gladstein

https://hrf.org/programs/financial-freedom/

Public Key

npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu

NIP-05 Address

gladstein@primal.net

NIP-57 Address

gladstein@getalby.com

Profile Code

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relay.snort.social

relay.damus.io

nostr.hoppe-relay.it.com

Author Public Key

npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu

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Last Notes

2025-06-04 14:06:50

For many years I had never seen the extraordinary fully zoomed out Tank Man photo
Today in China even the tiniest reference of Tiananmen Square or 6/4 (June 4) is live-censored by the CCP’s dynamic AI-powered surveillance system. Slowly erasing the event from people’s minds and family histories
Even imagery (for example a photo sent of 6 leaves and 4 flowers) is instablocked, with punishment sure to follow
THAT is the technological environment we must find ways for freedom to survive in
I absolutely believe it will happen. Life finds a way. Tyrants and empires always fall. But it won’t be easy or handed to us on a silver platter
https://image.nostr.build/0e939bd20b72e6e1111072d6ba4a01e7b7c8bbfefd9c9096f82286eca0892d59.jpg

2025-06-04 09:35:54

Today some of the most brilliant engineers are meeting up with some of the bravest dissidents to construct new ways to expand freedom in a world that desperately needs it
AI, nostr, and Bitcoin will supercharge their efforts
Never before has the power of the powerless been more powerful 💪

2025-05-31 20:51:24

Was a pleasure and honor to have Leonard join us at the Oslo Freedom Forum
What a hero 🫡
#note1uny…mfrh

2025-05-26 13:23:31

Happy Oslo Freedom Forum day!
🇳🇴
https://image.nostr.build/fe3a1919858ea0d1949c279170446dd02e5f1b07e32b165fa85f1f0b85d13b82.jpg

2025-05-24 06:27:38

Weak move by French authorities
https://image.nostr.build/2ce37f2371bca49062a5c2d9260dd8c5efcaabf607608882086749ace8692996.jpg

2025-05-21 15:28:12

Lots of drama and bickering lately
Do NOT lose sight of what is happening
A leaderless decentralized cypherpunk open source software project that secures property rights and free speech for anyone and destroys central banking and financial censorship has just eclipsed the corporate behemoth Amazon in market cap
4 left to go…
This is without a doubt the best timeline ✌️
https://image.nostr.build/2f8cce8f4ce8279510172299426c36992234d6553280b44b0e86733bcd7ee8e4.jpg

2025-05-18 23:26:40

Can anyone think of something better that the US government could have spent $7 billion of taxpayer money on instead of bombing one of the world’s poorest countries?

2025-05-18 02:55:38

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Def not El Salvador or any of its cities
That’s an authoritarian regime

2025-05-18 01:50:49

😂
Also - what city would nostr be?
https://image.nostr.build/d1db23145fd0bade9b5cd03165c99f07043e8d55d0b2101d312c7c4b578ad6e3.jpg

2025-05-17 20:23:44

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History is one long laundry list of how you can’t kill ideas with brute force.
What you can do is introduce better ideas. Appreciate your work on making Bitcoin a more widespread global idea.
HRF doesn’t support violence and we don’t get involved in warfare.
Sorry to disappoint!

2025-05-17 17:05:11

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Ok. Glad to hear that you don’t think all Russians need to be killed.
I don’t mean to show any disregard for Ukrainians. They are the victims. And I have appreciated how you stand up for them unlike the rest of the Bitcoin community. We just disagree on how best to help.
I would like us to protect innocent civilians. In my view that means a) Putin ending his war and retreating and b) an end to the IDF bombing and starving of Gaza and the end of Hamas
I understand that you think the only way to defeat Russian imperialism and Islamic terror is brute force violence, but I don’t agree. Can’t kill an idea. Far more long-term effective (not to mention more peaceful) if Russians or Palestinians can be mobilized to rise up and change their own governments. Germans run Germany peacefully today same with Japan, I see no reason why there can’t be a peaceful democratic Russia and Gaza in the future.

2025-05-17 16:18:09

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Members of the Israeli government regularly and publicly boast that their goal is to flatten Gaza, seize it, and expel Palestinians and take their land. You can see this in Israeli newspapers and TV every single day. Look up Ministers Ben Gvir and Smotrich in particular. Bev Gvir even said he wants to move there!
As for Navalny, we’ll just have to disagree. IMO the only way to defuse Russian fascism and imperialism is to end the Putin regime, not to kill all the Russians.

