2024-11-15T18:34:44Z https://njump.me Spencer https://njump.me/npub144mf9j88sxt3yu0lfrsx2e4ukcqajanpfz9ehdav7ufddp92dutqhz9926 https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbzZlOXprc2x1MHhkZmd5azY5MzFrdnRuMzlsNzRiYzNocjlwNnU2eCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/LFSrXRR4hiBu520QKs/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbzZlOXprc2x1MHhkZmd5azY5MzFrdnRuMzlsNzRiYzNocjlwNnU2eCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/LFSrXRR4hiBu520QKs/giphy.gif https://njump.me/nevent1qqsru96x23gz8ljkpmyw94cy7mlswr50c8znh5agev4ty8jcd3flq8qzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vq58ufp It&#39;s snowing. It&#39;s not ever going to stop. There&#39;s already too much snow on the cliff. An avalanche is coming. It&#39;s just math. For the kids. Bitcoin. 2025-01-02T21:21:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw7xh6rvwj7n4yq9rzp08mc29476vp6pfeejh9f3rrzm80sak3d5czyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vmxj2f9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv7ge4lazzkp4mupctgytqspcmwsmjw9xtvskxqktq9h2v8dyryrqvu7j88'>nevent1q…7j88</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://libgen.st/">https://libgen.st/</a> is working for me now 2024-12-07T09:12:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxzughssayywdfl2000g3ne9zecrty0cfk580alla989qdukrklaszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vv6s5hf &#34;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&#39;t you see what you accomplish? Man realizes that he&#39;s incapable of what he&#39;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&#39;t practice.&#34;<br/>-Ayn Rand, Fountainhead 2024-12-07T09:02:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdthpckrvwnc6sm3f28t60066rnwczfnvk63p97lw0jefa7fxkwaczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vtjplk6 &#34;Bitcoin is dead.&#34;<br/>-ECB,2022<br/><a href="https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2022/html/ecb.blog221130~5301eecd19.en.html">https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2022/html/ecb.blog221130~5301eecd19.en.html</a><br/><br/>&#34;Against Bitcoin? HFSP&#34;<br/>-ECB, 2024<br/><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4985877">https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4985877</a> 2024-10-21T14:55:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxpchth08p4f753am5zynw6sfwzts50p5guueklepndq6w3r2z0fszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vcakkf8 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.<br/><br/>False. Bitcoin&#39;s financial use case is to protect every person on Earth from Central Bank basement.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4985877">https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4985877</a> 2024-10-20T20:59:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstuatrrngaettm6fy0nmq0u9ssl6zp3wymlhmuz8hajajg29gra7gzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v476f4u It&#39;s increasingly obvious that Bitcoin is becoming the world&#39;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. 2024-10-19T14:44:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswelukflgsrjt7974lnymjx2htzgqa83uftq2jmpd3y7j34lqqvqczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vkvqy8w I just clicked twice to send an effortless zap to a guy I trust to get good stuff done for people in need. 🤯<br/><br/>Nostr changes emergency aid. <br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqsgytdj3tsl5fhnhnjgpgxm5wzjd0mqzyv8gqsgghswlu0hzpjcctcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qh8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wqxpqqqqqqze8pk3m" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…pk3m</a></span> </div> Alright, I don't yet know exactly how I'll get donations to them, but my best friend down there works for search and rescue so when i get in touch with him, I'm sure he'll know the best way to get the funds to where they need to go. <br/><br/>I threw a wallet together for anyone who wants to donate BTC, and again any zaps will go there as well.<br/><br/>👇🏻👇🏻<br/>bc1qfhm8lftwxrsxu20nnw4fjlz2nksk82zsuzhze72qyp07mtze573qa7r435<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1vlwlfl6mmv3t56aewlhcwnzvzlqqlye74cgxu6xefg2hftca59vqw2shgl" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1vlw…shgl</a></span> </blockquote> 2024-09-30T20:15:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrzjqtd83lf5jxxvtn8h4h6ygf3tafs8mz2u8ct7gxqqda89x7vxqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v05zgs8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx045yvcz47sexwegs56xrevsgnwwddxfjd8wd93gl2wvxhg66tvs028xp7'>nevent1q…8xp7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Frustrating to hear them talk past each other. <br/><br/>Saif: Bitcoin market dynamics will drive down lending.<br/><br/>Saylor: why do you want to force people to stop lending?<br/><br/>I would have enjoyed hearing more thoughts on how fiat dies. Eventually everyone wants to exploit the infinite money glitch, which means nobody can. 2024-09-20T22:25:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx9tx8afxd9kfxk3k89g8yyr54pf9umn6xs3jeq27j8jk2s5gw6xszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vjfvyvq War is naturally destructive, so we naturally avoid it.<br/><br/>It&#39;s unnatural that we should live in a world where war is so destructive to us and so beneficial to our rulers. <br/><br/>Such perverse incentives would poison society to annihilation. We are on our way, it seems.<br/><br/>We trust our rulers to administer the money well, but they counterfeit it for war and we pay the price.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>For anyone who is tired of paying the price, there is Bitcoin. 2024-09-20T22:23:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf8t4vvyh54ye5m7uu9nmuyz4d38a4n0uzaeeanllrxgxaqjkwzeczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vt2cw8n Bitcoin is the invention of a thermodynamically sound ledger - information that respects the law of conservation of energy. This changes everything. 2024-09-16T22:33:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyg3ghm3l0kyh484dmn7qcqa3pzdv8grcnj0zzzclv6k7aqlkg90qzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vv68al7 I need an awesome nostr hat. Which are your favorites? #asknostr 2024-09-07T15:10:46Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvtnxpc9j9u5068c46cq7axkfchdvwkealz6k8xz0xma2vymdfdmczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v8l83yj For my enemies, fiat. For my friends, Bitcoin. 2024-09-07T00:11:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq6zvwzuqxe9973m424cpz0u7l63scve5run3kfmczh2ggj02eylszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vv6r3rw I&#39;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:<br/><br/>&#34;The state is the network of institutions that mediate and standardize relationships and exchchanges between individuals.&#34;<br/><br/>I get where he&#39;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.<br/><br/>Bitcoin is the discovery of a new kind of power that fuels cooperation.<br/><br/>What a time to be alive.<br/><br/><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wQw92doCidAQsKIX2msMs?si=B5WGGMSdQY62oy9EQHbT2w">https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wQw92doCidAQsKIX2msMs?si=B5WGGMSdQY62oy9EQHbT2w</a><br/><br/> 2024-09-06T22:23:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8kj4483q4jkj2z0ke507c0wy35uxv22nf6ud07ngmsg2lev6rwpgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vwptkgh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0v6pxkmny45apjspf04esjq5avlvdpjh0t3ru6ex8epydpn346es08px68'>nevent1q…px68</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yes 2024-09-06T03:19:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8z8x3uy909lazclr3vtv5zhs607d9gj4ep72gp8awthlzxmuvnkczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v3wd8us Training as a family to do a 60 mile backpacking trip along the John Muir Trail has been homeschool on steroids. We&#39;ll see how the hike goes, but I&#39;m proud of how much stronger the boys are after just 4 weeks of hard training.<br/><br/>Our first training hike was supposed to be 3 miles. We didn&#39;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 &#34;training,&#34; I was 80% convinced that we would have to cancel the whole thing.<br/><br/>To everyone&#39;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.<br/><br/>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&#39;t the same kids anymore. And best of all, I could tell they felt the change.<br/><br/>Here we are on the 3rd training hike.