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Erik Cason

I had a deer problem, until last summer I came home from vacation and there was a dead deer strung up on the inside fence. A cougar had been waiting for it to go into the orchard before ambushing it, letting the fence give it the upper hand.
There’s also a huge black bear that seems to use the orchard down the way as his own personal spot, which would also keep them away.

2024-09-13 23:27:58

While I have a big orchard (about 50 trees) I haven’t had a large garden in the last few years. After this last trip to the grocery store however, I really realized how much I’m getting fucked on subpar produce and products that I can grow and make much better for myself.
I plan on doing a larger garden next year, adding about a dozen chickens (got two nice coops and a good area for a chicken run) and maybe three or four goats if I’m feeling ambitious.
I know it’ll make traveling much more impractical and add about an hour more of chores each day, but I’m sick of making the trip to the store and losing so much on something that I’ve done much better before.
I feel like the goats and the chickens will be the real game changers. I’ll need to up my preserving and fermentation game, which isn’t bad, I just need to do more of it.

2024-09-13 18:07:18

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My first reaction is anger, and then once I think about it for a moment and realize it has nothing to do with me, it just becomes pity and contempt for being so small.

2024-09-13 18:02:09

To all those who make shitty negative comments that don’t add anything:
It must suck to be you and feel so much hatred in your heart.
I truly feel sorry for you and hope the grace of God will find you one day.

2024-09-13 17:33:13

Ugh, this sucks. I’m doing it, but I don’t want to.
#note1wk5…qdz7

2024-09-11 21:26:28

I really don’t like weight lifting—it’s hard, I have to push myself, and take responsibility for how I look and feel, which is hard in and of itself.
However I do recognize that I almost always have a better mood, more motivation, and just a higher capacity to get shit done on the days that I do lift.
I don’t wanna be fat, weak, and unhealthy when I’m 40, so I’d rather just eat the frog now and just accept that it is hard work and there is no way around that.

2024-09-11 02:55:49

Gonna get high and watch these two retards throw shit at each other to see which dumbfuck gets to finish destroying our country.

2024-09-09 23:12:49

What is Enlightenment? A short essay by Kant.
If you have not read this, it is short and will take 15 minutes that can change your life:
https://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html

2024-09-09 22:52:41

This lecture I gave at Baltic Honey badgering 2023 is one of my favorites and dives pretty deep into my political theory.
https://youtu.be/yOxRK9xzMIU?si=vnONPaAnEE_abWDA

2024-09-08 02:48:56

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“That’s conspiracy theory talk…”
Personal trigger for me when citing well-documented war crimes by the state.

2024-09-08 02:42:30

Thank you all for helping me keep some sense of reality and that I’m not completely insane.
Went to a normie dinner party tonight and people were looking at me like I was batshit crazy, and I was still just in the shallow end warming up.
Some people never have their values challenged in any meaningful way nor actually look at them with a critical lens and it shows.

2024-09-07 17:35:54

I’ll say it again, and I’ll keep saying it until people get it:
I HAVE NO INTEREST IN GETTING NORMAL PEOPLE TO USE BITCOIN AND NOSTR
I am only interested in getting those who demand self-sovereignty for themselves, and are unequivocally dedicated towards building a future where everyone owns their own data, and no one can cancel them or steal it away from them.

2024-09-07 05:13:12

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Had something similar happen with a puppy I found rummage through our garbage all stinky and emaciated. She’s happy and healthy now, but I guess she’s just our puppy now.

2024-09-07 03:10:49

I’m out here trying to zap some of y’all and some of you don’t have wallets yet.
Y’all are missing out on one of the most fun parts of Nostr.

2024-09-06 23:30:22

Marx’s great mistake was thinking that capitalism (as in free market exchange) was responsible for the inherent contradictions in the system of exchange and not seeing how dirigisme (your vocabulary word of the day) was the real culprit.
The creative destruction of capitalism, as Weber pointed out, is evolutionary. With any degree of state intervention, this evolution of capitalism devolves into a form of economic eugenics designed to create an economic depend on the state for all things.

