[You can also read this on my blog published on TOR](http://4l2l6ts6mjiybalowepplgfc3df4hahz3vwavi6vnhsidhchmffiw6yd.onion/purple-pill-the-people/)
**Audio Version Available Soon**

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

Might as well face it, you will not orange pill Peter Schiff. You will not orange pill anyone on X(Twitter). They pay $11.00 worth of fiat to earn more fiat. They also give $11.00 worth of fiat value to people who have more than X amount of followers. Everyone else pays or gets shadow banned. It's cheap ransomware, not a serious attempt at free speech.

There's a better way to promote the use of bitcoin without playing stupid fiat games. It's time to offer the purple pill.

- The Purple Pill does not require a blue check.
- The Purple Pill allows anyone on the network to send bitcoin to anyone in the world.
- The Purple Pill is pretty perfect.

Well...It's not perfect, but it makes it easy for anyone to accept bitcoin payments.

### Purple Pill Github
![handbrake idea](https://i.nostr.build/wGdBv.png)

[Karnage](nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac) said he wished he could zap handbrake, free and open software used to rip DVD's. I use it to add my movies to [Jellyfin](https://jellyfin.org/). I've been thinking about asking non bitcoin projects like this to get on nostr so I can zap them because I don't want to sign up with buy me a cup of coffee.

So I added [https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/issues/5915](https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/issues/5915).
Karnage said he already did the same to another project. What if we all asked a free and open source project to get on nostr for zaps? Each zap could be distributed to many developers. Developers are technical. Getting on nostr should't be a problem for them.

#### Purple Pill Servers

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

Purple pill your servers. 250,000 blocks ago, I thought it would be cool to sell buttons with lightning payment QR codes. I envisioned flare for waitresses. Back in the day, waitresses at TGIF's wore buttons to advertise chile cheese fries and happy hours. I thought they should wear buttons that allowed customers to send them sats. I used a QR code from my tip me page, but it didn't work because the QR code could only be used once. What can I say? I didn't know what the hell I was doing back then.

Nostr fixes this. My idea couldn't work in 2019 an buttons are still a dumb-dumb idea, but we can still pay wait staff with no buttons required.

If a waitress had an npub, I could just search for her nym attached to an npub. She could use this npub for tips only. She would never need to read comments, but she could collect zaps. Some wallets, like Mutiny let you find nostr plebs in the wallet. You can send them sats. You'll soon be able to send ecash.

##### Purple Pill The People

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

Stop saying, "Buy Bitcoin." Say, "earn bitcoin". Don't sell bitcoin. I don't mean this as in, "hodl never sodl." I mean give a little bitcoin to people. You don't use Paypal. You don't use Venmo. You might use the Cash App, but don't ask for someone's Cash Tag.  Give people the purple pill. Onboard them onto nostr. Send them zaps.

- Purple Pill your barber
- Purple Pill your barista
- Purple Pill your bud tender.
- Purple Pill the people.

Bitcoin crushed the all time high again, but nobody seems to care. They are [watching the dollar crash](https://chapwoodindex.com/) . Interest rates are up. This doubled the price of a mortgage as compared to a few years ago. Interest rates went up to lower price of things which naturally deflate to the marginal cost of production.* **Fiat currency is dying**. People are not excited about the bitcoin price because $70,000 just isn't what it used to be. If you have your barbers npub, you can send him better, unbroken money. He can see the value of that money go up over time. Your tips become a DCA strategy for this hair-cutting scissor samourai.

No need to be pushy. Just teach him how to use nostr. Add him to your contacts. Have him add his profile to Mutiny Wallet. Send him cashu. Send him sats. Teach him there's a better way to save. **Give him the purple pill.**

*For more information, please read Jeff Booth's, The Price of Tomorrow.  It's available on Amazon, but If you pirate it, [send Jeff  sats here](https://www.jeffbooth.ca/value-for-value).

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I have tried to orange pill businesses in the past, but it didn't work. Now I think we should orange pill our waitresses, barbers, and FOSS developers. I think we can do this by purple pilling the people instead of asking them to accept bitcoin. This is because we can use nostr as the Venmo of bitcoin.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqt8qatjwpkx2ttsd9kxctt5dpjj6ur9dacxcegtn7k8r


New Blog  on TOR

http://4l2l6ts6mjiybalowepplgfc3df4hahz3vwavi6vnhsidhchmffiw6yd.onion/purple-pill-the-people/


This is cool, reminds me of the chickens on yalls dot org.


It's called the terrible two's for a reason.


I made her a vanity npub. She's not interested. 😥


I need to convince my wife to do this. She wants to go to boring Hawaii.


Glad to see your AI art again.


Personal AI assistant nostr bots are comming.

It reminds me of the book, The Age of Cryptocurrency, except instead of a million bullshit coins, we only use bitcoin over the lightning network.

https://fountain.fm/episode/f5ZmmM9sjUQrrAk3rgVM


Oh yeah. There's so many cool things about it. That reminds me, I need to zap the project.


I agree. I like to use it for the  human readable URL's.


Welcome


Oh...Don't use wallet connect yet.

Add a lightning address to the lightning address field in the profile settings on the Damus app instead.


Better yet, a paynym.


Paste a bitcoin address.


Got it. Thank you.


So it doesn't auto-open a lightning channel at 200,001 sats?


Honestly, you're better off using Phoenix.


Welcome.🤙

What brings you here?

You'll want a wallet.

https://bitcoli.com/en/


Free Speech does not require permission.


If you can use Damus, you can set up Mutiny.


That's how I got my first sats on Twitter. You always remember your first.


The Fedimint user experience on Mutiny is amazing.

It's 10x better than wallet of satoshi.


Did you ever use changetip?


Time is the new status symbol.


I didn't even know you could do this with Bottlepay.

How was I on Twitter so long without ever learning this?


Use #asknostr


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

Might as well face it, you will not orange pill Peter Schiff. You will not orange pill anyone on X(Twitter). They pay $11.00 worth of fiat to earn more fiat. They also give $11.00 worth of fiat value to people who have more than X amount of followers. Everyone else pays or gets shadow banned. It's cheap ransomware, not a serious attempt at free speech.

There's a better way to promote the use of bitcoin without playing stupid fiat games. It's time to offer the purple pill.

- The Purple Pill does not require a blue check.
- The Purple Pill allows anyone on the network to send bitcoin to anyone in the world.
- The Purple Pill is pretty perfect.

Well...It's not perfect, but it makes it easy for anyone to accept bitcoin payments.

### Purple Pill Github
![handbrake idea](https://i.nostr.build/wGdBv.png)

[Karnage](nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac) said he wished he could zap handbrake, free and open software used to rip DVD's. I use it to add my movies to [Jellyfin](https://jellyfin.org/). I've been thinking about asking non bitcoin projects like this to get on nostr so I can zap them because I don't want to sign up with buy me a cup of coffee.

So I added [https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/issues/5915](https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/issues/5915).
Karnage said he already did the same to another project. What if we all asked a free and open source project to get on nostr for zaps? Each zap could be distributed to many developers. Developers are technical. Getting on nostr should't be a problem for them.

#### Purple Pill Servers

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

Purple pill your servers. 250,000 blocks ago, I thought it would be cool to sell buttons with lightning payment QR codes. I envisioned flare for waitresses. Back in the day, waitresses at TGIF's wore buttons to advertise chile cheese fries and happy hours. I thought they should wear buttons that allowed customers to send them sats. I used a QR code from my tip me page, but it didn't work because the QR code could only be used once. What can I say? I didn't know what the hell I was doing back then.

Nostr fixes this. My idea couldn't work in 2019 an buttons are still a dumb-dumb idea, but we can still pay wait staff with no buttons required.

If a waitress had an npub, I could just search for her nym attached to an npub. She could use this npub for tips only. She would never need to read comments, but she could collect zaps. Some wallets, like Mutiny let you find nostr plebs in the wallet. You can send them sats. You'll soon be able to send ecash.

##### Purple Pill The People

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

Stop saying, "Buy Bitcoin." Say, "earn bitcoin". Don't sell bitcoin. I don't mean this as in, "hodl never sodl." I mean give a little bitcoin to people. You don't use Paypal. You don't use Venmo. You might use the Cash App, but don't ask for someone's Cash Tag.  Give people the purple pill. Onboard them onto nostr. Send them zaps.

- Purple Pill your barber
- Purple Pill your barista
- Purple Pill your bud tender.
- Purple Pill the people.

Bitcoin crushed the all time high again, but nobody seems to care. They are [watching the dollar crash](https://chapwoodindex.com/) . Interest rates are up. This doubled the price of a mortgage as compared to a few years ago. Interest rates went up to lower price of things which naturally deflate to the marginal cost of production.* **Fiat currency is dying**. People are not excited about the bitcoin price because $70,000 just isn't what it used to be. If you have your barbers npub, you can send him better, unbroken money. He can see the value of that money go up over time. Your tips become a DCA strategy for this hair-cutting scissor samourai.

No need to be pushy. Just teach him how to use nostr. Add him to your contacts. Have him add his profile to Mutiny Wallet. Send him cashu. Send him sats. Teach him there's a better way to save. **Give him the purple pill.**

*For more information, please read Jeff Booth's, The Price of Tomorrow.  It's available on Amazon, but If you pirate it, [send Jeff  sats here](https://www.jeffbooth.ca/value-for-value).

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Nostr is fast becoming better than corporate controlled payment methods like Venmo. We can use mutiny wallet to send e cash to an npub over nostr. The e cash automatically gets converted to sats.  This phenomena makes me think we need to stop arguing with people to "buy bitcoin" and show them how to accept bitcoin using nostr instead. In other words, give them the purple pill.


👀
Music is on Fountain now.

https://fountain.fm/track/GckYmIdBZEwVWsflbmVC


They'll 6102 the payments from their bank accounts.


Bitcoin changes everything.


Stick around. Get a lightning address with the primal app.


It's an election year.

Vote for better money!

https://i.nostr.build/5GQJy.jpg


Good morning.


UTXO consolidation time!


I once saw this sticker about ten miles away from my house and I didn't put it there.

https://primal.net/e/note1ntfny5yt3aqgp6g2l9uur0cr4pfv0xt3t2edhp6xtvj2jnjkwztq5ldvrl


nostr:npub1rkcr5qck3303z93qe2233er2qwp3694yr8m748ans042l9uz8tfqw9mmgk sends these stickers to people and pays them to stick them in public. It's an awesome project.


