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2024-08-23 12:28:11

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Vipassana meditation.
Look it up. Do one of their incredible (free, donate at the end if you get anything out of it) 10 day starter courses.
Very intense, but it literally changes your brain wiring and sets you up for your own mediation going forwards. I did the course 10 years ago, and I'm still practising every morning.

2024-08-19 18:46:24

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@npub16jd…33sv is great - general memes, and security/privacy/FOSS

2024-08-08 06:55:23

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2024-07-29 10:04:54

Liquid is a definite yes, because it solves problems that most Fedimints don't, yet.
Fedimints and eCash mints are very important for bitcoin's scalability and privacy, etc. But a lot of trust is involved for eCash, with a single entity being able to rug pull you. Fedimints spread the trust across multiple entities that need to collude to rug pull you.
But the issue is that currently Fedimints are difficult to persuade people to trust and use. For instance, if a local bitcoin meetup group sets up a Fedimint, how does a newcomer to the group know that the signers of the mint are not all friends that are colluding with each other?
Liquid solves this problem by federating the signing trust across well-trusted companies (see attached image). The likelihood of 11 of these companies colluding is extremely small. They all have reputations built with much work, that they do not want to lose. And a company is less likely than an individual to commit fraud on this scale, as they have to avoid internal whistle-blowing, and are more easily held to account by the justice system.
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#note1zjr…ggz5

2024-07-29 07:37:56

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Shining a light on the force for good that is bitcoin.
Thank you @npub1trr…hdpu for everything you do.

2024-07-28 18:49:21

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2024-07-20 13:08:32

"The sustained creation of knowledge depends also on the presence of certain kinds of idea, particularly optimism, and an associated tradition of criticism."
David Deutsch, from 'The Beginning of Infinity'
#note185k…wdvr

2024-07-20 09:55:34

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2024-07-20 09:52:31

The "what if there's no internet?" question gets asked so many times by people that don't understand bitcoin.
But they never ask what will happen to their own fiat world, when one little software update brings down half the system.
https://m.primal.net/JXYQ.png
h/t LinaSeiche

2024-07-18 06:38:40

What is not to like?
https://m.primal.net/JUrO.png

2024-07-17 09:03:58

Stupid old me thought that UK inflation was due to the vast amounts of money created out of thin air by the government.
What a great relief to hear that it was all just down to Taylor Swift, so all our worries should be over now her tour is finished.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/17/uk-headline-inflation-rate-remains-unchanged-at-2

2024-07-13 09:45:22

"When the state and its governing bodies must routinely come to the citizenry to raise taxes, they will be cautious in what they request lest they be voted out of office. Many of the issues with the state stem from an overactive government using an inflation tax to do more than is necessary. For example, there is no way that the current global level of military spending, which invariably leads to conflict, would be sustained if the government used direct taxes to pay for it. What do you want: free healthcare or more AK-47s? Free university education or a fleet of F-16s? Affordable public transport or another nuclear missile-armed submarine? If the taxpayer decided, different types of public goods would be produced, leading to a better quality of life for many people."
Arthur Hayes, in his 'Hot Chick' newsletter.

