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2025-05-01 20:17:44

Does insurance need to exist as a service to help offset the unaffordability of things such as healthcare because of
Does insurance exist as a service simply to help offset the unaffordability things like healthcare, considering the impact of inflation on costs?
On a deflationary free market would services like that need to exist?
#asknostr

2025-04-26 08:16:05

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My 2 sats is that with sovereignty comes responsibility as well but unfortunately people often don’t want to have the responsibility of looking at their food or “vices” as they aren’t truly addicted as addiction doesn’t really exist, they just perceive greater value in convenience or in an unhealthy habit with which they also gain a unspoken license to misbehave to some degree.

2024-11-14 17:33:08

Thoughts on #healthcare and #austrianeconomics ? I found this video interestingly misinformed. People don’t necessarily see how the computational power behind #bitcoinmining is very specific and can’t be just repurposed to something like pooling computational power together to help solve a problem like cancer. In the though of this I find myself presented with a question where I ask if the energy used in something like bitcoin mining better purposed towards powering computers that could supposedly help compute a cure for any number of diseases or are we better off healthcare wise having a free market economy?
https://youtube.com/shorts/5__dVIO3lXM
#healthcare #cancer #freemarket #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #nostr

2024-11-14 05:47:14

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Ways to see it on a smartwatch. I thought it was just cool to know as well as to see the price at first but it actually has turned out to be pretty useful

2024-11-13 19:42:12

What’s the best way to help a friend realize they could be much better off buying #bitcoin rather than struggling financially as they say currently because they need to buy a car and a laptop? Or perhaps let me rephrase the question, while I am not in my friend’s shoes, and the answer is different for everyone financially, what’s the best advice I could give to a friend right now who seems to be financially struggling and can’t even set down a little bit of money to hodl and see how it will grow? #orangepill #bitcoin #orangepilling #question #timepreference

2024-11-10 05:24:07

https://youtu.be/dJUrK1ghZic
NGU but important to not be a fiat price simp

2024-11-08 03:53:32

I don’t know a dang thing about mining but this video helped me wrap my mind around it a little bit more, particularly stratum V2
https://youtu.be/nDtMpiGfoO8

2024-11-08 03:24:58

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I’ve somewhat learned what a nonce is, I always had this thought that mining is just a random number guessing game which simplistically looking at it it sort of is, but that would imply that there’s a expected outcome which would mean someone knows the solution to the solving the block. I’m no math wiz but finding out that there’s more than one possible solution and that it just has to be a number that produces a hash with the correct or greater number of zeroes (I realize I’m probably butchering this explanation) and that it’s a dynamically engineered system to adjust for however much computational power is pointed at it amazed me. I’m from more of a biology background so learning of a mathematical homeostasis mechanism in place is sort of mind blowing.

2024-11-08 01:55:56

Excited to get my #bitaxe gamma running. Side by side with a Supra 401 and an Ultra 205. Months before running bitaxes to learn about mining I had my preconceived notions about what mining is or isn’t but my view on #bitcoin has expanded so much just by playing around with these cool home miners and learning about #hashing. I still have a lot to learn but pretty cool conceptually to actually be hashing. https://image.nostr.build/53410f67d1ff7efe922a4aeb50c101b31af2c0a9084d5fd770e4af548f970c3a.jpg

2024-11-05 04:30:04

Looking forward to the next 4 years of memes regardless of who wins. Here’s some memes from the guy who’s supposed to #freeross day one
https://youtu.be/eALmKRgFLVo

2024-11-01 21:45:33

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69k gang for the next four days then clown world commences who knows what will happen 🤩🤩🤩 just gotta HODL. And regardless of what may occur we’re here for the long ride as we aren’t fiat simpies

2024-10-27 14:26:37

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Become a #hydration maximalist fuck those fiat energy pre-workout drinks/ energy drinks. I’ve noticed I have a lot less DOMS the more hydrated I stay, and of course staying consistent in the gym regardless of soreness helps it to go away with time as well, so low time preference and stay hydrated

2024-10-27 14:04:09

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KYC’ ized e-cash built on a fractional reserve bitcoin backed dollar that may still slowly be rug pulled if we’re not carefully watching it 🤡🤡🤡🤡

2024-10-27 05:16:10

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Do you think that the new USD backed by BTC could be a giant E -Cash system run as a mint by the fed aka basically a CBDC backed by bitcoin that operates in many of the same ways as cashu and fedi do but on a larger scale?