2024-09-05 16:37:40

Look, it’s pretty simple:
If the state can identify you, it can target and kill you.
Doesn’t matter why, it just can.
There is a reason Satoshi was anonymous and why bitcoin isn’t an LLC.
That’s because if you don’t have a physical space or identity to be located, the state can’t physically or economically harm you. With cryptography, you actually have a shot at hiding from the state, and building things that they cannot stop.

2024-09-05 16:33:07

Elon is a handmaiden of the deep state, and if you think he’s a freedom fighter for good; I’ve got some BCH to sell you that’s actually real bitcoin.

2024-09-03 06:03:26

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It’s the power of the panopticon and what it means to live under constant surveillance.

2024-09-03 05:59:08

The more I think about Nostr the more it blows my mind.
I can just say whatever crazy shit I want and there’s like no guardrails or mods—it’s just out there, and people will actually see it.
No one appreciates just how powerful this is, how important it is, monumental even.
It creates a totally new possibility for the social web, which is really something else entirely. It’s the possibility of a new world in which people own their data; their information. No longer to be exploited, or owned, people can really say whatever they want.
And that is truly extraordinary.

2024-09-03 05:41:32

I like to mega zap when a post is a real banger or someone comment and it really hits me in the feels.
Can’t do that on xittxr.

2024-09-02 16:58:35

I’ve been really feeling the extreme emotions of, “WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO DECENTRALIZED THE WEB, DEPLOY STRONG CRYPTOGRAPHY AND WIN AGAINST THE STATIST!!1!” and the other extreme of,
“Fuck it, I just wanna hang with my family, work on projects on my property and be left the fuck alone.”
I know a balance of the two is the real answer, but sometime in just really feels like one extreme or the other.

2024-09-01 18:29:19

Fuck these companies tracking my data and trying to sell me shit based off of that.
I have such a deep desire to find a way to completely fuck up their data sets and make them useless by feeding them tons of dummy data.

2024-08-31 20:35:40

I’m always amazed at how cheap buying off someone crooked is. They’ll scam you for a few days of their wage, and fail to realize how much of a favor they did for you:
They proved they are a scammer and have saved you so much time and energy to have figured that out now, rather than later. Now they’ll never find work near any of my social circles and will be known as a scammer.
Your reputation is the most priceless asset that takes decades to build. Don’t piss it away for a quick buck or two.

2024-08-30 23:54:11

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That’ll be epic. Enjoy brother!

2024-08-30 22:54:15

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Lmao, as much as I love @npub198a…0p3g this is actully @npub1rtl…jtfs and John is on here @npub1cqm…hjec

2024-08-30 16:34:47

GM.
Gonna be a great day.

2024-08-29 05:44:18

There is a real lack of understanding in just how fucked up the algos are, and how much power we gain in not being manipulated by them. We could be using the internet to do something extraordinary, and instead it is being used primarily to sell us shit and keep us scared. The whole of humanity is being fed lies and distortions through centralized social media that is designed to keep everyone asleep and unaware of their real power.
Now that there is no longer gatekeepers to what can be said to a global audience we have the power to shape a real unadulterated narrative; also known as the truth. The power of censorship to have molded a false global narrative is one of the pillars of the power structure that keep people divided over petty and impractical differences that can now be shown for what they are: manipulation tactics through the algos to keep everyone disempowered. We now have the ability to reclaim our voices in a way that no one can stomp out. What is to come and the changes that are to be ushered in will surprise all of us in the most remarkable of ways.

2024-08-29 00:57:24

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The PTSD trigger in this is too much…

