We came up with a realization today: taxing food is a tax on living things. Farming, distribution, and retail is human labor, all the way through, and a "product" is simply a word to disassociate us from the "liveness" of what was once a seed, plant, or animal.

So we don't sell products anymore. You get your veggies, meat or eggs for free. And you just pay a service fee for tending the land, remediating the soil, and caring for the animals.

#foodfreedom #farmstr #regenag #community #farming #foodstr #strengthinnumbers #bitcoin #lettherevolutionbegin #braidingsweetgrass
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Bet all that hard work is worth it 🙌🏼 nostr:note1ppn63w9fvgd2dtpllw7g786958kmy6llkr34vrf7sgz4wkrvwnrs0rhd6w


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Nayib Bukele Re-elected as President of El Salvador in Landslide Win

"El Salvador went from being the most unsafe (country) to the safest. Now in these next five years, wait to see what we are going to do."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/nayib-bukele-re-elected-as-president/


NEVER FORGET THE PEOPLE WHO ENABLED CSW. HIS FRAUD HAS BEEN OBVIOUS FOR SEVEN YEARS.

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#WeAreAllHodlonaut
https://dergigi.com/assets/images/bitcoin/2020-07-21-true-names-not-required/hodlonaut.jpg


Is there an ask a bro if he's okay day? Because there should be


bitcoin Price on This Day

January 29

Compared to prior year, same day

Up forever

2013:🟩
2014:🟩
2015:🟥
2016:🟩
2017:🟩
2018:🟩
2019:🟥
2020:🟩
2021:🟩
2022:🟩
2023:🟥
2024:🟩

#bitcoinPriceOnThisDay

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Good timing ⏱


#plebchain #ponzi #truth https://image.nostr.build/0a36644f5fd6363112ebf944f461d8e96021504b8abe0bf961f02b49427da9ec.jpg


BITCOIN TWITTER USED TO BE MY MAIN NEWS SOURCE BUT nostr:npub1hxjnw53mhghumt590kgd3fmqme8jzwwflyxesmm50nnapmqdzu7swqagw3 FIXED THAT.


READ KILL DECISION BY DANIEL SUAREZ.

AUTONOMOUS DRONE SWARMS ARE THE NEXT BIG EVOLUTION IN WARFARE.


Wow… that’s awesome nostr:note1242clklhzecenfu0xldxkwmu0ydq5w45ugmkh0yyuxsr6uqn08aq88r4vt


Balance those pushups with 100 rows otherwise you’re going to create an imbalance in your body 🤜🏼🤛🏼


Note to Self:

Prayer is essential, healthy, and effective no matter your religion or your belief system…

#pray #god #bitcoin #truth #plebchain #nostr


Please post your fav


🙌🏼 I’m on 31 as well, feeling great


Note to Self:

Be loyal
Tell the truth (especially the hard truths)
Be patient
Do not criticize, instead encourage
Listen before speaking
Be kind but fair
Give more than you receive

#plebchain #nostr #friend #listen #bitcoin


What is the dream?


Two ways to express power: voice and exit. When voice is no longer sufficient, you have one option: exit.

For the first time in human history, we have an alternative financial system fixed in supply, accessible to all, and controlled by no one.

Exit fiat. Long live #Bitcoin

This is our first Mailbag Monday episode. Every Monday we shoot the shit and answer the questions you send in. This week we talked about not owning dollars anymore, the #Bitcoin ETF, Epstein's Banker, ETH isn't money

Also, incredibly important that everyone on the internet ignores my hat hair.

Hard to fathom Dylan let me record a podcast with winter hat hair like this. Cruel. Not what friends do.

Appreciate your cooperation and having my back here, internet.

https://v.nostr.build/PBL8.mp4

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdZZ7780b-w
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/money-matters-with-jack-mallers/id1695949365
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5BmPNh1DDWSfnG2S1EcGMW
Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/597cU7nDqwXov0tcvrUQ


Note to Self:

If you only have a single passport, prioritize getting a second passport and an alternate residency ASAP.  If you’re at ground zero and they cut off the exits and close the doors, it won’t matter how much #bitcoin you have.  Get your Plan B and Plan C in place NOW for your family’s sake.  Hope for the best… prepare for the worst.

FYI - Mexico residency is easily achievable and there are many residency programs to choose from.

#plebchain #hodl #freedom #sovereign #passport #planB


🙏🏼🚀 just 11 more months 🗓


A global monetary network that requires less than 500GB memory space, transferred over $100 trillion in total value for an average transaction fee of $3 and all this P2P, without a single central intermediary.

#Bitcoin  is fucking amazing.


"Time Preference”- 31st Edition

1) # Full nodes (reachable) - 15,905 (-5.54%)

2) # LN nodes - 13,762 (-0.19%)

3) LN capacity (BTC) - 4,950 (-0.96%)

4) BTC addresses > 1M sats - 12.63M (-0.87%)

5) BTC addresses > 10M sats - 4.57M (+0.10%)

6) BTC addresses > 100M sats - 1.020M (+0.06%)

7) Hashrate (EH/s) - 567 (+19.37%)

8) Price - $42,026 (+1.12%) (Sunday close)

9 Price/Hashrate - 74 (-15.29%)

10) Michigan businesses accepting BTC (btcmap.org) - 18 (n/c)

11) Routing Events - 196 (-25.19%)

12) Routing Sats - 462 (-33.33%)

* % change figures from prev.

Happy Monday! The Lions gave us all a tough ending to the week last night over here in Michigan, shouldn't have expected a different outcome I suppose but the buzz around the state was real. Here's to another shot next year. 🍻

Full nodes drop again for the 3rd straight week, now down about 10% since this damn ETF launch. I know this stat is kinda useless because we can't monitor Private/Tor nodes but I still like to monitor. This is the lowest number in the 31 weeks I've been doing this, only under 16k briefly back in August 23. Will continue to watch and report, obviously I like to see this number get bigger over time.

Hashrate bounces back, aggressively. BTC looks cheap compared to hashrate again, going back to levels seen around Thanksgiving. Interesting, addresses greater than 1M sats dropped significantly, the most since I've been doing this yet over 10M and over 100M increased slightly. I'm just going to try to find ways to blame this ETF it seems going forward, I'll get over it eventually. Have a great week and do something fun.

#bitcoin #timepreference #mining #Einundzwanzig #michigan #LightningNetwork ⚡


Note to Self:

Get comfortable breaking the rules… they are increasingly becoming things that need to be broken

#nostr #bitcoin #plebchain #freedom


Hey anon, are you prepping for war? Then you'll want to learn how to mask your signature from drones.

Remember: to be detected is to be targeted. To be targeted is to be killed.

https://2ndbn5thmar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SIGMAN-Camouflage-SOP.pdf


Note to Self:

If you believe in Proof of Work for bitcoin, you better apply the concept to your own life and work ethic


#faketoshi #wright #wrong #memes https://image.nostr.build/b092baab5b79897c9508e1f54744e62982092a928c2acabe3bd90af97a93b8cd.jpg


Great info, thank you for sharing 🙏🏼


6 Wicked Ways to Use Tor...

Whonix
This is 2 virtual machines.  The 2nd one keeps Tor external, so even if malware breaks out, you're still safe.
Each program gets it's own circuit, which means a different 3 hop path.

Tails
Disposable USB stick.  Plus you can run this without an admin (sudo) password existing, meaning nobody can install anything.  How can hackers get sudo, when there is no sudo?!

ParrotOS
While there aren't different circuits for each program like Whonix or Tails, Parrot lets you change Tor exit IPs quickly via the GUI for the whole system.  This is useful for beginners (that like the GUI) and want new identities from the same domain/program, for example multiple emails, multiple XMPP accounts, ect.

KaliTorify
This is a Command line tool.  Exactly like Parrot, it routes the entire system through Tor like a VPN.  Both Parrot and KaliTorify use IPtables, which is just a firewall program.  KaliTorify is convenient and fast, but it’s easy to accidentally forget to put it on and doxx yourself.

OpenWRT
This is router software that can do Tor.  It's useful for when you want to hide Tor use on your phone, because the app bans or restricts Tor.  So Tor router -> VPN phone.  For example making a burner Telegram or WhatsApp account with the crypto-VoIP numbers, like I showed you how before.

Orbot or InviZiblePro
This is Tor for cellphones.  Be careful with this, because it's NOT giving you new circuits for each app like Whonix or Tails.  So let's say you got Telegram with your real KYC number and an anonymous Signal burner.  That Tor exit node is seeing you pull from Signal and Telegram at the same time, and if that's a malicious government node, you're not as "anonymous" as you think.
Solutions:
Either toggle different mobile profiles, never use KYC numbers, or use a firewall app.  Graphene has one under each app's settings, or Calyx has an awesome system-wide one.

Conclusion
Do you want help setting any of this up?  Advice on opsec or what to avoid?  Don't get burned with random idiots giving you bad advice, and save yourself headache and time.  At $30/hr, it's so low you'd probably lose more trying to debug it on your own.  We're just a DM away.


I’ve orange pilled (No NYC P2P self custody) 2 friends this past month… and they’re doing the same with their friends now.  This is how we win


Note to self:

The clearest way to figure out what you want in life is to help other people get what they want.  Give to receive.


I feel you man… For what it’s worth, I’ve sacrificed buying a home completely, sold everything I owned, and have been living the good life on the cheap down here in Central and South America… I stack my balls off and go all-in as much as possible and HODL… my goal to upgrade my life was to HODL for a minimum of 5 years… just a little longer and it’ll be time… but NOT YET!

