Please share. I’m not techy and haven’t figured out to to have a big reach on Nostr yet:

When I was 17, I signed up for the US Marine Corps. By the grace of God I failed their medical exam and never completed enlistment. One of my best friends from high school did.

Two years later, he called me in the middle of the night from Germany. He had been shot in Iraq and was being flown home for emergency treatment. The next morning I picked up his mom and drove the distraught woman who spoke very little English 23 hours straight, only stopping for gas, to be there when he got home.

In the hospital I watched as the nurse turned off the light in the room to shine a flashlight on his wound to check for infection. The bullet entered his back between his spine and his shoulder blade and mercifully made a turn to exit through his upper arm, missing any organs but shattering his arm completely. In that dark room I could see the light of the flashlight passing fully 9” through his body. I could also smell the rotting flesh from the infection she was checking for. The smell got worse for weeks before they got it under control. He was unbearable to be around and I will never forget that sweet acrid smell.

He took most of a year to recover and eventually tried to start a civilian life. Broken by war, he couldn’t hack it and eventually reenlisted serving at least two more tours of duty with the army. Last I heard he was a drill instructor teaching other young boys to do what broke him.

We’ve lived very different lives and have grown apart but still talk a couple times a year. The conversations are challenging for me but I try to remember his life has been vastly different from mine. He will often say things like “I need to get back to war, I miss killing people”. I have nothing to say to those comments. I just feel tremendous sadness for him, his family and for the lives he has destroyed under orders from the government I fund (under duress) through taxes and inflation.

That is what drives me to save in Bitcoin. It is the only way for me to shield some of the value of my labor capital from the military industrial congressional complex that has destroyed millions of lives around the world including in our own military.

Number-Go-Up is an incredible feature and one that I enjoy very much, but if I all I accomplish in being a Bitcoiner is forcing the government to be a little bit smaller and more accountable to the people it is intended to represent, that is enough for me. If one less mother has to bury a son, that is a worthy outcome.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/military-industrial-complex-killing-us-all


What is the case over?


Be mindful of admitting to barter. The irs frowns on transactions they can’t tax.


Drop in more often.


Finish the sentence: Bitcoin is….

Bitcoin is not going away.


The article everyone is hopped up about is probably the best thing to happen yet for Nostr adoption. I thought the author did a lovely job of demonstrating why we need decentralized protocols.


The person who is willing to sell.


Do I win a prize for being the first one to point out the butt plug?


What do VISA, Venmo, and the $2 bill have in common?

They didn’t exist at the founding of the Dollar. The dollar is a base layer technology. Application layers are born and die on top of it as demanded by the market.

If the dollar had tried to anticipate all future features and integrated solutions for those at its founding, it would have never found a competitive niche because it would have been too clunky.

When the users came for better money, the features those users needed emerged from the free market in a way that integrated with the underlying technology.

If anything, the biggest threat to the dollar is “developers” (or in the dollars case politicians and bankers) making changes at the base layer. Think: breaking the gold peg and the founding of the federal reserve.


Did this exact thing today.


I could be wrong but I think you also need a certain number of hours under a licensed attorney as an apprentice.


I drive a 15 year old ford focus but my kids are in private school. Am I winning?🥇

For my money, a house keeper is the best low key investment. Happy wife happy life. Only twice a month for the deep clean. We do the rest.

Would love to travel business class more often. Current status economy plus, unless it’s international then I won’t go without a lay flat.


I miss blogs. So much better than social media for developing subcultures.


Quick, can someone help me with the math? What’s infinity fiat divided by finite bitcoin?


Happy to share when I have a little time. Maybe I’ll do a post on it soon. I still love the lifestyle but bottom line for me is that homesteading is an attempt to reverse division of labor….do do as much as one can to provide for themselves. For me it was a distraction from my highest and best use of my time.


Totally agree. The homesteading Bitcoiners got drowned out on twit but seem to have a voice here. As a recovering homesteader, I love it.


Pro tip. Fully tighten the chuck first.


The gorge? Looks amazing!


Isn’t it a hummingbird? Bad camera angle.


I close mine and deleted the data. Nostr is still not a substitute for Bitcoin news, but it’s getting better all the time.


Free choice grit, clean water and gentle crop massage seem to help.