2025-05-17 14:41:00

Nostr is ALIVE

2025-05-17 06:49:48

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Let’s not conflate. I am against the current policies of the crazy Netanyahu government, not against “Israel” or the Israeli people or “Jews” (I am partly Jewish myself and have relatives who survived the Holocaust)
Judaism is a multi-thousand year old anti-fragile religion, and Netanyahu’s crazy war is only two years old. Judaism will outlive this madness. And neither Netanyahu nor the ultra religious crazies that are part of his government have a claim to Judaism.
I am also pro Palestine, but anti Hamas and anti Islamic extremism. Maybe these don’t square for you but they square for me and plenty of others.

2025-05-17 03:54:47

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50% of Gazans were not alive to vote in the 2006 elections. Current polling has Hamas with a very small minority support. There are currently large street protests against Hamas, people risking their lives to rise up. The IDF has killed tens of thousands of women and children non-combatants. These are all facts…

2025-05-16 23:56:20

A “Mandibles then Bitcoin Standard” @npub1qny…95gx special
https://image.nostr.build/f6e4a8a41794b719a247125178207eb299dc21519582639ab504593bb5f29917.jpg

2025-05-16 23:19:02

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What’s the math on what the IDF owes Gazan people who don’t support Hamas?

2025-05-16 20:57:41

Hard to fathom
https://image.nostr.build/d66c3507652646fe92a7089a9a2cb90c499acd6bc2142617d4569e656c021539.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/a806ccd9ba2c69ef4db8b7505241f19d134c9b15840f771252ecb6da6aee3a3c.jpg

2025-05-15 05:25:31

Crazy
https://image.nostr.build/fb9a75bdf7bc75eab21f93be3c3622c518608b7fb0aab1aeef36ab55142f595d.jpg

2025-05-11 14:43:41

This is the surface of Venus, captured by a Soviet probe in the 1970s
A piece of one of these missions just crash landed in the Indian Ocean
I didn’t even know the Soviets had landed crafts on Venus, took photos, recorded sounds, etc, until a few years ago
https://image.nostr.build/e14051dbbfd5ca7193eb84107948b54f0dd5b4f0216114dd5675f52e9580b895.jpg

2025-05-09 20:29:08

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They can make it illegal to own, this will just make it more valuable. This has already happened in numerous countries. How do you ban an idea? Math? Tyrants will try but this is unlikely to happen long term in democracies as being anti Bitcoin will be political suicide.
Tracking is much more difficult than you imply especially for small amounts. The number of mobile apps these days that conduct non KYC swaps is growing.
But I’ll give a practical example of how much harder it is to track Bitcoin than fiat. If we make a grant to someone in Egypt with fiat, the regime immediately knows. If we make same grant using BTC, the regime is clueless

2025-05-09 19:01:48

Which way, anon?
https://image.nostr.build/3f6ce4848cbc3c6d6995479960629cd60ed1b201de104a95a850fad7147331ba.jpg

2025-05-09 18:21:43

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Agreed
I think they could achieve a pseudo kind of CBDC indirectly controlled by the state with stables but only if the tokens are tracked to ID

2025-05-09 17:59:47

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I don’t understand. Governments can’t devalue Bitcoin. They can imperfectly track but it all they have is assumptions as for ownership / identity.
Tether already censors, that doesn’t make it a CBDC

2025-05-09 17:57:46

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I am not making a value judgement on Tether I am just pointing out a definitional/technological difference

2025-05-09 17:28:10

Legacy US dollars are NOT CBDCs
The Fed does not directly issue digital cash to the population right now
It issues cash (not a CBDC) and otherwise private corporations issue dollars
Tether is not a CBDC for many reasons but primary amount them is that it does not require ID to use
The central purpose of a CBDC is to surveil and track and control and this isn’t possible to do if you don’t know who is using the money
If Tether starts requiring KYC then maybe it can morph into a CBDC but then it loses most of its global value proposition
#note19ze…sqjx

2025-05-06 21:27:18

“Crypto” perfectly summarized
https://image.nostr.build/e83ac60837fe5d4b0023a1f8153ccb1d8cc936752e5aeeb15ce0b172d1c7fc0d.jpg

2025-05-03 22:15:10

Obviously right now we live in a fiat world where Bitcoin is a small but growing part of the global financial system
I think it’s possible we could live briefly in a fiat world actually “backed” by Bitcoin in the way BW system was dollars “backed” by gold
But not for long. Don’t forget BW only really lasted about 15 years
I think BTC obsoletes / replaces USD but this is still a wild chart (from ZH today)
Crazy to think how much of this has already happened or is in the works
https://image.nostr.build/cba025bff72be2f9fc3e5a7a1f3547951acc247e141291ef6d6337bffead5889.jpg

2025-05-02 23:36:56

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Don’t forget $43B to DHS!

