Yep same experience.  I think it's more important to keep the door open for them to come if they want, rather than try to convince them to come through.  It's their responsibility to protect themselves and you're not to blame if they don't.  Some people won't ever get there in spite of all our efforts.

Never be afraid to speak what you feel is true, even if they dismiss you for it.  Truth needs to be tested and refined, if it's kept secret it will never get that chance.

Have a wonderful Sunday 💜


Welcome!


Gm


Trying to enjoy each phase of my journey but man it's hard to be patient.  My son always says enjoy the process not the destination.


As our colleagues at nostr:npub1j4lp9hmzd3rqlcw7mml09uwvwap0g5u5wx2qm2lzt9wcqt925jvqf4wzaa commit to sponsor the upcoming Base58 event in Tokyo next month, we would like to highlight that Vietnam has seen an outsized interest in the Bitcoin Developer courses prepared and provided by nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy and her team

Last year, Vietnam ranked 3rd in terms of sign-ups just behind the expected leaders of the United States & India.

https://bitcoinvn.io/news/bitcoin-developers/

nostr:note1ktq6mewufer8x7hutmmtwxag3083lyex6xdfgy509sqqts2wlvrsk3tthu


That's awesome, LFG Vietnam 🔥👏🏻


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So fiat.


Makes you wonder if someone saw record savings in 2020 and decided to do something about it.


Love it! Action isn't the same as agency or will.


Conversations from today.

I guess to answer that question it would help to understand what USD is.  It's a promise note from your local government.  The government is allowed to select who can hold or create these promises on their behalf.  Banks spend millions of dollars for a charter that grants them this special privilege.

Anything outside of these special groups can't really be considered dollars, or maybe a better analogy they would be a promise of a promise.  Stable coins are a promise of a promise, as is any other dollar backed instrument like a stock or gold claim.

You can trade a promise of a promise over bitcoin, nostr, Tron, ETH, pretty much anything since it's not actually anything physical.

Bitcoin isn't a promise, it's physical data that you own without a promise from anyone else.

Ecash represents a promise of bitcoin, not a promise of a promise like dollars or any other dollar L2 mechanism.  So while it is a layer above the real thing, it's the closet thing to Bitcoin that exists besides bitcoin.


Bless their hearts 🤣


Stay bullshit, my friend

#coffeechain

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


So jealous, the water looks perfect 😍


Gm, same 💜


Gm, working the fiat mines to get that sweet sats flow.


Nostrs killer feature 🔥


Bullish


Gm, Love ya too dear 💜


I never feel like I'm doing enough.


Gm sir


Gm 🫡


Gm


I've had mine connected for a few years with no issues.  Lmk if you have any questions 🫡


Welcome!


Looks 🔥


💯 nostr is awesome!


It takes time, they'll come around.


Connected LFG! 🔥 https://i.nostr.build/kc5y1s3pwkXdtou5.jpg


Recommend nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 if you don't have a lightning wallet yet and then you can connect it to your nostr account.


Love it! 👏🏻


LFG! 🔥


My three favorite things, the ocean, the sun, and a bitcoiner 💙🧡


Fucking legends!

Coming up on my 4 year tour of duty in bitcoin and the impact these bitcoin brothers have had on me, through the many podcasts and interviews, is no less than profound.

Thank you nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle for all that you do.

Ride or die 🫡 nostr:note1amkk2gq4zqgrzf27dxel0f8alj06r8a9pma0ugltqr9cxwp5lgpsa77slz


We're all criminals here 🤗


Same! 😳


Happy weekend gorgeous 💜


That's because we do their work for them.


Gigi wins it with the purple gloves 💜


Gorgeous


Wow 😍


Gn Sarah


Gn sir 🫡


I like hearing what you have to say 😊


Yes! 🤗


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LFG 🔥


At least we're in this together 🥰


Nice!


You know it's coming 🤣


That's literally all I need to survive 🔥


Gm


I joined nostr so that I can buy groceries when my digital ID is revoked.


Such a good book, gave it to my kids to read.


I'm dead 🤣🤣🤣


Think too much.


Come on down 🤗


🤤 https://i.nostr.build/3PgisosUji9JcoDf.jpg


Ecash mints are the new free banking


Makes me appreciate all the brilliant people alive today working on bitcoin and nostr 🔥


I love history, one day we will all say we knew the CEO of nostr nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 and people will gasp in awe.


My uncle sent me pictures of a letter I'd never seen before that my great grandmothers husband received from Einstein, and a photo of Churchill they had at their home.

nostr:npub1jcjxjg92200kdp8guw8sysg8gr0ez29hahrfdy49h30hgnkpa4kqfvmtwx https://i.nostr.build/CW1MuJTxrTMaeoPt.jpg https://i.nostr.build/p5bFTHye6fWHn3Am.jpg


Beautiful 💜


Right!


Usually strike, had mutiny for a bit, r.i.p.  live in Merica


Beautiful.


One of these days I'm going to open nostr and not see some mind blowing advancement that just came out 🤯 nostr:note1skq6njq098cmune3mz35s9snxuftdz3yx35cqyrlux3nv7vpdzlsfygf0l


At least it's pretty paper, arts and crafts?


thank you hal


What! I'll be right there 🤗


Based.


nostr:npub1uq70uqgas9pyhds2zt57kr9se8rg3s68ztphjnq82ts8rzeknmeql7u0c2 any idea why it gives me an error when trying to past a new community URL into the app? https://i.nostr.build/zye9qP8YhBqB128n.jpg


Done 🫡


And if they were afraid of the open internet in the 80's just imagine how much they fear it now.


I eat pieces of risk for breakfast.


Gm 🫡


Coercion, even well meant, is the root of all evil.


Love it 🔥


Gm 🔥🥵


Yeah that's usually what I use, I could prob just set it to my default.


It worked, must have just been a glitch in the matrix 😊


I have don't have a défaut set, I pull up the the selector and pick a random one, but it won't even pull up the selector.


Yep same thing,
Just gets stuck on the word zapping.


Tried to zap ya but it won't load.


Well said 👏🏻


Ugh USD, so last year.


That's one sexy bot.


Enjoy your stay, hmu if you want to like go see 3 doors down or something.


Oh yeah I'm def in the ghetto part lol. Good to hear from ya 💜


Hey stranger! Welcome to my town 🤗


I would have totally thought WW2 would have been a popular subject, I'm fascinated by it.


Every single day.


This would be amazing, kraken filed to get an SMR attached to their data center for self sovereign power.  Would love to see manufacturing in the U.S. embrace this.


Now you sound like Tesla.


💯. Each individual holds a unique point of view that no one else can replicate. Which is why they're all so valuable.


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I've put a lot of thought into the UI/UX while developing Sovran. My goal is to create the most visually appealing and user-friendly wallet in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

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Beautiful 🔥


Gn sir 🫡


🙋🏼♂left them a couple years ago.


Alrighty then, bumble bee tuna 🤙🏻


That's so fucking cool. I bet it was delicious?


So cool!


Yes please 😍


Nostr devs are 🔥🔥🔥


Gm love 💜


Never want to leave.


Cancel culture is fighting it.  Humility is needed in the world but specifically in the bitcoin space.  That's why I like nostr, more humility and openness to conflicting ideas.


Who made this?


That's badass!


Oh good cause I spend my time on nostr and teaching bitcoin.


Gm


Looks like paradise 😍


Can I come 🔥🤗


One day bitcoin will give me my time back so I can do this again 🔥


Happy birthday!! 💜


Gn 💜


Exactly


Sadly so.


Wow 🔥🥵


Teach.  Bitcoins challenges aren't technical, they are social.


Beautiful 💜


Yeah it was a total vibe 🤣.  Drag racing looked pretty sweet.


Hope you have an amazing day 💜


And I thought it was hot in Texas 🔥🥵


I think that actually gets worse with age.


Prewritten conversation 🤙🏻


Let's go!! 🔥


Gm


Nice! Saw them in concert with staind several months ago, great show.


My uncle asked about bitcoin and taxes, and my reply;

I think taxes are the single best tool for bitcoin to be adopted as a medium of échange.  If you think about it the harder they make it to covert btc to fiat the less people will do it and the more people will accept it directly as payment.

Plus if they declare bitcoin money then they can legally tax it like money or income, so out of the frying pan into the fire as far as tax law.

Ultimately the psychopaths like myself are never giving the gov bitcoin and they will prob shoot themselves in the foot by trying to block the fiat exchanges and create a bitcoin circular economy


Haha yes I'm sure there are some incredible stories that have been lost to time.  Enjoy the book 😊


I feel that 💜


So cool!


GAMBIA

🔎In this week's session on "Evaluating Bitcoin Presence in African Countries", we evaluated Bitcoin activities in the Gambia.

Unfortunately, we've not recorded any significant Bitcoin activity in Gambia, and we do not have knowledge of any individual or group Bitcoin voices speaking for Bitcoin out of the West African nation.
What can you share with us about Bitcoin in Gambia?

We would love to learn and get in touch with any Bitcoin voice from Gambia. 🙏

Together we'd liberate Africa with Bitcoin 🧡🧡

nostr:nevent1qyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuum9d45hxmmv9ejx2a30qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnrw4e8yetwwshxv7tf9uq3xamnwvaz7tm0venxx6rpd9hzuur4vghsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxjmnxduhszxnhwden5te0dehhxarj9eax2cn9v3jk2tnrd3hh2ep0qys8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhv9kxcet5dan8xct5daeks6fwvdhk6tcpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59uqzpu6gsj656zmmd8rul9we7kgxx6q56d72h0uvpjuunr4fcw7ttlmzdw2twa
https://image.nostr.build/4c5e453c2e122743a8a85b4e102cb90f1fef1cc86e0f5d7451da1d140a0d3eee.png


Sloth 🤣


Such a good episode! Nifty you are a legend 🔥🔥🔥


Awww too bad, I love the name though! 🤣


Sweet! Can I come check it out 🤣


833 ft lbs of torque, turning into the apex at 100 feels like your driving to a picnic. Incredible 🤯 https://i.nostr.build/DxIPM9U8COmR4fgH.jpg


New macan EV now running android OS with built in App Store 🤯. Can't wait to run nostr right to my car. https://i.nostr.build/feyRGX1oZQUOmF7i.jpg https://i.nostr.build/UWmyFBH6iSii5ULF.jpg


New taycan drives great, fully independent suspension with no sway bars and anti tilt leveling built in https://v.nostr.build/UkZtAtu7HCoZKxag.mp4 https://i.nostr.build/IC70KfECUyJx0eBX.jpg


It was awesome. You could feel the emotion in each one.


