edouard

Fitzgerald, in the beginning of The Crack-Up (a beautiful book available on the site of Esquire, where it was first published)
“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation—the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise”

2023-12-26 19:10:32

- reply

Congrats and all happiness and health to Carla, you and Apollo, what a wonderful family!

2023-12-25 12:24:35

- reply

No cold wallet
Air gapped signing device
@npub17ty…3mgl is such a great project!

2023-12-25 11:47:51

Merry Christmas to all of you Nostr!
🎄✝️🎅

2023-12-25 11:37:03

Do you teach bitcoin to your children? Low time preference ftw

2023-12-25 11:34:15

The social layer of bitcoin might be the most important one

2023-12-20 21:22:42

He should use this to make people understand. @npub15dq…lm5m use it. It’s the most efficient way #note1kpn…2g7g

2023-12-20 16:30:07

- reply

Post here we like you ❤️

2023-12-04 14:31:47

Gm frens, stay humble & stack sats, when it goes up, when it goes down, when it goes sideways 🤓

2023-12-02 15:24:00

- reply

Welcome, happy to see you here!

2023-11-29 21:21:49

- reply

1 German. 1 American, 1 Russian, TWO French - seems about right

2023-11-29 21:06:58

- reply

1) Nietzsche
2) Balzac
3) Tolstoy
4) Fitzgerald
5) Stendhal

2023-11-24 07:58:21

People in the western world don’t get bitcoin because they don’t understand how much money is debased : ask them how many dollars there is today versus 1960, after telling them there is double the numbers of Americans. Then tell them the truth, 100 times more. Then they have the first seed to understand

2023-11-24 07:49:43

- reply

I guess in kind means the market maker of the etf (the ones that post bid and offers continuously during the day and have the right to redeem shared of the funds at eod) receive bitcoin when they redeem. While in cash would mean they would receive cash based on a bitcoin price (i don’t know what they would use as ref, risk of manipulation). In kind is the obvious reasonable thing

2023-11-13 16:25:59

- reply

No delete possible but would add: obv it would be better to have 2 states or, to have the west bank be part of Jordan - but i don’t think thid will happen realistically any time soon

2023-11-11 05:49:33

- reply

It’s a pump for ants!
Bitcoin will be > 1 mio in 10/15 years
It’s a revolution not a trade
Lower your time preference and you will be rewarded
You will never sell, you sell fiat, you accumulate, and you spend little now, more later (not sell, spend!)
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🐣
Hodl tight, stay humble and stack sats !

2023-11-09 21:05:17

- reply

My view and so also what i want to see addressed
Israel’s various governments have been good at never explicitly saying they want everything “from the river to the sea” but acting to get it. So overall Palestinians are getting robbed of “their land”
At the same time, on a map, even “from the river to the sea” big israel is tiny and surrounded by muslims countries, and muslim countries whose jews and christians (numerous before) have massively fled
+ Palestine was never a country nor was there a very specific Palestinian culture or history (even though there is now, that is what violence does, what nakba does)
So one can’t help to wonder if everything would not be better and simpler if Israel got the west bank (i am not even sure they want gaza) Gaza probably is part of Egypt, west bank palestinians relocate to Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia etc and it is settled. It sounds like promoting ethnic cleansing and so it is really bad etc but practically it would be better for everyone even if unfair in many ways

2023-11-09 20:50:43

Need #note19fl…88sa

2023-11-05 09:36:47

Can someone explain to me what is the equivalent in proof of stake of the link between block achieved through the chain of hashes (the winner hash will start with a number of zero having taken as inputs the previous hash + valid transactions) making it costly and difficult to rewrite history and the more in the past the more difficult
Is there anything similar in proof of stake? If not why would those even be called “blockchains”?
Many thanks this is a genuine question!

2023-10-30 06:31:22

- reply

Not saying the poor stay poor. Saying fiat is bad for them as
- they have no access to investments and keep the little they have in cash
- they have no access to credit
Then a lot of them get out of poverty through wages cause obv there is a generational and immigration aspect to it
But let’s say that for the bottom 80 pct of pop in terms of wealth fiat is bad, as it makes it more difficult for them to save and incentivizes to consume

2023-10-29 11:32:59

- reply

Bitcoin in blue, index in white, index is calculated by s&p. Please share people should understand that altcoin is just a way to rekt them

2023-10-29 11:32:07

Bitcoin versus top 10 coins (incl bitcoin) equalweight rebalanced quarterly https://image.nostr.build/e33a73c57253432c7992c266d1828ad5b5b9a6e88c1a1fbd713bbc9d37bda522.jpg

2023-10-29 11:31:32

Bitcoin versus top 10 coins (incl bitcoin) equalweight rebalanced quarterly

2023-10-27 11:45:12

- reply

They have no savings and no incentive to save as it would be a huge effort as they are making little money and have no available savings instrument simple and not dilutable
They have little ability to have access to credit as well which is also a huge disadvantage in a world where money is created this way

2023-10-24 06:09:27

- reply

It’s the right approach! Then buying some is a way to study it and is needed i think : learning how to self custody, using lightning etc

2023-10-18 10:02:33

- reply

Yes the key part (and crazy when you think about it) is that fiat monopolists were able to make people believe that inflation is an exogenous phenomenon

2023-10-18 06:15:10

- reply

Congratulations!

