I heard its all over tho,  nostr:npub16pcgz3fct9znjcv37sn7zdrtk4xgjsgla7rm6dz82y9syashr7mq7nafu7 says they're just turning it off on Monday and he's right!


Jesus...This really is the end isn't it?  Man, my family is gonna have a real laugh at me.  Divorce incoming.


What happens on the 9th??!  I'll never be able to get my seed from under that rock in that place by then?!


How will I offload this corn???


Is it all over?


Oh it is. I’m just leaving for a furious tromp.


I'm going for a fuckin' walk.


Typical cat.


Can confirm. Beavers eat wood.


Beautifully put


Totally agree I shouldn’t known but intend to assume that in the long run every SPOF is guaranteed failure but that’s because I’m a lawyer and all I think about is worst case scenarios day in and day out lol. Thanks for the thoughtful replies though it’s good stuff.


Gourdeous


Crossfit has gotten out of hand.


You're probably right, but since I have no idea what their process/procedure are, I just focus on the fact that a single entity makes it a single point of potential failure.  That's the salient point to me.  I have no doubt they are best-in-class, but it remains a single point in a sense.


You should tell people to clean up after their dogs.


“Hate speech” is a made up Marxist euphemism. A dog whistle for aspiring censors.

There is no such thing as hate speech. There is only speech that particular people don’t like.
https://m.primal.net/KfdA.mov


I know it looks like $54, but we all know it's still $58.


You think that, but it's still $58


I'm annoying, but I'm not that kind of annoying.  I just want to hear what I want and less of what I don't want, on the margin.


Hey look at me!


I've been considering investigating bone-conducting headphones.  My old Bose are starting to disintegrate.


When we find out Coinbase's keys are all on 2-3 internet connected computers, my desk is going to handlessly flip over.


I mean, what did Coinbase ever do to earn this kind of trust other than not collapse in 2021?


Is there a regulatory reason they all use coinbase?  Why wouldn't saylor (who runs a damn tech company) spin up a multsig solution for his own company?  I just don't get this.  My tinfoil hat is ringing.


This is actually kind of scary.


Good ol' fax.


"Threat to our democracy."

She's talking about free speech of course.

https://video.nostr.build/ed9fcaeb781b5e7a6216509774acd04d3a68edbf55c64069b1ee57165eb7c4d5.mp4


Conspiracy theorists batting 1000.

A PHD won't save you from yourself.

https://video.nostr.build/f292250bec69fc4b9ac8fd1b93b67dba1114e76866548e3419ee99ca351db12d.mp4


Reply guys are like meseeks only you get no wishes accomplished.


nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u  nostr:npub14uhkst639zvc2trx2nlsvk4yqkjp690zk89keytnzgmq2az0qmnq58ez89. I loved your rip gentlemen.  As a new father myself, it was nice to hear you two reflect on the first stages of new fatherhood.  Dads need other dads to talk to more than we even know!


F-Droid sounds like one of those robots you won't tell anyone you bought.


I've been training my whole life to be this stupid and still I fall short.


https://m.primal.net/Kaaj.png GM!


Goddammit I came here to make this stupid joke.  Tinsley!!!


Ok I want this hat.


This reply guy thing reminds me of a rick and morty plot line.


I've been forcefully saying good morning to people I encounter first thing in the morning where I get my coffee.  They rarely see it coming, but I think they usually like it.  GM!


good morning!


#bloomscrolling https://m.primal.net/Kgmz.png


I've calibrated against the rising tide of tyranny.


Haha, the statute of limitations has welll passed.  I'm getting ripe.


No it was definitely legit, I was such a rule follower at that age I would have turned myself in to the feds if I accepted a moody copy.


Greenday - Dookie - Cassette


NEVER!


street hockey??


How would you like those serialized?


Max. effort.


Just give us your #kids. 😵

Ready for fiat-proof kids?

#unschooling

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

https://fountain.fm/show/0cjwJbTn6z3lPXNX8ISg


What a chad.


We need radiation exposure badges for propaganda. At some threshold it just says GTFO and touch grass


Aspirational.


Format the corruption.


What is light without darkness??


Peace be with you Eris.


For all of us.


Love this.  I especially love the idea of being so good at riding you can hang onto your spear and piss off your horse at the same time. Such a neat sketch.  I’m sure my interpretation is my own.


Probably just don’t try to marry one of these folks. My brother in law is a doctor. He needs a bit of work but I’m confident he’s open to beach tits. America is very welcoming to this.


It’s 3:30 am and I laughed out loud. A rare event indeed.


I’m up too. Send wine?


2.5. He’s been waking up at this ungodly hour and then I hold him and pace his room. He wants to come
Into bed with me but I can get him back down in his room and then he has this ability to hover in twilight whining and i wait until he finds silence.  I think he’s finally down for real thank the lord.


My son won’t sleep.


I am so goddamn tired.


I love you.


Afraid!?


Grammar is cool,
Birds aren’t real,
That owl looks sick,
He had an ordeal.


I’m afraid I’m having too much fun here.


Granite-town.


Don’t take this the wrong way. But this gave me a raging clue.


We’re so early here in the future.


I fuckin knew it.


I have gone hard and somehow never this hard.


Motherfucker has the audacity to give me homework. And then look like that??


Wow I love this guy.  He should do. Joint presentation with nostr:npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p


Wtf is up with my Duolingo app icon. https://image.nostr.build/50439c535c3987af0cfc3c4ecea797a93feffd8577d4013032e8859283f794ea.jpg


Zap bots is hot.


This picture makes me feel safe.


But did he get it!?


I’m scared by the freedom this inflicts on me.


I hope you get there.   I barely buy clothes but when I do I tend to go HARD.


What’s expected of me?  I’m a lawyer and stupid really hard most of the day.


Let me be clear though I love what you’re doing but I just have different preferences brother.


Sorry man. Three do look fun and hilarious but I can’t pay 100 for recycled plastic. I’d probably go a loy higher for wool if you can make it happen.


Im sure a brain doctor has already answered my question some where but I’m publicly wondering.


Are you familiar with bionic reading?  They do some interesting things with fonts and kerning that helps me
Read easier and it makes
Me wonder if it’s the shape of the letters that matter ergo the language?


Days!?


If only it was funny.


It was fun while it lasted.


INTRODUCING 2024 #NOSTR N #BITCOIN UGLY SWEATERS 👻👻👻 https://image.nostr.build/c24ce3190423c597c0b26c7824e590f38eaea35b8e96541790e2fa2b17f1c5b1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cc44f0030b902ea97d70c54cefcaee7479422673710af83ec588fe99cf5334cf.jpg


I’ll take one.


The left side of the curve is so warm and comfy.


IM an idiot and no one told me.


What’s this about?


Can you be dyslexic in one language but not another?


Worst still my hands were in my pockets and I almost fell out of my chair encumbered by my own stupidity. Hand management fail.


It’s true.


THIS NOTE IS ONLY INITIALLY BEING PUBLISHED TO MY PERSONAL RELAY. NOSTRICHES WILL FIND IT AND SPREAD IT AROUND THE NETWORK. IT'S BEAUTIFUL. WHY? THIS IS HOW WE BEAT CENSORSHIP. THIS IS HOW WE WIN. DECENTRALIZATION POWERED BY THE OUTBOX MODEL.


Nice word@


Mine is


Don't call me shirley.  Ok, onto that walk.


Thank you!  🚶🫡


Time for a walk.  #walkstr


Permanent marker??


You did answer me, weird, the post disappeared.  No worries, love your work though!


Stimmt


all my corn is rock hard, gravel ears


Make savings not investing great again.


1btc = 1btc


It's such an important thing, I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about all that dust,,,sometimes I weep.


It's the lack of trigger control that really bothers me here.


It's only nominally $56k, it's really $58k.


It's simulations all the way down.


This hideous monstrosity brought to you by venice.ai:  https://m.primal.net/Kfjy.png


I'll work on that.


HEyoohh!


It is written.


When you say "pay," do they really though?  I'm sorta feeling like my cuckbucks are getting a little lighter day-to-day.


That's a violation of playground rules.  Dude with the ball (or stick and hoop in this instance) gets to be a sniveling prick.


Well I'm takin' my fuckin' hoop and stick with me then!


I'm more of an _idea_ guy.


Whover built that stick and hoop game.


The map is not the world, but we're all going to get gfs.


I want to make a website where we make our stygian confessions, hash them, and then embed the hash in an op_return to charity wallets and the website indexes the hashes.  I too have many gaming confessions to make.  Recently it's been open world Icarus.


The genetic timechain is real.


If I could print more I would.  He's the strongest 24lb animal I've ever handled.  A real tornado, mind and body.


I'm so very married.  Proof of work 2.5 year old.


My setup is toight now.  Love sparrow wallet.  tooiiight.


Dude, (dudette?), totally.. I don't eat pasta as often as I used to, but when I'm down and make some of my grandpas pasta and sauce and meatballs, there's nothing that it can't heal.


Looking forward to this one.  I love this fuckin' apple.  He singlehandedly saved me (and by extension my friends and family) from being fucked up on UTXO dust.


Today I fell asleep in my office chair with my hands in my jean pockets and almost fell onto my face, so can confirm.


As a lawyer, can confirm I could not afford myself.


Welcome!


It's funny because it's happening!


Moscow Time 17:77


This is basically what my apartment looked like when I met my wife.  My bed was a matress on the floor with a blanket on top for a bed sheet.  Im not proud of this, per se, but I was perfectly content.


lovestr


Nothing lasts, but nothing's lost.


I've got banned from Facebook for posting this meme. Let's see what happens here! 😎  https://m.primal.net/Kfdu.jpg


What's facebook?


https://companiesmarketcap.com/assets-by-market-cap/ looks very different


What happened to silver?  wrekt.


Satoshi never moved his coins because all the prvkeys are embossed in chocolate coins, like willie wonka!


I’m now officially a “Node Runner”!
By running my own node, I help make the game:

More decentralized.
More secure.
More private (self-sufficient).
More efficient.
I don’t trust, I verify, hence more integrity.
More of the people, by the people.

Thx to everyone who helped me level up, including our conversation - nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe 🙏🏻 very grateful!
https://m.primal.net/KfDF.jpg


braveheart.gif


Very.


Finally went through!  I hope you guys celebrate appropriately!


I want to say congratulations but my alby zaps are failing!!!


Unlike Connor, we have mute.


15 years on twitter. Now gone forever. Good riddance.


Try raw garlic and pistachio nut.  You will be blown away by the deliciousness of the combo.  Learned by accident one day making anchiovie pasta.


#foodstr

nostr:note1h6de2z59chg70m3qqppp93nsh5fs4afy9ldwwkwmfc4422z4wkjq0a5y4t


Everytime you mute a bot an angel gets its wings.


I'm thinking of a song by Tool right now.


SEAL OF SATOSHI

Sharing this project so dear to me again, to let you guys know that you can still have one!

