I gave this to chatGPT and asked for a price target in 2026 based on what his history. The conservative answer was 4-6 BTC and the aggressive answer was 1-2 BTC


Right now mostly Shopify and Amazon. A little bit from Etsy, eBay and Walmart too.


What are the benefits of dry fasting vs normal fasting with water?


🌘🚀🤷♂😜
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This can’t be said enough!

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Mostly because I’m a glutton for punishment. Turns out retail customers are more demanding than wholesale and there are a LOT more of them.

On the wholesale side we sell truckload volumes of chemicals to manufacturers like Sherwin Williams and EcoLab. I’ve always wanted my own brand that could focus on more natural alternatives. The retail business was to scratch that itch.


Thanks! Been running Vagabond Paint for about 2 years. The retail side of our business is about 10% of revenue. We’ve been running the wholesale side of the business for 4 years. Still feels like a startup though. Takes time!


That’s the plan.


At least two of us it seems


Truely.


Sometimes I get so caught up in what I’m trying to build that I forget what I already have.

Right now I’m grateful for my kids and my wife, a warm comfortable house, and food enough for all of us to eat.

No good week of sales or new customer comes close to the value of what I already have.


Got the Indian food stand at our local farmers market to accept payment in Bitcoin today. Downloaded  wallet and let him with my number in case he has questions. I replaced the sats.


Shitcoiners are mainstream Americans. It’s accelerated degeneracy.


Ain’t she a beaut…
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Rules without rulers is catchy but what I actually want is rules with decentralized enforcement and aligned incentives.

GM


Do it and I’ll buy them. I want all 12 to blast on a loud speaker “we have you surrounded. Resistance is futile. Drop your weapon and lay on your face with your hands on the back of your head….bitch”. A laser on the intruders chest would be a nice feature too.


I want 12 of these on rapid deployment chargers around the perimeter of my house. Launch with a panic button. AI targeting and manual decision making via an app.


Told me kids were going for a drive after dark.
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That’s love!


Don’t gender-type Satoshi. /s


I exist to serve.


One of the best songs ever. Thanks for reminding me of it.


Joking aside, I don’t give a fuck who Satoshi is. We are legion.


Guys! We have a new Satoshi! You know what this means right?!

The bull market can finally start.

LFG.

Sorry Peter Todd, I am Satoshi.


Of course you would choose white for this meme.


I used to be Satoshi


Could you repost this in about 6 years when my kids start asking for a phone. Haha


I love this song


This gives me shivers.


Wait…wut?


…..touch it
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Hillary et al don’t realize they have already lost control. They still control all the seats at the table but we have taken our plates to the couch so we don’t have to listen to their harping.

Next they will turn over the table in rage. Don’t sweat it when they do, just stay out of the way and after they leave we can all have our pie.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hillary-clinton-desperation-warns-well-lose-total-control-if-social-media-stops-censoring


GM pura vida.

https://m.primal.net/LMxO.jpg


I don’t know what I mean. That’s kind of my point. Haha


This one!


Guys, I have a confession…I still use Nostr exactly like I used to use Twitter but with zaps.

I don’t know what Alby is.

I don’t run a relay.

There are about a dozen posts with nostr.zap or zap.spuge or whatever.nos.zapathon in my feed every time I scroll through. No idea what any of it means. I scroll past like I used to scroll past ads on Twitter.

Still love it here but can’t wait for you nerds to finish figuring out what’s cool and make it digestible for us regulars.

Thanks for your efforts. Much love.


Free Ross.


It’s called going Galt. Those who know how to bring value will find us.


There is a time and place for these chemicals. Most people are using them as an escape rather than for growth. “When you get the message, hang up the phone. “


When distributing keys geographically, are people using safe deposit boxes at banks?

I don’t trust banks but how else do you assure security? Particularly in foreign countries?

I don’t have enough for this to be a problem for me, but curious how people think about it.

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Can we please start building places like this again?

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And pro tip for artists. If you don’t have any new ideas to express, simply reflect the beauty of the world until a new idea comes to you. Quit trying to pass off banana taped to the wall as evocative art. There is so much beauty in the world and it’s pleasing to see it as other people see it.


What would change?


What if the bull market was cancelled? Would your thesis on Bitcoin or fiat change? Is there somewhere else you’d rather store your energy?


Fuck yes it does


If you had zaps set up you would have gotten sats for this one.


I’m so afraid of chainsaws and I have a scar on my kneecap to justify the fear. Wear chaps.


A joint venture. A structure that allows two businesses to start a third business and hold it jointly, for example.


Spent this week in Boston. Once upon a time, we built libraries that looked like this. We can do it again…or better.

LFG
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Zero


This is huge. I deal with businesses who buy million of lbs of plasticizers per year. I wonder at what point in the value chain this new tech will be added and how quickly it will be adopted. Some will see an incentive to do it, others will feel pressured politically to reduce pollution but may not have a financial model that supports the change….interesting to think about.


Pierre Cory, Chris Matinson, Bret Weinstein,


I think I just agreed to start my first JV. Fuck it! What’s one more business to build and scale? Sounds fun.

LFG


I have a huge meeting today that could change the course of my business.  Been doing a lot of that lately. Step out of your comfort zone.

GM


I think the framework of introvert vs extrovert is broken and overplayed. Some social situations and people make me anxious. In other situations and with other people I love being in social settings.


Keep at it


GM. Do you see it now? Our bright shining future on a hill?

Ain’t she a beaut!


It has been refreshing but also a complete waste of time.


I’m pretty happy with crowd health. Haven’t used it but that’s sorta the idea. I’d rather pay for real people with real needs than some bureaucratic blob.


Maybe we can ask them nicely to stop starting wars with our money? Or like vote harder….maybe that will work.


I want more Bitcoin
I’m good on friends


I’ve been doing my part. Buying with a level of disregard and irresponsibility I didn’t think I was capable of. Every headline I read makes me think “whelp, need more Bitcoin”


It feels good to hit stacking goals. Now on to the next one. They keep getting harder for some reason.


The port strike started last night. I am an importer, but everyone needs to be paying attention to this.

1-2 days is not so bad. It will create a backlog but it would be cleared in a couple of weeks.

1-2 weeks and we will see backlogs taking months to clear meaning perishables on the water now will spoil and retail goods won’t arrive in time for the holidays.

Truck rates will fall for east coast and gulf lanes because no freight is moving. West coast freight rates will increase as freight starts moving overland at increasing cost.

Inventories start to dwindle as fast as next week and prices will start to rise. We will find out soon what is in short supply.

As a Bitcoiner I know that the inflation Longshoremen are asking for relief from is real but it is not caused by greedy port operators. It’s is the direct result of government spending. Ironically their strike will make inflation worse and reduce any impact of a wage increase they negotiate.

Aside from wage increases, their other demand is no future automation of ports with AI and robotics. This Luddite demand is a dead giveaway that no one at the table understands economics. Automation will paradoxically lead to more wealth and opportunity. Not automating will cause the US to fall behind the world in competitive markets. It also results in higher pressure on our infrastructure which cost is transferred to tax payers (thereby leading to more inflation).

I want what is best for this country and that is a resolution to this strike asap. As a Bitcoiner I know this will create a flood of liquidity that will benefit my largest holding.

Stock up on what you need and put the rest in Bitcoin.

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Really enjoyed this one. Thanks!


I was impacted and completely unproductive for half the day. Tell me more about this magic NostrPhone. I’m all in on it.


https://video.nostr.build/86ec57b7cf0e7377ff40d740d0f47fd7dd14a554af7fd6b6f5e25a32d595d4a5.mp4

Ron Paul explains Hama's.


Damnit, Lisa!


What is a good reason? Multiple studies show that masks do not slow the spread of viruses. They are useful for limited spittle from dentist to patients, but they do nothing for airborne viruses.


Knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt humanity will never use nuclear weapons again and no taxes on Bitcoin.


Just made spare ribs for the first time.

I’d post a picture but my kids ate them all before I could take one.

Recipe: remove membrane, rub with salt and pepper, wrap in foil, bake at 275 for 2.5 hours. Brush with BBQ sauce, broil until caramelized on both sides.

I will be doing that again.


That was a good one!


I took my family to the beach and slipped off a piece of driftwood 3’ off the beach. Landed flat on my back and got the wind knocked out of me.  Felt every vertebrae from the bottom of my shoulder blades to my neck pop and hit my head on a rock. Could have been much much worse. I don’t think anything is broken but I feel like I got hit by a car. I’m supposed to fly on Wednesday and wondering if I’m going to have to cancel the trip.

Going to fire up a red light treatment and spend the day in bed with Bitcoin podcasts. Any suggestions?


I feel like most people have a strong preference. I will eat them rare all the way through well done. My go to for quick easy no clean up sirloin steaks is an air fryer. 375 for 16 minutes. People tell me I’m ruining the steak but I’d rather be working than manning the grill for 13 minutes.


Someday, I want to fly Bitcoiners around in one of these.

Current air taxi operators charge $3,000/hour. They seat 7 including the pilot. They have a parachute and an autoland feature in case the pilot is incapacitated making them one of the safest private jets available.

