People were pissed off about the 1 trillion dollar TARP Great Financial Crisis bailout.

15 years later, the United States borrows a TARP sized bailout every 100 days, the politicians talk about nonsense like golf or cat ladies or whatever.

This is a disaster.


Good point.


At least a shotgun is cool.

I spent tens of millions of sats on Diet Mountain Dew.😭


Agreed.


You got my vote.


### Is It A Payment Terminal Or A Sign?

Fiat is my only shitcoin. I am a shitcoin minimalist. The problem is, most people don’t want bitcoin. Most corporations are fiat maxis. Most business owners are fiat maxis. To be honest, most bitcoiners care more about the fiat price than running a node. Most bitcoiners also feel as if they don’t have enough, myself included. The problem with using bitcoin as a medium of exchange is the coincidence of wants.  Bitcoiners don’t want to spend bitcoin. Shops want fiat. There is no coincidence of wants. The corporations don’t want to mess around with converting their payment terminals into a bitcoin accepting machine.
- They don’t want to spend time training employees how to use bitcoin.
- They Think it’s bad for the environment unless you mine bitcoin with Tesla batteries or something.
- It’s too slow.
- There are only 7 transactions per second…

They’re wrong, but the suits are still stuck with 2015 arguments.

I still believe we can use the lightning network to pay for coffee. This can be done very easily. I will not need every business around me to accept bitcoin. I don’t need them to HODL. I just need about  ten places near me, where I can spend my bitcoin.

## Strike Tried To Fix This

A couple years ago, Jack Mallers told Matt Odell we would soon be buying groceries at WholeFoods and cheeseburgers at Wendy’s. He built it like the Field of Dreams, but they didn’t come. It could totally work, but they just don’t get it and like Satoshi said, “If you don’t get it or don’t believe me, I’m sorry, I don’t have time to convince you.”

https://fountain.fm/clip/rOwhyibbPOTehTXSfwPY

Maybe we can't buy overpriced groceries at Whole Foods yet, but it is possible to add Strike to some payment terminals like Clover. How would that work though?  “Hi. I’ve listened to more bitcoin podcasts than anybody you know. May I please hack your Clover machine so I pay you in bitcoin?”

It's not going to work.

I know the government collects a sales tax( A.K.A. capital gains). According to the [chapwood index](https://chapwoodindex.com/), inflation is not much less than this sales tax where I live. It was even higher than 15% for a while. The point is, I want to spend bitcoin. Fewer businesses accept bitcoin than American Express. There is no coincidence of wants and most business owners don’t want me hacking their point of sale machines.

### BTCpaySigns

Bitcoin is awesome, but few understand this. Most people don’t want to put in the 100 hours to learn about bitcoin. It’s a sign of the times. Speaking of signs, most businesses understand them. Here are businesses that sell signs to no-coiners. People like signs. I read that most people choose fast food restaurants by signs in Fast Food Nation. Signs are an old idea. We see then on the road and at brick and mortar businesses.

Apps are also ubiquitous. It occurred to me that I can pay a shopkeeper by using a lightning address they obtain from Strike. I can also pay them with their Strike Tipping page at https://stike.me/theirstrikeusername. For example, you can send the personwith the username Odell sats on strike at https://strike.me/odell. I haven't verified this username belongs to the person behind npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx. Regardless, the business owner receives the sats right away, but he or she can choose to accept incoming payments in bitcoin or fiat. Of course, I think they should keep the sats and put them into self-custody, but I don’t have time to convince anybody.

Here is an example of how this sign works.

<iframe class="rumble" width="640" height="360" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v56vpwt/?pub=2l740w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

My goal is to find 10 local small business that will allow me to pay for coffee, groceries, or hamburgers using bitcoin. I'm not trying to orange pill Starbucks. I want other people to do this too.

Here's the plan.

1) Onboard a local business onto Strike. Show them how to use it. Don't try to convince them. Let them accept dollars or bitcoin. If they choose dollars and bitcoin does what we think it will, we won't need to convince them.

2) Make them a sign, or buy one from https://btcpaysigns.com and I will make you one. I'll just need the Strike Username.

3) Pay with bitcoin. If you prefer to pay with fiat, for tax purposes, or because you don't hace enough bitcoin, use the Strike app yourself.  You can also keep fiat on the Stike app while using the ligntning network as a payment rail. It will turn your dirty fiat into bitcoin and give the business owner the form of payment they prefer.
4) Bring them business. Bring a meetup to the business. Put them on BTCpayMaps.org. Let all the bitcoiners you know they accept bitcoin. If accepting bitcoin does not bring the business more customers, they will not have an incentive to adopt the bitcoin standard.

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I created a sign that can be used as a bitcoin payment terminal. The business owner needs nothing more than a Strike Account.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qq3xjuedd96z6cfdwpshjmt9de6z6ar9wfkkjmnpdskk7u3dvykhx6t8dcrgxaaa


Beautiful song.


I used shift back in the day. Is that what you mean? I haven't used coinbase in like 7 years.


I would like to have a prepaid credit card that has a bolt 12 QR code on the back.

I pay $1.25 to the bolt 12 QR code. Those sats get converted to fiat at the speed of light.

I spend $1.25 at the Dollar Tree.

Is that a thing yet?
#bitcoin


Right.


Coinbase sells bitcoin and snake oil.


How do we ensure a #bitcoin strategic reserve does not mean Executive Order 6102.btc?

#asknostr


Love it! Welcome.


They should change the name of the store to the $1.25 Tree.


I don't understand how governments can own bitcoin. Maybe 5 people who work for the government can own bitcoin, but I don't consider this government ownership.


I had a lot of time on my hands in 2020 so I grocked this.

Now that I think of it, bitcoin is 10x more expensive.

https://btcguide.github.io/


Tails is pretty cool, but I would only use it with  multisig. Even then, it's a good idea to take out the hard drive and Wi-Fi out of the laptop beforehand.


Never thought of it this way, but it makes sense.


This is terrible.


I throw my mail in ballot in the trash now because the people I vote for never win anyway.


I like the idea of only zaps, but the like button is a hard habit to break.


This is my favorite quote about bitcoin.


Agreed.


The bull run made  the zaps less frequent.


Sounds like it. He definitely did his homework.
.


This is the best speech about #bitcoin ever uttered by an American presidential candidate.

It's not even close.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ssYCRVpzcxc&pp=ygUTcmZrIGpyIGJpdGNvaW4gMjAyNA%3D%3D


Of course not. That's not unusual, but they wouldn't even let me into the cafeteria without scanning my ID and making me wear it on my chest.


I took my brother to the ER today and tried to buy a cup of coffee at the cafeteria. They wouldn't allow me to buy a cup of coffee without making a copy of my driver's license.

 How did we get here?


Glad she's okay.


He is my favorite fiction author. We should purple pill him. He also fell victim to embezzlement. #Bitcoin held in self custody fixes this.


In the early days, he had a shitcoin trading course. I studied it for a few days and trued trading shitcoojns for a month. I made $5,000, but decided it was too stressful. I made money, but didn't understand why, so I stopped trading and went back to using bitcoin as money(mostly saving back then)


I started listening the first time you had Jameson Lopp on because I searched for bitcoin podcasts on Spotify every couple of weeks. I'll miss the show, but glad you're focusing on making your local community better. At the end of the day, that's what this movement is all about.

Thank you for your service.

Onward 🫡


That's pretty cool.


You're way more cypherpunk than Twitter maxis.


The first rule of federal government is: Do not talk about the National Debt.

The second rule of national government is: Do not talk about the national debt

The third rule is: Talk about gender, race, Tik Tok, war, golf, blame inflation on the president. You can even talk about things you don't understand,  like bitcoin. Use ad hominum attacks like, Authoritarian, sleepy, crooked, or poopy-pants. Just don't break rules one and two.


It looks awesome.


I read this book about a year ago. These are the bad times.


Linux is cool.


This number is unfathomable.


That didn't come out right. I mean, did your wife draw this?


How are things where you live?


I've done it before.


I haven't been able to zap you for a while.


Wait, this is your wife?


Better than Creed.


It was on the news.


Someone with a net qorth of 2 million in the stock market can live on about $80,000 per year. That's about $6,700 per month, not poor, but that's not living high off the hog either.


Tips are not mandatory.


Thanks.


I find Adam Back's hashcash fascinating.

It's like a mathematical work of art Satoshi integrated into a peer to peer electronic cash system.


This is why I got off Facebook. I noticed I could predict people's political arguments in advance because I saw 10 people say the same thing on Facebook.


You convinced me. I'm going next year. My wife has to work the first day, but maybe my family can come the day after.


I agree. I just wish politics would stay out of #bitcoin, but I might as well believe in unicorns. 🦄


Free Ross, but don't give him the money Secret Service agents stole from him.


Wow. 🫤


That makes sense.


Totally agree. It is all BS.


Post Modern philosophy came from France. I think French people realized their money wasn't backed by gold in 1971.

This made them question the foundation of reality itself.

If this piece of paper can be called money when it's not backed by gold, why can't I call myself healthy I'm fat? Why can't men get pregnant? What's physical reality got to do with anything since money does not equal gold?

I think the fact that France asked for their gold back and got rug-pulled is the root cause of this culture war.

Note: my personal opinion is not included in this discussion about post modern philosophy. I don't think this culture war is actually about trans-people. I believe they are being scapegoated. I don't think most Americans would give a damn if not for the industrial manufacturing consent complex.


I need a good playlist. I mostly listen to acoustic punk/folk music, but I like Ainsley.  What's Joe Martin's best song?


I thought the same.


I just watched his "crypto" speech here. It sounded like he repeated platitudes he doesn't understand.

No CBDC's

Yes Stablecoins.

Does anyone know what a Stable coin is?

I got the feeling Trump doesn't know what CBDCs or stablecoins even are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50qfcavXe3Q


It's neat.


This is the new Orange Pill.

nostr:nevent1qqszl0qkm9w0ejaf039n7s9ls4uqcd8xs6kqt87vyctm6hnlc5qgcsqpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30qgsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncrqsqqqqqpt4wsnd


That sounds fun.


They should burn it. 🔥


Bummer.


What happened, exactly?


👎 Suits

👍 #Bitcoin


How can the dollar be "backed by bitcoin?"

Do you mean like Boardwalk.cash?


My wife makes me keep mine in my office. :(


You're the only one of these people I recognize.


