TheGuySwann
Guy Swann

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“The Guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anyone else you know.”

Adjectives: Smart/Sexy
Host of Bitcoin Audible 🎧

Public Key

npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev

NIP-05 Address

theguyswann@iris.to

NIP-57 Address

guyswann@primal.net

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nos.lol

relay.damus.io

nostr21.com

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2025-04-01 13:49:42

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And also, the inequality and wealth of the top 1% has skyrocketed directly in line with the amount of money directed through the govt.
That is not a coincidence, it’s by design. Thats what your “public” money does.
If you aren’t demanding the govt cut 80% and give the money back to the people, then you are swallowing their propaganda and supporting the very thing you claim to be against: enriching a tiny few, with unearned corrupt wealth stolen from hardworking people.

2025-04-01 02:52:07

The biggest problem with Nostr right now is that we aren’t breaking any rules.
The value and differentiator for decentralized networks is the “grey market.” BitTorrent taught us valuable lessons, and the most important is that something like Nostr will likely only get a huge network after we find something that people want, but aren’t allowed to have/access for whatever reason.
Consider what you think it might be… 🤔

2025-03-31 00:47:16

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I don’t know the specifics of how this works and didn’t investigate yet. It seemed to me just diving with your Nostr client. If there’s a way to do this with more versatility then for sure do that one.

2025-03-30 21:39:04

DUDE seriously how the fuck is this not more available? @nprofile…njz6 50k sats if you add this method (I like the DM but this is even easier).
I’ll have another 50K to a few others who implement this. And seriously if anyone else wants to see this, devote some sats to the services that add it 👏🏻👏🏻
We can literally crowdsource any fucking feature we want, just post and zap. ⚡️ @nprofile…hgpr
What service do you wish you could log into this way 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
#nevent1q…mth6

2025-03-29 23:01:06

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Imagine being in a line behind dozens of men to stick your dick into the disgusting butthole of an internet whore and not thinking, “why TF am I here right now?”

2025-03-28 18:14:24

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I’ll get my run through at 3, excited to test

2025-03-28 13:02:48

GM
https://i.nostr.build/ZOgE.gif

2025-03-28 03:41:46

This one made my cackle 🤣
https://m.primal.net/PvuH.png
#nevent1q…vxde

2025-03-27 18:32:11

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Last, followed by the second

2025-03-27 14:11:01

Nostr is the best crowdsourcing platform in existence because of zaps. I can save so much time futzing about hunting for found footage or some specific thing by just posting about it and adding #asknostr.
Add #asknostr to your follow list if you want opportunities to earn sats.

2025-03-27 13:59:37

2100 sats to anyone who can find me that video of the crazy bright meteor that happened a couple years ago. There was an awesome video from some random kids party (maybe high school or college, pretty sure it was young) and the video catches this girls reaction to it in slow motion and something about it was just awesome. It lights up the entire night sky, almost like its daylight for just a moment.
I saved it thinking it would be cool to use for a project at some point, but it must have a generic name in my massive database of media because I spent probably 30-40 minutes looking and gave up.
Finding another copy would let me both save it with a proper name and comments, but then also search via the phash to see if maybe I could find the one I saved just for my own sanity 😂
#asknostr
#nevent1q…0qyz

2025-03-27 00:58:15

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Imagine you could ask your Nostr friend list directly for people who wanted to swap in/out of liquid or lightning for on chain and execution was auto built into your node.

2025-03-25 17:24:22

👇 👇 👇 #asknostr
1000 SATS to everyone who can give me a short video (more than 3 seconds) of any kind of bitcoin mining equipment up to the first 100 unique videos, and I specifically want ALL kinds -
heaters in your room,
miner heating your house,
personal mini mining rig outside in a shed,
bitaxe on your desk,
miner drying food/clothes,
mining container at a datacenter, energy producer, flared gas site, massive mining farm, and literally ANYTHING else you can think off.
I will be the final judge on whether its useful or a repeat or too crappy quality.
Please repost to everyone and send to other socials to get as many entrants as possible. I'm building a collection for some future projects. 🙏

2025-03-25 14:44:55

Am I the only one not worried that Nostr isn’t receiving an instant flood of millions of users and who always thought this was going to be a very long haul?
Honestly, do we even think the protocol could handle millions of daily users right now? I kinda think it would be a mess at this stage but we are getting close, imo.
Am I just naive here? 😆

