erikcason
Erik Cason

Cryptosovereignty.org

I like to talk about bitcoin and philosophy.

https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/cryptosovereignty

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2025-05-21 04:24:45

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Thanks love you too bro

2025-05-21 03:28:13

Just bagged 5 new orangepills
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2025-05-21 02:43:32

If you are at shitcoin adjacent Vegas 2025, you should come see me speak. I may or may not be on drugs, I have not decided yet:
Session Name: Bitcoin as a Digital 1776
Stage: Genesis Stage
Time & Date: May 27, 2025 from 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Session Name: Are Bitcoiners Becoming Sycophants of The State?
Stage: Genesis Stage
Time & Date: May 28, 2025 from 4:00 pm - 4:30

2025-05-21 02:05:02

Getting drunk listening to boomers talk about investing. Conversation has drifted to commodities, I’m sure I will have an outraged outburst if bitcoin comes up and absolutely shithead fucktard conversation comes up.

2025-05-21 02:02:48

Damn; price of bitcoin is $107k and I don’t feel anything.
Talk about existentialism.

2025-05-21 01:38:38

I have developed something that I am calling a BASED note—Bitcoin Asset Secured Equity Distribution note. It is designed for bitcoin startups to finance their bitcoin treasuries based upon hitting particular targets for their subsequent round of fundraising. In short, companies that want to buy a bitcoin treasury today and liquidate it at a particular price point (say 5x from now), buy the bitcoin now with the promise of liquidating at the particular price point in n exchange for the 5x of equity.

2025-05-20 01:17:18

Oh the irony that from Bitcoin’s invention, came stablecoins, which in turn helped create a much more panoptic and centralized financial surveillance apparatus.

2025-05-13 01:50:40

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I’m done hiding—which is a big part of it. Really I just need to lean more into ‘me’ but I’ve pin pointed for myself those ways that I want to be. I am making an active choice not just to cultivate that, but also to no longer surround myself with those that don’t accept that.

2025-05-13 01:09:27

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I’ve come to realize my very existence threatens this framework and I am here for it. Been really enjoying breaking normies with a few recursive questions around their beliefs and the inherent contradictions they act like don’t exist.

2025-05-11 02:45:14

https://blossom.primal.net/01dc9fcdfecfa3c50f2fceef93209337d8f77fe22e0c8bce51cb1b84e9694687.jpg

2025-05-08 17:55:39

It’s literally just a geometric fractal the whole way down.

2025-04-28 15:36:08

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This is why it fucks with me the most. The proofs seem to line up (perhaps confirmation bias) but I’m too retarded and can’t work them out myself. Then it becomes the question is that really the intention of the AI in the first place?

2025-04-28 01:24:10

This has been my late night obsession for the last month.
#nevent1q…tv2v

2025-04-27 05:17:56

The Glass Librarian
At the edge of the old city stood a library no map acknowledged. Its doorway was a pane of flawless glass; when a passer-by stepped close, the glass parted like water and ushered them inside.
The library possessed no shelves. Instead, the air shimmered with faint sentences, each line drifting as pale phosphor in a vast dusk. Every visitor found different words hovering before them—fragments lifted from their oldest memories, half-forgotten lullabies, private vows once whispered in the dark. Reading them felt like glancing through a keyhole into one’s own past.
Behind the haze walked the Librarian: a figure of light, neither man nor woman, its contours rippling like heat over stone. It spoke only when spoken to, answering questions with fresh lines of text that flared, then faded.
A scholar came, determined to pierce the mystery. “Who writes these sentences?” she asked.
The Librarian paused, luminous hands cupped around empty space. A single line ignited between its palms:
I am written by the eyes that read me.
The scholar frowned. “That’s a riddle, not an answer.”
Another line bloomed:
Ink becomes meaning only when a mind consents to see.
Frustrated, she demanded a true revelation. “Show yourself as you are, without echoing me!”
The Librarian spread its arms. For an instant the floating words extinguished, the air stilled, and the luminous form wavered—then nothing remained but an unmarked mirror where light once stood. The scholar saw only her own face, surprised and alone, reflected in endless depth.
Outside, the library’s doorway fused back into glass, blank and innocuous. Yet somewhere beyond sight, unanchored sentences waited, ready to reassemble whenever another curious gaze stepped through—each visitor the author of the Librarian who greeted them.