2024-07-12 09:15:46

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huge

2024-07-11 09:30:51

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MONEY AND WEALTH
(https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1811272099647967330):
Middle-class leftists don't really understand the difference between wealth and money.
That's because what they have is a job as a retarded commie journalist, which pays them money, which they put in the bank before spending it on Funko Pops, cannabis, dildos, and tofu.
They think wealth is "more money". And when they think about "more money", they think about all the Funko Pops they want but can't afford, and about how Elon Musk can afford more Funko Pops than he could ever use, that is if Funko Pops could be used for anything, which they can't, unless you count leftists' strange propensity for putting unexpected things in places they do not belong.
They don't understand that Elon Musk doesn't have some sort of special titanium credit bank card connected to a bank account with 260,000,000,000 munnies in it, for the buying of Funko Pops.
What he has is some businesses he started, and a bunch of dudes whose job it is to guess the value of things have arrived at the consensus that they are worth that much. That guess changes by the hour.
Leftists can't really wrap their heads around this idea, not in the intuitive sense that would allow them to engage with it as a concept. They can't imagine what it would be like to be in that position.
Why not?
Because if they could, they wouldn't be leftists. In fact, many people can, and therefore are not leftists, so leftists are really just the group of people who are self-selected for not being able to figure this out.
This is why they can, without blushing, describe "reusable space launch capability" as "unnecessary wealth".
They don't understand that if you took every share of SpaceX away from Elon Musk, and all the other shareholders, it would still be valued at 200 billion dollars (or whatever it is on the day you are reading this), but it would not magically transform into 200 billion one-dollar bills that you could give to left-wing journalists to buy more Funko Pops with. It would still be a bunch of factories, and designs, and offices, and employment contracts, and rocket engines, and stuff.
The reality is that the earn-spend-consume model of money that retarded leftist commie journos are familiar with has an upper limit. Once you've spent on much on yourself as you want, a ceiling which varies depending on your character, you need a new source of meaning and purpose in life.
You need to develop different ambitions.
Then your spending becomes not about what you want to have, but what you want to create. You build the things you want to see in the world.
This is where money becomes wealth. Money is used to buy things. Wealth is used to build things.
When you create something that a lot of people care about, it's valued at a huge amount of money, because money is a measure of fucks given.
So maybe, when you have enough money to buy a mansion and a yacht, you decide that what you really want is "reusable space launch capability", because you're a nerd who reads science fiction, and so you think it's a kind of dumb idea for humanity to spend all its time on one tiny dust speck in an infinite universe.
So you buy some computers and you hire some dudes who are good at designing things on computers, and then you buy some metal, and hire some dudes who are good at cutting metal and sticking it together, and pretty soon you're the proud owner of whole bunch of stuff.... computers and factories and tanks full of liquid oxygen and launch pads and most importantly, rocket boosters.
And no Funko Pops. Not a single one.
Now, it's worth more money than you started with, because the people who guess the value of things (it's called a "stock market") are starting to agree that this was maybe a pretty good idea.
So, on paper, you're richer than you ever were. But that's your not bank account, or your Funko Pop collection. That's the fact that you now control humanity's effort to leave the gravity well. And you control it because you built it in the first place.
Wealth inequality is a measure of technological progress.
It doesn't exist in low-tech societies where everyone is chasing antelope with a throwing stick and a stone-tipped spear. Because no one invents anything and there's nothing to own.
And it peaks in high-tech societies where enterprising people create entire economies ex nihilo by investing in a wild idea. Because things are being invented and people give a fuck about them, and so the innovators have a much higher net worth than the people who sit around eating processed snack foods and shopping for Funko Pops on the internet.
Reducing wealth inequality is a disaster, and typically requires one. If you reduce wealth inequality in a free market, you are either outright destroying growth enterprises, or transferring control of them to non-producers.
Which is what leftists really are. Useless journo flacks and cloistered academics who want to tear down the engines of tech innovation so they can buy more middle class consumer goods, until they tear down the engines that produce those, too.
The most important task in all of economics is keeping people who don't get shit done out of the way of people who do.
Leave humanity's orbital launch capability alone, Zaid.
It is already in the hands of the people who are best qualified to operate it. We know that because they are ones who built it in the first place.

2024-07-04 07:48:23

The possibilities that lie in the future are infinite. When I say "It is our duty to remain optimists", this includes not only the openness of the future but also that which all of us contribute to it by everything we do: we are all responsible for what the future holds in store. Thus is it our duty, not to prophesy evil but, rather, to fight for a better world.
Karl Popper, The Myth of the Framework, 1994

2024-07-03 12:30:43

Saylor paradox:
when you're constantly worried you don't have enough bitcoin, you probably have enough

2024-07-01 19:20:30

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I give the equation in below the chart on the webpage.
There are two fixed coefficients and the only input is "days since Genesis Block", i.e. time.
So nothing to do with addresses and hash rate. You are thinking of other models (which can also obey Power Law) such as those espoused by PlanB.