Every piece is hand made in the size of the buyer 🧡

You can also pick any free number from 1 to 500! https://image.nostr.build/fe5def7c483c809a3543bd67f0990129e850d7366606e61b72a0aecbd1dad66f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cb8b9f79d11d3766a11dc69eed2394daaff580a5e18550dc348baab97301e624.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b0cee7c30674d54ef14791574f39d0a7acc714f25894d7c756ecc698e791e978.jpg


Someone has to do this work...I'm ok with being that person.


Sad, but that's ok.  When you come over for pasta, I'll teach you something about Serrano.  (I always assume people I like will eventually be coming over for pasta).


That is some Thic soosh!  Where get?


Ok, but Serrano or Jalapeño pepper.  You can only choose one.


I just fell asleep at my desk.


And hopefully actually be those things.


Then I'm sorry.


If you start with pain it makes stupid easier.


I've muted three already.


Toxic patience.


Shake a rancher's hand.


Sometimes I miss the "news" from X but I think its also to just not give a shit what's going on in the world for a few weeks and just heal up.


Did you two, like, just have a conversation on the internet?  Is nature healing?!


URGENT: PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY COMMUNICATION RIGHT NOW!

on 4th Sept 2024 #ChatControl regulation representatives of EU goverments will resume work based on a secret document according to Patrick #Breyer, former Member of the European Parliament.

Help to mobilize everybody to defend our #privacy of communication and its developers, investors!

If no preventive actions from your side now, this regulation will be endorsed on 12/13 December 2024.

According to the draft regulation dated 28 May (Council document 9093/24), ChatControl deploys to do, for instance:

🔻 “upload moderation”, users of apps and services with chat functions are to be asked whether they accept the indiscriminate and error-prone scanning and possibly reporting of their privately shared images, photos and videos.

🔻Scan by “artificial intelligence” technology previously unknown images and videos;

🔻If a user refuses the scanning, they would be blocked from sending or receiving images, photos, videos and links (Article 10).

🔻End-to-end encrypted services such as Whatsapp or Signal would have to implement the automated searches “prior to transmission” of a message (so-called client-side scanning, Article 10a).

During the last discussion on 24 May, the Council Legal Service made it clear that indiscriminate chat control scanning of non-suspects is still envisioned and remains a violation of fundamental rights.

Nevertheless, most EU governments are determined to go ahead. https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024/05/2024-05-28_Council_Presidency_LEWP_CSAR_Compromise-texts_9093.pdf

🌎 Tell your goverment and parliamentarians, that the proposal should be rejected altogether!

🔴Is your government in favour?
→ Ask for an explanation and for your government to revert its course.

🟡Is your government abstaining?
→ Ask why and demand that they take a strong stance against chat control.

🟢Is your government opposing?
→ Great, but take a closer look at the reasoning: Some governments like #Germany e.g. only object to the scanning of encrypted communications, but are fine with the indiscriminate scanning of other private and public communication, with the end of anonymous communication by requiring age verification, or with introducing a minimum age for “risky” communication apps. Also critical governments need to do more, exert their influence in the Council of the EU and agree on a joint list of necessary fundamental changes to the proposal. Absent such revision they should ask the European Commission to withdraw the chat control proposal as it stands.

🔴 In favour of ChatControl: France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden.

🟡Abstained: Estonia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Austria

🟢 Opposed the proposal: Germany, Poland

When reaching out to your government, the ministries of the interior (in the lead) of justice and of digitisation/telecommunications/economy are your best bet. You can additionally contact the permanent representation of your country with the EU: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/COREPER/
https://nostrcheck.me/media/8f6568deec0120acb2a4d1e4e311c881d306c396a9288b0a07f564d20f186268/af19b4a25b66258c7b163f16484b3679730886c2fb40c41c1fcc8aeb85cd2031.webp
https://nostrcheck.me/media/8f6568deec0120acb2a4d1e4e311c881d306c396a9288b0a07f564d20f186268/2669c370e1d5895234c660ec86a28c17c101ab0b87a875f609dd87d1fdeac286.webp


Thoughtsplainitus.


Safety AI sounds highly soy


Such a cool website.


What’s a Parker?


Thank you for linking to a seed bank. If i manage to remember you deserves some zaps for that!! Very cool.


Everyday is Jamais Vu.


Day #2 with students, and I’m still here. I’m very tired, but I’m still going. #teachersofnostr
https://m.primal.net/KebW.jpg


“Woo this water’s cold!” *when sitting to take a shit”


I love that I have no idea what the answer is.  I understand the question almost entirely but have no clue what the answer is.  I love this place.


I’m curious what’s a fish pepper?


Burgermeister.


It's a fuckin' bloodbath.


It's done, doing it.  Shit's floating so hard here now.


It's raining here.  Don't doxx me.


nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 Wen ColdCard with metamaterial shell that makes it invisible?  Or one covered in Vantablack paint making it invisible in a dark box.


I would make all of my colleagues office objects floating poultergeists with this indispensible dispensable tape.


Underpriced if true.


That is an absurdly dark and delicious looking avacado, if that is indeed avacado.


neat


Much respect for the self-reporting.  We're not alone in this life and celebrating eachothers goofups moves us forward!


Heyyohh!!! This guy here!


Smart move.


BUT NOW WE HAVE THE INTERNET OF THINGS!!!  I really, really need a chinese microship in my water bottle which attaches to the catheter in my dick that gives me feedback on my hydration!


Many such cases.


This video, while tantalizing for reaons that are not at all obvious or really understood, leaves out a few critical data points predictably attendant to a two-wife scenario.


I know for a fact that beavers dream.


Venice.ai isn't afraid of nudity.


Reminds me of the days where you could tunnel through AOL AIM and search for people that were online and just have random encounters.  It was rare and brief and amazing.


Just don't dance.


Auspicious.


I really should of but I'm not feeling chadly enough and recently lost a tooth to a tortilla chip incident so I hide in shame behind a tshirt.


To you as well Neal, I hope you're having a great day!


https://pears.com/.
keet.io


Try pears.


You could also do a massage parlor.  The brand symbol would be a metal detected behind a red strikeout.


The longer you live the longer you stack.


Green tea gives me anxiety.


That's jeff bezos or its a fed.   No alternative theories.


In a just world, this is true.  Please tell me it's true.

nostr:note13qjprz5dqkjeta4z340m7qgy9rkrngkp647klv2t7mt8zde5h6rqq6q4fn


Holy shit.


Stack #Bitcoin, HODL, chill.

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


Fun fact, same chick before and after bitcoin.


This includes cats and other anthropomorphized animals, plants, and minerals. (some funguses may apply).


I would love to hear more from persons I've never heard from.


Food crime is the worst.


Especially anyone.


I'm leaving for one right now.


This would cost $100,000 today.  None of those women had to work .  No seed oils detected.


$58k incoming


I'm not for sale.


I am nature.


Monopoly money.


Bullish for bitcoin.


👀

nostr:note1xty3yjahg2kw33lkmau3wla4pnfvr8k8z0ug78rssznsfvp9ehvqpanh5u


When you've got hard money, all that's left to get is real friends and family.


I'm afraid if I go into cornychat I may never leave.


When I retire from the practice of law, I'm happy to meaningfully contribute to the cooking effort.  Someone else has to handle pastries.  I'm this close to getting my wife on board with land out west so lets get building.


It's the nihilistic result of cheating away the meaning of the living game.


Ironically, the banks get to counterfeit all day, but when these doofuses found a money printer it's straighttojail.gif


Wake me up in February.


Whats with the fucking tree?  If you've got a tree growing out of your car, please stop driving.


A sign appeared across the street from me.  It's flabbergasting.  I'm flumoxed.  Vexed even.


We should all be pissed.


I could really benefit from improving my future was.


Let alone public schools.


I wish I had the chops, but I would love to see coders working on open source projects that could interface with braille output devices.  I'd donate to such projects if they were underway.  That said, I don't believe in a no-trust world, we're social monkies, but enabling visually impaired people to take custody of their own corn should be an increasing priority.


Anyone reading this wondering why it’s such a big deal for folks with partial vision or blindness? What difference does respecting device font size make? Here’s a screenshot of what a podcast looks like on different platforms when you are a large font user - I made no adjustments between apps. I used “What Bitcoin Did” as an example for consistency. https://image.nostr.build/e5f46ba85b81ff5d57c9b9297c200a06357d961e7379bc9c10214aa52ee84bf3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/28e6f6c2570c41ba95e21f740e4e84084b05bbc44d760796d2db6fbb496b25a0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/366d497de84e966fcd83efe144b568b8e453d0439328c6701db2bd05bda2e9cd.jpg


I’ve been thinking about this a little while too. For those who are visually impaired or blind what options are there for independent self custody?


Very cool, my mom would love this.  Ill have to share it with her.


One day it'll be forgotten $58k was a reference to fiat dollars.


I'll check that out.


It was.  Beer batter.  So simple, flour salt pepper a little baking soda.  Dusted chunks of cod, back in the fridge, got the tallow to 350-360f and then poured the beer into the flour stir, dunk, fry.  Worked out great. I get my tallow from fatworks.com


Pot Luck!!


Happy to talk to people who like things.  Here's some recent food I made.  Looking forward to getting into nostr recipes soon!  Fish Fry in Tallow with homemade fries:  https://m.primal.net/KdzJ.png


I could use more meatspace hangouts.  Orlando needs to get its shit together.


It's wild to think that for 10s of thousands of years most people never saw what their own face looked like and now people are obsessed with looking at themselves while they talk to other people through their devices.


I feel like I've impacted the world.  I can probably go home now.


Totally.


Super hero vibes here.  Love it.


Look for the video of the dudes rolling the raw ink with their feet.  It's like $1,500 a gram for some of the ink made with special tree wood ash and animal sinewglue.


Have you ever seen the shitty tea they used to import back then?  It was pressed into these tight blocks like Japanese Caligraphy Ink and shaved off to make tea.  I bet it tasted like shit and deserved to be chucked into the ocean.  Also, 'Merica!


Lol, "science."


I miss Sarajevo.


Patience, discipline, (and occaisionally whining).


We should all do that more.  🫡


The Male Chauvinist, having his wife do all the laundry.


It's only nominally ower than $58k, it's still $58k regardless.


We'll need to crowdsource that price, so much corn!


I'm desperate to receive mine.  I was supposed to be in batch 1, and now I suffer. I'm drowning in blue light!!


Only nominally.


My syntax brings all the anons to the yard.


Turned out a bit fierce:  https://m.primal.net/Kdvr.png


My son would love a vegetable-based dinasaur cartoon.


So much reach!!


You know, I do get a solid frisson effect to a woman's singing voice, but can you tell me that an operatic glass explosion is not amazing?


GM NOSTR 🤙

Private equity and their interests cannibalizes good companies and entrepreneurs. Their main fuel is printed money.

IMO, it's one of the main reasons nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m left Twitter.

https://video.nostr.build/05f0e77253ef893d591a9a3ecbd9d89f931520193794ff365a6d2da5c60279a9.mp4


Please don't turn into a space-time worm.  We love your videos.


Ok, I've got blue eyes, but dude, how is that your real eye color??  That's Ragnar-about-to-murder Lothbrok level blue.


Whatever happened to all those ladies who were breaking glasses with their voices?  Can we bring back the shatter?


No ragrets!


