"I am going to use this page to encourage use of the Bitcoin and Bitcoin Lightning Networks.  I am also going to use it to encourage tipping in return for the content I provide.  I hope some day to make TipLightning.com into a larger resource, tool or series of tools to empower more use of lightning.  For now we will just use it to help bitcoiners begin using the lightning network."

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"Also Note – The QR code will only work on wallets that support lnurl like Wallet of Satoshi or Breeze.  Exodus is a great way to get into lightning but does not yet support the lnurl protocol, if you don’t know what that means it is okay, I didn’t know either a week ago (as of 5-19-22) but below is all the basics."

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"The information below tells you how to use lightning and various wallets.

If you are already using “Wallet of Satoshi” or the Breez Wallet or any wallet that supports lnurl and just want to tip me, you can use this QR code or simply send Bitcoin on Wallet of Satoshi to beefypersian37@walletofsatoshi.com

Please note – Wallet of Satoshi assigns a randomly generated email to all wallets, I didn’t choose that one but it does indeed make me laugh."

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https://www.meetup.com/riverside-bitcoin-meetup/

Hello


Exactly.


I've been using all lowercase.

nostr

Like

http

Guess I was wrong..😕


New Pin?


Followed


I love notebooks, but my penmenship is terrible so I hardly ever try to read them.


Bitcoin is time.

If your son was born today

Add

812,672 + 1,104,516.

Lock it to block height 1,917,188

He can spend it at or around his 21st birthday.


Pssst.

Nostr.

Tell a friend.

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I wish I could have been a fly on the wall for that conversation.


I'm a wierdo. This doesn't apply to me. 😕


Oh..🤙


It illustrates why NFT's are not decentralized and require a trusted third party. The math(crypto) is pointless.


Share this with them.

https://nftngmi.org/


What happened to Minds? That dude talked about nostr on Rogan and created an npub field, but it's not connected to relays and they use some bullshit token.


For #NostrNovember, I will be posting on the following:

Twitter
Instagram
Facebook
LinkedIn
Mastodon
BlueSky

If you use Pinterest, Threads, TikTok, Weibo, or any other social media platform, I encourage you to post on those as much as possible next month to help raise awareness.

I am working on a list of 30 posts for 30 days. I'm halfway done. The plan is to use Buffer's free account to automate Twitter, LinkedIn, and Mastodon daily posts. For the other platforms, I'll manually copy each post from a Google Sheet each day.

If you don't use any other socials besides Nostr, that's okay. You can help by providing content that you'd like to have posted.


I forgot about Google plus. What kind of nostr stuff are you going to post?


Good point. Followed.


I thought it was notes and other stuff transmitted OVER relays for the longest time.


Not a good idea.
Download the book Permanant Record book from BitTorrent and zap nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9


Nice title.


It's not a cult. It's a community. 😂


No, from this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lion-Heart-Poster.jpg


Oh yeah, I almost forgot about AOL. My username was lionheart.
🦁❤


MySpace


I zapped it. Did the prism thing work?


"On December 6, 1773, colonists in Boston, Massachusetts protested Great Britain's imposition of taxation without representation by boarding ships at Griffin's Wharf in Boston Harbor and dumping overboard 342 chests of tea from the British East India Company, itself the most powerful corporation in history. As reported by History, British Parliament had enacted the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts in its American colonies, which levied taxes on printed paper, paint, paper, glass, lead, and tea. The money collected via the Acts was intended to pay Britain's many debts, several of which came from fighting wars on behalf of the Colonists. Colonists, however, resented having to pay taxes despite having no representation in British Parliament. Tensions increased after the Boston Massacre of 1770, when five colonists were killed and six more were wounded during a street brawl with British soldiers."

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How to Buy A Cup Of Coffee With Bitcoin

If I had a sat for everytime I heard the phrase, "...but you can't buy a cup of coffee with bitcoin," I would be a while coiner. This is an incorrect meme started by Roger Ver and itcs a dirty B-trash lie. This was true in 2014, when the lightning network was just a glimmer in the eyes of developers, but that ship sailed long ago. Back in the day, a bitcoin transaction took about ten minutes to confirm on average.

This is still true on-chain. It's obvious nonsense to expext a Barista to wait.ten minutes before brewing a cup of joe. Altough Satoshi solved the double spending problem, at least one confirmation is required to prevent double spending. This means an unscrupulous caffine addict could buy a cup of coffee on chain with a low fee, but then send the bitcoin back tonthemselves with a higher fee. The transaction with the higher fee will confirm first and the Barista will be left holding the bag of beans with no bitcoin, because.the UTXO will remai under the control of the drinker and not the brewer.

# The Lightning Network Fixes This

The lightning network makes final, instant settlement possible. (Well...it takes about 3 seconds). When haters say you canct buy coffee with bitcoin, they aren't comparing apples to apples. Onchain bitcoin is more like a wire transfer at a bank, while bitcoin sent over the lightning network is simmilar to Visa, but better. Sure, the drug user(coffee is a drug) pays and get's her coffee right away, but it takes up to 30 days for the coffee shop to obtain final settlement.

If the coffee shop took accepted lightning, they would get the money in seconds. The fee has less than a fiat penny. Credit carss charge 3%. How do you think they can give you "free flights and cash back? There is no such thing as a free flight. Someone must pay for it. That someone is the consumer, in the form of higher coffee prices.

The Boston Tea Party
Before bean brewed coffee became America's favorite brown beverage, we drank the energy drink of our forefathers: A spot of tea. They teach us about the Boston Tea Party in Grade school. Here's how the story goes. King George III levied a tea tax on the colonies.


This is awesome. I can't wait for long form posts to get implemented.


Awesome.


How low did the dollar get?


In 2012, Julian sounded a warning, what he called a watchman's shout into the night:

“Recall that states are the systems which determine where and how coercive force is consistently applied.

The question of how much coercive force can seep into the platonic realm of the internet from the physical world is answered by cryptography and the cypherpunk's ideals.

As states merge with the internet and the future of our civilization becomes the future of the internet, we must redefine force relations.

If we do not, the universality of the internet will merge global humanity into one giant grid of mass surveillance and mass control.”

He published this in 2012.

The censors are not just after Julian and WikiLeaks. The objective is not simply to suppress recent history. Julian's ongoing imprisonment has emboldened the censors.

They have turned their sights to the present, seeking the total control over the public domain itself. Our voice and our ears, our collective reality.

A world in which Julian is free is a world that will continue to build initiatives that that recognize what we're up against.

Free Julian, free us all.

My full Bitcoin Amsterdam keynote:

https://youtu.be/_66-eujGlxo?si=XfPvxnJtDLdGbONS https://video.nostr.build/349b651fae0ead94f44838045d5ec52d388c3a4233fc52494eaac38a6b09bed3.mov


"Elara always said, “Everything is fiction, my dear, even when it’s not. Our reality is but a narrative spun by the cosmos, each moment scripted in the ink of existence.”"

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Is

https://i.nostr.build/nA57.jpg

🤷♂


I’m writing something for work and it fills me with so much hope and joy to be able to write, “I believe that the future of survivors sharing their stories online globally will be on completely censorship resistant and decentralized protocols.”

There are a lot of valid conversations happening around the abuse that survivors face online but there is very little conversation about how powerful and impactful it has been for survivors to share their stories online. It brings my heart joy that survivors can come to #Nostr and share their stories and not be censored by the state, the corporate press, tech companies or anyone in a position of power wishing to silence their voice.

The survivors in China who put their stories on the blockchain during #MeToo after being silenced at the hands of the state are not only brave but they are trailblazers.

*Sorry I know that folks probably don’t want to hear much about that topic right now because the world in such a heartbreaking place but you could replace the word “survivor” with political dissidents, journalists, freedom fighters, human rights activists, whistleblowers or peacemakers and it still works.*


Thank you.


Will we be able to read this something for work?


Thanks.


How do I test this?


Cool video
https://video.nostr.build/9f6f026764a6a1c66c1071dfeb5860b5dc0de20703fa79a3f7926c49cb92b04c.mp4


Great speech.


These days I only look at the price when I sell fiat on Robosats.


What are your top three favorite bitcoin or nostr conferences?

#asknostr
#bitcoin
#nostr
#conference


Wow. That's impressive.


If you're still on Twitter I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems but doomscrolling ain't one.


As I've gotten older, I've come to realize there is no anti war party. Both parties support war. They just don't like when the other party starts one.


Excellent 👽


👀 You can donanimations now?

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It's a paradox.

You can own bitcoin without permission.

You can own ASIX's without permission.

You can't own bitcoin mining stocks without permission.


Hellz yeah. I love NoFX, but Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls is my favorite band Have you guys heard the colab with NoFX, West Coast vs. Wessex?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AK30C0J9D0


It's a trap. 😞


#followed #plebchain


At least your zaps work.


Bitcoin is for everybody, even Blackrock, but Blackrock's bitcoin can never be your bitcoin. Act accordingly.


I have a couple, but why?


Thanks. I'm still working on it.

https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@iris.to/ai-art


Thanks. 🙏


How much does it cost? I'm working on an AI Art Blog.


How did you make thism stable diffusion?


I deleted my que at https://shipyard.pub/ and it looks like I broke the website on my end.
🤦
 Is there anyway tonfix this. #asknostr


Thanks.


I started a blog on on Ghost at block 732,562. I'm updating some of those posts and scheduling them on shipyard.pub.

5% of the zaps my new blog posts receive now go to habla.news
10% go to open sats.

https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@iris.to/my-nym-is-blogging-bitcoin

https://nostree.me/bloggingbitcoin@iris.to


Is the real Adam Back here yet?


use satellite.earth


No problem. There's so much inovation, it's impossible to keep up. Thank you for the engagement. 🙏


Join The Bitcoin Writer's Writer's Workshop, a NIP72 nostr community focused on becoming better writers.

https://satellite.earth/n/BitcoinWriterWorkshop/npub1wkljx5c6a8uccc5etws8ry0y3r4dgavh2dcav0tal4rtmcdl4z2sfu5u0t


How To Make AI Genorated Art With No Credit Card Or Email

https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@iris.to/ai-art

I wrote this tutorial that teaches people how to make ai art using plebai and bitcoin. It's a rough draft and I would like to get some feedback to fix some typos and make it more clear. Is it easy to follow along?  Can you do this yourself?  Should I include a tutorial on how to set up alby?


