and they worsened from the poisoned food. I left the military in 2017. The VA ignored me repeatedly because they don't believe in vaccine injuries.

I can't eat gluten, dairy, rice, or seed oils without heart palpitations and reactions that feel like im dying these days

Anyways, I began contracting for that same Air Force again in 2018. They tried to poke everyone again in 2020. I said no and I lost my job from saying no in December 2021. I haven't worked in 2.5 years.

This whole time I've been spending $900-1200 cuckbucks a month on meat and fruit alone to avoid inflammation and heal my body. All from my savings. I sold my house in late 2022 and my stack is down immensely in the last two years.

They poisoned me... They poisoned 19 out of 20 aisles of the grocery store for an autoimmune person like me. They poisoned my health. They've drained my wealth. They've taken my livelihood and my normalcy.

When I view the big picture, it all seems so deeply personal. They wanna ban and control meat consumption when it is my only food... They want to stop us from saving in Bitcoin when it has been my literal saving grace... They say they want to close the "escape hatches".

When I tell you that this is the hill I will die on, I fucking mean it. There is no choice for me anymore. I've crossed the Rubicon. I will live free or die.


#Bitcoin
https://odysee.com/@TraderUniversity:a/did-the-nsa-create-bitcoin:0


Also do coinjoins


25 years ago Yugoslavia was brutally attacked by the US and NATO.

https://video.nostr.build/0641c472e2fea41161dd20c632cca42ec96fac2999045c40a21599a82fd941d0.mp4


That's the problem, hostile legislation scares people away from freedom tech. All I can hope for is that people route around this garbage


WANNA KNOW HOW WEED GOT LEGALIZED IN SO MANY PLACES?

PEOPLE JUST SMOKED IT ANYWAY AND THEY REALIZED THEY CANT ARREST EVERYONE

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE WORKS 🫡


EU citizens won't comply anyway. How fortunate that nostr:npub1sqn6rpml88nq8khuvvneuqztfmvalpsarr8grkwy837hzdw63ajs6t5net launched version 2 on the same week


Right now, yeah. I find people's npubs on there, though


The repricing of the thinkboi space is gonna be very amusing 🍿


impostor


Flockstr


Got his ass


Nostr is the real orange pill app


lol


thank you for the offer

https://video.nostr.build/8b227e4a30d2a97ca65eaa9409cee8c62c387fb476ef995dfbf94e1f2b56dde6.mp4


rekt


You’re over thinking it. (No pun intended)

TradeFi is normally wrong because they don’t have to be right. The entire Industry is centered around inflows and selling you a narrative.


lol land maxis


63k https://i.nostr.build/5GGgK.gif


They'll learn the hard way


"The center of cryptocurrency is an oxymoron..."
Based response. What will NYC's hub be called? Bitcoin Gotham?


Nice! Glad to see them in Chicago


Is that the el?


FUCKING BASED 🚀🫡
Let's not end here


A shitcoiner turned out to be a fiatgoup bro playing with leverage? That definitely tracks


"When you hodl your own BTC instead of letting it accumulate at Coinbase Custody--
You are also helping to keep the Bitcoin ecosystem more decentralized and able to withstand an attack."
Thank you, this is what some of the fiatgoup bros have missed


It is also their fault for trying. Part of the reason this scam persists is because standards have sunken so far that these bankers aren't held accountable and are sometimes even congratulated for the con. The parallel systems we're helping to build enable people to deliver consequences for such usury


Rare peepee


FREE! is never a good selling point. Unless your goal is to not be able to maintain the product, you don't want to scream FREE!

Serious people who value their own time and that of their peers don't care if something is free or not. They want the best tool that does exactly what they need to do. Free is interesting, but ultimately doesn't matter if the tool is not accomplishing what you need it to do.

Free also attracts a certain type of individual who requires a lot of handholding. These people tend to complain a lot and not value what they are using. The switching cost for them is zero.


