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"Preach selflessness. Tell man that he must live for others. Tell men that altruism is the ideal. Not a single one of them has ever achieved it and not a single one ever will. His every living instinct screams against it. But don't you see what you accomplish? Man realizes that he's incapable of what he's accepted as the noblest virtue--and it gives him a sense of guilt, of sin, of his own basic unworthiness. Since the supreme ideal is beyond his grasp, he gives up eventually all ideals, all aspiration, all sense of his personal value. He feels himself obliged to preach what he can't practice."
-Ayn Rand, Fountainhead

2024-10-21 14:55:45 GMT

"Bitcoin is dead."
-ECB,2022
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2022/html/ecb.blog221130~5301eecd19.en.html
"Against Bitcoin? HFSP"
-ECB, 2024
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4985877

2024-10-20 20:59:41 GMT

The European Central Bank released a paper on October 12th 2024 kicking the propaganda war against Bitcoin into the next gear, from Bitcoin is gambling to Bitcoin is stealing. The study by the ECB paints the narrative that Bitcoin has no legitimate financial use case, and that if the Bitcoin price somehow manages to persistently continue higher it will only succeed in impoverishing non-bitcoin users and latecomers.
False. Bitcoin's financial use case is to protect every person on Earth from Central Bank basement.
Bitcoin will benefit non-bitcoin users and latecomers by ushering in the abundance of the 5-Hour work week. Without bitcoin, robots take your job and prices rise forever, forcing you to work harder. With bitcoin, robots take your job and prices fall forever, enabling you to work less.
But it is nice to see central banks finally agree with me that savers using fiat will be impoverished and savers using Bitcoin will be rewarded.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4985877

2024-10-19 14:44:56 GMT

It's increasingly obvious that Bitcoin is becoming the world's reserve standard because it elegantly solves a major problem that every person, family, business, organization, and institution on planet earth all face: how to protect your savings from dilution and theft by those who control the money.

2024-09-30 20:15:42 GMT

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I just clicked twice to send an effortless zap to a guy I trust to get good stuff done for people in need. 🤯
Nostr changes emergency aid.
#nevent1q…pk3m

2024-09-20 22:25:41 GMT

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Frustrating to hear them talk past each other.
Saif: Bitcoin market dynamics will drive down lending.
Saylor: why do you want to force people to stop lending?
I would have enjoyed hearing more thoughts on how fiat dies. Eventually everyone wants to exploit the infinite money glitch, which means nobody can.

2024-09-20 22:23:17 GMT

War is naturally destructive, so we naturally avoid it.
It's unnatural that we should live in a world where war is so destructive to us and so beneficial to our rulers.
Such perverse incentives would poison society to annihilation. We are on our way, it seems.
We trust our rulers to administer the money well, but they counterfeit it for war and we pay the price.
Were it not for citizens storing their wealth in these corrupted notes, their printing would have no power. Like glass beads that no longer serve as money.
For anyone who is tired of paying the price, there is Bitcoin.

2024-09-16 22:33:17 GMT

Bitcoin is the invention of a thermodynamically sound ledger - information that respects the law of conservation of energy. This changes everything.

2024-09-07 15:10:46 GMT

I need an awesome nostr hat. Which are your favorites? #asknostr

2024-09-07 00:11:06 GMT

For my enemies, fiat. For my friends, Bitcoin.

2024-09-06 22:23:16 GMT

I'm currently making my way through the Martyr Made podcast by Darryl Cooper. In episode #3, about 1 hour and 11 minutes in, he twice repeats his money line about how essential the state monopoly on power is for laying the foundation for peaceful society:
"The state is the network of institutions that mediate and standardize relationships and exchchanges between individuals."
I get where he's coming from that some kind of absolute power is necessary to be the final arbiter of peace, otherwise conflict defaults to physical violence. But this, I would argue, is precisely the beauty of Bitcoin. In fact, it seems like we are watching Bitcoin become a network that mediates and standardizes contracts and exchanges between individuals.
Bitcoin is the discovery of a new kind of power that fuels cooperation.
What a time to be alive.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wQw92doCidAQsKIX2msMs?si=B5WGGMSdQY62oy9EQHbT2w

