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⚡️Fix the 💰, start fixing the 🌍Through Bitcoin comes the discovery of digital scarcity, a way of anchoring abstracted information in the physical world to make it immutable
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fastpanther1@primal.net

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2024-09-11 15:18:28

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I wonder if that worked out for him 🤣

2024-08-16 02:02:06

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“Creating a credible and trusted digital currency” 🤯
Nothing could sound less credible and trustworthy than saying stuff like this, in the knowledge that the world’s hardest money already exists

2024-08-15 17:11:27

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Make me SATisfied
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2024-08-15 12:58:49

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True! Doesn’t make them wrong or bad, but imo if you quote post for negative reason instead of replying, that’s cowardly - should say your comment to the OP’s face instead of badmouthing surreptitiously through a quote post

2024-08-15 01:14:05

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This is what Peter Todd had to say about this. What a nice guy 🤦‍♂️
Curious why he didn’t reply directly
https://primal.net/e/note16kqwxsy8vj4804cgmklds79xay3zlw6rsejljekfp4qn09kkpr7sfse5kk

2024-08-15 01:04:56

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No, because you’re cheering on the bombing of likely innocent people who have no control over what their leader does, whilst accusing them of being criminals for staying in their own country and making a living. I wouldn’t expect my family and friends to uproot from England because the British Govt is assisting Israeli Zionists in genocide of Palestinians because they have no control over the Govt, of which both sides seem to be in opposition to most of the rest of the country. Nor do I see you leaving the US after countless illegal wars and coups conducted by the US Govt. This shit mainly happens because of the fiat money system and this is also why the average person has no say in the matter. I cannot condone the arbitrary killing of innocent people no matter which side they’re on. But you seem to be gleefully nonchalant about it

2024-08-15 00:44:34

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Sad to know there are warmongers among some of the earliest, well recognized Bitcoin developers, but I guess Bitcoin is really for everyone, including assholes

2024-08-09 00:37:59

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@npub1a2c…w83a you certainly don’t come across as cold and distant in the podcasts and chats I’ve heard you in. Quite the opposite. Always very present, level-headed, and I doubt @npub14mc…frlx would have had you on WBD 37 times if you didn’t have a good sense of humour and easy going nature!
Btw Absolutely love your book Broken Money, it’s definitely filled a niche in Bitcoin literature that was missing - the mix of easy-to-follow technical and philosophical discussion injected with the relevant historical backgrounds set out in a logical flow. It’s the book I’d have wanted to write if I had the breadth and depth of your knowledge 😂

2024-08-09 00:21:35

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2024-08-09 00:05:25

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True dat 🪄

2024-08-08 14:55:33

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GM 🌅

2024-08-04 15:53:36

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That’s how my wife read it… we were laughing at different things 😂😂

2024-08-04 15:51:53

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😂😂😂

2024-08-02 16:10:28

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So is it FUD or not? Did Bitcoin2024 really have so few Tx’s overall?

2024-08-02 02:16:46

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🤣

2024-08-02 02:15:14

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100%

2024-07-26 14:48:01

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What’s Bitcoin conference got against nostr? Is this something to do with how the conference seems to have sold out

2024-07-08 12:59:15

Highly recommend this Pyramid of Power documentary film series by Derrick Broze. It’s a cool concept where each layer of the pyramid deals with a particular aspect of our world that has been corrupted, from education to food to pharmaceuticals and on and on (basically pretty much every part of our lives), and each layer up the pyramid moves closer to answering the question “who really runs the world?”, which is promised to be revealed in the final episode (17) There are 14 episodes so far, with the 15th expected to come out in a few months’ time #pyramidofpower #derrickbroze #conspiracytheory #whorunstheworld
Discovered this on #whatbitcoindid with @npub14mc…frlx
https://thepyramidofpower.net/
https://m.primal.net/JKnC.jpg