<br/> <img src="https://image.nostr.build/6c2064801057dba009454ff8e7efb9a09967e345aeccd87bcd37dcb3b2c715ea.jpg"> <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/><br/><br/> 2024-09-06T02:40:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr0fyeu8xrrdrwgef0smpcdpxg9gz5adjlmrqz84j06rj0lh20vaszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vax7z9t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszm8ys5fyd594yczrevtwnetzy68xed5rjkc9vawgnw9chgzsqxxs208gpk'>nevent1q…8gpk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is the way. 2024-09-05T13:02:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9tl9vcg03wey2uduwn927q6fnpnkprkhqth7y7gfm5xu60xddteqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vehzfnj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgynfwhlsuv8h33tlxsn37q5s0qykv8thfqpg4a4v2u5wr8u8hz2cxgn73t'>nevent1q…n73t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And it&#39;s gone. Can you post using highlighter.com or some other long form most client?<br/><br/> <img src="https://media.tenor.com/oF2vRAXPoxIAAAAC/joker-its-gone.gif"> 2024-09-05T13:00:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrfeectxcgtqrlgjwfp795hchts8f3y6fmewgyjye5fpm7vllwc2czyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v0yuqyx Anybody else feel torn between abandoning their home country to the looters, and staying to fight to take it back? 2024-09-05T03:08:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0zeqnq436gy4yqfarlf9wc858ef99mmc9gzhvlnxn988kmgwef8szyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vh6shh9 I wonder if any big, centralized platforms will choose to integrate nostr? Or if they&#39;ll all just keep selling indulgences like the printing press was never invented? 2024-09-04T22:25:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvcdrv9r9lzuwx0xvf4fn06znnzx265hvw3fp6prf43zx0czrn5vszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vn3tr6s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf0gujunc6q6vz9pyxthue5cwe237fv8mw50hf0v0j6v3wf9l039cl97vuw'>nevent1q…7vuw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s amazing how outrage can become our identity, to the point where it hurts to abandon that identity. 2024-09-04T22:14:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszrf2tuz2sr8ka085s0z5de5realjnxd9fx4qdkd9dlw48secyk7szyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vxr38dn gm to all you who won&#39;t give in to illegitimate power. 2024-09-04T15:11:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs97hyk7es2vjdsjz0yhxtfx3selxdd99gcpw4tjrrlmjudpwv86nczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vf6ejqt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst4mvj0wzxwgvpve8lxrq00laapj8u9z57qgzfpt9z0jt4ghu779gay4q0k'>nevent1q…4q0k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>zapped this 3 sats using my 0xChat ecash balance. looks like it was automatically redeemed. 2024-09-04T11:24:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrr5h034uqkt458caryz9yzaskgpg4kdgzxfy6yjwgp0kgxu3j64czyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vcu8st8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs868xcejpjw8tt3ljjc2dus9eyr2txjc406lsfayj84ytfqn283agpz2ams'>nevent1q…2ams</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My zap attempts aren&#39;t going through on this note of yours? 2024-09-04T10:44:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp9lg9p6ghsp6cxk6ejx9869ahwjda2jez83eyk90ktckxy7nsstczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vnvjeun In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs868xcejpjw8tt3ljjc2dus9eyr2txjc406lsfayj84ytfqn283agpz2ams'>nevent1q…2ams</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Helpful. Thanks. 2024-09-04T05:41:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszuq5kf2uj55tqm2trwsju3ceq7w47zpzrrh3p6sn6huh3klxrfhgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vzpnawf I cannot figure out the ecash cashu UX. Shouldn&#39;t I be able to hold the ecash without redeeming it and incurring the redemption fee? 2024-09-04T03:59:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9egt73p3yw7yfwve5lsrkxc0jrhjhmhl56xkcttkj2knakvzpfwczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vzrp2aq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstch0szk7mspedarjzckmkar66ftfhtwchrmfuv5mg5gtnfr82esgh9ncdy'>nevent1q…ncdy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Feels good<br/> <img src="https://media.tenor.com/rNFfhU_fDb0AAAAC/electric-shock-joshua-weissman.gif"> 2024-09-04T02:50:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqnuu3g4papqp3dsh6yualx24qrr8dalhy55nu54cr4ycepp40htczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v6lndm3 I&#39;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. <br/><br/>But it seems that to be doing this right, I should be using ecash? Is this possible on Android? Feeling wofully ignorant on ecash. 2024-09-04T02:43:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw5e2rm6luqwwrz6gysqw84cdlwcadpcacchflhk9shj5xjl9qrzqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vcsyjup In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs934wrzhlvx5huz78dqh25pcmgjud2dxyl2cg9h7ad2ryzxyzk44c5mpayn'>nevent1q…payn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>A few of my favorites: <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qqstnem9g6aqv3tw6vqaneftcj06frns56lj9q470gdww228vysz8hqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcjgxv3n" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>TheGuySwann</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…xv3n</span>)</a></span><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6mpd4czuumfw3jsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvql3tqm" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>LynAlden</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…3tqm</span>)</a></span><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qqsph5e28p48hehk3zeaclzgpm7zrnv5ddp74s2t5ja8sd9vw73ru6gpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0rqr5tj" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>alanbwt</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…r5tj</span>)</a></span> 2024-08-31T15:35:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz4kaackhy54m2w28audesxl7yh6lc67thmmfvxuuegkkjgnpgl6qzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vuuke39 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2udychy5aa0q0uvh2jcr94666lczel60lfe99mt6p8s2lx65h8kq2f8g2p'>nevent1q…8g2p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Exciting times to be living and building 2024-08-31T15:25:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyzhcfhqcr0kcgkc63mnywyek2294x60r5ct6a3mrsn7844nec5uqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v0mlmdj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9uxsnkdgh3kmw9kmcn3z436lq8dwj535g35smv0p9yls95jtrktcvxpzs8'>nevent1q…pzs8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That quote is breaking my ADD brain. <br/><br/>I agree that freedom does not necessarily lead to virtue. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/> 2024-08-31T02:31:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg20cdl2uvczpljvnvlwnvafgtswh0da9w8xs0gewwn6vzrswyf5gzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vtqezm8 Abundance leads to freedom, and freedom leads to virtue. <br/><br/>Here&#39;s this idea beautifully captured in this cool except from the book Chronicles from the Future - The Amazing Story of Paul Amadeus Dienach. <br/><br/>&#34;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.&#34; 2024-08-30T19:50:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx37nf3dda30n2vmwrdudg09nkgldkf5retg4nkdmydgy6tkuqn6gzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vp58hzl <img src="https://media.tenor.com/MP1nZ9-GiE0AAAAC/anakin-its.gif"> <blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqsvas2npjq035eqzh5qx76rg5uhy0ahc938gn27gducv0xw60xjvlspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsyg97wdvvfljszjxvet7q963qtkqpgh398zy65w2cm2h6scmsglyypcpsgqqqqqqspdwynw" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…wynw</a></span> </div> I took your advice and built a gif nostr companion app:<br/><a href="https://gifbuddy.lol/">https://gifbuddy.lol/</a><br/><br/>You can download the PWA to your home screen, search for your gif, copy the address and paste it into your client<br/><br/>On the back end, for every gif that gets copied/clicked, an API request is made to upload to <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>nostr.build</span> (<span class="italic">npub1nxy…avr7</span>)</a></span> by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub137c5pd8gmhhe0njtsgwjgunc5xjr2vmzvglkgqs5sjeh972gqqxqjak37w" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>The Fishcake🐶🐾</span> (<span class="italic">npub137c…k37w</span>)</a></span><br/><br/>From there a nip94 request is done so that the content can be accessed by any client in the future<br/><br/>Now, anyone who searches for gifs using this tool is also helping to build the gif repository for nip94 and adding fallback urls to nostr.build<br/><br/>And all they did was click to copy #gifs<br/><br/> <img src="https://media.tenor.com/VrufNvHPA1QAAAAC/i-hope-you-guys-are-proud-of-me-chris-c.gif"> </blockquote> 2024-08-30T14:32:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9vhgr0t8xdzrvh6qjye7nfg0k9l8xf0zua9m59z3nvedg3cc27lszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v7h2u0d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0ayvvem9sqlzrr5wgwh9jscuwtq7u0mcx0caxx9gt03cfz7un3dqqxpmys'>nevent1q…pmys</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Simple fix. My fault. Amethyst and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qqsyv47lazt9h6ycp2fsw270khje5egjgsrdkrupjg27u796g7f5k0spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqgnwaehxw309aex2mrp09skymr99ehhyecusqvd6" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Alby</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…qvd6</span>)</a></span> are awesome. 