2024-09-06 03:19:32 GMT

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Yes

2024-09-06 02:40:43 GMT

Training as a family to do a 60 mile backpacking trip along the John Muir Trail has been homeschool on steroids. We'll see how the hike goes, but I'm proud of how much stronger the boys are after just 4 weeks of hard training.
Our first training hike was supposed to be 3 miles. We didn't make it 0.3. Basically, the 10 year old moved like a 100 year old saying that his 12 lb pack caused debilitating pain. After 1.5 hours of "training," I was 80% convinced that we would have to cancel the whole thing.
To everyone's credit, they got serious about their weight training, and probably even more importantly they prepared their minds for heretofore unimagined pain to enter their cushy lives.
For me, the 2nd training hike marked the moment of peak pride as a dad. After seeing my kids carry heavy backpacks for 6 miles in sweltering° Texas heat, wearing grimaces of suffering and strength, it was undeniable that they had crossed some kind of mythical threshold. They weren't the same kids anymore. And best of all, I could tell they felt the change.
Here we are on the 3rd training hike.
https://image.nostr.build/6c2064801057dba009454ff8e7efb9a09967e345aeccd87bcd37dcb3b2c715ea.jpg
Now the taining hikes are done. The last one felt better than ever. Go time approaches. Hopefully mother nature is merciful to our little band of aspiring hikers.

2024-09-05 13:02:07 GMT

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This is the way.

2024-09-05 13:00:28 GMT

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And it's gone. Can you post using highlighter.com or some other long form most client?
https://media.tenor.com/oF2vRAXPoxIAAAAC/joker-its-gone.gif

2024-09-05 03:08:22 GMT

Anybody else feel torn between abandoning their home country to the looters, and staying to fight to take it back?

2024-09-04 22:25:34 GMT

I wonder if any big, centralized platforms will choose to integrate nostr? Or if they'll all just keep selling indulgences like the printing press was never invented?

2024-09-04 22:14:23 GMT

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It's amazing how outrage can become our identity, to the point where it hurts to abandon that identity.

2024-09-04 15:11:48 GMT

gm to all you who won't give in to illegitimate power.

2024-09-04 11:24:51 GMT

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zapped this 3 sats using my 0xChat ecash balance. looks like it was automatically redeemed.

2024-09-04 10:44:49 GMT

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My zap attempts aren't going through on this note of yours?

2024-09-04 05:41:47 GMT

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Helpful. Thanks.

2024-09-04 03:59:48 GMT

I cannot figure out the ecash cashu UX. Shouldn't I be able to hold the ecash without redeeming it and incurring the redemption fee?

2024-09-04 02:50:10 GMT

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Feels good
https://media.tenor.com/rNFfhU_fDb0AAAAC/electric-shock-joshua-weissman.gif

2024-09-04 02:43:26 GMT

I'm far prefering a nostr experience where I lower my default zap amount to feel the freedom of zapping everything I like without a second thought, basically replacing likes with zaps.
But it seems that to be doing this right, I should be using ecash? Is this possible on Android? Feeling wofully ignorant on ecash.

2024-08-31 15:35:35 GMT

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A few of my favorites:
@nprofile…xv3n
@nprofile…3tqm
@nprofile…r5tj

2024-08-31 15:25:14 GMT

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Exciting times to be living and building

2024-08-31 02:31:35 GMT

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That quote is breaking my ADD brain.
I agree that freedom does not necessarily lead to virtue.
The situation I had in mind with my original post is the instictual clawing over each other to survive, where our capacity for rational thought is short-circuited by the lizard brain struggling to get one more breath.
Remove a pile of clawing humans from a situation where most of them must surely drown, and instead give them some tasty BBQ, and I bet friendliness increases.