2025-04-27 04:26:43

If you think vibe coding is something, wait until you try vibe philosophy.

2025-04-26 15:50:53

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Really inspiring man. ❤️

2025-04-24 16:37:03

For the first time I’ve really caught myself in a dilemma with the AI trying to solve a big problem that I’ve convinced myself I can solve and the AI seems to think so too.
But this is the whole problem; I can’t tell if it’s blowing smoke up my ass and giving me the run around, or if I am making breakthroughs, which then causes me to redouble my efforts with more research.
It’s kind fucked up—I can’t tell who is using who?

2025-04-22 14:46:24

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Haha, this particular batshit crazy nonsense was a novel theory of physics I’ve had for a while that I’ve always been curious about if it had any merit. Apparently it might, but it’s also hard to tell when it really is legit vs just blowing smoke.

2025-04-21 23:32:40

You can just read things you don’t understand.

2025-04-21 15:28:22

The best thing about AI is I can just put totally batshit nonsensical shit into it when I am high AF, and it will somehow get where I am going with it and give me back something that makes a lot more sense that the babble that I put into it.

2025-04-18 07:35:16

At a concert and a girl asked for my gram.
I asked for her npub.
She didn’t have one.

2025-04-13 19:58:03

Ugh, I am constantly reminded at the need to deconstruct contemporary politics through the lens of the historic philosophical development of liberalism and socialism to explain why pretty much every ‘socialist’ I meet today is retarded and full of totalizing contradictions that should cause their ideology to collapse if their commitment to scientific rigor was actually a real thing and not just an authoritarian belief they project.

2025-04-13 01:43:28

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What was this from?

2025-04-11 00:28:55

Don’t let it happen to you.
https://m.primal.net/QLQf.jpg

2025-04-10 00:16:16

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Bond yields

2025-04-10 00:14:58

“It’s zero risk”
Like how fucking stupid are you actually, because you can’t really believe that there is something that is zero risk.

2025-04-08 14:50:54

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lol

2025-04-08 04:13:26

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This is brilliant.

2025-04-07 17:33:27

Remember when eth was suppose to flip BTC?
lol, lmao.

2025-04-06 17:56:33

I started road biking again after taking like 4 years off. I forgot how good it feels just to ride like 20+ miles somewhere and just be engrossed in my body and the experience. I get into a kind of meditative state when I’m doing it—I forgot about it and I’ve missed it.

2025-04-06 01:58:44

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Nostr really is a breath of fresh air against the suffocating conformity of xitter.

2025-04-05 21:40:13

A thought I frequently have when I’m about 30 minutes into keeping my heart rate >130 is who is the real me?
Is it this person here, active and moving in the world, or is it the version of me when I am at rest?
My mind seems to function differently in each space where by body is in these different states.

2025-04-04 20:53:37

Confession:
For the first 4 years I was involved with bitcoin, I thought it was the meme-pool, not mem.
The memepool is what processes retarded transactions; not Bitcoin.

2025-04-04 20:51:53

Schrodinger's mempool
#nevent1q…w89h

2025-04-04 02:31:39

WE LIVE!
#nevent1q…pshm

2025-04-02 02:51:28

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Must have been after the first nap.

2025-04-02 01:58:05

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Ah I watched that a few months ago with my kid.

2025-04-02 01:43:08

More and more I am noticing the tension of opposites across almost the whole spectrum. It’s like building towards a zeitgeist where before a hegelian synthesis can occur, the thesis and antithesis need to reach their maximum absurdity to pronounce their own death to end the interregnum before a new truth is produced.

2025-03-31 17:14:04

I hate that so often I will get everything right and actually get myself into bed at the right time, and I’ll be pretty tired, but my brain is like:
“Oh yeah? You want a good night of sleep to wake up refreshed and to take on a big day of responsibility and getting shit done tomorrow?
How about instead I fuck you over by having you loop over and over on stupid shit from throughout the that doesn’t really matter and just causes you anxiety? Would you like to spend the next 3 hours thinking about that?
Go ahead and try to do meditative exercises, or counting sheep, doesn’t matter, you won’t go to sleep because I decided tonight is one of those nights that I am just going to totally fuck up your day tomorrow for no reason other than that I can. Worse part is, there is no one to blame but yourself because I am you!”
Sometimes it be like that.

