ewok

https://glowing.surf

Public Key

npub1f48mtlc2lwxqfekxuql4z2qmvezhd7v9uk7rfga8accs585zrars56lpgj

NIP-05 Address

ewok@primal.net

NIP-57 Address

ewok@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsy6na4lu90hrqyumrwq0639qdkv3tklxz7t0p55wn7uvg2r6pp73cprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdmksetjv5hxxmmdpyrvgp

Publishing to

relay.noswhere.com

Author Public Key

npub1f48mtlc2lwxqfekxuql4z2qmvezhd7v9uk7rfga8accs585zrars56lpgj

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2024-10-03 15:03:42

People will eagerly turn their heads away from atrocity just to continue falling for Donald’s empty ass promises 😂
So glad I have bitcoin 🤙

2024-09-29 13:29:54

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Sent you a dm

2024-09-29 01:11:52

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Thanks for the kind words🙏
I removed it from online sites years ago, let me take a look at it and think about whether/how to release

2024-09-28 05:18:28

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Not exactly. This was adapted from the intro to a mixed photo/poem/short fiction art book that is a spin off of (and would take place maybe a decade or two after) a sci fi novel I wrote.
The idea of the art book was that it would feel like picking up a piece of hardware and extracting hidden data from it, which is a theme of the book. It works well conceptually on an e-reader device and I’ve been thinking about how to put it on nostr— at a minimum I could link to the epub but it’d be cooler to do some other way.

2024-09-28 03:33:56

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Thanks, yeah!

2024-09-28 03:03:43

You can almost feel the neon street lights behind you, teasing you with a wild night back where the city is still alive, but your eyes stay focused ahead, on the dark strip: the abandoned sprawl that lies on the way to the new shore.
You’re ready to get away from downtown because lately it seems like you can’t even hear your own thoughts anymore. Maybe when you get to the beach you’ll figure out who or what is blocking you from listening to your inner voice. But then again, maybe not.
All around you, sand and silt infiltrates the parking lots and the ground floors of otherwise sound buildings, stale bogs. The fine mud sticks to the soles of your boots, suctioning the pull of each step.
Small pools of water begin to interrupt your path at an increasing rate. It’s difficult to tell for certain, but they might be releasing faint light. Your eyes are only human, anyway. As you get closer to the shore, whatever hints of brightness you think you might be seeing in the puddles is drowned out by the brilliant intensity you’re here to witness, the view that can wipe everything away, the glowing surf.
The edge is quieter than you remember. Liquids fill the nooks and dips of the land without noise and in no rush. Then, folding over, they recede. In some places the broth mixes, though the colors remain true and somehow resist becoming a dull tar. In another place, a vibrating stream of pink forms a ribbon through electric yellow goop, refusing to assimilate.
The surf seems to both suffer from and be invigorated by a uniform phosphorescence. Likely the remnants of some tritium disaster from not too long ago, not too far away. The countless other isotopes saturating the gulf remain unseen, but you are well aware that the radiation has left real marks on the DNA of the creatures that cling to life below the surface.
A small crab rolls into an old soup can, neon markings on its belly like alien glyphs, its arms seeking something in an uncoordinated way. It’s choking on a thin, glitter-purple sheath of synthetic bacteria. You remember reading in the logs about these bacteria, designed illegally in some basement of the city a decade ago. A desperate bid to help clean up some of the mess. Not exactly a shame, maybe something worse.
Trash floats between broken parking blocks and twisted railing and many items keep their form. You recognize the outlines of beer bottles, a soccer ball and a refrigerator door. All of them painted over in bright streaks of color.
The end of a slow wave carries a newspaper leaf before you and it clings to one of your boots. It’s an antique. The surf works its best magic on paper, fortifying the cellulose with heavy metals and keeping the text and images preserved. It’s a bleeding page advertisement, pristine except for the color. A woman holding a toothbrush smiles up at you with lime green lips, a shock of tangerine hair and electric blue skin.
You realize how shallow your breaths have been up to this point and let the salty breeze enter your lungs with the rapidity its been asking for.
What would your father think of all this? If he were still around.
And that’s it. You feel you have your thoughts back. You exhale and advance into the glowing surf.
Now you’re ankle-deep and you bend over to scoop up a conch shell that’s the size of your fist. You push your hair aside and put it up to your ear.
No hollow wind, no airy breath of the sea. An unnatural silence. Almost like a glitch…
You use a keychain LED to help you to see inside of the conch shell. There’s a wire… something that you might be able to jack into your system.
You pad the outside of your vest with your palm, hoping you’re carrying the right adapter. The last time you connected to an unknown drive, you fried the adapter and your scanner was left wide open to hackers. You told yourself you’d learned your lesson. But did you really come all the way out here to stop taking risks?
You locate the right adapter under a mess of tangled wires and batteries in your pocket, still in its second-hand plastic bubble re-packaging. You bust it free and use it to plug into the conch shell.
A semi-transparent holographic window projects from inside the conch. The slow, thick waves behind it begin to appear almost volatile through the image.
The screen displays jumbled characters in a garbled list that doesn’t obey clean columns or rows. New text blazes forth, scrolling on its own as though consumed by some need to be seen but it’s much too fast for you to read.
It could be the remnants of a menu from a corrupted drive or maybe it’s something more exotic like dynamic encryption.
It stops and goes dark. Shit.
You check the adapter—it’s not obviously burnt. Still, you hate how you’re always taking unnecessary risks and for what—a random seashell?
Maybe there’s a hidden way to boot the data. What if your npub and key could unlock something good?
#nostr #scifi #artstr #writing #grownostr #ewokgm

