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 Gm nostriches. On-chain is cheap, mempool closing in on 50k, sub 20k are slightly higher fees. #Mempool may clear, but with 3sats/vb, don’t even care whether they actually clear. Consolidate UTXOs, pay with #bitcoin

We will look back on this time as the “good old days” in less time that you think. Time for the next #coffeechain
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 Swapping Biden for Harris is like shitting your pants and changing your shirt.  

Heard this on o... 
 Sharing this with my aunt who I saw in a Harris/walz shirt….. wish me luck. 
 Ga nostriches, wrote a paragraph about my dog in my book, and welled up. While proof reading it, it didn’t do the dog justice, so have had to rewrite it. Welled up again, and feel like I’m sort of giving him the respect he deserved. Not a book about dogs (ops improvement, inflation and #Bitcoin) and who knows if anyone else will get a twinge when they read it, but also, my book, my dog, no editor will get me to remove it. Peace out freaks. Stay humble, and stack pats. 
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 Love the BBC with their unbiased reporting, “look how many rich pensioners there are now  compared to 2010”.

Hmmm, let us consider the value of that £1 million in 2010 compared to today. Taking official cpi figures, £1 million today would be worth £683207 in 2010, but based on actual inflation I would say closer to £400k.

So in fact I’d say there are likely slightly more with around £1.5m reported cpi but probably less than 9% with around £2.75m actual inflation adjusted “millionaires”
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 “Just so you know, fellow company CEOs, just because you’re waiting for ‘the right time’ to begin your #bitcoin treasury accumulation, doesn’t mean I’m going to stop or even slow down mine. As with nation level adoption, the longer you wait, the further behind you’ll be” not @saylor, but can imagine him saying it. Happy Saturday freaks.
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 Gm nostriches, grabbing some quite #catstr and #coffeechain time, with some #tylers charts, love and “explosive move” in the morning….. #bitcoin explodes from 1btc to 100m sat!!! Now to catch up on the George Gammon and the finish of #topgun. 🫡
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 When you put it like that, maybe, just maybe there are some ulterior motives flying around here or there….. 
 If you suddenly lost ALL of your #Bitcoin today, how would you go about rebuilding your stack?

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 Like the dude on Once bitten, who lost 25btc? Chilling, but stay positive, stay humble and stack sats. Even if you go back to zero, you’re still ahead of the 99% with your understanding. 🫡🙌 
 You fail 100% of the shots you don’t take, guaranteed. 
 Unsure, but I did the math and it seams to check out. 🫡 
 6 grade math is my limit. 
 Isn’t wine backing based on tacit knowledge? If so, doubt this should hold you back. 
 Me bad. Soz. 
 True nostr:note1ftxt996ra03hjtzwe7q4pfc4walp0fw5eamlv9aw6w93xs39qvgqq5ysqp 
 Or get a shout out for making awesome wine on the Blockware podcast with @HODL, should also help improve following. 
 Lovely work @Princey and  @Susie And Bill, highlighting the issues being experienced in the UK and great to hear the efforts you are putting in. #bitcoin is going to make it, but unless the UK wakes up, it is be left behind.

We used to “Rule the waves”, if we fumble this, we’ll just be an indebted has been, where all the young and creative individuals have left, long ago, to welcoming shores where the future is bright.

https://fountain.fm/episode/BKEsAFhUYNAlOArjMBAR 
 Hello again Nostr 
 Mornjng sir. 🫡🙌 
 If you feel like you can’t tell your boss to GF themselves when they ask you to do someone you don’t believe in, maybe you’re short #Bitcoin. 
 Gm nostriches. Today is a fucking awesome day and I’m stoked. Fiat mine sucks but I’m still stoked. #bitcoin prices is “stable” or boring, but I’m still stoked.

Four years ago today, this was the price when bitcoin was boring us and everyone was wondering if the halving had done anything fundamental.

Deep breath, stay humble and stack sats. But also LFG
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 They took the gold from your pockets. 
 Has Marty zapped.today? Yes, yes he has. Also big shout out to @Ian and @mandana for giving a sneak preview of the song.