Why?


But you can see how much bitcoin is issued by typing:

bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo

Bitcoin is the only sufficiently decentralized protocol with a finite supply.

Knut Svanholm calls this absolute mathematical scarcity.  According to Knut, absolute mathematical scarcity is a discovery rather than an invention that cannot be replicated.

That's what makes bitcoin different, nit the "block chain."

A million new block chains cannot rediscover absolute mathematical scarcity, but monero is infinite.

Monero has better privacy. The early cypherpunks desired privacy for philosophical reasons, but most people on the world today do not value privacy.

Most people desire to display wealth, drive fancy cars, wear fancy clothes, and buy VIP tickets at bitcoin conferences.

Privacy is necessary for an open society,  but it appears society does not desire to be open.


Shitcoins are ponzi coins.


WTF? Have they even heard about nostr?


Somebody in the spotlight needed to say this.

Thank you, Jimmy.
🫡


Monero has an infinite supply and too many hard forks to be a serious store of value.

It's the one shitcoin I wouldn't say is a total scam though. It at least works as advertised: Anonymous medium of exchange.

That won't make your grandchildren wealthy though.


I've been using this for about a month. I like it better than Whoogle because it doesn't give me suggestions based on the first word I type. That shit drives me crazy.😂 😂 😂

SearXNG fixes this!


Just getting into these. Goodwin is on The Investor's podcast too.


Give this a listen. It actually seems interesting. I wouldn't give them my address, but you can pick them up at best buy.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/547f9SHx4bnMFcUyHkpClH?si=yzFswzotRS-vq5-2OFwlMg


How did you do it?


I have an idea. All the store needs is a sign with a QR code.

When a bitcoin freak scans the QR code, the freak is taken to the Strike tipping page like https://strike.me/odell/

It says Tips, but it can be used as a POS. Say you owe your bartender or dry cleaner $21.00.

Simply scan the QR code. Enter $21.00. Pay the invoice.

The merchant gets paid in sats or fiat. It can work at your local coffee shop or Wendy's. Nor does it require training employees how to accept bitcoin.


The Strike API plugin on BTCpayServer is fantastic.

nostr:nevent1qqs8n0de4fn3h24pcp62dpsumhsa0uvhcdg7kkgsfmwcleufxsw3wfcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgsfrjd9ux5hgsg5cmlz6cdwfh5zv2024g8m2t6g9zqf83l8uqm0svsrqsqqqqqpacy8w8


I've been going down this Syrike BTCpayServer extension rabbit hole for a couple weeks.

It's awesome. I just need to pay my bills with bitrefill again. I'm not sure why they took that feature away.


This concerns me. Shelter scarcity caused by bad money is a big problem. Politicians don't want to talk about  it. That's how I know it's a big deal.


I didn't even think of easy wallet setups. I should have my wife test this theory. She's only sent like 5 transactions in ten years.


Who cares? The interesting thing about the article is that they hold a portion of their reserves in #bitcoin because PayPal tried to screw them.


Wow!


I have no idea what this is about and I'm not sure I want to know.


Great post. Thanks for the info.


These are the best.

https://scene7.samsclub.com/is/image/samsclub/0002113130215_A?wid=400&hei=400


No, but that's a great idea. 🤣


Sad news. I started listening like at episode number three.


Thanks.


There's a bitcoin meetup at a brewery near me. I don't drink but I like to go because the brewer accepts bitcoin using the Aqua Wallet. The problem is, he has to be at the brewery to accept bitcoin because he can't trust the employees with his aqua wallet. He also said he is interested in using KYC services because Breweries have a lot of regulatory heat. So I tried using the strike plugin on BTCpayServer. This works, but requires a new API and a line of code. Besides, it means running more Bitcoin IT stuff than I already do.

Then I found out that strike has a tip page. This can be used as a payment terminal.

As I thought about it more, I can charge 50,000 sats per sign. 10% of the payments will be forwarded to open sats using the split payment extensiton in lnbits.

I will host the store on a simple landing page.

It will link to a paywall that takes the customer to a contact page. I will use this information to create a sign that looks like this.

The bitoiner comes into the brewery

- Scans the sign
-Pays the amount the same as cash.
- The money is credited to the business owners strike account. They can choose to accept fiat or bitcoin.I'm not an accountant, but I think they would treat the sats the same as paper USD cash.

 I obviously think bitcoin is a better idea, but I think this would be an easy way to onboard businesses onto a bitcoin standard.

To order, please check out btcpaysigns.com

Or go to this link

https://lnbits.btcpaysigns.com/paywall/fZHDWW4CmwvpAFEhPZSyRt


Does BTCpayServer have a donation lightning address? #asknostr


Does BTCpayServer have a donation lightning address?


I'm one of those weirdos who wears the same color pants and shirt everyday. It makes packing for trips easy.

7 black t-shirts.
7 gray convertible pants.
7 socks.
7 pair of underwear
1 black hoodie
1 to go bag(deodorant, toothpaste, etc.)


I go to a brewery where the brewer accepts bitcoin. He wants a KYC option because the beer industry is full of regulations and he needs to be extremely compliant with his accounting or something.  So I came up with this idea to use BTCpayServer and The Strike API to give him a payment terminal.

The problem with payment terminals is the employees need to be trained and re-trained on how to accept bitcoin payments, so I thought, "Why do we need payment terminals?" Taco Bell no longer has cashiers. It has giant Tablets as payment terminals. The customer pays the Giant Terminal with a credit card and the burrito wrappers never need to touch a terminal.

Why train employees how to operate bitcoin payment terminals?  Instead, we can print a sign with a QR code. The dude who read every bitcoin book published since 2015 will know how to pay the bill once they scan the QR code. The cashier is no longer needed in the transaction in fiat land. Why should the cashier be required in bitcoin payments?

So I'm selling signs designed for businesses to accept bitcoin. All they need to do is set up an API key with Strike. This is a tutorial on how to do this.

https://btcpaysigns.com/

How To Use The Strike API With BTCpayServer

This is a video event and can be viewed at https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqr4q3m9fe34wdgzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwctn3wmt


What's the best arch Linux distro?


#Nostr and #bitcoin fix many of the problems Stephan West talks about in this episode of philosophize this.

https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/episode-201-transcript-bkx3e-37rkx-bpl83-ysc9b-kkg62


Darn your socks. Stack sats.


The two most popular US presidential candidates on the ballot will speak at bitcoin magazine's bitcoin 2024 conference.

Twitter bans the CEO of bitcoin magazine.

What interesting times we live in.


Iris
current.


Makes sense.


We see you.


That's bad ass.


Why is he not here yet?


Nothing better than seeing bitcoin stickers placed by someone else.


This is the important stuff.


Guess CEO is his official title.


Editor and Chief of bitcoin magazine.


Two candidates were "chosen" without debate.

One of these candidates dropped out four months before the election.

I wish a republic could work forever; but I've lost my faith in federalism.

Let's focus on local governence instead of this shitshow.

The national debt and unfunded liabilities are the biggest double spending problem in the world.

Fix the double spending problem, fix the world.


4 more years!


My wife said the same.


Right?


Yep.


My high school economics teacher taught us about fractional reserve banking --Over 20 years ago.


Are you publishing it here?

https://habla.news/p/npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a


Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking worked for my wife and me.


Chicken tender?


Anyone who's ever listened to NVK talk for at least one hour knows Windows is trash.


Interesting.🤔


This is why I no longer like the meme, "have fun staying poor."

It's not fun.
It's sad.


Go commando, stack sats.


Most companies want to use centralized infrastructure so they can sue someone if things go wrong, but this is a security hole.


Looks good.


Never-ending. Now I see.


What did I miss?


My week off the Internet was successful. I only checked email once a day and read the news when my son said the president got shot in the ear.


hi


I'm taking about a week off the Internet. I'll be back.
🤘


You're not wrong.


Seriously.👆


Old age is the Facebook killer. It won't outlast the Boomers.


Wait...what? 🤯 Wow!


Just like entering the same key into two different bitcoin wallets. 😁


I use an attachment on my wife's KitchenAid. It works fine for small amounts.


That sucks.


This election feels like American's are voting for the captain of a sinking ship.

Free Ross is better than lock up Samourai devs, but there's a 35 trillion dollar problem nobody seems to notice.

But hey...How about how about those golf scores?


Good idea.


I just gave them bullshit information. They never asked for my driver's licence.


Namecheap


Here's my favorite Springsteen song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e9f-F1CAB24


Wait, you work with Bitcoiners?


I know you're half-joking, but it's true. 🤔


https://i.nostr.build/resp/720p/r1rZhKHpNo3QaZ9f.jpg

I went to a libertarian bookstore and asked if they carried any agorist books.

The owner said, "Wow. I haven't heard that term in a while. It's Greek for "the marketplace." There used to be a book store called the Agorist, but they changed the name to Black Market Books., because nobody knew what it meant."

He met Konkin in the 60's and thought he was "a fucking loser... too idealiatic... died peniless."

"I prefer Mises,” he said.

"So like Human Action?"

"Yeah. How have you heard of these people?"

#Bitcoin

"That's just another fiat. It's not backed by anything..."

That's how I learned about them. I'm not trying to convince you.

"You should read The Case for a 100%...”

Yeah, I already picked up a copy. I read What Has the Government Done Ro Our Money, but I never saw this one before.

"Here. Take my card. My email's on it."


Got it.


Will Fountain comments show up on Spotify?


My son is using Mealie on my Umbrel to cook hard boiled eggs for ramen.

https://i.nostr.build/4kZd3W8zNH8vJcvt.jpg


Sweet. I love hearing Booth speak.


Interesting. 🤔


Just listened to this episode on my morning walk. I need to learn more about this API.

I thought you didn't like Liquid thougb, QnA.

Did you change your mind?


I feel bad for people who were told to buy bonds by the "experts" for so long. They thought they did the right thing.

It must be painful.


Couldn't agree more.


Oh shit!


Thank you. This is helpful. I started using free gpt2 on Start9 yesterday, but I'm a noob.


Looks good.


Thanks. I suck 😢


What's the client? Please tell me it's bot snakestr.lol?


Oh. Got it. Thanks.


Great.🙃


That's my plan. It says to use an anti-spam word. What is that?


Thanks. I insttalled FreeGPT-2 on Start9 and need some ideas. I like the recipe one.

