🙏we ll do that


nostr:npub1r393zjxltl0rpsq92r7jnh4yjm96uzhepm6ecyk8ef2lep5rgc6sts8twm como te va la vida bro?


LET’S CREATE OPPORTUNITIES

#bitcoin fam we would appreciate some support for my bro gerardo castro from #elzonte #bitcoinbeach

gerardo is a talented 28 year old longboard surfer, who would love to participate at corona alas pro tour, el paredón, guatemala🇬🇹, nov 20-23th

we are aiming to raise enough sats that he can pay the contest fee of $150 and maybe a little part of his travel costs

let’s help him finance his trip to 🇬🇹 and show him the love of our comunity. he is a new born bitcoiner

i made the start donating 55555 sats

donations directly to

gerardocastro@blink.sv

or qr-code below

muchas gracias familia 🧡let’s bring gerardo back on the podium!

#surf #coronaalasprotour #donation #fundraising #zap #zaps #nostr

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and yes tio richie zaps🤯
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bienvenido tio richie, por delante! vaaaamos con todo


The world’s first nation state HODLer successfully completed his trial by fire 🤝 https://image.nostr.build/66e46e0f83caca75cdc83dc327d377e0dc875c92b6e815aaea49c19e2547dc9c.jpg


the farther you move away from nature, the more you suffer.


momento magico

#sunrise #elsalvador #juayua #photostr #citadel
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buenos dias

#elzonte #elsalvador
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If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present - Lao Tzu


buenazooo! great work joe


yes. enjoying it before it will be closed by the end of the year. saludos


GM from #bitcoinbeach
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disfruta mi pais hermoso bro


had the same issue. contacted nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg . got awesome support. they fixed it within a few days. image upload works smooth since i contacted them.


wild.

https://youtube.com/shorts/X6VhTzsgQjg


Whenever I see statists like the ECB get upset about Bitcoin, or when I see more brazen regimes try and actually implement an all-out ban or crazy tax scheme, I turn to my favorite bit of writing anywhere on Bitcoin and remind myself that a ban is the Berlin Wall and that “fragments of any ban will one day become souvenirs of the folly”

Bitcoin is Ariadne by nostr:npub1sfhflz2msx45rfzjyf5tyj0x35pv4qtq3hh4v2jf8nhrtl79cavsl2ymqt

“Bitcoin is often framed as “competing” with fiat currency. This is true in a sense but I fear there is a rhetorical danger of invoking the wrong kind of “competition”. It is not a fight, for example. There is no conflict. Bitcoin is not trying to damage or sabotage its opponents, because it isn’t trying anything and it knows no opponents. It has no awareness whatsoever of who might oppose it or why. It is simply an alternative; an exit valve; an opt-out. It is competing only insofar as it is proving to be a far superior alternative. It is not a sword for Theseus to fight the Minotaur, but a thread to follow to exit the labyrinth. Bitcoin is Ariadne.

There will be tremendous value in normalizing this rhetoric amidst the likely growing chorus of opposition desperate to smear Bitcoin as inherently nefarious, or hostile, even. Opponents must be forced to explain what is wrong with people interacting freely, and why true goodness can only follow from coercion, in their understanding. Should those who have found a way out of the unbearable labyrinth of capital strip mining not take it? What do they owe the Minotaur?

Does anybody really believe that, having fully understood the choice they face, any individual would choose to save in a self-referentially mispriced toxic loan rather than a provably sound digital bearer asset? Or, more simply still, that they will think it makes less sense to hold money that is a pure asset than money that is literally defined as a liability? Why not opt into a financial system that is built on trustless verifiability rather than unverifiable trust?

… It is worth working through the optics of any decision to engage with Bitcoin in a truly hostile manner, because it is certainly coming. McNeill reminds us that, even some seven-hundred-or-so years ago, “the breakdown of established patterns of conduct always appears deplorable to a majority of those who witness it.” By no means do I have a utopian outlook on this subject — rather, it is something of an intellectual rite of passage to accept the nonzero utility of dystopian paranoia. Bitcoin will be banned, many times, in many places. But a ban is an open admission of practical and moral failure and is arguably the best advertisement of all. A ban is the Berlin Wall; fragments of any ban will one day become souvenirs of the folly and cruelty of repression. Bitcoin doesn’t force anybody to stay. They come, and then they stay, because they want to — because it is both practically and morally superior.”


GN

#sunset #photostr #elsalvador
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GM

#izalco #elsalvador
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GN

#sunset #elsalvador
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☺ There’s a little coffee shop where two people walk up to the counter.
“Five coffees, please. Two for us, and three hanging.”
They pay, take their two coffees, and leave.