Brand new. They still have their egg tooth.

Always love that ducks move like sheep in a flock. Chickens are every hen for themselves but ducks stick together.


No matter which way the wind blows?


I had the benefit of being born almost completely deaf. In junior high I had surgery and got most of my hearing back but by then I was past the window of susceptibility and I just never bought into their bullshit.


Probablemente right. But I still want a heavy corn crown.


To fail at preforming in state mandated indoctrination is true success.


I am so so sorry.


Looks really good! If you decide to stain it we make a fence stain kit that will save you six trips to the hardware store. Everything you need delivered in one box for on a company that holds Bitcoin on our (extremely small) balance sheet.

https://vagabondpaint.com/collections/vagabond/products/save-a-trip-fence-stain-kit


10-100 Bitcoin


Is it ok if I want to ask permission?


What is a “twitter”?


I’m with Saylor on this, but I’m kind of dumb.

What am I missing?


But she said……


A customer just publicly complained about our business online. Here’s my process for dealing with it:

1 - apologize profusely even though we’re not at fault
2 - issue a full refund even though it results in the business loosing money
3 - buy more sats and move them to multi-sig cold storage so that there are less sats available for the customer who complained when they finally realize that fiat is failing them
4 - smile, knowing that I have already won


Agreed, but also….free Ross in between shitting and fucking…or before, whenever is fine really, just let the dude go.


This is what life is all about.


But why isn’t it cut?! Who will cut the pizza? This is extremely concerning.


I’m super grateful for all you nerds who make this stuff work. Keep doing your nerd thing!


Is that different from every other vaccine or commercially grown food?


Not to worry, there will be a crisis and .gov will print more money so people can see the contrast between fiat and sound money. It comes in waves.


I feel quite sympathetic to people injured by the states lies. The silver lining is that Covid brought more people out of the dark. Those still wearing masks today are lost but some of them will have their moment of clarity eventually. The control matrix is failing and it is becoming visible to more and more people every day.


Today I will cut my steak into the shape of a slice of pizza. 🍕 🥩


For my money, 2020 was a pretty good time. The moon landing is solid gold too. I’m most excited about the alien stuff coming in the next two years though.


Seems like reputable mints should be able to offer cryptographic verification of full reserves. If I needed to use one and one service offered that verification while another didn’t that would be the choice easy.


So, Ron Paul? 🤣


My kids would be into this but we don’t do Kindle with them. Only physical books to keep them off screens.


Ways to reduce reliance on Twitter to keep up with Bitcoin development:

•Bitcoin optech newsletter
https://bitcoinops.org/

•Bitcoin stack exchange
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/

•Delving Bitcoin
https://delvingbitcoin.org

•Dozens of Bitcoin Podcasts like NVK's 'Bitcoin Review', Odell's 'Citadel Dispatch' or Sjors and Aaron's 'Bitcoin, explained'

•GitHub repositories of Bitcoin core, Lightning implementations and other open source products you use regularly

Or the best one:

Convince developers to come to Nostr by constantly telling them that Nostr is a better place for them to engage in civil discourse and escape the engagement-driven, rage-bait incentivising algorithm of Twitter.


Very cool map!


Seriously!


If you’re a Bitcoiner and a wood worker, check us out at Vagabond Oil & Paint, Co. We have a full line of wood working products including Tung Oil, Walnut Oil, Citrus Solvent and Citrus Thinned Tung Oil.

www.vagabondpaint.com

We’re not set up to take Bitcoin on the website yet, but if there’s demand for it, we’d love to add Bitcoin payments in the future. https://image.nostr.build/b4cfcc09b395f8d1fe1533c53f03f01b6d7db21ba38813b9a606b609bc23c310.jpg


Bold. Hope you’re right!


Wrong


Fart chocked!


I have now deleted my Twitter account, and my medium account. All articles have been transferred to Nostr. I'm also done submitting with Bitcoin magazine for fairly obvious reasons.

Trying to channel my inner  nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe here- vote for and build the world you want to see in your actions.

Nostr has incredible potential. Within the very definition of that potential there is no free lunch. Expect to pay for relays to host content, for clients to deliver it to you, and zap for posts or content you want to see. It should incentivise others to host, deliver or create content. I need to do more of this, but as a start any zaps to my articles on Nostr have been set up to send half to the relays that host them.

