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 The problem changes when I have to say, I don’t want to buy Amazon vouchers with my #bitcoin. 
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 Gm nostriches, happy rainy Saturday freaks!!!!! Got reminded why the fiat mine , as with fiat money, needs relegating to the history books. Partially fixed by dinner out with the fam, seeing a cool car and a little too much burger……. What I loved? Getting boasted sats and all Instagram could do was some “likes”!!! What can you do with a like? Fuck all.

Let’s ditch fiat mines, and build freedom tech, whether #grownostr or #bitcoin, it is likely the best way of being able to live a life where you grow, improve and learn what you want/need, sufficient to feel, 

“yes I have contributed something”, 

Instead of completing fiat duties for a fiat overlord, who also like hate their jobs.

But first, #coffeechin
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 Ha ha ha, this is awful, first lesson of freedom, get in a spot where the actions of government don’t affect you, so they lunacy is simply amusing rather than soul crushing. Gm rune. 
 Classic auto while I was out for dinner with the fam……. Lovely very early 90’s #porsche #porsche964. Ridiculous number plate though. https://image.nostr.build/ae07f9f69c332d02ed1afd7ccb0be79c0b8a148b0e40030641339225475248ea.jpg  
 There was a pristine 993 that came up in a local paper, and it was that or a house. I’m confident I made the wrong choice!!! 
 Classic auto while I was out for dinner with the fam……. Lovely very early 90’s #porsche #porsche964. Ridiculous number plate though. 
 If you play your game Keynesian, then I'll play my game Misesian. 
 You take your paper, I’ll take my hard currency. 
 Gm nostriches. 

First week back in the fiat mine after a bit of a summer break. Breached regulations by trying to help a student with corrections, marked some very questionable student submissions and realised this morning I hadn’t marked other student submissions and my department head contacted me to get on it. FML

Holy crap, really need to get out of this car wreck, come on satoshi, help me out, let me go full time #bitcoin!!! 
 🫡🙌 I like the idea. Academic bitcoin degen is my current dream job!!! 
 THERE WILL BE MANY SPAM ATTACKS ON NOSTR. THEY WILL GET MORE CREATIVE OVER TIME.

WE WILL MITIGAT... 
 How is your trading going sir? 🤦‍♂️ like being back on the bird app!!! 
 Hello. 

The US government now pays over $3 billion of interest on its debt per day.

Have a grea... 
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 Wasn’t silver 1.3t a few months back? Hey silver bugs, you doin’ ok? 
 AS NOSTR ADOPTION ACCELERATES THOSE WITH LARGE AUDIENCES ON CENTRALIZED PLATFORMS WILL LASH OUT A... 
 What is “reach” when the message is censored? 
 I need to step up my game@Speedster71 is a much nicer guy that me, but in my defence, I haven’t finished it yet…. 
 Reduce exposure to the fiat house of cards, every day. #bitcoin 
 Gm nostriches, Mark Moss bringing the fire this morning. Love discussions that talk about the other side of the equation, #bitcoin NGU is partly due to dollar NGD!!! Some day, we don’t know when, shit will get real and no one wants to be scrabbling. Stay humble, stake sats, and reduce fiat exposure. #grownosr #destroyfiat  https://youtu.be/IJmQ_hq25eI?si=V6JJ2oWYseuTQ83_ 
 Oh yeah, it’s a very good day Nic. 🫡🙌 
 Many interesting comments in this thread on what made people "wake up" - something which obviousl... 
 Atlas shrugged at around the age of 33, had a few years break, then fell down the rabbit hole 
 For the first time, my book Magic Internet Money has been published in another language: Danish

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 Impressive. 🫡🙌 
 I've gotten 9 hours of sleep two nights in a row and I feel like I can take over the world.  
 Sleep goals = life goals 
 So, biggest management conference in the uk, 2 papers related to Bitcoin in the entire proceedings of hundreds of papers, but they managed to schedule them at the same time. Ffs. Britain is not going to make it. #bitcoin 
 “Keep thinking, keep improving, keep creating. Remember that once people leave their pursuit of the high and great, they are left to define their happiness by comparison with their neighbours. That gets ugly in a hurry. ” Phillip Donson, a lodging of #wayfaring men, on contributing to #bitcoin.  
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 Yes, @Max Hillebrand has done an audio version he likes it so much. 
 I thought the book was as over then BAM 💥 , in your face reader. https://image.nostr.build/0459cff59b27325e8405b3fae00b5667440a62cc73010423f4b9c8ab2da453d3.jpg  
 Gm nostriches. Presenting my first bitcoin conference paper tomorrow at the British academy of management conference , starting with Bitcoin is all the things you didn’t know about X, where “X” is economics, money, energy etc. 