# How To Make AI Generated Art With No Credit Card Or Email

I created the images for my last blogpost using  [Pleb AI](https://home.pleb.ai). I have paid for various things using bitcoin like hats, hardware wallets, Virtual machines, and gift cards before, but this feels a little different. This actually solves a problem. Don't get me wrong, it's cool to pay for a new laptop using bitcoin on newegg.com. but I could have just as easily used a credit card. Although I could create images using Midjourney or use ChatGPT to run similar closed-source software built by people developing world coin and other technology scarier than anything written by George Orwell, **this service will save me some sats. **But wait...There's more:

*   No credit card

*   No monthly fee

*   No ads. By the way, ads suck.

*   It is Free and Open Source Artificial Intelligence.

Want to generate an image? There are 13 different options:

![image](https://i.nostr.build/jleM.png)

**Tired of spending all your sats on Only fans**, try talking to GF Phone Talk. It's like those 1-900-SEX-LINES from the 90's, only instead of talking to a real woman who wasn't pretty enough top get naked for dollars, you read sexy talk generated by AI. What is AI generated sexy talk, you ask?  I don't know, but let's find out.   I used the suggested promp:

"I am missing you babe. Can we talk on the phone for a while to give each other company?"

Here is what it came up with:

!![gftalk](https://i.nostr.build/QRD7.png)

On second thought, you should try to meet a real woman.

### Stay Fit

Here's a conversation I had with Zara The FitMinder.  I asked:

"I need to prep lunches for the week  that follows the paleo diet. What should I make?"

![](https://i.nostr.build/6myR.png)

As my teenage son would say, Quinoa seems a little "sus," but that took like 5 seconds. I've been going down this health and fitness rabbit hole lately and meal planning takes some time. This may not be perfect, but it's a great start. I Whoogled:

![](https://i.nostr.build/zlX4.png)

Whoogle gave me this result:

![](https://i.nostr.build/A5zM.png)

I love to read books, listen to audiobooks, and I am an avid Bitcoin Audible Fan, but I hate readig about recipes. **I don't want to know you grew up in Wisconsin**.  I have nothing against Wisconson.  I just want lunch.

![wisconson](https://i.nostr.build/rAVV.png)

 I just want lunch. Luckily, I use Mealie on my Umbrel. Mealie scrapes the important stuff like the actual cooking part and formats them nicely. So I type in the URL here and click create:

![](https://i.nostr.build/jlnE.png)

No more Wisconsin and **I can create my meal plan for the week in about ten minutes.  **Now I just need some AI software that can cook and prep my meals.  That's not possible yet. I still need to cook my meals. Most people are afraid something like this can take away the nutritionist jobs, but that's short sided. Maybe the registered nutritionist uses tools like this to create meal plans for her clients within minutes instead. Maybe meal prep now comes with the plan, adding more value to the customer. I don't know, but it is is interesting to think of all the possibilities AI can unleash. I![](https://i.nostr.build/lW2P.png)

More importantly, it only takes a few hundred sats to free up some of your time. I think that's worth it since time is the only thing more scarce than bitcoin. Time is money as they say.  Besides, if you use it 100 times per month, it will only cost you about \$3.00 That's 17 bucks less than a ChatGPT subscription would cost you. Don't need it next mont?  It doesn't cost anything.

### AI For Everybody

Alex Gladstien calls bitcoin the people's money. I love this description. Although bitcoin does not have a central bank, it does have a die hard group of nerds and geeks willing to fight for it. Bitcoin is run by these people running full nodes, mining out of home made heaters, making pull requests and onboarding people onto nostr.  Bitcoin is the peoples money because it is run by the people. ** We The People who run bitcoin **want a more fair and just world. If you watch the news, and I wouldn't recommend this, you'll see and hear all about the doom and gloom bitcoin and AI will bring. One, or perhaps both will boil the oceans and AI will kill all the jobs and say I'll be back."

AI can be for everybody when it is paid for using the **People's Money**. The people's money has no charge backs.

![](https://i.nostr.build/B5A0.png)

That means you can pay for what you need without giving some centralized trusted third party access to your credit cards. PlebAI doesn't ask for an email. This means you can try the service without a subscription. You don't need a bachelor's degree in Information Technology to set up the free and open source software yourself.  Better yet, you don't even need a subscription.  As long as you have a smartphone and a few  pennies, worth of sats you can create powerful images like this:

![honeybadger](https://i.nostr.build/Zld8.png)

While everyone else is shaking in their boots because of thier AI induced job loss jitters, you can learn to use AI to free up your time to do something more productive.

PlebAI means this technology is available to anyone with a smart phone and a few dollars worth of bitcoin. I think this is very valuable, but most people have not seen it in action yet. So I decided to create a video about it on Rumble. Please share this blogpost and the Rumble Video with people who may not be into bitcoin. I started this blog because I wanted to show the world that bitcoin is not just some investment, but a tool. We can use this tool to make the world a better place. That may sound like a rasberry-pi in the sky idea, but AI will be here whether you like it or not. How many hours of your time can a few dollars worth of bitcoin free up for you?  If time is money, more time is good. What will you do with this time?  Do you want to write a blog, create a business, or just watch the doom and gloom on the boob tube? My hope is that the world wll free uptheir time to solve some of their time to make the world a better place.

### How To Use Pleb AI

![](https://i.nostr.build/A5zo.png)

I made a video that teaches you how to use PlebAi yourself. In the following video I make the above photo using the Gen Image AI app.

The images are posted on nostr
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https://i.current.fyi/current/plebai/genimg/4c38d3cd-6ef3-452a-aea7-87128e269d89.jpg

https://i.current.fyi/current/plebai/genimg/c15cd612-d5df-40df-8c9d-8e2189bd906b.jpg
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### Video Tutorial

I created a simple tutorial that teaches you how to create interesting images limited only by your imagination in just a few minutes. Check it out.

<iframe class="rumble" width="640" height="360" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v3my0yf/?pub=2l740w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Blogging Bitcoin
----
812,388

[Value 4 Value](nostree.me/npub1wkljx5c6a8uccc5etws8ry0y3r4dgavh2dcav0tal4rtmcdl4z2sfu5u0t)

[WTF Is Value 4 Value???](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@iris.to/wtf-is-v4v)

How To Make AI Genorated Art With No Credit Card Or Email(rough draft)

I teach you how to create AI Art using plebai.com, a stable diffusion prompt, and bitcoin.


This community is for bitcon writers who seek to get feedback on their work.

- Publish your article on habla.news, blogstack.io, or flycat.club. - Post it here
- Get feedback, postive reinforcement, and constructive criticism.
- Zap other authors, hopefully they zap you too.
- Use the feedback to make your article better.
- Edit the article.

Be nice.
Don't do anything that can get you arrested.


Good advice, but I mean NIP72 nostr communities.


👀

Images you create on plebai auto-post to nostr

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<iframe class="rumble" width="640" height="360" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v3mxcy8/?pub=2l740w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

in this video i explain how this blog is monetized.


it works


Hello. Does anyone know how I can create my own community?


How do I create a community in nostr.kiwi? #asknostr


I'm taking this out of the Gaza thread because we are talking about nostr in there (can't stop talking about nostr!)
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I'm trying to work out how to deal with nip72 communities on the client. My first thought was to show all notes in all communities that were written by someone you follow, but to let people opt-out per community.  But it could also be the case that you need to find a link into a community and opt in. I'm leaning towards the former still. Thoughts?


#dogstr
#catstr

https://i.nostr.build/thumb/djEO.png


Bittorrent Nostr?


Thanks.


#Testing [Markdown](markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/) on Shipyard.


This is focus mode. It lets you write without any distractions kind of like the command line. This is a test I am performing on shipyard.com. It will be a video on Ruble too.

Please let me know if you see the picture on your client
https://i.nostr.build/Yvxq.jpg


I used to think you were mean on Twitter, but on nostr you're really nice. I suspect the algos  distorted my perception.


Anonymous writing has a long tradition in the US. I chose Brutus becuase it was the nym chosen by the person who wrote my favorite writers of the Anti-Federalist Papers. I started out with Brutus as my nym.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg">Black Friday taught me an important lesson about trusted-third parties. After the government seized the domains of Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker I was lucky enough to have kept most of my bankroll on PokerStars. They sent me a check within a week. I only had a couple hundred bucks on Full Tilt because the games were softer on stars, but I lied playing the limit hold em sit and goes on full tilt. As it turned out, Full Tilt Poker was a Ponzi Scheme. They commingled player funds. In other words, Full tilt Poker acted like a fractional reserve bank, but did not get any of the magic fiat money. So when I tried to cash out my couple hundred bucks, I found out it wasn't there.I never got my money back from Full Tilt, but it wasn't very much anyway,. It was well worth the lesson. I learned how nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/">Trusted Third Parties Are Security Holes long before I read Nick Szabo's blog post about it. This was the catalyst that made me so interested in bitcoin. Andreas said it's money nobody can steal from you so long as you keep can keep 12 words a secret. I also learned there were 25 bitcoin being mined every ten minutes. although I did not understand how at the time, I knew this was the opposite of fractional reserve banking. I also learned the number was getting cut in half every 4 years. Again, I didn't know how it worked yet and I was a little skeptical, but if true--this solved real world problems I had. Antonopolis said Coinbase was the easiest way to buy it at the time, but if was p2p cash I should be able to get some on the Internet. So I went on Coin base and created a wallet. I took a screen shot of the QR code and asked for someone to please send me a small amount of bitcoin just so I could see how it worked. A nym gave me $1.50 worth of the stuff and told me to by a cup of coffee with it. He's still around. I downloaded the blockchain.info wallet, wrote down 12 words and took custody of that bitcoin from changetip.com/">ChangeTip.(The service has been discontinued, but you used to be able to use a twitter bot to send bitcoin to people)I studied bitcoin every day for another five months sold fiat for some. I stacked a little bit of sats every month. I also learned Dan Carlin accepted it. He asked for a buck a show, so I sent him a dollar worth of bitcoin every week or so.

