Don’t work for a money that someone else can create for free. Value your time and energy.


Okay, Adam!

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A country is only as bad as the people who vote for communists.


"You just got lucky"

If that's what you wanna call having conviction and making sacrifices... sure


👀 The Chain Duel arcade is ready!
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It's difficult to comprehend just how dangerous & suffocating it is to have a few, highly controlled avenues for broad communication.

Similarly, its extremely difficult to explain the astonishing power of having broad communication networks that cannot be controlled, and where people can speak freely.

The future is going to be awesome, and it's explicitly because of tools like #Bitcoin, #Nostr, #RSS, and #Pear whether most realize it or not.


Hummingbird

The Bitcoin Jungle Story
https://m.primal.net/KIcd.mov


tell the truth. leave people alone. be kind. work hard. take responsibility. aspire to greatness. ignore what you cannot control. be of service. build things. practice courage.

these are my politics


Here it is, the final episode of What Bitcoin Did…

The McCormack Show coming soon.

Peace ✌🏻

https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/what-bitcoin-did


There is a real lack of understanding in just how fucked up the algos are, and how much power we gain in not being manipulated by them. We could be using the internet to do something extraordinary, and instead it is being used primarily to sell us shit and keep us scared. The whole of humanity is being fed lies and distortions through centralized social media that is designed to keep everyone asleep and unaware of their real power.

Now that there is no longer gatekeepers to what can be said to a global audience we have the power to shape a real unadulterated narrative; also known as the truth. The power of censorship to have molded a false global narrative is one of the pillars of the power structure that keep people divided over petty and impractical differences that can now be shown for what they are: manipulation tactics through the algos to keep everyone disempowered. We now have the ability to reclaim our voices in a way that no one can stomp out. What is to come and the changes that are to be ushered in will surprise all of us in the most remarkable of ways.


Your #bitcoin stack is worthless.

What’s the point of having a fat stack of sats if the world around you is barren of beauty, freedom, and thriving communities?

Bitcoin is just money, even if it’s JUST money. It’s a tool, a means to an end, but what are you working towards? Why are you here?

It's fashionable in the bitcoin community to talk big about “generational wealth,” as if amassing a fortune and passing it down is the ultimate goal.

How about passing on the ability to accumulate skill and reputational capital—assets that grant the timeless ability to create value, regardless of the economic landscape?

If you have the skills to be useful to your fellow man, and if you’ve built a reputation as trustworthy and capable, you will never go hungry. Reputation and skill transcend the limitations of money. They are the true generational wealth.

Bitcoin is worth less in a world stripped of beauty, community, and purpose. It’s worth less if only hoarded rather than used to build, improve, and inspire.

Bitcoin is not worthless, of course. It’s the most potent money that ever emerged. However, it’s only as powerful as the world we build around it.

Don't leave your kids bitcoin. Leave them a legacy.
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Holy shit, I think I just realized a direct and concrete way that I’ve personally experienced to how #Nostr completely changes the social incentives:

• Rage and hateful posts on Twitter get the most attention.
• Positive and happy posts on Nostr get the most zaps.

It really was just monetization all the time.

When attention is the currency, negativity and hate rise to the top because the platforms need people arguing.

When sats directly from peers are the currency, value rises to the top.

(Anyone else feel they’ve had this same experience?)


GM, The government isn't a system for serving the people.

It's a giant PR system to sell violent power as a societal good. It's success is in convincing us to hate/fear some other "group," demographic, or abstract undefinable catastrophe more than we hate/fear them.


CURRENT #BITCOIN MARKET ANALYSIS
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 https://v.nostr.build/4o073.mp4


For many years, the largest Dutch banks illegally shared transaction information because they thought this was justified in their role to “prevent money laundering and combat terrorist finance”.

Thanks  to some  brave fighters, which named this activity what it actually it is: “cybercrime”, it seems they realized their activities are actually illegal according to privacy and AML laws applicable in the EU.

Today they announced will stop these illegitimate activities. Congratulations to the Human Rights in Finance foundation and Dutch citizens and companies in general for this great win. I hoped I could share an article in English about this important matter but for now only Dutch media outlets are giving this any attention.

To everyone, never give up and keep fighting for your privacy. Even after working 8 years at a bank, I feel it’s quite insane to how traditional banks think they can use clients’ transaction data how they please.

Banks are not systemically relevant.

Opt out. Study #bitcoin .


