Jordan Eskovitz

www.vrtcl.studio

Multidisciplinary artist. Partner at VRTCL.
Christ is Lord. Festina Lente.

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NIP-05 Address

eskovitz@nostrplebs.com

NIP-57 Address

risingvalue296@minibits.cash

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2025-04-14 13:59:43

Always remain teachable
GM
#gm #grownostr

2025-04-11 03:38:20

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One of the things I recall most distinctly about group critiques in art school was the ability for college students to identify every unintentional phallic and yonic symbol that made its way into each others works.
To this day I triple check every illustration or design piece before presenting to clients or finalizing but I am sure I still miss things.

2025-04-09 01:50:20

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Welcome to #nostr, Gerald ✌️

2025-04-07 22:31:33

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Lots of this in western Michigan too. Every time I drive through, towns that seemed to once be full of life now have a palpable feeling of being long hollowed out and sapped of vitality.

2025-04-07 02:10:22

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Available through @nprofile…tdq0 too 👍

2025-04-06 01:39:58

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@nprofile…0ncp
@nprofile…k37n
@nprofile…0l9m
@nprofile…543e
@nprofile…mz0w
@nprofile…h2ec
@nprofile…hkmg

2025-04-04 16:18:09

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Welcome to #nostr

2025-04-04 14:56:51

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2025-04-03 18:50:28

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A bot would say that 😏

2025-04-03 02:38:05

List of Businesses on Nostr:
I started this list so I could keep track but since I'm not sure if such a list like this exists anywhere else, I thought others would benefit from it too.
Many of these businesses are actively using #Nostr as a marketplace through which to sell their goods or services.
This is not exhaustive so feel free to add businesses I missed to the comments.
Here's to the early adopters, to seeing these businesses supported, and to seeing the #bitcoin circular economy grow:
@nprofile…quzg
@nprofile…mq99
@nprofile…ng8e
@nprofile…9msr
@nprofile…0s5u
@nprofile…ptx8
@nprofile…w8zx
@nprofile…t77k
@nprofile…ksjz
@nprofile…4xa4
@nprofile…dmam
@nprofile…gc7w
@nprofile…axdq
@nprofile…0qzz
@nprofile…cg74
Also shout out to @nprofile…66av. Peony Lane Wine doesn't have its own Nostr handle but Ben does actively use Nostr to connect with people and sell his wine.
And shout out to Untapped Growth. Not sure if his handle males sense on this list but you should follow him anyway.
@nprofile…h2ec

2025-04-03 00:58:22

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Or even take the time to prompt in order to respond to someone. If you don't have your own response, why go through the effort? 🤷‍♂️

2025-04-02 18:41:59

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What client are you using?

2025-04-02 18:15:40

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iPhone?

2025-04-02 18:09:07

It is a common tendency among artists and designers to not handle compliments well. There are many reasons for this, but I think it is most often because we see all the faults in a given piece and are therefore unable to accept that others see something worthy of praise. We are quick to respond to a compliment with reasons why it is actually not as good as the person thinks or by pointing out how the piece falls short of our own artistic standards.
Sometimes we simply mistake downplaying our work as being humble. But this is really a false humility. If I am good at what I do—as compliments from other people can bear witness to—denying it is tantamount to lying.
What's more, we often think of pride as boastfulness, but its less obvious form is self-denigration—or even self-pity. The ironic thing about denying my own skill as an artist, or the effective execution of particular work, is that it forces the conversation down an channel of prideful egotism. The person is complimenting me, the artist, yes, but they are likely doing so because something about my work moved them. To then give them reasons why they actually shouldn't be moved makes the whole thing about me in the worst way.
What I have had to learn over the years is that when someone compliments my work, I should ask them what they like about it or how it spoke to them. Most often I give them the social grace of simply saying "thank you."
#grownostr #artstr #design #nostr

2025-04-02 16:15:35

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As one does

2025-03-31 22:36:02

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Fatherhood is indeed a gift. And all the world is downstream of it.

2025-03-31 21:38:52

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@nprofile…nkr4 pronounces it this way too

2025-03-30 04:28:07

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Generating imagery is not the same as making art. The existence of an image via a prompt is not in itself evidence of art.
Art is more than mere image and the rendering of something in a particular style. Art making is deeply anthropological.

2025-03-30 03:12:02

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I would happily pay sats for that.

2025-03-30 03:09:06

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Agreed. "Human made" will be the new "hand made".

2025-03-29 18:03:34

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Very different than It's Always Sunny but it is a great show. Funny, dramatic, and has heart.

2025-03-29 17:56:20

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Chuck

2025-03-28 20:01:58

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You groan now, but only for a time. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the Ghiblified Sons of God.

