I would like it, but look what’s happening. More municipalities, governments, and businesses are accepting bitcoin. We don’t NEED legal tender, if Bitcoin is the superior money it will be adopted. 😎


Along with Steve Lee of Spiral and Ren of Electrical Capital, I co-authored a paper on Bitcoin consensus and the analysis of risks around protocol upgrades from a technical & economic perspective:
https://github.com/bitcoin-cap/bcap

Here's the v1.0 PDF version:
https://github.com/bitcoin-cap/bcap/blob/main/bcap_v1.0.pdf

It explores what consensus is, how Bitcoin has historically upgraded its consensus over time including through contentious periods, and what some of the future paths and associated risks there are for potential changes in the future.

The paper doesn't take a stance for or against any given consensus change, but rather analyzes the field for how changes are made (which partially evolves over time as the network grows, i.e. 2024 is different than 2017 is different than 2009), and what some of the specific risks are for contentious changes from a blended economic and technical perspective.

For example, we analyze scenarios around bounty claims, which is a risk that can manifest when the majority of miners adopt a change but only a minority of economic nodes have:
https://github.com/bitcoin-cap/bcap?tab=readme-ov-file#how-might-this-occur-with-a-soft-fork

And in a world of sovereign holders, corporate treasurer holders, ETF holders, and so forth, some of that could play out differently today or in the future compared to how it might have played out in the past. And so we provide a framework to help analyze those scenarios and risks.

For the v1.0 version, we had the paper reviewed by major exchanges, ETFs, corporate treasurers, developers, miners, legal experts, philosophy professors, etc to make it as accurate and helpful as an educational resource across domains.

However, we consider our initial version to only be the start. We're releasing the paper to the public domain, and inviting people to contribute to it or even help maintain it on Github.

It's a living document, in other words. We're not the authorities on this; we just did a lot of research and review on the topic as a starting point. If there's something you think could be clarified, or something you disagree with, then we invite your contribution! And a big thank you to the initial people that reviewed it and provided feedback for the initial v1.0 version!


Which federal agency do you want to see dismantled first?

For me IRS


No man has beaten a woman so bad since Paris Olympics 😂🤣😂🤣 https://image.nostr.build/0ea0d1f647a137fa4de4314f632bd93b35d311acd419b13868845e611098d1c3.jpg


Yes, Congress does ratify the electoral votes for the President and Vice President of the United States. Here's how the process works:

- **Electoral College Voting**: After the presidential election, electors from each state meet in their respective state capitals in December to cast votes for President and Vice President.

- **Sealing and Sending Votes**: The votes are then sealed and sent to the President of the Senate.

- **Joint Session of Congress**: On January 6th, following the meeting of the electors, the Congress meets in a joint session to count and certify the electoral votes. This session is presided over by the Vice President of the United States in his capacity as President of the Senate.

- **Counting the Votes**: The votes are opened and counted in the presence of both houses of Congress.

- **Objections**: During this process, if any member of Congress objects to a state's vote or votes, both the House and Senate must adjourn to their respective chambers to consider the objection. Both chambers must agree to the objection for it to be sustained; otherwise, the votes in question are counted as cast.

- **Certification**: Once all votes are counted and any objections resolved, the results are certified. This certification is the formal ratification of the electoral votes by Congress.

This process is outlined in the U.S. Constitution and further detailed in federal law, specifically in 3 U.S.C. §§ 15-18. The ratification by Congress is a critical step in the Electoral College process, ensuring the formal and legal acknowledgment of the election results for the President and Vice President.


500 sats zapped for reposting this film.

It is very important film that everyone should see.

Also, copy a link to repost on X or Facebook as a comment to this post and I will zap you another 500 sats

https://rumble.com/v4krzak-climate-the-movie-the-real-truth.html


Do you know what disease has the highest death toll of all?

Blind obedience to authority


Without government, who will build the roads and murder the squirrels?


Do live, don't react.. ☯

(Audio ON 🔊)
https://v.nostr.build/BRgwD.mp4
#growNostr #weirdstr


Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Address to the Nation.
Worth the watch.
https://v.nostr.build/FAMa6UrypZJl4cmQ.mp4


It would be interesting to see if that policy would result in Bitcoiners actually spending it.  I think I would. I think I would convert even more $ to BTC.  Right now I really only hold dollars for current expenditures.


I’m writing this because I keep getting asked to comment on Saylor/Saif video even though my position hasn’t changed.

