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2025-04-24 13:30:52

This cult of Dionysus needs to die.
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2025-03-21 21:31:38

Has anybody shared Nostr reads or other Nostr long form content across different non Nostr platforms? How does that look? We need more good writers native on Nostr but most of their audiences are elsewhere.

2025-03-20 22:25:10

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I’m fasting from zaps. Hits the dopamine too hard.

2025-03-20 22:23:03

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Will also say, these are the things competition corrects, and rather quickly. All it takes is one company to refuse in order to grow market share and the rest are forced back down.

2025-03-20 22:20:06

Can confirm US Steel is going to use the tariff narrative as a means to increase the cost of their goods regardless of whether or not raw materials are impacted. Expecting 7% in April and a further 13% in the following 3 months.
Take this into account when the economists claim tariffs are the source of inflation.

2025-03-19 22:51:53

1835, Monroe Michigan. A lack of small change was so acute that William Wells Brown was able to create paper money from nothing, and the community utilized it. Sufficiently premined for himself of course.
Divisibility problem of Specie in action.
Bitcoin fixes this.
Read:
“Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic” Joshua R. Greenberg

2025-03-19 22:45:03

Shitcoins and Shinplasters

2025-03-19 02:10:11

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My employer who hates Bitcoin doesn’t realize every time he hits process on the payroll he’s paying me in Bitcoin. It’s one of the greatest cheat codes of all time. I never even see the fiat.

2025-03-18 14:36:59

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These arguments sound a lot like what large commercial construction companies who do high-end work say when examining low standard quick turnover residential projects.
As it turns out, it costs less to produce and consumers still buy them. Regardless of the deficits.

2025-03-17 23:35:08

Make your sons pull weeds

2025-03-17 23:33:17

Don’t be gay. Plant more plants. Make your kids plant plants.

2025-03-17 17:48:52

It’s funny watching people “come to the realization” about our monetary system through discoveries by DOGE. As if bitcoiners haven’t been shouting this from the rooftops for years.

2025-03-11 04:45:58

Also, I couldn’t buy bitcoin with my 401k if I wanted to (and I do). For the privilege of serving fees up to my financial overlords, and a promise from the government to not tax me until I take money out from it, I get to purchase all the indexes they made for me. And by doing so underwrite their books of business for 40+ years!
I think I’ll take my penalty and buy this dip.

2025-03-11 04:39:17

I find it funny that a large portion of the investment class was not able to “buy” bitcoin with their money until the ETF was approved…
And they don’t see a problem with that.

2025-03-11 00:29:27

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The architect of the great replacement theory. Squeeze the profits from both sides. If you don’t like your working class.. import another. The U.S. is just an economic zone in the end, what difference does it make.

2025-03-10 23:04:54

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This is fucking stupid. Everyone knows illegal immigrants aren’t getting licensed as electricians to work on data centers. They’re working low-barrier to entry trades that don’t require licensure.
Also.. “who will harvest the crops?” What is this, South Carolina 1861? If your model can’t work without indentured servants maybe you should find a new model

2025-03-10 02:58:42

“Every monopoly and all exclusive privileges are granted at the expense of the public, which ought to receive a fair equivalent”
Satoshi gave us our fair equivalent in a world of exclusive currency manipulation privileges.

2025-03-10 02:45:37

“Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits, but have besought us to make them richer by act of Congress”
—Andrew Jackson

2025-03-09 14:10:55

Where’d the savings go?

2025-03-09 02:44:49

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Also, is there a better way to bridge content from Voldemort’s platform other than this? I’d rather not have to keep my account just to see world events.

2025-03-09 02:42:14

Israeli savings time.
Can we not just have American flags proudly displayed by US elected officials? This is so purposeful and forced it’s tiring.
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2025-03-08 22:45:54

Supreme leader of Iran ironically shills for Nostr?
Does the accuracy of your utterances preclude your ability to say it?
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2025-03-08 22:38:02

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“Bitcoin is a tool to defend and leverage that wealth” -ACROSS TIME AND SPACE. “My family” includes those in my lineage whose time has not yet come.
They will not start on zero.
This is what I leave behind.

2025-03-08 20:06:27

The bull and his un-humbled sats are quickly departed.

2025-03-08 19:58:18

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The weak-hand bulls must be slain too.

2025-03-08 19:53:46

#darknostr is a weed in your garden. Stealing the water and beauty from your GM-marigolds

2025-03-08 19:46:50

Take your kids outside.

2025-03-08 19:45:48

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We don’t win until printing becomes inconsequential and obsolete. It’ll never end.

2025-03-08 15:45:09

The U.S. debt clock should include the bitcoin reserve next to the precious metals ticker so we can watch the inevitable flippening.

2025-03-07 15:25:32

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Bitcoin adoption is not exclusionary. Bitcoin is money for your enemies too.