Forgot to tag nostr:npub17nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgqf6950x the official nostr artist 🔥


Fuck yeah 🔥 nostr:note1lhr86g8v2hdw5lpk2psxq8ems3r3sncd70l367p7r3p5vumjhmaq0v8aq6


Gm Porsche (2025 taycan being released next month) https://i.nostr.build/DoUadaHI6BUrqFFJ.jpg


Love that! Thanks I'll try to make it out there 🔥


Gm sir


Nice! I lived in Plano for a few months , but it's changed a lot.  Heading to the motorsports track today, any recommendations for dinner?


Gm 🔥


Glad you liked them 🥰 not to be outdone her husband Emory wrote the book "the anatomy of peace" which you might enjoy also. He was one of the architects of the United Nations.  I love European history.


They'll be up for awhile until the main display room is done next year, so you got some time 🤙🏻


You're on nostr using bitcoin, that makes you a legend already 💜


Someone should group these into a package and serve it as a nostr premium membership.


Been 100% since 2021 so feels normal now. (Even though I have to trade to fiat when spending)

Fiat maxis would love to spread the message "never spend your bitcoin" cause then they can trade dollar shitcoins on top of it forever.  Only way to kill Fiat is to adopt medium of exchange.

It really makes you think about your spending before you do it and I like that.


It's so beautiful 😍


Looking to hire a front end dev to make a website for a medical side-hustle of mine. Eventually would like to incorporate either nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg or nostr:npub1cwneqlnjgs3rdtk97c2ffy2df9dm5zycgj3dsg8c3z00hchxjmfqtvraju

Hit me up if interested! #asknostr


Feb 2023


Necesitamos la ayuda de la comunidad hispanoparlante para difundir nuestra presencia en Nostr. 🙏

Síguenos y comparte el post, y te enviaremos un Zap de 1000 sats. ⚡😎

Valido para las primeras 100 cuentas.

Haz rapido!

nostr:note14p2ufr4v9wrry7mvl0g7gjs338lvn84jc2ffhwtxw9cahgzyaclslz9hm0


It's quite remarkable to think of all the people who came before us and overcame so many challenges so we could be here today, writing notes.

It's an honor to share this moment of history with you.


That's awesome! You should totally check it out.  The main re-creation of her house in France is closed till next year but most of the paintings were moved to the impressionist era collection.


This was her house in France, it was designed and built by coco Chanel.  This was also donated to charity when she passed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Pausa


Next time 💜


Got to visit the Dallas art museum where the majority of my great grandmothers paintings were donated (a few went to Winston Churchill as they were close friends)

nostr:npub1jcjxjg92200kdp8guw8sysg8gr0ez29hahrfdy49h30hgnkpa4kqfvmtwx you would have loved it. https://image.nostr.build/8360b37f7a149e6c2e7c04b8d0401735a4ae5a7b76f550b8a4dad8597c96e709.jpg https://i.nostr.build/BvrKyDIv7nfATBaR.jpg https://i.nostr.build/ZiUKeJ1dh2R5SmuD.jpg https://i.nostr.build/sH4GVXXG4JC7lxEv.jpg https://i.nostr.build/EuTlUlt1y3CPbbH1.jpg https://i.nostr.build/pLLHESAkLnrRNu6q.jpg https://i.nostr.build/ODQVXMHdSycLNksk.jpg https://i.nostr.build/TybwNC9anMUQkSsi.jpg


There's room for two 😘


Hello Dallas 👀 https://i.nostr.build/6imR9Hgp8P5d8miG.jpg


a great way to prevent massive amounts of middle eastern migrants is to maybe not spend two decades bombing them, just a thought


I don't want alot of followers, I want my core peeps 🤙🏻


Haha classic!


I'm really trying to look deeper here but the surface is so beautiful 🥵


Saylor?


Why so bearish? SBF is gone sir.


You know you're in the right place 💜


I love the sweet smell of anarchy in the morning 💜


Try Sunday morning getting ready for church with 5 kids under 6 years old.  Satoshi got nothing on that 🤣


Right! Feel bad for those old creatures 🤣


Happy birthday!! 🥳


So happy to be front running the rest of humanity with you all 💜 nostr:note1lk6a3gv22k5qycf3u4xdptas9634wgjl99eaetsh69avjn49e66spv6spu


Never gonna give up.


Talk about a low time preference.


Is there an Npub for the days/location for meetups, or is there an email list?


Gm
https://open.spotify.com/track/2jfk3m8nq5IvB35s2xIs1O?


Running Satsuma 🔥🔥🔥 https://i.nostr.build/ZnPVBZNr8Cy9soq2.jpg


Amy small business owners on #nostr not accepting #bitcoin? And why haven't you tried zaprite? #askNostr

(Unpaid shill and geunuine question)

I think it's compelling for small businesses to consider a Strike/Zaprite combo.


There are several backend option for zaprite, the interface is really awesome and I've recommended them to a few companies.  Sessions has a good video on it too.


This might be the best product we have ever built. Bank to lightning wallet in SECONDS

I’m stress testing our node. If you want to help please HMU if you want to help (and are in Canada)
https://m.primal.net/KGIm.jpg


Not in canada but my daughter is moving to Edmonton next year and this is gonna be so awesome.  Stoked!


Gn


Exactly, leveled up.


Gn Anna


Most people carry their tracking devices in their back pocket.


Speechless 🥵


It sounds counter-intuitive but the slower your pace of life is the more efficient you will be.  Those who would seek to suppress your independence and creativity would do so by keeping you busy.  store up your time with sound money so you can slow down and be able to listen to your inner voice again.


Such a good book!


#bitcoin #nostr #meme

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


I don't think I have any videos of the orange, but here's a 58 fender tele on a vox AC15. Rich and smooth 🤤 https://v.nostr.build/ZjQK5nKJ0QajW2G5.mp4


Especially when I'm standing 12 inches away from my 30 watt orange guitar amp 🤣


I feel sound more than I hear it 💜


Still would.


Nice! 👏🏻


Lemons are for cleaning, limes are for eating.


Gn sir 🫡


It's a beautiful thing 🔥


So you're saying my Npub is my

IP address/DNS register
phone number
Bitcoin wallet
Text message destination
Ecash wallet
Public billboard/webpage
Social identity

Am I missing anything? If it's data,
Just send it to my Npub?

#asknostr


Conversation with a no coiner today;

We don't live in a positive fiscal system anymore, debt is now money.
Debt is just a bullshit promise, and we trade these bullshit promises between each other like someone is actually going to keep their promise, but the won't.

When someone starts to smell the bullshit, recession, which just means the value of the bullshit goes down, because it's bullshit!!

So if you're saving your wealth (time/energy) in bullshit, I highly suggest you stop.


That's awesome! I played in high school and then got back into it when my oldest son started to play.  He got in around the "war of the spark" set which was 2019.  We built a "surveil" deck that you would love if you like the dredge ability.  It has two "yawgmoths will" which is a sweet card. The new set just came out with a good commander for surveil so working on a commander variation of that legacy deck.


"Secrecy serves those who are already in power" 💯🎯 nostr:note1hpqkgvuc3ya757kcg0g3v2kgv4nr4m7lxfuykalq70rm6vuwemcsxyfahf


Pursuit of purpose > pursuit of happiness.


Can't wait 🥂


🤣 let's hope so.


That card is soooo expensive.


Commander is a really fun variation, prob the only other style I play other than legacy.


That's a great set 🔥


Yep I play all the time and my oldest son is a tournament player. You need to stay more recent then modern horizons 3 to be powerful enough (my old decks from tempest/stronghold/weatherlight don't stand a chance)

But most games are draft by set only, so the power and themes are pretty balanced by set.  Still just as much fun as it's always been in my opinion.


Can't make it but I'm excited to see vids after!


We are the magicians. The courageous,visionary people who dare to oppose the system and question society.
The unstoppable thinkers,the ones who deny any sort of repression and use our tools to contribute to a better world.
We are the free speech advocates,because we know a life without freedom is not worth living. We are not sheep,we are wolves. We lead,we innovate,we initiate.
We are tech savvy,we are the nerds,the geeks,the weirdos.We are happy about who we are because we don’t aim to be another brick in the wall. We know that being different is our super power.
We are living the dream by making our beliefs tangible and create bonds with like minded people so we can grow stronger together.
We are sovereign individuals because we know that sovereignty and freedom walk together.
The world may take us for granted now,but we know better that the future belongs to us. 🧙🪄

♾I dedicate this text to all developers that make Nostr possible and to all the users and content creators that keep Nostr active and growing. To all the amazing people I’ve met here and to everything that will be coming in the next years. ♾

#nostr
#grownostr
#tarot
#mystic
#occultstr https://image.nostr.build/0c1aba19b94d2eb1854dab2d60fe1f9cce61b5fb08c8b5b4ea1e87a42b111273.jpg


Jealous!


That's way higher than I thought it would be. Most people I know don't think about tmrw let alone next year or farther.


Everything other than Bitcoin is a shitcoin, especially the dollar.


Oh that's what saylor meant.


Omg I love that song🤣.  But seriously an awesome photo!


Those fries look 🔥🔥🔥


Long live nostr 💪🏻


New pfp 🔥🔥🔥


Good morning https://i.nostr.build/2y1wVmQstEMlGn06.jpg


Ah ok that makes sense, I'll try a higher balance with a better connection and see if that works.


Gn


nostore extension on safari.


Hopefully feeling better 💜


I'm totally guilty of getting frustrated with people too quickly.  I'm trying to be more patient with people, but it's exhausting.


This last paragraph 💯💯💯 nostr:note1zq2yp63n78u6wfluj0mxtezfx69hq2kwahvrsjhkjeyye2mr72yskrgtkp


It's so good


Welcome back Beth 💜


Gorgeous 🔥


Hansen surfboards, Encinitas CA.


Legend.


Gn Mina 💜


So beautiful 💜


https://i.nostr.build/LDEnsczF4u9EYI89.jpg  nostr:note12k4qtuwa3k7smkv3a6mmemdpxpvxnhfj890v2svs3yt8y4zy34yqhgl70p


You did more today then the Fed did all year.


Gn darling 💜


Gn 💜


My bad


No kidding 🔥🥵🥵🥵


Tried cashu to shopstr and the token failed a few times, but eventually gave this message and then worked.

But trying to make a test purchase and it says I don't have a balance even though it's displayed in the wallet section.  nostr:npub15dc33fyg3cpd9r58vlqge2hh8dy6hkkrjxkhluv2xpyfreqkmsesesyv6e https://i.nostr.build/0koSVXVnrSXVmxLn.jpg


Doesn't Nunchuk app already connect to NFC?


Wait! For real?


New pfp 🔥


Hello


Don't live there but will be flying in next thur-sat for work.