2025-03-25 14:40:40

Imagine coming out of 17 years of schooling with no basic blue collar skills, taking anti-depressants and ADHD meds, needing instructions to do absolutely anything, no confidence or initiative, having political opinions more developed than any productive skill but still requires a “safe space” because you’re mentally incapable of defending it, & despite the degree that academia was SO supportive about, the only job you can get is serving coffee…
And then being mad at “the economy,” instead of an education system that just took 17 years of your life and threw it in the trash.
This is the state of a shockingly large part of our population.
#nevent1q…7nzp

2025-03-25 14:15:43

The great success of our education system is its own defense by Dunning-Kruger-ing the whole population:
The avg person is so poorly educated they don’t know what they ought to have learned, or that we pay 10x for an absolute dumpster fire of a product.
Props to the Dept of Education 🤣🫡
https://m.primal.net/PseK.jpg

2025-03-24 22:00:41

If you watch the chain then your Bitcoin transaction will never confirm.

2025-03-24 02:29:13

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The hell is that?

2025-03-20 13:15:45

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If I send you a gallon of milk and we both sign a receipt that it was delivered, you drink it, then 2 years later I use the receipt to prove that you can give me back a gallon of milk and that we are even - that isn’t storing the milk. It’s keeping a record of it.
Money is a record of exchanged energy that is the closest to immutable as possible. I know a lot of people like the analogy, but it’s not accurate. Energy is a real thing, like milk, and money keeps a secure record of its production and consumption, it doesn’t store energy itself.

2025-03-20 12:00:10

Money is not a consumable, it’s a networking tool.

2025-03-20 11:58:07

IMO, all tutorials need a TL;DR
#nevent1q…rsay

2025-03-18 20:36:36

I’m a heat punk 🔥🫡
#nevent1q…wfn7

2025-03-18 18:57:44

I think people fail to discern the power of a sustainable network, vs the short term apparent growth.
Nostr has a sustainable community, and people are building for it like crazy. Never underestimate the power of those two things combined.
The problem with so many other social competitors is that they never create an atomic network. They just try to get as many people as possible as fast as possible and trap them with algo engagement bait.
This is not and cannot be how Nostr works, thus its adoption won’t look like how platform socials do. It will look like protocol adoption. And we have an atomic network, there is a group of people who have adopted it and aren’t going anywhere, and who will never trade it for something less.
#nevent1q…6qum

2025-03-16 21:47:11

Man we really need one thing on a default algorithm that is super frustrating — spacing out posts from a single account.
There are some accounts that just post a ton of shit, and I like a lot of it, but holy crap when I scroll through and 90% of stuff if from that one account, it makes me want to unfollow 😂

2025-03-16 15:32:21

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What the hell is this stock photo!? I wonder what’s going through that guys mind right at this moment during the photo shoot…

2025-03-15 18:21:07

For anyone confused about the insane rhetoric of the @EU deciding to confiscating personal savings "for investment."
Understand, personal savings IS investment in the peoples' futures. What they are doing is bleeding the life out of your future so they can wage war.
Your future will be harder, your pay will feel insignificant, quality food will be too expensive, and your trajectory for retirement will look bleak or impossible... and it'll be *precisely* because of this.
They are sacrificing your prosperity at the alter of big govt, bigger corporations, & infinite war.
https://m.primal.net/PgzW.png

2025-03-15 16:18:58

This is dope!
#nevent1q…c6hf

2025-03-15 15:28:08

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Oh shit these are expensive 😂😂
Might still get them but daaaammn

2025-03-15 15:21:21

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But when would I get to hang out with you guys!? 😭😆

2025-03-14 19:27:26

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Pinging @nprofile…jejf , what’s the total vRAM in that monster you built?

