Cykros

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Public Key

npub1lcetwt8hcd9gagdytu4e35ufykxek0elfvx8q3spugmgj9x0ev0q363apw

NIP-05 Address

psyche_eros@iris.to

NIP-57 Address

cykros@speed.app

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nprofile1qqs0uv4h9nmuxj5w5xj972uc6wyjtrvm8ul5krrsgcq7yd5fzn8uk8sprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuen0w4h8gctfdchxvmf0qywhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtndw46xjmnewaskcmr9wshxxmmd9uh3cm34

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2025-04-30 10:23:12

#GM folks. Been trying my hand at org mode the past few days. Any users out there? Got any favorite features or use cases? It just occurred to me that it could be useful for authoring long form Nostr posts. Could be cool to see a client that takes in org files raw and converts to markdown. Or, you know, is built right into #Emacs itself...
Also found Orgzly Revived, which works with .org files on Android. Obviously different UI but it opens up a lot when sync is set up with desktop files.

2025-04-25 11:50:54

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The backlash here is wild -- as if Primal doesn't also involve a KYC wallet for an optional feature. Not sure who this feature is for, but if you've had demand for it, good on ya for serving your customers.

2025-04-21 01:55:24

My kid's been begging to make beef Wellington for over a year, so we finally decided to let him have a go at it for Easter. Took all day but he didn't disappoint with the final product. Pretty mean plate of steak and eggs... #foodstr
https://m.primal.net/QXnW.jpg
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2025-04-15 16:43:07

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#85kGnag.

2025-04-12 12:43:47

#GM folks. More snow this morning. Guess those tariffs really did put a chill on things.
Forgot to heat up my milk before making my Mud\Wtr this morning, and realized that the "whip" I got from them will totally make latte-level foam right from cold milk, which is pretty cool. Pretty impressive little accessory to have around. Basically a turbocharged immersion blender for your beverages.

2025-04-11 10:44:54

#GM folks. Got some unseasonal snow this morning -- seems like this trade war even has the flow of weather out of whack. Ending a week of very limited sleep, and HOPEFULLY catching up over the weekend -- though given that the interruptions are coming from my dog, and I sure can't sleep past 6 am anyway, I'm not the most hopeful.
Looking forward to a Seder tomorrow, even if I'm dreading being dragged into a fruitless fight by my son blurting something out in response to Israel being brought up. Given how silent the family's been on the matter it might be nice to hear aired out. Guess it'd hardly be a holiday without some drama. Fwiw they'd probably be more appalled to hear me talk of Mises and Hayek than to defend Palestine anyway. Guess those prone to being led around by panic inducing narratives are prone to falling for multiple.
Jeremiah 29:11 For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.
Amazing how so many who follow these scriptures can get so wrapped up in the delusional plans of leaders and governments.
Anyway, there'll be brisket, and family I don't see enough of. And people to talk to about Bitcoin.
Stay humble, stay human, stack sats.

2025-04-09 11:43:35

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Curious if you have theories as to who is selling. Tom Luongo suspects the UK, which tracks with their response that caused the panic of 1837.

2025-04-09 11:41:43

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When broad money contracts, the price of everything falls. And when people reduce leverage en masse, broad money contracts. And when uncertainty across the markets spikes, people reduce leverage.
This PROBABLY won't extend to consumer goods due to the price effects of tariffs. But it could if the feedback loop gets going, at least until the money printer goes "Brrrr" to fill the hole, AND the fiscal policy pumps that money into the real economy.
Without that second part you just get a repeat of the 2010s.

2025-04-09 11:35:36

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It seems more likely to be the UK, who holds about as many as China. may be worth keeping an eye on TIC data over the next few months to see that play out.

2025-04-09 11:32:32

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Nostr is here to teach us proofreading at lower stakes than we have when crafting transactions...

2025-04-09 11:31:49

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Yea, but given that we're talking about being rekt because of a typo it is a little foreboding...

