Tim Totten

Wireless Architect; investor; #Bitcoin fan; bad poker player; amateur radio N4GN, NP4TT, 4G1A; lover of liberty, travel, gun building, good food ✝️

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2024-04-02 05:46:54

After a long and detailed analysis of the situation, I've changed my mind and decided that hard money was just a 5000-year fad. This current 52-year experiment where money is whatever the money printers tell us it is, well that is clearly the solution that best benefits all of society. The faster money can be counterfei...I mean, printed and handed out to the rich people with the coziest connections to government, the more government can be expanded, the more the lower and middle classes become increasingly dependent on government for everything, and the more true wealth and power gets transferred to the richest folks at the top.
I mean we can all get behind this strategy for a better society, right? I know the President told us in 1971 that the closure of the gold window was just a temporary measure, but I say it's time we put an end to the fear that hard money might some day again be declared the law of the land. Why should we continue to let that fear hang over us? Let's just go ahead and declare this fiat money experiment a complete success, and make it permanent!
While we're at it, we should probably reinstate Executive Order 6102 from 1933 and seize everyone's gold once again. And more importantly, outlaw all the math behind the open source protocol known as #Bitcoin.
And we should probably put limits on private holdings of all other assets like real estate, rare art, and baseball cards. If any escape hatch is left open, some folks who don't share our utopian vision of limiting class mobility might try to use those escape hatches. We can't have that. (Of course, all the best tightly regulated investments that can only be held by rich people should be fine as long as we maintain high enough standards to keep ordinary folks out.)
So in this spirit of a more perfect society, where everyone just stays in the social class they are born into, I have decided not to wait for the official new Executive Order, but rather go ahead and pre-comply by burning all my Bitcoin. If you care about ensuring that governments everywhere have unlimited ability to expand into every aspect of our lives, and if you support the vision of putting a hard cap on upward social mobility, so the non-rich just stay in their place, I hope you will join me. #fiatforabetterworld

2024-03-22 16:53:04

Shareholders have fully approved the DWAC-TMTG merger deal! Huge CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU to Eric Swider for all the hard work, especially over the last year. Can't wait to celebrate with you!

2024-03-20 22:57:07

Boarded now, DL1859, JFK-SJU. Last leg of a very long day. #sleepontheplane

2023-06-09 08:18:04

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It's funny that I'm starting to realize I need to do this myself.

2023-05-25 23:31:24

Boarded now, DL1946, ATL-SJU. All ready to go, but the First Officer is driving in from Chattanooga and stuck in Atlanta traffic. 🙄

2023-05-20 19:21:30

Coolest thing by far at #BitcoinMiami: Burak is releasing TBDxxx today as Ark. New layer 2 with lots of advantages over Lightning, but interoperable with LN. All #CoinJoined in the middle. Need to study this, but it feels HUGE! See arkpill.me.

2023-05-18 07:20:45

It seems a bunch of the Chainalysis folks are staying in my hotel. I knew something stunk when I walked in the door. #alwayscoinjoin #fightfinancialsurveillance #BitcoinMiami

2023-05-14 19:27:17

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Mom was one amazing human being. I still miss her every day.
#nevent1q…q2ez

2023-05-13 07:46:28

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#GCash is down. #Bitcoin is still chugging along as always.
#nevent1q…s9k2

2023-03-16 22:04:50

There are only two options:
1) the gov and/or Fed, with a wink and a printing press, forced 11 banks to bail out a failing competitor for a few days, or
2) they are so afraid of something that they did this on their own volition.
I'm not sure which reality is more frightening.

2023-03-13 00:11:13

Trying to understand what happened to SVB, what might happen next, and how it could impact your banks? This is a pretty awesome summary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1g7ZUQkWI

2023-03-10 00:13:55

Nearly the entire adult population in the #Philippines now has a #Bitcoin wallet in their pocket!
Most #Filipinos do not have a bank account. But 85% of adults in the Philippines use a payments app called #GCash. As of today, GCash users can now buy, sell, send and receive #BTC.

2023-03-06 20:42:27

Today, the inflation rate in #bitcoin is about 1.8 %. In about a year (at the next "halvening") it will be well under 1%. Practically flat.
Meanwhile, inflation for nearly all fiat currencies (e.g., USD, EUR, JPY) looks like a steep upward slope, and it will only get steeper as politicians can't help but spend money they don't have (and thus, have to print).
The cool thing is, unless you live in North Korea or a similar regime, YOU GET TO CHOOSE the currency in which you denominate your wealth.
Think about that. You can choose! Far too many of you don't even bother making a choice. You just go with whatever the default is where you live, and never give it a thought. I'm sorry, but that kind of mental laziness is not going to serve you well.
If you live in a country with one of the worst fiat currencies, chances are that you have at least tried from time to time to store funds in a better fiat currency. Or maybe in gold or other assets.
But if you live in the US, or Switzerland or someplace with one of the stronger fiat currencies, there's a good chance you haven't given any thought to how money works. And you have kind of been able to get away with that. But those days are quickly coming to an end.
I think the choice is pretty easy. I'm very heavily weighted in bitcoin. But if you're not so sure about that, at least diversify a bit with some better fiat currencies (e.g., the little bit of funds I have in the Armenian dram has been very good for me, up some 23% vs. USD in the last year). Or move a percentage into physical gold. Or buy some commodities or something. Anything! Except maybe all those crypto scams--avoid those. 😏
If nothing else, at least THINK for yourself and don't just do the lazy default thing because it's the easiest.

2023-03-06 00:50:38

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I think I'm already following you on Nostr. N4GN here. npub1t0ttenlstqhx7nvqkrj9p822qygz2evpjt86nrep0a8js2x7r7wqe5g9s3
I'm in KP4 now, using the NP4TT club call. But haven't put up any antennas yet. Give me a few days if no other takers.

2023-02-23 04:50:10

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So this basically turns a lightning payment flow back into an on-chain channel creation plus payment (with associated fees). Seems like something an engineer thought would be cool to do, and no one asked the business guy's opinion. LOL!

2023-02-22 18:44:39

OK, I think I have my private Nostr server working. Maybe?

2023-02-22 17:45:01

Anyone interested in using BOS to open balanced channel with any of my LN nodes? Min 2.5 + 2.5 Msats, max 7.5 +7.5 Msats. My best public node aliases are N4GN and NP4TT.

2023-02-18 16:26:08

Last morning for huevos motuleños. 😢 The food is just amazing here in Mérida.
https://i.imgur.com/MaIXhHM.jpg

2023-02-17 07:01:42

Man, Nostr is moving so fast, I feel like I can't possibly keep up. Trying to figure out this whole Zap thing. 🤣

2023-02-01 04:49:43

So the very sad day has come when I must leave the Philippines for a few months. 😢
I've been around a bit (91 countries so far), and this place isn't perfect, but it's my absolute favorite. I'll be back as soon as possible.

2023-02-01 04:45:04

Wen Amethyst on F-Droid?

2023-01-29 11:02:31

So, who do I pay to get a blue check mark here? And how much is it? 😂

2023-01-25 19:21:12

And for whatever it's worth, I don't see any updated info in the profile of #[1] yet.
#[2]

2023-01-25 19:13:35

Big thanks to #[0] for all the help sorting through my NIP-05 issues today!

2023-01-23 15:17:34

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Awesome! Yeah, npub1t0tten took me long enough (maybe 3 hours) on a 16-core machine. Adding that 7th letter would definitely take a while.