My 2c… we are on the verge of massive institutional adoption 🚀 and you’re 11 months from a bull run that is probably going to rip our faces off 📈

I tell myself that being a man and leader of my family demands that I set aside emotions and make rational decisions, especially when it comes to finances.  It sounds like you’ve done the smart thing and been responsible, and certainly deserve the upgrade, but I think the smart move is to take it in 11/12 months (earliest) so you aren’t killing your stack.  Your family will thank you, and you’ll enjoy that upgrade a lot more by hitting the cycle at the right time 🤜🏼🤛🏼 but hey, whatever you do, you’re a fucking winner and nobody can judge you, good luck 🫡


"YOU SHALL NOT STEAL" Forever.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1603145807607259136/pu/vid/1080x1920/z52CaKMVb96nepK7.mp4?tag=14


Great work!!! nostr:note12vqmjyuyxcgcxk9c72zqqm9n7m947plmf5dzqn32g5uvd89q57qs0fuewy


Congrats, fuck that asshole


Good for you nostr:note1awfj9937g8el72gcnekzn7ppu2x7qarajyt03qgufjvjjeqya9usxkynyy


Great info, thanks for this post please keep it up & God Bless nostr:note1sqv5tqj6k55xxmck8lt5w2jaxevc3mued0c2ye8uxy0xdu856nasplart5


As a community, Bitcoiners are quick and hold no prisoners when it comes to challenging erroneous data and we’ve all seen the challenges to mainstream media and politicians who use questionable data to present supposed “facts” about Bitcoin.
    I’m putting out a challenge. The reward is not a bounty in sats but a chance to show integrity.
I challenge Swan Media, James Seyffart from Bloomberg Media, Walker, Treasuriesnet and any others who have shared the https://bitcointreasuries.net chart that states that a government entity, in this case the ccp, holds 190,000 BTC.
You all verified that chart’s assertions before you shared it right? If it was Elizabeth Warren sharing it you would also have trusted without questioning?
Did James Seyffart who is being so closely followed and trusted to relay quality data and opinion on bitcoin involved in the spot ETFs in the USA, affiliated with Bloomberg Media, verify that 190,000 BTC are being held by ccp before he said on twitter “This is an awesome image for data nerds”?

I will share again the two articles that were published by OXT Research. The first from January 13th, 2020 and the second from March 10th 2020. I do not present them as conclusive “fact” merely as a stepping stone, for those who haven’t seen it before, to be able to start questioning the narrative about those coins.
https://oxtresearch.com/plustoken/
https://oxtresearch.com/plustoken-impact-update/

Again I will state that I am not claiming that the figure of 190,000 BTC being held by that government entity is categorically wrong. I am seeking to have those that shared it, prove it. I’ll add that in early 2020 many involved in the space in China and Hong Kong were of the opinion that those coin were fairly quickly sold by the authorities using, most likely, Huobi and OkEx. Speculation! I welcome sound data that would back up the chart’s claim.
DON’T TRUST, VERIFY.

I welcome anyone who uses twitter to use this note to link/copy/post/tag the needed relevant parties. I also hope you might repost this note on nostr. I won’t tag any “influential” profiles on nostr as I believe our community must be able to discuss, disseminate and communicate without the need for a bigger account to be involved in order for a note or idea to gain traction.


Nice rip nostr:note1u97vc4hd5ygf4jy83rvvvyv76spz6twr7hu7fs9yzvw5rw3pv39qklsfx7


Who cares… we stack


All of them are the same… not in it for the freedom


Fire and Song**


Bryce O’Connor - Iron Price + Fire &land Song (Warformed: Stormweaver Series) is a combo sci-fi fantasy series, best I’ve ever read

Martha Wells - Ally Systems Red

Rob J Hayes - Titan Hoppers series

Adrian Tchaikovski - Children of Time series

Andy Weir - Artemis
Andy Weir - The Martian

Erwin Scott Card - Ender’s Game series

Jamie McFarlane - Privateer Tales Series


If you are a parent looking for books to read your kids that aren’t awful, I recommend the Everyman’s Library Children’s Classics Series by Penguin Random House https://image.nostr.build/fd2fbf2e2c0f28ab7780560c66af4fe72eba5b706fb93fc50668426bcf800730.jpg  nostr:note1x562w7mazgxem9tw2f3yuwqjkvev8yfj0l3t3v9m8xswl99p6tkq7fyy9j


Very cool! I am getting my small piece of land soon and plan to do the same!! Hope it goes well for you! 🙏🏼 nostr:note1gqhuyz34v5cxthmkx7dklsjjut2ypuhuq3zmg9hlq9lxmrmcqzcs4a80lz


PrivacyTechPro tip: Using an always-on VPN is recommended good privacy practice. However, there are other ways of tracking your specific device on the internet.

For example, if you forget you logged into Google Chrome with your real account and real name or you forgot to log out of Gmail and you visit a website with Google tracking, the site (and Google) may still be able to identify it is you browsing their site based on your device and browser fingerprints (screen resolution, installed fonts etc) and your Google login, even though you are using a VPN to obscure your IP address.

Here are a few ways this could happen:

Websites using Google sign-in - Some sites offer "Sign in with Google" as an option. If you use this to log into a site in Chrome, the site will know your Google account and can associate your activity with that account.

Cookies from Google services - As you browse the web logged into your Google account, Google may place cookies on sites you visit that could identify you to those sites. For example, if a site has integration with Google AdSense or Analytics.

Browser fingerprinting - Through techniques like collecting information about your browser, plugins, system fonts and other details, sites may be able to uniquely "fingerprint" you and track you across browsing sessions. Being logged into Google could be one detail contributing to a fingerprint.

Using a paid always-on VPN (#IVPN, #Mullvad VPN, #Proton VPN) while using Tor helps mitigate this risk when you need extra privacy by going beyond just obscuring your IP. It has anti-fingerprinting technology that makes you look the same as other users on the network.

Do a side by side test with VPN + privacy browser (#Mullvad, #Librewolf) only, VPN + regular bowser, and VPN while using Tor to see the difference with what can be known about your device here:

https://www.deviceinfo.me/

#cybersecgirl #privacytechpro #tor #vpn #privacy


Nothing says "Broken Money" quite like a central bank that is operating at structural losses now and has negative capital.

For the first time in modern history, the central bank of the world reserve currency is just structurally unprofitable.

https://m.primal.net/HYVX.png


Informational and interesting! nostr:note15tpf86fxqv5xlu5cfg3g96l64wc558phfre4c8gwhpmtqcejwdcssx0mzq


“Mother of God…” 🚀 nostr:note1p5gclmz373v347aucj7gw57jr73jesahwt755ulqxlcp7qv36vrsqamy2x


I agree with 5M sats being the ideal spending sized UTXO (larger for passing onto next generation) but I would say that 1M should be your target minimum IF you are able to


LFG!!🙏🏼 🚀 https://image.nostr.build/d5163dd90d5045412c71d50fddee359781bb6348fb1fec28204780aa613046e7.jpg


Great initiative!!! Post and share!! nostr:note1sgp5detucyf9z63486xauevfl3xtawe8yvepthsjr6zds4nst7xss8s4zs


The freedom to transact is the most essential right for the foundation to any working society.

You take that away, you take away society.

There's no fucking if's.


Things I had to learn by doing my own research:

•Paying taxes is immoral.

•Decrees from authority are foundationally corrupt and create negative externalities.

•Plant-based diets are detrimental to human health.

•Sugar isn’t okay to consume.

•Seed oils are toxic (and in 80% of grocery store and prepared foods).

•Butter is healthy.

•Cholesterol is protective.

•Meat is the most nutritious human food.

•The news only (intentionally) broadcasts deceitful narratives.

•Inflation is covert and intentional theft.

•Voting legitimizes and entrenches further the criminal Uniparty system.

•Doctors, police and military personnel are (often unwitting) authoritarian enforcers.

•The fiat monetary system is a Ponzi scam.

•Unnecessary consumption isn’t virtuous or helpful.

•Banks don’t have depositors money nor is the money legally theirs once deposited.

•All politicians lie.

•All regulators become captured.

If it wasn’t for the internet and #Bitcoin I never would have been able to figure these things out.

There is hope for a great awakening and I believe we’re all part of the first big wave of this movement. Gives me a lot of hope for the future. Stay frosty frens.


When I listened to this episode of Joe Rogan with Andreas Antonopolous in 2016 it made sense because I was new to #Bitcoin

But now in 2024 we all can see that Andreas was 100% right. This is exactly what's happening in our society right now.

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


I know a guy on 250$/month in a poor country and stacks 5$ in sats a week. Hes a legend to me. He said its for his mom.

Gigachad energy.


First, this is unconstitutional.

Second, if any of the first 10 amendments (Bill of Rights) is successfully repealed then the Constitution of the United States will be successfully nullified. This is just fact; the CoTUS was signed/ratified only because the Bill of Rights was included.

Any repeal of any of amendments 1-10 is a de facto breach of contract.

The individual States would then be free to declare themselves countries or join with other States in a Federation etc.

I don’t get why people think this is not the case. It is. nostr:note1ck8j595dlc0xpyfzh7ulrmxgmmjmctnf50npmxzsrh993gjr2q0qy55mtd


This is the way!

Can’t wait to build my own some day soon nostr:note1l9lum7pf84053crzvah4877pvu5uk2nd6a4f5yvqgf0f4kvjfngs3d42mn


Guys, miners aren’t going to take double digit % losses because someone does an optional pull request. It will take a day of dev work and coordination and all the ordinals degens will bypass the new mempool and get their transactions in blocks. The mempool though, will die, removing the ability of users to do fee estimation.

Additionally, in the short term it centralizes mining since any new/small miner will no longer be able to use the mempool to ascertain most profitable blocks. Only those with the out of band connections could survive.

This ironically is solved by stratum v2, where the miners as rational economic actors will just put jpgs back in their blocks.

The hubris to think one can out design greed and Bitcoin game theory is astonishing. nostr:note1uju8hz6v6rtwsf98g8jh3jmvk7qf4u4prd6f5ee9maurnzj9gfmsnp4tv7


#bitcoin #nostr #memes #plebs https://image.nostr.build/a410a7280e1d148c744f5b4656601622d49f59da04371971ff005ee6299c9443.jpg


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Great job 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 if you’re looking for any help strength training let me know.  I’ve got a group of 10 men I have been mentoring for 3 years (friends group / no money) and would be happy to help you get serious about training.  DM me if you’re interested, would be happy to help!


Welcome… it’s a long road, one step at a time 🤜🏼🤛🏼


👀
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🤣 I’m imagining a bunch of bucket list spirituality chicks in their 30s or even 40s with dream catcher/moon phase/animal tattoos and pierced noses who look hot with filters but are still unknowingly stuck in the new feminist mindset and can’t figure out why they can’t find a “good man” even though they don’t cook, clean, know how to take care of a man, and think they deserve the world because they’re “still pretty” 😅😂 am I right?