2024-10-25 03:41:18

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Perhaps a similar effect to the halving could take place albeit with the proliferation of what this protocol is used for, and in the opposite way, it will become more and more widespread. Obviously it’s different in many ways to blockchain and mining doesn’t have to take place in order for this protocol to work, but I must admit I haven’t studied it in depth but from things I have heard on podcasts and YouTube videos it’s kind of one potential future layer of the internet that’s much more decentralized. So in one boat we have our decentralized hard money, and in another we have a communications protocol that can be utilized for everything from social media as it is now to even medical records systems that will compete with the monopolized electronic medical record formats. Bit of a complex subject but I think the potential lies in it being utilized to build a more sovereign internet layer with free market versions of any website people utilize regularly. A NOSTR version of Ebay, a NOSTR version of your favorite news website. ( I don’t know much but that’s kind of what I’ve picked up by listening to some podcasts). With the ability to run a relay on off the shelf easily available hardware it will be easy to disrupt some of the monopolies out there.

2024-10-07 15:33:48

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Answered my own question here’s a good one: per @npub1qkt…ms0r page: “The support from the Bitcoin community has made the first phase of OPERATION GABRIEL possible.
Every single one of your contributions is making an impact.
A special THANK YOU to the anonymous donor who contributed 1 BITCOIN.
We are humbled by the generosity of you all.
We do not take it lightly and are hard at work putting your contributions toward the effort.
Continuing updates will be posted.
Please continue to spread the word, we have a large task ahead.
pay.zaprite.com/pl_Mibjv4lkEs
https://image.nostr.build/16629d88c525d75f6071fc74c6d5023fefe49ffc88f8e76ceeacb0f3eb1b8f77.jpg

2024-10-07 01:25:58

Question from earlier answered #note16fm…3w75

2024-10-06 23:27:16

It’s interesting listening to podcasts and hearing people’s origin stories on how they ended up in this space and then reflecting on your own. In reflection of my own orange path albeit in my shitcoin era one thing I remember is thinking how I had an idea of making a more decentralized currency than bitcoin that doesn’t require the internet to work, something that was hardy off grid for preppers or doomsday scenarios, something that would utilize something like #LORA or #meshtastic to communicate that doesn’t require the internet. But in learning more about #bitcoin I’ve come to discover that it doesn’t necessarily need the internet to work and that the internet is only the most used means of communication of the information being transmitted between nodes. I remember hearing that we could even transmit the same information that travels through the bitcoin time chain/ blockchain (still learning the significance of the difference) via smoke signals but it would travel much slower.

2024-10-06 07:08:06

What’s the best place to donate some sats for #hurricanehelene relief efforts? #fuckfema

2024-10-06 07:03:56

Where to donate some sats to help with #hurricanehelene relief?

2024-09-30 11:31:29

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞back to #58kgang 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 LFG!!!!!!! https://image.nostr.build/099ec13e12871308ebbb6b2595a70016d1f55e868791bd553b773eb9c2867488.jpg

2024-09-23 07:42:03

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Wish I was. Started by buying bitcoin but shitcoined for a few years and actually made a bit from that but ultimately found myself full circle during the 2020- 2024 cycle coming back to being bitcoin only thanks to daily listening to @npub1vzj…x9gc

2024-09-23 05:36:28

Does anyone know about potential risks of #metadata carrying over from uploads and sharing links to a platform like #nostr?
Am I paranoid or have some degree of correctness in thinking that information that could expose potential vulnerabilities in the devices one uses or even some PII that isn’t apparent to the everyday user?
Not a #cypherpunk but inspired to be like them

2024-09-23 05:04:15

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The bitcoin echo chamber 🤩

2024-09-22 07:50:57

A lodging of wayfaring men. Interesting passage that stuck out to me about economics. https://image.nostr.build/bf517473eb48a4a6694e0e44d1d0842e90cec96a12d2b39e205cc39156fbea60.jpg