Elon Musk continues to head down the wrong path in many of his actions to monetise Twitter. It is fairly clear that much of what  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx predicted is coming true. By layering in identity verification, he is seeking to extract ever more value from users information.

Nostr needs to benefit from what Taleb referred to as the intolerant minority - in this case those who vote with their feet and refuse to engage with the walled gardens of Facebook and X, etc - and instead bring their time, money and attention to Nostr.

#nostr
#deletetwitter


I did the same thing last week. I am actively missing the Bitcoin “market vibe” but otherwise very happy with the decision. Be the change you want to see.


I say we take over the Elks Club. They have a lodge in every small down in America and no one under 74 has ever been inside one.

Show up, offer to clean, wait a month until they hand you the keys, turn it into a Bitcoin club.

Elks4LyfeSonz


What do you call it when you try to smuggle gold across a boarder in your butt?
….a shit coin!
12 words to freedom. https://image.nostr.build/29e68f6bcc326d880370f75db5faf6e072e8d22c52a43c743ce00167f0f84201.jpg


I have one full time employee. Today we had to spend 3 hours in the car together. I “made” him listen to The Bullish Case For Bitcoin.

My car, my rules.

We’re only half way through because he had so many questions. By the end of the day I could see his laser eyes starting to flicker.


Did it have snake?


We stop endless wars by aligning incentives with everyone, including powerful people with disagree with.


They have to attack the new system as their system fails. We have to defend the new system, but directionally a win is nearly inevitable because we have technology on our side and new technologies will emerge to do an end-run around whatever insane policies they legislate to box in existing tech.


The conclusion of the prosecution against Tornado Cash is insane.

If open source code is criminal if criminals use it, then what about fiat currencies? What about banks? What about the English language?

They say hate speech is a crime...


Of note, this is also how we stop endless wars which is ultimately what I’m here for.


Granted, sovereignty is the end goal, but if we take the savings route, we solve problems that bring powerful players to our side. If we fight AML/KYC head on we become a target. Love them or hate them, Bitcoin is stronger with BlackRock and Fidelity onboard (as opposed to outside slinging rocks at us). Bitcoin is an infinite life raft. It grows to accommodate everyone who agrees to the rules and climbs in. The more people in the life raft, the less people are outside dragging us down. As sound money takes over the world, the burocracia that threatens us with KYC/AML looses the ability to dilute us with printing and will eventually need Bitcoin themselves. Their only option will be direct taxation and citizens will once again have influence over the rules we will accept from them. That is how we beat KYC/AML. Not by sneaking around the rules and making the life raft a target but by outlasting the sinking ship and becoming the only viable option. Once they’re on the raft, we all follow the same rules.


30s as a parent, husband and business owner


Why save for retirement? The whole system is corrupted and people know it in their gut. Unless you understand Bitcoin, inflation will outpace most investments.


What on earth is that?


Current tech (at least in the west) gives me all the functionality I could ever ask for on payments. Not an issue for me ever. Current technology (excluding Bitcoin) gives me zero effective options for long term savings. Outside of Bitcoin, my best option for savings is real estate which requires a good credit score, a deposit, taxes, maintenance, insurance and a monthly payment in order to maybe maintain or grow my savings and liquidation costs ~10% in fees. Bitcoin solved my savings problem. I still don’t have a payments problem. If I ever do, I have no doubt Bitcoin can solve that too when there is market demand for a solution.


Coldcard seemed intimidating at first but was super easy once I sat down with a BTCSessions tutorial. I have experience with coldcard and Trezor model T. The air gapping on the coldcard gives me more confidence than interfacing with Trezor suite.


I don’t want others to hurt me, end my life, tell me what I can and can’t do, or take my things. Therefore it follows I should not hurt others, kill others, tell others what they can and can’t do or take things that belong to others.

And just like that we arrive at the non-aggression principle. Something close to biblical truth or universal natural law.

Systems and protocols have natural incentives built into them that dictate behavior. Choose protocols that respect and incentivize compliance with natural human laws.

Bitcoin>Dollar


I’m glad I read it, but it feels to dark and heavy to revisit.


