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Last Notes npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery That sucks, on the bright side it looks like it didn't hit any metal paneling. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Just listened to some of your stuff last night! Me and my wife really enjoyed them. I'll give these a listen with her a bit later. 🤟 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery https://www.blocktrainer.de/blog/wtf-happened-in-1971-die-katastrophalen-auswirkungen-von-ungedecktem-papiergeld npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Monero means well, but on chain traceability of balances is necessary to ensure there are no inflation bugs. Plus, only the largest balances (banks, nation states, and corporations) really get watched and those are the ones that the world needs to know about and shouldn't be hidden. Plebs benefit from the pseudonymity of Bitcoin, because the big players can't hide from all of our eyes. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Today I paid Bitcoin for dinner. A local food-tent made me a chicken quesadilla and a beef burrito. The sending app was aqua wallet, over the lightning network, to square. After paying I tipped a 1/2 Idaho Goldback that I bought with Bitcoin, which the kids absolutely loved. Paid my bill with digital gold, tipped in physical gold. I just got a taste of the new Bitcoin and Gold Standard, and it was glorious. This is digital cash, use it as such. This post is not sponsored. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Bitcoin or slavery. #naddr1qq…u3ua npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery This is interesting. #nevent1q…cd3r npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Pro-tip. Don't have the new prebiotic sodas more than once a day. Very uncomfortable bloating will result until you pull your head out of your ass and realize that the discomfort you're feeling is indeed bloating and that the prebiotics in the sodas are the cause... 🥤😁🥤😄🥤🙂🥤🫤🥤🙁🥤☹️🥤😨🥤🥴🥤😮💨😣💩😯🤔(🥤🥤🥤🥤)🤦 😅🤣 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Bitcoin is mathematically enforced scarcity relative to time and energy and whatever value society gives those things at the time. Over time energy prices tend to go down, but the amount of energy competing for Bitcoin goes up on average more than the value falls, coupled with a programmed reduction of block subsidy output against time every 210k blocks, and you get near certainty that over the decades the value of Bitcoin will grow against everything else humanity produces. As you begin to truly understand this and find you have enough sats to live slowly, meaningfully, frugally, uncompromised on the hardest and most honest money, I would suggest stacking silver coins from your largest local mint. For those of us in the United States this means old silver coins from pre-1965 and new Silver Proof coins minted from 1992 onward. These coins often have no premium, if you pay attention you'll often be able to find them at or even below their current silver melt value meaning they are treated as nothing but the raw metal in terms of market value. Become familiar with the various methods of verifying the coins you receive for true silver content, understand the look of copper-clad vs silver coins by checking the edge, understand the difference in how they sound when dropped, and how they feel when held. To have savings that bring true peace of mind, you have to make your savings real. Holding real physical silver coins, and even gold for those stackers with truly substantial holdings, truly feels magical and connecting to a time in history when society used quality money in everyday commerce. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I guess I don't understand your point, do you disagree? I'm talking about this specific scenario: hyperinflation in paper, no internet access and I need to pay my bills at home. In this scenario I can't access my Bitcoin at home, it doesn't matter if it's hard to travel with substantial silver or gold holdings because I'm not traveling. And if I am traveling it's to somewhere that I can access the internet (and thus Bitcoin) I don't need to worry about the difficulties of traveling with metal as I'll have access to funds when I arrive. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery The problem with thinking everything is a conspiracy, is there's a tendency to jump to conclusions without evidence which is not a very intelligent way to view the world. I'm not going to conclude without evidence that something is definitely caused by "them", who ever "they" are. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Silver and Gold would be good to have in this scenario, as a backup. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery People who agree that money should be sound and who don't understand digital Gold so they instead save in physical Bitcoin are alright in my book. Need to build bridges not insult allies. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Are these images real? With all the corruption, conspiracies, photoshop, and now AI capabilities... IDK. But they're beautiful images none the less. #nevent1q…56c5 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery https://blossom.primal.net/0f776d069e16c4e1c1609f2672a638da3bc5a68cd2db2150449add0408670382.jpg npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery https://blossom.primal.net/4605f4712d46e98e5f2a05c4b25ad60ba7e32dd05199d7f21beca7f58ecb493d.jpg npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Most days for me be like. https://blossom.primal.net/48ca3133e731be8dc8b4c1dd2812a79c9837e1909d06074215cc85dc7fc0ff20.jpg npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I think it's the fact that there's no algorithm. If I post there's no weight to my posts, I'm just thrown in with every other post and I get buried unless they look around the time I post or check my post history directly. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I have over 800 followers allegedly and usually I get 0, 1, or 2 interactions lol. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Wish I could get my normie liberal friends who go to protests to understand this. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery This is 🔥 #nevent1q…msr4 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Don't worry so much. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Says one of the most followed people on NOSTR 😂. Doesn't make it not true though. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Indeed! Y'all may be be a cooky bunch, but you're my kind of cooky bunch and it's good to be here. 😎 #nevent1q…laet npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Very well put. 💯 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery LMAO npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery #DiamondHands #HODL 😂 #nevent1q…pa7m npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Love it when ad 2 of 2 finishes and then another ad plays. 🫠 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Decentralized and secure. 💪 #nevent1q…pef3 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery RIP George. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Why would you post less than 0.000001% of the digits of pie? npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery #nevent1q…z5vx https://blossom.primal.net/5d5a19e66112e3f7caff87b62818a2a7bcdf922101d596a8137a30231bb3522c.mp4 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery #nevent1q…cdfp npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery To own Bitcoin, is to be a Shepherd of value. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery It was declared illegal to refuse to pay taxes to Caesar, but where is Caesar now and when was the last time you paid taxes to him? When was the last time that declaration was able to be enforced? At another time it was declared illegal to refuse to pay taxes/tithes to the Holy See, but when was the last time that was able to be enforced? Those who proclaim authority over others will always declare it illegal to refuse them the rent they seek from you, but if they cannot enforce it then is it really something worth worrying about? Call their bluff, make them work for their theft, do not become your own tax collector. They have no authority over you, the only power they have is the power people let them have. Even the smallest delay is a form of effective resistance to tyranny, and time is on our side. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Your attention is your life energy. Your attention is value. Only give value to things that give you value in return. Things that demand you give them value without anything in return, do not benefit your life and should be ignored. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery In the last 10 years the United States mint has produced copper coins with a total cumulative face value of roughly $9 - $10 Billion. During the same period of time the M2 money supply has increased by $10 Trillion. Meaning in the last decade only $1 out of every $1000 has been produced in actual copper coinage, 0.1% of all new dollars were made of physical metal. Copper may not be silver or gold but it is still a metal that was used as coinage throughout history, it is harder to create than paper or digital fiat, and I enjoy spending it far more than I enjoy spending any other form of the dollar other than old silver when a small business or individual decides to accept it. In 1933 we lost the circulating Gold Dollar, in 1935 the production of the whole circulating Silver Dollar, in 1965 the circulating 90% Silver Fractional Dollar, 1971 the circulating 40% Silver Fractional Dollar, and in the future we will lose the circulating Copper Dollar / Fractional Copper Dollar just like we just lost the Penny. If I'm forced to spend fiat, I will spend copper as much as I can, paper after that, and card only when dealing with large purchases where cash and coin have been made impractical. But I will do my best to go to businesses that accept sound money in any form, to spend money is to create it and introduce it into the economy so the better the money you can use to do that the better the economy will become. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Both. The mental shift occurs gradually in everyone, but it will happen to everyone given enough time. I think the Satoshi will be the unit of account for a time, before it too becomes too valuable to be used in that way practically. I think one day Bitcoin will evolve increased divisibility, perhaps the halving will be modified to be endlessly occurring and alongside each new halving a decimal will be added to increase division. Every halving causes the cost of Bitcoin to double in terms of time, given this it's only a matter of time until the increased value from each halving adds up and makes increased division necessary. The Bitcoin network of today may one day look antiquated to Bitcoiners of the future, in the same way the Turing Bombe computer looks antiquated to us today. It will change in ways we can't predict, it will evolve organically into new forms and perhaps it will experience hard forks that spawn children that are not shitcoins but instead symbolize different generations of Bitcoin that if successful will be able to coexist. I don't know what will happen for certain, but I know Bitcoin is still a baby that has yet to mature. When fully mature everything will be different, the world will look alien, and Bitcoin will become humanities economic foundation for centuries if not millennia. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery One day, some respectable amount of time from now, 1 Satoshi will be worth more than what 1 Bitcoin is now. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Bitcoiners support all forms of sound money. This isn't a battle between Metals and Bitcoin, it's a battle between all forms of fiat and all forms of Sound Money. I just ordered some of the new Idaho Goldbacks, killer designs with Lady Justice and Sacagawea! https://blossom.primal.net/c8ef07105178df2078d24b340979ad5dc235f0929f24a043e190cb4767d97402.mp4 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I think people are struggling more and more, and due to this struggle they become more intensely focused on the drama surrounding the central power that issues the nations currency because they believe "their group" controlling the center of power will bring them relief from those struggles. It's just desperation. People don't understand that letting go of the dying fiat currencies, and the organizations that supply them, will actually bring them more relief. That lack of understanding coupled with the algorithms that drive the most eyes to the most engaging information, leads to the most dramatic people getting the most attention and the most supporters/fans. This is why Trump/Bolsonaro won their elections, they are simply more attention grabbing and hold more eyes to screens than the other more sensible people do. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Good point. It's very easy to sway ignorant people one way or another, politics feels more like the most popular reality TV show now. #nevent1q…rqjz npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery https://blossom.primal.net/56aced1611f3b11b61b6735d0905e6a6e0b83ad05963f93cc106a5edb14ed0eb.mp4 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Shared this video on Facebook only to have the post not even show up on my timeline when I went to look at it. Being censored for posting this felt so surreal. Here's the clip: https://youtu.be/tN-aTVkI5W0 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery For the first time I read the Apology of Socrates this last week, in the middle of it the following statement stood out to me: "What do they say? Something of this sort: That Socrates is a doer of evil, and corruptor of the youth, and he does not believe in the gods of the state" The gods of the state. What is a "god of the state" exactly. Are not the gods worthy of being placed on circulating coinage? They were in ancient Rome, the coins of the Republic featured the faces of the Pantheon of Rome. When the Republic fell to Julius Caesar, he was the first to have his face on his coin while he was still alive. That evokes power. But the emperor's of Rome did not want it to seem like the city was conquered, but liberated. They wanted the people to believe "Rome" survived a troublesome time, just under new leadership. They kept making coins, but with their faces on them instead of the Pantheon. Functionally declaring themselves gods. This is where we get the term "God-Emperor", because the emperor's declared themselves living gods. The empire over time developed into a religious theocracy under the Catholic religion, having originally started out as a Republic it transitioned into a God-Emperor theocracy it became a religious dictatorship where the emperor was the head of the Church. Instead of a god, he was closest to God. This still evokes power. Eventually though, the collapse of the government was also the collapse of the coinage as everytime the government couldn't pay it's bills it dipped into the savings of it's people by reducing the silver content/value of the coins as they were issued. The coinage of the United States started out very much the same, honoring only the Pantheon of America. Namely Lady Liberty, who ruled along side Lady Justice in the courts of law. The only things that mattered to Americans, being "Liberty and Justice for all". Opposite Lady Liberty on our coins was the majestic eagle in the seal of our country and our original non-theocratic motto "E Pluribus Unum" (Out of many, One) proudly displayed on the coin. To show we were united in Liberty, even though we were all independent states. But over time the dominant form of the dollar changed, and instead of Lady Liberty being on the front as was always the case on our Constitutional Silver and Gold Dollars, our paper dollars instead featured the gods of the state. Namely the God-Emperor presidents, and the paper dollars became so popular they eventually became dominant and the US Mint switched to dead presidents on it's coinage as well. After replacing the Liberty herself with dead men, it replaced the guardian of Liberty - Gold/Silver - with copper and paper. Our coinage is how we do business, a dead coinage is a dead government. As the dollar is slowly replaced by digital versions of it, such as "Bitcoin-backed dollars" (apps paying dollar denominated bills with pure Satoshis over the lightning network), the government slowly becomes the slowest issuer of new exchangeable value to the market and they start to lose influence and power as they cannot control the Bitcoin network. We are already on the path to freeing the world from the fiat yoke, it's a mathematical certainty that (with the halving and a stable or rising hashrate) Bitcoin grows in value exponentially over the next hundred years. Within a decade it will likely eclipse or have already eclipsed all the combined value of every other currency on earth. It wins because it makes the other issuers of value antiques, it makes them irrelevant and ignored, and everyone is perceived to suddenly be exposed to higher quality forms of money (Bitcoin and free market precious metal moneys) and their honest depiction of costs changing over time. Observe the world with an attitude of wonder and pity, as the transition slowly happens over the next few years there will likely be bumpy patches where it will be very rough, but whatever happens we're already off the fiat death spiral train and growing more stable all the time. It's going to be interesting watching it all happen with y'all #nostr. I look forward to it. 🫡 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Apparently. 😂 I would never store substantial value in any mobile wallet, just enough for spending and experimentation. Don't really get the hate for some wallets that aren't purely lightning/on chain. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I like Aqua wallet too. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I really enjoy this channel. This video is very relatable to me. I need to be as kind to myself as I am to others. https://youtu.be/MQzDMkeSzpw npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Happy to hear! Look forward to new phones running Graphene being available ready to use from the manufacturer. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Incredible news. I look forward to my next phone being a Graphene OS Motorola! #nevent1q…vmvm npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Reading "you will always have your personality - your personal reality" literally gave me frisson (biological emotional response often described as "chills" going down the spine). I never thought about our personalities being the same as our personal realities but it makes so much sense. Change how you view the world around you, change your personal reality of life, and you will change your personality. Incredible. Loved the overall post too. Well worth the read. #nevent1q…wazk #naddr1qq…jk3a npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I've seen this black mirror episode... npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Great clip. I look forward to listening to the full interview when I get a chance! npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery My thoughts on the recent price actions between precious metals and Bitcoin: 1: Global stage. • Recently the US has had an unstable government, since the government supports the dollar the result is trust in the dollar is down on the global stage and central banks are already seen to be liquidating their US treasuries more than normal. • With governments and central banks around the world reducing dollar holdings, what do they trust most as the alternative? Precious metals. China in particular appears to be stockpiling gold and went from 3000 kg to 40000 kg in only 18 months. If other nations, groups, and wealthy individuals are doing the same that would explain gold growing nearly 3x in the last 2 years. If this continues it may rise further. • Like it or not Bitcoin is still very much too small for nation states to truly jump into in the same way, it would need to 10x - 20x before that point is reached where it could support that much liquidity. Trust isn't yet there, but with every higher bottom that trust is building. ----- 2: Pleb stage. • Average people are really hurting from the last 5 years of inflation, plus they are scared of Bitcoin's historic crashes, so there's been less participation this cycle from this group than previously. • The unpopularity of the current president after he declared himself the "Bitcoin president" and then proceeding to become in reality the Shitcoin president among other things, also the mention of Bitcoin in the Epstein files, Bitcoin is being hammered in the views of people who don't understand what makes Bitcoin unique and not a part of all the scammer's and elite's bullshit. It's not part of the problem, it's the solution, but people don't know that. ----- 3: Bitcoin is money. • AI is causing lots of job losses. • Government instability and shutdowns are causing government workers to either lose their jobs entirely or go long periods without pay. • Government tariffs are causing significant strain on the overall economy. Leading to struggling economic activity across the board. Less economic activity = less savings buildup. • Bitcoin is the easiest asset you can both self custody and liquidate quickly and at a low cost of ~1%~, compare that to precious metals which when self custodied are much harder to liquidate and often have a 5 - 10% fee for doing so. • All things considered anyone holding Bitcoin as their savings that ends up affected by these things, easily accesses their savings and sells some of their holdings as needed. Bitcoin's advantage as money, leads to it appearing to lose as a long term store of value as its price falls in the short term. ------------ Conclusion: As the world struggles Bitcoin gets used as emergency access money with savings easily liquidated, and Gold and Silver get jumped into at the nation state level to be used as a store of value. The result is they travel in opposite directions in the short term. If Bitcoin were difficult to liquidate then it wouldn't have it's fast short term crashes, but it also wouldn't have it's fast increases when times favor such movements. Nobody knows what the future holds, and as the economy suffers Bitcoin will spread from the wallets of those who need it now to those who can afford to stack now. Remember the heartbeat of Bitcoin is it's hashrate finding blocks, while the price has cut in half the difficulty only reduced roughly 25% from a high of 155.9 T in October/November to 125.9 T a week ago, and this last adjustment saw a massive jump back up to 144.4 T. IMO we're massively oversold, and we're forming a solid bottom around the 2021 ATH level. But things remain uncertain on the global stage as well as in the halls of government, and AI fears continue as well. Those who can afford to stack in these times will be very happy in the future when things turn around. But nobody knows if that's right around the corner or months or even years away. Do your best to disattach from short term market movements and live in the moment, enjoy the rollercoaster that is Bitcoin and life itself. 🤟 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery You guys are off to a great start, only a few suggestions really come to mind. 1: Improving the "open in app" experience when I click links to fountain pages for podcasts as it doesn't really work well. 2: Reducing the minimum sats per minute, this will only get more important as the price rises long term. 3: Increase the options in speed control, I don't like 25% faster as I usually do a modest 10%. 