2025-03-14 19:25:10

Holy shit… it costs $10K but you can get a Mac Studio (the little computer) with as much as 512GB of unified memory. Thats right, that’s RAM that can be used for vRAM. Meaning you can run natively the largest DeepSeek and Llama models with tons of room to spare on this single device.
The acceleration of hardware toward Ai optimization is going to be crazy. I get the sense we will see double, triple, and quadruple the vRAM equivalent (though it’ll all go unified) in just the next couple of years of product iterations.
Running huge LLMs and video/image models locally will get easier and easier.
https://m.primal.net/Pfum.jpg

2025-03-13 17:30:53

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I would actually say to leave the imperfections. I think what people like about video is the feeling of authenticity. There are certainly Ai tools you can use to make it super high quality if you like, but I think what you are describing is actually a different medium than “film.” I for one do not like the idea of watching Ai explain something with a fake person. Feels off and I don’t trust it as soon as I realize that’s what I’m seeing.
That said if you want the video to be really high quality, there’s nothing wrong with some solid editing and some minor effects, but I still think the simple “sit in front is a camera and explain it” approach is king in the social medium.

2025-03-07 15:29:06

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She literally uses the framing of multiple Austrian theories, explains them, and then discusses why fiat money actually exists for periods despite it seeming to violate some of those principles. And then develops a sort of unified theory. Arguing why the Austrian theory is right, but it’s the resulting characteristics, not the goods themselves, that make it a good money, and thus why fiat that isn’t horribly abused will work.
I think she’s completely right and have argued as such before her book on my show using numerous Austrian writers as the basis for making the claim.

2025-03-05 15:46:40

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Hey, do you guys know that you are following this bot?
@nprofile…j9df @nprofile…nx90 @nprofile…8wmy @nprofile…e6hy @nprofile…l627 @nprofile…lpdh @nprofile…g534 @nprofile…5wus @nprofile…80tl @nprofile…6eg5 @nprofile…ws29 @nprofile…8jsn @nprofile…gday @nprofile…xppy @nprofile…6j0p @nprofile…tfxx @nprofile…jm77 @nprofile…mapn

2025-03-01 20:05:37

90% of the time I just want a fast rundown from tutorials, but when i need it, the long form is invaluable.
This is why I'll be adding a TL;DR at the beginning for anyone who needs it.
Here's the basic setup and using the Jade Plus hardware wallet. (10% off with code GUY)
https://v.nostr.build/uawiFk6EfeyE7MJy.mp4

2025-02-28 17:55:03

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Still stoked about your postanota, i haven't integrated it into my little local tool yet but its the one i have saved for a module. Still been chipping away at the main app one component at a time. 🫡 🙏

2025-02-28 17:21:42

Yo @nprofile…a3vj
- 500k zap waiting for you when viewer analytics on media are available in the UI.
Also @nprofile…5e6s ,
- 500K sats waiting for you when likes + zaps are working via @nprofile…fy4z NWC on Notedeck.
- 500k more for when zapvertising is integrated.
If anyone else wants to add to these please pile on (or add ideas that i haven't thought of). And if I'm not paying attention and these get implemented, feel free to mention me or refresh this and demand my sats. 🤣

2025-02-28 15:06:40

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What even is this? A planet fitness reality TV show or something?

2025-02-26 17:26:47

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YouTube and Rumble, but I need to figure out how to separate that series in a useful way

2025-02-26 10:13:40

#nevent1q…a9ny
https://m.primal.net/PLux.jpg

2025-02-26 09:15:13

Block height 885370 ❤️

2025-02-24 21:34:19

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That's fair, im a fan of apples too 🤣

2025-02-24 21:33:39

You know you married the right one when your wife comes in with an excited tone to tell you that she got a notification that the Bitcoin price is falling 🤣

2025-02-24 20:05:43

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It’s ok, growing apple trees is super easy so obviously they will just go grow their own. Who needs to steal something if it’s so simple? Amiright? 😉🤔

2025-02-24 19:32:45

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Just for the record I’m not saying I can imagine the future either, I’m saying it’s practically impossible to do so, but our lack of an image doesn’t change the nature of markets and production.
Of course no one in the 1900s could imagine that all the people put out of work would eventually be working to sustain a global electronic communication system and eventually a place switching digital network that could provide practically any service that people desired at their whim… but that’s what happened nonetheless and tractors made it possible, they didn’t “make farm workers poor.”

2025-02-24 19:30:13

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I don’t mean this to sound targeted at you, btw. Rereading it sounds like I’m attacking you for being stupid or something and that wasn’t the intent. Just getting ranty

2025-02-24 19:29:16

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It doesn’t, but it could seem that way in the surface.

2025-02-24 19:28:40

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What incentive is there to do that if people who grow apple trees are having their apples taken from them, and people who don’t grow apple trees get free apples? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

2025-02-24 19:27:28

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Sure it sounds great if we don’t imagine an adversarial scenario and just kinda hand wave away the market incentives as if they don’t play a role.