‘About 99.5% of all the Bitcoin in circulation is held in 16.5 million UTXOs that have a value of 1m sats or more. Most of the other 169 million UTXOs will likely become economically unspendable in the future assuming they aren’t consolidated into larger ones relatively soon.’ - nostr:npub14uhkst639zvc2trx2nlsvk4yqkjp690zk89keytnzgmq2az0qmnq58ez89

People please do some UTXO management and whilst doing that buy some sats.

Bitcoin’s Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXOs) can be classified into different segments based on their age.

UTXO Management for Dummies:
If everyone pays you in quarters you’ll have to lug around a big heavy bag. It’ll also cost you more time to spend as you have to count quarters when paying. So ask for $20s or $100s as payment, or change your quarters into bills from time to time.

Now I can hear you say...wtf is a UTXO?

A UTXO stands for unspent transaction output. Don’t worry about those unnecessarily complicated words. Just use “UTXO” and understand the concept of what it is…

If you want to learn/study the topic: https://armantheparman.com/utxo/
Credit picture: nostr:npub14uhkst639zvc2trx2nlsvk4yqkjp690zk89keytnzgmq2az0qmnq58ez89

Study, learn, hodl, decouple.
#bitcoin                    🧡
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My savings account: Bitcoin
The tool I recommend for setting up a Bitcoin savings plan: @Relai 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 especially suited for beginners or people who want to invest in Bitcoin with an automated investment plan once a week or monthly. Hence a DCA, Dollar cost Average Strategy. Check out my tutorial post (Instagram) & video (YouTube) for more info.

Felipe - BitcoinFriday

#zap                      🧡   #nostr                        #BTC                       #Bitcoin                      #plebchain                         #grownostr    #stacksats #bitcoineducation #adoption
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GM
It’s time that we stop playing their game. https://i.nostr.build/ro5ya.jpg


BRÆKING: Greenpeace continues its SEXIST anti- #Bitcoin  campaign, releasing new video about “Bitcoin BROS.”

NEWSFLASH to Greenpeace misogynists: there are WOMEN in Bitcoin, & Bitcoiners will not stand by while you ERASE them.

Please repost if you think Greenpeace is sexist. https://v.nostr.build/8G8mv.mp4


Why should exchange be so universal among mankind? Fundamentally, because of the great variety in nature: the variety in man, and the diversity of location of natural resources. Every man has a different set of skills and aptitudes, and every plot of ground has its own unique features, its own distinctive resources. From this external natural fact of variety come exchanges; wheat in Kansas for iron in Minnesota; one man’s medical services for another’s playing of the violin. Specialization permits each man to develop his best skill, and allows each region to develop its own particular resources. If no one could exchange, if every man were forced to be completely self-sufficient, it is obvious that most of us would starve to death, and the rest would barely remain alive. Exchange is the lifeblood, not only of our economy, but of civilization itself.

- Murray Rothbard


Fiat inflation is more than a hidden tax on everyday folks - it fosters a culture where impulsive, harmful choices are rewarded, punishing those who live sensibly and plan for tomorrow.

It's a thief that strips us of our wealth, our values, and our spirit.

📖 Guido Hulsmann⚡

https://v.nostr.build/oAKw.mp4


Time to lift self custody to the next level! Thanks Gobrrr.me for this DIY nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl kit. https://image.nostr.build/301c42eac6ef76c124a603b1fdefe3996b36bd0d982214f8393e38bd13218583.jpg


Nederlands landelijke Nostr event. We komen donderdag 8 februari 19.30 bij elkaar in Seats2meet Utrecht om kennis uit te wisselen, te ontwikkelen en een drankje te doen. Hosts: nostr:npub1qe3e5wrvnsgpggtkytxteaqfprz0rgxr8c3l34kk3a9t7e2l3acslezefe , nostr:npub1w98ems6ryhpv7zvmhwp5sv65p0pwrnvzw4lucn0ch776qan9ntdstscwpx , nostr:npub1l77twp5l02jadkcjn6eeulv2j7y5vmf9tf3hhtq7h7rp0vzhgpzqz0swft en Seats2meet Utrecht CS. Boost je mee onder je Nederlandse Nostr volgers?! Tot op het event!https://image.nostr.build/d7926675f4f1501ef3b52e00f0e5583d725eda7fef4ed1e98cde7825e26feea7.jpg

ps. Zaps worden gesplits onder de hosts.