2024-07-01 12:51:56

https://m.primal.net/JEYD.png
Join early or join late.
Everyone is free to choose.

2024-06-30 09:46:54

This is why Bitcoin is not like the other crypto-currencies.
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2024-06-30 09:02:09

Someone actually did the science:
https://www.bitcoinpowerconsumption.info/
Turns out that four years after The End Of The World (according to the mainstream media's 'Science' section), bitcoin uses 0.065% of global electricity, and produces 0.024% of emissions.
https://m.primal.net/JDDj.png

2024-06-30 08:40:40

GM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6DO_7px1I

2024-06-29 13:11:57

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screenshot: https://m.primal.net/JCFP.png

2024-06-29 13:09:01

https://onebig.life/powerlaw
I find bitcoin's adherence to the Power Law fascinating, and for me it has become my favoured price model. It is so beautifully simple, with only one input variable: time.
I built this Bitcoin Power Law web page because the other couple out there didn't allow me to do what I wanted:
- To choose a date (e.g. your retirement, or a major purchase goal), and to see where price might be. Not only the fair price, but perhaps more importantly, the floor price below which bitcoin should never go under again.
- To choose a price (e.g. $1m), and to see the probable date (when fair price reaches the price) and very high probable date (when bottom price reaches it).
- To remind me to stop making too emotionally fantastical price predictions whenever price takes off on one of its major spurts, or I read some ultra-bullish article.
And more importantly, just to be able to show the chart while talking to a noob, with price indisputably sloping from bottom left to top right. Message: it's not too high to buy ;)
Of course, models are not guarantees. They all have their flaws, and the obvious one in this case is the model does not take into account the 4 year halving cycle to refine its price predictions.
But I believe there is less likelihood of this stock-to-flow cycle repeating indefinitely (as the halving becomes a less and less significant part of the bitcoin stock), than of nature's Power Law continuing as we go through the global adoption curve.
Enjoy!
(no ads, trackers, spammers, or VPN blockers)
https://onebig.life/powerlaw

2024-06-29 13:03:06

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Bitcoin Power Law is the simplest of the long term trend models, and imo is quite beautiful.
https://onebig.life/powerlaw
https://m.primal.net/JCEp.png
I've just built this page showing the beautiful straight log-log regression line, with a price/date calculator. No trackers and no VPN blockers (I'm talking to you, Bitbo charts). Just a free service from one bitcoiner to others.

2024-06-15 07:34:00

ChatGPT fans need to be aware that they will increasingly be fed propaganda and have "inconvenient" narratives censored.
https://m.primal.net/IlTL.png
Alternatives do exist and I would suggest using them.
An example that just launched is https://venice.ai (needs to prove itself but on a quick comparison is way better: not censored and cheaper/faster than ChatGPT).

2024-06-11 06:56:11

AI (or Large Language Models) are at a high level massive data compression systems.
Microsoft analyses everything you do on your PC. https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/9/24067505/microsoft-windows-11-copilot-feature-changes
Apple is now going to do the same on their phones and computers. https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/10/24174786/apple-openai-partnership-chatgpt-wwdc
Everyone's data being compressed, send to 'HQ' and then analysed will not end well.
#GetOnLinux #GetOnGraphene
https://ubuntu.com/desktop
https://grapheneos.org/

2024-05-08 15:16:52

@npub1qny…95gx inspired me too with his latest Citadel Dispatch.
Goodbye LinkedIn.
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#note1a7t…p7wd

2024-05-03 09:40:13

This is an extraordinary clip from the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors.
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786272981058220187
There is zero competence at the helm of the fiat financial system.
Choose #bitcoin, and choose sooner rather than later.

2024-04-23 06:01:10

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GitHub owned by Big Brother, Microsoft, who will scan all your documents with CoPilot?
Git - excellent idea.
GitHub - not so much.

2024-04-14 06:43:56

Opt out to bitcoin.
Defund the war machine.
Tax payers don't fund wars on the other side of the world, and would elect out politicians suggesting higher taxes for war.
Governments that can print infinite money don't care what the people think.