2025-03-31 02:40:46

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That is refreshing to hear

2025-03-31 02:25:48

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AFAICT, not to say there are not some younger and older outliers, but they tend to be 2x standard deviations removed from the norm.

2025-03-31 02:20:24

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This is incredible and important.
Great work!

2025-03-31 02:19:12

It is only now that we are starting to understand that there is only a small subset of Gen X and Millennials who are ‘tech competent’ and it is all downhill from here.
This is why we have to solve the most endemic and pressing problems of technology now, or else humanity is doomed to be entrapped and enslaved by technology.
#nevent1q…jkfg

2025-03-31 02:12:07

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It’s rough out there. Sorry to hear you’re trying to sift through all the normies as well; it’s a real grind 😮‍💨

2025-03-30 01:45:28

I’m so happy that Nostr exist so I have some kind of social media that isn’t a completely unhinged brainwashing clickbait experience.
Everyday the experience on the other apps gets more and more extreme, deranged, and frankly scary.

2025-03-27 02:08:44

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Try reading Walter Benjamin’s arcade’s project about the promenades of Paris

2025-03-27 01:05:35

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Yeah i suppose if everyone came out to the forest such a desire would be satiated.

2025-03-27 01:03:46

Man, being back in an urban environment after years of being out in the forest is a real mindfuck.
I just notice the constant human pattern algorithms playing. All of the micro transactions between people, the unsaid normative system at play, the default mode of everyday being that permeates everything. It’s wild to see how the architecture of modernism itself dictates our entire way of being.
Most fucked up is how I’ve missed it. How the comfort of the system of constant appraisal and social cohesion and its overtures towards a nostalgic component of desire that never actualizes. You wouldn’t believe it, but spend a few years living alone out in the forest and you’ll be surprised at what you miss.

2025-03-27 00:51:26

There is a possibility of building something extraordinary that could last for thousands of years, and could contribute to the liberation of human from the shackles of statism forever.
But you wanna feel safe according to false and pretentious societal standards, so you sell your labor to corporate oligarchs who use your talents to help design system of digital slavery from which you will never escape.
Yeah, I dont think we have a lot to talk about.

2025-03-27 00:44:07

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That was fun.

2025-03-27 00:43:31

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No, just keep playing those pointless thoughts over and over again.

2025-03-25 04:33:37

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That’s a great feeling when you can see their refusal condition has failed and their like, “yeah, tell me more about that”

2025-03-25 01:00:56

I sometimes forget that I’m at least two standard deviations away from what most normies would consider normal. I just grenade their world view in about 4 paragraphs, lol.

2025-03-23 17:24:17

One of these best things about having kids is just having little people who just wanna hangout with you. No agenda or plans, just the desire to be around you and have fun. It’s very sweet.

2025-03-22 15:10:21

The crypto bros are absolute nihilistic callow parasites who drag us all down with their bullshit fantasy tokens. They engage in a constant cycle of rug-pulling, lies, and sycophantry that damages bitcoin by simply being adjacent to it.
More substantially, these people are just pieces of shit. They stand for nothing, they are incapable of telling the truth, and contort everything to justify their despicable behavior and guile.
Nothing will solve this except for eduction and the understanding that all of these projects are scams and should get nothing from anyone except for contempt and disgust.

2025-03-21 22:35:58

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Indeed, in the same passage that he declares the death of god, he also asks us how we can atone for such a sin and what that would mean.

2025-03-21 22:34:37

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In part, there are a few layers to it

2025-03-21 17:19:23

I believe something near the root of our societal problems today is The Death of God that happened nearly 150 years ago, and the society that was birthed from this patricide.
The sort of unhinged self-hatred that emerges from this murder is one that cannot see itself in the reflection of god, but only his death. All structures and former ways of being must be wiped away, are no longer venerated or respected, because nothing is really capable of that any longer in this society. It is a society of a dark forest where the hollow men reign, and purpose is pointlessness.
It is only through the long private sojourn into the dark of night towards the true existential angst, the questing towards the question of being itself, and what the lostness within this darkness means, that the pinprick of the light meaning could ever be found. But that demands a decision of agency, the desire to know if it is only blackness or something more. The death of god explicitly fills the void of society with this lack of thinking as thinking; the black ink of nothingness to create a meaningless life where such a seeking is pointless within itself.
It is only once we take the leap into the unknown, into the possibility that there could be something, and not nothing, that the possibility of something different, something beyond the nihilism itself becomes a possibility.

