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Alan ₿ Watts ⚡️

"This is it." #Bitcoin

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2024-06-26 18:03:51

Wikileaks “kicked the hornet’s nest” when it began relying solely on #Bitcoin donations in 2010.
Now, with Julian Assange freed, it appears the hornets are retreating, or are at the very least regrouping. Bullish. https://image.nostr.build/b470e9f6676a0644fe1b1b76b5e2a8d57512dfbe16517b9344a931b423e8ed04.jpg

2024-06-26 17:12:37

If you’re bearish on #Bitcoin, you’ll be surprised by what happens next.

2024-06-26 17:11:13

Would love to see a design like this for the protocol rules of #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/21ddd63d3b509c578e8cb16ec607e62d9d34344dbf03c282df9082a493659aa3.jpg

2024-06-26 07:04:40

“If you were told that you were going to be given half an hour’s interview with God, and you had the privilege of asking one question, I wonder what you would ask.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/5256c2880583e5230d5021265681a047c8998a3962a019266d36b26963137352.jpg

2024-06-26 06:56:59

Butterchicken isn’t the answer, nor is any other “altcoin.” #Bitcoin is. https://image.nostr.build/9baf9c0d762d1959359ea03e7ac637a39182322d24f6fe8d4692cba174a9acf8.jpg

2024-06-25 19:39:36

“Is you is or is you ain’t?”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/a645823e98224012e7f9a6ad5ec1a9e26b41c2040b98b26cf03e340e1644031b.jpg

2024-06-25 19:16:22

The West hasn’t fallen.
Society isn’t collapsing.
Rather, we are transitioning from a fiat economy to a sound money economy.
There will be growing pains, but what’s on the other side will be well worth it.
In fact, the #Bitcoin standard is already here for those who opt in. https://image.nostr.build/c1549240739546ebf9bfcac4dc7238f3d5aead5f3f54ee425df48086775fe25b.jpg

2024-06-25 01:59:31

Inflation is a choice. Milei and Argentina decided enough is enough. This is possible for all countries. https://image.nostr.build/499074104c7fa4c5e09838774f1888876b2bfcaf61c45c903fee7d2b76d64c7e.jpg

2024-06-23 23:16:43

Good framing: “#Bitcoin is for those with a need to know.”
https://m.primal.net/IvaB.mov

2024-06-23 20:27:10

Memecoins are set up such that only those who pump and dump a new token the fastest after a meme emerges reliably earn a profit.
By the time retail hears about a new memecoin, the dump is either imminent or already underway.
Yet, even for the token creators who successfully pump and dump, they create negative karma for themselves. https://image.nostr.build/65b02c86b9a7ccd4b737b426759d291b0276eda4a07e68f5cca812cd086f304e.jpg

2024-06-23 18:05:41

You could spend your whole life being somewhere else. Instead, be here now. https://image.nostr.build/7305c6686d5cbb0981977d90810ebebb7e8f1791ff0cef160acdb7ce4fe1cbb6.jpg

2024-06-23 00:18:04

What trying to defend against inflation by holding “altcoins” looks like— https://video.nostr.build/558f49b14afad5898180fba628b2d0d0508c079a49263289374d98e0f831f47a.mp4

2024-06-21 18:30:37

“We have untold stacks of recorded music from every age and culture, and the most superb means of playing it. But who actually listens? Maybe a few pot-smokers.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/0362104916ccd086dbe6937ad4ca90b9770e1c340d35e334052fa106517f34c8.jpg

2024-06-20 20:21:51

This is what happens when you start saving in #Bitcoin and focusing on your craft.
https://m.primal.net/IrtH.mov

2024-06-20 19:39:34

Wall Street bankers are all betting that the ETH ETF gets approved.
Wouldn’t be surprised if it does, as it could be a profitable short term trade for insiders, just as buying Bitcoin before the ETF approval was a profitable trade, followed by a sell-the-news event as those high-time preference investors lock in fiat profits.
Yet, unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum lacks absolutely, verifiable scarcity, it cannot be meaningfully self-custodied, and it is not a censorship resistant asset.
For these reasons, even if the ETH ETF does get approved, there is no guarantee it will surge in the weeks and months to follow as Bitcoin did.
Plus, ETH has the added difficulty of needing to stave off the endless supply of newer cryptocurrencies. For if ETH can get ETF approval with a 70% pre-mine and centralized management team, why wouldn’t the SEC approve every other scamcoin ETF proposal?
#Bitcoin only, or prepare to be rugged.
https://m.primal.net/Irrn.jpg
https://m.primal.net/Irro.png

2024-06-19 18:16:17

Most are aware they need something to protect their wealth from inflation.
They just haven’t realized it’s #Bitcoin yet.