I love travel and I dream of a world where I never have to deal with TSA again.

#cirrus #visionjet #G2+
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Markets moving higher on lower rates. Golds showing us what’s coming in inflation. Whichever candidate wins the US election is inheriting a mess and the only quick fix is more handouts to their constituents. Doesn’t matter who it is, debt will continue to pile up and be monetized. Seek scarcity. I bought more Bitcoin today.

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Would like to be able to set my own weights. Top engagement 8:10. Most recent 7:10. Top posters I engage with 6:10. Something like that.


Damn…too young.


This is the most compelling prediction framework I’ve ever seen. 10x more valuable than s2f or power law. It’s beautifully simple and honest. Bullish.


But wait, where’s the gold?  Hmm


The blood and money must flow.


Stay humble and stack sats.


Taxes and inflation. Also, public education be keeping us down.


One can keep butterflies?

…say more


Here here!


Looks like she’s working


Fuck me? fuck you!…I mean I agree with you but fuck you anyway cause I can say what I like.

Love ya, Walker.


How does this affect Bitcoin when we break past the bounds of earth? How is a 10 minute block enforced when gravity dilates time more in some places than others?


Is it right to interpret this as Bitcoin=Inverse M2 (except when Bitcoin overheats ~17% of the time and the correlation breaks)?


Yes, but if I’m not mistaken his numbers are not inflation adjusted. How does 8-12% M2 growth over that period change the calculation?


Predictions for 2025? Linear or slowly and then all at once?


Just got this shot last week. Another perspective on the same volcano.
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Custodia should sue he shit out of the SEC for giving BNY first mover advantage on this.


If someone wants to become a Bitcoin Influencer for the next 50 million or so Americans to join the network, here is the formula: channel the energy of Occupy Wall Street. Focus on how “unfair” everything is. Acknowledge and coddle people victimhood. Blame “capitalism” but make sure you carefully define that as big banks enabled by big government in support of the biggest generation (boomers are the enemy).

Redefine “progressive” in Austrian Economics terms. “All value is subjective just like your precious identity”. Sneak freedom in the back door. Promote the idea that the way to fight back against “capitalism” is to quit using “their money” and start using the people’s money. Call your listeners comrade. (I think they like that.)

The premise here is that a whole segment of millennials and younger are confused about why the bottom rungs are missing from the ladder because public education misdirected their angst. They blame “capitalism” and praise “democratic socialism” without knowing what those terms mean. Don’t attack the terms. Find the things you agree with them on and blaze a trail from where they are to the righteous promise land of a bright Bitcoin future.

Onward Comrades!

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Got a better shot of it.
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Moonrise
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I don’t like the way Moxie is looking at Victoria.


Better yet when they start planting what their customers want!🐮🐄🤠


My observation of Christian evangelicals is that they are most successful when presenting to children and also broken people who need a new model to rebuild their life on. You rarely ever hear of a secular adult who has their shit together converting to a new religion. Bitcoin is not Christianity, but that recruitment model seems to work. In fact it’s more or less the same one the military uses come to think of it. Dunno if that helps.


Stop trying to fight reality. Focus on the people who are receptive.


More like mountain don’t.


Quick! Someone divide 21million by 10million and then make wild extrapolations!


I just wandered over to Yahoo Finance “Crypto” page (painful, don’t recommend).

They list 9,931 “Crypto” projects. Looks like about 1,886 have market caps over $1m. 82 have market caps over $1b.

How do people still not see the game that’s being played?


I enjoyed this article:

“At the end of the movie, we see Katniss out of battle gear, sitting in the grass, at her home, being bathed by sunlight, tending to her own life, cultivating her own personal vision of freedom, out of the limelight. Ruling herself, not others, and having regained a normal life. Perhaps that scene offers the best lesson of all.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunger-games-fiction-no-more


Saylor knows what he is saying is wrong. He doesn’t want to trigger fiats immune system.


I have cut out 80-90% of seed oils and sugar. I fast and till 3pm daily and break fast with a steak and kimchi. Dinner is whatever the family is having and then snack is usually apple with peanut butter, cheese or something fermented. Occasionally I’ll have a bowl of homemade granola. Not sure I have it in me to go full carnivore, but intriguing. Any good books to start reading up on it?


How do you travel without constantly getting sick?

I’m pretty damn healthy but I feel like 4 out of 5 times I get on an airplane I end up with a cold. In the last week I’ve been on six flights and I’m afraid I’m going down.


Guys, are we sure this dude is qualified for this kind of project?

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Yea, he makes an excellent point but I wish he’d make it on nostr.


As long as we include people who don’t realize they are on the communism spectrum, I agree. There are too many “democratic socialists” who deny their affliction.


Just when I thought my pager was safe. Who wants to go into the bullet proof pocket protector business with me?


Their number one export for decades has been electricity to India from hydroelectric. India has abused their position as the only customer Bhutan can sell to. If memory serves me, They also replaced GDP measurements with GNH (gross national happiness) and the monarch willing divested power to a democratically elected parliament. For a wealthy landlocked country with abundant hydroelectric, this was the right move. Now they need to consider how to protect their territory from future invasions.


What’s the sound of two clams quacking?


I’m over 600 and heading to 1000. The percent of the network you can reach on Nostr rn is amazing, even if the audience is small. This protocol is the future and people who are early will have a disproportionately good time here.


Here, have some sats.


Anyone else feel different about their phone today?

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It’s what’s next


Good list for almost any project.


The tractor is a good idea for secondary containment.


Scream it from the hilltops. I don’t want cheaper products, I want better products.

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….move?


Have they started digging yet?


“I will give you all the pretty purple paper. You give me all the real things!”

Where their system fails is when people realize they have been stolen from and they decide to take back the real things. They will either do it standing behind the barrel of their own gun (anarchy) or hire state actors to stand behind the gun to avoid personal accountability for their actions (socialism). A man can only defend one house at a time. A parasite won’t bother to defend what they stole, they will join the socialists and collectively steal it back from themselves.

In places where men are spineless, this ends in socialism. In places where men have a spine, this ends in anarchy. After a period of that, we will reorganize around new systems of governance, hopefully based on Bitcoin and cryptography.


In investing, diversification is key. Bitcoin in cold storage, Bitcoin in lightning wallets, Bitcoin ETF’s, Bitcoin proxies…..diversity!


I haven’t seen this movie yet but now I plan to. The earth and humanity are incredibly resilient. We can bounce back from ALMOST anything. Exceptions include: nuclear war and major asteroid strikes. We should work to avoid both. nostr:note16kl9wm5u9z7228ww0g2t5mrgvt6q9qe5xrzkmsc7879hxqs74g7q9j02qp


Maybe not as easy as printing money, but if we got regulation and gov guaranteed loans out of the way, both would be so much cheaper due to new technology. EG: 3D Printing for real estate and small farms everywhere that don’t have to compete against industrial scale farms producing commodity garbage that gets sold as “food” enabled by government policy.


I tipped my driver Bitcoin in Mexico City this week and spent half an hour talking to him about remittances and street vendors. I gave him about 25% of the fare so a good tip but nothing outrageous.

He had the bellhop at my hotel call me to make sure I had his number for the return trip to the airport.

On the drive back, he wanted me to know he learned how to back up his wallet and he talked to his cousin about Bitcoin and inflation.

One at a time.


LAX
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That’s what they want you to believe


Whose truth?


Airplanes don’t exist either. It’s a psyop…..cats too.


Damn! Get it!


A Millennial Small Business [micro]Strategy

MicroStrategy has out preformed massively. Michael Saylor saw something no one else saw
and had the gumption to take action on it. He then went a step further and open-sourced his
play book. The asymmetry of his strategy comes from the overvaluation his companies stock
resulting from the fiat-industrial-complexes over production of currency seeking yield. He has
been able to use this to take on low-interest debt which he has plowed into Bitcoin, the best
preforming asset in the history of the world. As Bitcoin goes up, so does the value of the
company he manages which results in more debt being offered to him which will be used to
buy more Bitcoin. This cycle should continue until Bitcoin stops going up in price (“it’s going up
forever, Laura”) or every public company in the world adopts the strategy and the competition
floods the island Michael is currently standing atop alone. Because of Bitcoins increasing
scarcity, his early lead will be forever cemented in history. In the coming decades,
MicroStrategy is likely to become one of the biggest tech companies in the world and Michael
Saylor one of the wealthiest people ever to live.

What makes Michael the perfect person to execute this strategy is his mastery of public market
financing. If I were put in charge of a public company and tried to accomplish the same thing,
the odds of me recking things are nearly 100%. I don’t know the difference between a
convertible bond and a hangman’s noose so I figure it’s best I don’t play with either. I run small
businesses. The most sophisticated debt instruments I have ever used are an unsecured line of
credit and a credit card. When I was twenty-one with no formal education, I went to work for a
small-business owner as his first sales rep. His instructions were, “buy low, sell high and figure
out the rest”. That’s pretty much what I have been doing ever since except that four years ago I
took the huge step of going into business for myself.

