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My point is that the transparency of the timechain is not as damaging when your coins are not attached to your identity. Think of Satoshi, he has the largest onchain footprint of anyone, yet he still has pretty good privacy.

2024-05-04 15:13:57

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Plus, human action - the outcome of free will - is not amenable to the statistical analyses that work for the natural sciences.

2024-05-04 15:09:36

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Agreed. Here is what I will do:
1. Set up an LN node, despite getting wrecked twice in the past running one.
2. Go back to providing liquidity on JM, which I had only run for a short time because of all of its quirks and rough edges.
3. Pledge 1M sats to any credible and organized effort to revitalize JM.
Any other suggestions for what a pleb can do are welcome.

2024-05-04 14:57:49

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The most important barrier to onchain privacy is KYC/AML. Once more of us earn in sats or buy our sats peer to peer, the situation will be much better.

2024-05-04 14:45:16

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not an OG?
https://m.primal.net/IDDt.jpg

2024-05-04 04:29:33

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Not a fan but that clip of you and @npub1klk…x3vt riffing about monster coinjoins was probably the best promo on a podcast I have ever watched.

2024-05-04 04:25:07

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Just about the only good thing that deranged individual has said about anything other than chess.

2024-05-04 04:23:40

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The issue is not technical risk, it is fucking-up-miner-incentives risk. Poelstra focusing on technical risk and not the broader economic incentives are what gave us high-resolution dickbutts under Taproot.

2024-05-02 03:52:35

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I’m not long fiat, therefore I can’t take advantage of sats being on sale.

2024-05-01 06:16:57

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Perhaps but the key here is that they are easy targets for what they have said and the way they have acted in the past.

2024-05-01 06:11:05

A common tactic of political regimes grabbing more powers is to first direct these on unpopular, disreputable or otherwise easily discredited targets. They start there knowing that few will defend these unsavoury people on principle, and that the sheep can be distracted from the real issues by bringing up all these people’s defects. With those powers thus legitimized through precedent, the regime can advance to wield them on the general population.
A contemporary example is corporately-administered but state-directed censorship, first with Alex Jones, Milo, Spencer, etc. Since these people are hard to defend personally, even free speech advocates have to waste time throat clearing, after which there is only time for a weak defence of the principles involved. The tactic thus legitimized, the power grabbers were then free to move on to blanket censorship on major platforms.
Why does this matter now? Well, they are using the exact same tactic now in the “then they fight us now” phase of Bitcoin. The regime is targeting controversial people because of their past as bitcoiners, and some people that call themselves bitcoiners are bringing up the victims’ misdeeds instead of providing an unqualified and full-throated defence.
Let’s not fall into this trap. Let’s not waste precious time on bullshit. Let’s defend principles. Let’s defend people prosecuted for non-crimes or for crimes they didn’t commit, even if they may have committed other offences. The stakes are too high to do otherwise.

2024-04-28 20:17:34

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Women, OTOH, will not stop talking about their marriages. Often with a disturbing amount of detail.

2024-04-28 20:16:01

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You made me think with this post… can’t say any guy, including my closest friends, has ever asked about my marriage and if it happened, I would be very suspicious. If a woman asked, I would run for the hills to make sure I stay married.

2024-04-28 18:05:29

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You need standing to challenge. And, to have standing you need to be in jail. The Samourai people may not be heroes, but they are victims, are Bitcoiners, and have standing. Why not make this our hill? I’m ready to put my money where my mouth is and I’m sure others are as well.

2024-04-28 15:40:29

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But, are they too late? I’m surprised at the level of demoralization this week.

2024-04-28 15:37:56

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All positive law (i.e. legislation) is subjective. It is imposed from above and administered by State employees who happen to work for a different department than the legislators.

2024-04-28 15:33:16

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Interesting emphasis on first-seen by the network instead of PoW. Shows how much we have advanced in our understanding of Bitcoin.

2024-04-28 15:30:00

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History books are written by the victors.

2024-04-26 23:01:29

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Remember, the process is the punishment. If they want to take you out, they will. 99% conviction rate because they will throw a 100,000 page book at you. If you fight in court, you may “win” but only after spending years in jail and you will be bankrupt. Most likely you will lose on a technicality, or lose because you can’t afford to pay legal fees after all your funds have been civil forfeited. That’s why most times you will plead a deal.
This is not doomerism, just reality. Act accordingly, stay a nym, resist through civil disobedience and not fighting head on, and don’t become a martyr.

2024-04-15 15:36:59

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At least for me, this is a function of having children.