2025-05-02 22:34:57

Crazy
#nevent1q…36us

2025-05-02 19:59:35

Not sure if this is the way…
https://image.nostr.build/8e332faa539eff56c9e8affe9dcaa5ddb7f42809eac6d9a4c90ad52c7815e1ca.jpg

2025-05-01 17:32:32

Oil economies in the Gulf propping up a new dollar market
Where have we seen this before?
https://image.nostr.build/327d763743b5b768f1861f903c3b45e9d31ef246e0c110e69b8eec83159f465c.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/6994abd77c319a7970a204b0d408810bb3c06bd3eb3cd6af73450eef757f2ea8.jpg

2025-04-30 16:39:00

Epic thread 🧵
#note1vdy…acp8

2025-04-30 05:13:34

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@npub1yxp…399s seems to think so!

2025-04-30 05:08:34

Welcome Monero folks to nostr
💜 😂
#note100d…pvxx

2025-04-30 04:36:37

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Stoked Monero folks are here on nostr!

2025-04-28 20:55:14

Freedom Tech at the Oslo Freedom Forum this year is going to be 🔥
🇳🇴
https://image.nostr.build/6e0fb841c96d3424dec6a48712b35fae80722c9f084a077abe935a31783cffa4.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/1340b1b25cb699f5297d74107895f92f06a0d196bfc721443c8261eaa1c719a5.jpg

2025-04-26 05:28:26

Perfection 😂
https://image.nostr.build/a048fab2deede4e79cb7e8a8fe099513858cdc6aa5d6908c4f1abda91686d1a2.jpg

2025-04-21 04:15:00

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Legend!
Thank you!

2025-04-17 03:29:54

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I don't know, very hard to support them after they tokenized

2025-04-17 02:17:54

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Welcome!

2025-04-16 16:51:34

V interesting
https://image.nostr.build/6e49e383148f22d11623618888a3a586b1fed4f4f641cf714b052083e8a1e7fb.jpg

2025-04-16 03:10:55

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*Al Jazeera not BBC :)

2025-04-16 03:09:56

Remarkable BBC piece explaining how Bhutan has used Bitcoin mining off hydroelectric power (which it otherwise sells to India for next to nothing) in order to generate a prodigious stack worth 30% of its GDP 🇧🇹
https://image.nostr.build/88d5b4989091dae9879762fba7474f09b2754ae107dfca3f702c055f23e754f3.jpg

2025-04-15 18:30:53

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Let’s hope so

2025-04-15 15:53:44

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Currently praying that saying stuff the current govt doesn’t like doesn’t wind American citizens (“home growns” is the new slang) up in a Salvadoran gulag. Green card folks / students here on visas seem already toast.

2025-04-15 15:48:05

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So it’s fine?

2025-04-15 13:39:16

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I don’t know. But this isn’t a good thing

2025-04-15 04:48:17

👎
https://image.nostr.build/6332968cc1f11be8397e59bb3e4aa48bed3358a403f8f421b3f919466fcbe1b3.jpg

2025-04-14 17:32:46

This was def a real one
Was on a zoom call and had to be like, hold on a minute 😂
https://image.nostr.build/28f417308d7fe4fa8bbe9c5736f7bc362ca94610b4fa66e68162c7bbcfa61576.jpg

2025-04-13 23:24:10

Welp
https://image.nostr.build/aea8798e94cd931995627a5662db1c69ef1f8e1fa4d31a3dc64b68343d9e8957.jpg

2025-04-13 10:01:07

✌️
https://image.nostr.build/417076474a0667da9db3771bbb81cf337d445e75650c5814cd79bc39a4649564.jpg

2025-04-13 06:54:00

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We fund it out of our financial freedom program but I see what you mean!