2024-08-27T14:15:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz3rtmus4tfx9prmpl9x67zzk3cha06hnejernt7ryujvjw8arunqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vf4yksr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvfls894e4twytzps53sgq3fnczf3mhzyj4z2v5kw07pznrzjy4jg5lge69'>nevent1q…ge69</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I found it awesome to check out listr.lol to see and copy other follow lists. 2024-08-27T13:42:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2077lepfl64a8dmgh37qxy8v6y2939n7vfux4t9qmvgw25qswqagzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v0qnsxq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd5yd9pn45n0p845n0rqtcqkaeqd0pfp5x2zvlygp4gsz65qh9xkcw2rqph'>nevent1q…rqph</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>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&#39;t re-enter the dream. It&#39;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. 2024-08-26T22:06:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0ayvvem9sqlzrr5wgwh9jscuwtq7u0mcx0caxx9gt03cfz7un3dqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vfz3fq7 Now I&#39;m too afraid to ask when and why nostr wallet connect stopped working on my Amethyst client. 2024-08-20T03:00:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvxvycmrfuveu9p2gj0zmrm5qs6dxepjxxv2hwnvst47qunpmkvggzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vldveru Any way to set up follow lists on nostr yet? 2024-08-20T02:58:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8dc8vts269cvrq2a466w7q34dhn6jms8tspxt9z48apd2n0g3myczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vvfljye The physical universe is networked energy in constant exchange according to the laws of physics.<br/><br/>Bitcoin is networked energy in constant exchange according to individual choice. <br/><br/>Choice, which is a form of love, is a higher form of energy.<br/><br/>Bitcoin upgrades universal law. 2024-07-21T20:03:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvsgweek4zhrm7njny9xuz9286j756vqt45j07p8hxyqalgps3xkszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v98wyel &#34;[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.&#34; <br/>-Atlas Shrugged <br/><br/>Thank you, Satoshi. You&#39;re the best pirate I&#39;ve ever seen.<br/> <img src="https://image.nostr.build/ca4889a580dffe448214af8653d514f4c78937c48e0fbc778739ebb454bf45d7.gif"> 2024-06-26T18:32:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxfqyzyt2qgd7s8ulsuf2syc4rg09nlwuc9hnq3n26l00nvupr5mszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v2c6x6p <img src="https://image.nostr.build/0db415089acf6f28fe2ff3364ab0c0b5237f01241c2d6c0e8c3e67e94fdaf6bb.jpg"> 2024-06-15T19:52:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy92qxpwxmmjktc404rnqynezr3yn6uuh2r4pqzqqr4pw4mhc08dgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vte36sk &#34;What&#39;s wealth but the means of expanding one&#39;s life? ... I&#39;m manufacturing time. ... That&#39;s the savings account I&#39;m hoarding. Is there any sort of safety vault that could protect this account in the outside world?&#34; - Ellis Wyatt, Atlas shrugged<br/><br/>Bitcoin is time. 2024-06-15T14:00:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspaenhk4nf4tydc68xlsq8df549d9wskvx49v2g859awnz027d6eqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3ve0e7fm Bitcoin is a tsunami. <img src="https://image.nostr.build/594f64664a60d846605a36a9341dc52328d0c3609155681166bb7b9dd107eefe.jpg"> 2024-05-15T15:03:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyau46ftjt6akueuhyl6s5kf58vh0cmwxp909hgsj3ceetwdyld9czyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vay0gng Why is the Bitcoin price of volatile? <br/><br/>Bitcoin has no use except for its use as money. So it&#39;s either worth zero because nobody else accepts it as money, or Bitcoin is extremely valuable because everybody wants to be paid in bitcoin.<br/><br/>What do you think volatility would look like if a new money were emerging from zero? 2024-05-13T22:59:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy7l3qzjyvsf3e9amm3s7752h6w4sw8vqzzsg3ktm8dxht66asc3gzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vp4dx20 I&#39;m done trying to convince people that bitcoin is the answer. Now I&#39;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? 2024-05-13T22:58:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyrw2dyqchee4jhqfh44852yslmyumq4gt33dcklpasxfypue7gdqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vfl62nw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2h6v8addfgd0ye9dsl8q7t0gc6s6xk4nstf03xja9tk555vyefks6gnnn0'>nevent1q…nnn0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>when citadels? 2024-05-01T22:43:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdyfpmdqpvk6k5wsq5lmrd4407wnqef995l0pdhrmm9vvcp84sspczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vlqy5f8 <img src="https://image.nostr.build/79471bfa08fecd888e81c004e4fefd8336f4114981f85631d7ba0fac20e698f0.jpg"> 2024-03-14T05:41:46Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9spm0sh6pw4yxjzl590eyh5h6cd3f56zccn265yxlerjnv3syekgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vvuzf3e Had a good Bitcoin conversation on Facebook that I think is worth sharing.<br/><br/>Me...<br/>Yeah, the price is volatile. Don&#39;t dismiss Bitcoin for behaving as expected during its adoption phase.<br/><br/>Friend...<br/>now we can all sleep better knowing that our &#34;future currency&#34; can fluctuate every time a whale sneezes lol<br/><br/>Me...<br/>do you realize how much price volatility bonds are suffering right now, despite being universally adopted as the current world reserve asset? <br/><br/>Have you considered what Bitcoin&#39;s short term price volatility would look like if it were universally adopted as the world reserve asset?<br/><br/>Friend...<br/>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. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Me...<br/>all great thoughts worthy of careful consideration.<br/><br/>Hundreds of countries don&#39;t have control over their currency, but are controlled by the few that do. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>What kinds of things are you watching for that would get you to reconsider your current outlook?<br/><br/>Friend...<br/>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. <br/><br/>How is the power not in the hands of whales right now?<br/><br/>Me...<br/>Obviously, the hundreds of countries that don&#39;t control the money have much to benefit by flocking to a system of money that can&#39;t siphon their wealth away.<br/><br/>It&#39;s true that Americans benefit from the dollar, but at terrible cost to the rest of the world. Time to build a better system.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Why do you think you&#39;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?<br/><br/>...<br/>Now it&#39;s been several days with no response<br/><br/> 2024-03-10T14:59:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspza39h52f5jjcl9ugp6qm620t5dzzslh7jgxfvcp3wgmakselrvczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vjuuc3r The Bitcoin price always seems high, until you realize it&#39;s going to infinity. 2024-03-05T23:46:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs22f3taxf55uax9d4wfyj54h3s0hrfpxmk3g07x6kp6xe55e09uxgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v8cafhq 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. 2024-02-09T12:29:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp2d3u8xh3lnlvvfuk2p5l5unhg496y7uqp2cfy9asvkuv6smmzwgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vj9n2yn 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.<br/><br/>Bitcoin is the next major advance in civil technology for exponentially better cooperation. <br/><br/>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&#39;s just a piece of paper that won&#39;t stop a bad guy from breaking the rule. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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&#39;t* break.