It's crazy how many parallels there are between the health space and digital finance space.

"Don't just buy #Bitcoin, you need a 'balanced crypto portfolio'"

"Don't just eat the most nutritious, bioavailable food on earth (meat), you need a 'balanced diet'"

The #BTC and #Carnivore rabbit holes are so fascinating in large part because they are so identical. Both can be summarized quite simply:

- Clear, optimal option exists, which increases self-sovereignty for adopters

- Swarm of inferior pretenders arrive, looking to extract money from the pockets of the uneducated by marketing themselves as something you NEED TO HAVE TOO for some made-up reason, which is relentlessly pushed by their marketing team and lemming followers

- Due to both top dogs' sovereignty-creating characteristics, the bureaucratic class don't like them either, so they pile onto the side of the alternatives, spending an enormous amount of money propping up their schemes as an indirect means of preventing the masses from reaching the paradigm-shattering truth

- Result: mass-confusion, TONS of people having no idea where the signal is, aside from a very small, elite group who has completed the Dunning-Kruger journey, and have skin thick enough to withstand the masses of sheep telling them they're wrong because "NOOOOO YOU NEED TO HAVE SOME SHITCOINS/POISON TOO"

Those who've completed both journeys, i.e. CARNIVORE BITCOINERS, are the most elite group of modern humans on earth IMO. It takes tremendous persistence, open-mindedness, and conviction to successfully beat both of these treks which modern society, as well as the sheep masses, work so tirelessly to prevent you from reaching the finish line on.

If you're not quite there yet on one or both of these intellectual journeys, don't worry! The fact that you're reading this right now means you're on the correct path.

Keep learning, keep asking the hard questions, and never stop challenging your preconceived views. It's a crazy fucking world out there, and I promise you that what you find on the other side of this dual-rabbit-hole adventure will be more beautiful than you can imagine!

Whether you're still in the learning phase, or you've crossed the finish line and are looking to help others find the way...follow/bookmark both of these to make your job a LOT easier:

⚡ nostr:npub1faz07cnvk3mphja8g5fxrw8lxkme34ucuyj8f4d24kxwj5t2un9q0atu9c / WhyBitcoinOnly.com

🥩 nostr:npub1508rk9udkqcvt0wdm5d20jdfzflvk9l3da764awcy95xpd6c357qkrtwu3 / WhyCarnivore.com


“Eu amo a América, eu amo a Constituição, eu amo a Primeira Emenda, eu posso, eu quero carregar todas as malditas armas, eu amo propriedade privada, e deixe-me dizer uma coisa, se você se preocupa com a porra do seu país, leia Ludwig Von Mises e as seis lições da Escola Econômica Austríaca, filhos da puta!” -Renato Moicano

GN, Nostr. What an epic evening 😂 nostr:note1vxy40h5nmwm0n3ghzktnkhltrrqdp9w9e7mtsld97pxtz8y0vzeqzuv8ap


The blocksize war wasn't so much about the blocksize (or, even, scaling Bitcoin). It was really about who controls the consensus rules and how we upgrade the protocol.

For context, a bunch of startups raised tons of money between 2013 and 2016 based on ridiculous user sign-up projections and then we had a long and painful bear market and they were looking for scapegoats (the developpers that were "throttling the network") to justify the lack of growth. I am thinking here specifically of Coinbase, Bitpay and Blockchain.info.

The vibe I got is that they thought of Bitcoin itself as a corporation, that they were the equivalent of Bitcoin's board of directors because they represented the interest of VC investors, and thus they were entitled to decision making power over the network.

I don't doubt that a few people were genuine about scaling p2p e-cash (e.g. Roger Ver) but I suspect what really motivated them is that they believed control of the Bitcoin network would be an asset to their business interests, and lack of control was being used as an excuse to why their interests weren't being satisfied.

There was also a bunch of developers that I believe may have been afraid of losing their relevance (Gavin and Garzik specifically). Regardless of their intentions or psychology, it seemed clear to me that the consortium of vc-backed startups (particularly Bitpay, Coinbase, blockchain(.)info and Roger) had picked a team of developers they thought they could control and wanted to appoint them as a technical management team whicn would execute their strategy, and these guys were willing to step up for that role.

I was physically in the room when the CEO of Blockchain.info (with the very obvious support of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong) announced that Bitcoin Core devs were being fired and would be replaced. This was after a couple days of failed discussions with other industry people. This was the moment when I realized what was really going on.

And finally, you had a Bitcoin mining giant (Bitmain) controlling both asic production and mining pools with a vested interest in promoting the idea that Bitcoin was a democracy and the way to vote was to buy hashing power. The main ideology being pushed here was that a formal governance mechanism of the protocol needed to be established and that hashrate was the only objective measure of who makes decisions.

The underlying big blocker ideology was that the chaos of spontaneous consensus of nodes is unpredictable, flimsy, bad for business. The absence of a formal governance process was seen as the root cause of the issue.

These companies really believed they could control the protocol, and controlling development of the protocol was seen as a very valuable asset to your company. I imagine they thought of themselves as the founders of a new consortium that would solidify itself into a permanent institution. The business interests would pay developers and set the goals, and the mining interests would ratify their decisions with hash power voting. That was their plan.

This became blatantly obvious when Bitmain used its refusal to activate segwit as leverage to get what it wanted (a blocksize increase and recognition of its hashpower as a vote mecanism) even though Bitmain iself acknowledged it was not really opposed segwit.

It was classic traditional politics: I'll give you segwit if you give me something in return.

This is the language the VC suits, investors and tech startup people understand and they were very happy to "negotiate" and find "consensus".

This eventually materialized into the New York Agreement, negotiated literally as a backroom deal during theConsensuss shitcoin conference. I was there and I refused to attend.

This (private) meeting consecrated the alliance of startups/investors and bitcoin mining interests in their appointment of a technical management committee. If you think this sounds like Jekyll Island, you're not alone.

They packaged segwit with a blocksize increase (Segwit2x) and decided to force a hard fork as a condition to "allow" us to have Segwit.

We know the rest of the story: we ended up activating anyway via UASF (or more precisely, the miners activated Segwit after they New York Agreement signatories became scared UASF would lead to a chain split which they were going to lose). And the blocksize increase was also abandoned shortly after when they realized their hard fork would cause a chain split and that they would not be able to claim that their new shitcoin is the real bitcoin.

All these people were subsequently were very pissed off they couldn't control the network, which they thought they were entitled to. Some ragequit, others created a bunch of shitcoins out of spite, Roger went on to spearhead BCH as the real Bitcoin, all these fools realized they might as well make some money off of it, everyone went all-in on the shitcoin casinos after that. The "small blockers" eventually went on to evolve into the Bitcoin Maximalists and cypherpunks that today tell you to run your own node and own your own keys.


Keep stacking and don't loose faith. You will be rewarded.


Thats fucking funny. 😂


“I think people just need to look bigger. They need to think bigger than themselves. They need to think bigger than just their own little selfish personality.” — Mark Moss on THE #Bitcoin Podcast

Listen everywhere 👇
https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast
#Titcoin
https://m.primal.net/HtmT.mov


nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx quickly explaining why Elon Musk bought Twitter. Spoiler Alert: Its for the Power, not the Freedom
https://v.nostr.build/aQZo6.mp4


Yes. The film makers clearly did not understand what LSD is about, but what the people interviewed explained was true back then and is true today. Also to ask if God appeared like a man shows that the interviewerr did not get it at all...


Interesting
https://youtu.be/ouQB3CSn2YI


'Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.'

Henry David Thoreau

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#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney


Bitcoin is a telescope you can gaze through, to understand much about the laws of Nature and the desires of humanity.

I meditate on Bitcoin. Bitcoin brings me wisdom.


BREAKING : The doom and gloom is psyop.

😎Love the life you live and live the life you love😎
❤


I am concerned about this as well.
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Bring him a Bitcoin Business Kit! https://bitcoin.rocks/business/kit


#Bitcoin  is fuck-you money because you can go wherever and whenever the fuck you want.

Just remember, 12/24 words and you're gone. That freedom alone is worth at least $1 million, especially in the dystopian future we're heading towards.


I’m growing shockingly disinterested in fiat problems, which are myriad, increasing, and inescapable.

Build a better world with me… with #Bitcoin.

🧡


'The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.'

Alan Watts

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#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney


SPEAK CLEARLY FRIENDS.


🟠 Bitcoin miners hashing in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 https://video.nostr.build/bcde16e6b25a88364ca53ffe7f1dcf5002092d51a8ae49aabbd9a4c1f71cd156.mp4


We should be thinking 7 generations but first we need to get people thinking 7 years.

#grownostr


I WILL NEVER TURN MY BACK ON BITCOIN. I HAVE DEDICATED MY LIFE TO THE MOVEMENT.

- TWITTER IS NOT BITCOIN.
- I DOUBT SATOSHI WOULD SUPPORT WE CHAT OF THE WEST LMFAO.

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From our meditations, for public benefit

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Having the time to work on yourself daily (read, meditate, exercise, ..) is the true flex in our enslaved fiat society, where everyone can finance everything with debt except time and your personality.


Something I shared on Twitter, interested in the perspectives here too:

“I want #bitcoin  to do three things well:
1. Send
2. Receive
3. Store

Personally, I’m only interested in development which ensures #bitcoin  does these three things better, faster and more securely while maintaining maximum decentralisation.

All other use cases to me represent a grift on the #bitcoin  system from privileged people who don’t prioritise these three things highly enough.

So many people have worked so hard over the last 15 years to get #bitcoin  where it is, battles against so many powerful forces, yet #bitcoin  survived.

Now we are degrading the #bitcoin  system for non-monetary use cases.

H/t to @GrassFedBitcoin - something we discussed deeply yesterday.”


Bitcoin will do more for mankind than any government ever could.


China is an untested superpower without real-world wartime experience with modern weapons, modern warfare, and modern intelligence.

Russia is the only real threat to the United States.