2024-04-15 15:33:24

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GM. TAKE THE HIGH ROAD. EVEN IF THE MORONS WON’T TAKE NOTE, MANY OTHERS WILL.

2024-04-14 18:44:50

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Too funny! Now I know you’re serious and not just engagement trolling.

2024-04-14 17:47:45

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You are over your skis. Maybe some developers feel constrained because one of nine OpenSats members is also a partner in a VC fund that invests in competitors to OpenSats grantees. That doesn’t mean that there is a secret agreement imposed. If you don’t like how OpenSats is allocating grants, then donate directly. If you are a developer and feel uncomfortable, raise donations directly from your users. No need for drama.

2024-04-14 16:52:47

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If he double spends it, the replacement will find its way to a miner via full rbf nodes.

2024-04-14 16:35:31

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grug gets paid in ice cubes that are melting faster and faster, cant save any for mama or baby grug so buys bitcoin. other grugs catch on, buy bitcoin from the grugs that were early. both happy, early grug has enough left, later grug got rid of ice cubes. big brains laugh at grugs, but their ice cubes melt too. soon enough, all grugs want bitcoin, only work for bitcoin and therefore can only spend bitcoin, ice cubes are for summer drinks only. bean counters are not grugs, but they have to count their beans in bitcoins cause nobody uses ice cubes no more.

2024-04-14 04:59:35

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I knew nothing about US vs Iran naval history but your post still triggered my BS detection senses. Glad to confirm these are working well. SEAL established in 1962. Plus, Iran was a US puppet from 1953 until 1979. Try harder.

2024-04-13 23:08:52

There I was feeling like a genius because I smash-bought just 10 days ago. LOL!

2024-04-07 03:06:13

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Had no idea! The only reason I switched to @npub12vk…pugg was for the zaps. Probably not going back tho. No shade on @npub18m7…q955 but I’m happy where I am and switching costs are a thing, at least for almost-boomers like me.

2024-04-06 17:22:12

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I like the general sentiment though I don’t recommend whole-coiner as status symbol. We talk about Bitcoin, we never talk about _our_ bitcoins.

2024-04-06 03:28:47

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His donations are needed as much as Saylor’s… not at all.

2024-04-06 03:27:03

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Why goad him? He has terrible takes and can only be a bad influence.

2024-04-06 03:24:01

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Sigh. I panic-consolidated at 3X that feerate. Now, I’m UTXO-poor and can’t take advantage of this.

2024-04-06 03:09:02

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Most people will only learn when they touch the stove. When they do, Bitcoin will be there for them.

2024-04-06 02:56:33

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Welcome is too strong a word but it would be cathartic to have some salty retards to dunk on. over here This business of being all kind to each other does not go well with my personality.

2024-04-06 00:59:04

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Ok but push for what exactly? And how? I hold a bag and run a node. I can geek out on applied cryptography and game theory on my free time, but I’m not equipped to evaluate all of the proposals from first principles. So I will just watch from the sidelines until there is a UASF client that is widely supported by those qualified to evaluate it. If, and only if, I find it credible and useful, then I will upgrade my node. If its malicious and they try speedy trial, then I will run the URSF client.

2024-04-05 15:31:59

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Custodial “alternatives” have always been there in the form of exchanges and lots of people are satisfied with holding their IOUs instead of real Bitcoin, even at 1 sat/vB fees.
As @npub12rv…85vg says every time he gets interviewed, eCash is just a better alternative to custodial accounts. Plus, fees are now pretty reasonable again.
All to say there is no looming crisis here. Let the galaxy brain protocol developers reach consensus amongst themselves on a proposed soft fork with reasonable activation parameters, support from app developers in the form of prototypes, and guarantees of no unintended consequences.
No need for us noderunners to start agitating for the latest thing right now.

2024-04-05 00:34:26

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Zaps only, likes are a shitcoin.

2024-04-03 05:32:01

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@npub1der…xzpc, I have the Kindle edition and have given away a few copies of the paperback as gifts, because I agree with @npub1h8n…rpev that it’s an excellent 1st book for precoiners and newbies. Any plans for a hardcover edition? I have been on a hunt for hardcover editions of my collection of Bitcoin books. Maybe https://thesaifhouse.com could print and distribute? It would be obviously better to buy with LN and not Amazon.

2024-04-01 23:44:36

@npub1qny…95gx, THIS ISN’T WORKING. INSTEAD OF ASSHOLES, MY TIMELINE IS FULL OF CRINGE TODAY.
#note1c2q…7cpn

2024-04-01 18:34:02

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LOL. You made me look.