2024-08-30 19:50:39 GMT

Abundance leads to freedom, and freedom leads to virtue.
Here's this idea beautifully captured in this cool except from the book Chronicles from the Future - The Amazing Story of Paul Amadeus Dienach.
"They “live” the joy of nature, the joys of travel, love, music and dance, of kindness, friendship and the thrill of beholding the aesthetic. They enjoy the unimaginable, for our times, pleasure of working on what they really want, on what their souls desire, without anyone pressuring them! In this way, their inner world becomes enriched. They say that when you follow your inclinations, the aversion to evil is created automatically inside you. And the more you climb this spiritual mountain, the clearer you see life."

2024-08-30 14:32:43 GMT

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https://media.tenor.com/MP1nZ9-GiE0AAAAC/anakin-its.gif
#nevent1q…wynw

2024-08-27 14:15:28 GMT

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Simple fix. My fault. Amethyst and @nprofile…qvd6 are awesome.

2024-08-27 13:42:11 GMT

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I found it awesome to check out listr.lol to see and copy other follow lists.

2024-08-26 22:06:12 GMT

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The phenomenon of brain activity has been blowing my mind lately. Like, I can wake up and remember the dream I was just having, but I can't re-enter the dream. It's just a matter of thought, being in the dream or out of the dream. And yet I have no power to control my thoughts to re-enter the dream. And the whole world assumes that being out of control of our thoughts in this way is healthy. Mind blowing.

2024-08-20 03:00:23 GMT

Now I'm too afraid to ask when and why nostr wallet connect stopped working on my Amethyst client.

2024-08-20 02:58:14 GMT

Any way to set up follow lists on nostr yet?

2024-07-21 20:03:09 GMT

The physical universe is networked energy in constant exchange according to the laws of physics.
Bitcoin is networked energy in constant exchange according to individual choice.
Choice, which is a form of love, is a higher form of energy.
Bitcoin upgrades universal law.

2024-06-26 18:32:32 GMT

"[Hank Rearden] had a few hundred dollars in cash, left in his wallet, nothing else. But the odd, glowing warmth in his mind, like the feel of a distant handshake, was the thought that in a secret safe of his bedroom there lay a bar of solid gold, given to him by a gold haired pirate."
-Atlas Shrugged
Thank you, Satoshi. You're the best pirate I've ever seen.
https://image.nostr.build/ca4889a580dffe448214af8653d514f4c78937c48e0fbc778739ebb454bf45d7.gif

2024-06-15 19:52:29 GMT

https://image.nostr.build/0db415089acf6f28fe2ff3364ab0c0b5237f01241c2d6c0e8c3e67e94fdaf6bb.jpg

2024-06-15 14:00:47 GMT

"What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? ... I'm manufacturing time. ... That's the savings account I'm hoarding. Is there any sort of safety vault that could protect this account in the outside world?" - Ellis Wyatt, Atlas shrugged
Bitcoin is time.

2024-05-15 15:03:31 GMT

Bitcoin is a tsunami. https://image.nostr.build/594f64664a60d846605a36a9341dc52328d0c3609155681166bb7b9dd107eefe.jpg

2024-05-13 22:59:00 GMT

Why is the Bitcoin price of volatile?
Bitcoin has no use except for its use as money. So it's either worth zero because nobody else accepts it as money, or Bitcoin is extremely valuable because everybody wants to be paid in bitcoin.
What do you think volatility would look like if a new money were emerging from zero?

2024-05-13 22:58:33 GMT

I'm done trying to convince people that bitcoin is the answer. Now I'm just going to probe them for what they think the solutions are. Dilution, censorship, control, housing scarcity, wealth gap, financialization, social security Ponzi scheme?

2024-05-01 22:43:15 GMT

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when citadels?