Russia never wanted to be that. The US rejected their desire to join NATO, sabotaged Putin's relationships with Chirac and Shroeder. In fact it was probably the joint veto of the US iraq war (Russia + France + Germany) in the UN security council that made the US dead-set on isolating Russia from Western Europe. People always mention NATO expansion, but there was a lot of other moves the West pulled, such as withdrawing from the ABM treaty, putting Aegis defense systems in Poland and Romania (to defend against Iran? bullshit), etc, of course most recently the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline. The US sabotaged Russia's desire to be friends with Europe countless times and forced Russia into the only move it had left - to build itself up militarily, in as much isolation as America could create for it. But it wasn't supposed to succeed god damnit! The Americans fucking *HATE* that Russia actually economically grew so much and militarily developed so god damn much over such short time. And they *hate* that their sactions didn't work, that they can't just make the world dance at their whim anymore. The Americans reliably play their hand like absolute dicks, and I'm glad their gambits fail. Fuck the Americans (I'm talking about those in power, not you guys. I love you guys).


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Goals like this are why I'm so strict about my diet, and my health in general.

Is it going to kill you immediately if you have a few carbs here, and a few carbs there?

No. But these things DO add up over the course of a lifetime, and I value my future health, as well as that of my eventual family, so far above a few seconds of tastebud pleasure today, it's practically never worth the tradeoff of cheating.

Plus, like so many people, I was raised on a diet full of grains, salads, soymilk, green smoothies, and every other oxalate-loaded  frankenplant concoction you could think of, so a great deal of damage has already been done. Zero reason to add more now.

You can't change the past, but you can change the future. And in that future, we're going to see a MASSIVE divergence between those who used the technological tools at their disposal to achieve stellar health for themselves and their families, and those who devolved into purposeless, impotent, infertile soy blobs.

Which side do you want to be on?

Make your decision, and take a fucking stand for it!


There’s an emoji for a freaking bridge troll 🧌 but not for #Bitcoin …

Let’s change that.

Video by nostr:npub1lr2zzf989mvf393y0tv39ara6a4vddkd6y87z784up9vl6ks6j3qtudl6a 👏👏👏

Petition 👇
https://www.change.org/p/bitcoin-deserves-an-emoji https://v.nostr.build/DjjEV.mp4


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Funny how the instant you realize what #bitcoin  really is, it becomes the most obvious thing in the world.

It’s a great feeling though it’s often followed by regret for not having put in the time to learn about it earlier.


4 years ago today since the world stood STILL. 🤯 https://i.nostr.build/9zz6J.jpg https://i.nostr.build/kZZOz.jpg https://i.nostr.build/5GGlw.jpg https://i.nostr.build/7GGWv.jpg https://i.nostr.build/DjjM4.jpg


GM.

(Purchasing) Power to the People.

#Bitcoin


“The Pandemic showed me that most of my neighbors are nazis who are simply awaiting instructions from a Führer & that's a lesson I can never unsee.”

@americanhodl8 https://video.nostr.build/d2dbaba22e0de5642aca80b03988b1e90d923eb93a10f9553f70ac59343f13f1.mp4


EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON TV IS A SCRIPTED PERFORMANCE WITH THE PURPOSE OF SHAPING YOUR WORLD VIEW TO BENEFIT THE POWERFUL INTERESTS RUNNING THE SHOW. https://image.nostr.build/54574c551e3500893acadd92c0e512f8dfc4801abd03c8ef9f8fe54d81761d7a.jpg


Bitcoin Black Mirror: not a prediction or financial advice, this is for entertainment purposes only

Bitcoin moons to 690,420 cuck bucks, the FED pulls the liquidity rug. Jerome starts QT’ing to the max as congress balances the budget.   Banks fail, grandmas retirement goes poof, they let loose the hounds of media propaganda. Bitcoin is blamed for financial crisis 2.0.

 On Friday the 13th 13% of us get black bagged and deposited in the nearest volcano while the rest of y’all get sent to the gulag for forced labor (hand knitting rainbow colored polyester covid face masks for dogs).

Meanwhile they 6102 the ETFs and close all on-ramps while criminalizing math and other stuff.

As the price nukes, Peter Schiff and Kramer both flip bullish at the same time thus condemning humanity to 1000 years of darkness.

The cascading collapse continues apace.

 nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx gets a haircut and starts buttoning all his buttons.
 nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m starts showing emotion on a daily basis.
Craig Wright is recognized as the world’s foremost expert in samurai sword fighting.  nostr:npub1z4m7gkva6yxgvdyclc7zp0vz4ta0s2d9jh8g83w03tp5vdf3kzdsxana6p and  nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg are his two star pupils and become bitter rivals as the vie for his attention and praise.
 nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc changes his name to Ffs and forsakes his green suit for his birthday suit. Privacy be damned.
 nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a and  nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z start a paid group offering inside scoops on the next hot NFT project.
 nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe starts a hot air balloon tourism company as he daily extolls the benefit’s of inflation to the masses.
 nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs goes back to school for an MBA and becomes an accountant.

 nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf runs for office.
 nostr:npub1nw5vdz8sj89y3h3tp7dunx8rhsm2qzfpf8ujq9m8mfvjsjth0uwqs9n2gn's fuzzy hair falls out revealing that his skin is actually green.  He stops believing.

 nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 starts making calculators.

 nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft stops working altogether.
 nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy finally starts zapping but no one cares.
 nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s and  nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 get jobs at Facebook and really enjoy the free lunches and other perks.
 nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 pivots to making videos explaining how to pair your wifi printer to your laptop over tor.
  nostr:npub153xmex42x4chdf757hp3q6zxagykkek7pdgwuwd074964dkyha9s82ryu8 renounces Creed and starts brewing kombucha
.
 nostr:npub1ejvhdkt8ppefezgz0sgnwdqrn8l4z8muws2k8dz2tv0a57ac2z9st56q8x goes vegan.
 nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw is the last daily active user utilizing nostr

The world gradually then suddenly slips into the abyss and a million years later aliens are befuddled at the only remains of a brief dream of a bright orange future:

a stash of 21 bright orange plastic hand grenades with a strange symbol on them buried in what used to be  nostr:npub1lrjgpa9m2dl6esdah5pq7m005ymwh4glq4aet76q2zlz2f83esfsa2zvrj backyard with a bunch of random words inside…


You can go along with mainstream narratives or you can critically think. But you cannot do both. Choose wisely, as your future depends on it. #Bitcoin.


I’m bullish about Bitcoin because after 30 years of working decent paying jobs on the fiat mine hamster wheel, it’s the first time I’m actually getting ahead. I can have dreams again. The last 24 months is the first time as an adult that I’ve been incentivized to save. It actually gets you somewhere now. The biggest casualty of monetary debasement is hope. Bitcoin has given that back.


Bitcoin is demonetizing real estate. A lot of “invoosters” chomping at the bit to “buy the dip” in real estate are going to get burnt badly. It’s for the most part essentially a shitcoin, just one that’s slightly less shitty than the dollar.


Who knew that the ultimate motivator for building significant wealth would be to afford all means of eliminating government interference and interactions from my family’s life? And yet, here we are*.

* Sent from the DMV

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Stacking sats at ATH’s just hits different. Like Saylor I’ll be buying the top forever.

#Bitcoin


Ever wondered what the true cost of printing $6 trillion is?

https://v.nostr.build/eJJ0.mp4


Who are you voting for? The giant douche or the turd sandwich? Just curious.


"Bitcoin has a way of separating itself from those that don't understand it." —BCB


All prices falling forever when measured in #Bitcoin!
If you think the past ride is something, watch as the rest of the ~ 7.9 Billion souls on this planet start to understand it, buy it, and contribute their time to this open and honest protocol.
Almost unimaginable from the paradigm most people are measuring from.


The government is literally stealing your life with taxes and fiat monetary inflation…

As a conservative example:

You start working at 20.
You work until you’re 65.
You pay +/- 33% of your income in taxes.

The government takes 1/3 of your working life…

They have stolen **15 YEARS** of your time, energy, and work.

And for what?

For roads? (LOLOLOL)

For a broken education system?

For a medical system that wants to keep you sick and medicated?

For the military industrial complex which gets rich off foreign forever wars you never agreed to?

And while they are stealing 1/3 of your life, they are PRINTING MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR, stealing MORE of your time/energy/life force through the destruction of your purchasing power.

The taxes you pay don’t even fund the government; an ever-growing pile of national debt does, fueled by money created out of thin air by the Federal Reserve System. The dollars in your bank account are worth less and less every year, as your purchasing power is systematically destroyed.

I am grateful #Bitcoin exists so I can opt out of this nonsense and save the value of my time and energy.

Anyway, have a beautiful day.


BTC is ranging today & it just seems like very controlled aggression.
Couple hundred blips here or there. Like a boxer tossing some soft left jabs to test his opponent. Just throwing a few & dancing around a bit before the fucking overhand right to the skull next week.


You can't stop things like Bitcoin. It will be everywhere, and the world will have to readjust. World governments will have to readjust.


- If the state does not protect you from physical violence by third parties
- If the state does not protect your health
- If the state does not protect your private property
- If the state is not able to ensure a welfare state
- If the state confiscates more than 50% of your wealth

Who in their right mind wants a state?


Where were you when the Coinbase circuit breaker tripped again?  #bitcoin #meme #memstr https://video.nostr.build/539d77c89ff0ba3301e94580a23b41b25b3f4f1b5ac10cd56e39922973767d82.mp4


The Matrix is my favorite movie ₿ecause it is a perfect reflection of our reality as slaves in a system we were ₿orn into.

Satoshi Nakamoto was the One. The One who showed us how to unplug and ₿e set free.  ₿ut each of us must do it on our own.

And once you are free you see clearly for the first time how truly nightmarish reality has ₿ecome.

₿ut nobody else around you can see what you see unless they have unplugged themselves. Therefore, they serve the system ₿lindly. They not only cannot see the way out.  Many aren’t even looking for it.

The system is so powerful and intoxicating that some who have freedom for the first time will be afraid of the responsibility and tempted to go back.

Stand strong, ₿rothers & Sisters.


I spent 6 MONTHS building the most effective bitcoin course for visual learners.

All my best content in 2hrs of narrated videos.
High-level, non-technical & self-paced.