2025-04-09 10:36:35

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I threw an extra scoop of matcha into my morning bowl along with my Mud/Wtr. Hitting too much caffeine is at least as bad on the blood pressure/cortisol front.
Eating some heart for breakfast though; packed with CoQ10 and collagen to hopefully push against the madness that is parenting.

2025-04-09 10:26:30

GM. I'm exploring the relationship between how much you need to sleep and how early you'll therefore wake up.
Naturally with an annual physical scheduled for tomorrow. Hooray blood pressure.
Looking forward to not having kids activities scheduled until 10:30 pm on a school night... Hockey is wild.

2025-04-09 10:07:05

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THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS.

2025-04-09 10:02:31

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Dammit, s/both/botch

2025-04-09 10:01:59

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Like when you've financed payments on your boat, and then both an RBF that pays out your whole stack as a fee, so the boat gets repo'ed?

2025-04-07 02:00:30

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Odd, been getting zaps all day at cykros@speed.app.
it's not NWC compliant but they usually go through fine.

2025-04-07 01:31:06

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https://image.nostr.build/f86bdbfbe513166f9bd3998f111a24f9584951d5b21c0c959e467f0f445ceb85.jpg

2025-04-07 01:26:52

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I'm not a dev, though I do work with a design team.
No bees, yet.

2025-04-07 01:25:48

The Nikkei is already halted this morning in Japan after opening up with an 8% decline. Already had one bitcoin limit buy execute today at 80k; let's see if we can get the 75k next. Best of all, also just found out I'm getting a bigger tax refund than expected. It's like Black Friday in April!

2025-04-07 00:38:13

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Thanks for the test, and yea, this is a known issue with my set up. Such is being in America using custodial lightning. May be switching to Zeus soon, playing around for now.

2025-04-07 00:18:57

Trying my hand at oyakodon for dinner tonight. Finished the parent and child portion before the rice which is less than ideal. Looking and smellingtasty though. #foodstr
https://m.primal.net/QGqA.jpg

2025-04-06 17:03:14

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Wow, Bitkey is "like" multisig wallets. I bet they find it so similar because, you know, Bitkey uses multisig wallets.
As for the wildfires...you really don't have to bury your metal backup very deep to keep it safe. You could be super paranoid and bury it inside of a jar full of water.
Unless you're in Gaza or near a volcano, it's really not that hard to find a solution to keeping your keys safe. And if it's the volcano, the obvious solution is: keep a key or keys somewhere else. If you're in Gaza...I guess maybe try to get a resistance fighter to keep it safe. They seem to be the ones least likely to be targeted by the occupation. Whatever you do, don't put it anywhere near a child or a hospital.

2025-04-05 23:30:35

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Should be amusing, that it's not only Americans that hold equity stakes in these companies. Haven't found the hardest data yet but am not surprised by the preliminary searches turning up 10% or more of European pension fund assets allocated to Mag 7 stocks.
There's going to be a lot of tough talking going on I'm sure...but at the end of the day, everyone is going to get to lay in the bed that the city of London made when they decided the way the global economy was going to run was by taking out naked shorts on the dollar with an overall short interest that would make Melvin Capital blush. The dollar is a wrecking ball, and Trump's got the controls in hand.
But I'm sure they'll be saved by their Bitcoin holdings; I'm sure they listened when Satoshi said "might be worth getting some, just in case it catches on." Right?

2025-04-05 19:50:03

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Isn't that just a multisyllabic word for pulling out?

2025-04-05 19:42:01

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At some point 1 sat/vB might be a bit steep... at $100,000,000/BTC, that's $200 for a transaction...makes bank wires look cheap. Might need to move to 100 sats/kvB...

2025-04-05 13:21:10

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More importantly, it supports BIP-353 addresses.It's not quite the same as full NWC support, but you'll both get and sent sats right through your own custodied wallet. The UI could be more straightforward for how to enable it (and you do need an open channel before you can generate an address), but it's not too bad if you can ask AI a few questions. Settings -> Experimental Features -> Claim my address. Also a little snag; by default it does only generate a taproot address for on chain funding; if you, like me, use some of those silly "get paid in bitcoin to play mobile games" apps such as Ember, you likely need to enable a legacy address as most of them don't yet support taproot addresses.