2024-08-29 00:45:36

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Autistic Retards

2024-08-29 00:26:02

If we are to really think for ourselves with rigor and contemplation that is only worthy of being called thinking, then we must deeply consider the role of money and states in our world. We live in a technologically advance global society, yet we are governed by fractured, geographically limited elite party-based political forms that serve the most pernicious and immoral forms of life. This is only possible because of how money functions today in our world, and how we think of wealth itself and how broken that is.
Another world is possible, but it will only come to fruition if we are to think for ourselves in the most serious and rigorous of ways. For each one of us to deeply consider the state of the world, the position of all states, the functions of fiat money, the hidden meaning of value, what the real purpose of social media is, and how these all thread together in our globalized digital world where the internet is still free and open, as it may not always be. It is only through this rigorous thought that demand we take responsibility for the state of the world, that we can come to understand the awesome power that is Bitcoin and the hidden sovereignty that is encrypted within it.
Choosing Bitcoin as your own personal vehicle of wealth preservation is about so much more than just money, wealth, or savings. It is about taking responsibility for the state of the world and demanding the abrogation of all fiat money everywhere. This is not for the light and transient causes of personal riches, but to secure the value of money for the future ones in such a way that it cannot be unknowingly inflated away, seized in states of emergency, or guilefully stolen through the perniciousness of banking. It is our responsibility alone to rise the task that is demanded of our generation to secure wealth for the future, and to protect and honor it in such a way that no person, state, government, or institution can ever overcome it. Bitcoin is the only thing that can offer any being in our world this kind of security, and in that, it also demands our responsibility to cultivate, cherish, harbor, honor, and secure its flourishment and bloom in the world. Bitcoin is the personal responsibility for each of us to secure our own lives, wealth, and honor so that we may perserve that which is only destined for a world where the corruption of wealth has been solved and protected forever.
from my essay, The Personal Responsibility of Bitcoin
https://cryptosovereignty.org/the-personal-responsibility-of-bitcoin/

2024-08-28 19:16:26

I’m excited for corporate shills to make their way to Nostr so I can talk epic amounts of shit about their shitty corporation and there is nothing they can do about it.

2024-08-28 17:44:22

Most people don’t understand risk because they have spent their entire lives living in a gilded cages serving their masters as good little slaves who don’t have to be concerned where the yield comes from.

2024-08-27 02:56:21

Anons are the only heros that can save us now.

2024-08-27 00:51:41

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No… and I only say that because all of the books were historical and all covered aspects of genocides that I didn’t know much about. So it was quite depressing in that respect.

2024-08-26 23:36:27

I’ve been off Twitter and all social media except for Nostr for a month now, and the results are hard to argue with.
I’ve started reading real books again (4 this month) and have noticed both my patience and attention increase noticeably. I also feel less angry and anxiety daily, along with being committed to my workout routine.
I found that Nostr has met my social media needs, most importantly, my own ability to self-limit with it. Nostr is a bit ‘boring’ compared to traditional social media because ITS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU!!!
Controlling your own data isn’t nearly as important in terms of ownership, as it is about allowing that information to be used against you. All of your most intimate thoughts and feelings are data mining by massive corporations specifically to find emotional triggers for you, so they can sell you shit, or force thoughts on to you.
Fuck these people that run these companies that farm our emotions to sell us shit, and to work with corrupt government to censor our speech, sell out dissidents, and destroy our internet.
We are much, much, much more powerful than they will ever be because we don’t need force, corrosion, or permission to run these systems of social connections that they cannot destroy.
My month of social media detox has really lifted the veil from the hate industry complex that are all social media companies today. Stop prostitution your content, thoughts and powers to these shitty companies that enrich the scum of the earth, and empower illegal, unconstitutional and immoral government agencies from their dragnet surveillance.
I’ll make one last tweet explaining this and then nuking my account in the next few weeks. Then I’ll be Nostr only.

2024-08-26 22:43:30

“Don’t trust, verify”
That was for cryptography, not food safety, dumbass.

2024-08-26 04:34:09

I can’t believe these morons are actually going to try to fight math and think they are going to win.

2024-08-25 23:51:14

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Nothing. Every genocide in human history is precipitated by a slew of clear and present warnings that most ignore. The masses are doomed; the question is who is listening and willing to resist.

2024-08-25 22:39:57

There seems to be a zeitgeist of understanding that we have firmly entered the, “then they fight you” phase.
We have one shot to save the internet as a free and open platform for all people everywhere; or to collapse into it become the most powerful propaganda and brainwashing tool ever created.
Now is the time to prepare, because there will not be another shot later.

2024-08-25 03:06:14

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Yeah this is pretty spot on imho

2024-08-24 22:58:31

I feel bad for guys that are pretty creepy. It’s not like they have good (or any) awareness around their creepiness, and usually leave women within their proximity feeling the ick from their creepy vibes which they don’t realize they are putting out. The real shame is that it evokes so much shame, guilt and denial that there’s no way to really talk with them about it in a constructive way. Almost nobody wants to be creepy, but ironically creepies tend to have the least amount of awareness that makes them all the more creepy. It’s really sad to see once you realize the creepy aspect is then really wanting connection and incapable of it because of their creepy vibes.