2025-04-11 05:51:50

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We may never know but I am assuming the BOOK version of Daenerys is amazing. Much more slow and subtle transformation from hero to totalitarian

2025-04-10 07:42:44

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The point is the American side of the equation was designed and intentional

2025-04-09 20:03:02

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Well
Your life is way cheaper than it would have been otherwise

2025-04-09 19:52:33

The “China was ripping us off” is such a gaslight
US policymakers intentionally designed a system where we could get cheap stuff and labor from China to reduce inflation and costs of living here in America
The CCP has happy to play its part but this was intentional
We aren’t a victim here, we got to buy unlimited stuff with debt issuance with China as the factory with lower wages that we could possibly have here
Take China away and we have crazy inflation after the Great Financial Crisis
Today the system is wobbling, and needs some kind of reset, but don’t let them fool you into thinking we were getting “ripped off”

2025-04-09 17:18:30

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Monetary regime change! I will see you in the Bitcoin standard, whether you like it or not

2025-04-09 17:10:50

Amazing how many prominent people don’t understand this
https://image.nostr.build/cfe619ea3a1841da6f187dbb87986b83784ada046f88f6f20b4154eab5b710f7.jpg

2025-04-08 18:38:19

LFG
https://image.nostr.build/0c7475462637299fae48ba8336d96d42908f8a87174346c00a6b94be23cfdc03.jpg

2025-04-07 18:22:29

This needed to be on nostr
https://m.primal.net/QHgy.mp4

2025-04-05 00:08:22

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Next time for sure!

2025-04-04 16:40:45

Overheard: Toucans are the politicians of the jungle
Handsome thieves!
😂
PV 🤙
https://image.nostr.build/b72551a76dd6d6d0e36c1779e6d6e6c65e71ad07f2149c164d0cdacf0d943126.jpg

2025-04-04 13:21:22

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One of those waves that seems like it was created in a lab :)

2025-04-04 02:02:11

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All over!
Pan Dulce earlier today

2025-04-03 23:53:13

Pura Vida ☯️ 🤙
Osa is a magical place!
https://image.nostr.build/06f90fb403a3698205b4573161f728c09bf771a1670d1c28df0a5945593e7a1a.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/351445f4dd370283247fb331367717f8ca0fe19d6b8df11585a2b80a4ce4e81a.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/b308de7d2707f8da714ab1f6ccef241cd3a40db5c42a7fe4064e32363771ad4b.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/4c412829e7fced673c7300aa497bdfa6c10aa27242f5d41b0e131bf00adad0a2.jpg

2025-04-02 16:52:00

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Crazy: this spider’s silk can be used to make bullet-proof vests

2025-04-02 16:51:16

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Didn’t get close enough to find out!

2025-04-02 16:22:14

Pura Vida 🤙
https://image.nostr.build/d42753999b9c71e608f695463cdf236b8577d59f989e3133190480931fdfe40f.jpg

2025-03-29 17:37:40

That income / house ratio 😮‍💨
#note1xg8…gmsa

2025-03-29 03:19:15

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Likewise!

2025-03-28 23:34:50

Folks at my Hidden Repression book event in DC did a “reverse signing” for me —
Attendees all signed a copy of my book with notes (the notes keep going for several pages) and gave it to me as a gift
Big love back to these folks! 🧡
https://image.nostr.build/abb2115d7148a7ae4d7eb8b488a01772e12d4d68f2377c1ce170dd00c71bed10.jpg

2025-03-28 17:09:27

https://image.nostr.build/eba9a276c33a1e39943fb26da83a45a8053ab8f0b567be97ee7351754792f92e.jpg

2025-03-28 16:06:22

No, not ready
https://image.nostr.build/492ce086c489865a2e63c3665c47603f62c1be62e1ff091ea6097c34eca57804.jpg

2025-03-26 04:35:46

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You are wrong :)

2025-03-26 04:19:04

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I think the bet will come down to semantics
Either way I am much more bullish and convicted on nostr than last year and in the event that I lose, am happy to use the steak dinner to purple pill Dan
Win win
https://image.nostr.build/2c07aac406dfed80da6d30a492921181bc6fb6af7ebb1992b6775726eeaff211.jpg

