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 Something I posted on Twitter but I would be interested in perspectives here. I am not trying to ... 
 Pigs walking on their hind legs, they may not be people, but they are doing their utmost to act the same way. 
 Gm nostriches, let’s get this Friday running freaks!!!!!! Desperate to get the fiat crap sorted so I can move onto my writing!!!!! Got a monster hook to add into the back end of a paper and also need to get on with finding some publishers. Never thought I’d ever be a sales person, but a may just need to sell my ideas and writing. #coffeechain #bitcoin cheers for the info @Princey 
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 My full quote to Politico regarding Satoshi and the HBO doc…
“For years, there's been endless... 
 Very eloquent. 
 First time Bitcoin hit $60k was April 2021. Since then a lot have happened:
- May 2021: China ban... 
 And people say things have got boring. 
 The bull run mid engines, 2 seater super car purchase, 2021 style. #bitcoin #carstr #smartroadstr
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 Getting called by a bank who blocked a transaction of my money to Gemini, they were worried for me. Done the payment many times in the past. They are paying people to do this pointless work!!! They asked me if I’d taken any advice, I replied with, “I did my own research and then published it!!!!!” 

A thought then sprang to mind. #bitcoin 
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 @66ec9d52 cheers for giving me a little nudge and getting my strike account up and running. Love they need to test me and then allow me to “cool off” before I ape into a restricted asset. 🫡🙌@strike #bitcoin 

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 Always a pleasure, never a chore. Thanks @stephanlivera for hosting the physician formally known as Dr Bear. Great discussion and the 8% rule makes you think. #bitcoin ruled by global liquidity. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/stephan-livera-podcast/id1415720320 
 Certainly not. Calmly bullish, I liked it. 
 Unsure why I didn’t tab @DrJeff directly. Thanks, you $mstr justification over an etf is still my go to. 🫡🙌 
 Every day’s good day to continue learning (and finding a new podcast) 
 When 37sats will be generational wealth one day (🫡  @ck ) I think you’ll be fine. 🙌 
 Gm nostriches. Yeah, #wayfaring is awesome but it turns out it also leads science. Research finds pregnancy changes your brains structure, just as Dobson hypothesised………. Either that, or the only science people now do is to test ideas they already know is true…… Wey hey, science!!! Gotta fund stuff that get’s positive results……

All power to private commerce and freedom tech. #bitcoin #grownostr
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 Gm nostriches, So, my mum asked me if I’d managed to get some more academic writing done…… sent her a link to my #bitcoin paper. And then asked “do you still have some Bitcoin”?

“Yes mum,  yes to do. Enjoy the paper.”

Now watch this space. 
 How do you have patience with people when you see your government putting all of the pieces toget... 
 Dom Frisby on with Pete M has made it all make sense for me, well filled in a few big gaps anyway. “They” push the politics of envy. Vote to take stuff away from the other group. Unfortunately there was lots of “have nots” voting for as much free stuff as possible. 
 Feel like I’ll need to call in sick tomorrow to the fiat mine as currently being sucked down the zero point energy rabbit hole. #stolenscience @Princey another banger exploding what I’d been lied to about over the years. https://fountain.fm/episode/fF6D2HPXx0RGQMRLqmj5 
 John Galt’s machine that never stops vibes….. what was going on in Ayn rand’s mind? 
 Already pumped for that. 
 Why can’t they govern through cross party consensus? Yes, a president doesn’t get as much “done”, but they ensure only decent laws get through. Oh yeah, politicians are egomaniacs!!! The only reason they got into this was because they were too dumb/afraid to be an entrepreneur and too ugly to be movie start 
 Gm nostriches, took the opportunity to get some Welsh fresh air with the mother’s little beastie. #grownostr #wales. Currently running the numbers on this becoming a daily routine.
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 🫡🙌 have an awesome day. 😎 
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 Ge freaks!!!! Awesome evening with my family including my cousin from the US and his wife. Lovely wine. Meeting her for the first time. They started talking about my boy Dug, he’s been gone for 6 years and I just cried in front of them. I just miss him. 
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 My oldest just received his first chore money in sats. They grow up so fast. 
 My kid cracked a walnut and got paid 1500 sats. At which point, she was sold on the idea of sats for chores!!!! 
 MY PLAN IS TO HELP BOOTSTRAP NOSTR, MAKE THIS SHIT THE STANDARD, THEN FADE OUT OF PUBLIC TO FOCUS... 
 Create the stage, then exit stage left. 🫡🙌 
 It may be a story about a capybara but it could just be as easily be the critical life lesson we all need to critically think about:

“She had been “living her best life” in the wild, but that she was safer in her enclosure”

Don’t trade safety for doing better, or living better. The best life is worth the risk.