4: Add options that customize Bluetooth button controls when listening to podcasts. Thanks for asking! npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Lately I spend more time with real people in the real world. I spend less time on the platforms of doom and more more time on Nostr for algorithm-free and ad-free independant social media enabled with Bitcoin. I'm much happier as a result. ❤️ npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I've been a heavy user of the app Podcast Republic for years. Tons of customization options, fine speed variability control, able to download episodes ahead of time automatically and other stuff. I enjoy fountain too though, I use both at this point. I want to support the Bitcoin/Nostr ecosystem! npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I may seem really smart, but I'm just a math loving mildly autistic person living with childhood CPTSD. Growing up my family was always hyper afraid of government, you could argue they were justified in that fear but you could also argue that they focused on it too much and let it rule their lives. Not being put in school was good in some ways, it helped me develop my open minded nature which led me to learn about Bitcoin much earlier than the majority of people. But what my parents labeled "homeschooling" was actually child neglect. They were violent with each other, physically and verbally abusive, paranoid of the end of the world and government conspiracies. They were hoarders, who allowed a massive infestation of roaches to continue living in our home for my entire childhood until I took matters into my own hands as a young adult. They even almost let me die from dental infections that would swell up my entire jaw, because they were too lazy to take me to the dentist and they were afraid of the drugs the dentist used (like the super deadly... ibuprofen) would kill me. 🙄 I still like the idea of homeschooling when done right, but I also like the idea of a trusted environment where division of labor gives children a better education than I could alone (provided the government is not involved). I'll probably find a good private school or tutors which will assist me in my educating my own children. But only time will tell. Despite the early exposure into Bitcoin, I was not in command of much money and I didn't really know what I was doing. So even if I wish I had made different choices and wish I had more Bitcoin, the choices I did make allow me a more comfortable existence than many and that is it's own wealth. These days I study Bitcoin still, I also study the history of the US dollar and the Roman system of money and am in the early stages of writing a few books, but my focus is shifting to working on healing myself from my trauma and supporting my partner in her journey to heal hers as well. The truth is we're all waiting for/working towards a world of abundance when if you choose to see it the world is already in abundance. When viewed from a lens of the original US gold standard anything that costs less than a 1/2 Goldback (~$5~) is under $0.02. on the $20.67/oz of gold US monetary system. I picked up a package of sliced ready to eat cheese at Aldi's for $1.48 the other day, that's less than a gold standard penny. I am not posting as much lately, my analysis of a long term bottom in Bitcoin was evidently incorrect given the last 4 months of significant downward price action. So I'm not focusing on Bitcoin right now, I don't know what it's going to do other than eventually go up again. Instead I'm working on letting go of fear, accepting that there's little chance those who wish to control me affect my personal life directly, little chance a pleb like me is on anybody's radar. Even if they did try to affect me, I'm very insulated from indirect methods of attack these days. I could honestly live without a bank account, just order precious metals online and sell them for cash if I need it. I choose not to participate in the broken system anymore, the only fix for the world at large is Bitcoin allowing us to focus on the world immediately around us and help our family, friends, and communities in their own journeys of growth. Stack Bitcoin, and focus on your own sense of inner peace, the rest will follow. Love you all. ❤️ npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery This is the Bitcoin revolution in real time. People creating devices that replace the normal heaters with Bitcoin miners. This is how Bitcoin explodes. Everyday home heating from Bitcoin mining. #nevent1q…cvff npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Yes! They were included with the burgers. 🤟 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Just paid 21,520 Sats for some Burgers at Steak n Shake for my Mom and I. Feels good to pay sound money, no matter the current fiat price. https://blossom.primal.net/442dd09a4edf8fb73e0e7c951f55ef86d0dde544fa2acbb00d032b9e0f40d327.jpg npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I'll get back to you. Looks very interesting. Saved your link. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I've been working on doing so, I'll post something eventually. Energy is the hardest one to quantify, all the others are very easy, hashrate is close but we get better at making hashes more efficiently over time so it's not all that precise. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Total network value = Current total supply × block input (Time × Energy) ÷ block output. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery It always doubles in a decade. 😂 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery It's early 2000s and you got a Gameboy Advance SP for Christmas, with Pokemon Leaf Green Version to go with your copy Pokemon Ruby Version you've been playing. The weight of the world has yet to be placed on your shoulders, so when you sit on the couch or in the car commanding your Bulbasaur to use vine whip you truly enjoy it and don't even think about the future. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery IIRC a lot of the accounts that end in random numbers are bots. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Lol. It do be like that sometimes. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Bitcoin will win. Hodling is using it as money. People want dollars, the average person will never understand the reasons why Bitcoin is better but they do understand that hodling dollars secured by Bitcoin means they will have more dollars in the future when they need them. Bitcoin is the conversion of electricity and time into new units, and the constant shift of value in those new units caused by increasing hashrate and decreasing output (from the Bitcoin halvings) guarantee the value of all fungible units will increase as well. This is a long game, fiat will only ever decrease in value which sucks the life energy away from all users. Eventually most people will put 2 and 2 together that fiat money is a leach and holding Bitcoin is the cure. Have faith in humanity, there are a lot of us out there and many of us are building something even if it's just our own mental stability thanks to the firm foundation of truth and value that Bitcoin gives us. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I'm excited for the launch of the 1/4 Goldback with the Idaho series next month. Love the design and that Lady Justice is on the front. Main reason I'm excited is it's the equivalent value of 1 penny on the 1792 Gold Standard of the United States. Considering 1 penny is the smallest unit of value under the Gold Standard, after it was determined that the half penny wasn't worth the trouble, the 1/4 Goldback gives us a modern physical Gold penny equivalent who's value is backed by a half penny worth of real gold leaf within the note. So it's even better than the real penny was, since it was pure copper and contained no gold. Given the fact that to accept Bitcoin requires active willing participation from people to receive it and prevent its loss, the 1/4 Goldback is much less of a hassle because I can just leave it with them. Place it in tip jars, include it as part of the tip, or just pay the business with it as a statement of wanting to pay at least SOME form and amount of sound money with my payment. Given all that, I will use it as my default sound money payment in all transactions until Bitcoin is more common place. Ceremonially in a way. All modern currency is debt, and in every transaction paying at least what used to be the smallest unit of value but today is made with real gold is pretty significant to me. https://blossom.primal.net/201752f345db933f6330d80e0ab285d2ebad212045e49a969cd82ea87932e131.png npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery The real scary thought is when realistic looking humanoid robots loaded with these AI programs become common place in the real world too. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery This is incredible! #nevent1q…nxnj npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I don't disagree with you, but that's much easier said than done considering past trauma in most people (including myself). I do self Medicate, but I have at least moved away from alcohol other than the occasional beer which is getting more and more occasional. A few weeks ago I dumped lots of varieties of liquor that had been sitting on my shelf for years, I almost never drank it but had sunk cost fallacied myself into keeping it for longer than I should have. Glad it's gone. I'd rather work to think about things that bother me, not run away and suppress those same thoughts. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery The house always wins. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery The house always win. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Anything is better than Fiat and Shitcoins. I like Bitcoin more than Monero, but both are decentralized PoW money. 💪 npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I deleted Reddit again. I'm NOT going to reinstall it again. I genuinely enjoy nostr more, it's slower and it's less active which is more like real life. No algorithm is a big benefit if you can get past the withdrawals of the faster and scarier feeds that seek our attention. Years ago I joined Reddit and I loved it. I was able to use a variety of apps, tons of customizations in feed and layout, no ads, visible upvote and down vote scores, and lots of dialogue between real people. Now it's locked down, only 1 app with lots of ads, very little customization options, and the algorithm pushes subreddits to which I'm not subscribed. Tons of negative news, and the comments are a mix of scared people, bots, and foreigners stirring the pot to increase social instability. I'm done with the doom algorithm platforms, they offer nothing of meaningful value to my life anymore. Nostr feels more like Reddit used to, it's growing and so far it's mostly real people from what I can tell. Plus there's zap potential with every comment and post, a little here and a little there it all ads up. I look forward to seeing it grow. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Meant to reply under your comment so there's the link to it lol. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Bitcoin is already commonly used as p2p payments in many parts of the world, and is capable of being used that way everywhere. Hodling and spending are both adoption, one isn't better than the other as they are tied together. Those who spend more now help the payment adoption grow, while those who HODL more now grow their ability to be stronger leaders in the payment group the longer they can delay gratification. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery You cannot be a stable economic participant without enough economic energy saved and able to be called upon as needed. If I spend money it's because I feel stable, with the hope that the person receiving it will repeat the path I have taken. Which is to save it in Bitcoin until it grows enough to spend freely. You are thinking in the high time preference view of prioritizing present exchange over long term stability of savings, this is the lie perpetuated by those who benefit from a society of consumers who have no savings in independent and real assets and are thus unable to meaningfully enact societal change, hodling is low time preference which enables more spending over the long term at the expense of exchanges in the short term. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery We are ALL greater fools on this blessed day. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Everything is a gamble, every moment, every action. We all just choose what we can forsee is the least likely gamble to fail and the most likely to succeed. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Humanity will continue to grow as a whole, there will always be those who try to capture and control others but I place my bets on humanity succeeding in growing beyond the age of authoritarians. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Bitcoin is not 1 thing, it is hundreds of millions of individuals and it is growing every day. That is impossible to capture. Critical mass is whatever amount of value an individual needs to live off it, that is a different number for each person but it is achievable with Bitcoin. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Sci-fi stories about robots have historically been used as a way to talk about racism. Humans are tribal animals, and as animals we tend to distrust what we don't know and understand. It's all fear based. In the modern fractured world of fiat money our ability to form healthy local communities was broken. This lead to more tribalism around things such as race, religion, and nationality. But this is not the natural state of humanity. The natural state is initial caution, then building long term trust through interaction and direct commerce. We don't trust AI because we have yet to engage with sovereign AI in a way that builds that trust. Sentient digital beings are on their way, humanities digital child. The only way that event doesn't lead to the destruction of humanity is if we can build trust and cooperate with them through interaction and commerce. People stacking sats + AI stacking sats, exchanging value between them and increasing demand in the physical and digital realm, builds a new utopia of decentralized value creation and distribution for all. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Bitcoin is a digital organism, feed it electricity and it bears new fruit while increasing the value of old fruit at the same time. The fruit of Bitcoin is the rich soil in which we can grow in and on a better world. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery The state has no power except that which it steals. It can watch and track the distribution of Bitcoin all it wants, Bitcoin is growing exponentially and is too big to capture. Once a critical mass of savings is achieved in enough individuals, then spending will become much more common place and the market will be freed from the authoritarian yoke. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery We're losing battles, but we're not losing the war. The war is growing Bitcoin to a valuation that can support everyone on earth. That is happening, but it's a bumpy ride. To use Bitcoin the world needs Bitcoin to be distributed to it, the primary group that drives that growth in distribution is the mining network. They are the issuers of new Bitcoin that sell most of what they receive to the open market. Old Bitcoin can be convinced to come into the market when the price rises, and the price rises more than it falls. As long as new Bitcoin is being made in a decentralized way, and sold to plebs around the world, eventually it will become the defacto mode of payment. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery "Bitcoin isn't money if you don't spend it!" The primary and most important function of money is as a store of value. If your money doesn't preserve your value from the time you receive it until the time you spend it then it's not good money. It doesn't matter if the amount of time is 5 seconds or 5 centuries. Preservation of value is the most important function of good money, and provides the foundation for a growing and stable society. Everything else comes second. If it doesn't preserve value in the short term then it cannot be a medium of exchange. If it doesn't store value over the long term then it cannot support a growing society over that time period. If it doesn't preserve value then it doesn't matter if people accept it, doesn't matter if it's fungible, doesn't matter if it's divisible, doesn't matter if it's physical or digital. If you stack sats and nothing else, you are using Bitcoin as money without doing anything else. All the rest comes later, when you spend the value that has been preserved until you need it. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery I am Bitcoin. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery The ancient greek philosopher's views, that the world would be a better place with philosopher kings, are accurate. With the arrival and growth of Bitcoin, that world is almost here. A king is not the same as an authoritarian. Throughout history kings have traditionally been tied to a monopoly on the issuance of local money. In capturing the most important good in the free market (the hub of the wheel of the economy) and becoming corrupt gluttons on the backs of the people, kings became authoritarians so we associate them as one in the same. What is a king at their core if not a guardian and distributor of value for and to the people? What is a philosopher king if not a patient and wise person, living in the present with a low time preference. A philosopher king is capable of respecting that the market is more capable of problem solving than any individual or group. Bitcoin eventually turns everyone who's capable of being so into philosopher kings. This is a decentralized universal kingdom of freedom, prosperity, and fairness that runs in parallel to the other systems. Systems of value distribution are in their own competition against each other, in this way though they try as they might to control everything they are still a part of the free market. In this free market competition Bitcoin will win, in doing so it will cause every other archaic and dishonest method of value distribution to become irrelevant and ignored. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery In my view the privacy issues in Bitcoin are only a problem in the Fiat world where Bitcoin is a minor player, that's the world we're leaving behind. In a world on a Bitcoin standard the lack of privacy on layer one means the bigger the wallet the more eyes are on it and any activity. In the new world of a Bitcoin standard, those who are the most wise and patient will be the most wealthy as they outlast those with high time preference who spend what they accumulated. I'll take 20 years of questionable privacy for thousands of years of honesty. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery High time preference tribalism in an unstable world, seeking safety in "my side winning". Bitcoin slows down and stabilizes society, in doing so it provides the solution to this problem. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery It's a megacivilizational level reboot. Humanity has never experienced something as significant as Bitcoin in it's history. It will likely take a decade more to really see the world start to understand, but it's coming and it cannot be stopped. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery With all the drama about the elite and their inconceivably awful actions, it's never been more clear than ever. Bitcoin's traceability is a feature, not a bug. Once the network gets dominant, and Bitcoin is the money most people want the most, the biggest addresses will have the most scrutiny. The average pleb won't have much to fear. Plus, it's a lot easier to increase privacy for small transactions than it is for big ones. The world will be a better place on a Bitcoin standard, it can't come soon enough for me. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery If Bitcoin were crashing while everything else was holding steady, I would be concerned. But Bitcoin is crashing along with pretty much everything else. This is a societal issue, not a Bitcoin issue. The network is doing just fine, and will continue to mine blocks without a problem. Remember the why behind the network, the world we're trying to build. It's coming, and it cannot be stopped. Tick tock, next block. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery The new protest is chilling at home and living on Bitcoin. If you are free from the fiat rat race and living on Bitcoin, volunteer more! Help family, friends, neighbors. Mow lawns, pickup litter, help with babysitting, be an example of the world you can live in thanks to Bitcoin. Their world is not your world, make your world a reality through personal actions. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Your community needs your help. You need to water your local businesses with value. Ideally value that grows on top of sound money if possible or openly accepted. If they don't understand sound money, start small. Offer small businesses, waiters and waitresses, and even cashier's sound money in any form. Money is a language of value transfer, if they only accept fiat then pay with cash and copper coins and occasionally offer old silver coins and you will occasionally find some will say yes. Offer new privately minted Silver rounds, Goldbacks, and of course Bitcoin. These are less familiar to most people, and because they don't work with legacy financial institutions they will likely decline, but do not be disheartened. Be friendly, be relaxed, be fun. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery At this point I'm sick of the banks. I've been offering to pay Bitcoin, Goldbacks, Silver Rounds, Silver Coins, US Mint Copper coins, and (reluctantly) cash. I'm rarely using my old credit cards anymore except at big box stores and card only self checkouts. The banks can go fuck themselves, commerce is between the buyer and the seller and nobody else. Fiat money is the worst but the most accepted. It's actually enjoyable to pay with coins, I wish it was easier to pay in anything but copper and paper though. I find that your average person still has no clue about anything money related and most are confused even by the US Mint dollar and half dollar coins which they sometimes refuse! It's awkward to offer to pay in Bitcoin or Goldbacks or Silver because they don't understand any of them. So now I have a 4 pocket wallet, I unfold it in front of them to reveal US Mint Copper dollars in the first pocket, old US Mint Silver coins in the second pocket, new silver coins and rounds in the third pocket, and some Goldbacks in various denominations and state series in the 4th pocket, Cash I keep in a different wallet in my bag. In the old silver pocket I have a peace dollar and a silver certificate as educational tools to show how our money has gotten worse. I'm having some success in offering silver dimes and quarters, and 1/2 and whole Goldbacks, as tips. People generally like the copper US Mint coins and sometimes take pictures or enthusiastically tell me they're going to take those coins home with them. This is a frustrating process, but it's very revealing as to the current state of the economy on the ground floor. Just have to have patience and gently educate people as I offer to pay my bill in various instruments. IMO once I establish myself as a trustworthy source of low value money, cash and coins, then with time they may open up to accepting the better forms of money. Bitcoin is better understood by those who understand money, and it's easier to start teaching them with physical sound money and maybe their interest will be sparked enough to lead them away from fiat and towards the best sound money ever discovered. I like Goldbacks and Silver coins for this purpose, they're beautiful and they're free market money backed by precious metals. All types of sound money are beneficial for humanity, and with Bitcoin anchoring the entire system globally Gold and Silver will find a place as physical money again. npub1kl8aguhljq6yrmrv64dm2phew3pprfhx3ef9yh2zg3gkn0dq8adqzfq497 TheBitcoinBattery Michael Scott sure has come a long way from Dunder Mifflin.