Curious, I ask the barista, “What’s a hanging coffee?”
“Just wait, and you’ll see,” they respond with a smile.

A little while later, two girls come in. They each order a coffee, pay, and go on their way. Then, three women order seven coffees: three for themselves and four hanging.

My curiosity deepens. What’s with all these “hanging” coffees?

Then, a man in worn clothes, who looks like he’s fallen on hard times, approaches the counter and asks, “Do you have a hanging coffee?”
“Yes, we do, sir,” the barista replies, handing him a hot cup of coffee.

I finally understood. People are paying in advance for coffees that will be served to anyone who can’t afford one.

This heartwarming tradition began in Naples, but it’s now spreading to cities and towns across the world. In some places, it’s not just hanging coffees—you can leave sandwiches or even a full meal for someone in need.

Imagine if we all embraced this simple act of kindness in our own communities. A small gesture like this could make a world of difference to someone’s day, or even their life.

Let’s start bringing this tradition to every city and town. One small act of generosity could ripple out and touch countless lives in ways we can’t even imagine. #Nostr #Bitcoin #coffeechain #kindness 🧡💜 https://image.nostr.build/9ecd005411247d6c41bc6aea78b995fe64089d12f37f1ea6fc626572e00f187c.jpg


yes you are🤣get a direct train from gare de lyon to zurich and then another direct one from zurich to lugano. it is a journey of a bit more than six hours so much faster than with car and more convenient in my opinion


I love that Alfred Nobel—the dude who invented dynamite and who can arguably be link to more deaths via war that any other human in existence—then decided he’d use his money to make a ‘peace prize’.

It’s funny stuff.


SBB (national railway company) accepts bitcoin since 2016


yooo SBB accepts bitcoin. at any ticket vending machine you can pay in bitcoin and they even let you buy bitcoin up to chf 500 kyc free🤣


#espiritudelamontaña #conchagua #elsalvador #nature #photostr

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this was a banger nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u, thx for introducing me to efrat

nostr:npub1dg6es53r3hys9tk3n7aldgz4lx4ly8qu4zg468zwyl6smuhjjrvsnhsguz  you are such an inspiring person and brave soul

you guys are a GIFT to humanity

keep up your great work

🙏

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vamooos chimbera, bienvenido


#elsalvador #sunset
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“The Story of the Chinese Farmer” - Alan Watts

A little perspective to start your weekend…

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9 principles of nature

1. Nature runs on sunlight.
2. Nature uses only the energy it needs.
3. Nature fits form to function.
4. Nature recycles everything.
5. Nature rewards cooperation.
6. Nature banks on diversity.
7. Nature demands local expertise.
8. Nature curbs excesses from within.
9. Nature taps the power of limits.


Let me tell you why you're here...

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another beautiful day in #elsalvador 🇸🇻


just be!

spending time doing nothing is an important life skill for me

it helps me being my best self

#feelingblessed #innerpeace #bitcoinbeach

☮
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sovereign individual  • love&live in🇨🇭🇸🇻 • traveler • snowboard • surf • music • polyglot •  bitcoin = fReeDoM. stay humble ☮🧡


bienvenido max🙏 missed your content and hope to see you more often here. get your wallet conected so we can zap you some welcoming sats


feliz cumple #bitcoincountry

gracias de corazón por todo

¡por delante!

#bitcoinday #elsalvador #photostr
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love it. for sale?


you just go for it, nothing to worry about


cordillera ilamatepec 🇸🇻

#elsalvador #nature
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#elsalvador #treestr
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finally escaped „space karen’s“ toXic!

feeling relief being on nostr and leaving all the negativism on X

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que día más bonito

#agradecido #photostr #travel #elsalvador #sansalvador #centrohistoricoss
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We live in the most interesting point in human history.

There are two paths that lay before us and forces are exerting a lot of pressure in one direction or the other.

The path we ultimately go down depends on the individual.

Will you cave to the totalitarians or will you embrace freedom tech and stand up to the insane people who want to control every part of your life?

The Nanny State will tax, censor and jail you if you don’t take a stand.

Make yourself resilient by embracing freedom tech like bitcoin, Nostr, and other open source software projects while building a strong community in meat space.