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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. 2024-02-05T21:06:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgeem5lxhnuch2f09jnwsydh3ura2ll9rsdvjf5yaayrmuutjzvxgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vyhtuts Bitcoin is the discovery of digital scarcity. Now, for the first time ever, hoarding wealth makes the world richer rather than poorer. <br/><br/>Savers who hoard Bitcoin drive up the price of Bitcoin, making everyone who uses Bitcoin richer. <br/><br/>Savers who hoard real estate, drive up the prices of homes, making everyone who needs a home poorer. <br/><br/>Before Bitcoin it wasn&#39;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. 2024-02-04T12:40:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszp8ythlth6pgwpdy53hwny6q3dpj002kzaj42nvf5y3h42u0erqczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vxx6zyn Best curling design ever<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqs29wn4dv4w6lh6jcrvrqsd7l5a8cnjeyrgze4s7m7qapd5wk2q52cpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyrvl4faxctmj93pe5jdp6vd6x9jk08wsnpx7czq3e8gzhk6h8mrmuqcyqqqqqqgdhc950" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…c950</a></span> </div> Rain Oculus, in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore<br/>A large whirlpool forms inside a 70-foot diameter acrylic bowl and falls 2 stories to a pool below. <br/>The artwork functions as both a skylight and a rain collector. <br/>The rain water is recycled back to the whirlpool and also fills a canal that runs through the atrium. <br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://video.nostr.build/96934d41a19a67721d4209ce6e9dc6153e372c5719df369a4c814a991dc5dd73.mp4"></video><br/>[📹 cocokulit 101] #recycle #water #interesting #planet #architecture #videos </blockquote> 2024-01-26T21:07:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrwjmq7fzmvcxwq7wx4pzet5zspwrwdfzr3ujlrw8htepdvr2hpnszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vvqeamw &#34;Socialism&#34; and &#34;communism&#34; are misleading terme. From now on I think I&#39;ll use &#34;bureaucratic society&#34; instead. 2024-01-18T16:07:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs97hrnr4t4yzw3skr57paatcfzn65ptp97cz5x3wuldpj3enmyllqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v83zlf3 Best ceiling design ever.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqsy22h09g6yczp2u4fwwlaaey7due9cpsur75edzqhuduv70gwtt0spp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyrvl4faxctmj93pe5jdp6vd6x9jk08wsnpx7czq3e8gzhk6h8mrmuqcyqqqqqqgh4ms8w" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…ms8w</a></span> </div> *Honey is 80% sugars and 20% water. <br/>*To make one pound of honey, the bees in the colony must visit 2 million flowers, fly over 55,000 miles and will be the lifetime work of approximately 768 bees. <br/>*A single honeybee will only produce approximately 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime. <br/>*A single honey bee will visit 50-100 flowers on a single trip out of the hive. <br/>*Honey is the ONLY food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water; and it's the only food that contains "pinocembrin", an antioxidant associated with improved brain functioning<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://video.nostr.build/d63104b05909d53d48de85788decdc1dfa8b2d6911f0ffc8cece134d8c67af1a.mp4"></video> <br/>[📹 macrofying] #honey #bees #food #animals #amazing #interesting #nature #animals </blockquote> 2024-01-16T21:38:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstjda9h0dfpsp7myrzq49wu2tqaxcju2cfgwqcjkwfzvdhv0aal4szyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vmksy00 Do not try and rend the debt ceiling - that&#39;s impossible. Only try to realize the truth.<br/><br/>What truth?<br/><br/>There is no debt ceiling.<br/> <img src="https://image.nostr.build/4695ae920b47a884dec1b99ae7adfb3b5c47c2c88dd75165d743ee0ca5feb65c.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&amp;dim=1080x1258&amp;blurhash=%7BFQJcg_MWXRP.7Dj-%3AIB%7EVD*R%2CxaIo%25LM%7BozRiE1-%3BV%40WXxuIU%25L9G-%3BRjM%7B%25fIUxuRj.7IUM%7B%25LIVxtt7RjDjt7xuRjt6ayWBof-%3BV%40IVbIjsjtt7ofbHRQt7tRRPofoyRjR-t6aeNGt6ayayoe&amp;x=cd98258fe0fe30f5e81ab13054c206601f8bce358282513285d2690b03b7e5c3"> 2024-01-04T23:00:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0l8w3lp9ct7zk5ndczxzrmgt64clsadd40464fftzr23gewxfh4gzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vrzhr5m <br/> <img src="https://m.primal.net/HVji.jpg"> <br/>Fearing bitcoin is like fearing electricity.<br/><br/>Bitcoin isn&#39;t a business, or stock, or investment. Bitcoin is a tool. It&#39;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.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>Humans will use Bitcoin to build a better world. <br/><br/> <img src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Unrestrained_Demon_%28anti-electricity_cartoon%29_02.jpg"> 2023-12-28T20:39:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsygg2rkvxc9e89a82mktznpzf6jrkp6hms9mtk0v3npxhn6e47zpgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vnhe8uq If you long to build a better world, ask not what Bitcoin can do for you, but ask what you can do for Bitcoin. 2023-12-28T20:37:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq6wg6xxd0p6t2sx03ydl5jq4esh6gvt3ve7544gqalt3hd8mr8pqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vsavqas Bitcoin is the American dream embodied in a computer social contract enforced by weapons grade cryptography. 2023-12-28T20:36:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd5vj2fvjr3je4yy6nz6g807dkzztxv5x8zmrr3g5a2kyts52vgaqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vtk2qfn <img src="https://m.primal.net/HVjZ.jpg"> <br/>In 2043, 1 sat will have about the same purchasing power as $1 in 2023.<br/><br/>Today, total global wealth is $900T.<br/><br/>Assuming 5% compound growth, total global wealth in 2043 will be ~$1.8 quadrillion.<br/><br/>Assuming 3M btc lost, we&#39;re left with a total of 1.8 quadrillion sats.<br/><br/>1 sat=$1 2023-12-28T20:00:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgferwdht8u6quakwlrd004ym5k7324snxnnvaktcpvfxse0mc9rqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vvc4nd8 &#34;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.&#34; -Bitcoin is Venice<br/><br/>I&#39;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.🤞 2023-12-28T17:06:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2gy4q2npuwmg35mycex06dyhcl5m9uwkpsz2fx4yjfu5s934vcpszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vlc6a85 Bitcoin isn&#39;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. 2023-12-23T12:11:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdnd3lxlgnwl0t8s09t25wrsfmmg99m7hzr9m5phn2rf8k4tdmmrqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vj22mwc 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. <br/><br/>If you couldn&#39;t tell, I&#39;ve had enough of systematized theft. I am not going to stop talking about how Bitcoin fixes this. Not because it&#39;s a good &#34;investment opportunity&#34; but because it literally ends a system of financial slavery. 2023-12-23T12:11:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxuj3cc45svy664wpjz86ft73ez9hckr0s4fywy9zf9p34yz59p6czyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v78kqvc 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&#39;t break free. Truth will set us free. 2023-12-19T18:34:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvcqpmsl9a5wqajmg5hyvhc4hps8tz0sr9zrdcgv9qhn9dx7csx8qzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vtmhua7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs04uyu2vtspyawfgw4l5xatzw7hw3esyfwx3jejwf2ykk37tj9pnc2szz3y'>nevent1q…zz3y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Watching your interactions, it&#39;s shocking how much work there is to be done before the world is really using Bitcoin. But at least it&#39;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. 2023-12-15T15:29:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9c35ezgpv2kzdxlaruec8qv3kjysta7mzz6gx3jzterkhpyycv8qzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3ve94fxh the world feels so much less lonely, so much more hopeful, getting pumped on content like this.<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1q2rjp0ecru79lgler92qpn3fj5hn7zqv77lgla29rs9lmhr597yqm786ew" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1q2r…86ew</a></span> </div> I just watched HodlHang9 <a href="https://youtu.be/lMZ2JOHjslY?si=4uXUgoWKHxyHTkFV">https://youtu.be/lMZ2JOHjslY?si=4uXUgoWKHxyHTkFV</a> and it's so amazing that I have to give it my highest recommendation and express my heartfelt gratitude. It's like being in a room with the brightest minds in Bitcoin, yet it feels as intimate and friendly as a chat with close friends.