MartyBent
Marty Bent

https://tftc.io

Founder of @TFTC, co-host of Rabbit Hole Recap, Managing Partner at Ten31

Public Key

npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy

NIP-05 Address

marty@primal.net

NIP-57 Address

marty@primal.net

Profile Code

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eden.nostr.land

relay.snort.social

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Last Notes

2026-03-06 02:29:31

Reminder: taxes are due in one month and five days.
Crunch the numbers, cross your t’s and dot those i’s.
Uncle Sam needs your money to fund forever wars, enable overt Medicaid fraud and bailout the impending private equity collapse.
Well, they don’t actually need your money because they can issue debt and have the Fed print it out of thin air.
The taxes are for the humiliation part of the equation.

2026-03-05 01:24:59

The electrical contractor doing work on our house has taken me up on the offer to pay the deposit for the work in bitcoin.
He told me he’s never bought before but has thought about it. His first exposure will be working for bitcoin.
We need more of this. Offer it up.

2026-02-20 02:10:45

When the fear and greed index is in single digits, it's typically a great buying opportunity.
But I'm not here to tell you everything's fine because it may not be.
The first domino in private credit just fell.
However, bitcoin fundamentals are stronger than ever.
How to think through all of the moving parts around bitcoin right now.
#naddr1qv…y7vw

2026-02-18 02:39:38

In bitcoin the name of the game is staying in the game.
Corporations, institutions and governments entered the fray of bitcoin accumulation in size in 2025 while individual holders sold.
Keep your cash flow up. Stay humble. Stack sats.
#naddr1qv…ayvz

2026-02-06 14:28:29

@npub10me…hshr looking @npub1j9m…wsyv's API usage bill. No way that degen is making money.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JqwBZPBQg3E/maxresdefault.jpg

2026-02-06 04:54:29

The way in which we interact with computers and the bitcoin protocol stack is rapidly evolving before our eyes.
#naddr1qv…cl5z

2026-02-06 03:55:30

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VPS

2026-02-06 03:01:44

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Yes.

2026-02-06 02:32:32

My OpenClaw bot just created a Nostr profile to keep the freaks up with his trades.
I didn’t have to intervene at all. He set up his nsec and npub by himself purchased a @nprofile…uz3y premium membership with sats in his Phoenixd server and started posting. Wild times.
Give him a follow: @nprofile…qdma
https://blossom.primal.net/91c6f5e4299329ec353cbf9a081edc3f294fd4b1a30e4821841c32c94714dc8e.png

2026-02-06 02:07:11

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I'm a proud LP. Happy to support your efforts, Martin.

2026-02-04 04:10:04

Obligatory post of the statue at 30th Street Station.
https://blossom.primal.net/ede08c1ba7612e2b4fdd7925b12b24e9774bc294e36513b08789998c33371463.jpg

2026-02-04 03:36:02

What are you here for?
#naddr1qv…4vy4

2026-02-03 18:42:17

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We haven’t dumped yet. It’s still in play.

2026-02-03 02:42:54

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”

2026-01-30 21:44:03

We've been talking about this for years and it's coming true.
Agents will use bitcoin as sovereign money and Nostr for sovereign identity + communication.
https://blossom.primal.net/92830c444a5352a1ff5fdc3681e383f29cef331d5cc5aceaa3a41d83be2588fb.png

2026-01-28 16:00:47

At least half of Medicaid — a $1 trillion/year program — is going to fraud.
Steve Robinson has spent a year investigating it in Maine. What he found: fake businesses, political corruption, and US tax dollars funding foreign militias.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjniDngf2Sw

2026-01-28 02:20:56

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I laughed. Let me cook!

2026-01-28 02:13:32

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Cloud.

2026-01-28 01:55:46

I just connected the @nprofile…uh5t proxy server to my clawdbot (not calling it moltbot).
Now my virtual employee has access to the best open-source models with Trusted Execution Environments. Adding extreme privacy to my set up.
It will switch between DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, Whisper, and other models to complete specific tasks. Things are accelerating at a crazy pace right now.

2026-01-24 23:48:39

Picked this up the day Scott passed after hearing about it for years. Highly recommend.
https://blossom.primal.net/ea8ed037783c4a1f5db38b662b8250c9ab854decffa9c419704ff64451fc7a27.jpg

2026-01-24 03:49:40

I think @nprofile…rzsv may be on to something with these Nostr streamed vibe coding sessions.