Gm


Feel that 💜


So foamy 😍


„It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.” - Marcus Aurelius

The truth may not harm me, but it makes living around the lies so difficult.  The deeper I go down the rabbit hole the harder it becomes to interact with the deceitful and ignorant world.

nostr:npub10wv37amdqnv8edw5yktgsxr62g8k4lqkk2u66fk6c6uwuakzssxsf4v22x great article man.

https://open.substack.com/pub/carlbmenger/p/bitcoin-and-stoicism?r=1ubcx6&utm_medium=ios


Gn


nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 was on Nostr before nostr:npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw

I’m not saying it’s a competition buuuuttt… nostr:note1xaskgfc2pvg42g2gm9f2kaa5hhfzv6s63uqfu7lnkt6l8rd86phqyrtua7


Portugal


Not sure which one is a bigger trap.


Usually when I feel that way I try to slow down and look from a high view at things.  Then wait for one path to become clear, the universe has a way of guiding you if you can quiet yourself enough to listen.


New York strip and broccoli cooked in bacon fat. https://i.nostr.build/mZkNSYqPZdoPM9et.jpg


Haha, the struggle is real.


Eat and move.


Ok I'm gonna put it at 250m a coin then 🤙🏻


😢 and they still won't listen.


Spend half my time learning, and the other half teaching 💜


🤣. I mean, why not?


I love these!


Both knees.


I'm definitely a criminal


Same for our legal system, always a reason why you can't be trusted to make decisions for yourself.


So buy a burner phone with ecash that doesn't have KYC attached to the IMEI and run silent link to connect to data to message over simplex and you're good?


Yeah you're prob right 😭


👏🏻 well done!


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YOU DA MAN!!


Now all the intellectuals are going to bitcoin because they can earn more then the state puppets 🔥


Spoke with a founder of a very successful electric charging startup yesterday and I don't know why but I'm still shocked when someone has zero knowledge about bitcoin.

I said the world can now choose if they want controlled money with inflation, or uncontrolled money without inflation, but it's still your choice.  You could just see the fireworks going off in his mind lol.


Take me with you 🤗


You can be wrong about the implementation, but you can't be wrong about the idea.  Even if bitcoin the software failed in the early years, the idea would have lived on until something worked.


Minecraft 💙


That key looks like it goes to another world or a treasure chest.


And my boys from Switchfoot 🔥💜 Do it!


Long live dad rock


Sweet it's working! Thanks fam 💜 nostr:note1fprr4sagt3dr3fcxljtcswstywvumwh9nvdrha9jgx0w4jpfs25sa5d9e5


Oh yeah good point, didn't think of that.


Can someone zap this post, want to see if it's working now?


Everyone always thinks they're the exception until they're not.  It's like saying privacy doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide.  Criminal is a subjective label and can change.


Thanks!


Right it's kinda mind blowing how it has such near perfect consensus given how much data is collected from all over the world in real time 🤯. You just marvel at it sometimes.


That's it, I'm coming over. 😍


Yeah that's what I thought 🤙🏻


LFG! 🔥


Finally orange pilled my uncle and it feels amazing to have another ally in the family.  He's been buying like crazy on nostr:npub1xkere5pd94672h8w8r77uf4ustcazhfujkqgqzcykrdzakm4zl4qeud0en but had a question that I'm pretty sure I know the answer too but wanted to check. #asknostr

it charged me $11 and some change for fee.  I know all of them do that, but the price I paid was $256 higher than the price that was displayed on the graph when I initiated the purchase. I’ve been watching it and it’s very consistently when the transaction actually happens. Are they pulling a fast one,  or is that common practice? It’s consistently around a one percent difference, and if I’m not mistaken, it’s always higher what your charged.
It could be the micro volatility, but it always seems like it’s higher ???


Inspired by nostr:npub16secklpnqey3el04fy2drfftsz5k26zlwdsnz84wtul2luwj8fdsugjdxk https://i.nostr.build/AofkRKuUenRR9Hyi.jpg


I totally understand, but be careful what you wish on others since it can easily be turned on you.


Love nitro cold brew 🤤


You're such a badass Onyx, not just because you're gorgeous, but because you're courageous and kind.


It's actually quite cheap if we eliminated inflation and taxes on our money. Norway sets a very good example with cost effective and humane imprisonment for violent offenders.


"I'm just a human trying to avoid my certain doom"
                            -Fall Out Boy


It was never going to be easy to shift the power back to the people.  Defiance comes at a price, I think it's time to take stand and disobey,
Damn the consequences.


Thanks Corey, I'm single and have an income right now, but I was curious about that if my situation changes. So if you live in a state with no state cap gains like Florida or Texas then no cap gains tax at all until 100k?


Interesting 🤔. I studied law in the U.K. So I don't have an extensive knowledge of U.S. legal history.  Our social systems are in fact, completely made up, but in the crowd, perception can be reality.  If the mob thinks you're guilty they will burn you at the stake, regardless of the truth.  It can be hard to know what is compliant or not, so it almost feels like why bother trying.


Good morning Onyx, looking absolutely Beautiful as always.


Well said! I never thought about it from that perspective.  I could leave the country, but I know that they still try to tax you abroad, but that's pretty had to enforce and like you said that might backfire on them and they will capitulate to remove the tax.


This makes sense to me, in the last two years alone it feels like bitcoin adoption has accelerated to light speed, and perhaps it's just a matter of time before the gov is forced to capitulate to the pressure of the people.


Love this! I've never asked, but I'm weighing in my mind how I should answer.  I suppose the name Gulag bound says it all🤣, but given a choice I would prefer to be out of prison.  However there are some things I simply will not comply with. I think breaking the KYC chain and taking the risk might be the best answer.


Same 🙋🏻. I have a giant window facing the east in my bedroom that's always open cause I want to get up with the sun.


Beautiful


Dwarves are real!?


“Working out will make you feel weak, when it’s actually making you stronger. Learning new things will make you feel dumb, when it’s actually making you smarter. Investing in yourself will make you feel broke, when it’s actually making you rich. Facing your fears will make you feel terrified, when it’s actually making you braver. Never hold yourself back. Strive to be better tomorrow than you were today. Thank yourself later.”

#Bitcoin
#Life


Gm 💜


Maybe cap gains tax were invented to encourage hodling 🤔


I'm curious, we have all these tools to self custody and protect our bitcoin, but how do we protect against the cap gains tax man?  As an American we will pay 20% no matter where we live in the world, and in Cali it's 33%

Does it just come down to non KYC purchases only to avoid tracking? Will you have to earn it directly to avoid fiat paper trail from paycheck like a cash job would now?

What are the odds the U.S. abandons its federal cap gains tax?

#asknostr


💯 such a good album


I like it, more street cred


OG dc talk fan 🙋🏻


Damn 🥵🔥


Loved the episode btw 👏🏻🔥 nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u


Ouch. Hope it heals quickly 💜


Letting anyone change the source code of society isn't rule of law, but complete ossification of laws doesn't work either.  What should exist, and has existed in the past, are non specific rules to live by that are known ahead of time, in writing, and very difficult to change. Just like the laws of bitcoin or the constitution was designed.


Because they feel they are on the winning side.  They are too foolish to understand the guillotine they built will be their own destruction.


Damn girl! What did you do!


So what time do I come over next Friday?


They did that in the 50's, got banned.


Bitcoin: for those who don't want to be a slave to their job or live in a cardboard box.


Godamn I think I pulled a muscle 🥵


Sushi 🤤


Schauffele's parents stopped by with his Claret Jug from The Open.  #golfstr  nostr:npub103m96sra82w4agghew9cdxtzs4s8sl7qsjsvw6h653yml0gjrkzqefd3h5 nostr:npub16secklpnqey3el04fy2drfftsz5k26zlwdsnz84wtul2luwj8fdsugjdxk https://i.nostr.build/9WLEBz3nhrb0KFWc.jpg


We could just let it happen, it's natural.


Can you beat the 63% days benchmark! Brilliant 🔥 nostr:note1fr9p07utf49dqljgsqk0nc0lc35lw9vhpfkecd4a22l9uxxwjtzsaq9yu6


Love will always be stronger than hate.


Last year, I was very socially awkward and women didn't want to talk to me.

Then I started the carnivore diet and stacking sats.

And now men don't want to talk to me either


Stay humble and stack sats has always taught me to pace myself and be patient.  My default is to go full speed all the time and I need to remember that life is long and things take time.


What I wouldn't give to be that cushion 🥵


Amazing 😍


Facts!


Beautiful


😬 recover soon.


Legend, I was also born in LB 💜


You said the same thing twice.


In crises, markets sell what they can, not what they want.

#Bitcoin is down because it was the only market open to sell on Sunday night, not because the only fixed supply money we have is now less valuable.

#Bitcoin isn't hedging the broken financial system, it's replacing it.
https://m.primal.net/JpQY.mov


This is all I want in life, pizza, sun, and the water.


You're a saint 👏🏻


At the end of the day you gotta choose something, cold card and bitbox are my choice.


I have yet to see someone argue in favor of another currency except for maybe gold bugs.  Almost everyone argues against bitcoin, which is fine, but you have to choose something, so what's the better choice?


Keeping the bromance alive 🔥


Can't wait to see what's next for you guys 💪🏻.  Appreciate you all.


Much love for ya darlin 💜


I try to remind myself often that my opinion doesn't matter. It won't change one person let alone 8 billion.  The reason I have an opinion is to protect myself from other people's opinions.


Makes me sad to see too dear. Media is just a business and they will show whatever gets them the most money (usually fear and hate) and I can't really fault them for that, it's incumbent upon us to not feed that beast and remember that believing their manipulation allows them to control us. https://i.nostr.build/r3A5f5LRj52iGfk8.jpg


Much better choice


Come on down anytime 😊


I'll add the rest to my to do list ✔


For IOS Damus is my main and primal second


Looks like Seattle


Damus


Every time 💜


Your food today is just on point 🙌🏻


I wonder if right wingers will ever realize that the ol' "blame immigrants" is an ancient meme used by smooth brainers for hundreds of years?

https://i.nostr.build/h3nCfLgcHMusHAJt.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/w4rb0Mu4ViLnLoV5.jpg


So beautiful 😍


Do not listen to those who have not shown proof of work for your attention.


Face 🥵🔥


I'm glad to hear nothing by you 💜.  This may sound cliche but hate isn't natural, it's taught to us.  Starting from the top at the government/institutional level, all the way down.  If it's possible to shrink these control structures then I believe we will significantly reduce civilian violence as well as state violence.


I love all the Mexican food in SD 💜


Just saw the news, Hopefully no riots by you?


