Bryon D Bothun

I really like @nprofile…7yrv for these discussions and I’m grateful he continues to have them. This idea, though that bitcoin is “old tech” and crypto represents “innovation” is just wrongheaded though in my mind. It reminds me of a poster. I saw it one time of all the crazy ideas people had for electricity when it first became available. People thought that shooting it directly into your head would make you smarter or shooting it directly into your muscles would make you stronger. There are 1000 Nazi ideas for things that you could do with electricity. In the end, electricity prove to be useful for just one thing, producing or storing energy in one place and using it in another.
This is essentially the case with Blockchain as well. There are a million crazy ideas for things that it “might” do but ultimately, it’s only purpose is to store value and transmit it from one time and place to be used in another time or place.
Making our money “smarter” so that it can do things without our input doesn’t give us more control over our money. It gives our money more control over us. That’s the opposite of the freedom that Satoshi imagined we would gain by removing trusted third parties.
That’s no innovation. That’s the same old system that created the need for bitcoin in the first place.

2025-08-02 19:26:50 GMT

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😮

2025-07-25 19:46:18 GMT

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Hubby!!!
Hubba hubba

2025-07-10 12:38:36 GMT

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Are there places where undocumented people are getting these things for free? I worked with refugees and immigrants for 30 years and I never met a single person that was getting free housing or Medicaid.

2025-07-10 01:03:50 GMT

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In June I bought my first “new” pair of pants of the 2000”s because we were traveling and I couldn’t get to a thrift store. Felt horrible

2025-07-08 16:01:19 GMT

It should be more profitable to conserve a thing than to exploit it. Bitcoin Only.
https://youtu.be/I8y0jVQNggw

2025-07-07 23:08:14 GMT

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I really miss that cartoon.

2025-07-06 16:19:24 GMT

Independence Day https://video.nostr.build/5521b8e88a9439f4e8a446444761f79919be227bab4528df4c0f0578413d0d58.mp4

2025-07-03 21:01:20 GMT

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Biked the Sparta-Elroy trail through the tunnels today. I know I'm a Viking, but there are a few things I really love about Wisconsin. https://video.nostr.build/c743b17d85fd69eea13cfa0a5722cc6d654e79b77138827a6cea24152af9672a.mp4

2024-11-15 01:57:16 GMT

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@npub1g8w…82gq would love too and she’s also a sci fi writer!

2024-08-30 19:07:15 GMT

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I think its kinda crazy that some people think this is a problem. We SHOULD be voting for platforms not personalities. We don't want Kings or Queens. We want to agree on a set of policy objectives. On some level I don't even care if our "leader" agrees with them. I just want someone who can get them done. Honestly, how is this wrong? The alternative is you get someone who says one thing and does another.
I cant stand Kamala. She was my absolute least favorite candidate in 2020. But if she vows to advance the broad policy objectives the party has agreed on, then I'm all in.

2024-08-29 01:31:48 GMT

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If you didn’t read A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin, the audio book is pretty good. Actually sounds a little like @npub1dc8…jwqd

2024-08-29 01:21:35 GMT

My Niece has a new #Vikings podcast. #SKOL
https://youtube.com/@3blindvikes?si=bE71WyLFxs35SLqf

2024-08-29 01:00:15 GMT

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It’s only a matter of time. The growing popularity of any thing ensures that increasingly ignorant people will feel compelled to opine about it. This is how the “blockchain not bitcoin” got here. At some point you look worse for not having an opinion than having an uninformed one. Somewhere near the bottom of this descent, the Hitler comparisons appear.

2024-08-28 23:42:19 GMT

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It’s Godwin’s Law. They’re on their way.

2024-08-28 07:01:55 GMT

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I ran a triathlon in my mid 40’s. Came in a respectable middle of the pack but I realized the next year I’d move up an age group and I imagined I’d really beat up on those old geezers. Came in 2nd to last. Any random 40 year old can work themselves into shape to run a triathlon in a few weeks time but if you’re still doing it at 50, you’re a more or less serious athlete. So much easier to stay in shape than get in shape.