2024-07-08 12:49:44

Highly recommend this Pyramid of Power documentary film series by Derrick Broze. It’s a cool concept where each layer of the pyramid deals with a particular aspect of our world that has been corrupted, from education to food to pharmaceuticals and on and on (basically pretty much every part of our lives), and each layer up the pyramid moves closer to answering the question “who really runs the world?”, which is promised to be revealed in the final episode (17) There are 14 episodes so far, with the 15th expected to come out in a few months’ time #pyramidofpower #derrickbroze #conspiracytheory #whorunstheworld
Discovered this on @npub1pxy…7nke with @npub14mc…frlx
https://thepyramidofpower.net/

2024-07-08 12:29:00

It’s not climate change as an unfortunate side effect of human activity that we need to worry about, it’s the idiots who are deliberately trying to change the weather and with toxic chemicals, that we should be concerned about
#note1un2…vrke

2024-07-08 10:24:13

An article I wrote for Imperial College, London’s Felix (student magazine) - as an alumnus. Aimed at pre-coiners, it focuses on the problem/s Bitcoin was designed to solve. First draft was twice as long and I’d planned to include a lot more about Bitcoin before hearing from my daughter (Deputy Editor-in-Chief) that my word limit was 770! They eventually gave me two pages as it was such a struggle even getting it below about 1300 words. Could have easily filled that blank space in the bottom right 😆
I enjoyed the challenge of trying to get the message across as concisely as possible, but it just goes to show that Bitcoin is such a huge topic that it’s near impossible to cover even just one aspect of the flawed monetary system in a single article, let alone start talking about how Bitcoin fixes it
#Bitcoin #brokenmoney #flawedmonetarysystem #moneyprinting #fractionalreservebanking #lendingmoneyintoexistence #fiatruinseverything
#imperialcollegelondon #felixmagazine #taoofbitcoin
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2024-06-25 06:57:02

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Me neither. Fantastic news

2024-06-25 06:56:29

Amazing news
#note1039…avnx

2024-06-25 06:54:52

Fantastic news!
https://x.com/ajenglish/status/1805488595899220314

2024-06-17 10:03:54

This is ludicrous. Where are the fucking idiot brains that support these moronic policies being incubated? There’s little that can be done about the sociopaths that initiate them but they wouldn’t get off the ground if it wasn’t for these weird zombie armies voting against the will of the people they’re supposedly representing
#note12kn…vtgj

2024-05-18 07:55:58

Bitcoin is the analog of digital money…
Well maybe not literally, but recent comments by Peter Schiff left me scratching my head about how little he still seems to understand. There was his usual retort about Bitcoin not having intrinsic value, but it was his comparison of Bitcoin to the digital version of music, saying that at least digital music has substance, that I find puzzling. If you think about an LP on vinyl, that has some unique, one-of-a-kind property to it that its digital counterpart does not. Digitalisation immediately removes the uniqueness of something, as it can be perfectly duplicated indefinitely henceforth. Bitcoin otoh flips this concept on its head, attaining and maintaining the uniqueness of its ledger by bootstrapping this perfect duplicability property to enable all users to share a single source of truth, in turn ensuring the uniqueness of each holder’s Bitcoin. As the ledger is secured by real-world energy, the uniqueness of the Bitcoin would start to crumble without this proof-of-work, as it would soon start to be double-spent and would quickly become worthless. In this respect, Bitcoin is an analog form of money. It cannot exist as a static arrangement of 1’s and 0’s solely in the digital realm. This is what sets it apart from mere digital representations of things, and is its greatest strength. It’s certainly ironic that the first real contender to become the native currency of the Information Age and the internet is more analog than most of the payments systems currently in use today. This is clearly lost on Peter along with his sheer blindness to the fact that Bitcoin’s intrinsic value is the purity of its function as a monetary medium itself, unobscured and undiluted by other non-monetary properties such as jewellery, industrial uses and paper aeroplanes

2024-05-16 04:43:47

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Yes because the US did it, so obviously then the media put a sock in it

2024-04-26 07:12:44

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He could just be saying what he says to distract from the fact that he’s shorting the dollar

2024-04-26 07:10:46

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What? They don’t hold the keys to their Bitcoin?

