BitcoinMendocino

#Bitcoin the global hard money alternative for local communities at a time of inflation and spiraling national debt.
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#Mendocino California.

Public Key

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NIP-57 Address

rapidcheetah2@primal.net

Profile Code

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Last Notes

2025-04-05 21:00:26

92 years ago today the US government banned private gold ownership under Executive Order 6102.
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2025-04-02 05:04:44

Bitcoin Mendocino
April showers.
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2025-04-01 14:51:53

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2025-01-19 21:27:38

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Indeed!

2025-01-19 21:27:25

$KARLCOIN - The token where EVERYONE shares in the pre-mine. https://image.nostr.build/51a31b220925f50d5f830729b2631ef5bea3ff1eba891d58f042a307784da456.jpg

2025-01-11 16:16:34

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Agreed, BUT I’m pseudonymously on FB because my community (who don’t get bitcoin) are on there and I’m trying to orange-inform them.

2025-01-11 16:12:49

You don’t need electricity to boil water and make breakfast. You don’t need electricity for lighting, oil lamps work. You don’t need electricity to wash your clothes. Electricity is certainly convenient. That’s why I use it for everything including my full archival node.
#bitcoin #Mendocino
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2025-01-11 15:51:38

If you think of bitcoin as an investment you don’t understand bitcoin. You also don’t understand the dollar.
#bitcoin #Mendocino
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2024-12-29 05:29:15

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Nice shot.

2024-12-25 05:25:22

Fortunately it rarely snows in #Mendocino
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2024-12-25 01:13:36

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” — Churchill.
Merry Christmas to all our readers.
#Mendocino
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2024-12-22 16:37:58

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Watch out for them mountain lions. And don’t twist an ankle and not be able to move and die of hypothermia. And don’t eat a poison mushroom. And be careful a widowmaker doesn’t fall out of a redwood and hit you…
…you know what, maybe just stay home where it’s safe.

2024-12-12 05:28:04

I like to keep things simple: A little house in nature, knowing and helping neighbors, buying food from local farmers, not ordering anything I don’t really, really need from Amazon, driving a well maintained old truck and keeping my savings in bitcoin.
#Bitcoin #Mendocino https://image.nostr.build/2ad32a72cbc7d268bc34d42ab1a84acbe16bc9b5e55a874c533cc5c7682067df.jpg

2024-12-08 05:50:48

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It’s been a dream for a long time.
Remembering John on 12/08
https://youtu.be/YkgkThdzX-8

2024-12-08 05:39:18

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I remember dialing up in 1994 when the internet enabled any entity - from General Electric and Sears Robuck to the corner store and even individual citizens like me - have a website. The internet was pretty flat and evenly distributed.
Then Google appeared around 1998, Facebook around 2004, YouTube 2005, Twitter 2007…gradually a handful of corporatized destinations became the internet.
The hope and vision now is that protocols like Nostr and sovereign personal servers (that are user-friendly and plug and play) all glued together by the economic stack that is bitcoin, will decentralize the internet again.

2024-11-15 01:48:11

Which states are looking into a bitcoin strategic reserve?
(California used to be/can still be the epicenter of innovation.) https://image.nostr.build/a76161e8ccf42947e2cd0b237c8e8418a54cce6177526c7b465b21f396861f30.jpg

2024-11-11 17:08:45

What the hell is going on with this whole bitcoin thing? https://image.nostr.build/eaba5e75d78d6c01f2a8073cb90d41bfc295b073866cf974711a24d626e1c830.jpg

2024-11-08 16:36:07

A human-generated photograph representing a cautious hope for the future where much remains to be done yet once completed will lead to a smoother path.
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2024-11-05 14:42:22

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2024-11-04 16:20:25

The US has added another $104B in debt in just one day for a total of $655B in little over 5 weeks since September 26, a pace of nearly $6.8 trillion on an annualized basis if it were to continue.
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2024-10-22 23:58:55

Before high technology and aerospace, there were motion pictures, oil fields, citrus groves, real estate, railroads and of course gold.
FREE CALIFORNIA! https://image.nostr.build/1634564860f70b6924d4ac6c1217837d739183f76c0cb41c9340cfb7d3c9aa37.jpg

