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 Who are the 🤡 selling #Bitcoin for fiat? 
 Those of us all in, but have bills to pay. 
 The coworkers have been introduced to #nostr! 🚀 
 Anyone on it yet? 
 Same for me. 
 “The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work... 
 I think about this quote all the time. 
 Oh, so frustrated with Primal, I just opened Damus and am writing from that. Let’s see it if wo... 
 Your zaps work. 
 You need a VPN because WOS does not give permission for people in certain jurisdictions like the US to send sats via lightning.  You need to stack enough to send an on-chain transaction. Let me think about the most user friendly option.  
 Imlike minibits.cash, but I'm not sure if they have an iPhone app. Primal is great but comes with KYC trade offs. 
 Out of curiosity, does anybody know how many active members are on Primal right now?

#Introducti... 
 Not sure about only Primal, but here are nostr stats.

https://stats.nostr.band/
 
 If you’re writing a book to articulate a thought, you’re either chat gpting or don’t know w... 
 That's a great book. 
 The nostr integration is awesome. 
 One of the real costs of privacy is convenience.

It's not easy to give up the UI/UX of Google an... 
 I haven't used Windows in about 4 years, but my wife needed some computer help one day.

I was like, "How the hell do you get any work done with all these pop up ads?" 
 What test? 
 Cool. I started applying to IT helpdesk jobs, I have a Google IT Technician certificate, but everyone wants CompTia A+. I began studying for that, but it was boring so now I'm studying security plus sense I already have much of the background knowledge it requires. 
 Thanks. Do you have any tips? And have you been able to get jobs with it? 
 Data storage determination by human curation. You cannot force your information on other people h... 
 Nice take. 
 Very impressive.

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 I love it. 
 Sports medicine professional. 
Colorado based.
Just married. 
Bitcoiner since early 2020. 
Passio... 
 Congratulations on the new marriage and welcome. 
 I love that you're usinf OxChat? Keet is pretty easy and more like telegram chat rooms, but I like the idea of developing a business on OxChat, especially since we also have eBay-esquw clients on nostr such as shopstr.store.

https://fountain.fm/episode/f3s5hTzNEUCKGueFMRK8

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 Thanks for sharing. I would like to hear your thoughts. I watched Betrayal on Hulu last week. I didn't realize the problem was so big. 
 Wait. There's a NWC now? When did this happen? 
 Anyone been able to get #keet client running on Linux? Installing the app image seems to do nothing. 
 What distro? I couldn't get the App Image files to work on Ibuntu 24, but it works on popOS. 
 #introductions seems lit today 🔥 
 How do I change my npub on the @Fedi app? 
#asknostr 
 Thanks. 
 What's your fedi npub? I want to try sending a test transaction. 
 Maybe npub was the wrong term. What is this called?

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 I don't know why, but I can't send sats using this username. :/  
 In the future the phrase “I feel like a million bucks” will be replaced with the phrase:

“... 
 I'm using that for sure. 

Hey, just out of curiosity, is your FIRE number 25x or 50x your annual expenses? 
 First time with Nostr and Damus. I’m excited!
#bitcoin

#introductions 
 Welcome. 
 Didn’t know about this so sharing it for all who need to know!

#nostr
#asknostr
#introductions... 
 It's happened to me. Now I back it up with https://metadata.plebnet.dev/ 
 Haven't heard it yet. I remember listening to Bitcoin Audible either the day the world shut down or soon after. I was freaking out about the price dip and Guy was like rejoicing
 🤣 
 -Treat the arrest of the Telegram CEO as an emergency.

-Advocate for his freedom and for all fre... 
 Thank you very much for sharing this information, Lyn. I've been busy and had no idea. 
 I feel like I'm more technically inclined than the average person.

Why do I suck at ReCAPTCHA? 
 Yeah. That's probably why. 
 I've noticed people like this, but I didn't know it was 20% of people over 65. Heartbreaking.  
 I'm lookin at zaps.lol and wondering, does anyone care about a Nostr address anymore. It's useles... 
 I still like mine. I'm old school. 
 According to Murray Rothbard in The Case For A 100 Percent Gold Backed Dollar, a dollar was worth approximately 1/20 an ounce of gold prior to WWI. This means a penny was worth 0.005 ounces of Gold, or $1.25 in today's dollar that is backed by the full faith and credit of the Land of Make Believe. 

These days, $1.25 is the price of the cheapest trinkets at the Dollar Tree. The dollar is the new penny and orange is the new gold. We all expect sat cent parity, but that is much too bearish.

It's not such a stretch to think one sat will eventually reach Dollar Tree parity and thirty things in your Dollar Tree cart will cost 30 sats. We might not see get to see this, but I suspect my grandchildren will be able to buy something at the Sat Tree for a single sat.

https://image.nostr.build/f38091b4ef27ce384d27c98895f74368f19c711bf588e6859d2a216f68f79014.jpg

 
 You can buy a bad ass mini computer for like $400 bucks. I'm a cheapskate,  and I used to fix old computers, but time is more scarce than bitcoin and I just can't do it anymore. 
 That's not so bad then. We need a small computer screw market on nostr.  😀 
 Simply Bitcoin was banned on YT today, I always knew the day would come and have been mentally pr... 
 Have you considered https://flare.pub. ?

You can upload videos to rumble and cross post them. 
 I use the get alby extension on Firefox. How do you login? 
 If the extension doesn't work, try entering your npub. I think they send you a message with a secret word to your nip04 messages. 
 I just realized I have a dozen lightning wallets and most people in the world still think bitcoin only does 7 transactions per second. 
 The strategic national reserve will need a time-lock of at least 630,000 blocks for it to have any chance of working. 

https://i.nostr.build/oZm1Uw5nH20l0hYX.jpg

https://fountain.fm/episode/umQi54SnHHFbGROEUkBU

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 Dear plebs,

Guy Swann has like 4 podcasts and one sponsor.

Please send him more zaps, boosts, and sat streams.

https://fountain.fm/episode/FExVWCrHTGsH3WfTasSt

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 are there any nostr long form clients that have integrated email yet? 
 Npub.pro is ghost + nostr. Ghost has mailgun, but I haven't used it yet. 
 This is something I've been secretly hoping for. Now it's here and it's amazing.  
 In 2020, I remember hearing NVK say you should treat your stack as if it were 10x more valuable.

I never doubted his advice, but it's still pretty crazy to see it happen.



 
 Today I used it to buy a diet coke at a brewery near me that accepts bitcoin and thought about this Eric Hughes quote

"When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there 
 how much I owe them in fees."


I felt like freedom.

https://fountain.fm/episode/nvE4MO4qv2SB4q9ZcItK

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 Sorry I haven't zapped in a while. I've been busy, but I can't wait to see what this looks like on nostr.

https://fountain.fm/episode/exBShqH4ld6aBIwfBASI

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 I love that song, reminds me of my bit torrent days. I bet a 500 sat zap would be worth more than Spotify pays Mos Def when you listen to this on their platform. 
 You should care about nostr if you want to see hyperbitcoinization, don't trust corporations with your data, or want to verify a video is real and not propaganda in the matrix. 
 Alright, I’ve deleted X off of my phone. I’m taking 6 days off to see how it goes. After that... 
 Thank you for your answer. I've always been curious about this. 🫂