Happy Mothers Day to all you Moms out there!

You represent an unbroken chain of human history extending back extending back to some long forgotten (and much debated) genesis block. You are part of the original and longest time chain.


We should own our data and possession is 9/10 of the law. I’m in favor of this.


So who is building the best privacy tech right now?


One sat = one sat


Could not agree more!


Yes this is a global scale balance of power impacting discovery of played right.


No idea but i like hearing about people probing for new knowledge.


Ok!


Never forget


Lucky!


Same brother! I have 2 more big stacks to make and just need about 1-1/2 weeks.


I was looking at the same mountains today.


Hey guys! I’m his gives me an idea…..💡 😂


34 trillion now! I think they can hit $40 by 2025 if they really goose it.


I bought Bitcoin with my business account the night before the ETF launch and left it on the exchange. We already hit our stack goals for the quarter before this buy and the rest is cold. My logic was, if it mooned I would sell that portion  and pay off revolving debt we use in the business. If it doesn’t, I just add it to our stack and tighten our belt for the next few weeks. Either way I can’t loose and frankly I’m thrilled that the price dropped and I’m considering buying even more.


Just called my Dad and asked if I could borrow $500. I don’t need $500 but without hesitation he said yes. I told him instead of sending me the money to login to his exchange account and place an order for $500 worth of Bitcoin which brings his total holding to $600. I congratulated him on front running BlackRock. Small progress.


Waiting for the ETF feels like waiting for an acceptance letter from Harvard for one of my kids.

I REALLY don’t want her to go to Harvard (that place ain’t what it used to be), but I will be SO DAMN PROUD when we get the letter.


Every month for the whole year i wanna give a random npub that is following me, 21000 sats.

21 shares and 21 likes on this note to make it happen.


More than anything else, this is why we will win. Bitcoin has fixed my incentive model.


Building 7


You’ll have to work a lot harder for your second Bitcoin than you do for your first. Sacrifices made today are cheaper than sacrifices made next year. Do it well you can.


Have you read Atlas Shrugged?


The scariest line in that book is “Look what they did to Bitcoin”….shivers


Love this. Makes me want to get back into scuba diving. I feel sad for people who haven’t had the chance to see some of this in person.


So tragic. Lots of families torn apart by that psyop


The book Atomic Habits made a big difference in my life. It’s all about stacking small habits in ways that add up to a big difference. Examples: I make my bed before I turn on my computer and put a book on my pillow. When I enter my room for bed, my phone goes on the charger across the room from my bed and I read until I’m tired. Makes a big difference in sleep quality. Another small habit is that while I brush my teeth I do 50 heel lifts. It gets me started working out for the day and I try to integrate other small workouts throughout my day since I don’t have time to go to the gym. I own a small business and one of the new habits I plan to try is every time I get a purchase order, I have to make a cold call before I can confirm the order. This is to prevent being complacent when business feels good.


“I heard he transacts on chain.”
“My sister said he’s a whole coiner. “ https://image.nostr.build/7ff586570a5a1c275a71d25b31e000f9d0ee13e5f4049bd24d9d31f251465449.jpg


Until Trane, Carrier and other hvac manufacturers start selling residential furnace units built around Bitcoin miners, we’re so early.


Except maybe multi-sig cold storage sats.


Where do I find that feature?


Bitcoiner’s have low time preference and are productive. Even without net new inflows of people wanting to hold Bitcoin, the value of the network will grow just based on the productivity and savings habits of Bitcoiner’s.

I will create more value for my fellow humans over the course of my life than your average fiatter. Customers will pay me with hours of their lives (directly or indirectly) and I will store that energy in BTC. I am not alone in this and there are already enough of us doing this that the price will continue to go up forever, Laura. That is the genius of BTC monetary policy. It rewards those who meet their own selfish needs by providing other people what they want.


I need to fast harder. 18 hours just ain’t doing it for me I guess.

Tuning forks?


Tell me you just ate a fifth of mushrooms without telling me you just ate a fifth of mushrooms. 😂

Agreed though.


What’s up with DMT? All this talk about aliens and additional dimensions , but no one is looking in one the most obvious places. 👽🛸👾


I did my math wrong. $8.3t SOV assuming 129m units at $430k x 15% as SOV.


