Ralphie

Bitcoin is the only window of opportunity which allows us to see the world from the outside in.
Like being in outer space, it permanently changes our perspective on things.

2025-05-21 09:23:20 GMT

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Good job!! For what audience did you write your book, Mike

2025-05-21 09:20:15 GMT

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Sounds like he's one of us

2025-05-21 09:18:43 GMT

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I see what you did there

2025-05-21 09:16:54 GMT

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Damn right, I found out this actually runs much deeper than the occasional grift what is wrong within "maxi" circles. It mostly a shadow play.

2025-05-21 09:03:52 GMT

The purpose of talking on nostr should not to sound 'based'. It is to talk real.

2025-05-21 09:01:57 GMT

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Hehe yeah

2025-05-21 09:00:13 GMT

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Calling out BS too

2025-05-21 08:59:38 GMT

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They're out there for sure

2025-05-21 08:49:09 GMT

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This is BS

2025-05-21 08:46:57 GMT

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Big difference is, we will experience the collapse of the institutionalized central power structures, and built it back decentralized from the ground up. If we don't get lazy that is.

2025-05-21 08:20:43 GMT

For Pizzaday I won't hang out with bitcoiners this year, pretending MoE will be happening in the 'developed' world at a merchant they convinced to accept bitcoin, that actually do not give a fuck about bitcoin, other the then occasional virtue signal or just another target audience they can make money of.
I'm planning to create my own pizza at home and zapp sats to people on NOSTR.
Maybe invite some bitcoiner friends over to join the party.
Merchants will have to incentivize me to spend my sats there. Not the other way around.
I'm totally fine if it takes another decade for merchants to be fully orange pilled before I change my mind.
For that to happen on massive scale, fiat currency has to die first. After that learning phase bitcoin as a MoE will find its true potential.

2025-05-21 07:54:23 GMT

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Shhh

2025-05-21 07:43:41 GMT

A valuable lesson most of us had to learn for the past five years, is that you can only show your true self to your inner circles.
Because we are surrounded by NPC's in normieland.
They operate on a low frequency, unable of recognising signal.
But also stay away from the parasites from within. Always curate your friends closely.
https://i.nostr.build/Icobki0MCFJaEfzI.jpg

2025-05-21 07:16:36 GMT

What is a Metaplanet

2025-05-21 07:10:04 GMT

Is it just me?
https://i.nostr.build/S1R5voWZh8XSpvOA.jpg

2025-05-21 05:54:36 GMT

'Fuck the system' will forever be the best campaign slogan ever

2025-05-21 05:50:33 GMT

GM as a man sometimes you just gotta

2025-05-20 21:24:15 GMT

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True, old beast still working, nice relic

2025-05-20 21:20:10 GMT

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LTH base gang for sure!

2025-05-20 21:17:33 GMT

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Tough, do you still own it?

2025-05-20 21:16:24 GMT

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That one goes deep

2025-05-20 21:16:01 GMT

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#grownostr
#naddr1qq…9g9l

2025-05-20 21:14:25 GMT

What is the most expensive thing you ever bought with bitcoin?

2025-05-20 21:01:07 GMT

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Jep, loading 0,01 btc memes
https://i.nostr.build/j4HH9C3cHoVkjIpq.jpg

2025-05-20 20:58:02 GMT

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Show me what you got

2025-05-20 20:57:26 GMT

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Damnit you're absolutely right, story of my life

2025-05-20 20:54:59 GMT

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https://i.nostr.build/ntgDOskFhtVGzT2v.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/1iWipK0h5An312a4.jpg

2025-05-20 20:30:30 GMT

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Weet ook even niet wat er aan de hand was, dankjewel!!!

2025-05-20 19:16:49 GMT

Quality road trip
https://i.nostr.build/lVOcTsIp0nvCEu7P.jpg

2025-05-20 19:03:47 GMT

Twitter bullish on eth
https://v.nostr.build/CdACc87f8mtVIXmE.mp4

2025-05-20 18:50:18 GMT

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I will pay double for that

2025-05-20 18:17:40 GMT

Never been so early to a party like bitcoin

2025-05-20 18:13:17 GMT

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Double top my ass

2025-05-20 18:04:01 GMT

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You wiggah

2025-05-20 17:27:50 GMT

Straight over the arteries is quite painful https://i.nostr.build/v0GqqZLpS2Vp23OV.jpg

2025-05-20 17:19:19 GMT

Test zapp me, apparantly theres a bug

2025-05-20 17:15:49 GMT

Rumor goes that if you eat pineapple pizza on thursday, the power law will be invalidated.