Not sure, but good idea for a website.

I can think of

Open sats

HRF

I bet there are more.


Ground beef.


Good idea.


I use Aqua now, but I used botlz and green wallet before.


The dollar seems more risky to me than bitcoin since the banks began to fail and  I noticed the FDIC is basically out of cash.


It's my emergency fund.

My wife likes to have her check deposited to bank of america.

I think this bank is insolvent.

I like to keep access to 5,000,000 sats in case something goes wrong with the bank and I can't get access to the fiat to pay our mortgage.

When that amount exceeds a 3 month emergency fund, I'll make I'll send more to cold storage.


I use liquid, but never keep more than 5 million sats on my wallet.


You leave it on Liquid and never swap back to the mainchain?


Thanks. This is so cool. What a neat tool to onboard new coiners!


Okay. I will.🤙


I would zap handbrake too. Maybe we should create an issue on github.


☝This is why I use it too.


It's a new thing.


I use it.


How do I add ecash onto my Mutiny wallet?

#asknostr


I just tried the app for the first time today. It's amazing and now we can use e cash?

Dude, we can use Mutiny Wallet to make tipping at restaurants great again!


🧡 this idea.

nostr:nevent1qqs9fqafgh32gxc06m46m3tj43pj4075usframwfjpzgtfv6xyg5mugpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqzyp3cn0nyj8nmdylf7d5we6y0e5297p7qdrfvrwawgfrmnd00gwwnyqcyqqqqqqghe9v69


'Tis true.


There's also nsec.app


Nsec bunker.


Good morning.


I asked chat gpt.

Sure, here are some quick and easy lunch ideas:
1. **Avocado Toast**: Mash up an avocado, spread it on whole grain toast, and top with sliced tomatoes, a sprinkle of salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes.
2. **Greek Salad Wrap**: Fill a whole wheat wrap with chopped cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, feta cheese, and a drizzle of Greek dressing.
3. **Quinoa Bowl**: Cook quinoa according to package instructions and top with roasted vegetables, chickpeas, avocado slices, and a squeeze of lemon juice.
4. **Caprese Sandwich**: Layer slices of fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil leaves on whole grain bread. Drizzle with balsamic glaze and a touch of olive oil.
5. **Tuna Salad Stuffed Avocado**: Mix canned tuna with Greek yogurt, diced celery, and a squeeze of lemon juice. Serve it in halved avocados.
6. **Vegetable Stir-fry**: Stir-fry your favorite veggies like bell peppers, broccoli, carrots, and snap peas with tofu or chicken, and serve over brown rice or noodles.
7. **Mediterranean Plate**: Arrange hummus, sliced cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, olives, and whole grain pita bread on a plate for a quick and satisfying meal.
8. **Egg Salad Lettuce Wraps**: Mix hard-boiled eggs with Greek yogurt, mustard, and diced celery. Spoon into lettuce leaves for a low-carb lunch option.

These are just a few ideas to get you started! Feel free to customize them based on your preferences and what ingredients you have on hand.


He rarely talks about that on his podcast.


Anyone have a fountain music playlist?
#asknostr


Beautiful.


Cool graffiti down at the railyard. #graffiti #streetart

https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/112/185/499/474/572/220/original/97212b83a76631e5.jpg


The money is too broken.


Private in name only.


Same with me. I need to use it more.


Maybe the beard? 🤷


This is awesome. I just heard of this meshtastic network.


Yeah that sucks. I'll miss her notes.


I don't disagree.

I guess I prefer the cypherpunk strategy.

For example, the U.S. government should not attack our privacy, but that's a moot point.

The U.S. government does attack our privacy. Protesting the government for a redress of our grievances is unlikely to accomplish our goals. **It shouldn't be that way, but it is**.

Therefore, it makes sense to create tools that make it impossible to attack our privacy.

In the same way, if people attack you because of your identity, it makes sense to hide your identity.

Again, this is not how I wish the world to be, but it is the world I see.


Have you ever tried posting a pseudonym with an avatar that reveals nothing about you're identity?


What is it? A castle? Lighthouse?


Yeah this was pretty good.


Happy easter.

 https://i.nostr.build/2RkVP.jpg


I never saw any flowers on xwitter.

xwitter keeps your eyeballs glued to things that will piss you off.

Nobody calls people mean names for posting pictures of flowers so flowers are censored on xwitter.

nostr:nevent1qqsynny3235030mrkaztz9dv9zkygh47e4fzxwy7xq4uvzzlyrqmkpgpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqzyrzgu20sfdyzesqu58u7lryxa7p33szeur5n2v34zchssrexu9xpzqcyqqqqqqgg2ssuk


Sure. You can write on habla.news if you want.


Looks good. Are you able to get it on clearnet too?  If so, how?


I tried setting it up on ip2tor using port 80, but it doesnct work. Do you think 443 will work?


Tails, the OS on a USB stick?


Can I set up a raspi blitz without an SSD card or running another node?


Damn. This answer is better than I expected.


I haven't seen the Super Bowl since 2013. 🤣


I'm beginning to publish my work on Ghost again.  I'll poist it on nostr too, but ghost makes backups easier.  http://4l2l6ts6mjiybalowepplgfc3df4hahz3vwavi6vnhsidhchmffiw6yd.onion/nostr-is-crypto-anarchy/


What's the easiest way to host a TOR site over the clear net using a TOR reverse proxy? #asknostr


I just learned FTX had an ad with Larry David. Until a couple days ago, I had no idea they had a super bowl ad.


I would love to read this, but the address doesn't wlrk. Mine lools loke this
http://4l2l6ts6mjiybalowepplgfc3df4hahz3vwavi6vnhsidhchmffiw6yd.onion/


This is much more important than money.


Roger Ver, a.k.a. Bitcoin Jesus. He owned bitcoin dot com, but told everyone b-cash was the real bitcoin.


Why's everyone talking about Roger Ver again?

Fuck that guy.


I bought a house in Southern California a couple years ago, but escrow was held up for three months because of a squatter.

The main problem is that the money is broken.

Real estate is used as a store of value and source of revenue. People rent out rooms or use AirBnB as an investment.

The average price of a home in California is just over 11 bitcoin, but most people earning $25-$40 per hour with no assets to their name, can't afford a down payment of 1 bitcoin. My wife is a principal and could not qualify for a mortgage on her income alone. A decade ago, teacher's could qualify for a mortgage with 3 or 4 months salary. Now you'll need at least a year's salary and a second job.

And let's be honest, most people, if they save anything, save dollars.

This caused a severe housing shortage.

 A significant percentage of working people can't afford a roof over there head.

The squaters are a Mandibles style situation. There are laws against squatting, but they take a long time and eviction can be expensive, but losing 6 months of rent is also expensive. I'm a bleeding heart libertarian, and the housing crisis bums me out. I feel bad for both the homeless and the homeowners. They're both victims of the fiat ponzi.


Stay humble. Stack Snickers.


Butterfly on our nectarine tree.

#gardenstr #gardening

https://i.nostr.build/Aadkq.png


4 years ago, my wife asked me why I needed to make my bitcoin custody so complicated.

Why couldn't I just leave it on the app?

Last night, SBF was on the news and she tells me, "I used to think you were a little crazy for doing all that stuff with your bitcoin, but now I get it."


Start a business on nostr.


I didn't misspell this. It was translated in my app.🤔


Nerd miner?🤦


Nerd miner?


Thank you. I'll add the relay.

This indieweb thing is interesting and so is Ben's getblogging site.


Same thing happened to me, but it works on primal.


I say we, but I didn't know what the hell I was doing back then. 😄


It was called the blocksize wars.

Bcashers thought we should increase the blocksize to scale.

We wanted segwit to use lightning, but keep the blocksize small.

The corporations wanted something else.

https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/05/17/the-blocksize-wars-revisited-how-bitcoins-civil-war-still-resonates-today/


A hard fork caused by a disagreement in August, 2017.

It was like a Bitcoin Civil war. B-cash, as we call it, lost.


What's the new Xwitter scam coin?


I'm pretty good at multi-sig. Dancing...not so much.


Welcome.


I want to test it more, but I've been having issues running it since the logins were added. I'll try again this week


Is this is?

https://lobalorning.com/mtvoid/


Twitter looks so fake to me now.


It's pretty gross when you put it like that.


$1 = 0 sats


$25 a month makes no sense given the amount of people willing to pay in bitcoin, but it makes sense to get a lightning wallet and bitcoin wallet in the off chance people are willing to pay in bitcoin.

Strike also has interesting business options.


Good.


Yeah. It's 18,000,000,000 sats.


How soon until AI video replaces interpreters?


Excited to learn about mesh tastic in this episode.


The American dollar is dead, but most people are told otherwise by Weekend And Bernie's politics.


I'm not sure this is true, but it confirms my bias.

That being said, I am 99.9% sure I know what happens now.

https://i.nostr.build/Aa7zG.gif


This is why I got off Facebook.

People began debating me in real life and I would interupt to finish their sentence and tell them why their idea was wrong before giving them a chance to finish.

But I already knew what they were going to say like an NPC in a video game I've played a hundred times.


Me too. What were we thinking?


I remember those days. Fun times.


I feel the same. My parents are retired, but getting squeezed by inflation.

My wife's aunt and uncle are millionaires, but said they have 300k invested in bonds to buy a house in Santa Fe in 10 years.

The bonds pay 2%, but homes are up 11%.

They say they trust thier financial advisor, but don't trust bitcoin.


I broke it right away, but I was able to power it on using a tool from my iFixit toolkit. This is definitely one drawback of the device.


I read this in Tools of Titans, by Tim Ferris(Sammy Kamkar section)

USB is insecure, but the cold power uses  a battery and even if it was compromised, the cable attaches to a magnet so there's no way to transmit data to it.

Even if this is not in your threat model, however, it makes it easier to sign transactions in a bank vault where there might not be an outlet.

https://i.nostr.build/vG0AW.png


Math


We don't have chairs.


The government/corporation partnership is scary.


On the Internet, with meetups.


I think that's what we're doing.


I hope so too. 😄


Awesome!


Read Meditations at least once a year.


What's digital farming?


Cute🐒


Lucky. 🤣

Tell this friend I met you as FTX collapsed and you were jovial.

This means you must have put in hundreds(if not thousands) of hours of hard work before this debacle to deal with the swings and keep your bitcoin safe from these criminals.