Great album 💜. "You learn" is 🔥


Just my personal belief, but radical is the only relevant adjective when describing a murderer. The majority of immigrants, Muslims, and every other invented label from control structures are peaceful and do not deserve to be grouped in with a murderer.  All are capable of choosing evil, but those that do are individually responsible.  If we continue to group evil individuals into whatever chosen group then we are doomed to attack each other endlessly. nostr:note1n0q470mktd7lgama897066n27ntpujpuat2f5pa9y5t8t7sw5xrsu37hyx


😔. There are so many ways humans choose to divide themselves, and so few ways they unite.


Why?


I have sooo many future plans.


Beautiful and talented, officially swooning 😍


Wow 🔥


The choice isn't between wrong and right, it's between having a choice or having no choice.  If you have a choice you get both right and wrong, if you don't you get neither.


Ouch! Didn't think it could get worse then here. My oldest daughter is in Edmonton this whole month, it's interesting watching your kids realize how many people are asleep at the wheel.


Haha I didn't know that, Americans live in a bubble, especially San Diego, either way it's a beautiful name 💜


Right! You're the first person I thought of when I ordered the Paloma 🤣


This is the way.


I love this 🧡 nostr:note132vqwhcv0kz34q3gfs2f7tuu76ml67j7k5cq3r0gnpt38zmq0pxq5z700v


The majority of Americans I know are in the first group. Particularly wealthy Californians.  Seems very few have the strength or courage to make it to maturity.


May the voices of the people be heard ❤


Gm
Breakfast torta, Cajeta donus and Paloma 🧡 https://i.nostr.build/y7RZRZhtGDh5805a.jpg


Gm


Bitcoin never looked so good 🔥


Shirts and shoes are shitcoins.


Also you look absolutely gorgeous, so you know, there's that.


Yessir!! 🫡


You think I would be used to living in idiocracy by now, but somehow they find new ways to surprise me.


Oh yeah? I'm usually in Seattle every other month 😊. Maybe we'll be there at the same time one day.


Sheesh. I don't wanna....
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Every overdraft is an attack on fiat 💪🏻


Orange and blue have always been my favorite color pallet, the sun and the sea 💙🧡


Members of every locality are the strategic reserves, we don't need a government to do it for us. nostr:note1j8phkz34pxsh4n497a6uj3yqws9s3y77ykrqkwnt4cpt5khufycq7wuf65


I was tempted to get "clear" but there was no way I was giving them my eyeballs!  I missed a flight once because of it and spent the night there.


Onward 🔥 Dealing with grown adults acting like children, but at least it's Friday 😊


Sorry dear that sucks 💜


It was hard enough motivating my coworkers when the reward was good, I have no idea why they show up to work now for fiat crumbs.  I whisper bitcoin in their ears every day but not with much success yet.


Get some rest man, we all need ya.


I love being irrelevant.


You too 💜


Oh man I was just there a few days ago! Why are they always so crowded.


Gm 🫡


I think bitcoin itself is more than two different things. We've had the luxury of a mostly united community up until now (could argue two communities with the block size war).  But the bigger bitcoin gets the more groups will emerge that want bitcoin for different reasons and will customize L2's to fit their objectives.  I wonder if we do a disservice by grouping these different bitcoiners together, or if highlighting the difference would be too confusing 🤔


I don't know if all 401k do it but Fidelity allows you to borrow up to half of the balance and pay yourself back over time from future paychecks.   Borrow money from your future self and buy sats on sale.


Happy Friday 🤗


Gn 💜


The amount of faith I have matches the amount of fiat I have.


They prob lost the keys.


LFG! 🌊😎


Exactly, you need a neutral unit of account like time or bitcoin.


And the battle rages on.


When I first came to nostr I had only been in bitcoin for a few years and most of my exposure to bitcoiners on LinkedIn and Twitter was hyper focused on price and integrating bitcoin into the already existing financial system of permission and exclusion.  While I refrain from telling anyone how they should use bitcoin, it's not how I want to use it, and it's not the people I want to be around.

Imagine my surprise when I found genuine, kind, and positive individuals on nostr.  People who want equality, honesty, and integrity in our society, and especially in our money. @jeff booth was one of the first interactions I had which was especially meaningful given his book was a big inspiration to me.  Since then there are far too many good people to mention.

I simply cannot go back to legacy media since I'm philosophically incompatible with the majority of individuals who make up the network.


Man reality is hard to accept.


That's the beauty, we get to make our own future and I def want to be in whatever society you're all apart of 🤗


Gn


Much love to ya both 💜, that discourse was so awesome to read.


That looks soooo good 🤤


Pretty sure gov thinks they can swap gold for btc and do the same shit. Maybe they can, maybe they can't, but gold isn't gonna fix it.


Beautiful


Awww sorry to hear that 💜. Every bridge that crumbles makes a new path.


The only thing I want to do with my wealthy elite status is spend more time with my kids and free more bitcoiners.


Eating dinner with my 5 teenagers at outback the other day, and the topics we discussed had the tables next to us wishing we were just on our phones 🤣


Love that 😘


Stay safe my friend.


It's a great place to visit 💚🌳🌊


From beach to forrest in Seattle. https://i.nostr.build/2zU21zG9FbOICvN3.jpg https://i.nostr.build/IU8BEioyC03HJAx1.jpg


💕 https://i.nostr.build/3ZkL0ApSp8dUnP5I.jpg


The earth is bountiful 💚 https://i.nostr.build/YDZizdTuYJYlEbqx.jpg https://i.nostr.build/tlvkcPBKWmFvpSNV.jpg https://i.nostr.build/pr3ak6YZnlrs0wAU.jpg


Anywhere you go is magical.


Yes of course I did, couldn't agree more 🖤


nostr:npub12z8jsett3k6rv9fa2guau5p540qr2xuvjzkr8e432mglafjt99sqkw9zmx 👀 https://i.nostr.build/0NHKPNPP0uPO5JBA.jpg


Beautiful 💜


You recognize a counterfeit by studying the truth, it's clear not many people spend time studying the truth.

This is why we bitcoin.


#fun #meme
😂😂😂 https://image.nostr.build/505c9d49cc7ffde6f88ec56171394788172c658ab0ca7fe4d84ba9640339fe29.jpg


Gm


Fomo 🔥


Yep you're right, and like all things that become mainstream (like your fav band 😭) you get the good with the bad.  You get to say "I was here first haha". But then you gotta make sure to spot the wolves in bitcoin clothing.


I think it's funny that people are making a big deal that politicians want your money.

Of course they want your money,
They don't care what type of money it is.

The difference with bitcoin is that it's a money you don't HAVE to give to them, they control every other type, so why the fuck would you hand it over willingly.


Some thoughts and discussion I had about taproot assets today.

While a romantic dream that Bitcoin the network would only ever be used for bitcoin the money, it's not very practical.

Bitcoin the network allows for many types of data to be saved in the blockchain if you're willing to pay the fee.  That can be bitcoin the money transaction, an NFT, fiat dollars, tether, ID's, etc.

While at first glance I dislike this, I welcome the challenge.  These purveyors of data will soon find out how expensive block space is as a finite resource, just like the ordinal minters found out.

This is truly an open competition, will the demand for inflating dollars and other fiat outweigh the demand for zero inflation money? Or will NFT pics of monkeys take the win?

It's an interesting thought experiment also to ask "why would someone want to transact a centralized currency over a decentralized network if it's inherently more complex than the centralized network that already exists?"

I think these stable-coin issuers are going to be in for a surprise when they find out the cost of using bitcoin the network, especially when it's priced in sats!!

May the best data win.


"Bitcoin is my stablecoin." —Matt Odell


There is no red or blue, there are berries and there is you.

Gn


This is why I'm still single.


There are many bitcoiners who only see the money part of freedom money.


May the force be with you.


Love it 🧡


Yeah I feel that, I live in a different state than my kids and it's rough.


That you are 😘


Guess that means people are desperate for privacy 🤷🏼♂


I was discussing the market and economic theory with a business owner and manufacturer today.

I tried to describe that economies basically have three groups; poor, working class, and the bureaucrats/elites.

Capitalism is allowing the working class to earn all the rewards and give to the bureaucrats and poor as they will.

Welfare/socialism is bureaucrats taxing the working class and give to the other two groups(often keeping the reward and only eluding to giving to the poor as a justification)

It's very hard when you have a money controlled by bureaucrats to stop them from paying themselves from the working class.

Bitcoin allows capitalism to exist where it struggles to exist due to entrenched elites and controlled money.

While this doesn't solve all the problems of distribution in the working class or how to help the poor, it fixes many many problems by restoring the honest relationship between work and reward.


I feel so much too whenever that Matt Odell note comes on my feed


You love to see it 🧡


Love to see it 🌳🤗


🔥 I'm on the list 🫡


No not at all, the right choice is often the more difficult one. If it feels easy then it's probably the wrong choice.  Sometimes we can make the hard choice, other times it's made for us.


Ok good, life's too short for shitty coffee 💜


Was it terrible?


Congrats nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m on joining the Relai team 👏🏻


There's always a good reason 🔥


That's why I'm here 😊


Yessir! This coffee shop is owned by David Kennedy, guitarist for "angels and airwaves" and is one of my favs 🤤


Thanks man, you too!


Gm 💜


Gm


We don't need trump, but trump needs us.


I was having this discussion the other day with a normie. He was hyper focused and myopic on one particular positive outcome that banning guns could possibly have, but I said to him everything is a good idea if you ignore all other consequences.

You could blow up a freeway so one man can cross without getting hit but you are ignoring all the cars that would crash from the giant hole in the road.  Seems to be a common mistake in our thinking to not consider the cost.


That looks amazing, I'm def going next time I'm in Colorado.


BUILD STRONG FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES.

HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR.

LEAD BY EXAMPLE. 🫡


Agreed, I haven't had a couch in two years.


Gm fam https://i.nostr.build/aMKtjDJMXhAh07Nc.jpg


Liberation technologies 💜


Call me a dog is my theme song 💜


Same


Don't be fooled, the frog always becomes a prince.

nostr:npub1jk9h2jsa8hjmtm9qlcca942473gnyhuynz5rmgve0dlu6hpeazxqc3lqz7


Happy birthday!!!! 🥳


Looks delicious


Gm 🤤


The thing about parasites is they would rather risk killing the host than losing them.


LFG! 🔥


Gm sir 🤙🏻


It's all about Shadow heart 💜


Full stop. 🔥🥵😍


We will make them irrelevant 🫡


When you spend your energy on positive things that actually have results it's hard to go back to negative things that produce nothing.


Love ya man 🫡


There is an all out war against bitcoin NGU, from high rates in fiat, to Germany and England selling,
To mt. Gox refunds, just about every tactic the enemy can do to suppress price is being employed at full force and bitcoin continues to grow.

Imagine when their defenses break.