#Boobstr 😅 https://i.nostr.build/5UsCUdXDFq3VxUd3.jpg


You've gone too far!!


Important training excercise.


I should put a buy order in at 8.1k


That's because you just meme'd it into existence with your loads of qcumbers.


Messing around is highly correlated to engagement.


Me in real life:  https://m.primal.net/Kdty.mp4


Smells like deployed capital.


We can all use a friend to occaisionally remind us to shut the fuck up.


Can we all agree that Loaded Cucumber is an objectively hilarious psuedonym?


I've already hacked the bitcoin CEO's mainframe.


I would understand this a lot better if there were 100 replies with dreamcatcher-style lines on charts.  j/k. Encouraging analysis.


Tomorrow I’m talking to the best #Bitcoin visualization creator nostr:npub14uhkst639zvc2trx2nlsvk4yqkjp690zk89keytnzgmq2az0qmnq58ez89  on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8  (there is no second best).

Let me know if you have any questions for Wicked 👇 nostr:note1vcedvv4netrd5mltkqc2y9x8de3nv5f0c3pm7xewdmuwrwpju5zsr3rjgf


Did you draw that apple and if so, how did you accidentally Dorian Grey yourself such that the image you created became your internet identity. Do you feel trapped in the apple.  Do you need help?


Where can I get some eggs taxi'd to me that weren't cooked in canola oil?


Thruple down?


GM!


Once upon a Time there was a underground rapper in the town of Asheville North Carolina by the name chachilli. He was given a mega dose of LSD at a party and spent the next year in a mental institution. He later wrote a song about this.
This is that song.
https://v.nostr.build/JrvjQi2SAt3GJpLr.mp4


holy shit.  solid.


Nice thing about Nostr is people. have these conversations without being inundated by a bunch of idiots drawing lines on graphs.


wtf?


Love my some lever action.


Sir, this is a Wendy's


Located in Brazil and didn't even know about nostr until X got blocked, glad to have found it


In the long run fish well evolve to avoid fishhooks.


I doubt I’m that kind of lawyer but always feel free to reach out


I feel seen


Thank you!


You know I don’t need validation. I just desperately need validation and you’d think one nostr lawyer to another I’d get a folllow so you can see all the catastrophic shit posting that is to come
From me.


This sentence broke my brain, and maybe that is the point?  I was trying to orient myself to the northerly direction of a rising sun and was not able to because we live in 3 dimensions.


You said it better than me, my reaction is this is fundamentally backwards.


Shit's so backwards.  I hope it works, but this is like we'll stitch up your gut if you snag a nail going down the fiat chute instead of using the bitcoin ladder.


Leaving X was the healthiest thing I did for myself this year.  Welcome!


TIL that I outgrabe 1 - 2x per day depending on what I've eaten.


Suprisingly little crustacea in this meme.


You all know what I mean...


Not long ago, most of us lived in one bedroom homes, for like..thousands of years.


Im considering buying a boat just to sink it so I can reference the police report as evidence the bag is empty.  Joking aside, I appreciate your thoughtful response.  I'm going to be thinking about this a lot going forward.


I love all the earnest engagement I got here.

nostr:note1j2j9v2x465eged3uedl5m8tf3m6w98ppxkv5trjtcxqku2gzpwasyf47rk


You can use sats to order a taxi for your sandwhich.


More the first. And not because I have wealth but because of the mere perception. “If this guy knows this stuff he must have gotten in with Satoshi”. I’m a strong second amendment respecter but I’d rather not exercise the right to its fullest.


I’m struggling because I feel compelled to teach about it and have given some talks on it but more and more I’m thinking maybe it’s not worth the risk.


Is there a price at which you will greatly reduce or stop speaking publicly about bitcoin?


I've decided I'm going to go on a long walk.  GFY.  🚶♂


I spotted one at a walgreens.  And then I think it spotted me!


Like Alan Watts said "once you get the message, hang up the phone".


One time I just tried to be myself and realized I was faking it.  I accidentally peeled the entire onion away and there was nothing left.  It definitely wasn't the fungus.


The surface area is troubling to me.  I can't....cool..but I just don't think I can.


Humble Hedgey.


Hotel $58,000, you can check out but you can never leave.


I sure hope not, I want the best for my people.


Two people I've given River codes to have bought more than $10,000 in btc since I shared the code.  I don't know who and noone has fessed up (nor should they), but that's a signal I can't ignore.


Welcome to the Warren.


How do your children sleep so well?  Teach me the way!  I was up at 3:30 AM today.  My son is a dracula.


We could all use a little hope from time to time.  Thanks for sharing.


You don't get the girl before you bag the mammoth.  Proof of Tusks or gtfo.


gfy


Also, you are safe because they are made of 100% soybean oil.


The only thing I miss from x is the regular Leper King memes.


Fiatjaculations commence.


I'm so laser focused on my own bag, the world appears to be entirely within it.  Global Scrote-maxing.  It will pump, and I will be the pumper.  I've gone insane.


The chaos sustains us.


As was foretold.


So many faces.  They should perforate in advance to make the ripping easier.


They do and have bitten me.  They have to get to a critical size to bite but it hurts.  Slightly poisonous but not deadly by any means.  Sub-bee sting pain scale. The problem is only the big one's have the cojones to come out and mess around.  Their infernal children brood in the sewar system until they are ripe with violence.


"She only has two feet??"  Narrator:  "..what he didn't know is that these weren't for her feet, but for an enemy, with many...many feet."  I feel like comic effect of constantly talking about the innumerable leggs on these bugs is essential to cross the chasm between shitty movie and B-movie classic its so bad it's good.


I'm actually...I think we should actually do this.  This would be fuckin hilarious.  Maybe  nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev can do the trailer.

"On the day she sent her last child off to college, carried by his two little legs...she would turn to face her next greatest challenge....one with...farrr moore leeggs..."


Oh yes, by then, it was be ones of bitcoin per millions.


They are brittle and dangerous like an obsidian blade.


Marvel is gonna acquire us for millions of dollars.


And when they get bigger they hiss by moving their legs and they are so fuckin' fast!


Horrifying, this was my companion.  They were legion during rainy seasons. https://m.primal.net/KcQB.png


I grew up in Pittsburgh, where we have house centipedes instead of roaches.  Look them up and understand how strong I must be to have grown up in that nightmare.  My strength was forged in a stygian insect-nightmare.


And the deadly accuracy.


Chancala power is real.


The first law cannot be violated.


When the money printer bazooka ejaculates trillions into the system sending prices to the moon devastating the world economy beyond comprehension.


Wen max pain?


We ain't seen nuthin' yet.


no.


They are gonna Brrr so hard.


I'm not even on here right now doing this.


It's ok, they will just open up FedDonalds where they will endlessly employ folks who will sell no burgers or thing of value.


Do they accept btc?


Unfuck the money, Unfuck the world.


Ravenous.


Pure signal.


99% of so called "public goods and services" should not be subsidized by the government at all. Please reference the give-a-shit matrix for why:

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

All credit to nostr:nprofile1qqstnem9g6aqv3tw6vqaneftcj06frns56lj9q470gdww228vysz8hqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcjgxv3n of course.


The measuring stick is fixed.


Peak banana


I can feel the love in this thread.


Blue ties steal wives.


Peaceful eternity.


But does any of this really matter when my toddler won’t sleep through the night?


Yet somehow jamais vu.


It you come to Miami don’t ask to go skiing. It’s not what you think it is.


Reverse snowbird maxing.


I’m a digital ledger.


Not bad!


“History Consolidates” is going to be the name of my band.


本当に日本に帰りたい


1BTC = 1BTC


ありがとうございます🙇


美しくはないが、美味しかった


I tried. https://image.nostr.build/5ec5326e804355d33ed3b4db1f5570268ddcb88ea5bb6e29242bdd118a70c77e.jpg


I didn’t say I’m happy.  But a 78 degree “heatwave” is for ants.


かっこいいよ


Jesus how is the hash rate so high??  It’s only increased since the halving. All my models are breaking.


日本語では”sweet tooth”言う事があるか


GFY. 🫡


‘Erry damn day.


lol I guess we in Florida are in a literal inferno year round. Call me Dante.


Meta-sexy.


When it comes to fiat mining, anoften overlooked gem is working for a small company with likeminded folks.  It’s like a mini-citadel within the borders of enemy territory. Freedom through collaborative effort.


Sorry for jumping in here without reading the whole conversation, but criticising someone for having a problem with democracy, as though democracy is a priori a good thing, is flawed. Democracy is an insidious scam.

See this for what I mean, even if you don't agree...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VAX3JL_l90


This video is easily the most subversive ban-able media I’ve ever consumed and it should be mandatory viewing material. It’s the most concise indictment of modern “society” I’ve ever watched. Holy shit.


The friends hugging emoji has become powerful


Sad


I need to get up in the cornchat


I’m fine with paying sats to people who don’t heed.


The roast is resting.


I will ask forever. 🫡


Im so hungry.


I would never cheat on my wife.


Holy shit. I missed this.


Hairy palms strike again.


They think we are their children and not their masters.


I’ve got a roast in the oven for my family.


Many such cases.


In your plums?


David Foster Wallace on Kafka’s humor:

“It's not that students don't "get" Kafka's humor but that we've taught them to see humor as something you get -- the same way we've taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke -- that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home. It's hard to put into words up at the blackboard, believe me. You can tell them that maybe it's good they don't "get" Kafka. You can ask them to imagine his art as a kind of door. To envision us readers coming up and pounding on this door, pounding and pounding, not just wanting admission but needing it, we don't know what it is but we can feel it, this total desperation to enter, pounding and pushing and kicking, etc. That, finally, the door opens...and it opens outward: we've been inside what we wanted all along. Das ist komisch.”


Dude. 👀


The most entertaining scenario is obviously the most likely.


Many such cases. For a year as I went down my first rabbit hole I just kept saying “it can’t be…are they really just stealing from us all the time, stealing our increasing productivity? How is there no revolution?” Turns out there is a revolution happening. And I’m happy to be a part of it.


So toxic. Love it.


Osho and Christopher Hitchens would have been a cool conversation.


Enjoy the silence.


Dill-gherkin maxin'!


Looking forward to coming on this show and talking about how the practice of law is broken in the united states and to discuss civil procedure, the billable hour, and my favorite pens.  Should be a huge hit!


It's things like this that prove to me that there is no free will.  Just weeks after I quit twitter for reasons unrelated to NOSTR or freedom, there has been an exodus from Twitter.  My subconcience knew something then and I still don't know what that thing was.

nostr:note1mk9hygwd8nedysln77dllzfskw50dvyxejm4dh6s0klrek3ajw7qees5y3


LFG!


It's true, in a sense.  We are social monkeys and can't help but be shaped in part by context.  But then again, what isn't.  Like the visual illustration of color in relief, the little square looks grey on white and white on grey.  Alone we are whatever we are alone.  I wonder if it's the truest self or just the alone self.  It's not my favorite self and so I hope it's not my truest one.


Based guru is best guru.


That feeling when you realize your face is also a mask you wear.


Striving to collapse the wave function at all times!