Boiling frog energy


El Salvador will own (Schelling point) frontiers of medicine. nostr:npub1xctpfc54sqpryxy7sz5yg8xk8t3ych58xuqjh24kzgnqvacxgnyq5qgd44, Stacy, Jack Kruse, et al convincing me: America may need to take L here.

Beyond affordably detoxifying seed oils, El Salvador could lead energy infrastructure tech. Here's why:

There has been a recent series of shifts in materials and manufacturing capabilities that have not yet been implemented at scale anywhere in the world and El Salvador is well positioned to be the first mover.

Supercritical CO2 instead of steam coupled with certain turbomachinery capabilities that will lower capex by more than an order of magnitude will not just unbound the growth potential for El Salvador and the rest of central America, it will lay the foundations for a new era of nuclear fission, as the generator side capex is a key component of costs.

Nations around the world have been under the thumb of external tyranny suppressing energy development for too long. And, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m this will matter to you: ESCAPING ENERGY POVERTY is the only way to scale optionality and make freedom truly meaningful to every human -- bitcoin alone is not enough. It is easy to imagine a world fully bitcoinized, fully nuclearized, and now we have a first few steps to take.

It is time to begin the fixing of everything, and I have a play: there is of course a HUGE opportunity cost to doing anything in the world at the moment, which is why I have a strategy that leverages the US military industrial complex, and demands for physical sovereignty that are becoming an increasingly imminent concern for many regions in the world, to greatly lessen that burden. Yes, bitcoin mining too, but there is so much more that is possible.

El Salvador has 1 megawatt-hr/capita/yr. This is what poverty means. The US is at 11. This is in fact also poverty if one considers what could have been. Singapore at the end of 1995 was ~6.15, so, @nayibbukele, @JuicefBukele, to be El Salvador's version of the next Singapore, whatever that may be, more energy is needed. I was thinking 2.1 at first as a target, but let's be more ambitious: if @americanhodl8 was able to meme thousands of people into reaching 6.15 bitcoin, I think Central America can reach 6.15 MWh/capita.

Current Numbers:
Nicaragua 0.7
Honduras 0.8
El Salvador 1.0
Ecuador 1.5
Costa Rica 2.1
Panama 2.2

It is time for energy sovereignty. It is time to ignite the engines of wealth and prosperity across the world. It is time to trounce the affinity scammer fiat-anointed professional managerial anti-technologist technologist-LARPer, this broader class of shitcoiners who now wish to ingratiate themselves and their parasitic ways into the world through insincerely claiming that they too aspire to see these things.

It is time to wage a mimetic holy war, a purely mimetic war, to re-establish the foundational human values of liberty and that of striving for optimization of the world around us, which shall only proceed most expediently after fiat dies, but there is too much to do, and there is another factor at play -- it is time to accelerate the mimetic momentum of life itself, which is functionally the objective of bitcoin.

The mimetic war of bitcoin itself was won the day it was unleashed upon the world (or arguably upon the initial formation of life), and the bitcoin "want" to ultimately flow to those whose memes and ideals promote human flourishing.

For adaptation to take hold, a stimulus must resonate, and it is only through hitting supersonic criticality that gases continue accelerating through a de Laval nozzle. Now that this is all within reach, a new calculus emerges in the realization that some resonant frequencies have been found, and with a few well-placed impulses, we may live to witness the beginning, an Age of Light. All that is needed is the sincere desire to see it take place.

- sent from amidst the volcanos of El Salvador

https://image.nostr.build/d05afde2a8ce17266d9058a0f8820b6275c99726d424d03c1cd6e71c855084d7.jpg


so, it turns out that there is a lot of allies

a lot

we are going to have nostr on all the things

mark my words

it really is the base protocol


What the fuck?


Be unruggable


Same. I think it should be a controlled demolition, though. The low time-preference way 🫡


Same reason I refuse to play the Civilization games again


Godspeed


'Dead Man's Switch' (2024) by Andrei Molodkin

The Russian artist has vowed to dissolve masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, and Andy Warhol with acid if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange dies in prison

The project has been supported by Assange's wife, nostr:npub1xw7h0efeg5s8gla2uyu55jh4lfrlgppcjemrwkmdc7lgvhkcz3fqpvumsa , who is awaiting the verdict on her husband's final appeal against an extradition to the United States, where he faces charges of espionage.