Mood
https://open.spotify.com/track/4VqPOruhp5EdPBeR92t6lQ?si=oNtMxdD7TG2pu9bKMCN98Q


Looks good!! 🤤


Help me over 4k subscribers please Nostr fam?

If you can prove you’re the 4,000th
Subscriber I’ll send you 4,000 sats 😊

https://youtube.com/@joenakamoto?si=J1fN0FiU5zT132ri


Make it stop 😂


Gorgeous!


It brings me joy


Shitcoiners.


Fomo 🔥


Swiss Bitcoin Pay allows you to blend receives in btc and your fiat of choice to a bank. The btc can go to any static LNURL address. https://i.nostr.build/qy1okbOjdtOesPdM.jpg


R.I.P 💜


I'm sorry Aubrey 😢. Hope things get better tmrw.


It seems like even if governments 6102 bitcoin and try and seize it, they're not smart enough to keep it and spend fiat. Bullish on decentralization 🔥 nostr:note16tpq8pwr8fa8mmvm2d3m370822rp8r7fuc7m8v9cqwew89p0nryshptksg


I think I've always just wanted to live in the Shire with the hobbits, and it very much feels that way.  I agree about London, but any place where you are would be lovely though 😉


I don't think I would get any rest with you around 🥵


Looks good from here.


When I visited Oxford and the Cotswolds I felt like I had come home from a long journey, it was very cosy. Didn't spend much time in London but I could see living there for a bit.


💜 It's so pretty there, I love walks at dusk when the air is pleasant and earthy and you can just begin to see the warm light flowing from the windows of homes, and the slightest glimpse of loved ones sitting down to enjoy each others company over a good meal.  Truly magical.


Well then, WTF Marie 😇


I think it's always been crazy.


It doesn't mean "would totally fuck"?


Wrong audience, I think you were looking for X.


Shitcoins were always going to exist, especially the dollar.  I've heard every shitcoin say they were "backed" by bitcoin and they all end the same way getting wrecked.  Very few people actually learn from their mistakes.


Yes they do.


Which means other countries will get fomo and copy him.


Can't wait to live on pleb island.


Just say no.


Same, but the desert doesn't last forever, one day rest will come.


💜 onward my friend.


No idea but seems like U.S. gov tactic will be to gain control of bitcoin through "private" business.  Right now it seems like trump/dimon are attempting to collect their Ringwraith's from BoA, Citi, and Apple to "private market" 6102 the bitcoin and build super fiat on top of it.  (Why issue an executive order when people surrender it willingly to your minions) Prob good idea to get your real money out of the hands of robber barons and elites and off exchanges. nostr:note10ka088s3epa90dd2f46m0vsjy6n7k7zz920qufyav2k877vfutvqfjremj


Would love to join you 💜


No criticism, only love 🤙🏻💜


That's why it was built, if a system only relies on good actors then it's doomed from the start.


They are there to block your 10 dollar coffee purchase in your own neighborhood.  So grateful for them.


Welcome back sir!! 🫡


The only position I want from the government is "not taking a position", but I doubt that will ever show up at the ballot box.


If you start with any amount of money with inflation, on a long enough time horizon, the value of that sum goes to nearly zero.

If you start with any amount of money with deflation, on a long enough time horizon, the value goes up nearly indefinitely.

There is a world of difference between 2% inflation and 0%, but people are confused since low inflation looks "close enough" but in reality they are opposites


Woah is me for trying to compete with Chocolate and strawberries. https://i.nostr.build/RItL2QIWXaX7uOUV.jpg


🤣 but I'm American, I must be doing it wrong.


Max


OMG that looks amazing 😍


Hello 😊


"The worst mistake is doing nothing because you can only do a little"


Digital dragon 🤣


You'll love it


Every week 🤯


Classic 🔥


I go on them all the time, It usually takes me about two weeks to forget the pain and then I go on another.


Keep em coming 🤗


Today, because it's going up forever, you'll never miss the boat.


Praise the lord 💜


Bored?


The U.S. is fixable, but not by a politician.


Gn beautiful 💜


Haha gotcha, old school 🤙🏻


This is why we're friends 💜


Sunday thoughts.

Only a few societies in history have attempted large scale organization without a ruler.  During antiquities the Israelites attempted a community based on a single document like a constitution or protocol, without a leader to enforce it.  They had local judges to adjudicate conflicts if they were to arise, always using their written code as the foundation of their decisions.

The American experiment is another example of a similar attempt by splitting the central power into three branches and giving each state equal power to the one trifurcated federal power for checks and balances, attempting to adjudicate conflict based on a living (amendable) document.

Both of these ended of course, the first one due to the demand of its own people to have a king, and the second by a slow concentration of federal power over states, and then a further concentration of executive power over the other two branches.

Bitcoin represents another attempt at this type of political organization, in fact it represent the largest attempt to date as it's truly global.  Will a living document written in silicon succeed where stone and parchment failed?

I must believe it can for I see know other means of achieving a free society of rules without rulers.  A piece of code or a document is only as strong as its supporters, but when I look around I see strength and conviction.  Let us never lose this conviction or tire of fighting for what's good.


Just nostr.


Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.


The view that bitcoin is an investment only and a partisan issue is very typical for US-Americans and Europeans as it ignores billions of people in the rest of the world who need bitcoin as a tool to escape their authoritarian regimes’ financial oppression.

Bitcoin is a technology and the only form of money beneath cash that can be used by anyone without permission. Bitcoin doesn’t need politicians good will. Bitcoin is rules without rulers.
https://m.primal.net/JQXq.jpg


They do that still?


I'm not an expert on any of those things 🤷🏼♂. Although I would love to end the government if that's a political view?


You take the best photos 💜


What is the American dream?


it's a great time to be an anarchist
https://image.nostr.build/95d893cbf6739130fcc0da43becde6eb3917f38fc81ad74f370db9356b37a724.jpg


Going for it 🤣 https://i.nostr.build/DuV5yG4FCkbRSo26.jpg


The lime and salt of the Margarita just hits different after being in the ocean all day. https://i.nostr.build/FOvu0WJGTGUNzTye.jpg


It's that easy.


Love it! LFG! 🔥


Very true, do you think self custodial solutions can ever be as seamless as custodial?  Or will the value always be greater protection but worse experience?


If there weren't, how we understand the value of self custody 🤷🏼♂


Haha you said the same thing twice.


And the people who've obtained their station through no merit of their own fear this transition (which is pretty much the entire elite class)


The incentives to self custody already exist (rug pulls, censorship, etc) ecash isn't to scale self custody, it's to make already existing custodians better. I don't think custodians are ever going away, we just want them the be the best and most private experience.


Wish I was spending it with you 🥵


Totally! This is why I love nostr, it's real, you get some of the bad of humanity, but so much of the good. My middle son has a good following on YouTube and discord and working on getting him to cross post more here.


Gm


Gorgeous!!


Hopefully they are all governments.


Sucks man, hope you find a badass apt quickly!


Onward 🔥✊🏼


My kids are afraid to have kids because of the doom and gloom brainwashing culture gives our youth. While I think it's healthy to gain some stability, the fear is terrible.  I hope the desire for sex surpasses all fears 🤣


This is why I had 5, many difficulty struggles and exhaustion, but like all difficult things, well worth the fight.


Use nostr.build but even then it can take me a couple tries or have to wait a day and try again.


LFG! 🔥😍


Beautiful!


One beer at a time 🍻


gorgeous 🔥😍


Welcome


Never tire of doing what is right 🔥


Long live the heretics 🙋🏻✊🏼


Love ya 💜


I wouldn't even recognize myself from 10 years ago let alone anyone else.


It only works for me if I don't eat.


It will succeed in spite of him.


So jealous, there's maybe 2 places in all of San Diego that accept bitcoin.


I think échanges (middlemen between miners and users) were a temporary distribution system in the early days of bitcoin and will fall by the waste side as the supply becomes more widely distributed.

Custodians or bitcoin banks will always exist, as long as they offer a better service then self custody and don't go to crazy with fractional reserve since history has shown with a digital asset that can be completely withdrawn overnight you need to keep majority of deposits on hand, in kind, ready to withdraw.


Then that is the correct place to attack them, strike at the heart, onward ✊🏼


You're videos always give me hope Joe, it's been a rough week and I needed this 🤙🏻


Unfortunately.  C'est la vie.


I'm dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣


Night Carl


Same 🤣


GN, me too 🫡


"One day man, you'll wake up and see that democracy is bullshit, as your fundamental human rights shouldn't be subject to the mob's decisions.  But unfortunately that day may only come because the vote will be against you."

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Damn, well written. 👏🏻


They're beautiful 👏🏻


Looks like heaven to me 💜


Drive be a Prius?


Happy birthday Anna 🥳💜🔥


Beautiful 💜


Gm

A Protocol, covenant, and constitution are all the same thing, they are laws that apply equally to all men, and insofar as they align with the laws of physics and the natural order they do well.

A tyrant, emperor or king is a ruler who places himself above these laws, because he has the ability to break the covenant or rewrite the constitution, a flaw that's been exploited by almost all who obtain power.


Damn, sounds like inland Cali 🔥


Perfection


I'm looking for a woman in regenerative farming

Home body, 5'6", hazel eyes


Love the beach 💜


I feel that 🤙🏻


Lol, come with next time 🤗


Post swim açaí bowl https://i.nostr.build/VwWQJ.jpg


Peaceful https://i.nostr.build/6GLoO.jpg


Amid bipartisan support for restricting teenagers’ access to social networks, despite zeeo scientific evidence showing such restrictions would help the younger generations mental health, young queer people who rely on social platforms as a lifeline are threatened with isolation and loss of connection https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jul/07/australia-teen-social-media-ban-age


What the actual fuck! Nostr can't come soon enough.


The only revolution that will ever achieve anything, is the revolution of the mind, because unless we understand the system that is enslaving us we will never be able to put up a resistance that matters.


Escape


Depends on the person, people are naturally open to listening to different types of people.


Time is valuable because it's scarce, would we really appreciate time if it were infinite?  We only appreciate truly appreciate things that have a cost.


The way it should be 🤙🏻


She is 💜


Gm 😍


Happy new year 💜


Those were originally the same thing, both words were corrupted to mean something different.


Let's be wealthy together then 🤗


Gm

Rules can be fair, rulers cannot, but for rules to be fair they cannot be controlled by rulers.


Noted 🫡


Can't wait 🫡


injustice and waste are the two systemic pillars of the fiat financial system.

justice and conservation are the pillars of bitcoin.

No one can make the decision for you, you can't change the world, only your own mind.  Make your choice and live in the world you create for yourself.


Gm 💜


Layers are the only way to scale a networking system. Every previous monetary and networking structure in history has done this same thing.