Welcome to the journey… it’s a long one, so be kind and patient with yourself and you’ll be just fine 🤜🏼🤛🏼


Happy Running #Bitcoin Day https://image.nostr.build/542c35e3faed7b8d76579e21a9080229e2593c074319e601d47dcbbac72d998b.jpg


Life Hack: I have a rule for myself that makes me a happier person :
Don’t judge
Don’t criticize
Don’t gossip
Don’t compare 😀


Life hack - Celebrating what each of your friends do exceptionally well/better than you, versus thinking/talking about what they do wrong….will greatly improve your relationships and ability to learn from the best.


Note to Self:

Your parents love you.  No matter how imperfectly, they love you more than anyone else ever will… make peace, be kind, and treasure them while you can.

#plebchain #bitcoin #love #family #parents #son #daughter


"The Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."

—Thucydides


General Bitcoin Wallet Tips

ideally you should strive to get a hardware wallet device (better known as: a bitcoin signer device) to learn to secure your bitcoin cold (offline):
- seedsigner.com
- coldcard.com
- a jade shop.blockstream.com

in the meantime, withdraw your bitcoin at least with a selfcustodial hot (online) wallet on your phone or on desktop:
- sparrowwallet.com / onchain desktop
- bluewallet.io / onchain app + desktop

you can also withdraw your bitcoin with the lightning network or other layer 2's built on Bitcoin, either selfcustodial or not (again, depends on your own wishes), but here's a couple options:
- ln.tips with Telegram app (custodial, Lightning)
- blockstream.com/liquid (custodial, Liquid)
- phoenix.acinq.co (selfcustodial, Lightning; watch @btcsessions tutorials on phoenix wallet)


Whenever the question of war is raised, be it in Ukraine, Gaza, or anywhere else, ask yourself if you would be willing to have your child, nephew, or other loved one forcibly drafted to fight on the front lines. If the answer is no, why are you ok with having others’ sons drafted?

Choose peace. Choose #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/286f36f910f0f866949d975aefb0f22a630beafb35bb01a57f7cb81465488600.jpg


Amen nostr:note1rvlr2tlj77xvch57msrsppt206h7zt7z0z6yknn7fk8mpw80tfssssmqwk


Now that transaction fee storm has passed I'm back to heating my living space primarily with wood in a rocket mass heater instead of Asics.
https://v.nostr.build/Ee2K.mp4
Wood is burned in the small firebox and heat radiates from the barrel warming the space quickly while the fire burns.
https://i.nostr.build/2xaq.jpg
As the exhaust gasses make their way to the chimney, they pass through ductwork in a plywood box filled with pea gravel.
https://i.nostr.build/0g92.jpg
The majority of the heat from the exhaust is transfered to the gravel before exiting up the chimney. By the time the gases exit the box, they are cool enough for me to put my hand on the chimney pipe.
https://i.nostr.build/An5E.jpg
After the fire burns out, the heat absorbed by the pea gravel slowly radiates out into the living space until the next fire is burned and the gravel is recharged with heat once again. I built this rocket mass heater for a fraction of the cost of a wood burning insert, with no special tools, materials, or skills.
https://i.nostr.build/DZBa.jpg
It has been an unusually warm November and December here at the homestead. Normally we have to start burning wood in the rocket mass heater early November to stay comfortable but this year, the bitcoin mining dehydrator was enough to stay warm and do some food preservation simultaneously.
https://i.nostr.build/2Dw8.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/479W.jpg
Transaction fees started climbing and I was shocked to see the most efficient miner I had approaching break even at my electric rate.
https://i.nostr.build/2vyP.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/GZ2J.jpg
I didn't have the circuit to run it wired yet but this bump in fees was the motivation I needed to get the miner hashing. Coincidentally, the weather also started to get colder finally so getting the miner up and running was a win/win.
https://i.nostr.build/nxkq.jpg
It successfully kept us and our guests warm through the holidays, even earning some Bitcoin beyond the cost of power at times, all while allowing us to save our firewood.
https://i.nostr.build/XdWL.jpg
We did have to fire up the rocket mass heater a handful of times, but so far we've burned less than half the amount of wood compared to previous years. This is thanks to the combination of the warm weather, and high transaction fees allowing us to stay warm with heavily subsidized electric heat.
https://i.nostr.build/K2xl.jpg
This might be the first winter we make it through with wood leftover for the next year, typically I'm scrounging for the last couple weeks.

#permaculture #permies #homesteading #selfsovereignty #meshtadel #rocketmassheater #woodburner #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #plebminer #rmh #grownostr
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"Tulips are not durable, not scarce, not programmable, not fungible, not verifiable, not divisible, and hard to transfer. But tell me more about your analogy..."

- Naval Ravikant


We can heat our well insulated 900sqft of living space to 65-70°f using around 2 cords of wood each year with our Rocket Mass Heater. We typically wake up to 65°f and burn a fire in the morning and another fire in the evening. A "J" tube burn chamber covered by a 55gal barrel creates radiant heat as well as a thermal pump which forces exhaust gasses horizontally though ducting in a large box filled with pea gravel. The gravel extracts most of the heat from the exhaust radiating it out slowly after the fire burns out. By the time the exhaust reaches the chimney it's 120-200°f down from 300-500°f at the barrel. The combustion is nearly total so very little smoke is exhausted and maximum BTUs are used to heat the space. Built with materials found at most big box hardware stores Rocket Mass Heaters are cheap to build, easy to source, and incredibly efficient. It is the favorite contraption I've built on the homestead.
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My philosophy is based on the principle of self-ownership. You own your life. To deny this is to imply that another person has a higher claim on your life than you do. No other person, or group of persons, owns your life nor do you own the lives of others.

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Be extremely skeptical of anyone who wants to change the current state of the #Bitcoin network.

And even more skeptical of those who want to do it rapidly.


I think inertia is leading us toward a quantified state, in which the costs of tracking and categorizing objects — primarily people, phones, cars, and money — as they move from place to place becomes so low that most institutions are doing it by reflex, without either considering or caring for consequences. Eventually, somebody is going to exploit the gap in information (between what is available to ordinary people, and what is available  to organizations) in a way that causes enormous, historic harm, as happened in WWII when a particular state realized that IBM had compiled a database that was perfect for populating a list of names of those who would soon be marched off to camps. And that was just census data. Now they know what you read, where you go, who you're with, and how you'll vote.

The unfortunate reality of contemporary political thought is that consequences do not exist until they are felt. Rare is the chicken that fears the farmer. That means we've got two options: we either wait for the pain, or we stop waiting for political consensus.

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I had a similar experience in my early 20s where I realized that once I had control of my mind most of my fears disappeared.  All of a sudden, action seemed easier and the path more clear.


I grew up in a low-income family where we could barely afford basic necessities, until the 2014-2016 crisis in Venezuela hit and I had to drop out of university to work construction so we could have enough food to pass the month. Luckily, we never went hungry because everyone in my house worked.

One day, I got tired of working construction and saw an opportunity to sell bread outside my house because bread was scarce due to the crisis. The bread business was successful, and the flexible hours allowed me to have free time to research different ways to "make money online." I discovered a few forums that paid a little bit of sats for creating posts, and that's how I slowly started to get into the world of bitcoin. I began creating my first content to upload online and be rewarded for it. Unbeknownst to me, I had started to monetize my hobby of photography, which eventually became my way of surviving the crisis and even helping my poorest family members, who needed it most.

In the midst of all this crisis, many Venezuelans began to leave the country in search of a better future. Even all the people I grew up with in my home left, and today, I am the only one left in Venezuela from my family nucleus. My mom, dad, aunts, siblings, and cousins are all outside of Venezuela. I am the only one who stayed, and it is because of the power of bitcoin that I am still able to pay for my life in Venezuela. In some way, I am "living the dream" because I am living off of what I love to do, and that is thanks to bitcoin tecnology and all of you too.

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#bitcoin #birthday #venezuela #photostr #life #story #itchangedmylife


Announcing the Permaculture Nest!
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Tomorrow, January 3rd, at 8pm Eastern time I will host a Nostr Nests discussing permaculture with a few other permies I've known for several years. We will go deep on what permaculture is and cover what we are working on more broadly then get people up on stage to ask some questions. If you're a permie hungry for some solid discussion or someone who is interested in learning more about permaculture this nest is going to have something for everyone. It is my intention to host these discussions on the first Wednesday of every month so let's kick the first one of the year off together!


As we enter the most important year in our lives and the life of our Free World… I feel led to share the following, which I believe is as relevant today (if not more so) than it was then…

May God Bless you in this sure to be tumultuous New Year.

A Speech by Patrick Henry to the Second Virginia Revolutionary Convention meeting at St. John's Church, Richmond, on March 23, 1775

"...I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony.
The questing before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
...There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free -if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending-if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained-we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!
...Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
...There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

#bitcoin #plebchain #foss #fuckthefed #libertarian #fight #war #freedom #liberty #endthefed


"Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.”

-Epictetus


Grateful for all donors.
Grateful for all the devs.
Grateful for all the supporters.
Grateful for a great board & team.
Grateful to be a small part of it all.

Grateful for all of you 🙏🧡

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The steps to run the network are as follows:

1. New transactions are broadcast to all nodes.
2. Each node collects new transactions into a block.
3. Each node works on finding a difficult proof-of-work for its block.
4. When a node finds a proof-of-work, it broadcasts the block to all nodes.
5. Nodes accept the block only if all transactions in it are valid and not already spent.
6. Nodes express their acceptance of the block by working on creating the next block in the chain, using the hash of the accepted block as the previous hash.


What an awesome project

Proud to be a supporter

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THE PLANNED FEDIMINT HYBRID APPROACH OF MUTINY WALLET IS INCREDIBLY INTERESTING.

USE FEDIMINTS FOR SMALL BALANCES AND LN ADDRESS RECEIVE. SEAMLESSLY TRANSFER FUNDS TO SELF CUSTODY WHEN BALANCE INCREASES.

RESULT IS A LIGHTNING WALLET THAT IS AS EASY TO USE AS A CUSTODIAL WALLET WITH LESS CUSTODIAL RISK AND BETTER PRIVACY. SEEMS LIKE A WINNER.


STACK INTO A FEDIMINT WALLET.
SPEND DIRECTLY USING LIGHTNING.
SEND LARGE AMOUNTS TO SELF CUSTODY.

PRIVATE ✅
CHEAP ✅
REDUCED CUSTODIAL RISK ✅
NO PROTOCOL CHANGE NEEDED ✅

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CONGRATULATIONS 🍾


Here's an example of why monetary verification is important (and can be expensive).

The gold price is currently $2075/oz.