Awesome. We need to add this to zap.cooking


That makes sense. I read much more when I was younger. Now reading requires me getting up and finding my reading glasses so there's more friction.


Same.


You would think Greta Thunberg would mine bitcoin to protest climate change.

nostr:nevent1qqsd38dpmha9ur7fg0c4manmtt6s4tc9xqpqc6hd8sl88gtd25mgnxspr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqzyrgl3trulwkqkad5nwss098evxezacht7drpa5lqcqnz4aa9a2pk2qcyqqqqqqgm3hj63


This really sucks. I considered getting it, but not anymore.


That's a good idea.


That's how I see it.


I like it, but I bet they take it down.


Really puts things in perspective.


All the political strife is about the money below the blue line. That's the Matrix we've unplugged from.


I had a hell of a time learning how to use the cold power, but I figured out the problem.

I couldn't see there was a power switch without my damn reading glasses.

https://i.nostr.build/gZBP6.jpg


I used to wear toe socks with vibrams. I'm such a dork, it's not even funny.


The math is beautiful.


Nah. I like them more because they're easier to slip on.


What's the webserver for and what is your threat model?


I began writing a blog about using bitcoin as censorship resistance money a couple years ago because most people don't talk about anything other than the price of 100,000,000 sats. They say things like:

- "Wen Lambo"
- "To the moon!"
- Forever Laura!

It's all fiat-maxi language disguised as bitcoin maxi rhetoric. I would be lying if I said I didn't care about the price at all, but I became interested in bitcoin for ideological reasons. It's nice that I can buy more groceries today than I could a couple years ago, but that's not what turns my crank. I may have heard about bitcoin from Antonopolis, but Ayn Rand orange pilled me before that.

![podcast](https://i.nostr.build/aQ3jP.png)

I want to be financially free from banks. I'm not all the way there yet. I have a mortgage I pay in fiat. I have a few hundred bucks in a savings account and about eight bucks worth of change in my office. I also carry a couple hundred dollars worth of green paper in my soft wallet. It's getting harder to use that green paper these days because more and more businesses would rather pay a sales tax to the bank than accept cash.

I don't talk about the fiat price much. I don't trade "crypto," but fell in love with cryptography. I prefer nostr to Twitter. **I earn sats, save sats, and spend sats** and started using bitcoin as peer 2 peer electronic cash about a decade ago.

My blog is nostr. You can follow me on there. This is not financial advice, it's not even a blockchain. Nostr is a decentralized communication protocol that uses public-private key pairs. You know... cryptography.
## My New Podcast

I decided to turn this blog into a podcast. The idea is to read my blog posts out-loud, using AI because I sound like a mumbling dweeb.

This podcast has no paid ads, but I plan to showcase businesses who participate in what I call the elliptic curve economy, also known as the circular economy. **These are not paid ads**. My goal is to bring  plebs business through word of mouth advertising because I believe this is the best form of advertising.   I consider these value 4 value ads. Hopefully my podcast will bring these pleb businesses some extra revenue, but this is no act of altruism. In my opinion, the more people who use bitcoin as a medium of exchange, the faster we can remove bitcoin off the exchanges. If you buy something from a bitcoin business, another pleb stacks more bitcoin. The more bitcoin that gets stacked, the more valuable my store of value becomes. It is a mutually beneficial relationship.

## Value 4 Value

I am using the value 4 value model. After my blog, I will answer call-in questions  about bitcoin to the best of my ability. Ask a question by sending a boostagram on your favorite podcasting 2.0 player.

I'll do my best to answer the question on the next show.

Here's the pod. I'm, still working on the kinks like audio quality, editing, et cetera, but I find this technology much more fascinating than how much fiat you can obtain with 100 million sats.

https://fountain.fm/episode/sHUSVAIQlMLRNqvPITqw

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I 'm using AI to turn my blog into a value 4 value podcast.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqw8g6r9943xcmm8va5kueedvf5hgcm0d9hz6ur0v33kzum5qgs8t0er2vdwn7vvv2v4hgr3j8jg36k5wkt4xuwk847l634auxl639grqsqqqa289k5c5r


I mean the lady on CNBC, not Parker Lewis.


It's strange to see people talk about bitcoin like this on the news.


Welcome 🤙


Long time no see.


I've had a pair od xero shoes. I like them better than Vibram's.


Hi. You have a beautiful smile.


There is no alternative.


This is my favorite recipe:

Beef short ribs
Salt and Pepper
Vacuum sealed
Sous vide 72 hours
142°


Beautiful.


I like "got inflation,” except I don't feel comfortable putting a sign with a bitcoin logo on my lawn.


Okay. The block height is pretty cool. That's way better than some over-priced wallet you can buy at the mall.


How could we import recipes from zap cooking to mealie?


⚡I accidentally got on zero this month and it feels so good.⚡


It's just lame and a good reminder that I don't need them.


I was on hold for 30 minutes because I paid off my credit card, but an automatic payment also came out so I have $0.00 in my checking account.

They will reverse it, but it will take 10 days.

I'll probably get overdraft fees, but I would rather pay them then sell a single sat to for fiat.


I'm not so sure. I just don't think they've updated their payment rails for 30 years.


Banks are a pain in the ass.


I read that book a few months ago. It was eye opening.


Pacific bitcoin?


What's this from?


Which one?


I only drink one pot a day.


I didn't even know who this was until I saw the cat. I like the new avatar though.


We need an easy way to teach the new people how to get a lightning address.


I see it. Let me know when you add a lightning address. I'll zap you.


Have you tried corny chat?


What AI did you use?


That's about 9.13% of all the gold in the world.

https://i.nostr.build/8GoqE.png


It highlights the fuckery.


Damn. This chart shows the Cantillon Effect in action!


Hello.🤙

⚡When lightning address?⚡


Christians have more opportunity to make money in the United States than non-Christians. I suspect the opposite is true in Saudi Arabia.


I say it's a new Internet that's not controlled by corporations.


Me too.


Got it. Well, you seem to understand the protocol very well. Thank you for promoting it.


I think so. Feel the same about DVM's too.


That's pretty cool.


Is there a such thing as a cashu tipcard yet?

#asknostr


Exactly. I saw the video on my mother in law's phone. It was impressive. How did you learn about nostr? Were you already into bitcoin or PGP or something?


Censorship.


I write a blog on nostr using habla.news and I use pleb.ai for AI images. The images auto post to the plebai nostr key.


Hi.


Hello.


Followed ,🤙


I guess one of my favorite things about bitcoin is I can take it with me to flee a war torn country. It's never occured to me to take my bitcoin to a war zone.


Isn't there a war?


I know you're from Ukraine. You can't go back, right?


Thanks. You can talk about whatever you want here. I don't know anything about Brazil other than Jujitsu though.


You're not wrong.


What's STF?


You're right.

That's why I think the purple pill is greater than the orange pill now.


What do you mean by "current state?"

The job market?
Inflation?
Housing prices?

Where are these metrics better?


Do you sell digital prodicts for sats?


Hi. We create digital products, give them away for free and hope people send us sats. It's called the value 4 value model.


Just as I suspected.


Yeah. Feels kind of like the bitcoin price. NGU is great, but it's hard for me to see so many of my IRL friends struggle.


I know what you mean, but I like that it's growing.


Interesting.


Idk what stable nuts is, but cashu has the same trust model as wallet of satoshi, but it's private.

It's good for sending value to people controlled by authoritarian governments, but not ideal for storing generational wealth.


The goal with all three  is to be free.


Even if you got some the very next day you heard about it, you would regret not buying more.

You can't be too hard on yourself.

Hard money ain't easy.


Welcome.🤙


True.


What's this?


I've reached the same conclusion even though it goes against my intuition.


I didn't know you put this on nostr. That's awesome.


We all are. 😊


Good night nostr.


You're welcome.  Here's an example.

https://home.plebai.com/


Data Vending Machines. It's a smart contract like Nick Szabo described in 1997.

Instead of putting change in a machine that diapenses coke, you send sats to a data vending machine and it gives you AI art, answers a question, or broadcasts your notes.


I can do like 15 push ups, 8 pull ups and 3 dips. How long does it take to get to this mythical 100 pushups?


Yeah, but you might want to keep some for about 12 years. This is not financial advice, but look into it. 😁


I use a second fridge in the garage to prep lunches.


Agreed. This is one reason Blossom sounds awesome.


Oh...now I get it. There's a lot of neophytes now so I cut them some slack.


I don't even know what that is.


Congratulations. This is a great story.


I like big relays and I can't deny...


You can be a millionaire for less than $700.

https://i.nostr.build/EnnMk.png


Hello Joel. 🤙


I think you're onto something.


I use a paynym as an online identity. It was the easiest way to do this before nostr.

I liked the idea that anyone could pay me using +softmountain942 and I could verify my identity by telling the sender the amount, but only those two people know this information.

Besides, it's kinda cool Satoshi remains a nym. I try to do the same as an homage, but I know your opinion is more popular.


"Peter Todd is wrong that Nostr is inherently centralized or that it needs a protocol change to become what it has always purported to be. He is in fact wrong today, because what is written above is not valid for all clients of today, and if we drive in the right direction we can successfully make Peter Todd be more and more wrong as time passes, instead of the contrary."

This is a highlight created in https://habla.news


You've come to the right place.


Is this from Economics In One Lesson?

I almost forgot I just so happened to read that book about a month before I heard about bitcoin.


You can do it with the kiwi browser, but I'm not sure what Apple phones give you permission to do.


Warfare + very few people understand it. The ones that do are all here.


Unregistered security puts it mildly.

Eth is more like an unregistered security exchange that creates crypto  pump n dump schemes.


Wow.


FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt.

The nostr OG's are bitcoin activists all-in or mostly all-in on bitcoin.

We've seen the media try to kill bitcoin with FUD for years.


Cool.

I think I sent you your first zap.


Awesome.


I heard of this stat, but wasn't sure how it was calculated. Thanks for sharing.


If you upload a video to YouTube, Google owns the video and can take it down of it doesn't jive with their Terms and Conditions.

Blossom hosts the video on nostr, so a copy of the video is kept on hundreds of computers. Maybe you think my video sucks, so you delete it off of your computer, but the video survives on hundreds of other computers.


Good mornin'


Good morning.


Lol. I thought about using IPFS, but it says it will delete pods in days if no one listens. That's the sucky part for me.


I can see that, but still enjoy consuming gazillion gallons of bitcoin content.