There is no reason L2 or L-whatever has to be an IOU. Sure people will use them because trust is the foundation of society. There isn’t anything wrong with IOUs, the problem is **systemic, fraudulent IOUs** that are counterfeit into the market indistinguishable from the money itself.

Fractional reserve is a systemic structure of our money. Fractional reserve in a bitcoin world is explicitly external to the money. MtGox was fractional reserve. FTX was fractional reserve.

It’s not a matter of “we’re gonna get fractional reserve.” We’ve had it from the very beginning, and we have seen the results 100 times. They implode and go out of business. The systemic problem of fiat is that they do NOT impose, but grow like a cancer because the money itself is cheated to keep them alive.

In short, your concerns are not really relevant, because the base layer is always present to prove existence, validity, and ownership of bitcoins. That will make it behave like a global decentralized incorruptible court for who owns what.

Thus we will extremely likely (and are already doing) build 10,000 networks *on top* of #Bitcoin.

But there are a literally limitless number of way to extend the trust of the base layer, up to any and all other layers. Ark is a great example, all transactions off chain, every single user has unilateral exit ability.

Bitcoin will have no problem scaling because it’s an open, permissionless protocol. The base layer simply needs to be reliable, solid, and radically neutral, and there will be nothing that we cannot do with it.

Human ingenuity doesn’t have a hard cap.


Gm 🫡


Gm sir 🫡


GM


My kind of woman 🔥🔥🔥 nostr:note1ws0k38utygnxgnfzuj374x39judj684zsugd2fe8gk9d3y43tkzqumg6yq


Welcome back 🤗


One day at a time in the fiat mines 🫡


That's why I'm interested in ending politics 😊 or at the very least ending governance.


Love this 💜


🤣🤣🤣 nostr:note1ewupzc7aanr8mckw2xsawkhf58w80dxmp25mtafdxwgf5qv0tjcs2gwhah


Love this 🔥


My skin would say fuck the government.


Gorgeous 🥵


Same


Happy Friday 💜


Merica never looked so good 🔥


Gn


Jesus is the most anti-religious, anti-state, wild individual in recorded history.  You probably sense the kindred spirit.


Hey Carl


That's everyone I know.


Complacency leads to dependency, independence takes vigilance.


Happy "we are not going to pay taxes to a government day". Oh wait 🤔


I prefer the bitbox bitcoin only hww for its simplicity.  Fewer lines of code and features reduce the amount of attack vectors.  If you add complexity (features) you introduce unknown variables.  Get your bitcoin into self custody anyway you can, but if you have a choice I prefer bitbox or cold card as the best possible options.


Same is true for vehicles.


🤣. I feel ya nostr:npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz


It's about time.


Love nostr:npub1tg779rlap8t4qm8lpgn89k7mr7pkxpaulupp0nq5faywr8h28llsj3cxmt 🔥


Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/02/rapper-bg-government-song-approval


Fuck that.


Bitcoin will restore P2P kindness, replacing bureaucratic handouts.


I'm in if it's on an island with a pirate ship 🤙🏻


As more and more people become dependent on other people, the real market of self sufficient individuals who provide all the real value becomes overworked trying to provide for the bureaucracy, unwilling, or unable members of society.


SD LFG 🔥


Same


Gn sir


You have a lot of faith 🤷🏼♂


The way in which people waste time and energy is truly astounding to me, I'm ok with it, just don't waste my time and energy.


Piece the veil opening with Karma Police was absolute 🔥🔥🔥
https://v.nostr.build/0j68E.mp4


Small local San Diego band blink 182 last night

I'm sure no one has heard of them.
https://v.nostr.build/AaP06.mp4
https://v.nostr.build/zdjQZ.mov
https://v.nostr.build/oM5Rk.mp4
https://v.nostr.build/BRW2A.mp4


I think 90% or bitcoiners play guitar 🤔. Random statistic.


Love that note 🔥


I want it!!


I don't see any problem here 🥵


I feel ya, I was banned a long time ago


Pop punk/emo
Grunge
90's rap
💜💜💜


There's a burger place by me that serves camel burgers 🤙🏻


Real people = real engagement


Haven't seen ya in a minute. Hope you're enjoying the real world 💜


Happy birthday thunder 🥳🥳🥳


GN
https://i.nostr.build/Yg9mP.png


Morning


Good to hear you got more sleep💜need that shit lol.  Went for a walk and got coffee this morning when it was cool, then went to the beach and caught some waves when the sun came out.  Trying to figure out what to do tonight.  Prob go get tacos by the water and watch the sunset.


Come on down 🤗


I don't know it looks pretty good 🤤


Fiat


At the beach https://i.nostr.build/wGvXL.jpg


Exactly. https://i.nostr.build/xE5Xm.jpg


Gm


Nature is healing


How's your day onyx? Still warm up there?


LFG! 😍🔥


Hope you have an amazing day 🤙🏻


Gm 💜


It's so beautiful 🥹


I'm sorry Paloma 💜😢


Damn 🥵. Going to see blink 182 and pierce the veil tonight 🤙🏻


Gm 🤣


Gm friends. Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck on an alien planet, but then I come to nostr and see my peeps. https://i.nostr.build/oM5gL.jpg


Just name the time and place and I'll be there 😉


Feel that!


Nice!! Sounds awesome.


I'd buy you a drink any day Marie 😘


I'm pretty sure this is just dating in general.


Unfortunately I'm painfully aware of what fiat has stolen from me.  But I choose to not be bitter about the past and look forward and what bitcoin will eventually give back to me.  Onward.


I feel better already 🥵🔥


Party so fucking hard.


What's it called?


Ouch, so true 🤣


when people ask me that I usually take it as "how do I build wealth without doing any work". Anyway, beach looks 🔥😎


I know where mine is 🥵


Gm


Only way to get rid of the value extractors is to take away their free meal.


It's gonna be alright Marsy.


Won't curating your feed allow you to make your circle as small as you want it?


Still just get this screen trying ti transfer out. https://i.nostr.build/GezGW.jpg


Mood

https://open.spotify.com/track/1IT0WQk5J8NsaeII8ktdlZ?si=TM_BDCGETn-ia4VmOWQvdg


One day 💜


I love this guy. He's prob living in the middle of Alaska with zero fucks given.


Gm, makes me proud to be apart of nostr 🥹💪🏻


LFG! 🔥🫡


Glad you made it 😉


Beautiful


Heat wave is for real on the west coast right now! I'm all sweaty working on cars 😅


LNURL is better but bolt 12 is the best, just need to get it implemented


We need bolt 12


I recently listened to a debate between Milton Friedman, the chair of the Fed at that time and a congressman.  The inflation proponents argued from the premise that saving is bad, and spending after WW2 was better.  They never once questioned this premise, and so inflation logically followed from their flawed premise.


Bitcoin breaks Orwells dictum.

Best we can do is dick pics on the main chain 🤦🏻 nostr:note1vg7rvzhju944za6524sa57m9heyugf6wq5rtkjqs9dq3frctga0sr76nfv


And yet so hot 🥵


A very effective one.


Because there is much chatter going on right now:

Cashu Token Proofs / Signatures do not encode a mints URL. If a mint would loose its domain, wallets could simply update the URL and spent the token there. 🥜🫡


Once you hash you never go back.


If you want them, come and get them 🖕🏻


I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but sometimes I just gotta vent.

It's painful to see prominent bitcoiners support ID's, as I'm philosophically opposed to identification.

Through all human history man has sought to have one group take from another group.  As a necessary prerequisite to this you must label the groups you want to divide.  All powerful governments have utilized this tool to control their herd and subjugate others outside of the group, from the Romans to the Germans to the Americans.

If ID's exist and must be presented(regardless of where the ID is stored) you have no privacy, and privacy is necessary for a healthy society.

The power of bitcoin and nostr to prove ownership of speech and other property by revealing a hash is by design antithetical to the purpose of identification and allows the user to reveal themselves selectively.


Gn 💜


Gn Mina


That's a gorgeous color 😍


Thanks 🥰, kids are so awesome.


Hope you're having a great day 🥰


Looks like heaven


Well done! Have the best time, just had one son turn 18 and the other 16 two days ago 🥳


🤣 yep.


I did this class and it was sooooo good. Nifty is an awesome teacher.  Also good to get a full node and run through the RPC commands on the console and just see the main net in real time, it's beautiful.

As for improving programming skills I highly recommend Replit.com  some great educational material there.


That's because they could afford healthcare in 1970


Opt out. Resist. Survive.


Gm


You're badass at any age 💜


I loved it!  Exactly what needed to be said 🔥💜


Damn! stunning is the right word 🔥🥵


Gm 💜


Wow that's an incredible story.


"Immigration is only a problem for welfare states"

- Milton Friedman


"Freedoms are interdependent and indivisible, if you abridge one of these freedoms, you injure the others, if you do it enough, then you are in danger of losing all freedoms."

-William Brady


"Sincerity is a much overrated virtue in our society"

- Milton Friedman


Glad you liked 🤣. One of my other favs by them.
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ITRKavPIWXhQpWH4JQiKZ?si=AwEOAre3RG6zG1Em4FQ2vQ


That's gorgeous 😍


I remember this 🔥


Damn


A bitcoiner, politician, socialist, and crony capitalist enter a bar.  I've seen clips of the first half of this video, but not the debate in the last half and it's so 🔥🔥🔥
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GPcot1GTzvY&list=PL10CF0016FC94D2ED&index=1&pp=iAQB


Getting the meat or giving the meat, win win 😊


Got one son turning 18 today and the other 16, being a father is like bitcoin, just keeps getting better 🔥


Evil will always attempt to rob us in order to pay for death and destruction.  While we can't do much about those who fall into this trap on either side, we can resist the mechanism of this theft and abuse with all our might, and teach others to do the same.  One day, like a single stone creates a landslide, we will break the machine of destruction.


Glad you liked it 🥰. Wish you could have been there.


That's because i really mean them 😘


Heading to the pool now 🤙🏻


OpenSats just doing all the right things 🔥👏🏻


Going through that right now with CDK global hack.  All the eggs in one basket, what could possibly go wrong.


I've never been so jealous of an opendime 🥵


This!! I never thought of it that way Jeff. I was expecting the bitcoin fractional reserve market to get rekt by some other event, but this is a very interesting perspective.