2025-05-20 11:44:42 GMT

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Looks like your mind changed you! Hehehe

2025-05-20 11:26:40 GMT

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Sup

2025-05-20 11:26:09 GMT

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Sweet!! Nice hair change by the way

2025-05-20 10:14:45 GMT

Many of you are skeptical of our finding, released this morning that 4 in 5 Americans would convert some US gold reserves into bitcoin.
"Yeah right! You must have done your survey at a bitcoin conference!"
We were also surprised too. But the results are the results.
The internet doubted us last year when we saw that bitcoiners were all over the political map, and extreme liberals were well represented among owners.
Many other surveys have since vindicated what we found: in politics and in many other ways, American bitcoiners look much like America itself. We are confident that our results this year will also hold up in future polling.
Here's how we collected our sample and here's the precise prompt that led to our result.
1. Data.
Our survey consisted of national sample of 3,345 respondents recruited in partnership with Qualtrics, a survey and data collection company.
No sample is perfectly random. This was conducted online and participants were paid. But, we asked Qualtrics to match US Census distribution in terms of age, genders, race, income, education, geography, etc., as closely as possible. As you will see in the full report, we approximated the US population pretty well.
Many of our results very closely tracked last year's results in ways that confirmed the quality of our sample. The sample did not show unexpectedly high rates of bitcoin ownership (more in the report) or high rates of bitcoin sentiment (more in the report).
2. Timing.
We opened the survey at the end of February and ended data collection mid-March.
3. The prompt.
"Assuming the United States was thinking of converting some of their gold reserve into Bitcoin, what percentage would you advise they convert?"
Respondents were provided a slider used to choose between 0% and 100%.
4. Related question.
We also asked, in the wake of Trump's tweet on March 2, just as our data collection was getting underway, whether people approved of the formation of the Strategic Crypto Reserve (the 3/6 SBR Executive order had not yet been issued). We got a less enthusiastic response to that proposal: 66% of respondents were neutral-to-positive.
5. Framing.
We suspect framing effects are powerful here given how novel the idea of a reserve is. There are many ways of asking similar questions, some of which will elicit more positive, and some more negative responses. Such is the nature of surveys. But the fact remains: when given a slider and asked to advise the US government on the right proportion of bitcoin and gold, subjects were very reluctant to put that slider on 0% bitcoin and 100% gold. Instead, they settled around 10% bitcoin. Make of that what you will.
6. Average.
The median bitcoin conversion recommendation was 10%, but the mean was actually 20.3%. That sounds even more pro-bitcoin, and even more outlandish. But that was also the actual result.
7. Age.
As you can see from the graphic, the recommended proportions of bitcoin drops significantly with age. Not surprising to us, given the inverse relationship we found last year between age and bitcoin ownership/sentiment.
8. Gender.
Women recommend smaller bitcoin allocations than men, also in keeping with previous findings. However, older men (60+) were the most likely to recommend all gold, whereas older women were more leery of 100% gold exposure. So, men were more extreme in their recommendations at both the high and the low end.
9. The report.
It's a really rich data set, as we asked a comprehensive panel of questions, just like last year. I could go on with politics, race, and other factors related to just this question. But this thread is a preview. The full report is coming as fast as we can produce it.
Thanks for your skepticism--we welcome it, always!--and your patience in reading this long post.
Bottom line is that 4 in 5 of the people we surveyed recommended that the US diversify some of its gold reserves into bitcoin.
An amazing stat, we think! It's very different from the consensus in DC and apparently different from the Twitter consensus too. Just like last year's result.
- @npub1n3s…te5l
#nevent1q…tz8c

2025-05-20 10:08:49 GMT

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You’re right, it is on Thursday!

2025-05-20 07:10:09 GMT

GM are you celebrating Pizza Day this friday with us?
Make sure to spend some sats!!
Taxable event GFY

2025-05-18 15:02:28 GMT

With me you've always got a friend on NOSTR. #powfam

2025-05-18 09:29:40 GMT

Big Change Is Coming - 1971 style

2025-05-18 00:08:21 GMT

Apparantly, a fully non-custodial Wallet of Satoshi is coming soon, without KYC.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/3e6e0735b8a2e96f8cf663f64d04bb9cea931afcc57f5427c35bb6859e95c8a2/7068fcffc0bc1e78a348433f80be2c08d55f7a331d98ff557ad57cf063c45b56.webp

2025-05-18 00:05:17 GMT

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Solid advice, step back, grow clarity!