There are 129 million housing units in the United States. The median price is $430k. Let’s be conservative and say 15% of that is store of value. That’s over $55 trillion in SOV in one asset. What happens when markets recognize that #Bitcoin  is the apex SOV? $40k is nothing!


Can you explain this to me like I’m a boomer? I want to support new businesses but I don’t get it yet…


When I was young I fell into a trap. I believed our tragedies define us. That people with more tragic stories have more robust character….maybe even more value. It’s taken me decades to understand that it’s not our tragedies but our accomplishments that define us. We all go through shit. Some worse than others. But the world is a meritocracy. The only thing that matters is meeting other people’s needs. If you do that well and consistently you will be rewarded with good relationships and wealth.  Combine that with a healthy lifestyle and you will have everything a person needs.

Oh, also….sats. Sats matter too. Get you some of those.


🤷♂ but I like the word consequentialism. Does that make me a consequentialist or is it inconsequential?


HELP. Is it possible to run a US business that requires dollars and international wires without a bank? If so how?. I have a small business. It’s growing like crazy and we prepay for inventory so I wrote the business a check from a home equity line of credit on Friday. Monday I got a call from the HELOC issuer to confirm the transaction. They told me it was approved and would be drafted Tuesday.  10pm Tuesday night I get an email from my bank that the payment has been rejected and returned (for which I will be charged a fee). The issuing institution shows that it’s approved and sent. The receiving institution says it was rejected. Neither one knows where the money currently is. (My banker literally said “it’s in the great in between “). It’s a holiday weekend so it won’t be getting any attention until Monday. Meanwhile, my business has bills to pay and we can’t access our funds through no fault of our own.

Fuck trad-fi. This would not be a problem if my customers paid in Bitcoin and my vendors would accept it. Happy to move some BTC to USD once a quarter to pay my taxes (theft), but for the love of God, when can I be done with banks?


I run a cash hungry small business. We keep a small treasury of Bitcoin. It’s not Bitcoin volatility that scares me. I never put money into Bitcoin that I expect to need in the next 5 years. The goal is to never sell it. What scares me is economic volatility from stupid fed games. I have to buy inventory 3 months before it is sellable and sometimes it takes longer than that. Margins are only in the 5-15% range depending on the product. A big economic swing could put me very upside down on inventory. As a result, I have to keep more money in cash than I am comfortable with and accept the debasement. Fiat games keep me up at night.


I play a game with my kids where we take turns hiding gnome dolls. They are very mischievous. My youngest hid one in her closet. I went in to find it and as a joke pulled the door shut and started gently banging on the walls and giggling/gasping. I came out and told her the gnome was nibbling my toes in there. Cute and funny, right?

The poor kid now has an extreme phobia of gnomes (and closets) and may never sleep through the night again. I was up four times last night to check her closet.

….damn gnomes https://image.nostr.build/e1625b5d6ad8b64926ae8413f3693a684bed77ece2f6d692cdaf247673458c99.jpg


How many of you have had to look up “Carajo” tonight like I did.


Might be the best 10 second introduction to Bitcoin I’ve heard.


Define “far right” for me…


I decided tonight to start growing out my chops.  🇦🇷

Viva la libertad carajo!


Sure, he already promised the dollar.


I just staked some sats to celebrate.

People of Argentina: now your job is to hold him to his promises. Do not follow him blindly. Bitcoin is the way!


Hahaha made my day 😅😂 #Argentina
https://i.nostr.build/P8Rn.jpg


Gives me Dune vibes


GM

There’s work to be done.


Bitcoiners are the first people in history with a reliable way to project their will into the future through the use of time-locked transactions. Want to throw your kid a massive party on their 500th birthday? Plenty of nefarious possibilities too but I like thinking about all the ways we can project wonder and whimsy into the future to make human life more fun and interesting.


Bitcoin has had a massive impact on energy markets at <$1T market cap. Imagine what it can do at >$10T.


I am sovereign and becoming more so.


Human life is the most valuable thing in the world. Precious beyond any measure. The lords of fiat view it as fuel for their fire. Bitcoin is the only force on earth that can smother their fire and put the power of money back in the hands of people.

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” - John Galt (Ayn Rand)

Fight your own fights and bleed your own blood you fiat cunts!


