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 I am nostr only and don't have an account on twitter / X.  
 This is the way. 
 Germany's decision to sell its vast Bitcoin holdings, despite having three times Bhutan's amount,... 
 Combine that with mothballing nuclear plants. NGL, Germany is NGMI. 
 You may be a professor in finance, but I appear to understand bitcoin better than you, 
 Look what fiat took from us. 😭 
 If you don’t stack these cheap sats, someone less awesome than yourself might. Maybe even someone you don’t like, which is fine, but best not take the chance. Gm pv 
 Gm nostriches, remember, treat your coin today like it’s worth $10 million a coin, and help your loved ones do the same. Be the “uncle Jim” in your family. Cheers @NVK for the care package, my future grandkids (🤞) thank you. #grownostr #bitcoin 
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 Which to you recommend first for a no/pre coiner? #bitcoin
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 Unorthodox choice, I like it. 
 Your eyes are better than mine. 🤔 
 Good choice. 
 Given the reaction I got to hiding a twelve word seedphrase in course material for final year university students, I’m going to go with “never” 
 Ga freaks, played @HODL'S clip about if you’re uncurious you will life a bad life, not sure they quite got it, also didn’t stop it before he dropped an F!!!! 100 undergraduates and only one appeared to know what the seed words related to, “is it for a metamask wallet”.  🤦‍♂️ 

Maybe it will help them look into something they don’t let know about, here’s hoping they can show some curiosity and aren’t all destined to have a shit existence.

My 7 year old know more about this stuff than they did, #bitcoin https://fountain.fm/clip/21NFHx4hTdvw4sVUVbcG 
 Gm nostriches, the fiat overlords don’t care and will abuse you mercilessly if you let them or feel you can’t resist.

Buy #bitcoin, push back. 
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 I’ve already drained my flask of coffee. 😭 
 Pocket steak! 
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 Waste not, want not. 
 Second day steak is massively underrated, imho. It’s as if it would be able to be transported in clothing for a mid adventure snack, maybe named #pocketsteak? Add in some bacon and cheese, and that will do for m’lunch. #grownostr 
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 🤔 will work on that. 
 Problem is, can’t face using the wood cutting board.
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 Gm, “Most of the world just doesn’t know it yet” @gladstein in #bitcoin is Venice. Beautiful foreword, can’t wait to get into it and get that sneak peak of the future with @allen and Sasha. #wayfaring Will be quite the act to follow, but I have confidence in you.
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 The most important thing the government represents for the people is that it it plays the role of... 
 I will fight to protect my abuser, because without them, my safety may be at risk. Gm Rune. 🫡🙌 
 Gm nostriches, the idea of property tax worries me. Why should you have to pay a fraction of what you have saved (not earned) back to someone else. Is this the price you pay to have assets? what is the government’s claim on your property? You have to pay them “hush money” to leave you alone, or they just want something that isn’t there’s? 

Yes, making #bitcoin  “digital property” is all well and good, but that just moves it into the cross hairs of and “provides legal clarity” for the tax man.

At least while they can look at my house and say how much they want to steal from me, I may decide to only have enough “observable” corn for my purchases of exquisite products and services, while any more will just be a painful memory about this time I went out on a boat.