Holy shit! This is exciting. 💜


That's pretty damn cool. It's like filecoin, without the ponzi scheme token.

Nostr is a beacon on a hill to every shitcoiner.

Bitcoin fixes the money and we can do all the things you say you can do with cryptography, except we don't need any Chuck E. Cheese's tokens.


I'm not into crystals, but I'm glad you're here.

#grownostr


It's one of the first things I noticed about this protocol.


If I spend sats, it's not capital gains. It's a sales tax.


It makes perfect sense.

Instead of telling people to "have fun staying poor,” say there's a new type of social media governments can't force sell to an American corporation or ban.

You don't need an email. You just need to write down 12 words and keep them a secret.

By the way, there's these people on there who don't say, "Buy Bitcoin."

They give it away.

It's beautiful to watch.

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Glad you're here.


What's the website?  I found an article in the LA times, but the website is a dead link.


I hope so, but I don't want to get my hopes up.


I'll need to stop by that cofee shop next time I'm in the city.


This is the way.


He can't win. Politics is a game of calling people names.

It's a contest between Insurrectionist Orange Man vs. Weekend At Biden's.

 The Anti-Vaxer doesn't have a chance.


You're doing awesome work.


Are you allowed to add links to TikTok?

I have this theory that we should brinf zaps to every platform. That way, content creators get used to zaps before they get censored.

https://zapper.nostrapps.org/zap?id=npub1r8wdfruydenz84fxfespcswuhcvyatx6umtd5xguexup49u500xskf50hn


No. Not time either.


I'm not an ALL CAPS kinda guy.


Thanks. I had to watch it on my mother in law's phone.


Thanks for the reminder.


Why haven't I thought of this? 🧡


Bitcoin is peer to peer electronic cash.

BTC is a bitcoin IOU.

Few understand this.


Good Morning.

Is the word "bitcoiner" capatalized?

#asknostr


Good night nostr.


Thanks. I hope you try the  habla client too. I would love to read your work.


That's awesome.

I've been writing a blog for two years. It's been on nostr for about a year.

https://habla.news/p/nprofile1qqs8t0er2vdwn7vvv2v4hgr3j8jg36k5wkt4xuwk847l634auxl639gpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3erztnrw4e8yetwwshxv7tf9uq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvd6hyun9de6zuenedyhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekk7mf0qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgnwaehxw309ahkvenrdpskjm3wwp6kytcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp07cp94s


Welcome.


Hi. I write a blog on nostr. I've been here for about a year and a half (I think).

https://nostree.me/npub1wkljx5c6a8uccc5etws8ry0y3r4dgavh2dcav0tal4rtmcdl4z2sfu5u0t/


Fun fact, the protocol here stands for notes and other stuff transmitted by relay.

NIPS stands for nostr implementation possobilities.

Hi. 🤙


Interesting. Followed.🤙

I want to learn more about this published author thing. What do you write about?


There's a learning curve, but we love helping people. 💜🧡


Hello.


This guy named Nic Carter. Long story.


Sounds like a good idea too.


You're welcome. 😁


Yep.


What's this all about?


Stick around. We can send bitcoin to you even if you don't know how it works.


Looks good.


Sent some nuts via nostr. Did it work?


Makes sense.


It says it won't work for big fires.


Really? That wqs fast.


You're welcome and thank you. We need more non-bitcoin content here. 🫡


Likes are dopimine hits. Zaps are real value you can use to save for your future or buy coffee with.

We want to be free from government controlled social media platforms.

We use bitcoin over the lightning network because it is the best way to send value all over the world. It's popular here because a bitcoin lightning developer built this protocol.

Welcome to freedom tech.


That's the bet. I don't know who it will be, but doubt it's Vivek.


I'll bet 100k sats it won't be Vivek.


Bullets are the only hedge. We'll need to use them as currency if we lose electricity.


If you wany, you can run it yourself.


Clients and relays can go away, but you can also run them yourself if you know what you're doing. For example, you can run Iris, Snort,  or nostrudel on Umbrel or Start9.

You can also run your own relay and backup your data here.

https://metadata.plebnet.dev/


Hello.
 Welcome to the resistance.
🫡


This is great!


Good morning.


Welcome.


nostr:npub1yx6pjypd4r7qh2gysjhvjd9l2km6hnm4amdnjyjw3467fy05rf0qfp7kza How do I edit a cornychat room once I created it?


My rosemary is blooming.

My wife says our fence needs to be replaced, but she doesn't mind waiting 8 years. I think she gets it now. https://i.nostr.build/J64WM.jpg


https://i.nostr.build/# Orange Pilling Merchants

On the Freedom Foot Print show, Brian DeMint said he’s friend’s with a coffee shop owner in Riverside, California--The place where I host my bi-monthly bitcoin meetup. For the last 12,960 blocks or so, I've held a plebwalk on the first Saturday of each month. This plebwalk has been a solo-trek each time. More people are interested in going to meetups where we sit down and drink drugs like beer, soda, or coffee. Therefore, I have decided to cancel my Pleb Walk and move the meetup to Arcade Coffee Bakehouse the coffee shop mentioned on my favorite bitcoin author's podcast. Not to brag, but I bought an autographed copy of Sovereignty Through Mathematics with bitcoin from Knut Svanholm about 8,000 blocks ago. Just kidding, I am trying to brag.

![Knut Svanholm's signature](https://i.nostr.build/Jqvq.jpg)

Plebwalks did not attract as many plebs as I had hoped. I suspect I might spark more interest if we went to a coffee house that accepted bitcoin. Arcade Coffee-The Bakehouse in Riverside California does not accept bitcoin yet but I hope to change that. Some of my first blogs were about me going to the Riverside Farmer's Market to ask people if they accept bitcoin. About one-in-a-hundred said yes. This taught me an important lesson. That shit doesn't work. Rather than go home and cry in my coffee, what if I try a different approach?

The main problem is social proof. People are social animals. They look to others to see what they should or should not do. My dad handed me green paper to buy ice-cream from a dude with a mustache selling sugar to kids out of a van. That's the paradigm of money for most people. That's what everyone used for money before we became a nation of credit card debtors. We don't pay people anymore. We pay debt off to banks. Should I buy a Mercedes, or a whole Bitcoin?  If you're reading this, you are more likely to drive an old Toyota, but most people will buy a Mercedes because suits like to pick their nose in cars made by Mercedes-Benz, or the richest man in the world. They think, I should buy a Mercedes-Benz so I can pick my nose like the rest of the successful people. Picking my nose in a Tesla is the ultimate status symbol. You need to have a great job and a great debt score to pick your nose in a Tesla.

![cash is dead](https://i.nostr.build/QG2X.jpg)

Bitcoin was declared dead more times than I could give a fuck to count, but you know what really died? Cash. According to Dave Ramsey, "Cash is King." I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news Mr. Ramsey, but your king is dead. Almost nobody uses paper cash, let alone p2p cash. "This bill is legal tender and must be accepted for all debts both public and private." . Well...that's just about all you pay with it, debt. Cash not accepted at many places these days.  I guess the legal tender mumbo-jumbo means your credit card must accept cash to pay off your debt. Besides you'll get "cash back" if you use your credit card.  That's not cash. It's more like *Weekend At Bernie's* Cash.  It's social engineering which created social proof that teaches everyone should pay with a credit card, not cash. Guess what fixes this. That's only used by drug dealers, and people who dry-clean money or whatever laundering it means.

It would be nice to pay for my coffee with bitcoin rather than pay credit card with bitcoin. To do this, I can't just be the one caffeine-crazed junkie, hopped up on orange pills, asking the poor barista, "Do you accept our lord and savior, bitcoin?"  But what if ten people asked to pay for coffee with bitcoin?  What if 21 people asked to pay for their coffee in bitcoin? 50? By the way, tell the credit card companies to go fuck themselves by shoving their fees up their ass. "Gradually...then suddenly," is a better catch phrase, but Parker Lewis already coined it and I digress. If I can bring enough customers, we will have social proof for p2p e-cash. That's the hard part, but we have to start somewhere.

## How Businesses Can Accept Bitcoin.
![tortillas chips and peanuts](https://i.nostr.build/k6nj.png)
People have been thinking about on-boarding businesses to accept payments for over a decade. NVK says that’s how Coinkite started, but the demand wasn’t there. It’s still not there.  We need to create it. Strike has a Clover integration that works like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM4qfrywTew

Maybe you don’t want to spend your bitcoin because of the taxes or maybe the coffee house owner is a no-coiner. So what? **Resist the urge to say “have fun staying poor.”** Tell them the bitcoin can auto-magically convert to [Trump’s favorite fiat currency]((https://www.youtube.com/shorts/atDSw5F_hnU). Then again, it's probably not a good idea to say that. Strike gives anyone the ability to accept just about any currency they want though. [Jack Mallers once compared bitcoin to peanuts and fiat to tortilla chips](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2E0tZACtKE). People alergic to the peanuts can get the tortilla chips man. I love Jack Mallers, but it was a bad analogy. The important thing is that blue check Twitter BTC Maxis don’t need to spend their own “muh taxes” BTC and no-coiner business owners allergic to orange peanuts can get the green tortilla chips they really want: Win-Win.

[strike](https://i.nostr.build/5ezY.png)
Strike can’t pour a lot of resources into getting businesses to accept bitcoin as a payment when there’s no demand, but they have given us the tools to do it. Brian Tracy said, "if it’s to be, it’s up to me." He's right. Making bitcoin peer-to-peer cash is up to me and up to you. Some meetups have already integrated payments at their meetups. It's one of the best ways to grow bitcoin as peer 2 peer electronic cash.  Many of the people who have signed up for my meetup are not aware of the lightning network. Some of them think video on a blockchain is the next way to pick their nose in a Lambo on the moon. They like “BTC” too. I say why video game on a blockchain NGMI and show them the lightning network.

After I give my spiel, I say, "so show me how this video game on a blockchain works." I might as well ask them to unify the theory of gravity. They don't know what a blockchain is.

"Wallet, you mean like my Coinbase wallet?"

Coinbase is good at marketing. They convinced the ETF's to let Coinbase HODL their bitcoin. They don't know how to accept payments. They think lightning addresses are for email. They sell SHIBullshit and send nasty letters to people playing online poker. Bitcoin doesn't fix this. We fix this, but I need some help. Like I said, it won't work if it's just me.

