Evan

Public Key

npub16qcdx0pjnatt5l7k4aryl9jzrf8lc55cuzkr3c9zfvncc5vsunssr0cy8w

NIP-57 Address

e_k_n@minibits.cash

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsdqvxn8sef74460lt273j0jepp5nlu22vwptpcuz3ykfuv2xgwfcgpr9mhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsyfh3hn

Publishing to

puravida.nostr.land

Author Public Key

npub16qcdx0pjnatt5l7k4aryl9jzrf8lc55cuzkr3c9zfvncc5vsunssr0cy8w

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2024-09-21 21:14:00

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I had the same issue but it was fixed by updating to version 0.2.4.

2024-08-23 23:01:21

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Day one of RFK Jr. In charge of CIA:
"I'd take a FLAMETHROWER to this place" https://image.nostr.build/d8b479968ccc8533985d55fc42a114b64bef5b974594f8400464a769cd2c81e1.gif

2024-08-19 17:58:37

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Rabbit Hole Recap, Bitcoin.Review, and a few other podcasts have switched to calling them "signing devices". Since that is a more accurate description of what they do. They are devices that sign transactions.

2024-08-17 17:20:14

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Physical cash still works at Canada Post.
You do now have to KYC with BullBitcoin. But there isn't a bank involved to block you when you are walking a fist full of cash to the post office.

2024-08-15 04:24:17

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May 27-29, 2025 https://image.nostr.build/d7aa62fd20165bb7d3532cfde4224028ac782cd6f756556679d9581e708093c1.jpg

2024-08-09 05:46:18

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"Just when I thought I was out, Vegeta pulls me back in" - Bitcoin
https://image.nostr.build/b001a52378fae20f83637e591c2b45a1679848c843fe67fe9a78c5ae4a659a44.jpg

2024-08-08 22:04:45

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A rock ramed "EL" ?
EL as in "THE"
El Salvador. Final answer.

2024-08-08 18:27:45

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https://image.nostr.build/0934cede154edba251e7050d49d2977e33031d489aa7d98cb51c855487f3aff8.gif

2024-07-30 15:48:55

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For me, whether or not your avatar is animated depends on which nostr client I am using.
Amethyst - animated
Primal - a bee but not animated
Iris - animated
Coracle - animated but your name there is 'HODLr' instead of 'BitBees'
https://video.nostr.build/0fec7c1c3f2a5db0c8fa910b23626d630c9f49b611a450d76790b60835cf7aac.mp4

2024-06-22 18:19:25

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Great suggestion!

2024-06-21 20:02:07

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Newegg might have beat them by a few weeks.
https://image.nostr.build/42040dae2d2f35a26a2e2608e5e7f5fa816c33bfbfd2fa7449573dfd583a9e3c.jpg
https://www.newegg.com/insider/popular-demand-newegg-accepting-bitcoin/

2024-06-21 16:20:46

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Same

2024-06-14 22:31:24

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Just tried it. Works perfectly. That is truly awesome.

2024-06-13 23:53:13

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Nothing against Monero. At all. Monero is great.
But for the record, Chaumian ecash (1994) predates bitcoin by nearly 20 years. So ecash is definitely not a fork of bitcoin cash.
It's having a renaissance now that it can be backed by btc instead of fiat.
Feel free to hate on it, to each their own, but... its not a fork of bcash
https://image.nostr.build/bd1fe7da92ad8075efd8910d7fadf76a0847fcb967854b372bf0031f26dcad27.jpg
https://chaum.com/ecash/

2024-06-11 22:21:38

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Hint for the cryptogram enthusiasts out there.
IBOAGNY BC VEKP WGYMQ

2024-06-10 20:03:40

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"Stacking SATs saves lives"

2024-06-10 15:53:45

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I am a proud to have been a kickstarter contributer to this movie in 2013.
For all time, there will be some cool cat named Evan in the kickstarter credits between Tim May and Keanu Reeves.