2024-03-14 05:41:46 GMT

https://image.nostr.build/79471bfa08fecd888e81c004e4fefd8336f4114981f85631d7ba0fac20e698f0.jpg

2024-03-10 14:59:39 GMT

Had a good Bitcoin conversation on Facebook that I think is worth sharing.
Me...
Yeah, the price is volatile. Don't dismiss Bitcoin for behaving as expected during its adoption phase.
Friend...
now we can all sleep better knowing that our "future currency" can fluctuate every time a whale sneezes lol
Me...
do you realize how much price volatility bonds are suffering right now, despite being universally adopted as the current world reserve asset?
Have you considered what Bitcoin's short term price volatility would look like if it were universally adopted as the world reserve asset?
Friend...
Hundreds of countries will relinquish control of their currency why? Because bitcoin is a cool idea? Ill take things that will never happen for $100.
On top of that adoption is technically challenging for 99% of people. People cant even properly secure their passwords and now all of a sudden the illiterate world is going to store and maintain bitcoin without getting it all stolen by bad actors? And that money is uninsured to boot? Bitcoin is a cool concept, it has showed it has value to some but it will never be what you think it is. Nobody is going to give all the power to bitcoin whales. I sure as hell wont.
Me...
all great thoughts worthy of careful consideration.
Hundreds of countries don't have control over their currency, but are controlled by the few that do.
Most people will never deal with bitcoin technical challenges, but will instead transact and protect their accounts using a growing suit of apps backed by bitcoin.
Yes, money is power. The key is to break the cycle so that power is not also money. In Bitcoin, more money can never give you control over the money. In fiat, more money does give you more control over the money, which leads to more money and power.
What kinds of things are you watching for that would get you to reconsider your current outlook?
Friend...
Hundreds of countries flock to the USD. Thats what I meant about that. As an American I think thats a good thing. That allows this country to keep operating at a deficit for as along as we need. Do i agree with that on principle? No. But my trust in that system is more a result of my distrust of bitcoin whales than it is trust in our gov.
How is the power not in the hands of whales right now?
Me...
Obviously, the hundreds of countries that don't control the money have much to benefit by flocking to a system of money that can't siphon their wealth away.
It's true that Americans benefit from the dollar, but at terrible cost to the rest of the world. Time to build a better system.
Bitcoin whales only have one, temporary power - to manipulate the price while bitcoin adoption is minimal. Current bitcoin adoption is around 0.1% of global wealth. But even now attempts to manipulate the price to exploit people are guaranteed to bleed Bitcoin into the hands of people who simply buy and hold. Bitcoin whales have no power to exploit. Fiat whales certainly do, like getting overleveraged on financial derivatives only to get bailed out by working class taxpayers.
Why do you think you're more willing to trust a fiat system that gives a ruling class the power to put themselves above the rules, rather than to trust a Bitcoin system that enforces the same rules for everyone?
...
Now it's been several days with no response

2024-03-05 23:46:10 GMT

The Bitcoin price always seems high, until you realize it's going to infinity.

2024-02-09 12:29:28 GMT

The truth is that food, housing, clothing, comfort, and travel are more abundant than ever. The reality is that fiat inflation has stripped wealth away from people so that these things feel more expensive than ever. Bitcoin reveals the truth: true prices, measured in a money that cannot be printed, are falling for everyone around the world, and will forever.

2024-02-05 21:06:53 GMT

Civil society is built on the technology of laws that allow humans to cooperate and resolve conflicts based on sets of rules, rather than resorting to physical force. Clearly, there are huge advantages to cracking the code for figuring out how to cooperate civilly with each other rather than resolving everything with physical force.
Bitcoin is the next major advance in civil technology for exponentially better cooperation.
All other civil systems that have been built so far in order to help humans cooperate suffer from the same major flaw - the rules and the enforcement of the rules are physically separate. It's just a piece of paper that won't stop a bad guy from breaking the rule.
For example, in the case of physical property, it is always possible for a thief to kill and steal the property. A police force is then retroactively tasked with resolving the injustice. The rules of civil property rights and the enforcement of those rights are physically separate.
But with Bitcoin, a thief can kill and still not have access to the digital property, to the bitcoin. The rules of bitcoin rights and the enforcement of bitcoin rights are inseparable. Bitcoin is a set of rules that a bad guy *can't* break.
Yes, a police force will still be dispatched to catch the murderer, but bitcoin opens the door to making theft impossible, which removes a major incentive for violence. Great, you killed the dude, now what? You get nothing. You would have gotten more by cooperating. Now you are a fugitive.
Bitcoin is an amazing civil technology that not only creates a fair set of rules by which people can cooperate, but it also enforces the rules with astonishing power and efficiency - far more efficient than any police or military could ever hope to enforce any other set of rules.
Bitcoin creates the reality where anyone in the world, from the poorest to the richest, can literally hold and enforce their own property rights in their head, without guns, police, or armies. Bitcoin builds the reality of enforced property rights into the human brain. Crazy! I suspect society changes in amazing ways as the implications of this ripple out.

