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 Chris Larsen also thinks XRP has a rosy future. Cognitive dissonance at its finest. 
 The most awful disgusting violent hateful misinformed speech you ever read or heard was still fre... 
 And we can choose to not act on what we hear. 
 Have been doing this, but useful to see it laid out simply and logically by a uk tax accountant. #bitcoin https://x.com/thesecretinves2/status/1845138463202607295 
 Such a smart second year undergraduate. Not only are they being saddled with debt, but students then have to put objectively wrong answers on exam scripts to pass their course (no university, Bitcoin is the only money). 🫡🙌

https://fountain.fm/episode/c1nYC8PfwLjteiTTW2qm

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 Great work @Len AKA The Lengend⚡ with getting matthew on the show, impressively intelligent and based accountant/economist 2nd undergrad. Awesome stories about him as a young kid being curious and attending dev meetings. 

From my experience, amazing how many students are lapping up Keynesian bullshit and accepting their place in the fiat meat grinder. #bitcoin #laurier https://fountain.fm/episode/c1nYC8PfwLjteiTTW2qm 
 And if we have only a couple of young uns who are anywhere near as good as Matthew, bitcoin’s going to be in good hands moving forward. 
 12 years ago today, I got a call from labour suite that my (then) girlfriend was going into labour and I needed to get there quickly. I got up, had a shower, fed the dog and took him for a walk and got there in time for the birth. I’ve got some stick for it, but I’d make the same choice again, dogs before  sprogs . #dogstr #grownostr
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 Just wondering if anyone has ever seen Trump and Bitboy in the same place at the same time? 
 Interesting reading, with so few interviews with real substance, good to get a bit of info, even if it is from the dodgy British journalists.  #theweek
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 This is why I nostr. 
 Absolutely, don’t think this is how “co-parenting” actually works. If you still need co parenting at 25 and 30, you need to take a long hard look at yourself. 
 But I bet she never told them to “go get a job and stop living of the state” 🤣 
 So, Kamala Harris’s father was a Marxist economist….. so thought I’d have a little look….

“The basic objective of the economy as conceived in such a system is consumption;
accumulation is an incidental feature of individuals' consumption decisions and comes to an end in the stationary state” (Harris 1975)

Tax breaks for new parents, 25k for first time buyers, magicking money out of thin, and then taxing people wildly as they do this consumption, Kamala’s policies begin to make sense. #accelerate #bitcoin #grownostr 
 GE nostriches, cheeky evening #beerstr while making dinner for the fam. #oldtom followed by #avacadobacon for the win.
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 Gm nostriches. Thought it was one of those “complete your self assessment early” emails from HMRC, but then I opened it, “our system has identified”, what the fuck!!!! Labour have completed their first 100 days (and screwed up everything), and now they’ve got their greedy little thieving hands out stretched, looking for what else they can take. Sorry boss, but I lost my ledger (glib comment, no my actual response)!!!! 

Time to formulate an exit plan.

#bitcoin #growfreedom
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 Fingers crossed they’re referring to my binance account, which I only use for usdc…… just hoping they’re as inept with blockchain heuristics as they are with everything else. Time to shut down all old accounts. 
 Practically I can’t move countries either, but I’ll work out how to financially and mentally move out. If I “earn” less money, I can pay less tax…. 
 There are numerous clues to Satoshi's identity that are unpublished and closely held secrets by t... 
 As Karl popper suggested, we cannot know something to be true. We can only reject the null hypothesis, that there is no relation between two variables. And we all know Craig Wright is not Satoshi, proved by law. And that is enough for me. If anyone else is Satoshi, that’s cool, but I’m happy knowing what I know. 
 Does Biden or Harris having control of the nuclear codes scare you more? 
 “It’s not about the sticker, it’s about sending a message” the Joker 🃏 after receiving a @MADEX disruption package (the anarchists equivalent to a care package) and explaining my he needs even more stickers to his family 😎. #bitcoin 
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 Such an awful restriction of kyc freedoms, kudos to this guy. The shop
Owner of my local one said loads of people used it, that’s loads of people who can no longer easily exchange shit gbp for hard currency. 
 FCA “protecting us” by removing our freedom. 
 Gm nostriches, fyi you’ll never (within all logical scenarios) have to be rescued from a #bitcoin mine. Stay away from the yellow metal, that stuff is dangerous!!!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8jdwxdl5no.amp 
 99% of peer reviewed research agrees with the view point of their finding body. Motivation to apply for research funding is currently zero for me!!!! 
 You know what I don’t miss? Blue checks, adverts and the algorithm. 
 Suddenly fine if my order hasn’t gone out in the mail yet….. but if I need to place another order…..
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 GE nostriches, had a thought about  conservative and realistic price prediction for #bitcoin as we approach the end of the year, but then i thought…

$58k until Christmas Day!!!!! 