2024-08-23 21:53:10

While there will only be 10 opportunities in your lifetime to make investments that can change your life, there are countless opportunities to fuck it up everyday.
Be thankful for all the times you didn’t fuck up ❤️.

2024-08-22 00:11:29

My family has three lazy free-loading cats who contribute nothing to the household, and believe they are entitled to food, housing, and medical services.
I call them meowist.

2024-08-21 23:24:48

Damn, the public library is the frontlines of the Maoist revolution. All of the displayed books are super woke. Sad to see it become politicized like all other public spaces.

2024-08-20 21:59:30

Proprietary AI is designed to dumb you down and modify your understanding of language on a whole through the linguistic application IngSoc through communist techniques and technologies.
It is designed to make you forget words and synonymize them with words of their choosing so you can no longer understand the complexity and nuance of communication.

2024-08-20 18:34:19

Now that bitcoin is pegged at $58k we can start working on the real stablecoin project which is 1 BTC = to 1 BTC.

2024-08-20 15:34:10

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Damn it… I’ll go put in my gym clothes…

2024-08-20 02:24:52

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I’ve seen them live three time and each show was phenomenal!

2024-08-19 19:52:07

I am constantly fascinated at the religion of science and the ridged authoritarianism that comes with it from establishment ‘scientists’ and ‘researchers’.
While real science as a process of testing hypotheses clearly works and has greatly advanced humanity, there seems to be a fundamental disconnect from establishment ‘science’ as bureaucratic process that is self-reinforcing towards itself and its own authority, rather than science itself. To be clear, establishment science is not science at all, and corrupts the very idea of the scientific procedure through using authoritarianism, rather than proof of work to show why their science is actually correct.
This is why so many people today are willing (and mostly correct) in calling well understood scientific processes like vaccination a scam—because it is! It’s no longer real scientific vaccination, but has integrated profit motives of establishment ‘science’ that is more self-serving than scientific.
This is why doctors, scientists; and other ‘experts’ are indigent when it is suggested they are not beyond corruption and that perhaps the pharmaceutical companies or other corporations that sponsor their work could possible be manipulating the ‘science’ to be self-serving to make money. They cannot even think about or consider this because of the existentialism that is brought up from such thoughts.
Similar to The Church; doctors and scientists of the established system believe themselves (not the truth of science) to be the real purveyors of truth and health. They see themselves as being heros who have valiantly self-sacrificed to practice their religion or science as is the truth of the world. The very suggestion that perhaps they do not actually understand what ‘health’ or ‘science’ evokes the greatest of indignation as it suggest that maybe they are doing more harm than good, which results from them not being committed to the truth of the scientific process first and foremost; but the dark and callow truth that they are more concerned about how they will pay their bills and keep their job. Asking hard questions doesn’t do that, obeying blind however does.

2024-08-18 00:23:43

I always feel very far left on the bell curve when doing home improvement projects, but by the end I feel like I am to the right of the bell curve once again.
Lesson: I tend to feel retarded until the project is completed.

2024-08-17 01:13:11

Nothing makes customers feel more cared about than talking to an AI bot about how one’s problem is not being worked on or cared about.
JFC I hate corporate bureaucracy even more than government bureaucracy.

2024-08-15 21:56:12

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Yes, and the state is their primary parent

2024-08-15 21:42:36

The sad truth is that most people have spent their entire lives being conditioned to simply obey, and to resist thinking.
Doesn’t matter what or who it is: stoplights, signs, announcements, strangers, someone ‘official’ looking, or just another human; most people just want someone or something to listen to so they don’t have to take responsibility to think for themselves. Thinking demands responsibility, the capacity to be correct or incorrect, the existential angst of what it means to decide on the nature of things, and what it means if you are right or wrong.
We have been trained most of our lives to eschew this responsibility and allow for others to tell us ‘what is right’ without considering for a moment if these are people we should listen to, or if they even have the cognitive capacity to actually think, rather than just do what they are told.

2024-08-15 21:35:23

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Point of clarification: USG did put both German and Italian Americans in camps like the Japanese, but it was more targeted and not wholesale like the Americans of Japanese decent.