2024-02-04 12:40:27 GMT

Bitcoin is the discovery of digital scarcity. Now, for the first time ever, hoarding wealth makes the world richer rather than poorer.
Savers who hoard Bitcoin drive up the price of Bitcoin, making everyone who uses Bitcoin richer.
Savers who hoard real estate, drive up the prices of homes, making everyone who needs a home poorer.
Before Bitcoin it wasn't possible to hoard your wealth in a digital token that was useless outside of the ledger. This meant hoarding wealth always inflicted artificial scarcity of useful stuff onto the rest of the world. We need money to be scarce. We need stuff to be abundant. Bitcoin is the answer.

2024-01-26 21:07:45 GMT

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Best curling design ever
#nevent1q…c950

2024-01-18 16:07:02 GMT

"Socialism" and "communism" are misleading terme. From now on I think I'll use "bureaucratic society" instead.

2024-01-16 21:38:51 GMT

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Best ceiling design ever.
#nevent1q…ms8w

2024-01-04 23:00:36 GMT

Do not try and rend the debt ceiling - that's impossible. Only try to realize the truth.
What truth?
There is no debt ceiling.
https://image.nostr.build/4695ae920b47a884dec1b99ae7adfb3b5c47c2c88dd75165d743ee0ca5feb65c.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x1258&blurhash=%7BFQJcg_MWXRP.7Dj-%3AIB%7EVD*R%2CxaIo%25LM%7BozRiE1-%3BV%40WXxuIU%25L9G-%3BRjM%7B%25fIUxuRj.7IUM%7B%25LIVxtt7RjDjt7xuRjt6ayWBof-%3BV%40IVbIjsjtt7ofbHRQt7tRRPofoyRjR-t6aeNGt6ayayoe&x=cd98258fe0fe30f5e81ab13054c206601f8bce358282513285d2690b03b7e5c3

2023-12-28 20:39:21 GMT

https://m.primal.net/HVji.jpg
Fearing bitcoin is like fearing electricity.
Bitcoin isn't a business, or stock, or investment. Bitcoin is a tool. It's a free and open-source protocol that anyone in the world can choose to use as a way to save and transfer value. Money is a ledger. Bitcoin is a perfect, unstoppable, incorruptible ledger.
This cartoon from 1889 captures the social anxiety around a new encroaching technology. The truth was that humans would use electricity to build a better world.
Humans will use Bitcoin to build a better world.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Unrestrained_Demon_%28anti-electricity_cartoon%29_02.jpg

2023-12-28 20:37:56 GMT

If you long to build a better world, ask not what Bitcoin can do for you, but ask what you can do for Bitcoin.

2023-12-28 20:36:51 GMT

Bitcoin is the American dream embodied in a computer social contract enforced by weapons grade cryptography.

