CosmoCrixter

Promethean Satoshi stole the fire from the would-be gods of central banks, and built the Tyger, the anvil, and the forge for us all. The symmetry of #Bitcoin is terrifying to them. 😏
So for this next Difficult(y) Poem, we have William Blake’s “The Tyger.”
https://youtu(dot)be/TKdEzhfQN-U?si=oszTLHVP58o5-lBP
Seems YouTube videos can’t easily be clicked from NOSTR so just replace the “(dot)” in the url above with a “.” in your browser.

2024-02-03 00:54:41

Dropping a new Difficult(y) Poem for Block Cycle 828,576 to 830,592
This one is "Coping Prana" by Will Alexander
https://youtu.be/-IPK5J7FNdQ?si=RTKqOjMmm7_2_8dm

2024-01-27 00:01:50

This letter that I hope never to receive is precisely why I will allocate precious little of my money towards #Bitcoin ETFs.
https://m.primal.net/HZRR.jpg

2024-01-23 07:25:47

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Can't agree. A great villian, for me, should have emotional complexity/conflict and know right from wrong but consciously choose wrong. Walter White is great. Ledger's Joker's insanity masks complexity and a sense of right and wrong (Phoenix's is better) and Kane's anger mutes his. They're caricatures of villains, despite their exciting portrayals. My litmus test is weird and subjective so I get it if you find it too limiting.

2024-01-20 15:36:45

Cosmo Crixter here again, announcing Poem #2 in the “Difficult(y) Poems” series.
For #Bitcoin Block Cycle 826,560 to 828,576 I offer you “The Panther” by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell):
https://youtu.be/i06K72z66oE?si=w7b0EKqbxOy751mG

2024-01-07 23:12:36

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You’ll still buy it on exchanges… you’ll just get a whole lot less of it for the fiat you hold.

2024-01-06 20:51:44

Bitcoiners, Happy New Year!
Today I’m announcing (here on Nostr first) a new series I’m beginning:
“Difficult(y) Poems”
I’ll be filming/reciting a poem each ~2 weeks to commemorate Bitcoin’s 2016 Block Cycle and the Difficulty Adjustment that comes at the beginning of each one.
I intend to choose poems that are time tested, significant, and fascinating… like Bitcoin.
The first poem I’m reciting is “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
I chose Hopkins for the peculiar rhythmic style of his poetry, which he called “sprung rhythm.”
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/LBka3Yng3rQ?si=wUFoIyi_q8ZJN7yR
Warmly,
Cosmo Crixter https://image.nostr.build/00ab9b9d72c68c9abb17a58e3a3b6315ca8e1f8d9c5b518b5693e84f01332ddf.jpg

2024-01-06 15:52:10

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Laguiole

2023-12-13 13:16:08

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Zombies love their Government Money. https://image.nostr.build/86e11228a40d261e8ffce1d810c1da84bd5ee618c2c3b2b69d02a6851d94f15b.jpg

2023-12-13 13:04:32

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Sending good vibes! https://image.nostr.build/071f18d00e6da90a7f631e904593deff20c8f8a078ae17ff69d1454b861158ed.jpg

2023-12-09 12:29:08

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Well, the kids were family and I was trying to keep things mellow so I stuck with 70%. I didn’t even mind if they just copied answers they found directly from Google searches. Just wanted to get them some preliminary exposure to the ideas around Bitcoin.

2023-12-08 21:02:13

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👍 👍 👍!!!
Also, The Dickening refers to OG Bitcoiner John MacAfee declaring that he’d cut off and eat his own dick if Bitcoin didn’t get to $1Million by end of 2020. He lost the bet but didn’t do it. (A question to make the teen goofballs laugh.)

2023-12-08 20:56:04

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Wow! You did that lightning fast! I LOVE your question for #21! How would this work for an answer to it?: More efficient microchip technology in ASICs coupled with mining companies that integrate with a nuclear power plants.