Frogger maxin'


90 dicks is...a lot of dicks.


I'm Lichen this pic.


Birds aren't real.


It gave me the feeling of falling.  I love it.


Insert:  picture of what looks like clevage but is really a dude's butt upclose.  Now, I have described it and now you will all see the butt your mind.


Art on NOSTR is the best part I think.


I did not consent to this perspective.


I am the L33t.


Just a Couple of Days.


Back on Nostr after a long hiatus. Am seriously thinking about getting off twitter permanently…the algorithm is completely fucked.


NOSTR ONLY!


Florida fam!   💪


Big if true


Embedded non consensual poops are no good.


This is great.  For me, learning how this works is what pushed me over the edge from bitcoin interest to bitcoin maximalism.


I prefer stairs no one ever talks about.


𝐔𝐬: Where is your mind?
𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞: Most probably on Nostr.
https://video.nostr.build/cca8d6f56b7347bb5d7502f3d5e8ae21e981242fcb9a29a90a786bc90366ed0e.mp4
GM and happy Monday with an awesome blend of visuals + music put together by nostr:nprofile1qqsv48tgavjkyr782hsm33mttu247nr7jmvec5evzzdgkdkjpz7uu4gpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue05c046x: WHERE IS MY MIND [Orange Pill Edition] ft. nostr:nprofile1qqsvqdax397ls6lafh65jm98ugccny45we5f07ccl0gax3ay73ze7hspzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue08nswk3 & nostr:nprofile1qqsrtp7kz59kjfg28h0ka7r8y0yhma4s0qsp8r8p3kmvlpjznm00arqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc05vhnq 📺🎶


ASL?


Pretty mushrooms cooked just enough to before they lose their color.  Delicious


That looks delicious.


Fuck the banks.


Can you guys help me grow my audience here on NOSTR?


Good morning!


Long overdue for me, but I am taking these global base money updates to nostr.  Long-form!

https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp6h0t9jlufuzfatxeclt2nehzj0w9rjd3z6hseuw5qst2ag366meqqknydfdgfshxefdf4hkuete942hqerpw3jj6dm5dqk4jetpwgk5xmm4de6xjmn894skz6rzv3jqt4qmv0


For six full years I've been updating and commenting on the status of global central bank money on Twitter. As the seventh year of my research commences, for 2024 Q2, it's about time to bring it home to the better bird protocol. This is a much more philosophically aligned place to focus in on the signal when it comes to our money, and I'm happy to finally convert these posts to long-form here.

**This is quarterly update #25, for 2024 Q2.**

If you have followed [my work](https://www.porkopolis.io/) before, then you know that the constant hymn I've sung while speaking publicly about Bitcoin is that the only, economically comparable money supply in the fiat world to 21 million bitcoins is what economists call the "monetary base," or "base money." This is a corporeal money supply that has existed across all of modern economic and central banking epochs. For an apples-to-apples, ontological comparison with Bitcoin, look no further then Base money.

## So what is it?

It is *central bank money*, comprised of two supplies:

1. **Physical currency**: Notes and coins, or “cash;”
2. **Bank reserves**: The “Master account” that each commercial bank holds with its central bank.

Now, why do I refer to this as, "Central bank money?" This is because, unlike all other money supplies in the fiduciary banking world (like M1/M2/M3), the Monetary base is the sole and ultimate money supply controlled by the central bank. It is, literally, the *printing press*.

What follows won't be a lesson in reserve ratios or monetary economics. The point is that you simply understand that ***there is*** a money supply that central banks solely control, and of course (of course!) this is what Bitcoin's 21 million are up against.

The monetary base is to the core of the entire fiat financial system, as 21 million bitcoins are to the core of the Bitcoin protocol.

One is open and permissionless, and one is not.

By the way, the monetary base is essentially (though not entirely) analogous to the *total liabilities* of a central bank, so we can (basically) say that the monetary base is the "balance sheet" of each central bank.

**On cash**. Quick notes on the above. Certainly you understand what "cash" is, and it is indeed an instrument that has been fully monopolized by each central bank in each nation around the world--only they can print it. Even though it is true that banks in more free banking societies in the past could freely print and strike notes and coins, the central bank (or state) monopoly has been around for a long time. Kublai Khan was the first to do it 750 years ago.

**On bank reserves**. Don't stress your brain on this too much, but this is the main "settlement money" that banks use between each other, when they want to settle their debts. It is digital now (Fedwire in US, CHAPS in UK), but it doesn't technically have to be, and of course before modern technology took over even a few decades ago, it was not.

These two stacks of retail and wholesale cash, stacks of *central bank money*, are what makes up the **Monetary base**. This is the *printing press*. Only this compares to 21 million bitcoins.

And gold, and silver by the way.

Final note, central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, which are simply LARPing on Bitcoin's success, are indeed created by central banks, and they are indeed classified as Base money. They are going to be a "third rail." They are thankfully incredibly small, pilot projects today. We will see how far democracies will be tested, as autocracies no doubt will mainstream them; but for now, consider them, at least economically, to be inconsequential to the update below.

With that review out of the way, onward to Q2 update for 2024.

## Bitcoin is the **6th largest money in the world**.

In February 2024, it surpassed the monetary base of the United Kingdom, that is its value was larger than the Bank of England's balance sheet, and it remains so to this day.

As of 30 June 2024, there are four central bank balance sheets larger than Bitcoin:

1. **Federal Reserve (dollar)**: $5.73 trillion
2. **European Central Bank (euro)**: $5.19 trillion equivalent
3. **People's Bank of China (yuan)**: $5.11 trillion equivalent
4. **Bank of Japan (yen)**: $4.20 trillion equivalent

So if we only look at this from a "fiat" perspective, then Bitcoin is indeed the 5th largest money in the world.

However, the all-important monetary metal throughout history that even a child knows about--gold--is still king at around **$15 trillion in value**, or 6.1 billion ounces worldwide. Note, this does not include gold lost/recycled through industry; in that case, it is estimated that about 6.8 billion ounces of gold have been mined throughout humanity.

![](https://blossom.primal.net/21e9bcba7166efbd1f50b48e4bae3650054b864c2358b61dd05ccf9333939193.png)*Update #25 Executive Summary*

Silver, for what it's worth, is still a big "monetary" metal; though it is true, much more silver is gobbled up in industry compared to gold. There are about 30.9 billion ounces of non-industrial silver floating around the world (most of it in jewelry and silverware form) that is valued in today's prices at $930 billion. Bitcoin bigger.

## **State of the Print: $26.1 trillion**.

If we add up the Big Five central banks already mentioned above (again, Bitcoin being larger than the Bank of England's monetary base), as well as the next 45 central banks, we get to a total, USD equivalent value of **$26.1 trillion in base money across the world**.

If we consider $26.1 trillion as the Big Boss of central bank money, the figure in totality, then Bitcoin at $1.2 trillion network value indeed has some way to go. We can also imagine how the Pareto distribution occurs even in money, if Bitcoin after only 15 years is already larger than every central bank money in the world except for four of them. Wild to ponder.

## Inflation: 12.7% per year.

It is also true that for two years they have been trying to "normalize" their balance sheets after the 2020-22 Covid madness, stimulus, and money printing. Of course, they have been trying all along to normalize since the 2008 global finance crisis (GFC), but I digress.

When I first started my website, I vowed never to use such a non-corporeal thing as CPI to discuss how much things cost.  A "general increase in the level of consumer prices," or CPI, as measured by planning boards around the world, is not a real thing.  It may be calculated by people with the best of intentions, but it has been manipulated and volumes have been written about it.  I don't use it.

I have always defined inflation as the classical economists did: Inflation is an increase in the "stock" of money. If we know the all-time stock of euros printed by the European Central Bank now, and we know the all-time stock of euros printed by the ECB 12 months ago, then it is very easy to calculate the annual inflation of the euro.  Not only is it easy, but *it is real*.  It is corporeal.  Watch what they do, not what they say.

But we should be rigorous. If inflation is an increase in the stock of money, what is a decrease in the stock of money? Does this happen? Well, this is *deflation*, and yes it does happen.  You may be surprised to learn that for two years central banks around the world have collectively been shrinking their balance sheets, and thus we have been in a state of deflation.

With my research we can visually see all of this, and it is here:

![](https://blossom.primal.net/7b45c11c9345fbf26fdd44ce7007c737f14a4351d8b4028773d374612b3c1fd2.png)*Inflation, or Deflation?*

Turns out that the normalization is more difficult than they thought, as they are still at $26.1 trillion, and before Covid the global monetary base was $20 trillion.  Nonetheless, they have stopped the money printing of 2020 and 2021.

I have written much about my [methodology for these reports](https://www.porkopolis.io/methodology/), but the bottom line is that the area curve on the left axis (the base money itself, denominated in dollars), will not necessarily reflect what is happening with the actual money print, trailing 12-month % figures on the right axis (the growth rate or inflation rate).  It is a *Wittgenstein's ruler* thing.

The blended, global, annual rate of central bank money printing at the moment is nearly flat, just slightly negative at -0.3%.

The flat levels and the slight rate of deflation have been relatively consistent for the last two years, but if you look at that the 2022 peak of $30 trillion, this may seem like they have cut the supply much more than this.  *They haven't*.  This is because, on balance, ***most of the world's currencies have fallen faster in value against the dollar, even though they continue to print***.

This is why we have seen $4 trillion in base money shed in value over the last couple years of rising interest rates, but the *actual decrease the rate of base money printed* has only been around **-1% to -2% per year**, when measured across each currency's native unit growth, each month.

And for the high signal, no-noise figure in my attempt to get you to one number to understand how much central banks have compounded their fiat base money stack across 50+ years, **that figure is 12.7% per year**.

And Powell says he wants to cut rates (print money) again.  Wild.

## Let's compare.

For the rest of this report, I want to do something different and simply spend some time looking at the compound annual growth rates of various corporeal things around the world, in order that we can compare those to the growth of the fiat monetary base, and Bitcoin.

Remember, most things in the financial and economic world grow exponentially.  This simply means that they grow *constantly*.  The financial term here is compound growth, or compound interest.  This rate of growth can indeed change year to year (interest rates can go up, or down), but over the years we can observe a strong trend, and that is what I want to summarize here for you.

## Population.

The world has grown exponentially at **1.7% per year** over the last 75 years.  However, despite all the overpopulation myths you've probably heard, this rate of growth is actually falling, well below trend, and we only grow at **0.9% per year** at the moment.

## GDP.

The United States has grown its economy at 5.2% compounded per year since the founding of the republic.  We are at the higher end of this trend right now, $28 trillion per year and growing at **5.8% per year**.

## Stocks.

Stocks grow exponentially as well, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.  The growth rate is **7.3% per year** for the S&P 500, the main US index that tracks more than 80% of total market caps.

## Stocks. With Dividends.

If you reinvest those dividends into the same stock market, you'll earn more.  Still compound growth, but 2% higher at **9.3% per year** for the S&P.

## Bonds.

Bonds are supposedly safer than stocks (bondholders get paid back first), and more cash flowing.  If you look at the longest running bond index in the US, it grows at **7.1% per year**, compounded.