Assange is being held in a high security prison in the UK due to the extradition request, which was spurred by his publishing of disclosed documents, including those related to the US military campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan, through the platform Wikileaks.

Assange has denied any wrongdoing, and attorneys have argued that he may lose his life if extradited.

*The Picasso, Rembrandt and Warhol artworks featured in the video ARE NOT the actual artworks alleged to be inside 'Dead Man's Switch' and are used for illustrative purposes only* https://v.nostr.build/BR7LK.mp4


Imagine being that paperhanded lol 🤡
I appreciate this discount though


Is this trolling?


bitcoin is now bigger than the swiss franc because it is a self funding distributed system

i can't say enough towards this and really want people to get hold of this and run with it because the sooner this protocol is its own circular ecosystem between users, devs and operators the sooner we are outside of the gates, right now we are just like a billy goat bashing against a fence that is strong enough to contain him

self funding is like a set of heavy duty bolt cutters


I'd go further and tell them to "HAVE FUN BEING A SLAVE"


That is truly allegorical


Not low enough


lmfao 🤡


I miss the bear market. I'm already sick and tired of these fiat maxi larpers


nostr is a true decentralised, autonomous organisation #DAO

nobody is in charge, we have many leaders whose position is always under threat and largely meritocratic, we have many developers building projects, which are not always efficiently using resources but are almost all self-funded or funded by donations, and a growing userbase that keeps on growing the more time passes

by the time we pop up on the radar of the propagandists who want to control speech there is gonna be more nostr activists than there is on any other platform, and the reason is that #nostr 's time has come

now more than ever people are realising that everything they are being told is to sell them on someone's agenda, and more and more people are learning just how much the centralized social media are not only a form of constant census and opinion poll but also a way to reach back into people's lives and alter the way they think, a mechanism of covert mind control

i became alert to this some years back when i read a study from people researching how facebook's algorithm was filtering people's feeds, and it turned out if they had cast you as a "right winger" - ie, anything right of the Democrat platform, and was increasingly including thinking moderates and centrists, they would deliberately make your feed boring and repetitive

this is why as soon as i heard of this thing i had to try it

been involved with steemit in the past, which showed a lot of promise at first, and watched on while discord, matrix, mastodon and other federated social systems clearly showed that you were only going to at best change a big hitler for a little hitler, and this place is a swarm, and its early adopters are cyberhornets and are delighted to have a place where the only thing that controls your visiblity is mostly other people finding you, and nothing else

i'm not the only one with similar background here... 20 years ago my political position was called "centre-left" and now it's "far right" or "alt right", and i've not changed my position at all, the measuring stick has been changed

a great majority of all of us with more than 30 years incarnated who are here also can say the same thing, and probably recognise names like Jello Biafra, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, and all the old alt celebs like Janes Addiction, RHCP, maybe some of you also knew Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) and Robert Anton Wilson and Terence Mckenna and Osho and so many others i know of who all represented centre-left philosophies and now are all increasingly either coopted (eg boingboing.net and the extropians) or cancelled, or the heros turned into shills for nonsense, like Torvalds, Stallman, Schneier, and others

just naming the stars of the past who i know many here will recognise and have at least previously admired, to show the point that we are actually a very very large, very pissed off group of people and we are without any central organisation creating a media system that will obsolete the entire edifice of the intels-funded facebook, google and others, built to spy and manipulate people


Jack is the founder of a site that does something with birds, although they are shot by some musket.

odell is a man with all caps. He is blue and etc.


vanguard became vancunt in no time


It's a cope for their cowardice. The belief that "we're fucked and there's no use trying to be better" is deeply insidious and it's the refuge of fiat maxipads, what a surprise


Service fees are more effective in allocating capital than taxes and they don't distort market prices. I'm not sure how automation can be priced to begin with tbh

Also, taxes are a deflationary mechanism that pays interest on Treasury bills and nothing else. Central banks increase the number inside of Fed account balances to fund public works. Governments would be much MUCH better off mining bitcoin to fulfill revenue needs


Yeah and they can still go fuck themselves


I haven't even heard of HEX until Matt made videos about them


Check out what's going on in the e-cash space, it's becoming easier to use bitcoin as an MoE


Try BlueWallet or Phoenix. When you're ready, you can get a hardware wallet and move your bitcoin there


Bitcoin and statism are incompatible


Again?


