TheGuySwann
Guy Swann

[⚡️All zaps for the month of October will go to NC recovery efforts ⚡️]

“The Guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anyone else you know.”
Host of Bitcoin Audible 🎧, Ai Unchained 🔥, The Pear Report 🍐, & Shitcoin Insider 💩

Public Key

npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev

NIP-05 Address

theguyswann@iris.to

NIP-57 Address

theguyswann@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqstnem9g6aqv3tw6vqaneftcj06frns56lj9q470gdww228vysz8hqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqsmmzvc

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nostr-pub.wellorder.net

relay.nostr.band

eden.nostr.land

Author Public Key

npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev

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2024-11-08 14:37:42

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lol well that’ll do it 😂
Gotta appreciate the degree of “fuck it” displayed here in fixing a problem.

2024-11-08 02:04:48

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Eh, November is always like this. Feels like it shouldn’t be every year, but I remember having this little revelation many times. November is almost always just “pretend winter” it seems like. There are cold mornings sometimes, but it’s generally just moderate the whole time.

2024-11-08 01:59:14

Did you guys hear there was an election? Crazy huh?

2024-11-06 23:51:45

For anyone sick of hearing about the election...
I made a compilation video about something amazing that happened recently so we don't forget how awesome humanity really is.
[🔊sound on]
h/t to @AJamesMcCarthy on X (& others) for some of the incredible footage
https://v.nostr.build/i941i5PJ9mI4FoB9.mp4

2024-11-06 00:50:31

https://i.nostr.build/cNLq1rX592ZA095l.jpg

2024-11-05 03:58:14

American politics right now… https://v.nostr.build/sh1XWI0oRM55QVMh.mp4

2024-11-05 00:25:47

The next time you think “they wouldn’t” or “they’ll never get away with it.” Watch this again. https://i.nostr.build/Pjcb9bFLe9FfjWfC.gif

2024-11-04 17:49:58

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I mean there's zero chance he is freed by anyone else. The chance is much higher than zero with Trump.

2024-11-04 17:43:33

If Trump doesn't win the only person I'll truly feel bad for is Ross Ulbricht

2024-11-04 15:35:16

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Well then Amazon might not be the prime example for this problem then.
The frustrating thing is that we can’t know without ever having had real interest rates during that span. Although interest rates during the 90s were far closer to floating. It wasn’t until the early 2000s that the price controls got really bad.

2024-11-04 04:23:40

This would literally NEVER have survived without the fiat standard.
Same with companies like Amazon. It would’ve never been possible to get that big before ever making a return. #note1xt6…a00x

2024-11-04 01:26:25

Man, having Alby Go plugged into my Start9 with Alby Hub is just the coolest and cleanest implementation.
The wallet is so basic, and having one tap zaps finally on iOS even is just awesome. It works fast. It stays connected and I haven’t gotten any errors yet. And I can read everyone’s Nostr zap notes because I get zaps straight to my sovereign Lightning wallet.
If this is a preview, the future is gonna be lit AF. 🔥

2024-11-04 01:22:57

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Cash App is super underrated. I’ve gotten a bunch of people into using Bitcoin simply because I was able to show them how easy it was with their Cash App. I just tell them how to get their address or Lightning invoice and then send them some. The rest of the process is self evident

2024-11-02 01:05:37

2024-11-01 17:19:13

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Dereck you can’t possibly believe there was nothing fraudulent from the D’s in the 2020 election. You are much smarter than that.
Answer me this. If in one of the most critical counties in the most critical states, the losing Republican candidate was suddenly getting a last minute surge of votes, and the Dem validators were shoved out of the room, the door was locked, and ONLY the republican checkers were in the room, and the Republican candidate ended up winning with a landslide of last minute votes. The when the Dems contested it, after literal physical altercations with police trying to get in the room to do the ONE job that is required for them to do. Then it goes to court and instead of getting verification and a simple count, it’s declared “legitimate” because they could see through the window 40 feet away that the vote was being tallied by a room full of Republicans… Tell me you don’t have a problem with that scenario and that you would just trust them.
I cannot believe you are that dense because I have too much respect for you

2024-10-31 23:26:04

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If you have 1,000 hardware wallets and only do multisig, then you can actually make your wallet safe against brute forcing because there are so many different combinations that you’ll never generate the same ones. There’s like a million different possible combinations 🤣🤣

2024-10-31 23:18:08

I forgot to talk about how I pick my PIN numbers and how I keep them written down on notes underneath my bed 🤣 #note1j8f…sgc7

2024-10-31 13:46:21

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It’s impossibly retarded. Like I CANT search my show on it, at all. It makes every other thing about the app almost useless because I can’t even direct anyone to it. Literally every single time I want to share my podcast, I have no way to get the link from the Podcast Index. Which is just so stupid to me.