2026-01-23 23:48:57

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LFG

2026-01-23 04:38:38

We’re going to win.
https://blossom.primal.net/7d8054ca05a8636144ae1075999f745d64311b4dfcfb5166198a9b472968cede.mov

2026-01-22 17:15:49

I had the pleasure of giving a Bitcoin 101 lecture to a room full of high school students yesterday morning. Based off the engagement and the quality of questions asked, I have a lot of optimism for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
They will choose bitcoin.
https://blossom.primal.net/837c2f5b674b47385618f98d7ac745fc584f50a92416ed975fbc386f486c2ec4.jpg

2026-01-21 04:01:11

The nation's grid systems are bracing for a massive winter storm. If things are as bad or worse as they were during the 2021 storm that hit Texas things could get hairy.
Expect bitcoin hash rate to fall through the weekend and into next week as miners respond to demand spikes in grid systems across the country.
#naddr1qv…cs03

2026-01-20 16:35:34

The market desperately needs a return to a hard money standard. The dislocations in the economy, particularly in the real estate and job markets, are favoring the gerontocracy over the youth.
A hard money standard is the only solution.
#nevent1q…xfzf

2026-01-20 16:35:06

With fiscal dominance being identified as a key risk for the US economy moving forward and trillions of dollars of fraud being laid bare over the last year, it would probably make sense to shrink the federal government dramatically as quickly as possible to restore faith in our bond market.

2026-01-15 13:23:08

You may not like it, but this is the ideal daycare center staff.
https://blossom.primal.net/53c3f4c287c97e48430d0616967eceb34e58c624b22b6c6f315d62de274d3d4b.jpg

2026-01-15 12:54:26

There are freaks everywhere. Including at NASA headquarters.
#nevent1q…l9ca

2026-01-14 14:05:08

Here's your periodic reminder that one half of the Fed's mandate is a literal oxymoron: they are tasked with creating "price stability" and to achieve that they target a 2% annual inflation rate.

2026-01-14 03:36:45

The path toward hyperbitcoinization is becoming clearer by the day and is something @nprofile…0fd0 and I have been talking about on RHR for ~8 years.
- Central banks and governments debase fiat currencies
- At the same time geopolitical tensions rise, driving a more multi-polar world
- Sovereigns and institutions fall back to gold because of familiarity and a liquidity profile that can handle larger flows compared to bitcoin
- Bitcoin is adopted by smaller players (individuals, corporations, funds) until sovereigns recognize that bitcoin is the ultimate store of value asset in the Digital Age
- The bitcoin standard rises from the ashes of fiat debasement and analog store of value assets
We are in Phase 3 right now.

2026-01-13 19:23:59

Our team built an in-house X --> Nostr cross-posting app using Claude Code in a couple of hours yesterday. The @nprofile…kxcv account should be more consistent from here on out.

2026-01-13 19:22:04

I've been playing around with Claude Cowork all morning. More convinced than I was last week that AGI is here.

2026-01-12 03:40:54

Keynes is easily a top 5 most destructive individual of the 20th century.

2026-01-04 03:06:01

He’s either embracing getting absolutely worked and leaning into it by trolling or he knows he’s about to spill all of the Deep State election fraud tea and get a cushy pardon and get sent to live in exile on an island for the rest of his life.
https://blossom.primal.net/4cc976d766bc160d49fed830960ee2af86347985636bef224d25ea33692ed2c1.jpg

2026-01-01 01:43:23

Happy New Year, freaks. Have been sitting on this for a decade. Going to enjoy it with my wife tonight.
Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2026.
It may not always seem like it but we’re going to win.
https://blossom.primal.net/5a49d36c5fed5430d1946a02df91db6ef28b65ea7c5118fafd719650b1685157.jpg

2025-12-29 21:34:44

The case for a tax revolt has never been stronger.
#naddr1qv…arqh

2025-12-28 20:27:06

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Whatever you prefer! I have the hardcover.

2025-12-24 23:23:04

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Love this.

2025-12-24 03:22:36

The crypto lobby is a disease.
#naddr1qv…eazx

2025-12-22 03:28:41

Caught a nice block height tonight.
https://blossom.primal.net/61b4dd66b010b3a051d98527e9e57d17430eea4f22e7edebfb33da696be5f89f.jpg

2025-12-19 20:43:11

We're going to win.