<br/><br/>Two moments in this episode really struck a chord with me:<br/><br/>1. <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub15vzuezfxscdamew8rwakl5u5hdxw5mh47huxgq4jf879e6cvugsqjck4um" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>breedlove22</span> (<span class="italic">npub15vz…k4um</span>)</a></span> Insightful Moment (48:10): When Robert delves into the 'false dichotomy of left and right' and our power to redefine meanings, it's not just insightful – it's transformative. The conversation elevates to an entirely new level of depth and understanding.<br/>2. <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>erikcason</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hk0…20pf</span>)</a></span> Poetic Freeze (2 hr 10mins 56secs) Erik ends his beautiful channeled rant from a higher dimension, it’s like a Bitcoin poem that ends with "ONLY YOU CAN DO IT," And then his Zoom freezes. <br/><br/>It's as if the universe itself is highlighting the importance of his words. It's a magical and memorable moment. Please check it out, it genuinely feels special.<br/><br/>A huge shoutout to all four HodlHangers: Robert, Erik, <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1cqm6dztalp4l6n04f9k20c333xftgangjla337736dr6faz9na0qf2hjec" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>johnkvallis</span> (<span class="italic">npub1cqm…hjec</span>)</a></span> and AmericanHODL. Your discussions are enlightening, helping me learn more about #Bitcoin and, importantly, more about myself. Thank You<br/><br/><br/>Below is a transcription of Erik’s Bitcoin Poem!<br/><br/>“…..Some things that I see is like this totally new paradigm<br/><br/> like what I do see it having corollaries to it is……..<br/><br/> …….an individual having a true transcendental experience that converts them. Because after that conversion, there's a radical new perspective of the world that allows for it to be totally different!<br/><br/> Yet somehow the same. And it's interesting because there's a passage from Walter Benjamin where he talks about what the world looks like after the eschaton. <br/><br/>He says, everything is exactly the same but slightly different; and that's one of the things about Bitcoin……….<br/><br/>It’s that, all of the same things that seemed so maniacal and hateful and destroying of humanity, there's now this strange little inversion that can happen where, just like how bitcoin is a trap door out of the bottom of hell. It Changes that perspective!<br/><br/> And it allows for an ability for us to actually rescue ourselves from the circumstances. <br/><br/>And to me…….. like this is the most important part……<br/><br/>It’s that like, very similar to the religious conversion……..<br/><br/>ONLY YOU CAN DO IT!”<br/> </blockquote> 2023-12-09T06:12:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8e5he6gnhq093k7j4zwqyrkf3xhyfa9g04tf6gyz45t89u2apajgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vkr9t8z Friends and family: <br/>What good is Bitcoin when large-scale disaster strikes the Internet and power grids?<br/><br/>Me:<br/>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. 2023-12-05T19:06:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswj6d7zxshl3qwma64e69yxj6tszgvtq9kwtrncfhnfjdqlk9j9cczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3veg7vzk 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&#39;t see any first principles that keep fiat afloat. It&#39;s headed into rapid debt default. How can the USD survive for more than ~10 more years? 2023-12-05T15:49:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsys800a74sfz2g92dmy6e8yekkdstcvhudz75a89teuwj2hva72xczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vny93ev 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.<br/><br/>For those using dollars over the next 20 years, it will look like everything is continuing to get more and more expensive.<br/><br/>For those using Bitcoin, it will look like everything is getting cheaper, just as it should be and should have been. 2023-11-14T23:33:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2l3wvy7sm4lqj8xs450ej7sq7z4r6s2r7vmh058uyppvu77asxzczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3ve673rm Bitcoin pops all the fiat bubbles.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqsvqh4kzy4e9q2c56w9wr74wreacenm760zpm64t8trvm733v5zjtqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsyg82krn4d5etsz7dge8nmpztspqrqvr45yl2hs6enfmzexk84wglfupsgqqqqqqsnxf2h3" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…f2h3</a></span> </div> A gave a talk at the New Orleans Investment Conference the other day. At 50 years and counting, it is the longest continually-running investment conference in the country, and possibly the world.<br/><br/>It is diminished from its heyday due to broader competition and online investment media, but it has a certain air to it. Ayn Rand, Ron Paul, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman, Gerald Ford, and Steve Forbes have spoken at it, among many others. It is mostly a boomer/gold/resource/conservative/libertarian conference, and gets the best from that crowd, but otherwise is not huge. The guy who has run it for decades took it over long ago from the original founder, and he wants to freshen it up and modernize it a bit and throw some hand grenades into his own conference, so he invited me to talk. He is a gold guy, a resource guy, an old-school conservative, and he likes bitcoin and wishes he bought it earlier. He's open-minded, objective, and growth-oriented. <br/><br/>My talk was "Broken Money, Broken World".<br/><br/>-The first theme was that there are 160+ siloed fiat currencies. I used Egypt as my main example, and held up a physical Egyptian pound and said this is basically a national casino chip; it has very low salability outside of Egypt, similar to how a casino chip has very low salability outside of the casino. The 105 million people who live there are trapped in a fiat matrix of 20% annual money supply growth, like a treadmill that they have to keep up with in terms of their wages, price increases, rent increases, and so forth to avoid being diluted, and most can't keep up with that treadmill. And there are dozens of countries like this. I held up a Norwegian krone and said even though this is from a wealthy country, it is still a casino chip because what can I possibly do with it in New Orleans? It's too small and unsalable. This is outdated tech.<br/><br/>-The second theme brought it back to the US. I spoke about how the past four decades had two main trends: rising public debt/GDP and falling interest rates (see included pics below). Developing market currencies suffer while those of us in the US feel that things are stable. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, people rightly freaked out about the debt and deficit. The famous NYC debt clock went up in 1989. Ross Perot ran the most successful independent presidential campaign in the early 1990s on the debt and deficit. That was when interest expense as a % of GDP was at its peak. But what they didn't or couldn't predict, was that the next 30 years would be disinflationary. China opened up to the world. The Soviet Union fell. Western capital was united with Eastern labor and resources. China became a manufacturing hub, which was disinflationary. Russia supplied cheap energy to the German industrial base, which was disinflationary. Interest rates fell structurally, allowing more debt accumulation, and for prices to increase far more slowly than money supply growth. But then we hit zero interest rates, and then we monetized fiscal spending. We're in a new world now; debts and deficits matter again. Those guys from the late 1980s and early 1990s were right but early, and now we are facing some of those consequences. Fiat currencies including the dollar have structural instability.<br/><br/>-The third theme was to bring up again that there are 160+ casino fiat currencies in the world... and that every one of their gates are fucking down. Pre-Bitcoin, the only way to get money in or out of a country was 1) physical ports of entry (typically limited to $10k USD or so worth of cash and gold) or 2) bank wire transfers (highly controlled by local governments). Countries could maintain their little currency bubbles. But Bitcoin and then stablecoins blew that open. You can bring a billion dollars worth of bitcoin through an airport by remembering 12 words, or writing them down and tucking them away in your baggage, or briefly putting them in an encrypted file in the cloud. Infinite value density. Same for stablecoins- tokenized dollars or whatever the market wants in terms of global fiat currency and assets. I can pay a graphic designer in Nigeria with a QR code over a video call or email or DM in bitcoin or stablecoins or whatever she wants. All of this bypasses their currency bubble and goes around their banking system, unless their country wants to be North Korea and cut itself off or get shut off externally from the internet. And I said the investment implications and macro implications of this are massive; it's a new world that, over the long arc of time, breaks all the fiat bubbles.