2024-10-31 13:44:49

Happy Whitepaper Day!
Apparently a lot of people dress up as scary creatures and give out candy in celebration of the Bitcoin Whitepaper. Seems weird but I’m all for however you want to celebrate! 😆

2024-10-31 13:42:26

The ONLY reason I can’t use @npub1v5u…n0v5 exclusively for podcast is because of how garbage the podcast index is at searching my own show.
If I search “Bitcoin Audible Whitepaper” then despite 100s of results not a SINGLE episode of my show is even there. If I search the same in Spotify, the episode with the whitepaper is, obviously, the top result.
This has been going on forever and it’s so fucking annoying. I’ve contacted the guys who literally made the podcast index, and have tried to sort this out on maybe a dozen different occasions in the past 2 years, and it’s still complete trash.

2024-10-31 12:27:48

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Paper is the only current option. However a secure voting system isn’t that hard either. There are numerous proposals that would work, transition would simply be difficult. But it’s not even necessary, simple is better for something like this and there’s nothing wrong with paper ballots. You just have to distribute the operation of verifying better. Simple proof is a great example of how good it could be

2024-10-30 15:57:14

GM 😈 #note1748…eyvx

2024-10-30 15:56:06

Ah, but what if you regularly GM in the afternoon to throw them off? https://i.nostr.build/Y79oGWOf8ifHYejv.gif #note1vtu…7s88

2024-10-28 07:52:01

How is it that after all this time people still dont understand that owning #Bitcoin doesn’t mean control over the network?
It will take time to unlearn the fiat frame. Thinking that only *certain* people should own #Bitcoin or it’s in trouble is the opposite of why it exists.

2024-10-27 19:49:03

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Can you do that without interrupting the sleep though if the computer is already on and booted?
The computer was specifically asleep, then when checked there was literally no indication that I’ve found so far of tampering. When I opened it back up it appeared to be in the exact same state. You couldn’t boot into another OS without closing the other down right? 🤔

2024-10-27 16:53:51

Scenario:
#Hacking #Bitcoin #Cypherpunks
Say you had 10 minutes (minus finding it and setting up) with someone’s MacBook, and you wanted to “infect” or pull as much information from it as possible without ANY logs showing that you’ve done anything to it, or plugged in any devices.
The MacBook is closed, asleep, and locked with the basic password.
What could you do, and could you ensure that there was no indication at all (no logs whatever) that suggested you had tampered with it?
If yes, what would you need to pull it off?
#asknostr

2024-10-27 13:12:45

The #Bitcoin Whitepaper https://i.nostr.build/x2cNXhgjkUN0EbLk.jpg

2024-10-25 11:14:39

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@npub10sa…zx5p

2024-10-25 11:10:31

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I’ll simply say that a doubling every two years until about 2040 wouldn’t surprise me. I don’t think it will be stable like that though, with most of that growth on the front end. But that puts #Bitcoin at about $12million per coin in 2040 when the US debt will most likely be at $100-$150Trillion (barring any crazy monetary events before then, which is probable)
Before we get to that point though there’s no telling how the landscape changes and how we think about “the price” to begin with.

2024-10-25 10:59:34

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Yeah it has been the whole time. It’s only the Keet app where their specific UI and how they put it together that isn’t fully open source yet. But all the pear stuff is completely open and has been the whole time

2024-10-24 18:28:35

Ok I’m intrigued… what is pokey and why should I be excited?
(Using Damus on iOS for reference atm)

2024-10-24 18:25:59

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Nice! I haven’t tried moshi yet

2024-10-24 12:06:46

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They aren’t even quiet about it. They just write a fucking paper about how they can’t run permanent deficits if people can use #Bitcoin and that the solution is to tax it greater than the delta on currency devaluation and explicitly make it illegal… they are tyrants through to the core.

2024-10-23 13:47:02

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https://m.primal.net/Lfdh.gif

2024-10-22 23:19:18

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100% 👏🏻
I mute very regularly up here. It’s nice to have better control over stopping things that infuriate me and not having Twitter doing its damndest to try to find freshly infuriating shit to shove back into my feed whenever I manage to get a few poisonous sources out of it.