2025-04-05 13:10:52

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Phoenix apparently supports Bolt12 now, which means you can be nearly this easy, and NOT rely on a custodial wallet.

2025-04-05 00:09:40

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Talking Triffin's Dilemma without acknowledging that the Eurodollar system itself addressed the issue is a bit odd. Especially as that system is precisely why most countries will be demanding dollars even more amid their reduced supply as spurred on by the tariffs. They all OWE dollars.

2025-04-04 10:48:40

I think @npub1a2c…w83a's position may be getting misremembered here. I suspect what is remembered is her mention that you can have FULL reserve banking and still lend money out using timed out deposits and loans, provided the bank is running a matched book. That way there can be no bank run, because those deposits are only able to be withdrawn at a set date.
That said, there is still the matter of risk of default. If a loan customer defaults on their loan, then the bank is stuck paying the depositor from its own capital. If the bank has insufficient capital, it is bankrupt, and the depositor still loses their money. This isn't the end of the world if depositors are aware they are taking on this risk, but this isn't how most modern people view their bank accounts.
https://fountain.fm/episode/UlMpJvULNaroXyvW40kp
#nevent1q…kf0v

2025-04-04 08:48:58

#GM folks. Day 6 of my workweek, having moved from a 5:30 start time to a 9 am start time. Still can't figure out how to sleep past 4 or 5 am though, which is proving frustrating. Also playing around with this weird idea of working 5 day weeks and having only 2 days off (who the hell thought this was a good idea?). Making matters worse, they're the same two days my wife and kid have off, so really...waking up at 4 am may be the closest thing I get to free time for the next few months. Realizing I may need to trim back some of my podcasts; not sure I'm going to be able to stay current on them on this schedule, even at 1.8x speed.
Might be one of those rare days where I hit the coffee today.Trying not to be a psycho with the new group of people I'm working with but once I'm behind on sleep that option isn't always so available -- it more becomes deciding what kind of psycho I want to be.

2025-04-03 10:44:30

#GM folks. Enjoying the sale prices this morning, and watching the flickering flames as the global monetary system burns. The US ending a trade deficit is inherently a commitment to ending the dollar as global reserve currency. It might make sense to get some Bitcoin, just in case it catches on.

2025-04-02 11:05:50

#GM folks. Looks like the April Fool Cory Booker finally finished talking. 25 hours without once mentioning #Palestine. What a putz.

2025-04-01 12:34:23

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Probably why he's as far from where Yahya Sinwar was, the man who cleaned up Gaza from this sort of collaborator influence.

2025-04-01 12:32:38

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There are no accounts on Nostr. Nothing to report.

2025-04-01 12:30:40

Hope y'all have a terrible morning today. Bitcoin is doomed, and MMT is how we save society from the ills of capitalism through UBI, along with increased taxation of the rich and regulation of industry to keep society safe. A safe society is a free society.

2025-04-01 11:12:06

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It's really weird when people react to shame but then don't actually try to avoid it by being honorable or cultivating integrity.
How are you gonna glorify having lambos, staying out late drinking champagne, and being a 30 something without a family without having any shame for acting like a total child?
People get weird when their community gets too big for them to feel like they have any responsibility to being an upright, moral person. The sort of shit people proudly post about at this point is the sort of thing that hara kiri would be performed over by those who adhered to a higher code.
I guess my point is, shame can be used to control, yes. But having no self-control is hardly the goal. Be mindful of what you let trigger shame, and what you probably SHOULD let trigger shame, relative to who you want to be as a person.

2025-03-31 22:59:37

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"You know the party's not til next year, right?"

2025-03-31 22:43:54

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Sent you a (legacy style) DM of one that's even better that is actually available.

2025-03-30 20:05:50

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Thank god I don't have any nostr accounts. Just an npub/nsec. As for AI, two can play that game. "Write this post, but reword it so I sound like a middle aged Englishman." Or "Translate <post> to gen-Z brospeak."