Anyway, food for thought, morning black pill, unsure, but better to be aware and prepared. #coffeechain #catstr on #lapstr
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 Between me and an 11 year old, simple question, am I doing #steakstr right? #grownostr 
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 Ha ha ha, no, just a plate. 😮‍💨 
 Good afternoon my nostrich frens. To keep you informed, I’ve purchased new belt, and because of the motif, the bull market is able to start. Sorry @saylor , I will not 🤣hodl still I die, @FRANCIS happy to have this as part of my bull bitcoin uk uniform. 🫡🙌 #bitcoin lovely work @LeatherMint.
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 Unsure at the moment, given they are both wrapped, considering playing roulette and pass one to the Mrs and my father gets the other one. Happy with either so let fate decide. 
 To half you, welcome back, to the other half of you, lovely to meet you. 
 Catching up on some podcasts while the sun shines and I annoy the kids while I mow the lawn, cheers @allen and @TheGuySwann for giving me some 👌 ammo to include in chapter 10 (I think). #bitcoin
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 Can’t take credit for either, other than some watering. 🫡 
 Final day of summer 
 OBR projection for the British economy by 2070 of 274% debt to gdp of productivity doesn’t increase or spending doesn’t reduce. “Mandibles then #bitcoin standard” @ODELL. #theweek
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 Absolutely loved it. I’ve never got half way through a book and be annoyed about finishing it, because I didn’t want it to end. 
 There may be shorter reads, but probably few that are better Bitcoin “primers” 
 Great to get back to the #bitcoin routes @petermccormack and no better way than with @allen. Been learning and teaching this stuff for a while, but this morning the realisation that “holy shit, I’m my family’s financial director, I do my fiat job, I’m the dad, and then there is ensuring my family can save”. Keep up the good work mr obnoxious. #bitcoin https://fountain.fm/episode/z4Tanq4K3yPyByEAa7m5 
 Actual love this story of a guy making “award winning” wine in his allotment. Credit to him but he’s not selling because “he doesn’t want to deal with the red tape”. This is the productivity government is suppressing, this is why we need “private market places”, this is why we need decentralised money. #bitcoin #wayfaring #grownostr 
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 Gm nostriches, cutting down on the dairy for a few days, so the coffee is like a snack to the head before I finish of this beast of a book. #coffeechain #grownostr #wayfaring
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 🤔, yes, yes it is a good morning. 🫡 
 Strong signal from the @RabbitHoleRecap boys. Loved the focus on @saylor ‘s unit of account (but fuck off the with three jp Morgan yield business), #bitcoin performance metric, I wonder if he read a peer reviewed paper on the subject published in January this year…………. Anyway that’s not important, mandibles then Bitcoin standard. https://fountain.fm/episode/kTh6gIULW1zAB2GgPOEH 
 Love that time in the quarter when I get to give something back to the little babies (rr_neo label), but given all the shit that goes on, I likely bleed a pint and someone takes it away to make some fucked up blood smoothies…..

White pill Dug, white pill.

Anyway, donation no.90 at the national blood service, hope it actually saves a life or two. #grownostr #giveblood 
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 What an utter shitshow. 🤡🌍 nostr:note18crl5fgxx8wmtc8ezq5ajd3n2qg8zp4sa3qsd9qshtj6alvuamysl... 
 Turns out it isn’t luck that makes you rich and famous, you just need to lay prostrate at the alter of the high priests of the lizard people. 
 Sorry to tell you, but you will read it, you will come to the end, and you will be sad about it being over. But you will understand “mandibles then bitcoin standard” better than @MartyBent, sorry, but I still love you. 
 Gm nostriches, happy Bitcoin Friday freaks!!!! Getting through the last pages of #wayfaring and realised i have my own story into finding a book about human creativity and free commerce.

I found out about it on a decentralised communication tool, that cannot be controlled by governments, in which governments can’t regulate and create barriers of trade, that creates the resistance of personal, spiritual and economic growth.

And we have the money for this commerce, #bitcoin. My journey is becoming that of wayfaring men. I can move outside of the dogmatic are archeic ways of seeing the world and being controlled by unproductive power hungry men. #grownostr
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 Yes it is. If I can make it through the morning, I’ll feel like i’ve won!!! 
 And another part of my story enabled by decentralised communication. Thank you. 
 GN nostrices, lovely day away from the fiat mine, through a couple of chapters of my book, and while I know it is no classic, I quite like it, with some lovely background music of #bitcoin and related stocks making a gradual move upwards through the afternoon .

Can’t help getting a touch of the Fuck you Friday feeling for the fiat mine, tomorrow morning.
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 Definitely give this episode a listen and hit me up for a mountain bike ride if you're ever visit... 
 That would be awesome, just need to find an excuse to visit Austin now, which I don’t think should be too difficult. 🫡🙌 
 Huge argument for sorting your multisig solution with #unchained on @ODELL, and turns out @phil_geiger likes mountains bikes, why haven’t I already followed him? (or sorted out a meeting with those guys). Hold onto your #bitcoin like they could seize it tomorrow AND it’s already worth what it will be in ten years.  https://fountain.fm/episode/Xbp4d54D6l0EINk3Cutz 
 Gm nostriches, rate cuts are fun and all, staying humble and stacking sats is a must, but remember to also stack #bitcoin contacts and vendors that accept bitcoin. We’ll need them for when the rate cuts implode the system. Without other bitcoiners, we will have nothing to do with our stack. 