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Enjoy🤙

*All previous students will be offered a full refund via email.
https://bitcoincourse.io


Bitcoin is the:

Math class you never had.
History class you never had.
Finance class you never had.
Political class you never had.
Economics class you never had.
 - nostr:npub18lkuerktq4kmgte2jv9nhqkjkh84n4umm8rhw3egh8xz8chrv4uqpf03et

#BitcoinTwitter
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The ~1 year short squeeze that happened in $GME where retail investors fought to stick it to Wall Street after robbing the little guy for decades…

Is just the precursor to the $BTC hodlers engaging in a 30 year short squeeze against all the fiat of the world.

This is about permanently replacing the system. If you are here to buy and exit with more fiat, HFSP.

We are going to rug pull the corrupt monies of the world.

#Bitcoin or nothing


I’VE BEEN WRONG FOR 2 YEARS. NOW I’M LUCKY.


Listen up

https://v.nostr.build/6aJv.mp4


A good book to start with is this one : https://www.amazon.com/Carnivore-Diet-Shawn-Baker/dp/162860350X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=78KGEFZ355GS&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.OupQdPEXJCQtSZ7zsLQy4ZiV_4_JF2ghOCsAepzsMM2yKdRgU1eOuNdT9nARTorIpx0S_kEdHcx8PmYsJ83D88UUN1l_AM2oCI1_b-NlCV1cCI7uISRmgaN9x3k3aM2gBpAf79KFV4_mPKl54icqDWqsB7eeBOq5V-caDeJudqTHTWI1jpdmQQQNsqcX7UNvaaxI29QgJWWxVOgXFMM1bA.2acxhpAKOTd6FSXoL7ac1_ej0XaieEllL4WPDH1ndzA&dib_tag=se&keywords=carnivore+diet&qid=1709354574&sprefix=carnivore%2Caps%2C267&sr=8-1


Your main source of calories should be beef or lamb. As both are quite expensive where I live I eat mostly ground beef. 400gr. in the morning fried in a pan as patties. 400gr. for lunch as ground beef + 100gr cheese and for dinner Steak or a couple of eggs with lots of butter. In case I need more calories I eat more butter or creme fraiche with a little honey. Sometimes I eat a little liver fried in the pan as well. Don't use any seed oils, but fry everything directly or in butter or clarified butter.


Facebook is coke
instagram is pepsi
Nostr is a double shot of water from the well.


I'd be getting one! Where will you sell these?


What material do you use to orange pill shop owners? Just had a nice experience with one in India. I would like to send him a guide on how accept payments in Bitcoin and also some Material why he should hodl and not trade bitcoin. Any suggestions?


„The #Bitcoin halving is priced in and is reflected in its current price of $50k.“ - JP Morgan

 Also JP Morgan: https://image.nostr.build/24e92993bef6ba1b4c57d3f2d620a6606e4780dfd7d88b8622c23cf43b90b43a.jpg


A 1st class ticket for the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.
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Still my favorite bitcoin chart.
https://m.primal.net/Heyz.png


Farmers break through police roadblocks in Brussels 🔥

https://v.nostr.build/kMB6.mp4


Satoshi designed bitcoin so that he or anyone independently wouldn't mater.

Satoshi didn't want to be sanctified or worshipped, Satoshi didn't want to be known.

Satoshi faded away, respect his wishes.


They keep us busy so we don’t see what they are doing. Little things like race baiting, class warfare, illegal migration, red vs. blue, pandemic lockdowns, etc…these are mere distractions.

So what are they really doing? It’s time for another great taking. Keeping track of who owns what is messy. Some people really like stealing; but they don’t like jail…thus, they borrow and settle as a matter of law their right not to pay back what they borrowed. This is one way how some of the unethical elite steal without punishment.

But you see, there are many types of unethical elite, each with his own means of stealing.

This is why you can’t win. Not from within their system. That’s by design.

Bitcoin lets you play a new game by a new set of natural rules and win.


“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

― Robertson Davies


People using freedom tech are the minority.


Collectivism: Try to find something critical about climate change or covid on google. Most people don't want to see that the big tech tools they are using are biased.


Dear nostr bro’s you can hit me up about your feelings.

Hodling bitcoin is fucking hard. Overcoming childhood trauma is fucking hard. Being responsible for a family is fucking hard. Living under the surveillance state is fucking hard. Getting to the gym everyday is fucking hard. Eating right is fucking hard. Knowing who to listen to is fucking hard. Getting ahead in your career is fucking hard. Sticking to your principles is fucking hard. Making friends in adulthood is fucking hard. Dealing with the death of parents is fucking hard. Trying to claw your way out of nihilism is fucking hard. Life is fucking hard.

Sometimes you just need a bro to listen. nostr:note1tcyesknnwndgc4p493kzclen5yh7yhajutdpxrft3rhw2dtd2rvs20hxj5


So simple , yet less than 0.3% do it:
1. Buy #bitcoin
2. Put it in cold storage
3. HODL
4. Become free


The greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing the world that the global economy needs to be micromanaged by academic economists who manipulate interest rates and the supply of money and that sound money is bad for the economy.


Good Morning #Nostr ☕ ...covid was a scam!


Good morning from Prague, where we host national largest collection of tractors today!
I'll probably take boys to the city to check out the protests, as a big fan of anything that will at least annoy our government.
#prague #czechia #czechstr #praha #protest #eu


https://image.nostr.build/4c51799fd42e960c20da216d0b18978ab05298f41e802cf8ee15e57856122d56.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 830,916 🤙💜


I bought bitcoin because I believed I was right.

I still believe I’m right.

And I’m right.


#Bitcoin is the schilling point for the global resistance of all people everywhere against all governments everywhere.

No matter your station of birth, your creed, class, or color; Bitcoin will always and forever protect your right to own part of the 21mm coins that are Bitcoin.

Source: nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf


IF YOU ARE READING THIS I APPRECIATE YOU.

WE ARE THE FEW. TOGETHER WE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER.

ONWARD 🫡


Individuals hodl half of all the bitcoin that will ever exist.

Let’s keep it that way. https://image.nostr.build/7b9c69bd0e4ce549790013a8e5171f95e2aa69f4be54f3b0fe83b45d3be1af94.jpg


I think the majority though will not care or even try. You cannot save people who don’t want to be saved.


#Nostr is my safe place

A place where I feel at home with like minded people who are open for discussion, loving and passionate about the future.

I often feel very disconnected from friends and family these days. Once you see the rat race/matrix, you can’t unsee it.

I know there are people who feel the same way and feel often lonely in this world.

I’m here for you. It’s part of the journey to make the world a better place 🧡


Check out former US President, Barack Obama, indirectly referring to #Bitcoin as an impenetrable financial system with no back doors that the government cannot control....
Bullish.

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


jabba the hutt can go fuck himself
https://video.nostr.build/fe741cf82955565cda4ee001443a4f7ba2cc5aeec10d5fd7b7a0c1e81dd4582d.mp4


Craig is getting crucified on the stand. Forgery after forgery presented and he can do nothing but keep repeating that the expert witnesses, including his own, are incompetent.

He has tried a couple of times to appeal to the judge with stuff like “you will understand m’lord as a learned engineer” when he attacks the experts. The judge only seems annoyed with it.

Still 4.5 days left of cross examination. This is a train wreck playing out.


Nothing to forgive them for. NPCs. Nothing to trust them for either. I saw them sell out their fam and frens. They told us who they are. I am not gonna forget.


In no small way, Bitcoin is about becoming the person you were meant to be instead of the person you were taught to be.

To me anyway.


Love it or hate it, there will be graffiti on the cathedral. Because the timechain is us, and ultimately that combo represents who we are. https://image.nostr.build/e6ae09a5dafe78652969c594298f77c278d68480f7adc72f5506a5cef65a9371.jpg


Happy birthday nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m - Michael is one of the people that influenced me early on in my bitcoin journey and I’ll always be grateful for that


FREEDOM TECH IS HOPE 🫡

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


Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
- Marcus Aurelius


Ok, Everybody wants Amethyst Purple now. But hold your horses.

I want to first try a release-based donation model that goes straight to the devs/designers/translators who helped in that specific release. It's similar to what we do today in my release notes where your zap splits go straight to the devs.

The goal of the model is to align the right incentives with the finances: we only get paid when we have something new. If we don't ship, nobody gets anything. That will keep the wheels turning and avoid the usual product stagnation.

On top of that, I don't want to make Amethyst a company. At least not yet. Companies are too centralized and complicated for my current taste. I want to see if we can stay as a humble open-source project while collecting the same amounts a company would but through your direct payments/donations to what would have otherwise been employees.

Basically, an extreme version of value 4 value.

We will see if the idea works. It's still early and we already collect a good amount per month (~$1700/mo combined). So, it should be possible. Fingers crossed.


China's central bank announced Wednesday its largest "economic first aid package" in two years. Measures include a 50-basis points cut in required cash reserves for banks, translating into around a $140 billion liquidity injection into the banking system, starting February 5th 2024 .


gm NOSTR 🤙 do you know about the "Lipstick Indicator" for predicting recessions?

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


#Bitcoin literally arrived last minute. With the upcoming financial totality (CBDC) and rapid growth in efficiency (AI), non-state money is absolutely crucial.

Imagine – and this will happen soon – that central bankers will try to maintain x% inflation in a world of dramatically increasing efficiency.

Instead of growing prosperity corresponding to human progress, braindead central bankers will try to maintain inflation, "because it is essential for the economy."

The only thing they will achieve is massive theft of wealth from the population.

Fortunately, we already have an opt-out strategy. We have bitcoin.


Amazing. They have no fear. I hope they stay strong. Something similar is going on in Germany.

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You have to love this guy's sense of humor.

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


Without fiat governments, who would steal 70%+ of your income each year via taxation and inflation to fund forever wars abroad?

Opt out with #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/1b8e0be3f5acd6d4eb614b14514f91a103b735280065134d6dd38545e841e720.jpg


I remember the days when every bitcoiner was worried where will they go when they get banned on Twitter.


😂
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Why can't we hold politicians accountable for the mess they are making? https://image.nostr.build/c22ba954d2b8cd3059cddac34d8822f671720cb9666dca866af71ce548ff7d07.jpg


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Imagine being a #privacy #freedom "influencer" and shitting on #nostr while using Twitter as your main platform. I don't mean to sound like I'm hating on you. I actually really enjoy your content. I just think you are wrong about this particular topic.