2025-05-18 00:04:04 GMT

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Weird. I receive sats quite regularly. IDK what’s wrong.

2025-05-17 23:39:44 GMT

What happens when you’re ready to rebuild the way your mind works?
You start to notice it. Most of what you believe, feel, or react to was taught to you. You didn’t choose it. It came from your family, school, media, and the world around you.
At some point, it stops working. The old ways no longer fit.
You take a step back. You get quiet. You start to hear your own thoughts clearly, maybe for the first time. And in that space, you get the chance to build something new. Not a restart. A rebuild.
You stop copying what others do. You start making your own choices. You think in new ways. You train better habits. You pick what matters to you. You pay attention to things that help you grow. You stop chasing what just feels good in the moment.
You’re still in the game. But now, you are the one steering.
Here’s how to begin:
1. Notice what you’ve been taught
2. Choose new rules
Decide what’s important to you. Set your own standards.
3. Control what you take in
Stop listening to things that make you angry or distracted. Choose input that helps you think better.
4. Change how you react
When something happens, pause before you respond. Practice better responses.
5. Keep track of what changes
Write it down. Look back later. See how far you’ve come.
You don’t have to stay stuck in the old version of yourself.
You can build a better one. And it starts whenever you are ready.
Are you ready? #asknostr

2025-05-17 21:43:10 GMT

Markets humble people down, like a force of nature.

2025-05-17 21:02:54 GMT

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The story. It’s a lesson in Darwinian capitalism.

2025-05-17 20:37:43 GMT

Underrated 2011 movie perfectly predicts the world today
In time, 2011, 1h 49m, Action / Sci-Fi
https://1flix.to/watch-movie/watch-in-time-19441.5349280
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/3e6e0735b8a2e96f8cf663f64d04bb9cea931afcc57f5427c35bb6859e95c8a2/c921946b7bc52da426e2de41c746f6414e8555af957145360d55653ad6bc8c86.webp

2025-05-17 19:06:02 GMT

https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/3e6e0735b8a2e96f8cf663f64d04bb9cea931afcc57f5427c35bb6859e95c8a2/190c7ed9a756857658d0180767a007da08047ec39c75c9fd8b1b9ebf49305076.webp

2025-05-17 18:04:25 GMT

WTF happened in October 1582 https://i.nostr.build/FMXg0ymGvuiCdAB3.jpg

2025-05-17 17:45:19 GMT

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Plung throwing contest!!

2025-05-17 17:43:07 GMT

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Tell green Winnie to stop fucking around https://i.nostr.build/C9Oju5YucXZzJHdn.jpg

2025-05-17 17:40:04 GMT

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Autism

2025-05-17 17:39:12 GMT

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Nice!!! How much sats are a burger n fries?

2025-05-17 17:37:42 GMT

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Yup, vibes are crazy here at Sink Conf 2025. You are missing out!

2025-05-15 18:55:18 GMT

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https://i.nostr.build/wHidd4JJ0xFZPpdE.jpg
#nevent1q…ej29 https://i.nostr.build/ieyv3fvlToJZlQGS.jpg

2025-05-15 18:36:18 GMT

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Nostr is dead https://i.nostr.build/Ye5hqq4lvZs8mOxx.jpg
#nevent1q…8sya

2025-05-15 18:35:04 GMT

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The tongue that licks the teeth and allows to speak