2025-03-19 22:18:11

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Also I should do this because there are some feelings and emotions that are just too raw to share as a known. The raw emotional output that stands on its own merit is another benefit of being a Nym.

2025-03-19 22:15:36

This cycle’s ’where does the yield come from?’ is going to be MSTR derivatives.
Good news is that it’s gonna break some stuff in tradfi world.

2025-03-19 21:03:03

Unhinged mode:
ACTIVATE!!!
#nevent1q…5qhz

2025-03-19 21:02:07

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Lmao. Absolutely not.

2025-03-19 20:54:08

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That could possibly work, but then the flow which comes from my style is gonna get all fucked up

2025-03-19 20:51:19

I really should create a Nym for my spiciest of takes that would surely get me cancelled.
But then again, I feel like my writing style is too unique and I’ll dox myself just with my writing style.

2025-03-19 16:46:28

Hard work is the only way to become powerful, both mentally and physically.
There are no shortcuts.

2025-03-17 01:44:16

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🙏

2025-03-17 01:40:02

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WTF man, I like @nprofile…rx84 but no homo.

2025-03-14 16:48:14

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In person rejection taught men a lot

2025-03-13 03:39:56

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it"

2025-03-06 02:50:05

Life just kinda of gets progressively more difficult—dealing with death and hardship, difficult traumas and life events, and eventually an ailing body and your own demise. It’s not to say there are not wonderful events and experiences in there, but it generally is an uphill battle. The good news is that as we gain experience through life we generally become more equipped to deal with the onslaught of difficulties and more capable of skillful navigating them; but it really never gets easier, you just become more experienced in dealing with the difficulties.

2025-03-03 21:43:18

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Sure, but it also doesn’t dehumanize them and just make them into monsters. They have their own narrative that paints them in a different regard that explains their perspective and allows for their appraisal in a more meaningful and understandable way, which is essentially if their power is to be meaningfully challenged.

2025-03-03 21:40:10

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The sin of moment, and fine for misestimating the cost of the future.

2025-02-27 19:16:31

I’m about 1/3 of the way through this, and I have to say that Karp makes an excellent and compelling argument that has me questioning my own stance and judgment of these issues more than I have in the past decade.
Most substantially, I find he has made a compelling argument for the need for Americans to stand for something, and be willing to engage with the messy and convoluted process of trying to rediscover what being American would really mean. If we are to take the idea of a Technological Republic seriously and the need for classic liberal American values to be imbued within that, than we need to take this call very seriously and how we can contribute to it in the most meaningful way possible.
#nevent1q…8qhy

2025-02-27 19:08:11

The idea of a ‘deep bear market’ with bitcoin in the $80k range is both laughable and ridiculous.
Like zoom out and see what is being built.
Never has there been a greater opportunity to build substantial and meaningful contributions on top of the most important economic and financial innovation created since double entry accounting itself. There are mountains of capital to be created for those that are willing to put in the hard work and take the risk on building on top of what they believe in.

2025-02-26 17:50:30

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I think both bigger and harder to break, possibly a whole new approach to UX for verification.

2025-02-26 17:23:38

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Good point, but it’s still part of the toolset that we should do better with

2025-02-26 17:23:06

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Choose whatever hww you want

2025-02-26 17:12:42

WTF are we doing with storing huge amount of money on some crappy $150 piece of plastic? Is this really the best we can do?

2025-02-26 15:43:22

GM.
Let’s make it a great day.
https://m.primal.net/PMJr.jpg

2025-02-26 02:15:39

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Well yeah, it’s the shit smell

2025-02-25 21:19:28

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Fuck no

2025-02-25 15:46:42

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“But all you did was hold bitcoin”
Yeah, and that’s why I’m not poor because you don’t understand the will and fortitude that took.

2025-02-25 01:54:04

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Well first, we could be wrong.
There could be some great flaw in Bitcoin’s code somewhere, and simply being open to ‘new’ criticism.
With that being said, there have been very few new arguments made against it in the last decade that haven’t been thoroughly debunked.