2024-10-18 04:22:26

At first I used Ai to spell check my social media posts. Then I started using it to improve the prose. Next I started using it to write out my thoughts which I input as prompts. Eventually I didn’t have any thoughts, any ideas or opinions about anything at all.
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2024-10-08 00:36:58

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2024-10-02 15:17:39

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I’m not going to Peterborough next week but have fun if you are!! : )

2024-10-01 04:58:17

Not having to worry about money.
#bitcoin #Mendocino https://image.nostr.build/1bed188dbfb01c7b570f0a3ffc19b103db3019f2ef488dffd48e5af059dd9c86.jpg

2024-09-25 05:56:57

The secret to a joyful and abundant life is to always pay cash in full and never use credit.
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2024-09-22 14:37:57

Despite the fact that we’re a community and a society operating with a central bank issued token that is not real money and which is a form of legalized theft - most people will continue ignoring bitcoin until the financial pain is too great.
#bitcoin #Mendocino
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2024-09-18 19:28:47

Today the Fed cut interest rates by 0.5%, marking its first reduction since 2020. The move was largely anticipated by the market, with many analysts predicting a significant cut to address concerns about the labor market and economic growth.
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2024-09-17 15:34:23

I’m beginning to think that understanding the nature of money and why #bitcoin is as profound an invention as the wheel, the printing press and the internal combustion engine is just too deep for many people to comprehend.
So they don’t.
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2024-09-12 03:44:05

LVIII

2024-09-11 03:29:29

Twitter had a liberal bias
X has a conservative bias
How about we ditch the algorithms altogether and let the bias fall where it may?
(This is why we Nostr.) https://image.nostr.build/0adf54e32bd24e6020d16931b519f91d16b0e58f65be12d28881234d0b2ab3ea.jpg

2024-09-09 13:17:09

See that cash register? That’s #bitcoin, a technology that allows you and another party to transact peer-to-peer meaning when you pay for something or get paid it’s between you and someone else. No middleman, no bank snooping, no report to a three-letter agency. Bitcoin is yours to hold just like cash. https://image.nostr.build/2eeede06c15ba455549932590f3b6913ecd4cf6a193be7f9f124afffe76bc366.jpg

2024-09-09 10:50:23

#bitcoin
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2024-09-08 14:39:42

Soon cash will be obsolete and every payment you make will go to two other entities: 1. a corporation 2. the person you’re paying. The corporation will know everything about you and your money.
Or you can use #bitcoin. https://image.nostr.build/33467709dee0f74c7b4deb7e8f8241ae64d1320cdd426dabc00dac36ecb84452.jpg

2024-09-08 14:01:24

“I think that what's key to simple living is understanding what you truly need versus what you just want."
~ Joshua Becker, author and simplicity advocate.
#bitcoin #Mendocino https://image.nostr.build/a948ad34e4a12a7ad3ed38c8eff7358896725b1a456eb2775dee7e6d4a6bb507.png

2024-09-08 10:21:59

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Read it. It’s a great intro to purple birds.

2024-09-08 10:20:35

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According to Perplexity.ai
“Among the seven men who met on Jekyll Island to discuss the creation of the Federal Reserve, only one, Paul Warburg, was Jewish. The others, including Nelson Aldrich, A. Piatt Andrew, Henry P. Davison, Frank A. Vanderlip, and Benjamin Strong, were not Jewish..’‘

2024-09-07 13:20:05

From the outside #bitcoin looks like a Ponzi, a grift, a con.
From the inside bitcoin is enlightening, elegant, powerful.
Getting from the outside to the inside takes time, an open mind and willingness to learn. https://image.nostr.build/6f39aa49d001992467b9fe929135d995c3cdbb0bccaef9b7fe872fc9eab43d96.jpg

2024-09-07 03:55:44

We’ve had family visiting over the past week and I’ve been really good about not bringing up #bitcoin in the conversation for hours at a time. https://image.nostr.build/47cbf48cca3f6278a33ab15b4fe03db8149d3ae5681e8d33032485386a260c51.jpg

