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CBDC’s are dystopian AF

The most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society is the opportunity to buy #bitcoin.

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2024-09-21 11:50:54

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wtf happened in 1971?

2024-09-19 08:44:18

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Bergman, like Harrari advocates for UBI

2024-09-12 12:17:46

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The Ethical Skeptic on the Post Orthodoxy podcast

2024-09-12 12:16:39

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https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/post-orthodoxy/id1596513611?i=1000558923378

2024-09-02 11:14:48

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Sounds reasonable. But I couldn’t even persuade my best friends (honest, rational people) not to take the jab.

2024-09-02 11:01:18

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They will not fold. This is the psychology of totalitarianism. No matter their IQ.

2024-08-29 22:50:58

I got nostr-pilled friends. They say people on nostr mostly talk about nostr. It turned them off. Like if people on the early internet would only talk about tcp-ip. I understand. But I stay nonetheless.

2024-08-08 12:33:22

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*three weeks

2024-08-08 12:33:04

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Haven’t had that, but also haven’t updated for the weeks.

2024-08-08 12:31:59

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Interesting, why do you think that?

2024-08-08 12:30:28

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Great piece! I think violence is the end stage of long lasting and slowly accumulation anxiety, frustration and eventually fear. It’s the end signal something is structurally broken. You can condemn violence or recognize - as as society - you missed or ignored all the signals that lead to the violence. After violence comes war.

2024-08-07 09:39:15

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Is it as easy as running a bitcoin node? I would consider.

2024-08-06 19:44:51

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To me 1BTC = 1BTC means nothing more than what it literally says, and is equal to $1 = $1. What more it could mean does not explain the emergent process that is the valuation of a monetary good. It cannot be planned, it can not be understood in full, it is what happens if it happens. This is the magic of a free market. And I am in no doubt that homo sapiens will reach consensus on this important topic.

2024-08-06 19:10:02

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Can you dive a level deeper? Why would 1BTC = 1BTC a problem?

2024-08-06 18:58:00

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How is this different for you than pricing other free market goods or for example public traded stocks. Does it matter what the unit of account is? Shells, gold, fiat money or bitcoin? We have had many systems for measuring distance, weight and value. Bitcoin is nothing more than the evolution of money.

2024-08-05 14:07:13

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In times of war both sides express their anxiety and anger in ways we despise. Yet they are the way of war.

2024-07-28 14:26:51

“175 million people in some form are involved in this world of Bitcoin and crypto and all of the others. So they said, Let’s be nice to them at least until after the election”.
~
Trump @ Bitcoin conference 2024, Nashville

2024-07-27 18:41:06

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This is peak Youtube. What a worthless piece of garbage where channels can have 317k subscribers and 300k people watching an Ai video of Elon Musk telling people to send bitcoin and double their money.

2024-07-26 18:28:30

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Doesn’t this weaken protection against the evil maid scenario since a yubi does not have pin protection like hardware wallets?

2024-07-26 08:48:02

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I think David Bowie would love this cat a lot.

2024-07-25 19:34:59

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You lost one of the seed phrases but didn’t you have one hardware wallet left that had all of the xpubs/derivation parhs?

2024-07-25 19:26:23

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Ouch! Yes in case you lose a key you need the original keystore to recover.

2024-07-25 18:40:42

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Convenience or necessity? Can I know your seed phrases then?

2024-07-25 15:48:18

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But i practiced a lot, all kinds of scenarios. But in the end its the seed phrases that make you hardware wallet and vendor independent. That’s a comforting thought.

2024-07-25 15:44:58

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When restoring from seed phrases i did not use the original keystore file. I created an entirely new setup based on the same seed phrases, probably even in a different order and confirmed i could see the funds and transact them.

2024-07-25 15:43:12

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I haven’t experimented with the order of the keys in the keystore.

2024-07-25 15:36:56

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As long as you tested the setup and have the seed phrases there can be no disaster.

2024-07-25 15:33:25

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I created a multi sig with sparrow and three cold card, tested it every way I could, including restoring from seeds. Everything cool. I did have one glitch where one coldcard in the multi sig said invalid transaction when signing when psbt was created with sparrow. When psbt was created with blue wallet the same colcard device would sign it. Loading the multi sig config again on that device solved that. Reported this to coinkite support got a we don’t care response, probably Sparrow.