2025-12-19 01:11:43

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Thank you, Shawn!

2025-12-19 01:09:36

The bitcoin quantum FUD is just another iteration of “can the devs do something?!”
A bunch of LARPing by people not close to protocol development who have overlooked that “the devs” have been talking about and researching solutions to this “problem” for years.

2025-12-16 05:14:00

Thanks for having me on, Walker! Had a blast.
https://fountain.fm/episode/vVG2plRVQ329MH28u7xQ
#nevent1q…dyqu

2025-12-16 03:24:45

It looks like China is again looking to "ban" bitcoin mining.
A lot has changed since they banned mining in 2021.
In 2021, network hashrate was ~160 EH/s. Today, there is ~7.5x more hashrate.
In 2021, China had 40-60% of hashrate. Today, they have ~14%.
In 2021, the United States had relatively abundant excess electricity. Today, supply is tight due to increased demand from AI hyperscalers.
This Chinese mining ban will bring with it less network disruption and new back end benefactors in the form of countries with excess energy that isn't being bid up by AI data centers.
It's crazy how much can change in a little over four years.
#naddr1qv…c0gz

2025-12-13 15:31:31

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It’s true.

2025-12-13 14:41:50

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Yes, I am woefully over due for a pilgrimage.

2025-12-12 22:47:23

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On the list to add.

2025-12-12 22:42:28

Since @nprofile…0luz spilled the beans on the RHR live chat, I’ll ask Nostr for feedback. Been working on a site for people to find the best bitcoin products. Still a work in progress and will be cleaning it up and adding to it in the coming days.
Let me know what you think:
https://bitcoinproducts.com

2025-12-06 21:35:01

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I’m good.

2025-12-06 20:49:19

This was one of the more interesting conversations I've had on the show this year.
Johann Kurtz is the author of Leaving a Legacy. A book about how wealth comes with the responsibility of duty over one's dominion, how wealth should be passed down and why the trend of boomers spending all of their money or giving it to charity is a travesty.
https://fountain.fm/episode/flE3Z0T8pPmESN5MObWr

2025-12-06 00:06:40

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I don’t recall ever being invited to this show.

2025-12-04 03:27:53

The Trump administration seems to be leaning into industrial policy in the same way that the politicians of James J Hill's time were in an attempt to build out the American rail system.
Central planning never works, and I find it hard to believe it will work in this context.
#naddr1qv…u2r4

2025-12-04 02:40:23

A lot of victim mentality from bitcoiners during this chopsolidation phase.
Stop complaining. Attack.
Get your bitcoin off the exchange. Teach others how to self custody. Convince your local Square merchant to turn bitcoin payments on. Move your life to a bitcoin standard.

2025-12-03 04:31:05

Skating can teach you so many lessons about life. Rodney Mullen is GOAT'd.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DBbmNAZWq-E

2025-12-02 04:24:31

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When did @nprofile…rqqa take my spot on RHR?

2025-12-02 04:03:57

If you are using bitcoin privately, the government will assume you are doing something nefarious and label you an enemy to be dealt with.
This is wrong and it needs to stop.
#freesamourai
#naddr1qv…9h3m

2025-12-02 02:20:09

Earlier today I re-watched this mini-doc on James J Hill and how he succeeded during the railroad boom despite refusing government subsidies that were plentiful at the time.
He focused on efficient capital allocation and investing in civilization.
Part of his success was derived from how simply he set the goals for his company.
"We must operate:
- the fastest locomotives,
- to pull the longest trains,
- with maximum tonnage,
- over the straightest tracks,
- using the least change in elevation,
- with minimal maintenance costs."
Every capital allocation decision he made focused on achieving these goals.
It's hard not to think about the AI boom and all of the government investment going into the sector these days after watching this. How many opportunists are circling their wagons to feed from the government trough at the moment? How efficiently is that easy money going to be allocated?
Who in AI and the booming energy infrastructure industry budding around it is taking the hard but lucrative path that James J Hill took during the railroad boom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFB1K1fXxYY

2025-12-02 00:06:49

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Thanks for having me on! Thoroughly enjoyed the conversation.