2024-09-05 04:36:38

Dear entire journalism industry,
Please stop saying ‘crypto’ when referring to #bitcoin unless of course you are referring to crypto in which case please specify that your not referring to bitcoin and when referring to bitcoin please just say bitcoin.
It’s quite simple really.
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2024-08-31 05:15:46

I’m concerned that between the IRS, the state DMV, the banks, mobile providers, ISPs, license plate cameras etc. we’re slowly building ourselves into a national panopticon.
Time to build our way out with privacy tools like #bitcoin & #Nostr https://image.nostr.build/dcbff4c4c32fe890e1a9b66552e8acd7bb07e038bc559d8781d2828c1e46aa49.jpg

2024-08-30 11:50:49

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Human.

2024-08-27 05:07:43

Old habits die hard.
New habits take time to emerge.
#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/edd780af02e8d3b53487bf8adcc45f2bc91ec2018defa3e8bce1fee83641ae75.jpg

2024-08-21 14:48:15

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2024-08-19 14:16:57

I used to ‘invest’ in #bitcoin to make ‘money’ until I realized bitcoin is money.
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2024-08-15 16:15:09

Morning.
Coffee.
Bitcoin.
Mendocino.
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2024-08-15 14:58:05

THE NIXON SHOCK:
53 years ago today the U.S. stopped using ‘money’ and started using fiat currency instead.
$1.00 in 1971 had the same buying power as $7.80 in 2024
Bitcoin is the alternative financial system and a return to hard money.
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2024-08-14 05:17:30

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We’ll each of us make mistakes like this if we live long enough. I’ve had my share of regrets over things I wished I hadn’t done.
When things calm down talk to both children about what happened and why you reacted. They’ll learn from this too.

2024-08-14 05:08:45

1a. Understand what money is.
1b. Understand the difference between money and currency..
2. Find out why currencies globally are failing.
3. Now you’re ready to dig into what #bitcoin is and why it’s the alternative financial system.
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2024-08-13 19:51:55

Get outside and touch redwoods.
#Mendocino https://image.nostr.build/18a678a59a7d12c5289050d7bb397ef92b824ba9b7bfafe83e5a4df2192357ac.jpg

2024-08-13 16:38:46

As the world races forward into modernity I’m trying to balance technology with simplicity. I have one smartphone, one computer, no TVs, no smart speakers, no surveillance cameras and when I get home I have to turn on the lights myself. I do have hot and cold running water.
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2024-08-11 21:26:49

Explaining to my neighbors why the currency they’ve used their entire lives (and with which they’ve purchased everything from a paperclip to the family farm) is not ‘money’ and is slowly stealing from them at a compounding rate of annual inflation.
#bitcoin #Mendocino
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2024-08-11 20:30:20

It’s Sunday. A day to put down your tools of labor. A day to reflect. A day to give thanks. A day to bow your head and recall… #bitcoin trades 24/7 and is available for you to preserve your purchasing power at a time of ongoing inflation.
#Mendocino
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2024-08-11 16:14:18

Rowan Atkinson speaking freely:
https://youtu.be/Q1HaC8kvXBs?feature=shared

2024-08-11 01:55:40

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I notice you still have the lights on. That’s going to have to stop.

2024-08-11 00:29:40

Since the gold rush California has been at the epicenter of innovation. Bitcoin is innovation. https://image.nostr.build/6a3ea9033d7a2a35d71850a082c979be4b852852f3df29c95e87d676ecb3fda8.jpg

2024-08-10 22:42:43

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Thanks, I will.

2024-08-10 01:57:08

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‪Let’s all make this a common practice and common knowledge - We bitcoiners do not store our private keys at home. We have to go somewhere to get them. Greater inconvenience = greater security.‬

2024-08-08 15:15:01

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Does the Fed use Photoshop?