"I took a screen shot of the QR code and asked for someone to please send me a small amount of bitcoin just so I could see how it worked. A nym gave me $1.50 worth of the stuff and told me to by a cup of coffee with it. He's still around. I downloaded the blockchain.info wallet, wrote down 12 words and took custody of that bitcoin from changetip.com/">ChangeTip.(The service has been discontinued, but you used to be able to use a twitter bot to send bitcoin to people)I studied bitcoin every day for another five months sold fiat for some. I stacked a little bit of sats every month. I also learned Dan Carlin accepted it. He asked for a buck a show, so I sent him a dollar worth of bitcoin every week or so."

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"Andreas said it's money nobody can steal from you so long as you keep can keep 12 words a secret. I also learned there were 25 bitcoin being mined every ten minutes. although I did not understand how at the time, I knew this was the opposite of fractional reserve banking. I also learned the number was getting cut in half every 4 years. Again, I didn't know how it worked yet and I was a little skeptical, but if true--this solved real world problems I had."

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"Black Friday taught me an important lesson about trusted-third parties. After the government seized the domains of Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker I was lucky enough to have kept most of my bankroll on PokerStars. They sent me a check within a week. I only had a couple hundred bucks on Full Tilt because the games were softer on stars, but I lied playing the limit hold em sit and goes on full tilt. As it turned out, Full Tilt Poker was a Ponzi Scheme. They commingled player funds. In other words, Full tilt Poker acted like a fractional reserve bank, but did not get any of the magic fiat money. So when I tried to cash out my couple hundred bucks, I found out it wasn't there.I never got my money back from Full Tilt, but it wasn't very much anyway,. It was well worth the lesson."

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" alt="It's A Wonderful Life">Economics was my favorite class in High School because I had a great economics teacher, Mr. S. On the first day of class, Mr. S told us his back story. Before becoming a teacher, he and seven of his friends pulled together three million dollars and started a bank. He said you only need three million dollars because of something called fractional reserve banking. When you deposit $100, the bank sets aside that money for you. This is the money in your account you are able to withdraw. This is your money. The banks don't use that money to give loans out like you might have seen on It's a Wonderful Life, No. The bank gets $900 worth of magic fiat money to loan out to other people. They only need to keep the hundred bucks in the bank. but get to loan out 900 bucks based on your money. New money is created when people pay their loan back with interest. On the other hand, if a borrower defaults on the loan, the money is destroyed. My jaw dropped. My dad was unemployed at the time. Our family was struggling. Meanwhile, the banks get money for free, just because? It was obvious the rich get richer in this scenario and people who work their ass off for a living get screwed in ways they don't want to be screwed. I didn't understand why people did not protest this system more often. Looking back, there was no alternative. My dad cashed his checks at the grocery store. He only used cash. He did side jobs for cash. He didn't keep his money in the bank. I didn't know it at the time, but this had a profound effect on my world view. The problem with paper fiat currency is central banks make it impossible to save. A hundred dollars in 1995 bought a lot more than it does today. If he held on to some of those thirty year old hundred dollar bills, he would have lost much of the purchasing power his blood, sweat, and tears produced. Like I said, The banks get richer and the people who work for a living get screwed.

"Economics was my favorite class in High School because I had a great economics teacher, Mr. S. On the first day of class, Mr. S told us his back story. Before becoming a teacher, he and seven of his friends pulled together three million dollars and started a bank. He said you only need three million dollars because of something called fractional reserve banking. When you deposit $100, the bank sets aside that money for you. This is the money in your account you are able to withdraw. This is your money. The banks don't use that money to give loans out like you might have seen on It's a Wonderful Life, No. The bank gets $900 worth of magic fiat money to loan out to other people. They only need to keep the hundred bucks in the bank. but get to loan out 900 bucks based on your money. New money is created when people pay their loan back with interest. On the other hand, if a borrower defaults on the loan, the money is destroyed.

My jaw dropped. My dad was unemployed at the time. Our family was struggling. Meanwhile, the banks get money for free, just because? It was obvious the rich get richer in this scenario and people who work their ass off for a living get screwed in ways they don't want to be screwed."

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I first heard about bitcoin in 2014 on an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. I fell down the rabbit hole as soon as the Andreas Antonopolis episode ended. Most people say they first heard about bitcoin in the early days, but dismissd it before they came to see what a powerful new cash system it is. This was not my experience. I already had one foot hovering the rabbit hole ad the other foot firmly planted on the proverial banana peel. I listened to podcasts anywhere from 4-10 hours a day to learn as much as I could while simultaneously forgetting the boredom of my fiat job. I listened to Freakonomics, Dan Carlin's hardcore History and Common Sense, the two plus two poker podcast, and EconTalk back then. I also started reading articles from the Mises Institute before the summer before hearing about bitcoin.

"I listened to podcasts anywhere from 4-10 hours a day to learn as much as I could while simultaneously forgetting the boredom of my fiat job. I listened to Freakonomics, Dan Carlin's hardcore History and Common Sense, the two plus two poker podcast, and EconTalk back then. I also started reading articles from the Mises Institute before the summer before hearing about bitcoin."

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I began writing a about bitcoin because I've been obsessed with it since 2014. I want a way to explore my ideas about bitcoin and teach people how to use it. I'm using a psudonym to learn how to use bitcoin like a cypherpunk

"began writing a about bitcoin because I've been obsessed with it since 2014. I want a way to explore my ideas about bitcoin and teach people how to use it. I'm using a psudonym to learn how to use bitcoin like a cypherpunk"

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My nym is Brutus Bond Blogging Bitcoin. You won't find this name on my driver's licence . Brutus is not my legal name. Neither is Blogging. I chose to explore life as a nym because nyms are distilled to ideas. You don't n**** eed to focus on my my pronouns nor my ethnicity. Nobody needs my address or a credit card number. Don't need a social security number to be Blogging Bitcoin. You just need to be someone writing a blog about bitcoin. My avatar is my identity. It comes from a bitcoin key which is just a big ass number. Humans translate this big number into a BIP39 mnemonic. Each 4 digits of a big bitcoin number are represented one of 2048 specific words. My avatar is derived from one of those big random numbers. 1's and 0’s like on and off switches in a double helix. That avatar comes from a paynym. Each feature is calculated and a paynym is generated according to a specific key. You can pay me like magic by sending sats to +softmountain942. Want to know it's really me? All you need to do is send me an amount of sats between 1 and 100,000 sats to +softmountain942. If I can give you the exact number you'll know I am either who I say I am, I am a mind reader, or posess unbelievable luck.

"My avatar is my identity. It comes from a bitcoin key which is just a big ass number. Humans translate this big number into a BIP39 mnemonic. Each 4 digits of a big bitcoin number are represented one of 2048 specific words. My avatar is derived from one of those big random numbers. 1's and 0’s like on and off switches in a double helix. That avatar comes from a paynym. Each feature is calculated and a paynym is generated according to a specific key. You can pay me like magic by sending sats to +softmountain942. Want to know it's really me? All you need to do is send me an amount of sats between 1 and 100,000 sats to +softmountain942. If I can give you the exact number you'll know I am either who I say I am, I am a mind reader, or posess unbelievable luck."

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"Our government is corrupt. Money talks. These companies will push for energy freedom and it will greatly benefit us all."

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$boost @ODELL


Absent of regulation, bitcoin mining naturally incentivizes the build out of highly efficient and robust energy infrastructure. Unfortunately that world does not exist and burdensome regulations remain the biggest threat for US based mining businesses. Jurisdictional arbitrage gives miners the option of moving to a friendlier country but that naturally comes with its own costs.

"Absent of regulation, bitcoin mining naturally incentivizes the build out of highly efficient and robust energy infrastructure."

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$boost @ODELL

I'm experimenting with prisms.

Please zap this post because I'm curious to see what happens.


"Bitcoin mining represents a global energy market that does not require permission to participate. Anyone can plug a mining computer into power and internet to get paid the current dynamic market price for their work in bitcoin. Using cellphone or satellite internet, these mines can be located anywhere in the world, sourcing the cheapest power available."

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Thanks to everyone here, I am now a good morning kinda guy.
https://i.nostr.build/6Xza.jpg


Sounds great. I'm interested in learning more about shipyard.


Owning Bitcoin: The Path To Self-Custodial Bitcoin


Some of us don't want our face on the Internet.


![brand](https://i.nostr.build/xZqk.png)

# My Nym is Blogging Bitcoin

My nym is ~~Brutus Bond~~ **Blogging Bitcoin**. You won't find this name on my driver's licence .  Brutus is not my legal name. Neither is Blogging. I chose to explore life as a nym because nyms are distilled to ideas. You don't n**** eed to focus on my my pronouns nor my ethnicity. Nobody needs my address or a credit card number. Don't need a social security number to be Blogging Bitcoin. You just need to be someone writing a blog about bitcoin. My avatar is my identity. It comes from a bitcoin key which is just a big ass number. Humans translate this big number into a BIP39 mnemonic. Each 4 digits of a big bitcoin number are represented one of 2048 specific words. My avatar is derived from one of those  big random numbers. 1's and 0’s like on and off switches in a double helix. That avatar comes from a paynym. Each feature is calculated and a paynym is generated according to a specific key. You can pay me like magic by sending sats to +softmountain942. Want to know it's really me? All you need to do is send me an amount of sats between 1 and 100,000 sats to +softmountain942. If I can give you the exact number you'll know I am either who I say I am, I am a mind reader, or posess unbelievable luck.

Normies often argue bitcoin has no utility. Who the hell wants to wait ten minutes for a cup of coffee?  Bitcoin uses as much energy as the North Pole. "You know what bitcoin reminds me of?"

You're gonna say "FUCKIN' TULIPS" aren't you?

![fucking tulips](https://i.nostr.build/Paxn.jpg)

It's not their fault. **That's what the news programs them to think**. They never hear about **all the ways you can use bitcoin**, like as an identity more unique than a fingerprint.