Get a @MADEX, you’ll appreciate it later, and if you must interact with fiat, why not do that with a @LeatherMint wallet. Not financial advice, just my opinion.

Have something on the wall to start a conversation with your pre coiner friends, or have someone say “that’s one sick wallet, where did you get that?” #grownostr 
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 0.5 felts like the safe bet, but really didn’t believe Powell would go anything other than the safe 0.25% cut. So, does this means bulltard mode can be fully engaged and we all get girlfriends? #bitcoin
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 Wake up. 

Say GM to the homies. 

Mute a few reply guys (and gals)

Laugh at the ops with nostr:... 
 Gm bru!! 5 days until I share your wbd like about having a miserable life (if you’re not curious) with my students. Psyched about them being horrified. 
 My mum just said:

"@ODELL is a charming guy, isn't he?"

Guys...I think my mum has a crush on Matt. 
 I’m not letting my mum listen to @RabbitHoleRecap, I don’t think he’d appreciate getting a stalker!!!! 
 Aha, we're back in the world of serial announcements...

Rachel Reeves has now added to her previ... 
 Batten down the hatches for the autumn budget. 
 Gm nostriches, woken by the #catstr walking in the flippin’ headboard, so getting the #coffeechain in earlier than I’d like. Fiat mine “away day” today. The decision as to whether I comply or stand up against the tyranny was made years ago but now I have the savings to comfortably act. “Excuse me mr department head, but I’m gonna have to call bull shit on that statement” #bitcoin #grownostr #exitfiat
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 GE nostriches, little baby pump on a Tuesday evening, FOMC meeting tomorrow with a near certain rate cut (so let’s not actually hold our breaths), governments are getting desperate, financial system on the edge, and tensions running high across the world.

The end may not be as close that close (because they’ll buy themselves with the printer), but things are a heating up and you’ve gotta ask, are you short #bitcoin?

As for me…… I’m backing up the truck, there is too much risk with everything else.
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 Nothing like dropping rates at all times highs…. Just as they said in Aladdin, “a whole new world” 
 Awesome chat by @stephanlivera . The stocks versus #bitcoin argument was beautifully put to bed by @bitcoinpierre. Does your etf or favourite stock provide audit data every 10 minutes on the health of the firm? Ah yes, of course they don’t, that is why we Bitcoin, so so much less risk. 🫡🙌

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 Gm nostriches. Today is a good day. Mempools clearing (but I don’t really care), blocks coming in, difficulty maybe going down in a week, but only in the short term (poor miners). Everything is good in the world. #mempool #bitcoin
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 Good day sir. 🫡🙌 
 Cheers for the argument of not going to university, BBC. 

Get into debt slavery even before you get a house and enjoy that hamster wheel of pursuing pay rises just to pay off a loan on something that is losing value as the topics you learnt age like milk!!!!

Study #bitcoin
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 We can to a great extent blame this mess we're in on the corruption of the word "freedom." 
 And maybe “safety” as well. 
 Power stuff from the one and only @MADEX, giving the collective a beacon from which we can understand our own point in the journey, a standard to which we can hold ourselves, as Satoshi did before us. Thank you Satoshi, thank you MADEX, but also thanks to our individual creativity and drive. 🫡🙌 #bitcoin

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 Bought some stuff from @Coinkite yesterday and completely forgot to apply one of the many discount codes, sorry @TheGuySwann  @Natalie  @BTCsessions @MartyBent @ODELL, but in my defence, even if I remembered, how could I have chosen a favourite? @NVK 
 When I thought about it, it suddenly made sense, sorry guys. I think my lack of referral was a subconscious  message to @NVK. Love the work.
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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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