2024-06-04 22:13:21

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You are going to start pronouncing all short 'o' vowels as long 'o's ? 🥁

2024-06-04 20:06:43

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Established at block height such and such
https://image.nostr.build/07aa518edbedf26a78d3b462367ea97ac23911301ef2704bcbbb56a8f5c560db.jpg

2024-06-04 07:04:25

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Media ideas to keep going?
The 'What Bitcoin Did' interview with Aaron Van Wirdum about the Genesis of Bitcoin. If you've heard it before, skip to 1:19:20 and put it on 1.75x
"Both Bit Gold and b-money where '98, Hashcash was '97, ecash was also 90's, RPOW was 2005"..."Interesting backstory is at this point most of these people, the cypherpunks, had kinda given up on this idea, they kind of figured, it can't be done. Also noone seems to care, everyone is very happy to just use credit cards, and everything else. Paypal was launched at this point, people don't care, whatever I guess we are going to get on with out lives"
But not Hal Finney.
Skip to 1:34:50
"[Bitcoin whitepaper] was met with indifference and skepticism for the most part, and famously Hal Finney was the one exception. Again Hal Finney of course, as I mentioned, he still had this idea for digital cash in 2005, RPOW, long after everyone else had given up on the idea essentially. And then when bitcoin launched, he got interested and had one of the few positive responses."
I don't have timestamps, just my own notes of trying to shake people down to listen to a different 'What Bitcoin Did' episode with Fran Finney, where she goes over Hal's eternal optimism.
When he couldn't walk - okay.
Before he lost the use of his hands, he built an arduino project that would track his eye movement so he could still type with his eyes.
Later he didn't like his Stephen Hawking speech program so he reprogrammed it...WITH. HIS. EYES. And kept right on going.
Every one of those Earth shattering roadblocks, was just another problem to solve.
On more than one occasion, the path that led us all to bitcoin would have come to a griding halt if it wasn't for Hal's out of this world optimism and work ethic.
So, to answer your question, if you want a motivator, bring up picture of Hal kicking asses and taking names WITH ALS, and try to muster a hundred millionth of that drive.
https://image.nostr.build/922b3f19f950c5b1becf0fadfad295e1326de8a1da37fc829f86bf69bbaa9a33.jpg

2024-05-22 04:19:55

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This seemed like a commercial FOR bitcoin.
"Bitcoin is based on distrust of human institutions"
- Exactly.
"Bitcoin fans may have good reasons to distrust banks and governments"
- Damn straight.
"Originally there was very little trust in institutions like banks and governments"
- Makes sense.
"It assumes that we shouldn't trust human institutions and shouldn't allow them to create money at will"
Right, because 'the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust' (Satoshi Nakamoto)
"Bitcoin is basically a return to gold"
- A return to hard money, yes.
"Electronic gold"
- Even better, I don't need to guard a vault, and I can carry it across borders in my head.
"But it doesn't change the fact that Bitcoin is based on distrust"
- You don't have to sell me on it, I am already all-in on bitcoin!
The only things he gets wrong is ...the conclusion haha. And that "the whole purpose of money is to create trust between strangers"
When the reality is the opposite.
https://image.nostr.build/693410c96acc5bd78deece47783a213374a3102cdea06abf534f234b89f46b2c.jpg

2024-05-13 03:34:30

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There is an audiobook, I listened to it. Not sure if it is on the "audible app" specifically but it was freely available audio book download from my local library.

2024-05-12 23:04:02

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Yeah, I didn't test that yet.
Just testing offline receiving to confirm that the sender couldn't pull back the funds if they got to internet first. (Which they could not. They couldn't claim the token to one of their own accounts since it was locked to the original recipient's public key).
I suppose if you knew that every Saturday you would pay the local rancher 100 sats for whatever, that you could make a stack of ready to go QR codes that ONLY that person could cash in.
You could print out a stack of QR codes that are like cash except locked to the recipient. (Who can melt them down and spend the sats anywhere they wanted) instead of locked to an establishment like a regular gift card.