I began writing a about bitcoin because I've been obsessed with it since 2014. I want a way to explore my ideas about bitcoin and teach people how to use it. I'm using a psudonym to learn how to use bitcoin like a cypherpunk

My nym is Blogging Bitcoin. You won't find this name on my driver's **licence**, but I as long as I am the only one in posession of this key, I can prove my digit identity.

I first heard about bitcoin in 2014 on an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. I fell down the rabbit hole as soon as the  Andreas Antonopolis episode ended. Most people say they first heard about bitcoin in the early days, but dismissd it before they came to see what a powerful new cash system it is.  This was not my experience. I already had one foot hovering the rabbit hole ad the other foot firmly planted on the proverial banana peel. I listened to podcasts anywhere from 4-10 hours a day to **learn as much as I could** while simultaneously **forgetting  the boredom of my fiat job**. I listened to Freakonomics, Dan Carlin's hardcore History and Common Sense, the two plus two poker podcast, and EconTalk back then. I also started reading articles from the Mises Institute before the summer before hearing about bitcoin.

### Why Was I So Interested In Bitcoin in 2014?

I was always nerdy and my high school friends always said I was the biggest rule follower they know. Nowadays, I bet I would have an IEP and be classified somewhere along "the spectrum."  I just think that makes me somewhat of an introvert that likes to do research.  I don't have a diagnosis, but I'm sure I talk to computers better than I talk to people.  For whatever reason, I have noticed many people at bitcoin conferences who have been around before the block size war might also fit this description. My anecdotal evidence suggests brains that work like this have an evolutionary advantage over most people at understanding bitcoin. At least, this is my hypothesis. Right or wrong, people like me tend to like using computers.

## MySpace
![tom](https://i.nostr.build/WWgR.jpg)

I was always shy with women until I found MySpace.  The history books will call this the first social media, but it was my first dating app.  It allowed me to copy pasta HTML an CSS to do some cool things with my MySpace Page.  I was young and fairly good looking so ended up dating several women I met on the social media platform. At the time, my roommate asked me how I met so many women. I told him about how I met them on MySpace. I was also into things like Napster and BitTorrent. He said I was pretty good at coding and should look into joining the **Cypherpunks Mailing List**. Jullian Assange was on there. For the record,  **I was not good at coding**. I was good at Control  + C and control + V, so I did not join the list. I didn't think I was good enough to join some hacker group like that and although my proclivities made me respect Wikileaks, I wasn't sure it was something I wanted to get tangled up in. On second thought, this was the first touch point I had with cryptography. I dismissed it because I didn't understand it and **as a human I tend to fear the unknown**. This was **a couple years before the bitcoin white paper was released** on the site. I guess that was my first touch point and I dismissed it like most other people.

I would like to think if I had joined the list, I would have found out about bitcoin at the inception. I could have mined some of that early bitcoin when the block reward was 50. I could have been a real OG, but that's not true.  I would have lost it because **I didn't know enough. I would have bought weed on the silk road or threw away a laptop that would one day be worth billions**. Bitcoin has become a lot easier since the early days. There is way more information about it now too.  As the saying goes, you get into bitcoin at the price you deserve. I did not deserve the price of bitcoin on January 3rd, 2009 because I did not understand the importance of public key cryptography in 2007.

## Fractional Reserve Banking
![It's A Wonderful Life](https://i.nostr.build/6XKq.jpg)

Economics was my favorite class in High School because I had a great economics teacher, Mr. S. On the first day of class, Mr. S told us his back story. Before becoming a teacher, he and seven of his friends pulled together three million dollars and started a bank. He said you only need three million dollars because of something called fractional reserve banking. When you deposit $100, the bank sets aside that money for you. This is the money in your account you are able to withdraw. This is your money.  The banks don't use that money to give loans out like you might have seen on *It's a Wonderful Life*, No.  The bank gets $900 worth of magic fiat money to loan out to other people. They only need to keep the hundred bucks in the bank. but get to loan out 900 bucks based on your money. New money is created when people pay their loan back with interest. On the other hand, if a borrower defaults on the loan, the money is destroyed.

My jaw dropped. My dad was unemployed at the time. Our family was struggling. Meanwhile, the banks get money for free, just because? It was obvious **the rich get richer** in this scenario and p**eople who work their ass off for a living get screwed in ways they don't want to be screwed**. I didn't understand why people did not protest this system more often.  Looking back, there was no alternative. My dad cashed his checks at the grocery store. He only used cash. He did side jobs for cash. He didn't keep his money in the bank. I didn't know it at the time, but this had a profound effect on my world view. The problem with paper fiat currency is central banks make it impossible to save. A hundred dollars in 1995 bought a lot more than it does today. If he held on to some of those thirty year old hundred dollar bills, he would have lost much of the purchasing power his blood, sweat, and tears produced. Like I said, The banks get richer and the people who work for a living get screwed.

It took me six months of study before I sold any fiat for it. Now I want a way to explore my ideas about bitcoin and teach people how to use it. Too many people get caught up watching crypto YouTubers talk about red candles bogus patterns, and other fiat gambling games. I won't talk much about price. I am more interested in many of the cypherpunk ideals designed to propagate freedom around the world .

## Online Poker
![black friday](https://i.nostr.build/onq5.jpg)

I got into Texas Hold 'Em after watching [Chris MoneyMaker,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Moneymaker) an amateur,  win the 2003 World Series of Poker on ESPN. He was the first person to qualify for the event by playing satellites on PokerStars.com. I played between 25 and 60 hours of poker per week at various times in my life. This was my first rabbit hole, a first intellectual love so to speak. This made me interested in bitcoin for two reasons:

1. I **studied game theory** and calculated Expected Value all the time. **The game theory of bitcoin is phenomenal**. I suspect many of the early poker playing bitcoin adopters recognize this, but it goes beyond the scope of this blog post.

2. [Black Friday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg) taught me an important lesson about trusted-third parties. After the government seized the domains of Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker I was lucky enough to have kept most of my bankroll on PokerStars.  They sent me a check within a week. I only had a couple hundred bucks on Full Tilt because the games were softer on stars, but I lied playing the limit hold em sit and goes on full tilt. As it turned out, Full Tilt Poker was a Ponzi Scheme. They commingled player funds. In other words, Full tilt Poker acted like a **fractional reserve bank, but did not get any of the magic fiat money.** So when I tried to cash out my couple hundred bucks, I found out it wasn't there.

I never got my money back from Full Tilt, but it wasn't very much anyway,. It was well worth the lesson. I learned how [Trusted Third Parties Are Security Holes](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/) long before I read Nick Szabo's blogpost about it. This was the catalyst that made me so interested in bitcoin. Andreas said it's money nobody can steal from you so long as you keep can keep 12 words a secret. I also learned there were 25 bitcoin being mined every ten minutes. although I did not understand how at the time, I knew this was the opposite of fractional reserve banking.  I also learned the number was getting cut in half every 4 years. Again, I didn't know how it worked yet and I was a little skeptical, but if true--this solved real world problems I had. Antonopolis said Coinbase was the easiest way to buy it at the time, but if was p2p cash I should be able to get some on the Internet. So I went on Coinbase and created a wallet. I took a screen shot of the QR code and asked for someone to please send me a small amount of bitcoin just so I could see how it worked. A nym gave me $1.50 worth of the stuff and told me to by a cup of coffee with it. He's still around. I downloaded the blockchain.info wallet, wrote down 12 words and took custody of that bitcoin from [ChangeTip.](https://www.changetip.com/)(The service has been discontinued, but you used to be able to use a twitter bot to send bitcoin to people)

![bitcoin](https://i.nostr.build/6mkv.jpg)

I studied bitcoin every day for another five  months sold fiat for some. I stacked a little bit of sats every month. I also learned Dan Carlin accepted it. He asked for a buck a show, so I sent him a dollar worth of bitcoin every week or so.

In the early days, I used bitcoin as my bankrolll. I would sell some for a couple buy-ins when I had a downswing, but I kept my winnings in bitcoin. I didn't know as much about it back then.  The only books I could find were [Digital Gold](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23546676-digital-gold) and [The Age of Cryptocurrency](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22174460-the-age-of-cryptocurrency). I became more interested in it after  after hearing about [Wences Casares's experience of hyperinflation in Argentina](https://www.econtalk.org/wences-casares-on-bitcoin-and-xapo/) as a child.  This was more than a way to get around draconian poker regulations or protect myself from unscrupulous poker sites. **Bitcoin is a way for citizens of the world to protect themselves from absolute tyranny.**

### Why Am I A Nym
![nym](https://i.nostr.build/Yvxq.jpg)

- Anonymous writing has a long tradition in the US. I chose Brutus becuase it was the nym chosen by the person who wrote my favorite writers of the Anti-Federalist Papers. *I started out with Brutus as my nym*.
- Satoshi was a nym and showed that it was possible to have a completely peer-to-peer cash system that allows world-wide commerce without any government backed identity attached to it.
- I was inspired by Rockstar Developer's arguments for becoming a nym and having a funeral for this nym on Citadel Dispatch. *Thankfully, Rockstar has since bee  resurrected on nostr*.
- I read [this blogpost by K3tan](https://k3tan.com/starting-a-new-digital-identity)

My goal is to teach people how to become a sovereign individual by building a small audience willing to **pay me 250 sats per week** or 13,000 sats per year. I will also donate 10% of everything I make to [opensats.org](http://opensats.org/?ref=4l2l6ts6mjiybalowepplgfc3df4hahz3vwavi6vnhsidhchmffiw6yd.onion). I realize making a living off donations worth 10 cents is a long shot, but it's something I want to try. I believe the Internet is better if we can avoid the surviellence capitalism that preys upon us all, making us spend more money than we should on things we don't really need.

The idea is to write about bitcoin everyday and ask for donations. I'm trying something I like to call a reverse paywall to do this. Normallly, a writer provides a small sample of thier article before asking you to pay 50-500 per year to read the rest. Other models include platforms charging subscriptions and paying writers a cut. This model is like a peer-to-peer Patreon. The information is put out there for free. There are no tiers.  The reader is asked to pay the paywall at the end of the article.

## **250 Sats Per Week**

I decided to present my article first and then ask for a small donation at the end of the article. The paywall comes at the end instead of the begining. You are only asked to pay 250 sats at the end of the article. If you can't afford it, you still get to read the article.