#58kgang forever!!!!! With crabtober and sidewaysvember. 
 John macafee still dropping truth bombshell years after he left.

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 These are the people “in charge”. Debt is wealth, control is freedom, censorship is free speak. The fiat political system is not going to make it. #bitcoin fixes this? https://x.com/stephaniekelton/status/1844131476256030895?s=46 
 High fees and two blocks in the last two hours…….. miners happy ish, preparing for a run of quick blocks. Wife just came in so got a chance to explain the #bitcoin blockchain to her, and she said it was “interesting”…… I’m not sure I believed her. 
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 Fack, that should have read “proof of work” chain 
 Finally getting out on the #bikestr for fitness, fun and getting the head reset. Look after yourselves nostriches, I hope you have people around you that care, but chances are they have their shit they’re dealing with, so you need to be selfish, which is not a bad thing. #aynrand #grownostr. 🫡🙌
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 Wasn’t bad, dryer than expected. Yt decoy. Oh, for the limited time I have, eeb is the preferred option. 
 And it’s a character in snow crash!!!! Even cooler than I’ve always thought! 
 Why don’t you eat bread? They ask.
Turns out it has nothing to do with the wheat, gluten, carbs or whatever, but more to do with all the shit they put into even the healthy wholewheat versions they sell you and this is “British bread”. #fiatfood @Natalie 
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 It’s a big mug kinda day!! 
 Epic, having a voice that would get 2 receptionists chatting to me is a pipe dream for me!!!! 
 They even claimed it!!! Best £100 I spend each year setting students a challenge, getting them covering the material and giving them motivation to I learn what bitcoin is, win win win. And they start with self custody.  #bitcoin
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 Hid a seedphrase of a wallet in material to get students to engage with the material earlier in the module. They found the word and swept the wallet! https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/universities-should-offer-bitcoin-bounties-to-students 
 The best bit, the student who won last year snagged himself 420k sats and he said he wasn’t going to sell, this year closer to 164k sats. 
 Climate change is really happening. These hurricanes are not man-made, beyond the reality that cl... 
 Geo engineers are taking the “fuck around and find out” approach a little too far!!! 
 Whoop, second time hiding a seedphrase in my module material and second time a student has solved it. Now for them to sweep the wallet before someone else does!!!!! #bitcoin #education @BitcoinMagazine https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/universities-should-offer-bitcoin-bounties-to-students 
 Gm nostriches, interesting piece on the bbc, rather less rich bashing than normal. Fascinating how much labour will rely on the “super rich” to fund their schemes and the concern they will up and leave with any unfair tax rises!!!!!

I say, pay your fair share, which is actually much less than they currently do and let the government balance their budget rather than leach off the successful and productive.

#bitcoin is very mobile…. #grownostr https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlvggr9qz5o.amp 
 But if you don’t pay your taxes who will pay to fund the bureaucracy?
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 Absolutely. “Hey no fair, you were supposed to warn me you were going to leave so I could introduce new loop holes…..” 
 "You just got lucky"  

If that's what you wanna call having conviction and making sacrifices... ... 
 Ok buddy, good luck sitting there doing nothing and waiting for Lady Luck to come knocking, I’ll be over here, putting in the hard graft. 
 Yeah, you may have something interesting in your inbox this morning, but I got a message from @saifedean. Mic 🎤 drop, my day is done. 🫡🙌 #bitcoin #fanboymoment #becool
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 Yeah, you may have something interesting in your inbox this morning, but I got a message from @saifedean. Mic 🎤 drop, my day is done. 🫡🙌 
 Gm nostriches, while I accept $mstr is a bit of a risky shitcoin and the more @saylor larps about yield, the more concerned I get, I’m not gonna lie, compared to the other crap I have in my equities portfolio, I both understand where the company’s heading better and accept the risk for the upside. #bitcoin 
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 Great rip from @highhashrate with @slygoomba. Prepare for your citadel in the future….. also why was the bitcoiner rolling on the floor laughing?