2024-05-12 18:12:03

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Just verified myself.
Sender (my laptop) can't clawback the payment because I went out of my way to lock the ecash to the public key of the recipient (my phone).
My phone (offline) has a "later" button when receiving offline.
It shows up in my offline phone's transaction history when press the receive "later" button. But you can see at the time how much the ecash token is worth and the fact that it is locked to your public key (can't be redeemed by anyone else before you can get to WiFi).
Offline instantaneous receiving of sats that are tied to your public key. Amazing.
https://image.nostr.build/43a115316cd1d767580d2e1a0fe52ad836c1e4220dd8b7e9efe3fbf7650c83d3.jpg

2024-05-09 12:27:59

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So the nostr clients that are twitter clones would be tostrs...
https://image.nostr.build/7dfa2496508665f0366a9cf872d789c78e4522eb1cd9169a4ec0895679df7dcc.jpg

2024-05-07 15:21:45

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The stripes can look like stripes or full blown rorschach inkblot nightmare images.
Going with male, American Dog Tick. Off that one photo.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/2347053/bgimage

2024-05-07 13:32:25

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Male. 100%
2 parallel stripes, like "suspenders".

2024-05-05 00:34:09

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Looks like the middle word of the phrase "nice [to] meet you".
"Meet", final answer.

2024-05-01 22:07:59

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It uses the nostr based "yelp" for ecash mints bitcoinmints.com
So it can give you ratings and reviews to help you decide which mint(s) you want to connect with. Now rather than go to that site separately, it looks like you can see the various mint ratings from within cashu.

2024-04-29 19:34:14

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This was a tough one! Had to go back through your posts quite a ways to find it. On the plus side while searching for the answer, found out you having a Rumble account that teaches ASL lessons in more depth. Very cool!
https://image.nostr.build/c075291ba0f7d27decbcb184c0327b831cd4d2ac13af134c05f0ad8240673461.jpg

2024-04-29 05:33:30

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I second this message.
Go to https://f-droid.org/
...to download the f-droid apk manually.
Install that.
Then while f-droid has SOME FOSS apps you might use (like organic maps), definitely use it to get the Aurora Store and Obtainium.
Aurora Store will get you normie app store things like Fountain.fm (free sats for listening to podcasts). After you get used to Obtainium, it will be your go to. Can retrieve app apk's and manage updates (at your discretion) from F-droid and/or Github etc.

2024-04-24 16:59:01

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My personal favorite. But maybe not for everyone. There are more user friendly options out there.
https://image.nostr.build/d0b995b75ac710e26bf274661cfe6907ee5082d749ba0029ed96525beb5c5c3f.jpg

2024-04-24 04:14:01

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If they use Android: Minibits
If they use iPhone: Primal
Optimizing for them having a ready to go Nostr receive address to spend and receive zaps and bootstrap themselves into the bitcoin ecosystem. Can worry about on-chain, cold storage, multisig etc LONG after they orange pill themselves with Nostr zaps.

2024-04-22 13:50:03

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Is it VHDL?
Hardware description language?

2024-04-20 22:08:16

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Braiins pool just enabled lightning withdrawals for everyone.
I was able to withdraw (less than the usual payout threshold) to my ecash/nostr powered minibits.cash address!
This Ecash wallet is already improving the overall experience for this super small scale home miner! Where it might take years to hit the normal payout threshold with a few winter-only space heaters.
https://image.nostr.build/0f9a28a1f666b10afd06a13a6d0fd63e441938b26d281eb0fc8270e6b5b5efd2.jpg

2024-04-20 02:29:27

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Happy Halvening!

2024-04-20 00:30:37

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https://image.nostr.build/e6041cefe7f68183bbc5d4c54022c6b136814d39b37cbf23735a9c1c90547a8c.jpg

2024-04-14 20:28:47

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Looks cool. Zapped.