What I love about what I do is the entrepreneurs I get to meet along the way. These are people
who built a product, developed a brand took it to market and have been operating their
company profitably for decades. They are small business people. Like me, they aren’t
sophisticated and they only banker they know is at their local branch. Mostly, they are
Boomers in their late 60’s or early 70’s. They don’t hold Bitcoin. Many of them are looking to
retire, but don’t have much of a plan for it. They have poured their lives into the businesses
and in some cases, there is no heir apparent to take over. I’m guessing my experience is not
unique. Maybe you know someone in that position too. I submit that over the next decade,
trillions of dollars’ worth of small business value is going to change hands and as Millennial
Bitcoiners, we are perfectly positioned to take the torch.

I have been researching this with one particular acquisition target in mind. Inspired by Michael
Saylor, I want to opensource my thinking and strategy around this potential acquisition. I have
no delusions that my contribution is anything like the scale of his, but hopefully by putting this
out in public I can help other people acquire profitable small businesses. Even better, if this
gets attention, other business people in the Bitcoin space might help me avoid obvious pitfalls
so I can navigate this successfully….call it crowdsourced mentorship.

So, the strategy looks like this: Use Small Business Administration business acquisition 7 (a)
loans to buy profitable cash-flowing companies run by Boomers. Put in the Proof Of Work to
learn your new business and add value where you can. Structure your businesses in a way that
profits are taken first and operating expenses are paid from what is left over.

For a great description of the mechanics of this, check out the book: Profit First - Transform
Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz.
His insight is to set up five distinct checking accounts at one bank and two “off-limits” accounts
at another bank. This sounds complicated at first, but it works on the same principal as “dieting
at the grocery store”. You won’t eat what is not in your fridge and you won’t spend what is not
in your Operating Account. Put the money where it’s supposed to go so you won’t be tempted
to let expenses balloon.

Money comes into the Income Account and then is dispersed in the following order at the first
bank: Profit Account, Owners Salary, Tax, Operating Expense. The Tax and Profit accounts are
then linked to a second “off limits” bank to make it that much harder to access them and
reduce the risk that you will “borrow” against yourself. I am proposing that instead of a second
bank for your “Profit Account” you use a secure self-custody set up and dump that money right
into Bitcoin. Then go about your business delighting customers, reducing costs, innovating new
channels to market or adding complimentary product offerings. Don’t even think about the
Bitcoin account. Use a secure Multi-Sig or Multi-Institutional custody model and let it ride.

Every time you make a deposit, move a predetermined percent into your Bitcoin profit account.
Running a business is challenging and rewarding and in no time, you will look up from your
laptop and realize it’s been two full halvings since you started the strategy. The Bitcoin in your
profit account is now worth more than you paid for the business and can be used to pay it off
the SBA. Or if you’re enjoying yourself, use a small percent of your increased purchasing power
to buy more businesses. Afterall, this is how the generational shift in value will take place.

The Boomers need an exit and want someone who will take their businesses seriously. They
may not understand Bitcoin, but business people understand Proof Of Work and the pride you
develop by living your life on a hard-money-standard. Their customers want the same great
products they have been buying forever and will be reenergized with enthusiasm for the brand
when they see the energy a young entrepreneur brings to the business. The only looser here is
the bank who issued the government backed SBA loan. The rate of interest over the years of
the loan will be fixed and will likely be far less than actual inflation over that same period. But
don’t you worry about them….they didn’t put in any Proof of Work to issue that loan. Their
cost of goods sold is nearly the same as their reserve ratio which is likely +/- zero.

This is a much less sophisticated version of what nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m  is doing. It’s short the dollar long hard money and productive assets.  It doesn’t use leverage or get fancy. To quote nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx all you have to do is stay humble and stack sats.

I would love feedback. Let me know what you think….have I missed anything obvious. Would you like me to expand
on any parts of this in more detail?


Are you doing other workouts as well? That’s why I never jumped on. Wanted a more rounded regimen.


I plug my phone in across the room from my bed. Last chance to peek is when I’m brushing my teeth.


The peak of the next bear market will seem unimaginably low looking back on the Bitcoin chat in 20 years. Don’t look back with regret.

I’m going to Hodl. Fuck fiat so hard.


In a cab and want to tip the driver. What’s the easiest lightning wallet for him to download?


GM…..birthday gift from nostr:npub1q7xqc79rteknhs5s4rsqju2yu8tuguvptu373napkzptsz65yn2qz590jl to a little. Thanks guys! Lead to a nice conversation.


Just dumped all my Bitcoin for mETH. Thanks for the tip man!


How long till someone decides we should have to pay property tax on Bitcoin?

Hey future politicians…good fucking luck!


It’s all I use and I am excited every time I contribute. I don’t get into all the need side-projects objects (yet) but I use Damus and a primal everyday


Enjoy!


You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.


Bitcoin is Galt’s Gulch. We are the seed from which a new world will grow. The old system is rotting and like a nurse log is still keeping us connected to the earth while we are young. As we outgrow the nursery we will be accused of killing the old system. Have faith in those times. With each block, we get stronger.


I want to use my free speech while I still have it:

Pearl Harbor - government knew in advance and did nothing because it needed an excuse to enter the war

Kennedy assassination - Appears to me to have been a coup involving the CIA and FBI.

Golf Of Tonkin - a lie (or at least willful omission) to escalate the Vietnam war.

9/11 - nothing about the official story holds water. Look up Building 7. I don’t know what actually happened but I know THOUSANDS OF Americans died and we were lied to. It was used to ram the Patriot Act up our ass and start forever wars in the Middle East.

2008 - direct result of corrupt government policy mingled with corrupt and protected banks following the incentives. Led to QE which is state protection of large, corrupt institutions at the expense of everyone else.

Covid - if it wasn’t an intention bio-weapon, it was at least inadvertently released from the Wuhan Lab that was funded by the US government via shady indirect channels. They locked down the world and destroyed small businesses. To this day they are STILL recommending the covid vaccine for 6 month-olds and pregnant mothers despite obvious harms! They used it as an excuse to print ~40% of all dollars in circulation today thus diluting savers and creating a financial system completely dependent on government.

DO NOT TRUST THESE BASTARDS. WHATEVER COMES NEXT IS THEIR FAULT TOO. HOLD BITCOIN AND USE TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD PARALLEL SYSTEMS THEY CANT STOP.


I was a young idealistic liberal following the invasion of Iraq. I was galvanized by friends and family returning from war broken as well as the idea that the war was unjust. I remember a time when liberal values were anti-war, free speech, and personal sovereignty (marry who you want and smoke what you want, just don’t hurt other people).

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On #Nostr you get zapped sats. But what is a sat?

A sat is the smallest unit of a #bitcoin

Just like there are 100 cents in 1 dollar, there are 100 million (100,000,000) sats in 1 bitcoin!
https://bitcoin.rocks/img/nostr/meme-100m-sats-pill.jpg


I heard the phrase Anarcho Tyranny recently. It’s when the state is big enough to tyrannize the good people (producers)  but weak enough and corrupt enough that it no longer offers even the benefits it purports to offer.

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Oh my God! Can we?!


This is so beyond me technically but makes me so bullish for the future. Come censor our ballon’s you pysopathic cunts.

Next stop, open source hardware to replace Apple and android.


I’m getting worried about my supply of fiat.


Not yet but on my to do list. Admittedly not near the top.


Had a fish in high school name Hoobie in honor of.


What is an “ethereum”?


When the restaurant is run by a Bitcoiner https://image.nostr.build/d60c46d4a9ba8bfd6bcf525ff6b8f5e8ec19d22b9b864ed05ac9e848ffcf2af8.jpg


Hola!


"Maladaptive personality traits"

Yea! Maladaptive to communism!…..yer stoopid!


https://www.seattletimes.com/business/crypto-owners-more-likely-to-have-psychopathic-traits-study-says/

I love this so much.


I’m surprised we haven’t seen emergency weaponized perimeter drones used yet as a home defense option. Carry a duress button and have perimeter sensors that launch a swarm of exploding drones that surround a target before they ever make it to your door. Announce it over an intercom and ask them to sit down and wait for the authorities. Blow one up as a demo if they try to run.


Today my company landed a new account. The only thing I like more than a first purchase order is a second one. The first one means they’re willing to give you a try. The second one means you met their expectations on the first order and they continue to value what you offer.


My pet conspiracy theory is that Bitcoin was invented to give the elite a deflationary option that can continue to function during engineered population decline. Inflationary fiat can’t survive population deflation. The problem is they miscalculated. All of their Club Of Rome delusions about resource scarcity was based on the house of mirrors logic of fiat. There are actually near infinite resources when human ingenuity is applied within functional capital markets. Bitcoin removes the need to reduce population and will launch humanity into a new golden age and eventually to the stars.


I have a confession: I worked for the government once. I spent a summer driving around to little league fields getting them raked out and ready for games. To this day, I am ashamed that I participated in theft. I’m sorry to my victims.


Scam is such a nice way to describe poison.


Just open a can of pink salmon, cut up a few pickles and put mixed it all with real Dijon mustard.