War is expensive….Bitcoin is cheap.


I don’t care what the Bitcoin:dollar ratio is is 2040. The dollar is being debased and will eventually hyperinflate. Trillion dollar bitcoin means nothing if a trunkful of dollars won’t buy an egg.

I want to know the price of real goods and services in sats. How many sats for a 3 bedroom house? How many sats/hour for entry level labor? Sats/month to lease a Honda civic? Sats for a dozen eggs? Sats per bottle of whiskey?


What if we’re wrong about everything? I mean, we’re not….but what if we were? Wouldn’t that be weird?


We’re all getting girlfriends!


Oh, hey girl…. https://image.nostr.build/8112bb4124114ee6b1be92165bd33789f9820113a5f842c4cfad38744fec1bd0.jpg


Really enjoyed this one. Thank you. Made me a bit more bullish on hold as a hedge. Still, BTC will win because we have the best team.


Unfunded liabilities are debt too. I will die on this hill.


That hits home


Wow. Going outside today to read this again with some maples.


Super impressive; but my sats are still harder than her abs.


Not a fucking chance.


Zoom out to see bitcoiners living on a bill coin standard.


Trenching for what? Never a fun job.


Sick


Beach day with my kids. https://image.nostr.build/866cde1ab8eadc6ffe1a765a2a9d5edf032e512bc91efe618631245a90e12673.jpg


Free will and an omnipotent God are inherently at odds UNLESS, we are all manifestations of God. If free will doesn’t exist than no one can be judged for anything. To me it is self evident that either we are all one with God (and therefore each other)or there is no God and therefore this is all self emergent and all we have is each other. In either case, treat others as you wish to be treated and move through life with pride, integrity and purpose. Find meaning in relationships with people and the natural world and create the most beauty and love you are capable of. Basically: don’t be a dick.


Hey, you guys remember Ukraine? I wonder what everyone is going to do with all those blue and yellow flags?

Hear this: ALL WARS ARE BANKERS WARS. STAND AGAINST WAR, ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE. DEFUND THE BANKERS WITH BITCOIN.


Bitcoin question. I worry about lost coins. Over a long enough time the supply will shrink towards zero. Every sat that is lost is out of the supply forever. Does it make sense to return coins that haven’t moved in say 21 years back into the pool for future mining rewards. It wouldn’t have to change the issuance schedule necessarily. Any coins that were unspent for 21 years could be moved to the end of the stack and start being distributed after 2140 for example.  Am I off base?


I agree. We have chosen not to start young with our kids but when they’re a bit older we want to start lessons. For now we’re trying to focus on letting them be kids and not having too many rigid expectations.


Kept hearing hype but couldn’t find a link to the article so here it in case you’re having the same problem.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-sec-does-not-plan-appeal-court-decision-grayscale-bitcoin-etf-source-2023-10-13/


Pianos are heavy


Miners and their families getting engraved granite headstones? Now-a-day they’d be lucky to get a printed plastic plaque tacked to a wooden stake.


My job as a parent is not to create future “productive members of society”. My job is to teach my kids how to be happy and healthy people. To show them how to recognize and pursue people, places and activities that promote those goals. To demonstrate for them that by meeting other people’s needs in the economy they can increase their resources and therefore choices in life making it more likely to live a happy life. A calculator can do multiplication, AI can write an essay, only people can lead meaningful lives. That is why we have chosen Waldorf education. Steiner recognized that humans need rhythm, community, movement and beauty and built a education system that focuses on the right things.

I do think there’s room for improvement within Waldorf. Being a bit touchy feely the community leans liberal. I wish they would put more focus on entrepreneurship and Austrian economics as I think those are grounding areas of study that impose positive limits on people, but can teach a lot of that at home.
#waldorf #parenting #educationoptions


Full to the brim with opportunity too.


Did you hear Peter almost giggle when he got that sound bite? That mud have been a good feeling.


The inverse can be said about regulation and bureaucracy. Even with freedom tech, the best we can hope for is a perpetual battle between freedom and oppression. The cycles theory of history suggests that the pendulum swings back and forth. Can Bitcoin help to mute the swing towards despotism?


I SO badly wanted them to smash together!


Ain’t America grand?