Have you ever tried mealie? It uses machine learning to scrape recipes off the web.

I use it to plan my meals and automate my grocery list.


I need to learn more about how to use AI. What are some the other things you use it for? (I'm asking both of you 😀)


👀

That was a great idea.


No. I used to vote libertarian. Democrats and Republicans said I was throwing my vote away. So I decided to actually throw my mail in ballot away. My vote won't matter anyway. I am changing my mind about local elections.


I changed the font size on my phone. Hopefully this fixes my typos.


I like some of the things Breedlove jas written and a few of his podcasts, but he's given me the hibby-jibby's ever since he pulled that bitclout affinity scam.

It would be one thing if he was umaware, or really fooled by bitclout, but   he knows too much about monetary history to get fooled by such things.


I support this message.


I noticed it was on zap store yesterday. That's so cool.


I couldn't get this to work, but Infound max tabs on Firefox. It's just what I needed.


For focus.


Thanks.


Is there a web browser that doesn't allow multiple tabs?

#asknostr


You're one of us. 🤣


Right, but the advantage of WOS was it was normie friendly.

Most people won't use a VPN. They also hate people that do.


You can use the apk on Android(on github). They took it off the Play Store ans App store.


It's a whole new Internet. 🫡


# Shop The Bitcoin Circular Economy

In an effort to help build the circular economy, I want to increase awareness of businesses that accept bitcoin as payment.  **These are not Paid Ads**.  I list these companies because I use their services and find them valuable.  I hope they find value in my word of mouth advertizing. Please spend some sats with them to support the circular economy

The following is a list of business that I use:

[Coinkite](https://coinkite.com/)

You have heard of them for sure, the maker of the world famous Cold Card. If you don't have a cold card, you need to get your shit in order, but the company makes at least 50 products.  I don't have a discount code for this company, but listen to a bitcoin podcast and I'm sure you will find one. Coin kite does a lot of other cool shit too, like the satschip, a product designed for artists.  NFT's are a scam, but physical art is a real thing. Artists who add the satschip to their physical artworks can throw a photo of the artwork on the CoinKite website.  These jpegs are not NFT's. They are not Ordinals. They are art with a chip that works similar to the Tap Signer, except the seed can never be revealed. It ties the physical paining, a , et al. to the bitcoin blockchain. It's neat way of tying art to digital scarcity without all the scammy bullshit associated with NFT's

[Bitrefill](https://www.bitrefill.com/us/en/) let's Me buy gift cards with bitcoin. I used to use it to pay my bills, but they have since discontinued that service. I still think it's a great company and use it as a way to get discounts on certain stores like CryptoCloaks.

[The Bitcoin Company](https://thebitcoincompany.com/) sells gift cards and Visa Cards online. I recently ordered a part for a composer and the customer service rep asked me to **send my credit card number** and secret code over email.  I didn't feel comfortable sending that information, but I was able to buy a Visa Card with the exact amount to get my composter parts. They used the credit card and I got my parts, but there is no more money on the credit card. **Information longs to be free**, so guard your credit card numbers.

[CryptoCloaks](https://www.cryptocloaks.com/) is a company that sells  3D printed items for sats. I hae bought quite a few things off them. Most recently, a case that my S9 which has been converted into a heater. He has a lot of other cool stuff too. Check him out.

[BitcoinHatGuy](https://bitcoinhatguy.com/) has sold hats for bitcoin for decades and I have spent more sats on these hats than I feel comfortable admitting, but have never regretted my purchases. In real life, I'm one of those wierdos that wears the same thing everyday: Black T-Shirt and Gray pants, but I have an extensive hat collection. I buy most of my hats with bitcoin and most of those hats were bought from BTChatGuy. They're great, cheaper than MLB or even minor league baseball hats and I don't watch sports anyway. If you wear hats, buy a hat from this dude.

[Robosats](https://learn.robosats.com/)

Bitcoin exchanges are some of the biggest spenders in the bitcoin content creation market. They are the bread and butter for content creators.  This makes sense, because they also get the most in fees. According to David Bennet from the Bitcoin and Podcast, The Cash App had over a billion bucks in revenue from bitcoin sales alone. Good. I'm happy for the Block, but smaller bitcoin only exchanges like RoboSats don't get the exposure they deserve because they don't have the marketing budget.  RoboSats is a peer to peer exchange.  It's only on TOR, but they also have an app on the Andoroid store for those too timid for TOR.

Robosats is a bitcoin escrow service. They hold bitcoin in escrow and wait for conformation that payment has been recieved. Bitcoin sellers generally sell for about 5% above market value to provide KYC Free Sats to customers. Fiat settlements are made using the Cash App, Strike, or even Amazon gift cards. We should market the p2p exchanges like this more. Robosats  incentives this by giving users or referal codes. Refer someone to RoboSats using your referral code and you will get 100 sats for each trade. I would like to see people shill RoboSats and pick up these sats on social media. So I am not only asking you to use RoboSats, but I am also asking you to shill it.  I had nodeless.io on the list, but the tyrannical government of Canada shut it down. When I attempt to orange pill normies, the objection I most often need to overcome is "Bitcoin can never work because the government[state] will shut it down. The 100k bitcoiners in the world know it does not work that way, but most CPI believers think the government just needs to shut down the single bitcoin computer to take it all away.  Perception is reality as they say. And yeah, we won't all turn off our bitcoin mining heaters or shut off our nodes, but I have seen online Poker get decimated by government policies. They did not succeed at ending online poker, but they essentially ended access to online poker for anyone with a sub 120 IQ.  If we want bitcoin to be for everybody, we need to make it easy for people to buy non-KYC bitcoin. RoboSats is making that their mission.

[Nostr.build](https://nostr.build)

Nostr Native video and image storage. you can login with your npun instead of an email or using nip07. The premium membership also includes access to btcpayserver, but you'll need to set it up. The subscription lasts one year, but the developers told me they won't actually delete your photos for two years.  I love nostr.build and think it is an underrated resource in the nostr community

[BTCPins](https://btcpins.com/)

BTCPins sells cool bitcoin collectible PINS. They're reasonably priced and look great. He only accepts bitcoin because he is a true ride or die freak. He is also one of the meetup organizers in Southern California and wears hats sold by Bitcoin author, Knut Svanholm. He's the real deal.

[Strike](https://strike.me/)

Strike would pay me like five or ten bucks if I had you sign up with them via my referral link, but I'm not recommending them for the referral money. This is about recommending services I use. Strike is the best way to send fiat around the world. I also know that many bitcoiners don't like the idea of spending their own bitcoin, Strike gives you the ability to instantaneously convert fiat to bitcoin and vice-versa. I would rather have the hodl never sodl people spend fiat in the circular economy this way.

In a perfect world, Strike would not comply with KYC laws, but like I said, it's the best way to send fiat around the world.(or people on Robosats who could be anywhere in the world.) I also think if a KYC free exchange is to expensive, you're better off stacking a little on a KYC exchange than not stacking at all. Budgets are tight these days. If you can only stack a penny this paycheck, stack that penny with Strike.  Need to send fiat to Mexico, use Strike instead of Western Union.

[Seed Signer](https://seedsigner.com/)

Seed Signer is a raspberry pi with no Wi-Fi. You can make your own or buy one from the store. The seed signer does not have a secure element, but it also does not store your seed on the device. Therefore, you must write down your seed and enter it into the device every time you plug it in. This sounds like a pain in the ass, and it is if you do it that way, but it comes with a camera and a unique neat feature. You can create a QR code using a pen and paper.(You'll need access to a printer too) Actually, I recommend using a pencil and paper. It's easy to make a mistake so you might want to erase it. You can always go over it with a felt tip pen later if you're worried about a man in the middle attack. You can also use it for nostr keys I think, but I have not tried this feature. I would not  trust all my bitcoin with any wallet, but this is an excellent wallet to use as part of a multisig with Sparrow Wallet or Specter Desktop.

[Get Alby](https://getalby.com)

Get Alby is my favorite desktop wallet. I've made spme videos about them here and highly recomend it because you can use it as a custodial wallet or hook it up to your own node. I also respect this product a lot. Back in 2017 or 2018 we had the Joule browser extension, but you had basically had to be a lightning engineer to get it to work. I wasted many hours of my life away trying to get it to work on my browser with no dice. Alby is about 100X improvement over the old Joule days. They also have some cool nostr features and make it easy to login to websites.  Full disclosure, I have no idea how they make money.

[Plebai](https://home.plebai.com/https://home.plebai.com/)

You put a dollar into a vending machine and it spits out bubbly sugar water. This data vending machine works like that. You put im 100 sats and it will genorate an AI image or create a summary for your blog. It's an awesome service and does not require a subscription like some of the fiat competition.

LeatherMint
I bought a belt from leathermint and it was one of the best purchases I ever made online. I highly recommend buying things from this site https://theleathermint.com/. I wrote about my experience [here](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/bad-ass-belts-from-leathermint).

These are not all the products I use, and I will add more over time. **If you have a bitcoin side hustle or sell a bitcoin related product, let me know about it**. I'm always interested in learning about more bitcoin companies.

This information was originally published in [this blog post](nostr:naddr1qpp8xatswphhyapd09hh2u3dd3hkxctv943xjarrda5kuttrd9exxatvv9ez6etrdahx7mte946x7ttywfskjm3dw35x2tt90p3ksctwvajhxq3qwkljx5c6a8uccc5etws8ry0y3r4dgavh2dcav0tal4rtmcdl4z2sxpqqqp65wjek8r0)

Writer's write. If you wish to be a writer, write.
--Epictitus

Bitcoiners use bitcoin. If you wish for hyperbitcoinization to occur, shop the circular economy.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqshx6r0wqkhg6r9943xjarrda5kuttrd9exxatvv9ez6etrdahx7mteqgs8t0er2vdwn7vvv2v4hgr3j8jg36k5wkt4xuwk847l634auxl639grqsqqqa28knkmxr


![trey walsh post](https://i.nostr.build/kzgl6.png)

I saw this [post](https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdddf326jq5wpvu8j7ytwhxqxlnhp28yq0tjsxwrxy323meq7allgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygx4g9drz0fcgc0ljw5vzu8egxev6jnx5h8ahvyngp5kpaktx9uynupsgqqqqqqspuru4g)
and wrote this long rant in response so I decided to post it as a long-form article.