2023-10-06 06:04:38

People are not “investing” in index funds
They are desperately trying to keep up with inflation of money supply to preserve their wealth

2023-10-06 06:03:02

There is a lot of complicated reasons why supply of money should be “elastic”
There are many simple reasons why power wants to have the ability to print money

2023-10-01 16:48:34

- reply

Inventing Bitcoin
The Bitcoin Standard
The Fiat Standard
The Great Depression (Rothbard)
21 Lessons

2023-09-30 16:01:47

- reply

Bitcoin is truth and beauty, and truth prevails, as long as it might take

2023-09-21 12:54:00

- reply

Bitcoin is as decentralized ledger thus perfect money

2023-09-17 18:31:52

- reply

Seedsigner is a big relief

2023-09-05 18:42:41

#datechain
Why not?
Father, bitcoine, parisian in that order, loves the countryside as well though (but not altcoins 🤓🤷‍♂️) https://image.nostr.build/0b5f0f3e8ef37b732efaef987fe2b9306d269213964ac1b0d43194a0c6d5f674.jpg

2023-09-02 12:32:27

- reply

Will buy once lightning payments possible

2023-08-23 16:11:57

- reply

Yes please kindle version soon!

2023-08-17 06:08:19

- reply

Nostr, accepting payments in sats via lightning, how to help merchant (pizzeria for instance) adoption

2023-08-16 15:01:46

https://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/pourquoi-la-loterie-fait-de-plus-en-plus-de-milliardaires-aux-etats-unis-20230816
Parce qu’on dilue la monnaie de 8pct par an, donc de 99pct en 60 ans ?

2023-08-13 07:34:23

- reply

French (u need to launch in France!) happy to help

2023-08-04 13:24:45

- reply

Something i always wonder is “does cheap money, making “risk-taking” odds much more favorable than they would be in a sound-money world, helped innovation. It obviously helped scammers, con-artists etc, it is obv completely unfair as a system, but does it as a side effect incentives people to risk a lot more than they would otherwise, and we might lose part of this in a sound-money system?

2023-07-30 12:55:30

- reply

What matters is onboarded*conviction of onboarded
Onboarded alone does nothing

2023-07-24 05:09:10

- reply

Thanks!

2023-07-23 12:36:53

It is so sad not to be able to zap on Damus. Any advise on leaving apple? Is android ok? Anything else ?

2023-07-23 11:31:16

- reply

A carnivore diet you are supposed to eat only meat, nothing else? Eggs possible? Fish? No fruit / vegetables at all? My guess is that fruit & vegetables are bad only when ogm or pesticides heavy but if avoiding that (it is hard) it is not too bad?

2023-07-20 17:49:27

- reply

Congrats!

2023-07-07 15:05:35

Jimmy Song, spot on, as ever! #note10qn…pacu

2023-06-28 09:16:24

Please do that! I want to leave Apple but not for Google. I would switch to square immediatly #note1r9z…l9mt

2023-06-24 17:34:27

- reply

antihistamine

2023-06-22 16:04:12

- reply

Don’t give bitcoin to custody to people who hate bitcoin. Neither Blackrock, nor Credit Agricole, nor who the fuck wants to take custody of it
Self custody it, blackrock and credit agricole or any fiat institution will lend it so your demand is suppressed by any short seller

2023-06-22 15:59:49

- reply

https://www.lopinion.fr/economie/philippe-brassac-avril-2025-le-bitcoin-sous-un-dollar-histoire-dun-aveuglement

2023-06-22 06:52:51

- reply

Sometimes I wonder if people are blind or I am crazy.
A lot of people see the problems confusedly though but have a hard time seeing bitcoin as a solution.
It’s hard to anticipate adoption ; and in the case of bitcoin, it’s a fight too, a peaceful one but a fight and most people don’t want to fight

2023-06-21 19:19:14

It is a distraction from their worry: bitcoin as global, perfect, un seizable, easy to verify and difficult to steal, easy to send, un dilutable money
“Crypto” “Asset Class” : he knows well it is bullshit. It’s a way to try to hide the real thing #note1lj0…jrfh

2023-06-21 18:09:15

- reply

When Money Dies

2023-06-21 16:49:27

- reply

Don’t they already have a cbdc intermediated by banks basically?

2023-06-21 15:04:43

- reply

Oh i did not know that, did not use them for lightning. Use Breez and Muun wallet and wos for getting zapped

2023-06-21 13:42:10

- reply

Dune du Pilat is beautiful ! Then if you stay in France you should visit Corsica, southwest coast!