<br/><br/> <img src="https://m.primal.net/HPZz.png"> <br/> </blockquote> 2023-11-14T01:42:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq0gxcp6tltaz50n6axy4cw2h2qru8jctcv420mdmffp3tcp3gmkszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v76jqg6 Love is the way through.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqstfvvxl62nwkkpelnsn502jdngkvhgv9z38rpu20l4hxlvk6t6y2gpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyphydppzm7m554ecwq4gsgaek2qk32atse2l4t9ks57dpms4mmhfxqcyqqqqqqgf0582k" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…582k</a></span> </div> GN<br/><br/> <img src="https://i.nostrimg.com/c7b2a8d4221f1ff7cca2214151ceb5d8bb1824ed141e8ca171444f164671322b/file.jpg"> </blockquote> 2023-11-14T01:32:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfzpp7tcxehrxzm6qv6uxpsna30lk9h4pfk8kft9lfcmpdx04xysszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v09vhve There&#39;s no need for complex conspiracy theories to explain societal decay when fiat monetary slavery is perfectly sufficient. 2023-11-12T02:26:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsra98vvxk3t6ya93m8fmx9flscg9ueetkr9jrmac9nr9acw0nrq5czyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3ven4ezc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw5y7jry54jguf8eghhjd9h2gqa5uk44a923vusuxex8cxgv8k78qp5jtn5'>nevent1q…jtn5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>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. 2023-11-07T18:36:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszg7wc5nl4mj8d0c3lsnta2cwvfrklk6jr7mt0glya5a5mcrch9eqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vpytz0y Inflation (money printing) is UBI for asset owners. 2023-10-08T23:14:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstdllfcvllgd8ek7ykf0242jaw5rhrhpqxd09yyld4wqryx6dmt8czyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vscmr6y 👀<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqszyhemhjczsc9fvc6gnna07e0uxl8crea2j8zjdrr7pcpcl73xwmqprfmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mqygqm6v4rs6nmummg3v7u03yqalppek2xksl2c996fwncxjk80g37dypsgqqqqqqsf8wy6a" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…wy6a</a></span> </div> The more things change, the more they stay the same. #Bitcoin is the way to escape the doom loop. <img src="https://image.nostr.build/6bf50bfbf63ccb211ad56d6e9cebd661fd84cd7765f3764d4cef3827a8f28dfa.jpg"> </blockquote> 2023-10-08T14:50:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq622fftht2w8g9htjqnd2f9u470kzzqgm0tj2qgu5f6e0k77tuaszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vfea8yr It&#39;s religions all the way down.<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqs2mjlm8aryvqyhad9ulr2jyqrg87hakwraazaf856an3z336q3mpsprfmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mqyg8vn8ku24n7q2q4lv2syq59utag8yynrnklt8yr66ajchmwu9fshypsgqqqqqqslrnrma" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…nrma</a></span> </div> I have said for a long time that govts are mafias hiding behind a religious structure, made more powerful by the fact that no one sees it as a religion. And they manufacture large external boogeymen in order to create the appearance of some problem that only govt can fight.<br/><br/>Terrorism to manipulate the right & climate alarmism to manipulate the left. And the climate stuff has strong orignial sin vibes. Not only is there a danger from the weather, but you caused it with your "greedy desires" for food & energy & other basic needs. So "good citizens" will deprive themselves or be happy to accept economic condictions that lead to deprivation.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqszg6z9ed9kln9uw0238alg7me4sk7y6e46q07cdkau92jfc0g46pqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyrvczkg7p6np2wuxs7e2a4ns4d7ekmp66qv2xc9jsg9neu8hczhrwqcyqqqqqqgu6z770" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…z770</a></span> </blockquote> 2023-10-03T01:44:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvljqj43phz6jz8c55s6qhhhrywckhtdwt56v30g9jl9wg3dq0yuszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vuwa5y2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgye4v5r4wa9lyxxls50ycpmctjevxkje40k498srfdylqteee26gdg9x0f'>nevent1q…9x0f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>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 &#34;oh, um, no. I can&#39;t go that far.&#34; So we unloaded and waited 15 minutes for the next guy, crossing our fingers he would go the distance. 2023-10-03T01:14:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszgejgwxe45zz5envzpm7qecqsf2ffe5y2ghwe5uzkuffnntuzt4czyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vgc9ukz Slowly reading and contemplating the Tao Te Ching and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle together as complimentary works is amazing. 2023-10-02T23:38:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgnpv0r0du20rmty3kyk8ls8el93rntp2gq9qzg2d6enxqswa4jhszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v7fp00q 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? <br/><br/>That&#39;s how this part of Bitcoin&#39;s price history feels.<br/><br/> <img src="https://image.nostr.build/fa807189ce6e1e97c6cf730e07806a012943f88be885a5f40a9262d61feb691a.gif"> 2023-09-28T00:59:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0x8a8c5qa2g2c3s5mz5rp8335j3un84j82hx4lyrqsplu9jk5sdgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vtxeva0 Jean-Paul Sartre looked at Descartes&#39;s statement &#34;I think, therefore I am&#34; very deeply and suddenly realized, in his own words, The consciousness that says &#39;I am&#39; 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&#39;t even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn&#39;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 2023-09-22T04:19:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd8ccn4jjwuu5puv4jads6phayde8rg6evnvdudxqds67wmd2xalczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vx2gr76 Bitcoin links the collective mind together with incorruptible connections.<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqsphm8z4yh9xpcg6dz7t8pw9ec6reqkxfulh3qr227ftlczj5t6z9qpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygqm6v4rs6nmummg3v7u03yqalppek2xksl2c996fwncxjk80g37dypsgqqqqqqs7sg6hu" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…g6hu</a></span> </div> “You begin to see that your mind is a network, a network of relationships. You think only in the context of an environment of people and of natural processes. So you could say that your mind is, at the very least, a most complex network of present and past relationships stretching out to the very limits of the universe.”<br/><br/>— Alan Watts <img src="https://image.nostr.build/81564fa356030cdeb9a13c89156e3f19e1eb0bcde304ebfb5b06d9e664a44c30.jpg"> </blockquote> 2023-09-19T23:51:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr6jmuu6pv9xlfamgs4j8mg0vllfd7x2n4caura7d9zzc6ayz2wuszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vs4hl49 A master class of corporate accounting clearly explaining why big businesses dominate and consume small businesses, and why corporate debt runs hot. <br/><br/>The economic problems were suffering through are systemic, logical, and fixable by moving to a Bitcoin standard.<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/RTiRf1NDEr8?si=HQ7OB1RBnVsRqL8t">https://youtu.be/RTiRf1NDEr8?si=HQ7OB1RBnVsRqL8t</a> 2023-09-17T03:42:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvwezrfa7h4cp6p9hxc4sp5mc40lq6gnny3sq00kccam05an4dmwczyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vxy9h3j Was just telling my kids about these commercials, but failed to make this hilarious connection. Next time I will not fail 🤣<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqs2aje7n7nxszy5c5axyek4w8uxk72d8nqn0l6ec6cq5pk7dsnhalcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsyg8zenmu7gzq8ulj5jj4kv50ph3muwz43f747vmr9ld2alrjdswgavpsgqqqqqqszcnh35" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…nh35</a></span> </div> This was a government ad in 1980s to discourage drug use.<br/><br/>In 2023 the egg costs more than drugs, the drugs are supplied by tax dollars and the gas stove is illegal.<br/><br/> <img src="https://image.nostr.build/64ed6b0dd2f366ad294595a050682b28f2877dce1fb125f0b0e12108e02aaa40.gif"> </blockquote> 2023-09-16T22:36:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsytv9c9pgrulflkp2nvjtrrjuex33ugedy7sphn9aq3radravmh3szyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vex29z0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswm9q8fy8ezpq6hxuuqfdzh9qw9wuhsxddcr2mcjymv5th5fq4z2senjmwl'>nevent1q…jmwl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>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! 