The natural state of the free market is deflation which means all prices fall forever in Bitcoin (assuming it stays decentralized and secure)

Free market economies are more productive meaning faster deflation (or real wealth gains by falling prices)

That system is incompatible with an inflationary monetary system meaning one of those systems must fail.

Either:

1) A system based on truth, hope, and abundance for all 8 billion people on the planet driven by a free market economy and all prices fall relative to bitcoin forever. This means Bitcoin is used as a medium of exchange and freedom tech spreads to the world through lightning, Liquid, Fedimint, Cashu, etc.

OR

2) A control system. An extractive rent seeking system that is NOT the free market (similar to the one we have had for 5000 years that resets every 100 or so years through war) continues to centralize by having you believe price of bitcoin is going up in fiat which makes the surveillance state stronger. This eventually centralizes Bitcoin - custodians, media, regulation (funded from the same manipulation of money) where it is attacked from layer 2. (Similar to gold)

While these ideas may “seem” compatible in the short term because you want Bitcoin to go up in fiat. What it really means is that you are giving your energy and strength to the system centralizing the world by converting Bitcoin to Fiat….to then measure prices.

Quite simply - If Bitcoin is only a store of value, it fails as a store of value.

Ps - It won’t fail. #1 is inevitable in time because too many (and more each day) have seen behind the curtain and are determined to build path #1.

Many of you here - the people that inspire me every day.  You make a difference with every word, thought and action.
Almost did that in all caps per nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx because it’s so important.

Referring to # 1 above…..There is no second best.


Here’s the tl;dr on why #Bitcoin is anarchy.

Anarchy means “without chief/ruler”, via medieval Latin from Greek anarkhia, from anarkhos, from an- ‘without’ + arkhos ‘chief, ruler’.

Bitcoin is a set of rules, but Bitcoin has no ruler.

Bitcoin is anarchy. https://i.nostr.build/q8bp3rv2cSNeNCEB.jpg  nostr:note1qe4dp8zhe0rd7axapf0tnzv2gxak5u64k399k97fvm92eqngmlqsnnsd60


Looks like another bailout is on the horizon. 🤡


As long as the Palestinians will only accept the complete annihilation of Israel/Jews then all I can say is live by the sword die by the sword.


I miss Texas. Don’t worry my dear I’ll be back home in January. Jack will keep care of you until then. 🤣


So this is fuckin cool https://npub.pro/

#grownostr


You are 100% correct. The problem is that those of us who don’t are a minority. 😢


Dogs are trained for different things. They could be searching for cash or explosives/weapons. My dad was on a train in Norway years ago and a policeman came through with a dog. The dog stopped at my dad and the policeman asked him if he had cash in his pocket. My dad said yes showed him the cash and then he just moved on.


I think musk has many better ideas for 1 billion dollars than spending on this psychopath. 🤪


Wall fell in 1987 pretty sure.


This is one of the most powerful indictments of legacy media and censorship I’ve ever heard…

If you care about freedom of speech, take 7 minutes of your time and listen to what Lara Logan has to say.

https://v.nostr.build/02FRAClfs6YTdm4m.mp4


Agreed 100%.

I have a mandatory pension saving in Norway that can't be accessed until age 64. I expect it to be more or less worthless when that time comes.

When people call this capitalism, instead of central planning/socialism, you can see them squirm in their attempts at rationalizing why individuals should not have genuine property rights.

It all leads back to a naive idea: you can't know what's best for you, but IF you know what's best for you, then your neighbor can't know what's best for him which makes you lucky and outcomes unfair, so you must submit your property rights to the state.

I have my savings in bitcoin only. My fiat pension will at best be coffee money.


Pensions and europe

The pension systems in Europe are a pyramid scheme and I will prove it to you.

For the pension system to be sustainable it needs at least the average number of children per couple to be higher than 2. This means that most couples must have 3 children, which means that the population has to be constantly growing.

This meets the requirements of a pyramid scheme, Madoff would be proud.

When the equation breaks down, i.e. when not enough new members enter the system, the scam collapses. In the case of Europe the average number of children per couple is barely 1.5 which means that the population is decreasing, this generates a huge deficit in the pension system to the point of making it unsustainable.

In most European countries you are not paying your pension, you are paying the pension of current retirees, another characteristic of pyramid schemes.

In conclusion, before 2040 most of the European pension systems will fail, you will not receive a pension or your pension will not even be enough to buy bread.