You openly admit to cheating your KYC in there, which goes against their terms of service. It's just a matter of time before you get banned (for whatever reason) and lose everything.

You don't even take the time to properly tell your fans that #nostr is your backup in case you get deplatformed. Instead, you are shitting on the protocol and saying it will die, instead of helping to promote it. In fact, you didn't even bother to add a link to your #nostr account on your website.

When you get banned from Twitter then you'll come to Nostr? Ridiculous. Nostr shouldn't be your backup, but rather your main platform. You mirror your Nostr posts to Twitter, not the other way around.

Twitter should only be used as a tool to bring more users to #nostr, nothing else. All genuine #cypherpunks are on #nostr, not on permissioned centralized censored services like Twatter.


Vitalik:
Why are bitcoiners so serious? Just let us have fun with our software projects 🤗

Bitcoiners:
We are trying to stop the central banks, the governments, and the military industrial complex. You are creating a casino that is used to scam investors.


I am having the same problem!


Hey nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z, I have been having this problem for a long time and I'm not sure how to explain it except by making this video.

Running graphene OS.

The spaces disappear when I try to back up to make corrections.
https://video.nostr.build/3009312c7b9d11709d6f7be7f05bf3d07584ec6aaef44bad8d2f011c746a0999.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=1080x2400&blurhash=%5B355OfImxdRhMLOQxJbW%5E-ImxcRh%5E-NqxJW%2CMeNEs%3DV%40RlNFxbWBM_bHaeahNEjKtPjJD%23xvRhoh&x=ef961584650d5cb88907e09cde1ce61546ea85ef5b934617100c325ffbca0ef3


1.99 Eur war der bislang normale Preis. Jetzt ist der normale Preis im Angebot? Und in 2 Wochen ist es dann “wieder” 2.99 obwohl es nie vorher ein 2.99 gab? Fiat Geld ist ein einziger Betrug.

Er zwingt Unternehmen zu Marketingexperimenten und Drahtseilaktionen, um weiterhin nötigen Umsatz zu generieren, der immer weniger dazu reicht, um Lohn-Preisspiralen und steigende Energie- und Transportkosten und sonstige sozialistische Auflagen decken zu koennen. Die willkürliche Geldmengenmanipulation des
des Zentralkomitees fuer Planwirtschaft und Geldsozialismus
(aka Zentralbank) als eigentlicher Dominoanstoss wird in der Oeffentlichkeit absichtlich im Keim erstickt.

Danke Tom fuer das Bild.

Learn #bitcoin here:
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Sounds like hyperbolic crazy talk pre-100hrs of research

Clear as 💎 after 1000hrs of research

https://whybitcoinonly.com
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Schools fill children's heads with knowledge without showing them a path to wisdom and deliberately keep them on the fiat hamster wheel consisting of consumption, instant gratification and tons of debt.


I'm still so very glad I'm not on Twitter and almost never see the discussions there. The hivemind groupthink algo-driven opinions mean nothing to me and I won't let it take any mind share.

Fuck the global town square, come to my neighborhood if you want to talk or share an opinion.


Taxes are the single greatest expense in life

Think about that: most expenses are u paying a criminal organization to keep out of jail

Fuck


BitWise just became the first Bitcoin ETF to publish their on-chain address. Transparency is key and a large part of Bitcoin's ethos. Kudos to them. You know what? I'm impressed and I hope that others follow their lead.

https://mempool.space/address/1CKVszDdUp4ymGceAZpGzYEFr4RPNHYqaM


Nice!
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Marc Friedrich:

Fiat Geld ist Diebstahl der Kaufkraft und der Lebenszeit 💯🦾

#Bitcoin #Germanchain
#Plebchain https://video.nostr.build/716a496d240a35d2833c7ddaf0b1dd2d69a161d727dd88aaeee59a770f463bce.mp4


#Bitcoin is playing in big leagues now and the game is at a new level.

How I suspect it plays out: An attempt to capture as much as #Bitcoin as possible including regulation to “try” to slow self custody of #Bitcoin (Warren et all) and leverage games on paper #Bitcoin to reduce price. (ETF’s)

Which “causes” more Bitcoiners aware of the manipulation and how the game is being played to use lower prices to buy and self custody more #Bitcoin (reducing supply)

Which at some point creates a short squeeze of MEGA proportions (maybe along with halving - maybe later ) that liquidates a major financial player. (Similar to FTX)

Money has become a monopoly because of the games that have been able to be played with others assets due to the centralization and control of those assets.

But Wall Street has never seen an asset like this. It is not gold and too many #Bitcoiners know how the game is played, meaning if you don’t play by the rules, eventually you will be caught short. (And no one is coming to save you)

Or as nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx says:
Stay humble and stack sats.


Germans:

‚When the government tells us to go demonstrate then we just do it.‘

🐒


Weird Al is a genius.
🎶“Oh by the way, I’ve cracked the code…”

https://video.nostr.build/c2a5246c88dc5f3b0e3d3559b1f37eaf66085a37a34df219f3f68d0a38950193.mp4


Starve them of your attention
Starve them of your data
Starve them of your dollars

Let them feed on your shadow, until none of them are left. nostr:note1prhrxdjfnsymlgpy4njr2p69zsc4rlnjzp4f7lvt7xeyf7cfxtrs7g4688


Federated, private, multisig banks on top of the hardest money ever created. Interconnected by lightning, a mycelium-like cryptographic network of value. Tokens and zaps getting sent over uncensorable communication protocols, building up a bulwark of freedom and sovereignty in cyberspace. The future is weird and awesome.


# Fiat Games on Bitcoin

There's a saying about standing armies in peacetime, it's generally not a good idea. Wartime emergencies are one thing, but when you have a standing army during peacetime, they generally just get in the way because, like most armies, they crave action.

If you have a perfectly virtuous military, perhaps having a standing army is fine, but given the flaws of the human condition, there's bound to be some trouble. Many a revolution started with standing armies that felt disrespected and seized power when they could.

I mention this because this dynamic is at play in the Bitcoin ecosystem, where a bunch of bored holders are starting to make trouble. They identified as Bitcoin Maximalist even as recently as a few years ago, yet got off the rails, pushing all sorts of idiocy like this ordinals/brc-20 stuff.

The problem with these people is that they crave action. They can't just sit back and enjoy the ride. They're the type that needs to always be doing something, good or bad. And let's face it, once you get that Bitcoin is sound money and have given your pitch to your friends and relatives, it's a matter of waiting things out and watching your fiat enemies float by the proverbial river. I've been in those conversations, they go around the same topics over and over again.

As a result, these people feast on news. Wow, Michael Saylor did something, or there's an ETF coming, or X or Y or Z is happening. They're all addicted to talking and rallying the troops and once you're bored of talking about the things that matter, there's a natural tendency to talk about the things that don't matter as if they were.

I blame the BUIDL movement that emphasized building something, anything. It's an understandable attitude. Surely, doing *something* is better than doing *nothing*, right?

This is the error that every politician makes and it's high time preference behavior. X just happened and so you have to do something to react, *right now*. Or Y is a problem so you do something to "solve" it. The problem with these actions is that they're usually not well thought out and good actions, the ones that provide value, require some planning and research. But for the people with the BUIDL mindset, they just go and make something regardless of whether there's a need in the market or not. And the people addicted to action love this stuff because it's new.

I'm old enough to remember the 2008 crisis and the $800B TARP bailout that came along with it. The idea was that there would be lots of "economic activity" in the form of "shovel-ready projects." 16 years later, there's very little in terms of real, useful stuff that got built from the program. Most of that money ended up in slush funds and the coffers of the Cantillon winners who magically doubled or tripled their billions in the decade or so since.

That mindset of "build whatever" is a fiat mentality. It's not "if you build it, they will come." There has to be value being added to real people and not just a good story about what's possible. And that's what we're seeing in the Bitcoin community. There's a lot of VC money floating around still and they'll put money into anything with a good story, even if it makes little sense.

The fact is, VC investment is a fiat vestige that's horribly inefficient. And the incentives around it are deeply misaligned. The VCs, even the good ones, will pump their bags. And once invested, it's very hard for them to be objective about anything and takes superhuman amounts of virtue to do what's good for Bitcoin and not for your fund. You'd hope those things are aligned, but every VC inevitably gets into the situation where they have to invest in something questionable.

And invest in questionable things they have. This has been going on since 2013 or so with "investments" on "blockchain technology" and "ICOs" and "DAOs" and "DeFi" and "NFTs" and on and on and on. They may not even be explicitly looking to scam, but that is what they inevitably do. The pump and dump nature of tokens is such that they benefit the early pre-sale investors at the cost of the public, though to a large degree, this no longer has the returns it once had.

The flavor of the day is ordinals/brc-20 and unsurprisingly, a lot of VCs, even "Bitcoin-only" VCs, are invested in one or two already. That's because this is their model. They have to invest in a lot of stuff because their hit rate is so low. And diversification necessarily means you let the foxes into your henhouse. The "investment" ends up enriching scammers like the TARP bailouts did and the stuff that gets built ends up being largely useless.

And really, that's who is addicted to action the most. It's the VCs. Unsatisfied with Bitcoin's insane returns (or lacking justification for their fund in lieu of Bitcoin's existence), they talk and talk and talk on clubhouse and twitter spaces and whatnot to pump their bags. Even if they don't have bags to push, they're always talking openly to people about what investments they should make. And because they are looking for places to put money, they become much less objective and will fall for anything with a good story.

Investing in a good story is not a bad strategy in the fiat world. The narrative wins over things that provide value as long as there's an overwhelming amount of money put in on the narrative side. And the money printer is ultimately run by humans who will put resources toward good stories because there's no hard reality of the market to deal with. In other words, you often don't have to win the market. You can win it later with some money-printer-induced advantages.

But in Bitcoin, things are a little different. We have to be a lot more choosy about what gets built because what fails is a lot of wasted time and resources. Worse, that which gets built which ends up scamming wastes even more time and resources and sets Bitcoin further back. The entire altcoin industrial complex and the billions wasted on them since 2011 are the vestiges of this build-anything mindset.