I’ll just leave this here 💜🫂
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MY FAMILY DIDN’T SAIL ACROSS AN OCEAN, TRAVERSE AN ENTIRE CONTINENT, BUILD HOMES, BUSINESSES AND KILL OUR ENEMIES TO STAY FREE, ONLY TO BE DIGITALLY DOMINATED BY SOME RETARD TECHNOCRAT FROM DAVOS

GFY

LIVE FREE OR DIE


nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle SPITTTTINN 💯 https://v.nostr.build/Rl0n.mp4  nostr:note1cz8dflk45cr2ljzzra9f95lyqfxmhullhdrwh0s9lkpyky38xkasgf789a


STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS.

https://m.primal.net/HXhK.mp4


Van Eck did it
Franklin did it
Libby wanted to do it too, so here's her Beetcoin ETF ad:
https://video.nostr.build/52ae08799859b051c2efec87ba60a001e9ed2f0b03515a7873bcde3e7af4b5e8.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=544x960&blurhash=%5DEGRh.%3FvPBxY%252_M%3Fu%3FbxbtRK*bdMxRj9ZM_IUIUIpRPRjRPVrn%24smxaRjI%3AogbJXAS4oc%252bI%252oIxtkDxZahoJj%3DWCf5&x=172c829283eab84ad202ece3643e2a7b1584af18cdfd9896f41280e1d9bbe0fe
Sign up for my ETF and learn how to stack bitties https://loveisbitcoin.com/bitties


And you did! 🙌
💜 #Nostr nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m https://image.nostr.build/725ce9da31e3ea6f535be124aa08156f1358d76dbfd92e4f14dfbe49f85c8433.jpg


Great idea! I’m in.


Ledger Live Tracks and Sends ALL User Information to Outsourced Data Harvesting Service

"The tracking code is too structural to be just counting users and downloads, like regular apps do. Ledger Live is doing analytics on everything from screen views, to button clicks, error events, installs, uninstalls, etc. It's basically tracking everything. Anything you do on that app gets tracked."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ledger-live-tracks-and-sends-out-all-user-information-by-default/


All water on earth visualised in a bubble 😵💫
https://video.nostr.build/3706a80c38b99b6f99df0285a577c26b1cd3eb2a4ec9c4c42583120af55cf623.mp4


FUCK EASY

I'm fed up with easy.
You don't want easy.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy.

Easy is staying on the couch.
Easy is not putting on your running shoes.
Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series.

Easy is not sticking out.
Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out.
Easy is compliance.
Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else.

Easy is kicking the can down the road.
Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses.
Easy is starting up the money printer.
Easy is "papering over" failures.

Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it."
Easy is not educating yourself.
Easy is not taking responsibility.
Easy is trusting a third party.
Easy is not holding your own keys.

Easy is comfortable.
Easy is not having to think.
Easy is not having to understand.
Easy is the coddling of the mind.

Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain.

Fuck easy.


You think it's hard to convince friends & family to use Bitcoin now, wait until they are recieving UBI in a CBDC which gets cut off if they buy Bitcoin. They will probably get some sort of bonus for reporting your "nefarious financial activity" to the govt. UBI is the final boss, the stage of total govt control, & cheering for it is total insanity.

Some of you have not read enough history. What I just described would be extremely mild in terms of the behaviors that can be achieved via govt & financial manipulation. Just a year or two ago people wanted the unvaxxed to be refused medical care & prevented from leaving their homes for groceries, they weren't even being paid to have that opinion. Attach free CBDC money vs having to sell your stuff to survive to the situation.


Visiting a village in Malawi that now has electricity because of Gridless and #Bitcoin mining was such an incredible experience.

In Malawi, the median salary is $2.00 per day and in the village we visited, it’s closer to $1.00. Worse, Malawi just had a currency debasement of 44% 3 weeks ago.

It touched my soul to meet and spend time with these amazing people, to see the laughter of the children, and to hear how #Bitcoin is changing their lives.

I would say good luck to anyone who thinks that #Bitcoin can be stopped. Because they are fighting a redistribution of power away from manipulation and exploitation of people back to them and to the free market. https://image.nostr.build/1c21ed5aaf1b8154240b8a71a2637f25581bdc2cd7c5b47c1de3d2bb4d569961.jpg


STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS.

https://m.primal.net/HSeT.mp4


Who else followed this path? 😅
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One of the quiet bull markets that has been almost as powerful as bitcoin in recent years has been uranium.