2024-10-22 17:35:48

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Past trauma in tumultuous #Bitcoin times has given me a small, but notable masochist streak when it comes to a war for fork dominance 🤣

2024-10-22 15:24:28

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Is that “Blackrock BTC”?😂

2024-10-22 15:03:00

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I’m actually for this idea, lol. Instead of trying to force it on other people or force women to compete against men, let there be a joint league for anyone who wants to compete against anyone else. So the best woman can compete against the best man if they feel like. And anyone who wants to identify as a non-binary dolphin can compete against anyone they like.

2024-10-22 12:21:29

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Except that now the govt can make a bunch of fake reviews for Joe Rogan’s show and then attack him over it. New laws are never a good thing. People who buy reviews and followers are already retarded and get called out all the time. I bet this gets used offensively by the govt, and probably nobody else.
And I also bet it won’t be used to even the slightest degree against institutions like Amazon that are overflowing with fake reviews and actively manipulate it for their own content.
This is just stupid, imo. Will help nothing that matters, and gives the govt another corrupt tool to cheat and attack whoever they want, imo.

2024-10-22 03:09:41

Who knows about some good side events happening in Lugano?
@npub1rxy…hnp8 @npub1s5y…6q7z @npub10vl…sp42 @npub1cjw…j2rh @npub1au2…t53j @npub1j8y…vrvg

2024-10-21 21:55:56

Ok @npub1get…0nfm is it in the LND side or the albyhub side that fails to decode an invoice without an explicit sats amount?
I would love that if it's something you guys can implement. 🙏
(I can't send to CashApp otherwise)
#note1u9j…mvgu

2024-10-21 21:48:13

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And immediately after I say this @npub18m7…q955 is having a bug. 😆
When I try to connect to the NWC address (which I think is confusing btw when Albyhub says “pairing secret” - might be useful to just say scan or something?) the camera never loads it just immediately gives a “no response” error as if it tried to connect and the device didn’t respond. @npub1xts…kk5s

2024-10-21 21:42:16

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LND on start9. CLN too but it’s not compatible with Albyhub yet

2024-10-21 21:41:44

Boom!
I have been wanting to try this for ages and I didn’t realize @npub1get…0nfm was going to make this doable.
It’s basically nsecBunker but for your Lightning node. I can set budgets, timeouts, limited access, etc for certain apps really easy.
And even though the “disconnect wallet” button at the bottom of this is strangely placed and I almost reflexively tapped it twice while change my percentage, I am jazzed to see @npub18m7…q955 attempt the “support with a % of zaps” idea. Been wanting to do this for a while and having specific rules for each app makes it really easy.
The value of Nostr Wallet Connect here is hard to overvalue. This is a fucking cool setup. https://i.nostr.build/PictX3p5OksejpTX.jpg

2024-10-21 18:44:31

The hardest thing about being successful isn't obtaining wealth, it's keeping it.
— something i heard once that stuck with me

2024-10-21 18:36:36

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Ba dum tiss

2024-10-21 17:21:47

Constantly hating on Saylor and fanboying for Saylor are two sides of the same coin, imo...
Giving too much importance and attention to any random thing he says. It's cool if he says something valuable, and whatever if he says something silly. The average person is going to have the same tumultuous journey as everyone else and I've come to realize that there's probably no great shortcut. 🤷🏻‍♂️
I've kind of come to the same place with that sort of thing as I have with shitcoins. I used to spend SO much time and energy trying to explain why it's stupid and everyone was going to lose their money... now i just don't care. It's a waste of my time and it never seemed to work anyway. I just make my case to anyone who will listen.

2024-10-21 16:52:28

THE AUDIOBOOK IS LIVE! 🔥
@knutsvanholm & @lukedewolf's new book now has a published audible ready ready to listen!
For those looking to understand the rise of Clown World 🤡🌎 and how we can find our way out of it, this one shouldn't be missed 👏
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DK9VJ2Z3/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-417780&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_417780_rh_us

2024-10-21 13:29:10

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I think they are referring to the key design not anything about the service specifically. It’s a man obscured multisig with the intent of making it easy and safer for casual users.

2024-10-21 13:10:09

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It’s when they need to add in the time machine that most people just slack off.
https://media1.giphy.com/media/dXFKDUolyLLi8gq6Cl/giphy.gif?cid=9b38fe919h7l7f9w02xiz54uz6ukmss576wx87nhx6nrp4uk&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

2024-10-21 13:07:03

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True-ish, except taproot.