Building has been very inefficient in the fiat world and unfortunately, we're having to re-learn what it means to build something that provides value.

Back during the gold standard, Standard Oil once paid 33% in dividends in a single year. That's not price appreciation or profits, that's dividends, as in money that went straight to the shareholders in a single year. And that's not a huge outlier. Most years, they paid over 10% in dividends.

Nothing like that exists now because all profitable stuff has been arbed to death. Anything that profitable gets "investment" (read: debt) which ultimately scales the business but reduces profitability. Most businesses these days are zombies, living out a dead existence while sucking value out from everyone else through inflationary theft. And unsurprisingly, that is the state in which most altcoins currently continue.

Which brings me back to the issue of Bitcoin culture. The problem right now is that too many people build on Bitcoin the same way they build on fiat. They play by the same rules and systems which have caused the stagnation we see all around us. But as we're progressing toward a sound money world, these processes and the fiat games that they run on won't work. The building that people do will have to run on a different set of *values*, not the fiat ones like satisfying venture capital with good stories.

The sad thing is that most people would rather do something rather than nothing. The lesson of the last 11 years in Bitcoin is that building something that is hurtful is worse than useless, it's better to do nothing.


Starve them slowly

Every minute you spend on nostr vs twitter is a win

Every minute you spend on fountain vs netflix is a win

Every dollar you spend on bitcoin vs Nike sneakers is a win

One thing at a time
One person at a time
One day at a time

The platforms are being built
The choice is yours


🇯🇵How Japan Became the Poorest Country in The World 🇯🇵

In this video, nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z  and James Lavish help me understand why a country's debt burden can have devastating effects on people's lives and how #bitcoin fixes this.

Full Video Here: https://youtu.be/C_-to3VCh9c https://v.nostr.build/OvlY.mp4


When I listened to this episode of Joe Rogan with Andreas Antonopolous in 2016 it made sense because I was new to #Bitcoin

But now in 2024 we all can see that Andreas was 100% right. This is exactly what's happening in our society right now.

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


https://x.com/mikestillbtc/status/1745245026282529279?s=46&t=a8vi2tgsbhiAXGZTOfm0uA

nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z asks an economics question, but Elon makes it clear he doesnt want to talk about Bitcoin.  LOLOLOLOL

Preston is on 🔥


Hilarious nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z, could you let us know what was going on there?


Regulators didn’t protect investors from Bernie Madoff.

Regulators didn’t protect investors from the 2008 crisis.

Regulators didn’t protect investors from SBF.

Regulators couldn’t even protect their own accounts from being “compromised.”

Regulators protect Wall Street and the political kleptocratic elite.


When a bitcoin maxi goes to a crypto conference … ⚡ 💜

As promised, Nostriches get my content first 🤙

Enjoy!

Please zap to ensure that I “terrorise” more conferences in the future 🧡

https://v.nostr.build/LvAR.mov


Always


There’s a certain irony in Brian Armstrong trying so hard to change Bitcoin, promoting every fork, pushing Ethereum as a better Bitcoin, and listing so many shitcoins, but now his only job is providing custody to ETFs of the original #Bitcoin, the one which he saw as deficient.


What other things am I missing? #asknostr

Facts that most normies can't believe as a result of persistent lies & propaganda:

Governments are criminal institutions, & businesses are voluntary service organizations built around mutually beneficial exchange. Governements exploit. Trading & doing business is how people organize & cooperate.

Red meat, salt, & saturated fat are health foods.

Sugar, grains, & seed oils cause, cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.

Vegetables are not super foods.

CO2 is essential to the existence of life on earth. It is not a pollutant.

Electric cars are actually horrible for the environment.

There are 2 genders, & while anyone can pretend to be whatever they want, "transitioning" is impossible.

You can view yourself in whatever way you like, but you cannot dictate the views of others. Your emotions are your responsibility, not everyone elses.

Similarly, if you are afraid, you cannot dictate that everyone else jump through hoops to prove they are not a threat to you. Your fear is your burden. You are free to secure yourself in any way you please so long as it doesn't involve imposing costs on others.

Vaccines don't work without adjuvants, & adjuvants are neurotoxins which cause chronic illness, autoimmune diseases, autism, muscular & skeletal asymmetry, etc

mRNA jabs are experimental gene therapies & do not qualify as vaccines at all. They are causing, strokes, heart attacks, infertility, cancer, hormonal issues, and serious neurological disorders.

"Banning guns" actually disarms the innocent & makes life easier & safer for criminals. Govts want to ban guns because they are criminal institutions.

Democracy is lowest common denominator mob rule, where 51% of people can vote to destroy the other 49%. The goal was a "constitutional republic" in order to protect the rights of minorities.

Monetary inflation is destructive & price deflation is natural. #Bitcoin

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Thanks, gotta watch that!


Whenever the question of war is raised, be it in Ukraine, Gaza, or anywhere else, ask yourself if you would be willing to have your child, nephew, or other loved one forcibly drafted to fight on the front lines. If the answer is no, why are you ok with having others’ sons drafted?

Choose peace. Choose #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/286f36f910f0f866949d975aefb0f22a630beafb35bb01a57f7cb81465488600.jpg


Can you tell me which movie that is?


ETF? End The Fed.


Tomorrow, January 4th, the verdict in Julian Assange's extradition trial will be delivered, and honestly, I can't bring myself to think that today we are celebrating the birth of the key to humanity's freedom and tomorrow, a man who did nothing wrong and has been deprived of his freedom may be stripped away of all his human rights.

I've been thinking a lot about this, especially after chatting with @Stella and John Shipton last year. They really opened my eyes to how messed up this whole situation is. If you're curious, check out our full talk here: https://youtu.be/ugeDIda5Zac

I hope tomorrow's verdict brings Julian closer to being freed and back with his family. But this isn't the end of the road for Assange. His final appeal in London's High Court is set for February. This could be his last chance to avoid extradition to the United States, where he faces serious charges. This moment is key, not just for Assange but for journalism and civil liberties worldwide.

If you're in the US, this is your call to action. Hit up your congressperson. Tell them to push Biden to drop all charges against Assange. Your voice can make a difference.

With this, I want to say that even though I'm totally blown away and super thankful for Bitcoin turning 15 today, it's tough to really get into the party mood. Knowing there are so many freedom fighters out there getting their wings clipped, it hits hard... We could be next...

Today isn't just about partying and celebrating for me. Today, I'm all about standing up to the establishment, reminding them they can't shut us down. We've got to keep fighting every single day, but especially on days like today, especially every January 3rd.


Concentrate on things that are within your sphere of influence and develop healthy habits around them. A successful day for me is therefore when I am

1) physically active (running, lifting, ....)
2) mentally busy (reading, journaling, learning, ...)
3) at peace with myself (meditation, ...

I can achieve all of these things without a third party or event that needs to happen. This is true freedom.


if you haven't experienced a bull market while hodling #Bitcoin ...

prepare yourself mentally. Get your self custody in order. Whatever you're anticipating will probably not be the case.

A good goal is to end the cycle with more BTC in COLD STORAGE than you began it with. The euphoria of 5-10k candles will test your conviction.

Proceed with caution. Don't succumb to high time preference scams & don't leave your BTC in someone else's hands for illusory "yield".

When you self custody BTC, life is yield. Where we're going, nothing is worth the security trade off of 3rd party custody.

Don't get reckless. Security is not one and done solution. Spend time setting up a node and self custody solution that works for your situation.

Set stacking goals & don't let off the gas when things start to go parabolic.

Patience & diligence can set you free.

PS. the laws that will make us all criminals haven't been written yet...

Have you considered a remote citadel in another country anon?


Life lesson: be comfortable being ridiculed. Being right long term is a very unpopular position amongst normies.


😂😂😂

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On my way to become a sovereign individual.


The suits will turn the buy button off on the ETFs when they need to nostr:note1e7g7kjv2tdgcw0k5hr5q2ahua7f6z64p56thju8tsmgezvnr48wqqqwq4p


CONSUMER PROTECTION REALLY MEANS PROTECTING THE SUITS FROM US WINNING OVER THEM


We don’t have to allow to these big tech algorithms to dictate what we see.
We don’t have to allow these governments to violate their own laws and tap our communications.

Fuck Google
Fuck SMS
Fuck email
Fuck fiat money
Fuck DNS

I do not accept things for the way they are.

I stand for encryption as identity to deprive tyranny of power and create a parallel society.

I seek to systematically train and aid those who wish to learn about self-empowering technology.

My why is freedom.  And my passion is to help you.

Happy new years, let’s get it!


How it will play out:
1. #bitcoin Spot ETF get approved
2. BTC surpasses the market cap of gold
3. Game theory between countries start
4. Every Central Bank starts to print
5. BTC gets seized on exchanges and ETFs
6. Self custody becomes illegal
7. CBDC backed by BTC gets introduced
8. Plebs move to countries that allows cold storage
9. Woke people loses trust in the CBDCs
10. BTC becomes global money


Three weeks. It’s been three weeks since the CEO of JP Morgan said he wanted the government to ban bitcoin.

And now JP Morgan is listed on the BlackRock ETF filing.

They are all such clowns.


These people are rotten to the core.


JAMIE DIMON TESTIFIED IN CONGRESS THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD SHUTDOWN BITCOIN WHILE PARTNERING WITH BLACKROCK FOR THEIR BITCOIN ETF.

CLASSIC SUIT MOVE.

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Let's face it. None of us would be here today if the title of the whitepaper was "Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic photo album".


I’ve been a little inattentive owing to the season, but I’m not going anywhere. Free and open communication tech isn’t a fad; it’s become vital to Liberty. Participating here gives energy to future I want to pass to our descendants.


At least where I live: MRNa Vaccination, Climat Change, Healthy Food, Immigration, Ukraine & Russia


Which show is that?


I wish I could say Merry Christmas and war is over, but it's not.

Enjoy the time with family and loved ones, or if you can't, enjoy the time on your own. Be grateful for what you have. Things around us may get worse in the near future. Inflation may take off again quicker than most expect, current wars could escalate and new ones could start as long as profits can be made for those few in power.

