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Marius

Finding a block is difficult, but as luck has it, some miners overshoot the requirements by 100x or more (898243). It is a bit like a hole-in-one without a reward.

2025-05-25 03:45:41

I used to be a passionate coder. These days, I dedicate my time on building infrastructure to reliably run the brilliant code you guys write 🫡

2025-05-23 09:40:27

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Kuh, Kriminelle(r), Konsument(in)

2025-05-03 15:23:45

PV https://image.nostr.build/beff1fc2c30d20ded82b2fff75144c88927543c9eca9075da1a0e7cbb38297bd.jpg

2025-04-29 20:15:47

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Interesting - I will check in my network for mentally ill Bitcoiners - perhaps there is no such thing 🍀

2025-04-20 20:06:00

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That should make for a really popular campaign trail. No one else has been running with it in years. Pplus you'll have the rope industry on your side.

2025-04-03 18:06:27

What do you think will happen to Bitcoin's price once it is done falling? Exaclty!

2025-04-03 16:59:23

I am getting relay time-outs... if you care for what I have to say 🤨, wss://relay.mess.ch is where you find me.

2025-04-02 11:35:42

Working with ChatGPT is like working with an optimistic colleague who takes one step at a time and takes feedback really well. This is me and ChatGPT writing a little Rust program that calculates the final seedword for a set of 11 or 23. The draft was straightforward; if the code failed to compile, I would poke back and get these replies. It is funny how it would say, "You are slicing..." when the code was written by ChatGPT just five minutes ago. However, with a bit of tweaking, I got a working program.
- Ah, good catch! That’s due to a change in the crate structure in the newer versions of bip39. The MnemonicType was moved or renamed.
- Ah yes — another subtle change in the bip39 crate!
- Ah! Got it — thanks for catching that. The issue here is that in the newer bip39 crate versions, Language is an enum, and its word list is not accessed via .wordlist() anymore.
- Ah yes — this error means you're slicing a string (&bits[..entropy_bits_required]) at a character index that doesn’t exist. Let's break it down...

2025-03-29 08:26:43

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Are you sure that "Bitcoin was created to avoid trusted third parties even for the ones who don't care?" Was it not an offering created for the voluntary taking?

2025-03-29 08:11:41

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A supplier who feels responsible for customers' preferences runs the risk of manipulating them. For example, the notion that "It's a failure that most users don't abstain from alcohol" leads to patronizing regulation against drinking.

2025-03-29 05:15:55

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Agree. The self-custody *option* always exists, providing an exit for users and a healthy threat to custodians.

2025-03-26 16:20:25

Wenn ich richtig gerechnet habe, dann beträgt die Masse aller bisher ausgegebenen Bitcoin zusammen um die 30 kg (https://www.bitcoinweesen.ch/wie-schwer-ist-bitcoin).

2025-03-26 06:04:05

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I get it: "Enjoy silence with us." Honesty is so convincing. Comparison with other social media: "No users. :D (but it's fixable!)" ✔️. Motivation: "What's more fun than making your own social network, and then being the only user on it, right?" ✔️. This is going to be fun. It looks as if the value of the up-and-coming networks lies in the fact that they are too small, too niche, and too quiet for the vicious, the boring and the posers.

2025-03-25 09:37:17

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Be aware: retirement may mean continuing to work for Bitcoin but now without getting paid 😉

2025-03-25 08:02:27

GM - I completed the new backup project using the proxmox backup server software running on a supermicro hardware (this plus Bitcoin = peace of mind 🧘‍♂️) https://cdn.satellite.earth/3cd11d24e41d48b70ec3d7373977d6cea50b876a1c8b4b0213ded8fe821da940.jpg

2025-03-25 07:44:47

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Probably even an entire column 🍀

2025-03-22 13:22:15

Today, I analyzed the Ethereum blockchain and found that about half of all bits are zero. This just cannot be sound money.

2025-03-20 09:23:22

I could use some help. Every time I try to sign into a new app using nos2x-fox, I get 12 pages of signing requests from yakihonne.com. What is happening, and how can I get rid of it?

2025-03-18 10:23:23

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Very cool. Are there wallets yet that let me specify my trusted mints (kind 10019)?

2025-03-15 06:06:46

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Much enjoyed reading The Genesis Book by @nprofile…lyzm

2025-03-11 16:28:22

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Brilliant episode. Rare rational takes. Learned a ton. Thanks to both of you.