2024-10-21 13:03:26

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Holding a smaller amount wouldn’t be about distributed multisig, it would be about service based multisig.
I’m not saying there is one size or one setup, I’m saying that the various levels of security and self custody should be met with different kinds of multisig.
In the case of someone who just bought 100k sats, maybe it’s a 2/3 with their phone, their spouse (or another device), and the wallet provider?
——
I just think the design mentality should be “so what multisig would be best for this user’s situation and skill level?” 🤔

2024-10-21 13:00:07

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Of course.

2024-10-21 12:59:08

This is the best way to use voting. Not assuming you’ll get anything good (because 🤣🤣🤣), but using it simply to oust people who are openly attacking #Bitcoin.
Anyone in Mass just vote in the state race to kick out Warren solely for her embarrassment. 😆 #note15zu…803w

2024-10-21 12:47:30

Might just be my perspective and familiarity... but I kinda feel like every self custody setup should now be multisig, AND that multisig is how we should think about key recovery (rather than a bunch of paper seeds) and "backups" for the user. 🧐
Thoughts...?

2024-10-20 20:07:22

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/1fpFA5PQu3IaqisY2XdI4b?si=4NSq0qXySp-DaTDsiOb5Wg

2024-10-19 20:19:38

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oh snap that's awesome! Thanks for this

2024-10-19 18:36:22

Just scrolled through my feed with 5 different memes that I really want to understand in a row that were in either Spanish or German (I think)… maybe some Dutch? I don’t know.
Regardless, I need an OCR auto image translator really bad 😆

2024-10-18 17:55:37

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

2024-10-18 15:19:09

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Can you link me to a good resource for digging into blossom?

2024-10-18 14:15:34

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Now the challenge will be making the core of the idea understandable in a sub 4 minute 2SATS video 😅

2024-10-17 14:45:00

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Then I don’t understand what your comment was referencing. I assumed the context was about needing state control, and you were giving an example of where it was necessary.
Maybe expand on the context of what you mean, because I still can’t come up with anything else.

2024-10-17 14:30:35

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I think you possibly have a very naive impression that energy production and regulation isn’t totally controlled by the very people it’s advertised as “keeping under control.”
Read about Bootleggers and Baptists, and then remember that to make sure you don’t become a Baptist.

2024-10-17 14:28:22

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#truth

2024-10-17 14:15:18

GM https://i.nostr.build/slXa2i4K8xbE4bcu.jpg

2024-10-17 14:10:15

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This one doesn’t know how to. Slaver through to their core. You just mute people who can’t see a path for life without subjugating someone else. They are simply horrible people.

2024-10-17 01:24:22

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I started into that but never got to finish it

2024-10-17 01:20:02

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Since it’s a finetune of llama3.1 (which is MIT as far as I know) I think it would have to be.

2024-10-17 01:06:14

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They legit make grounding blankets that do exactly this. You can buy them on Amazon 😆
I also have been really skeptical until I saw the experiment where they watched blood under a microscope with and without grounding. And when they were insulated they literally clumped together. They lost their ability to regulate space between each other.
Definitely made me raise an eyebrow. 🤔

2024-10-16 19:23:52

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Pretty sure Llama is all Meta. But tons of people have dropped forks and fine tunes of it since it’s FOSS. This is likely NVIDIA just working off of their base model and applying their RLHF tricks or whatever to make it better.

2024-10-16 19:00:10

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https://i.nostr.build/odQeGJUGM1dPHBSf.gif

2024-10-16 18:58:31

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Why don’t you try a democratic company with your own funds and resources that you own and just see how it goes?
Nobody is stopping anyone from doing that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-10-16 18:56:19

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When might you have time to discuss this? I have lots of questions, and it also might be something I could make use of in another way… DM me

2024-10-16 18:52:19

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Genius way to get out of sleep. I fully expect Rad to trick my ass into giving late night Guy’s Takes in the coming years. 🤣🤣

2024-10-16 18:42:11

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https://i.nostr.build/ZYijCb7Fs6eG8lRr.gif

2024-10-16 13:30:02

Dear socialists on #Nostr,
Libertarians and socialists could actually live together without any trouble if it weren’t for socialists always resorting to tyranny and enforcing others into slavery to their system.
There is nothing about socialism (commune living) as a chosen way to live that’s incompatible with freedom. It’s when you decide it’s ok to force your religion onto everyone else by pointing the state gun at everyone’s head, forcing them to pay for a system and people they don’t agree with, making them slaves.
If people don’t agree with your system, leave them alone and live your own life, and you won’t start a war. 😁👍🏻
Cheers

2024-10-16 13:05:16

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I also prefer to be defrauded through my money and forced to pay for things I don’t agree with. 😆😘
Jokes aside, Nostr is open to everyone and there’s no way to exclude anyone from using it. You or anyone else can start a community around whatever you like.