2025-03-28 17:42:22

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If it is timeless design, artisanally crafted, and will outlive its user, becoming an heirloom handed down, that is a reasonable price.

2025-03-28 04:27:19

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Welcome to #nostr, Ariana

2025-03-28 02:07:34

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Welcome to #nostr, Cole.
What are some of your favorite architectural movements?

2025-03-27 19:37:26

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Heart emoji

2025-03-27 01:42:07

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I may start introducing my kids to a few of the films.

2025-03-26 22:11:48

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Designed yourself or did you work with a designer?

2025-03-26 21:24:19

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Any other favorites?
I watched Spirited Away often as a kid

2025-03-26 19:57:24

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💯

2025-03-26 19:39:15

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Downloaded and will try it out later today ✌️

2025-03-25 16:34:56

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Liver may be a good place to start. If you cannot stomach it, there are liver supplaments. Check out heartandsoil.co

2025-03-25 16:23:04

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Hype ecash, fade stablecoins

2025-03-25 13:56:42

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And destroy nutrient-rich soil to in order to grow one thing that is either too poisonous to eat or to degrading to my car engine for me to want to fill my tank with it.

2025-03-25 02:03:34

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I don't know if it is what they were going for, but this movie captured spiritual warfare in a really fascinating way.

2025-03-22 20:40:47

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Admittedly I'm not sure how you see 2 Thessalonians making any such point about the church. Nor do I see any division between church and congregation in the NT or any condemnation of the institution of the Church as a business.
I do think many modern churches *function* too much like businesses (overly focused on marketing campaigns, brandong, and numbers of congregants, corporate leadership structure rather than biblically modeled elder board, etc) but that's not the same as saying the institution of the Church or any local church *is* a business.
Correct me if I have misunderstood what you are saying.

2025-03-21 21:46:18

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Much of the Church is in a bad way right now for sure, but what you are describing sounds like mostly mainline churches which went astray long ago and are mostly hollowed out. I really don't consider them churches or really a true or meaningful part of Protestantism.
There are still faithful spiritual enclaves of Protestantism you'll find among the PCA, OPC, Lutherans, CREC, Reformed Baptists, etc.
One note regarding the earlier discussion of the crusades and a lot of Christendom past—much of the Protestant Church, even the solid churches and denoms, do often make the mistake of ignoring the first 1500 years of church history at best, denigrating a lot of it at worst. This is something I would like to see change, and am indeed seeing a slow change. We ought not be so quick to disdain and disavow our fathers.

2025-03-21 20:28:31

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Likewise.
History is complex, and while I don't deny that many wars have occurred in lands under Christian rule, that is inevitable for two reasons: The first is that mankind is sinful. The second is that Christendom has spanned some 2000 years.
However, we also must recognize that not all war is the same. There is just war and unjust war. There is defensive war and offensive war. With some exceptions, nearly all the crusades were defensive wars. As were many pre-crusading wars like those against the Danes.
But as I said, Christendom is more than her wars, just or otherwise, and honoring our fathers as well as retrieval from the past is essential for the West to have any real future.

2025-03-21 18:56:53

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Yes. But my point still stands.
The image represents an aspect of Christian history, but doesn't speak to all of what Christendom was.
I do not assume ill intent behind your comment. That said, being told to focus on Jesus' teachings rather than discuss Christendom, or her wars, as if these things stood in contradiction to one another, comes across as condescending. Our fathers are worthy of our remembrance and our honor, and if the West is going to have a future, much needs to be retrieved from her past. This doesn't mean we are not rooted in Christ's teachings. In fact, it bears witness that we are.

2025-03-21 17:04:43

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I'm not the one who brought up the wars. My point is that to think of Christendom as merely or mainly being comprised of wars against the Mohammadens is flattening all that Christendom was and all that it produced.

2025-03-21 16:53:46

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Very truncated view of Christendom.