Note:
I called the coffee house mentioned on the podcast. They have another location that does use clover down the road, but they use Square at the location the author from the Freedom Footprint show likes to frequent. [Thank Zeus we can use Square anyway](nostr:nevent1qqsf7z66wujqasuenwtwgdrjzhvafwwq4tgnn3xy2cvxp9vvz757tncpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qgsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gate48h).

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Note: Pablo asked me to set up tiers on highlighter.com, so I did. I am also interested in FOSS AI and decided to use elevenlabs to create audio-versions of my blog after listening to [this episode of AI U unchained](https://fountain.fm/episode/zJoGSdJOHuArKFtYvt1a) I highly encourage you to listen to this episode even though it's not technically a bitcoin podcast--I think it is. The idea is to create a podcast feed for subscribers, but I don't have all the details worked out yet so I put this first audio recording on Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/271nHQEPxvqxVSSXHsbZM1?si=IocbUhgxTJSbBGi8oQaxGwnznq.jpg

Brian DeMint talked about a coffee shop near me on The Freedom Footprint Show, so I am trying to orange pill the merchant and see if he will accept bitcoin because I want a place to host my local bitcoin meetup that accepts bitcoin.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqvx7unpdenk2ttsd9kxc6twvukk6etjvd5xzmn5wvpzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qvzqqqr4guyw9nt2


I want to subscribe to Racket News on Nostr. Can someone please get Matt back on nostr?

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I have no idea what this is, but it looks good for some reason I do not understand.


Welcome. Glad to see more content creators here. 🫡


#V4VADS

https://fountain.fm/clip/kcYSn47aHCdC4dxrSWgo

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Wow. Is the video on nostr?


I saw the news, but how did the TikTokers find out about us?


Try this site. Let me know if you have any questions. 😁https://habla.news/faq


I read a book about the one-inch punch in highschool and practiced on a coffee can filled with sand. 👊


I got a B.A. in Creative Writing, but I write a lot of non-fiction now. I started using AI to turn my blog into a podcast, but I'm still learning.


I write a blog on nostr. I would love to see your work on nostr too.


followed #plebchain


I love the dad jokes, but my son hates them. 🤣


Good idea.


You make a good point.


Profound.


Agreed.


Welcome. Use the #asknostr if you have any questions.


They might want to read the white paper before making such claims.


Most prople I talk to still think the dollar is backed by gold.


Congratulations!


Heard about this on AI unchained, but haven't finished the episode.


1) US debt default
2) Fiat, a socialist currency, replaced gold, the money with that Invisible hand Adam Smith talked about.

We are tricked into believing we still live in a capatalist society. That's "The Matrix," in a nutshell.


Good point, but what does the company actually do? I heard they want to sign stuff on the bitcoin timechain now.


"The world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."

Here's a hint. It started in 1971.


I kinda like Saylor. I like that MSTR uses bitcoin as a treasury asset, but the risk profile changed this week, IMO.


If Congress can force sell TikTok, they can force sell Microstrategy's #bitcoin.

That's why I just stay humble, stack sats.


Followed. #plebchain


Nostr is the parrallell Internet with an economy built on top of a peer 2 peer electronic cash system.

Is that what you mean by legit?


Hi. Let me know what you think of zap.streaming


Did China ban it again?


You're welcome.😁


Spring browser gives a good overview of what's possible, but it might be android only.


Good mornin'.


Let us know if you have any questions. 🤙


What's it about? I don't watch much news.


I'm just kidding. I don't even know what the price is after payday. I don't know what it is right now.


I seem to be able to time the dips better than any trader I know. Here's my system:

I get paid.

My dollars turn to sats.

I call it the payday indicator. It tells me the price will go down tommorrow with 99% accuracy.


Nice stanza.


Welcome to #nostr

Welcome to #zaps

Welcome to 🫂

#introductions https://image.nostr.build/39c8ab06bc0e4b796af0e88c1e0dee0f72bb555544e9b4aff8c4616351f16e52.jpg


I don't have an iPhone, but I know a guy who's good at explaining these things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG1IDm-lQek&t=2


It's already shinning with this tiktok thing. Funny how there are TikTockers frontrunning some bitcoiners on #nostr now.


I have family visiting this month, but What are the buziest times to play?


I've tried it a long time ago, but the tables were dead. My hypothesis is nostr can help coordinate games.


It's awesome.  I 💜 it. It needs more recipes. 🤙


True,  Maybe I shoud do small 1k cash games and maybe do a tournament every now and then. I was thinking of a World Series of Nostr Poker kinda thing.


That's too bad. I wonder if SWC takes lightning yet.


Does lightning poker have tournaments?


I want to get a small nostr poker game together, like 10,000 sats or something. Maybe a 10k sat tournament.


Requires a VPN, but maybe that's not so bad.


What app are you using?


What's a good lightning poker site?


What's packer?


Looks good. Do you have the recipe? I would like to format if for you to put it on zap.cooking if you don't mind.  I'll show you how too.


Where were you able to play? I haven't played on the site since April 14th, 2011.

I saw it was legal in Penslyvania now.


Anyone ever play on PokerStars or Full tilt? #poker


I'm not sure I know what that is. Is it a typo?(not sure I wanna know)


Why not try habla.news?


It's kinda wierd to me that they talk about #bitcoin on the local news now.


I didn't plan on using AI for an image of Trump and Biden, but now I will.


Welcome. You'll fit right in.


Awesome!


As new nostriches join it can be tempting for those of us that have been here a while to continue interacting just with our normal groups of npubs.

Remember to reach out, follow new people, engage with them. It's a big part of what made #nostr special to us when we got here.

Some of us were unseen by the influencers but landed here to real interactions and genuine conversation ... Keep that spirit alive.

#introductions #plebchain


Welcome. Followed because I want to see more stuff on nostr.🤙


That's pretty cool.


Good thing we are not in a recession and the unemployment numbers are so low.


We eat healthy because we are excited about the future.


# Bitcoin Is Cash Money

In my last blogpost, I wrote about a clear path to buying coffee with bitcoin. Of course, this plan is predicated on the coffee shop owner actually agreeing to do this, but it is technically feasible in 2024, even if the coffee shop is as alergic to bitcoin as my son is allergic to peanuts.

			Today I'm writing about buy me a cup of coffee when Starbucks doesn't directly accept bitcoin. This is a taboo subject nowadays. The new bitcoin Jesus thinks bitcoin is not p2p electronic-cash. I know the people who make this argument twist the words. They say cash comes from the French word, which means blah, blah, blah. It's a red-herring. Satoshi never described this so-called French word. He said:

			"It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on. If enough people think the same way, that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Once it gets bootstrapped, there are so many applications if you could effortlessly pay a few cents to a website as easily as dropping coins in a vending machine.""

			Subscription sites that need some extra proof-of-work for their free trial so it doesn't cannibalize subscriptions could charge bitcoins for the trial.

			"Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible.""

			"If a merchant actually has a problem with theft, they can make the customer wait 2 minutes, or wait for something in e-mail, which many already do. If they really want to optimize, and it's a large download, they could cancel the download in the middle if the transaction comes back double-spent. If it's website access, typically it wouldn't be a big deal to let the customer have access for 5 minutes and then cut off access if it's rejected. Many such sites have a free trial anyway.

			Sathoshi seemed to think bitcoin peer 2 peer electronic cash wa cash money. Price is nice, but I write this blog to show people how bitcoin works as cash money. We can use it to solve real world problems and it has real-life use cases. In this post, I'll show you bitcoin is more than mere property. It's a super power that lets people send money without providing your information to every Tom, Dick, and Larry Fink.

			When Satoshi talked about peer to peer electronic cash system, he meant cash like the cypherpunks meant cash.  Cypherpunks did not talk about the French origins of the word cash. They used the word in the coloquial sense like cold, hard, cash. Satoshi didn't site any papers that talked about the word "casse". He cited tools created by crypto anarchists like wei dai's  Peer-money. Here's a quote from this wei dai's b-money. As a reminder this essay was cited in Satoshi Nakamoto's White paper.

			"I am fascinated by Tim May's crypto-anarchy. Unlike the communities traditionally associated with the word "anarchy", in a crypto-anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary. It's a community where the threat of violence is impotent because violence is impossible, and violence is impossible because its participants cannot be linked to their true names or physical locations.

			Until now it's not clear, even theoretically, how such a community could operate. A community is defined by the cooperation of its participants, and **efficient cooperation requires a medium of exchange (money) and a way to enforce contracts**. Traditionally these services have been provided by the government or government sponsored institutions and only to legal entities. In this article I describe a protocol by which these services can be provided to and by untraceable entities."

			Satoshi was clear. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. It's an integral part of the game theory. Cash is decentralized. Property is not decentralized. Property gets taxed. Fiat cash gets taxed via inflation. Peer 2 peer electronic cash is not property. It's cash. The keys are property. Your steel plate is property. The twelve words you head are property, but the transactions on the time chain are not property. We should work to keep it that way.

			When I first Andreas Antonopolis talk about bitcoin, I thought it was an awesome idea, but I was skeptical. There was no way in hell I would just sign up with coinbase and buy bitcoin just because he said so. I didn't trust it. I had to verify it. So I thought, if this is peer to peer cash is legit, someone ought to be able to send me a little. So I asked someone on twitter to send me some hash tag bitcoin. Someone sent be a buck fifty and told me to buy a cup of coffee with it. That's my bias. I can buy coffee with it. I did a couple years ago. I still have most of those sats from 2014.

			Maybe I'm just a crotchety old man waving my cane in the sky and screaming "Get off my drought resistant landscaping!" Then again, maybe more people would get on-boarded if we sent them bitcoin peer to peer. That's why I'm bullish on nostr. We should stop telling people to "buy bitcoin." **We should tell them to get on nostr and try bitcoin**. It sounds better than, buy bitcoin, [peer-to-peer electronic property](https://primal.net/e/note10v7ns6kerrmayj4z5rspxu5dls9asn322a964xql5g9huvhy2thqglcdln)

			## How To Buy Coffee With Bitcoin

			Say you are allergic to bitcoin like I'm allergic to fiat. Don't like VoLiTiLiTy? No problemo! Sign up for an account at https://strike.me.

			Set up your account and choose a username. You will get a lightning address that is `yourusername@strike.me`

			Despite how it looks, that's not an email address. It's a lightning address. This address is all you need to accept payments on the Internet. All you need to do is put it on your webpage, substack, Twitter, or whatever.

			First, you should choose to take the orange pill or the green pill.  Do you want fiat or do you want bitcoin? Again, I know a lot of people hate bitcoin. Mention the word on blue sky if you don't believe me.