Because he sold his chair. 🫡

Apologies, I’m not funny, but this made me smile.

https://fountain.fm/episode/TZqV1uIDili1FauYoF2t 
 Sorry sly, but there is no excuse not to be supporting freedom tech with zaps. Nostr only pleb here. 
 Gm Nostriches, love those Sunday nights where parts of the world can’t wait for the market to open to start hoovering up the ‘corn causing a nice little pump into Monday morning. Don’t $ell guys, now is not the time. #uptober #bitcoin. But this isn’t yet the Monday morning I saunter in 3 hours late. That’s going to be next week.
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 Improving all the time @66ec9d52 
 Moon mission either this week or next……. Eeerm, I mean I don’t care about fiat exchange rates….. just focus on #coffeechain 
 This is all going to end very badly, Elon will tweet for all the blue checks and they will still send their $8 a month and be happy with their “reach”. Nostr only. 
 If it’s about understanding the problems that #Bitcoin fixes before adopting it. Think about where we were 4 years ago, no inflation spike, no seizure of assets (both international (Russian) or individual (Canuck truckers)), no application of Bitcoin mining within power infrastructure. 

The normies’ level of preparation is a world of different than last time. They now know they need an inflation hedge, they know they need to be able to control their assets, they may even realise bitcoin will not boil the oceans by 2020.

Thank you @greencandleit  and Car Gonzales for a new angle on the old “but this time is different” trope. Stay humble and be ready to accept the deniers with open arms, they knew not what they may now appreciate.

https://fountain.fm/episode/TcNJygK8YhfD9ygAh10t 
 Cool calm analysis, thanks @Susie.

“This macro transition towards bitcoin as a global, non-sovereign currency is a fascinating development that suggests a stronger, more resilient market dynamic, making this cycle stand apart from those before it.”

I like this outlook, I also think about my own analysis that suggests it’s better to save in #bitcoin than anything else.

Act accordingly friends and try not to think about dollar denominated price too much (it’s value only goes down).

Sorry quote tweeted the wrong note…. 🤦‍♂️

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 Cool calm analysis, thanks @Susie.

“This macro transition towards bitcoin as a global, non-sovereign currency is a fascinating development that suggests a stronger, more resilient market dynamic, making this cycle stand apart from those before it.”

I like this outlook, I also think about my own analysis that suggests it’s better to save in #bitcoin than anything else.

Act accordingly friends and try not to think about dollar denominated price too much (it’s value only goes down).

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 Love it when I get to see my relatives from the US when they come to visit, but not going to lie, I’d probably like seeing them more if they had brought some of my 2022 peony lane with them. @BenJustman. 

Suppose I’m just going to have to a) convince the family NC is a good holiday destination or 
b) have a weekend where I’m an international wine courier. 

#winestr 
 I’ll tell the fam, dad’s got some family to reconnect with, but don’t ask me why I’m taking a bike and going via Colorado. 
 Gm nostriches, deep breath, check your cold storage, stay humble and stack sats, and realise having a second hobby/purpose is fine.

Enjoying some dh mountain biking on a Sunday morning, bidding farewell to the legend that is Greg Minaar as he finally retires, the fact I remember when he started (after I finished), that makes me feel old.

#grownostr #secondhobby #bikestr #gregstr #bitcoin #montstanne
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 YOU DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE FACEBOOK, TIKTOK, LINKEDIN, OR X BECAUSE IT MAY HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT O... 
 Over a week since I deleted my profile and feeling pretty good. Connected with a few new people here, some old school email connections and the next steps of my proof of work journey progressing nicely without the bird app in sight. Ride or die. 🫡 
 The blues checks will say, they see not the purple light, and they will think their coins are safety being watched over  by their lord and master, Larry Fink. Then they will learn a tough lesson that their blue checks merely meant they were already prisoners. 
 NO SHORTCUTS.

PROGRESS TAKES WORK.

PUSH FORWARD. NEVER STOP. 
 Proof of work isn’t just important in Bitcoin. 🫡🙌 
 Gm nostriches, start of the month 10k, lovely, cool and crisp morning. Showing haven’t done enough exercise this past month as was pretty slow, but uptober will be all about upping miles on the #bikestr. Now #coffeechain time. #Grownostr 
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 Hope you morning is as good as mine, but your feet feel better. 🫡🙌 
 Thank you @Ben Arc. Great show with @petermccormack . https://fountain.fm/episode/ uG5VCvkO3rbPEY5g9JvR 
 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.