This shall pass. The future will be decentralized. The future will know no borders. Just people voluntarily interacting with each other. It will take time, but technology like #Bitcoin and #Nostr will lead us into this brighter future.
I believe this with all my heart.

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While they begin Quantitative Easing again, we will perform another scheduled Quantitative Hardening. #Bitcoin


During the previous cycle, we’ve established a ton of new tools and projects that completely changed how we interacted with #Bitcoin.

I think many dont properly appreciate the fact that Lightning is becoming (or possibly already has become) the primary mode of interaction. And even despite fees, onboarding onto Lightning is seamless due to a growing ecosystem of LSPs. 2 years ago that honestly seemed like an overly optimistic goal.

In addition
• we are finally on the cusp of workable DLCs, we will likely very soon have bitcoin native “stable sats” via this tool
• multisig is becoming an industry standard for BTC native financial services
• Fedimint/ecash is starting its rise - which will completely change the custodial landscape
• we have two insanely exciting new communication protocols making their MVP debut - Nostr + Hypercore
• There is an explosion of new entrants in the Lightning ecosystem
• We have numerous new mining & mining pool projects around redecentralizing hash power coming to fruition - Including a FOSS package to “run your own pool.”
• Everyone is bitching about fees being too high instead of Bitcoin’s “security budget problem.”
• We have multiple, entirely novel approaches for new scaling layers - including an incredibly creative new means to use ANY arbitrary code to enforce ownership of a bitcoin UTXO.
• Traditional finance cannot ignore us any longer. For better or worse, they are allocating.
• A country adopted bitcoin as legal tender and started building national payments infrastructure with the bitcoin/lightning stack.
• We have multiple other increasingly bitcoin friendly regimes and political leaders popping up across the global south.
• Streaming sats, zaps, lightning prisms, running lightning services for friends and family, user friendly personal nodes, zero setup non/custodial Lightning - these were all “what ifs” at the end of the last cycle. Today they are all here.
• Tons of new developer interest has flooded into the Lightning ecosystem, and we now have the tooling and dev kits to do an order of magnitude more applications with barely any knowledge or configuration from the app creators needed for it to work securely and easily. This is hugely underappreciated, imo.

There’s a ton of stuff that I know I’m even missing here that deserves a mention, but the ecosystem has matured incredibly these past few years. Most of the biggest leaps have been in infrastructure, which is exactly what is laying the groundwork for a 10x at the application layer that I think comes with this next cycle.

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The REAL kicker though, is that we did this under largely the same development conditions as the past 10 years, but today, Ai is about the drastically change that landscape. Over the next 3 years, the accessibility of development and the capital required to complete a project will DRASTICALLY decline. Already we have LLMs specialized in code that are enabling “so so programmers” to build small & simple functions/apps with very little effort. We have “screenshot to code” which lets you take a picture (or photoshop) a website and it will immediately create the HTML or React code needed to make the website exactly as seen, and this is **just the beginning.** LLMs have been in the public eye for ONLY one year. The amount of building that will be unleashed in the next 3 is going to be hard to fathom.

I want people to understand, if you are technically literate at all, you NOW have the capacity to create a lighting app, a game, a desktop tool, a Nostr app, a Hypercore based software, a website or PWA, **even if you don’t know how to code.** the dev kits, libraries, and Ai combined have done all the heavy lifting for you. The game is changed, start playing.

The acceleration is about to get fucking crazy, and a ton of stuff is aligning at the same time. We have no idea how far these next few years are going to take us.

Buckle
The
Fuck
Up


The paramount fight for liberty in our lifetime is scaling the sovereignty properties of Bitcoin to encompass all 8 billion people globally.


I think Shitoiners are at the bottom of he pyramid.


Hyperbitcoinization will lead to a new baby boom, I believe it. Just like after WWII, it’ll come from people celebrating the restoration of a future for themselves and for humanity.


Well, the fault is on his side if he is not able to properly communicate.


Well nobody here is gonna be able to tell you what your boss means with that message exactly. You will have to ask him about it. 😉


The blocksize limit is the single most important thing that’s protecting #Bitcoin for all of this bloat.

The crypto bros who think this is evidence that bitcoin should’ve raised blocksize “to scale,” genuinely never even understood the scaling problem, nor why or how bitcoin actually achieved what it does.


You are not your job.
You are not your parents.
You are not your credit score.
You are not your school diploma.
You are not the clothes you wear.
You are not the size of your network.
You are not your house or neighborhood.

You are the sum of your words, choices and actions.


No doubt!

Also I don't trust any of the suits. I wonder how it will play out if a trust or bank blows up because they tried fractional reserve games with bitcoin. The money printer wont be able to save them in this case. Also what will stopp the state to knock at the door of coinbase to seize the bitcoin in their custody to do something similar to Executive Order 6102?

 I am here for the revolution by the way. 😉


“La única forma de salir de la pobreza, es con más libertad”

Der einzige Weg aus der Armut führt über mehr Freiheit

In seiner Antrittsrede zitierte Javier Milei den Ökonomen Jesús Huerta de Soto.

In de Spots Buch “Freiheit für das Kapital! Warum Kapitalismus nicht weltweit funktioniert” schreibt de Soto das wir zwar die Bedeutung von Eigentumsrechten für den Wachstumsprozess verstehen, das wir jedoch nicht erkennen wie bedeutsam es ist dass sich diese Eigentumsrechte von unten nach oben entwickeln.

Eigentumsrechte, die von unten nach oben, also nicht von oben herab, entstehen, sind viel mehr dazu angetan, Ressourcen zu bewahren und Investitionen anzuspornen.

Im Gegenzug bedeutet dies: wenn Eigentumsrechte von zentraler Autorität diktiert werden, die wenig Eigeninteresse am Ergebnis haben, wird Zeit und Mühe verschwendet.

Beispielsweise entwickelten sich im amerikanischen Westen Eigentumsrechte von unten nach oben, wurden so erst zu institutionellem Recht.

Bitcoin ist auch ein Beispiel eines Systems in dem sich Eigentumsrechte von unten nach oben entwickeln.


Listening to the podcast today. You don't need to like what he says, but a lot of it makes sense. It will be much more convenient than holding your own keys and it will appeal to people that still trust the system. Pretty sure they'll get rugged sooner or later though.


"Valuable" narratives ordinals shitcoiners are trying to carve into #bitcoin 's ethos: "Satoshi was a bitch for leaving" and
"We have to define who's in control of bitcoin"
Two vids for your daily dose of bitcoin cringe.

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https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1735767072762679296/pu/vid/avc1/320x568/nth4tysgZ2lH9LZz.mp4
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You will overcome.

You will surpass.

You will go beyond.

You will become the greatest man your bloodline has ever seen.

Standfast.


LMFAO GARY SEEMS SCARED

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


Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half the way will get you no where
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life. ~Khalil Gibran
(Book: The Prophet [ad] https://amzn.to/3t3oGzr)

(Art: Photograph from Burma by Monica Denevan) https://image.nostr.build/54b2e2744ba02de1632c7b8ab79461508e86ee980d8e0b56df3b520914f4b724.jpg


I mean she doesn't have a clue but she came to the right conclusion: Number go up! 😂

I used to get annoyed when people spout nonsense like she does. But now I am thankful that this attitude of people entreched in the fiat system leaves more time for sensible people to accumulate. Everybody buys bitcoin at the price they deserve.


“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” says the financial advisor who has 100% US Dollar exposure


Savings.

Think about that word. Savings rescues people from a plight or a pickle. It's preparation for the unknown. It's a way to account for the bad things that may happen.

Savings is also a way to prepare for something you *do* want. It's capital accumulation and funding for your goals.

Too many people don't know the power of savings. But really, it's about having a purpose, a dream. A goal has no power if you're not working toward it. And savings is a measure of how close you are to that goal.

The depressing thing about fiat money is that it inflates, debasing your savings, moving you further away from your goals. A third party called the central bank has the ability to steal from your dreams and purpose. And what is life without some purpose? It's a zombie existence where the goal is to stay alive, at whatever cost. In a very real sense, fiat money debases your life.

So we invest, trying to clear that ever-present monetary expansion/hurdle rate that will offset the theft from inflation. But that's a job onto itself. Managing money is a cesspool of rent-seeking and unless you do it yourself, a lot of the value you accumulate leaks to the Cantillionaires.

Bitcoin is freedom from this system. But more importantly, Bitcoin gives you back your savings, gives you back your goals, dreams and purpose because it doesn't leak.

Save and build your character so that when you have enough to pursue your dreams, you have the courage to jump.


Germany will serve as another prime example of how socialism is a certain path to ruin a country and impoverish its citizens. https://image.nostr.build/66723de6659a5f9f766a6eea9c4b509b8c80b539863ff0be17a492d283a270db.jpg


Yeah house prices are up a lot...

But when priced in the money I use, they crashed 60% this year.

Soon I'll buy one with a single coin.


Grateful for cryptography, for enlisting math in the creation of myriad freedom tech.

Grateful for open source, for making the internet age possible.

Grateful for #Bitcoin, for defending our scarce sacrifice and securing our monetary vote.

Grateful for cypherpunks, for teaching us that freedom can never be obtained without robust privacy.

Grateful for Austrian economists, for simplifying the essence of govenment: to defend private property rights.

Grateful for miners, who expand grid capacity in places previously being deindustrialized.

Grateful for #Nostr, for starting the first unstoppable town square in history.

Grateful for clown world, for inspiring it all.


An open thank you to all bitcoiners.

I had to stop listening to a podcast from Hidden Forces today.  It finally recognized it for what it was - the same doom and gloom it always has been…  "The West is failing, government is failing, society is failing etc”.  No answers, just more identification of the failure.  Definitely not any solutions there.

I switched over to my list of bitcoin podcasts.  More nostr:npub1hrnt73hppyc5v9h7ynnv0cn90yd97t6we9dw32s46ug845jsm33sktjsct , nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe  , nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a and nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z Pysh... and even nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx - yes even Pedro.  Why?  Because there is a hope in bitcoin.  Maybe that is partly because we seem to have turned the corner on the bear market but mostly because bitcoiners are optimistic, building and moving forward.