May also have to inform them that every Bitcoin transaction uses as much water as a domestic swimming pool!!!!  Feeling the need to have a little fun and deciding whether or not to wear my “don’t care, never selling” @FOMO21Shop shirt. Definitely wearing my honey badger @Coinkite  cap #bitcoin 
 Ha ha ha, the clouds are wasting so much water, they’re just throwing it away!!!!!!! 
 maybe the manifesto edit will be my last twitter release… focus on NOsTR 
 This is the way. 🫡🙌 
 Lovely shirt @Max Keiser, sr. bitcoin advisor to Pres. Bukele ... . Didn’t think I’d ever be watching George Galloway!!! Nice to hear he’s a #bitcoin o.g.
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 ask yourself 

what value is this providing me? 
 Freedom to openly communicate, that is valuable. 
 Wow, that sounds super fun! A bitcoin treasure hunt? Count me in for the next one! 🪙✨ Hope y... 
 There is a bitcoin magazine article that inspired the idea. 
 “Good morning students, the school thinks this research module is just the same as all the other modules, so doubled seminar sizes and halved the amount of hours you receive in support. They don’t value this module. I’ve put £100 of my own money into a prize for this module, I value this module. Good luck moving forward.” What I’m going to say to my students in the first session, that and a quote from @HODL to put the fear of compliance in them. #bitcoin in education. 
 Oh, should have said, the prize was a bitcoin treasure hunt. 
 Happy Monday freaks, if you’re celebrating Labor day, gfy 😘, if it’s your kids first day on school, well done is surviving the holidays. Time to get back to the grind. nostr:note1jngep60qe39a3h2edc8uu35x6pw8l40vx5y286r35yssr65fau6qpa6qtg 
 So why are you so against unions?

Hmmm, £4 is no super-rich. Stop being jealous of everyone who had worked hard and hasn’t relied on “their union” to save them.

I would correct that statement from “would raise £25bn” to “unlikely to raise anything once ‘the super rich’ use that 1% to change their ownership arrangements”

Labour in the UK. 
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 Sunday morning #coffeechain and downhill mountain biking world championships rerun from Andorra yesterday. Good times. 
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 Ha ha ha, opened insta and saw the women’s results, so I should be able to deal with this!!!! 
 Gm nostriches, happy Sunday freaks. Summer doldrums are maybe behind us, now I’m ready for Diptember, let’s effing go. Low fees, #coffeechain, and monthly 10k done. Fiat mine tomorrow less good……. But also have a Bitcoin paper to work on, so not completely rubbish #runningbitcoin #bitcoin
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 Oh yes, it is a very good morning. Hope you have a great one. 
 Anyone out there used jam joinmarket on #start9? #bitcoin #takeresponsibility have awareness of your footprints. 
 Pocket steak also got a mention in my book!!!! Subtly spread the peony lane messaging. 
 And the picket fluff might add a little extra fibre, although I informed my mother, steak was a good source of fibre!!!! Bitcoin sourced knowledge they never saw coming. 
 I’m in it for the bouquet. 
 Leaf out of Canada’s playbook, add people who take minimal wage, completely overlook the gbp per capita metric! 
 When my boss tells me he’s changed my job to something I no longer want to do or consider valuable, I’m able to just say no. Give people the ability to do only do work that is ethical. Allow them to save in #bitcoin. 
 Gm ostriches, wondering if I should be worried or feel a sense of achievement that Russell Brand has turned up in my YouTube feed recently, and really rather enjoying what I’m watching. He likes using so me ridiculous words, but he asks some pretty good questions. Would love to hear what he has to say about  #bitcoin and why the heck isn’t he on nostr #grownostr
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 If there was a story going around that I was gifted a chunk of bitcoin, I’d have certainly “lost it” along the way, but that does sound familiar. Just looked through his Bitcoin tweets, and there is very limited history before this year. 
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 Absolutely, but the adverts are so overtly “they gave me money to shill this crap”, it is at least amusing. 
 First post of x for a while to invite him over. 
 And he’s be able to earn sats!!! 
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 Bru, set up a lightning wallet, just tried to zap you! ⚡️ 
 No apologies needed, we all started somewhere, good luck. Primal.net has a wallet integrated, and transferring some zapping sats is quite easy. 
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 Absolutely loving the final WBD, add in @adam3us and this would be the makings of my ideal #Bitcoin steak dinner (may already have a chopping board and wine all ready for the event…..). Love @MADEX guest appearance, @jack mallers bringing fire. @ODELL staying humble and @harry delivering with signal and the voice. Great way to finish the top bitcoin podcast. https://fountain.fm/episode/S7hb3aMjbXMYsbHpIDNl 
 Hey @MADEX, I reckon @jack mallers also needs a new t-shirt!!! Add in a little @harry cobra oil, and it’s a sure fire winner.
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 Ga nostriches. May have finished my book. 90k words, covers some operations issues, involves some wine drinking and a few rather nuanced anecdotes. Don’t it will ever be a best seller, but maybe gives a new, if rather protracted way of introducing #bitcoin to a new crowd. So, now back to the start to start fixing all my typos and inability to connect my brain to my fingers
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 Am an academic, so proof reading is really part of the job from the start, but  once it makes sense to get the next draft out. 🫡 
 Thank you, will keep you posted. 
 Fiat brains: "But Bitcoin has no real utility."

Me: "#Bitcoin is decentralized, secure, neutral... 
 When your bank is closed or your account has been frozen (frozen) and you have to pay a bill, come back and tell me bitcoin has no utility. 🫡🙌 
 Bitrefill and Bill’s from @BullBitcoin are at least helping with this, add in a little circular economy, one day you’ll have no fiat bills. 🫡 
 Good point, but the value of transacting outside the fiat system is not insignificant, now. Even if it is not ubiquitous, yet, not having the option or skills is a big risk for those people who see no value in it. 
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