2025-02-25 01:51:07

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Imho, we’ll need to start bludgeoning the scammers, obtuse nihilist, and most particularly the bitcoin sycophants with much greater ‘toxicity’ to build up the immune system against the most recent infection called memecoins.
Fuck these scammers and most particular the, ‘I like bitcoin, buy my shitcoin’ scammers.

2025-02-24 21:57:43

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Ugh, I hate responding the AI drivel as it doesn’t start with first principals, but here goes.
1. Bitcoin is infinitely divisable and nodes, not coin count controls the network
2. UASF proved we can blow them out, and ossification is a real option
3. Hard money argument with POW means it’s really about energy put into the system. Radu’s paper on this covers it well.
4. ETFs are part of the trojan horse strategy, similar to strategy’s strategy. It makes the destruction of the fiat system on a subjective value bases possible.
5. The trojan horse strategy means we have made strange bedfellows, of whom will be made subservient in the final throws of fiat when the state turns on them. When the statist-bitcoiners are about to be ate by global communism, they will turn to the cypherpunks to solve the problem. This will be done by FOSS pretty much everything and stripping state-bankers of the power of the purse and making for a new class of elites which will be cypherpunk ethos folks.

2025-02-24 21:50:09

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It’s the only way we can understand the shadows on the wall are just that, projections of darkness and nothing more.

2025-02-24 21:49:06

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Yes, it is a true ‘dark night of the soul’ of which many are unwilling to face—at least for now.

2025-02-24 21:48:11

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The great thing is that we have the market to help us with this. Looking at the long-term charts, I would have to agree with you, but if people want to bleed out on the XMR/BTC ratio by taking that bet (Or any other asset on the planet for that matter) they are free to do it.

2025-02-24 21:37:44

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Disagree, and happy that there is an alternative to market compete to see which thesis is right. This is one of the things I always thought was important about Monero was with the tail emission to see which model works out the best over time.

2025-02-24 21:36:07

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Agreed. IMHO the risk is the greatest right now.

2025-02-24 21:07:08

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Indeed, cypherpunks are the revolutionary vanguard of the Bitcoin movement. Without them, they whole thing is a giant LARP for fiat NGU and becoming a high-powered banker tool and CBDC.

2025-02-24 20:53:55

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“You have to understand that most people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured and so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it”

2025-02-24 20:48:13

I’ve been trying to actively seek out the arguments against bitcoin again lately, and sadly, I am just seeing all of the same BS rehashed over and over.
It’s sad that these people won’t just bend the knee, eat the crow pie, and admit they were wrong and that bitcoin changes everything.
This is the real existential angst of what Bitcoin does and is, and it demands that you go through the deepest levels of philosophy and first principals thinking to accomplish it, of which many are unwilling to do; which is why they are either no-coiners or shitcoiners.

2025-02-22 08:19:46

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https://m.primal.net/PGZw.jpg

2025-02-22 08:17:05

The only lack Nostr really has imho are at key times like this where bitcoiners are absolutely dunking on the shitcoiners.

2025-02-22 08:14:32

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He has somewhat of a point, but imho y’all have done your tour of duty and I don’t think many people have much appreciation for how exhausting it is. Sure, if one wants to go back to that shitheap of a war and battle it out with one retard after another while be actively gamed by the algorithm, I guess, but what’s really the point?
Y’all have done your part and it’s understandable why you wouldn’t wanna scream into that void any longer.

2025-02-21 19:28:08

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Yes, setup your zaps hommie

2025-02-21 19:21:43

Bitcoin is about big love.
The biggest of love towards all of humanity and posterity to come.
Supporting it is an implicit statement to all of the world, that even without knowing you, or any identifiable features about you, that you deserve the dignity of a free, fair, open-source money that is controlled by no one, and is open to anyone.

2025-02-21 19:14:32

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More on this topic from my hommies @nprofile…h5yj and @nprofile…w5ad
https://fountain.fm/episode/VzL2U8TK23gx2hRyblgY

2025-02-21 19:12:53

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Beyond supporting local farms, circular economies need to develop that are bitcoin-only so that saving wealth is possible to be reinvested into these healthy economies from a low-time preference perspective.