2025-02-24 19:01:14

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I’ll rephrase your question:
How does theft by an institution with no incentive to be productive and no cost for wasting resources and no fundamental need to cooperate with anyone as its resources are confiscated with violence or counterfeited, end up causing damage instead of helping?
Your answer is in the give-a-shit matrix

2025-02-24 17:13:02

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This completely misconstrued the fundamental premise of technology: did the invention of tractors mean everyone starves without UBI because 80% of field workers lost their jobs?
The answer to your question is the same as the story of what happened to the economy and food availability after tractors were invented.

2025-02-24 17:11:21

1000%, discussion around UBI is always a gauge to how well someone understands basic incentives and market function.
There is literally no world where UBI doesn’t destroy an entire layer of the market incentive structure, leaving the society poorer than what UBI gives.
In other words, if you use UNI to give everyone an apple a day, it will lower the supply of apples in society by 2 apples a day, and literally everyone will be worse off by an apple, and worse they become dependent on the one apple they get from “the system” because apples are now too expensive.
#note18aq…a2qj

2025-02-23 19:06:29

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They seem absolutely hellbent on refusing to acknowledge that everyone is fucking sick of the status quo and all the bullshit that comes earmarked to the back of it. I can’t believe they haven’t tried to produce a single fresh idea/person throughout all of this.

2025-02-16 17:44:55

I swear to god this computer has been the biggest pain in my ass as any device I have ever owned.
The power blinked off for 6 seconds because the wind was blowing this morning, and my Linux computer appears to be fucked. I can’t even get a response from the motherboard.
I want to fucking scream
(Pinging @npub1utx…50e8 who is the only one who understands the deep and furious pain of this project)
https://m.primal.net/OzMK.jpg

2025-02-16 17:42:16

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I’m sorry but you must have not read my previous post, nor seen the video. When I hit “settings” and/or “add relays” literally nothing happens or comes up. I can read the instructions fine 👍🏻

2025-02-16 17:28:34

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😆 Source (this is in the app for iOS usage):
https://m.primal.net/OzLZ.jpg

2025-02-16 17:16:13

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If they don’t know anything about it, then why would they bother mentioning it? It gives the impression that the current authority isn’t really an authority, and that they are just guessing at a ton of this. Therefore it is good to only teach conclusions and results rather than ambiguities and mysteries if the goal is to establish your importance. Teach the latter, and suddenly they don’t matter very much.
Schooling has become a tool to establish hierarchies of political authority, not creative, explorative thought. Only by the grace of some good teachers and long lasting culture does the latter still occur to any degree. The system itself is explicitly antithetical to it.

2025-02-16 16:43:57

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But did you ever code your application in Assembly, or did you use a much higher layer language with libraries and shortcuts and nearly written in English?
I think the difference isn’t as big as people think. We already have a stack of a million shortcuts and abstractions that we build with, and Ai is just the next layer (and specifically one that makes it more accessible than any before it), imo.

2025-02-16 16:34:11

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It’s almost insane that we’ve become ok with filling out a bank form every time we want to do something simple online.
With Nostr + Lightning, creating an account, getting profile information, paying for a service, and getting the auth key for access could all happen in basically one step and maybe a couple of clicks.

2025-02-14 21:15:13

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And what percentage of their value does it secure and how do they conduct those transactions?

2025-02-14 19:31:27

Consider:
Gold is so bad at being trustless money in the digital era, that it was defeated by fiat, one of the lowest integrity monetary tools we’ve ever been forced to used… but which was our only option in a virtual economy.
#Bitcoin fixes this.

2025-02-13 19:02:11

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Good option, but a little trickier since you have to use a swap service. But definitely a viable route.

2025-02-13 19:01:40

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That's fine, then you've got your bitcoin off the service and you can find one that doesn't suck, imo. I pay from my CJs directly to Fold without issue. And River has not problems sending them to it.

2025-02-13 17:58:00

Withdraw from all KYC services you use directly to Wasabi or Joinmarket. Otherwise you are pointlessly adding to the normal risk that comes with KYC over an easily applied level of protection.
Fees are super low too.