I think federated ecash/esats add much value to the bitcoin eco system from better user experience, lower cost of entry for transactions, lower technical barrier to run own infrastructure, decentralizing ownership further beyond lightning, etc. nostr:note1s3as8cd9kln7umrvzk3p90zzrlw93djhnkhxvrwal0xszxh8akfs8a8fse


So many businesses have never had to compete in an open market and are not prepared for how difficult it will be to earn sats.  This level of competition is going to raise the bar and increase productivity like we've not seen in a long time.  There will be clear winners and loosers in this competition, but the winners bring a net benefit for everyone holding bitcoin. nostr:note1j2kmufrvk6g9al8phznf5n72sqef60h4lqtfhy9dnaxyx27sxnhqtznkh2


Say less 🤙🏻


No that was third eye blind cover, but I did see the cure at the same venue last year 🤙🏻


lol San Diego, we're to chill man.


@esharastr I think you'll like this one.
https://v.nostr.build/EnLjn.mp4


Same! Lead singer lives pretty close to me and they are writing a new album right now. I wonder where they will record and if I can drop in on that 🤔


Their guitarist was insane 🤯
https://v.nostr.build/9zlVv.mp4


Third eye blind/yellowcard last night during a full moon on the first day of summer was magic. https://v.nostr.build/Vw0MQ.mp4 https://v.nostr.build/KG8dl.mp4


Sign me up 😍


Lean into it 🤷🏼♂


nostr:npub1clfjjuhrnr2dyrxknvdgg5v4dnq55t5svkk34r76rpwzqf5cjdas7rk28k 👀


Looks awesome 🤙🏻


First time ever.


I guess that's better 🤷🏼♂ 🥶


It's been a rough week.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/tech/car-dealership-cdk-cyber-incident-outage/index.html


Damn that looks so good 🔥


That's hot.


I'm probably to blame 🙋🏻😈


The air is ripe for revolution, be revolve to what?

Revolution to chaos doesn't last long, for chaos is no society at all, it's the jungle.

Revolution only lasts if it progresses to a better system than before, otherwise why revolt at all.

Bitcoin, nostr, sovereign tech is a better system, as more people realize that they will shake of the chains of their old masters and move into freedom.


LFG!! 🔥


Can't come soon enough 💜


LFG 😎


2 💜


Can we get a bip to name all fiat "unrealized sats" 💜🔥 nostr:note1jcqv0p9ed4lv4tlrgmapn7k5fstapt88rrptnesdf30d378jsjhswvqzud


Literally the best game ever.


This is how we win 🍆


Followed


Welcome back 💜


Mina just posted this lyric the other day 🤙🏻


Yes 🤣. I just saw it today and I love it.


WWAPD 🤔 https://i.nostr.build/BRz3e.jpg


nostr:npub1g9k2rya223yt3n9p7zty9qrhvhxqac5evz0ewt0sv9x0hr4z72csd8sezh  👀


Oh I'm so in!


Imagine how productive the world could be without the current level of mis allocation of capital. 🤯


Islands of liberty seems to ring true.  I had this discussion yesterday about bitcoin as a circular economy.

I have no doubt bitcoin will be one of the biggest monies of the world, but others will exist. Even within bitcoin individual L2 communities will exist with different attributes.

To what extent the cypherpunk bitcoin community will grow is unknown. But I'm grateful to live in a world that it exists at all, even if it's just on an island.


Work within the world according to what *actually is,* not what you wish it would be or what sounds good. Look honestly at the world.

The world is messy and there are no perfect solutions. There are only trade offs.

BUILD with principle, set goals according to what you wish and want to see in the world. But do not delude yourself about reality or you kill your chance of actually achieving what you hope for.


Gm 🤣


It's all fun and games until your currency isn't on top anymore.  Bullish.


It's cool, I don't have either.


Maybe it was just a blur 🤷🏼♂


Lucky Carl. So beautiful there.


Stoked for this one 🤙🏻 https://i.nostr.build/jY7DV.jpg


Fomo 🧡


My profile picture on here commemorates Ba Jin, the leading anarchist Chinese writer. His short stories and novels animated a revolutionary generation that saw China break from thousands of years of dynastic rule - but he was personally punished by Mao during the Cultural Revolution. His wife was denied treatment for her cancer and she would die. Ba Jin took to writing about remembering the Cultural Revolution and reading Dante's Inferno to gain some small measure of comfort.

Some people talk about the "Chinese model" as if it is a matter of destiny, but the recent ideological fascination with Marx and a stronger Leninist state doesn't have as strong of a root as most assume, and even less so the idea of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" forged right after Ba Jin's torment. Ba Jin's story tells us that there was always a China that looked to temper the state's excesses and one rooted in a desire to engage the world (at the time in Esperanto, perhaps now with Bitcoin). Though the Chinese Communist Party has tried to seize his legacy, I believe it is Chinese cypherpunks looking to hedge and move away from one of the most unequal fiat kingdoms on Earth (China's income inequality by some measures surpasses that of the United States) that truly follow Ba Jin's legacy.

https://m.primal.net/IoNE.jpg ) https://m.primal.net/IoNF.jpg https://m.primal.net/IoNG.jpg


Thanks 😊. Challenge accepted 🤷🏼♂


Yep 😊 oldest is 19, youngest is 13. it's so much fun.  I have shared custody so don't see them as often as I want, and on top of the technical challenges it's also difficult to teach patience and low time preference at that age.  It's ironic when you have the most life ahead of you, you feel the most rushed and pressured to achieve something.

All of us are ultimately teachers in some respect, I just have a particular audience I give most of my attention too.


Being a father of 5 teenagers in 2024  is basically running an IT department.


Missed ya 💜


Now Imagine they were learning how to build and repair asic miners.


Miss ya Marie 💜


"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government..."

- Declaration of independence. https://i.nostr.build/BRzJn.jpg


I have 5 kids, every additional child added exponential value and love to our family.  Absolutely nothing was taken away.  Do it.


Gm

Be In-dependent.

Do not depend on Biden or trump, do not depend on Jamie Dimond or Jerome Powell, on Elon musk or Mark Zuckerberg, on Sam Altman or Bill gates.  The problem with the system is all the trust (dependence) needed for it to work


Do not throw pearls to swine.  Be selective in who you give your wisdom too, otherwise they will turn around and devour you.


Onward 🔥


Same 🤗


that's a good one! Modern warfare and ghosts still my favs.


Which call or duty?


Happy Father's Day 🤙🏻


End all wars 💜


👏🏻 congrats!!


The best defense against manipulation is an independent thinker. I have 3 boys (18-16-14). I've tried to instill in all my children to be cautious of your own thoughts and make sure they are yours.

A good simple test we would do is ask yourself "if I lived in the woods by myself with no one else around would I still want this thing or believe this idea?"  That can start to give some perspective of where the idea stemmed from.


Yes it is scary, I don't know how this trend is broken.  Take heart though, solutions often come when they are most needed, look at what exists today with decentralized solutions that were basically unknown 5 years ago.


AI isn't the problem, Sam is.  But Sam already enslaves many of us because we are dependent on him(or anyone in his position).  If we remove the dependency by creating our own tools (AI, bitcoin, nostr) then we have nothing to fear from him or other centralized positions of power, they would simply be irrelevant.


Happy birthday!!


Glad my kids were born before bitcoin 🤣


Makes you think twice before spending 🤣


Happy Father's Day Derek 🤙🏻


I do not fear the tool, only the control of the tool by only a few men, absolute power corrupts absolutely.


Thanks dear, you too 😘


The very definition of freedom.


I hated social media before nostr


Gm and happy Father's Day.

Oppression is not about force but about capabilities, to quote( nostr:npub1kvgw6zj55uwvlz5rdqpjm5a5hqah4j3ggza3pfx4umh5k6j00yaqt6v0p2 )

The government thrives not because they are stronger, but because the majority lack the understanding we don't need government.  It's dependency that enslaves us.

AI like institutions is only a tool, but we fear the megalomaniac behind the tool and what they might do with it.

But as long as we remember that we don't need these men to govern us for a orderly society, we don't need them to build the roads, and we sure as fuck don't need them to build our AI, social media, or monitory tools, the future is bright.


By creating a different choice, teaching them a choice exists, then letting them decide.


Damn 🔥🥵


🤣. Mina when I meet you, I'm buying you a drink.


Burn motherf***er burn 💜


We don't need no water....


Oh good cause I know nothing.


Never even thought about it until bitcoin standard came out.


Just got back from the beach, waves were amazing today.  It's warm today but I think it just got a little hotter 🥵


💯 there is no intermediary, no third party (religion) needed.  You can have self custody of God directly, no separation, no requirements, permission less.


💯 so smooth, good job 👏🏻


Damn that looks good 🔥🔥🔥


Working, but beach later 🤙🏻


You love to see it 💜🧡 https://i.nostr.build/gZPkQ.jpg


Yes please 🙋🏻😍


Welcome! 🫂

https://i.nostr.build/J335.jpg
#introduction #introductions #growNostr


Gm, love that 🤙🏻


Gm


Asked too many questions, went to several church's in different locations, one thing religions and other institutions have in common, they hate skeptics.

I do agree though, God has nothing to do with religion.


It only exists in places you need it.  Life goal is to live where I don't need it 😊


GFY 🫡


Gm 💜


I think my favorite part of nostr is that after the last 10 years of being a loner weirdo on the outside of every group (after I was kicked out of my religion 10 years ago). I get to see people from so many different groups interacting with each other in a non harmful way.

Perhaps that's because there are other loners here as well, or maybe it's just a place people can speak their mind without censorship or ostracisation, but I get why those who are in their own echo chamber don't gravitate toward it, and those on the outside of any one group who can weave through multiple groups enjoy it.


Everyone should read this, but especially bitcoiners.
https://www.asomo.co/p/the-outsiders-guide-to-payments-censorship

nostr:npub164q45vfa8prpl7f63stsl9qm9n22v6julkasjdqxjc8kevchsj0sp42rl3 have you read this? You would love it.


This is why I work the street corners.


Tats are 🔥💜


Holy shit that's massive.


That is one sexy turbo 🥵 https://i.nostr.build/8GaQW.jpg


Fomo 🤤


🎯let's make that behavior the norm again🔥


Breakfast coffee for the win.


Gm, beautiful!


Guess we haven't been land of the free since 1862 when Lincoln started the 3-5% income tax for the war.


I found nostr:npub1ltt9gry09lf2z6396rvzmk2a8wkh3yx5xhgkjzzg5znh62yr53rs0hk97y Argument about this very compelling.
https://armantheparman.com/futures/


LFG! 🔥 So bullish. nostr:note18zans522l72tjgg5fmldwsvdc5gkedpzp44ft4qeafnf2dfp2mpq6sfakf


Gm, nostr bitcoiners are my family 🫡


Now that's a gorgeous booth right there 🥵. Bullish.


Most of my life Ive looked for a way to make the world a better place.  I studied law and economics at the university of London with a hope of joining the UN or an international relief organization.  It was during these years of searching I found bitcoin.

Now here I am on nostr and having the privilege to interact with some of the best human rights activists and most talented builders all working to make the world better.