This is why we #bitcoin 
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 Massive nostalgia on the way home from the fiat mine yesterday, may not have been the year of my first “proper mountain bike”, v brakes were a lovely addition compared to mine, but was the same model as my ‘92 gt timberline!!!! #bikestr 

Time for me to start prioritising what I used to love and bike more combined with fiat less.
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 Gm nostriches. Happily got my kid’s junior isa transferred from vanguard (they have some pretty good barriers in place), then had to complete a form so I could access US equities  (because uk firms are a bit shit), then aped her into $mstr. During Thursday and Friday  she got a better return than the prior 3 years in Vanguard.

Also, she already has her #bitcoin stack but using the system to help her accumulate “cash” for spending for when she’s 18 tax free, rather than generational wealth for her grandkids.

#coffeechain celebration with the furry alarm clock #catsr
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 practicing checking noster instead of twitter. 👍 
 Do it more, but get sucked into the algorithm less. Then delete Twitter. 🫡 
 Friday night “treat” for the family, sorry nostr fam, they had fast food, but I get my choice of food. Rump and cheese (Comte). #foodstr
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 This feels like the zone where all the normies are still convinced that #Bitcoin is just kinda st... 
 Looking back 15 years, it always has been. 🫡 
 Great work @greencandleit and @Jeff Booth with a thought that just cuts through. Don’t measure in dollars….. so what does the gold/#bitcoin graph look like (yes, not perfect, but a start). The all time high is still around 35ounces/btc from (Oct 2021), march high was 32.5, and currently at 23.7 ounces/btc.

Price is all a matter of the measurement instrument you’re using. 

Fun fact, to reach an all time high, as measured today’s gold price, bitcoin would need to be at $92736.70. Guess I’ll be waiting a bit longer for my all time high, Rye.

https://fountain.fm/episode/gSXscV1TzPj7XUm3k8AI
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 Just putting this out to my #bitcoin frens with ideas of a golden future, where everyday we do what will do the most good combined with anyone with a soft spot for a British acting legend. Rest in peace.
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 It's depressing to know Canada is actually debating a Pre-crime bill (Bill C-63). 
 Hey, minority report called and said “break of copyright” 
 What will my US frens do when they realise it was never about $65k, and it was always about the psychological level of £50k? #bitcoin is Rule Britannia still even a thing? #bitcoin 
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 There was a point where it felt like the only place left in the uk. Thanks, will looking into strike. 
 They charge a “handsome”/“ugly” withdraw fee. If doing larger amounts not so bad, but gotta look after those sats!!!!! 
 Always a pleasure, never a chore, even when Pomp shills a financial advisor that not even his brothers use. @james always high in signal and clarity. Stay humble and stack sats. https://fountain.fm/episode/GuTeD9VxzR36ONkWPTjN 
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 Gm nostriches, happy Friday freaks. Lovely green day yesterday and love that Friday feeling when @BTCsessions and @Simply Bitcoin are in my podcast free, with the reminder of counterparty risks for the people and the institutions buying paper #bitcoin for coinbase. The first rule of Bitcoin (well maybe not the first, need for formalise this list): fuck coinbase a.k.a. Not your keys, not your coins. 😎

The rug pulls will continue until personal responsibility improves. Cheers @ODELL  #coffeechain #grownostr https://fountain.fm/episode/ZZLdYEXmXWGl0dkZNa40 
 Withstanding the weather where I am, yes, a very good morning. 
 That does not sound a good thing. I wonder sometime whether these judges of subject experts to be able to make such proclamations. 
 Finally ditched the bird app, massive part of my journey and after the “serious shitcoin” stage, started weeding them out, even got blocked by CSW (😎), over time got to get in contact with a few awesome people and even did a bit of writing for their work and for their publications.