2023-12-28 20:00:43 GMT

https://m.primal.net/HVjZ.jpg
In 2043, 1 sat will have about the same purchasing power as $1 in 2023.
Today, total global wealth is $900T.
Assuming 5% compound growth, total global wealth in 2043 will be ~$1.8 quadrillion.
Assuming 3M btc lost, we're left with a total of 1.8 quadrillion sats.
1 sat=$1

2023-12-28 17:06:34 GMT

"Bitcoin introduces incentives to a space where they were sorely lacking, and hence can likely form a robust base for near-enough every internet-based distributed system to be built from this point forward." -Bitcoin is Venice
I'd love a home server that I can plug Bitcoin lightning blades, storage blades, and graphics blades into, all running on secure data transfer protocols leveraging Bitcoin conservation of energy in cyberspace. Maybe Michael Saylor and Microstrategy use their substantial engineering skills and balance sheet to expand their business to offer distributed internet solutions, both hardware and software.🤞

2023-12-23 12:11:40 GMT

Bitcoin isn't an investment opportunity, but a financial inevitably. Savings that is not in Bitcoin will be diluted. Transactions that are not in Bitcoin will be censored. Commerce that is not in Bitcoin will be manipulated. Every person on earth has multiple problems that Bitcoin solves. All sttempts to use any other form of money will lead to pain, thus the world will increasingly choose Bitcoin as money.

2023-12-23 12:11:23 GMT

Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme, the dollar is. Bitcoin requires no new debt or suckers to persist. It just keeps on working enforcing the rules of the protocol for anyone who chooses to use it. The dollar on the other hand must borrow from future generations to try to keep the scheme going. Without constant injections of new debt, the dollar system collapses.
If you couldn't tell, I've had enough of systematized theft. I am not going to stop talking about how Bitcoin fixes this. Not because it's a good "investment opportunity" but because it literally ends a system of financial slavery.

2023-12-19 18:34:57 GMT

Money is a system of information. Bitcoin is a language that cannot lie. Dollars are printed to twist the truth. The world groans, caught in this web of misinformation, confused why we can't break free. Truth will set us free.

2023-12-15 15:29:40 GMT

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Watching your interactions, it's shocking how much work there is to be done before the world is really using Bitcoin. But at least it's possible. The solutions are just waiting to be done. Bitcoin makes real solutions possible. With fiat, is hopeless. With Bitcoin, at least there is hope.

2023-12-09 06:12:12 GMT

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the world feels so much less lonely, so much more hopeful, getting pumped on content like this.
#note1q2r…86ew

2023-12-05 19:06:50 GMT

Friends and family:
What good is Bitcoin when large-scale disaster strikes the Internet and power grids?
Me:
The world is a big place, and disasters like that are localized. I suspect Bitcoin is the safest place to store long-term wealth because if disaster strikes leaving your community, state, or country in shambles, you can effortlessly relocate with all of your wealth intact.

2023-12-05 15:49:36 GMT

I understand the tendency for people to expect fiat to persist alongside Bitcoin for decades because it feels presumptuous and reckless to say the big ship of fiat will quickly sink. But I don't see any first principles that keep fiat afloat. It's headed into rapid debt default. How can the USD survive for more than ~10 more years?

2023-11-14 23:33:42 GMT

The natural behavior for prices is for everything to get cheaper and cheaper. As technology advances, production becomes easier and thus cheaper. But since 1913 the Fed has printed money with the specific goal of reversing this natural trend so that instead everything gets more and more expensive.
For those using dollars over the next 20 years, it will look like everything is continuing to get more and more expensive.
For those using Bitcoin, it will look like everything is getting cheaper, just as it should be and should have been.

2023-11-14 01:42:23 GMT

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Bitcoin pops all the fiat bubbles.
#nevent1q…f2h3

2023-11-14 01:32:36 GMT

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Love is the way through.
#nevent1q…582k

2023-11-12 02:26:47 GMT

There's no need for complex conspiracy theories to explain societal decay when fiat monetary slavery is perfectly sufficient.

2023-11-07 18:36:25 GMT

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I want to know what the regular people think and feel. Not the political activists, not the militant leaders. The regular people, the families, the parents, the children who are doing their best to live a happy life.

2023-10-08 23:14:51 GMT

Inflation (money printing) is UBI for asset owners.