2024-08-28 06:45:33 GMT

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Sounds bad I know but did I mention it had a sunroof?

2024-08-28 06:43:57 GMT

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XC90

2024-08-27 17:56:30 GMT

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Thats a great back yard

2024-08-27 17:51:45 GMT

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I'll probably never forget the 1995 Volvo that I paid $30,000 for in 2016.
Now you're telling me it really cost $960,000?
Not gonna lie. Hurts a bit.

2024-08-22 02:06:29 GMT

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The crazy thing is that the people who are blocking this are probably also the most upset with the idea of nine different genders. Well trans people are mostly doing their best to fit into your fucking he/she dichotomy and you won’t even let them do that.

2024-08-19 15:53:29 GMT

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Oh man. This is a tough spot. I really enjoy your Notes…….A LOT.

2024-08-19 14:56:53 GMT

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Just imagine how much easier the connections to the Trump train would be if we had invested a little more in Amtrak/public transit.

2024-08-19 14:29:34 GMT

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A former Minnesotan. Highly recommend.

2024-08-19 13:43:31 GMT

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@npub164q…2rl3

2024-08-18 13:06:32 GMT

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@npub164q…2rl3 @npub1fpc…4sld

2024-08-16 18:19:56 GMT

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I own one share of Wells Fargo because I inherited it from my Grandma. My wife has MSTR in an IRA. Those are the only two stocks we own, and I was once a Stock Broker.

2024-08-16 18:14:57 GMT

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Obviously it political because only one side does it
https://m.primal.net/KBgf.jpg

2024-08-16 15:08:07 GMT

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I saw this guy yesterday and I realized after he left I’ve never actually said this to him. Perhaps today is the day.

2024-07-13 22:31:18 GMT

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Yeah, an awful lot of naval-gazing suddenly on Nostr

2024-07-13 22:26:44 GMT

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Thanks for posting. Watching it now

2024-05-19 17:45:12 GMT

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I don’t need to make a lot of money, just enough to keep me from needing to spend my Bitcoin.

2024-05-13 14:22:39 GMT

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Im not planning to sell bitcoin at the top because I don’t think I’ll live until 2140

2024-05-12 21:33:25 GMT

Nothing you can take – was ever worth keepin'
You can't take my charm
You can't take my humor
You can't take my wealth
'Cause it's just a rumor
Nothin' you can take was ever worth keepin'

2024-05-12 16:38:12 GMT

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When I met npub1g8wr20ntxwmfyk3huueel34jjpt04m2k8enyyawpum7625aancvqrn82gq , whether she might someday be a good mom wasn’t even on the list of things that made me instantly fall truly, madly, and deeply forever in love with her.
Now that our kids have grown and I can look back to see that being a mom was actually her BEST thing, I am profoundly grateful for how spectacularly lucky I’ve been.

2024-05-12 14:08:46 GMT

Shitcoiners are the Vaccine apologists of the “crypto” community.
The earliest Voices questioning the efficacy of the vaccines were really just questioning whether the people advocating for vaccines has really done their homework. On a fundamental level, it just didn’t make sense that such a revolutionary development could happen that quickly and provide all of the benefits is developers promised.
This is exactly the case for all of the “innovators” in the crypto community. Bitcoiners can look at the underlying technology and be skeptical that any of the benefits they promise are even theoretically possible. For now this is earning us the ire of business and political leaders who just want us to shut up and let the technology develop. If you’re jumping on somebody’s bandwagon, because they recently said they like crypto or crypto, is good ask yourself who ultimately does the most damage to Bitcoin.
Is Trump ultimately the Anthony Fauci of crypto?