## Base Money.

As we've discussed, base money grows, if re-weighting the native unit growth each month, at **12.7% compounded per year**.  However, this trendline analysis looks at it differently.  It simply looks at the USD value of the global monetary base (again, **$26.1 trillion**), and draws an exponential trendline on that USD equivalent growth for 50+ years.  In other words, this is going to be *after all currency fluctuations* have played themselves out.

Do you think the growth rate here will be higher or lower?  Actually lower, at **10.3% per year**.  But there is a big asterisk here, as more base money supplies are added in later periods than in the 1970s and 1980s, so it is not as rigorous as the 12.7% figure.  In any event, one might expect this trendline analysis to *actually be higher* in that case, so it goes to show how quickly currency values can fall against the global reserve currency!

## Silver.

This is total ounces ever mined.  They trend upward at **1.4% per year**.

## Gold.

This is total ounces ever mined.  Gold trends upward at **1.7% per year**.  Faster than silver.  Surprised?  Notice the R-squared (goodness of fit) for both silver and gold.

## Bitcoin.

Bitcoins grow according to a basic logarithmic curve.  Trying to draw percentiles is pointless here, and even measuring a trendline is somewhat pointless, as everyone knows the bitcoins prescribed into the future, by the protocol.  Better to just quote the trailing 12-month growth figure, and it is **1.7% per year** and falling.  For now, identical to gold.

## Silver price.

Since 1971 it's trended at 3.4% per year.  Silver bug?

## Gold price.

Since 1971 it's trended at 5.0% per year.  Gold bug?

## Bitcoin price.

Note, we have finally arrived at something that grows differently than exponential.  As I've observed since 2018, Bitcoin grows according to a power trend.  Did you notice that all the prior exponential trends displayed themselves as straight lines on log scale?  Well, with Bitcoin, the power trendline gradually falls across time, but the growth is still well larger than anything we've covered thus far.

Why?  It's being adopted, of course.

Bitcoin's power trendline has grown **169.9% per year** since Bitcoin Pizza Day in 2010.  Note that this is something akin to a "Lifetime Achievement" figure, and it will continue to fall every day.  Over the prior 12 months ending 30 June 2024, Bitcoin grew **105.6% over the year**.  The compound growth of the power trend today is **45% per year**.  By 2030 it will fall to "only" **36% per year**.

Oh yes, and it is free, open, and permissionless.

## To summarize.

That's a lot of data that came at you quick.  I've compiled it all in a helpful table here for you to review at any time.  This is the world at 2024, Q2:

## Base money concluded

The following table gives you a complete summary of the fiat currencies, gold, silver, and Bitcoin figures used in this analysis, for this quarter.  Please print it out if you like, it is meant to be a helpful, in-depth companion when fiat friends come asking.

Thank you for reading!  If you enjoyed, please consider zapping, and you can also donate to my [BTCPay](https://donations.cryptovoices.com/) on [my website](https://www.porkopolis.io/) if you'd like to help keep this research going.

And about time to be long-form on nostr!

#25 Base Money Update: 7th Year & Counting


Everything we make is basically some
Kind of rock pile.


But can you take me higher?


I like you. Gfy.


I’m open minded to the idea.


I ended up reading the gospel this morning as a result of this.  I’m trying to believe yet still do not.  In any case it was a fun read this morning while my family slept.


Digitally my stats are very good. But not so much irl. No man is a prophet in his own land.


Dude.   “No man is a prophet in his own land” is fuckin’ spot on.


Ahh ok I understand. Ya I’m just noting a trend towards flatness.  Thank you!


I’m constantly shedding skin.


Hydro Quebec gulag is growing strong
https://media.tenor.com/PA7_rZlLgbkAAAAC/meme-our.gif


I’m reminded of Tool


Unavailable to this pleb


I can’t tell if that file not found image is an error file or the intended image.


The internet is finally doing that thing we said it’d do.


I’ve probably watch The King 5 times and it is fucking brilliant.


That Sasquatch has had children.


Left curve, cannot computer. Help umbastand please.


It's funny because that's probably true when it starts moving it's gonna move.  I actually get a little worried.  Not for myself but all the other very public bitcoiners with bitcoin shirts and shit.  When the number rockets up during the next run, there's gonna be violence and I hope people are careful.


Those moccasins! Where get for my boy?


I was going to drink some Sat Reserve at $100k, but with inflation at this rate, I'll have to wait to $200k.


If you don't stop speech, people may accidentally know.


It's forever.


After reading this, I immediately made an estimated tax payment just to show my respect to the IRS.


Good point, if it's not on ABC did it even really happen!?


Lightning payment at Starbucks in San Salvador nostr:npub1pzerv8rqqvhk82y85axa3t3yxr8rdqnea03zlmk5crsne509esqqw0x463 with LifPay
https://m.primal.net/KVaj.mov


Really??!  Jesus, maybe I should see if I can find that old hard drive.


Do you all remember bitcoin?  That was a wild internet project.  Whatever happened to it?


Mind blowing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHS1RJREG2Q


Facts


Call it ConfeSHAnz.  For the lolz


I want someone to make a website that index's on chain arbitrary data in transactions which are the SHA256 hashes of confessions people write up, hash, and embed in bitcoin transactions attendant to donations made to btc-accepting charities.  It will make no money, but be cool as hell.


What about sideburns?


My mom always says: you can’t reason people out of something they didn’t reason themselves into.

In other words: Conclusions reached through emotion are typically unbreakable.


Like the new advertising approach outside a local pub.  Actually makes me want to go in and say Hi. https://i.nostr.build/m3gQ4ikEWDdrhbYe.jpg https://i.nostr.build/ILdK2V4kW8I8SuJu.jpg https://i.nostr.build/fxCxUtkV4XjRG6Np.jpg


Pressure washer maxi. Love it.


Soon.


hug*, also huge hug


We all need a huge once in a while.


It's amazing how relaxing it is, once you realize that $58k = $58k forever.


Jamais Vu, $58k.


$58k Gang Gang 😁
#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/3ba44c318d6ad319ef363cbe33ffca536a5043750b2cb0b53807e082ae05b581.jpg


Thank you!


Does anyone know what fight this is from?  I would love to see what he's seeing.


$58k Forever.

nostr:note1u8pg4690ckuadr3esg2yps3nuckqe4nccmpxug4j7p6fhxd8v5zsz7rlv5


Halving progress 9%. #Bitcoin
https://m.primal.net/KVIE.png


Flatter and flatter.


58k forever.


Wow I can’t believe it’s a year.  What a wonderful book. Brava.


Abolish all time.


I’m tired


Weak, fearful hands will always struggle with money. Study #Bitcoin, hold it in self custody, and upgrade your life. Anyone can do it; we can help.


It’s so awesome that the price is $58k again
https://m.primal.net/KRwS.jpg


Max pain


Top 8 is really longways infinity so all friends are top friends.


No stakes poker is not poker this is just great!


Why am I just hearing about this.


Just shilled your wine to a client tonight.  Cheers.


I wish I wasn’t kidding. I agree with what y’all were saying and then i tried to be funny. I had to go to the website and wow I didn’t think this was still a thing. I like that it seems music focused now.


Humblestack powers activate!


I still maintain my MySpace.


fri nd

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


Results in hairy palms.


$5 hammers are dumb too.


damus had a spike of 1000+ new downloads yesterday. welcome nostrich hatchlings!


That is not insignificant.


At no point in history have we looked back at the men who were censoring speech and say,

‘Those were the good guys.’


I am so happy to see you here on nostr!


Hi!

I just got back from a breathwork retreat in Hawaii and learned that @jackmallers shared the story of how I became a Bitcoiner through introducing me to @primal.

Jack’s right, I’ve never been very interested in money (or at least I thought I wasn’t). What I am interested in is people, our integrated health, and the implications it has on collective society.

Nostr helped me to understand Bitcoin not only as a superior monetary technology, but an unparalleled humanitarian tool. Here’s why I’m so bought in:

- It’s been proven over and over that safety is the foundation of integrated health

- Centralized unsound money = collective lack of safety

- Decentralized sound money = collective safety

- Collective safety = better integrated health & healthier society

It’s really as simple as that for me.

I’m grateful Jack shared my story because it perfectly illustrates how change happens. By making it matter to people in a way that sparks their fire. Jack is really good at that.

My spark has been lit. I look forward to lighting my neighbor’s through honesty, connection, and freedom - three tenets of bitcoin that make me a believer.

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You are what you eat after all.


On a shoe salesman salary.


Publix sometimes has it. I often go to fatworksDOTcom. I use butter for eggs most of the time but I’m feeling “think rich” today.


I’ve always disrespected whatever canola is.  I was raised in a Sicilian household. We eat pigs feet, anchovies and bath in garlic puree and olive oil.  Canola can fuck itself. Also duck fat is delicious and I’ve got a long drive tomorrow and don’t want to be hungry on the highway.


Duck fat scrambled chicken eggs.


No declarations filed.


Hola

¿Cómo está la comunidad de Nostr en español?
¿Alguién me lee?

Si estás por acá y hablas español quiero seguirte de vuelta, dame una señal.


AIRBTC.ONLINE made our second booking LFGGGGGG


You’re a gem.


I’m in.  Our farmers market is great and I buy my beef there.


I can only say this in English properly but that very much made me laugh out loud when I read it lol


そうだよ


You’re all the dopamine I need


Pickles pickles pickles pickles 🥒


Just don’t split an infinitive!!!


Thank you for the reminder.


That guy is ready for
Business.  Great shots.


I treat nostr not as a place but as a circumstance to break the ice so when we meet at the next thing we can skip nonsense and get straight to awesome.


Not really but I’m thinking really hard.


I’m here when you need me.


Incredible.


Legitimate lol.  Thank you. If I was at my computer I’d zap you tens of cents.


It’s the day we celebrate that they steal our labor from the future.


Yes.  She trusts me but sometimes wives need to hear from peers.


This is what I’m saying. She’d benefit from the this positive influence. I am a -bitch_ because she hasn’t been purple pilled.  She needs this postindustrial toxicity.


My wife would benefit from all of you lady nostritches.


Nature is (a) metal (club).


That would be extremely deflationary for all hodlers not on the cruise.


Hello Everybody. I am new. I am interested in a new world paradigm where we are all truly free and exchange to make our lives better. I believe in authentic community and deep connection, not superficial , material stuff

#introductions


Welcome!!


I’m definitely going to try to make freedom forum next year


Now do Flibbertijibbet


They are getting ready for the money printer too.


Fees are getting out of hand.


The money printing is going to rip faces completely off.


Backpfeifengesicht


Yes the only paper bitcoin is a paper wallet.


Time to jar some crushed tomatos.  Blanch deskin de seed and smashy


Because you can’t make scissors out of shitcoins.


$58k forever.


Nay.


The name of my boat is "Locus Casus"


LFG!


This is...in fact...a Wendy's.


Whether you salt or sugar a wound, either is a great disinfectant.


Make Money Boring Again.


Nice.


Is that an ingot mold?


Elevation agnostic protocol.


Boobtooth


Making your own french fries in tallow, at home, for your family.