2025-03-11 08:32:27

Bitcoin works just as well at a price of 10⁰ USD (with zero to one cleared) per coin as it will at 10⁶ USD. It does not know "its" price.
#nevent1q…rsj6

2025-03-11 06:41:51

GM 🍀 friends - my coffeemaker takes about 20 minutes to get ready - enough to fold stacking sats into the morning routine https://cdn.satellite.earth/dbe00b55c7df9f74a64089031b554a05cffc2597910e44697cd7c6646684566d.png

2025-03-05 09:18:47

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Vlad, could you please try to get Eric onto Nostr?

2025-03-03 10:29:02

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Very cool picture 🕶️ - as a hobby sailor it is interesting to take a closer look at the lines and ropes: they all "look right" but some don't make much sense 😅 when underway.

2025-03-02 18:17:47

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In the eyes of governments, the ability to control a coin is a significant plus. Naturally, Bitcoin is a bit weak in that dimension and needs to be supplemented with pre-mined p.o.s. coins, preferably with a CEO.

2025-03-02 12:48:17

Life is so much easier for those who stay flexible and adapt quickly. Resisting unavoidable change leads to depression and grumpiness. Every once in a while, it is essential to resist and alter the natural flow of the world. However, unless this is done in a homeopathic dosage, there is a high risk of burnout. Why not enjoy the ride along the flow of the world and work with it rather than against it?

2025-02-23 16:13:48

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sehr präzise Analyse der Situation - der Vortrag nimmt mir viel Arbeit ab ✅

2025-02-23 15:44:25

I think I should have used the word profiteering instead of corruption. Corruption only exists outside of the law, while legally profiteering is perfectly possible. The effect is the same: money earned unethically. Hear Woody Harrleson talk about it (and many other relevant topics) in this great conversation with Joe Rogan (https://youtu.be/ztXzOIH7x10).
#nevent1q…r4yr

2025-02-22 19:25:00

What is the easiest way to collect all my posts into a json file and inject them into my own relay (strfry)?

2025-02-22 16:18:04

Bitcoin is technically and ethically beautiful because it peacefully resists corruption. However, we need to acknowledge that an essential force driving its adoption and success is the appalling level of corruption and self-serving behavior displayed by people in positions of power in the past decades. The current zeitgeist suggests that large corporations and institutions are corrupt in principle, and Milei, Musk, or Trump's efforts to dismantle them are applauded (also by me). Still, I believe that fully decentralized micro organizations cannot solve all problems, and there is value in mounting and funding larger entities. We "just" need to find a way to prevent the destructive force of power to corrupt management.

2025-02-17 22:45:07

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Interesting. Your opinion matters to me. I am running a substantial lightning node and cash mint, but otherwise, I am pretty far from the center of the universe (as compared to you). I think having a phone that accepts lightning transactions is not a good idea. Lightning works best if all the known nodes are 24/7/365. When my node needs to make a payment, it has to use its imagination to find a route from the payer to the recipient. Too many offline or semi-online nodes make it harder for algorithms to find a cheap route quickly. Therefore, I am leaning towards recommending a Cashu wallet for starters, perhaps a custodial lightning wallet too (ideally with a friend running the node), and educating users concerning when to move funds out of Cashu into Boltz, swapping out to self-custody. What do you think about this?

2025-02-15 00:19:37

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⚙️
https://media.ditto.pub/94746d2639fe73a64e953cd8be21154bdb3583782bc389d9e4e43b7a184f985f.jpeg

2025-02-07 19:30:14

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One needs an ignorant electorate the other works well with or without.

2025-01-27 15:20:10

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ich würde das Cabrio bevorzugen...

2025-01-22 16:59:57

So much good stuff is happening for Bitcoin and the people who believe in it, the people who built it, and the people who are building it. It's incredible. This is very inspiring and a fantastic start to the year.

2025-01-18 14:19:12

Downloaded the latest @blockstream green wallet (2.0.17) to a MacBook Pro (Ventura 13.7.2) from blockstream.green. The software crashed immediately upon startup (I tried it on two different laptops). Then, I resorted to the previous version (2.0.16), which worked as expected. I hope that no newcoiners will experience the same.

2025-01-16 15:26:43

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This is the view from down below; taken on a sailing trip to Norway two years ago. There are people standing on the edge... https://i.nostr.build/4x3rECOSTkdGn8ZO.jpg

2025-01-16 10:52:36

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I just zapped this note from https://mint.mountainlake.io ✔️

2025-01-14 15:11:55

My goal for Q1 is to ramp up my computing setup: put redundant components in place for instant fail-over switching, and create more capacity for Bitcoin, lightning, cashu, and nostr. Everything without asking for permission and the certainty that Bitcoin will not fail should I screw up any of the config or wiring. The power of de-centralization goes goes far for all of us.