2025-03-19 22:06:18

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Internet access

2025-03-10 19:05:56

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Some thoughts that will get me in trouble:
The original use of the word "idiot" in ancient Greece was for a self interested person who only minded their own affairs and did not participate in public life or civic duties. I think this captures a lot of the spirit of modern day Libertarianism and Anarchism. This is not to say that Libertarians and Anarchists don't ever participate in public and civic life, but it is to say that, on the whole, they function as political philosophies of idiocy. I think this is because both Libertarianism and Anarchism assume moral relativism and social egalitarianism.
Both of these political philosophies have understandably become attractive in our post-industrial, Liberal International Order. I think this is partly because we have lost sight of how our pre-industrial forefathers saw the world. For the Greeks, to be a virtuous citizen was to be engaged in public and civic life. But this was also at a time when one's country was seen as an extension of the family—the nation as being comprised of households. So duty to one's country was an extension of duty to one's family. This is alien to us now, for ours is a time of hyper individualism: The family is not a covenantal unit but is merely comprised of individuals. The household little more than a common dwelling place. The individual is supreme. The individual is the most important unit. The individual's rights and moral philosophy is essential. The individual demands to be "left alone".
I'll grant that the temptation towards tyrannical governance has been around since humanity Fell. Sin mars everything we do, including how we govern. But that doesn't mean that it is impossible for governments to rule justly—as @nprofile…khkl has pointed out, history has many such examples of good rulers and governments—it just means that in order for them to rule justly, a number of deeper things must first take place. Those in power need to first see themselves as also being under authority to One higher than them, namely to Christ, who rules over all things. There also needs to be a retrieval of a healthy understanding of what a family is, of covenant households, of citizenry duties, and of sound money. And, not least of all, there needs to be private and public repentance.
If men try to govern out of a moral relativism and social egalitarianism, then it will always result in tyranny, and it won't be solved by a Libertarian philosophy predicated upon the same moral framework.

2025-03-10 13:51:09

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I say this as a Protestant, by the way

2025-03-10 13:50:43

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Protestants are quick to disavow their Crusader fathers but without them our entire Western heritage would have ceased to exist centuries ago. Most of the Crusaders were more courageous, honorable, pious, and self sacrificial than most of us could ever hope to be.
This is all desperately predictable because nothing has really changed since the rise of Islam and the Crusader era, but most of us don't know our own history and the rest have been taught to hate it.

2025-03-09 05:41:31

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UG came to mind some months back after I realized I have not heard or seen much from them in awhile.
Good to see you on Nostr, @nprofile…h2ec.

2025-03-04 03:11:17

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This doesn't answer your question directly, but here are some services that assist businesses in adopting a bitcoin standard:
https://opennode.com/
https://zaprite.com/
https://www.oshi.tech/
https://www.unchained.com/business

2025-02-19 02:00:22

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New level of health and antifragility unlocked.

2025-02-15 02:32:43

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64E9O1Gv99o

2025-02-15 02:27:57

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You should listen to his speech on AI as well

2025-02-01 01:31:22

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GN, Gigi

2025-01-29 23:07:20

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Virex.health
https://allfamilypharmacy.com/ivermectin/#ivform
https://www.buy-pharma.md/ (only accepts bitcoin)

2025-01-29 16:58:33

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Yes, I was intending to say that it can indeed be found on Zapstore, just to be clear. I worded it oddly 😅

2025-01-29 03:55:18

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Not sure if this is still a thing but it is/was being worked on:
https://github.com/fiatjaf/gitstr

2025-01-29 03:52:38

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Each state has different laws around it. Worth looking into what your state says about the options.
Some of it comes down to how you wish to structure your business as it pertains to taxes and separation from personal assets.
Depending on the type of business you are establishing, you may also consider less conventional approaches like John Bush's "Freedom Trinity" framework. Check out Live Free Academy. He probably has something on it there. Otherwise do a search for "John Bush + Freedom Trinity".

2025-01-29 02:23:48

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You would probably appreciate this: https://www.prageru.com/video/how-dark-were-the-dark-ages

2025-01-29 02:18:37

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Excellent. Thanks for the response. I'll look out for the writeup.

2025-01-28 20:54:18

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"Various other reasons" doing a lot of the heavy lifting there.
The Biden admin wasn't willing to own it, and we are now told they were deploying them because *reasons*. My spidey sense is still tingling.

2025-01-28 20:25:37

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Looks like the existing options are either Android only or web-based.
This isn't exhaustive but likely shows most of what is available: https://nostrapps.com/#signers#all

2025-01-28 18:08:08

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Curious if ypu will be providing any insight in future write ups on the technology about the GPU side of things. Whose GPU? Where is it? How is it secured?
Also, (I'm still learning how a lot of this stuff works so this may be a naive question) doesn't the GPU need to see the info in order to provide an AI response?

2025-01-28 17:49:24

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"You can't debank me! I'll debank myself!"

2025-01-28 15:47:40

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I'm all for good, healthy fats.
Thanks, Laser. I'll pass this info along.

2025-01-28 15:15:04

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epik.com

2025-01-27 22:36:28

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4) Taking advantage of interoperability

2025-01-27 20:24:10

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Welcome to #nostr, sir

2025-01-27 03:36:05

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You should check out @nprofile…nrls
Pro tip: your nsec is your private key, like a password. Keep is safelys stored somewhere and don't plug that into other Nostr apps. Use a signing app to sign in to other apps like Wavlake. If you are using Android you can check out the Amber signing app. Otherwiae there is Nostr Connect and Nsec Bunker. You can use the asknostr hash tag if you need further assistance.