But luckily I have a solution, save in Bitcoin.


"There are 500-600 of the Jan 6 protestors in prison, and not one person on the Epstein flight list..."

If you actually want to understand why people are so angry and believe our govt is corrupt beyond salvageability, this explains it in a single line.

If this doesn't bother you and your immediately reaction is "bUT WhAt AbOuT..." - then you've lost the plot, imo.

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


Good Lord, unless he's reading off of chatGPT, that is some serious history stored in this man's head:

https://m.primal.net/LMmb.mp4


def the best language system i’ve found: https://www.lingq.com/


Thanks.


What are your sources for this?


Bruce Lee’s Affirmations

1. You will never get any more out of life than you expect
2. Keep your mind on the things you want and off those you don’t
3. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go
4. Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you
5. There is a difference a) the world b) our reaction to it
6. Be aware of our conditioning! Drop and dissolve inner blockage
7. Inner to outer: we start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer condition
8. See that there is no one to fight, only an illusion to see through
9. No one can hurt you unless you allow him to
10. Inwardly, psychologically, be a nobody


Early bird passes are getting scooped up quickly! Get the best price of the year for the 2025 #Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas and use code HODL ! ⚡
https://m.primal.net/JhgU.jpg


Not accurate. The Russians boycotted the 1936 Olympics. Which is even more respectable in my opinion.


Homemade https://image.nostr.build/6b11233dec9b144232c15ef27ab8c4017bb1eab62239c04a2900552e8dd1b3c2.jpg watermelon 🍉 margaritas

2oz additive free tequila

1oz fresh lime juice

Fresh Watermelon 🍉 blended 2oz added to each drink

Rim glass in tajin or salt

Salud


So much of this was before he even got elected the first time.  🤦♂

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I'm making an effort to post more on NOSTR. Interaction definitely inspires more posting here for certain.

I am a couple of weeks away from 2 major milestones.

I am launching my StealthMiner design on https://stealthminer.io in July and beginning my Solar Bitcoin Mining journey that will be installed on the bus build!

I will be sharing my Solar Mining journey and lessons learned here as I go. I will let NOSTR be the more personal touch that I leave out of X postings for the most part.

LFG 🧡


Very good documentary on the origin of central banks up to the present day (1996).

https://youtu.be/UFj0C2T8ofw


There is only one reason an AI company would hire the former head of the NSA and it isn't good.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24178079/openai-board-paul-nakasone-nsa-safety


How did Twitter become such an anti-freedom, political propaganda machine under nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m ? I am asking this question because it doesn't make sense as a bitcoiner/nostrich which he seems to be now.


The question is how many gang members has your country not deported back to El Salvador to protect their human rights?


🔥 Reminder!

👉The Simplest Bitcoin Book Ever Written is available in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to the fantastic work by @okami_9, nostr:npub1dxrhmnzk34sk7wfewvejsqz6hejkesdugwwp4zr7k006uulu9zmq6t87rc and nostr:npub1nh8xlh963men6jsu9939p3q3qwpmgfa2mdf2t3rxegfhg984pkusdx4pu8 🙏

🧡 Spanish:
https://monikabravo.notion.site/monikabravo/El-Libro-de-bitcoin-m-s-Simple-Jam-s-Escrito-8324b107e0e1444298993d070c336bce

🧡 Brazilian Portuguese:
https://mercadosatoshi.com.br/o-livro-mais-simples-sobre-bitcoin-ja-escrito/

🧡 English:
https://thesimplestbitcoinbook.net

PS: If you would like to volunteer to translate it into another language, feel free to DM! https://i.nostr.build/Q7REX.jpg https://i.nostr.build/BR5mw.jpg


Coca Cola the multipurpose liquid.
https://video.nostr.build/026d50440c673676db9855defa78415a69437625344a72144e9ff367c2e0297f.mp4


Wow how the water level has risen during the last 100 years, Al Gore was right 😂 🤡 .

Row and pay taxes, you fucking slaves!

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


Can we stop funding this stupidity already?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7qBp3TR8s


Authors with no connection to Bitcoin that you should read.

James Kavanaugh
James Redfield
Richard Bach

All are on the spiritual side one way or another.  This is not an exhaustive list.   These are just very impactful authors that are largely unknown to those under 50-60 years of age.