2024-09-19 23:19:34

I’m so glad I have tuned out of this election like 95% more than usual. Highly recommend. The day to day news cycle changes nothing for people living in 45/50 states.

2024-09-19 22:29:46

I don’t see too much conflict in the Saifedean—Saylor interview. Seems like Saylor is arguing for what the transition state to the fully bitcoinized world looks like, which includes cash yield on btc. Saifedean’s mind is at a place where nobody wants fiat.
I think Saylor’s vision is likely near term and even could be very long term.
I am preparing for both. Have enough bitcoin if fiat goes to zero, and have enough fiat that can carry you if bitcoinization takes a century.
Kinda sucks for millennials and gen z, we’ve had so many headwinds and still have to prepare essentially two competing retirement plans 😂
https://fountain.fm/episode/3QQZCHaUoDwtE8S63A9Z

2024-09-17 03:12:37

When people see the chart showing the USD decline in value over the last century, they get the impression that it can’t possibly fall that much further and if it does it’ll take a century anyway.
Someone needs to make a chart showing only the last 5 years.

2024-09-15 18:03:31

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It’s ok because it’s mostly uncooked steak lmao

2024-09-15 17:58:02

Me: *quietly fasting*
Nostr: posting every photo they’ve ever taken of food

2024-09-13 13:16:08

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I’ve watched the lifespan/healthspan extension field, which I’ve been a big believer in, go from being viewed as a complete joke and ridiculous (and even impossible (which is insane)) by scientists (and the public) 15 years ago, to one of the hottest sectors.
We can talk about the personal, special interests of VC and oligarchs, but I’ve always thought it was an obvious cost saving strategy for the government due to the rising costs of healthcare, which are largely due to age related decline.
I was right on this one and everyone scoffing at me as a young pup in PhD school was wrong 🤙

2024-09-11 04:02:08

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Right has a very cool throwback feel with the color choices
Left just looks like a maga hat rip off or bad stranger things logo

2024-09-08 01:58:17

#Bitcoin is primarily going to be held by institutions, the wealthy, and like 3,000 psychopaths isn’t it

2024-09-06 01:33:02

Replyguy made me feel heard though

2024-09-05 04:33:58

I love sleep but I still think it’s weird

2024-09-02 21:09:00

I can’t see any job being safe as AI creeps up and bitcoin changes the incentive structures of markets.
IMHO better pack your bags fast while you can still buy bitcoin with cash earned in the old, nearly defunct workplace.
#plebchain

2024-08-30 00:04:25

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Imminent by Luis Elizondo

2024-08-27 20:43:45

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2.1M is my guess. We’ll see middle class families squeeze into studios.