2024-05-09 23:02:00 GMT

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Oh great. I love listening to Nate talk about OTEC. And we all owe him for unmasking Mora et al

2024-05-06 20:53:45 GMT

Reposting
#note1jjt…f8ah

2024-05-05 16:56:25 GMT

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Do you mean for sending the apps or just for receiving them? Because if you’re counting zaps you received, I now have experience with noun.cash

2024-05-05 16:03:37 GMT

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One of the people I work with, technically someone I supervise, is the most powerful and influential person I have ever met. There are thousands of people walking the earth today because he risked his, over and over, to save theirs. And after he saved their lives he showed many of them how to build new lives here. As it turns out, some of the people he saved had been tasked with assassinating him. But he saved them anyway and then “turned” them by showing them a better future than the one they had been ordered to kill for. I don’t know anyone who deserves to puff up their chest more than him and yet he’s the most humble person I know.
He worked for me for a few years before I started to learn who he really was and when I thought about the respect he showed me I started to think I must be somebody too. I started to puff my chest up a bit. But I hadn’t saved thousands of lives. I hadn’t helped hundreds of families build new lives in a new land. I just sat at the bigger desk and signed their timesheets. I didn’t “deserve” his respect.
But he gave it to me anyway, not because of who I am but because of who he is. He believes everyone is worthy of respect, everyone is worth saving, that given the chance everyone will choose a future built on freedom over one based on orders.
I wonder sometimes how hard it was for him to be patient with me during those years that I thought I was somebody. He wasn’t loyal to me, but to the better version of me he hoped I could become. And now I feel obligated to become that person because he deserves the respect of someone worthy of showing it.

2024-05-02 10:50:06 GMT

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Is that an old railroad line?

2024-04-07 14:52:28 GMT

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I think sometimes those urges are just your body talking to you. It craves exactly what it needs so when I “feel like making something”, I always do.

2024-04-04 20:23:58 GMT

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Zillow’s a trip. It says my house is worth $50k more than I think it’s worth but it shows a picture of my neighbor’s house which isn’t as nice as mine. His house is listed even higher than mine but shows a picture of the empty lot I own behind my house. My empty lot is listed for about what I thinks it’s worth but shows a picture of the other lot I own that has a small cabin on it. According to Zillow, the lot with the cabin is a city park.

2024-02-16 18:19:44 GMT

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[email protected] for future reference

2023-12-02 08:05:28 GMT

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I can picture every detail as vividly as if it just happened to me! Now I can’t sleep either!

2023-10-19 11:26:26 GMT

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Your note sounds a little like an advert for Nostr to me.

2023-10-06 17:18:52 GMT

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Not certain how close we are in age but its possible I was in the car behind you in that field that night. 😄

2023-10-06 17:10:37 GMT

Inside Today's Jobs Report: 885,000 Full-Time Jobs Lost, 1.127 Million Part-Time Jobs Added, Record Multiple Jobholders
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/inside-todays-jobs-report-885000-full-time-jobs-lost-offset-1127-million-part-time-jobs
How much longer do we even acknowledge that these numbers and the people who create them even exist..
Instead of being a measure of the strength of the job market this is fast becoming a measure of the weakness of our current crop of economists.

2023-10-05 16:49:41 GMT

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I don't see a lot of Pacific Bitcoin content anywhere yet. I think those Swannies are just late risers.

2023-10-03 12:32:29 GMT

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My kids are adults now and I'm just beginning to realize that you basically spend the first part of their lives teaching them, the middle part of your their lives arguing with them over who is smarter, and hopefully the last part of your life learning from them. I'm smack dab in the middle of the most humbling part of that process where I'm constantly learning that I was never smarter than my parents.

2023-09-27 02:05:26 GMT

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He blocked me over there and I really have no idea why. I still recommend his Planting Bitcoin series because it resonates with a lot of people around here. Nicole Dobrow warned me about him and I do trust her spidey senses

2023-09-14 15:23:27 GMT

Nice presentation on Cafe Bitcoin this morning!
npub19h69je8uqgaupwge05uznt6t0vafvp82y26gjx58zaefk0vk2pzqu428mnpub19h69je8uqgaupwge05uznt6t0vafvp82y26gjx58zaefk0vk2pzqu428m5

2023-09-10 11:06:51 GMT

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Any thanks. Yes, I look.