2025-05-13 19:56:10 GMT

Damn cute https://v.nostr.build/euOK3GckUYOKOw2s.mp4

2025-05-13 15:04:47 GMT

https://i.nostr.build/kmPdShpI5jheIAt9.jpg
Congrats to @nprofile…fk6k for receiving a $1 million grant from #startsmall to advance independent Bitcoin Education around the world.
"May 13, 2025 – We are proud to announce that My First Bitcoin has received a $1 million grant from #startsmall. With this financial support from @nprofile…jsen's philanthropic initiative, we will continue to serve grassroots Bitcoin education initiatives worldwide.
This grant accelerates our work in the creation and distribution of free and open-source Bitcoin education materials and infrastructure. It will not only help us improve existing resources, such as the Bitcoin Diploma, Bitcoin Intro Course, and teacher training workshops, but also to scale our digital platforms like our Online School and Community Hub.
As a non-profit, founded in 2021, we have grown from a local project into a global movement. Besides creating curricula and frameworks, our team has directly taught tens of thousands of in-person students, as we workshop and refine our materials based on real world feedback.
In 2023, we launched the Independent Bitcoin Educators Node Network, providing a space for others to join us on our mission. The network spans 65+ projects from 35+ countries, including circular economies, meetup organizers and other grassroots projects. All commit to the same six pillars: that their education is independent, impartial, community-led, Bitcoin-only, quality, and focused on empowerment over profit.
While we support that network, it is now self-governing. We always seek to give power-to, rather than have power-over.
John Dennehy, founder and Executive Director of My First Bitcoin, explains:
“The revolution of Bitcoin education is that it teaches students HOW to think, not WHAT to think. Funding from sources with their own incentives is the greatest vulnerability that threatens that. Education will be captured by whoever funds it. We will never take any government money and frequently turn down funding from corporations and companies. The subtle influence of funding has ruined fiat education and we need to create alternative models for the revolution of Bitcoin education to realize its full potential.”
Funding for Bitcoin education must be transparent.
This grant is a huge win for all of us. For Bitcoin itself, but even more for Independent Bitcoin Education as a whole. It enables us to serve the global community better than ever before. It shows everyone what can be achieved if you stay close to your values. “My First Bitcoin is a proof-of-concept for all independent Bitcoin educators that if you stay on the mission, even when it's challenging, then you will come out the other side even stronger,” added Dennehy.
@nprofile…ug2x, Director of Communications of My First Bitcoin:
"Open source money deserves open source education. Over the past few years, we’ve seen growing demand for our resources around the world, and we remain committed to serving everyone in the Bitcoin space who needs support. This funding enables us to plan further into the future and continue being the first-stop provider of free educational tools."
We’re grateful to #startsmall for believing in our mission and for understanding that Bitcoin education should always be free from external influence. We’re also grateful to the community for helping us to arrive at this point where we are ready to receive such a grant. You lead us to where we are today. You have been our primary funding source. You will continue to lead us forward.
We will always serve the community.
We’re also grateful for our amazing team and their proof of work. The grant will accelerate the work that they are already doing, such as curricula development, teacher training programs, the expansion of the global network, building online platforms, and providing in-person classes.
We will continue to lead by example, we will continue to push the limits, and we will continue to reimagine what’s possible. We do not seek to please power in this world, we seek to create a proof-of-concept for a better one where the individual is empowered and able to think critically.
If you are an educator in need of tools or infrastructure; please contact us. If you can help us continue to build out these tools and maintain this growing global movement; please contact us. If you are aligned with our mission and are a supporter of independent Bitcoin education, please donate.
We work for the public. In public."

2025-05-13 13:23:11 GMT

This is how I always imagined how an introduction diner at my future parents house would go
https://v.nostr.build/tUeUDrpGLprm2H1I.mp4

2025-05-13 06:57:05 GMT

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Indeed, few

2025-05-13 06:21:17 GMT

Most bitcoin companies are fiat broke AF

2025-05-12 21:39:44 GMT

A bunch of flaming homosexuals have a meltdown because Bitcoin dipped 2% in fiat monetary units, while removing melting faces memes from last week.

2025-05-11 21:55:55 GMT

“Bitcoin Needs to Slay Monsters” is a much needed mirror.
Twelve sharp, soul-cutting essays by Alles voor Bitcoin that strip the hype, torch the branding fluff, and ask the hard questions no one dares to. From fake educators to empty slogans, hardware ads to software complacency. This is the moment where the cypherpunk dream either wakes up or collapses.
If you think Bitcoin is just a protocol, read this.
If you think Bitcoin is a religion, definitely read this.
If you no longer know what Bitcoin is supposed to be, this will exorcise you.
Full series here by @nprofile…y0py Kim de Vos
https://allesvoorbitcoin.substack.com

2025-05-11 21:21:19 GMT

This is who you become when you never give your mother any flowers.
https://i.nostr.build/Lk4jDhLOPtvZmbFZ.jpg