2024-08-27 18:39:54

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Almost feel sorry for him here

2024-08-27 16:12:02

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About half of the scientists I know have bitcoin 😂

2024-08-27 14:41:19

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Bitcoin culture affinity scams 🤙

2024-08-27 12:40:44

Allegedly, remote viewers can operate on as little as a location or a name. Do you really think the amount of private data on you was only there to sell dorito?
If true, this also has massive implications for writing down your #bitcoin seed phrase, as well. #plebchain
https://youtu.be/g7-vKn-Qqbg

2024-08-27 01:17:29

The crowned jewel gift of clawing your way up the scientific career ladder?
Administrative duties lmao

2024-08-26 20:06:25

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The Democratic Party is as unrecognizable as the Republican Party became post Trump

2024-08-26 19:12:32

Given the aggressive stance governments are taking against people who simply provide privacy tools, maybe it’s time to really start pushing protocols that lean into encryption and decentralization onto your normie friends i.e. “I only respond to texts on signal now. You can only pay me back for dinner in bitcoin now.” This Overton window needs to move faster than it has been 🤡🌎

2024-08-25 20:06:19

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Almost done, he also included a lot more names and tidbits for people to fact check than I expected

2024-08-25 19:22:22

Imminent by Luis Elizondo is not only a consequential release of #UAP, NHI and psionic government programs that everyone should be made aware of, whether they are ready to believe or not, it is also a fascinating and privileged look into the failings of the bureaucratic state and the corruption that manifests there.

2024-08-22 15:42:53

Kennedy should’ve stayed in. You can’t preach about fair democracies and getting out of the corrupt duopoly and then bail last minute while endorsing one of them. Makes him look fake as fuck. You have to show strength even against hard odds or it’s never going to change 🤙

2024-08-21 13:58:58

I am on the fence about encouraging private citizens to engage NHI directly, as so many encounters are plainly dangerous. However a starting point could be a public NHI communications agency, run in part by people who have way more information to go on than civilians have access to.
Both initiatives are complicated since there is likely many more than one NHI, with unknown motivations. And as a government skeptic, the power imbalance and agency would accrue is substantial (but has been happening non-publicly and in the private sector to date anyway), so at least regular, public statements etc would be a step in the right direction.
#uap #ufo

2024-08-20 23:08:33

Watto in the streets, ewok in the sheets 🤙

2024-08-20 13:35:52

The algorithm watching me post whatever the heck I want on nostr https://i.nostr.build/vGgqa.jpg

2024-08-20 11:52:52

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Developing a legacy media mute list on nostr 🤙

2024-08-19 20:12:45

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Agree 100%, the transition will be fireworks though!

2024-08-19 20:08:08

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I tend to agree with that. Getting tradfi on 24/7 token markets is going to be really interesting if there are no circuit breakers and there is global access. Will stocks and other investment instruments collapse as easily as yield farming gaming tokens tend to collapse on eth? What happens when people take on GameStop-like behavior to address unethical companies and financial tactics?

2024-08-19 19:54:35

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Non tradfi people talk about tokenizing stocks on bitcoin layer 2s and I vaguely remember something about inscription tokens like runes or brc20 as well.
However, from what JPM and other behemoths have hinted at via pilot programs, stocks will likely be tokenized on eth for US markets— unclear if on private layer 2s or main chain.

2024-08-19 19:26:29

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Became a card carrying scientist and left the church.
As I get older there seems to be evidence accumulating for “something else”, eg UAP/psychic events or “the phenomenon”. This area is still ultra taboo scientifically but I am open to viewing the evidence and testing further and not shy about it even in work circles.
It’s tough being a truth seeker when it’s increasingly clear even the brightest among us have incredibly small windows of perception and intelligence.