2025-03-07 15:22:35

Having had the time to read the full EO. This is an undeniable win for Bitcoin. With a correct delineation between Bitcoin and shitcoins validated now by the federal government.
Now, how to protect this from the pendulum swing of partisan politics?

2025-03-07 01:14:27

Congrats everyone. Bitcoin procurement is now the only item on the federal government’s radar that has to be budget neutral.
But everything else? Budget be damned!

2025-03-07 01:08:29

Heyo
#nevent1q…zrj6

2025-03-06 23:49:47

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It also opens up state sponsored shitcoinery. The battle goes on.
#nevent1q…0mfy

2025-03-06 21:26:37

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If link doesn’t work try here and navigate to the full bill: https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB21/id/3152029

2025-03-06 21:24:58

Here is the full SB 21 (Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve) that passed the State Senate today.
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB21/id/3152029/Texas-2025-SB21-Comm_Sub.html
Of note are the explicit carve outs that allow for shitcoinery, including proceeds from any distributions “Pursuant to an airdrop to the state’s cryptocurrency addresses.” Paving the way for state sponsored shitcoins.
From the bill:
“2) bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can serve as a
hedge against inflation and economic volatility; and
(3) subject to Section 403.704, bitcoin and other
cryptocurrency purchased using money in or received by the reserve,
including any cryptocurrency:
(A) derived from the fork of a distributed
ledger; or
(B) distributed pursuant to an airdrop to the
state's cryptocurrency addresses;…”

2025-03-06 16:50:22

There’s something inherently satisfying about taking your paycheck in bitcoin that makes you more comfortable with the volatility. Which seems backwards. From the outside in you’d think it would make you more price sensitive. It doesn’t.

2025-03-06 14:36:52

A windage check heading into the summit:
My take, announce no further sales of seized BTC as the start of the reserve, then throw support behind a congressional bill to establish procurement. I don’t believe we will see any U.S. buying unless money is allocated through congress - which may never happen.
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2025-03-05 18:52:53

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Dude creeps me out.

2025-03-05 18:35:56

#1 hiring mistake I see.
Finding the job for the person rather than finding the right person for the job.
All DEI campaigns can be categorized in the former.

2025-03-05 14:59:13

Some of you tech-minded people on here are scary smart. Half the time I don’t know what the hell you’re building, but I will use it when you’re done!
Keep building. Or whatever you’re doing. I appreciate it.

2025-03-05 14:53:55

The trades have a real shortage of competence. Any young-folk with a mid-level intelligence can quickly rise through the ranks.
Trade work is more than manual labor, there are entire teams of back office management required to build modern buildings. And what’s better, they can arbitrage early advancement and high salaries into more BITCOIN. Exploit the opportunity!

2025-03-05 14:46:45

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Weak hands.

2025-03-05 14:43:09

Primary source documents from top level government correspondence in 1832. Read a few and tell me the caliber of our governance hasn’t regressed.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_jackson/6/

2025-03-05 14:38:40

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Go back to hell, you’re not fooling anyone.

2025-03-05 00:00:40

Lessons for my sons:
5. Courage comes in many forms
Read “The Lord of the Rings” J.R.R Tolkien
Frodos willingness to bear the burden.
Sam’s willingness to support the mission through to the end, even in the face of overwhelming despair.
Aragorns warrior heart, with the bravery and confidence to face down any foe.
Legolas, Gimli, Merry, and Pippin - to embody the principles of loyalty and brotherhood, and contribute each in their own unique ways.
All require great courage and steadfastness.

2025-03-04 23:38:33

Lessons for my sons:
4. The Dangers of Hubris
Read: “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelly
Unchecked Pride and Ambition has led to many a downfall. You must balance ambition with wisdom. Wisdom must be earned.

2025-03-04 23:18:24

It’s well known that the federal government can dangle federal funding over the individual states in the forms of various grants and programs, and in doing so enforce conditional partisan constraints on them. A state who “by principle” rejects the federal funding severely limits their competitive edge with other states. Or they at the very least put themselves at a disadvantage.
Could we be seeing the same effect with El Salvador?
Or, does Bukele think by having the BTC treasury reserve he is able to adequately hedge the inflationary nature of the loans he’s taking, and therefore might as well take the money for development while he can.
He and his admin can’t plant the flag of BTC ownership and lame duck the remainder of his term.
#nevent1q…nfau

2025-03-04 23:04:14

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Cash flows are the lifeblood of any business, and without a currency of their own I’d imagine the same applies to a country. I wonder if we are seeing the “too early” is the same as “too late” effect.
Would Bukele with all his ambition let the principle of BTC ownership stop him from securing development funds from the IMF?