I read the declaration of independence and the u.s. constitution on the 4th of july every year for like 7 years, until 2020.

![gold and silver](https://i.nostr.build/7gqrb.jpg)

the people of the enlightenment had such great ideas. money had to be minted from gold and silver. it wasn't a bad rile, it's just the government decided not to follow that rule. or maybe they were incapable of following that rule. it didn't scale.

the post office was the best idea to facilitate private communication. people like james madison and thomas jefferson obtained even higher levels of privacy using encryption like the jefferson wheel. the founders, in many ways were analog cypherpunks. that's why we have the bill of rights. the anti-federalists fought for those rights and won...for a little while.

people forgot about cryptography. they started using email. private communication became part of history. when was the last time you sent a letter over snail mail? you might send a christmas card here or there, but the biggest ad companies in the world are like santa clause. he knows whe you are sleeping. he knows when you're awake. he knows whrn you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.

cbdc's are a real political issue nowadays. it's strange. it's not as if the masses started reading david chaum or something. they don't want cbdc's, but how is that system much different than credit cards?

frankly, most people don't give a damn, but they feel as if they can't get ahead. the complain about inflation, but take nonsteps to save fiat. why would they? saving fiat means getting less stuff in the future.

satoshi thought #bitcoin could help people achieve freedom.

https://i.nostr.build/m54on.png

i view bitcoin and public key cryptography as a way to achieve the rights guaranteed by the us constitution on the internet...at least for a little while, but if we do it right, we can achieve freedom for a long time. one time, i bought a tv. then i tried to buy groceries the same day and my credit card wouldn't work. i understand why and a quick phone call cleared it up, but it shows how easy they can cut people off of the financial rails.

as costs rise, more people will be cut off from those rails. that's the problem with the double spending problem.
#bitcoinfixes this.

how I belive bitcoin can secure the rights enshrined in the declaration of independence and US constitution, even if the government cannot follow the rules.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqskjmnyv4cx2mnyv4hxxefdd9ej6arpddjkuttwda6z6emjv9h8getyhc7wtf


Thanks for building it. Is there some sort of premium version?


👀

That totally worked.

https://bloggingbitcoin.npub.pro/


This is something I wanted to do, but didn't have the coding skills to accomplish.

I started blogging on Ghost a couple years ago until I found nostr and started using NIP23.

A couple months ago, I added markdown files to a ghost instance on Start9 because I wanted  to hoat my blog on my own too.

Now I just need to add my blogposts to any long-form content site and it shows up on a version of ghost built on nostr.

nostr:nevent1qqsq6g0tytafts9pysutk56ah9jguy65kytqx9mg6g2hnh2a2525pvcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qxdtducdnjerex88gkg2qk2atsdlqsyxqaag4h05jmcpyspqt30wsxpqqqqqqzhhuqys


₿itcoin Geek who writes a ₿log about bitcoin and other freedom tech on the nostr.

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

Get notified of new blogs on [Keet](nosl.ink/TgS14vtN)


This really resonated with me. My mom is on dialysis, at a DaVita clinic 3 or 4 times a week.

The American Diabetes Society is doing important work. I suspect many bitcoiners support this message and would like to send sats to this organization.

Could you please ask Dr. Ken Barry to create an account at Coinos.io and share the page with us. It will give him a custodial lightning wallet an an npub.

Then we can set up one click bitcoin donation buttons without writng any code other than adding a link to the website.

I would do it, but I'm just some anon who will get shadow banned for bringing this stuff up on twitter.


Yes, but it could work using p2p solutions. Blossom is interesting. Someone in the holesail keet room streamed Jellyfin using it.

 Jellyfin is basically netflix for nerds.


Strike has $0 fee Dollar Cost Average after the first buy.

I suggest getting some KYC free sats from robosats with Amazon Gift cards too.


Thanks. I need to mess wirh this some more. Do you know how I can display NIP23/kind 30002 only?


Thanks man. That's awesome. This is how I thought QR codes from tippin.me would work back on the day.


I totally FOMO'd. I'm gonna be pissed if we get a 50% drop because I'm out of dry powder.


Yeah. I think phoenix might be the only one so far.


Wait, this uses Ghost themes?

Can I import my Ghost blog onto npub.pro?


Cheap sats for the win.


I haven't finished it yet, but there are so many gems in this episode. That marble in a box math is a great idea.


# Blogging Nostr!

![avatar](https://paynym.is/PM8TJXVwNbJb8MGphGbijWucP3fw9mkDZ9BQT3pGkCsdFK21cR6v5xKrart2oBsqDMkxtqMGgkoTgn1NAczLznUeTwa4BG2rs1zZDfEtKin7WuBcdvcK/avatar)

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Habla is a new nostr native blogging platform. It is the second one I have found. I'm, writing this as a test, but so fair I have noticed my markdown syntax is not being rendered yet. On the other hand, I also seem to be able to see my blogstack post on Habla as well.  This is why it's a test. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how this all works.

I've been writing a blog about how I use bitcoin since April on a platform namedtw Ghost under a pseudonym. I wrote on that platform for the following reasons:

* I want to be a writer

* I spend most of my waking hours thinking about bitcoin.

* Marty Bent uses Ghost and had this paywall I thought was really cool at the time.

Marty's paywall is actually kind a neat, Instead of asking his readers to pay an annual subscription fee like the New York Times, You could just pay 50 cents per article. This is much better than the New York Times Paywall.  When I first heard of it, I thought writers could only get paid on the Internet with a paywall or ads. The mechanics of the system did not leave many options. Lightning addresses worked, but most people never heard of them and even most Bitcoiners didn't use them. Yalls had a paywall, but the UX wasn't great. I first thought of starting a blog because of yalls. I thought I could do magic tricks over video for tips, like buskers in Vegas, but on the Internet.  Then I thought, I'm not that good at magic and I don't feel comfortable throwing my face out there like a whore on the Internet (No disrespect to sex workers, but **I doubt anyone would pay for my sex services** and **my wife would not approve**.)  I also have a degree in creative writing, but I'm a bit rusty. The lightning network got me interested in writing again.

It's what prompted me to run my own lightning node in the first place. I think this was back in 2018 or 2019. At the time, I tried running [Pierre Rochard's lightning node](https://github.com/lightning-power-users/node-launcher), but didn't have the technical chops to pull it off on my old Windows laptop.  It might have worked if I knew that I needed to plug the damn thing into an Ethernet cable to download the bitcoin blockchain.(We didn't use the term time chain in those days).

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![yalls](https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_c51e1e5676efc284aacd46c6d599853a873fe4396385781a3054d5dd3dfabfae.png)
His paywall was an order of magnitude better than running my own node to accept tips on yalls.org, so I started my blog on ghost with the intention of using his paywall software.

I spun up a virtual private server on Bitlaunch.

I installed Yunohost because it was easy to set up Ghost.

Now Marty finally launched his service. If you like this model, you can use it for charges 10 bucks a month.

For the record, **I really like Marty**. I listen to Rabbit Hole Recap every week. I'm not trying to ruffle any feathers, or shit on his side project, but  [@dergigi](https://dergigi.com/2021/12/30/the-freedom-of-value/) convinced that the paywall model will soon go the way of the doorstep delivered newspaper.  If you don't have time to read or listen to that entire article, please listen to this 30 second clip of the Bitcoin.Review podcast created by [Oscar Merry](https://fountain.fm/clip/VF7nRhSOGejzI4KbfsWG).

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## Blogs Can Be Nostr Native

There's no reason to spin up a server on a VPS to start a blog anymore. No reason to host it on a Raspberry Pi. You don't need to buy a shared hosting account. You don't need to install ruby, gem  or jekyll to host it on Github. You don't even need to buy a domain, although you might want to buy one for a [DIY Nip 05 verification](https://nvk.org/n00b-nip5).  Hopefully, in the not too distant future, you won't even need Github.  Habla.news is a Medium alternative, but there's no reason why we couldn't have a Github alternative. We're just waiting on someone to build it.

The reason I find this value 4 value model built on Nostr so exciting now is because *it is now trivial for those who produce value to receive value* and *trivial for those who cherish valuable content to send value to those who produce it*.

**Why spend the time setting up ghost or pay a fee to accept lightning payments or a ghost account?** --*Especially if you are writing a blog about bitcoin.

I like the idea of charging for services, but paywalls just don't jive with the old walled garden model anymore.

Nostr is censorship resistant. Anyone can create a Nostr key.

[Some freaks say it's not normie ready](https://iris.to/post/note1mn98w4szpnkdfc53sqmgwme0akrt7wz5vzvvwwm840qv0020zu4s2fe62f), but it is much easier to create a private key than create a blog using the aforementioned options. I look forward to the day when we see more no-coiners witnessing how trivial it is to send value over the Internet.  [@TheGuySwann](https://iris.to/post/note1c39e8k2c0uj7l77q0p7md5a9rahumv8dr57crd3r4xq7tegecn9sx7tckq) wrote a great post about how Facebook spent years developing their shitcoin, only to get shut down by congress.

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### Paywalls Not Required

**You couldn't accept native bitcoin on any other platforms until now**. Now **plebs are zapping each other left and right**.

In the value 4 value model, the zapper sets the value on the article. The paywall sets a price on reading the full article.

* We **don't need paywalls anymore.**

* **I don't need to send you spam** .

* If you want to read my blog, just **follow me on Nostr.**

* We **don't need to rely on digital overlords** to create content.

* We **don't need ads **to monetize content.

**Ads suck.**

This is **pure vida.**

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**Nostr is the first amendment translated into code** like Satoshi translated this math:

![bitcoin supply math](https://blog.lopp.net/content/images/2022/01/subsidy_equation.jpg)

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Into this code:

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![bitcoin monetary supply ](https://blog.lopp.net/content/images/2022/01/Screenshot-from-2022-01-10-18-07-46.png)

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We can write without **undue influence** from ads, corporations, or even governments.

**We can create a better Internet.**

**Code is speech.
Cypherpunks write code.**

**Nostr makes speech  unstoppable**.

That's a big fucking deal.