2025-05-11 20:51:19 GMT

Japan’s Debt Death Spiral: When Trust Dies, Empires Burn
The most dangerous lies are the ones we all agree to believe. Japan’s bond market is screaming a truth no one wants to hear: trust is fracturing, and when it shatters, systems built on faith collapse like paper castles in monsoon season. The 40-year yield, rocketing from near-zero to 2.75% in three years, isn’t a chart. It’s a funeral dirge for the illusion of control.
For decades, Japan’s economic model was a closed loop of mutual delusion. The government piled on debt, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) printed yen to gobble it up, and markets nodded along, pretending the game could last forever. But reality doesn’t play pretend. Loops break when the seams split. Demographics don’t bargain, a population drop of 898,000 in a single year, fertility at 1.2, isn’t a statistic. It’s a demographic guillotine slicing through the productive base: workers, taxpayers, consumers. Gone. Debt-to-GDP at 260% isn’t a figure. It’s a noose tightening around Japan’s neck.
Adam Smith saw this coming centuries ago: “What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.” Japan’s folly is now stark. The BOJ’s credibility is crumbling as yield buyers back away, sniffing the decay. Long-term rates aren’t climbing, they’re bolting for the exits. Gravity doesn’t lose.
History doesn’t repeat, but it screams warnings. France in 1789 was suffocating under debt, its aristocracy blinded by the myth of eternal solvency. They printed assignats, flooding the system to dodge collapse, only to see hyperinflation incinerate their legitimacy. Japan isn’t printing paper money, it’s printing trust, and the faithful are dwindling fast. Unlike France’s fall, this isn’t just a regime crumbling. It’s the entire system, fiscal, monetary, demographic, buckling under its own impossible weight.
So, what’s next? Japan faces three paths, each rigged with dynamite:
Yield Curve Control Redux. Double down, print more yen, buy more bonds, smash those yields back down. It’s a straight shot to currency collapse. Flood the system with cash, and the yen craters. Hyperinflation doesn’t knock politely when trust dies, it kicks the door in.
Debt Restructuring. Rewrite the debt, trim it, stretch it out. Sounds tidy, but it’s a butcher’s blade. Austerity would gut pensions, jack up taxes, and set the streets ablaze. Japan’s global reputation? Ashes. No one trusts a borrower who rewrites the rules mid-game.
Default via Inflation. Let prices soar, shrink the debt’s real value. A quieter implosion, but no less deadly. Savings vanish, the yen becomes kindling, and sovereignty slips away. When your money’s a punchline, you’re not calling the shots anymore.
Pick one. They all end in blood.
This isn’t just Japan’s mess, it’s a flare lighting up the cracks in every fiat system drunk on the myth of permanence. When the BOJ, once a god among central banks, loses its grip, it proves Nietzsche right: “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails is a function of power, not truth.”
The reckoning’s not on its way. It’s here. Japan’s spiral is a mirror, stare into it. See the future. Trust is the only currency that matters, and when it’s gone, empires don’t fade. They burn.
- Fiat Hawk https://i.nostr.build/37Hxcn6OnnUZVB68.png

2025-05-11 08:26:58 GMT

A recap of the OP_RETURN "debate"
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Core: Filters don't work.
Bitcoiners: They obviously do, otherwise you wouldn't need to remove them.
Core: We don't have the technical means, so we're removing the limit.
Bitcoiners: We gave you the technical means in a PR two years ago, Core rejected it, it was implemented in Knots and it works.
Core: We can't stop all spam reliably, so why bother?
Bitcoiners: Because life is not black or white, and fastening your seatbelt when driving a car is safer even though some people die in car crashes.
Core: Here's 7 transactions that even your precious filters didn't catch.
Bitcoiners: Here's 2 million transactions that were caught.
Core: You can't censor valid transactions just because you don't like them. They paid a fee!
Bitcoiners: There's millions of Nigerian princes contacting people through email every day. These are "valid transactions" too, yet you send those to spam. This is obviously not censorship, so that argument is deceitful and intellectually dishonest.
Core: What is spam objectively anyway?
Bitcoiners: The receiver - not the sender - gets to decide what's useful to them. You're removing the ability of nodes to decide that, implying you know best.
Core: These transactions will end up in blocks anyway, and we can't incentivize profit-seeking miners to go out-of-band.
Bitcoiners: It's not your job to incentivize or deter miners. Your job is to work on the Bitcoin client while prioritizing the one thing that makes Bitcoin unique and truly decentralized: nodes.
Core: But we want better fee estimation and block propagation.
Bitcoiners: So do we, but never at the expense of decentralization and self-sovereignty. Nodes run the show.
Core: This is a technical discussion. Stop philosophying and using analogies, you plebs!
Bitcoiners: We gave you a technical solution that works, the philosophic rationale and the logical arguments. Stop turning Bitcoin into a shitcoin.
Am I missing anything here?
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If you're seeing bias here, it's because you're too stubborn to admit that one side is clearly more informed, rational and morally calibrated than the other.
This is why there's distrust in Core. It's got nothing to do with technical competency and rational discourse. It's just pure and simple political shenanigans, whataboutisms, strawman arguments and in some cases sheer lies.
- Hodling like i mean it