2024-04-14 19:56:08

PSA:
The non-KYC way to buy bitcoin with physical cash at any Canada Post ends when the post offices close today at (Sunday April 14th)
The service (loadhub->bullbitcoin) will still be there, but you will have to show ID starting April 15th.
2hrs left on central time (UTC-6).

2024-04-12 14:46:30

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Thank you very much! That is a tonne of great places to start.
I am very interested in what I've seen of software defined radio for sure. But most of those other acronyms I will have to lookup.
Thanks again. Bookmarking this thread for future reference.

2024-04-11 19:31:12

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If you are Evan dot best,
I will be Evan dot third best,
(because there is no second best) 🥁

2024-04-11 18:39:09

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School: Going back to school for computer science.
Fiat day job: Tech support.
Hobbies: Home pleb miner. Electronics tinkerer.

2024-04-11 17:27:20

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When I was a kid, my grandfather had a room full of ham radio equipment and a huge tower antenna in the yard. We could talk to people from all over the world. Years before we internet. Didn't appreciate how cool that technology really was as a 5 year old.
Emergency communication method?
Fun?
Learn a new skill?

2024-04-11 17:03:47

Want to finally get into ham radio this year. What's a $200 starter kit look like? Or a $500 starter kit.
Shill me books to read, educators to subscribe to.
#asknostr #hamradio

2024-04-11 13:07:39

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I use keet but not for texting. I use it primarily as a replacement for Dropbox/Google Drive for moving large files between devices.
Video chat is also very good with Keet though.
Signal is daily driver for texts, haven't tried out SimpleX yet, but that's on the todo list.

2024-04-09 17:44:21

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That's great. Didn't know about them.
If you can't repair it, don't buy it.

2024-04-05 17:43:33

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Having won two of these in the past, I will pay it forward and double the bounty for whoever wins it today.

2024-04-03 02:51:06

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A wall USB outlet for power. Went through a set of AAA batteries on day one. Day two (today) I switched to plugging it in.

2024-04-03 01:39:18

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Doom scrolling on my Coldcard Q.
#canitplaydoom
https://video.nostr.build/990d71baa320f65a4d354c318d0b7046b0995531f6b0d815801db9ef682f65e9.mp4

2024-04-02 16:53:05

RIP long-term HODL wave.
Urge to re-imagine multisig setup with new device(s) rising.
https://image.nostr.build/cee16e37bf35df4c96a1050fc02d0e44b9cbae3a7679a22906bdf6fe488fac99.jpg

2024-04-01 21:29:11

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No, but I am stacking as hard as I can.

2024-04-01 15:28:37

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I had a similar interaction that ended abruptly when he misspelled bitcoin. https://image.nostr.build/78244e790aaf66dca404b08386471e2d7605c72a89341b04d27696bb180d7022.jpg "

2024-03-24 20:41:19

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ODELL mentioned that it is possible on the web client and iPhone, coming soon to Android.

2024-03-24 19:40:59

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Yeah, it was a solution for stopping the "Trending 24hr as the default" problem. The fact that you can't rearrange to pick the default... I hope someone is working on that.

2024-03-24 19:29:17

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Can click on your profile pic, settings, feed, to get rid of "trending 24hr" and anything else you don't like (except for chronological).

2024-03-24 17:16:48

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Attempting to ban it, means that they don't get the core concept. https://image.nostr.build/e5c70d4f0e77158fb9c8b7852c68be8ab6c8e48dd0bc7ac89974d781f1666f41.jpg

2024-03-11 18:40:30

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Rates are high. Banks are failing and bitcoin is winning.
Can't lower rates or ...that will help bitcoin...
https://image.nostr.build/6c2bc33505fe2222c433d25aa56ff91c0790794084a745d22c66367391a82453.gif

2024-03-10 23:47:45

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Fellow Canadian here, the Minibits.cash app can give you a free zap receive address that you can use with Nostr.