Looks like I was able to get this working again, sort of. It says I'm connected to 9-11 relays, but only shows that I have 100 followers (and even Jack only about 40, so it has to be a data gap), and very few notes on timelines (with obvious gaps even for hugely active accounts). Relay.damus.io never seems to pass me any data (0kb both up and down) to me, which j assume is due to my connection coming via Tor, but honestly I don't know. I'm connecting using Amethyst, if anybody sees this and has any ideas—what's the best, biggest relay for Tor users right now?

Secondly, and most importantly for anyone who sees this note, please make some noise to try and stop the passage of RISAA (the FISA 702 reauthorization) that's about to hit law as soon as this Friday. Please read about it and push it out on all of your socials, if you agree it's a problem. It's going to be hard to stop this thing, even with all hands.

Whoever sees this, thank you for hearing me. https://image.nostr.build/b5731965f417b631e9ea74c27ce4d5f9bb91f9e2a96fefb1547146266ab89fb5.jpg


It's what you make of it!  Welcome.


This all proves there is no free will.  Just as I thought I spontaneously left X for good, I'm seeing a deluge of people doing the same.   Very suspicious simulation glitch.  Nostr only in any case.


The worst part of Genocide, from a statutory definitional perspective, is it need not involve direct murder. Simply putting into place such circumstances to erase a group is sufficient. It can be quiet, insidious, and “lawful”.


What's happening here?
https://video.nostr.build/70bdd8940cdf7324a7a5a3933c4405bd88ea26cbccaf2261a5e6b8c28d084422.mp4


AI is the dreamscape.


-Treat the arrest of the Telegram CEO as an emergency.

-Advocate for his freedom and for all freedom tech providers.

-Support and build things that function without a CEO, like some aspects of Nostr. When authoritarian Europe or the US arrests you, be able to say, “I literally can’t control it, it’s already out there, and we are legion.”

-Tell me and others, as capital providers, how to accelerate this.


😆
https://m.primal.net/KMjQ.jpg


Oh captain my captain! 🫡


Footstr is getting out of hand.  There are children present.


Hey.

There is a 'they'.

And they hate you.

#bitcoin is your escape.


The Molochian Golem is legion.


I forget there are polite people out there sometime.  🫡 If he’s dabbling in the ecosystem he might get there himself.


It’s not too late for him.


#bitcoin is a reaction to fiat going to shit

#nostr is a reaction to freedom going to shit


Protect the heads.


I understood but I had to say it.


I’m the humblest. People say the most humble person they’ve ever met.


Never.


You can’t just arrest everyone. CAN YOU!?


Kazoodisrespectordistespector here 👋. If no one else will stand up for them I suppose I must.


They’re easy to make. I believe in you.


日本を車で回るのは難しいようです。住所がわかりません。


Ego dissolution can be painful.  Sometime's its ok to just be one person and not everyone, everwhere, all the time.


Thanks to  nostr:npub1yrffsyxk5hujkpz6mcpwhwkujqmdwswvdp4sqs2ug26zxmly45hsfpn8p0 for the new pfp.


We're all in this together, whether we admit it or not.  🧡


lonely.


Always low.


Abusive relationships also start small and end big.


Savages.  Everyone of us.


Bye bye twitter https://image.nostr.build/9f7a58a246859fe402973c2e874205dbc33d91f205276ba44b960dbfb06fcfe6.jpg


6m forever.


Wish me luck in the fiat mine today.  Happy Sunday.


Cake with blueberries and crumble:

🫐 Ingredients for the dough:
125 g butter
100 g fine baking sugar
8 g vanilla sugar
2 large eggs
200 g wheat flour
70 g  starch
pinch of salt
1.5 teaspoons baking powder
90 g 12% or 18% sour cream or natural yoghurt no skyr, Greek
350 g blueberries (or more)

🫐 For crumble:
80 g butter, melted
160 g wheat flour
75 g sugar
pinch of salt

Cream the butter with both sugars until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, mixing until the ingredients are thoroughly combined.
Pour in the cream and mix gently.
Sift the flour, starch, baking powder and salt into the resulting mixture and mix gently.
Line a baking tin with baking paper and spoon the batter into it. Flatten out with a spoon (the dough will resist but you should have no problem spreading it).
Pour in the blueberries.
Sprinkle with crumble.

🫐Crumble:
Pour the dry ingredients for the crumble into a bowl, mix together.
Add melted, cooled butter and stir quickly with a fork until a crumble forms.
 🫐 Bake up down at 180 C for 45 minutes.
My baking tin is +/- 25x35 cm


Proud to have been able to work with #[0] to publish “Hidden Repression” today. https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Repression-Exploitation-Development-Gladstein/dp/B0C1JK6MG7/ref=sr_1_1


Someone at nostriga said zaps are the biggest innovation here. I disagree.

The ability to speak without being silenced is the ultimate feature. And it’ll be attacked sooner or later.


EUthanasia


Burgers and fries incoming. Dream on the meat. #foodstr https://image.nostr.build/fc1aecab200bdae8528c47abe9f8a8dc84703694f1fbe1c9c10e24423eddd9e5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5695f81fbff29f032f2839e804e06ad91326571f2ea7b3a95e8d9d4b33c6f5d1.jpg


I may or may not already be in there?!


Great thought thank you!


Wen $58k?


LinkedIn reminds me of an ackward convention room or an adolescent party.  Like, everyone is there but they can only interact when intermediated by a required task like serving punch or exchanging cards or forced slow dances.


$58k yet?


Worse, she's trying to dictate what reality is.


Well my phone broke last night so Im web only until this new phone syncs, but usually saving images from the web is easy.  I'm left curve, but not that far left.  Ill try on mobile later.  The artist sent me the images separately so I have them regardless, but its a weird thing.


Primal on web, at the moment.


Primal at the moment.


I'm going to attention so hard.


If I can't get it to work I'm going to screen capture, because I just love these kinds of things.  Thanks


Can anyone tell me how to save an image that's been posted to Nostr?  When I right click to save image, I just get a data/media cache.  I'd rather not to screen capture.


No, I dont know why.


I wish I knew how to save the native image files, save image doesnt seem to work.


OH shit this is tight!  I was literally just thinking about what the hell these should be called.  They are like mosaics, but obviously not.


Lol


Sorry I often try to be funny and fail but I refuse to stop trying.


Is that from cowboy bebop?


Who said that!?


The trick to solving the dating problem is to get married first and then just date your wife.


Let’s go!!


Only one way to find out. For the science!


It'd be based if he built a bullet train rail and just dedicated a 1st class car to himself and used that daily.


Smart.  I try to maintain informational assymmetry wherever possible.


I make chick/steak cutlets that are similar.  It's an italian thing.  No flour used so it's not as puffy, bread crumbs (made from old homemade bread) instead, mixed with parsley, minced garlic fried in tallow.


This one tricked me too:https://video.nostr.build/c5a9a3239a921cc2f1cb021e01a7c9c283c24d793429e6b24441968673b37d9e.mp4


Probably frying in canola oil.  I only use tallow.


I've seen deepfriend candy.  Sovereign men and ladies can eat whatever they want, but I've never had much of a sweet tooth.  I'd have to pass on that.  Mars Bars are like Snickers bars right?


#foodstr

nostr:note1ug83z7nep33rgt7n26gkh75l3ccjuemccptcvd0yz2tkzq34f5lsql2j7f


In America we fry whatever the fuck we want. That said, have you never had tempura broccoli?? It’s delicious. Here’s some I did featuring eggplant. https://image.nostr.build/1af3556115b8e836ccd70325b3de67f45c8ec810ad9e23137832491324a744d0.jpg


I’ve got those little white moths in my wallet.  I call them cuckbuck fairies.


Baked/fries only, no steamed.


A life well earned it seems. 🫡


Stop putting raw broccoli in your vegetable trays. #crudstr


Fuckin' A.


Excelsior!


"Format the Corruption" -  nostr:npub1zeuyhtvpk7uzzhhye6s2muz8jw46n2pkvzre933szr4ua473snyqesxvfp


Mosquito lockdowns incoming:
 https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/town-urges-curfew-over-mosquito-spread-disease-that-kills-up-to-50-of-people/


Gotta start somewhere that isn't a nullity.  🤷♂


Sorry to hear that, it's a wild addiction.  On the one hand I'm glad vaping and things came into being, on the other hand, that stuff seems bit insidious too.  Time will tell.


Fancy.  I remember my grandma had a fancy cigarette case I loved playing with.  That women got lung cancer twice and still never stopped.  When she went in to have a lobectomy, the doctor was like "your lung is just a lemon sized lump of cancer, I have no idea how you're still breathing."  Really something.  She was a neat person.


Ya, like I said, it's not my place to tell people what to do with their scarce time, but juries are a pressure release valve and I appreciate a smart jury.  In 2012 I worked in Sarajevo at their criminal defense office briefly and my conclusion is without rule of law you can't have property and without property you can't have civilization.  But, totally agree with you that our system is fundamentally broken and needs serious work.


The process will be interesting but the case will probably be devastatingly boring.


It's where I mine my fiat.  I don't fault you for feeling that way, but only by participating can we help ameliorate further suffering until we get the new system.


Naw, just do it.  It's such an important thing to have real folks who've done real shit on a jury.  Please, please get selected and pay attention.  My profession is utterly broken and we need solid juries.


Format the Corruption.


I think I found an old picture of her:  https://m.primal.net/KIOu.png


Scandal.


It must be nice to have friends.


Is that three rings and a nirvana pillow?  The meme-eludes me.


It's interesting to think about.  I do often.  That in a world that is totally apocolyptic or completely perfect, I have no purpose.


I'm a litigator and if more people talked to lawyers before they did things I probably wouldn't have a job so no worries!


When you stock it, can I come fish?


There may be statutes in your locale that govern how/what/howmuch you can charge for fees like this.  Worth looking into and talking to a lawyer before you get some stupid lawsuit for 1,000,000 SATS claiming a statutory violation for a 2,500 sat fee.


I'm going to get a landline and a 56k modem and just post my phone number and just see if anyone is out there.


58k 4eva'


This literally caused me to notice the third flag on the pole.


Literal utopia.


Someone has spun your property and cetrifugal forces have arrived to the party.


Literally intraversable.  You are become the citadel.


Everyone knows this guy has bitcoin.  He's just having fun.  There is no way someone can be so based in so many ways and still be shitting on bitcoin.


It just seems so obvious.


What a great time to be at Penn State.  My time was before bitcoin and nostr, but I'd love to see what all the great nerds are doing at Penn State today with this stuff.


Someone really needs to invent the quit smoking vending machine Bruce has in that movie where the cigarettes just get smaller and smaller with bigger filters.  I feel like that might actually work because theyd slowly get less satisfying and harder to smoke.  A significant enough gradient would be required--not pictured in the movie.


No thank you.  I'm not originally from here.  I don't like the heat and death vortexes.  Last time we got directly hit all the glass in my house was throbbing like I had a Poltergeist.


I just say "imma skip that thing."  I'm 2/2 for that strategy so far.


Get this guy on Nostr.  I'm worried for this safety.  That's a rough fucking story.