2023-10-08 14:50:37 GMT

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👀
#nevent1q…wy6a

2023-10-03 01:44:50 GMT

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It's religions all the way down.
#nevent1q…nrma

2023-10-03 01:14:26 GMT

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2 hrs, Newark airport to Long Island. First Uber driver got us all loaded up in his car at the airport loading zone, routed the destination, and was like "oh, um, no. I can't go that far." So we unloaded and waited 15 minutes for the next guy, crossing our fingers he would go the distance.

2023-10-02 23:38:45 GMT

Slowly reading and contemplating the Tao Te Ching and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle together as complimentary works is amazing.

2023-09-28 00:59:18 GMT

You know that part of The Big Short where the corruption of the banks and the credit rating agencies not fairly pricing the CDSs becomes blatantly apparent?
That's how this part of Bitcoin's price history feels.
https://image.nostr.build/fa807189ce6e1e97c6cf730e07806a012943f88be885a5f40a9262d61feb691a.gif

2023-09-22 04:19:51 GMT

Jean-Paul Sartre looked at Descartes's statement "I think, therefore I am" very deeply and suddenly realized, in his own words, The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks. What did he mean by that? When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. And it is that awareness that says I am. If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. You would be as identified with every thought as the dreamer is with every image in the dream. - Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

2023-09-19 23:51:06 GMT

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Bitcoin links the collective mind together with incorruptible connections.
#nevent1q…g6hu

2023-09-17 03:42:11 GMT

A master class of corporate accounting clearly explaining why big businesses dominate and consume small businesses, and why corporate debt runs hot.
The economic problems were suffering through are systemic, logical, and fixable by moving to a Bitcoin standard.
https://youtu.be/RTiRf1NDEr8?si=HQ7OB1RBnVsRqL8t

2023-09-16 22:36:26 GMT

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Was just telling my kids about these commercials, but failed to make this hilarious connection. Next time I will not fail 🤣
#nevent1q…nh35

2023-09-16 15:57:49 GMT

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This episode was awesome, by the way. Loved the passion and fire coming from you aimed at making life better for your family, friends, and community! This episode some to my soul!

2023-09-16 15:52:12 GMT

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Crowdfunding freedom land development is definitely going to be a thing.
#nevent1q…8vcf

2023-09-15 16:34:24 GMT

If you want to create a money that nobody can counterfeit, then you have to peg it to the only thing in the universe that nobody can counterfeit, namely energy itself. - @npub15vz…k4um
https://youtu.be/EIQAYuRWdjg?si=kkI9v0rmUT0Ev9Z2

2023-09-14 16:12:33 GMT

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I was just wanting something like this!

2023-09-14 16:09:35 GMT

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Digital publishing platform for books and children's books.

2023-09-14 15:28:54 GMT

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New bitcoiners need to understand it's ok to start small and simple. Otherwise it can all be overwhelming and discouraging.
Bitcoin is simply digital cash that is perfectly scarce.
Make your first exchange and transfer by depositing a few bucks in strike and then make a lightning transfer to wallet of satoshi.
Set up a Nostr account and experiment with zaps.
Seed phrases, utxos management, hardware signing devices, and multi sig are powerful tools to patiently grow into.

2023-09-14 13:26:38 GMT

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Can't zap this with Alby and Amethyst ❌⚡

2023-09-13 20:31:40 GMT

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How Nostr Legends are made.
#nevent1q…rc2c

2023-09-13 16:05:11 GMT

So, Mexico just revealed 2 alien bodies during an official Congressional meeting, and literally nobody cares.
Makes me feel better about the lack of interest during my Bitcoin conversations, actually. 🤣

2023-09-12 20:13:54 GMT

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The saying that was once "buy bonds, wear diamonds" is now becoming "buy bonds, wear rags."
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2023-09-12 18:19:04 GMT

What year will it be when companies collectively allocate $1 billion of advertisement budget to zaps?
I guess 2028.
Coca Cola spent $4.7 billion in 2022 on advertisements. Disney spent $7.2 billion.
It took Bitcoin less than 5 years to hit $1 billion market cap.
If Nostr and zaps are in fact becoming an open standard for data and value transfer, it seems reasonable that zaps could attract $1 billion worth of advertisement budgets from companies around the world by the year 2028.
Feels like the stage is being set for advertisements to go from evil to awesome. If you think about it, the concept of advertisements is pretty amazing - "here, let me pay money to show you how well I can serve your wants and needs."