2023-09-16T15:57:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszakhlu96tu6e0dxkrxllkngak0xr6jkga9ud28493yecm3n76hjqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vsf8gc3 Crowdfunding freedom land development is definitely going to be a thing.<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqs0zrwcwky340694uf6skpnssy3qjg5exz7d46rvg3xzlrwr2p2lycppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzqmn477tj8972x227pax2p77xawwv0xlgtwha644ax7pzpj5wae6wqvzqqqqqqyrr8vcf" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…8vcf</a></span> </div> Can you guys (and gals) zap me 20 BTC, please? It's for a good cause! 😳 <br/> <img src="https://image.nostr.build/c13cfcb8721ea9ae66069b6ece1e2b5b89666d27df65254b2c7ad40923dff12f.jpg"> </blockquote> 2023-09-16T15:52:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9mqhmtv0ctyxh3le7pxz53pqvner74xpamm7wmlyg0ewv4xcan6szyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v5jrphj 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. - <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub15vzuezfxscdamew8rwakl5u5hdxw5mh47huxgq4jf879e6cvugsqjck4um" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>breedlove22</span> (<span class="italic">npub15vz…k4um</span>)</a></span><br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/EIQAYuRWdjg?si=kkI9v0rmUT0Ev9Z2">https://youtu.be/EIQAYuRWdjg?si=kkI9v0rmUT0Ev9Z2</a> 2023-09-15T16:34:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0slw9vwucrlqp4wum44f05nuzg30g8e97quxl9z6l7y4rcdnygqqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v9eg768 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsphhuv9rha03pnsdrex6n9lc8n2czea44kg8rgltqe0uyk590ftgq8ljl6y'>nevent1q…jl6y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was just wanting something like this! 2023-09-14T16:12:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyy3wms6nwy5gxjcmgc8dy5nnccp6pkhk8zu6f6ymah79r8c84k9czyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vuawmjv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqrk5y38ctggt5say0tdrwdqqn9gcffu0grdcv0u5p2xd425lxdvqtkk0tt'>nevent1q…k0tt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Digital publishing platform for books and children&#39;s books. 2023-09-14T16:09:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfnddxeq6dy8j0wfkmlpqcy85th040628dt6hs7972tkds35smd9czyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vehrkaj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqrdcp52a4vc8e29k7hj9mgp76zeygly60vp9nwwhj3k3kjw08kwcmd383w'>nevent1q…383w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>New bitcoiners need to understand it&#39;s ok to start small and simple. Otherwise it can all be overwhelming and discouraging.<br/><br/>Bitcoin is simply digital cash that is perfectly scarce.<br/><br/>Make your first exchange and transfer by depositing a few bucks in strike and then make a lightning transfer to wallet of satoshi. <br/><br/>Set up a Nostr account and experiment with zaps.<br/><br/>Seed phrases, utxos management, hardware signing devices, and multi sig are powerful tools to patiently grow into.<br/><br/> 2023-09-14T15:28:54Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8r9c3tsfvzpds06fffz4kalgxfwzc7d23ry20wufm7f8lhhkjhjqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v4snrfv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs239nmw2gq0zcm6nn7f6f7x2zmgfdx69sqvdq3jla8wenzhas5jzsqdv53s'>nevent1q…v53s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Can&#39;t zap this with Alby and Amethyst ❌⚡ 2023-09-14T13:26:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq2w2xt5p4xqkxh7ve4f65sj3azjq7sfvwwm2mwx50rheuy3h8angzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vuwc4ef How Nostr Legends are made.<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqs9luwmr4w02f78d0s88nxamnkj9qd5wag2gesl3dyr0fx9867tk2spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzp93ydys2557lv6zw3cu0qfqswsxljy5t0mwxj6f2t0zlw38vrmtvqvzqqqqqqyufrc2c" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…rc2c</a></span> </div> You are both criminal. Too much penis butter feels weird in my mouth. Jelly for the win 🥹🫠 </blockquote> 2023-09-13T20:31:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqw0p3esgczzxsup5jjn9aquduxfvy2vfrwx5wv2wtmtrm5yfn23szyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vsthe8p So, Mexico just revealed 2 alien bodies during an official Congressional meeting, and literally nobody cares. <br/><br/>Makes me feel better about the lack of interest during my Bitcoin conversations, actually. 🤣 2023-09-13T16:05:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9qlxkhk960dmfycknstwel0xgyfam8flq0p2j5ms3lwr54nzqmrqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vqs4lgu The saying that was once &#34;buy bonds, wear diamonds&#34; is now becoming &#34;buy bonds, wear rags.&#34;<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqs2mgme7dmjer7vc7e2rta7ksvnujakkdxqpx62jpyum56az98rj8qppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzqzgz2jqp5l5w2zzmqtn3zc30phap4p2sxjf67fr25s40pr67f5klqvzqqqqqqydu0fgu" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…0fgu</a></span> </div> You'll often see charts or visuals illustrating the depreciation of the $USD over time, normalized to $1.00, of which I occasionally share myself. <br/><br/>However, there's an important caveat: these visuals rarely account for short-term yields. Displayed below is the purchasing power of $1, adjusting for annual CPI inflation (in red) versus the purchasing power of $1 accounting for 1-year Treasury yields less annual CPI inflation (in blue), starting from 1962<br/><br/>Notice anything? <br/><br/>The purchasing power of $1 from 1962 to the present equates to $1.85 when accounting for 1-year Treasury yields and inflation. Meanwhile, adjusting for inflation alone leaves you with just $0.10 of purchasing power.<br/><br/>Quite the massive difference.<br/><br/>However, there's more nuance to consider:<br/><br/>1) Let's separate the data into distinct eras,<br/><br/>From 1962 to start of 2009: <br/>- Average annual inflation: 4.40%<br/>- Average 1y yields: 6.22% <br/>- Average difference: +1.82%<br/>Real gains in purchasing power. <br/><br/>From 2009 to Present:<br/>- Average annual inflation: 2.34%<br/>- Average 1y yields: 1.00%<br/>- Average difference: -1.34%<br/>Real losses in purchasing power. <br/><br/>2) The data doesn't include the 1940s where financial repression massively devalued the USD to erode real debt burdens (the data I quickly threw together only went back to 1962) in the post war period.<br/><br/>3) Why 2009 for the change in eras? What has changed? If the U.S. can just pay a nominally higher yield than the inflation rate in perpetuity, are the fiat doomers really just delusional? <br/><br/>In my view:<br/><br/>- Positive real yields can be sustained with a clean balance sheet. It's feasible for the government to pay creditors a positive real interest rate when real debt burdens are low, demographics are booming, and the global GDP is exploding as the world industrializes. <br/><br/>- With Debt to GDP meaningfully > 100% and other tailwinds reversing, this is no longer the case. Post GFC and the introduction of ZIRP + QE to facilitate "growth", has the positive real yield era behind us, at least until real debt burdens have been eroded - which will take either explosive real growth, or a steady dose of inflation above yields, debasing creditors in the process. <br/><br/>The Bottom Line: The reality is that the average/median American individual or family often doesn't have much disposable income to capture such yields. The ones that do, benefit; and the ones that don't are the ones that pay for it.<br/><br/>When you look at charts showing record wealth disparity, or are wondering why the political landscape is more polarized than ever, keep this chart in mind. <br/><br/>Fiat inflation didn't bother the investor class from for forty years as yields outpaced inflation. Currency devaluation wasn't felt in the slightest by this cohort, they didn't just escape the devaluation, but outpaced it significantly. <br/><br/>Now, with Debt to GDP levels domestically and globally near record levels, expect the post 2009 dynamic to continue into the future on a longer time frame. Don't let the current tightening cycle fool you as to what must occur. <br/><br/>Inflation > Yields, over a sustained period of time, is the only way global governments can mask their insolvency. <br/><br/>Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. <img src="https://m.primal.net/HLGc.png"> </blockquote> 2023-09-12T20:13:54Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqk6pmp33udytwmlg0xge52ak4nltq4tx4k0k3rdjguldyy4y03gszyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vu9aw5c What year will it be when companies collectively allocate $1 billion of advertisement budget to zaps?