2024-08-08 15:13:40

Dear Ai assistant,
Please provide a list of companies holding #bitcoin in their corporate treasuries.
#Mendocino
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2024-08-07 04:47:28

A whole new way bitcoin adoption can flourish around the world.
https://www.fedi.xyz/fedi-launch-event

2024-08-06 12:21:32

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- Accept all
- Accept necessary
- Accept none
- Your preferences
- Our preferences
- Permanently delete internet connectivity

2024-08-06 12:11:41

1, Store of value
- Flight to safety (coming soon)
3. Medium of exchange
4. Unit of account
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2024-08-06 05:39:18

I’m off to bed with a glass of single malt and a copy of The Bitcoin Standard. Goodnight.
#Bitcoin #Mendocino https://image.nostr.build/d03fc75e6aecf9972a298096b054f4030d60e235f557441c190c76e193dcecde.jpg

2024-08-05 23:15:43

And so Bob headed to town to pick up a few items at the grocery store and get a paper to see how his stocks were doing.
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2024-08-03 15:20:42

We live in a prison of narratives. Money, nation states, status, corporate mission statements and all the rest are fiction. It’s only by going out into the natural world that we can leave our fictional prisons behind and finally experience unmediated reality.
#Mendocino
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2024-08-02 15:59:48

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2024-08-02 15:57:38

Good morning.
Time for a radical change.
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2024-08-02 00:51:59

The national debt is now over $35T.
(Apparently dry statistics alone don’t engage people’s emotions so you need to use eye catching images to drive a message home.)
#Bitcoin #Mendocino
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2024-08-01 13:38:22

I’m meeting someone this morning for coffee and they’re bitcoin-curious. Whenever I have these chats there’s often the Q: “What exactly is #bitcoin ?”
And the answers always sound a bit awkward:
- Internet-native money
- Digital gold
- Money perfected
How would you answer?
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2024-08-01 04:58:42

Well…probably should wrap it up and head to bed.
#Bitcoin #Mendocino https://image.nostr.build/b035c8fd2b89bde19f25fe8f811cd509d403b476fe2f3e947acef7c1121d7ef5.jpg

2024-08-01 04:58:20

Wondering why your grocery bill keeps going up? https://image.nostr.build/b31eb0a2d9ddf0be22bce5d391ce295f62418ee17e20735c07b86d9d3334110c.jpg

2024-08-01 00:16:29

#Bitcoin #Mendocino
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2024-08-01 00:15:43

#Bitcoin #Mendocino

2024-07-31 00:09:56

Living out here on the frontier you have to go into town at least once a month to trade for the essentials; rice, beans, coffee, whiskey. When you get to town you’d better have something worth trading; skins, moonshine, gold, bitcoin.
#Mendocino https://image.nostr.build/1291aece3f6ec664c23d705294ddbe2cf74878a2b5a6357fb20a5017ce5b382c.jpg

2024-07-30 16:20:54

First #bitcoin attracted cryptographers. Next early adopters. Soon investors showed up then publicly traded companies and sovereign nations.
Now we’re seeing U.S. senators and presidential candidates floating plans for a national bitcoin reserve.
Why all this attention? The U.S. national debt just ticked past $35T and inflation is affecting everyone.
usdebtclock.org
Bitcoin is a hard money asset like gold but with a hard cap of 21M.
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2024-07-29 13:58:18

This town would benefit from #bitcoin adoption.
#Mendocino https://image.nostr.build/83b6071e262a394645fc15e29275908e4c2bc99dcfa1312893caf51fd2ea546f.jpg

2024-07-27 22:31:05

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“Please sir, may I hold 12 words in my head?”

2024-07-27 22:26:51

Be cautious of crowd pleasers.
Meanwhile #bitcoin continues on to the next block.
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2024-07-27 15:36:45

“Apparently Edward Snowden said the only person who still believes that #Bitcoin is for criminals is Elizabeth Warren.”
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2024-07-27 15:12:47

#bitcoin
Bitcoin24 Conference day 3
https://www.youtube.com/live/P1n7XipTCck?feature=shared
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2024-07-26 19:04:33

The currency we all use is not money and it’s ensnaring us in debt and surveillance.
So people are discovering bitcoin. It mirrors Mendocino’s ethos of autonomy, freedom.
(Farewell, Larry.)
#bitcoin #Mendocino
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2024-07-26 16:13:19

There’s a wildfire over in Anderson Valley. Be careful out there and have an emergency plan in place for yourself, your family and your seed phrase.
#Mendocino
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2024-07-26 15:06:56