If you buy a sovereign 1-oz gold coin, or a globally-recognizable privately-issued 1-oz gold bar, you'll generally pay something like a 3-5% markup to spot. This is basically the verification and distribution premium. Even if you buy a bunch of 1-oz items, you generally won't get the spread down too much. If there's a shortage, the premiums over spot go way up.

If you buy smaller sizes, that premium will be a bigger percentage. For example if you buy 1-gram gold coins, you'll be paying a >50% markup to the spot price, which is silly.

If you buy bigger sizes, like 1-kilo bars (which cost more than a typical car), you could get it down to a 1-2% premium to spot.

The bigger size you go, the less verification you have that the core of the item is indeed gold rather than tungsten. You have to trust the brand and supply chain, basically. The smaller size you go, the less possible and economic it is to insert tungsten into the item. And so on some level, it makes sense that the verification premium is bigger for smaller items- you're more assured that it is indeed gold to its core. The surface area to mass ratio is harder to forge, basically. Somewhere around 1-oz is probably the sweet spot.

Now, if you're buying gold in most U.S. states, including on a lot of popular online stores, you'll also pay sales tax, and you'll often have to pay the difference in terms of your payment method. So if your credit card costs the merchant 3%, then that would eat up the merchant's margin since it is razor thin, and so instead the customer often has to pay it. They could instead do a wire transfer for a sizable purchase to save some money, but many banks charge like $30 for a 1-day wire transfer.

And if you're buying online, there's a shipping fee. That's usually pretty low but then goes up a bit if you add insurance because you don't want to risk your expensive coins or bars getting lost in the delivery chain or stolen from your doorstep. From the time of order to the time of delivery, it'll generally take several days. This includes time for the merchant to process the payment (gold merchants are usually a bit more careful about chargebacks and other reversed payments than the average merchant) and ship you the items.

All together, including the verification premium, taxes, payment fees, and shipping, one generally pays 8-15% over the spot price to get 1-oz gold coins or bars. That means gold has to go up a pretty significant amount just to break even. And then you have collectible capital gains taxes on that price gain (which in the US is higher than the actual capital gains tax rate). If you take time (and time is money) to shop around and find ways to legally avoid sales tax and so forth, and figure out the cheapest/slowest payment methods, then you can push the premium down as close as possible to the verification premium and shipping costs.

And if you want to securely ship large amounts of gold long distances, especially internationally? Like imagine HNW investors, businesses, banks, or sovereign entities? You're going to pay a sizable amount. One does not simply ship millions of dollars worth of gold without robust security.

If you want someone to custody your gold, you're going to pay a fee. If you are fine with unallocated/mixed gold with multiple layers of counterparty risk, you could buy among the cheapest ETFs with annual fees below 0.2%. If you want to hold your gold in an allocated way by Brinks or something with fewer layers of counterparty risk, it'll generally cost over 0.5% per year. This goes toward the vault costs, salaries for people with guns, real estate costs, etc.

Basically, there's a pretty big inefficiency in the form of 1) routine verification, 2) secure transfer of ownership, and 3) secure custody, that all comes out in the form of high costs and slow speeds.

Bitcoin has fees, but they are very low in comparison. Nodes can verify bitcoin basically for free. Miners timestamp transactions to transfer ownership for a fee, and you can currently send ten million dollars worth of bitcoin globally for like $10 and have it confirmed within the hour. And you can custody bitcoin yourself, and bring it around with you globally, through ports of entry, across borders, in ways you can't realistically do with gold above a certain value threshold.

When thinking about periods of above-average bitcoin fees, it's useful to keep some of the alternatives in mind. Verifying and transferring ownership of other store-of-value assets like gold and real estate is slower and a lot more expensive, requires a lot more abstraction and permission, and comes with much less portability.


CRAIG RAW IS THE FUCKING 🐐


To friends in USA….
Do not underestimate the role and influence of these groups increasingly over the last decade. By looking into their manifestos, their affiliates and their funders/supporters much can be learnt, not just about them but more broadly about a number of events that are ongoing and will continue to unfold. Their influence in certain sections of USA government, education and communities is extremely well established. When terms like United Front or United Front Work Department appear…….as defenders of freedom you must prepare.
There is always the argument that they are just useful idiots, so may it be, but by knowing about them and by whom and how they are funded……… “天下大亂，形勢大好”

“Know your enemy, know his sword.”
 Miyamoto Musashi

A very short list of currently well supported and active groups:

https://cpusa.org
https://frso.org
https://roadtoliberation.org
https://leftroots.net
https://fightbacknews.org


This is the way


“Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. That is, libertarians believe that murder is murder and does not become sanctified by reasons of state if committed by the government. We believe that theft is theft and does not become legitimated because organized robbers call their theft "taxation." We believe that enslavement is enslavement even if the institution committing that act calls it "conscription." In short, the key to libertarian theory is that it makes no exceptions in its universal ethic for government.”
- M. N. Rothbard


🧡💜 #life #bitcoin ⚡ #nostr 💜🧡 https://image.nostr.build/9bfea083617bf892dad22ca1ab14dabfaf39e91ec43e7b5b5eb7a851863c2f44.jpg


Same 🤣 but I’m buying some in Mexico to start my permaculture homestead soon! Keep the dream alive!


Increase humidity level in your room


The Fed's Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), the facility that they introduced after the March 2023 banking crisis, now offers lower borrowing rates than the Fed pays in interest on reserve balances.

So, banks are arbitraging this by borrowing from the facility (i.e. from the Fed) at one interest rate, and then depositing that borrowed money with the Fed to earn a higher interest rate, and thus are earning that risk-free spread. They're arbitraging the Fed.

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Thank you madly, deeply, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart. A worldwide ragtag team of developers in both RSS & Nostr, with a touch of friendly competition 💜💛 have made a few of my dreams come true this week. To be paid for what I do and to play in a place so meaningful to the history of independent music makes every minute of this week even more special. We worked across technology platforms, across continents and oceans to make this week happen. And with some hustle and a lot of heart together we pulled off a Christmas miracle in Minneapolis. ✨ I don’t have visibility to JL’s Numbers (which will only make the story better!) but I wanted to share the results and to thank you all for letting me be a part of the story. I hope we can show the world how #bitcoin can change lives, disrupt industry and end artistic poverty.

See you soon 🧡 Ainsley

⚡ = 💛

Night One
RSS 3,650,868
Nostr 3,262,953
Fiat Donation (converted to lighting 443,970)
Night One Total 7,357,791

Night Two
RSS 2,440976
Nostr 1,824,775
Night Two Total 4,265,751

Total Two Night 11,623,542

USD EQ. $5,085.2514 (12/22)

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Gm


Note to self:

I will die on my feet

I will not bend the knee
I will not take the jab
I will not bow
I will not ask for permission
I will not comply
I will not turn the cheek
I will not forget

I will build
I will sweat
I will train
I will read
I will protect my family
I will prepare for the storm
I will be ready when they come

I will die on my feet

#resist #bitcoin #plebchain #defiance #fuckthefed #comeandtakeit #gm


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A documentary that highlights the issues facing developing countries and helps to add nuance to the narrative that predatory loans and financial hegemony of the West are solely to blame for the problems. As can be seen in this film, corruption in many countries is a major cause of poverty and without the help of international banking and finance centres, the corrupt would not be able to thrive.

https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qqrkj6zn2fh97kszyrt4xcnqhzx00ewv8l9ylq3ypu6zhsycwck08wz46htkteuvjhwukqcyqqqgtwce2rew3


Argentina’s new foreign minister. https://image.nostr.build/a03d8038638cda5deacaec86a5bf2eca32b9df5c5a2f5d1e91ad89a5fadd5d34.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9f2db4fbccfc0a9c65a8728172bdd9eeeb558ea529da3baf76d1770b1912fdd2.jpg


NEW Article - Unmasking Farmington: FTX, Fluent Finance and the Coming Digital Dollar

A former partner of Farmington State Bank, the tiny rural bank embroiled in the FTX scandal, is now building the rails for CBDCs in the Middle East and beyond. Their recent activities may finally reveal the true motives behind Sam Bankman-Fried's and his allies' use of Farmington, with major implications for the coming Digital Dollar.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/12/investigative-reports/unmasking-farmington-ftx-fluent-finance-and-the-coming-digital-dollar/


Pro/Con of DeGoogled Phone operating systems

Graphene
Pro: Good optional sandbox for Google push.  And advanced security features such as:
1) Hardened to resist memory attacks
2) Better sandboxing (access policies)
3) Enhanced verified boot
4) Attestation tool to diagnose Pegasus malware
5) Browser reducing “just in time” JavaScript
/
Con: Only Google manufactured hardware, which is the most likely to have hardware backdoors. Titan-M security chip is closed source and therefore untrusted to protect me from Google/Government

Calyx
Pro: Similar DeGoogled experience to Graphene, but supports a wide group of phone manufacturers outside the 5 eyes including Fairphone, OnePlus, Vivo, Xiaomi, ZTE, and Huawei.  LOL, Do you trust Google or the Chinese?  Calyx also has a great built in Firewall app to cut off apps from the internet
/
Con: While Calyx is better for avoiding Google’s unknown hardware backdoors, it doesn't have Graphene's advanced security against known targeted attacks.  Additionally, if you need Google push notifications, then it uses MicroG instead of Graphene's sandbox, which isn't as good at isolating Google from the core system data.

Lineage
Pro: Works on an even larger variety of hardware, so you got a lot of choice.  Lineage is also great for fake android virtual machines on your desktop PC. You can easily spin up a VM with this and use spyware apps.  While as Graphene won't allow this under current builds, and Calyx requires "annoying to use" Android developer kits to do it.
/
Con: Can't lock the bootloader. Controversial security issues.

Pinephone (Linux phone)
Pro: It's good to see alternatives to Android. Hardware "brains" are open source.
/
Con: Low amount of apps because it's not using Android's ecosystem.  Not as good performance as Android.  Lacks Android's good security model, and it still uses closed source hardware to communicate: WiFi and LTE modem (they had to)

Purism's Librem 5
Scam.  They won't ship it, don't buy it.

Summary,
Graphene - Extra Security, IF you trust Google's hardware
Calyx - Good for non-Google hardware & app firewall
Lineage - Great for VMs
Pinephone - Boycott Google

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SimplifiedPrivacy has lowered custom consultations to $30/hour. Reach out and we'll help you with flashing phones, routers, Linux, any tech support.