The state can only misallocate wealth because they don’t produce anything and therefore don’t understand the value of anything.
https://m.primal.net/KbcQ.jpg


Today was the last day of summer and I spent it at the pool with my wife and kids. It’s been one of the best summers of my life.

I’m super proud that even when I’m grinding to build a business and stack sats I still make it home most nights by 5 for family dinner and I turn it off for the weekends to spend time with the people who matter.

I have two things written on the white board behind my desk: will it make more money? And, Will it lead to more time with my family? Every decision I make at work has to pass these two tests.


#Bitcoin only dad, husband, business owner


40% until you pay for gas, buy a bottle of whiskey or book a flight. I reckon it’s closer to 55% all said and done and that doesn’t include things like mandated insurance, and interest to the rentier class who inflated the cost of everything so it can only be bought by going into debt to them. A service that costs them nothing to produce. Plus they encourage bad food and sedentary lifestyles which will funnel you into the sick care system. BUT now you can short their asses by buying Bitcoin.


Successfully onboard my companies first sales rep. Launch two new products and double our sales.


I’m so grateful for their tenacious defense of indefensible ideas. Keep dancing in the dark you brave queens. Together we can end this misguided experiment in human flourishing.


Where is this brilliant insight published?


Anyone here have experience with Start9? I am extremely non-technical. I can follow instructions but I don’t enjoy configuring and tinkering. Here is what I would like to do:

1. Run Bitcoin Core with a couple of s9 miners mostly for seasonal heat.

2. Replace Dropbox for my business. 95% of files are either excel, pdf or word. Nothing complicated. Need multiple remote users to be able to reliably access.

3. Back up family photos so I’m not dependent on big tech for that.

4. Hopefully in the future run BTCPayServer to collect BTC from our Shopify site.

5. Bonus points for things like Nostr relay and Lightning nodes, but realistically unless it’s “one button” easy i probably won’t do these.

Would love thoughts from people who have done this. What else can I easily do with one that I haven’t considered?

Do I need help to set all this up? Can I trust someone to help with something so sensitive? https://image.nostr.build/369920732b3c7e8d935883bb2df2272409eda9ce2215b279e30ef6ce47b8d8aa.jpg


GM again https://image.nostr.build/9319bbeec3bf5689892d0862eb2c6afc857af64f40b84371e41eb21c0dd37255.jpg


Once I got to be the pivot man.


Quick! Someone take out a Brazilian targeted google ad for Nostr using the search term “VPN”


Aw nuts!


Happy you’re here!


Timelapse sunrise 🌅 https://video.nostr.build/e4ed410b124d690726922b4e00e95784265f142f643d042394f16f8348849be8.mp4


GM world. Go find beauty.
https://m.primal.net/KXFP.jpg


GM Nostr https://image.nostr.build/56b3b6e05040333c01375d2856802a12f632a9cafca74cd056d847ffe5d76e9d.jpg


GM. I have what could be the most important meeting of my career this afternoon. I’ve spent a decade getting myself into the position to bring value to customers just like this one. I am calm, prepared and completely ready.


Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin


Put an anarcho-capitalist on the US ballot and they’ll get my vote. In the meantime I will play the lesser of two evils game with my vote but only because there is no cost in casting it. I don’t expect results o come from voting which is why I build my life around freedom.


Proposed Price gouging laws on grocery stores.


Seeing Like A State


Oh, to be young and in love again.


Can’t go wrong if you stick to meat, fruit veggies, nuts, real organic whole grains a bit of dairy, spices and natural fats. If you need a bit of sugar use real maple syrup or honey. Purists will say only eat ribeye, but if you need some variety, the diet above provides it and you’ll be healthier than 99% of people.


Good food, good money, good friends.


Atlas Shrugged is about Bitcoin and the internet. nostr:note1fwnwqm4e8n5jlnt97tu4rn330vrnej832jq057u3x365ks3ul53sc495js


A manual siphon is an option but not nearly as enjoyable.


I don’t know what I was supposed to see but I bought more bitcoin anyway.


Could crash Little Big Fest on Whidbey island in Washington state. It’s already in place at an amazing venue and the turn out has been fairly low recently. Good vibes though.


Such a heavy topic. Really not sure.


The eventual future of all #Bitcoin transactions:

Earned, not bought
Spent, not sold


It’s not directly a business book but it helped me more with my business than anything else I’ve read: Atomic Habits.

My biggest take away is that winners and losers both have the same goal.  results = identity plus habits. Habits can be hacked and help us to change the way we identify ourselves.


What’s this from?


Can he zap you gold?


If Kamala wins taxes increase which kills the economy and forces the government to print to cover interest payments. The only way they can hold Bitcoin down in scenario is going after bitcoiners directly. Once they do that, they’ve already lost.


I would love that so much!


So in the coming bull do we 10x off the current base or off what should have been the ATH in 21? (Give me a juicy answer, I’m having a rough day). 🤣


I don’t know, I kind of want it to be slow and painful. Is that awful?


This is what the state does.


I would love if in the next bull run, Microstrategy bought Intuit (QuickBooks) and Zaprite (which is the Bitcoiners QuickBooks) and integrated both products together so my business can seamlessly start accepting Bitcoin without having to find a new accountant who is willing to learn the Zaprite software. If other companies followed suit, we could save so much on wire and ACH fees and reduce the friction to build a treasury in Bitcoin.


What on earth is going on here?


Might want to get a freezer full of steak now just in case this catches on.


Interesting. I don’t know the history of it.


Give millennials the option to opt out and just pay for boomers retirement by hyprinflating the currency. 5-10 years of hell but a clean slate. 🤷♂


This place is Galts Gulch. We get to write the sequel to Atlas Shrugged.

Dibs on the copper mines! https://image.nostr.build/b8e81be614e95c7b1d0245c996b348c93291bfcc0a181f83f5ddb2a891155545.jpg


If I was president, I’d implement a Government Halving policy inspired by the #Bitcoin Halving: every four years, 50% of government workers get fired.


The remedy for corporate greed is competition. You need more greedy corporations who are truly independent of each other fighting for the same consumers to value their products in a free and open market. Regulation leads to consolidation which is bad for competition.


Anyone here have experience making biltong? I want to try. https://image.nostr.build/c3ce024f24d452d96b13b2a1bb1178739fb806df3b844228b6ebb71d61d65138.jpg


Don’t use debt or leverage, be productive, stack sats and keep them safe.


Communism is an infection that grows over time. The story starts with “social programs”, picks up speed with price controls, peaks with dissenters lined up and shot over shallow graves they were forced to dig themselves with poorly made shovels, and ends with complete collapse. Starting down the path doesn’t necessarily always lead to that outcome. If you acknowledge and treat the infection early you can slow the progression of the disease and live with it for decades.


socialism is a mental illness


Fighting back natural precession is tough. Nature wants to grow forests.


I’m expecting that he will take it to 60% and eventually 100%. But if the dems make it in I think we get an extra 25%. Both parties are moving in the same direction.


I’m an importer. I have been shocked at what a non-event section301 tariffs have been. China appears to have absorbed most of it and it hasn’t had an appreciable impact on prices at least in my market. I thought early on it would.


I am a huge fan of intermittent fasting. I’m super excited that Kamala has started promoting policy that will lead to calorie restriction. It’s going to do wonders for public health.


Nothing compares to a Dicks Deluxe.


I just don’t run 100 miles. Works every time I try it.


Water is a conspiracy. We don’t actually need it, they just keep us addicted.


This should be a core part of early childhood education. Arguably more important than reading and writing. I would take a virtuous society over a literate one. nostr:note1lpq3fn739k3hs82a4l3r7reku030n6c64kr40hpufmm46t54l0kq8lulz5


I don’t know what this means but I’m happy for you


Everyone has a purpose. For most women I suspect they find that in having a family. Those who want to contribute outside of the home should be encouraged and welcomed but those who chose to contribute by raising a family and keeping a house should be encouraged and celebrated with just as much vigor. Women are amazing. Especially my wife.


I tend to fast 18 hours a day. Now Kamala Harris wants everyone in the country to fast too. She really cares about public health.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/vp-harris-first-economic-plan-proposes-federal-price-controls-combat-inflation


This is my bet. They can have my ssn, but never my nsec or my BTC.


My first landing in a 172 was comical. I never really got the hang of landing with tubular spring steel gear. Very bouncy. I way prefer low wing aircraft with hydraulic gear.

Do you still fly or was it just a matter of facing the fear and moving on?


Pura Vida. GM. https://image.nostr.build/b8e26b3d2d4e25ac46f50019d60f6f8d0bb98932391ff90948459079fb38c1ba.jpg


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 😉

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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/


What is a “twitter”?


I expect more.


Candles can make a simple moment magical. https://image.nostr.build/3710399d4eb2e919cc86560df6fda234b4deb340f3b3eda8bae0de995867dd7c.jpg


Such a good conversation nostr:note15l2mmh087h5atp0z927576wskrg7dvar7x88nhrdd8n27x7hygkq88lhkr


Everyone takes a civics test. If you pass, you get entered into a lottery. If your name is picked it goes to a yes/no vote for the population. If it’s a no, back to the lottery until we find someone we can all agree to.