2024-07-17 18:11:17

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seems he's just farting

2024-06-16 10:09:27

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I think the Chinese miner-ban was also a blessing. Imagine not truly knowing what a substantial miner-ban would mean for bitcoin. Same with the silly ordinals. I think they will not survive and only make the network stronger by having been part of the evolution of Bitcoin.

2024-06-15 19:39:33

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IMHO Ordinals are a blessing. They teach us what it means to be a permission-less network. They prepare the network for worse. Without them a bigger attack could come as a nasty surprise. Ordinals are part of growing up. I suspect more Ordinal-like attempts will be made, and why not? It's a permission-less network. Miner are free to exclude them.

2024-06-13 18:14:54

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Seems the sun is even better off

2024-06-11 12:40:34

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Probably nothing… 😶

2024-06-07 11:52:09

https://m.primal.net/IbvG.png
What explains these extreme transaction sizes in this block? Has been for several hours like this.

2024-06-04 06:58:05

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Inflation is everywhere.

2024-06-04 06:50:57

Within a Bitcoin network could a node with sufficient resources experience a fluctuating amount of connections? At one moment there are say 12 peer connections. Just a few minutes later just 1 or even 0.
I am experiencing this with my node and I can't stop thinking about it. I would expect quite a stable amount of connections since there are so many.

2024-05-30 14:44:12

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Great episode. I don't seem to be able to access the digitalwitness website. Is it down?

2024-05-30 06:39:01

Started running a bitcoin node today with @npub1agh…mhct
https://m.primal.net/ISPq.mov

2024-05-29 15:30:53

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Cool. Do you know when and where?

2024-05-28 16:03:48

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I kinda find narrow layout more tidy, wide less coherent. But thats me.

2024-05-28 16:02:33

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Oh no! I can’t toggle Wide feed layout back to normal. Wût?

2024-05-28 12:38:26

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to me hope.

2024-05-28 11:31:17

GM, momentum is growing.

2024-05-25 16:49:35

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Interesting. Which book would you recommend as as a good intro to his work? 🙏

2024-05-20 17:13:14

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I’m waiting for the movie 21 million lies.

2024-05-15 15:19:11

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

2024-05-05 18:21:44

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It was the era (still is) of peak irrationality. Like this:
The vaxxed needed to be protected from the unvaxxed by forcing the unvaxxed to be vaxxed with a vaccine that didn’t protect the vaxxed from the unvaxxed in the first place.

2024-05-03 13:24:16

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Thank you! 🙏

2024-04-30 20:32:34

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wût?? aliens sucking up our water!

2024-04-29 12:36:15

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Great book. Loved it.

2024-04-22 11:20:14

Anyone knows what's going on with Kraken Europe? Had two people today that asked for help cause they are locked out.

2024-04-20 15:31:42

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Sounds like government

2024-04-20 07:42:39

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Beautiful!

2024-04-13 15:48:09

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I see humanity forking off many times based on their preferred LLM’s. It will be impossible to understand each other. You won’t even want to. The consensus rules will be too different. The dominant form will probably survive the rest will tend to zero. Might be a hopeful future after all.

2024-04-13 15:44:10

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Sounds like the ultimate way to stay in your bubble. I imagine an LLM that is highly personalized and every answer it gives me I will consider truth. My truth. I will not accept anyone else’s model. Talking to friends I will first ask them which model they use when they express their thoughts.

2024-04-12 12:33:02

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Hey Anton, bedankt. Ik ga ze beide eens proberen.

2024-04-10 15:51:10

What lightning wallet would you advise for friends and family?

2024-04-09 11:35:15

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Text is jumping around. Hard to read.

2024-04-09 11:32:58

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What a show! Thanks Alex for all these years being a great source of inspiration

2024-04-09 11:29:51

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It was primarily Mike Benz his evaluation that blew my mind. Tucker did not say much in this episode 😀

2024-04-09 08:52:25

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Social media turned out to become the attack vector undermining true democracy. We did not expect that. That’s why it’s not the constitution but decentralized protocols that will save it.