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 Mama gotta pay for all those expensive chicken fingers the kiddies want for dinner. 
 ALL of the things measured from within a system that steals from you are designed to keep you in ... 
 Happy Saturday!!!! I’m asking the question to myself whether I start the revolution during the work “away day” on Wednesday. Also routed in no one being able to appreciate the system they’re operating within. 
 Loving the nostr city track. Unsure what the family will say when I put it on high volume in the car. 
 Ga nostriches, bought this bike 4 years ago, paid with paper gains from the bitcoin I bought 4 months earlier. Fortunately didn’t sell any, as by the time it actually arrived, price had 4x’d that would have made it the most expensive bike ever!!!!

Feeling it might be time to make it an epoch tradition, maybe time for another bike, but while I still won’t be selling any coin, I won’t even use cash this time, #cycletowork has this bike’s name all over it. Buy with debt baby!!!!! #bitcoin 
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 Loved it……. When my kid learns about the battle of Hastings, I’m now able to provide some important additional context for her. 🫡🙌 
 Get into bitcoin for the freedom, stay for the history lesson. 
 When I listen to Mitchell, it often feels like I’m listening to my younger self. Has a lot of information , but maybe not the experience to understand what it all means. Impressive calmness @HODL 

Clever guy (maybe) but rather naïve as well. Get with the programme and come over to the nostr “circle jerk”. Freedom, literature (cheers @Max Hillebrand and @HodlSolo) and living a good life, without the walled, censored, cucked, surveilled, rage bating “X” “for you” garbage feed.

Hey, I’m already here, you don’t need to convince me to ditch Twitter!!! nostr:note16vz6yphen094algzpuwfe03tc2am3dxxy9u3cu89kku7mrrc8kssn08tya 
 Gm nostriches, happy Thursday freaks. #coffeechain starting my day early before a day not having to go into the soul crushing fiat mine…… rise and grind and fashion the tunnel out of the fiat gulag.
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 like listening to my wife, other than the 2014 thing @hodl

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#bitcoin #grownostr #blockware 
 @HODL just over a week until I’ll be playing your clip to my students. Pretty excited!!! 
 Looking to the moment some cash enters my bank account…… fyi “save it just in case” and “treat the fam” have been set aside for the moment. #bitcoin @MADEX 
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 We reject: kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

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 🫡🙌 as it should be. 
 Anyone else felt like the distraction yesterday was a huge waste of time? I was expecting more fi... 
 Fireworks with dull dull, choreographed to within an inch of her life Kamala? 
 Damn it, the consequence of this favourite characteristic is that #bitcoin has no counterparty risk. This is the undervalued characteristic that when the market wakes up, will cause a stampede to bet some credit default insurance (cheers Foss) 

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 Gm nostriches, quick thought, what is a democracy? when the people YOU voted for can’t vote in line with their morals, and the best interests of their voters without fear of losing their seat and being expelled from “the party”, Is it really a “democracy”, when those at the top of the party make their choices and push through the laws?

Maybe, just maybe, if laws only got passed because they had bi partisan support, a lot fewer laws would be passed, the laws would better/less extreme and there wouldn’t be lurching from one ideology to another between parliaments. And who knows, there would be less emergencies, and fingers crossed, less national debt….

What have labour done so far:
1. Locked up people who post on X
2. Given a massive pay rise to Their Union supporters
3. Release shit loads of criminals, to make space for no.1
4. Taken away your Grandma’s extra support for her heating this winter.

If there was no “party whip”, would this dramatic, Hollywood style of politics in the first few weeks on office be able to happen?

This shit’s messed up. Buy #bitcoin and choose freedom.

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 “If you speak the truth clearly enough, evading it becomes difficult; and when people lose the ability to evade reality, they may become violent”. Rosenberg on Britain. #wayfaring #bitcoin escape valve. 
 OUR GRANDFATHERS FLEW PRIMITIVE PLANES INTO WAR BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE THE BALLS TO DELETE YOUR X AC... 
 “But what about a cucked, hamstrung, censored reach?” This is the voice of the bleacheck’s cognitive dissonance. 
 Ga nostriches!! By far and away my favourite characteristic of Bitcoin is its ability to be held in self custody and transacted with your own node, without anyone able to prevent that. 

When more people realise this, they will wish they had more.

When the legacy system crashes, fiat price may be volatile, but when the dust settles, outside physical metal coin, #bitcoin will be the only payments network that functions and the only thing you’ll want in exchange for goods and service. 
 Help me fellow nostriches, any idea what one should do (obviously asking for a “friend”) if you happen to see a relative in a “Harris Walz” shirt? 
 Thanks buddy, “Don’t worry, meemar’s extra government overreach will make all your problems magically disappear.“ 🫠 
 More socially acceptable to the Japanese approach of 5whys for root cause analysis!!! I like it. 
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 it starts at the top with unrealised gains, and then it cascades down. Beware of the Kamala. 