2024-08-11 20:29:41

Own your content, or be owned by your content—there is no in between.
#note15ct…efhh

2024-08-09 20:35:56

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What is something that you would like to say about your field that is taboo, and leaves you afraid that if you say it, you could be cancelled? Such as suspicions about say using opioids in injury recovery, or a surgical procedure that you generally think is over prescribed? Thanks for your participation here!

2024-08-08 18:59:30

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I usually have a bottle of fire cider ready for this kinda thing, but I couldn’t hold anything down yesterday so it wouldn’t have made a difference.

2024-08-08 01:14:45

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Nothing is stating down…

2024-08-08 01:08:25

Oh man, I’ve been super sick all day, throwing up, body chills and aches—this sucks.

2024-08-07 21:36:51

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I know this feeling and it sucks.

2024-08-05 04:49:21

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The kits are pretty easy and I would go with a full sauna over a barrel type.

2024-08-05 04:48:20

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Dundalk Leisurecraft 6 Person Georgian Cabin Sauna. I’m satisfied with the kit, took 3 lazy days of work to put together.

2024-08-05 03:53:16

I bought and build a sauna for myself and it is as glorious as I thought it would be.

2024-08-04 22:58:58

It started as a hilarious joke, and now it’s out crushing reality.
#note1shu…92g2

2024-08-02 02:34:10

I had a professor for a few upper division international relations classes, and he opened the first class I had with him stating,
“If there is one thing I want you to take away from this class, it’s this:
The CIA is unequivocally the most incompetent and corrupt organization in the entire USG.”
The CIA did not make bitcoin, sorry psyops bros.

2024-07-31 23:46:39

@npub1x68…3g2v sport’s caster voice is spot on, he’s clearly eyeing his transition to ESPN…

2024-07-31 15:09:56

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I don’t think pulling out works that way…

2024-07-31 15:08:21

I’m gonna give X a break for the next month and focus my social media intake only on nostr.
I feel like I already know it’s going to be a healthier choice, but I really want to compare what it’s like, as I’m pretty sure X and all the other SM companies are harvesting our data to elicit emotions that are designed to make us feel unfulfilled and craving more doomscrolling.

2024-07-26 19:11:37

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You’re right, that is why libertarians have no power. They still think voting matters and can change this, when it only extends it.
The monetary and financial systems must be burned down, and there is no politician or political party that can do that, only us.

2024-07-26 18:52:18

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Back at ya Hans

2024-07-25 17:56:54

Tomorrow from 10 to 11am I’ll be signing copies of my book Cryptosovereignty at the bitcoin conference and on a panel later in the day with discussing inscriptions @ 1:30 on the genesis stage.
Hope to see y’all there!

2024-07-24 23:22:48

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Maybe nostr only, still considering it

2024-07-24 18:02:42

I’m thinking more and more about writing essays on “forbidden topics” under a pseudonym mostly because it’s want to dive into these taboo discussions and see if I can put my finger on the nerve of why exactly they are forbidden and cannot be openly spoken about.

2024-07-24 06:10:32

My body is ready.
#note16r4…mgrt

2024-07-24 05:51:54

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This is pretty much what Heidegger is talking about.

2024-07-24 04:32:45

Feeling really blessed to be a bitcoiner and getting to participate in building this zeitgeist with all of you.
If we are right, what we do here will go down as one of the key moments in human history and what it means ‘To Be’ human in our technological age.

2024-07-24 03:17:31

I honestly don’t think there is anything more nourishing for my soul and the fortitude towards what we are building together than getting to hang out with bitcoiners in the flesh.

2024-07-23 20:20:29

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Yep, just got high and let it out, lol. Hope to see you soon, give your family my love!

2024-07-23 16:00:38

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Yeah let me know if you’re around today or tomorrow to grab a drink. Jung is cool, I just haven’t read much of him so my understanding of him is limited.

2024-07-23 05:50:05

Hit me up if you’re up n Nashville and wanna kick it!