Devs are creating new apps and fixing and improving old ones.  Bitcoin philosphers are, well philosophizing (looking at your nostr:npub1mz704n7dsaw3jcj3kr5le45n97tqughyt5lxe3yv3xy3025hv3dsp5tl8g  , nostr:npub1jdwujjpaxmeyg44fz5xa87yhtrnvg8lzqnv9hprk5sdkx6h58gjqwtujzl  and Parker Lewis to name a few).  Meetups are getting bigger and more people are taking their first steps into the bitcoin network. Meanwhile the Plebs are out educating and orange pilling every day.

Bitcoiners are hopeful and optimistic.  We know there are problems - we’ve identified a host of them and we are working to fix what we can.    Sure we might be bickering over what hardware wallet is truly FOSS, bitching about ordinals and debating mining protocols.  But we are building and moving forward anyway.

Jeff Booth is right - there is no point in living in the old world.  You simply feed it by engaging with it.  Even listening to the old world is tiresome.  I’ve moved into the new world, a world with Bitcoin and I don’t ever want to go back.

Burn the boats.


I am using Fedora, very easy to set-up and there is a range of Desktops you can choose from: https://www.fosslinux.com/49582/alternative-desktops-fedora-how-to-install-them.htm


"May you live in interesting times" is an interesting expression, sometimes referred to as a curse.

Many of our best stories, from literature to shows to movies, are about horrible times. They're about conflict, and people overcoming that conflict. And our heroes, both real and fictional, are tied to those times.

And yet as people with lives and families, we don't want to live through those times. We don't want to live through war, oppression, or conflict. We don't want to have to be the ones to stand up and tell some more powerful force to go fuck themselves. We'd rather read about others doing it, and how cool that was when they did.

I continue to view this period of time as "interesting" in the historical sense. The 1990s were probably the best recent time to chill, but it wasn't where history was made. The 2020s and 2030s are not as good for chilling, but from looking back in the future, it's these times where the bulk of the historical content is likely to be focused on.

For some regions, it's outright war that they're dealing with now.

For the majority of other regions, it's instead a cultural war, and an economic war. And it's going to get worse before it gets better. Do we fund those who are at war, and if so, which side? What values do we subscribe to, and who is "we"? How do we determine truth, and with what framework? For breakthrough tech, who gets to control it? Should it be centralized and regulated, or open and accessible?

And more directly it's about stepping up and saying, "It's good for people to be able to own and transfer money without state control and state dilution. And it's good for people to be able to communicate how they want to without the state silencing them. Even when they buy things and say things that I disagree with." That won't be an easy battle.

Someone on Twitter sarcastically asked me today what army defends Bitcoin. My answer was:

"The army of encryption and energy spread around the world.
A shield, not a spear."

The same is true for Nostr, in a slightly different way. The developers and relays, and the people willing to use it and finance it, are what defend it.

Communication and value are the two key components of free commerce. All of those people today who build strong shields for communication and value are living in interesting times and contributing to them in a positive way.

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


As long as the plebs hodl and the laws of mathematics hold; the entire world will bend EVENTUALLY.

#Bitcoin


FUCK EASY

I'm fed up with easy.
You don't want easy.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy.

Easy is staying on the couch.
Easy is not putting on your running shoes.
Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series.

Easy is not sticking out.
Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out.
Easy is compliance.
Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else.

Easy is kicking the can down the road.
Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses.
Easy is starting up the money printer.
Easy is "papering over" failures.

Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it."
Easy is not educating yourself.
Easy is not taking responsibility.
Easy is trusting a third party.
Easy is not holding your own keys.

Easy is comfortable.
Easy is not having to think.
Easy is not having to understand.
Easy is the coddling of the mind.

Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain.

Fuck easy.


"I come in peace. I cannot force myself upon anyone. I offer my services to everyone on Earth. I am completely transparent about how I work ... I hide nothing. Everything about me is completely public."

- nostr:npub1mz704n7dsaw3jcj3kr5le45n97tqughyt5lxe3yv3xy3025hv3dsp5tl8g on if #Bitcoin could speak

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I felt many moments of anger and despair today, as many of you may have, after watching today’s congressional kabuki theater designed to attack Bitcoin and Bitcoiners.

But more powerfully, today, I had a great conversation with Evan of nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5, I worked alongside nostr:npub18yvpnchj7yaepjk8yz2pn66hfmmup505aqvx0lpyc3aree0g5fyq8clpz3 at nostr:npub19tcpurtt6xulhw0r6sc404j9jraj0h8me2lzs7z2tqewz7l0hpas59nlea, I discussed the impact of today’s events with nostr:npub1j0sh8peshr8rthgn0hlh2mxqwaazne3kc3rqsm0y7ysssg77wd8smfga0n, and I exchanged a few words with nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx in the hallways of nostr:npub1theparkprcs70dcs437ke9zzwsr6u60f8flu7rg28m30438aep9sd94dha. These are men of purpose and passion and integrity. I have the immense privilege of interactions like this most every day, and every day, this fuels me.

They and those like them are why we will win. Keep building and keep fighting. We will win.


Here's to #Bitcoin #Nostr & all tools built by people pursuing truth with integrity.
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Imagine a company shipping grains of rice in boxes.

One day, a charlatan fools some rice consumers into thinking that rice grains are tastier if first painstakingly ordered by their texture, shape, and color before being packed into the boxes and shipped.

As a result of this procedure, every rice consumer now pays a higher price per shipped box. At least as long as the charlatan is still able to fool people.

The major rice shipping companies are still happy because they get paid more per box. As long as people still choose to consume rice instead of something else. The charlatan is very good at scamming people and even dresses up as a wizard to show how magic his new rice-ordering procedure is.

Suddenly, a new rice shipping company enters the market, willing to call out the charlatan's bullshit and start shipping rice the old-fashioned way, without the pointless rice-grain ordering.

They point out that rice will be more popular in general if normal rice consumers aren't forced to pay a premium because of the whims of a scammer.

The charlatan and his followers call this refusal to play along with the scheme "censorship." They claim that ordering the grains is a "technological advancement."

In the end, the wizard and his rice ordering don't age very well, and people start preferring the new shipping company over the old one.

Keep fighting the good fight, nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk


This is only the beginning anon; a regression to the mean.

The halving lies ahead and even then… it takes time for the real fireworks to begin. https://image.nostr.build/d299c21a949d3ac51323f8862a676f331ebcb235bb319fbaa510b876a9b471ad.jpg


THE SUITS TRIED TO KILL BINANCE WITH SBF HELP.

SO CZ KILLED FTX.

THE SUITS REGROUPED AND HIT BINANCE HARD.

THEN COINBASE CUSTODIES ALL THE ETF BITCOIN. ARMSTRONG FULFILLS HIS DESTINY TO BECOME THE DARK LORD OF THE COIN.

THE ETFS ARE A LOBSTER TRAP. BITCOIN GOES IN. NEVER COMES OUT.

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The most important shift happening in the collective mind of humanity today, is less that #Bitcoin is currently being broadly adopted, but more that the narrative and blind acceptance of fiat & central banking is falling apart.

The election of Milei in Argentina is no indication yet of another country adopting Bitcoin, but it IS a signal to the world, that the people are waking up and rejecting their slavery to the money printer.

All the while, Bitcoin marches on.

🔥👉🏻 https://fountain.fm/episode/Y74CVpMLSQtClbM13LRk https://v.nostr.build/ZXVD.mp4


Start a side chain on every planet to which you can peg-in Bitcoin.


Fix the family, fix the world.
https://video.nostr.build/0559b13bf5aa8ae72bb929c38506e700b8a01fc4c1f90f8d661c84f4996dd2e9.mp4


In a world of doomers, be a shining light of optimism. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/b5eb80a8235659007866dcaefafb72eb474ae6d4f49bf4f8269b8366a411c895.png


I have two self-custodial LN nodes in my phone now and hold keys for both.

I hold the keys that control 99.9% of my long-term capital on the globally distributed #Bitcoin Network.

I am #unruggable. Five years ago I didn’t know anything about Bitcoin or money. Boy do I feel a lot better about my future now, as opposed to my pre-Bitcoin life.


If you are reading this message, you are the Resistance.


Wallet teams will have to put competition aside. We no longer live in a time where that attitude advances anything.

Work together in competition against Apple, Google, Microsoft etc. or perish.

Rug them lest ye be rugged.


Signs that you’re a Bitcoiner:
- Friends are tired of hearing about BTC
- Smash buying whenever fiat available
- Always close to zero fiat in your bank
- Checking the price 24 times a day
- Your wife is often freaking out
- Your stack is in cold storage


The State is a grandly orchestrated system of robbery, legitimizing and magnifying theft on a societal scale. It stands in direct opposition to human prosperity and the advancement of civilization.

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Governments love a housing Ponzi because when houses become money, citizens effectively capital control themselves.

It’s the easiest market to regulate new supply in as it’s fully contained within a domestic market so there’s no risk of some new deposit being found overseas which can flood the market to reduce prices, and they can rely on NIMBYism for soft regulation beneath whatever zoning, materials, safety etc hard regs set beyond that.

It’s the easiest thing to tax because it can not be hidden and it forms the base for the human hierarchy of needs so it cannot be foregone.

And ultimately governments are the ones who decide on ownership - they operate the land registries and adjudicate title disputes through their courts. On top of that, eminent domain is a trump card they can play at any time their own rules aren’t working in their favour.

Housing bubbles will forever be inflated and perpetuated by fiat governments to lock in a tax base and keep capital from fleeing their ability to impose violence on dissenters. It gives them a real world physical address to which they can send their armed goons to shakedown their subjects.

We haven’t even begun to see the value in #Bitcoin’s ability to be borderless, but when the sovereign game theory begins to play out as fiat systems crumble, this may be the killer feature which drives hyperbitcoinisation as the wealthy seek to move their families to safety whilst bringing their wealth with them.

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Wir gehen gemeinsam essen, alle haben teure Gerichte, nur ihr spart indem ihr einen Salat bestellt.
Nachdem alle gegessen haben wird die Rechnung durch die Anzahl der Personen geteilt, jeder zahlt das gleiche.

So bescheuert ist es in einer Währungsunion der Sparsame zu sein.