The world needs a nuclear renaissance, imo. https://image.nostr.build/dfe8d7d4b06e695acb5924a588f48002da86cb45a8b7e884373e3ca289662348.jpg


Citi employs 240,000 people.

That's a lot of rent-seekers. In just one company. In just one industry that's not the government.

And you wonder why you're working 50 hour weeks...


Some days, Clown World provides all you need and more… 🤌🤌🤌

Thank you to Biden and Newsom for their contributions 🫡 https://v.nostr.build/0QO6.mp4


“Responsibly all-in.”

“I like the orange coin. A lot.”

My research and audience straddles the macro finance world and the bitcoin world. And so humorously, I get heat from both sides.

“Lyn, I love your macro work but you’re too obsessed with bitcoin; I wish you would focus less on that stuff.” -hedge fund reader.

Vs

“Lyn, since you’re a fellow bitcoiner, why do you only have a 5-10% allocation to bitcoin in your public model portfolios!? Shouldn’t you sell all your stocks and buy more?” -fellow pleb.

I talk to many institutions, as well as high net worth individuals, and medium net worth individuals like engineers and doctors. This is where individual situations come into play. I had been watching bitcoin for a while, publicly wrote about it near the top of the cycle in 2017 and (correctly) passed on it from that point, but then kept watching it during the bear market and then hardcore jumped into it during the March/April 2020 crash starting at $6,900/coin as a long-term bull, and haven’t wavered since.

For example, 2.5 years later as Bitcoin crashed amid the FTX fallout in November 2022 from 69k to sub-16k, I was at Pacific Bitcoin laughing about it. I was not uncertain.

In those initial months of 2020, I put every dollar of my liquid capital into bitcoin. I didn’t sell my existing stocks and trigger capital gains tax, didn’t withdraw from my IRA or 401(k), but otherwise most of my existing liquid cash and all of my incoming earned cash went into bitcoin. I threw like a quarter of my net worth into it. And it paid off. For me as a conservative investor, that was my version of “all-in”. I wasn’t fucking around. I never go all-in like that, but I did it for bitcoin.

I grew up poor, and then worked for 12 years in engineering and engineering management. There is no world where I would invest in such a way that there was even a 1% chance that I could be wrong and lose my entire net worth and the past 12 years of my work at that point. I would never be 100% invested unless I consider it to be risk-free, and I consider nothing to be risk-free, and so I diversify by default. I am conservative as a baseline, but opportunistic when appropriate. I put at most 5% into any one stock, but I threw 25% into bitcoin as an anomaly due to how bullish I was. My husband was like, “what are we doing?” and I was like, “trust me, here’s why”.

And then, there are eight family members and associates who, if I were to go broke, would have to radically diminish and change their lifestyles. Their housing support and their everyday income comes significantly from my earnings. It’s like running a small business. So, when I see people on social media be like, “wHy DoN’t YoU gO aLl iN?” I’m thinking like, “Bitch, I’ve gone about as all-in on this new distributed ledger as I can while still sustaining a reasonable level of lower volatility equity and other assets for tangible income and fallback support for eight people”. And then I realize the anon who wrote that is probably a single dude in his parents’ basement, and my response is unwarranted. Don’t let anons on social media affect you.

For example, our extended family ran into a liquidity issue and had to change households this year, and we got a good real estate deal but it was based on me having six figures in liquidity to just throw around at short notice, which meant having maintained adequate diversification for that possibility, which I was anticipating.

In my model portfolios, I began to recommend a 5% bitcoin allocation in early 2020, and then I took some chips off the table in 2021 near the highs after a 3x and 5x gain as Musk was pumping Dogecoin, to rebalance back down to that 5% target. Why? Because not everybody has put a thousand hours of research into it and can realistically put a quarter of their liquid net worth into it. My point was, “your portfolio has zero bitcoin, you should probably have at least 5% bitcoin, and better yet, you should buy bitcoin non-custodially at whatever size is appropriate for you. As it soars, rebalance. As it falls, buy back in.” That rebalancing worked well for my public portfolio. I warned of exuberance, leaned into fear, despite not trying to predict any short-term price action.