2023-08-30 14:18:08 GMT

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This is a great podcast from Nate Hagens and a guy here in Mn that doesn't live far from my sister. https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/76-daniel-zetah

2023-08-30 11:30:03 GMT

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All of this using talk to text over Bluetooth so I honestly barely even touched my device

2023-08-30 11:28:11 GMT

This is just my second or third post from satellite.earth. And I got to say I think it's pretty wild that I open snort to get my private key to copy into satellite wrote my post on primal because it has a preview option posted from satellite and check Iris to see whether it all gone through. Then I got alert from amethyst that it already been zapped by somebody.
Entire process took maybe 2 minutes.
Five separate platforms, one identity.
Just amazing.

2023-08-30 11:25:02 GMT

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And yes I realize that the voting Rights act was more than 40 years ago but I was in kindergarten at the time and I don't think that they let toddlers vote.

2023-08-30 11:21:10 GMT

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There was a time that I was young and dumb and I used to believe that crap but it's been over 40 years now and every single election has been "the most important election of my lifetime" yet none of them seem to have changed anything..
I'm not saying that nothing has changed in the last 40 years but I don't believe it was elections that changed it.
Think it was President Johnson who said to someone about the voting Rights act "that's a darn good law you got there now go back to your district and make me support it."
Every good thing that's happened in the last 40 years was because we forced them to, not because we elected them to and then they wanted to do it.

2023-08-28 02:29:34 GMT

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Oh brilliant. I use Nostore for Primal. I hadn’t even thought about allowing access to Habla. Thanks . I think I’m in.

2023-08-27 13:45:37 GMT

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I really expected that link to go to this article by @npub164q…2rl3
https://habla.news/p/nprofile1qqsd2s26xy7ns3sllyagc9c0jsdje49xdfw0mwcfxsrfvrmvkvtcf8cpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvqs7amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6qgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqgjwaehxw309ahkvenrdpskjm3wwp6ky5ll9kl

2023-08-27 13:40:44 GMT

Just starting to look at Habla.news
naddr1qqxnzd3exyurgvpsx5mnxvesqgsd2s26xy7ns3sllyagc9c0jsdje49xdfw0mwcfxsrfvrmvkvtcf8crqsqqqa282pw4lj

2023-08-27 13:40:42 GMT

Just starting to look at Habla.news
naddr1qqxnzd3exyurgvpsx5mnxvesqgsd2s26xy7ns3sllyagc9c0jsdje49xdfw0mwcfxsrfvrmvkvtcf8crqsqqqa282pw4lj

2023-08-27 13:23:26 GMT

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Any advice on getiing into and Habla account on an iPad? Browser extensions are disabled because they can let you get around the Apple Store. Id like to get on Habla but I mostly write on my iPad.

2023-08-14 13:08:44 GMT

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Reading this not again I think its funny (or maybe scary?) That it changes College Courses to College Coerces.
Maybe Auto correct was smarter than I was.

2023-08-13 17:03:38 GMT

If you’re a Bitcoiner who only started to learn about Economics through the rabbit hole, it’s likely you’ve only been exposed to Austrian Economics. There are other ideas in Econ that are also quite compatible with Bitcoin. This is a very good survey of some worthwhile perspectives. I took enough Econ coerces in college to be able to teach it in High School. Then I went out in the real world and saw a lot of things that just didn’t make sense. I spent time in the developing world in West Africa and Korea. I came back and got my Series 7 brokers License and a Financial Planning Certificate and learned a lot about markets. I learned more during Occupy Wall Street and as a (like most, failed) day trader. I also learned some to date from Nate Hagen’s podcast.
[email protected]
npub1dc84762hpnp0y4jcvjcgwt8l7sepng93j3hg63hfm80ph6kt82eqktjwqd
https://youtu.be/EC11UQD9q3w

2023-08-13 16:49:17 GMT

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Wow. That’s one of the most tone deaf tweets I’ve ever seen! He just had a Bitcoin episode that I was really uncomfortable with and I wanted to write a post about but I got distracted. I might go back and try again.