This next part of the journey was where I stopped  watching and taking but instead aim to contribute a bit back, which while making me realise how shit the fiat mine work was, also gave me a part of time in the fiat mine where I love what I’m doing, e.g. spending an afternoon writing an article for Bitcoin policy uk, just because the price of btc had gone up and I knew that achieving “fiat goals” was just feeding the beast. Thanks @Jeff Booth
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 Cheers @ODELL for keeping be honest and stop me larping about blue checks being the gate keepers and me realising what is reach in a censored system. 🫡🙌 
 I’m just not there anymore.
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 Listened to a some recent Pete McCormack shows, and actually being honest on their feels like too great a risk. Plus without zaps, where’s the incentive!!! 
 Good afternoon my nostrich friends. If you happen to have some small utxo’s hanging around, now could be a good time to consolidate……… not utxo management advice. September is nearly done and Uptober might be fun. As with that, we’re at 3 sat/vB, which is still cheap. 😘
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 Just a little reminder to you all, 2 years ago, the UK’s infamous “mini budget” from the failed “Trussenomics” happened, the shit was put up pension funds and the GBP almost reached dollar parity (around $1.03), similar things happened in the US with SBV in 2023, and a 0.15 rate increase in Japan caused all sorts of excitement in 2024. 

What will the next one be?
Are you prepared?
Have you minimised your fiat exposure?

#bitcoin for the win. https://image.nostr.build/64e0821abcaa58d03b7a61bf0be01ef73e2aaca31c02ec80ef49b507831702c1.jpg  
 FYI, if you’ve managed to stack 15.75 #bitcoin, you are a dollar “millionaire” today. The bitcoin hurdle rate is going to fall quickly and what being a fiat millionaire can buy is guaranteed to fall.

Act according.
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 Gm Nostriches, sent my farewell tweet before deleting my x account yesterday, weirdly for my own safety because a tweet could get me locked up!!!!!

Today is an awesome day, and @domenicfrisby on fire with @petermccormack and @dannyknowles 

“The removal of vat exemption from private schools wasn’t about the money it was a policy to appeal to the envious” the British Labour Party in a nutshell and it makes me want to vomit.

This is why we #bitcoin 
 Gm fren. 
 Galt’s gulch is beckoning me. 
 Spoke to a colleague who went, supposedly very high view and the prof had “lost as much as buying a Toyota” (small fish). Projecting the fears of shitcoins, I sat and shared calm views, “people lose money because they sell, they lose their coins or they sell at the bottom”. If they understand and hold #BITCOIN (and only BITCOIN), you’ll be just fine. 😘

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 And I love this is the academic who “professes” about knowing how money works. 
 I’m gonna have to say yes. My Twitter account is definitely in its twilight days before I delete it, so I don’t accidentally get myself arrested for an ill informed tweet!!! 
 Argentina is moving up my bucket list of places to visit. Quotes from Milei’s speech at UN toda... 
 Good wine and good beef? Definitely somewhere I need to visit. And compared to the “Austrians” people joke about living down there, happy this one is calling the shots. Wish there was a British milei with a chainsaw!!!! 
 This is yield on Bitcoin. ☝️ 
 But be careful with your lightning node…… 
 So excited to see this from @Natalie , really missed @fossgregfoss  and really hope this means he is on the mend. I’ve been missing you dropping the trad finance bombs on both tradfi and all of us young upstarts. Love you Foss. #bitcoin.

https://fountain.fm/episode/z4a8D4wm3NyomQjbunpi 
 Hey freaks, don’t overlook #unbar or #fraudcoin. Understand the problem before posing a solution. @Rune Østgård 

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 When reality hits after a hearty zap! #bitcoin #zapathon #grownostr
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 Nostr is addictive 
 Zaps are. 😉 
 I am nostr only and don't have an account on twitter / X.  
 This is the way. 
 I’m short coldcard q’s, although I’m happy with my mk4 position.