🇦🇺 #Austrich Trying to live a good life in a world gone mad.
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Last Notes npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Big numbers are a poor trade for meaningful interaction. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Here is a 20 second guide on how to take full control of your #bitcoin, send zaps directly from self custody and connect to numerous #lightning apps all for $50. https://video.nostr.build/68400d96957cc00298f3d9c569024eafedf09bedbd7fad9536b8b6ef251b0944.mp4 A big thank you to @nprofile…ypa8 for his series on setting up a node and to the team at @nprofile…qss4 for helping me get my AlbyHub running smoothly. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek If you feel like you need a new phone try watching old advertisements for the phone you currently have. You get hyped for a product and then realise its already in your pocket. Works for things other than phones as well. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I got this far but now I have to go to work. 😂 https://image.nostr.build/41ffb5dd0a2cec7989cd0125d9b2f7fa6f16d7bbafbbd5ef55a62382a2b5ff8f.gif npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Good thinking...we wouldn't want anyone sketchy around here 👀😂 npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Is this how AI wipes out humanity? We all expect terminator but really it just tricks us into sharing AI memes and then executing eachother. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Everyone wants to play God holding the keys themselves. Give the keys to the people and suddenly that target on your back disappears. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek True in a sense. It might be possible to find inner peace regardless of how bad the world around you is but you were talking about the outer world where the elites are dropping bombs and locking people in cages. You might find inner salvation while locked in a cell but I think that is not what people mean when they talk about being free. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Fill in the blank: They _______ for their freedom. It's not "waited" It's not "hoped" It's not "asked" It's not "voted" It's "fought". It's always fought. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I disagree with your first point. I see the free market as the natural state of the world. The "free" in "free market" meaning free from restriction - meaning the only special condition that must exist is you do not hinder the natural state. The rights we have that are protected by laws exist independant of the laws. For example the right to free speech is not some magical right that a benevolent government grants us but rather a natural state that the governments promises not to infringe on. Your points about warring security firms are also discussed in the book I linked. If you are interested your questions will be answered there. - I think the fundamental point of difference between us is that you view the government as having the ability to grant us something that we do not already have when I see them only as an organization that is able to place restrictions on what we can do. The government has no power to create anything that its people could not independently. It has no power to grant any fundamental rights. The only thing a government can do is violate rights, impose restrictions and enforce those restrictions through violence. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek The police do not come out looking like this when the weakest are threatened, they come out looking like this when the government is threatened. Anyone who thinks that primary concern of the police is protecting the average citizen vs protecting the state is not thinking clearly. https://m.primal.net/KFTS.jpg npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I would again emplore you to read the book or at least the chapter I have linked earlier. All of these most common questions are answered. I will post here the relevant section discussing this point: "“But how could a poor person afford private protection he would have to pay for instead of getting free protection, as he does now?” There are several answers to this question, one of the most common criticisms of the idea of totally private police protection. One is: that this problem of course applies to any commodity or service in the libertarian society, not just the police. But isn’t protection necessary? Perhaps, but then so is food of many different kinds, clothing, shelter, etc. Surely these are at least as vital if not more so than police protection, and yet almost nobody says that therefore the government must nationalize food, clothing, shelter, etc., and supply these free as a compulsory monopoly. Very poor people would be supplied, in general, by private charity, as we saw in our chapter on welfare. Furthermore, in the specific case of police there would undoubtedly be ways of voluntarily supplying free police protection to the indigent — either by the police companies themselves for goodwill (as hospitals and doctors do now) or by special “police aid” societies that would do work similar to “legal aid” societies [p. 220] today. (Legal aid societies voluntarily supply free legal counsel to the indigent in trouble with the authorities.) There are important supplementary considerations. As we have seen, police service is not “free”; it is paid for by the taxpayer, and the taxpayer is very often the poor person himself. He may very well be paying more in taxes for police now than he would in fees to private, and far more efficient, police companies. Furthermore, the police companies would be tapping a mass market; with the economies of such a large-scale market, police protection would undoubtedly be much cheaper. No police company would wish to price itself out of a large chunk of its market, and the cost of protection would be no more prohibitively expensive than, say, the cost of insurance today. (In fact, it would tend to be much cheaper than current insurance, because the insurance industry today is heavily regulated by government to keep out low-cost competition.)" https://mises.org/online-book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto/chapter-12-public-sector-iii-police-law-and-courts/police-protection#:~:text=%E2%80%9CBut%20how%20could,low%2Dcost%20competition.) npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I literally had a dream last night where I was shopping and after they scanned a birthday card I told them I did not want it 😂 I have taken to getting a photo printed for 10c and then writing on the back. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Here are a few questions you can ask yourself. 1. Do you think someone would be more or less likely to break into a house or attack someone if they assumed they were armed? 2. In general what provides better service and efficiency, private business or government services? Why would policing be any different? 3. Police are just a group of people. Why is this group uniquely able to provide security and another group would not? Why would we assume that police can offer this service better than every other possible group of people? The concept of a world without government seems impossible at first but the more you think about it the more you realise that all the arguments for government quickly fade away. The biggest criticism is that we would just end up where we are now with one monopoly in control but that hardly seems like an argument against anarchism as even in that worst case scenario we end up only exactly where we are now. For" a New Liberty" is very in depth but if you want a succinct overview of Rothbard's view of the state then I would recommend reading the 60 page "Anatmy of the State" as a good starting place. You can read it here. https://mises.org/library/book/anatomy-state npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Thanks for the reply. I paid over 300 and was not sure if that was normal for lightning or expensive. Seems like it was expensive. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek It can be hard to imagine a world without state funded police or how a world without them would be beneficial. In chapter 12 of "For A New Liberty" Murray Rothbard lays out how such a world could look. You can read the chapter here: https://mises.org/online-book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto/chapter-12-public-sector-iii-police-law-and-courts/police-protection npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek The theory is that if police did not have a monopoly on violence and people were allowed to arm themselves and organise the defence of their own communities I believe we would live in a much safer world. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek If only there were some tools available that could be used to decentralize defence so people did not need to rely on police... 🤔 npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Thanks for the detailed reply. I am using WoS with nostr but I have recently set up an alby hub which is what had prompted me to do a deeper dive and understanding of lightning. Currently my thinking is the best balance is a custodial solution like WoS for receiving and then your own node for larger balances you wish to hold on lightning without the rug risk. That provides you a level if privacy hiding in the masses of a custodial app and reduces the number of parties who know your own node details to one large custpdian rather than everyone you share a lightning invoice with. Sending from your own hub is OK since sender privacy is better than receiving. But I am only a week into this learning journey so maybe I have it all wrong 🤷♀️ Certainly a lot to learn. Ecash might have to be next on the list. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek The transacrion was sent from Wallet of satoshi but was sent to my own lightning node. I am just not sure if this level of fees is normal for lightning or if it is high. I am also wondering if it is due to the default LSP that I was connected to and if I would be better off opening my own channels. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I am not sure how they could disagree with you. If we are talking about true mass adoption self custody bitcoin on lightning does not scale to the world. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Just when I thought I had a decent grasp on bitcoin lightning proves I am clueless. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek What fee should you expect to pay to send a few hundred thousand sats over #lightning? My last transaction almost would have been cheaper on chain. #asknostr npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Yes but my thoughts are as a hot wallet every time I am sent bitcoin each transaction is linked to my node and thus to me. Maybe this is not a problem but it was new knowledge for me. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Swapping for on chain bitcoin the transactions will not be linked but if you are swapping for lightning bitcoin and sending it to your node all the transactions you recieved will be linked. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Or to get us to beg for a state issued digital identity used to verify and secure our accounts because previous methods are no longer secure when our private data is public. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Is self custody ⚡ #Lightning LESS private than ⛓️ #Bitcoin? I am learning about lightning and had the impression that it was more private than on chain but maybe that is not the case. If I recieve on chain bitcoin and generate a new recieve address each time no one is able to connect these transactions to eachother and no one is able to determine my total balance of bitcoin. If I recieve some KYC bitcoin the address that this KYC bitcoin is sent to has been KYCd however all past and future generated addresses are not affected. In contrast every lightning invoice contains my node public key. By looking at a single lightning invoice you are able to determine if any past or future invoices were sent to me meaning only one transacrion needs to be KYCd for every other recieve to be linked to me. On top of this it is possible to not only see total channel capacity but through probing determine my current balance of sats. Do I have something wrong or does recieving over lightning reveal more information than on chain? #asknostr #privacy npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I have read it's evolutionarily advantages to be more alert when fasting to assist with hunting and aquiring your next meal. "that’s what we’re finding in lab animals — the brain and body actually perform better during fasting. In the case of the brain, cognitive function, learning, memory, and alertness are all increased by fasting. " - https://www.brainfacts.org/Thinking-Sensing-and-Behaving/Diet-and-Lifestyle/2018/How-Does-Fasting-Affect-the-Brain-071318 npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Communism starved millions yet people still flock to it. I am not sure it is possible for an ideology or system to blow up in a way that it is discredited so fully that people do not return to it. The way forward will not be making the current system unappealing but by making in uncompetitive. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I rekon old mate is just chilling in the cold plunge after a hard day of boxing training. If a roo wants to take you out it will be with a right hook... or just jumping into your car 😂 npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek The problem with siding with the resistance is it usually comes at a great personal cost. The amazing thing about joining the #bitcoin resistance is it comes at a great personal reward. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Why does the music always have to be so loud? Are there people who enjoy having peple shout directly in to their ear and still only hearing half the conversation? npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Not just Europe. We had Aussies arrested for social media posts during the covid lockdowns. Censorship! Coming to a town near you! npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I am bullish on whatever AI gets trained on nostr notes. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Would an non-realistic program know that it was not hyper-realistic? npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Sometimes I am absolutely blown away by the athleticism displayed in the olympics. Other times... well... https://m.primal.net/JuJs.mp4 npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Not back to square one! You are building a muscle of restraint. You are doing the reps and getting stronger. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I don't know but reading their website made me queezy. https://usabtc.org npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Awesome. I look forward to seeing the result. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Ughh 🤮 I watched that video. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Engagement farm in comments via a bot to drive content and followers to your page? Get as many eyeballs as you can for X revenue? I am sure there is some theory behind why to do it. And this just the first result generated on a light LLM. I am sure with fine-tuning you can get the perfect reply guy. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Honestly I just assume all the replies like this are AI. I ran this through a LLM with the promp: "Respond to the following tweet agreeing with the content." And the result was: "I completely agree! The timing of the 2024 halving does seem to have caught the market off guard. Historically, halvings have aligned with accumulation phases, and it feels like we're experiencing a premature bull run. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out as the market adjusts." --- Dead Internet Theory. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek People often ask why everyone on #nostr is so friendly. It must be because we are all such good law abiding citizens who would not dare violate any government laws. https://m.primal.net/Jtcw.jpg npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I have always like the ∞/21M design. https://m.primal.net/JtcV.png npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I hope Bob likes hunting birds. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek This website let's you view a timeline of climate predictions. **Spoiler alert ice still exists** https://wattsupwiththat.com/failed-prediction-timeline/ npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Very minimalist. I like it. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek @nprofile…qvd6 have helped me to set up an Alby Hub and I am impressed with how easy it was. I am excited about what it makes me envision for the future of #lightning. One place to hold your #bitcoin on lightning that allows you to connect to apps and websites with only a few clicks all the while having complete control of your sats and your keys. Thank you to the Alby team for building the hub and helping me get set up. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Can confirm 🥲 npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Voting will never free humanity but if you have to chose your captor it would be foolish to pretend there were no differences between them however overstated those differences might be. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek The future we are preparing our kids for is to be slaves. It is to outsource their thinking. To seek out authority. To crush creativity and individualism. Judge a tree by its fruits. The goals of the education system are not what they claim to be. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Good advise. Find partners who have an economic incentive to have an ongoing open chanel with you. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek But I just love ticking that I am human on every single website and then having cloudflare yell at me! npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Thanks for the link I will take a look. Given my current tiny use of lightning there is probably no reason for me to set up a node but I am thinking of setting up the alby hub anyway just out of interest. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Thinking about running a lightning node but I have some questions. I understand that to have inbound liquidity I can open a channel and send sats to the other side however this effectively means that whoever is on the other side of the channel has sats just sitting there locked up as inbound liquidity for me. Assuming I am not a routing node why would they do this? They have to lock sats that they can't spend through me since I am not routing. Would they not just close the channel to get their sats back? And if they keep closing the channel how do I maintain having inbound liquidity? Is the only option for reliable inbound liquidity to rent it from a LSP? It seems there is no incentive for a channel partner to offer this for free. #bitcoin #lightning #asknostr npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Just a temporary measure. We need a ban for two weeks to flatten the curve! #nevent1q…z0xz npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda "horseface" Ardern once said, "We will continue to be your single source of truth," and that, "Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth." This is the future they would love to enforce oh so much! npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Yes. However it is just as easy for a state to pass a law containing sactioned addrrssees as it is for them to pass one containing only whitelisted addresses. As long as we exist under the thumb of our rulers and some coins and transactions are deemed illegal these tools may help you operate in the shadows but not with legitimate and regulated businesses. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek True. I do not want to know what horrors they have in store as they desperately cling to power. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Yes exactly. At the end of the day when the cartel is threatened they call in the enforcers. Currently in the eyes of many these enforcers still have legitimacy but I think that is fading. The problem is once they lose their position as being viewed as legitimate they still have force and violence. Like you say we need to reach a critical mass. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Hard to see how our shared vision for bitcoin can be realised as long as the state exists. This website "could be used for innocent purposes, though given it was happy to turn a blind eye to whoever was using it, it is no surprise it was allegedly utilized by questionable netizens, hence its seizure by the Feds." In other words have fun with your inflation proof money but don't you dare think you can just send it freely without complying with US sanction lists or you get locked up. #nevent1q…n3eg npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek DCA as you describe might not be a hedge on price but it is a hedge on emotion. With DCA you might not be a winner but at least you are not a loser. You will remain happily average. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I still do not seem to be connecting on either app. Not sure if perhaps I have done something wrong or if there is a setting I should try to change. https://m.primal.net/Jqoe.jpg npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek A big part of the culture that is enjoyed on nostr is simply because it is small. Think small town vibe vs big city. I like that I often see familiar faces in the comments. Because you know that you are going to keep bumping into the same users you are incentivised to be nice to them as opposed to a big platform with a billion users where if you insult someone in the comments the chances are you will never see them again. The human interactions on nostr are valued because there is a real cost/benifit to how we interact. Just like in a small town if you cut someone off the chances are they know who you are and where you live vs a city with a million cars and you will never have repercussions for your actions. I am not sure the small town vibe can be retained when you transport everyone to a mega city. I think the solution for retaining the culture is retaining the small size, if not in overall user size then in the number of users we interact with. Maybe nostr will grow into a mega city but perhaps we should stay mostly in our apartment buildings where we know the faces in our community and have real social capital worth investing in and protecting. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I'm really starting to think we don't make it to the US election. The world seems like it's on an absolute knife edge. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Still a few darknet markets out there...or so I have heard 😉 npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I will never forget our protests in Melbourne. Between the lockdowns and the response I was taken from a more theoretical libertarian viewpoint to a true hatred of the state. I was radicalized. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek No we must have illegal plants. It's for the greater good. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek If you have just jumped on board maybe it wont get "easy" for you but it certainly gets easier. Do not think that the stress of your first major dip is the same one you will feel every time. Do not think that you just can't live with the anxiety or regret or that you are not cut out for this. It gets easier. At some point "1BTC=1BTC" really clicks. You feel sure in your decisions. Know that you have oriented your life in the right direction. And assuming you have stable cashflows you sleep well at night knowing that you just got a payrise in sats. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I paid the fee a few days ago. Still do not seem to be able to connect. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I have been hearing this for a while. I think it depends how far down the conspiracy rabbit hole they are. In my experience there is a correlation between reptilians, secret bases on Mars and CIA inventing bitcoin. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek What helped you make the change? Was there something that happened that made it feel more "real"? npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Where I live paying just the interest component of the mortgage is more expensive than paying rent on a comparable house. Then add on top of that taxes and costs associated with owning a house and it comes out significantly worse. You are gambling that house prices will raise faster than you are losing money in ownership and interest repayment costs. That being said I still find value in owning a home as it gives you and your family stability which is worth a lot. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Unfortunately I do not seem to have much luck connecting to this relay 🤷 npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek If you could just DM me your address I will be right over 🍔🤤 npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I didn't think about it this way... I guess we are going to to have to elect a nostr government to tax our zaps. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Just like when everything was going to be smart. Remember Bluetooth enabled smart waterbottles that sync with your phone? AI waterbottles will be the top signal. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Peer to peer is still an option but not one that most will be able or willing to do. Bitcoin is already hard for most people to grasp and without easy and "safe" onboarding routes most people will be left behind. Outside of face to face meetups Bisq and Robosats are the most recomended P2P platforms and they are very light on liquidity. I had a look a few days ago and there were no $AUD offers. So yes it is still possible and there are ways around it but it is getting harder and harder for the average person. Some see this as a victory as it pushes bitcoin underground and off KYC exchanges where they feel it belongs but the reality is that bitcoin staying in this realm will prevent mass adoption. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Here in Australia it is very hard. Many banks outright decline any transactions to exchanges. The ones that remain place strict limits on monthly transactions that are impossible to remove. I would hate to be a no-coiner today. I do not know if I could buy a whole coin even if I had the money sitting in my account. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek If you are lucky. Most banks won't even allow that. Are there any left that allow unrestricted transactions to bitcoin? npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Gradually is while it's happening. Suddenly is when you look back at the past. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I would say the greatest act of revolution is honesty not neutrality. Some issues are so significant it would not be right to stay neutral on them. Many things are wrong and we can not just stand silent or neutral while they happen. What we must do is seek truth. To honestly asses each situation. To avoid the polarisation and to form an opinion of the facts and share it honestly. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I bet it's also tracking device bluetooth as well. I love the kind of policing that does not stop you getting assaulted but will fine you for not social distancing. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek There is a very real risk for posting anything online especially in most of the world where there is no right to free speech. But does the fact that there is danger mean that we should not speak or that it is even more important to speak? The inability to delete posts can be seen as a vulnerability but I think it is safe to assume that everything you post online is saved somewhere anyway. The great gift of the inability to delete is another layer uncensorability. If I post something that my rulers do not like they may be able to lock me in a cage but they will not be able to require me to delete the post. My speech will remain. If the truth of today becomes inconvenient or illegal tomorrow let the record show it. If lies become the norm show that there was a past with truth. If common sense is outlawed preserve a time where honest thought was permitted. If two plus two equals five allow the world to remember that it once was four. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek You can tap your pic in the top left then select drafts. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek TORK npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Hello 👋 npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek There is an interesting duality engraining itself in society. Increasing restriction, surveillance, censorship and prosecution pushed by the state in the physical world. And Increasing freedom, privacy, uncensorability and liberty made possible by open tech in the digital world. These opposing forces creating two parallel worlds and tension that seem incompatible long term. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek I think we just end up with every dystopian future all at once. Mix in the Altas Shrugged with the 1984, sprinkle in some Brave New World and add a swirl of the Terminator on top... All the while we are in the matrix. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Mate you sure seem to love a good test 😂 npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Is there a way to have lists in Amethyst? I can see All Follows, Global and Mute List. I find it amusing that I can select mute list when these are the least likely group of notes I actually want to be seeing. #asknostr npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek The monetary controls are clamping down fast here. Most people do not realise. CBDC is already here but it's just called the AUD. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Yes. #nevent1q…r8qk npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Either rent from a landlord or rent from the bank. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek A rippity rip then a dippity dip. And on and on it goes. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Perhaps. Although it is possible others would pay a premium to defer responsibility. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Exactly. Sometimes I wonder if the simulation is running out of memory so they just start lowering the fidelity on the humans. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Some people are bots. I am convinced. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek Every purchase linked to a CBDC. Every purchase must be approved. Quotas and restrictions on everything. Life by state prescription. npub1e26dzyg9hp5lgzf9wrpph6ux3884yxmn55pd4rxzr5exne56fsyskmnj8p Den Yellek That is a shame. That is the only app i have used. You could try npub.cash to get zaps and from there send to another lightning wallet. I have seen this discussed.