2023-08-13 08:26:45 GMT

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Obese people are not milking welfare. They are Being Milked by the sugar industry. How blind do you have to be to whine about drowning yourself in booze and then stomp on people for drowning themselves in sugar?

2023-08-13 08:08:43 GMT

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Anybody using an AI they like for scheduling staff?

2023-08-11 12:32:57 GMT

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I'm going to make my first fake ad about earning passive income from fake ads.

2023-08-11 12:31:06 GMT

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Seems like you should add another axis for Under House Arrest

2023-08-06 14:56:44 GMT

But I heard Bitcoin was only for criminals.
Ok. So how many in the LGBT community are absolutely certain they will never again be categorized as criminals in states like MT, FL, ND, AR, TN...
Bitcoin is the L (&GBTQIA..) word.
@npub1tjk…s9w3
https://twitter.com/AnitaPosch/status/1688186544849338368?t=BWLa3m9JR6cjpqp77R-xZg&s=19

2023-08-05 13:03:02 GMT

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We used to get Canadian coins here when I was a kid but some places wouldn’t take them so I got “stuck” with them. I guess I was also a reluctant Canadian coin collector.
There was a song,
Canadian Money in my pocket.
Quarter ain’t worth a dime.

2023-08-05 12:37:50 GMT

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I love the Dells. When the kids were little we went to one of those indoor water parks every year in February. Good memories.

2023-08-05 03:17:32 GMT

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Or a 2.5 hour drive for both of us.

2023-08-05 03:15:01 GMT

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Maybe we can chat sometime about marketing @npub1g8w…82gq books.

2023-08-05 03:14:59 GMT

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Maybe we can chat sometime about marketing @npub1g8w…82gq books.

2023-08-05 03:14:58 GMT

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Maybe we can chat sometime about marketing @npub1g8w…82gq books.

2023-08-05 03:14:55 GMT

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Maybe we can chat sometime about marketing @npub1g8w…82gq books.

2023-08-03 03:22:14 GMT

This link I’m finicky because it wants to stick in an add but it’s to the first episode of the History of the #Vikings by Dorktown
https://youtu.be/cRhFEGREiac

2023-08-02 15:26:40 GMT

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Keeps happening to me too. Now I post on Primal and then pop over to Iris to see if it took before I try again.

2023-08-02 14:35:22 GMT

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SKOL

2023-08-02 06:28:50 GMT

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npub1v9q3s383t80wsamh876csth28kml8cpsr8cv3c2d46rcflkap52q2ujtak
Something to keep an eye on.

2023-08-01 21:31:43 GMT

Coming along nicely.
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/0eaf4a8faa2cd8c2390efe1af7c79b2da84e9eea223bf51b77908364d51d06f9.jpg
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/02c321e207625f2e948af448ee00a899b64c3e85b4115d2767d2cdaea0f4fd37.jpg
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/8d903edcf1d9940371357fd41bdef49ec78070248688acf1e83e2c97c00e2045.jpg

2023-08-01 20:08:12 GMT

Looks like I'll be spending the next few days with my nose in a book.
@npub16xd…yzn3
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/ac89220d0926340db6888da0f1b16429eb250aa40062faf31dd64452458b8eca.jpg

2023-08-01 18:39:05 GMT

"In closing, bitcoin appears to provide a number of benefits across an ESG framework."
Terrific new report on bitcoin's ESG impacts by @BrianConsolvo for @KPMG and stolen from @thetrocro on Twitter.
Share it widely.
https://advisory.kpmg.us/articles/2023/bitcoin-role-esg-imperative.html

2023-08-01 18:26:09 GMT

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I love cemeteries and reading grave stones. Always some great stories there.