#bitcoin
Bitcoin24 Conference day 2
https://www.youtube.com/live/b0DB4tv1eyM?feature=shared
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2024-07-25 16:31:21

Coffee time listening to panels at Bitcoin24 Nashville and wishing I was there - but being here instead isn’t that bad.
#Mendocino
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2024-07-25 16:08:22

#bitcoin
Bitcoin24 Conference Day 1
https://www.youtube.com/live/kzw9M3WsjUk?feature=shared
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2024-07-23 17:05:00

Your seed phrase should be available from more that one location. In other words have a backup.
Also Let’s make this a common practice - Bitcoiners do not store their private keys at home. We have to go somewhere to get them. Greater inconvenience = greater security.
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2024-07-23 14:30:28

I met with a neighbor this morning at a #Mendocino coffee shop who wanted to know all about #bitcoin ; what it is, why it’s important, how it’s issued, what makes it valuable etc.
What was interesting was he understood from the outset that money’s a shared hallucination.
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2024-07-22 14:49:25

I don’t give financial advice.
But if I did I’d advise everyone to hold a minimum of 1 - 3% of their net worth in #bitcoin …minimum.
But I don’t give financial advice so don’t do that…unless you want to. But you should only want to if you haven’t read this. https://image.nostr.build/723888d81129c14cbca0d39e79637dd9f10043ff82af090ab11b5d4fde468b24.jpg

2024-07-22 12:53:40

And now for this morning’s motivational poster hanging in the break room next to the fridge full of lunch sacks and above the counter where the toaster oven needs a good cleaning:
‘A trail is created by walking it into existence.’
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2024-07-22 12:26:37

The dollar is still the premiere global reserve currency and that isn't likely to change soon. But bitcoin is a viable alternative financial system that anyone can use alongside traditional finance.
#bitcoin #Mendocino
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2024-07-22 12:23:50

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What’s #pear ?

2024-07-21 17:51:43

I’m going to use Ai to write my posts from now on -
PROMPT:
Write a social media post that encompasses 3 ideas: 1. In summer #Mendocino is busy with tourists. 2. In winter the town is deserted. 3. Locals continue to live their lives in Mendocino year round, rain or shine.
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2024-07-21 17:30:42

COME FOR THE GREED,
STAY FOR THE REVOLUTION.
People often discover bitcoin because they are looking for a hedge against inflation. With inflation's headwinds people are looking to put dollars into an asset and then get more dollars out later. This is understandable at a time of currency debasement.
But bitcoin goes beyond being a fiat investment. Bitcoin has the potential to completely displace the current financial system replacing fiat currency with sound money that is self-sovereign and unconfiscatable. This is the revolution.
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2024-07-20 15:58:01

People who own real estate think the value of their property is going up. But the rise in housing prices is more a reflection of a devaluing dollar.
For example according to Zillo selling my modest little home would make me a millionaire.
#Bitcoin #Mendocino
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2024-07-20 11:37:40

Billion of computers down worldwide.
Meanwhile #bitcoin continues to run smoothly.
#Bitcoin #Mendocino
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2024-07-19 15:57:44

Imagine if we joined in too like Lugano Switzerland, Ekasi South Africa, Madeira, El Salvador etc.
#Bitcoin #Mendocino https://image.nostr.build/730f51975c0b99cbc6361273c6c540ed437cabcc49d8a4f60d66dfc9642bdee7.jpg

2024-07-19 15:53:40

If they built a Cybertruck that’s stripped down to the basics - hand cranked windows, key entry, no entertainment system and no internet/data connection + minimal software updates Priority Mailed to my PO Box on a USB stick…
I’d buy this model!
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2024-07-16 16:41:32

Life in a small town, knowing your neighbors, not using locks on your doors, walking on the beach, walking in the forest, having locally grown food, having locally grown wine, not having to commute, not sitting in a cubicle, being part of something.
#Mendocino
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2024-07-16 16:23:15

Imagine a small town overlooking the Pacific surrounded by thousands of acres of forest, where you know your neighbors, leave your house unlocked, where you find local farmers who’ll sell you fresh food and where #bitcoin is the local currency.
I’d move there in a heartbeat.
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