We can defeat these despots. It will take many individuals taking action to do so though. Don’t cower in fear. The future of humanity depends on you taking a stand.
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#photostr #travel #elsalvador
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let‘s play

bula101221


nature is my source of happiness and pleasure

#photography #elsalvador
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Here's my profile for Reason on Nostr and why it could very well change the world

Pasting a few paragraphs here, you can find the rest at the link

Feel free to spread far and wide 😉

*************

Can Nostr Make Twitter's Dreams Come True?

Twitter's founder says Nostr is “100 percent what we wanted”—an open, ownerless network

Alex Gladstein | 8.13.2024

Virtually everyone agrees that social media is broken. On Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, people fear out-of-control algorithms, fake news, state actor censorship, and propaganda. Google and Meta collect vast troves of personal information on their users and receive hundreds of thousands of requests every year from governments around the world to access that data. YouTube has become arguably "the most powerful media platform in the history of humanity," yet its algorithm is an ever-changing black box to the creators that populate the platform with videos. During the pandemic, federal officials were in contact with every major social media platform, coercing them to remove content.

The problem is centralized control. We can't trust companies to run our primary communications infrastructure. Government regulation only makes matters worse because it creates new legal barriers to entering the industry, which protects incumbent players and stifles innovation.

What if there were an alternative, not owned by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or the Chinese Communist Party? What if there were a way to control your own data to prevent companies from harvesting and monetizing it? What if you had granular control over what you see in your feed, with the freedom to choose your own algorithms? What if you owned your identity, which could be accessed seamlessly across different clients? That way, if you disapprove of the changes that Elon Musk brought to X, instead of closing your account you could take your handle and followers elsewhere.

That alternative exists. It's called "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays"—or Nostr.

The Decentralized Solution

Invented by a pseudonymous programmer and overwhelmingly funded by grants from non-profit foundations, this decentralized, free, and open-source protocol has been quietly evolving for the past three years. Like bitcoin, Nostr is a community-run digital network highly resistant to censorship and corruption. It has 40,000 weekly active users and a growing ecosystem of clients and applications ranging from social media to long-form publishing to payments.

Nostr is only necessary because our existing internet is so broken.

Fifteen years ago, social media seemed destined to decentralize the world and give power back to the people. In 2009, we watched as Arab Spring activists used Twitter and Facebook to organize, coordinate, and help topple several long-standing dictatorships. The promise was that these new social platforms, designed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, could help liberate the masses.

It was intoxicating—but turned out to be a mirage. The Arab revolutions stalled out when brutal military regimes cracked down. These platforms became tools for spying and censoring their users. X and Facebook have helped journalists and human rights activists reach bigger audiences, but they haven't fulfilled their revolutionary promise.

Jack Dorsey's Shift from Bluesky to Nostr

This was a major theme at the 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum, which is put on annually by the Human Rights Foundation, where I serve as chief strategy officer. At this conference for democracy and human rights, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey told the audience that the problem was, actually, guys like him: The very fact that Twitter, now X, has a CEO makes it a single point of failure. Governments routinely pressured Dorsey to censor content; once the company's offices in India were raided. Dorsey says that under the new Musk regime X complies with whatever governments want.

The X network is proprietary. Known as a "silo," this construct traps a user's identity, followers, and data. X also has the power to evict anyone from the platform and delete what they've written. Several years ago, when he was still running the company, Dorsey became convinced that Twitter should become an application instead, where users could post content to an open, ownerless network. This would make it similar to how bitcoin works, where you use an application called a wallet to interact with the network, but the network itself is neutral and open.

Building a non-proprietary architecture was Dorsey's original vision for Twitter, but over time the need to maximize revenue to build a business and serve shareholders undermined that goal.

Nevertheless, in 2021, Dorsey encouraged the creation of Bluesky—an initiative bootstrapped in-house to create that open neutral base layer. But after Musk bought the company, the managers of Bluesky were afraid they would run out of money and started raising funds from venture capitalists, which undermined the vision of building an open platform. Dorsey grew disenchanted and left the Bluesky board.

At the conference in Oslo, Dorsey explained what happened next:

I asked a question: What open source initiatives should I be funding that would be helpful to the public internet? And people kept tweeting at me that I should be looking at Nostr. I found the GitHub that described it and it was 100 percent what we wanted from Bluesky, but it wasn't developed from a company. It was completely independent. Its paper diagnosed every single problem we saw and had. But did it in a grassroots and dead simple way, that felt like the early Twitter where any developer could get on and really feel it.

Escaping the 'Golden Prisons'

Nostr was created in 2020 by the pseudonymous Brazilian programmer fiatjaf, who describes it as "the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global 'social' network once and for all."