Since I’m making rules, here are a few more: all laws expire after 24 months unless they are voted in by 75% or more. And glitter is made illegal (that law never expires).


You are the sum of your daily habits and your identity. If you want different results, you have to change those two things.

My current habits have me as the operator of my business which eats up all of my time and leaves me with less than I’d like getting a rating to fly seaplanes as a hobby. My current identity is that of an entrepreneur who grinds and can solve any problem but “I have no experience managing people”.

I have one very loyal employee who is learning to take on operations and I have made a job offer to someone I’m excited about for a sales position. Starting on Monday, for the next four weeks I am going to send a daily email first thing every day to each member of my team reminding them of our company goals and encouraging them in their part of that. I will make sure that they know I am available to help with any roadblocks they encounter but also that I trust and expect them to drive the mission forward.

The time I free up by trusting those two people with their jobs I will apply to souring new and better products and identifying new market niches for us to serve. I will also reinvest the surplus into continued growth of our team. Through this process I am building experience managing people.

By the end of this year, someone in my company will sell a product and it will be delivered and invoiced without my involvement.

By the end of next year, I will be rated to fly seaplanes. https://image.nostr.build/6517f531f8bf802f35263b848b8d2e5a29418508baf83a2ed3d96a6cc5355613.jpg


Interesting


Whompf. No thanks! https://image.nostr.build/2f0f606022c474e32f620de2940e978ceacba1d08124a84a8f413a9f10c131ce.jpg


Look how wide those asiles are.


negative 98


Publish everything and let the market decide what they value.


This makes me sad for the state of our world.


GM!

Hope you all are having a good week.

Hope everyone was able to stack some stats on the dip. PV to all. https://video.nostr.build/c12c928fbe8b9a041f5a1425ed8409bbf79c6175da794ee6b4fe4d6eaa00cd64.mp4

Have a blessed day!

#plebchain #nostr #grownostr #stacksats #btc #bitcoin #gratitude


Moar! I love Emerson.


If a government wanted to change the rules, staging a leak of everyone’s data would give them one hell of an excuse. Just an observation.


Nor will we.


I love the culture here, can’t wait until it also has the depth of reach into different subjects you find on X. I’ve left everything but Nostr and I’m committed to engaging here at least daily to try to help build it into what it’s going to be. I can’t contribute tech, but I can chat with the best of em.


Do it for the people you love.


Wife: why do we spend all our money on Bitcoin?

Me: first off, that sentence doesn’t make any sense.


Nothing stops this train


Stacking sats vs. vacation with my family.

Thoughts?


I hate to be reductionist, but it’s going to take a few infloozies to get this thing popping.

Step 1: get Kim Kardashian banned from X
Step 3: profit


Love that we’re up to 40k


Brrrrrrrrr is coming nostr:note1xs7kkvpz4pzvsyxdg7eue9w9aqlyacwy5hcrfc4rs8l6n2m8664sr244sp


All valid, but is there an urgency to withdrawing now vs like, sometime later this week when I have time to clear the KYC hurdles from some other exchange? Is there rug risk or just general agreement that they have gone astray of community values?


Can you say more?


Didn’t know that about it.


I bought the dip. Then it dipped again so I bought it again. How low can you go? https://image.nostr.build/4d579a89a36eb0a5ab4f94042ef363ac920a2543a07d579c527a1d8c3361b323.jpg


….heading to the bunker.


My health care protocol: don’t smoke, don’t drink much, get good sleep, walk 10k steps most days, spend time in nature with my family, fast until 3pm, break fast with steak, eat mostly things that come from nature, Crowd Health in case of emergency.  Oh and have meaning in my life by driving to grow a business and stack Bitcoin.


Haven’t seen Larry in a while. One of my favorites.


Don’t know the validity of these claims but this feels directionally like where the world is headed. nostr:note1af7435vwsf9u4e2uqugrdfp57war44ffhqvsrlhx0azd37q4mcuqr80rxu


I want both. Follow?


Hav fun playing with your Bitcoin and other things.


An armpit?


I don’t know who the good guys are.


What a beautiful woman


People over 60 should have to take a drivers test every 6 months.


I’m feeling the same. I’m on watch for another psyop that lets them change the rules of the game like COVID did between now and the election. 👽? My hope is that enough people are hip to the game now that we don’t let them get away with it. As the economy starts to slip, the Fed/treasury/banks will overreact leading to more inflation. I don’t think this is the dollar end game yet but it feels like the world of 2025 will be unrecognizable from the world of today.


People say our interest expense has outstripped our military spending. What percent of the current interest was  accrued as a result of prior military spending?


I support private businesses right to make whatever stupid terms they want. I also support natural consequences for stupid decisions.


It’s Tru dough.


To be fair, watching Trump talk for an hour is a chore.


Mt. Gox is distributing, Germany sold their stack, the US moved a portion of their stack to a hot wallet in response to Trump saying he would convert it to a strategic reserve. Lots of liquidation events recently. How many more big pools of Bitcoin are there that are at similar risk? Seems like the shorts might be running out of ammo?


Thanks! Didn’t mean to assume you were a man! I’m so glad to see more women coming into Bitcoin and Nostr. For a while it was feeling pretty one sided.


This is similar to one of my favorite party topics: money is more important than speech.

We can discuss a building a bridge until we’re blue in the face but until someone ponies up to communicate to the market they value it enough to pay for it, there will never be a bridge.


Exactly how I feel. 🤣


Inflation is structural now. As nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a says “nothing stops this train”.

It comes in waves. It is caused by money printing, banks issuing debt, and lots of other complicated mechanisms. As the world is structured now, those in power get to decide where to direct new money based on policy decisions. The most important thing for them is to avoid hyperinflation, particularly in things that could radicalize their voter base. So they let the money flow into assets owned by the elite which keeps it siloed away from the cost of a sub sandwich because there is no P/E ratio of TSLA that will lead to more demand for a footlong meatball.

For at least the last two cycles I’ve watched real estate soak up excesses in the money supply. This has happened because there is always demand for shelter. It has been pumped with mortgages (short dollar loans), and by glamorizing real estate through HGTV-style shows designed to make you want a bigger better home and a vacation cabin to boot. Other factors included short term vacation rentals and firms like BlackRock buying up single family homes. This particular asset though has limits to how far you can pump it because it depends on families being able to afford mortgages. As interest rates have gone up, homes have become completely unaffordable for the average person and funds won’t buy them either unless they can rent them for more than they cost. Rents just like mortgages are set by incomes. Incomes can’t be aloud to pump because that will drive up the cost of meatball subs and eventually result in open rebellion against the current elite.

So where can money go when the next wave comes? Some will slosh into real estate and stocks to be sure but where will the main stream of the fire hose be directed? As I see it the only assets left that can soak up massive liquidity without resulting in expanded supply or revolution are hard assets like Bitcoin and Gold. If $200 trillion flowed into real estate next year there would be revolution as the younger generation would become permanently priced out. If $200 trillion flows into Bitcoin, a few undesirable people get very rich but the “too much money problem” that banks and have effectively goes away. And they can front run it. If you’re among the undesirables who become rich be aware that the strategy will be to either co-opt or kill you. Best to keep your head down and stay out of the way during the transition.

The only other alternative they have to letting Bitcoin soak it up is forcing us into digital gulags with programable fiat and censorship. But technology is out ahead of this risk. The only way to stop the tech is to shut down the internet but that also destroys the elite. There aren’t enough goons to put a boot on every neck.

Given this thesis, I am out of real estate completely, have no debt and keep stacking sats. Still a small stack but I work on it every day. A few dollar short positions like a mortgage or a car payment may not be a bad strategy, but for me, I sleep better without them.


Trumps three biggest take aways from that speech:

1. These people really don’t like Gensler
2. These people like Bitcoin more than they like me
3. It’s gunna take more than that to pump Bitcoin

I heard recently that “crypto” has become the biggest corporate lobby in politics with more campaign donations than Big Oil, Pharmaceuticals or tech. If true, they work for us now and we need to be clear on our expectations of them. Say it with me: LEAVE US ALONE.


I made my wife sit through it. Her biggest question was “ why are you crying?!”


Do you think on a Bitcoin standard hotels will have less ugly carpets in their hallways?


That guy eats seed oils for sure.


Agreed. I despise politicians, but if one of them is going to shoot at me and the other is going to provide me cover I’ll show up to vote for the one who causes me less harm. There is no cost to voting so even if the return is marginal there is no reason not to participate.


Fuck your Overton window. Bitcoin is the future! nostr:note1mf5m793etwxrrpml3sf6lrwh4pdnqaw8lngh34eurw7xxsgl9c7sqcha22


Bro, the internet is basically dead. It’s a fax machine. I’m going all in on Sears. It’s coming back.


As a treasury asset but not yet as a payment method.


We own a couple of businesses. The main one is wholesale distribution of raw materials and the others are online retail focused manufacturing.