**Blogging Bitcoin**

![block](https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_62b2b95fdf1b8df642842d7a7d27c3dee975e32ed60db4ab9abf3e9f19885526.png)

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[![Value 4 Value](https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_571397a69b34a41f499ad9b057a49c65531e104785428e5a00a56a500017e60f.png)](bloggingbitcoin.store/apps/cd4EUVkfhWbTg5UZsbCJPi5ghxZ/pos)

I am testing nostr native platfroms by publishing this blog on both blogstack and habla.news


Damn dude. You're one hell of a shadowy super coder. 🔥🔥


Thanks. 🤙

I want to test it out anwyway. 😉


Have you tried phoenixd?

https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenixd/

I want to try it with lnbits.


"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural."

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations


Good idea.


It works with a VPN, but for some reason, most people won't use one.


His podcast is pretty good, but I can't listen to it all the time. Most of the time, I fall in the uninformed category.


Wordpress is a great idea.


Coinos is an easy way to onboard your local coffee shop or bar onto bitcoin. The wait staff can also create their own coinos website to accept bitcoin tips on nostr.

https://coinos.io/

The Easiest Way To Onboard Businesses To Bitcoin

This is a video event and can be viewed at https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqr47mttdap5jkgzyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwcp2m774


I don't know about shirts, but I like Columbia convertable pants. They're synthetic though. They're thin, but sturdy.


Buy a used Google Pixel.

Practice self custody on testnet.

https://padawanwallet.com/


Oh 😅


I haven't watched the superbowl in a decade. :)


I don't disagree, but what would you do with this feature? Zap people? I'm not being an askhole either. This stuff is so new, I just don't think I totally understand it yet. 😂


Thanks. I found it.


That's really cool. How did you get these guys on?

 https://coinos.io/laughingbean


I plan on using this to onboard businesses.

 https://coinos.io/BloggingBitcoin


Where? I can’t find it.


Don't know yet, but off the top of my head, you can tip wait staff by searching their username in mutiny wallet.


Coinos.io is awesome. This is by far the easiest way to accept bitcoin payments for brick and mortar stores.

 New accounts get an npub!

https://image.nostr.build/d376930457221fbedba304b23d13eada1122a195346c1b9c90d918d667b3fa19.jpg


Coinos.io


Coino.io is awesome. This is by far the easiest way to accept bitcoin payments for brick and mortar stores.

 New accounts get an npub!

https://image.nostr.build/d376930457221fbedba304b23d13eada1122a195346c1b9c90d918d667b3fa19.jpg


Fiat is so lame. Sats are so much easier than these stupid numbers.


Have you guys read Permanent Record? He gives some very good arguments for doxing himself and giving the information to Glen Greenwald.

This gives me an idea though.

The book was not banned in the United States, but Snowden did not have permission to earn money from the sales of his book. I believe the proceeds went to some USG alphabet soup agency.

I want to know if he would have published the book on nostr using NIP 23.

...Or better yet, BitTorrent with zaps enabled.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:AF5F9B5D4657DD3EDD0C080C4086CA346D03DBBC&dn=Permanent%20Record%20by%20Edward%20Snowden%20EPUB&tr=udp%3A%2F%[2Ftracker.opentrackr.org](https://2Ftracker.opentrackr.org)%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%[2Fopen.stealth.si](https://2Fopen.stealth.si)%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%[2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org](https://2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org)%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%[2Ftracker.bittor.pw](https://2Ftracker.bittor.pw)%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%[2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org](https://2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org)%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%[2Ftracker.dler.org](https://2Ftracker.dler.org)%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%[2Fexodus.desync.com](https://2Fexodus.desync.com)%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%[2Fopen.demonii.com](https://2Fopen.demonii.com)%3A1337%2Fannounce

 What the hell?🤔 Let's try it.😉


I've been thinking about this quite a bit since google no longer let's me access my email without paying two bucks per month.

It's not about the money. The fact that a corporation can cut off email over $1.99 is problematic.


That's why I don't have many followers. I'm too nice. I should argue with shitcoiners like Chamath and Janet Yellen instead of posting blogs.


That's the formula for more ad revenue.

Stay off social media platforms, stack more sats.


That's what I figured. Some dude at my meetup told me about this node. I hace followed you for years, but only recently learned about it.

I'll take a look at the docs. I'd like to try it on a VM.


That's cool. Can this comvert my existing nsec into 12 BIP39 words?


Good mornin'.


Beautiful.


I got it to work on my home network, but not over the Internet.


I need to try breez and nostr wallet connect too.


It was amazing.


I was waiting for this. I was a little skeptical when you said they might replace Biden at the last minute.

Now people on MSNBC are even talking about it.


I don't know then.


Same. People are so much nicer here.


Are you under United States jurisdiction?


You deleted twitter, right? What were your reasons?


I've never heard of Yanag before. I'll check him out.

I also don't like or agree with Lanier on everything either. For one thing, he's a no-coiner. 🤮


I'm sure it will be. I'm not worried about this developer though.


Twitter is a slot machine that pays meaningless likes and occasional viral exposure. If you're lucky, you might see a message from a popular account weeks after they send it to you.


Pardon the interruption, but UTXO's are on sale!

https://i.nostr.build/ro5aV.jpg


It's dope!


Thanks for sharing this.🤙


He's an interesting guy. You should check him out on YouTube(or NewPipe).

He plays some strange musical contraption. 😅, but I think he invented MIDI or something.


Have you read his books?


I read you are not a gadget last year. He highlights many of the problems with social media platforms.


I bought a cheap Android tablet the other day. It wouldn't allow me to sign into Google Play with my gmail account unless I pay $1.99 ransom for storage every month.

Then it occured to me, I don't need google.

All of the apps I need are on zapstore, obtanium, or aurora.

So I don't need to pay $1.99 to Google every month.

I know it's only two bucks a month.

I just don't want to support surveillance capitalism.


I don't know, but I'm interested in other people's answers.


Jaron Lanier's name appears on the same Wired Magazine cover the Cypherpunks issue.

Today, I started reading his book, Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts.

Has anyone else read this book?

I wonder what he thinks of nostr.

#asknostr

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


Awesome video.


This is the real problem with social media. You only see what they want you to see, especially when it comes to politics, but your eyes stay glued to the screen like senior citizen's ass glued to a seat in front of a slot machine.


I never even knew Pixel made tablets until the other day. I bought a cheap tablet online. Is it possible to install CalyxOS on it? There's no secure element. I just don't want Google crapware on it.


Happy birthday.


What's Farcaster, web3 blockchain bullshit?


He's cuuuuuuute!


Zapstore is mind blowing. https://i.nostr.build/WGa2V.jpg


Thanks. I didn't even think about that. It's just like a phone. Duh 😏🤣


Good morning.

Is there a way to de-google tablets?
#asknostr


Awesome.


My made this with spray paint.

https://i.nostr.build/Z59ak.jpg

#artstr


No problem.


Right.


Running Mealie on an old laptop because it sucks on my phone.

Does anyone else use mealie on Umbrel?

#asknostr #grownostr🌱


That's awesome. Thanks.


You can name the rooms?


That's awesome!


Rejoice and stack more sats.


Damn. I just realized I have over a hundred articles on nostr

https://i.nostr.build/wGvL2.png


# Don't Trust, Verify

![easy to fool](https://i.nostr.build/WG2Vj.png)

A few months ago, I  watched the [Madoff documentary on Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/madoff-the-monster-of-wall-street-release-date-cast-news). According to the documentary Madoff was a respected, founder of the NASDAQ stock exchange, and ran the biggest Ponzi Scheme in history. He also happened to be of Jewish descent.(This is important an important detail to the story, no anti-semitism intended). Because of his ancestory, Madoff befriended prominant rich people within the Jewish community. He leveraged his religion, culture, and esteem to his advantage. Steven Spielberg and Elize Wiezel were among his victims.

Spielburg is one of the most famous directors, but Wiesel was best known for his memoire, *Night*, a book about his experience at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He told the story of waving goodbye to his mother and sister as they stood in line for the oven. Oprah interviewed him. Bernie Madoff made promises. He promised to invest his client's money. I would bet his victims spoke highly of capability given his high returns. He was Jewish too.  Most people tend to like other people who share the same cultural values as they do. This is not unique to Jewish culture, it's a hypothesis of every culture.  Who could understand the investment needs of Jewish people better than someone who observed Chaunaka and understood the struggles Jewish people had to suffer? In other words, some smart people found Bernie Madoff easy to trust because his cultural heritage matched their cultural heritage. There was just one problem. All cultures include a certain percentage of untrustworthy people like a bug in computer software.

Bernie Madoff was a crook and although he did not cause the Great Financial Crisis, he became the poster boy. When things go bad, good people look for a scapegoat. Bernie did not make his money off of these plants but stole some of the money from a Holocaust survivor. I'm not saying drugs are good, but Bernie Madoff deserves a special place in hell.

He didn't have anything to do with the collapse of Lehman Brothers though. He didn't cause the bank runs. He didn't buy or sell Mortgage-backed securities and derivitives. Almost nobody went to prison for the great financial crisis. Most people involved got a bailout of almost one trillion dollars. Bernie, founder of the GOAT Ponzi died in prison.

![bernie and elize](https://i.nostr.build/Q7BWJ.png)

### The Anatomy of A Ponzi

The word Ponzi comes from the con-man, Charles Ponzi who is credited with inventing the scheme. It works like this. The scammer tells Paul, "I've been getting 21% returns in the stock market. Do you want in on this?"

Paul thinks..."That sounds too good to be true, but I know Charles. He's a good guy. He also belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster just like me! 👍"

”Sure. Here's $100,000. TO THE MOONBEAM!"

Charles takes the $100,000. That's it. He doesn't invest it.

"Yo Peter! I got this hot investment tip. I've made 21% for 5 years.  It uses 'blockchain technology.’ *You know what that means?*

"TO THE MOONBEAM! Here's a check for $200,000,” Peter says.

Charles doesn't invest Peter's money either.
He calls Paul instead. "You're not gonna believe this. Video games on a blockchain already went to the moonbeam. I can give you $125,000 or you can let it ride."

"Doood...That's awesome. I'll take my chips off the table," Peter says.

Charles pays Peter $125,000. He made $75,000 off this scam.  What if Peter wants his money back? No problem. Mary just called. "Hey! I ran into Paul at the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He tells me you made his money Moonbeam. I have $400,000, my life's savings. Can you make it moonbeam?"

"Of course. TO THE MOONBEAM!"