2025-03-26 04:11:31

A fairly remarkable short BBC profile of Gridless's work using Bitcoin mining to convert stranded or wasted energy to value
As we move forward, you'll slowly see more and more of this until eventually it is "mainstream" that Bitcoin is pretty much good and healthy for everyone and the planet
Every new transformative technology encounters years or even decades of pessimism... Bitcoin will be no different
https://m.primal.net/PtOQ.mp4

2025-03-25 04:45:27

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Shitcoins are infinite, these are not

2025-03-24 19:20:20

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😂
It all goes to charity for open source devs

2025-03-24 19:19:44

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🙏

2025-03-24 19:19:17

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Yes

2025-03-23 22:57:13

🤡
https://image.nostr.build/d3037d4ab8e9ecad4a0d4fd82ff28e6e9e3d1a148fff1b6f8ee5f19b1d6263ec.jpg

2025-03-23 00:44:12

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Yep!
Sale of signed copies goes live Monday
https://scarce.city/sales/a-trojan-horse-for-freedom-collected-works-by-alex-gladstein

2025-03-22 20:40:33

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+1
Racking my brain for when this ever tasted great … coming up empty

2025-03-22 14:31:54

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To be fair X can eventually be based on nostr and that can work out just fine for X
The dollar however as an independent floating token is eventually toast. I guess it can live on as a bitcoin-denominated credit but that’s best case for it

2025-03-21 20:35:49

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Yes you can invest in bitcoin development and pick up a cool piece of art. If one wishes

2025-03-21 19:08:51

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Sales start at 250k sats and go up in increments of 15k sats

2025-03-21 19:04:53

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https://scarce.city/sales/a-trojan-horse-for-freedom-collected-works-by-alex-gladstein

2025-03-21 19:03:32

**For collectors of cool Bitcoin things**
I am excited to announce the limited release of an anthology of my books and essays
I have been working for a year with @npub1330…2k82 on these
He did an incredible job making each book a true work of art
We produced 100 total copies, and 50 signed copies will go on sale at Scarce City on Monday at 12pm PT
All proceeds will go to support open source devs via HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund
Link below :)
https://image.nostr.build/fb2cf3a467a97ecd8189e8a78eb48d1a50ed4267178948dc3597f6815eb3b459.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/43ec9279d1dcc55e4f615bafb6116a5eebfc5426f77116121d1090a336db49fa.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/0f967fd4edc3f9967b45c65ad68240621aa816130737c0db7062814425ac1747.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/81364a019517fee26588dcd0f202f8c701b775cf07d1afc1ba02a2fe0eb7a841.jpg

2025-03-21 14:04:13

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Learn more:
HRF.org/CISA
cisaresearch.org

2025-03-21 14:03:42

Thrilled that we could help Fabian Jahr publish his research on Cross-Input Signature Aggregation
I definitely would like to live in a world where privacy-protecting, cost-saving collaborative transactions are the default on-chain
Where the answer to "why did you coinjoin" is - because I'm not an idiot, I don't want to waste money
The incentive alignment is 👌
https://m.primal.net/PnqD.png https://m.primal.net/PnqI.png

2025-03-17 22:50:17

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Source:
https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf

2025-03-17 22:49:55

Open source >>>
https://m.primal.net/PjbW.jpg

2025-03-16 21:51:45

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It’s a joke. The book is blank

2025-03-16 21:51:29

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I think you missed the joke

2025-03-15 23:46:36

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Yes

2025-03-15 22:51:17

Truly a master work
An incredibly detailed and well reasoned case for buying altcoins
Every Bitcoiner would do well to read this book
https://image.nostr.build/5ddecfd125a5da30568c0d3d2470de8a65dfd30eb32a0c1d34fb3879be184333.jpg

2025-03-14 19:50:36

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🤞
I still remember paying an amount of my choice when in rainbows came out when I was a senior in college
After having seen a lot of the content previewed at the epic Bonnaroo 2006 set
Epic times

2025-03-14 15:43:11

30 years. Wow https://image.nostr.build/ce835f2e50c4cde5304c6eb8b9aa23676f6eeb5e5a3b19ea2d2e17f7cb1a92fd.jpg

2025-03-13 16:27:36

If Satoshi is still alive I bet they get a good chuckle out of this https://image.nostr.build/069ed9318117d9c000c13ddf4bba4df33722ac34a4fd1412baca656e42aaaec3.jpg