			Click on the little anthropomorphic person on the upper right hand corner.

			![man](https://i.nostr.build/L5dm.png)

			Next, scroll down until you see the settings menu. Next, click the "Bitcoin" tab.

			![bitcoin menu](https://i.nostr.build/gdqY.png)

			Now it's time to choose the orange pill or the green pill.  Click on Passive incoming payments.

			![Bitcoin tab](https://i.nostr.build/VjRv.png)

			You'll have the option to choose to accept incoming payments as bitcoin or cash. Of course, if someone sends you less than a penny, it can't be converted to fiat cash. Anything more than a penny gets converted to USD in my jurisdiction. I assume people in other countries get the cash converted to their local fiat currency, but don't quote me on this. I don't really know. As you can see, I took the orange pill, but you can do whatever you want to do.

			![choose currency](https://i.nostr.build/9m5E.png)

			Remember, your lightning address is your username at strike.me.  I'm using a lightning tips address, but the process is the same.+
			### Accept Payments Anywhere On The Internet

			You can put your lightning address anywhere on the Internet, but this is about coffee so I created a Buy Me A Coffee page. I won't do a tutorial because I assume you know how to set up a profile on the Internet.

			Remember when congress questioned Zuck about his stablecoin? Well, I hate to break it to you Congress we don't need Zuck bucks. You can add a lightning address right to a Facebook profile.

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

			Here's my page. You won't find it on Facebook.

			https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bloggingbitcoin

			I added my lightning address to https://sendsats.to  It comes in handy for making a clickable page. There's not much of a tutorial needed.

			The page is https://sendsats.to/bloggingbitcoin@ln.tips

			Just replace my lightning address with your lightning address and you too can accept magic Internet money.

			**WTF Does This Have To Do With Coffee?**

			Go back to the Strike welcome screen, scroll down to shop with lightning.

			![coffee](https://i.nostr.build/PrR7.png)

			### Shop With Bitcoin Straight From Strike

			I wrote about Bitrefill in one of my early blogs, but now it's integrated right into the Strike App. You can buy coffee, or just about anything else you want with your newly acquired sats or fiat. You might want to hang on to some sats if you don't have any, just in case, but you could totally buy a cup of coffee if you want to. Many Saylor disciples accept the thesis that bitcoin is property. They will never spendl. They also know Saylor says you should orange pill as many people as possible. What better way to orange people than send them a little bitcoin. I'm not saying to buy some fancy-schmancy car like a 1976 Ford Pinto with your bitcoin. I'm saying to buy a five dollar cup of coffee. I mean an eight dollar cup of coffee.  Don't spend your bitcoin if you're worried about your taxes or whatever. Holdl dollars in your Strike account. Don't "buy bitcoin" with those dollars. Turn the dollars into sats for a gift card. It might cost you some fiat flyer miles. So what? Tell the barista you bought your gift card with bitcoin.

			`We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network.`

			You can do this because bitcoin solves the double spending problem. It solves the double-spending problem so well, someone can send you ten bucks worth of bitcoin from Australia. You'll get it within about three seconds. You can buy a Starbucks gift card with those sats and sip yourself shakey straight-away. You could also send the bitcoin to the Cash App and buy a gift card there too. I suppose you could buy Bank of America stock in the Cash App right away too. I don't know why the hell you would do that, but it's possible. You'll need to sell the bitcoin on the Cash App first, but guess why you can do this? Because bitcoin solves the double spending problem. Can you do that with Bank of America? No, it takes at least three days to send dollars from Bank of America to Wells Fargo.

			![Starbucks](https://i.nostr.build/347P.png)
# Buy Me A Cup of Coffee

In my last blogpost, I wrote about a clear path to buying coffee with bitcoin. Of course, this plan is predicated on the coffee shop owner actually agreeing to do this, but it is technically feasible in 2024, even if the coffee shop is as alergic to bitcoin as my son is allergic to peanuts.

			Today I'm writing about buy me a cup of coffee when Starbucks doesn't directly accept bitcoin. This is a taboo subject nowadays. The new bitcoin Jesus thinks bitcoin is not p2p electronic-cash. I know the people who make this argument twist the words. They say cash comes from the French word, which means blah, blah, blah. It's a red-herring. Satoshi never described this so-called French word. He said:

			"It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on. If enough people think the same way, that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Once it gets bootstrapped, there are so many applications if you could effortlessly pay a few cents to a website as easily as dropping coins in a vending machine.""

			Subscription sites that need some extra proof-of-work for their free trial so it doesn't cannibalize subscriptions could charge bitcoins for the trial.

			"Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible.""

			"If a merchant actually has a problem with theft, they can make the customer wait 2 minutes, or wait for something in e-mail, which many already do. If they really want to optimize, and it's a large download, they could cancel the download in the middle if the transaction comes back double-spent. If it's website access, typically it wouldn't be a big deal to let the customer have access for 5 minutes and then cut off access if it's rejected. Many such sites have a free trial anyway.

			Sathoshi seemed to think bitcoin peer 2 peer electronic cash wa cash money. Price is nice, but I write this blog to show people how bitcoin works as cash money. We can use it to solve real world problems and it has real-life use cases. In this post, I'll show you bitcoin is more than mere property. It's a super power that lets people send money without providing your information to every Tom, Dick, and Larry Fink.

			When Satoshi talked about peer to peer electronic cash system, he meant cash like the cypherpunks meant cash.  Cypherpunks did not talk about the French origins of the word cash. They used the word in the colloquial sense like cold, hard, cash. Satoshi didn't site any papers that talked about the word "casse". He cited tools created by crypto anarchists like wei dai's  Peer-money. Here's a quote from this wei dai's b-money. As a reminder this essay was cited in Satoshi Nakamoto's White paper.

			"I am fascinated by Tim May's crypto-anarchy. Unlike the communities traditionally associated with the word "anarchy", in a crypto-anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary. It's a community where the threat of violence is impotent because violence is impossible, and violence is impossible because its participants cannot be linked to their true names or physical locations.

			Until now it's not clear, even theoretically, how such a community could operate. A community is defined by the cooperation of its participants, and **efficient cooperation requires a medium of exchange (money) and a way to enforce contracts**. Traditionally these services have been provided by the government or government sponsored institutions and only to legal entities. In this article I describe a protocol by which these services can be provided to and by untraceable entities."

			Satoshi was clear. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. It's an integral part of the game theory. Cash is decentralized. Property is not decentralized. Property gets taxed. Fiat cash gets taxed via inflation. Peer 2 peer electronic cash is not property. It's cash. The keys are property. Your steel plate is property. The twelve words you head are property, but the transactions on the time chain are not property. We should work to keep it that way.

			When I first Andreas Antonopolis talk about bitcoin, I thought it was an awesome idea, but I was skeptical. There was no way in hell I would just sign up with coinbase and buy bitcoin just because he said so. I didn't trust it. I had to verify it. So I thought, if this is peer to peer cash is legit, someone ought to be able to send me a little. So I asked someone on twitter to send me some hash tag bitcoin. Someone sent be a buck fifty and told me to buy a cup of coffee with it. That's my bias. I can buy coffee with it. I did a couple years ago. I still have most of those sats from 2014.

			Maybe I'm just a crotchety old man waving my cane in the sky and screaming "Get off my drought resistant landscaping!" Then again, maybe more people would get on-boarded if we sent them bitcoin peer to peer. That's why I'm bullish on nostr. We should stop telling people to "buy bitcoin." **We should tell them to get on nostr and try bitcoin**. It sounds better than, buy bitcoin, [peer-to-peer electronic property](https://primal.net/e/note10v7ns6kerrmayj4z5rspxu5dls9asn322a964xql5g9huvhy2thqglcdln)

			## How To Buy Coffee With Bitcoin

			Say you are allergic to bitcoin like I'm allergic to fiat. Don't like VoLiTiLiTy? No problemo! Sign up for an account at https://strike.me.

			Set up your account and choose a username. You will get a lightning address that is `yourusername@strike.me`

			Despite how it looks, that's not an email address. It's a lightning address. This address is all you need to accept payments on the Internet. All you need to do is put it on your webpage, substack, Twitter, or whatever.

			First, you should choose to take the orange pill or the green pill.  Do you want fiat or do you want bitcoin? Again, I know a lot of people hate bitcoin. Mention the word on blue sky if you don't believe me.

			Click on the little anthropomorphic person on the upper right hand corner.

			![man](https://i.nostr.build/L5dm.png)

			Next, scroll down until you see the settings menu. Next, click the "Bitcoin" tab.

			![bitcoin menu](https://i.nostr.build/gdqY.png)

			Now it's time to choose the orange pill or the green pill.  Click on Passive incoming payments.

			![Bitcoin tab](https://i.nostr.build/VjRv.png)

			You'll have the option to choose to accept incoming payments as bitcoin or cash. Of course, if someone sends you less than a penny, it can't be converted to fiat cash. Anything more than a penny gets converted to USD in my jurisdiction. I assume people in other countries get the cash converted to their local fiat currency, but don't quote me on this. I don't really know. As you can see, I took the orange pill, but you can do whatever you want to do.

			![choose currency](https://i.nostr.build/9m5E.png)

			Remember, your lightning address is your username at strike.me.  I'm using a lightning tips address, but the process is the same.+
			### Accept Payments Anywhere On The Internet

			You can put your lightning address anywhere on the Internet, but this is about coffee so I created a Buy Me A Coffee page. I won't do a tutorial because I assume you know how to set up a profile on the Internet.

			Remember when congress questioned Zuck about his stablecoin? Well, I hate to break it to you Congress we don't need Zuck bucks. You can add a lightning address right to a Facebook profile.

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

			Here's my page. You won't find it on Facebook.

			https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bloggingbitcoin

			I added my lightning address to https://sendsats.to  It comes in handy for making a clickable page. There's not much of a tutorial needed.

			The page is https://sendsats.to/bloggingbitcoin@ln.tips

			Just replace my lightning address with your lightning address and you too can accept magic Internet money.

			**WTF Does This Have To Do With Coffee?**

			Go back to the Strike welcome screen, scroll down to shop with lightning.