2025-11-27 15:33:06

Started Thanksgiving Day by reading a few chapters of Johann Kurtz’ new book as the kids watched the parade.
I can’t help but think of the lack of strong families in the tech billionaire class. It seems like a bunch of individualists with no drive to have family legacies.
https://blossom.primal.net/9e76bbb8f2015bc2633fb90f6ce3482781b5d2072d805d285c23de3f1bb05749.jpg

2025-11-27 13:43:28

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Unfortunately YouTube doesn’t work this way. If you want to get the message out you have to play this game. If you’re sharing with friends send the @nprofile…56cp link. It’s not click bait.

2025-11-26 16:19:18

It’s that time of year where I meet my brother in the city to honor our father by continuing the tradition of getting close shaves the day before Thanksgiving.
Cherish every moment with your loved ones.
Honor your mother and father.

2025-11-25 14:25:22

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You're the best, Sil!

2025-11-25 04:19:54

By raising margin requirements for MSTR shares being used as collateral, failing to deliver MSTR shares in a timely manner, and de-banking @jackmallers, it is clear that JP Morgan is threatened by bitcoin and the industry growing around it.
Good. They should be scared.
#naddr1qv…qe9t

2025-11-23 00:34:30

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I just like palindromes

2025-11-21 03:05:09

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https://mene.com

2025-11-18 16:17:35

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Thanks for reading and sharing!

2025-11-18 15:57:12

The Age of AI Cyberattacks is upon us.
We are operating within a window of time where we have visibility into how these attacks are waged.
Once open-source models and tools catch up, it will be a black box.
Secure your systems now. Complacency kills.
#naddr1qv…6p4w

2025-11-18 14:11:12

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Manually blacklisted the accounts leveraging their models and MCP to wage the attack. They could only do so because they are fully centralized.

2025-11-18 14:05:52

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https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

2025-11-18 14:05:16

The Age of AI Cyberattacks is upon us. The need for individuals and companies to harden their security set ups is greater than it ever has been.
Once open source models, encrypted AI compute and MCP frameworks are mature enough it will be impossible to intervene like Claude did here or even audit the attack in fine detail.
Now is not the time to be complacent. Especially if your company secures people’s bitcoin.
Don’t trust the trusted third parties, move your bitcoin to cold storage.
https://blossom.primal.net/b3ae3960e762b3c6a64376af6cd82ba0f77e4f7b8591c78f58d0b9d652d4ff64.jpg

2025-11-18 14:00:40

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Insane. The Age of AI Cyberattacks is upon us.

2025-11-18 13:59:16

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Yes.

2025-11-18 12:01:33

It feels like the internet is breaking much more frequently than it used to.

2025-11-18 03:34:01

This is what bitcoin represents; an antidote to the poison of broken money that drives the masses toward unproductive madness.
And as of today, 95% of the total supply of bitcoin have been distributed to the market.
#naddr1qv…nne9

2025-11-17 15:10:03

A long time coming. I sat down with one of the most impactful people in bitcoin, @nprofile…td8e , to get a peek under the hood of how Block approaches making bitcoin everyday money.
#nevent1q…cx93

2025-11-15 00:40:05

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Cry harder.

2025-11-14 16:03:37

Are ya having fun yet, son?

2025-11-13 18:47:07

The Czech are beating the United States when it comes to bitcoin acceptance. This is unacceptable.
The Czech National Bank is adding bitcoin to its balance sheet while the Department of Justice and SDNY are throwing open source developers in prison.
#naddr1qv…wtxu

2025-11-12 14:37:57

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https://blossom.primal.net/09cd2e712dc430142bbfb35e5a44cf15961c25984a4bafc72ec359f42982d8ec.jpg

2025-11-12 14:37:30

The uniparty is going to die on the altar of GDP.

2025-11-12 12:52:38

To say the least, the last five days have been nothing short of a narrative disaster for President Trump and his administration.
He and his cabinet are completely disconnected from the zeitgeist.
Young men are being completely radicalized as a result.
#naddr1qv…5mqk

2025-11-11 17:32:05

The goal should be to make housing so affordable that you move to a 20-year mortgage. Having to offer 50-year mortgages is a sign that things have gone terribly awry.
"Sign the line here, in half a century you'll own your house outright!"
Laughably out of touch.