Should I send you my wire info or do you prefer to send me the money on chain?


Thank you. I ordered some from Compass Labs but will try this next time. Tested a small spot on my skin today to make sure I don’t have any weird reactions. Planning to add to coffee tomorrow.


Same!


A third tower collapsing is no time for questions.
A record bailout is no time for questions.
A stolen election is no time for questions.
A pandemic is no time for questions.
A mass defection from the $ is no time for questions.
A Russian invasion is no time for questions.
A Hamas terrorist attack is no time for questions.
A runaway sovereign debt is no time for questions.

I have questions.

#Bitcoin


Anyone using methylene blue? Upside? Downside? Risk?


Came here to say this


Been thinking through this lately as we head into winter. Always good to be prepared.


Healthcare, education, housing, defense. Everything the government virtue signals about meets this fate.


I’m thinking about getting into the rapid production national flag business. I have a feeling it’s going to be wildly profitable over the coming months.

But seriously, how do people get their hands on Palestinian and Israeli flags so fast?


The sun also rises! Don’t get mired in all the shit happening in the world. What is within your control. What will you do with this new day? https://image.nostr.build/03d9094f729046ee909cc52cae8d31d1f46968545f0f0d9db373e47830c9874c.jpg


Level with me guys. Did WWIII just start?


Gunna be so lame when my parents join Nostr and try to use it the exact same as Facebook.


Nothing hit like Surge….what even was that?


Disappointed with this take.


Sorry, still getting used to Nostr and didn’t see this. I’m not super techie. How do I find/access your BTC pay server store?


So stay humble?

I do wonder how Bitcoin will respond if we get a recession, but I think my base case is that we’ll see a deflationary dip in a longer inflationary trend (h/t Lynn Alden). The Fed is pushing a rope but they seem to fear deflation more than inflation so to the extent they can impact things I think we get more inflationary pressure which is bullish for Bitcoin.


I don’t think of them at all. My life consists of my family, my business and my Bitcoin.

If a new innovation came to the alt coin world that blew Bitcoin away, I would be wrecked because I don’t listen to a word coming out of that camp. That said, I’m not worried.


This analysis suggests the bear market lasts until May-Sept 2024 at which point we enter a new bull.

Sounds fucking brutal. What do you think?

https://bombthrower.com/unlocking-the-psychology-of-bitcoins-bear-market/


I just found myself in a spot with no food and the only thing available was a burger at a roadside burger place. I feel the worst I’ve felt in weeks after eating it. Sluggish. The lesson for me is plan ahead better.


Agreed


Beautiful! I just bought some new racking for my warehousing. Dreaming of a new fork lift.


Is there something like the Cantillion effect in a hyperbitcoinized world? Those closest to the whales get access to capital first and at lower rates? If so, is that a problem? Or does it resolve overtime with resources accrued to those who create the most value? https://image.nostr.build/2da2c5b46f840f8a6b0dd699a705bd3d57a11bd87b65f9404cf69a2b3990efa0.jpg


It is going to be what it’s going to be. Raising my kids on an island. Trying to get ahead in the fiat casino and pushing what I don’t need for survival into sats.


Do you think Satoshi chose 21,000,000 to tell us that being a millionaire is half of the solution to the ultimate question?


Haven’t heard that in years. Thank you!


Another mainstream article that is fair to Bitcoin and explains grid operators incentives to partner with miners. Haven’t heard much from Sen. Warren lately…

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/where-are-bitcoin-miners-in-2023-texas.html


I tote through the audiobook. Amazing recommendation! Still have a lot to learn about how to execute on the acquisition, but it has me thinking differently about the whole organization.

Thank you!


I made brisket today too. My observation: slow cooked meat feels heavy and makes me want a nap where as medium rare sirloin  feels light and leaves me ready to take on anything. Still delicious though!


Thank you just downloaded the audiobook.


The start of the rain means mushroom walks in the woods with my family….nothing better. https://image.nostr.build/f2ab6144a2b2291f45ba3972c0beeca735af2b64637d5ff9d85f065a21b0610d.jpg


You’re doing something. That’s more than 90% of the world. Grind it out. You never know where things will end up.