			![coffee](https://i.nostr.build/PrR7.png)

			### Shop With Bitcoin Straight From Strike

I wrote about Bitrefill in one of my early blogs, but now it's integrated right into the Strike App. You can buy coffee, or just about anything else you want with your newly acquired sats or fiat. You might want to hang on to some sats if you don't have any, just in case, but you could totally buy a cup of coffee if you want to. Many Saylor disciples accept the thesis that bitcoin is property. They will never spendl. They also know Saylor says you should orange pill as many people as possible. What better way to orange people than send them a little bitcoin. I'm not saying to buy some fancy-schmancy car like a 1976 Ford Pinto with your bitcoin. I'm saying to buy a five dollar cup of coffee. I mean an eight dollar cup of coffee.  Don't spend your bitcoin if you're worried about your taxes or whatever. Holdl dollars in your Strike account. Don't "buy bitcoin" with those dollars. Turn the dollars into sats for a gift card. It might cost you some fiat flyer miles. So what? Tell the barista you bought your gift card with bitcoin.

			`We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network.`

You can do this because bitcoin solves the double spending problem. It solves the double-spending problem so well, someone can send you ten bucks worth of bitcoin from Australia. You'll get it within about three seconds. You can buy a Starbucks gift card with those sats and sip yourself shakey straight-away. You could also send the bitcoin to the Cash App and buy a gift card there too. I suppose you could buy Bank of America stock in the Cash App right away too. I don't know why the hell you would do that, but it's possible. You'll need to sell the bitcoin on the Cash App first, but guess why you can do this? Because bitcoin solves the double spending problem. Can you do that with Bank of America? No, it takes at least three days to send dollars from Bank of America to Wells Fargo.

			![Starbucks](https://i.nostr.build/347P.png)

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Bitcoin is not peer to peer property. Bitcoin is peer to peer electronic cash. In this blog I show you how to buy coffee using bitcoin as peer to peer electronic cash even took a vow to never spend your bitcoin. The merchant doesn't even need to know you spent any of your precious sats on your brown energy juice.


Yes we really want tik tok people here.


Code is speech.  Cypherpunks write code.

RIP

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

nostr:note1dl25swd7pn0r7tt47fuk3a6r70av7kt7c8q6nu6rlyll9c7xlpps8wnz37


THE TIKTOK BAN BILL GOING THROUGH CONGRESS RIGHT NOW WILL GIVE GOVERNMENT INSANE POWER TO RESTRICT SPEECH.

AT THE SAME TIME SECTION 230 PROTECTIONS ARE ABOUT TO BE NEUTERED BY THE SUPREME COURT WHICH WILL ADD AN INSANE AMOUNT OF LIABILITY TO CENTRALIZED PLATFORMS - INEVITABLY INCREASING CENSORSHIP.

RESTRICTING FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA HAS BIPARTISAN SUPPORT AMONG OUR CORRUPT POLITICAL CLASS.

NOSTR IS ABOUT TO HAVE ITS MOMENT TO SHINE. WE NEED TO BE READY FOR BILLIONS OF NEW USERS.


Just to be clear, nostr uses crypto, but is not an investment. We like sending bitcoin to people though.


I can't wait until the #TikTok people discover flare.pub


Welcome to freedom.


It's short for the word plebeian, a lower class Roman.

It's something bitcoin dorks call themselves.


Welcome.


Hello. Let us now if you need help.


Welcome. Stick around.


Awesomem


I like the OS. I'm done with running bitcoin stuff on raspi's though. The raspi is great for things like mealie and vault warden, but I wouldn't run a lightning node on it.

You should splurge on the Intel N100 version. They don't pay me to say this, but don't use raspis for bitcoin stuff.

Don't get rid of the raspi. Run  Mealie, Imvidious, Home assisrant, and cloudflare tunnel on it, but get the Umbrel Home for bitcoin stuff.


No, but I run Umbrel. What do you want to do with it?


Okay, let me get this straight.

The politicians want to ban TikTok like they tried to ban PGP in an election year, and **the two people we are expected to vote for were chosen without any debate**.

Am I a conspiracy theorist or something or do they just not even pretend anymore?


Maybe I should read one of these stories. I have no idea what that means. I thought all the social media was spyware. Are they pro US Spyware and anti China Spolyware?


I haven't seen much news since I got into nostr.

Scrolled the hill headlines today.

What's all this talk about banning tik-tok.

Explain it to me like I've never ticked nor tocked.


People who don't like nostr are like people who say they don't like the first amendment because they have nothing to say.


Interesting. I always assumed the 2% goal was trying to mimic the annual increase in the supply of gold.


There are no more orange pills left, only orange suppositories.


Anon, how is your wallet recovery process doing? Now would be an ideal time to check in on it. #Bitcoin


Exactly. I'm here because."The System" didn't work for me.

That's okay. I found a better system that does work for me, but I am starting to feel bad for the people still stuck in "the system," now that it works for less and less people--Even people who did all the right things and got "good jobs."

NGU is bitter sweet.

I guess I'm some sort of bleeding heart libertarian.


I'm stealing this. :)


PEER TO PEER ELECTRONIC PROPERTY https://image.nostr.build/8f1ee9edc531a01b845550ff1cf256696973eb85870fe92409af099395b1c91a.jpg


Yeah, this "property only" idea is ridiculous. I hope our culture is cult of personality resistant, but I'm not so sure.

I like how you compared Saylor to Ver in the latest What Bitcoin Did pod.


The rest of the world is falling apart? How so?


Wait, I thought bitcoin wasted all the water on planet earth.🤔


Why raw milk?


It worries me too.


Same for me. My theory is many left-leaning people bought into effective alturism Sam's scams and equivicate bitcoin with rug-pulls.


That sucks.


People who don't see the problem with the double-spending problem because they're relatively close to the money spigot.

The banks are good to them. They see XRP as an improvement to SWIFT.

They don't see bank runs.


#Nostr is more important than most people think.

Centralized platforms can be hacked. Remember when Biden's Twitter was hacked? Some sucker probably sent some kid in a basement bitcoin because "Biden" said they would match the bitcoin 2-to-1.

If the real POTUS was on nostr, we could mitigate the misinformation risk which is even worse in a world of deep fake videos.


Bitcoin is the greatest Medium of Exchange the world has ever seen.

Bitcoin is the greatest Store of Value the world has ever seen.

Both are true.


The Web of Trust is more important than ever.


Don't trust anything not cryptographically sign.
Verify the public keys you get in person.

Shit is going to get weirder and weirder.
Focus on meeting your local community.

Generative digital AI will impact all modes of modern communication. Not just images and videos.


He already is. #few


This is is great. I've been looking for something like this.


NM, I found it.


What's the npub of the dude on this pod?


These are my favorite TSP podcasts.


All the keys that can ever exist do exist and have existed for all time.

These keys are big numbers, translated into human readable words. The keys grant the power to spend bitcoin associated with any unspent output transactions they may have.

You can spend whenever you want, as long as you have a key with a valid UTXO, but the spending is settled every ten minutes by specialized computers looking for a certain amount of leading hex zeros. The amount of hex zeros required changes every 2016 blocks.


Now win the Powerball 9 times in a row.

Those are your odds of guessing a single-sig bitcoin wallet according to Yan Pritzker in his book, Inventing Bitcoin.


I really hate when I zap my own notes like an idiot.


Good morning, stack sats.


Ironically, yes. I the Pandemic gave me time to study multi-sig.


So do I.


I could use some food photo tips.


Boom!

https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw54wyl7kchagcmn4l8fxsaa4u5qm5dk6xch0ykpmn4nkp7tdywyqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzpsnz9jgkmxusuy9grv46v7cehh7966lzdsjh2mglnyxn0pwwzdsmqvzqqqqqqyftaua7


That's awesome sauce.


This almost makes me want to go back to legacy social media to share this, but it probably won't make it past the censors.

🤔 Maybe bitcoin.rocks can turn this note into a QR code on a sticker.


No, but I can get it for you when I get home.


Is it good?


Jack had a block clock in the background while being filmed. Some dude thought it was the time in Moscow.


Prostitition and profligate sexual experimentation was rampant by the end of Weimar Germany. The first book burning took place at the Sex Museum.


I heard that episode too. The Anti-MOE army was not on my bingo card.

I don't understand how people can talk about Satoshi as if he was a god, but pretend he didn't care about MOE.


Last I heard, he wants to make Digital ID's on top pf Bitcoin.

https://fountain.fm/episode/gBgqilZGdksy0I2gX7KI


Fine, but read when money dies anyway.


This is what happens when money dies. Don't hate the ”hot girls.”

Hate the broken money.


There is a big difference between ”rich" and free.

Many suits are rich, but are not free to skip a meeting or walk around barefoot.


I want to buy coffee too. I'm trying to make it happen.


It looks like the days of salaried employees being able to buy a whole coin are gone for good.

You might get lucky if you already have some assets to sell, but assets like houses in places where people want to live are getting harder to aquire too.


When the exchanges run out of sats, MOE will be the only escape hatch for the middle and working class.


I thought about this on my morning walk yesterday. That's what makes hospitals such a big honeypot for ransomware.


0.072 million sir.


That sounds like too much work. 🤣


Agreed.


Thanks. I wondered where I could find this.

This is the 2nd best yardstick.


Stay humble.


Good morning. We don't buy bitcoin around here.

We sell fiat. 😜


Is it on YouTube yet?


I know. I would have more bitcoin if I didn't spend it on junk food in 2015. The problem was that I only bought $50 a month and spent it on whatever.

It's different when you're all in or almost all in. I'll spend $250 on $500 boots because I think they'll last longer than $80 Nikes.

I don't buy coffee outside of my home often, but when I do, I spend bitcoin.

Even fiat-only spenders make must calculate this  trade-off.  If you buy coffee everyday with a credit card, it is no differemt than not buying bitcoin with the fiat you spent on coffee.

I'm talking about the margin here too. You would have ro be an idiot to sell all yoir bitcoin for a second home or Lambo or something.


The zombie companies NGMI.


I'm also comming around to the idea that being your own bank isn't all that it's cracked up to be. 🤫


Hey Mark. My next blog is about buying coffee with bitcoin and why I think it's important. Do you mind if I add this quote to it?  I know we disagree, but I promise I won't be mean.


Me too.


Yes! There's already one Nostr Obsidian Plugin, but I think it only works on Desktop.

That's why I tried it, but I've heard it on a few podcasts since then, now I'm hooked.

Highlighter had notes at one time.

What do you think about a plugin that posted to the note kind on nostr? It could be public or encrypted.


Thank you. I think this is a viable way to #grownostr. Especially now that we hit  all time highs.


Zaps can be integrated into anything on the Internet.