2025-01-13 07:31:26

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Technically: "I am here, so you pay me some of the money you owe me," or "I am here to ask you to transfer some of the debt you owe me to the car dealership."

2025-01-11 17:57:45

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That's the spirit. At best (me being nice), TA is for the short term. Therefore, it cannot capture Bitcoin's long-term nature.

2025-01-07 17:16:26

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In addition to success, one can expect some fun in the recipe.

2025-01-07 17:13:21

"In about 32,000 lines of code, Satoshi Nakamoto embedded the potential to displace the stabilizers’ monetary dogma that had influenced the dominant Keynesian and Monetarist monetary theories for almost a century." - The Genesis Book by Aaron van Wirdum; this is a brilliant book, very entertaining and hugely insightful
#nevent1q…kmjq

2025-01-06 15:33:51

intelligent people are sometimes hard to understand because for them, everything that is easy to understand seems obvious and thus not worth mentioning - leaving humorous or higher-order observations; as can been seen here on nostr 🐬

2025-01-06 09:05:14

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Asking myself why I find this picture (that I will add to my collection 🙏 ) intriguing ... It looks like Bitcoin, being this absolutely brilliant innovation of the century that most of us here cherish, can still get an upgrade. For once, Bitcoin seems to be on the other side of the affinity game: typically shitcoins are seeking affinity to Bitcoin, here Bitcoin appears to seek affinity to natural beauty (optimized for dozens of millennia).

2025-01-01 01:24:39

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Happy New Year 🍀

2024-12-29 14:23:09

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Very important work and great episode (thank you @npub16le…ffxj , Roger, and Zack). Who needs enemies if your own elected government and/or executive branch is constantly looking for excuses to tighten control and restrict personal freedoms.

2024-12-29 13:26:16

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https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/

2024-12-22 12:31:07

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Also, if you think p-o-s is cool, you don't have to change anything. Our current power systems are already p-o-s, and storing the accounts in a clumsy blockchain is unnecessary.

2024-12-19 06:51:58

Firefox nightly with tabs on the left - the art of finding joy in those small things 🐬

2024-12-17 17:48:28

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1/🤡 🌍 (Knut Svanholm, Luke De Wolf), Resistance Money (Andrew M. Bailey, Bradley Rettler, Craig Warmke), Alles, was Sie über die Österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie wissen müssen (Rahim Taghizadegan), Cryptoeconomics (Eric Voskuil)

2024-12-15 08:08:32

I am totally absorbed by reading and learning and am not producing enough. ⬆️ ⚙️ in 25

2024-12-14 16:50:33

After an upgrade fountain stopped working. I can no longer login with my nostr account. Anyone else? Is this a GrapheneOS issue?

2024-12-10 08:41:58

https://i.nostr.build/lbcBnu4zs7JKroxO.jpg PV and welcome to emerging properties

2024-12-09 13:21:18

https://cdn.satellite.earth/02ccf4ee60817499ac522d754989733a141235cc383246b6e0d432b6bc4b8d8a.jpg PV - taken during a recent stay in Piacenza

2024-11-30 07:47:46

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👍🏻 Hard to disagree with this. "legacy" - noun: something left in a will by someone who has died

2024-11-28 09:27:36

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Thank you for the artwork, Sandro. I love it. Now that the mint config is updated, I am looking for sites that show it. It would be great to see the logo in eNuts or on https://cashumints.space/cashu-mint/mountainlake-mint-m5/, for instance.

2024-11-26 09:28:43

I wonder if anyone is interested in designing an icon for me. It is intended for this mint: https://www.mountainlake.io/cashu/. Of course, I pay in sats.
#nevent1q…lytj

2024-11-22 09:35:02

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They must be trolling - no way they mean this 😂

2024-11-20 08:16:11

"It's not fun to live in the matrix, but you can learn to see how they play tricks" - Richard Greaser https://wavlake.com/track/1ca84e5e-19cb-46e5-a3a1-750acb61004b

2024-11-15 14:31:09

https://i.nostr.build/nFwCiQHHWobPrvPC.jpg "[...] the government calling you a tax-payer is a bit like a rapist calling his victim his girlfriend." - @nprofile…nevq and Luke de Wolf on the difference between "voluntary" and "consensual".