Redfield's best work is his first book, the rest are redundent due purely to the success of his first.  The first book is "The Celestine Prophecy" and the concept of human energy dynamics and "control dramas" is something we all need to learn about.  Very much in the school of Carl Jung but in a story line and way that makes it a lot more useful to most people.

Kavanaugh's best are "Two Gentle to Live Among Wolves" and "God Lives"

Bach's best in order are "Illusions",  "Jonathan Livingston Seagul" and "One".  While Illusions is better than JLS, JLS should likely be read first.  You could read both in a couple hours max.

None of these have a thing to do directly with bitcoin because all are far older, but you will understand bitcoin, money and society better for reading them.

Bonus points if you make it though The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert She & Robert Anton Wilson which is more about how people are controlled by the people they think they are opposing.

#bookstr


Perfect!! 🤤😋


Sorry for your loss.


I’m scared. lol.


Are there other sources to support this statement?


Good morning Nostriches from?

#grownostr
https://m.primal.net/IDja.jpg


“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
– Carl Sagan

#grownostr


The devil knows more for an old man than for a devil.

I'm glad my recommendations are coming to fruition, here 3 of the ones that have ended up settling down over time.

- Simplex
- Start9
- Joinmarket

Simplex over any existing messaging app for several reasons, the first one does not use phone numbers or identities, and very important, decentralized, and you can set up your own server in 5 minutes.

Start9 for being an easy, simple and clean solution, a very well finished and robust product. I manage a lot of projects and I don't feel like wasting time setting up the basics, in the same way that I run away from linux distributions like gentoo, I don't like having to do the whole process manually, it's fine for a newbie, I haven't had to prove anything to myself for a long time 😂.

Joinmarket because centralized coordinators have never been a solution, in just one week your whole world of centralized coordinators has collapsed, and the nonsense I had to put up with from the Samourai cultists.

Now I am looking forward to the arrival of Joinstr and ARK, do not doubt that I will be the first to test it and report, I hope to get it right, as always 😂.

This last one is a joke, I am wrong many times, look if I was wrong that I decided to abandon the fiat world for Bitcoin and now I am bald from headaches.


We’re still gonna recognize you. 🤣🤣


we're dca'ing bitcoin https://block.xyz/documents/bitcoin-blueprint.pdf


Quietly released over the past few days, nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a has a new narrated animation video summarizing her book, Broken Money. It’s beautifully done, and a great start to her new YouTube channel, Lyn Alden Media. Thank you for all you do. Your work is having a positive impact on people around the world.

https://youtu.be/jk_HWmmwiAs?si=VmbFLCXGcHkbSTUi


Holy shit, I just bought and sold Bitcoin into and out of my self-hosted  nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg via my self-hosted  nostr:npub1kdkl4prkt7jmy8cdzdutqv8988vekl93nj4r25zpqpa5uacm9jkqnsjzq5 on my  nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll

Wild stuff.

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


Damn it nostr:npub15879mltlln6k8jy32k6xvagmtqx3zhsndchcey8gjyectwldk88sq5kv0n !! Stop making me wanting to zap you. I know you don’t need it. 🤣 I’m glad you are off twitter. Your notes feel less angry.


A couple of things here to clarify the importance of full nodes:

First
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The concept and purpose of running a node is very much like the idea that everyone should be able to own a gun to defend liberty.
- It doesn't mean everyone will.
- It doesn't mean individuals can "fight off the government goons" with a handgun.
- It doesn't mean the state isn't more powerful than one person with their gun.
- It DOES mean that to conquer an entire nation of determined, gun owning people who want their liberty requires *active* and *direct* attack, because collectively enough people are armed that popular resistance actually stands a chance against tyrannical governments (who are naturally cowards)

The logic for anyone and everyone running a node who is capable is shockingly similar here.

Second:
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"Have we ever retroactively fixed a 5 year old "error" in the chain? No. Will we ever, no. Do you ever think, I wonder if that transaction from 2016 is still valid, I had better check?"

It isn't really about knowing that every transaction that other people are conducting is valid, it's about ensuring that *the #bitcoin you own* are REAL bitcoin. Bitcoins are created, are defined, and exist entirely and *solely* by a set of rules being followed for how they are created and how they are validly transferred. HALF of the supply of bitcoins was created prior to 2013. If you aren't confirming that the blocks that mined your coins into existence followed the rules, then you don't know if you are following an honest network.
--- The prime example here is Bitcoin Dark, which forked off and created 300K extra coins in the "privacy pool balance," then waited almost a year and a half to withdraw the from the privacy pool and since almost no one ran a full node, it went unnoticed except for a bitcoiner who actually ran full nodes for tons of forks out of curiosity and publicly posted when his node saw the bizarre transaction.
--- You could easily argue that no one needed to care about what happened 15 months ago on the chain... and every one of them was getting scammed specifically because they didn't.