😂🤣 I've heard that one before!


He does!
"Nobody is trying to buy a coffee with a fraction of their building on 5th Avenue."
orly npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m watch this


Never forget
nostr:nevent1qqstg9w4yrfc64rayx6at5qtxyx896269wzqgagdaj68vt4svq6xv7cpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygplwuxkt5a8vj5utj6s8tsj8e3wcavc45p4mqmw92qs7wrh5azmyspsgqqqqqqs0fq0vq


💯 Dismissing the MoE aspect of bitcoin is retarded. Even if he was "playing to the audience," I'm neither impressed nor surprised


😂😂 His account is a bot hahahahah


He does!
"Nobody is trying to buy a coffee with a fraction of their building on 5th Avenue."
orly nostr:npub1sz3xf3d9jpulfu4vdl6ty6z0wvzrexpr8kqgjauk2wmcesgjtnasl63v2d watch this


Saylor doesn't zap


Masterpiece by  nostr:npub1563z6kxmvuy7s8zhzan8m0hzmkavyfzg2aw6h7f0fvcvdms398csaxc9n6
https://stacker.news/items/460433


I measure my wealth in sats not bitcoin

I save in sats not bitcoin

I work for sats

Pay bills with sats

Growing my sat balance

I’m at a weird place in the rabbit hole yall.

Impossible to stack when your all in and ain’t got no fiat cuz 100 percent of direct deposit gets instantly capitulated from fiat to hard money

Who the fuck has fiat at this point I mean shit

Also GFY 🧡


They're dollar maxis so they'd probably like that 😂


The fact that land has been used (usuriously) as an investment vehicle for years further proves your point


That's how I felt at BitDevs meetups sometimes lol. We're all welcome, though


I think Microstrategy will open gigantic Lightning channels and draw balls long fiat loans against their bitcoin. BTC for them, and a Microstrategy account for you


I think it's very important that plebs own their UTXOs AND for people to grow the p2p space otherwise fatcats like Microstrategy will dollarize bitcoin and diminish its freedom properties. But hey, it's all good so long as FIATGOUP, right?


That's not fair


Thank you for saving us from Creed


I genuinely believe that 21st century racism is a massive psyop and Langley is behind it


There are a few, but it's growing. Nearly a year ago I saw an A$AP Rocky video where a homeless person was holding a sign that said "WILL RAP FOR BITCOIN OR VENMO"


CAN'T PRICE IN 100 YEARS OF DEBASEMENT


Physical wars or race wars? Fiat gives you both! Subscribe now!


The only thing taxes pay for is interest on T-bills, they're a deflationary mechanism. Asking for taxes in bitcoin is just blatant thievery. It makes even less sense when anyone can mine blocks


it is one thing to gripe about #bitcoin  content on #nostr  but it's a special kind of retarded that suggests we should make nostr interfaces that remove zaps altogether because omg bitcoin

really, could you be any more of a traitor to #nostr  ever becoming a self-sustaining business ecosystem?

your attitude is no different to the shitcoiners pointing at fartcaster and talking about how great it is that influencoors brought a shit ton of people to speculate on jpegs and got a fast VC exit path mapped out instead of a long term stable business proposition

we got enough influencoors already, jack and preston and odell and a few others, they have brought enough people in to give you a chance to actually spend some resources on building up some viable business models

right now almost all nostr devs are being paid in bitcoin so shut up about removing bitcoin from the protocol, or start paying some devs to build something, and use your eferium or ava or whatever the fuck... monero... hah... those fuckers are even more hostile to any real business happening on this protocol

#rant  #stupid  #bitches


lolmfao


Saylor is attempting to dollarize bitcoin and I don't want that


ok can you guys stop trading


Skills > education


He's been malding about the ETFs 😂


Knockin back brews on RHR...