2024-11-10 16:19:22

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Bank CEOs apologize at best for laundering this amount; more typically, they send an underling to do it for them. The fines are paid by the bank so CEOs just get away with it. This again is a blatant injustice. While most people feel powerless to push back at this time, but they will make a mental note. Years later elections are lost because of it and the elites are scratching their heads far too late.

2024-11-10 13:46:34

Thank you for the jacket @nprofile…7j44 🙏🏻 https://i.nostr.build/oGL1uRI2knzka1Ji.jpg

2024-11-09 05:40:17

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https://i.nostr.build/lLSeRjoMswv8ZM0z.jpg

2024-11-03 12:13:21

What do you Bitcoiners think of tailscale? Is this software I should consider as part of my Bitcoin setup?

2024-11-01 08:42:49

Router died last night - MindlinerTre down, Mountainlake services down 😑, need to upgrade my setup a notch , sorry for any trouble ( https://amboss.space/node/02d695b01c7a6909e716c863fb39bc5fb7bbdc3824b7fdce53adc593e5be080e73)

2024-10-31 12:46:32

"Imagine being an expert in the very fields that overlap Bitcoin and getting it wrong not once but continuously over several years in front of a large audience - and costing your family generational wealth along the way.
Although bitcoin proponents often carry bias-inducing bags of bitcoin, bitcoin critics often carry much bigger bags of lost opportunity. But unlike bitcoin proponents who can sell their bitcoin for fiat currency at any time, bitcoin critics can't unload their opportunity costs. It's too late. They'd have to change the past. Opportunity costs, like diamonds, are forever."
- copied from "Resistance Money" by @npub1yez…awc7, @npub10af…0xj0, and @npub1jdd…4s60

2024-10-29 07:26:52

I started the day by scrubbing 78000 sats off an old signing device, leaving no sats behind.

2024-10-28 14:43:01

https://i.nostr.build/imAcpA8dUjNT2MpT.png The main button (front) got partially stuck on my Blockstream Jade, making it hard to enter the correct PIN or approve/reject transactions. Loosening the two screws on the back a tiny bit fixed the problem 😃

2024-10-27 08:18:00

https://i.nostr.build/kUHWILWmk8lBrNtY.jpg PV

2024-10-25 11:58:55

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Same. Works with some merchants but not with all.

2024-10-25 07:46:15

https://i.nostr.build/4R3zBr1W7pDdkFQy.jpg PV

2024-10-23 08:47:22

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Can I get one of these, please?

2024-10-18 11:35:57

A must listen for anyone with real estate or ambitions to buy. Very convincing train of thought,, thank you Leon and Marty.
https://fountain.fm/episode/XqGQop1NxebaiYQPXJob
#nevent1q…v90d

2024-10-14 07:40:01

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This is a good meme. I hope the team that created the Wonder Bottle Lid resigns and takes their lives back into their own hands, reorienting themselves on a constructive and productive path.

2024-10-12 10:06:07

This is a cool and useful app. It would be great if mint operators could get more details about why their mint is flagged red. I now manually tried a few swaps to other mints on the list, which all worked flawlessly. Still, https://mint.mountainlake.io is listed as red. I am not complaining, but if I run a mint, I might as well do it properly.
#nevent1q…qt5q

2024-10-11 07:23:28

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Great app 🎯. How can I get my mint (https://mint.mountainlake.io) back into green territory? It had an issue with an expired c-lightning-REST certificate and was down for a bit.

2024-10-04 21:00:32

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By "addressing risks arising from... uh... Pittcoin is a key element" she most likely refers to the risk for the IMF to becoming irrelevant. Understandably a key element for the IMF.

2024-10-03 19:57:56

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This is an excellent question. My superficial answer is "no" because of the mantras we keep repeating, such as "rules, not rulers." However, I have to admit that I have some implicit expectations of Satoshi, the person, or Satoshi, the team. After over ten years of reading, experimenting (and, of course, the 40+ weekly hours of listening to podcasts as required by @npub1563…c9n6 standards 😉), I am still learning new and fundamental principles of Bitcoin. Principles and mechanisms that were mostly known to Satoshi before the launch. So, they must have dealt with the fundamentals for years and were driven to liberate the world from the plague of FIAT. In my mind, it is safe to assume that Satoshi adhered to very high moral and ethical standards (but I recognize how this could just be wishful thinking). In the end, for me, it is the lack of those standards in dealing with the current FIAT elites that sent me looking for alternatives. Now, should it turn out, very much to my surprise, that the persona Satoshi is an alias for the Lazarus group, for instance, I think I would lose interest. However, this is an edge case I don't consider and would just deal with it when it happens.