What would you suggest? Seems like River has momentum now but every time I move to a new exchange it’s like whack-a-mole waiting for them to have a publicity problem. I don’t like to change things unless there’s a darn good reason.


What’s up with Swan? Is it existential or am I safe to leave my DCA on there and allow funds to transfer to my cold storage monthly.

🦢 🦢 🦢


Political seasons are stressful. Most people get drawn into the news cycle. Find a way to turn it off for at least a little while each day. Go outside, spend time with people you love. Put down your phone and draw a picture. Knit a scarf. Find something real and do it.


Somethings fishy but if he’s dead why not just say so? Same outcome for right?


I don’t think he’s dead. I think they gave him a sedative, he woke up in a strange room where he watched other people endure the most horrific torture imaginable and then they told him he has resigned on x and asked him if he’d like to confirm the statement with a public message or if he needs more medicine. 💊


If they really wanted that, what is to prevent them from taking another shot. Gloves are off now.


Still using damus. I’m kind of a Luddite so just stumbling through it. Hope it wasn’t much.


I don’t have a lightning wallet set up so not sure where those go. Maybe a donation to wallet of Satoshi. Sorry man. I’d return them if I controlled the wallet.


The man’s not wrong.


I was built for these times.


Maybe they meant “Nostr just killed the app”


If so this is a literal coup. Our first one since 1963. Historic.


Picture this: Obama as her VP. He can’t serve as Pres again but nothing to prevent him driving from the back seat. ::::shudder::::


I just took my dad, stepmom and daughter to a breakfast spot. Nothing special. The bill for 3 cups of coffee, three inlets and kids pancakes was $94 after tip. Paying that much for crap food is just not fun. I could have made the same thing and done the dishes in less time than it took us to drive there.


Not unless mermen are real too.


Proof of work. https://image.nostr.build/e7fb8790f9e3f19669bb816b8927e11781b826fe8b20c0285a4d1a1ba3e57f37.jpg


The last month has been insanely busy. So today I’m taking my 8 year old to hike her first proper mountain.

I live for these days.


Y’all remember before Covid there was “Event 201” which modeled the global response to a corona virus pandemic. It was hosted by the WEF and The Gates Foundation amongst others.

It became a bit of a trope to watch for their global readiness excreciones as a sign of what their next evil plan to erode global freedom would look like.

In 2021 they announced “Cyber Polygon” to model a global commuter virus with “COVID-like characteristics”.

…stay vigilant…stay sovereign. https://image.nostr.build/38633035d373b2f988e4616e5a24061ba6a4b8a30f3a63d8f856dfc8923372c1.jpg


I is am being tarded too….mostly


I strongly disagree. I need to shower daily.


Such a self-goal. Glad this story has a bow on it.


…which is lower than the interest payment on the national debt.


My dog ate my green candle.


This nostr:note1ggdtn6e28fracwmqphxuhpwkm9slggj356k24j9wmsgzyeyq9xpq0l5f5w


When Bitcoin achieves $1M, the era of fiat is de facto over. Fiat has caused so much pain and suffering. The transition is going to suck for a lot of people but I’m not confident that would be improved with a 5 year waiting period. Most won’t see it until it’s too late. So today. Please and thank you.


This is ethically on point. nostr:note1pccg5g2ltqs759dwdfhazz2jqh3c96798edvjnh9ssd0f0552hnshdmuys


GM y’all. I love Mondays. You either spend your life chasing your dreams or you spend it chasing someone else’s.

Go on now…..


mEthereum is way more scary.


Now this is living. https://image.nostr.build/69335f1dcceec35369efc805b72438c1c61747c03345f5cd515b87fa220ae139.jpg


I never think about my X anymore.


🤷♂ ⭕ 🍆 nostr:note1q8t3mq00n8d9t89c7ll444a9qrx453z34fde9xvce6dpuscwxjsqklhmdu


This is what winning looks like.


Is this a confirmed post? How do we verify without a cryptographic signature?


Agreed nostr:note146k50u3uvqwy5yeksfzg5guwqmjw72msfl5q370feel2qwl0dgrsaezyc9


Don't get too pumped about Trump speaking at this year's nostr:npub1rwh33t5x8n7czknhts5fg0v0fml8mkl7neaarksumkkf8d679qrqcz7avv, there are forces in motion that could severely impact the bitcoin industry if people don't begin to make noise.

Earlier today there was a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on Oversight of Digital Commodities with the head of the CFTC that everyone should watch.

If the legislation that is inevitably going to come out of this hearing gets passed it won't matter if Trump gets into office. The industry will be hindered for years. There is bi-partisan support at the moment as Democrats are moving quickly to react to the buzz Republicans have received due to their embrace of bitcoin.

Long story short, this committee is pushing to give the CFTC regulatory oversight over spot bitcoin markets, which is an unprecedented expansion of CFTC authority into retail commodities trades whereas in the past they have exclusively had jurisdiction over only commodities derivatives markets.

If the CFTC is granted this expansion of authority it would mean that they are likely going to require any bitcoin company to register with the federal government and have enhanced KYC/AML requirements. To be clear, this won't only affect exchanges, but any company that touches spot bitcoin.

These efforts are being spearheaded on the crypto side via lobbying efforts by Kraken, Coinbase and Ripple. Not shocking because this would likely enable them to trivially erect regulatory moats.

It looks like the bi-partisan effort will be looking to pass something through the House and into law rather quickly. Likely before the election.

It is imperative that you speak out against this as it would increase the regulatory and compliance burdens on US bitcoin companies considerably. The best move right now is no action. We need less regulation, not more. As we've seen time and time again throughout the first 15-years of bitcoin, these regulations but users in harm's way and make it unreasonably difficult for companies to operate cheaply and effectively.

Call you Representative and tell them to reject any bill that would give the CFTC oversight over spot bitcoin markets. This is a full on attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3i0pxWvyPc


.gov will eventually own Bitcoin (or cease to exist). The less they own now the better. The German people should be economically stronger than the German government.


Zoom out. We’re still extremely early:
- The world have $900T in wealth
- Approximately half is store-of-value
- That’s $450T
- #bitcoin market cap is $1.1T

$1.1T / $450T = 0.24% global adoption.

At 10% adoption the price will be $2.4M.


Homelessness


Anyone can see the road that they walk on is paved in [Bitcoin]. It’s always [Bitcoin] you’ll never get cold. Never get hungry, never get old and gray.

🎶


Happy 4th of July to all my American friends.
And food for thought on this day!

When you realize that every economic and political system throughout history ended up as a control system due to the inability to have money that was decentralized and secure, it also must be true that we spend far too much time talking about our different ideologies within them.

#Bitcoin fixes that


Good luck


Any good non-tech resources you can point me to to learn about silent bitcoin payments and cashu?


Dark but completely true.


Those dudes are playing hackie sack with cats and I’m not mad about it.


Pay for what you use or get used by those who pay for it.


Never look back


Im not a liberal, but I think that might be racist. (How many cookies do I get if I report you to the lynch mobs?)


I’ve tried for years to say this same thing and never heard it said so beautifully. nostr:note1kktlxvsf4tmgulwc5ag5sxpm3p2rq5ya4pwvq8yx0cs29qgwgvlsp8s8pm


Ok, building on this here is my new advice: don’t doxx yourself with a lambo OR a dumb license plate.

Better?


To be fair, a lambo is far more conspicuous than a plate with a reference 99.9% of the world don’t understand. Perhaps better advise is don’t doxx yourself with a lambo. 🤷♂


My wife does all my laundry (which means it costs me A LOT more than $15/week).

…..and it’s worth every sat my love. 😍


Sometimes when I’m scrolling on Damus and I pause to look at a video or picture, I still think, “oh shit, I can’t stop on this or the algorithm will think I want to see more of this”. Then i remember, there is no algorithm and I get back to doom scrolling in peace. It’s really quite lovely.


Even though this is probably CGI I’m mesmerized.


You kidding me? This is so much cooler than baseball.


Someone would do well to create a tech stack subscription management company. One bill to one service provider who manages subscriptions on your behalf all in one easy portal. Toggle on/off or up/down for different services. Nostr relays, fountain app, Netflix, ISP, Amazon prime, nest, etc. link it with a LN node and get the UX right and you’d have customers for life. Once someone has 13 subscriptions managed in one place, they are never going to drop the service. “My tech bill for the month was $362” is a lot easier to grapple with than I have 13 subscriptions and some require billing and payment, some are auto pay but I have no idea what the total is or even if I use what I pay for.


Hey look, dollar mining rigs.


I quit Twitter twice and permanently deleted the account each time. There’s a 30 period during which can reactivate and revive your data. After 30 days it’s gone for good. On my third try I just passed 30 days. Quitting smoking took more tries. No looking back.

I have to be on LinkedIn for work and a marketing team manages my Instagram and Facebook (I don’t even have log ins). Other than that, I’m Nostr only.

It’s still harder to get a pulse on Bitcoin here imo but it’s worth it to own my data and it’s getting better fast.


Those who never emerged from the cave and are only here for the clout or the money remain on Twitter. Unfortunately there are many of those in this space.
The good news is that you only need a smalls segment to drive a revolution.