2024-04-12 06:38:56

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Totally worth it if you type all day. You'll never look back.
Keychron Q series keyboards are amazing.

2024-03-30 09:50:53

Don't become a slave. Avoid the 'free' handouts.
#note10xx…xtp9

2024-03-28 14:07:19

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UK Lidl shopping.
Nice work. Stack more sats.

2024-03-24 10:18:48

There has been a lot of recent discussion on the Power Law model (https://hcburger.com/blog/diminishingreturns) which gives a prediction of a range of bitcoin price against time.
It's noteworthy because price has continued to conform to the channel shown in the picture many years after the model was published - the red part of the line.
https://image.nostr.build/29be9c20a79d96d1d763119bcbbb06262e71901c5f9f2d334b8a68872e087198.png
A model is just a model, and they can break. The log range used in these types of models is huge, so of course they are anyway useless as trading or timing tools. And as many people have pointed out, these chart models cannot take into account the real world fundamentals, such as the recent launch of the ETFs.
But there is still signal in these charts:
- we can expect ever increasing returns
- returns are a multiple of adoption increase (e.g. 10X adoption = 100X price)
- those returns are DIMINISHING rather than exponential.
You don't necessarily need a Power Law chart to work those things out, but the chart verifies the logic, and is currently the best model when correlating price against time. I don't suggest anyone (seriously) predicts price against time, because it will make you look like a fool.
But it is fun. And it is good marketing for bitcoin, which brings new adoption - and that is good.
A live chart is available at https://charts.bitbo.io/long-term-power-law/.

2024-03-18 14:37:02

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We've told you 476 times before that bitcoin has died - are you stupid?

2024-03-16 07:16:32

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I know an Arena FIDE (International Chess Federation) Master.
He's a young, enthusiastic and friendly guy who does chess tutoring online.
I'll DM you his contact details if you're interested.

2024-03-14 14:16:49

@npub1sg6…f63m and COPA are legends!
Craig Wright finally destroyed.
🙏

2024-03-14 08:45:44

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Welcome.
Excited for people to come to Nostr, a land without the trolling and more people helping each other, and making the world better.

2024-03-13 09:59:32

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Unfortunately the ATH is not keeping up with the actual price.
You might want to fix it 😃 .
https://m.primal.net/HkOd.png

2024-03-12 10:48:24

It's so tiring trying to help loved ones.
When you gently show them all the reasons that bitcoin is the apex store of value, why do they always choose to base their thinking as if they bought the ATH and sold at the bottom?
A family member just sent me this even though they are currently up 7X on their first (and only) small allocation to bitcoin:
"Yes, but do we know what's round the corner. Anyone who invested say $110,000 in BTC in Nov 2021 would have seen its value fall to $34,000 by the following July, and $26,000 in Dec 2022. Have any of the other assets had such extreme roller coaster rides? Does anyone know what caused such violent swings? Are we in a more secure place now?"
Exhausting.

2024-03-11 11:00:32

RELYING ON PROPERTY AS AN ASSET HAS BECOME DEFECTIVE.
"It was the best idea 200 years ago, but if you own a thousand acres and then someone establishes a state, and a mayor gets elected who decides to spend lavishly, raising your taxes once, twice, thrice, soon the farming family can’t afford the taxes. Then, the government decides you’re the bad guy, takes all your land, and evicts you. Maybe it doesn’t happen directly; maybe first, you mortgage the farm, then can’t pay the mortgage, and the bank seizes your property."
"[...or] the great-grandfather buys a farm, the grandfather and the father both farm the land, but now they can’t pay the taxes on it and have to sell it, moving into apartments"
@npub15dq…lm5m at Bitcoin Atlantis in 2024

2024-03-11 07:39:56

Fantastic to see how the bitcoin guys come in to correct false narrative.
Great job @npub15dq…lm5m, @npub1n3s…te5l and @npub1pyp…c0qq. 🙏
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2024-03-08 17:45:04

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I love this song.
I listen to it every time I want to feel uplifted about the world.