2024-10-02 07:22:01

The cashu wallet integration in iris.to is brilliant. Fast, easy, private. Sure, cashu requires entrusting a few sats in the mint operator(s); similar to trusting network operators when loading pre-paid cards.
#nevent1q…w46j

2024-10-02 07:11:34

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Agree. WRT understanding Bitcoin's price development I enjoyed listening to @npub1k7v…c04l in this EP of Stephan podcast: https://youtu.be/AoaFbRKiAQM

2024-10-01 08:20:45

Knowing more about Bitcoin is the basis for owning more Bitcoin in the long term. Buying "more" Bitcoin than one's understanding supports often translates into selling at the wrong moment. Reading up on Bitcoin is one of the best ways to make money. Where else have people had so much fun educating themselves while having been paid an annual return of 68% for the last decade?

2024-09-30 10:48:07

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This EP is really cool and adds a great perspective on the current monetary and economic landscape. Thanks, Jeff, for sharing your insight, and thanks to Stephan for airing this interview.

2024-09-23 12:28:11

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Ein sehr cooler Artikel, der die Hoffnung auf einen differenzierten öffentlichen Diskurs zum Thema Geld auferstehen lässt. Natürlich würde ich (als Bitcoiner) da und dort noch ein paar i-Pünktchen verschieben, der Artikel erhält von mir die Note "Top-Nickel-Chrom".

2024-09-22 06:53:22

🙏
https://fountain.fm/episode/1axDpZ4vIAuTt9LXoH3A
#nevent1q…ft3k

2024-09-22 06:06:23

"Carter. I will let you in on what isn’t a secret to any housewife who’s bought a cucumber. The American dollar is worthless now not because of the rate spike, and not because of crashing on the international currency exchange, and not because of the bancor. It is worthless now because it was worthless before.” - The Mandibles (thank you @nprofile…p7e2 L for tirelessly recommending this fascinating, humorous, and highly relevant book).

2024-09-10 10:57:00

here you go sailing on grass https://cdn.satellite.earth/eec7c33ddb1c7ee9e3a10bc03ccebddc5339c4691696a60ef8eaaf260c00b3f9.jpg

2024-09-10 10:43:50

"Learning leads buying" is my first recommendation to anyone interested in stacking sats. Reading, listening, and learning is the best stack protection strategy out there. People who buy without learning are more likely to sell cheap or get scammed.

2024-09-10 08:36:17

I am at the stage in my #Bitcoin journey where I most enjoy @npub1563…c9n6, The Bugle Weekly podcast, and reading books and long-form posts.

2024-09-02 16:11:24

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Most of knowledge is available to anyone for free for quite some time. Bitcoin may be the first massively relevant manifestation of the phenomenon you describe, that anyone can self-educate to top levels. There simply weren't enough people who could have educated all of us on the subject.

2024-09-02 08:35:08

https://i.nostr.build/fMrrNEzyQkPSsuzb.jpg PV

2024-08-28 08:28:40

"This is the core problem of democracy. It favors sheep, not wolves. Lemmings will win elections and happily throw themselves off cliffs. Because of this, the more time that passes, the more draconian our societies will become. The more enslaved their citizens. The only thing we can do as individuals is focusing on the tools we have at hand. Bitcoin is the ultimate form of money since it has no ties to any state or institution. Being the best form of money is also the ultimate time-saving tool. The perfect freedom tool." Knut Svanholm in BITCOIN: EVERYTHING DIVIDEND BY 21 MILLION

2024-08-24 20:00:00

GN https://i.nostr.build/6EhaeZx2QlskrQ4I.jpg

2024-08-22 14:24:30

"In 2008, an anonymous programmer released a paper that led to the discovery of a new element. An element with a fixed suppl and without mass. A substance that exists only in the informational realm. A type of money that can represent the scarcity of human life. [...] An asset that you can store in yout head. [...] A perfect measurement tool for the value of human time. A tool to limit the profitability of violence and false promises. A connection between time, information, and morality" - Knut Svanholm in "BITCOIN: EVERYTHING DIVIDED BY 21 MILLION"

2024-08-21 20:40:04

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Works great - setup was 5 mins on GrapheneOS.

2024-08-16 13:09:51

https://i.nostr.build/4nVH66nzM8facPux.jpg state of banking (sorry - only works for German speaking Bitcoiners)

2024-08-16 13:06:22

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#sadboats

2024-08-15 18:43:27

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😂 - sadly these are the choices, indeed.