2024-03-27 06:08:01

The Federal Reserve has 3 official mandates, as follows: -
1. Maximise long-term US employment
2. Maintain stable prices (the arbitrary 2% inflation)
3. Maintain long-term interest rates
In her book “Broken Money”, Lyn Alden argues there’s a fourth informal mandate to maintain US financial stability, which is a pre-requisite for the other three.
It’s well known by those who’ve studied the history of money that the US dollar has been world reserve currency since at least 1958, and that the levers pulled by The Fed have trickle-down effects on the rest of the world as a result. What’s less apparent to many, no doubt, is the disconnect between the fact that the Fed’s mandates were designed specifically for the US yet have far-reaching impacts on the rest of the world. This is because the mandates were formed over 45 years before the USD became world reserve currency but were never updated to suit. So in attempting to maintain stability of their own financial system, they end up pushing volatility to many other dollar-dependent countries, sometimes with devastating effects. Here is an excerpt from Lyn’s book
The reader should notice that despite being the issuer of the world reserve currency, none of the Federal Reserve’s mandates say anything about foreign countries. As the issuer of the world reserve currency, U.S. monetary policy decisions affect almost everyone in the world, but the Federal Reserve only officially cares about foreign impacts if those impacts can bounce back and affect the United States’ economy
Excerpt from: "Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better" by Lyn Alden. Scribd.
This material may be protected by copyright.
Read this book on Everand: https://www.everand.com/book/677233019

2024-03-21 14:32:57

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2024-03-12 14:40:53

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Yes. Also read The Fiat Standard, coz I found that the Bitcoin Standard is a bit too biased towards gold and I think Saifedean realised that too, hence the follow-up. I also read Web of Debt before The Bitcoin Standard and that shows how fiat has actually been useful at times in history in the short term, in particular The American Revolution, which facilitated America breaking away from England with unbacked fiat in circulation. This book predates Bitcoin and argues for a fiat system where govt issues it itself without having to pay interest to a lending bank, and not inflating the supply without backing. Of course this is nonsense to Bitcoiners now, but the book gives a good history of money and nefarious financing. Also Broken Money by Lynn Alden, Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth, Inventing Bitcoin, Mastering Bitcoin and The Sovereign Individual

2024-03-12 14:30:08

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Sometimes it helps to give some hint that you’re joking (which I sincerely hope you are)… there are so many psychos out there these days who think certain other humans (like Palestinians for example) don’t even have the right to breathe, so this could easily be taken at face value

2024-02-16 15:44:07

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such curious timing, a week after many in the world first heard something other than the force-fed propaganda about the Russia-Ukraine conflict

2024-02-13 02:50:39

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I'm a civil engineer too and have been wondering the same thing

2024-02-10 10:19:49

Happy New Year of the Dragon 2024
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2024-02-10 10:17:04

Happy New Year of the Dragon 2024
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2024-02-03 05:05:55

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different from the one that's already in the app??

2024-02-02 14:59:46

My daughter Keisha and her band playing some of her original songs at The Undergound HK's 20th anniversary show at AIA Carnival
https://youtu.be/g-gvR5sHxGU?si=647fTeCUvVibgae-

2024-02-02 13:47:01

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agree this is more important metric

2024-02-02 02:56:02

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it's not secured at the source and the surveillance is mainly downstream, it's a Frankenstein monster and yes it's super weird

2024-01-30 15:14:03

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but I want to C Flat and B Sharp

2024-01-29 15:05:54

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not hard to have a decline when the money supply grew in just one year 2019-2020 by the same amount as what the TOTAL money supply had reached by 1996

2024-01-28 02:33:04

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Yup it’s nonsense, such tools are inevitable. We just have to get used to the fact that no audio or video online can be trusted as being real anymore - only face-to-face or content from people you trust, signed with a trusted signature. It’s a bit like the idea of ‘fighting’ climate change - the focus should be on adapting and on tangible improvements to efficiency and pollution reduction rather than attacking the whole complex climate system as if it’s some sort of monster

2024-01-28 02:10:16

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By Bitcoin Content Industrial Complex are you referring to the shitcoin invasion that thrives on the attention it gets from the drama talk within Bitcoin community, or just in general that there’s too much talk and not enough action?