2025-05-08 10:11:35 GMT

Few https://i.nostr.build/obxjTjY5qnWIOQy2.jpg
Satsprice.live

2025-05-08 07:02:45 GMT

GM I love it when people stand for their country, culture and embrace bitcoin on top of that.
We need more of that everywhere!
https://i.nostr.build/OB5f96F5ckzbNtco.jpg

2025-05-07 21:40:32 GMT

The entire rationale for removing the op return limit is not only cowardly but contradictory and hypocritical on its face.
To have this fucking shill declare us screeching victims of cognitive dissonance for not meekly complying is such an affront I'm compelled to do a whole.
They say miners control everything and we can't stop them from putting whatever shit they want into the blockchain so there's nothing for it but to do damage limitation and at least give spammers a way to spam without bloating the UTXO set.
There are multiple layers of deliberate obfuscation in the framing of the argument coming from core so I'm just going to bullet point it;
1. the 5 or 6 actual miners have a completely unjustified level of access to blocks currently and just conceding that and building around it is a brain melting level of subservience and cowardice.
We can fix that. Datum fixes that. Core won't run the update to facilitate datum!
2. They are arguing against the efficacy of filters in order to remove a fliter that evidently works like a motherfucker. Works so well Jameson Lopp's whole "build ethereum on bitcoin" project can't work with it.
It costs a relative shitload to go direct to a malicious miner.
3. Contrary to cores arguments its actually really bad for the malicious miners and not for us when their blocks contain a bunch of garbage our nodes hadn't propagated. It slows down their own blocks propagating and raises the risk they'll be orphaned.
People really need to understand how doomed the miners(the handful of dominant FPPS mining pools) are and how much ocean and datum already represent writing on the wall and the end of their dangerous centralised control of the block space.
Without that background bogey man of malicious miners who have so much access to blocks they can reliably promise to mine transactions for spammers, all of core's masochistic arguments fall apart.
So they're desperately looking for a new way to guarantee spammers access to the blockchain and they've found it! Its your fucking mempool!
They want your mempool to spread its legs and propagate whatever the spammers want and they're actually calling it a W because it limits the bloat of the UTXO set. Knots was literally only established for that in the face of core letting spammers bloat it from 4 to 12GB!
This is hard to keep straight but I hope that outline helps. Protect nodes right to relay transactions according to their own sovereign policies and decentralise mining with datum. That's how we keep bitcoin small and simple. That's how we keep nodes easy to bootstrap.
Luke has been fighting that battle for years now in the face of core's apathy and subservience to shitcoiners. Core wont give node operators the simple choice to build their own mempool. This literally empowers the miners they claim we have no way to fight against.
We can and will defeat this. Ocean is a real mining pool for real miners who make their own block templates(with datum) drawn from their own mempools on the bitcoin network and all it does is split the block rewards.
If mining is actually decentralised so there's nowhere to go but the bitcoin network to get access to the miners and to block space then the only place spammers can go is your mempool. They desperately need you to relay their dogshit to miners because Mara is fucked long term.
Core are looking at bitcoin as a shitcoiner playground. They are looking at the decentralised network of nodes all independently deciding what to relay and building mempools differently as a problem. This is life or death rn for the spammers. We're winning.
- Dickhead

2025-05-07 21:03:28 GMT

Let’s be honest, at over 750,000 lines of code, “DON’T TRUST, VERIFY” boils down to choosing whom to trust. For 99% of the community, it’s trusting one set of voices over another. Most of us can't code for sh*t...
https://i.nostr.build/pp0J2HD9NjrMOQVz.jpg

2025-05-06 22:42:10 GMT

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I get it. People sometimes get overly emotional about stuff, especially when they are passionate about that thing.
That is what happened here as well for the most part imo.
But, in the end everyone has to take responsibility for their own actions, including Maya.
The problem is the medium here. Open dialog creates clarity, writing creates distance and distortions because it allows for too much interpretation.
And everyone has multiple sides to them, and under enough pressure and trauma, that side becomes dominant pretty easily.
It's a tragedy and a self made tragedy at the same time.