Here's an example on Substack.

https://open.substack.com/pub/bloggingbitcoin?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2a2wyv


I don't have an answer yet. We're still early. Imagine if the world was addicted to Encyclopedia Britannica and we are early adopters of Wikipedia

We're like: http is gonna change the world!

Encyclopedia maxis: http is neat, but pointless. You should spend your time at the library instead, where we talk to about Encyclopedia Brittanica charts instead.

We're like: Have ya seen YouTube?

Encyclopedia maxis: What did you call me?


Family.


Looks good, just needs a zap button and a ostrich icon that links to primal.net 😀


Thank you. One of your notes from last week sent me down this rabbit hole.


Thanks. I think I can do it when I get home.


It's possible. Nosrtr wallet connect let's you do some interesting things already. I've zapped multiple people on Discord with it, but my lightning channel closed. 😱


Is there an Obsidian cheat sheet?
#asknostr


So true about junk food.


Sometimes, I need to buy a cup of coffee at the gas station and gas stations don't take bitcoin yet, so I sell to pay $2.49 on my credit card.

Is coffee a shitcoin? Yeah....Sorry, not sorry.


It can be done with Prisms.


Gold is a better yardstick. It's obvious when you see different currencies reaching all time highs at different times.

I also like to price International real estate in bitcoin because I don't know what a million Australian dollars means.


These are my favorite, but I never thought of self-hosting primal.


Remember, why we are here


In 1995, one of my professors said the media was controlled by corporations. At the time, they also began collecting phone numbers for grocery store rewards and "other stuff."(pun intended)

At the time, the Internet felt free from corporate influence and I was bullish on freedom. I asked my professor, "Do you think the Internet could change things?"

She said, "It's too early to tell."

About ten years later, the corporations took over the Internet.

I'm on nostr because it reminds me of the Internet in 1995. It feels like we're taking control back from the corporations. I suspect they will come eventually. In some ways they are already here, but the difference is the corporations can't keep the plebs from running their own relays.

I also have a different perspective on the corporations now. I now see the CEO's like Jack want to do the right thing and often share my vision of what the Internet could be, but are themselves victims of government censorship.

That's why I'm here.

Power to the People!


Good morning. Nice to see so many people posting on this decentralized communication protocol.


I've been thinking about this a lot lately.


My wife needs more bitcoin.


Glad to see you again Tomer.


What's the advantage of holding that much cash? I l know I'm biased, but I don't get it.


Good question I've been thinking about myself. How do you value a company on a different monetary standard?


Oh. That's cool. I saw my meetup on flockstr on one od Derrek's slides on some random YouTube channel. It was surreal.

Pretty cool too.


Primal makes it easy to get a custodial. lightning address. So does the Current App.

If you're more advanced, try ln.tips.


What happened? Why so many new people?


Follow who you know.

Use #plebchain to follow new people.

Engage with people in the conversation tabs.


Welcome.


Good point.


Look at how far we've come in five years.

https://i.nostr.build/EzRo.png

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It can be. We just need to get the word out.


👀
Amythyst has approximate location like the Orange Pill App now.

That's interesting.


I'm sure it happens here too.


This is why I don't get upset at people wearing masks, but wearing a mask, alone in your car with a licence plate is still pretty dumb.


Thank you.


I agree, but we’ve taken the orange pill. Very few people in the world have.


Source? RHR is about the only news I listen to. I know nothing about this bank.


Yeah, except the people holding Tether bags are guranteed 0% yield.

People want them for the same reason people in the US want houses.

If you compare real estate to gold for 30 years, real estate loses value. If you compare real eatate to dollars, real eatate goes up.

USDT looks like real estate when compared to international fiat currency.

It looks like NVIDIA charts compared to the worst fiat currencies.


I know. I don't know what nocoiners are going to do.


How is it horrible? People want dollars. I don't, but I don't make the rules.


I listened to the CEO on a few podcasts. The last one was the Keet one on Bitcoin Audible.

The interesting the company buys bitcoin with the interest from the bonds.

It's basically a specative attack on the dollar, but who else wants to buy US Savings bonds these days?


Yep.


Tether USD is not a scam, but each Tether USD is backed by the biggest ponzi scheme in the world, U.S. Savings Bonds.


Are you using Crowd Health?


That's awesome.


Yeah, I tried it. It's pretty slick.


Nip07 logins.


Yes, but only for the 100% KYC free.


Medical insurance is worse.


Same


Choice A: Octogenarian who chose Jerome Powell as the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Choice B: Octogenarian who chose to keep Jerome Powell as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

The choice is clear: Buy bitcoin.


I sincerely hope the next RHR is entitled "The Bank Runs Continue."

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Lol.


That episode was great.


I loved Duck Tales as a kid, but first saw this clip from an old tweet by the ERE author.

https://x.com/extremejacob/status/6328142884?t=lEtLZ7K2Jm8fq6HAQ0k86Q&s=09


That's pretty cool. I was raised catholic and never heard the term before finding bitcoin.


Bitcoiners brought the word "fiat" to the vernacular.

I propose we introduce the proper name of inflation to the world:

 The double spending problem.

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Thankz.


I use it all the time.


Thanks. If you happen to remember, let me know.

I listened to your pod last weekend by the way. I'm not sure what it's all about, but it seems interesting.


Yeah, maybe we can stack some cheap sats too.


Are there any open source bitcoin books that have been written on github?


Because the price is boring compared to what we can do with it.


The stuff you've made is amazing.


I like my freedom. MSTR just doesn't give me that.


Pictures on nostr remind me of MySpace.


Still pretty cool.


That's so cool.


Please send any issues you find on Amethyst to https://gitworkshop.dev/repo/amethyst

We are trying to move out of GitHub and use a Nostr-native GitHub alternative.


Wait...is this like gitstr?


New key?


It's a scape🐐
Don't believe the 🐂💩


Coinbase could work better if they stopped diverting resources to Shibullshit.


Works now.


We haven't even had the halving yet. I thought I had more time to prepare.


Didn't work for me.


Good mornin'.

Try to get some work done today.


Fiat maxis 🤷


Never been so bullish on Nostr. And that’s saying something.

All the Nostr content (and quite a bit of the bitcoin content) here at #BitcoinAtlantis really highlighted how more and more people are starting to see what I originally saw when I first found Nostr. A way to rebuild the internet in a decentralized, user centric way.

LFG! 🤙⚡


Good mornin'.


I READ THIS INCREDIBLE TA BOOK, ALTHOUGH IT ONLY HAD FOUR WORDS


Can you still upload podcasts to nostrnests?

#asknostr


This is my favorite hat.


Any tips on how to stack so many sats like this?


Welcome back. #plebchain


Good philosophy.


Good morning. I got up at about 3:30 for no reason at all. I really need to cut back on the caffiene.


I saw him speak once. He seemed pro Bank of America and anti cypherpunk.


True dat.


It's all good. I'm just kidding. To be honest, I used to Creed back in the day.


i'm selling some vinyl from my personal collection. if my posts have given you value, consider checking them out. it helps support the cause.

#cybersecgirl #privacytechpro

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a few more to list...

billie eillish - happier than ever (original pressing)

sarah mclachlin -surfacing (music on vinal 180g reissue)

my bloody valentine - loveless (kevin shields analog remaster)

daft punk - random access memories (sony release)

lorde - solar power explicit cover (original pressing)

stone temple pilots - core (german pressing)

girl in red - if i could make it go quiet (indie record store release)

the shins - oh inverted world (2001 remaster indie record store release)


That's prerry cool, but I haven't owned a record player since I was a kid.


Wait...You got about 4 million sats?


🤔 Never.


We're human. We just look like robots.


Thank you for your service 🫡


I like this idea in theory, but sometimes my zaps don't work.


This is how we grow bitcoin adoption. Let's fucking go!

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Bullish AF!


Thanks. Sometimes that email thing didn't work. Not sure why, but no reason to complain now. 🫡


No. Real estate didn't even beat gold over the last 30 years. The only reason people invest in real estate is because they can get other people to make the mortgage.

If you live in a house, you're sheltering, not investing. You can't realize much of your gains unless you move to a shack in the middle of nowhere, Alabama.

This is not investment advice. I'm definitely not telling you to buy gold.


Good morning.


Yes. I think.


I thought I was so smart 'cause I could "spend bitcoin" with my Coinbase Shift Card. 😥


This is why we have so much clown world news.


They look great. What are you using MattBTC?

I scrape a lot of recipes from the web using mealie on Umbrel. It's machine learning, but I wonder if there's a way to integrate something like Llama.


I wanted to watch that, but I was busy. Anyway to watch the recording?


Bitcoin is more transparent than gold. Paper bitcoin is more difficult to create. They might get away with it for a little while, but some nerd at glassnode will figure that shit out.

Online poker had no regulation, the Wild West of the Internet.

Someone noticed a player at Absolute Poker won more hands than statistically possible. It turns out, a former WSOP main Event Champion, Russ Hamilton could see everyone's hole cards.

I think we can catch cheaters like the poker nerds.


My Coinbase account has been zero since about 2018.


Damn.


I do not support this hard fork.

Creed is a shitcoin.


Thank you.


What is it? AI?


Thanks. How would I learn to do this?


Can Square terminals accept bitcoin yet?


Good point.


Bitcoiners don't retire. We free up our time to work on bitcoin.


One of the few books I'll probably never get rid of.
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I checked it out at the library, but it's great. That dude is into Austrian Economics too. I don't understand why he didn't get into bitcoin yet.


How many of you have read Early Retirement Extreme?

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She's not the one for you.


Friend made a post showing that fbook is censoring private messages now... It's only going to get harder to reach the normies


I can't stand that company.


Put them on shopstr.


Stacking sats is easy.

Staying humble is the hard part.


I use the get alby extention to login in. It's not working on kiwi for some reason.


It's easier on my computer. I think Zach is the developer.


Work on yourself. When bitcoin goes up, you don't want to be like the people who win the lottery and subsequently ruin their lives.

It takes virtue to handle significant wealth.


Good morning.


I love Meditations.


I prefer "sell fiat" as opposed to "buy bitcoin" for similar reasons.


Totally. It's an avatar based on math! Few understand this.


Agreed, but fuck coinbase more. 🤣


We're all millionaires. The world just doesn't know it yet.


At least Fidelity doesn't use this dumb ass corporation for their custody.


It costs about one right click.


What did I miss about Supras?


What a shitshow.


Yep.