2024-08-19 19:01:31

Democrats have no official plans for #bitcoin on their official platform. They have no *public* strategy for the next emergent world reserve asset and currency that is already incredibly important for geopolitics and national security.
Let that sink in 🤡🌎
#crypto4harris

2024-08-17 22:49:10

Beautiful that “fuck you money” is also “give a fuck money”

2024-08-17 19:18:30

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What a mess— maybe do something to get banned 🤙

2024-08-17 03:44:41

Ayy! Must be the money!!!

2024-08-17 00:01:53

Calling all vibes to assemble

2024-08-16 17:36:18

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Molestation every time 🤙

2024-08-16 02:03:22

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Dude is legendary 🤙 https://i.nostr.build/Hn4bLb6Qx4I9O8EX.jpg

2024-08-15 23:22:31

So sick of begging for watered down positions from our major parties. That’s not how this is supposed to work. You want my vote? You fucking earn it 🤙

2024-08-15 23:15:50

I am only voting for political candidates that promise to remove the #bitcoin tax and protect self custody, which means I am likely not a democrat voter this year.
There is not a single good reason for continuing to tax bitcoin or for coming after self custody. And there is no group of voters that democrats will lose by removing the tax, so why won’t they?
Democrats will say I am risking democracy for a single issue. I say THEY are risking democracy for not earning my very simple-to-get vote.
#crypto4harris

2024-08-15 15:52:26

There’s nothing new about airheads ordinals, recursion has already been used (OCM) and I’m pretty sure cryptotrunks had a similar wallet-activity based generative nft. The difference is airheads blatantly only counts holding other #ordinals and #runes collections they want to pump, rather than total fees spent in a minting wallet.
I get that the project design is intended to lampoon the excesses of wealth but the fact of the matter is that it will be used to dump on folks and increase that delta between haves and have nots and that’s fucking tacky.
#plebchain

2024-08-15 02:26:51

0.5M+ #bitcoin feels like it’ll arrive 10 years out but then I remember how greedy the rich are and how *incredibly easy it is* for them to buy 🏴‍☠️

2024-08-15 02:20:55

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Because you’re tired from the 90. Just keep your head down and finish the job, over before you know it 🤙

2024-08-14 16:16:15

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Alright I’m coming around to AI art now maybe

2024-08-14 02:25:18

I remember someone talking about working on a #nostr metaverse, I think a grant was involved too. Anything happen with that?
#asknostr
#plebchain

2024-08-14 02:02:41

Mama said, we gotta start a new life
I already have a life!
https://youtu.be/gqXdU1IK2JI

2024-08-13 17:21:01

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Part of poor decision making is due to broken money. Should fix some, but not all, imho

2024-08-13 14:50:21

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Maybe all posts, text and otherwise, live on your own server but are pointed to by nostr? I’m not a programmer I don’t know what I’m talking about

2024-08-13 01:54:02

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Correctly priced goods and services speed advancements in what should create positive change the most, including in energy, which leads to a post-scarcity society and possibly removes the need for money 🤙

2024-08-13 01:06:34

Feels Veblen good, man 🤙

2024-08-11 16:22:00

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Contact your local politicians, be heard. RFK Jr already started to move the Overton window towards no cap gains on bitcoin.
There’s an interesting mechanism at play here, if you hate bitcoin and want to keep the tax, you disincentivize people from spending it. The more the richest consumers are disincentivized to spend it, the higher the price goes, and the higher the price goes, the more pressure there will be to eliminate the tax.
That’s the backdrop to also watching the new rich flee your country to start businesses and spend in countries without a cap gains tax.
I think the pressure is already on!

2024-08-11 16:15:27

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A real job is anything that has successfully paid the bills and would put you on the street if you lost it. I’m speaking broadly, for most people, from what I’ve seen happen to people around me. There will always be exceptions and people who won’t do well or don’t care to have a 9 to 5, and I hope they work things out in their own approach.
I’m more speaking against the idea and trend that everyone who is already doing fine with a regular job needs to join the content economy. It’s probably better if you just rest on the weekend or level up in your field. I don’t know why being really good at your craft has fallen out of fashion and everyone wants to be online celebrities etc.