2025-02-13 17:55:52

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Also referral link gives you free sats so if you want to have bitcoin integrated into your banking it would be stupid, imo, to not use a referral link.

2025-02-13 17:49:43

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Nah its a wallet with bitcoin and lightning... however if lightning isn't available in your area than a VPN might change that... but that's speculation not a recommendation 🤣 😘

2025-02-13 17:48:13

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One does not have to do it, but its free sats for trying out a good wallet so i thought I'd share.

2025-02-13 17:43:17

RFK Confirmed!!
52-48
This is about to get wild. So much that has been ignored, pushed under the rug, and actively defrauded is finally going to get dealt with.
https://m.primal.net/OeRi.mp4

2025-02-13 13:30:35

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They are building their own P2P protocol and have a decentralized DNS system built on the BitTorrent DHT. Synonym is not to be dismissed, imo.
Also they don’t sell produce 🤣

2025-02-13 13:28:41

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You don’t like sats? 😂

2025-02-13 00:05:03

Nostr fam, Bitkit is doing a 50,000 sat giveaway. Good to refill your zap wallet! 🔥
Only on X (sorry) if you still have an account, then you can jump back over here to tell us if you won 🤣
https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1889827550827835565

2025-02-12 03:04:03

It is not remotely feasible to spend $2 trillion in a single bill with 6000 pages where 90% of it isn’t total waste.
The entire idea of it and its scale it’s so absurd. The only reason people don’t see it is because they’ve been desensitized to the word “trillion.”

2025-02-12 02:30:06

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Sorry don’t know 😬

2025-02-12 02:29:55

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Bitcoin backed credit rate. Don’t have details but it’s a really cool idea and I’m excited to see the difference.

2025-02-12 02:28:22

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Negative, BlockFi is trashy 😂

2025-02-12 01:04:59

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That was a *debit* card (and you can just direct deposit to it and solve that). They are launching a *credit* card in addition.

2025-02-12 01:03:58

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Just rumors and conversations. Nothing specific so far AFAIK

2025-02-12 01:03:18

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Respect if you can manage that, but are you serious that you don’t have a debit or credit card? How do you pull that off?

2025-02-11 23:44:08

People think this is just another credit card that pays sats, but it’s not.
Both traditional credit, and also bitcoin backed credit rates with the Fold card. Instant pay bitcoin to pay off your card.
We literally just talked about this on the latest Roundtable. Credit networks will remain the major payment networks for the near future, but they will be expanded, reserved, and settled in Bitcoin.
I’m about to stack so many sats back it’s gonna be retarded.
They are also giving away a shit ton of prizes so reserve a spot:
https://use.foldapp.com/r/GUYSWANN
https://m.primal.net/ObiA.mov

2025-02-11 23:35:53

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Feels like I’m gonna find and access to a lost civilization somewhere in there

2025-02-11 23:21:09

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Haha that stand is awesome.

2025-02-11 21:49:05

FYI these are the best, over-ear, wired headphones I’ve ever owned. Especially if you are having to wear them for many hours without break. I went through maybe 5 different kinds before finally settling on these. Been using these since 2021.
Sennheiser HD 560 S
https://amzn.to/3QkRf2Z
https://m.primal.net/Obap.jpg

2025-02-11 19:58:48

Been in the trenches lately and only remote posting… how’s my Nostr fam doing?

2025-02-10 21:13:45

A horrifying number of people literally believe that if the govt prints money and spends it, that this makes our economy wealthier.

2025-02-07 00:49:36

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

2025-02-06 17:07:35

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This would be beautiful

2025-02-05 16:45:54

If society forces you to earn the same money twice —
first to obtain it and second to keep its value from rotting away — then something is very broken.

2025-02-05 14:23:33

Hot tip:
The oven cooks WAY faster if you turn it on.

2025-02-04 23:44:39

Fuck the govt so hard
https://m.primal.net/OQiD.png

2025-02-04 16:51:09

What's your tactic for when you have one of those days where your energy is just completely shot and you feel up for nothing?
Having one of those days for some reason.

