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 My wife coined a new term:

KYC Olympics

proud of her 
 Canada gonna take the gold! 
 Reasonable, however, perhaps not reasonable is the lack of accompanying graph from friarhass comparing bitcoin, gold, banking and military emissions! 
 Thinking of on boarding some family members to #Bitcoin by way of gifting them some for Christmas... 
 Weird tings happen at the intersection of trustless money and trustworthy(?) friends/family! 
 Brain wallet example demonstations are fun to blow minds... How are you at memorizing? (probably with a passphrase, keeping backups elsewhere of course)

Of course, small amounts if you are directly entering into a hot wallet... If they are immediately hacked, then there is a bonus lesson for the person that their device is pwned--with accompanying lecture on how insecure electronic devices and networks remain :) 
 If you are willing to drive, the market is probably better in Canada... Though "cash" buyers seem rare, anecdotally 
 Sooooo much low-hanging efficiency ... Could you imagine in places where fuels are not heavily taxed... Could you imagine in places where fuel is heavily subsidized?? 
 Inconvenient truths

When we talk about Bitcoin scalability we inevitably talk about the blockcha... 
 Thank you sir!
 Ecashs+nostr+mesh+new,simpler,securer,signing devices expanding in a big bang?? 
 I have this particular friend. For years I’ve been telling him over and over to look into #bitc... 
 With this NPC description in hand, adoption hyperbitcoinization is gonna be wild when it hits... 
 Which comes first :

Adoption hyperbitcoinization 

OR 

Price hyperbitcoinization

?

Either way, I think one will closely follow the other! 
 This convo ^

To get back to the original point tho... there is no monetary & transactional (& societal?) consensus at many, many levels

Even when "the mark and worship of the beast" to buy and sell is attempted ... there will remain no consensus

Thank God for the tower of babel AND His response to it!! 
 BREAKING: Denmark becomes the first country in the world to propose taxation unrealized capital g... 
 Where are my Danes moving to... El sal? 
 I seem to recall that one night in another EU makes you "technically" resident... Don't trust, verify

Sly Danes gathering with sly Germans ??
(Where bitcoin has no cap gains after one year hold) 
 Yep, at least no "gold-backed crypto" was announced... Yet...

They really need to read more dergigi ! 
 Just heard conbase is sponsoring cfl grey cup... Seems somehow like justice is being served 
 Only 2 years ago, Canadian gov seizing and freezing accounts plus the super shady doxxing of donors on top... waiting for the 'muricans to do waaaaaay more than this when the rubber meets the road... Hope all you devs are readying preemptive soft forks candidates for when the time comes... Thanks in advance!! 
 The idolization of Michael Saylor by bitcoiners is one of the grossest cases of hero worship I've... 
 Digital id with bitcoin, using block space for such, was a howler

Je me souvien
 
 Cantona quotes are a cut above though! 
 Tl;Dr:
A la "animal farm":

Bankers are generous and good
Bitcoiners are greedy and bad

Everybody sing it with me!

-ECB et al

(PS even with many delusions about, methinks, this banker Revolution will find a hard time gaining traction?!)


 
 GM to everyone except the central bankers. 
 GM! 
 Wasn't their pitch :

You will own nothing and be happy

What happened?! 
 What is this thing called "society" that they write of... But seriously, congrats!! 

Eternal September in October?! 
 THEY SHOULD STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS ABOUT IT.

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 Even if it proved to be an honest measure, there is no way most westerners will have the option to use this...  
 I'm talking about using like a personal, no trusted third-party savings account ... Not that western govs are friendly towards bitcoin either.... 
 Game theory in action 
 You're not saying that they've had incentive to fix/manipulate the price of gold?! Say it ain't so! 
 Thanks for this "testimony" wrapped up in an enjoyable read!! Kudos to British Columbian truck drivers as well... arising from one of the most sinister covidian jurisdictions (even to today, john rustad receives "vaccine skeptic" smears as if it is some kind of gotcha during this provincial election) 
 The 14 or so EU Russian sanction packages have done nothing but hurt Europeans so far, but this 1... 
 Accurate 
 ...and the euro is far from lindy... Surprised that EU hasn't induced (adoption AND price) hyperbitcoinization yet 
 That is eminently meme-able sir!

There's no business like war business, like war business 
 “The majority is not always right” is true for normies but also true for Bitcoiners.

Bitcoin... 
 Thank you sir!!

I admit to adhering too much to s2f...however, when the various housing cults (I.e. highest s2f with all sorts of national protections) start to implode, watch out!

 
 Also, factor in that there are 10x the number of salvadorans to "share" that bitcoin pot 
 Can I please order a Trump saying:

"They're faking the dogs , they're faking the cats" 
 Michael Saylor:

 - actively blocks open source devs
 - wants regulatory clarity 
 - gives all hi... 
 Did a quick search , didn't find...

Is saylor on record with "free Ross" ?? 
 Building my honey library but it is slow progress with my cravings :)

Fireweed is delicious... Some of my other favourites are heather honey (northern england) and fynbos (cape town) 
 Aloe honey is so creamy 

Blackberry honey is amazingly blackberry-flavoured

I've heard meadowfoam is supposed to be good and is on my to-slurp list 
 Canadians are so polite.  
 Live by the politeness, die by the politeness 
 MAKE POW GREAT AGAIN 
 What is spam? 

It may be difficult to approach a consensus on the definition of spam... However, hammer the obvious spam ruthlessly while keeping in mind that a course/code correction may be necessary later to ensure nostr is "a public square".... Think of it as a physical people: thinking, speaking and conversing ... The natural physical limits of human communication/interaction can surely be somehow defined and applied as some type of publicly-known standardized nostr spam filter? If breached, you npub is basically nuked and you have to start over??

Probably would be difficult to make the parameters simple but could make the spec quite wide to cut out the worst offenders...

Thank you devs!  
 I’m not a sovereign individual and will likely never be one. I can understand the desire to be ... 
 It is a great mystery... because God's sovereign desire and plan is that Christ's followers reign in all-authority with Him! 
 Wow!!

Tire on pavement is probably more predictable than edge on snow but that is top heavy and certainly takes more fearlessness! 
 My aunt asked me what I thought was going to happen this U.S. presidential election. Here’s wha... 
 The more pertinent question would be:

What does the continued global erosion of the US petrodollar/treasury system look like over the next four years? 
 Kindly reminder that pants are a psyops 
 Beat me to it!

Monty python voice: american or British?? 
 pops is trying to convince me that inflation is happening because of a 0.8% population increase f... 
 No, however, all western jurisdictions (and more) will be competing for population to prop up their respective housing ponzis (which just so happens to also be a large component of their magic local money printer and, ergo, inflation) 
 I don't really want hyperbitcoinization until we also figure out a decentralized way to ensure pe... 
 Yes and also no?

This is why it is useful to distinguish between price hyperbitcoinization and adoption hyperbitcoinization ... and even classify these  geographically/jurisdictionally as well? 
 1BTC = BTC is a coping mechanism, a necessary one, but still cope. We live in tyrannical times an... 
 But... It is also a trolling mechanism... Towards coinbase, black rock et al ... All who have the propensity to lie to their customers  
 freedom of speech must be balanced with other human rights 
 Why did God allow Satan to speak to Eve in Genesis 3:1 ?! 
 I gotta say...

Watching grown men play with balls in front of other grown men paying to watch th... 
 I mean if one was forced to watch ... Hockey would be near the top of my list ... Ever watched Gaelic/hurling? It's amateur, local 
 What do you say to someone that says: "We must pay taxes"
#asknostr #taxes 
 Wonder how much these "guys" cost?

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