2024-06-19 17:44:59

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It’s a “pig show” or “swine show.”
Basically, proud pig owners strut their hogs around to show how biologically superior they are.

2024-06-19 17:41:43

Are you locked in, anon?
https://m.primal.net/IqeF.mov

2024-06-19 07:04:13

#Bitcoin guards against fiat inflation. https://image.nostr.build/8b69eb5cab2bf53c577c70e3fd6d4b9d63f4b3d206bb0e8a71e8f737000ff57d.jpg

2024-06-18 02:10:59

By the time most realize they’d like to own 1 Bitcoin, they won’t be able to.
This is already the case, yet it will only accelerate from here ad infinitum. https://image.nostr.build/14fa9edf993edc37c0f6205aa8fbdd1f99ef4f9f1d1172d7993a03ebf752c656.jpg

2024-06-17 19:01:25

God will steer the ship. But you must row. https://image.nostr.build/c4ad376b898e95bacf94a665b13dcfb9a277170bb54deef711c37afea21c272f.jpg

2024-06-17 18:12:18

“Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/5774498e341f5a641a4fdd4dddee3c5c1bb08dc7fada561e3238a8cba51083be.jpg

2024-06-17 17:51:07

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GM, sir

2024-06-17 16:12:29

“When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/f5a8aeef8a8e4851c32bb3a22166145c7cd49d7cf9df6431264a867f868b807c.jpg

2024-06-17 01:53:22

This reads like a Zen sutra https://image.nostr.build/56580436716d876f738954506de2c2191ded85f3b8efb24313d41537b12b22b4.jpg

2024-06-15 17:27:47

Remarkable that so many devs spend their entire lives only knowing front end or back end development, rather than both. Why is that? https://image.nostr.build/2c514be242b8902bbcde236cb5e916fc809f4d8439c8202bd3165218e46286db.jpg

2024-06-15 06:50:06

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2024-06-15 00:51:21

“Words are not the same as the reality they represent. The map is not the territory.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/c7b9a66c6b52d4e1e9be870deb347e7cf864c8f3ce1526c20b16765ce3b0bf2b.jpg

2024-06-15 00:46:25

In one sense, anything can be true. In another, nothing is.
Such is the nature of words. https://image.nostr.build/163de863b5fba8a775fab15de09da0a7fc0d508b40163cea2c61ee41fb17d589.jpg

2024-06-14 17:11:45

God will guide you.
But you must put in the work. https://image.nostr.build/f86d97f1b96e331718527911eb84680a5f8f086fd6155c7d641d4eaf7a4af2c6.jpg

2024-06-14 02:26:16

Accelerate. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/f069761ec67932e33193fe43a58f8cbe29285405f2a85da79f7e79cff6135b15.jpg

2024-06-13 21:45:00

“It is way past time to reintroduce a bill to end the Federal Reserve.”
— Thomas Massie, 6/13/2024 https://video.nostr.build/d88c737e09121c691f64bbe8ae36594180372c28fc19353ff027df393212f8d9.mp4

2024-06-13 19:54:51

The Roman Empire hasn’t fallen. It still lives in the hearts and minds of men. https://image.nostr.build/be843ccb6d4f6f9810474cd2fa93cfc4bf5bddf30a1b44eb83f6e3a745a7956e.jpg

2024-06-13 19:51:52

Tat tvam asi.

2024-06-13 19:50:53

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Tat tvam asi

2024-06-13 19:01:52

A good slave values obedience to his master(s) above all else.
A good master values obedience to God/his calling/his Self above all else.

2024-06-13 18:58:25

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2024-06-13 18:58:17

https://image.nostr.build/c2b55bdb16bb05c857939ebd5addb29269a2137063c3c1cd38486271d4e588eb.jpg #note17al…ykm0

2024-06-13 18:55:48

Fiat = Slave morality.
#Bitcoin = Master morality.
Choose wisely… https://image.nostr.build/703bbddede3eaf3b99c54778a08065698d9cbbde797bd854ef65333fe428392c.jpg

2024-06-11 18:25:40

Putting aside the trust issue wrt Apple Intelligence, being able to have an AI agent actually *do* things for you natively on the device is absolutely game-changing. A monumental, technological shift is underway.