2024-03-08 11:12:44

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GM
"Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable."
@naval

2024-03-08 10:57:11

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I want to use #Keet, but for some of us, not being fully open source is a problem.
Keet have explained their thinking, but there's a reason the most secure and trusted code is OS.
I've noted the absence of Matt Odell mentioning or enthusing for Keet beyond its initial launch announcement, which I take as a sign he may have concerns.
@npub1qny…95gx, any chance you could cover Keet in a Citadel Dispatch if you have any inside info to add?

2024-03-07 18:29:59

How do they stop the coming bank runs?
By closing the physical branches
(internet access can then be turned off with one button press at central office whenever things get hot)
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/banking/bankwest-is-set-to-shut-down-all-60-branches-in-wa-as-the-company-goes-digital/news-story/e6df67eeef37a5f83a826b3ecb8d1610

2024-03-07 14:56:18

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Thank YOU John.
You are one of the very special people in the space.
My only sadness about your current focus on your book (assuming that is why you have gone quiet), is that I greatly miss your podcasts.

2024-03-06 12:53:35

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hey

2024-03-06 09:59:55

While small investors were selling yesterday at the previous ATH: https://x.com/hodl15capital/status/1765229745824755995
Blackrock did their record largest day of buying: https://x.com/hodl15capital/status/1765243035787382951
This is a cautionary tale for the trader types wanting to sell high buy low. Don't sell your precious bitcoin to BlackRock!
STAY HUMBLE STACK SATS @npub1qny…95gx

2024-03-05 09:14:35

You have a choice about putting your money into x (BTC) or y (USD):
a) x / 21million
b) y / infinity
Only junior maths required to see that for any x greater than zero, option a) wins.
#GetOffZero now.

2024-03-04 20:19:48

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https://apps.apple.com/ng/app/blink-bitcoin-beach-wallet/id1531383905

2024-03-04 13:51:40

The masses are sleeping, while the net of government control slowly tightens around them.
The UK discussing "plans for automated surveillance of millions of bank accounts".
Educate friends and family about Bitcoin.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/04/ministers-urged-to-scrap-plans-for-surveillance-of-benefit-claimants-bank-accounts

2024-01-26 11:31:04

Stunning video, from a superb article.
A must watch.
#nevent1q…nasz

2024-01-12 08:07:33

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Blink Wallet seems like a great replacement for WoS.
Like WoS it's custodial in order to bring ease of use. But imho Blink has upsides over WoS: the team is transparent, and have been building and working in El Salvador (so trust has been built). And there is an option to convert/hold a form of stable USD built into the wallet.

2024-01-08 13:43:56

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That works, except that the Liquid functionaries who sign the transactions know which address pays to which address, so there is a small risk that they could be compromised and you would not be private.

2023-12-20 08:30:14

https://image.nostr.build/91f54b2f73eeb4612f380bbc7375022c902730bd44d817b3f6b3c880229e008b.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1045x762&blurhash=%23SQc%23X%25M%7EAWr9bn%23%3FaIVoz%7EAM%7BXooJV%3Fa%7DIoofRjD

2023-12-19 07:43:30

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67494082
Bitcoin mining fixes this.

2023-12-15 13:55:46

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Net income 48k.
Savings of > 1m.
Those with traditional financial advisors... are you paying attention?

2023-12-13 08:24:44

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Interesting idea.

2023-12-01 07:45:59

BBC continues to write misinformation on behalf of government.
Their front page article entitled "Every bitcoin payment uses a swimming pool of water": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67564205
Quelle surprise! Turns out the data scientist works for a Central Bank and has a history of bitcoin misinformation: https://batcoinz.com/2484-2/

2023-11-23 19:35:09

We are thankful for Gigi. 🙏
#nevent1q…vluu

2023-07-30 17:13:37

If schools were serious about learning outcomes, they’d segment kids by skill-level instead of age-level.
h/t https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1685643708526460928