Just started nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw ‘s book Gradually Then Suddenly. Excited for this one.
Ebook is only $9 when you pay with Bitcoin.

https://academy.saifedean.com/product/gradually-then-suddenly-digital-book/


Dr. Doran Fink held a leadership position at the FDA and was instrumental in the approval of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine. He later joined Moderna as Head of Translational Medicine and Early Clinical Development within the department of infectious diseases.

Dr. Jaya Goswami, a former Medical Officer at the FDA, moved to Moderna as Director of Clinical Development in treatments and vaccines for infectious diseases, right after her tenure at the FDA where she had oversight over vaccines and biologics clinical development.

Former FDA Chairman Scott Gottlieb is now on the board of Pfizer, and former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn joined Moderna.

But, yeah, can't allow Bitcoiners to leverage the same tools. It's either all or nothing. There is no second choice.

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https://theblockchainassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Sen.-Warren-Letter-to-CEO-Kristin-Smith.pdf


"Some leftists believe that the communist world would function well if "good people" were in charge of it. They fail to realize that, by definition, good people do not want to control the lives of others."
Ludwig von Mises

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1. Scan #SeedQR in private.
2. Use memorable, 26tn year passphrase.
3. Keep #SeedSigner under lock and key.
4. Carry firmware on your person.
5. Backup passphrase offsite, additional #SeedQR offsite (sep location).

Bonus: get a pelican go g10 case to store signing device + power.

#Bitcoin

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CORE 💥


I AM HODLING


First, they came for the Inscriptors and I didn't speak out.
Then, they came for the Ordinal Enjoooyers and I didn't speak out.
Next, they came for the Whirlpoolers and I didn't speak out.

Where do we draw the line with censorship?
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I am HODLING

10yrs today https://image.nostr.build/6319b16fc04198d4dc418fa1eb3941ab0583d5a2c9dac9c25a4fb33bbc3c1051.jpg


Donation incoming 🙏🏼 thank you for all you do, Merry Christmas!!!🎄


Instead of Christmas presents I will be donating to this charity to support open source development of Bitcoin only projects.  Merry Christmas!! 🎄🎁 nostr:note1642p3xwq42xxwh0gnar088tkwy0l7axwejteuhq33rnd7f8y6kdqtm5u9c


WE ARE ENTERING AN ERA WHERE ALMOST ANYONE WITH A SIZEABLE BITCOIN AUDIENCE IS BOUGHT.

FUCK THAT SHIT AND FUCK YOU. THIS SHIT IS TOO IMPORTANT.


Just 2 more halvings


One problem that people face is that they box themselves into narrative corners and echo chambers.

"Not your keys not your coins" is a good one-sentence explainer to tell people to be careful about custodians, especially in such a nascent industry. It's powerful and memorable. Couldn't be said better.

But then some people take that to mean nobody should ever use any custodial service under any circumstances ever. You got $200 in a custodial Lightning app because it's faster and easier than alternatives? You've failed the purity test. You're in a developing country and want to save $100 worth of bitcoin? Better do it on-chain, otherwise it's not yours!

But then some of the same people resist a block size increase to keep the network decentralized (a good thing, imo) and also say that bitcoin will fix the world (I think it can).

But while all reasonable statements on their own, the issue is that statements 1, 2, and 3 don't add up when taken to their extreme.  It has been written about since the time of Nakamoto and Finney on Bitcoin Talk forums that Bitcoin would need to scale in layers.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2500.msg34211#msg34211

So any statement about "Not your keys not your coins" has to be paired with an alternative solution, or a spectrum of alternatives. What if someone can't fit into the one of the only tens of millions of on-chain transactions per month? What if $35 fees is high for the $200 in bitcoin they want to save?

Is holding your bitcoin on an 11-of-15 multisig (Liquid) okay, in exchange for lower fees, faster block times, better privacy, and some additional features? Depending on the amount, I would say yes. It has trade-offs, though, which have to be made clear.

What about a Chaumian mint? What if an app lets a community in South Africa set up a 5-of-9 multisig run by well-known people in the community who would face consequences if they break trust? And the same app can let a smaller community in Guatemala set up a 4-of-7 multisig? And a bigger multi-country 6-of-11 multisig can be set up as well? It's private, interacts with Lightning as seamlessly as Wallet of Satoshi, and can make in-person payments even when the internet is out briefly. Plus, it can be customized via open source add-on modules by the community running the specific mint so that it can also store private data for users, monitor reserves, monitor health of the multisig keys, run applications like Chat GPT payable in bitcoin per usage, run private DMs and group chats, run apps that show you local merchants that accept bitcoin, etc. And what if a user could, within the same app, seamlessly spread their funds out among a handful of different mints that they know pretty well to avoid having all of their eggs in one basket, and then pull into self-custody when above a certain amount?

Maybe there will be more softforks in the future. More flexible scripting to allow more share-ability of UTXOs, for example. But those require consensus, and they tend to come with some trade-offs or code risks, and so they take time.

Bitcoin is an engineering marvel. But it's not magic. It has limitations, and it has a spectrum of solutions for those limitations at any given time. The best solutions solve multiple problems at once: they add scalability, they add speed, they reduce fees, they add privacy, and they add flexibility/programmability all at once, while still being more distributed than trusting some centralized KYC entity.

Bitcoin is peer-to-peer open source money. But it's not infinitely scalable on the base chain. If it were greatly scaled up on the base chain to fit everyone, then only institutions would be able to run nodes and it would be greatly centralized and thus useless. So the solution, known from the start of the Bitcoin Talk forums, is to build additional peer-to-peer open source layers on top of it, allowing for a range of transaction sizes, a range of speeds, a range of privacy, and a range of programmability, all to serve different users' needs, and without compromising the decentralization and security of the base chain. That's the type of statement that needs to be provided along with "not your keys not your coins" for the full context to make sense.


Dude is using a custom fork of bitcoin core that censors whirlpool and paynym transactions and pretends he has a valid reason for pushing a fork of core that doesn’t align with the protocol that 85% of miners use.  Essentially an attack on bitcoin core as it stands today while lying and saying he is “decentralizing mining”, when in actuality he is censoring the transaction using privacy tools.  Then lying about it and blocking anyone who questions him.  Classic douchbag behavior.


Luke is a liar.  Period


I was right about Luke.

#Bitcoin


📚📕As a Man Thinketh by James Allen. The central theme of the book is the #power of #thought in shaping one's life and circumstances. Here's a brief summary:

1. **Power of Thought**: The #book emphasizes that thoughts are the seeds of one's actions and destiny. Positive thoughts lead to positive outcomes, while negative thoughts result in negative consequences.

2. **Mind as a Garden**: Allen uses the metaphor of a garden to illustrate the #mind. Just as a gardener tends to plants, one should nurture and control their thoughts, weeding out negativity and cultivating positivity.

3. **Self-Responsibility**: The author stresses personal responsibility for one's life. Our thoughts and choices determine our success and happiness. Blaming external circumstances is counterproductive.

4. **Achievement and Success**: "As a Man Thinketh" explains that the quality of one's thoughts directly influences their achievements and #success. By maintaining a positive, focused #mindset, one can attain their goals.

5. **Character Building**: Allen underscores that thoughts also shape one's character. Good thoughts lead to a noble character, while bad thoughts result in a base character.

6. **Choice and Change**: The book encourages readers to take control of their thoughts and, by extension, their lives. #Change begins with changing your thought patterns.

7. **#LawofAttraction**: While not explicitly using the term, the book essentially describes the Law of Attraction, where like attracts like. Positive thoughts attract positive outcomes.

8. **Calmness and Serenity**: Allen suggests that a serene mind is essential for clear thinking and inner #peace. By maintaining a calm mental state, one can navigate life's challenges effectively.

In essence, "As a Man Thinketh" teaches that your thoughts have the power to shape your destiny, and by consciously choosing positive thoughts and taking responsibility for them, you can lead a more fulfilling and successful life. https://image.nostr.build/8df718391d352a3de0e34aa08970a2ae73c300c4c6a783b3096085326c5cb41c.jpg


I HOPE SO BUT I DONT THINK THEY WILL

HE CANNOT STOP LYING 🤥


🎯 nostr:note19jaycas8dn972e0ujqgq2mpyp6u96awpyum33rrpza3lqmn3ufnqxkft7t


Fuck Knots and fuck nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze nostr:note16dwm7c5v0thm94recrsrgvshd7uqertz7dx84gks4u93dprc4l5s5ca2a8


💯 best wallet in existence


PEOPLE DO NOT APPRECIATE HOW SIGNIFICANT AN INDIVIDUAL CAN BE AT CHANGING THE WORLD IF THEY ARE MOTIVATED.

CRAIG RAW IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE. INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL SPARROW WALLET EXISTS.


Proof of steak #bicoin #plebchain #carnivore https://image.nostr.build/61a619ce359e98561b023782f6be2262957de16c13997b037fa19f9aff434fd8.jpg


💜🧡⚡stack #sats  #studybitcoin #bitcoin ⚡💜🧡 https://image.nostr.build/310ffc0741b62649cdd09517ae4f69f04b3b6a4366e58203ce68ec20ef2270d1.jpg


#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/f838b6a2bdb57c842bad2f143e62e5df96dc367d4ef30c5b351dc1d07b1c7d93.jpg


"Trust does not scale."
💯% Well stated.

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Bisq wiki is very clear and their matrix chat offers great support / best way to stack No KYC P2P there is


🥱 coward


Riiiiight… so you are calling a decade of voluntary consensus among miners and the current functionality of Bitcoin core “centralization” (which it isn’t, why don’t you look up that definition in the dictionary), yet intentionally ignoring that consensus so you can censor whirlpool/paynym transactions and effectively attack Bitcoin Core, while pretending you are doing something positive for Bitcoin…

Nobody who actually digs into the details believes your lies.  The normies might swallow your omissions and trust you just because @jack somehow doesn’t realize you’re using a custom fork to try and attack Bitcoin core… but we all know you’re full of 💩 and your Ocean pool will die a slow death.  You are worse than the ordinals idiots, and you need to look in the mirror and recognize that you need to do better, and be better.  Be a man, stop lying, admit you were wrong, get your shit together and use Bitcoin core, and actually do something good, like you claimed you would.


#Bitcoin allows for arbitrary bytes to be minted into blocks in many ways.

You can't break these usecases without breaking #Bitcoin.