2023-06-21 10:42:02

Kennedy is attacked by Politico, Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, all the media with unanimity. When you dig on what he said, for instance on Anne Frank, it is not the monstrousness they pretend it is
He said “ at least under nazism, because technology was less developed you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did or cross the Alps”
So it may be tactless as Anne Frank was found in her attic in the end and died in a concentration camp, but he was not in any way being derogatory towards her or pretending she “had it easy” as they pretend. And we all understand what he means: that technology is used today to help incredibly authoritarian policies being put in place with ease, to help abuse of power.
They lie with no shame cause they are afraid and they know nobody will call their lies as they are power

2023-06-21 05:23:19

- reply

When did blue wallet shut down?

2023-06-19 19:55:54

- reply

An asset obviously not “an asset”
But i am flabbergasted

2023-06-19 19:38:52

Bitcoin is the easiest asset to self-custody. It is designed for that and peer to peer exchange. It is its actual incredible utility.
People need a bitcoin ETF to own it? Lol

2023-06-19 10:28:41

- reply

No but it gives me the idea, might follow 😀 thanks

2023-06-15 08:42:47

- reply

PR8EEE
Thanks!

2023-06-13 08:13:48

Good Morning fuck apple

2023-06-10 16:26:29

Property is freedom and property is violence
Money is authoritarian consensus and the most violent form of property: credit-money
Or social consensus and property difficult to reach by violence
Bitcoin is perfect commodity money. It gives a huge advantage to defense, and so it is freedom without violence. Freedom to save for later without exploiting or manipulating others.
Freedom to save in something nobody can take away from you in any way : it is so beautiful

2023-06-09 05:20:44

- reply

That’s great, congrats to you and the team!
About Europe, it’s the regulation that makes it difficult to come here? We need Strike here and we want more merchant adoption as well and strike would help with that!

2023-06-05 19:56:29

It’s likely though that unf people will come back to their senses tomorrow

2023-06-05 19:53:31

It’s ridiculous but cute that bitcoin drops on binance being sued by the sec

2023-06-05 10:52:56

- reply

47805 😂🤓

2023-06-04 10:51:30

- reply

But not any shitcoin: the Mother of all Shitcoins 🤓

2023-06-03 18:00:53

- reply

You should try Hong Kong or Beijing 😂

2023-06-01 19:43:42

#[0] #subscribe

2023-05-31 11:11:46

- reply

You can also input the words (even though it is longer)

2023-05-31 10:35:05

- reply

What do you mean by protecting a qr code ? (Genuinely i don’t know!)

2023-05-31 09:46:43

- reply

#[2] is quite good for that also because there is even less need for trust

2023-05-31 05:39:27

Good Morning Europe
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WD5N0rTsulQ

2023-05-29 18:27:55

- reply

Ok many thanks!

2023-05-29 13:00:13

#[0] how can one be sure as the seeds are not stored somewhere in the device or the micro sd once powered off. For non fluent coders. What could reinsure me on that (i mean i trust you but are you 100pct sure you they are erased and not retrievable and are not there in any way!? Many thanks

2023-05-28 19:16:22

#[0] your last meme says it all, feels much safer with the setup possible thanks to you

2023-05-28 18:33:16

Is Seedsigner on Nostr? I want to thank them it’s great!

2023-05-28 17:10:14

https://youtu.be/wMykYSQaG_c

2023-05-27 05:48:44

Is it that Finns, Nigerians and German are stupid or that their newspapers are not owned by crony billionaires?
Americans and French have probably the most controlled and bought medias in the world, happy to see they are aware #note1a69…4a5t

2023-05-25 14:40:42

“Let them eat cake!” #note1xhm…kvw6

2023-05-25 14:39:10

It reminds us of the “let them eat cake!” attributed to Marie-Antoinette at least as much as the “whatever it takes” of the Italian guy on the picture #note1xhm…kvw6

2023-05-15 10:58:20

- reply

Bitcoin are made of sats not the opposite 😀

2023-05-14 18:17:51

- reply

TapZap or ZapTap much better than InstaZap or ZapPay imo

2023-05-09 19:45:18

- reply

it’s a social consensus replacing the authoritarian consensus your institution represents

2023-05-08 20:46:55

We are so early that sats are cheaper cause binance is coming down

2023-05-07 15:06:42

- reply

Thanks! But which version is that? I think i have an old one but can’t update it. Weird

2023-05-07 15:04:59

- reply

Yes i agree with that, i think bitcoin will win

2023-05-07 14:58:41

- reply

I use “bullionvault” so it is basically a custodian and i have to trust them. I could withdraw into fiat easily, it allows to withdraw in gold too but never did it. It shows how gold is inferior in terms of self-custody, verifiability, etc etc to bitcoin. I am just afraid that the monetary crisis we are going to go through will not end up with bitcoin as people are stupid but with gold as states will choose it as they control it more. For them fiat > gold > bitcoin, but fiat might soon lose the confidence of the people and then they have to propose something
Obv own much more bitcoin than gold

2023-05-07 14:47:16

- reply

pessimistic version. Basically, it’s less efficient, practical, inferior etc
But been there a long time and typically states (us or other, typically china to take over) might use it for people to have confidence in money again, but money easy to recapture by the state down the road
Less hope