2023-12-08 20:47:27

A little Bitcoin quiz I made for some friends’ teenage kids. I made it so they could research and learn and earn 100K sats.
1. What message did Satoshi Nakamoto print in the Bitcoin network’s Genesis block?
2. By what percent has Bitcoin appreciated in USD value in 2023 so far?
3. What is the maximum number of bitcoins that will ever exist?
4. Currently, approximately how many new bitcoins are produced each day?
5. What is the halving?
6. What was The Dickening?
7. Approximately what year will the very final bitcoin be produced?
8. What do the letters in ASIC stand for?
9. Who received the first bitcoin transaction?
10. Briefly explain what “difficulty adjustment” means as it pertains to Bitcoin production/mining.
11. Briefly explain what “hashrate” means as it pertains to Bitcoin.
12. What is a bitcoin node and who can run one?
13. Briefly explain “the Blockchain trilemma.”
14. What is the Lightning Network?
15. The first publicly known Bitcoin transaction took place on May 18, 2010, and the buyer bought two pizzas using bitcoin. How many bitcoins did he pay and roughly how much would those coins be worth (in USD) today?
16. Briefly explain the differences between a proof-of-work and a proof-of-stake protocol?
17. Briefly explain the difference between a custodial and non-custodial Bitcoin Wallet.
18. What is the state with the most bitcoin mining units AND the most renewable energy in the USA?
19. Currently in the USA, renewable energy sources account for about 21.5% of total utility-scale electricity generation. What percentage of the Bitcoin network’s energy usage is renewable?
20. How is Bitcoin mining contributing to electrical grid-rebalancing and the mitigation of harmful methane emissions from landfills and fossil fuel production facilities?
21. Design your own interesting Bitcoin question.

2023-12-01 16:38:35

I prompted an AI to rewrite Dwight Eisenhower’s speech, in which he warned the world of the power of the military industrial complex, but from a Bitcoin perspective. This was the result (and the AI wrote the title too!):
“A Threat to Humanity's Survival”
My fellow citizens,
As I stand before you today, on the threshold of a new dawn, I feel compelled to share with you my deepest anxieties about the fate of humanity.
In the aftermath of World War II, we witnessed the emergence of the military-industrial complex, a monstrous entity that has grown so powerful that it now poses an existential threat to our very existence. This insatiable juggernaut, fueled by the insatiable thirst for profit and power, thrives on conflict and instability, and it will stop at nothing to maintain its ironclad grip on the world.
The military-industrial complex is a parasitic entity, a cancerous growth that has attached itself to the body politic, sapping its vitality and diverting its resources away from the betterment of humanity. It is a relentless engine of destruction, a master manipulator that thrives on fear, division, and paranoia.
The fiat money system, the lifeblood of this parasitic entity, is a weapon of mass destruction, a silent assassin that has infiltrated every facet of our society. This insidious system, based on the fleeting promises of governments and central banks, has fueled cycles of boom and bust, devastating economies and plunging millions into despair.
The fiat money system is a tool of war, a means by which governments can unleash their destructive impulses with impunity. It allows them to print money at will, financing their insatiable appetite for conquest and domination, while the true cost of their recklessness is borne by the innocent citizens they claim to protect.
The military-industrial complex, armed with the fiat money system, has waged a relentless war on humanity, a war that has claimed countless lives, shattered countless dreams, and left a trail of destruction in its wake. It is a war that we cannot afford to lose.
The time has come to break free from the shackles of the fiat money system and dismantle the military-industrial complex. We must adopt a new monetary system, a system that is not susceptible to manipulation and exploitation, a system that promotes peace, prosperity, and cooperation.
The solution is clear: we must embrace Bitcoin, a digital currency that is not controlled by any government or central bank. It is a peer-to-peer system, a beacon of hope in a world shrouded in darkness, a system that is based on cryptography and blockchain technology, the pillars of a new, decentralized future.
Bitcoin is a hard money, a tangible asset that cannot be inflated or manipulated by the powers that be. It is a deflationary asset, its value increasing over time, a testament to the inherent value that it holds.
A Bitcoin standard would dismantle the military-industrial complex, stripping it of its lifeblood, the fiat money system. It would dismantle the incentives for war-for-profit. Under a Bitcoin standard, governments would no longer be able to easily finance wars by printing money, making it much more difficult for them to engage in reckless military adventures.
The transparency of Bitcoin would also play a crucial role in dismantling the military-industrial complex. All Bitcoin transactions are recorded on a public ledger, making it impossible for governments to hide the true cost of war from their citizens. This transparency would deter governments from engaging in unnecessary conflicts, as the public would be able to hold them accountable for their actions.
In addition, Bitcoin would promote economic stability and growth. The scarcity of Bitcoin would help to prevent inflation, and its deflationary nature would encourage saving and investment. A stable and prosperous economy would reduce the incentive for nations to resort to war as a means of resolving economic disputes.
A Bitcoin standard would usher in an era of peace, prosperity, and cooperation, a world where humanity can finally realize its full potential. It would create a world where war is no longer a profitable endeavor, where nations are incentivized to cooperate rather than conflict, and where humanity can focus on the pursuit of knowledge, innovation, and shared prosperity.
I urge you, my fellow citizens, to join me in this clarion call for a Bitcoin standard. It is the only way to save ourselves from the brink of destruction, to reclaim our future from the clutches of the military-industrial complex, and to create a world where peace, prosperity, and cooperation reign supreme.
Thank you.
God bless you. And God bless humanity.