2024-03-10 23:08:26

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I just paid you 21 sats from my minibits wallet. Fees were zero sats.
Over time, the value of those 21 sats will increase. The value of sats can increase, and dust limit for base chain UTXOs can rise based on higher fees. Not mutually exclusive. Both can be true.
That super high dust limit you describe applies to the base layer. Where it is absolutely something to keep in mind when DCA'ing. No argument there.
Dust limit for lightning is quite a bit lower. Occasional 2 sats on a 210 sat zap.
Dust limit for ecash moving in a circular economy is ...zero? Until you pay a lightnkng fee if you want to swap mints to a different circular economy.
https://image.nostr.build/647495301d9c30a2a8757fe71c8affb3c1780522aa5aeb28bcd5a36d6a378e7c.jpg

2024-03-09 06:03:42

A year ago today, we were singing "Hello 19k, my old friend".
#nevent1q…s4aa

2024-03-04 15:12:19

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Already did in Canada

2024-02-27 05:27:28

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Track: Over the Mountain
Album: Diary of a Madman
Artist: Ozzy Osbourne

2024-02-26 07:06:59

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Works from this side👍

2024-02-24 21:22:45

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If someone is brand new to nostr they currently will have trouble using npub.cash because it requires a nip-07. And before you say Alby, that door is currently shut and new Alby accounts are by invite only. And that friend you are onboarding to nostr probably doesn't have their own lightning node either.
Minibits seems to accomplish the same goal (receive address for nostr zaps) but without needing Alby or any other extension. Incoming zaps are converted to ecash (nuts) in the background for you. You can send send and receive sats or ecash (nuts). Not a paid promotion. Just an option for people having trouble getting a nip-07.

2024-02-18 00:13:17

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Yes, I still read the statuses.
https://image.nostr.build/3479d02b7b7d888131a6be4e06f244c0309468c070ec202be0ee730a2dd7ee30.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1059x186&blurhash=HC7n5v%7EW-WxG%251xtWAInIn-%3BxvWDRja_oeWTWAWT&x=a0a2622109bab75fe5a2267c255921ad55b9ebc806e83b5cd95191132e2072f9

2024-02-15 21:47:43

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We appreciate you too.
#nevent1q…mx3g

2024-02-15 13:40:30

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Minibits means you can onboard friends and family to nostr and have them *easily* receive zaps without them defaulting to Wallet of Satoshi.

2024-01-28 04:53:24

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Signed up! Looking forward to it.

2024-01-23 06:35:16

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"Like an ant colony, the bitcoin network is a resilient network of simple nodes following simple rules that together can do amazing things without any central coordination" - Andreas M. Antonopoulos
https://void.cat/d/RWzzi1tmDbUgpGQV82Dr97.webp

2023-04-23 01:15:04

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Worked. Sending it back. That is awesome.
cashuAeyJ0b2tlbiI6W3sicHJvb2ZzIjpbeyJpZCI6IkkyeU4raVJZZmt6VCIsImFtb3VudCI6NCwiQyI6IjAzN2NmOWJmZTRkZGNlYTdmNjgyN2Q1ZmRjZjU4OGQyNWNlYzk2NjI3OGNkNmNkYjJhMjgzMjliODkwMmI1NjU2OSIsInNlY3JldCI6IklxOTVUNll3bmszazdrZ21tQ3ZFV3JBa3FUWHZvS2kycGx2LzE3SkgwQk09In1dLCJtaW50IjoiaHR0cHM6Ly84MzMzLnNwYWNlOjMzMzgifV19

2023-04-20 12:44:29

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I think Jimmy Dore is possible get. He had Max Keiser on as a guest. Said he bought some bitcoin.
He is also friends with Matt Taibbi who recently joined nostr.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEdotUShvf8

2023-03-16 02:28:35

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18 hour audio book...at 2x... Let me get back to you tomorrow haha.

2023-03-14 16:55:08

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Is it this one?
https://i.imgur.com/pK5C5El.png