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


NO


Gee can't wait till Luke's #Bitcoin implementation catches on.

https://m.primal.net/HTPa.png


🎯🤣 you and me both


No clue how @npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze can sell itself on a platform of "transparency" and "bringing censorship-resistance back to Bitcoin" when this is how they approach things.

Can't think of a more disappointing Bitcoin launch in recent memory. Maybe community pushback will make them rethink their approach, but I can't sit by and watch this unfold without calling out this BS.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/57f54acce26acba03282480936f7b055452c28fe0d80001376e127b48e9906cd.webp
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https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/8dde889e9227e7ad1d2c6479504ed24e000dc70880d20e5a1845ef81e98ddcf3.webp


Note to self:

Cherish your parents, and your grandparents… soak in every moment.  Leave your phone behind and laugh about old times, connect and play games… one day, sooner than you want, they will be gone and you will cherish those moments.


"80 bytes is standard policy on the network"

-Adam Back on #Bitcoin OP_RETURN


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Per nostr:npub1x458tl7h9xcxa66vr4a8pg0h2qz96pnhwnfpcra0le9090uk5t5qw7armt : Core… has had 80 byte OP_RETURN for nearly a decade now. 85%+ miners have been set to 80 bytes for the same amount of time. Read the commit log. Read the bitcoin-dev mailing list.


80 bytes is the standard


This… 💯 this 👇🏼👏🏼 nostr:note1ccc2zem5w0aczlfa0lmak6ew9j94alm4ac7nuvpu20gjpasl7x9qkyqxwh


Gaslighting pussy


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Please read


So answer the fucking post coward


1. Core's plan was always to roll out 80 byte OP_RETURN incrementally by starting with 40 to see if it broke anything and then ramping shortly up to the intended 80.

2. #Bitcoin Core, having finished that project, has had 80 byte OP_RETURN for nearly a decade now. 85%+ miners have been set to 80 bytes for the same amount of time. Read the commit log. Read the bitcoin-dev mailing list.

3. You admitted on Shitter/X that you went along with the Core team because you had your own fork where you can make any changes you'd like.

4. Now that Jack has invested in you to decentralize mining, you've cast a shadow over the launch by revolting against the implicit op_return contract in #Bitcoin Core which has been standardized by the network over the last decade.

5. Whirlpool transactions are trivial to detect and you could whitelist them no problem. This is about you kneecapping #Bitcoin fungibility while gaslighting the space about decentralization.

6. What's more centralized? The development process in bitcoin:master with a decade+ track record, ~1000 developers, and 20,000+ code reviews, or Knots, where one dude makes god commits daily, breaking critical aspects of #Bitcoin?

7. Until Ocean.xyz launches #StratumV2, you're just another gatekeeper. Ordinals ia going to run out of customers like every other shitcoin. We don't need to compromise Core just because you didn't get your way 10 years ago.

8. GFY.


💯🎯 nostr:npub1x458tl7h9xcxa66vr4a8pg0h2qz96pnhwnfpcra0le9090uk5t5qw7armt


🎯 nostr:note1yeqws56pdmgy6geypw4xdl6frjr0a007ftqw2lsndwf7v9862agqv7nm60


Ordinals will run out of customers like every other shitcoin. There's no reason to risk compromising #Bitcoin Core to "kick them out".


Unless you own Bitcoin 👏🏼


True!

#bitcoin #nostr #zapathon #zaps https://image.nostr.build/bc80b825a27715324b752f9f1003abf507328bd43607c3afe63b9046c056a1b1.jpg


🤣 #bitcoin ⚡ #love 💜🧡 #Zapathon  😂 https://image.nostr.build/29325e6e5a591524803fee89f1f819a7e90257d9e4a6db4e330f3dfd560509df.jpg


That’s the question that gets you blocked apparently


Thank you!


Your work is appreciated!


If Ocean.xyz focused on shipping #StratumV2 instead of kneecapping #Bitcoin's fungibility, I wouldn't be spending so much time dispelling their bullshit.

https://m.primal.net/HSvF.png


👏🏼 nostr:note1exa95ewqnl4nztl8jayh4ue6lm9hcc2cs8x2wzsw9gjs6gmkzrpq6glqsg


@jack is this what you want to be supporting? nostr:note1k4765svkcg0qgzrea208qcp98vhj80gph62a6e4hr9pnhz3clhmsrkmla5


Big part of growing up is no longer believing everything the government tells you.

Don’t trust. Verify. #Bitcoin


"Bitcoin is not for storing data" takes a bit of subjective gymnastics. Bitcoin is literally a database. It's just the least performant database ever invented with some unique properties as a result.

As I've said for some time, whenever you have a database and a scripting language, you're going to have crafty devs figure out how to leverage it in unintended ways. Trying to stop them turns into a game of whack-a-mole.


Too cool


Bitcoin Mining Clothes Dryer
https://i.imgur.com/w4lVCSN.mp4
Here at the homestead we host guests at our house as well as a 20ft yurt so one of the largest power usages is the electric clothes dryer. In the busy season, the dryer is usually running for several hours a day. It made a lot of sense to use a Bitcoin miner for the heat instead of the heating element in the dryer.
https://i.imgur.com/MQ8jYf3.jpg
https://imgur.com/eGKbv0G
https://i.imgur.com/uoKPqB1.jpeg
I tried to use what I already had as much as possible to connect the miner to the dryer, so for less than $100 I was able to make it work. Basically needed a 20a 220v breaker and 220v outlet plus some ductwork. I simply cut a hole in the heating duct in the back of the dryer and attached a 6in duct coupling to it. If I need to I can cap off the coupling and continue to use the dryer as normal. Basically if the Bitcoin miner breaks down I won't be stranded without a dryer.
https://i.imgur.com/4uYucSC.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/BROB3J3.jpeg
To operate, I set the dryer to timed dry, set the heat to air dry, and turn on the miner. After using it for a dozen loads or so it definitely works well. Next I will be working on how to reduce the noise from the miner fans but to start I wanted to make sure it was capable of drying laundry first. Feels good to get sats back for one one of the largest power usages on the homestead!

#permaculture #permies #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #plebminer #homemining #bitcoinmining #bitcoin #doublespendenergy #hash2heat #mine4heat #stacksats #stackingfunctions

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WE HAVE COME FAR

https://image.nostr.build/e9423c8e0d8b9eb5c7f6fb171fff4f6b5bf1a68519ed30c5bfa9e1824f4f9709.jpg


#bitcoin https://video.nostr.build/ff9f8c53efe0cc44651f8a1358924cfc995e6bb00516c22da9e935c35b6f7868.mp4


Changed my life when I cut out veggies and grains


Note to Self:

If you are afraid of dying, you are afraid of living.

Meditate on your death daily so you can appreciate your life as is in, right now, in this moment

#plebchain #bitcoin #meditation #gratitude


A moral point.
https://video.nostr.build/2967ab63820dbe3d7280b3bb4086d91356aae738ce70f67b4450a97bf7d991bf.mp4


Fantastic!! I pray to have a family and do the same one day 🙏🏼


Looks like beautiful work


Nice!!!!


Some people live in glass houses


nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk this guy


We’re at the “loot the treasury” stage of empire collapse and people are looking for regulatory clarity from the people doing the looting. More effort should be spent exposing these people as criminals instead of trying to appease them.

The US federal government is an illegitimate authority stealing from the people on an astonishing scale.

The “regulatory clarity” you seek will make it so they can loot your bitcoin.


Maybe instead of calling your customers liars for pointing out your actions you should be a man and own up to them… and answer the questions


He has still refused to answer nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g ‘s questions and then called me a liar for pointing out that he is avoiding questions regarding the details of how he will run the pool… not the actions of a guy who is shooting straight.  I will not be using his pool either.  Sad, as I was excited initially at the idea, but seems the actual reality is FAR from what he is promising… hopefully he will finally answer some questions and address the concerns of those who are actually wanting to support the cause… maybe some humble pie after the community bails on his project will get him to rethink his approach


Dumped ocean.xyz after a day b/c:

👎 Not running #Bitcoin Core 🚨
👎 Electing self as gatekeeper (Knots censorship)
👎 Custodial payouts, like all other pools
👎 #Bitcoin address reuse hurts privacy
👎 No plans for freeing source

Will reevaluate in 2024. 🤷♂


Smells like 💩

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He blocked nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g for asking those questions… seems like he doesn’t want to answer specifics about how the mining pool will operate


But we all know now that you are dodging basic and straight forward questions


Haha go ahead and block me like you blocked nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g grifter


Have you seen the questions by nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g what are your thoughts on it?


Hi Lyn, love your content.  Please kindly contact some of the miners who are actually trying to work on decentralization about this business before posting your opinions.  This dude has blocked Seth for Privacy for asking straight forward legitimate questions we all are waiting for answers to… and it seems anyone else who asks for clarity.  Seems like all is not what it seems or what is being promised


Be careful, apparently asking basic questions about how things operate will get you blocked


Why are you blocking people who are asking valid questions requesting clarity about the details of how your mining pool will operate? You blocked Seth for Privacy for asking basic and straight forward questions that we all would like answers to.  Those are not the actions of someone who is trying to accomplish the goals you claim to have.  Do better.


If you haven't heard...nobody is coming to save you.

The "regulators" are long compromised.

Replace the toxins in your household with natural alternatives, or subject yourself to the largest, longest-lasting, most mass-unintentional experiment on human poisoning in history.
https://video.nostr.build/760575d4a8b9d55aa4c6078a219b9bfc53166fab4d8b777397c820ece78c904f.mp4


Did Bitcoin mining change forever yesterday 🤔

Hey nostr:npub1zmc6qyqdfnllhnzzxr5wpepfpnzcf8q6m3jdveflmgruqvd3qa9sjv7f60 l, @npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk, and @npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr, I watched the announcement yesterday but came away with a lot of unanswered questions that I'll detail below. I would legitimately love to hear the answers to these if at all possible!

How is Ocean non-custodial for the average miner?

On the stream it was mentioned that payout thresholds are 0.0108 BTC (but nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr was unsure), a number that would take a pleb miner with an S9 ~470d to reach.

Until he reaches that payout point, all of his mined sats seem to be entirely custodied by Ocean.

How does Ocean decentralize mining today?

I was so excited by the teases and pre-announcements for Ocean as it sounded like exactly what I wanted in a Bitcoin pool. Unfortunately, it sounds like all of the decentralization possible is yet to be release, including StratumV2 and any ability for miners to submit block templates themselves.