Feeling very grateful to be apart of this community.


Good job Idaho


Have a feeling both are beautiful 💜


Sometimes I see no hope for humanity since I deal with the most dependent and least sovereign members of society on a daily basis.

But then you have a conversation with a steel structural engineer from Italy who just gets it and my faith is renewed.


Always has been


I can't think what to say since words seem so empty in comparison to the challenges you've had to face.  If I can say anything I'm sure I'm not alone in saying I stand behind you completely.

I found bitcoin looking for a way to increase freedom and equality of opportunity in the world.  If I can ever be of assistance in furthering this goal don't hesitate to ask.


I love this idea 🔥


Ok sweet I never use safari so I'll try it.


Gm


And they wonder why we are anarchists 🤷🏼♂ nostr:note1v076zz5l0zxea8tedfssn63upvymf8ef7ekw69sk3ukld5gazc2qdhm528


#asknostr
Can you run an extension like nos2x or nostr connect on an iPhone? Trying to upload videos from nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 but need an extension to do it.


I have no idea if 1% or 99% of the world will want to use bitcoin as their preferred system of money, but price against all other assets will go up either way.

Sure increased adoption will increase the value faster and have a magnifying effect, but adoption beyond current usage isn't even necessary for a finite asset to appreciate.

What are odds adoption stays less than one percent?  Might be a good idea to get some just in case.


Personal bias 😏


That's one sexy rock


The most intelligent thing you can do is to be curious.


Such a cool website

https://analysis.null.place/how-do-the-bitcoin-mining-algorithms-work/


That's so nirvana 🤙🏻


F R E E D O M
https://image.nostr.build/1651324eed58d27d4a645511e616f9522b56bdeaa808bacc5c044624dc11b806.jpg


So tired of the endless milking.


Mines been on for 3 years 🤷🏼♂


Gm 💜


Hot take, they fork bitcoin+ into max features/flexibility version.  Would confuse alot of people but would give real bitcoin more block space back.


I'll help 🙋🏻


One leads to the other.


nostr:npub1rukp00fmetcjl8r70rl8nrhw5kwpkghpacpkd9x4ms5gdh06xhtsjxz4f0 is amazing 🔥


an entire culture of rent seekers.


“The system is not here for our benefit. It holds us back as individuals to support its own continued existence.”

GM https://image.nostr.build/2a722c8aac5554fb56098e64593159cf027043415506fb334aed0e10fb8a7611.jpg


LFG 👏🏻


Gm


Embrace the responsibility.


This is why I live in a closet.


All I need is the sun and the sea 💜


a galaxy brain friend of mine with that's studying software engineering is looking for an internship as it's required by the uni

any offers welcome, just trying to help a friend out here


Damn that looks hot 🔥🥵


That's a very good point.  That makes blackrock fractionally reserved on their bitcoin liabilities, but they can never have a bank run since clients can't take bitcoin out.   So ETF's actually kill buy pressure in bitcoin market not help it.  I do find it encouraging that blackrock won't have any real bitcoin if they sell it into the market to trap the ETF owners into fiat.


You look like a million bitties 🧡


Thanks for posting, this is the kind of discussion we need to see more of.

Bitcoin has a social contract to its user base.  10s of millions of people view it as a form of money that is better than what they have today.  That could grow to 100s of millions.  Nobody expected this when bitcoin was created, but that is a sign of incredible success.  Protecting those users that have put their trust in bitcoin is obviously something we should do.

There's not really a huge apetite in bitcoin for smart contracts.  I have a layer 2 smart contract system MVP working, and there's not a lot of interest in the topic.  There is a huge amount of (mind-blowing) potential in using the current (U)TXO system which is completely unexplored.  I'm deprioritizing any public roll out of smart contracts over bitcoin taproot and nostr, due to lack of interest.  I will use them personally though.  I know that this works, and it has been relatively unexplored.  This area will get better over time.

Moral responsibilities are tricky things.  Everything is evil from someone's perspective, or something's perspective.  UTXOs are already powerful, and under utilized.  How would you envision making them more powerful when the surface of what they can do has only been scratched?

Be aware that in any project, there are always two groups.  One that wants change and one that wants the status quo.  Bitcoin is unusual in the fact that stability of the protocol makes it more valuable.  Conserving that protocol to date has been done very well, and hard fought, we had to fight 3 civil wars to get where we are today, and the market has responded positively to that.

The biggest threat to bitcoin is not a 51% attack, it's a chain split due to a fork or civil war.  We have yet to have a successful 51% attack, and that's not to say it cant happen, but we have had chain splits.  Chain splits are potentially fatal to bitcoin, so any protocol changes need to take that into account.  It is also easy for bitcoin's enemies to agitate on this front, as we have seen recently and turn or frustrate well meening engineers to be frustrated enough to attack the system.

We do need better ways of discussing the protocol without it becoming dramatic.  I still didnt get from your post how you think UTXOs could be made more powerful.  Conversations like this are a good start!


nostr:npub1qu42xtsltceq6dnngk2g8m4kxpe6yzygg8726nlc4xvn3mgw7a8shreg5c nostr:npub164q45vfa8prpl7f63stsl9qm9n22v6julkasjdqxjc8kevchsj0sp42rl3


Better than what we got now.


I'm in.


I love how that's framed 🤙🏻


Yep, usually end up using unleashed or perplexity LLM's to find help.


In Fiat world the old will always be better than the new.  Need to reverse this trend.


You don't need it 😉


Yes when I say "don't care" I mean we still love them, but rather we're not affected by them.


when I heard the words "rather be the hunter then the prey" I immediately knew I wanted neither.  But I now believe there is a third option, to opt out.


LFG! 🤣


Gm Eshara, would have been better with you here 😉. But i was listening to this why having breakfast.

https://open.spotify.com/track/3jDssGbmH8DeTuTSu6jTLP?si=SA8_BUa5Rt-o46QaK_ZyXw


Wait that's a plastic toy right?


The person who tells you what you want to hear when they know it’s a lie, cares less about you than their comfort in the conversation, or importantly, wants something from you.

The person who tells you the truth will often make you furious, but they very likely care more about you than the former person. And at least would rather you not believe something that’s total nonsense.

Careful who you surround yourself with.


Wonder why bitcoin so popular in U.S and Germany 🤔 "checks prices" oh yeah that makes sense.


I always like something sweet with my coffee 🤤


Gm gary


Gm 🤣


Humanity is damn incredible.


I'm coming to terms with the fact that there will always be sheep and wolves. There will always be a group of normies who don't want personal responsibility and just want to be numb before they are blindly led to slaughter one day.  And there will always be wolves who are ready to feed off these individuals.

But I also know there are lions who don't care about either of them.  My whole life I've look for ways to escape the clown world. For a long time I felt I needed to "get off the grid" and separate myself physically, but was trapped and never could.  Bitcoin gave me a powerful tool to exit the system and not become collateral damage to the mistakes and abuse of others.


Context. When I get that way I zoom out and look at how big the world is and what real struggle looks like and my little problems don't seem so bad.


I change a little everyday.


🤣🤣🤣 nostr:note1aq4x7m85jwl0dfyr6kv36kgljhk0uukea0cal2sa6cw7xnz2fdtq7ttzjp


Everything has it's place, even things at the bottom.


Love that quote


Gm https://i.nostr.build/wGqod.jpg


Hope you're having an awesome day!


I love being outside, all I need is the sun and the sea 💙💛


Same here.  He makes very good points and is more candid and open than I've seen in any previous interviews.


Outside gym 🔥


#quote #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/a2b08923d1446862441fd9630f89e232875584346bc9c244f21f8f5229e6bd86.jpg


Gm 🫡


Gm franny


Gm Luna 💜


Gm


Gm Anna


That's what I love 🤙🏻


Needs bright orange ink 🧡


Use nostr as a web of trust (reviews) check before installing software.

The legacy world is worried about step 1 (bitcoin). This like step 5.

They have no chance, no hope and no recourse. nostr:note1gp79egt85qrhf855hscd6put2vqpkprxyvynvuzqkcm4ezetf4asmtn5ku


Gn


You're such a cool fucking person 🥰


Damn 🔥


Fortnite beat that song to death.


LFG! 🔥👏🏻


Prob why ATH went by with barely a notice.


Love to see btc go up, but man it makes my paychecks look shitty.


LFG! 🔥


Bitcoin is so valuable that working 12 years earning bitcoin is greater than 80 years of earning fiat.

Few.


Love that movie


That's up to bitcoin 🤣. But 5 years on the long side.


So hot 🥵


Running the fiat gauntlet as usual.


Yeah that makes more sense lol


I just picked it because all the beautiful ladies shilling it 🤷🏼♂


I need the t-shirt.


8 billion to 35 trillion is a factor of 4,375x in 17 years.  So 35 trillion x 4,375 would be 153 quadrillion in the next 17 years 🤔


Happy birthday! 🥳


That's good cause I dislike 99% of people.


Ngl it can be quite difficult working 60+ hours a week as you see your pay check get obliterated against inflation.  The temptation to give up is high, or simply to try a riskier career since a regular 9-5 is basically worthless.  Every morning I wake up and have to tell myself onward, steady as she goes, hold the line just a little longer, we are going to survive, we will make it.


People seriously rely on the public digital square, Twitter, and it WILL get more censoring, partisan and manipulative.

Because they don’t know of a better way, these people are fighting against someone with god-mode.

We must build faster, not just code, not just product, education, outreach and understanding.

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


Sometimes the lie doesn't even need to be that elaborate.


Those who do the most always feel like they are contributing the least.


GM 🫡


I always underestimate how many people choose the cage and they know it.


Serious fomo 🔥💜🤙🏻


With tropical butterflies https://v.nostr.build/vGWQ7.mp4


Fresh pita > pita chips


In a world of permission, don't ask, just act.


Gm, the things I imagine we could do 😉


Same 💜


Always 🤣🧡


Beautiful 🔥


Love your band dude 🤙🏻


I'll take the grass over Star Trek pods anyday 🤙🏻


I'm on a diet anyways 🤷🏼♂


Damn that's fast. Fresh corn off the stalk is 🔥


LFG! 🤣


Haha I'm glad it worked out.


Oh no! 🤣. When I lived in Seattle I would pick purple garlic from the farms, so good!


Thinking of you too, could get lost in those eyes.


Oh I definitely see you 👀💜


Fedimint is the only federated custody project I've ever come across in this space that has moral integrity.

No shitcoining, no pretend L2 bullshit, no "two way peg your Bitcoin" bullshit, and the only free and open one I know that you can actually run yourself instead of trusting THE one and only federation.

Fucking awesome to have them.


Now you're talking 🤤


I give up every night, until the next morning.


Gm 👀🤤