IF we don't have the chain & valid link that traces all the way back to when your coins are created, you have abandoned the triple entry accounting breakthrough.

Third
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It isn't about simply making sure people can keep up with the chain when it comes to cost. It's also about ensuring *real* consensus is maintained (again requiring proof that the bitcoins being transferred are also real) across all borders, against any and all attackers, through any firewalls, on public and private networks, AND can recover after a disaster or massive failure on the network or in the software. Even if cheap SDDs are 50TB, if it takes 6 months to sync the chain, and there is either a direct attack, or a major bug that corrupts the data and forces a reset and sync-from-beginning on 60% of the nodes, that threatens the security and decentralization of the entire global monetary foundation for half a year *at best,* while what may be more likely is that having only 40% of the nodes, just becomes the new normal, and we never go back to the security we once had.

Last
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This is about securing the *trend* of decentralization indefinitely into the future.
It will require constant and deliberate attention and work to ensure it. We will have constant and recurring layers and degrees of centralization in the market, in the technology and hardware around it, in service provision, in some layer on top of Bitcoin that we become overly dependent on, AND on the base layer as costs rise and incentives to run nodes are low. But when an attack arises, when this centralization threatens the censorship resistance, or permission-less nature of the network, we will suddenly and aggressively remember how important it is to run nodes - and it will always be a part of any attempt at defending and repairing those critical re-centralization trends to run a full node, verify everything, and ensure the broadcast layer cannot be squeezed out of existence. That it can be reached to any and all participants no matter where they are in the world.

So the real question is:
Will this get *easier* to secure and protect in 5 years, or will it be *harder*? Because if it is harder, we have a problem, because how much security and decentralization do we lose exactly? 10%? 20%? What happens when we compound that every 5 years for another 50? If we have set it up to become more centralized in an irreparable way, slowly and incrementally, then that's the surest way to guarantee we end up on a system that only a handful of people run and who can dictate or defraud the whole world as to what is a "real" bitcoin and what isn't.

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There are a number of other nuances here because running (and communicating) a full node history isn't merely a problem of hard drive space, in fact, that's the least of the problems and the one that scales the best... while it is still a problem despite. The bigger problems are the computation, the RAM requirements, the speed of data indexing/recall/verification, the bandwidth to download and broadcast the information that is coming to-and-from the base layer, AND of course to then do all of the computation and verification of the *numerous* layers on top of it that we will have to use. Remember that layers themselves are just another trade off, and it's not as if they cost nothing to run. It is merely that they cost *less* to run than scaling on the base layer.

So in short,
you can't really make this short, so read the whole thing.

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Also, I actually kind of like your final argument and position on the "you don't even vote in your own republic" is pretty good, but I think it works *in support* of the full node argument, it doesn't replace it.

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Kinda funny. Pay us, now go and protest, and get the shit beat out of you. I never said bought of it in that light.


Good morning, Nostriches!

“We cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used to create them.”
– Albert Einstein

#grownostr


Nice picture. With pixel 7a?


“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”
– Louis Pasteur


Said more eloquently than I ever could. I agree 💯


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).


I love my Yeti mug. Of course blue is the best color obviously. 🤣


The parasites are banking on the past 5000 years of men asking to be ruled by a king, church, government, etc.


What’s Gavin doing today?


Top Study: Carbon Emissions CANNOT Cause ‘Global Warming’

This is exactly what I have said for years and I feel due a long line of people waiting to apologize for the names I have been called.  I will not hold my breath.  😂

https://slaynews.com/news/top-study-carbon-emissions-cannot-cause-global-warming/

"A bombshell new peer-reviewed study has provided conclusive scientific evidence proving that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Earth’s atmosphere cannot cause “global warming.”

Dr. Jan Kubicki led a group of world-renowned Polish scientists to study the impact of increases in CO2 emissions on the Earth’s global temperatures.

However, not only did they find that higher levels of CO2 made no difference, but they also proved that it simply isn’t possible for increases in carbon dioxide to cause temperatures to rise."