I hope you enjoy it. I started writing this blog on wordsmith. It's like a rough draft, but I'll leave it [here](http://https//wordsmith.social/brutusbond/?ref=4l2l6ts6mjiybalowepplgfc3df4hahz3vwavi6vnhsidhchmffiw6yd.onion) in case you want to read more of my writing.

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Blogging Bitcoin
Block Height: [732,562](https://timechaincalendar.com/en/block/732562)

[Donate 250 sats](http://https//legacy.lnpay.co/to/6087d?ref=4l2l6ts6mjiybalowepplgfc3df4hahz3vwavi6vnhsidhchmffiw6yd.onion) *I first wrote this before I heard about nostr, and before nostr had zaps. I used LNpay, but the link no longer works. If you wish to support this blog, check out my [Value 4 Value Page](https://nostree.me/blog@bloggingbitcoin.store).*

Note: I first wrote this blog on Ghost. This is an updated version, but the original is available on my [TOR archive](http://4l2l6ts6mjiybalowepplgfc3df4hahz3vwavi6vnhsidhchmffiw6yd.onion/).

My first blog post about how I got into bitcoin, and how I planned to write for sats.


Fun cryptography fact. A sha256 hash of my legal name produces an output with two leading hex zeros. 🤓


![treasure](https://i.nostr.build/Yv0x.png)

### Ways To Contribute Treasure

Bitcoin is the easiest way, and you can send sats a multitude of ways by looking at my [Value 4 Value List]()

You can send me other treasure too. For example, **one dude gave me an old Bitmain S9** because he heard I wanted to make a heater out of it. That's a gift that keeps on giving.

**Someone else gave me a Specter DIY**

I also collect bitcoin stickers and bitcoin art.

Treasure is not limited to sats and **all time, treasure and talent are appreciated.**
** Zap this post by clicking the lightning bolt in the upper right hand corner. 5% of your zaps go to Habla.news and 10% goes to OpenSats**


![Talent](https://i.nostr.build/xZ77.png)

### Ways to Contribute Talent:

Got some art you think will look good on my blog?  **Share it**

Have a degree in Cryptography? **Im all ears**.

Can you help fix my grammar and spelling mistakes? **Please do**.

Can you write code that can improve this blog? **Please and thank you**.


![time](https://i.nostr.build/wZ02.png)
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### Ways to Contibute Your Time:

* **Share on Surveillance Social Media and Nostr**
* Are you a real expert cryptographer? **Share your expertise**.
* **Join me at a meetup**. Most of the time, I talk about bitcoin to an unwilling to listen, hostile audience. There's something magical about talking to other Bitcoiners.


Thank you.


Where is the full video available?


Owning Bitcoin: The Path of Self Custody

I'm writing a book about self custody on nostr and other stuff.

Chapter 4: Stacking Sats Is For Everybody


What's the easiest way to create a reverse TOR proxy? I remember seeing a service that allows you ton don't this by paying some sats, but I can't remember the name of the service.
#asknostr


Bitcoin Self Custody: The Easy Way

http://4l2l6ts6mjiybalowepplgfc3df4hahz3vwavi6vnhsidhchmffiw6yd.onion/the-easy-way-to-self-custody-bitcoin/


#Asknostr

How do I get https://primal.net/BloggingBitcoin to display my nostr profile?

#primal


Maybe. nostr:npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd is that how it works?


Yeah. nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc  wrote an awesome article about them. https://dergigi.com/2023/03/12/lightning-prisms/


Will there be markdown support?

Is it possible to implement NIP23?


The "boost tag is a misnomer." I noticed most people think it is asking folks to "boost"(re-tweet). $Prism makes more sense in my opinion.


Are bitcoin pasties a real thing, or are they photoshopped?


Agreed. Socialism is a way for rich people to siphon money from poor people like the tax collector and king do in Disney's Robin Hood.


I created a rumble channel.

https://rumble.com/v3oll7a-blogging-bitcoin-rumble-introduction.html


Good idea. I didn't even know social media conferences.🤔


What non-bitcoin  conferences are you considering?


don't be a "content creator"

https://image.nostr.build/f633e2da12ca45cd8e46043cc52d3d3c844a87ab32a6ad38c7d7018b0b8c6a0d.jpg


The nostr markets are interesting because a decentralized laize-faire capatalist marketplace on the Internet is a radical change from the status quo.

I love how we don't need permission to speak and how this whole thing is not created by corporations. Corporations can be controlled by the government. This is not conspiracy theory. It's in the Twitter files.

We also don't need to be fed car comercials, drug comercials, or war propoganda if we chose not to.

I also like the encrypted NIP 05 messages. There are now creative ways to sign onto websites like the https://plebeian.market. There's no sign up. They ask for your npub and send you three random words as a login.

Highlighter.com is awesome.

Nostr sites is pretty cool.

Developers working for bitcoin bounties for something other than bitcoin is great.

It's hard to pick just one thing.


I once made my own Strike shirt to market borderless payments. I don't think it was effective 🫤 but Strike is 21 million times better than moneygram or western union. I see a lot of RIA stuff near me and I'm thinking about puting Strike stickers near them. The art would be perfect.


Great.


Recipe?


I know a lot of bitcoiners are carnivores and I'm starting to seenthe problem with grains and seed oils, but kale with macademia nuts is delicious.

#foodstr


Wow. There's more there since I last checked.


#followed


Centralized exchanges that do not use collaborative custody are an easily exploitable attack surface.

nostr:nevent1qqswrf8xptuzr2y252s3qv93fhfrmxtdpgrh4lt7s0cc6zqstcts2uqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs9ez06ea26rc45f4rf0cyckdxkvvhlvekeawqee29jttp0hjm5mkcrqsqqqqqpu6fzx4


I started a YouTube Channel about a year ago, but the Google Gods won't let me publish videos without a phone number. There are ways around it, but I decided it was too much of a pain in the ass to deal with. I also had a hard time justifying using YouTube, which is owned by Google when I use the Whoogle search engine. It doesn't align with my values.

I ran a PeerTube instance for a while, but that was a different kind of pain in the ass, so I created a Rumble Channel. They have some fiat monetization scheme, but I want to go balls to the wall and accept zaps only because I don't want to be beholden to any advertisers. Here is my first Rumble Video.

<iframe class="rumble" width="640" height="360" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v3m078g/?pub=2l740w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Please:

*    Subscribe

*   Share on nostr and corporate surveillance social media if you're still there.

*   Zap


I run an LNbits instance out of my closet, but the nostr store was clunky. I've started using https://plebeian.market/


Thanks. 🤙


My power supply came unplugged. I still need to change the fan, but do you know how I plug it back in? Does the order of the plugs matter?
https://i.nostr.build/thumb/jlPM.jpg


True.


I'll try it. So far, I like how theynrecomend downloading it over bittorrent.


For some reason, I love taking pictures of flowers. It's nice to know other people on nostr feel the same.

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How do you cook it?


I really need to get one of these things.


Love that stuff.


Good job. Keep going. 🤙


Intun start 9 with all the bitcoin bells and whistles on a Dell Optiplex.

I still use Umbrel for non bitcoin stuff like Mealie, Home Assistant, Jellyfin Nextcloud, etc.


I went through the series a couple years ago. Taught me a lot.


I can't believe how good the game theory of Bitcoin is. Amazes me everyday.

The block size
The supply cap
The difficulty adjustment (absolute genius)
The ~10min block intervals
The fee market
The private/public keys
The UTXO set
The p2p network
The adversarial and anti-fragile nature of it all

Just incredible foresight. Never seen anything like it before.


Can someone please give ne a synopsis of today's news?

#asknostr


This poetry is better than anything written by T.S. Elliot.

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Very Beautiful Very Very Beautiful old-fashioned Photorealism Painting of a a concrete walking path with grass and street lamps glowing with golden bubbles in the air with background a majestic mountain by Fransisco De Goya , cinematic 4d highly detailed at night, moonlight, colorful


$boost test #2

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Nostriches are family. We're early adopters. We understand that social media is broken. We understand decentralization. We understand the need for censorship resistant technology. We understand value for value. We appreciate Proof of Work. Nostriches love 🫂 and 🤙🏻.

Goodnight Nostr 🤙🏻🫂💜


Rothbard argues blackmail is not wrong. I'm not so certain.


If I understand correctly, the `$boost" tag` activates a prism payment mechanism on nostr. Nunya explained it on this podcast.

https://fountain.fm/episode/jo7cI8iQQyuDaVOm6Sga


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# Stack Sats Is For Everybody

![stacking sats](https://i.nostr.build/A5o6.jpg)

I have tried writing another blog before this one. I was able to earn $10.00 for every person who clicked my link to buy bitcoin on Strike. I felt dirty accepting that fiat for telling people to KYC themselves into bitcoin. I had to think about the benefits vs. cost of funneling people into a KYC company. I decided it was not worth the tens of dollars I got for signing up to the KYC service. This is one of the reasons I like the value for value model.

I still like Strike. It's my favorite way to send fiat. I like it about twenty one million times better than Venmo and I love Jack Mallers, but something kept gnawing at me. Strike solves an important problem. Most Bitcoiners prefer to spend fiat than spend bitcoin.

This problem applies to all the fiat maxi chart scribblers on X/Twitter. They see bitcoin as an investment.  They give their hard-earned fiat to a corporation in the hopes of  obtaining more bullshit fiat bucks in the future. Investment bitcoin is en vogue in the bull markets, and the die hard fiat lovers spend countless hours reading about macro, stocking, and flowing. They get as excited as a teenager boy in a strip club at every new not your keys, not your bitcoin ETF announcement. Crypto Bros fit this category, but you rarely see them on nostr since they don't take the time to learn about public key cryptography.

Despite my tongue and cheek words about these folks, I started this blog for those people. My thesis is that they will need to learn how to use public key cryptography one day. All these centralized exchanges seem great now, but it's just a matter of time before the next FTX or Mt. Gox collapses. Sooner or later, the US government will come clean about unfunded liabilities. When that day comes, maybe ultra-rich Bitcoiners stacks won't be on the chopping block. Maybe the Weekend at Bernie political leaders won't try and levy a wealth tax. Maybe I'm just paranoid. Nevertheless, bitcoin is more than NGU technology. Bitcoin is freedom money when you are not shackled to the tentacles of the state.