2024-04-01 18:31:51

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I don’t understand what you are asking - KYC/AML regime in the US is even worse than in Canada.

2024-04-01 18:30:26

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No choice now, but this was so much better: better price, no waiting around for a suitable offer, better security with cash.

2024-04-01 18:26:31

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Doesn’t sound like it to me. I got the same email to a bunch of burner accounts.

2024-04-01 18:23:46

So, this was just a preview. No-kyc with @npub1t28…nkzs is over. ID verification is now required at post office.
#note1lxt…trej

2024-04-01 00:22:01

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Bitcoin affinity scams abandoning their shitcoin blockchains in order to entice this cycle’s noobs to their scams.

2024-03-31 18:24:29

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Same energy as Biden proclaiming Easter Sunday as Transgender Day of Visibility.

2024-03-31 03:19:05

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many different factions but no hard sides yet, but @npub1xr5…93g6 identifies one important fault line.

2024-03-31 01:44:46

The only reason we are not fighting a civil war worse than the Blocksize war is that the multiple factions going at it have not coalesced into two sides just yet. Can anyone convince me otherwise?

2024-03-29 20:04:34

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Buying into the myth of perfect competition is the camel’s nose into the tent of state-sponsored market rigging.

2024-03-29 02:06:11

All good-natured fun but people should not forget that @npub1qny…95gx's objection was to the KYC and he didn’t bend the knee on that.
#note12nl…0hv2

2024-03-28 23:46:41

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DRIVECHAIN, CAUSE IT’S FAKE AND GHEY, AND ITS FANS ARE RETARDED.

2024-03-28 02:52:50

Why does everyone want to attach their own retarded metaphor to Bitcoin? It’s just money, the best humanity has ever had. Isn’t that enough?
#note1mpc…jrm5

2024-03-27 23:09:48

I don’t know what the current blastr vs outbox beef amongst nostr devs is about and I don’t want to know. It just makes me wish that I could mute words like on Twitter.

2024-03-27 23:04:30

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Like who? Bitcoin Mechanic doesn’t seem like a retard.

2024-03-27 22:54:25

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Not many users here yet that deserve being called retarded though.

2024-03-27 22:51:07

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Never thought I’d say this but we also need salty people to dunk on. They will all come in due time.

2024-03-27 15:24:43

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Yes but for regulatory arbitrage.

2024-03-27 03:10:59

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Yes, fractional reserve banking (bank notes and deposits) is the start. Before that, all that the state could do was coin clipping, which didn’t last long.

2024-03-26 23:50:57

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It was more of a cultural thing. People were rightly distrustful of paper notes and the idea of having a bank account was absurd. Silver coins in a jar hidden somewhere at home was the way for most people to save. But yes, change will have to be driven by a minority and yes there rob not in our lifetimes.

2024-03-26 23:39:16

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There was a time when common people would insist on gold or silver coin and save that way. Only merchants used custodians to do large, long-distance transactions. You can think of the unnatural expansion of the banks, aided by legal protections for their fraud, as part of a century-long psyop.
All to say that there is nothing innate about most people’s servility or learned helplessness. New, deserving and natural elites can show the way onward and set the tone for a new culture. Won’t be easy or guaranteed, but the current bad state of things isn’t baked in either.

2024-03-26 19:49:37

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They’d be happy to ban porn if it would help them ban Bitcoin.

2024-03-26 15:30:09

@calle, there must be a wonderfully long compound word in German for a law like the Bank Secrecy Act or the Inflation Reduction Act? One that does exactly the opposite of the professed intent?
#note1avc…n2yy

2024-03-26 15:22:53

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WE MUST PUT A STOP TO THE CAP PHOBIA CRISIS!!! 🤣

2024-03-26 15:15:44

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More shots fired at the beginnings of the next civil war.

2024-03-26 15:11:38

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Not forever. Once Bitcoin becomes global money, people’s demand for cash balances may change. Hyperbitcoinization will lead to a more peaceful, prosperous, free and less uncertain world. Therefore, the demand for cash balances reduced.

2024-03-26 13:18:14

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Did he really win? The process is the punishment.

2024-03-26 13:12:46

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GM. GOOD ADVICE.

2024-03-25 19:46:30

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The most compulsive liars (politicians) will say something true on occasion. Bitcoin IS a threat to democracy. That’s what brought me to Bitcoin and why I’m all in.

2024-03-25 15:20:17

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GM. Proof of work Monday. Idle time is the Devil’s play.

2024-03-24 13:38:27

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GM. THE ONLY HONEST POLITICIAN IS THE ONE THAT STAYS BOUGHT. NOT MANY SUCH CASES.