I do what I like….


Are we back? Were we ever gone? Thinking about selling it all for dollars. Clearly dollars are the future. https://image.nostr.build/90452f21d628e2df82462690f0cca7440bf71b27abb87258daf7271ee216c46f.jpg


No doubt other options will emerge to colateralize Bitcoin.


Everyday sat payments won’t happen, regardless of how fancy our L2’s become, except in jurisdictions that treat it like cash. If buying a cup of coffee creates a tax event and I have other options I will use them.

Once tax policy gets out of the way, L2’s will naturally evolve that do things we can’t even dream of today.

Until then, Bitcoin is savings technology except in edge cases. And thank God for that!


Solved it! Genius!


3 Philosophical Tenets a Father Must Come to Grips With Over His Convictions

The Way To Teach Your Children Clear Life Lessons

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## A Pillar Of The Family

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Children are born into chaos.
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Nature is tumultuous, its in a constant state of flux and your child’s soul begins in much the same way. It is formless and malleable, it will take the form of what surrounds it.

As a father, you’ve taken form.

Years of chaos have hardened and settled you to something more permanent, a pillar. In partnership with your spouse you’ll build a structure around your little balls of chaos and, in time, their chaos will settle too.

What becomes of them is up to you.

The lessons you teach will define the shape of the structure you place over your children. The strength in you as a pillar holding this whole thing up will be determined by the intentionality of your convictions.

The task will not be easy, but, believe me, it sure as hell will be the most important thing you do.

It will serve as the lens through which your children perceive the world around them.

It will crystallize in the glass within the mirror where they’ll gaze at their own reflection. Whether they smile or frown at what they see staring back, will be on you.

Whether society seeks to embrace or exile them. It will be on you.

Whether they choose to revel or rebel in the face of the world they live in. It will be on you.

Luckily, you don’t have to construct your convictions in solitude. The Nature of Justification, Circularity, and Epistemic Certainty are 3 tenets that philosophers such as Rene Descartes (1596–1650), John Locke (1632–1704), Pyrrho of Elis (360–270 BCE), and Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989) [coupled together by epistemological school of thought] have grappled with, and if followed, will solidify the way you form the lessons you teach your children in a manner that will follow a logical clarity and grant you self-confidence.

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## Epistemology- Foundationalism VS Coherentism
“Why is the sky blue?” is a question many children ask.

A parent might answer with, “Because of the reflection of the sunlight against the blue ocean.”

“Why is the ocean blue?”

This would continue infinitely, but likely, most parents either end up with a question they don’t have an answer for or just attempt to distract their children with something else.

A child keeps asking follow up questions because something inside them seeks an innate truth. Your children will be no different and will seek the same. Luckily for you, there were Philosophers who’ve endeavored to arrive at this innate truth, the answer lying at the bottom of the endless pit of questioning. They were known as Epistemologists: people who study knowledge.

Are you ready for this? The Nature of Justification, Circularity, and Epistemic Certainty are among several of the key questions Epistemologists asked themselves and over time, two schools of thought among philosophers took form.

One school of thought was the Foundationalists, those like Rene Descartes (1596–1650) and John Locke (1632- 1704) who believed that there are indeed certain unbreakable foundations of knowledge in which a person’s convictions arise from having beliefs grounded in self-evident or inarguable foundations.

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Another school of thought was the Coherentists, those like Pyrrho of Elis (360–270 BCE) and Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989) who believed that conviction comes from the harmony and logical coherence of one’s very thoughts.

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I suggest figuring out where you stand in the philosophical debate to remain logically sound and confident in yourself as a major pillar for your family. This will help you deal with complex obstacles to parenting when teaching ethics, morals, and other life sculpting lessons.

## Coming To Grips With The Nature of Justification

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**A Foundationalist’s lens:
**
“I think, therefore I am,” are the famous words written by Rene Descartes. It was what formed his Cogito Argument which proposed that the very fact he knows he exists proves that, at the very minimum, his existence is undoubtedly true.

Among being a prominent mathematician, Descartes was a religious man. He found refuge in his Judeo-Christian faith by justifying his Cogito Argument with the fact that there exists a benevolent and non-deceptive God. He argued that a benevolent God would never deceive him in his clear and distinct perceptions.

I know that I exist and God wouldn’t deceive me in this fact. This formed the justification for innate truth.

**Grappling with Foundationalism:
**
As a father following this path, choose to establish religion or natural law as your north star when standing by your convictions. The answer to the infinite questions will always be this foundation. You would answer, “Because God intended it to be this way” or “Because that is how it works in nature.”

**Your Children as an Adult:
**
Lessons following this method may lead your children to be very confident adults who don’t seek much change because they intimately understand where they stand in the world and where they belong. [MY OPINION]

**A Coherentists Lens:
**
Coherentists rejected the idea of foundational beliefs and argued that justification comes from the coherence of beliefs within a system.

In a very distilled manner, they didn’t care for the chicken before the egg argument. They believed the egg didn’t matter without the chicken. In the context of the very system in which a chicken and egg exists, one is nothing without the other and the order which they follow doesn’t matter and is a waste of time to think about.

In the times of ancient Greece, philosophers known as skeptics took to the streets to challenge the societal norms of the era. What was often understood as deliberately contrarian would later solidify a coherent method of philosophy that sought a path to empirical investigation of reality that could lead to the most reliable knowledge. This kind of thinking is what gave rise to the scientific method.

Pyrrho of Elis, founder of Pyrrhinian skepticism, advocated for a form of skepticism that involved the suspension of judgment (Epoche) in order to achieve tranquility (Ataraxia). He argued that since human beings cannot know the true nature of things, it is wiser to refrain from making dogmatic claims about the world.

**Grappling with Coherentism:
**
As a father following this path, choose to better understand the current society, the era, and what kind of world your children will be living in when standing by your convictions. The answer to the infinite questions will always follow a similar formula: “Well, son, we live in [x society] and here, people find [x] to be true based on [x]”

Your convictions will not be defined by a “North Star” like a foundationalist’s would, but rather by a systematic approach that always follows the questions by explaining the system.

**Your Children as an Adult:
**
This approach will guarantee your children will be able to fit in any situation or group of people without much confrontation and because of this, they may seek to travel extensively. They’ll have a thirst to venture out and take part in other world cultures. [MY OPINION]

## Coming To Grips With Circularity

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**A Foundationalists Lens:**

John Locke was a colossal figure in western philosophy whose writings went so far as to pave the way for modern capitalist economies. Chief among his writings was “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” where he wrote his epistemological arguments.

Finding a more foundationalist approach to the study of knowledge, he warned of “Trifling Propositions” or reasoning in a circle and was highly cautious about the misuse of language and the potential for circular reasoning.

Locke emphasized the importance of clear and distinct ideas and cautioned against using words without a clear understanding of their meaning.

**Grappling with Foundationalism:
**
As a father following this path, be intentional in the words you say and tie them to your foundational beliefs. Here, words have definitive meanings and don’t leave room for interpretation.

**Your Children as an Adult:
**
Your children will not be easily persuaded or fall for propaganda as they will have an intimate understanding of the lexicon they use and will raise objections when words are not used the way they were intended to be used. [MY OPINION]

**A Coherentists Lens:
**
Wilfrid Sellars was an American philosopher and prominent developer of critical realism, who revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States.

Wilfrid contended that circular reasoning was not particularly problematic. He emphasized the importance of conceptual frameworks and language in forming beliefs and rejected the idea of a conceptual given as the starting point of knowledge.

He famously refuted the “Myth of the given” and argued that any experience is inherently shaped by the conceptual framework through which it is interpreted and it is in circular reasoning that one can process the interconnectedness of said framework.

**Grappling with Coherentism:
**
As a father following this path, explore the origins of words with your children and guide them through the evolution of understanding. Here, words have a life and a history and you may uncover lessons in following the course of that history.

Your Children as an Adult:

Your children will be interested in the contemporary utility of words. They’ll better understand slang and dialects and will be more contemplative before taking action. They may not be as decisive as they’ll find themselves in circular thought when arriving at a decision. [MY OPINION]

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## Coming To Grips With Epistemic Certainty

**A Foundationalists Lens:
**
Returning to Descartes, we see how mathematical proofs and religious text can be used as the progenitors of truth.

Certainty is guaranteed by an external source. Math allows us to be incredibly precise in our measurements of the physical world and we can predict with great levels of accuracy actions and reactions. Likewise, religious texts define how one should live their life and what the results of such a path will be. Every action has a predictable reaction.

**Grappling with Foundationalism:
**
As a father following this path, you must be an expert in the source which validates your certainty. If you are going to use religion as the guarantor of certainty for your convictions you must intimately understand the religious text you’ll be drawing from. Try to steer clear from interpretation of the text. Seek help from experts when you don’t know something and use expert guidance in your teachings. If you’re not particularly religious, find a coherent thread of natural law and become an expert in it or seek out experts to help formulate your lessons.