Did I miss anything that makes Ocean more decentralized than other pools today?

Why is Ocean not open source?

If Ocean is as revolutionary and decentralizing as it's being made out to be, wouldn't the best thing for Bitcoin be that all pools switch over time to the same mode?

If so, why isn't Ocean open-sourcing any of it's protocol or code? In the announcement it seemed that nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr was bragging that no competitor would be able to "reproduce" their lead dev's code, thus keeping their competitive edge.

There was no mention to my knowledge of open source, but it's possible I missed it!

What guarantee do miners have that you won't censor transactions?

As miners cannot submit their own block templates right now and the source is not open code, miners have to rely on manually checking a visual block template on your site to find censorship.

nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk has a history of censoring what he viewed as "spam," and there was a lot of time spent in the conference talking about how bad Ordinals are and how bad pools are that mine them.

What guarantees or promises do miners have that you won't censor transactions you don't like?

How will Ocean handle regulatory pressure to enact KYC?

In the event that regulators of the Feds come knocking and want you to implement KYC (as seems to be the case with other pools), what will you do?

What will Ocean's fee model be after the 0% period?

There was a lot of talk about how most pools subsidize larger miners and charge exhorbitant fees to smaller miners during the conference. One thing that wasn't ever mentioned was what Ocean's fee policy will be after the 2mo 0% fee period.

Could you explain how the fee model will work?

Conclusion

That's enough questions for now, I think, but I look forward to getting answers to these! We have a desperate need for decentralized mining in Bitcoin and a massive gap today.

I look forward to hearing back 🙂


Great day for #bitcoin nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk

“As we stand today, Bitcoin is not a censorship resistant network, rather it just happens to be a network that is not currently being censored. As with other forms of centralization (hardware, firmware, ...), the role of mining pools must change for Bitcoin to exist as a truly decentralized currency.”

https://ocean.xyz/about https://image.nostr.build/b56b135b6bf84a6249de07b2743bc92f8b30b923c4d7685626e0e6fde9188a17.jpg


Decentralized mining pool. No kyc, no registration. Rewards go straight to your bitcoin address. Realtime actual hashrate scoring, no moving average over N period. Block template previews. Stratum v2. Lightning coming next year.


🧡💜 #leadership #bitcoin ⚡ #nostr 💜🧡 https://image.nostr.build/77b207d6639be1fd167c60a87dcff18d49ee428b5145b1fc4ccc593357778310.jpg


thankful for spooks in canada and nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8  for reminding me of the importance of non-kyc lightning apps such as #robosats. Decided to ditch shakepay today and will be focusing no-kyc exchanges only. The ux in these apps are pretty rough. Looking forward to contributing to these when I can.

I would love a native client for robosats, bonus with an order book backed by nostr. So much work to be done here.


SimpleX Chat (world's most private?) now connects desktop app with mobile app via quantum resistant protocol

It sounds like a simple thing to do, but SimpleX is not a cloud based hosting, nor does it even have a common profile that anyone can just follow or connect to. Every friend being connected with, receives a unique invite address. There is no e-mail address or phone number used to register, so no-one can find or connect with you unless you send them their own unique invite.

Hence this linking has been keenly awaited for a while now.

How does it work? "The way we designed this solution avoided any security compromises, and the end-to-end encryption remained as secure as it was - it uses double-ratchet algorithm, with perfect forward secrecy, post-compromise security and deniability. This solution is similar to WhatsApp and WeChat. But unlike these apps, no server is involved in the connection between mobile and desktop. The connection itself uses a new SimpleX Remote Control Protocol (XRCP) based on secure TLS 1.3 and additional quantum-resistant encryption inside TLS."

The downside of this approach is that mobile device has to be connected to the same local network as desktop. But the upside is that the connection is secure, and you do not need to have a copy of all your data on desktop, which usually has lower security than mobile.

See https://simplex.chat/blog/20231125-simplex-chat-v5-4-link-mobile-desktop-quantum-resistant-better-groups.html

#technology #privacy #SimpleX


Will say a prayer for you.  Remember, this too shall pass & I hope you are acquitted of all charges


unvaccinated ✅
unverified ✅
ungovernable ✅


💯🎯🫂🧡⚡stack #sats and #studybitcoin #btc ⚡💜🧡⚡💯🎯🫂 https://image.nostr.build/342cfd0b2dfefd6ec09f5fc9122fff6e5fb8e6523250ec4cdead19e0794ad99b.jpg


Holy shit, nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx was right again. 🤯

nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq just got banned in the US.
https://image.nostr.build/e72390db193dd726f6d3cbe7e797aedd219c9761678d9b1ae2eac2b7722a62e1.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/e9789782deef3b3d9729e6b299b232e71bfc9176b585c1270e9c42db0e057208.jpg


So who still needs to pull their mining power away from F2Pool? Time to take all their hashes from them.

https://b10c.me/observations/08-missing-sanctioned-transactions/?ref=nobsbitcoin.com


"My miningpool-observer project recently reported six OFAC-sanctioned transactions as missing from blocks.

Four of these transactions were likely filtered by F2Pool. This is the first filtering based on OFAC sanctions I've seen."

https://b10c.me/observations/08-missing-sanctioned-transactions/


Sounds like you’re doing it right 🤜🏼🤛🏼 no-KYC is the way to go and Samurai is as good as it gets for privacy!


Government will know your KYC stack, and any exchange you use can be hacked or your history and details leaked or sold by an insider at the exchange.  You have to assume that everyone will know exactly how much you have that is KYC.  Balance that knowledge with the fact that you’ll likely WANT KYC bitcoin in the future for normal regular life when it moons and you want to make legitimate purchases, take profit at times, etc… however, you def want to stack non-KYC to have financial freedom and “fuck you” money… only you can know what the right balance is for you.  Obviously if we could all do it perfect from the beginning we would never have used a KYC exchange, but it’s part of the process for most (unfortunately), you’re still way ahead of the game.  Any questions let me know feel free to DM


That will depend on your government and how aggressively they chase people who they know whirlpool their funds using chain analysis in the future… basically, we don’t know what the consequences will be, so you’re better off either selling the KYC and re-stacking non-KYC, or simply partitioning your KYC stack in a separate stack and start stacking non-KYC in a different wallet that never mixes or touches the other (my suggestion is to evaluate how much you still have left to stack and make a call based on knowing that likely in the future you’ll want both types of stacks)


💯🎯🙌 🫂🧡⚡stack #sats and #studybitcoin #btc ⚡💜🧡⚡💯🎯🙌🫂 https://image.nostr.build/e06967ecec348b9d1c9f93085e2e4cd3f35e5a83a80877e7683c377eda9a9f8b.jpg


I use Bisq and in my opinion it’s the best option for stacking no-KYC


Clarify the question please… do you mean you want to clean your existing KYC stack? (You would have to sell and re-stack non-KYC or face consequences of whirlpooling known KYC funds) or that you want to start stacking no-KYC?


Did the same today 🤜🏼🤛🏼 along with bone broth, organs and fresh meat 🥩


My November public newsletter is hot off the presses:

https://www.lynalden.com/november-2023-newsletter/

It focuses on bitcoin more than most of my public newsletters.


Note to Self:

What is the point of having “Fuck You” freedom money, if you don’t have “Fuck You” privacy & control over your digital life?

#nostr #plebchain #btc #bitcoin #sovereign #freedomtech #pleb


Bitcoin maxi currently organizing a permaculture homestead community in Mexico + building a kitesurf club retreat in Colombia.  Carnivore diet, fitness addict

#introductions #plebchain


Bitcoin maxi currently organizing a permaculture homestead community in Mexico + building a kitesurf club retreat in Colombia.  Carnivore diet, fitness addict & coach, learning + using freedom tech

#introductions #plebchain


Bitcoin maxi currently organizing a permaculture homestead community in Mexico + building a kitesurf club retreat in Colombia.  Carnivore diet, fitness addict & coach, learning + using freedom tech, Moto + Overlanding adventures

#introductions #plebchain


Bitcoin maxi currently organizing a permaculture homestead community in Mexico + building a kitesurf club retreat in Colombia.  Carnivore diet, fitness addict & coach, learning + using freedom tech, Moto + Overlanding adventures, surf, kitesurfing

#introductions #plebchain


Bitcoin maxi currently organizing a permaculture homestead community in Mexico + building a kitesurf club retreat in Colombia.  Carnivore diet, fitness addict & coach, learning + using freedom tech, Moto + Overlanding adventures, surf, kitesurfing, MuayThai, Sci-fi & fantasy

#introductions #plebchain


Bitcoin maxi currently organizing a permaculture homestead community in Mexico + building a kitesurf club retreat in Colombia.  Carnivore diet, fitness addict & coach, learning + using freedom tech, Moto + Overlanding adventures, surf, kitesurfing, MuayThai, Sci-fi & fantasy loving

#introductions #plebchain


Bitcoin maxi currently organizing a permaculture homestead community in Mexico + building a kitesurf club retreat in Colombia.  Carnivore diet, fitness addict & coach, learning + using freedom tech, Moto + Overlanding adventures, surf, kitesurfing, MuayThai, Sci-fi & fantasy loving nomad

#introductions #plebchain


Bitcoin maxi currently organizing a permaculture homestead community project in Oaxaca, Mexico while building a kitesurf club retreat in Guajira, Colombia.  Carnivore diet lover, fitness addict & coach, learning and using freedom tech, Moto + Overlanding camping adventures, surf, kitesurfing, MuayThai,
Sci-fi & fantasy loving nomad

#introductions #plebchain


Note to Self:

You’ve come so far… but you aren’t done yet.

In fact, this is just the beginning.

You have only just begun to stack

#nostr #bitcoin #maxi #plebchain #btc


- Many people refer to the aggregate of all lightning channels as 'The Lightning Network' but this is a false premise. There is no singular 'Lightning Network' but rather many payment channels between distinct peers, some connected with each other and some not.

- Lightning as an interoperable payment protocol between professional custodians seems to have found solid product market fit. Expect significant volume, adoption, and usage going forward.

- Lightning as a robust sovereign payment protocol has yet to be battle tested. Heavy reliance on Tor, which has had massive reliability issues, the friction of active liquidity management, interactivity constraints on mobile, and lack of strong privacy guarantees put it at risk.

https://www.discreetlog.com/the-lightning-network-does-not-exist/


- daily walks in morning and evening
- consistent strength training on a regimented and structured program
- cutting out all grains & sugar
- cutting out all vegetables
- sourcing regenerative meat & organs
- daily meditation
- daily journaling / gratitude


A pro-bitcoin president of Argentina would be pretty wild.