2024-03-23 15:25:47

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No evidence that it was a false flag, but a possibility. This event plays into the hands of factions within the Russian deep state that are unsatisfied with the approach Putin has taken in the war. OTOH, if the perpetrators were in fact ISIS-affiliated, I’d definitely look outside Russia for a hidden hand.

2024-03-23 03:10:36

Feature request for @npub16c0…6nvr /@npub12vk…pugg : add option to disable likes. Likes are a shitcoin but muscle memory often makes users like when they should zap.

2024-03-23 02:34:09

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Can someone tell the nostr CEO to provide proper notice in future when a #zapathon is happening? And for us almost-boomers, WTF is a zapathon? Everyone is talking about it but nobody actually says what it is.

2024-03-23 02:30:25

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Strike out Sweden and Finland, just joined NATO. Switzerland is neutral in name only, since they bent the knee so many times with the US, EU re Russia sanctions.

2024-03-22 02:11:11

At some point bitcoiners will have to accept that democracy is a delusion. We will all be criminals for using bitcoin until we succeed at separating money from state. We just need to be smart about it, use freedom tech, listen to people like @npub1qny…95gx, @npub12rv…85vg and @npub1der…xzpc and don’t become martyrs.
#note1e9a…4l9a

2024-03-20 15:00:20

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Open Mouth Operations

2024-03-19 15:17:38

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His ghost writer, Steve Patterson, used to have a philosophy podcast that was very good. Brilliant guy, surprised he’s a big blocker still.

2024-03-18 15:35:25

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GM. Looking forward to it. @npub12rv…85vg has become one of my favourites to listen. Honest, uncompromising and based but wrapped in that polite Continental style.

2024-03-14 20:59:56

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Because we are from somewhere, not from anywhere.

2024-03-12 19:31:58

@npub1t28…nkzs recently added KYC-light in the form of phone verification to its “non-KYC” option. Sad but still better than the alternatives.

2024-02-29 15:20:42

Good morning. We must treat those around us who thought we were crazy with humility. Show them the way gently but firmly, without I-told-you-so’s. Above all else, stay humble, stack sats.

2024-02-28 21:58:14

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Fiat brains cannot comprehend that a money is forged in a market process. First store of value and only when widely held, generally accepted medium of exhange and unit of account.

2024-02-28 15:45:48

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GM, STACKING SATS IS NOT JUST A LIFESTYLE. WE STACK TO STARVE THE PSYCHOPATHS AND PEDOS WHO PRESUME TO RULE US OF THE RESOURCES THEY NEED TO PURSUE THEIR SICK POLICIES.

2024-02-28 02:45:57

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If you fuck around often you will find out that no condom (hardware wallet) can protect you from the consequences.

2024-02-28 02:42:49

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This but with Sparrow.

2024-02-27 15:27:16

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I’ve done as much as I could without messing up my privacy. Wish there was some kind of collaborative consolidation service out there: bunch of people throw in UTXOs, and get uniform sized UTXOs plus change back. Like JoinMarket but everyone participating pays their own fees.

2024-02-27 15:11:57

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On being humble, I don’t have a problem avoiding doing any crazy degen shit during the bull. I do however, spend too much time checking the price and doing mental calculations of how much I have gained in fiat terms. Annoying character flaw. Thank god that I’m able to avoid doing the opposite in the bear market.

2024-02-27 15:01:01

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It’s OK, hard times made us strong again.

2024-02-27 14:52:51

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2024-02-26 23:40:26

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I listen regularly because you have good guests, technical people that don’t make an appearance on other pods. TBH though, I do find your constant digs at coinkite and blockstream a bit tiresome, same with the regular strawmanning of those of us who oppose Drivechains. You are of course entitled to your opinions and its your podcast, just saying that because it detracts IMO from otherwise very informative interviews.

2024-02-26 23:24:22

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Perfect example of anarcho-tyranny. Impose life sentences for non-crimes, while leaving all sorts of real property and violent crimes unpunished. Many such cases.

2024-02-26 01:40:03

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Persist default zap amount. For some reason, it occasionally deletes what I set.

2024-02-25 20:02:12

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Hi, in IRL I’m a senior exec in the fiat financial sector. My only acts of defiance in this rigged system are putting all my savings in bitcoin and keeping my mind free, and trying to instil same to my family. Always been a lurker, not a poster or even a reply guy, until I discovered nostr.

2024-02-25 19:46:55

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Recommended follows: ppl that are followed by my follows that i’m not following yet.

2024-02-25 05:01:59

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I think I see what you did there… heterodox maths & atheism?