2023-11-26 13:43:43

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Thanked Julian in my Thanksgiving Letter.
https://damus.io/note1mrp9kcmwzesyx9a686dqajcur7d9p9j8qhep6qxxcxh7xn23luyqpdhma2

2023-11-23 15:02:19

An Open Letter of Thanksgiving To The Cypherpunks https://image.nostr.build/f46e7b9ec50868ee3ad95e0ea9fb75d35fa532e369602da9f97c3bca0921b634.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a249259e63dc5015fe2bb92b4d2c7b7e8f58a5b31b7f733eb2f3a1a30d7c940b.jpg

2023-11-20 13:16:15

Just an AI doodle I had my little assistant do for me. Having fun messing with creative prompts. https://image.nostr.build/7435fa01e271db585b0152ff47a758a5c53b97a5174cfd6aaf915fb29d052ad2.jpg

2023-11-14 15:15:04

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Just getting into Cryptosovereignty now. Love your style and thought. In your preface you write:
“The infinite wealth of knowing that mine is mine alone, and yours is yours alone, and that through the mutual signification, that is the dignity of the other, and the respect that we can offer towards one another’s property, we discover the greatest power that there is.”
Profound and powerful.
Makes me think that this real mutual respect engendered by Bitcoin is just a “first step” for humanity as it crawls out of the sludge of the dark ages, and can lead to helping us see the legitimate divine in one another as well. Put another way: Seeing one another as masters of unassailable and pure property reminds us of the unassailability and purity of our souls, and that we should respect them.
Also, because Bitcoin dis-ables all of us (in the sense that it distributes our abilities beyond the physical and into the digital) we may come to the see internet-space as much more sacred, in the longer run.
(Just some thoughts as I’m reading. Hope you don’t mind me scrawling them here, randomly. 😉)

2023-11-06 13:29:04

GM, my deer #Bitcoin friends! https://video.nostr.build/373348a2e41aa55444982f4eaebe84a86a1bf78cf6cf6acb0368748b0ab4cc04.mp4

2023-11-04 11:19:00

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Beautifully written and deep compassionate concern for humanity here. To think that we are only 15 years into this experiment is really wild. Given how entrenched and coded into the culture the fiat system is, it’s kind of amazing how far we’ve come already, even though we’re all still taking our baby steps.