Though nobody is in charge, Nostr works as promised and is thriving. "It is the solution we've all been looking for," says Miljan Braticevic, founder of Primal, one of the two dozen plus clients now available for the Nostr protocol. "Nostr is not a Twitter competitor or a Mastodon competitor. This is the biggest misconception at the moment. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Nostr is nothing less than the foundation for the new internet. Meaning almost every conceivable app we have today will be built on Nostr."

Braticevic's prediction is echoed by at least a dozen other prominent developers. Martti Malmi, the first coder to work on bitcoin alongside Satoshi Nakamoto, is now a Nostr developer. In a recent talk, he said he had started to work on similar ideas around decentralized identity in 2019, only to come close to giving up. But then he found fiatjaf's invention, which he called a "godsend."

"Bitcoin is freedom of money, and Nostr is freedom of everything else," Malmi said. "I was there" in the earliest days of bitcoin, "and Nostr is even more intense."

For something that could be world-changing, Nostr is quite simple. To join, you sign up with a mobile or desktop client, which helps you to create a public and private key pair. The public key (or "npub") is used as your identifier, and you share it with clients and other users so that people can find your posts or pay you for your content. The private key ("nsec") is hidden by the user, stored safely (just like a bitcoin seed phrase), and is your way to log in to different services. Unlike platforms like X or Facebook, no other information is required to set up and use Nostr.

This gives users a powerful range of sovereignty. You can use a client, for example, that has strong hate speech controls. Or you can choose one that doesn't have any at all. You can use a client with aggressive algorithms, just like the ones X uses today. Or you can use one without any algorithm at all. Today, when you log in to an app like Primal, you can sort your feed by what's the latest, by what's most popular, by what's most zapped, or by customized keywords. It's up to you.

Last month, the macroeconomist Lyn Alden, author of one of the best books on bitcoin, published a long essay about Nostr's potential:

[Nostr] is a simple set of foundational building blocks that, if widely adopted, could gradually reshape "the Web" as we know it. Instead of a separate set of siloed social ecosystems, we could gravitate toward a more interoperable set of ecosystems, with more of the power dispersed to the content creators and to the audience, and away from the middlemen corporations.

The Nostr network is constructed like a spider web that can morph and regenerate, making it almost impossible to censor. When you set up a client on Nostr (perhaps, Primal or Damus on iOS; Amethyst on Android; or Coracle on the web), you choose from a variety of relays to connect to. This architecture ensures no single point of failure: If you are connected to seven or eight relays, and half of them choose to censor posts, your feed remains censorship-free, as your app will display the net sum of everything broadcast from each relay. If the Chinese government decides to attack your relays—as it did in 2023 when Damus launched on the Hong Kong and mainland app store—then more can be spun up. "The enemy," said Damus creator Will Casarin, "is too numerous."

Prominent bitcoin developer and educator Gigi—who switched to Nostr and deleted his X account—says that what helped it become so resilient is that it has zero exit cost. If the Chinese Communist Party bans YouTube, its domestic users lose everything. There's no way to get back their profiles and followers. The same is true if a user voluntarily closes an account.

Gigi calls these corporate silos "golden prisons" with no escape. Nostr's spider-like architecture makes escaping easy. If one client goes down, or you fail to connect to one relay, you just find another client or connect to another relay. You keep your posts, photos, preferences, contacts, and even algorithms of choice. If you use X, you are an X creator. But if you use Primal, you aren't a Primal creator, you are a Nostr creator.

https://reason.com/2024/08/13/can-nostr-make-twitters-dreams-come-true/


In the future, people will write emails using AI and others will read these emails using AI.

Sender: "Write this as a formal email: ..."
Recipient: "Summarize the content of this email: ..."

Humans will realize that all that "dear madam or sir I hope this email finds you well" is just formal boilerplate and that communication is less about form but more about its content. It's like zipping a file and unzipping it again (except it actually blows up the size in this case). Our digital expression will reduce back to its original form of pure content and explicit intent.

I'm 99% certain this will happen. Nobody truly likes this formal bullshit. Machines are going to be like APIs between humans.