2024-10-16 03:16:45

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YES! WANT!! ❤️ https://i.nostr.build/3wZ8Zj2IqqaaDxXz.gif

2024-10-16 00:05:10

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Wow, legit zero screen time? That seems like it would be hard to pull of with a 6yo, especially if you are on screens all the time. Is there a particular strategy for this? 🤔

2024-10-15 23:14:04

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We shall reach the promised land!
https://m.primal.net/LXDM.gif

2024-10-15 15:03:10

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This is an absurd statement, imo. Printing money literally does **nothing** for the economy and axiomatically cannot. You have conflated digital payments with the idea of fiat, which aren’t related at all. Fiat is simply the side effect of digital payments without genuine digital money.
In place of real money, we got authority as a bandaid with a huge set of unintended consequences.
I think you have made a very fundamental error between payments and money. Fiat has literally nothing at all to do with technological progress or economic growth. To the contrary, it has done nothing but stifle it rather remarkably.

2024-10-15 14:28:58

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What do I get if you already follow me? 🤔

2024-10-15 12:36:43

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👏🏻👏🏻

2024-10-15 12:36:05

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It doesn’t satisfy any need except for the people exploiting it. It’s literally just a bug.

2024-10-15 12:34:34

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🎉🙏🏻 https://i.nostr.build/QYKziZI6PrchEj3a.gif

2024-10-15 12:23:19

GM #note1r0k…7key

2024-10-15 00:57:52

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🔥 https://i.nostr.build/beeFR4Tqd6FIw6G8.gif

2024-10-15 00:42:52

This is solid af #note1puu…4tl4

2024-10-15 00:36:25

Ser Sleepy is the grocery price whisperer #note1ccx…v064

2024-10-14 13:04:38

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When have you DM’d me? 🤨 [suspicious look]

2024-10-14 13:03:16

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Each of the boosters moves independently and you can watch them while they do. And there are correcting thrusters toward the top. You can see them fire every so often in most videos of the rockets landing.
This wasn’t an answer to my question though. So in your thinking all of the smaller rockets that have been doing this for years are fake too? What are your thoughts on starlink internet? Is that just fake or are they just lying about how they get them into orbit?

2024-10-14 00:59:08

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Do people in his companies say this? 🤔

2024-10-13 19:49:26

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Curious, do they think that starlink is fake satellite internet also, and/or that the rockets that take those up and land back on their landing sites is all fake as well? 🤔
I don’t quite see the point of such an elaborate faking and doing it over and over again thinking they wouldn’t get caught.

2024-10-13 19:39:46

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That looks like a unique way to die and/or break your back 🤣

2024-10-13 17:27:24

Just for reference, this isn't perfectly accurate because i can't find exact measurements of the booster only, but the entire starship is a little over 400ft.
This makes the Statue of Liberty a tad taller than the booster alone from what it looks like, but this should give some references to try to picture the scale of what just happened and why this is a big deal.
This is the rocket that they expect to be able to potentially take humans (back? 🤔) to the moon and further, and it just launched into space, returned on its own, and was firmly and safely placed back to the exact same position where it will take off from for its next mission. 🤯
https://i.nostr.build/o3eGcnWt69I4qkkf.jpg
This is where you can see the workers in comparison...
https://i.nostr.build/kxGqnWWNwDG1PuC2.webp
https://i.nostr.build/HFODRV1ohGahuMP6.webp
#note14jt…hc60

2024-10-13 15:12:41

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"And these are the only 5 star wars movies they ever made. No, there wasn't a new trilogy, I don't know what you're talking about."
lol, I actually completely agree with this list except that I would put Revenge of the Sith as number 4 and move the other two up a notch. I also really liked (or at least was very surprised by) Rogue One though... 🤔

2024-10-13 14:13:17

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This one lands at its actually launching tower, the tower grabs it in the air, this was the first attempt, and this rocket is bigger than the statue of liberty.
Those other rockets that you've likely seen land themselves are way smaller.

2024-10-13 13:21:12

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They are in for a very rude awakening in about 30 years

2024-10-13 13:20:22

So this just happened.
"This is absolutely insane, on the first EVER attempt we have successfully caught the super heavy booster back at the launch tower..."
Truly incredible.
From the Ground:
https://v.nostr.build/CaCXdwVkwTAyhgCb.mp4
Livestream:
https://v.nostr.build/s2omFIphsyNlyww0.mp4

2024-10-12 23:59:50

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Oh Jesus Christ, another weapon of political grifting