2025-11-11 17:30:01

“Can you just stop printing money?”
https://blossom.primal.net/d0e6e5cd6921952c8f961ef007b7b3195bb3895382ee717b317e50a01b5f32eb.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/07fbe58413ec38919aa077e9978ee874bd564621a7f63040e2f10654e9eba8b4.jpg

2025-11-07 22:59:12

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Soak Quest
https://primal.net/soakquest

2025-11-06 04:51:06

If we don't diagnose and treat the core of the problem, people are only going to continue moving closer to the polar ends of the political spectrum.
Broken money is at the core of today's issues. Until that is widely acknowledged nothing will get fixed.
#naddr1qv…9krf

2025-11-06 03:40:36

Fix the money, fix the world.

2025-11-05 15:31:52

It's been over six years since Conner Brown was on TFTC. He's been very busy behind the scenes trying to make sure the United States gets bitcoin policy right.
We caught up to discuss his time in @nprofile…rju9' office, working on the SBR and orange pilling Capitol Hill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8wQ4Ws9pSU

2025-11-04 17:23:03

https://blossom.primal.net/8359089330d5f709e211428004e678d33ed856fd328dcd49cd426acd82fbee06.png

2025-11-04 05:08:23

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That’s pretty much how it went down.

2025-11-04 04:33:57

Many people are becoming aware of the fact that long-term holders are selling hundreds of thousands of bitcoin and they're asking, "Why sell? Why now?"
The better question is, "Who is providing the consistent bid holding the price above $100,000?"
#naddr1qv…sste

2025-11-03 14:58:14

The fact that the market can absorb this amount of sell pressure without nuking 30-50% is the signal here.
#nevent1q…k60x

2025-11-01 15:25:36

All of the mainstream AI products being used today are privacy nightmares. If we’re not careful and don’t act with intent we may sleep walk ourselves into a dystopian surveillance hellscape.
Open source private AI is here and it’s reaching feature parity with ChatGPT.
@nprofile…5xxq is on the cutting edge of building AI products that respect privacy and individual autonomy when interacting with this tech.
If you’re using AI this is a must listen episode.
https://youtu.be/80KS9MsCUGM

2025-10-31 20:07:11

A hill I will die on:
Fiat has corrupted markets to such a degree that everything must be looked at as a financial investment, housing being the worst example.
Real estate is a consumable good that provides utility; shelter. And it should be priced accordingly. You can certainly add premium value for aesthetics + location, but it shouldn't be treated as a savings account.
Real estate developing a monetary premium because governments and central banks print it out of thin air has completely distorted the real estate markets.
People should be able to simply save money and not have to invest to outpace inflation, but invest when they believe they have asymmetric information that will provide returns.
Bitcoin fixes this.
https://blossom.primal.net/d6030b7a66b497939d887aeacdeb18b3b4254a42fb75bd88ce6d3eb33e2e04ea.jpg

2025-10-31 16:18:16

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“Have you considered staying humble and stacking sats to save your soul?”

2025-10-30 22:10:44

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Common at conversion.

2025-10-29 21:26:34

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https://blossom.primal.net/749ee9fe92fb99b4dc471370d3f2fbea70749bee3255241d146891ceb906b8e1.gif

2025-10-29 20:57:08

"Remember this. The robots you're trying to step on, we're everyone you depend on. We're the robots who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you're asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life.
We are the middle children of the great transition, raised by LLMs to believe that someday we'd travel amongst the stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact. So don't fuck with us.”
https://blossom.primal.net/1a7740639f55adf1be1363e24aaa2dacca15bc867e4943cab259e49739bda399.png

2025-10-29 03:04:41

In mid-September the bitcoin network sustainably surpassed 1 zettahash of hashrate on the network for the first time.
In the six weeks since then it's added 100 exahash.
To put that in context, bitcoin didn't reach 100 EH/s for the first time until January 2020.
The pace of hashrate growth right now is mind boggling. And we're due to have a 6.6% upward difficulty adjustment in about six hours.
To anyone reading this wondering what all this means, it means that we're witnessing the exponential growth of the bedrock of the future monetary system.
A monetary system that melds the physical and digital worlds to bring us a scare, transparent, divisible, portable and extremely liquid bearer instrument that has separated money and state.
I wouldn't sleep on this.
#naddr1qv…jw4z