Gn


gm from #elsalvador
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i m on #nostr for the same reasons i jumped into bitcoin.
#freedom #equality

that “new” magic internet money and this awesome protocol with their enormous potentials will free billions!

props to all builders doing god work for humanity🙏 #gratitude #appreciation

i ll do my little part and keep on educating about it. #onwards

bitcoin & nostr = fReeDoM

#satoshi 🙏


Contrasts of Patagonia 🇦🇷 https://video.nostr.build/d5cc6b75863690a827da899f8e8e4506c179d0b7862ad96ba0c19cdac458813f.mp4


welcome🧡


NO SE DEJEN VENCER HERMANOS VENEZOLANOS

#patria #libertad #ahoraonunca #venezuela


still feels that my government wants the best for its members of the public and it shows it in “little” things like that.

direct democracy is key for swiss to maintain not being ruled by authority/elites and it helps lots finding best solutions in everything for everybody instead of feeding the chosen few. looking at our neighbours it feels like democracy has failed, but due to our direct democracy with people’s vote directly influencing decisions there are just better solutions find in many ways. and as we participate we accept political decisions more and don’t always complain about the powers that be.

interesting thing would be to deeply study difference btw models of democracy in switzerland and for example germany and its impacts on society/life. i tell you they are huge and you see it e.g. in forward solutions like the new open source law in switzerland instead of all the restrictive measures taken by EU regarding same issues


Shaolin #kungfu competition https://video.nostr.build/f8425d117dd31a4883d373ff37c166b9006eea7592ccf7b5dfa4c5ea080d495d.mp4


yooo what does this mean?


take a journey and listen to this beautiful music

#hermanosgutiérrez #tinydesk

https://youtu.be/wTqCthvtL8k?si=2aDaKg_wXhpu2rA2


“Consider first #bitcoin as an insurance policy against authoritarianism. We've seen authoritarian crackdowns in other countries, so we can learn from them. Modern authoritarians routinely bend banking systems toward their own ends. They hobble their opposition by strangling financial flows and seizing assets.”

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https://www.newsweek.com/bitcoin-can-protect-freedom-help-win-elections-opinion-1925491


thanks buddy, have a beautiful day


it is a beautiful day to be alive

#thankful #blessed #optimistic #free #elzonte #bitcoinbeach

love&peace.
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same for me here

leaving twitter made my life better.

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Julian’s first birthday in freedom in fourteen years. https://image.nostr.build/fbe6bb8fade32607000b35a0595ccf65236935ca4e54c0823eeb5d8fd2593ad0.jpg


It's crazy how many refuse to see the simple reality of our government agencies and what they are doing right out in the open...

Kudos to Dr. Phil for realizing how insane this is.

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


it was definitely a life changer

#cominghome #nostr

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I wanted to make a shareable overview video that people can point their family and friends to about money, banking, and bitcoin.

“Read this 500 page book” doesn’t always go over well, but “watch this half hour video” is more approachable.

So, hopefully it’s helpful:

https://youtu.be/jk_HWmmwiAs?si=-8Okyee-gqeaPdvm


Saw this today. h/t nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y  😆
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Both taxes and money-printing redistribute capital, but the difference is that money-printing does it less transparently.

With money-printing, the effect works behind the scenes in ways that are harder to quantify. That's why when a government can't find a solution between hard spending choices, they print money. It's the easier method.

People know their personal tax rate, they will riot if their taxes are too high, and they know exactly who is responsible for tax levels.

But inflation is a more complex beast. It comes with a lag, for starters, since it takes time for printed money to work its way through the system. And when it comes, propaganda built on grains of truth is effective at making it unclear to people who is responsible. "It's the greedy corporations that are responsible for raising prices, not the fact that we increased the money supply 40% over the past two years!"

And so money-printing effects people not directly based on their income, their need, or other things, but based on their level of awareness of what's happening. It rewards people who are aware of it, and are borrowing the devalued currency, owning scarcer assets, and denominating contracts in harder currency. It harms people who are not aware of it, who are earning wages in and keeping their savings in cash or bonds. Many of them are led to believe that CPI is the target to beat, which is a false low target. The real target is the money supply growth rate.

And capital gains taxes, if the cost basis is unadjusted for the rate of money supply growth, further recoup some of that value from the various harder assets that aware people try to protect themselves with.

A lot of MMT advocates act as though they found some grand formula. But really what they have re-identified is nothing new: it's that the less transparent that government spending is, the bigger it can be before people will complain. People will complain about taxes right away, but currency debasement is the sneakier method for which the consequences come with a lag. So it sidesteps hard decisions this year, and leads to bigger issues a year or two from now, when someone else can be blamed and the whole ordeal can be obfuscated.

And it's not new, despite how some MMT advocates would spin it. Currency debasement has been occurring since the adoption of coinage. And even MMT-scale currency debasement has been occurring since World War I. It is turned to so frequently because its lack of transparency allows it to occur at times and magnitudes when more transparent taxes would not.