2024-01-24 06:18:02

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I did most of that (although using default enuts mint) and sent you a few sats in less than 10 mins! Thanks for your help

2024-01-23 03:00:19

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thank you Klaus for spelling out what needs to be done 😂. And by the way, just because the word sounds like tear-ee-a-nism, doesn't mean it's actually about tearing things down, it's more like just trimming off the fat!

2024-01-23 02:41:15

Encourage ppl to look into RGB (Really Good Bitcoin!), Prime and Abraxas, which use client-side validation which will negate the need for the blockchain to store all transactions, instead requiring only the parties to the specific transaction histories to validate their part of the timechain using merkle trees and storing the bulk of data off-chain. This is great for both privacy and scaling on Bitcoin
#note1vwg…z2qd

2024-01-23 02:37:06

2024-01-23 02:30:19

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RGB and Prime/Abraxas with client-side validation seem to have alot of potential for both scaling and privacy on Bitcoin

2024-01-20 12:02:40

Sticking it to the WEF! Klaus must be squirming. Pretty cool AI conversion of the original speech in Spanish, made to look like he’s speaking in English and with his own accent
https://youtu.be/YtegqgKYR-U

2024-01-20 01:56:29

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dog owners too busy having to walk their dogs

2024-01-19 08:10:31

it's all relative
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2024-01-19 06:28:56

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ikr !!

2024-01-18 12:33:57

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/s/B1AmthGXNM
Here's a list of all the dumb things Dipstick Dimon fits into this 2-minute video:-
"This is the last time I’ll tell this to CNBC" - highly unlikely unless he gains a few braincells
"Blockchain is real, it’s a technology" - no shit Sherlock, it stores the Bitcoin ledger
"We use it, it’s going to move money, it’s going to move data, it’s efficient" - it's not "going" to move money, Bitcoin is a form of money and is already being moved from wallet to wallet within the blockchain, secured by mining work. It's NOT efficient when compared with a centralised ledger so there's no point using a blockchain for anything unless it requires decentralisation and high security.
"We’ve been talking about that for 12 years too and it’s very small, we’ve wasted too many words on that" - he's describing his long journey leading to little understanding of Bitcoin
"Cryptocurrencies, there are two types – those that might actually do something (smart contracts to buy and sell real estate, that may have value). Tokenising things that you do something with." - last I checked there've been 23,000+ crytpocurrencies or tokens. There are also smart contracts on Bitcoin.
"Then there’s one that does nothing, I call it the pet rock, the Bitcoin or something like that" - feigning ignorance of its name! One of Bitcoin's most important features IS that it is pure money and its supply and demand will not be affected by the ebb-and-flow and unpredictability of industrial, commercial or decorative uses.
"On the Bitcoin there are use-cases – AML, fraud, anti-money laundering, tax avoidance, sex trafficking – and you see it being used $50-100b a year for that" - On the Bitcoin?! First, he mentions anti-money laundering twice and lumps it together with fraud and sex trafficking as if it's an evil thing - not the first time, as he also said this to congress. Perhaps he's so fed up of those AML people bugging him all the time that he's forgotten they're supposed to be the good guys! As for the amounts he quotes, each year about $500b is lost in tax avoidance, $150b spent of sex trafficking and up to $2 trillion in fraud. This amounts to over $2.5T. If the global money supply is about $50T, that means 5% is spent on these illicit activities. Bitcoin pails in comparison, with less than 0.3% of Bitcoin used for illicit activities
"Everything else is people trading among themselves (speculating?)" - er... why would people trade Bitcoin among themselves, 1BTC = 1BTC. There's arbitrage, yes, but any speculation involves fiat and other cryptos as well. There are plenty of people trading their Bitcoin for goods and servces.
“I don’t care what Larry Fink finks so please stop talking about this shit" - ooh getting lairy, but JPM's happy to support Larry's ETF nonetheless.
"I don’t know what [Larry] would say about blockchain vs currencies that do something and Bitcoin that does nothing" - why does he think that a currency has to DO something other than be a currency?!?1

2024-01-17 17:11:21

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Colombia?