On Tim Walz and his repeated digs at J.D. Vance for getting an education and making some money:

I was born and raised in a small rural town near the Appalachian Mountains, 2 hrs from the nearest major city.  Still work in this town today.

My father was born and raised in an even smaller town, even more rural town with a population under 2,000.

I have three degrees from three elite institutions because my folks believed in aspiring to education, that it opened doors, created opportunities, and allowed you to experience more of the world.  They instilled that in me.

I am a cocktail of my upbringing and my education.

I shoot guns, and I quote Shakespeare.

I eat venison, and I think about Dostoyevsky.

I am comfortable in both Waylon Jennings and Mozart, Steve Earle and Alice Coltrane.

I can cite Luke Combs and Lou Reed, wax poetic about Top Gun and Le Mepris.

I buy food (and milk) from farmers.

I am an attorney, yes, and my J.D. is from an elite institution.  I represent the blue-collar folks of my hometown.

I am neither a supremacist, nor a relativist.

I am a dad and a husband.

I am a #bitcoin er

All my life I have had one foot in the ethos and spirit of my rural hometown and the other in the rarefied echelons of the elitely educated, the financially successful, and the well-connected.  It's not always comfortable.

All my life I have climbed, my folks sacrificed and pushed me to climb and to aspire.  "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield," to quote Tennyson (see, I told you I can do that).

And all my life I have kept my upbringing close to me, because it is a part of me.  I don't shed my lived experience, nor do I forfeit its imprint, its impact, simply because I pursued the best education and got a professional job.  The validity of my experience does not expire upon achievement.

So when Tim Walz repeatedly attempts to invalidate J.D. Vance’s upbringing, to cast him as some inherently callous, rich interloper, out of touch with the "heartland" simply because he pursued the best education he could and made some money, it bothers me on a deep, personal level.

In the Walz taxonomy, which is binary, but only binary for non-Democrats apparently, financial success or an Ivy-League education, automatically and irrevocably renders one out of touch with "regular" people. Further, aspirations to these things are no longer to be applauded; they're punchlines in campaign speeches.

Never mind the financial success and education of the Obamas, the Clintons, Kamala Harris, Oprah, etc.  This does not invalidate their respective experiences, the journeys they each took to get there.

Only if you're J.D. Vance does success actually make you a charlatan to yourself, an interloper in your own life, an enemy to your past.

It's not right.  We should be applauding folks, no matter their race or political affiliation, for aspiring, for traversing the brutal terrain of class, region and familial afflictions and making it.

You may agree or disagree with J.D. on the issues, of course.  That's perfectly fine.

But dismissing him simply  because he managed to go to Yale (like so many Dems, by the way, who readily purport to be regular, working class heroes), or because he majored in philosophy, or because he eventually worked in finance and made some money, is craven, disingenuous, breathtakingly lacking in self-awareness, and offensive to anyone who has actually grown up in the "heartland," myself included.

Like so many other Americans, I contain multitudes, Tim Walz, but your taxonomy apparently doesn't allow that.


This is wonderful.


I'm just pretending to be the guy in my pfp.  I mean, it is an actual picture of me, but it's not who I _really_ am.


Thank you!  It was!


Hashtastic.


🚨NEW WINE ALERT🚨

This 2021 Cab Franc drops on Sunday!

Tasting Notes:🍷

Aroma:
On the nose, this wine presents a captivating bouquet of deep blackberry and ripe plum, with a hint of warm, inviting spices that evoke the essence of freshly baked goods.
Palate:
The palate mirrors the rich fruit profile, showcasing layers of juicy blackberry and luscious plum. The mouthfeel is full-bodied, with strong, structured tannins that give the wine a robust, lingering finish.

TLDR: This wine will take you to a place where blind men see 🍷

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


I just thought Nostr should know this about me.

nostr:note1dr64kzayqfwzuv9sxu5nqjyr58es9kwjnvwqjx24mc0wwa78w89qs3c8fj


I had a pet leech when I was 11.  I took it off a bluegill from lake erie.  He survived on tap water and me for a few months.  It was a weird time, I don't know why my mother let me do that.


For real, I had the same thought.  Who would by a lambo when you could ride in a work of art?


Depooping Cupitahl.


Wen rug?


That is a meaty ragu!  Looks delicious.  Here's my sauce as a companion shot!  https://m.primal.net/KIFF.png


Man, I have never seen an S-class.  Very cool.  What a great game.


Their donations to the mining community are appreciated.  That mempool is on fiyah.


Super rip Natalie.  Whitney Webb keeps me grounded.  She is so emblematic of the principle "be the change you want to see."  Thanks for having her on.


"we" are not.


Ew.  But thanks for sharing. So people are spending hundreds of dollars to put thousands of dollar of bitcoin somewhere in order to earn doge coin?


Not in Florida.  😮💨


The Roman Way.


What caused this weird spike, so fun!


holy shit wtf happened?!?


I was just walking down the street, coffee in hand, suddenly realizing how "normal" it all is already. Like most days, I went to a coffee shop that accepts lightning. Like most days, I paid directly with sats that someone zapped me here on nostr. Like most days, neither the merchant nor myself thought twice about it, or took a minute to marvel at what just happened.

So, allow me to do just that. Marvel at what just happened. While everyone is having a fantastically crazy time at #nostriga, uncountable people are using bitcoin in a myriad of ways. Some for savings, large and small; some for transactions, large and small; some for other stuff. Bitcoin is slowly but surely entering the world stage. Some commentators will tell you that this is good. Some commentators will tell you that this is bad. Whatever the case may be, it is unavoidable.

I see nostr under a similar light. As platform-based manipulation and censorship ramps up—which it inevitably will—the usage of nostr will ramp up too, and with it the usage of zaps and everything else that comes with it. And soon enough, buying a coffee (or breakfast, lunch, and dinner) with zap-based income will be normal. Just like it's "normal" to be an "influencer" today, or a "YouTuber" or whatnot... It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's a normal thing. Anyone can do it.

Back to my coffee. I remember when I had the "oh my god, I can live on bitcoin here!!!" experience for the first time. It was in Bitcoin Jungle, a couple of months after the initiative was launched. I stayed there for 2 weeks or so, buying the necessities of daily life with sats outright. And it worked. Flawlessly. I had zero payment failures, and was exclusively using Zeus with my own node. It was incredible.

Why is this incredible, you ask? Shouldn't stuff just work? Yes, it should. But building out the tech and the infrastructure to make it all work is BLOODY HARD. I remember the first Lightning Conference in Berlin, in 2019. Everyone came, everyone had all their channels and wallets and everything prepared, and ~50% of payments failed. For... reasons.

Fast-forward to today: I go to one of the 100+ merchants in the city that accept bitcoin, a quick tap on the PoS device & QR code scan, boom, done. Is it always perfect? Of course not. Will it get better still? 100% it will. Very soon these merchants will have NFC-enabled devices, and the tap-to-pay experience that people are used to with cards & Apple pay will be normal for bitcoin payments too. If you are in Riga right now, you'll experience this first-hand thanks to Bolt cards and BTCPay Server. It's awesome, it's open-source, and it works. And it will get better still.

We are truly living in the best and weirdest timeline; a timeline where shitposting on the internet can buy you lunch and dinner; a timeline that spawns amazing technological movements like #nostr; a timeline that, every ~10 minutes, allows for a small miracle to happen. A timeline where "magic internet money" is a normal thing; a timeline that, thanks to the magic dust of cryptography, enables anyone to speak about anything, without having to ask for permission. I'm grateful.

Thank you, Satoshi. 🙏🧡


Facts.


I would love to avoid the next psychosis!!


I’m in the market for an electronics free diesel jeep.


Don’t bring that shit here I quit x to stop hearing about stupid people.  On second thought thank you for reminding me why I’m here.


Happy birthday!


This is metaphorically what’s happening in any case.


Seems legit.


Ever play Icarus? I’ve been playing the new update and enjoy it. You can do. Persistent world now.


I always loved it but I returned to studying math.


Your work is beautiful!


That is the avatar of proof of work, it seems.


Not to mess with the artis here, but any chance of getting a special version that has writing (and kanji) mirrored in case I want to stamp it into some wax (or a forehead?)


Oh this is cool so cool.


I appreciate that.  LFG!


Not if I can help it.


強さ


here is a screen recording of the nostr:npub160t5zfxalddaccdc7xx30sentwa5lrr3rq4rtm38x99ynf8t0vwsvzyjc9 video uploaded to the satellite.earth CDN

https://cdn.satellite.earth/b6e4aeabe14ca49940672d13273d2ff3d2a32a5f7d42d2e20b2fd7097bc2c3a6.mov


Just heard on nostr today.

nostr:note1z30adydevd8h8agk3puysrpulkhjx5f6c85eg0f4cyu5gfcdhyjsngzg52


Bitcoin eCash Sent via Mesh Network Demo:

A demo of Reticulum, Cashu and the project Nutband that combines them, in order to use a Cashu mint over Reticulum mesh network - in this case over long range radio, and without internet.

Great work nostr:npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9

https://youtu.be/HAX8GFn5uCI


Lately, I've been thinking I really need to take that timber out of my eye.


nostr:npub1r8343wqpra05l3jnc4jud4xz7vlnyeslf7gfsty7ahpf92rhfmpsmqwym8 I like this model.


I'm really sorry but it's 58k now and forever.


Now that we're back to 61, are you ready for 58?


I gave my 2ed dungeon masters guide and monster manual to my sister like 15 years ago.  She passed away a few years back and this made me think “wow I never got to talk to her about whether she played or what she thought” bummer but happy to be reminded of her.


Nominal price is a shitcoin.  What does Nostr think the real new ATH needs to be?  #asknostr


No, I mean't that as a like: "'Merica Fuck yah!"  Because it's not illegal to be a meanihead on the internet here.


'Merica!


What is the perfect metaphor for everything and why is it a rotating donut?


WTF Happened in 1971?


I miss 58k.


I often worry I haven't sufficiently bettered myself to ensure my son becomes the man he has the potential to be.  It's a daily motivator that I often fail to heed.


At least USD is honest, "full _faith_ and _credit" and "note". Everything you need to know is right there on the cuckbuck.


That sounds much worse than the sleep of a Sardinian Warrior.


A signing device posing as "the ledger" is so scammy.


I have no idea what the limits of what I don't know are.


1) what


I hear lucky charms are healthier than eggs. Maybe they read the same _totally valid_ study.


Democracy has become a shitcoin because:  https://m.primal.net/KGte.png


In jurisdictions where you can let a doctor kill you (presumably for a fee). Can you just get a temporary coma? Like until January 20 or so?


Pretty sure kratter was being tongue in cheek fwiw. The video was objectively hilarious. In any case democracy is ridiculous but of course I have to vote for trump under the circumstances.  Kamala et al is an objective disaster and even though I want hyperbitcoinization I can’t vote for the apocalypse. There’s no guarantee I’d ensure my son survived it so gradually gradually and eventually suddenly for me please.


They will hold it until they drown.


A real asset.