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Cerra un poco los ojos
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MONEYPULATION IS THREATENING HUMANITY - #BITCOIN WILL FREE US
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nesecitamos mas lideres con cojones como #bukele

#elsalvador #bitcoin #putupthefight
#fuckklausschwab
#fuckgeorgesoros

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Decentralize money to reduce their power to steal.

Decentralize communication to reduce their power to lie.


new home🧡

#elsalvador 🇸🇻
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Fiat is an acid; a poison that weakens living creatures, that dissolves age old healthy membranes, and that slowly burns away all that is good in the world.

Bitcoin is a base; a benign soap that cleanses our wounds; a purifying water that restores life in society’s rivers; a miracle potion that helps us remember songs of truth and virtue.


Bitcoin is the first civilization ruled by consensus.


For those that are new to Nostr, hello!

What’s cool about it is that Nostr it is an open source protocol. It is not a centralized company, but rather is a protocol that individuals and companies can build upon.

This means that you can use many different applications to access it, or even build your own. And it means that there is no central authority that can take down posts or delete accounts; there are different servers operated by different entities that are storing the data. And there is no central algorithm for determining what posts people see or don’t see.

You can hook up a bitcoin lightning wallet to send and receive tips (“zaps”) on posts. Nostr itself is not a blockchain or crypto and has no token, but the Bitcoin blockchain does complement it well via zaps.

Nostr is still relatively small, and a bit rough around the edges. But the community here is great, and familiarizing yourself with the technology and concept is useful in a world of centralized social media. It is a new method of decentralization that balances various trade-offs in a novel way, and the protocol can be used for a lot more than just social media.

Welcome!


I had the immense pleasure of sitting down with Ijoma Mangold and talk about language, games, distributed cognition, beauty, goodness, ethics, and Truth for 90 minutes.

Recorded in the language of poets and thinkers, so all you Anglo-Saxons are rekt. Sorry.

https://pod.link/1601802816/episode/1ca12f3c57b92049a06cd12173dcaf35


All prices falling forever when measured in #Bitcoin!
If you think the past ride is something, watch as the rest of the ~ 7.9 Billion souls on this planet start to understand it, buy it, and contribute their time to this open and honest protocol.
Almost unimaginable from the paradigm most people are measuring from.


We’re taking back the internet from the surveillance capitalists. We’re building a new foundation of open source, privacy preserving freedom tech. You are the resistance. https://i.nostr.build/ROAZ.jpg


at $100‘000 i ll get my eyes lasered


We are at a point where serious matters are not taken seriously enough, while trivial matters are dissected as if everyone's life would depend on it.

Society has lost wisdom and humor alike.


Alex Gladstein:
Why Bitcoin matters for human rights. 💜

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Haven’t shared that in a while..

Tick tock ⏰

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I am thrilled to share my new essay

"Stranded: How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy and Expanding Financial Freedom in Africa"

I was profoundly moved by what I saw on a recent trip to Kenya and Malawi.

If this essay can show you even 1% of what inspired me, that's a win… here’s an overview:

We begin in Bondo, a small town in Malawi, a country where only 11% of the population has access to electricity.

The nation suffers 6-8 hours of blackouts a day, but the power in Bondo is consistent because of Bitcoin mining.

The town got its first electricity in 2016, and now is expanding its grid, thanks to Bitcoin, which is buying 100% of the electricity that the micro-hydro stations cannot sell, and giving precious capital to the power company so it can expand operations.

At night, demand dwindles, and in remote places like Bondo, there’s no one else to buy the consistent hydro power.

Enter Bitcoin, powered by internet services like Starlink. A datacenter from Gridless now saves the wasted energy and is powering the community forward.

The big realization: virtually all power generation, especially in rural places, wastes energy.

Bitcoin fixes this.

We are told Bitcoin is a waste of energy but the truth is the opposite.

NOT Bitcoin mining is a waste of energy.

And the kicker: Bitcoin miners create heat.

This heat will be used for productive uses.

General heating in cold climates, and in a place like Bondo? Drying tea, fruit, or cocoa.

Profit from mining won’t just be profit - cost, it will be (profit + profit from externality) - cost.

For context: Malawi is a country that just suffered an IMF-led 44% currency devaluation.

Already one of the poorest nations in the world, where most people save in cash, now citizens can only afford 56% of what they could a few months ago. Per the IMF, more devaluation is on the way.

The kwacha is a disastrous wage technology. Once again, enter Bitcoin, a vastly superior savings mechanism.

The first Bitcoin meetup is happening in the Malawi’s capital this month. We are very early with adoption in this region—2020 in El Salvador terms—but this adoption will turn from a trickle into a torrent.