2024-01-05 02:15:41

Eye-opening talk with Hal Finney’s wife Fran and Peter McCormack. It’s admirable how well Hal seemed to adapt to his condition with ALS but also shocking what the family had to go through on top of all that
https://youtu.be/00_sakWbmZY

2024-01-05 02:06:24

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I’m curious why it’s necessary to put personal info inc. email in to activate the wallet? Is there an alternative way to zap ⚡️ like using zapplepay with alby on Damus?

2024-01-05 01:54:22

@npub16c0…6nvr Why does #primal ask for personal info when setting up the wallet? Isn’t this against the ethos of #nostr ? https://image.nostr.build/de43fcbc34ab191f0438437c57696f9eda0b5bdf57309120c65d5a231cb37529.jpg

2023-11-08 02:52:23

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What I got from this is that arbitrage between the cost of input resources for producing something of value, and the revenue of the output is a key driving force in an economy (not simply corrections of minor imperfections tending towards a perfect equilibrium, as Weinstein apparently wants to believe for Gauge Theory). The economy can never be mathematized when its variables comprise a myriad of conscious beings with subjective intent, and far less so in an environment where the would-be yardstick ($) is itself floating in an unpredictable sea of the futile ambitions of a tiny subset of those conscious beings with their own subjective intent (Fed)

2023-11-08 01:12:02

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Card machine modified to accept lightning?

2023-11-06 15:30:49

Talk by Maxim Orlovsky on Prime, alternative Layer 1 for Bitcoin. Seems promising for privacy and scalability but I’m having difficulty conceptualizing how individuals would maintain only the histories related to their own transactions for client-side validation of the Prime chain, without many of those getting irretrievably lost or corrupted and it ending up in a mess. Validation is one thing but if you don’t have the transaction data to validate it wouldn’t be much good. Appreciate if someone can explain how this part works?
https://youtu.be/vHsAJXSpfzU?si=UhxtUlHv4BYKM__M

2023-11-05 15:46:37

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Dead on. The hate of nuclear energy by environmental extremists is irrational for anyone who values human civilisation

2023-11-03 08:13:58

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⚡️

2023-11-03 04:09:40

https://youtu.be/Ybe09ImCnvk?si=8L21IL6JEDllgXEA

2023-11-03 03:52:58

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Oh you lead the HK organisation of nostr.world, good job 👏

2023-11-03 03:12:24

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Just heard you mentioned on this panel (assume it was you attending both Tokyo and HK!)

2023-06-17 01:35:22

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Thanks #[1] looking forward to using the cross-platform app. Apple’s ban because of zaps makes no sense. I have iOS banking apps that allow me to send money to other people and I’m pretty sure that’s not using the in-app purchase system.

2023-06-16 12:55:07

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Did you get my zap? I thought the zap button should stay yellow after zapping but it went back to empty

2023-06-16 04:18:59

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Yeah pretty crap weather today!

2023-06-10 11:51:29

Truth bombs from RFK Jr…
https://www.youtube.com/live/db9tSsFIfuA?feature=share

2023-05-16 03:00:57

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/netflix-race-swapped-cleopatra-show-receives-lowest-rating-rotten-tomatoes-history

2023-05-15 07:16:13

https://twitter.com/ronin21btc/status/1657979239101071361?s=46&t=pB1azAsLMHzL5QUMDR_nQQ

2023-05-12 15:38:27

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1656864400194584579?s=46&t=pB1azAsLMHzL5QUMDR_nQQ

2023-05-11 08:02:42

“Maybe we do [print money out of thin air] but we’re the US Govt” (so that’s ok) 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/13e47y4/on_crypto_bros_making_money_out_of_thin_air

2023-05-07 01:31:48

High quality cartoon about #bitcoin
https://www.youtube.com/live/_ekzsZZGfsk?feature=share

2023-05-03 06:46:16

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1653449321185169409?s=46&t=pB1azAsLMHzL5QUMDR_nQQ

2023-05-01 02:45:17

https://www.youtube.com/live/-Dw0K66tKHA?feature=share

2023-04-28 15:12:45

Great quote this, even if it is AI… https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_47a3a5bf174e29eba2f3426c03e6d8413c72d67778f7fde7fbb9052af3a67241.jpg

2023-04-23 14:32:54

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You already joined nostr though… wdym?

2023-04-22 15:48:08