Wenn einer am Tisch pleite geht übernehmt ihr seine Rechnung auch noch mit, ihr habt es ja.

Dies sollte man aber nicht mit Ländern verwechseln die das selbe “gute Geld” verwenden, z.B. Länder auf einem Bitcoin Standard.
Hier zahlt jeder selbst seine Rechnung, die Länder haben nichts miteinander zu tun.


Being a Bitcoiner in normie world is hard. Most people think I’m crazy and I generally have to self-censor most places I go. No one wants to face the reality of what is going on, and how to actually fight it. ‘It too much to think about’ is their rally cry as they escape towards mediocracy.

It’s rare to have conversations with normies that enjoy at all, as they feel so programmed and ignorant of everything going on around them. Challenging their views or asking them to try on a different perspective is rare. They are so brittle, uninspiring, and normal—it seems very sad to me that we all have so much potential and this is all they challenge themselves to be.

I empathize and understand why, but at the same time, I fail to understand the lack of curiosity and the drive to understand things and how the world works.


good morning nostr, the reason we started ten31 is because suits continue to burn billions of dollars on garbage projects while bitcoin companies often struggle to get funding

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It's actually kind of shocking how polarized my Twitter/X feed has become.

So many people who were technical developers, capital allocators, thoughtful geopolitical commentators, etc are now just outright tribalists.

-Some of them are direct anti-Palestinian. Not just anti-Hamas, but outright against Muslims existing in Israel.

-Some of them are direct anti-Jew. Not just anti-Zionist in the sense of being critical of the modern state of Israel and its border rights. But instead just like, actually anti-Jew.

I hate to see this. The truth is not necessarily in the middle (ie "moderation" may itself be wrong by assuming the middle is correct), but perhaps more concerningly, many people can't even steelman their opponent's view. In the best of worlds, you should be able to explain the most intelligent version of your opponent's view, and then deconstruct it by explaining how it's wrong.

I see little of that. Hardly anyone can do it. My feed is now mostly like 90 IQ tribalist stuff, even from 120 IQ people. It's sad to see. I rarely see anyone who can steelman the Palestinian case and then explain why Israel is right, or steelman the Israeli case and explain why the Palestinians are right.

I have my own personal views, first and foremost toward the civilian children, and secondarily toward land rights, but perhaps my biggest view thirdly is to criticize the sheer polarization that has occurred. Everyone is sure, but few can particularly explain the dilemma in detail in such way that acknowledges their smartest opponents views and then builds their own case against that. Almost everyone is instead polarized and tribal now.


You CANNOT comply your way out of where we are, let alone where we’re going.


What movie is that?


The best thing about Bitcoin?
It's more than just an investment, it's a movement, it's a revolution. And that, my friend, is priceless.


Humans are carnivores.
https://youtu.be/C-WUb3mJEso?si=VcZLN8JZZ_mTEhX6


The “they” in the “then they fight you camp” are going to find out pretty soon that there are far too many of “us”.

#Bitcoin.
#Nostr


Probably the price to get and stay out of jail...


The more history I learn the more I realize just how bad things can get for some humans.

In most of the world today, despite clown world insanity and fiat decay, humans experience levels of abundance and safety rarely (if) ever seen previously.

Do not take these times for granted. It’s a LONG way to the bottom. I hope none of us have to experience this fall.


SEC employees are not allowed to own bitcoin.

EVERY SEC EMPLOYEE IS EFFECTIVELY SHORT BITCOIN. 😂😂😂


You don’t win in getting in shape, you win by staying in shape

You don’t win by getting married, you win by staying married

You don’t win by getting rich, you win by staying rich

You don’t win by becoming free, you win by staying free


Bringing this over here because it's 🔥
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You will never miss the train, and there will never be a bad time to buy Bitcoin.


Maybe if the bank of england stops printing shitty money and distributing it to its friends, including you, it will improve the situation, right Charles?

"King Charles announces that UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government will "continue to take action... to ease the cost of living for families"

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


It's true. I'm a psychopath.

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Elon Musk started PayPal and as a result of that and his first principles thinking, it is highly likely that he perfectly understands money.

Similar to how it is highly likely Elizabeth Warren perfectly understands money.

He also must understand that the natural state of the free market IS deflationary.

If both of these are true - then he also must know (as one of the top AI + robotics companies) that he is stealing the productivity gains that should flow to society in the form of lower prices by pretending he is solving planetary issues through a broken system that makes them worse.

In other words, Elon not advocating for #Bitcoin is not because he is stupid. It’s because he believes you are.


#Bitcoin   is the real addiction.
It’s the crazy drug I am obsessed with. Well this addiction is good for your health 😀

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Good morning, gladiators of freedom! 💪

Fiat is fraud manipulated by criminals and thieves determined to continue stealing your time, energy, and freedom. Say NO by opting out of their blood money and into the purest form that no one can abuse - #Bitcoin in self-custody.

#plebchain #nostr


On Nov 14 the Human Rights Foundation will launch its CBDC Tracker at the National Press Club in Washington, DC

The Tracker will go online for the first time, providing the public with a resource to examine the progress and risks of CBDC implementation worldwide

Like paper dollars or euros, CBDCs are liabilities of central banks

Unlike paper dollars or euros, CBDCs do not offer the privacy protections, neutrality, or finality of cash

Virtually all money today is already digital, but it is typically issued and controlled by private banks and fintech companies, even in dictatorships like China

When consumers use a credit card, spending is at the discretion of the corporation that issued the card

When consumers deposit money into their bank accounts, their funds are liabilities of the bank

CBDCs are an effort to:

1) Replace paper cash with government-issued, government controlled digital credits

2) Reduce the power of private banks

3) Expand state control over the economy

Paper cash doesn’t require identification, can be used by anyone with no discrimination, and cannot be easily tracked

As such, cash is a daily tool of human rights activists, dissidents, and civil society, especially under authoritarian regimes

CBDCs stand to potentially phase out this tool for human rights defenders, making them entirely reliant on currency that is surveilled and easily frozen and censored

Unlike cash, CBDCs can require ID, have expiration dates, be remotely
frozen, and abide by blacklists

HRF believes CBDCs pose a significant threat to human rights work worldwide, especially for people living under tyranny

More than 100 countries are researching CBDCs, while more than 20 have pilots, and a handful of governments have already launched some kind of retail product

Russia, India, the EU, the US, Brazil, and other major governments
have all signaled intent to pursue CBDC projects

HRF considers it important to track these activities and document what risk they pose to human rights

We are pleased to be working with the Bitcoin Policy Institute to launch the CBDC Tracker at the National Press Club in Washington at 10:00am ET on November 14th

We are excited to share the work of the project authors: Nick Anthony, Janine Roem, and Matthew Mezinskis

If you would like to learn more about the project or RSVP to the launch event, please contact nostr:npub1cf3zeytdnwgwzz5pk2ax0vvmmlzad03xcft4d50ejrfhsh8pxcdsefx7gk

We look forward to sharing the resource with all of you on Nov 14

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The public debate is squarely in the hands of the mentally retarded.


Remove your money from the legacy system while you still can. The doors are closing. #Bitcoin


Anytime you find yourself arguing about something gender-related, for or against, stop and think about how few times this has actually happened in real life. This has become a big national political issue, but what percentage of your monthly interactions in the past year have included pronoun or similar disagreements between yourself and someone else *in person*?

Somehow, I have reached age 36 and this has not once been an issue in real life. Has it ever been an issue in your life? Unless you live in like one of four cities in the world or have the unfortunate role of being a liberal arts college professor, probably not. Let them deal with it.

Social polarization is a method of control by those with the money, so that you focus on something other than the money. They create theoretical problems to distract you from something more important.

For this decade in particular, it is important to focus on the money. Show empathy and tolerance and love and acceptance toward all, and really just be based, but focus on the money. Because that is what they are trying to distract you from, like a magician.

Anyway, good night.


I used to have no hope. Then i found #TheBitcoin


For our saftey, memes are now banned in the UK...

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End all wars

End all statism

Manifest the sovereign individual

#Bitcoin


Kontext:

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They will hate you when they discovered you live outside the matrix don’t explain yourself just walk the outcome will speak for itself.


Von seiner Website zu MMT:
"Weit verbreitete Irrtümer zur Funktionsweise des Geldsystems und ökonomischen Zusammenhängen führen dazu, dass wir den politischen Handlungsspielraum des Staates chronisch unterschätzen ― auf Kosten des Gemeinwohls."
😂🤡


Always worth watching.

https://youtu.be/TTfj9M4hBMU?si=e4EzrR-INlwQ79fk


#RoninDojo #RoninDojoNode #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/755d52c777951a7d9cf398d15f6d2dc7807a43c9790baf7c9f3aa3ec306ff6a0.jpg


#SamouraiWallet #Bitcoin #RoninDojoNode

Fuck you D.Marcus 🖕🧟♂ https://image.nostr.build/5176f49af1a642955e84fb42552275b6112ab8d6398e4fb53d5b01d48b776dc2.jpg


The AI-enabled scammers are coming for your bitcoin. Here's how you can protect yourselves and your loved ones from this particular attack.

https://tftc.io/ai-bitcoin-scams-are-on-the-rise/


The “free press” is in a prison cell in London.


A legal tactic to be aware of is to make unfollowable laws, and then selectively enforce them.

So for example with this FinCEN proposal, add a ton of reporting requirements for all sorts of noncustodial transaction types, which puts tons of normal operators at risk and heavily disincentivizes them. It’s so broad as to apply to almost everyone, and even things they can’t report technically could be argued to be reportable (eg Lightning node router operator- report everyone you are routing for!). Now, everyone is a criminal; everyone has legal leverage against them which can be selectively deployed.

And if a “class of transactions” can be labeled under Section 311 of the Patriot Act as reportable, then why not also ban-able? Instead of sanctioning an actual entity, why not sanction a concept, a class of transactions, an expression of math?

Dangerous precedent.


It's probably not a coincidence that a mentally insane law that basically makes #Bitcoin transactions illegal is being shoved through the Treasury at the same time as there is buzzing about an ETF announcement.

Don't get complacent, shit is gonna get real and the days of utter basic privacy being a crime might not be far away.