Argentina has 7x the population of El Salvador.


Note to Self:

- You didn’t get #bitcoin at first.
- You ignored it when you’re friends told you about it.
- Even though you have lived in 2 Communist nations for 6 years of your life, it still took 10+ coffee sessions with a seasoned maxi deftly answering all of your questions before you cared enough to buy and read The Bitcoin Standard
- You got #bitcoin at the price you deserved, and so will they
- They will have to go through the same discovery process as you did, but likely without the time cushion and access “small” maxi community like nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx who generously were available to answer questions and produce free content
- Pay it forward by using freedom tech and teaching others what you have learned
- The learning never stops, you are not done yet, keep going
- Fuck the State

#nostr #maxi #privacy #freedom #fuckthefed


On schedule… just finishing would be a great start!!!!

The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear are 2 of the top 50 books I’ve ever read.  I have patiently waited for the 3rd book all these years, faithfully checking every couple months, only to be disappointed again and again… then, 3 years later a spin-off book comes out… back to waiting…

10 fucking years later, a god-damned DECADE later… finally, a new book! Wait… WTF?! Another spin-off???  I refuse to read it, and honestly am just amazed at the sheer gall and complete lack of focus that would see a fucking second tangent story be produced before the next book of a series that arguably could become one of the top in the genre ever written… IF IT IS EVER GOT FINISHED 😤


#bitcoin is too risky…

#btc #memestr #memes #nostr https://image.nostr.build/e54aac6ed450dfc7bb4e664a1733c1acfd3369aee3262a6b9d41af45ae32e03c.jpg


#hodl your #bitcoin 🔥

#memestr #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/7ec785b0414e9584072aaf2d061f556e241d86cfb2dc57604e5dc71e61b77ac4.jpg


For Mac users, Southern Bitcoiner’s YouTube instructional videos for Sparrow wallet are well-explained, to the point and much shorter than most.. and he has further how-to with Sparrow using ColdCard hww

https://youtu.be/MyDMvjGFdDE?si=z_C6JREgjnDfuWPd


Accurate nostr:note1464uafttj20xczfsvvw2znr2zjpysunagkuq8h6h28lfw7aj6ffqqy6j20


📈🔥

#btc #bitcoin #memestr #meme https://image.nostr.build/bb1f14645765e89e77f019775663efccf191fad06db003c9dfa228554a74853e.jpg


Alright, I’ll give it another go… I’m headed back to the States soon anyways 🤜🏼🤛🏼


Thanks for the feedback… I am traveling often with little space in my bag & my previous 2 SeedSigners were protected as best I could, but still destroyed them both (just too much movements/manhandling for the traditional case I think)...  The aluminum seems like a huge upgrade but I’m still leery about exposed buttons


Thanks for the feedback… Tough to spend more $ after breaking 2 of them already, but I do love the project so maybe I’ll give it one more try


Note to self:  Never fucking sell…

No matter how beautiful that ranch is,
or how cool that truck is,
or how badass that rifle is…

just keep HODLing #bitcoin for at least 3 full cycles / 12 years and you’ll have everything material you ever wanted


Celtic salt + Himalayan salt has everything you need… use both for complete spread


Great device but too delicate, that unit won’t survive even casual travel.  Buttons need to be flush with casing… useless to anyone who is on the move, unfortunately


Great upgrade!  if I might humbly make a suggestion… protruding buttons basically make the device unable to survive even normal travel without damage… even with the aluminum case, those buttons with snag and become points of failure.  Making the case so that the buttons are level or flush with the surface of the casing would drastically increase durability for those who travel frequently and need a dependable device that isn’t going to break easily.  I would buy several the first day :-)


Remember, remember…

Stay sharp out there… war is upon us


15 years. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf


The fact that Elon Musk's title is "Technoking" and Jack Dorsey's title is "Block Head", speaks volumes.

One is about ego, and one is not. But more importantly we can see the difference in their actions more than titles from there.

Elon wants to build Twitter or the shitty name "X" into the next WeChat, with himself as the leader. He has literally said this. I used to be able to report bots on Twitter easily for many years, but now I have to show a drivers' ID to report someone that copies my persona even as a 600k following paid blue check, and so I don't bother anymore, and therefore bots proliferate. And if you don't pay for reach, you get devalued. Only in the past few months have I had to show my ID to report my countless bot copiers if I want to report them on Twitter/X. And so their rate of removal has decreased. If my Nym differs a bit from my name, well LET'S FILE SOME TPS REPORTS!!!! (which wasn't previously the case). And so as bots proliferate, and as Musk fails to contain bots as he promised he would and bragged about with memes, he will instead reference his own self-created bot problem as a reason to require even more ID requirements and try to build his US version of the Chinese Communist Party WeChat app. This is exactly what governments do. In my professional opinion, after careful consideration, Elon Musk can ::check notes::  politely go fuck himself, and those who worship him should reconsider what exactly they show blind obedience toward.

Meanwhile, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m helps improve the Bitcoin network and the Nostr network and has put capital into them in various ways, and Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader. The fact that Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader, is specifically why Jack puts time and capital into them. He funds many different companies, and for bitcoin, Cash App has been among the networks to incorporate Lightning early. Yes, Cash App deals with domestic compliance issues. But they are trying, and they are early. Their network can connect to many others, like an email provider using SMTP to connect to many others. They're open, they're trying. And now they are making Bitkey, which helps with self custody. They're certainly not a directional enemy of freedom in the way that Twitter/X has been.

Companies that incorporate open networks with various levels of compliance trump companies that purposely don't adopt open networks and instead push new ID requirements, in my book.

+10 Jack
-10 Elon
Any day of the week.


Note to self: Death is not the end, and should not be feared… it is simply a transition, a stage of passing from one existence to another… let go of that which does not serve you, and cultivate that which does… this life is a gift


A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.


I always go 6 eggs… never gets old 👌🏼


- Bisq peer to peer (see wiki page)
-Store with Sparrow Wallet on desktop or (if mobile then Samurai if android or Blue Wallet if Apple user)
- Follow nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 for tutorials
- Move stack to cold storage using Coldcard + Sparrow once they’ve stacked significantly

Only recommend non-KYC P2P decentralized solutions whenever possible


Note to Self:  If you cannot stay calm, and think clearly during the small, daily troubles life brings… how will you be able to handle the big storm when it comes?

Breathe…
Use your brain…
Do not submit to emotions…
Connect to the body…
Then, act


Thank God I stayed humble and stacked sats this entire bear market…

nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx 🙏🏼 your message is greatly appreciated


My strategy (for what it’s worth) after looking around in the States and realizing I would have to overpay for everything (land/materials/labor/insurance/healthcare/etc:

- Establish residency in a growing market  where the people have more power than the government (currently Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Purchase land near (but not inside) popular tourist destination with amenities I want
- Build using my hands and volunteers when possible… vision on future of quality homestead with like minded permaculture/bitcoin community
- Once community is established, will try for a second location/residency (next is El Salvador)


As developed nations continue to enter sovereign debt crises akin to the 1940s, there are a few main outcomes.

https://m.primal.net/HOLa.png

Option 1) In a world without bitcoin, or if bitcoin fails, central banks and their governments recapitalize themselves with gold, devalue the people, and do another cycle of this inflationary policy for the next few generations. The Treasury/Fed handbook literally has a written option for this, although it is stated more opaquely. It can be done in the US (and probably many other countries) based on current laws if shit hits the fan. Denmark's central bank and China's economic ministers have also written similar things regarding extreme outcomes. It's pretty straightforward based on the past.

Option 2) We go into a centralized technocratic future. Centralized AI and CBDCs win. People have cuck money that the AI+government control. It's like Brave New World, 1984, take your pick. Hard to say, but not free.

Option 3) Open source money wins. Bitcoin and its ecosystem win. Governments get defunded from their fiat printers, and have to be more honest with their ledgers or default and get reconstructed since they can't print what their people hold as savings, or in the hegemon's case, can't print what the world holds. Probably a world of chaos for a time during the transition, but also an opportunity for peace and building the next era. Keeping track of the nukes would probably be a big deal, like when the Soviet Union fell. It's actually kind of remarkable that they collapsed economically and politically but in an orderly enough way to keep track of and secure most of the nukes.

I don't know which one will win, but I consider Option 3 to be the honorable method; the path of transparency. That's the one I am rooting for and building for.

If I fail, I would like it written that it's the method I tried for, but realistically the AI+government will probably delete most of the records of all of the failures anyway, since that is how history works, without any sort of objective truth keeper. Our best hope is to hide records in a distributed way and hope they can remain undisturbed for a while. At least bitcoiners have a tendency to write stuff in steel and make low time preference things. Some psychopath will hopefully carve a life work in steel in a cave or something, but who knows, lol.

And ironically, if Option 3 wins, any of the losing factions could still insert their ideas and paths into the Bitcoin blockchain, now or in the future. It's the most immutable database that we know how to build, and would preserve their ideas as it does our ideas. Like, you know what? I *want* the Communist Manifesto to be in the immutable Bitcoin blockchain, because I want people in the future to know how *bad* it is. It might already be in there; I don't know. I wouldn't want people centuries from now to think about those ideas and believe they came up with something new; I want to preserve my enemies' texts because I believe I can win through markets, force, virtue, and truth.

I think that's almost always what determines the winning side. Losers want to burn their enemies' texts to ensure that their good ideas don't spread too much. Winners want to preserve their enemies' texts to ensure that their bad ideas are never repeated.


FinCEN’s proposal to outlaw all crypto privacy is a huge overreach. They apply a section of the Patriot Act on a “class of transactions” in a new precedent. Doesn’t matter if it’s custodial or noncustodial- merely using certain type of code can be an illegal act.

People are caught by the potential spot ETF, meanwhile this is proposed. Now they fight you.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fincen-wants-to-outlaw-certain-bitcoin-on-chain-transactions/


rights are not granted - rights are taken and defended


I believe the brand of the adult diaper is called Depends


We are living in crazy fucking times… nostr:note1sam48lx3nrkj8wwxq6lhnmhhhpmdcjawcmzpm2x7k8ldzkrgn7pqg4mr3g