Video games on a blockchain are an obvious scam-coin Ponzi scheme. Ponzi schemes come in many shapes and sizes, but you've heard this story before --Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Ponzi schemes are yet another way to describe something we've been over before -**The double spending problem**. That's all a Ponzi scheme is. Peter gives Charles money. He spends this money on Paul and keeps some for himself. Meanwhile, Peter thinks Charles  did not spend his money and still believes that money is still there for him to spend in the future. We have an idiom in the United States. "You can't have your cake and eat it too." If you eat the cake, it ceases to exist. Therefore, you no longer have it once it is eaten. Paul gave Charles his piece of cake with the expectation of eating 1.21 cakes in the future. Charles already ate Paul's cake though, so he had to give Paul Peter's cake.

The same is true of money. You can't have your money and spend it too. You also can't have your money if Charles spends your money unless Charles robs Peter to pay Paul. Then, Peter can't have his money unless Charles also robs Mary. **When there's no money left to rob the entire system falls apart**.

## Fractional Reserve Banking Is A Ponzi Scheme And Bitcoin Fixes This

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."
-- Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A Peer To Peer Electronic Cash System

"I've developed a new open-source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It's completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust. Give it a try, or take a look at the screenshots and design paper...

**The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work**. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but **the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust**. 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, and **trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts**. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible."
\- [Satoshi Nakamoto. February 11, 2009](https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/p2pfoundation/1/)

"Hey, Paul. Are you interested in a blockchain? Look at my charts. *To the moo..*

"Nah, man. I got this new thing. Here's how it works. First, I write down 12 words. Then, I tell you to go fuck yourself."

Now Paul holds his own keys. His money becomes valuable by doing nothing. Nobody can guarantee this, but those who accept the quantity theory of money expect bitcoin to get this as long as more people adopt it. Almost every other asset on the planet requires permission to own and must be held by a trusted third party. Your stocks can be confiscated. Most people need permission from a bank to buy a home. They don't print money for everyone. Many people may never qualify for a mortgage, but the value of their savings will degrade faster than house paint. We will learn later that all other cryptocurrencies suffer this same fate.

This money goes down because the government is incentivized to print money, but they can't print steer. Therefore, more dollars chase more ground beef. Ground beef, as well as everything else, goes up in price when compared to dollars. This is why Dollar Tree no longer sells anything for less than $1.25 and many items cost much more. This is also why so many people young people saving in dollars will find it so difficult to buy a mortgage now.

![sucks for a house](https://i.nostr.build/kZ7w5.png)

Paul saved fiat to put a down payment on a house for five years. Then the pandemic happened. Peter stayed home. Paul stayed home. The government gives Paul $1,200 and a cushy unemployment check. They also cut a $1,200 check to Peter plus an additional $80,000 "loan." When the loan is forgiven, Peter buys a second home and rents it for 40% more than he could have got before the pandemic because the house is worth 40% more.  When Paul begins working again. He had $20,000 saved for a down payment, but can no longer compete with $80,000 down payment Peter has. He is priced out of the market and has student loans to pay.

People blame capitalism, but this is not capitalism. This is the Cantillon effect under a socialist monetary system. Adam Smith wrote about capitalism in 1776 in The Wealth of Nations. He described it as an invisible hand. The baker, the brewer, and the butcher all work to make life better for themselves. The baker sells his bread to the butcher, the brewer sells beer to the baker and they all prosper based on their proof of work. The free market is the invisible hand. The modern financial system is something else, not capitalism as Adam Smith described. There is no more "invisible hand." There is a hand that picks winners and losers and everyone can see it like a trick a bad magician attempts.

The point is, that you cannot trust the government. You can verify every sat you own with a $400 computer and about ten minutes of competition. You cannot verify the amount of Social Security you will receive or what age they will give it to you. (if at all) Say you make $40,000 a year. This means about $100 of your paycheck goes to social security. If the government put bought bitcoin with that money for nine years, you would have $1,656,380 for your retirement at the time of this writing.

If you retire at 65 and expect to live to 100, you could spend 47,325.14 every year for the rest of your life. Of course, this assumes bitcoin ceases to go up in price. **That is capatalism**. That is capital. Social Security is socialism. What other context do you think the word "social" means?

![wealth of nations quote](https://i.nostr.build/7G2rg.png)

Bitcoin is real capitalism. The economic regimes of the world are not capitalism. They are a Frankenstien-esque amalgomation of socialism, capatalism, communism, and fachism. Natalie Smolenski says this new economic system is being called a controlled economy by modern French economists. This is the best definition I've heard, [*dirigisme*](https://www.britannica.com/money/dirigisme) [h/t Natalie Smolenski]( https://fountain.fm/episode/PuxLiPy80oAQ5OBJWO9X)

### Bitcoin Is Hope

That's why [Bitcoin is hope](https://www.hope.com/en). This is not the [glittering generality](**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glittering_generality**) you might see on a presidential campaign poster. My mom remembers buying mayonnaise for a nickel. In End The Fed, Ron Paul says he "learned the value of a penny," as a kid. A few weeks ago, while in my office, my 14-year-old son screamed, "Dad! Get down here!”

I thought he was bleeding. "Wh...Wha..What happened?!!!"

”These cheese and pretzels used to have 6 pretzels and now they have 5! IT'S SHRINKFLATION!"

Before the pandemic, 6 pretzels and a gob of cheese product cost $1.00. Now 5 pretzels and a smaller gob of cheese product cost $1.99. When teenagers notice inflation like your grandparents, there's a problem. Another way to put it is **there is a double spending problem**. Do you see it?

That is the hope of Bitcoin. We hope the technology that solved the double spending problem fixes this. If it does, Peter can hold his own money. He doesn't need to keep it in a savings account that pays 0.01% interest. He doesn't need to hand it over to an investment banker, a corporation that buys all the houses, a government that promises to take care of you in your old age, or the next Bernie Madoff.

He just needs to hold Bitcoin himself. Bitcoin will do what it is programmed to do. He runs a node. He stamps steel. He learns how to use passphrases and multi-signature. He stacks sats.

###  What If Bitcoin Is The MySpace of Money?

I never heard FTX until about 2016 blocks before the collapse. I heard [SBF](https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/sam-bankman-fried-sentencing-03-28-24/index.html) paid politicians like a Wiseguy, paid for commercials with Tom Brady on the Superbowl, and gambled customer bitcoin away. Bitcoin had an immaculate conception. It wasn't worth anything for two years.

I haven't watched the Super Bowl in over a decade. I don't know why people scream when someone scores a touchdown. I know American Football players are notoriously bad with money. I have no idea why anybody would take investment advice from someone who spends as much time learning about football as I have spent learning about Bitcoin.

I suspect it's an old-fashioned affinity scam. Tom Brady plays for "my team," whatever that means. He's a winner and I want to be on team winner. He's betting on FTX so I'm betting on FTX. People trust Tom Brady like they trusted Bernie Madoff. Humans are hard-wired to trust people who have a lot of money, claim to believe the same religious stories or wear a nice suit. We have a motto to protect us from this tendency.

**Don't trust, verify.**

Ronald Regan is credited with saying, ["Trust, but verify,"](https://www.socratic-method.com/quote-meanings/ronald-reagan-trust-but-verify) but I haven't actually verified this quote. Nevertheless, bitcoiners modified this quote to reflect the fact that Bitcoin is math and can be verified the same way a high school freshman verifies algebra. **It's all math on a computer network**. Therefore, if you run your own full node, you can verify you retain control of every sat you owe.

The centralized fiat debt system has:

- [Bank bailouts](https://home.treasury.gov/data/troubled-asset-relief-program)
- [National debt](https://www.usdebtclock.org/)
- [Unfunded liabilities](https://www.csg.org/2023/05/03/unfunded-pension-liabilities-the-growing-cost-of-retirement/)
- [The Cost of the top 150 items Americans Spend Money On](https://chapwoodindex.com/)
-  [Multi-trillion budgets](https://usafacts.org/state-of-the-union/budget/)
-  [Stimulus checks](https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/economic-impact-payments)
-   [PPP loan forgiveness](https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program/ppp-loan-forgiveness)
-   [Soverign wealth confiscation](https://abcnews.go.com/US/treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-russian-assets-ukraine-theft/story?id=111154528)

#### There Is No Next Bitcoin

![supply schedule](https://i.nostr.build/nb8729.png)]

["Absolute mathematical scarcity achieved by consensus in a sufficiently decentralized distributed network was a discovery rather than an invention. IT CAN NOT BE ACHIEVED AGAIN since the very thing discovered was resistance to replicability itself"](https://x.com/knutsvanholm/status/1321312150137278464)

--Knut Svanholm. Independence Reimagined.

This book is titled after the first sentence of the the bitcoin white paper. Now it's time to peruse the second sentence. **"Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending."**  Digital signatures are cryptography. Cryptography is math. Cryptography is useful. You might find a few uses for a couple of shitcoins, but [value is subjective](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/subjective-theory-of-value.asp) and not determined by utility. Nostr is an example of a digital signature. It uses the same cryptography bitcoin uses to sign transactions to sing notes... and other stuff. In other words, signing a nostr note and signing a bitcoin transaction share one attribute: The same type of digital signature.

As a matter of fact, a Bitcoin key is not much different from a nostr key. When we posted a note on nostr, we were digitally signing that note with our private key and broadcasting it. We will also do this with bitcoin transactions, but that's where the similarity ends. According to Satoshi, digital signatures are not the only thing required for a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. They are only part of the solution.

Digital signatures have utility. They are great for PGP, holepunch, bittorrent, nostr, and secure websites. I hate to admit it, but even banks use cryptography. The three digits on the back of your credit. card are also a private key, but the problem is, you need to give this private key to every merchant. Cryptography is useful. The cypherpunks thought it could be used to achieve freedom. I tend to agree.

Although cryptography has utility, this does not mean there will ever be the "next bitcoin." Don't fall into the trap, like so many shotcoiners, of thinking Bitcoin is the MySpace of crypto. Bitcoin is a protocol. It is the https:// of https://www.myspace.com and https://www.facebook.com. Maybe MySpace died, but it didn't kill https. Maybe Congress can ban TikTok, but it would be much more difficult to ban https. How would you log in to your bank?