Up north in Kenya, Gridless has geothermal mines, too. I visited one.

It’s a remarkable site: a humming hut on the site of a lake with a Starlink on top, eating all of the electricity that a water pump does not use: perfectly solarpunk.

Kenya is the world’s largest exporter of cut flowers. There are tons of sites like this, generating power for irrigation, all over the country. All of them waste energy.

Geothermal is beautifully consistent, but the demand is not. Bitcoin fixes this.

Gridless operations like these are generally profitable within the first two years. Now there's biomass, where the company has just launched data centers at sugar and sisal processing factories which before couldn't find buyers for excess electricity.

But now Bitcoin is buying.

This sounds great so far…

But for the hundreds of millions of Africans who don’t have internet access, how are they supposed to benefit?

Enter KG, whose company Machankura provides Bitcoin access to people with no internet.

This is done through USSD — a SMS-type protocol.

The user texts a number, then gets a decision tree, and can send, receive, barter, and purchase a variety of things, all without data.

This is a custodial service for now — but KG and team have plan to make SIM cards signing devices and even Lightning touch points so that people can self-custody and be their own bank without the internet.

A true civilizational leap forward.

Critical: there are 700 million women in Africa, but very very few use Bitcoin.

Marcel Lorraine aims to change that.

A Kenyan entrepreneur who has fearlessly helping schools in Kibera, two years ago she launched Bitcoin Dada, a program to educate women and girls about Bitcoin.

Marcel runs classes every week, with several cohorts per year.

The task is huge but she insists on pushing forward.

She argues Bitcoin can give macro freedom for communities and countries, yes, but also micro freedom at home for women who traditionally take a back seat in finance.

Finally: independence from dependence is a key concept

Femi Longe, director of BTrust Builders, is trying to make that happen.

He’s running a program to train African developers and help them contribute to Bitcoin, to take careers in the industry or become contributors to core.

As Jack Dorsey says, if Bitcoin is going to be used around the world, it has to be made around the world.

Femi refuses to accept a future like today, where cars are made in the West and bought by Africans.

The Bitcoin infrastructure needs to be made in Africa.

The way these pieces could fit together is astonishing.

Unlike in the West, where adoption might mean centralized pools and ETFs, in Africa adoption will mean off-grid mining and potentially millions of self-custodying users, powered by SIM cards.

Africans need Bitcoin, yes.

But Bitcoin needs Africa.

That was blazing clear from my visit last month.

At the end of the day, who is going to help bring electricity and high-quality currency — the building blocks of progress — to hundreds of millions of Africans?

Bill Gates? The UN? The World Bank?

No, they won’t.

But Bitcoin might.

Read the full story at Bitcoin Magazine:

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ELON CAN SEND A TWEET FROM THE PRESIDENT'S ACCOUNT IF HE WANTS.

CENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR OFFICIAL COMMS.

POSTS SHOULD BE CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED.

THE NOSTR POST YOU ARE READING NOW WAS SIGNED BY MY PRIVATE KEY AND VERIFIED BY YOUR CLIENT.


Repost this and you will get NonKYC sats from me.
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THE GENIUS OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM:

BILLIONS OF PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE CUSTOMERS WHILE THEY ARE ACTUALLY THE PRODUCT BEING HARVESTED.


congrats and all tha best🧡


Did they convince you that disarming yourself would protect the vulnerable?
Did they convince you that handouts with strings would be good for the poor?
Did they convince you that censorship would be good for you & reduce the hate in the world?
Did they convince you that equality could be achieved by allowing them to loot the successful?
Did they loot you instead, & drive up the price of your groceries & other basic needs?
Did they convince you that following their medical advice was good for your health?
Did they convince you that living with less would save the planet?

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In the past month I’ve travelled from Vancouver to LA, amsterdam, bali and now tokyo. at each stop I was able to pay and zap people in every part of the world with 0 friction. Bitcoin is borderless. When you hold bitcoin you have the ability to store and teleport value to any person on the planet. At some point we were convinced we need permission to do this, but not anymore. #Bitcoin the closest thing we have to true freedom, and its ours 🌏🧡


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"There is a large group of people that get rich from your anger. Starve them."


I am not a perfect person, I am not a perfect “bitcoiner,” but I learn daily, my practices are better than they were last year, and I respect others wherever they are in their orange/purple journey.

Changing worldviews, dropping old habits and conveniences, all while trying to survive and thrive in this world isn’t easy, which is why I believe bitcoin and freedom tools are for *anyone,* not *everyone,* at this point in time.