Think for yourself.

Question authority.

Tune in.

**Opt out**.

## ₿itcoin Is For Everybody

![bitcoin is for everybody](https://i.nostr.build/n6VQ.jpg)

**To use bitcoin as freedom money**, it must be done peer-to-peer. P2P bitcoin is for everybody. **Bitcoin is for enemies**. Cash is a human right. therefore **bitcoin is a human right**. These are not just memes. It's not just some platitude to tell no-coiners like "have fun staying poor." It's a philosophy.

Bitcoin is for teachers.

Bitcoin is for home schoolers.

Bitcoin is for Kanye West.

Bitcoin is for Jewish people.

Bitcoin is for sex workers.

Bitcoin is for nuns.

Bitcoin is for criminals.

Bitcoin is for people who waiting at red lights 3:00 a.m.

Bitcoin is for Uber drivers.

Bitcoin is for bus riders.

Bitcoin is for veterans.

Bitcoin is for hippies.

Bitcoin is for Black Lives Matter.

Bitcoin is for Tiki Torch holding white nationalists.

Bitcoin is for billionaires.

Bitcoin is for bums.

Bitcoin is for Democrats.

Bitcoin is for Republicans.

Bitcoin is for toilet traditionalists.

Bitcoin is for the transgendered. Bitcoin is for drug dealers.

Bitcoin is for pharmaceutical sales reps.

Bitcoin is for illegal alliens.

Bitcoin is for ICE officers.

Bitcoin is for the land of the free

Bitcoin is for half the world living in an authoritarian regime.

Bitcoin is for fat white supremisists.

Bitcoin is for Afgan women. Bitcoin is for Black Rock.

Bitcoin is for Occupy Wallstreet.

Bitcoin is for tax evaders.

Bitcoin is for capital gains tax payers.

Bitcoin is for Bukelle.

Bitcoin is for Snowden.

If bitcoin is for everybody, why does anybody need to know who everybody is? Why are some people given the authority to tell other people that bitcoin is not for them? Who the fuck are they? Who the fuck are you? And who the fuck am I to say bitcoin is not for them?

![financial surviellence](https://i.nostr.build/B5zA.jpg)

### Stacking Sats Is For Everybody

Do criminals have the right to buy food? Do terrorists deserve the right to eat? **Do vaccine mandate protesting truckers have the right to buy diesel to stay warm?**

These may seem like rhetorical questions, but the answer is simple: Invariably yes. These people have the right to buy and sell stuff. If you don't believe me, I don't have time to explain it to you and GFY.

This section will not teach you how to sign up for a KYC service. I still use a couple bitcoin only kyc services to sell fiat for bitcoin on Robosats. This is actually kind of easy once you get the hang of it, but it requires you to have bitcoin to begin with. It also assumes you are not deemed persona non-grata by the government who's thumb you find yourself under. If you happen to find yourself in this circumstance because you are an purple haired, illegal trans-gendered truck driver--have no fear. Bitcoin is for you too.  Are illegal trans-gendered truck drivers your enemy?  Bitcoin is for you too.

### Sell Fiat At A Bitcoin Meetup

![meetup](https://i.nostr.build/6mqv.jpg)

**Ask to sell a fiat for some bitcoin**. I bet someone will be willing to part with some sats for some bullshit fiat. Gasoline is not for everybody, but even OG's occasionally need to buy fiat to pay for gas.

Bitcoin is peer-to-peer electronic cash. It is not an investment. You can't buy anything with VTSAX shares. You can only sell VTSAX for fiat, give the government their share, and transfer the rest to a bank, That's the basic anatomy of an investment. You give your digital bucks to someone else, because your digital bucks suck. Some people have to work their ass for digital bucks. Some people get to print digital bucks for free, but everybody's digital bucks buy less and stuff every year.

Cash is something you can use to buy stuff with. It offers final settlement. In other words, you can buy stuff without owing anybody anything afterwards. You can't buy an index fund without eventually owing someone else money. You can't buy a cup of coffee using a credit card without owing someone else something. If you use a debit card, don't be fooled. The bank owes the merchant fiat. It might take days for it to register on your bank statement, but it takes even longer for the merchant to get the fiat. When you keep digital bucks in a Wells Fargo savings account, the value is siphoned away like a gas thief. Therefore, digital bucks have no final settlement. Paper fiat suffers the same fate. Even if you keep your cash underneath the proverbial mattress, your purchasing power is not safe from confiscation.  Taxation is theft, but inflation is cat burglary.

Bitcoin transactions require a fee since bitcoin mining is a service, but saving bitcoin does not cost you anything. Over a long enough time span-saving fiat will cost you everything. Imagine saving $1,000,000 cold hard cash in a time capsule. 100 years later, someone opens up this time capsule. Could that person buy a house with that cash?

No, because the value will be confiscated by governments and banks. Inflation is confiscation. Discreet, private bitcoin that only you know about is the only asset in the world that cannot be taken from you. This is not true of gold. Everyone who has stacked sats for more than a year knows the US government outlawed gold with executive order 6102, but this is not the only way gold's value can be diluted. For one thing, nobody knows how much gold is under the ground. Gold is hard to make, but we can expect the supply to increase by 2% per year. This is a tiny tax on the value of gold that confiscates your purchasing power over time. It's a fair tax since number 79 on the periodic table of element requires requires proof-of-work, but it's still inflation.

Bitcoin has no inflation. It's written in code, which is better than being written in stone. A single stone may break, but destroying 20,000 computers with the same mathmatical proof of the bitcoin supply is almost impossible to destroy without also destroying the entire world.

I don't know, but I know there will only be 21 million bitcoin. Contrary to the bullshit Greenpeace USA[paid by Ripple] says, you can't "change the code." Changing the code creates a fork of bitcoin like b-cash. If Greenpeace changed the code, they would create b-trash. Every Bitcoiner would now have b-trash.

  ### Adversarial Thinking

When we wear our adversarial thinking caps, we can extrapolate this to other organizations like governments. Imagine planting a flag in Rugby, North Dakota and calling it Italy. They are Italian immigrants who left the country because the sports cars are boiling the oceans faster than cow farts. Italy, formally known as Rugby, North Dakota is the new ESG friendly Italy. Perhaps there's a small chance the country of Italy agrees to this change, and that's impossible to quantify, but you would have a better chance at doing that than changing the fact that there will never be 21 million bitcoin.

This means id the US government wants to change the bitcoin code. That would also just be another fork, giving Bitcoiners this new shitcoin. They could ban bitcoin, but it didn't work for beer. The only viable option is a 6102 style confiscation. If that's as simple as writing a letter to Coinbase, that's a security hole, okay a security black hole. It takes more resources to confiscate everyone's bitcoin, but I listened to the Mandibles audiobook. It's not that far-fetched if they have your home address and know every sat you ever stacked.

When you sell fiat for bitcoin at a meetup, only two people need to know about it. Imagine owning a million sats that nobody else knows about. They belong to you. If the government forks it, they give you a shitcoin, but they can't confiscate the bitcoin they don't know about. That is 21 quadrillion more times interesting than the price. That's freedom from confiscation.

![confiscation](https://i.nostr.build/097E.jpg)

Inflation is confiscation. Some governments confiscate more than others, but that's not the point. All governments are pretty good at confiscating value from cash. Most do not come into your home and just take it. This is not constitutional in the United States because of the [Third amendment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution), but the value is stolen via inflation.  Bitcoin no one else knows about is the only thing that can't be changed and bitcoin nobody else knows about is the only thing nobody can confiscate, as long ad you can keep a secret.

![forest bitcoin](https://i.nostr.build/zlJZ.jpg)

**If a bitcoin seed is buried in the forest and no one is around to see it, can it be confiscated?**

As I write this, hundreds of thousands of refugees are fleeing Venezuela. According to the headlines, it's an immigration crisis. Kaiser went on Strike today. The UAW is already on Strike, and I bet more unions will soon do the same, but I reject the way it's framed as a battle between the greedy and the needy. The hyperinflation of Latin America and striking of American workers are two sides of the same paper vapor money. Viewed through orange colored glasses, we can see the fiat crisis. Far too many people in the world have fallen victim to their governments monetary policy. Inflation is high all around the world. People are looking for political solutions. Bitcoin will be there, waiting.

When you sell that shitty paper money at a meetup, only two people need to know about it. You are not obliged to tell anyone. Should you pay your capital gains taxes? Of course you should voluntarily pay your capital gains tax, but that's the beauty of it--The bitcoin you have that nobody else knows about is only in your control. You can pay capital gains taxes or  a wealth tax, or whatever they tell you to pay them, but nobody can force you to do those things. That is twenty one million times more interesting than the fiat price of bitcoin.

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How and why you should buy KYC free bitcoin


Pleb AI is really fuckin' cool. Which one of you freaks made this?


How? Is there a plugin? I just started using obsidian.


Can you host an obsidian wiki on clearnet?


I just started  playing with it. It appears that you can add other users and groups, but I'm still learning.

I run it on a raspi, but you can install Umbrel on a real computer with one command.  I don't run bitcoin on my Umbrel.

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


Have you tried WikiJS on Umbrel?


My wife has one of these. They're great.


I've been going down the Home Assistant Rabit Hole.

Water sensors under the sink that change the color of a lightbulb mitigates mold risk.


I claimed my bcash in 2017, but sent it to a proper bitcoin address because I didn't know any better. That taught me an important lesson.

Air drops are not risk free. If it was the other way around and I sent my bitcoin to a bcash address, I would have lost everything.

Air drops are not worth the risk.


How about the Kiwi browser?


I created this note using an extention on Obsidian, Obsidian Writer.

#Nostr blows my mind on the regular. 🤓

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I have the same question.


I never heard of the Vexel app. Is it like a new local bitcoins?


testing nostr writer


I don't think that would work, but I bet it's possible to cook a rib eye sous-vide style.


I've said some mean things about a Blackrock "not your keys, not your bitcoin" ETF's in the past, but tools like this can make it much more compatible with the Cypherpunk ethos.