2024-09-17 16:21:17

Orange 💊
https://youtu.be/nOh-7SzI6gM

2024-09-04 15:47:39

Further thinking about #decentralization of #hashpower as a small individual miner using things like #bitaxe the point isn’t to become wealthy by running the hardware, but to help in terms of contribution to security of the network in an easily sustainable way where it doesn’t matter if you’re payed or not. The payment (regardless of size of block reward and subsidy) serves as a reward to those who are able to keep hashpower generating hardware running despite whatever conditions may present themselves, but it is not the true incentive. Enter the cockroach resilience like miners, running #cellphonechargers, keeping the hashpower going no matter what. One can only speculate what future development will yield in terms of small affordable hardware regarding energy use and hash power), but for now the small scale #bitaxe is as close as we have to that. #note1xeg…p8a0

2024-08-19 17:36:32

From a layperson’s perspective I’m not privy to the full nature of thermodynamics, it’s easy to imagine up ways in which the heat produced by a bitcoin miner can be re-utilized, but actually listening to people who know what they are talking about on it is fascinating.
This is a great talk to listen to if you’re just now getting into bitcoin mining with things like the #bitaxe. I know a #bitaxe is only a small drop of water in the ocean but interesting to think of the implications of bitcoin mining can have on our energy infrastructure.
https://youtu.be/WzHTVY5VvAw?si=yRM879SJx2xnDKIK
On my journey to try to understand #bitcoin I’m starting to sense that as one heads further into the rabbit hole they find themselves being presented with more and more questions which with almost certainty just drive them further down into the rabbit hole as they seek out the answers.

2024-08-07 02:32:02

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See post above about #bitaxe. Learning to use this #nostr thing

2024-08-07 02:31:06

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#bitaxe

2024-08-07 02:27:07

As the cost of mining goes up in terms of energy cost, and the block reward (subsidy I think is the term I’ve heard) goes down, will mining become more decentralized and run on more dispersed smaller scale hardware? (Enter hardware like the bitaxe?)
I’ve heard speculation block fee’s will go up over time too with competition for block space, so what will become a good UTXO size to have at a minimum?
When the block subsidy is smaller than the fees being paid to the miners, will big miners still operate for competition on what is a chance to gather these fees, or will small miners at random become wealthy by running their own hardware?
Piecing together this whole bitcoin thing little by little from an end user’s perspective.

2024-07-24 20:57:26

The time of the small scale bitcoin miner is returning. Did Satoshi fathom such a thing happening from a hardware perspective?

2024-07-16 18:35:46

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Edit to the question at the end: *Does a central authority own the work produced by these ASICS, or is it individuals that do?

2024-06-22 22:36:06

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Perhaps it is about having a say over what we can and can’t do with energy.

2024-06-17 03:12:25

If Bitcoin is considered energy money and represents the purest form of currency conducive to a truly free market economy, then all energy currently used in any way that does not directly contribute via powering Bitcoin mining equipment or indirectly through the capture of excess (waste) energy for use in Bitcoin production represents an opportunity cost over the long term. The question arises: should we prioritize using energy to power miners and utilize excess energy as a byproduct for other purposes, or should we focus on harnessing excess heat from current energy consumption processes for Bitcoin production, such as powering micro Bitcoin rigs? Currently, our infrastructure cannot support the former option, as the heat energy produced cannot be efficiently repurposed beyond local applications like space heating or drying fruit.
Suppose, however, we could effectively capture and utilize this excess energy for processes such as transportation. What would such a scenario entail? Ideally, assuming the laws of physics allow, we might employ thermoacoustic, steam, or hot air engines powered by the energy output from ASICs attached to vehicles for transportation, and these ASIC’s are all powered off of an electrical grid whereby the cars have terminals they reach onto wires with. Alternatively, in a more feasible future scenario, we might use our optimized and efficient engines and energy sources for regular activities, while excess energy is captured using thermocouples or other efficient means to charge devices that power small ASICs. Individually unprofitable, these ASICs could collectively contribute to a more secure and utilized Bitcoin network through their network effect. What then of these micro rigs? Does the a central authority own the work performed by them or does each individual own the work performed by their ASIC? https://image.nostr.build/5347e9f9773525cf3ab688f360efc104d5a27a26614542e6522e25c2a1f822d6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/91b68c3be9545081b9e4acfaac97f85c2ecab18c7ace43a3fa8aea9d95c402cc.jpg

2024-06-07 23:58:02

1BTC=1BTC
BTC per USD 1/$69,340
Sats per Dollar
1,442
Market Cap
$1.37T

2024-06-07 23:55:56

846,951