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#taxcreep #bitcoin 
 Gm nostriches, Dave Cullum usually shows up in my @bitcoinmatrix feed, but will listen to him anyway I can cheers Pomp (get on nostr bru). Stay frosty out there, don’t believe inflation, prepare for the debt bust and realise, we’re not actually producing much. 

Dave I hands down my favourite chemist!!!! 

Stay humble and stack sats. 

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 And where called conspiracy theorists if we say there is a connection between all these “coincidences’ 
 80iq  keeping me safe everyday. No one suspects a thing. 🫡 
 Strong men realise the individual is the most powerful unit, so focus upon upon being their best, so they don’t need to rely on anyone. Stay strong, stay humble, stack and secure sats. 
 Waiting for the maple leaf to drop. 
 Gm nostriches, getting myself ready for the “annual staff development week”, but realise it is just “here are the new bull shit jobs we’re expecting you to do while doing all the other shit we told you, you HAD to do last year…..” the joys of the fiat mine.

Come on bitty, give me a pump so I can ask “what’s the fucking point?” Knowing everything will be just fine #grownostr #growfreedom #reducefiatmining 
 “I’m sorry friends, but there is no unity magic. In fact, all evidence leads to the opposite conclusion: If anything approaching magic is to be found, it is in individuality” The unity ideal by prestor John, #wayfaring.

If a government promises you want you want, chances are they’ll be taking it from someone else, or you’ll end up paying for it yourself through inflation. I vote #bitcoin.
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 What inflation metric do you use?
It makes a massive difference.

The equivalent of $100 from 199... 
 I used a mars bar, disregarding all their cost saving and rationalisation of supply chains and reduction of ingredient quality, taking account of shrinkflation, inflation was 4%, which worked out at the value of the currency being cut in 3 over the past 30 years. And the present cpi low
So they only have to give you a minimal pay rise….. 
 Awesome Dario Perkins on the market huddle, explaining how higher interest rates break mmt, but also house Canada, uk and Sweden are all canneries in the macro coal mine, only question is, which will go bust first and cause contagion!!!! Basically, increasing rates won’t do anything if the banks cook the books by allowing interest rates to not affect the home owner. https://fountain.fm/clip/vedEOKLRIu2AvAi9dQH0 
 Canada looks really dangerous https://fountain.fm/clip/vedEOKLRIu2AvAi9dQH0# 
#markethuddle 
 Love the near weekly question of “@MartyBent, do you still think mempools will ever clear?” @ODELL. But now realised (well, @TheGuySwann and @GrassFedBitcoin actually helped me realise) , if there at 65mb or 35 blocks worth of transactions of 1 or 2 sats/vB, they will never clear. Feels like  equilibrium as been reached.

When you need a transaction quickly, 4sats/vB gets it done and that’s cheap as!!!, willing to take some time, maybe 2sats/vB, but honestly, will there ever be so few of these ultimately very low fee transactions to allow for so many 1 and 2 sat transactions to be processed? 

Unless the number of new transaction falls massively for hours on end, I doubt it. I reckon all those 1sat/vb “cheapskates” need to resend transactions with higher fees to get them processed. 

Actually don’t care. Onchain transactions are cheap and they’re always plenty of transactions waiting to be processed. #bitcoin
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 But ultimately, would a block of 1sat/vB really be that significant? it would be total transaction fee of around 0.00004btc. 
 “Cheapskate” didn’t come off well, as these could be people around the world, but the idea of viewing the mempool as full, in my eyes anyway as now been altered. It it full as the fees I’m willing to pay? If not, mempools have cleared for me and I say 3 sat/vB is pretty close to free for me. 🫡🙌 
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 Absolutely, shitcoiners. 
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 Go on, say it, say it, say it, say it. Waiting for the excitement to bubble up to the surface and I’m able to tick this off my bullrun bingo card. Still much love for Dan Held, anyone know if he’s ok? #bitcoin
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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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 Politics:

Tyranny by your guy is unacceptable. 

Tyranny by my guy is ok. 
 But the “majority” voted our guy in…… 
 "The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist."

- Elon... 
 Or “the biggest waste is to do efficiently, that which should not be done at all” Peter d”Drucker. 🫡🙌