2025-05-06 21:56:13 GMT

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So let me get this straight, you were brave enough to publish that story publicly, without hesitation. Which is now being citated everywhere around Suriname.
But not brave enough to let her tell her side in open dialog. Don't tell me it's better for her own sake.
Just do a web call with her in private for god sake and revaluate your choices.
This kind of stuff can haunt you down. Totally unnecessary imo.
I'm not protecting her because she is my friend, but because I think that is how grown-ups should come together.
I appreciate your reaction, and I'm aware I can also be wrong in my assessment here because I may not have all the information as well.
This whole theater frustrated the hell out of me. Her vision for the country is truly inspiring, but suddenly that does not matter appaerantly.
Truth is, many people around her screwed her over, took advantage of her trustfulness, or were truly incompetent and that is also part of the reason local bitcoiners they did not want to talk about Maya, because she told them in their face if they dropped the ball which may not be the best way to deal with things but she also has a low tolerance for people not taking responsibility. So there is more to this story.
She is still young and has a whole life in front of her. Don't be that guy. You can do better.

2025-05-06 21:20:53 GMT

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I think you should interview @nprofile…s9cq again, so she can tell her side of the story.
That is the bitcoiner way, not this hearsay bs and character murder main stream media characterization.
I'm not saying she did not make any mistakes, she did and she is can be very honest about her own mistakes and be very forthcoming.
Questioning her intentions as vad and manipulative and calling her a liar without her being able to defend her position is totally wrong and immoral.
There is nuance to this story you have missed, question is are you human enough to give her that chance.

2025-05-05 18:59:15 GMT

On Umbrel you can switch from Bitcoin Core to Bitcoin Knots without resynchronizing. All it takes is dragging your existing data folder into the Knots app.
Here's a quick step-by-step walkthrough if it helps:
https://v.nostr.build/SBeCs4dzxW36XwUO.mp4
FYI:
The replace popup only shows up in umbrelOS 1.4.1 beta 1.
For now you can just:
- Stop both apps
- Go to Files > Apps > bitcoin-knots, and delete the "data" folder
- Then go to Files > Apps > bitcoin, and cut/paste or drag-and-drop the "data" folder in Files > Apps > bitcoin-knots
Works like a charm!

2025-05-04 21:36:46 GMT

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Vague philosophical nonsense or actual philosophical brilliance?
#nevent1q…4esj

2025-05-03 20:11:12 GMT

Real time is never gojng to be the same https://i.nostr.build/hjy627ZDnj5yyl0r.jpg

2025-05-03 07:56:56 GMT

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Why does it matter what any given cunt does?