What we meme into simplicity is still extremely complex, so if you’re ever feeling overwhelmed or nervous, you’re not alone.

You don’t need to be perfect, you just need to keep learning; and at the bare minimum, get your Bitcoin off exchanges and store your nsec securely.

#grownostr #Bitcoin101


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The human mind is “amazing”

Imagine watching what happens to other nations and their people as their currencies lose value…..yet failing to connect the dots to the consequences of it in your own country.

Just “imagine”

#Bitcoin
#Nostr.


good morning nostr from #bitcoin beach

#elzonte #landofthefree 🇸🇻


“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” Benjamin Franklin


#btc is the silent protest against corrupt governments and tyrants who control our fucked’up #fiat world

opt-out and buy some precious #sats

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12  x  8  + 2 =                                  98
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12345  x  8  + 5 =                    98765
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The mainstream pushes the absurd notion that people who have earned value and want to keep it, are a detriment to society, but counterfeiters who contribute nothing and buy up all of our resources, are doing a noble deed by consuming everything on our behalf & protecting us from the dangerous, everyday prudent saver.

#fiat is such an obvious scam when you break it down to its core concepts.


„nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come“

victor hugo

#bitcoin

#plepstogetherstrong #plebchain


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Everyone in Belgium is talking about labor shortages. Is this a universal phenomenon?
I suspect that what’s really happening is inflation:
=> Higher input costs for biz + higher cost of living
=> biz can’t offer wages that make economic sense for workers.


(Posted on Twitter because it’s more relevant there, but I won’t link to it so you don’t have to experience that place 😂)

The great insanity of our time has been:

The idea that facts cannot be shared or discussed, if they don’t support “the correct conclusion.”

People who want to discuss a major topic or problem honestly, are met with extreme hate and vicious denouncement if the truth or facts they find aren’t perfectly aligned with The Narrative.

• Are deaths and injuries from all weather and climate related issues plummeting and projected to continue? This is “dangerous” and makes you a “denier” and must be censored. Not because it isn’t true, it’s because it questions the “final solution” that has already been decided by the political class.

• Are there 10s of thousands of reports of deaths and extremely serious injury associated with the vaxzein? If you say anything at all other than “safe and effective” or even talk to someone who has been injured, you are a literal murderer of innocent old grandmothers & you’re probably racist too.

• Does a woman have a vagina? This is so profoundly evil that each utterance of it is literal genocide of trans people.
The words literally slice through the air like crazed dementors on the hunt and cut down trans people like word demons, blood flying everywhere. The horrors of such a grammatical tyranny can never be recovered from. It’s instant death to 1000s.

EVERY issue seems to be met with this same stubborn and narcissistic box that is riddled with lies, twisted statistics, & half truths. And it’s being used to excuse the most horrible forms of censorship violations of individual rights.
Step outside of the approved box with even the most utterly basic of facts, and you’re an evil, racist, treasonous conspiracy theorist (or literally any other disgusting label they can conjure)

This does SO much damage to the discussion because not only are people not allowed to hold a sober, nuanced position on anything, but when you hear someone spread blatant lies and then they start screaming like a lunatic when you point it out and call you a murderer - then what remotely intelligent or sensible person would believe absolutely anything that person says again?

It has led to the total breakdown of trust in our institutions that is so bad that people will literally believe *any* crazy story for no other reason than they are certain they are being lied to with the “approved narrative.”

The establishment losing their minds over people believing anything they find on the internet, need to look in the mirror. They have been pouring gasoline on this fire for *years.*

The establishment has made it perfectly clear, over and over again, that truth is subject to any change necessary so that it aligns with “the good guys’ [insert approved conclusion]”

Problem is, as I see it, knowingly lying, censoring the truth, & viciously attacking - even putting people in cages - for speaking the truth, has never been what “the good guys” do.

Hope you have a great day 😁👍🏻


The fact that Bitcoin isn't yet accepted everywheree and for everything really underlines for me how few people have actually used Lightning. Whenever I show somebody how it works, there's always that "wow" moment. But why was it a surprise?

The problem is that normal people still understand BTC from the one half-remembered opinion piece they read in 2017, and are operating under the belief that transactions still take an hour to settle, rather than being instantaneous and irreversible — money transmission without the Paypal Problem. The public mind needs a cache refresh.


I will be glad to see the legacy VISA/MC card system go. They've indoctrinated multiple generations into thinking it's normal to have somebody else decide whether or not you can spend your money — and then charge you for the privilege.