2024-04-09 08:44:26

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https://m.primal.net/Hsqw.png

2024-04-09 08:41:55

This blew my mind!
https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/the-tucker-carlson-podcast/id1719657632?i=1000645633255

2024-04-06 18:19:55

In the vast ocean of global finance, the western monetary system was once hailed as the unsinkable Titanic, a marvel of economic strength and stability. Its structure, supported by the gold standard, was believed to be invulnerable to the whims of economic icebergs lurking beneath the surface of international finance. This gold standard acted as the sturdy hull of the ship, providing a tangible backing to the value of currency and ensuring trust and stability in the system.
However, in 1971, President Nixon made a decision that would forever alter the course of this great financial vessel. By severing the ties between the dollar and gold, Nixon effectively punched a gaping hole in the side of the Titanic. The once invincible hull was compromised, and the ship was now vulnerable to the icy waters of inflation, debt, and financial instability. This pivotal moment marked the beginning of a slow but inexorable taking on of water, as the ship of the western monetary system started to lose its buoyancy, drifting aimlessly in an increasingly turbulent sea of fiat currency.
Amidst the chaos and the realization that the Titanic might not be as unsinkable as once thought, a new life raft was launched into the water. This life raft, known as Bitcoin, offered a glimmer of hope and salvation to those who had lost faith in the ability of the traditional system to stay afloat. Crafted in the depths of the financial crisis of 2008, Bitcoin represented a return to the principles of finite supply and decentralization—a beacon of security and stability in a sea of uncertainty.
Bitcoin, unlike the Titanic, was not bound by the limitations of physical gold or the whims of government policies. It sailed on the digital waves, propelled by a network of peers, each participating in the validation and security of the system. This life raft was not only a means of escape from the sinking ship but also a symbol of a new era in monetary policy, where transparency, security, and independence from centralized control were paramount.
As the Titanic continued to take on water, those who boarded the Bitcoin life raft found themselves navigating the tumultuous waters of skepticism and volatility. Yet, they were buoyed by the belief in a system that provided an alternative to the doomed vessel of traditional finance. Bitcoin, in this analogy, represents not just a life raft but a new course toward a future where money is once again anchored by the principles of scarcity and trust, not by the precarious decisions of a few.

2024-04-06 18:13:47

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Why would a Devine have to grant permission? Sounds like he’s compromised.

2024-04-02 08:56:26

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I've just watched the whole interview. Yuval in this section is warning that the same surveillance tech used to monitor people during covid could also be misused against people for totalitarian purposes. The point he's making IMHO is that this tech is a double edged sword that must be understood and used accordingly. He is certainly not advocating for using this tech to determine what you think about the government. On the contrary.

2024-04-01 18:06:47

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What a great initiative Jay. It'll help getting the word out. I'd love to get a reminder.

2024-04-01 10:00:00

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This is awesome. I bought the book, but prefer to listen.

2024-03-30 21:34:47

A must read!
https://m.primal.net/Hpsm.jpg

2024-03-28 16:21:26

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Quit social media. Finish stuff on a daily basis.

2024-03-28 08:42:58

Today!
https://m.primal.net/HpBi.jpg

2024-03-28 08:31:12

Today!
https://m.primal.net/HpBg.jpg

2024-03-24 16:57:07

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I see. But losing funds in the process is not possible right?

2024-03-24 16:39:56

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Excessive free speech is equa an “unhosted” wallet.

2024-03-24 16:38:37

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Can coinjoins also be not so successful? Or even fail?

2024-03-21 12:51:30

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Whaha… that’s funny and truly a coincidence. I love his podcast by the way. Even though it’s another fucking bitcoin podcast.

2024-03-21 12:49:38

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Me trying to be more sovereign by adopting decentralized tech. Cause I think we’ll need it.

2024-03-21 12:25:44

The intrinsic value of a tool lays in it ability to empower a human being.

2024-03-21 12:22:11

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For a second there I thought it was Walker, but no, it’s a new friend. Hi Ronnie 🤝

2024-03-21 09:15:02

I dumped Twitter and I'm here to stay.

2024-03-21 08:48:00

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The beauty of Bitcoin is that when GreenpeaceUSA wants to change the code, they can.

2024-03-18 08:48:49

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Deleted X for Nostr too. Have to admit feeling s bit lonely this early in the adoption curve.

2024-03-18 08:43:26

What a great episode!
“Socialism does not appeal to the intellect. It appeals to the intellectual. Because intellectuals love to come up with plans for the betterment of society. “ ~ Devon Erikson.
https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400?i=1000645902296