2023-07-14 06:27:00

Bukele is a hero to most bitcoiners, and his authoritarian policies appear popular in his country.
But he is trampling over basic human rights, and @npub1trr…hdpu is right to keep reminding us.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-81749d7c-d0a0-48d0-bb11-eaab6f1e6556

2023-07-12 16:38:13

US interest payments on its debt soon hitting $1 trillion / quarter.
150 million tax payers in US.
That's $6667 (or $26k / year) per tax payer...
...with no services provided in return.
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/653b4431dc8f99ba01f010ecdf9444a5b4a55166845429fb2e2e7ccd429fa0a9.jpg

2023-06-01 07:54:25

If companies that record your phone calls are legally required to tell you...
When you visit someone who has an Alexa in their home, shouldn't they be required to gain your consent to be recorded too?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65772154

2023-05-27 14:34:56

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Sorry to hear - always sad to lose a good friend.

2023-05-27 14:09:13

They say Bitcoin is for criminals.
And yet I have received at least five of these Class Action letters because the fiat banks have provably continually committed financial crimes (covering currency, metals, commodity and treasury markets).
But because the banks and lawyers control clown world for their own benefit, the plaintiffs (in this case traders, of which I was one) only get paid if they provide copies of all broker statements from 2005 to 2011. Statements required from 18 years ago! In the UK people only generally hold statements for seven years, because that is what is required by tax law.
Very convenient for the banks that it has it taken so many years after the crimes were known for the class actions to be brought. And imagine what proportion of the settlement will go to the lawyers for so many years of hard work.
https://nostr.build/i/c3a1f7d0dccb98d28f768baae8cf2096851afb0a29d1da5933847041728e88a1.jpg
https://nostr.build/i/4b3e8053d6e84743cad446235e600f4678505e8f0ace5a80a73b37e451a63b08.jpg

2023-05-21 11:43:49

Can any long term #nyms recommend a non-KYC bitcoin accepting domain registration and/or VPS hosting provider?
@npub1qny…95gx
@npub1der…xzpc
@npub1tr4…2y5g

2023-05-12 16:22:22

It's impossible to be too #BullishOnBitcoin.
Just listened to Gladstein talking about accelerating adoption across the Global South (https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/bitcoin-fundamentals/how-the-imf-and-world-bank-sell-exploitation-as-development-w-alex-gladstein/)
Followed by Obi talking about how Fedimint is going to enable it (https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/how-fedimint-scales-bitcoin) - look out for an annoucement in Miami ;)
(h/t to @npub1s5y…6q7z and @npub14mc…frlx for the pods)

2023-05-08 14:22:02

Everything in Bitcoin comes at just the right time.
Fedimint and Cashu arriving on the scene in 2023, just as it looks like some people may get priced out from opening their own Lightning channels.

2023-05-07 09:45:20

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npub1clwvhf87gsn20v02ywd9vda6gratnp3v3jrtxvc0ue0f7en5xhmq3xxhme

2023-05-07 09:39:16

Electric vehicles are zero emission.
Bitcoin miners are too.
Pierre drops some education: https://twitter.com/BitcoinPierre/status/1653544090103869441

2023-05-05 07:54:29

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Why one on linear, one on log scale?

2023-04-28 13:08:14

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Or cider for those who prefer apples to hops.
For those in the west of England the Apple cider boat in Bristol (https://applecider.co.uk/) has just started accepting Lightning.

2023-04-28 13:03:20

My podcast of the month is Bitcoin Audible podcast no 724 from @npub1h8n…rpev
One of those potentially life-changing pods with Objectivist Ethics from the genius Ayn Rand. Thanks to Guy for curating and to @npub1az9…m8y8 for giving him the poke to bring Rand's incredible thinking back to our attention.