2025-01-30 20:33:43

If you know who these guys are I want to follow you.
https://m.primal.net/OIgu.jpg

2025-01-30 14:57:13

Imagine thinking that the goal of people of their own free will when they work and trade in the market is to screw everyone over and cheat…
but that the people who want to live a life paid for on the backs of tax slaves and dominate, surveil, and control what everyone else can do, say, and how they must go about things are only driven by the selfless desire to improve others’ lives.
The free market is people choosing to make things better, government is literally its antithesis, the desire to destroy and dominate.
#note1g6h…ysdj

2025-01-30 14:50:31

Regulations do nothing but destroy markets, destroy products, and turn the focus away from building great things into a box checking exercise with a huge entry fee only affordable by a handful of huge corporations.
Centralized, monopolistic regulation is fucking stupid and only leads to corruption and incompetence.
https://m.primal.net/OIIl.mov

2025-01-30 02:57:38

This is worth hundreds of billions a year in revenue for the sick are industry.
#note10cc…ufyh
https://m.primal.net/OHOI.jpg

2025-01-30 02:06:40

"Over 70% of adults and a third of children are overweight or obese. Diabetes is 10 times more prevalent than it was during the 60s. Cancer among young people is rising by 1 or 2% a year. Autoimmune diseases, neurodevelopmental disorders, Alzheimer's, asthma, ADHD, depression, addiction, and a host of other physical and mental health conditions are all on the rise, some of them exponentially."
I cannot tell you how many times some fool has told me that this is all just an imaginary anomaly of our ability to diagnose these diseases. Just incredible.
https://m.primal.net/OHKb.mov

2025-01-30 00:36:02

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Every one of these people have gotten money directly from major pharmaceuticals in a totally coincidental turn of events.

2025-01-30 00:27:24

This is pretty much all you missed…
https://m.primal.net/OHCg.mov

2025-01-27 18:31:07

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Do you have a good write up on the scaling paradigm? I read that in another post but couldn’t confirm it yet and wasn’t sure what that meant.
Any explanation or breakdown link would be appreciatively zapped

2025-01-27 18:15:57

So what’s all the hoopla about DeepSeek and why is it breaking everybody’s brain right now in Ai?
I’ve been doing a dive for a couple of days and these are the main deets I’ve pulled together, will have a Guy’s Take on it soon, so stay tuned to the @npub1hw4…lg0q feed
DeepSeek ELI5:
• US has been hailed as the leader in Ai, while pushing fears that we need to be closed and not share with China cuz evil CCP and they can’t figure it out without us
• ChatGPT and “Open”Ai is poster child, eating up retarded amounts of capital for training and inference (using) LLMs. Estimates say around $100 million or more for ChatGPT o1 model.
• In just a couple of weeks China drops numerous open source models with incredible results, Hunyuan for video, Minimax, and now DeepSeek. All open source, all insanely competitive with the premiere closed source in the US.
• DeepSeek actually surpassed ChatGPT o1 on most benchmarks, particularly math, logic, and coding.
• DeepSeek is also totally open with how its thought process works, it explains and shows its work as it runs, while ChatGPT makes that proprietary. This makes building with, troubleshooting, and understanding with DeepSeek much better.
• DeepSeek is also multimodal, so you can give it PDFs, images, connect it to the internet, etc. it’s a literal full personal assistant with just a few tools to plug into it.
• The API costs 95% LESS than ChatGPT API per call. They claim that is a profitable price as well, while OpenAi is bleeding money.
• They state that DeepSeek cost only $5.6 million to train and operate.
• Capital controls on GPUs and chips went into effect in the past year or two trying to prevent China from “catching up,” and it seems to have failed miserably. As it seems China was able to do 20x the results per dollar with inferior hardware.
• The US model of Ai, its costs, its capes structure, and the massive demand for chips has been the model for assessing the valuation, pricing, and future demand of the entire Ai industry. DeepSeek just took a giant dump on all of it by out performing and spending a tiny fraction to achieve it while also dealing with lack of access to the newest chips.
All of this together is why people are freaking out about a plummet to Nvidia price, reevaluation of OpenAi, and the failure of US to stay dominant or even the legitimacy of staying proprietary as it may just cause us to fall behind rather than lead. All after a $700 billion investment was just announced that now just kinda looks like incompetent corporations wasting horrendous amounts of money for something they won’t even share with people, that you can’t run locally, and is surpassed by a few lean Chinese startups with barely a few million.

2025-01-27 14:15:52

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You still don’t know what the core value of money is if you think this.
You and many others conflate the utility of payments with the core value of the money. The utility is payments is *derived* from the core value of money, which is trust in its rules and integrity.