2024-06-10 03:31:10

“Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/d789829d098ee473ad524345580b183038fe8763781856fd51c16c37b974c598.jpg

2024-06-10 03:14:04

How you respond to the existence of #Bitcoin is up to you. Choose wisely. https://image.nostr.build/77bc4d8f3e65407f994ec7f58d579510570b2602f1f26cd092a4e676b09c7e2e.jpg

2024-06-08 01:14:25

Don’t let them down. #note1chp…t7xe

2024-06-08 01:13:39

Your ancestors want you to have a good weekend.

2024-06-08 01:09:55

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/57eccb82c995ad5e096f5e338ee11b9517be7cd6b8e5435db47111db96bfe4fb.jpg

2024-06-06 16:24:17

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🤝

2024-06-06 15:56:57

Fiat ends here. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/903d13febda302d6508f6a140b28474fe0e34d080cf22ec6aa829eca93d7537a.jpg

2024-06-05 18:02:11

This is what happens when you start investing in “altcoins.”
#Bitcoin only. https://image.nostr.build/569525471f3943f169ce59dfd4820a44c28d86de4521738075ab153fbcfadc34.jpg

2024-06-05 18:00:53

The world is yours. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/fa2c01c9109de105e53b87aaab3817c8fe3a304d3ac2aa9f9419d0a3c3fc8962.jpg

2024-06-05 00:36:22

Two choices: Save in #Bitcoin or wish you did. https://image.nostr.build/b96a77b857e4907b902f76ef4636f8f21edce091d91e6908bd61adf6ca41e244.jpg

2024-06-04 20:31:40

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It is up and running now, yes

2024-06-04 20:31:27

"There is nothing to do to attain Buddhahood, nothing at all. But you see, that's very difficult to understand, because a lot of people, when they hear that there's nothing to do, try to *do* nothing."
– Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/6a352e4ef1d7cc83c7f867372efcf4b04085ba460b7fa40b123082a95ad40b1b.jpg

2024-06-04 20:26:51

The AI outages today show the value of having a lightweight LLM that isn’t dependent on an internet connection. https://image.nostr.build/2dac89821bf32931ee8ca6d9bda9cd3c0bfdca567187c96d1e515815314e3680.jpg

2024-06-04 18:33:43

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🤝

2024-06-04 17:19:25

ChatGPT is down.
#Bitcoin is never down. https://image.nostr.build/e1788bb0ac6917f5626460842feca21673083c3d5783962a6a3a1c882885d06f.jpg

2024-06-03 22:47:08

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🤝

2024-06-03 21:32:10

“It. Let’s say ‘it’ to mean the great cosmological ‘it,’ whether you call it God or whether you call it the universe or anything you like. It’s just the ‘it.’ The ‘it’ is all there is. There isn’t anything else. There are no parts of the ‘it’ that can be separated from any other parts.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/2d2f8bd1020e00e247583c721841fcf29b341d53c57e6681487f49b3973ac0b0.jpg

2024-06-03 21:27:52

Do you feel it?

2024-06-03 17:30:33

Imagine owning Berkshire Hathaway when you could be owning #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/5a6d5877dbe816211980188dc0c0a40f8c77b0ec07a555dcd54ae7e60092c84d.jpg

2024-06-03 15:50:37

Save in #Bitcoin and focus on your craft. https://image.nostr.build/d7ff791d60ad8df132afea42897eea192a7a4a72433cc38d0abd2f41633ebfd8.jpg

2024-06-01 18:28:55

#Bitcoin is the new beacon of liberty, and not just for America, but for the entire world. https://image.nostr.build/19acd99ae5804cfedaa9235acf914f5c0836a3ce9dde57d2437f5f8ae0d51697.jpg

2024-05-31 23:12:47

Voting harder will not, on its own, fix the fiat political system. Opting out of the fiat and into #Bitcoin will. https://image.nostr.build/f04e221890f266e6b6b5f50a72ed63ea7eed9dc38725e557e2e49725f244fde7.jpg

2024-05-31 20:47:48

Worth remembering this insight from from Plutarch on Julius Caesar’s army during the battle of Pharsalus in 48BC:
“His soldiers were more afraid of their own general than of the enemy. They had no option of flight or retreat, whereas their opponents had the option to save themselves by surrendering.”
The error Pompey made was not giving his opponents a way out, but instead forcing them to fight to the death, which ultimately led to their victory.
It would have been more wise for Pompey to follow the advice of Sun Tzu: “To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.” https://image.nostr.build/a648e13e1e3213779f5d0a867c4b7bc06abe23e3bafcb3c343cc6aa723ef3108.jpg

2024-05-31 20:18:35

Hard not to see the parallels between Ancient Rome and modern America.
— Debasement of the currency
— Replacement of Romans with migrants in the army/citizenry
— Political persecution of the regime’s most popular political opponent
— Over-expansionist wars stretching the empire’s resources too thin
The biggest difference, is that Ancient Rome didn’t have #Bitcoin. We do.