2025-01-27 03:32:59

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Correct. Relays and clients can censor you to some degree, but you can then just chose other relays and clients to use. There is no *owner* or CEO or board. Welcome to the new internet.

2025-01-25 15:29:52

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#designstr #artstr #grownostr

2025-01-25 03:40:59

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Thanks, Vitor

2025-01-25 02:47:19

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That's so crazy it might work!

2025-01-25 01:12:49

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Welcome to #nostr!

2025-01-25 01:10:22

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0xChat
SimpleX
Also Signal now allows people to connect without exchanging phone numbers.

2025-01-24 21:45:27

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Vitamin C, vitamin D, quercetin, zinc, ivermectin, nebulizing saline solution with iodine. Happy to send a few links and brands if helpful.

2025-01-24 21:42:50

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What kind of sick?

2025-01-24 21:30:07

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You can try NewPipe if you are on Android

2025-01-24 21:20:40

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Regulations are a huge part of the issue too. You *CAN'T* go back without rolling back a lot of regulatory tape. There is a modern pickup truck sold in India that is just a pickup, almost no digitization, no bells and whistles.
It is illegal to sell or import it into the US.
Make Cars Great Again. This mainly means making cars cars again, instead of computerized surveillance boxes on wheels.

2025-01-24 19:34:02

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A good friend orange-pilled me. Sometime after I happened upon Mark Moss's YT channel and learned a lot from him. Eventually I discovered guys like @nprofile…hce4, @nprofile…vlfj, @nprofile…xafw, @nprofile…qft7, @nprofile…ph8a, @nprofile…ks73, and others. I understood so little of the fiat system before discovering bitcoin. That discovery, and gleaning insight and wisdom from these guys, has really changed my life.
And not just my life. As the father of three young children, it is now also a blessing to my generations, however many the Lord sees fit to establish.
"A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children". Bitcoin has made this more possible for our family than it would have ever been in a fiat system.
Trust in my friend's judgement is what initially made me believe, and then the further down the rabbit hole you go, belief begets conviction.

2025-01-24 18:33:52

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I'll let others duke it out over lightning walets. I'll advocate for Envoy and ProtonWallet for on chain only wallets in case you are also interested in that.

2025-01-24 18:30:21

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Gm, sir

2025-01-24 16:43:17

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Gm, Sergio ✌️

2025-01-24 16:38:14

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#nevent1q…cz7q

2025-01-24 15:21:53

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Blackpilling=pride

2025-01-24 05:56:46

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*Jacob.
I nailed that welcome message...

2025-01-24 05:55:37

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Welcome to #nostr, Jason

2025-01-24 05:54:50

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Hello and welcome to #nostr

2025-01-24 05:54:22

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Welcome to #nostr

2025-01-24 05:53:15

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Hello and welcome to #nostr

2025-01-24 05:43:33

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Welcome to #nostr

2025-01-24 03:49:15

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Back when cars were cars and not computers on wheels

2025-01-24 02:58:33

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Obtainium is great. I would advocate keeping that and consider swapping F-Droid with Zapstore. It has a growing catalog of apps, has better UI/UX than Obtainium and F-Droid, uses a web of trust model, and you can zap devs and projects in the app.
Or you can just have all three on hand, haha. One is none, two is one, three's a guarantee.

2025-01-24 02:44:37

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Pro tip: download it from @nprofile…tdq0

2025-01-24 02:02:15

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Keep those teeth clean, now, ya hear?

2025-01-24 01:27:39

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GN, Gigi

2025-01-24 01:25:58

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Depends on the client you are using. You can either copy and paste their npub, or if your client might allow @ing someone. Amethyst does this, for example.

2025-01-23 23:03:51

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I agree. I understand the responses of many here but I'm also of the "who cares if the USG wants to stack shitcoins?" mindset.
I prefer bitcoin only, but I would also rather they release the bitcoin they currently have to the markets and buy BTC for the reserve legitimately. But that is a much more complicated process than simply moving what they have to reserves. So it seems likely that there *will be* bitcoin in the reserves. If there is crypto in there too, meh, whatever. 💁🏻‍♂️

2025-01-23 21:10:06

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*easy work around

2025-01-23 21:09:37

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Would a private sector stable coin that the government backs and officially issues be considered a CBDC? Seems like an any asy workaround.
Public-private partnership.

2025-01-23 21:06:08

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I find it more likely that a government- backed-private-sector stable coin is issued rather than a CBDC.
"Public-private partnership"

2025-01-23 20:35:25

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Welcome to #nostr
Check out the #artstr hash tag