<br/><br/>I guess 2028. <br/><br/>Coca Cola spent $4.7 billion in 2022 on advertisements. Disney spent $7.2 billion. <br/><br/>It took Bitcoin less than 5 years to hit $1 billion market cap.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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 - &#34;here, let me pay money to show you how well I can serve your wants and needs.&#34; 2023-09-12T18:19:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr53mqzn5dsqxnnnmgf9cl969k8q047t9d3lsxyh62yqgcqxv5vegzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vxnvlqt &#34;The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am.&#34; - Eckhart Tolle 2023-09-11T19:33:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs249qet3tpan2jalhs3esunnp2ckw6yjl0hut7sjxduxz6pg6jttqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v0znu5j Reading this, I&#39;m once again silently amazed at the genius of Bitcoin. <br/><br/>Money of the people, by the people, for the people. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>There can be only one language of value.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>For those who do not run nodes, but have some coins, they cast their vote by selling the hard fork they think will lose.<br/><br/>It is amazing. <br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqsr628wwdf829vehysurpwgnyvwevfque7yd24t2c7a4tqdzevgu5sppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzp64suatdx2uqhn2xfu7cgjuqgqcrqadp864uxkv6wckf43atj860qvzqqqqqqy4h28y4" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…28y4</a></span> </div> “We should change Bitcoin now in a contentious way to fix the security budget” is basically the same tinkering mentality that central bankers have.<br/><br/>It begins with an overconfident assumption that they know fees won’t be sufficient in the future and that a certain “fix” is going to generate more fees. But some “fixes” could even backfire and create less fees, or introduce bugs, or damage the incentive structure.<br/><br/>The Bitcoin fee market a couple decades out will primarily be a function of adoption or lack thereof. In a world of eight billion people, only a couple hundred million can do an on chain transaction per year, or a bit more with maximal batching. The number of people who could do a monthly transaction is 1/12th of that number. In order to be concerned that bitcoin fees will be too low to prevent censorship in the future, we have to start with the assumption that not many people use bitcoin decades out.<br/><br/>Fedwire has about 100x the gross volume that Bitcoin currently does, with a similar number of transactions. What will Bitcoin’s fee market be if volumes go up 5x or 10x, let alone 50x or 100x? Who wants to raise their hand with a confident model of what bitcoin volumes will be in 2040?<br/><br/>What will someone pay to send a ten million dollar equivalent on chain settlement internationally? $100 in fees per million dollar settlement transaction would be .01%. $300 to get it in a quicker block would be 0.03%. That type of environment can generate tens of billions of dollars of fees annually. The fees that people pay to ship millions of dollars of gold long distances, or to perform a real estate transaction worth millions of dollars, are extremely high. Even if bitcoin is a fraction of that, it would be high by today’s standards. And in a world of billions of people, if nobody wants to pay $100 to send a million dollar settlement bearer asset transaction, then that’s a world where not many people use bitcoin period.<br/><br/>In some months the “security budget” concern trends. In other months, the “fees will be so high that only rich people can transact on chain” concern trends. These are so wildly contradictory and the fact that both are common concerns shows how little we know about the long term future.<br/><br/>I don’t think the fee market can be fixed by gimmicks. Either the network is desirable to use in a couple decades or it’s not. If 3 or 4 decades into bitcoin’s life it can’t generate significant settlement volumes, and gets easily censored due to low fees, then it’s just not a very desirable network at that point for one reason or another. <br/><br/>Some soft forks like covenants can be thoughtfully considered for scaling and fee density, and it’s good for smart developers to always be thinking about low risk improvements to the network that the node network and miners might have a high consensus positive view toward over time. But trying to rush VC-backed softforks, and using security budget FUD to push them, is pretty disingenuous imo.<br/><br/>Anyway, good morning. </blockquote> 2023-09-06T16:17:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0g7kr4rn32jj9sx53fwcqq3qhw6xa5mdduhz8578av7xpk40rq9szyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vtlj3n9 In reply to <a href='/naddr1qqxnzd3exvurvvpjxqmrgvpcqgstnem9g6aqv3tw6vqaneftcj06frns56lj9q470gdww228vysz8hqrqsqqqa28nlkjxw'>naddr1qq…kjxw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So pumped for the algorithm innovations that will result from Nostr and AI coming together to offer a growing collection of curation algorithms. 2023-09-05T23:13:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf6t8arcv4wdg2sc985kk9k29wl09td7qj3t54jg9dk00snlajnmgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v2azhl4 Why do I like Bitcoin so much? Because it&#39;s the only proposed solution that I have seen that makes any sense. It&#39;s transparent. It&#39;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.<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqspkruc279mpzllq0hsdtzvawyru2mvy4g3hzw5rpdf989ydltx5wcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvupzqpxfzhdwlm3cx9l6wdzyft8w8y9gy607tqgtyfq7tekaxs7lhmxfqvzqqqqqqy3cm898" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…m898</a></span> </div> We are told we need mass surveillance to protect civil rights.<br/><br/>We are told we need censorship to ensure free speech.<br/><br/>We are told we need bank bailouts to rescue the free market.<br/><br/>We are told we need compliance to protect science.<br/><br/>We are told we need rigged elections to save democracy.<br/><br/>We are told we need forever war to secure peace. </blockquote> 2023-09-05T01:33:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0j9769cchqupqlver2ncrwq74q0s8l0sc79mpu362p4r6wnn0pvqzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3v7n3d2w &#34;We aren&#39;t living in dark times. It&#39;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.&#34; - Matias de Stefano<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/hZd5A_wDxSM?si=U7loGTVe1VWrDaNR">https://youtu.be/hZd5A_wDxSM?si=U7loGTVe1VWrDaNR</a> 2023-09-05T01:16:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9dkv0cgl0kqlv4q25ksyvkt8j98h8v0ypvqlkkvay90g4phcarxgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vl95gwn How scarce is Bitcoin?<br/><br/>There are ~36 b acres of land on Earth.<br/><br/>An estimated ~5 m bitcoin have been lost forever. Leaving ~16 m bitcoin in circulation.<br/><br/>Owning 1 whole bitcoin is equivalent to owning ~2,250 acres of land.<br/><br/>Owning 1 sat is equivalent to owning ~1 square foot of land. (There are 100,000,000 sats in 1 bitcoin.)<br/><br/>At today&#39;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.<br/><br/>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&#39;s exchange rate, for the cost of ~$1,800 any person can claim the equivalent of 160 acres worth of territory on the world&#39;s most powerful emerging monetary network.<br/><br/>The primary questions facing a potential homesteader in 1862 were:<br/>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?<br/>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?<br/><br/>These are the same basic questions facing potential bitcoin moneysteaders now:<br/>1. Is the bitcoin useful to you today? For most people in developed, safe countries, the current answer is &#39;not really.&#39; Unless someone finds themselves in a situation of being financially repressed, they don&#39;t have an immediate use for bitcoin&#39;s amazing censorship resistant properties.<br/>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? 2023-09-02T20:48:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqc7ptn6d0t84sm6wq84mt7dl76ruydyshueqsepgvugrlh456wwgzyzkhdykgu7qewyn3laywqetxhjmqrktkv9yghxah4nm3945y4fh3vaxtknp 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. <br/><br/>Lots of compelling ideas covered in this interview with <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub15vzuezfxscdamew8rwakl5u5hdxw5mh47huxgq4jf879e6cvugsqjck4um" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>breedlove22</span> (<span class="italic">npub15vz…k4um</span>)</a></span><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/6GDJaa0KL2M?si=OPyEPcaTD2BjIDn-">https://youtu.be/6GDJaa0KL2M?si=OPyEPcaTD2BjIDn-</a> 2023-09-02T03:43:13Z