2023-09-11 19:33:23 GMT

"The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am." - Eckhart Tolle

2023-09-06 16:17:01 GMT

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Reading this, I'm once again silently amazed at the genius of Bitcoin.
Money of the people, by the people, for the people.
Conflicting issues and competing interests are inherent to a diverse and global network. The fact that all of these conflicts must be resolved to a single consensus seems impossibly difficult, and yet Bitcoin forces us all to cooperate.
There can be only one language of value.
Every issue of consequence inescapably finds itself in lively debate in the public square, vying for hearts and minds. If the issue resonates, then it persuades those who have put in the effort to become node runners to cast their vote.
For those who do not run nodes, but have some coins, they cast their vote by selling the hard fork they think will lose.
It is amazing.
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2023-09-05 23:13:06 GMT

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So pumped for the algorithm innovations that will result from Nostr and AI coming together to offer a growing collection of curation algorithms.

2023-09-05 01:33:24 GMT

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Why do I like Bitcoin so much? Because it's the only proposed solution that I have seen that makes any sense. It's transparent. It's open. What you see is what you get. A permisionless protocol that invites all to cooperate together from around the world using fair, incorruptible, unbreakable rules.
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2023-09-05 01:16:53 GMT

"We aren't living in dark times. It's the ipposite. We are entering an epoch of spring where the light is slowly dawning on the previous epoch of winter. Sometimes it may feel like we are entering into darker times, but that is only because with the light comes understanding and clarity to see the horrible mess we have been in for so long but could not yet see." - Matias de Stefano
https://youtu.be/hZd5A_wDxSM?si=U7loGTVe1VWrDaNR

2023-09-02 20:48:08 GMT

How scarce is Bitcoin?
There are ~36 b acres of land on Earth.
An estimated ~5 m bitcoin have been lost forever. Leaving ~16 m bitcoin in circulation.
Owning 1 whole bitcoin is equivalent to owning ~2,250 acres of land.
Owning 1 sat is equivalent to owning ~1 square foot of land. (There are 100,000,000 sats in 1 bitcoin.)
At today's exchange rate of $26,000 for 1 bitcoin, that means ~3,800 sats for $1. In other words, the equivalent of 3,800 square feet of land for $1.
The Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States let any adult claim up to 160 acres of land. This offer ran for years while the US was emerging as a powerful country. The sat equivalent of 160 acres of land is 6,970,000 sats. In other words, at today's exchange rate, for the cost of ~$1,800 any person can claim the equivalent of 160 acres worth of territory on the world's most powerful emerging monetary network.
The primary questions facing a potential homesteader in 1862 were:
1. Would the land be useful to them? Did they have the skills to farm, build, ranch? Or were they more suited to stay living in the city?
2. Would the land become more desirable to inhabit as time passed? In other words, would social infrastructure surrounding their land make their land a more desirable place to live with time? Or less?
These are the same basic questions facing potential bitcoin moneysteaders now:
1. Is the bitcoin useful to you today? For most people in developed, safe countries, the current answer is 'not really.' Unless someone finds themselves in a situation of being financially repressed, they don't have an immediate use for bitcoin's amazing censorship resistant properties.
2. Will bitcoin become more desirable as time passes? Or less? Will an open source protocol that invites anybody to build on top of it become more appealing for people to use with time or less?

2023-09-02 03:43:13 GMT

Life is a network. Money and language are technologies to propagate energy and information through the network. When the money gets corrupted, the life in the network gets choked. Bitcoin is incorruptible money. Fixing the money means fixing the network. Fixing the network means nurturing life.
Lots of compelling ideas covered in this interview with @npub15vz…k4um
https://youtu.be/6GDJaa0KL2M?si=OPyEPcaTD2BjIDn-