2024-08-11 15:57:11

For most people, it’s probably better to focus your energy on getting much better at your real job rather than siphoning off effort towards monetizing your personal life.
Just one man’s opinion 🤙

2024-08-11 04:51:59

sPeCuLaTiVe AtTaCk

2024-08-10 20:50:22

Unsolved mysteries jingle and donkey Kong aquatic ambience are long lost cousins

2024-08-08 02:39:36

I want to complain about how political campaigns have disintegrated into nothing beyond school yard name-calling but I don’t because 20 years ago they would pitch semi detailed, semi rational policy plans and then never delivered on those promises after winning.
Not sure which approach is more insulting to people’s intelligence 🤙

2024-08-06 03:54:15

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I don’t really know any new music, just stuff from the good old days, which is everything from full albums to soundtracks to video game music to stuff old friends made. Nothing I’d call pleasant outright, but maybe the Altons would qualify https://youtu.be/-0RqfvE6_eg

2024-08-06 03:18:42

I’ve been listening to music again

2024-08-06 00:57:27

The idea that #bitcoin might push governments to take on better fiat monetary policies is as unlikely to unfold as thinking that #nostr is going to inspire twitt*r to give control and freedom to its users 🤙
#plebchain

2024-08-03 21:13:21

Nowadays you could just spend the whole day at @npub1key…lt3h 🤙 https://youtu.be/0DNkFaBOZ5g

2024-08-03 02:33:18

Remember PlayStation 1

2024-08-03 01:56:05

I was raised on frito pie

2024-08-02 20:10:00

Are there… are there more people on #nostr today than there was yesterday
#plebchain

2024-08-02 04:22:04

The tv says everyone is foaming at the mouth angry but then I go outside and nobody gives a shit about anything lmao— like to a fault, nobody really cares about even stuff they should care about 😂. People just want to take out the trash and walk the dog, like, be real.
Take it easy out there, my dudes 🤙

2024-08-01 13:32:04

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ETF oligarchs better be confident that they can change withdrawals to include real bitcoin in the future (they probably are confident)

2024-07-31 04:27:35

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Wait isn’t there a nostr shop app

2024-07-31 03:13:28

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I remember there was a shark tank episode where these people pitched buying people’s unwanted gift cards and giving them 90% of the value in cash and reselling the card for 5% off on their website, then pocketing the remaining 5%. Genius.

2024-07-29 17:35:42

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Institutional mega dumps will continue to effectively discourage plebs from stacking until that fateful day when they don’t and then WATCH OUT WORLD 🤙

2024-07-29 17:29:28

A duopoly can’t be a very fair democracy can it my dudes 🤙
#plebchain

2024-07-29 14:05:22

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At a minimum a pro bitcoin candidate should deliver:
1) no cap gains on bitcoin
2) legislation that is pro self custody
3) the addition of bitcoin to reserve
4) a requirement of banks and exchanges to provide proof of reserve
As a bonus IMHO understanding that others are less likely to agree:
5) bitcoin UBI (public works mining)
6) back USD with bitcoin
I haven’t heard any politician talk seriously about 4), which I fear is telling

2024-07-29 00:13:12

Inflation leaves plebs with less money to donate to politicians, ensuring even further disproportionate donations from corporate and oligarch interests, and their continued capture of the state.
Why in the world would a politician ever listen to you?
#plebchain

2024-07-25 14:00:25

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Not even the spam emails me ☹️

2024-07-25 13:42:28

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Popular

2024-07-21 19:57:56

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I hear you, and I’d add it kind of further shows how the parties aren’t after what’s in the best interest of people. It’s not all bad— I feel like I’ve moved past believing in politics as the primary driver of change since bitcoin.