The creature was hard enough for me. I can’t  👀


I run fiat company that holds BTC on our balance sheet. So far it has been zero benefit to our business, but I look forward to reporting back in two years. 🙃


God I wish Rage hadn’t broken socialist. They were always left but I was hoping they’d move so far left they were almost ended up back at the anarcho-libritarian side of things. Love their music. Hate what they fight for.


I’d likely buy one


Government: give us half your Bitcoin
Me: I lost all my Bitcoin
Government: you lost it? How could you loose something so valuable?
Me: you idiots lost an F-35
Government: good day, sir.


If, by Rudyard Kipling. No comparison.


What are the risks to doing a coinjoin, do you risk exchanges or miners blacklisting your Bitcoin if asked to by .gov?


Anyone know the typical % allocation to any given asset class from these guys? Would they go to the trouble for 1% allocation? 5%? 10%?


Any book suggestions on how to buy an existing business? Looking into our first acquisition and I would like to educate myself.


My first tattoo artist served me beer through a straw while he was working on the back of my leg.


The problem is bootstrapping scale. Without getting huge sellers like P&G and Nike onto a new platform, people will always need to buy some stuff from Amazon and then the new platform gets stuck in the “Etsy layer”. I wonder if there’s a way to provide a search of independent sellers “booths” that can be accessed in a decentralized way but also return Amazon results in the same search so customers can seamlessly choose between the different options. All from one interface? Would Amazon allow that? Could they prevent it?


I hate that I have come to the same conclusions. I wish we lived in a world where we could trust our institutions but at least now we live in a world where we can disintermediate them. Go on, git!


Love this!


I’ve often thought a Shopify model where individual sellers have their own sites but then aggregating that into a platform with reviews and global search would work well. Sellers would own all their listings and could move between platforms. You could also join seller pools to take advantage of discounted shipping and independent fulfillment warehouses could compete to attract sellers who don’t want to do their own fulfillment. I would love to see Bitcoin built in.


We need a decentralized Amazon.

Amazon has increasingly moved to abusing sellers with advertising costs. I spent a year and a half trying to cater to the algorithm and build a brand. I kept my costs down by importing raw materials direct, building packaging and labeling the product myself. I have trademarks and have done everything right. Reviewing my year it’s costing me $1 in ad spend to generate $1.20 in gross sales. In addition they charge 15% commission, storage fees, FBA fees based on item weight size and category and the seller is responsible for returns and damaged/lost products.

My material costs are 25% of the sales price. Add it all up and I’m selling at a significant loss. I would have stopped earlier but I built significant inventory to support the additional volume and there was no other sales channel for me to move the volume. It would have been cheaper to throw it all away, but I reasoned that with time and reviews it might start to improve. I have over 50 5 ⭐ reviews and haven’t seen any boost. I answer every customer question and follow best practices on the platform.

Amazon is designed to extract money from entrepreneurs. If we build a decentralized version we can pass the savings to customers and improve the customer experience. Vendors would flock to it but it would be difficult to compete at scale without a “hook”. Ideas?


Store value in BTC. Run a node. Exercise my right to bear arms. Keep myself an my family in excellent physical shape. Teach my family about the consequences of collectivism. Maintain a large fiat buffer and physical preparations to avoid having to accept handouts. Explore multi-jurisdictional strategies for protecting any wealth I build. Read everything I can find on Austrian economics and freedom. Avoid the sick care industry, government schools and all other state affiliated bureaucracies. Maintain multiple modes of travel and plans for egress should that become necessary. Stay nimble and educate myself.


The second top of the page cnbc article in a week soft-shifting the narrative in favor of BTC. Can you smell it? It’s the stink of big money arriving to the party. No one tell them we’re already sitting on 92% of the supply that will ever be mined.

“The cascade of crypto bankruptcies, failed tokens and the revelation that some of the titans of the industry were running allegedly criminal enterprises laid bare to many that bitcoin is king.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/09/what-its-like-in-europes-crypto-hub-portugal-as-the-us-cracks-down.html


Parenting is fricking hard.


Why? What’s it do?


This article is part of a huge shift in narrative around mining. They have to do this slowly before approving the ETF to make ESG people comfortable with Bitcoin. Bullish.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/texas-paid-bitcoin-miner-riot-31point7-million-to-shut-down-in-august.html


Well said!