Download it I think


Peace


TWITTER DOESN'T HAVE ZAPS, FUCK THEM


No pills for Sleepy Joe


Well they shouldn't have shut down Silk Road, then


Who actually wants to be president when they're 82, I mean seriously


jfc he needs to retire


Complete circus


I completely forgot about SOTU. It's just 🥖 🎪 anyway


Truly


Feeling the same tbh. Sorry PubKey


lmfao


Fucking epic


TYPI GNAG 🫡


lol


They know, they stonewall the 5th column agents


Cope


Same


He's right tho


Odell zapped me up


Top 5000


rekt


lolololol


Put the beer down Matt


Welcome 🫡


Soon...


Odell mustache in 240p


RUN NODES


They can run out of money from spamming as I mine their blocks


ES has been real sus lately


JUSTICE FOR MUYSHONDT


lmao no, those are Apple's old colors


Put it in wikifreedia


lmao


What does he look at?


CBN is a clown car 🎪🤡🤡🤡


More fiat to buy less food with


1000 sats is almost 1 USD... 🤔


Sarka dick


I hate auto insurance so fucking much


Ugh, don't even remind me of the NASDAQ correlation meme. I heard it too many times back then


Noisier with an influx of shitcoiners and numbergoup bros


Hi, good to see you again 🫡


Same 😁


I want to host a silent retreat but with lots of steak

Every silent retreat I've been at was catered to Vegans and Vegetarians.

It's probably 10x more challenging and rewarding with the extra testosterone.


I've never started. TYPO GNAG 🫡


Typo gang 💪


What in fuck's name is "New Denial?" What is this doublespeak?


Wake me up when he gets an npub


I wouldn't be surprised if those nocoiner advisors get sued or face some sort of retaliation


lmfaol


Clownbase 🤡


Love Biggie in the morning ☕ 🫡


Based song choice 🫡 🚂


Exactly 🤣


I'll take this over Creed 😁


based


Stack and party 😶🌫


🎶 What a fool believes, he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away... 🎶


I've read the most funniest comment about communism.  It was something like this:  the only thing that worked in communism was the AK-47;  ironically the woke crowd hates it.


epic in a dubstep set


Nope. This is my bull run anthem:
https://youtu.be/pAAjujJ7muA?si=ll_9fcn4iRhgCE0t


hodl for how long?
bitcoin is useless if you don’t spend it


lol, I met some people nearly a year ago who told me that hardware wallets were shady hype machines and I should use old laptops and Nokia phones instead. I knew they were full of shit


Trust me bro


A lot of people still believe that taxes "pay" for "things," even bitcoiners. Taxes are a deflationary mechanism that pay the interest on Treasury bills and nothing else


1.5BTC for a dust UTXO 🤡


Again?


A lot of people don't realize that Freddie, Fannie, and Ginnie are BROKE AS FUCK either


Why the fuck do people think they can outrun inflation by stacking more dollars?


I'm gonna miss this bear market, it was the most fun I've had in a long time. I was stacking on my own until last year when I started going to meetups


Man, that was before I discovered Nostr, too


happy 29th february everybody 🤗 https://i.nostr.build/BM30.jpg


I'm dying lol


I came here for freedom money, not for financial gain. Over the past 12+ years I have watched Bitcoin 12000x vs USD, and it blows my mind every time this happens. Even after all these years. Maybe I still haven't accepting the reality of it all.

Many of us were told over and over that we were making a terrible decision, or that we were idiots for investing in "tulips." Ridiculed and laughed at constantly. Not just by strangers, but by family and friends.

They were wrong.

