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 The bull run made  the zaps less frequent.  
 I like the idea of only zaps, but the like button is a hard habit to break. 
 Is anyone using Amethyst with zaps through a Liquid wallet and some form of swap in and out? 🤔 
 Agreed. 
 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 
 Sounds like it. He definitely did his homework.
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 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? 
 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. 
 My 8yo daughter pepper sprayed herself in the face this morning. She's fine. Hopefully smarter no... 
 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. 
 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. 
 Sometimes I run into a tech guy on Twitter, who talks about how cypherpunk he is.

I’m just a f... 
 You're way more cypherpunk than Twitter maxis. 
 I noticed I’m getting less zaps lately. I wonder if it is something I’ve done wrong or has za... 
 I haven't been able to zap you for a while. 
 I've done it before. 
 “I like Lincoln Park. I’m not even gonna try to hide it anymore” 

#overheardincornychat 
 Better than Creed. 
 Wait, this is your wife? 
 That didn't come out right. I mean, did your wife draw this? 
 It looks awesome. 
 Go follow this account. 

What’s happening in Venezuela right now will barely make the news in ... 
 It was on the news. 
 My absolute favorite accounts on Nostr, are the ones that don’t like bitcoin.

Those folks are ... 
 Linux is cool. 
 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 🫡 
 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) 
 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. 
 What's the difference between income and tips? 

 
 Tips are not mandatory. 
 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.  
 It's scary how normies just instantly revert to the propaganda they have been force fed for decad... 
 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.  
 What an incredible week!

I feel so loved & appreciated amongst bitcoiners. I have immense respec... 
 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. 
 Free Ross, but don't give him the money Secret Service agents stole from him. 
 I agree. I just wish politics would stay out of #bitcoin, but I might as well believe in unicorns. 🦄  
 Here’s a real honest opinion. In my several decades of life, I have not met a single fat person... 
 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. 
 Totally agree. It is all BS. 
 #GM my Nostriches 

One of the constant "debates" nostr:nprofile1qqszpreneylpzvlvhdzy4sp6mucdgg30... 
 I need a good playlist. I mostly listen to acoustic punk/folk music, but I like Ainsley.  What's Joe Martin's best song? 
 That makes sense. 
 Thanks. 
 We stoled this money and we should keep it hahahahahahaha gotta love it 😀 😆😆😆😆

Al... 
 They should burn it. 🔥  
 I'm down for Vegas next year. Not the conference. Just Vegas when Bitcoiners are there. 
 That sounds fun. 
 You tolerate other people ten times more if you know ahead of time that you have a shared princip... 
 This is the new Orange Pill.

nostr:nevent1qqszl0qkm9w0ejaf039n7s9ls4uqcd8xs6kqt87vyctm6hnlc5qgcsqpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30qgsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncrqsqqqqqpt4wsnd 
 nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgpr9mhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9e... 
 What happened, exactly? 
 Bummer. 
 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 
 I’ve been paying miners all day sending on chain back and forth 
 You're the only one of these people I recognize. 
 Bitcoin 2024, summarized: cheering on politicians wanting to confiscate private property and buil... 
 👎 Suits

👍 #Bitcoin  
 do most nostr profiles have a LN address? 
 Shitcoins are ponzi coins. 
 advice for people new to bitcoin?
"download a meta mask account" spoken on main stage at #bitcoin... 
 WTF? Have they even heard about nostr? 
 What's all the fuss over Monero?

Can you use it like #Bitcoin (lightning)?

#asknostr 
 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.


 
 Look we understand monero is good for privacy yeahhhhh good but its garbage to store my value lon... 
 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! 
 GM pleebs, wacky sacky and punta vidya

If you haven't listened to the latest episodes of TFTC wi... 
 Just getting into these. Goodwin is on The Investor's podcast too. 
 If Russell Brand is speaking about freedom of speech at the Bitcoin Conference, why isn't he on N... 
 Wow. 🫤 
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