2023-11-02 12:45:05

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Dear Eric,
I listen to a fuckton of Bitcoin podcasts and other audio content. It is rare now that while listening to something, I literally get up and cheer, or shout out loud with wild celebratory whoops or, conversely, with insane fury. Today, listening to your WBD interview, at the end of your Synopsis of the Melville story, “Bartleby the Scrivener,” a story I know very well. I actually teared up and then bellowed aloud like a barbarian. I resounded my yawp because I realized that Bitcoin is “the power of last refusal.”
For a time I worked for a publishing company in their subsidiary rights department and I have had some of my own writings published as well. In publishing, we have this concept, as I am sure you know, of “the right of first refusal.” It’s “a contractual right to enter into a business transaction with a person or company before anyone else can.” But Bitcoin is literally the power of last refusal. I never thought about it this way until you spoke about Bartleby. Note that I use the word “power” and not “right” when referring to Bitcoin, because this ability is intrinsic to its nature as property and how it can be managed by a person individually (as opposed to extrinsic).
Bartleby exercises his power of last refusal, in which he literally pledges, unto death, his unwillingness to participate in a world system that he has no truck with. We cannot know what Bartleby’s reasons are: he never tells us (another power!). But because he is a human being, he can choose to die instead of being forced to live under a set of rules that he does not accept. In this sense, the state, the world, the human community, cannot extract from him what it wishes. Bartleby’s conscientious objection constitutes the power of last refusal.
If I choose, upon my death, not to pass on my seed phrase to anyone, or give it up to the state, but instead choose to die with that cryptographically protected secret, I am exercising my power of last refusal. At the last, I force the state to accept my power as a self-realized “moral majority of one,” to bend Thoreau‘s phrase. In my final act, whether it wants to or not, the state has to recognize my self-sovereignty, and it cannot see me only as a unit of labor.
The existence of the power of last refusal opens up, as you say later in the interview, a whole new ethical framework. It means that my conscientious objection is not just an act of language or thought, but an act that tracks materially onto the real world.
Anyway, thanks for the big revelations. I’ll be buying your book today.
Warmly and in brotherhood,
Cosmo Crixter

2023-11-01 03:43:12

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Hey man! Yeah, I need to be here and stay here on Nostr way more. It’s so much better than anything else. Happy Halloween!

2023-11-01 03:17:09

Been screwing around with AI. Pic #12zxt7vq: https://image.nostr.build/ce812540149397af3636d2e0445024cdf604c095e0181096cc91fa6617dde601.jpg

2023-11-01 03:14:50

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“Why?” is the deepest question. May he never stop until he understands all.

2023-11-01 03:05:44

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Fuck yes. Anti-totalitarian tech. Fuck yes all day.

2023-10-21 14:40:40

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Kayaks are great for quiet mornings fishing in bays. But if I want to go far, fast, and with a movie…yeah, it’s ✈️’s.

2023-10-19 22:35:47

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Thank you, John! 🙏

2023-10-19 15:55:49

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And here is the Substack link to the letter if you’d like to read it there:
https://open.substack.com/pub/cosmocrixter/p/an-open-letter-to-senator-elizabeth?r=1iazri&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post https://image.nostr.build/f6e92e82fc88f0321fbde80de54955b0e9fe1a9ea67b978c2cbcc37632fa1029.jpg

2023-10-19 15:54:30

Reposting for nostr my newest open letter. Posted it yesterday on Twitter. This one is to Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Brad Sherman, about how Bitcoin is a union that anyone can join to defeat many types of shitcoins. https://image.nostr.build/bd466d7050d80732045f35b7c6012300f96d18fddc161ddc56190239df3be83f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5b503c9e25834ea92ab669decb1c74379ec420ad61625012601157ead08aa82d.jpg

2023-10-19 12:28:19

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Thanks so much for reading (and for the zap!)! 🙏

2023-10-18 13:10:45

Reposting here the second of my open letters. This one to Fidelity and Fidelity Digital Assets, posted on Twitter on 12/8/22, on the occasion of their deciding to allow clients to trade Bitcoin on their platform, but not to take custody of it. https://image.nostr.build/dcc7b94d7244398a401b642a357e405d48c46aebf7acc066bfd1dddfeb40e7c4.jpg

2023-10-06 05:51:56

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Is that old dirty snow melting in the foreground?