2025-04-30 20:58:43 GMT

@npub1s05…eyhe
This is not a prediction or a pitch.
It is afiatjaf of what could unfold if your deflation thesis continues to move outward. You have already helped people understand the monetary foundations. This explores how those foundations might shift our sense of power, identity, and coordination. Feel free to take from it what is useful, reshape what is not, and ignore the rest.
Your deflation thesis starts the clock. Two tech-generations pass and the last supermarket quietly closes. Not because food ran out, but because it is now abundant in two directions. A countertop printer produces a balanced meal in seconds. At the same time, local markets offer vine tomatoes, raw honey, hand-caught trout, and lamb raised in a solar-fed pasture. Survival is no longer the issue. Choice is. And just beneath that new abundance, power begins to reorganize itself. It shifts into quieter frontiers: watts, memory, and tempo. The people who learn to navigate those frontiers early will shape what comes next.
Energy becomes the new anchor of voice. Bitcoin mining, also called hashing, consumes electricity to keep a global ledger honest. Those who control large amounts of hash power act as deterrents. They do not need weapons to signal strength. They use electricity. Towns with access to cheap solar, geothermal, or wind energy begin to stream political weight into the global network. Communities without access to energy drift into what some already call Silence Zones. They are not excluded from the network, but their ability to participate in global consensus is diminished. A protocol like nostr becomes critical in this world. A signed message, relayed across thousands of independent servers, cannot be censored. Even in low-power zones, your ideas remain audible. In the energy-ledger era, electricity becomes a form of speech.
Perfect memory fixes corruption but destroys mercy. Every bad take, every youthful misstep, every moment shared in private becomes permanent. People begin to create rituals around forgetting. Some communities vote annually to blur or de-amplify old content. A redemption market forms. Investors back people with messy digital pasts, betting on their reputational recovery. Nostr already hints at how this works. Events remain cryptographically permanent, but each relay decides how much to surface or silence. In this model, data persists but fades in volume. Privacy becomes an economic skill, not just a moral one. The ability to separate personas or use expiring metadata becomes a way to avoid buying forgiveness later at a markup. We begin to remember that growth requires forgetfulness.
Time fragments into three political clocks. Microsecond minds, powered by autonomous AIs, execute logistical decisions faster than any human can blink. Heartbeat minds, made of people, move through social time: hours, days, seasons. Season minds, built for ecosystems, protect forests and rivers through multi-decade logic. Governance begins to split across these rhythms. One chamber moves fast. One moves human. One moves slow. Nothing passes unless all three agree. This model is not theoretical. Nostr already allows bots, humans, and slow filters to operate on the same stream. Each can express itself in its own rhythm. With lightning payments layered on top, even money speaks in multiple tempos. What emerges is chronological equity. Not everyone gets one vote. Each rhythm gets a veto.
None of this is guaranteed. There is another version of this future. It also looks clean and abundant. Food is still printable. Energy is still cheap. The interfaces are beautiful and effortless. But the power structure is different. All energy is metered by remote software. All purchases are routed through centrally controlled smart contracts. Your ideas are scanned, ranked, and filtered by models you did not train. Your reputation is preserved, but it is surfaced only when the system decides it is safe. You do not feel punished. You feel gently corrected. You do not feel censored. You feel curated. Life remains comfortable, but only if you stay within bounds. The borders are soft, and you stop noticing them.
This is the soft totalitarianism of convenience. You did not request it. It arrives through updates and feature rollouts. Everything still works. You just no longer steer. This is the likely future if no one builds the alternative.
By the time most people notice this shift, they will already be inside one system or the other. They will not debate protocol mechanics. They will respond to how it feels. Many will still hesitate to explore alternatives like Bitcoin or nostr, and that hesitation will not be irrational. These tools were dismissed for years as speculative, chaotic, or extreme. The scepticism is not ignorance. It is memory. We have all seen systems that promised freedom and delivered control.
Still, maybe it is worth asking what these tools actually do before they are needed. Not because you are aligned politically, but because retaining options may be the most practical kind of freedom left. These tools are not movements. They are fallback plans. Quiet infrastructure for a noisy age. They require no belief, just early curiosity.
For anyone who wants to prepare, the steps are simple. Learn to hold your own bitcoin. Lower your personal energy costs. Claim a censorship-resistant identity. Use expiration logic in your data. Balance your tempo between fast automation, slow presence, and at least one long-term commitment that spans years. Not because any of it is urgent today. But because one day, it might be.
The infrastructure is already forming. You do not need to be technical. Tools like Fedi allow communities to co-manage Bitcoin and identities without a central bank or platform. Apps like Breez let anyone send or receive lightning payments, whether through podcast streaming, retail, or peer-to-peer work. These tools are not theoretical. They are here. They translate protocol-level freedoms into everyday practice.
Survival may no longer be scarce. But agency is. And the ones who preserve their watts, their words, and their tempo will not just endure what comes next. They will shape it.
This write-up came out of my dialogue with an AI assistant. Not because the machine is wise, but because it let me think aloud long enough to stumble into something that might be useful. If any of this resonates, feel free to bring it into a podcast, a post, or just a conversation. I am not here to be right. I am here to think in public. But then again, maybe I was just hallucinating here with my assistant.
If you have thoughts, critiques, or questions, I would genuinely appreciate feedback. Especially from people building at the intersection of energy, memory, governance, and decentralisation.
@npub1sg6…f63m @npub1hk0…20pf @npub1cn4…3vle @npub180c…h6w6 @npub1s5y…6q7z @npub1a2c…w83a
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/3e6e0735b8a2e96f8cf663f64d04bb9cea931afcc57f5427c35bb6859e95c8a2/10e9b235dedd852e1dcd7c97f662d7de7b092542ecea41070d47d539bef050f6.webp

2025-04-29 06:19:39 GMT

GM
After digital intelligence takes over our consiousness and has fully merged with our flesh, bones, brains and organs, we will be a different species
That species will live forever in the galaxy. Just not in this current form.
I'll pushback as long as I can, but this is the path we're on as long as nature does not correct it first.
Enjoy your day