And during 2022, amid the bear market, I joined the formation of Ego Death Capital, a bitcoin-only VC firm, as a founding advisor. And more recently, I’m leaning more into that role, and some announcements regarding that are incoming in terms of my deeper involvement. In other words, while bitcoin price action was in a period of weakness, I was happily ready to lean in to it with my capital, my time, and my reputation, to fund bitcoin companies that were developing cool stuff. https://egodeath.capital/portfolio

And then there was my husband’s wisdom. He edits all of my research reports, among other work that he does. And he has better wisdom than me overall. One day in early 2023 amid the bear market out of the blue after hardly ever talking about bitcoin he was like, “How many bitcoins do we have?” I said the number X but also explained that I am buying more lately. He said, “Alright, good, let’s get to Y soon. I know you are super cautious, and I love that, but don’t mess around on this. Buy more. Push harder. I know you have extra pockets of liquidity above the baseline. Use them.” By Y, I mean he gave me an aggressive number that was a bit above what I would have otherwise done in that timeframe.

I was like, “Okay I’ll try. But I mean, we need certain liquidity.” And he said, “I’ve edited your research reports for years. I’ve never seen you more convicted on something. Don’t fuck around on this. Lean into it. We will figure out liquidity if need be. You said to trust you in early 2020 when you initially bought it. Trust me here in 2023 when I say to buy extra vs whatever you’re buying. I can read you better than you can read yourself, and the answer is to buy. You’re being too conservative.” I followed his advice, at like sub-$20k and sub-$25k.

And then later this year, within the past few months, we indeed balanced it very tightly; I had bought as many bitcoin for us as we could early in the year and I barely hit the target he set since I was being cautious, and then we ran into a surprise liquidity requirement (changing households in Egypt) and needed to throw capital at a new place as a down payment for our family for seven people, and I was like, “This is why I maintained so much liquidity, btw. We have it because I saw this type of thing coming!” And he was like, “But we have it, right?” I and I was like, “Yes, barely at such short notice!” And he was like, “So we have the exact amount then, fucking nailed it!” The yin-and-yang worked well.

The point is, I’m as all-in on bitcoin as I get with any asset. Which means to say, I am ready to survive its failure or repression in long bear markets without selling any, but I am also highly engaged and invested in its success.  I never go all-in on anything, but I’ve never leaned into any asset as thoroughly as I have done on bitcoin since April 2020. It’s the maximum I lean into any asset while still maintaining financial prudence. When it falls 80%, it doesn’t affect my lifestyle or force me to sell. When it soars, I am cautious, and focus on how to best improve the success of the network.

Good evening. Let's accelerate.


nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l conference in Tōkyō was magic 🇯🇵⚡

This is what happens when people from all around the world meet to make social media a better place:

https://v.nostr.build/X65L.mp4


Happy bitcoin whitepaper day. This video was created by nostr:npub1j4u5gjzjyggr3h96x3gjy4akdgwxuk7mgvumv72gym2qyje7fn5s47d6x9. Which is simply amazing. https://video.nostr.build/ef83433e1eb982c5a5edcd1a20bc32bb9e6e710774969305afe9e661204b010f.mp4


To many…😩


He’s tired of watching Bitcoin videos all night 😂 https://image.nostr.build/a5950e13bce7cb8ff528d437ba7f1762688202eb116773cd68e30720c671f60c.jpg


Got a great birthday present yesterday! 🤘🏼🤙🏼

#crocstr #footstr https://image.nostr.build/cc7c31412a3838c428893f4fcd9bbeadb362c1c6ca507d0bed912ff842f12ed0.jpg


🤘🏼🤙🏼 https://image.nostr.build/90be8259b3f440e267465a606e791144d8ba4dc56c8c4da63111ee103044934b.jpg


👍🏼, looks great! 🤙🏼


The world is headed in this direction. Resist now or suffer in tyranny forever.

https://video.nostr.build/ed59c268dca89b8a259c9c667ef23101de94cd212f1379a96f6b139a2f88541b.mp4


Congrats Bert! 🤙🏼


There is a great Bitcoin Meetup tomorrow night in Blast Galaxy in Amsterdam. Are you coming? 🤙🏼


😬 https://i.nostr.build/GE2Q.jpg


Restaurant “Chez Fiat” https://image.nostr.build/a98a373071b5dd85423e0df803d690909cccbc6fc7cea891cd3ecf30d61c3450.jpg


immutable https://i.nostr.build/Rqlq.jpg


Which app do you use to measure it? No blood test, just based on your daily intake?


There is no education system. There is an indoctrination system.

There's a big difference.


I’m going to the Bitcoin Meetup in Blast Galaxy Amsterdam on Wednesday 11th October. Great Meetup with great people 🤙🏼🤙🏼