Bitcoin is the only viable alternative to central banking. There is no bitcoin alternative. There is no "next bitcoin." As Knut Svanholm says, it's our one shot. There are some digital signatures that are useful, but there is no way to re-discover absolute mathematical scarcity. Monero is not absolute digital scarcity. Neither is Ethereum, but it is also not decentralized. It's more like a Central Bank that uses digital signatures to earn fees on Ponzi schemes. Stablecoins might be a better shitcoin than the shitcoins of some shithole nations, but it's still a shitcoin. None of the other coins or tokens are a viable alternative to central banks and Ponzi schemes. But...what about Shibu Inu, NFTs, dogecoin or...?  Don't be a fucking dolt. Anyone who says you should invest in or save any cryptocurrency other than bitcoin is either confused or lying.

A made a chart that describes my strategy because I know so many people like looking at charts, and doing technical analysis. Therefore, I decided to make my own chart. I call it the fuck fiat model. Look at the chart and compare it to more popular models like the stock-to-flow model. It's a simple chart. I used PSI and bowling ball bands to come up with this chart. Oh...and of course, *this is not financial advice*.

![chart](https://i.nostr.build/nb4936.jpg)

According to Jack Mallers, all but two of the top ten coins on coinmarketcap are [proof-of stake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake). Proof of stake is just a complicated way nerds re-imagine central banks. Proof of work tethers a currency to the reality of physics. In reality, you cannot have your cake and eat it too, but in fiat philosophy we can eat more cake than we can bake. Fiat has not been tethered to reality since [1971](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nixon-shock.asp). Then [this happened](https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/). Proof of stake is just another currency by decree. Dogecoin also uses proof-of-work, but it's [dumb](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqxnzd3cxqunvv3cxvurxwp42mnegp) because the supply schedule was changed. Bitcoin is the only game in town where the rules cannot be changed by decree. Therefore, bitcoin is the only non-fiat currency. Some may argue precious metal like gold and silver are another exception, but it's a moot point, because it still requires the government to follow the rules. The rules of the US constitution are difficult to change on paper. There was no constitutional amendment to change these words:

"No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;"

**The government changed the rules anyway**

![IOU bitcion](https://i.nostr.build/xE5L7.png)

Most people in the world today care more about the fiat they can put in their Financial Institutions than they care about purely peer-to-peer electronic cash systems. I would bet most people still think the US dollar is  "backed by gold," so it must be tied to reality. That's what it says in the constitution. Why would they believe otherwise?  Some companies take advantage of this tendency by giving fiat loans to people to give them control of their bitcoin. Some of these are legitimate businesses, but you should avoid lending your bitcoin unless you know how to assess risk.

Every bitcoin loan involves risk of loss. You can mitigate this risk by never loaning your bitcoin. Bitcoin has no interest. It goes upon value relative to dollars that go up in circulation. They print more and more fiat. Bitcoin prints less and less sats. There isbno such thing as a bitcoin savings account.

If you must take a loan, demand to hold one of three keys in a multi-signature quorum. Don't risk more than you are willing to lose. If you lose your job and can no longer make payments, you will still lose your sats. If bitcoin flash crashes 50%, you can kiss those sats goodbye. Bitcoin collateralized loans avoid [rehypothecation](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rehypothecation.asp) risk, but not risk of loss from a crash or missed payments.

[BlockFi](https://www.reuters.com/technology/blockfi-makes-first-appearance-bankruptcy-court-2022-11-29/) bought ad space on the most popular bitcoin podcasts. Many "influencers" were paid to tell people to sedn their sats to blockFi. It always seemed strange to me that peopel who say "not your keys, not your coin" also say you should send your sats to people wearing suits. Blockfi rehypothicated. There is no other way to obtain earn more bitcoin without mining. They traded customer bitcoin to make more fiat to buy more bitcoin. The trouble is, they lost the Bitcoin. The same thing happened with SBF. So many people were fooled by the promise of more bitcoin. They forgot about the first few sentences of the bitcoin white paper.

”A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network.”
-Bitcoin white paper

Bitcoin solves the double spending problem. Russia thought the money it kept in a Belgian bank would be there for Russia to spend. Russia thought this money would be spent by Russia in the future. This money was spent on the Ukraine instead. Your opinion of Russia or Ukraine does not change this fact. Fuck Russia and the Ukraine, but it is easier to achieve peace when everyone plays by a set of rules that cannot be changed without the agreement of everyone involved. That's what makes bitcoin such an important discovery. Bitcoin is not a way to make more fiat. Bitcoin is anti-fiat.

I highly encourage you to watch Jack Mallers speech about alt-coins.

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TL;DR Why you should focus on bitcoin-only in about 3500 words.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqgkgmmwwskhgun4wd6z6an9wf5kv7ge7eaws


What happened?


This wallet is great, but DNS sucks.


It's because they watch MSNBC propoganda more than they watch Biden speak.


I wasn't able to zap you so I sent a message, but it was on my end. Sorry.🤦♂


I'm not a fan of lobster, but looks fun.


It was painful to watch.


That was not a "debate."

That was too old men rambling about nonsense.

They talked about:

- Sex
- Biden's son
- Jobs
- War
- Stonks
- Trillion dollar deficits
- Immigrants murdering women who have abortions or something...😱

Hey, how about that inflation the cashiers at the grocery store keep telling me about?

Did you see my golf handicap?


That's something else.

Can you login using something like nos2x or getalby extention?


I do. I like to add links to quotes that take the reader to highlighter.com highlights of that quote.


I am so jelly. I've never found anything like this. — This is a comment on: https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qqrr2wpkxvursq3qqqqq9h54gszlv3c7jth5vqnstyn3e87cpkkm5srtpjk28szhsznsxpqqqp65w8zgkeg


Right.


I don't care about Hunter Biden smoking crack.

I don't care about Trump having sex with porn stars.

I don't vote.


"I didn't have sex with a porn star.”

What a shitshow.


Seriously.


Thanks.


New1 asked, "What is Markdown?" here is my answer

This is a video event and can be viewed at https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqrk25m8ffq5jcczyp6m7g6nrt5lnrrzn9d6quv3ujyw44r4jafhr43a0h75d00ph75f2qcyqqqgtwcseftqr


Don't worry. They say unemployment is only 4% and inflation is only 3%. Trust, don't verify.


The problem is that noobs get scammed by OG's with 700k followers because they are susceptible to the influence of social proof.

I bet he believes his own bullshit and does not have the technical ability to understand why NFT's do not secure property rights.


That's what makes it so beautiful. It's math based, not belief based.


Hivetalk.


Me too, but I tested GetAlby's self-hosted wallet today. It's pretty cool.


Yeah. It feels like the Matrix.


Not just the UK. It's the world.


Exactly.


There is at least a 1% chance this debate is an AI video, but if there is no audience  we must trust, can't verify.


Agreed.


Me too, but the lightning address broke.


I almost forgot about this dude. I stopped following him after getting into an NFT debate. I hope you win this bet Alex. 🤙


I'm just kidfing. 🤣


Seed oils?


This was so good. I haven't looked at coinmarketcap in years. I had no idea people were so duped.


This was great. Are the other hosts on nostr?


Those bastards.


This episode was amazing. That reminds me I need to find, zap, and boost them.


I haven't tried it yet, but I heard speechnote is good on Linux Unplugged.

I'm not sure id it uses hugging face either.


I couldn't finish it. It was too depressing.


I tried this today. It's amazing.

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Zap Bitkarrot!


I like to write about creative ways of using thr Bitcoin Lightning Network.

The zaps from this note will go to the authors listed on the book, Parallell: The Bitcoin Social Layer.


Yeah. I get it. We're on the same team man. 🫡


I know, but he's free.

The first rule ofnfreedom is: Stay free.🤙


It's on the news.


🤣 perfect analogy.


I can't believe it either.


Yes!


Assange is free again.  This is incredible.


Why is the alarm tripping? I have my theories, but I'm trying to focus on the white pill.


I do, but the solution to this problem is unpopular.


Do it!


That's so crazy.

Who in their right mind thinks war with nuclear armed nation states could lead to a good outcome for anyone?


This makes me want to go to a nostr conference.


Facts, and I expected the opposite.


To be honest, I wasn't a fan of nation state #bitcoin adoption until I saw Janet Yellen on Hulu yesterday.

The president of Serbia lays out the game theory very well in this clip, and I have now changed my mind.

Nation states that wish to keep their treasuries must adopt the Saylor strategy if they wish to prevent WWIII, but I'm not sure they want to prevent WWIII.

https://fountain.fm/clip/OomXnEa8d0YD0FJaJPbL


Dude, you're so well diversified.


I didn't know it did that. I should try it again.


I don't like the results.


I host it, but I haven't used it much. How is it?


Whoogle on Umbrel.


Teach me when you learn. 😏


That's cool.


Is this on Spotify? I'm working on a bitcoin song Jukebox. I also want to add some of your songs from the Crypto Couple.


Hear me out. We stop playing Creed and we start playing this. #tunstr #bitcoin

https://youtu.be/jGaeWlGDA7E?si=bvnoTf3hPI8trUkq


Shill me your favorite bitcoin themed songs. #asknostr #music


Apple only?


"The problem of course is the payee can't verify that one of the owners did not double-spend the coin. A common solution is to introduce a trusted central authority, or mint, that checks every transaction for double spending. After each transaction, the coin must be returned to the mint to issue a new coin, and only coins issued directly from the mint are trusted not to be double-spent. The problem with this solution is that the fate of the entire money system depends on the company running the mint, with every transaction having to go through them, just like a bank."

Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A Peer To Peer Electronic Cash System

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This is not "theft." It's the double spending problem.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-russian-assets-ukraine-theft/story?id=111154528


Thank you. That's a great answer.


What's the average lifespan of galvanized steel garden beds?

 #asknostr #permie #garden #grownostr🌱


Beautiful🤩


 The way I see it, e-cash mitigates SELF-CUSTODIAL lightning risk.

A couple years ago, I tried sending sats to a few podcasters every 6 blocks with Oak Node on Umbrel . It worked, for a while. Then it broke. I lost ~ 800k sats.

It's not the end of the world, but it still sucked.

So if I open my own channel, I only do it with money I can tolerate losing, maybe a million sats or so.

I'm also okay with a 800k sats on an e-cash wallet like Mutiny. That's about the sweet Nash equilibrium g-spot I'm lookong for.

I've lost 800k sats running my own lightning node(well more 🤣), so risking 800k sats on e-cash is +EV from a game theoretical standpoint.

The number is subjective, so it will vary with each individual, but that's how I look at it.