2024-05-31 06:34:26

The amount of fiat it takes to buy 1 #Bitcoin over time, visualized— https://video.nostr.build/88e958491701e9af32126c544433c720b22e591c3cff95116f794f9eb6af89f5.mp4

2024-05-30 21:43:35

“Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. Just as a bird sings or a butterfly flies, because it is his nature to do so, we also do as we do.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/caf486c97dbf6ed25c01dd26e2123e6c39540164732b397a9a0e31a26160f3fd.jpg

2024-05-30 21:38:35

Tick tock, next block. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/1ff3567f82f819db50c3ee062e5e6dae801e2451febd414b079854e1239d255c.jpg

2024-05-30 17:05:32

If you self-custody #Bitcoin, you needn’t worry about the fiat system.
You are free to simply live your life.

2024-05-30 02:20:56

“Ye of little faith, why did you doubt?”
— Matthew 14:31 https://image.nostr.build/6541f895bcdef30045bc293eafabc3206c92fe5ff1577ed629f9886dc1199b0d.jpg

2024-05-30 02:15:17

“You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky. You look in you.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/eaf781cc1c79eb9660ca1a63ceae8cf58b8a561c5c62009c566bd13aff98d918.jpg

2024-05-30 01:25:26

How it feels to broadcast a transaction on the aeternal #Bitcoin timechain https://image.nostr.build/21bfdf31b145b3fe9f3ac78f7716722a5978b1801d8c393cfb602202c47f7c57.jpg

2024-05-29 18:01:38

"Everything that's going on is just jazz. It is a dance. It is a game. It's only a game and not to be taken seriously. I can take it seriously for a while if I want, but I don't need to because I've already seen through it. The whole world is just a big act and we're all playing our parts. It's a divine game, and when you realize that, you are free to enjoy it fully."
– Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/b16124546a8fb5b62b44d7c421a1be523b6b3c19ef55df0ada6c825a24fde1e8.jpg

2024-05-29 17:54:20

#Bitcoin allows you to stay calm amidst the storms. https://image.nostr.build/8f92ecc083d752351a62ba2692070b251b140d02c47aed4dffe2b61e637e0958.jpg

2024-05-29 17:47:58

When you find some sats on an old wallet app you’d forgotten about https://image.nostr.build/19d5e24831d276e16db1b8705599d0a45c3322334281ada3e357201e45b57be7.jpg

2024-05-27 16:01:31

How it feels to speak with a fellow Bitcoiner https://image.nostr.build/de97054dc23b83895ee319c8b5591b81cc9ef90a6ede74a44ade9920ed03cf7d.jpg

2024-05-27 15:58:49

GM. There are many paths up the mountain. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/8c6452220e0a16948df7b0570fb517cc3b37095fcf00e0b3ce9b0a85fb5fb472.jpg

2024-05-26 17:04:48

May the Lord be with you. https://image.nostr.build/f4f9af22bb827289af6560cf260817b2e0fc108214bc9c7990d373b8bea67cac.jpg

2024-05-26 05:36:32

“The transformation of human consciousness through meditation is frustrated so long as we think of it as something that I by myself can bring about, by some sort of wangle, by some sort of gimmick. Because, you see, it leads to endless games of spiritual oneupmanship.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/446b83a8819504b58f5205b2f032a3d2f4fad7541ec7a85ffaae9dbfbf886639.jpg

2024-05-25 21:21:24

Tat tvam asi (तत् त्वम् असि) https://image.nostr.build/1e48c22936ee0d1131928a413f54103290e532756ae392a9e76071ec98d91654.jpg

2024-05-25 17:19:55

“You see, it depends on what kind of attitude you want to take to the world. If you want to put the world down, you say, ‘Oh, well fundamentally it’s only just a lot of geology.’ On the other hand, if you feel warm-hearted towards the universe, you put it up instead of putting it down, and you say about rocks, ‘They’re really conscious, but a very primitive form of consciousness.’”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/02760e5178281fd9de8a86cc910fdf469a5c4511d43e64d67abdf0b5b5ebe3d9.jpg

2024-05-24 17:04:01

The least sophisticated spaceport on a #Bitcoin standard https://video.nostr.build/22fbaba9d51727502359c4feae3c280883e6df5f1127eb82276544768baf5100.mp4

2024-05-23 20:47:49

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🤝

2024-05-23 02:14:41

“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/a6bdbe9abbecefc910e46e4ea1571bb11758943af343aa4426c5220f32c761e4.jpg

2024-05-22 22:03:15

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Well-played, Uncle Rockstar.