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If the clients are open source, we will find out and choose to continue using the service or find another client. I love the fact there are no ads and would happily part with some sats to continue my ad free nostr experience.


Yes!

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Bittorrent works without BTT. Why would anyone who knows better buy this?


Sounds interesting.


Really? This weather is crazy.


I'd pay 1,000 sats for those.


This is me in real life.


Proof of clockwork.

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Is this nest at the same bat time and same bat channel? If so, what day & time?


Yes, but you can't say that with this soup nazi monetary policy.

No fiat for you!


Thanks. 1,000 sats is a 1,000 sats. That's super cool.


I plan on building my s9 heater tomorrow. Do you mind if I ask how much I can expect to earn?


Check out my stall on plebian market. So far I have some stickers and birthday cards that pay people bitcoin.

https://plebeian.market/stall/bloggingbitcoin


How do i add twitter to plebeian market?


I'm interested.


The struggle is rea. :)


I'm having some issues posting recipes, but I don't want to complain without looking at the code first. ;)


Congratulations Ben. Thank you for all the awesome work you do!


"A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy."

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Is this the Github repository?

https://github.com/github-tijlxyz/nostr.cooking


This is cool. I've wanted something like this for a while.


400% higher than the all time low price of the next bull run.


Wow.


"When we exported 5,000 pages of PGP source code in a book through MIT Press in the 90s, we ran into some issues.

It turns out it's very hard to scan C source code via OCR. So what did we do? We wrote software that was specifically designed for OCR scanning of C source code and published it at the beginning of the book as a bootstrapping mechanism.

It was shortly after this point that I received word that the intelligence agencies had realized they had lost."

- Phil Zimmermann


It worked.

https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/index.html


I heard he got canceled.


We're in our own little bubble. Most normies view bitcoin as an investment they hold with a trusted third party. They have no intention of ever using bitcoin. They hope to sell it for more dirty fiat one day. Buying groceries wirh ot never occurs to them.


Yep.


The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz.


Agreed.


STATEMENT REGARDING MY TWITTER/X ACCOUNT

Today, my Twitter/X account was permanently banned and my appeal to have it overturned was denied.

There was no warning issued, no 2 week suspension, no option to delete the offending tweet. Just straight permanent deplatform.

My offending tweet?

"Bring back the guillotine."

I quote tweeted this sentence to the video presented here on 3rd September.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1698249077061009496

Someone reported the tweet and my account was irretrievably shut down on the basis of violating rules against violent speech.

The vaccines (and vaccine mandates) caused so much harm to people all over the world. Many lost their livelihoods, incomes, businesses, marriages, families, confidence and will to live. Some lost their good health and worse, some lost their lives. The coercion to get vaccinated was immense, and to be told "it was a choice" is a kick to the teeth. Today, many regret having taken the vaccine.

My crime? I dared open up the conversation on how best to hold decision makers accountable for their decisions.

Meanwhile, other Twitter handles are able to post these and keep their accounts. The inconsistencies and arbitrary nature of these suspensions is ashtonishing.

https://image.nostr.build/a1b456c03a938e3bbe2f89e6eccad0424088aae132844053fd519e80a853ba0c.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/a8ef0f9b25fb2d18cd870fdeb5dfa4de5d6b023004680d4e44ff52c5c2d1978b.jpg

Having said that, I fully accept the consequences of my actions.

On a brighter, more productive note, I'm proud to have educated thousands on my YouTube channel (Ministry of Nodes) on how to hold their own keys and run their own Bitcoin node such that these arbitrary decisions can't be made with people's money. I'm convinced it will get worse, and that we need Bitcoin more than ever.

As part of my educational content, I also sell plug & play Bitcoin Nodeboxes to those who want to quickly get up and running without the steep learning curve that goes behind it. Have a watch of how easy it can be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RdftQywN6A

I'm offering 10% off to those who purchase a Nodebox with the discount code GUILLOTINE for a limited time.

shop.ministryofnodes.com for details.

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Thanks for reading, nostriches.


Good morning.


It's easy to be anonymous for a little while, but it gets more difficult as time goes on. I think that's why Satoshi left after a couple years.


Where should I start? Is it just a database or do they use POS or something?


Good Morning.  Glad to see you again. 🫂


What is the difference between a CBDC and a bank account?

 To be honest, I have not spent morr than 10 minutes studying  CBDC's.


Onboard them onto fountain. I would like to stream sats while listening.


I look at everything from a business perspective first. The problem with society is that few of us are "all around athletes wrt to skills to run orgs" and most people have become vertical specialists with the goal of working for a big org that does all the other nitty gritty for you, like HR, marketing, customer service, payroll, etc. So you get highly specialized tech people who can do their job well, but don't think about product to market fit or how to deliver that, which actually takes multiple skills, beyond just coding, like branding, design, communications, etc.

Not everyone can multi hat all of that unless you grew up in an environment that was like that (like I did), where multiple family members ran their own business operations. And some people who have been stuck in a vertical for the last 20 yrs of their life in a big org, can't think their way out of it. Its very difficult to unlearn habits once ingrained, it'll take another generation or people from less well established economies where all the resources aren't handed to them (like sub sahara) .

Just my 0.02 Sats


Got it.


Where do you sell your paintings?


Hello, Anons! As a new user diving into the world of #Nostr, here are some key things that are absolutely blowing my mind! Diving into Nostr, a decentralized social media platform powered by value-for-value #Bitcoin Lightning payments, I am astounded by the transformative potential it holds for generations to come. The concept of decentralization, where power is distributed among individuals rather than concentrated in the hands of a few, has opened up a realm of exciting possibilities! 🤙

I feel a sense of liberation as I navigate through Nostr, knowing that my #data is no longer a commodity traded without my consent.

Instead, I have the #freedom to choose how and where my information is shared. The integration of #zap Lightning payments is a game-changer!!! It has revolutionized the way we support content creators by enabling instant, microtransactions.

This shift has created a fair and transparent economic model, where value is exchanged directly between users and creators! I am absolutely BLOWN AWAY by this!!!

It's remarkable to witness the emergence of a community built on mutual respect and appreciation for quality content, and truth. No longer are we at the mercy of algorithms designed to maximize engagement at the expense of our well-being.

Instead, we embrace meaningful interactions and ideas, fostering intellectual growth and genuine connections.

Nostr has become a catalyst for change, empowering individuals to reclaim their digital identities and actively shape the landscape of social media for future generations. I am so honored to be here with all of you! Thank you for being so welcoming to this new comer. 🧡

#bitcoin #freedom #plebstr #damus #plebchain #puravida #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/fdf5ff89df7fde78ca31923e733191ed202c3ce0e2c55819ad3fd49f56e522b2.jpg


I thought Marty Bent was a government name and Matt Odell was the nym. Guess I was wrong.


Governments will try to ban free speech, but nostr is a specter haunting the modern world.

👻


I did when bitrefill had a billpay service, but they ended it.

Are there simmilar services in the USA? I want to go back to living on a bitcoin standard without moving to Canada.


I wish CrYpTo writers understood basic cryptography.

Jpeg receipts do not make jpegs scarce.

Jpeg receipts do not give websites the authority to enforce intellectual property rights.

You can't use jpeg receipts to prove home ownership or car mileage.

I suppose you could theoretically use NFT's for a rube goldburg style concert ticket, but it won't be decentralized and offers no additional value compared to Ticket Master.


"NFTs went mainstream, and then the bubble burst, as it often does. The financial failure does not even begin to scratch the surface of the environmental devastation wrought by crypto, either. It is unclear what the vast majority of crypto and NFT owners have gotten in return for accelerating climate change."

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Ocean boiling FUD.


"went mainstream, and then the bubble burst, as it often does. The financial failure does not even begin to scratch the surface of the environmental devastation wrought by crypto, either. It is unclear what the vast majority of crypto and NFT owners have gotten in return for accelerating climate change."

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"Of course, some companies have read the tea leaves accurately and distanced themselves from NFTs. Meta, for example, began winding down its NFT operations on Facebook and Instagram in March. The news came after Zuckerberg and Meta hastily got involved with NFTs in 2022. NFTs were crucial to the company’s “metaverse” vision, which has ultimately been a catastrophic failure."

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"It is not just people like Melania Trump who are still involved in NFTs in 2023, either. Canon USA got in on NFTs extremely late, too. In April, Canon announced the development of Cadabra, a curated photography marketplace for NFTs. As of now, Cadabra has still not launched."

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Consider Melania Trump’s Man on the Moon NFT, which not only violates NASA’s usage guidelines for its imagery but is a complete and total dud. Having been on the market for nearly two months, Trump’s USA Memorabilia operation has swindled fewer than 70 people into buying the “limited-edition collectible” of a public domain image. How this NFT will ever be worth its $75 asking price, let alone increase in value, is beyond all reason.

"Consider Melania Trump’s Man on the Moon NFT, which not only violates NASA’s usage guidelines for its imagery but is a complete and total dud. Having been on the market for nearly two months, Trump’s USA Memorabilia operation has swindled fewer than 70 people into buying the “limited-edition collectible” of a public domain image. How this NFT will ever be"

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"It is not just that NFTs are generally worth nothing, people are not especially interested in buying new NFT assets, leaving artists in the lurch."

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“The vast majority of NFTs are worthless,” writes dappGambl. Based on its research, 95% of people holding NFT collections own an asset with no real value. DappGambl believes that this means that more than 23 million people’s investments “are now worthless.”

"DappGambl believes that this means that more than 23 million people’s investments “are now worthless.”"

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"A new report shows that the non-fungible token (NFT) market has essentially collapsed, and nearly all NFTs are practically worthless."

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Now apply the same logic to eBay and Amazon.

https://github.com/lnbits/nostrmarket

https://plebeian.market/


Sure, but I can choose a new client or relay.


Welcome. I'm here because:

* I find public key cryptography facinating
* I believe government controlled, corporate owned social media is antithetical to freedom, especially after  the worldwide draconian response to Covid-19.
* I can write my blog on habla.news and people on blogstack.io can still read it.
* Bitcoin needs an open, censorship-resistant communications channel to facilitate commerce.
* I don't need permission to send a DM.
* I don't get shadow banned.