Besides, e-cash on a federated mint has a better risk profile than leaving it on an exchange.

It's good for people who stack small amounts(i.e. newcoiners) or money you plan to give away like tips or zaps. If you get hacked, it's not the end of the world.


Yeah, but he has some great articles. I've also been looking for a bill pay service in the US since Bitrefill discontinued the service. He's also not wrong, but there's only so many hours in the day. You have to choose your battles.


Is your tattoo artist on nostr?


Meh, Twitter seems creepy to me now. I only use it to ask no-nostriches and pre-nostriches questions? Can they see these questions? Only Elon knows.


I have the app, but I'm looking for a re-loadable prepaid physical credit card. In a perfect world, we wouldn't need credit cards, but this is not a perfect world.

I've been pondering the first sentence of A Cypherpunk's Manifesto these days.

"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the digital age."

From what I can tell, an open society is a term coined by Karl Popper. An open society is a free society. People are free to do as they please and talk to whoever they wish to talk to.

When the going gets tough, the tough get authoratarian. They demand, "papers please." Businesses with NO CASH ACCEPTED signs are subtle ways of refusing service to those without papers. Did AI find your face at the trucker protest? Bank account banned. NO CASH ACCEPTED.

 If history rhymes, as Mark Twain once quipped, we can expect the world to become more authoritarian while the money continues to break.

Darthcoin makes some good points, but I'm searching for solutions to live free in an unfree world, not knock on door doors and preach the good news of Satoshi. People will accept bitcoin when they need to, but first, we must show them. That's why I'm so bullish on nostr.

Sorry for the long rant. 😅


How do I get this?


Is dell accepting bitcoin now?


Thank you.


Testing LNbits Tip Jar

https://lnbits.blogging-bitcoin.com/tipjar/3


I guess.


What ever happened to LNpay? #asknostr


Mutiny works for this. You just need nostr wallet connect too.


Wow.


There's bugs so it might not be. I've been  testing automated lightning payments since 2022. I'm having a difficult time with highlighter, but these zaps are not me.


A few years ago, I did a 100 day zero alchohol challenge. After a hundred days I decided to not go back because I felt so good.

But when I tell people I don't drink, they assume I had a problem. Yeah, the problem is drinking makes you feel like shit.


Try clearing your casche.


The bitcoin preferred sign.


Where did you get that sign?


Spicey.

I do not wish to reveal my opinion about a woman's right to choose.

That's a different issue from what I'm about to say.

This is the premise of the Handmaid's Tale.

My wife was really into that show, but it made think about this from an economic perspective.

We can either have abortion(legal or otherwise) or we can have entitlements, but we can't have both.

Well we can, but you all know how that goes.

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


I know. I donated bitcoin to Gary Johnson in 2016. I don't vote anymore, but a couple years ago, I asked my local libertarian canidate if I could set up lightning donations on their website.
🦗🦗🦗


I would just empty all my wallets into one or two wallets and delete the old ones.


Good news. Man. I've never gotten so choked up online before.


I've always wanted to go to PorkFest.

Now I really want to go, but instead of argue with libertarian b-cashers, it would be fun to set up a lightning jukebox and show them how fast the lightning network is.


True. I was trying to be funny. I'm not 😏


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Agreed.


# Using p2p Electronic Cash
#### by Blogging  Bitcoin

```
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions and that a division of authority will actually extend the possibility of overall order. Yet that decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account.”
― Friedrich Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
```

I write a free and open source blog about using bitcoin as peer to peer electronic cash. This is a compilation of some blogs I've written over the last two years. I wanted to write a book, but always felt paywalls are contrary to the free and open-source software movement. I still might publish this on dead trees, but want it to be free for anyone to read like the code you can find on https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/. This is also an example of what bitcoin makes possible. Andreas Antonopolis once compared bitcoin to the invention of the printing press.

I may not agree with everything he says, but he was right about that. Bitcoin allows me to get paid directly by the consumer. It is possible to sell my words without jumping through the Amazon hoops. App developers can publish apps, but Apple will not be levy their 30% tax. I'm not advocating tax evasion or fighting the IRS, but **why should we pay corporations to publish and censor us when we can be paid directly from our audience?**

This is a compilation of 21 of my favorite blogs I wrote on nostr over the last two years. It is written using the Value 4 Value model. To support my work, please pay the paywall, send zaps, or contribute your time treasure, or talent in another way.

Most bitcoin books try to convince you to buy bitcoin. They talk about how bitcoin is worth more today than ten years ago. You should buy bitcoin because it's going to a moon 69,420 light-years away in a galaxy called WhenLambo. I get it. 125 sats will most likely buy you something at the dollar tree one day. At the time of this writing, 1,922 will buy you a single item at the dollar tree, but 1,538 sats will buy you a paper NFT with George Washinton's mug shot.  This is not about NFT's, trading crypto, or how many dollars 100,000,000 sats are worth. It's the musings of some nerd on the Internet who believes cryptography equals freedom in the electronic age. It's about how I use bitcoin and freedom tech in an unfree fiat tech world.

All of my work is written under a Creative Commons Licence. To support my work, please pay the paywall or send zaps. I have published this blog behind this paywall. Paywalls kinda suck because they block so many people from reading your work--At least they think they do. Most paywalls can be bypassed by a simple google search

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## Using p2p Electronic Cash, by Blogging Bitcoin

https://i.nostr.build/zdJG3.png

1)[My Nym Is Blogging Bitcoin](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/my-nym-is-blogging-bitcoin)

2 [Support Yo0ur Local Circular Economy To Drain The Exchanges](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/support-your-local-bitcoin-circular-economy-to-drain-the-exchanges)

3)[Then They Fight You](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/then-they-fight-you)

4)[Use Bitcoin To Protoest Inflation](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/use-bitcoin-to-protest-inflation)

5)[Stacking Sats On Substack](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/stacking-sats-on-substack)

6)[Bitcoin Is Not A Belief](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/bitcoin-is-not-a-belief)

7)[Why I Write On Nostr](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/why-i-write-on-nostr)

8)[The Nostr Tip Jar](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/the-nostr-tip-jar)

9)[Privacy Is Necessary For An Open Society In The Electronic Age](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/fix-the-money-fix-the-music)

10)[Fix The Money, Fix The Music](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/fix-the-money-fix-the-music)

11)[Build The Bitcoin Economy On Nostr](https://habla.news/u/bloggingbitcoin@nostrplebs.com/build-the-bitcoin-economy-on-nostr)

12)[I don't trust the Cold Card: How to Verify Dice Rolls Using Tails](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqyrxvp5xs6n2dpe9pzgyn)

13)[Recurring Bitcoin Donations with OakNode](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqyrsvnpxumrzdejpxnwck)

14)[Crypto Means Cryptography](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqvkxunewp6x7ttdv4skuuedvde8jur5danhyctsdpusgmwy39)

15)[Doge Is Dumb](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqxnzd3cxqunvv3cxvurxwp42mnegp)

16)[Instransigent Tipping](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqyrzdfhvs6nze3stpwaxy)
17)[Explain The Blockchain To Me(Like I don't Know How To Use The Command Line)](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqxnzd3cxcengvf3xvcnvwpn3k86av)

18)[Freedom On The Internet](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqxnzd3c8qmrwvfnxqungvpsk7v0ea)

19)[How Bitcoin Works In A Nutshell](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qq2hzanpx3fhxdnrfaxyj56xtpgxven8xye8w69tg7s)

20)[Stacking Sats Is For Everybody](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qq2hx3p5g4kr2hmzv9c85ttrtgc8vajsfpyrzh2n9mt)

21)[Using p2p Electronic Cash](https://lnbits.blogging-bitcoin.com/paywall/i5af6kfipJcNPqVhe2ZhL9)

₿logging ₿itcoin
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[debtclock](https://www.usdebtclock.org/)
🧡 Support this by using the ⚡[Value 4 Value model](https://pay.blogging-bitcoin.com/apps/3vEV1KbgVJbLgYtcPkcSwR9mCt4S/pos)⚡

Using p2p Electronic Cash, By Blogging Bitcoin

TL;DR I decided to publish some of my blogs as a book, but first I'm trying to earn sats it without a middle man.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqadlydf3460e333fjkaqwxg7fz82636ew5m36c7hml2xhhsml2y4qqkh2umfdenj6upjwqkk2mr9vd68ymmwd93j6cmpwd5z6cne943xcmm8va5kueedvf5hgcm0d9hqvxm2kp


Got it. :)


What do you think Trump will do with his #bitcoin donations?


Thank you for promoting #nostr. 🫡


What do you write?


👀

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Neat!


That's so cool!


Whatever you do, keep writing.


I just want to keep the cypherpunk ethos.


Sure.
🤙
https://earlyretirementextreme.com/container-gardening-using-diy-self-watering-pots.html


I like the way Max Hillabrand used WoT with PGP.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201127093818/http://towardsliberty.com/contact/PGP_policy.txt

It would be great to know you are talking to the real Lyn Alden, but like Hodlbod sad, this comes with privacy tradeoffs.

I'm not so sure what that would do for discoverability though, but it's a fascinating topic.


I'm a #permie noobie, but one day my wife showed me an article about Container Gardening by Jacob Lund Fisker. He said his 5 gallon buckets were  a great investment because they saved him so much at the grocery store.

That was a paradigm shift that makes me think we should bring back the Victory Garden concept.

If inflation does what many of us expect, these are the investments you should diversify your portfolio into.

That's my #twosats.

#grownostr 🌱

https://i.nostr.build/zdAdZ.jpg https://i.nostr.build/oMgMk.jpg


I'm not sure, but thanks. I think they have a meeting on Discord every Friday. I think I'll drop by this week and ask about this.

Thank you. 🤙


Yeah. I know it still works, but if you scan the qr code without a lightning wallet, it sends you to a Wallet of Satoshi tutorial. I understand why they left the US, but we could use a tutorial update in the US.

I'm basically arguing with myself and it looks like I need to make a pull request. 🤣


Thanks. I, but on second thought, I should check the repository.😁


Me too. This is the first time I ever heard of this.


A couple years ago, I made birthday cards with ligjtning tip cards but stopped once WOS left the US. The cards still work, but the video is moot.


Yes.


The only difference with fountain I've ever noticed is that tales a day longer for episodes to show up in the feed.


Is the Alby Hub self-custodial node on github?