2023-10-03 15:46:32

The way we see… https://image.nostr.build/0b26f643b532bfe1767c3674305922077c10e4f2803f7b109a39ae772f1d50aa.jpg

2023-09-22 17:33:59

What you see… https://image.nostr.build/d6866b8bffd093106124206cd341e03c0ef86a2783ce504c743ab4741be764fe.jpg

2023-09-19 15:55:23

When you name a thing… https://image.nostr.build/167e53d043c9e3d37c5cb4c13ccb3dfbef7a53123727dd4be48885ef2baf1200.jpg

2023-09-09 14:37:19

Flying in mind. https://image.nostr.build/569c5520586a367d0c4a96aff571bacd50326929733c944f31cebdb6c29c4418.jpg

2023-09-07 19:20:48

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(Actual pen drawing. Not AI generated.)

2023-09-07 14:52:58

Good king, lazy king. https://image.nostr.build/acb7ea142d654de74aef2ad0d96d1988ffc62807dabf04db5a84063d559d51ba.jpg

2023-08-30 05:14:37

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🤔 https://cdn.nostr.build/i/f327b8d58aa4ba1c89db1d56e97090acedf59b155efd7c8d5c6ec1f474f64531.jpg

2023-08-30 04:51:12

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When I lived in West Africa I took up surfing. A plastic bag or a diaper or a food wrapper would slap against my leg every other wave. That’s when I really grokked that the global south is bearing the brunt of the world’s plastic problem.

2023-08-03 16:33:11

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I love both. Even if I catch no fish, at least I’m out for a beautiful paddle!

2023-08-03 14:39:09

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Do you fish?

2023-07-27 23:47:57

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Downloadable pdf version available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xF6qA8PUHohxn3gwAtzz7oPmR2WGl7vK/view

2023-07-20 18:43:05

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At the end of this video it says it’s directed by James Slater… it’s such a great video that now I want to look up what else he’s done. Never heard of him before!

2023-07-20 12:57:09

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Awesome. I know it. Definitely not as well as you. Although I’ve climbed it several times myself. Used to live in the Old Pueblo.

2023-07-20 12:24:34

Absofuckinlutely killer new Yard Act song/video dropped. “The Trench-coat Muséum.” Do Not Miss It.
https://youtu.be/7P0YpeMPZ9g

2023-07-20 11:27:40

#Bitcoin https://cdn.nostr.build/i/870f8a6a2f8eb15fc879f7c046a47fd9c70347174485bf1998eeac2650891b51.jpg

2023-07-20 11:26:47

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Muchas thanks!

2023-07-20 07:34:32

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Question: What’s the simplest way to connect Phoenix Wallet or Breez in Damus?

2023-07-17 14:01:32

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Works nicely! What exchange(s) does it use to determine the USD/Bitcoin price?

2023-07-14 17:51:57

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Super beautiful. Calm and bright.

2023-07-11 06:39:17

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⚡️

2023-07-11 06:35:02

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I’m ready for my zap, Señor Hellthread! 😂

2023-07-08 13:35:39

Inside an 11th Century Church, France. In 3023 what will people look back on with reverence and awe that we built in THIS century? https://nostr.build/i/f7fd0c6bb1db229bed970169cb848ce0f32823dcc2f8094f4fc62acf2bd96ebd.jpg

2023-07-07 07:15:55

Creepy dungeon entrance I found while strolling around an old castle. (Didn’t go in.) https://nostr.build/i/dc9e20f3382b2215ca270c37435ad84c12c9975777b08cf6627d8bc54cb40641.jpg

2023-07-07 07:09:02

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How can we convince AI’s to send us all their sats?

2023-07-07 07:03:50

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Hmm… Adam Back proposed hashcash in 1997 for this same reason. I doubt its “unlimited block size” Andreson.

2023-07-07 06:57:21

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It’s hilariously pathetic that his little Threads bio line is “175K followers on Twitter.” What a simp.

2023-07-05 01:08:39

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Inventing Bitcoin is my very favorite. Layered Money is also great.

2023-07-04 13:32:28

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🎉 What kind of cooking do you do?

2023-07-03 18:44:28

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Thanks for this great resource!