2024-07-23 02:09:16

We will live through the messianic age and watch changes come to the whole of man that we thought were lost to the ages and were irrecoverable.
Our hearts will remember what our minds cannot comprehend, so our bodies may become ours once again so our souls may find the right path.
It is a path that is our destiny; if only we are to strive for it and take upon the providence that is a secret only for us. The Door is open, but it is only you who may enter it and no one else.

2024-07-15 19:48:52

GM! Been checked out for a while to just enjoy the spectacular beauty of my own personal life and to simply take it all in for a bit.
The Infinite of the universe loves us to no bounds or limits—it simply needs our attention to hear its whispers that are the secrets of the universe.

2024-06-11 16:49:20

A positive satsflow business is the holy grail of business models.

2024-06-11 08:05:57

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Yolo on the Prague barber—I always get my haircut when I travel and I’m always impressed.

2024-06-10 18:00:13

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“Only a fascist would say that” says the NPC.

2024-06-10 14:24:51

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Yep, I’ll be there ;)

2024-06-10 04:54:21

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Only possible with this kind of love and support 😘

2024-06-10 04:52:14

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Back at you. Give the fam my love ❤️.

2024-06-10 03:47:34

I recently had a big shift in my life that has me feel like I am back from the dead. A second chance as what I had been building for a decade, and then proceeded to fuck-up because I was too stupid to see and value what I had been working on. I was sloppy and thoughtless about much of my approach to life and let that suck me into my own self-aggrandizing bullshit. In short, I was pretty childish about what I was doing as I thought I had made it.
A year and a half later, someway somehow, I got the smallest of shots to fix it. It was a massive risk that I had to stake really everything I had built on. But in that moment when I had to make a move, to do or die; I took a deep breath and took everything in that moment. I knew what it was, what risk I needed to take, and what the cost would be if I had miscalculated. But I knew, as knew more than anything in my soul that I would make it—but only with that risk being taken. It honestly felt like one of the most badass moment of my life because I really showed up for myself with no doubts, lack, or hesitation.
I crave moments like that in my life. They define the peaks and troughs of life, and are the most intense character building moments of my life. It is to choose to be the man in the arena, marred with the blood, sweat, and tear that only those who step into the arena will ever know. It is vastly more rewarding and fulfilling than any life with the cold and timid soul who choose a safe life where nothing is ever at risk.

2024-06-08 04:21:24

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Love this artist.

2024-06-08 03:54:37

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Pics or didn’t happen.

2024-06-07 23:01:23

I often forget that if you are reading this and on nostr, you are part of an extraordinary high signal group that understands on some level WTF is going on.
Don’t get dismayed by the haters, detractors, doofuses, and dumbasses. Building this tool and other parts of the sovereign tech stack will be one of the keys to keeping humanity free in the future. Keep building frens.

2024-06-06 04:00:47

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It’s a safety lock that you have to press in and then rotate, because without we would immediately set fire to ourselves.

2024-06-06 01:36:30

God tried to let me know it was too big today. My hubris wouldn’t let me let go, so he let me break some ribs instead.
That’ll teach me.

2024-06-05 05:39:24

Hit me up if you’ll be in Prague the week before the conference and wanna hang.

2024-06-04 07:06:49

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Right now just through Bitcoin Magazine (who partners with Amazon). I would prefer to have self published, but I knew nothing about publishing a book, so they were definitely my best option. I know someone ripped it and put it on libgen, so that’s an option too!

2024-06-04 07:03:32

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We have to fight back by building the tools to help us regain our privacy. Bitcoin helps us be able to finance anonymous developers working on projects like nostr, tor and others. This is why my whole philosophical thesis is around the sovereignty that cryptography can offer us, but it is not enough. We have to actively build, create, empower, and educate about what these tools can do, but that part is on us.

2024-06-04 05:49:24

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This is why we need cryptography to speak a single language of property rights that cannot be violated. Cryptography doesn’t need rights; its existence demands otherwise.

2024-06-04 05:42:53

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Everyone has to get there dick slammed in a door their first bear market—it’s like touching the stove but worse. Everyone need the lesson so they don’t fuck it up the second time around.

2024-06-04 05:35:42

The irony of nostr is that it lack the same addictive qualities of inferior centralized social media services. It really is a better user experience in terms of content and quality by way of curating one’s feed. But the lack of the ‘surprise’ of brain-cycle content makes the drugs of social media less potent.