2024-07-21 19:49:52

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He saw a wedge issue forming early and took advantage, 100%

2024-07-21 19:35:52

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I’d be moderately surprised if democrats didn’t go full anti bitcoin now that Trump is (ostensibly) for it. The best we’ll get is “we support financial innovation with sensible regulation”

2024-07-21 00:44:12

Wasn’t planning on sticking around for another shitshow Trump presidency but the bitcoin thing has caught me a little off guard. Might not be the worst place to be if the US becomes pro bitcoin, given its tradfi advantages as well. But he has suckered so many people, I remain super skeptical about his claims and follow through on this point.
Match that with— the fact that most places abroad that are “expat” friendly aren’t even that much cheaper than second and third tier US cities.
The option for folks to leave is actually rather muddled. I guess that’s what a good political play looks like.

2024-07-19 18:48:18

Hashtags are the best way to discover because you don’t lose your ability to be curious and put in a little effort 🤙
#plebchain

2024-07-11 13:45:13

Never seen a dude solve a rubiks cube while driving but I guess that’s what it’s like living in nerd city boston 🤙

2024-07-06 23:36:31

When the melancholy hits, I can always talk to the navigation console.
#ewok

2024-07-04 21:49:24

When gen z tries to write movies and shows set in the 90s and gets everything from slang and clothing to consumer technology wrong like why 😑

2024-07-02 12:49:18

Stack sats like there is a tomorrow 🤙
#bitcoin #plebchain

2024-06-28 01:34:25

Leaning towards buying property or living in a van.
In renting— it’s just too many leases (with ballooning anti privacy clauses) and insurance (with ballooning anti privacy clauses) and apps (with ballooning anti privacy clauses) and moving and negotiating costs against an irrational market and bad neighbors and bad community rules.
The middle ground of renting is fundamentally anti-freedom, mid curving day to day existence.
A solid home is a base, opens possibility. Paradoxically, a van opens possibility as well.

2024-06-26 14:03:41

When I was a teen in the 90s and 00s women hated how I dressed but *now* 20 years later they copy my style what gives lmao

2024-06-24 14:22:26

1 million sats taken off the table 🤙

2024-06-17 12:33:57

Andrew Yang was pro #bitcoin first 🤙

2024-06-17 00:46:51

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So *this* is why no one ever zaps me

2024-06-17 00:27:58

Bitcoin and USD coin have a bright future. Savings in the best asset and a low volatility dollar for everyday purchases. USD is probably more helpful to the poor globally, at least in the next decade or two.
Hope murica gets this right, but not sure they will, and maxis have already ceded the primary domain of USD coin to etherium, tron and solano. I remember hearing about a stablecoin for USD on bitcoin but literally nothing more since a year or so ago. Imagine if that had landed on bitcoin pre-tether.

2024-06-16 21:52:22

“the charts”

2024-06-14 04:28:28

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Dude all the hoops you have to go through to use this and then the chuck e cheese manager takes all your tokens away if you throw the skee ball a little too aggressive or complain about moldy pizza. It’s like they don’t want customers 😂

2024-06-14 03:43:11

I guess a bunch of restaurants are offering rewards and airdrops if you use solano pay and this is the goofiest shit I’ve ever come across— imagine paying for your dinner with dogwifhat, getting hit with a 90% drop in purchase power for a free $3 dessert at macdonalds 😂😂😂

2024-06-14 01:26:40

Was similarly mildly impressed by this beach and this random dive bar on the beach— they were something, but not enough to fully step outside of my head https://i.nostr.build/8GaZB.jpg https://i.nostr.build/lLodB.jpg

2024-06-14 01:18:16

It’s going to be trivial for AI to match people’s old social media posts to their more recent pseudonyms, even on non corporate, non tracking protocols like #nostr.
We should be prioritizing encryption for everyday communication and educating people on what is the public square, which should now include everything you ever shared that lived on someone else’s platform or company account, whether public or not
#plebchain

2024-06-14 01:12:16

No tax on bitcoin @npub18kp…69c4 🇺🇸 https://i.nostr.build/oMndl.jpg