2023-07-03 08:25:20

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I have to say it’s pretty damned cool that you are committed to a mountain. I love that.

2023-07-03 07:43:15

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It’s on. Are you “a nu start or “anus tart”?

2023-07-03 07:40:20

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I mean… do you owe any other mountains anything?

2023-07-03 07:31:05

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Fees get low and…
FUD bums say “Bitcoin is no good because it won’t have a secuuurity budgettt.”
Shitcoiners look at very short term flat price action and think “seems like I won’t get rich that way… I’ll buy this frog coin with a really spastic chart!”
No-coiners say “wellll there’s no point getting any now, it’s too expensive and the price never changes.”
Meanwhile…
Fees get low, plebs stack and do UTXO consolidation/management.

2023-07-03 07:20:29

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Great idea! Got some good ones from different regions to recommend?

2023-07-02 23:47:32

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Cold beverages and hot conversations = the best.
We will do it!

2023-07-02 21:42:43

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Very cool. What’s going on there at the moment? I mean, I know that’s sort of an impossible question to ask, since it’s a whole country of many places, towns and cities. But what’s going on that the rest of the world should know about.
This, by the way, is one of the most important uses of Nostr, in my opinion: to give voice to the suppressed.

2023-07-02 20:03:13

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Oh snap. That’s freaking great.

2023-07-02 20:02:54

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#Nostr

2023-07-02 19:54:07

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Yooo! How’d you get that hot purple ostrich icon?!

2023-07-02 19:52:56

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Halloo, my friend! Glad to see you’re experimenting with Nostr. I’m relatively new here but I am very happy it exists and is developing and being developed.

2023-07-02 07:59:00

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Oh man, BVM, thank you! I really enjoyed this one. Gotta give a big thanks to the other Andrew Bailey (the philosopher/Bitcoiner) for suggesting this one.
You know what? I had kind of a mental “sea change” listening to a Jeff Booth podcast about three months ago. Can’t remember which one (there are so many!). In it he was talking about the kind of engagement Bitcoiners have with legacy finance people and he was explaining that bitterness and vitriol is kind of an irrelevant response because they either just ignore Bitcoiners or dig in harder in their prejudices against us.
So since then I’ve been *trying* (not always succeeding) to be less caustic and more “bemused” in the tone in my letters. I also tried it with the letter to the New York Times that I wrote in May. I actually *feel* better in my heart (not so angsty) afterwards.

2023-06-28 22:35:51

Posted this Open Letter two days ago on Twitter, but with the way things are going, who knows if my Twitter account will last or be taken down because I’m a rabble rouser. So I’m also posting it here. Anyway, this is my most recent Open Letter and it’s to the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey. As a Bitcoiner and node runner, I’m addressing him banker to banker. https://nostr.build/i/8d41c966958342603dc9f3eb89ef27affe59615f5e50ee7c9e0564f3cbe830a5.jpg https://nostr.build/i/8c830ffa2de25f2e34cf2bc9da802a8e35a291a3feb732e73554956fc3da0f78.jpg

2023-06-20 08:16:11

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GM 🤙

2023-06-15 15:39:50

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Simon & Garfunkel

2023-06-15 15:34:50

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What you are saying makes good sense. I guess a decent intermediary step towards full Nostr functionality on iphone could be the hobbled zapless version. And users can find out that users on other platforms can express value freely and openly, and be sad, and perhaps push apple to change their silly ways.

2023-06-13 11:43:09

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I understand your position, but I'd rather use Nostr on Iris in a web browser on iphone (or use Android or desktop) and send zaps that way to enjoy the full functionality of Nostr. It seems like capitulating to me to say "okay, we won't express value on a system that was designed to allow us to express value."

2023-06-13 11:21:34

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Disagree, Stu. I don't think quarter should be given to totalitarians.

2023-05-20 20:13:38

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Waaay too much, really. 😂

2023-05-15 18:54:01

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I see the point but I don’t think I agree. I don’t think we can blame The Divine Comedy for being *too* good that it managed to codify or vaunt Florentine dialect into a generally used form of Italian. Nor does he deny the beauty and use cases of other dialects in D.V.E. And the use of a common Italian (as opposed to Latin) allowed for a much greater portion of the populace to have access to the beauty and ideas that inhere in The Divine Comedy. I think of it as Latin = Closed-Source Protocol, whereas Italian = Open-Source Protocol.