"Automations in Home Assistant allow you to automatically respond to things that happen. You can turn the lights on at sunset or pause the music when you receive a call."

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I don't excersise, but I ride bikes and swing kettlebells for fun.


They can give you a fiat denominated wealth tax bill based on how much bitcoin you bought back in the day.


I've been following Flo for years. She makes beautiful mosaics with bitcoin addresses. I highly recomend giving her a follow and some zaps.

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Not gonna lie, I still use USD sometimes.


What are some of your favorite ways to use home assistant?

#homeautomation #asknostr


HODLN is great.
— but
EARNING and SPENDING drives adoption further and unleashes the power of #bitcoin as electronic cash for freedom. https://image.nostr.build/de8b49e0f6c8b6fd183d8a5b8d1a7a256e8f0d14e71e361d6be14a9afc492c96.jpg


Yeah, it really depends where you live.


I'm seriously considering commuting with my e-bike.


Cute.


It's beautiful.


Love that guy.


I srart with tipcards. The QR code links to WOS tutorial.

I like Strike and Cash App because they can be used as a fiat rail on Robosats.

https://tipcards.io/


Thanks for the shoutout. 🙏


I heard about it on Blue Collar Bitcoin, but I'm doing this DIY project today.

https://www.cryptocloaks.com/product/s9-space-heater-case-bitcoin/

No air filter though.


Okay my SimpleX servers were not working, but I fixed it now.

If you bought one of these let me know where I should ship it. Nip05 DM's are open too.

https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1-2&smp=smp%3A%2F%2F6iIcWT_dF2zN_w5xzZEY7HI2Prbh3ldP07YTyDexPjE%3D%40smp10.simplex.im%2F7NHASfVmTN-adw5V30KwK6lZ3cAVFCKW%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAf0MIuyRAZ928V0eyNbQuERALoYJlhqcJEawwWGLVIxg%253D%26srv%3Drb2pbttocvnbrngnwziclp2f4ckjq65kebafws6g4hy22cdaiv5dwjqd.onion


Yes, but the lightning network has different trade-offs.

People are more likely to use ETF's for retirement. I would never tell someone to keep their retirement on WOS.

Keeping 100,000 sats on WOS you plan on spending anyway is a different story.

I used my own self-hosted my own lightning address before, but payments failed all the time. Because of this, sovereign lightning addresses pose more risk (not recieving zaps) than using custodial lightning solutions.


# Blogging Bitcoin's

![store](https://i.nostr.build/5EAZ.png)

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## Shop
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### Bitcoin Supply Schedule  Sticker
#### 21,000 sats

The math behind how we get 21 million bitcoin by the year 2140 on a vinyl sticker.
*aproximately 4 in. x 2 in.*

![sticker](https://i.nostr.build/Mkqk.jpg)

[Click To Order](https://nodeless.io/pw/32c68b00-626f-4333-85a5-c0b59eb329f7)

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### #How does it work?

* **Click on the order Button**.
* **Pay the sats**.
* **Enter your shipping information**.
* **Pick it up at your mailbox**.

**Thanks for visiting!**


Yes. LOL


A while back someone asked me the easiest way to sell Elderberries on nostr. I gave a complicated answer and nostr:npub18pudjhdhhp2v8gxnkttt00um729nv93tuepjda2jrwn3eua5tf5s80a699  called me out. She was right. BTCpayServer is too complicated for bitcoin neophytes.

So I hacked this nostr store together using  nostr:npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg 's habla.news and nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 's paywalls on nodeless.io

I think this is easy enough for almost anyone to do.

What do you guys think?

https://habla.news/u/blog@bloggingbitcoin.store/blogging-bitcoins-nostr-store


I made a store using Habla.news and paywalls from nodeless.io


How do I start a nostr community?

#asknostr


Paywalls suck if you're trying to get readers, but they're great if you are trying to sell stuff on nostr.

https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqthxatswpk8jttnvd5x2er4d3jj6um5d93kketjqgs8t0er2vdwn7vvv2v4hgr3j8jg36k5wkt4xuwk847l634auxl639grqsqqqa28l8zs8l


Donate 21,000 sats and I'll send you This Bitcoin Supply Schedule Sticker. This is the math behind the 21 million.(Actually, it is a little less than 21 million)

You will be given instructions after paying the paywall.

https://nodeless.io/pw/32c68b00-626f-4333-85a5-c0b59eb329f7


Most of those wannabe "Bitcoin companies" wouldn't know web3 if it was standing right in front of them. We had platforms without user accounts, email, password or 2-factor auth back in 2015 already. Yet here we are and I need a burner email for almost every single Bitcoin/crypto website, app or platform.


I'm experimenting with nodeless.io. The UX is much better than it was a month ago.

https://nodeless.io/pw/20e94a5f-ded9-46ee-ae3c-dadc751c182d


![ThankYou](https://image.nostr.build/04ae0608a964427a26292fe5533738412e95b2009d45e8a1485f95b46772719a.png)

Thank you for using my reverse Paywall.


Bitcoin companies marketing "Web 3" without even mentioning nostr are sus.

 🚩


The Book of Satoshi is also on Audible.  It's a collection of Satoshi's forum posts and emails. It's a must read.


Bitcoin: Everything Divided by 21 Million, by Knut Svanholm.

I recomend reading all his books. He's my favorite bitcoin author.


"Bitcoin Startup Lab is the 1st Pre-accelerator on Web3 Bitcoin."

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Our hands on program is designed to train you to build an investment worthy Web3 Bitcoin startup. Here is just a taste of what you'll be working on with mentors and peers to develop your skills in applying Bitcoin tech & market advantages, leveraging AI tools for Web3 startups, market-entry, customer discovery, pricing, user traction, Web3 marketing and community building, developing killer features, user experience, Web3 business modeling, Tokenomics and incentive mechanisms, network effects, various technologies that enable Bitcoin applications, how to get to product-market fit, and how to effectively pitch the value your Web3 Bitcoin startup creates for the world so that you can get into an accelerator, get seed funding, and fast track your startup. Co-Founder Matching: Web3 startups have disruptive superpowers that can only be activated through teamwork. We recruit other talented founders and provide ample opportunities for you to meet and bond with each other. 75% of our past teams who were admitted into an accelerator found a cofounder through our network. We give you real startup assignments and tools that require teamwork to complete, so you can battle-test each other before taking the startup plunge together. Track Record in Web3 Bitcoin space: Our program has a proven track record of producing successful founders who not only got into the accelerator with seed funding, but also are now leading some of the most innovative startups in the Web3 Bitcoin space. With our program, you'll be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge, and network to join the ranks of these successful founders.

"Here is just a taste of what you'll be working on with mentors and peers to develop your skills in applying Bitcoin tech & market advantages, leveraging AI tools for Web3 startups, market-entry, customer discovery, pricing, user traction, Web3 marketing and community building, developing killer features, user experience, Web3 business modeling, Tokenomics and incentive mechanisms, network effects, various technologies that enable Bitcoin applications, how to get to product-market fit, and how to effectively pitch the value your Web3 Bitcoin startup creates for the world so that you can get into an accelerator, get seed funding, and fast track your startup.

Co-Founder Matching:

Web3 startups have disruptive superpowers that can only be activated through teamwork. We recruit other talented founders and provide ample opportunities for you to meet and bond with each other. 75% of our past teams who were admitted into an accelerator found a cofounder through our network. We give you real startup assignments and tools that require teamwork to complete, so you can battle-test each other before taking the startup plunge together.

Track Record in Web3 Bitcoin space:

Our program has a proven track record of producing successful founders who not only got into the accelerator with seed funding, but also are now leading some of the most innovative startups i"

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The initial version of the Nostr calendar is almost ready and will be available on NostrNet today. I made it more mobile responsive, I will keep improving it in coming days.

nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn has already done extraordinary work on it, it's very easy to use and works great.
https://i.nostrimg.com/2392f6439fe4a7447d3deca4fa4bb30c36a67b37c3870eda387396c6f30d4ddf/file.jpg


This is awesome.


The culture war is a distraction. Very few kids read books anyway. It's all bullshit to keep people fighting over things that don't matter.

The truth is your kids will own nothing and live in a pod with hundreds of ways to entertain themselves without books.


That's a strawman, but your teenagers hae access to porn. Act accordingly.


Information should be free for all, especially information I disagree with.


In the US, the right wants to ban books about critical race theory.  My wife works with someone who was fired for not complying with books banning transgender protagonists.


I used to think this, but after reading the Anti Federalist papers, I changed my mind.

The second amendment was written to avoid a standing army.

I'm not against owning firearms, but they won't keep you safe versus drones.


Book bans atr political.

The right wants to ban "woke" books.

The left wants to ban "non-woke" books.

The Internet makes all book long to be free.


Capturing beauty through holes. 🤣🤷🏻♀🌅

#photography #lovestr #photostr #sunsets #art #artstr #grownstr https://image.nostr.build/64ffae27222e2d5e00991e9115156bdc9820eb1d722c8fe23c6f44a886b102d0.jpg


Teach him how to use Testnet.

https://habla.news/u/blog@bloggingbitcoin.store/sd8yZf-DVgyIF3k8W-oGy


The Nos2x extention works better for me on Brave.


Karma!


Ever since the lockdowns, I've thought about placing  bitcoin books in little libraries. Little libraries are decentralized and don't get shut down.

I'm doing it tomorrow.

https://littlefreelibrary.org/


I did it for a while, but it was easier when I could pay my bills with bitrefill.


I've reached a simmilar conclusion.


Yes.


Not Your Keys Not Your Bitcoin ETFs is the road to serfdom.

Don't let friends and family travel this road.

Teach them how to be a UTXO owner.

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The digital age has brought with it a promise: the promise of decentralization. From blockchain technology to decentralized platforms, we're on the brink of a world where power is returned to the people. Propaganda Daily will explore the pioneers, the technologies, and the movements that are pushing for a more decentralized world.

"The digital age has brought with it a promise: the promise of decentralization. From blockchain technology to decentralized platforms, we're on the brink of a world where power is returned to the people."

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