2025-03-04 20:18:40

Lessons for my sons:
3. Self-Discovery through Struggle
Read: “The Sea Wolf” by Jack London
Selfhood emerges when you’re stripped down and tested by forces bigger than yourself.

2025-03-04 20:12:49

Lessons for my sons:
2. The Value of Honor and Integrity
Read: “to Kill a Mockingbird” Harper Lee
True manhood is tied to principle, not just power or popularity.

2025-03-04 20:08:39

Lessons for my sons:
1: Resilience in Adversity
Read: “The Old Man and the Sea” Ernest Hemingway
Read: “Endurance” Alfred Lansing
Both instances highlight handling adversity with grit and grace. And often times the only takeaway they get to keep from the struggle is their lives and their experiences.

2025-03-04 19:28:12

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Books of this nature pose a trap to young men coming of age. The genre of entrepreneurial self-help/personal growth and development has a seductive element that younger men too often fall prey to.
I spent a good 8 or so years of my early 20’s reading books like these and came out the back end less wise and less motivated. The lessons comprised in these types of books used to be entwined in the plots and subplots of all the great historical literature, written by authors who believed they truly had something to say. And the lessons conveyed took hold and were remembered because they were embodied in the characters who represented them. The reader learned these lessons experientially through the development of the plots, and through that vehicle retained them.
The 48 laws of power reads like an outline, a PowerPoint presentation at a Ted talk, it lacks the emotion of an author who has conviction that bleeds through the page.
I’m not against these books, I just don’t think believe they should hold the dominating force they do.
I will push my sons to read great literature.

2025-03-03 01:07:34

Most people are here for the price action, fewer yet understand the freedom tech is priceless.

2025-03-03 01:02:24

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They do this with the dollar at an infinitely larger scale, yet even more sinister because people don’t understand they can pull their hands off the stove. I only hold out hope that some allotment of new entrants enticed into the market by this will stick through until they see bitcoin for what it is.

2025-03-03 00:05:09

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“Children have to touch the stove, they’re going to get burned”

2025-03-02 15:41:28

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Let it be fully clear now, the government cannot contend with the underlying truths that ownership of Bitcoin espouses. Bitcoin has its own path.

2025-03-02 14:29:05

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Of note, this isn’t about whether or not J. A. Hamilton was right to want to responsibly oversee the distribution of “public” funds granted by congress, it’s about the fact that when such means are available they will be employed, and inevitably *liberally*, beyond just that which the public trust owns.

2025-03-02 14:24:28

January 14th, 1832. James Alexander Hamilton (3rd son of the founding father) writes to Andrew Jackson imploring the imposition of a restricted and surveilled public account (on the post-master of New York) through the choke point of the Bank of the United States.
Showing early that these mechanisms for control have always been well understood.
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2025-03-02 02:49:44

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Answer: Freedom breeds agency

2025-03-02 02:34:04

What good is freedom to those who hold no agency.

2025-03-01 20:01:32

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Believe your own eyes:
#nevent1q…uhxl

2025-03-01 20:00:05

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This appears true now:
#nevent1q…q3wx

2025-03-01 19:52:56

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Updated for non coders:
1. Open AI model
2. Brute force prompt it and copy paste until it works
3. If it’s worth a damn pay a developer to build it for real with all the steps listed above.

2025-03-01 19:47:45

I’m seeing a weird similarity between my oldest kids creative drawings and that from mildly prompted generative AI images.
My son: “it’s not just any hotdog, it’s THE hot dog” - proceeds to show me a hot dog surrounded by a bunch of rather abstract symbols one might see used to evoke action and emotion in anime.
Looks weirdly similar to an output you might get if you prompted an AI as such : “generate an image of a hot dog, but not any hot dog, THE hot dog”
There’s something philosophical about intelligence here that I just don’t have the energy to dive into right now.

2025-03-01 19:22:57

There has been a major movement in construction standards in the U.S -especially recently- to move away from quality long term building standards to short term quantity-first preoccupations. If a developer can build a warehouse for less upfront sticker cost, that building will sell more easily than a more quality built building.
The issue is the consumer is failing to account for the long-term cost of ownership, and often times end up paying more in the lifetime of the building than they would have if choosing the latter option.
This is a clear secondary effect of our centrally planned inflationary currency system.
What’s even worse, we’ve existed in this mode for so long that developers have inflated their prices of low-quality construction closer and closer to that of higher quality construction, where consumers now are paying the low quality cost at similar rates of what high quality constructions *would-have* been.
The low-quality discount has been eroded away in rising market premiums for developers.

2025-03-01 19:10:44

Bitcoin is Spice:
Long exposure to spice has given hodlers their characteristic laser eyes. Without spice, permission-less, instant, virtual no cost monetary transactions cant happen across the globe. Therefore, spice is the most valuable entity in the world.