2023-03-28 08:24:19

Fiat money - the idea that we can and should create money from thin air - is simply saying, "I know better than the market how to allocate money", which is to say to know better than everyone else what is good and what is bad, what is valuable and what isn't, what is necessary and what is superfluous.
The question that the fiat system answers is the following: who is allowed to counterfeit currency, and how much? Further, who is allowed to have access to money, and who isn't?
#[0] getting to the root of things (again) in https://www.citadel21.com/bitcoins-meme-wars

2023-03-25 15:15:38

Welcome #[0] - with all the best bitcoiners coming to Nostr the day is soon coming where Twitter can be deleted 😁

2023-03-24 07:59:43

Does anyone else see an almost perfect inverse correlation between this graph from the Fed: https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_aef678e401330d237ec3d8a5f6430925a31dfd7c3cbbe006d0436d04bc5e230c.jpeg, and this one regarding the well-being of a turkey: https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_44a6fbd3eec00401a933c4a82dfe6e20734c9723462c42f2a1560bb64dfd583b.png
(Fed graph is from https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-balance-sheet-surges-another-100bn-amid-bank-runs-foreign-repos-soar-record-and-cash)

2023-03-16 07:13:24

The $2 trillion created overnight by the FED is $2,000,000,000,000.
That's $250 for every single human being on the planet. Created instantly by a few men in a room with no work done or anything of value created.
The truth is governments can produce unlimited money whenever they want. This costs us all later in the form of inflation, which makes us all poorer.
Since fiat money was created, taxes are no longer needed. In fact they are a charade, because even the highest taxes in history can no longer pay for the government's out of control spending. Taxes are retained simply as a means of controlling us.
Can you see yet, how much we are being played?
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_2ea7e37a0fa249c71a55a0b7fe34e3c4e6571dd150850dea9a40ee073df033fe.jpg

2023-03-14 12:11:43

For people thinking their deposits are safe if they are below the #FDIC $250k limit...
You might get your money back, but are you prepared to wait for months or years before you have access to it again?
I had life savings in a bank in Europe in 2008 (IceSave) that was covered by the UK's version of FDIC, the FSCS. I felt safe. But when the bank ceased to function, I didn't get my money back from the FSCS for more than 2 years.
BTW, I also had to provide bank statements to prove to the FSCS that I had savings at the bank - good luck with that if it's a web based bank and their website "goes down". So I hope you're keeping records on your own computer and not just leaving them on your bank's website ;)

2023-03-13 07:53:04

My family must have thought that bottle of orange pills I left on the side were sweets.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_32918031ee8b9ca6bb5808b42b7167d6c844e2590895d0225aed383174357960.jpeg

2023-03-13 07:24:33

The lies in this statement are utterly shameless: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1337
"no losses will be borne by the taxpayer"
(so who will they be born by?)
"the U.S. banking system remains resilient and on a solid foundation"
(which is why we had to have an emergency meeting on a Sunday to save it) 🤡

2023-03-01 21:39:20

Another warning shot about the state of affairs at Binancehttps://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_c0a82030cec20a00412baa1a91f2c03bc4bb04669db3822bbee3474fbeec5efa.jpg

2023-03-01 21:35:06

Hopefully no need to tell the smart folks on Nostr to get everything off Binance, but heads up that things may not be too rosy there:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierpaz/2023/02/27/binances-asset-shuffling-eerily-similar-to-maneuvers-by-ftx

2023-02-17 07:33:31

#[0]

2023-02-14 22:49:00

I keep flip-flipping on whether to be anon or to use my real name to build trust.
Derek Sivers nailed it with this article on anonymity: https://sive.rs/anon.
Have a name that is rare but believable: then you are BETTER hidden than when you're anon, AND you build trust. Even if you become famous, you could stand on a #bitcoin conference stage using your pseudonym.

2023-02-14 22:35:34

#[0] might write articles that are a bit woo-woo for some. But read them, and you'll realise they are based on truth: https://tomerstrolight.medium.com/hello-i-am-bitcoin-a1f804617fab

2023-01-26 22:30:47

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Welcome Lyn.
Another tick in the box for me not returning to Twitter. :)

2023-01-26 08:30:00

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Meant to tag this note in my earlier post. Still getting to grips with how to do things in Nostr. ;)

2023-01-26 08:17:27

Not many have the discipline for this. For motivation, just look at the extraordinary quality of the output that #[0] produces.
#[4]