**Your Children as an Adult:
**
The source of your teachings will be intimate parts of your children’s identity. They will act in accordance to the tenets you’ve espoused throughout their childhood. They will have a place to seek refuge when things get tough and they’ll have a strong moral compass when delving into the unknown. [MY OPINION]

**A Coherentists Lens:
**
Coherentists are often skeptical about the possibility of achieving absolute certainty. Certainty, they argue, is a result of overall coherence of the belief system derived from inside oneself rather than reliance on an external source.

Pyrrho of Elis argued that different people might perceive the same object in different ways, making it challenging to establish any objective certainty about the nature of things.

**Grappling with Coherentism:**

As a father following this path, understand that your children will have a different life than you and will inevitably perceive things differently. From their 5 senses to the events in their lives, your children will experience life differently. This will lead them to draw different conclusions about the world around them that will not be inherently true or false according to you. Give them the adequate tools to make the conclusions most aligned with yours but respect the path your children decide to take. [MY OPINION]

**Your Children as an Adult:
**
Your children will inevitably disagree with you on certain things and their opinions will change over time based on their changing experience. Your child will have to rely on you for emotional support when your child goes through tough times and they’ll rely on your advocacy, not your approval, when they wade into the unknown.

## Clear Life Lessons
Be the pillar you are meant to be as a father. Take a moment in the early days of your children’s life to reflect on the path of fatherhood you believe resonates best with you. The good news is you don’t have to take a definitive stance on either side of the epistemological debate, but you should be consistent with the combination of the two you decide on.

Seek out the mentorship of older fathers who’ve raised their children in the manner you’d like to emulate and learn from them. With the help of other fathers and a clear understanding of the epistemology of your convictions you’ll be clear of contradictions and instill life changing lessons in your children.


Boomers own all the businesses, but did you know the SBA will give you a 90% business loan including purchase price, inventory and operating capital to buy one of those businesses?

If you have $50k (maybe from equity in a home, you can buy a business for $500k. What’s that get you? Could be a business doing $1m/year in revenue at 25% margins.  Smaller businesses tend to sell for 2-3x owners profits. And if you pick well you can find one that has done that consistently for ten years with no online presence. Build a website, modernize the business and double revenue. These businesses aren’t sexy startups. They’re sign shops and snow plowing service companies. Bakeries and garden centers.

Buy using leveraged $USD with a government backed loan. Work your butt off to make it even better and put the money you cash flow into Bitcoin for long term savings.

Build your future and build the country back up in the process.


Incredible news
https://m.primal.net/Iwpi.jpg


Then Snowden!


Today is a good day! https://image.nostr.build/b2f149fe2a4237fa845fe1fbf496d43bb8df3ee6a01263647ab32f543cc50b52.jpg


It’s been real. On a Boeing flight.


I like: Pray like it’s up to God, work like it’s up to you.


Needed this today


How to learn to think about good things

1. Practice gratitude. Find a few things every day for which you can be grateful. This will help you focus on the positive aspects of life.

2. Avoid negative news. The news often contains a lot of negativity, which can affect your mood and thinking. Try to limit the time you spend reading the news.

3. Maintain positive relationships. Connect with people who support your positive thinking and help you stay optimistic.

4. Improve your mindset. Try to notice when you start thinking negatively and replace those thoughts with more positive ones.

5. Find joy in small things. Don't wait for big events to experience joy. Find it in small things, such as the smile of a passerby or a beautiful sunset.

6. Focus on solving problems, not the problems themselves. Instead of focusing on problems, think about how to solve them.

7. Practice meditation. Meditation can help you focus on positive thoughts and reduce stress.

8. Listen to music. Music can help you relax and improve your mood.

9. Play sports or exercise. Exercise helps release endorphins, which improve your mood.

10. Read books or watch movies with positive stories. This will help you focus on the positive and get inspired.


I bought the dip. Be more like me.


This is so good!


Im so happy for Howie.


I run a small business. Wells Fargo called me this week to try to entice me to bring more money into savings. They’re offering 4.5% interest on savings balances over $100k.

I said to the banker “so Wells Fargo is getting its ass kicked on tits bond portfolio and is now begging for deposits to help maintain liquidity?”  His answer was “pretty much”.

Watch your back out there. Pay attention to where you have counterparty risk. A deposit at the bank is not your money. It’s the banks money.


I do enjoy butter on a hot day.


Figs are the coolest. They flower inside the fruit and the only creature who can fertilize them is a fig wasp who will fly dozens of miles to find a ripe fig to lay their eggs in and then they die inside the fruit. When you eat a fig, there is a tiny wasp, somewhere in that fruit.


There is no debate. llamas rule. https://image.nostr.build/d9b93da588439c06bfb91eaf3acc1e3a1e5b7f06a922a55fad32f0ed9ad2561c.jpg


I live near the ocean (and could never give that up regardless of how backwards the politics get out here) but I love the desert. Couldn’t live there but like you said, amazing to visit.


I miss Arizona.


Love this post so much!


Best Father’s Day of my life. My kids played together all day and did not fight…not once! I’m still pinching myself. https://image.nostr.build/adb27b9d11771d5ffb2a18dfd83b208087823f72cd8997664e59127c5d0a9280.jpg


Took a minute to get used to posts getting a fraction of the activity but once you realize it’s just the bots and scammers who are missing it starts to feel right.


From your lips to Gods ears. nostr:note13rtmffxysqszvs6unkqmf8sqnpeqaxcr8nnfjk6yjswy7hr9tl5szzvd9f


With him on this one. Lots of little Alden babies. I want to be schooled on Macro by a toddler! 🤪


Time to play Bob Dylan Masters of War on repeat for the next two years.

Imagine signing away your free will to an organization that can and will command you to take another life or lay down yours without ever having to justify why.


….yes


Where’s the button to erase this from my brain?


Grind culture is overrated. Quality of work over hours invested is far more important. Quality comes from balance. For me balance means time with my family. Some Saturdays I have no choice but to work but every chance I get I make time to be with my kids.


Steak with water


No, but if he frees Ross and doesn’t ban self custody it’s enough for me.


Would you believe me if I said there is no correlation between political orientation/desire of voters and what their elected officials actually do?


Vp


Yes I am. Thanks for the validation.


There are very few parts of my day I enjoy less than shrink wrapping pallets. The smiling sunshine somehow takes the edge off the picture for me though.


Yes. The lack of consistency is really exhausting, but that is intentional:

”In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
Theodore Dalrymple”


By my logic, that means you have $550 to dump into more Bitcoin today! Congratulations!🎈


People report this as if it is a bad thing. I would take a US$ backed by gold over what we have today. It’d still be fractional reserve dollars held in a bank but it would be grounded to reality. An unbacked currency is the problem we need to solve for. Bitcoin ties value to the real world: Time and electricity. If future generations want more sovereignty, let them fight for ground. The tools get better all the time, but the tools demand a stable foundation. Bitcoin is that foundation. Do not fuck with it.


Here here!


Austrian economists that don't understand programming, technology and cryptography will dismiss Bitcoin or attempt to change Bitcoin because of what they don't understand.

Programmers, cryptographers and technologists will do the same because of the economics that they don't understand.

Stay humble.


If you’re the same person you were in 2019, either you’re missing the plot or you saw it way before the rest of us.


I disagree. The problem with serving in the military is that your give up sovereignty over your own decisions - up to and including the highest human sin: taking human life. It is sold to you as if you are doing that in service of your country but ultimately you end up serving at the pleasure of politicians who are in-bed with the military-industrial-for-profit-war-machine. Honorable intentions get corrupted by by dishonorable bureaucrats, and politicians. Individuals I know in the military are some of the most honorable, respectable, well intentioned people I know, but they are no longer masters of their own destiny. I understand the impulse to serve but by idolizing the act, we direct some of our brightest and best youth to be puppets at the hands of bad people. There are better ways to serve your country.


Lightning has never failed me. What is it that you can’t do that you want to do?


Frankly, I am not convinced that I trust anyone fucking around with the thing I use as the denominator in of value in my life. I don’t have the ability to audit proposed changes so my nodes answer is hell no unless and until I see broad consensus, compelling arguments and even then I think changes should only be made in dire situations where the existing network is under threat. Bitcoin is a sound money virus infecting aging and sick Fiat to make way for something better and new. That is SO much more important than “features”. Use Lightning, ECash, Fedimint, or make something new, but don’t fuck with the base layer.

When the dollar was founded, there was no Venmo, no SWIFT, no FedWire or MasterCard. As the value of Bitcoin expands (which happens because it’s is the one predictable thing in a world of bullshit) new users will emerge and demand new features and entrepreneurs will rise to the task.

I guess what I’m saying is I don’t know who you are but I don’t trust that you’re smart enough and benevolent enough to trust with the job that you’re asking for. So no thank you, from my node to yours.


Awesome break down.


Say more…


If the soundness of the network is compromised then the value prop of Bitcoin is destroyed. It is impossible to fully wargame the attack surface area of any change. Therefore changes should be made only in cases wheee there is a threat to the network. Everything else can be built on layers.


Im not technical, strictly an economic user. I don’t need a solution for spending money. That exists everywhere in the western world. I need a solution for saving money without gambling.