2025-03-01 18:21:12

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I feel like by waiting on merchants to accept and include BTC payment infrastructure we are throttling the transactional value of BTC in real world environments. This adds extra step friction to adopters that engage with and want to use BTC on a day to day level.
There are more BTC adopters that want to transact with BTC balances than there is merchants willing to accept BTC.

2025-03-01 18:18:30

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Without a deep technical knowledge of any of these systems, I would imagine a situation where a company (strike, fold, etc) would host a visa debit card for account users, each users “available balance” is a conversion from their loaded BTC balance, and when a transaction occurs at a POS the company (strike? Fold, etc) satisfies the merchant and auto converts from the BTC balance to satisfy the debit.
Without knowing what I don’t know, what is holding this back?

2025-03-01 18:13:40

Are any companies actively working on enabling BTC holders to make payments to fiat merchants without merchants needing to onboard BTC infrastructure? In other words, take for example Bill Pay by strike, while that is an ACH transfer, essentially strike on the backend will auto convert your BTC balance to fiat to satisfy the transfer, the receiver never even knows the payment is derived from BTC.
Can we not enable this in an apple wallet like fashion, where I can pay on traditional rails to a POS but the auto convert happens on the backend without the merchant knowing? I don’t want to buy gift cards and/or presell btc to load onto a debit card before purchase.
I know strike circles around this by using credit cards for payment and bill-paying those at the end of every month, but if we just stop there I think we are stopping short.

2025-03-01 00:52:58

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Need I say. “Bitcoin fixes this”.. albeit in a round about way.

2025-03-01 00:48:14

The European countries in lockstep with the old guard of the U.S. State Department have expanded their influence through the vehicle of NATO merely by leveraging the export of the U.S. Dollar.
They’ve made a good deal for themselves even sweeter by failing to meet their own financial obligations to the organization.
In other words, through US inflationary activity the EU leaders have been able to artificially expand their influence and power in the region *while also deindustrializing*.
In the past power expansion required superior means of production and energy generation.
Russia pushed back against this bought-for influence and the west quickly learned no amount of money (and they’ve tried it all) can win without the productive capabilities to back it up. Too many dollars chasing too few munitions. At some point, no amount of dollar adjustment fixes the lack of production capabilities.
Trump tariffs are an attempt to reverse this and incentivize the growth of western production again. I think he also understands our dollar exports aren’t as poignant of a weapon as it once was, and continuing down this path not only doesn’t help the war (it prolongs death and destruction) but it also severely hampers American economic wellbeing. Enough is enough, that’s his stance.
The EU leaders have lived in their artificial power bubble for too long, they fail to see it has already been popped.
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2025-02-28 20:54:33

Zelensky never planned to sign an agreement today. It may have even been a setup with other European nations to attempt to humiliate the U.S.. too bad the American public is fed up with this war and beyond tired of the EU’s moral posturing.

2025-02-28 15:49:03

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Seeing a whole lot of “we need to’s” and not a lot of “This is how’s”

2025-02-28 15:33:35

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Any idea of what stage 1 consists of? What are the constraints that got us here?

2025-02-27 03:28:26

I’m in the process of finishing up our scope on the construction of a new large scale data center (1 of 5 planned for development) and I can’t help but fear the growing centralization of personal data being stored in building like these. You have a different perspective when you build the “cloud”.

2025-02-27 03:20:29

The commercial construction industry is massively behind on technological innovation. Large administrative overheads and adjacent costs are spent by each company pushing paper inefficiently. The only reason it doesn’t sink any individual company is because they’re all equally behind and the playing field is level. Major room for opportunity for those with eyes to see.

2025-02-26 00:18:11

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The bitcoin network stacking transactions into blocks.

2025-02-25 20:29:43

Since Fold App is going public, does this not open them up to counterparty risk? Think Twitter’s options when ad companies threatened to leave.

2025-02-25 20:06:56

I had a 60 year old gentleman try to explain to me that bitcoin isn’t a good solution but instead the government is going to “upload” gold to “the blockchain”.

2025-02-25 20:02:58

For all this talk about gold being brought back as a neutral reserve asset. I was wondering if someone could verify the total supply for me?
Oh wait

2024-12-28 05:15:18

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The money left them. They watched their parents raise families on 1/2 the salary with 2x the purchasing power. Americans are demanding an equivalent in purchasing power and being told to shove it. Its being moved over to workers without that frame of reference.

2024-12-28 04:45:11

As best I can tell on initial experience. Nostr is the quiet intellectual cafe where serious people go to get out of the madness of the crowd (x). I see much of this sentiment from the early posts of those who made the move.

2024-12-28 04:38:28

Finally made my way here from X. As it turns out "unregretted user minutes" = Brain Rot. Nostr touches the grass.