My interview with Mark Goodwin and Catherine Austin Fits is now available to Unlimited Hangout members.
https://m.primal.net/KGpR.jpg
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I prefer a jonboat and a mixed fuel prop.


My jiujitsu days are behind me.


I don't speak emoji, so I'll assume that you don't mean you intend to choke me, the way the fingers are oriented would really apply a lot of pressure to a throat.


I'm not staying in bed, just trying to provide useful advice.


I made a mold of my own feet that are oriented backwards.  They'll never find me, unless they are a timetraveler.


When you order a taxi for your food make sure it comes in a container you can use for the output.  Bedmaxing until 100k.


Super hot take:  The informational moment of every observer is the hash output of all the information in the observer's historical lightcone.  Prove me wrong.


Big vessel and big chair are so fucked.  You shouldn't need to pay a premium for an ergonimic chair or a fuckin cup that is affront to fluid dynamics.  This world needs to wake up!


Reversion to the meme.


本当に大丈夫よ！


確かに私は私です。


It's when your grandpa plays the piano.


My japanese is bad.sorry, Im trying to practice.


日本ではドラガズがいままだ絶対ダメだね？


If you build it, I will come.


リラックスできるガスが手に入るかも？


がんばって！


I only define gradients by their bookends.  I think you can say there is a gradient from  No-coiner <-> Bitcoiner, but where you lie probably has more to do with the relative comparison between people on the spectrum rather than any given individual in a vacuum.  Like when grey looks white when its on a darker grey, etc.


What I'm watching... 👀

Over the past ten years (since August 2014), the price of single family homes in the United States:

- have increased +93% in US dollar terms.

- have decreased -98% in bitcoin terms.

CONCLUSIONS:

The longer you insist on saving in US dollars, the more expensive life gets.

The sooner you start saving in neutral energy money (#bitcoin), the less expensive life gets.

Whichever monetary denominator you choose to use sets the course of your life.

The solution is obvious, but many lack the courage to make the necessary change for a better life.

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


なるほど


コーヒーはいかがですか？


Woke up today realizing my baklava recipe is only shared on Twitter.

I'm going to fix that. 🤙


Thank you, I forgot to save it before I left twizler.


fiat mining


I always carry my own deck of cards with me. Too many sleeper cells of magicians out there. I don’t trust wizards warlocks or other cantors either. Especially Cantor Fitzgerald


So what you’re saying is RETVRN?


“Yeparoonie!” nostr:note15nxw77lwg2ukwj4w2lg7qj4mmxnrmflxxmr4f73k3dkhnhau4pfs6hk3en


#Bitcoin #Satoshis #Freedom #Apocalypse #Music #Movies #Philosophy #Literature
#grownostr #Stoicism #nature

APOCALYPSE ANONYMOUS by
ATOSHI ANARKOMOTO

The Appian Way, or the ancient Roman equivalent of a highway, was Rome's attempt at saying, "Let's make it easier to get to the beach... and also conquer some places along the way." Imagine a road so legendary, it's basically the celebrity of ancient infrastructure, complete with its own fan base of historians and sandals-wearing tourists.

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


They’ve been building the highway outside my office window for about 2,000 years and it’s not early this nice.


Reboot America With Bitcoin
https://m.primal.net/KGgU.mp4


But $58k forever.


Thank you comrade!


I was finally able to watch this fantastic interview.

Strong recommend that you watch it as well. 🔥

Shout out to  nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u and  nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe for the deep and multifaceted discussion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o02OLYsnw0


GM.

Government borrowing, spending, and expansion is completely and comically unhinged.

Defund and rightsize the clown world.

#Bitcoin


The Fall.


The fact that the commies feel so comfortable parading around their murderous ideas in public shouldn’t be passed over. These people are the scum of the earth and they mean you and your family harm. Take them seriously, believe them when they tell you who you are. Trust me as a Bitcoiner you will be hated above all. Never allow these scumbags an inch. https://image.nostr.build/559a3b3ee10ff63345c8ea4dd0d80108525eff4f1192d4a7f57fb462d5128c91.jpg


Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs

Just when you thought you could try Linux out, and still have Windows with dual-boot as a back-up for some use-cases, Microsoft is out to screw you over again.  Their new update to "secure boot", which fixed their previous issues with GRUB and Windows together, which Microsoft allowed to be abused by hackers for 2 years before finally patching, now is breaking Linux machines.

"Ars Technica reports that multiple Linux dual-boot users are seeing “security policy violation” messages, along with “something has gone seriously wrong” errors. There are reports of issues across Reddit, Ubuntu forums, and elsewhere. Distributions including Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, and Puppy Linux have all been affected by Microsoft’s patch."

It looks like you may have to finally pull the plug and wipe even your back-up Windows that you left for compatibility.  Microsoft is so corrupt and worthless, they can not even be trusted as an alternative at boot time.

Sources:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/21/24225108/microsoft-security-update-windows-linux-dual-boot-errors
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/a-patch-microsoft-spent-2-years-preparing-is-making-a-mess-for-some-linux-users/


Let us know what you think i was hoping to check it out just for fun myself to see if I can find a use case.


Nice ui tho. I was thinking of checking out the whole platform myself beyond the email that I’ve loved for years.


It’s an interesting question about what it means to burn.  are we just talking oxidize or like ionize!?


I’m thinking we need a taxonomy of textiles built and published here.  I just want clarity!


But you’re right. Judgment call for sure.


I’ve got a rug made in Afghanistan with tanks on it with tassels and it’s definitely not a scarf.


Well I love you and there’s nothing you can do about it.


1) WHAT!?


It’s almost like Twitter is their job


When does the scarf become a blanket? Is it about the relationship and ratio between length and width?


Sounds like you have people skills but would rather not. Like that friend we have who can sing but never wants to. We all have that friend right?


Peak internet


Stop? In-Laws?  What??  You just have to keep taking and taking.


The FDA satanicly requires all infant formula to have seed oils. The only formula I know of that doesn’t have them is by Serenity Kids. The loophole is that they label it as “toddler”, but it’s fine for infants. Still DYOR. But don’t feed babies engine lubricant. Read labels carefully.


Clever fox.


I accept.


President who?


You may need to still the warmth of your heart during the end days and learn max violence, but I appreciate your position.


*takes notes*


Just throw one battery and they'll kill eachother.


I'm going as her for halloween.  That's the winning whoror costume.


The future of money is an interoperable tech breeding program.


We're the greatest danger to ourselves!


I listen to too many wonky podcasts and have to remember to just put on some Tool during my commute.  I never regret switching to music to remember to look at the window and stop thinking about Lyn Alden's unstoppable train once in a while.

also:  https://m.primal.net/KFzk.png


The feds.


Ok that came out way too woo-woo than was intended.  I'm a left curve pleb and know nothing.


Yin and Yang is the way, and the way in all things.


Probably nothing: https://m.primal.net/KFzV.png


Those who survive and do not immediately thrive will be paid in bitcoin anyway, so they'll be fine.


This is the way.


If there is no viable final base layer settlement, is it even still bitcoin?  I could really use a deep dive on the mechanics of these things since everyone is pushing really cool e-cash stuff lately, I just want to understand the mechanics a bit more to see what the issues might be down the road.


In the last two weeks I've received two $80 "referral fees" from   nostr:npub1xkere5pd94672h8w8r77uf4ustcazhfujkqgqzcykrdzakm4zl4qeud0en which means two of my referral codes were used by someone I have them to to each buy more than $10,000 in bitcoin.  I'm not getting calls about bitcoin yet, but there are signs.


The Architect abides.


It's been rightly said.


Sometimes I think about the part of me that enjoyed the lockdowns at first.  I killed that part of me, wrapped it in tornado fencing weigh down with rocks, and suck him into the ocean.


That was incredible.  His painted fingernails dear lord.


Dan gets it


I think cats just discovered agriculture.  We're fucked.


I've found Grokking Bitcoin indispensible to understanding these things.  Also, there is a great math videos out there (computerphile on youtube e.g.) that use metaphors to explain Diffie-Hellman and eliptical curve crytopgraphy to help understand how secret keys can nevertheless be proved in a signature without being exposed.


I would like to have a better understanding of mints, i.e., if people establish a community mints like a fedimint, and those folks make minute deposits (think global south) how will a mint feasibly deal with all those dust utxos?


All I see is GFY:https://m.primal.net/KFxF.png


A braille seed plate would be cool.  I have none of the skills to do any of these things so I pulled you folks in just to see if I can get a conversation going.

A lot of blind folks very expertly use text to voice software, but there must be some shadowy open source blind supercoders out there that are building open source projects that can tie signing devices to like, brail output devices or airgapped voice to text devices.  I don't know.


The symptoms of disease often linger long after the pathogen is gone.


nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8  nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg What can we do to build hardware/software solutions for the _blind_ who want to independently hold their bitcoin?


What kind of hotdog produced that much fat??  They are usually so emulsified to hold onto their fat.  Was it a kielebasa?


All men must choose a rug to stand on, but is I who control its destination!  Pictured (I'm the dude):  https://m.primal.net/KFwD.png


6 degrees of Francis Bacon.  Welcome!


When I'm interviewed can I bring my own rug?


So, you are saying it's not so over?


When are you getting a rug for your interview/pod room?


Better than an olympic medal.


GestaltCoin.


Quick hit - Bitcoin Minute: Levels of #Bitcoin Awareness

Exploring the stages of understanding Bitcoin and aligning your actions with long-term incentives.

Read and subscribe!
https://www.bitcoinandmarkets.com/bitcoin-minute-levels-of-bitcoin-awareness/


That was fun.  I was lucky to skip #4, but I can conjure up a memory/time/place associated with each of these.  Fun!


Anyone want to talk about civil procedure?  I can drop some crazy procedural truth bombs.


"I'm a sandhill crane and taste delicious"


Probably, but I was thinking in person.  People don't see eachother enough.  One of my favorite things to do is chat people up at bars when I travel for work.  If it doesn't work out, it just sends, if it does it's a perfect relationship.  You have convo. then leave eachother never to meet again or to ever let the other down or forget a birthday or whatever.  I collect transient friend memories.


It's funny though, I did have this idea of making myself available for sats just to have a conversation, with anyone, about anything.  Not debate, just give me a few sats and I'll chat you up about whatever your interested in.  Ironically, this would be more valuable to children and to lonely older folks so it wouldn't be much of a business and is probably more appropriate for professionals.


If you really know how valuable those sats will be one day, you know how horribly you've overpaid me.


I recommend unleashed.chat or venice.ai for that question.  The answer is obviously leave the thoughts in your head and kill the thoughts instead, lol.


I don't know what DMs your soliciting, but I'm afraid of the DMs you will receive.


Totally.  Also, sometimes I'll ask questions like "where did I leave my keys" and "why is my wife mad at me."  Less results there, but in lieu of friends, it can help.


I don't rely on AI for right or wrong.  For me, it's more like having autistic friend I can bounce ideas off of and then explore for myself from source materials.    Also, wrong is defined as any conclusion of opinion tightly held.  This is why I like bitcoin, no opinions in the math of it.


The left curve is for everyone.


I prefer humanities' decentrialized intellegence agency to any centralized one.  In fact, my own agency is my most important asset.