2024-05-22 04:13:53

The way out is through. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/4cec3f83dc36bd4285d773b5d0cf57d965829a5bf416886445d0ccce310720d2.jpg

2024-05-21 21:46:19

Fiat: “Everything I like must be mandated and everything I don’t like must be banned.”
#Bitcoin: “Live and let live.”

2024-05-21 03:56:32

Why is #Bitcoin going up?
Because it is Bitcoin’s nature to go up. https://image.nostr.build/7beef58c5bb6f81082fe624a3c4366a9e5ea357e6589666ac05991bf5b72f9a6.jpg

2024-05-20 17:01:15

What needs to happen for the Nostr App Store to dethrone the Apple and Google App Stores?
Pondering this…

2024-05-19 20:21:09

The #Bitcoin portal is open. https://image.nostr.build/5939be6d0506853d1c2ab5446af75e4324f76c47250cd64515148be88180a47e.jpg

2024-05-19 17:08:34

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Painting by Heinrich Hofmann, 1886

2024-05-19 17:08:19

Jesus loves you. Have a blessed day. https://image.nostr.build/76b1d577792f160880eda22a82a1dd8e4a119de93a378c3760a51d67568696be.jpg

2024-05-19 17:03:44

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“Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
— Victor Hugo, The Future of Man https://image.nostr.build/f90d0c0ef24dd12cf9cbe5e1503859e6ff06d446afbb08932f9046930d6b497c.jpg

2024-05-19 17:03:19

2024-05-18 18:39:55

Bitcoin is an idea whose time has come. https://image.nostr.build/a7b66c947032314c5a4f44f6e7f742527fb2123fa028523743d50521cb53b84e.jpg

2024-05-18 18:00:25

Buying GME to protest Wall Street is like playing slots to protest the casino.
Buy #Bitcoin instead.

2024-05-18 05:42:34

"I wonder, I wonder, what would you do if you had the power to dream any dream, and alter your time sense to slip, say, 75 years of subjective time into 8 hours sleep.
You would, I suppose, start by fulfilling all your wishes. You would design for yourself the most ecstatic life: love affairs, banquets, dancing girls, wonderful journeys, gardens, music beyond belief.
And then after a couple of months of this sort of thing, at 75 years a night, you’d be getting a little taste for something different, and you would move over to an adventurous dimension, where there are sudden dangers involved, and the thrill of dealing with dangers. And you would rescue princesses from dragons, and go on dangerous journeys, make wonderful explosions, and eventually get into contests with enemies.
And after you’ve done that for some time, you’d think up a new wrinkle: to forget that you were dreaming, so you’d think it was all for real, and be anxious about it. Because it’d be so great when you woke up.
And then you’d say, like children who dare each other: ‘How far out could you get? What could you take? What dimension of being lost, of abandonment of your power, what dimension of that could you stand?’
Well, after you’ve gone on doing this for some time, you’d suddenly find yourself sitting around in this room, with all your personal involvements, problems, etc, talking with me. How do you know that’s not what you’re doing now? Could be, because after all, what would you do if you were God? If you were what there is, the Self?
One of the Upanishads starts out by saying, ‘In the beginning was the Self, and looking around it said, ‘I am.’’ And thus it is that everyone to this day, when asked who is there, says it is ‘I.’ If you were God in the sense that you knew everything, you would be bored. So instead, God says to his Self: ‘Man, get lost.’”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/db9e092a4a109689314f01c563c3ed7fa822f71e30956b1b802b22a97d745890.jpg

2024-05-17 16:27:50

Are you dreaming big enough?
Are you doing what is needed to make those dreams a reality?
Are you enjoying the ride along the way, even the challenging parts?
If you answer yes to all 3, you are on the path. https://image.nostr.build/4e191c421326277f501811a7b509554200d23164e5d51d48f7e57c7d68877b11.jpg

2024-05-17 16:22:24

GM. Do something grand today. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/e113e4b489a3bef218b230ccd3eef2a74e426bce79b81a265e5f6e98d7a62b3c.jpg

2024-05-17 16:17:36

“There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.”
— Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/e83b5daa7f8b22ce848a60d20749631dbb0d6a11babb4277e358874f05160857.jpg

2024-05-16 22:20:51

Primal has great UX but requires KYC information to link a lightning wallet for zaps. Why?