Not only did we make a good decision, we made one of the greatest decisions in recent history. We had the conviction, the nerve, and of course the autism, to do what we thought was right while everyone else doubted.

Many of us were freaks & weirdos for most of our lives. Let's be honest - most of us probably still are. But we're the weirdos with motherfucking conviction. We're the freaks willing to put it all on the line for a belief, because maybe there's still something worth hoping and fighting for in this clown world.

We were right.

You can stay humble while you stack sats tomorrow. Today you pat yourself on the back. You text your brother with an "I fucking told you so." You look at yourself in the mirror and smile at a motherfucking winner.


I'm NOT done stacking.


I miss Nov '22 tbh. The more FUD I heard, the harder I stacked


Division by zero


LOL 🤡
SELL FOR WHAT? Nocoiners still don't get it


🤡 Clownbase 🤡


Zapping is not selling!


It's what people do when they want more dollars so they can buy less food


Also I'd like to point out that selling =/ spending. Selling is for emergencies


A bottom-up approach to wildlife preservation is far more practical


no u


I fully confess that bitcoin's fiat price is really fun to watch.

But I'm less productive when it's really pumping (I'm too distracted).

And Bitcoin is designed to pump forever.

Therefore... will I ever accomplish anything ever again...?


Every time


Yes


Come to chat, network, and learn about bitcoin!

Everyone is encouraged to attend, anywhere from skeptic to cypherpunk to just a little Bitcoin curious, we're all about getting in the weeds and answering questions of all kinds while having some drinks and meeting cool peeps.

If you use Bitcoin or have questions or are interested in learning more, we'd love to see you there!

Setting up a cadence for the second Thursday of the month, will also try to sprinkle in more meetings throughout.

Free Parking is available in the large Zeppelin Hall parking lot, and the location is walking distance from the path and light rail. https://goo.gl/maps/1yYnBTMzfiSpjsEB9

Join the telegram stay updated on future events https://t.me/+NMU5LACZzV9hYTAx


Zeppelin Hall Beer Garden, 88 Liberty View Dr., Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA


impostor


JUSTICE FOR MUYSHONDT


Love this tune. I like Isaiah Rashad A LOT, too. The House Is Burning is worth a listen


All of them


Trump pulls his usual populist stunt of saying whatever he thinks will get votes and many #Bitcoin supporters are already getting on their knees.

The guy is an authoritarian snake. He lies and says whatever is necessary to win. He doesn't care about you or Bitcoin.


I highly appreciate your recent coverage on game theory and adversarial thinking. Well need it in the next cycle 🫡


Oh, and like 10 people use Nostr Market right now lol


Nostr Market fixes this, though she'd still have to pay postage and shipping


LOL
He can cry harder


Thank you for your service 🫡


🕊

The masculine and feminine is so distorted. Not easy to rebalance in this dense place of distraction. But very possible and worth it!


Right shoulder, it'll look like a second face lol


text mangler is the correct name for GPT

image mangler is the correct name for midjourney et al

it's just a crapshoot, the models are retarded by political censorship and copyright bullcrap


This is one of the funniest "no u"s I've heard in a while


Did it smell like boiling frogs over there?


I'd zap him but he doesn't post here 🫠


They're so desperate that they have to resort to lies like these and hope that somebody believes them


The key is not selfishness but sovereignty. Be sovereign, then you can choose what do with your sovereignty.


impostor


The bezzle is so bad


When you spend Bitcoin in the Fiat Dominion's economy, you create demand for fiat and contribute to the money printer's power over civilization.


I’d gently advise you to be skeptical. People from JPM and Deutsche Bank are running his fiscal policies. Milei appointed ex-Goldman Sachs Luis Caputo as his economy minister. Milei’s VP was trained and took courses with the CIA in DC. Much of Milei’s cabinet is from Mauricio Macri’s administration. He’s still coordinating with the IMF.


Couldn't be said enough.
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I had another incredible day with #FacesOfTomorrow - our team did 10 complex cleft lip and palate repairs on kids aged 1 to 22. Left for the hospital around 645 and got back to our hotel around 7pm.