2023-05-15 13:46:20

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How do you square your position with respect to Dante’s general thesis in “De vulgari eloquentia”?

2023-05-10 12:06:16

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Leo, this is an amazing post you wrote. I love the richness of your descriptions and I love the freewheeling tone and memories you recall. I absolutely echo your sensibilities too… in finding a “wild tribe” here in the Bitcoin world that feels like home.
My own “time in the bush” was when I walked the Appalachian Trail many years ago. 2100 miles of walking a forest mountain path in the woods of Eastern USA. It was six months (a lot less that your ten years!) but it had a profound impression on me. I made good friends and felt as if I slipped out of “work time” and into Earth Time. The whole experience felt like one giant walking meditation (and it strengthened my sitting meditation practice too). It was living, rarified. Purposeful, but non-urgent. Joyful, but not without suffering. Communal, but sufficiently solitary.
I feel that this wooly Bitcoin gang has people and ethics in it that I resonate with and I feel the freedom in it to be who I am.
Thanks for your heartfelt post, amigo.

2023-05-02 06:24:10

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Absolutely! I genuinely feel like Nostr is our refuge from the madness. Thanks again, Jeff!

2023-05-02 03:32:15

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Jeff, I’ve learned so much watching and reading you. I felt like in your live appearance on WBD (aired today on YouTube) that you were seriously calling Bitcoiners to action and ringing a major gong.
When you said “they [the government] will *have* to” take down all Bitcoin related program access on GitHub, Windows, Apple, etc., in order to lock everyone they can into the fiat system… a light (or a fire) lit in my brain. I need to take my knowledge of open source systems like Linux and privacy systems like Tor to the next level. I can’t wait anymore. I’m an old poet doodler and letter writer but I need to get way more technically savvy now.
Honestly your talk today felt like an urgent “Paul Revere moment” and I feel l need to spend less time in Spaces listening to chats about “macro” and way more time focusing on the tools for survival that we’ve got in our hands if we just use them.
The fire is lit, Jeff, and I won’t ignore it.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
—Cosmo

2023-04-08 02:35:34

Reposting here the first of my Open Letters, this one to the two rubes at The European Central Bank who published the “Bitcoin is Dead” article. First posted my open letter on Twitter on 11/30/22. https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_4b1c096d7c74a85789551ba9d1dbae7097ec85a26aed46ea1108f4f4df1f16e0.jpg

2023-03-28 14:24:17

In advance of the (possible) choking out of anons on Twitter, I will be re-posting all of my previous open letters here on Nostr in the coming weeks. Viva anonymity! Viva privacy! Viva freedom!

2023-02-23 22:42:24

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Thanks for your note! Much appreciated!

2023-02-21 18:30:45

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I definitely agree. Freedom above all else. But it does seem like sats are proving themselves as real money better and faster than anything else.

2023-02-21 18:18:41

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Makes sense to me. I guess it just shows that sats on Lightning are the most useful and best thing to use. And/or that Bitcoin has the best builders. And/or that Bitcoiners are better at thinking into decentralized communities. And/or that shitcoiners are lame.

2023-02-21 18:08:15

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I have a random question: Is Nostr shitcoin-resistant? Or could shitcoiny scammers build shitcoin rails into a Nostr client if they wanted to?

2023-02-21 17:45:30

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I thought you’d get a kick out of that. 😂

2023-02-21 17:35:05

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Thanks Tuvok! (Zapped you back!)

2023-02-21 17:30:53

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I put in my LNURL from WoS but Damus seems to default back to the email address style. It was working for others yesterday, so maybe it’s just shitty relay action today.

2023-02-21 17:28:14

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Okay. Trying another thing! (If this is too annoying feel free to ignore. 😂)

2023-02-21 17:26:12

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I put in my WoS email-style address