2023-08-01 15:19:57 GMT

I think today is an important day to remember when people talk about Bitcoin’s “switching narratives”. Its the 6th Anniversary of the UASF that created Bitcoin Cash. I don’t agree with the “Bitcoin is just a get rich quick” characterization but the people who claimed the true goal was faster/cheaper lost that debate and have mostly left Bitcoin (prematurely, considering Lightning and other Layer 2s can deliver that). The scarce/SoV group won the debate & remains. The Narrative didn’t change, there were always people who saw this scarcity argument as the real value behind the network, but we didn’t know that was what the Market wanted until the UASF.

2023-08-01 13:43:41 GMT

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김치!

2023-08-01 13:34:20 GMT

Ah. The memories.
Aug 1, 2017,03:16pm EDT
This article is more than 5 years old.
Bitcoin prices have remained largely unscathed today in spite of the much-hyped hard fork, which resulted in the creation of Bitcoin Cash, a rival cryptocurrency that is similar to Bitcoin but touts a far larger block size.
At the time of report, Bitcoin was trading at $2,751.40, roughly 4.3% lower for the session, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cbovaird/2017/08/01/bitcoin-prices-unscathed-in-spite-of-hard-fork/?sh=620ff72c4019

2023-08-01 13:33:40 GMT

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2023-08-01 13:10:59 GMT

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I don’t mean that they are afraid of freedom.I mean they are afraid the the repercussions of attempting a breakout and failing.
I think the yearning for freedom is something you can’t be separated from the human soul but people can be beaten into choosing comfort (or the lack of pain) over facing their fear of failure. We see people punished all the time and we know what failure looks like. Other than Yachts and Mansions (which I would argue are not even real freedom) most people can’t even picture real freedom but they know they want it.
The best thing about bitcoin is that once you see IT, you can dare to imagine that freedom is even possible FOR YOU. You can start to see what it looks like and realize that comfort ISNT freedom.
But every human being WANTS freedom.

2023-08-01 13:00:24 GMT

Six years ago today this is where we watched the Bitcoin hard fork. Then I rushed back to our apartment and started calculating how many Bitcoin I could buy with my Fork coins. Didnt figure out how to claim them without risking our Bitcoin until November but I calculated that conversion every day in between.
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/657d777671a92b62357b636c5eb53137aaf0416d420ebbb32d211445bcb5122e.jpg

2023-08-01 12:42:02 GMT

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With all due respect, nobody doesn’t want freedom. Some people just fear the potential beatings and lynchings more, and sometimes for good reason.
Freedom can be scary to contemplate because an attempt to attain it that fails results in punishment.
That’s the root of the “Bitcoin is boiling the ocean” critiques, it’s an attempt to scare people away from trying, to convince them that if they try they may end up worse. If they allow anyone to try we may all end up worse. And people believe that because they can’t even imagine being free of debts and bills and creditors.
Everyone wants freedom. Some people just don’t believe it is even possible.

2023-08-01 03:58:50 GMT

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Luckily there are still some small farmers around here who will sell raw milk. The FDA has taken a few to court so they only do it for someone they know and trust. We could walk into any barn and draw it out of the bulk tank as kids and I just never realized how lucky we were. Mom used to put straight cream on fresh baked bread and it was the best desert I’ve ever eaten.starving now just thinking about it.

2023-08-01 03:38:10 GMT

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Hmm. Baby swiss seems drier and harder than this but maybe. Have you ever had Queso Fresco, Mexican cheese? What we get here is basically Cottage Cheese that has the whey squeezed out.

2023-08-01 03:33:02 GMT

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Sometimes we call it Amish cheese here but my Bosnian friend has another name for it I can’t remember right now