This experience has been so fucking refreshing. I’m realizing how burnt out I was practicing in the US. Here I’m getting to practice pure medicine without any of the red tape and bullshit I’m used to. Even though our resources are extremely limited, we’re practicing at a level that rivals care in many US hospitals. And, it’s the most fun I’ve had in years working with these dedicated docs and nurses on the team. I don’t normally do pediatrics, so getting to work with kids again has been a blast. I told my wife today I might go back and do a peds anesthesia fellowship. She wasn’t thrilled 😂

Plus, the cherry on top this trip was getting back to my hotel WiFi and realizing bitcoin hit $50k. Maybe one day I’ll be able to do more mission work than fiat mining.  🎉
https://i.nostr.build/VJoj.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/KVdW.jpg


Much better use of "that 3%." 🫡


Giorgio Moroder is a boss 🤙


He STILL won't answer the Ethereum Question lmao
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There's a space nuke psyop?


That's the move


I thought I hated practicing medicine. I just hated practicing fiat medicine.


When you are done helping these folk, check out these cash based docs in Oklahoma who opt out of the fiat system:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=j5qHSf7-fCo

https://surgerycenterok.com/


They should get on Nostr


Great album


Cool


If you see that chart: would you buy the asset? 😂
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Femi Kuti is great live


Based Fela post 🚀🚀🚀
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my challenge to you:
do 100 squats a day without even posting about it.

The whole 100 push-ups a day thing feels a little misguided to me.  ESPECIALLY if it’s the only resistance exercise you are doing.

Esthetically, we value pecs, but think about how often you use the push-up motion in your day-to-day life.

Maybe pushing open a door …. and push-ups….

Moreover,  too much pushing and not enough pulling over time can lead to posture and shoulder mobility problems.

Compared to something like a squat, which, when done correctly, uses multiple muscle groups evenly and it strengthens muscles that you will use every day for the rest of your life.

Sitting/standing, walking/running/jumping, going up/down stairs, getting in and out of bed, getting in your car, etc.

It also activates ATP more which helps overall with healing from any injury.

100 squats, a day will improve your life now and make you live longer.

100 push-ups is a social media meme.

this is a great video on the basics of squatting.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bs_Ej32IYgo


I've been a fan for a while, he partly inspired my nym lol
Gonna check out this new Kanye now


They were at Electric Forest in 2013 and I missed their set lol


American Dream is straight gas, too


oof size


Always a great time to explore hip-hop
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsl5gfoNOaw


Specifically, taxes pay interest on Treasury bills and nothing else


Taxes don't pay for anything. Taxing is a mechanism to retire dollars, or curb inflation


Meetups are the best


No. Fucking. Mercy.


The COVID response nearly drove a rift between me and my family since the fearmongering got to them. It also drove me to seek parallel systems like #bitcoin and #nostr


Geofencing drives me fucking apeshit


Good point. The overreaction was worse that the actual disease


60 Minutes also says that Ray Epps is not a Fed. In other news, Freddie Mac is solvent and totally not a Ponzi scheme


They'll use Bitcoin anyway since it's a voluntary system. Easier to get on zero and have them run out of money to lend. THAT will price them out


lol it took me so long to get it


Yeah...wait, is this mBTC?


Nice redesign. I wonder if they'll propose a name for this denomination. That display standard is pretty close to the average amounts that I spend for things


I completely missed them when I was there 💀


Cleveland is cool. Haven't spent much time in Detroit yet


Monero Users: NOBODY EVEN KNOWS IM REKT

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


Everyone’s too fixated with labels, just get on and do it. Doesn’t feel any different for me from 1984 to 2024. The money is broken but the people still create. Bitcoin now offers real opportunities to build real freedom though


I'm retarded


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…


rekt


How is this different from the older VR headsets, though? Serious question


Here's another Seattle band:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Db02wN8yaFs&si=kdwQsTfGSPflrFJ7


👍 Boomers and millennials can work together to create better systems. The "class warfare" approach to generational relations is a psyop