2025-03-30 20:00:01

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Wasn't 2021-2024 already Obama's third term?

2025-03-30 19:45:08

Just found out that there was a 1980 TV miniseries made of James Clavell's book Shogun, mostly because Richard Chamberlain, who played John Blackthorne in that rendition, died today, aged 90.
I've been enjoying the FX version that has a season out, as well as the audiobook, and figured I'd throw this out there especially as I've heard a good few bitcoiners mention it, particularly @npub1dtg…up6m.
Archive.org's got it here: https://archive.org/details/Shogun_Miniseries (and don't let the broken link preview scare you off; it's actually working).

2025-03-30 10:26:36

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I've been looking to try to get my hands on some decent Palestinian sandals; had someone over in Jenin who said they were going to send some but things sort of fell apart there. And I can't exactly justify letting sandals be the priority with that whole situation anyway.
Birkenstocks have never struck me as being worth the fuss people seem to make about them. Expecting people from Europe to know the first thing about making decent sandals seems odd.

2025-03-30 10:23:44

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There is no rational basis for the belief that the future will in any way resemble the past. It's something we all accept on faith.
That at first glance seems perhaps the opposite of useful; indeed, David Hume spent years letting it depress him and he resorted to just spending his days playing backgammon in the park.
But when you let it remind you that all of your future predictions are no more or less likely than each other, it lets you stop clinging to your predictions, and reminds you that preparing for one likely future is foolish; living your life as resiliently as possible so that you'll be steadfast no matter what comes at you is wise.
Some might take it as a reason to live for the present, but you didn't think a Bitcoiner was going to tell you to have a high time preference now did you? Besides, when it's just as likely you'll be alive as that you won't be, I'm not sure why that would justify being without means. Hopefully this is something we can learn as a species; the boomers certainly seemed to take the opposite approach.
Appreciate the present, and your ability to get stronger and more resilient now. But never take it as an excuse to prey on the future's resources.
As for things a bit more mundane -- organ meats are fucking awesome for your health, and they're not nearly as gross as most Americans seem to think they are. In other words, offal isn't awful.

2025-03-30 08:47:57

#GM, and Eid Mubarak. Having some steak and kidney pie for breakfast. Not gonna lie, once I smelled the raw kidneys I was not hopeful, but once it's all been cooked together this end result is pretty tasty. Had a schedule shift this week, and as Sunday counts as the end of the week I'm looking at a 6 day workweek (I normally do 4) so wish me luck on the sanity front. Haven't pulled a 50 hour workweek in a good few years since I was covering the whole front of house in a restaurant. We'll see if these old bones can take it.

2025-03-29 21:16:26

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We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Not sizing up the blocks in 2017 doesn't mean never making more blockspace. It was about making sure running your own node stayed economical. In 50 years, presumably blocks a bit larger 1vMB won't be something that centralizes bitcoin, especially given that 50 years ago, 1 vMB was 1/10th of a hard drive's capacity.
Freaking out about where to fit 8 billion bitcoin users all self custodying right now is like freaking out because of the 2106 issue where unix time runs out of space for nLocktime transactions.

2025-03-29 21:06:36

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The cool thing is, I can self custody my bitcoin and not give a damn whether or not someone else uses a custodian.
They might get rugged, they might not.
But either way, I still have my bitcoin.
If they want to keep fees lower by foregoing their own custody, that's their loss, not mine.

2025-03-29 14:18:26

Finally cleaned off my Trezor -- frankly took longer than I should have to get my sats over onto a decent storage solution. Also, learned the valuable lesson that just because it's estimated that a given fee rate will take 50 blocks to be included doesn't mean that it actually will.

2025-03-29 14:16:06

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So, the Mahabarata as read by you isn't something I should hold my breath for?

2025-03-29 14:06:25

#GM. Check out the good news; almost 2% of the bitcoin network is running Bitcoin Knots! Keeping mempools spam-free since 2011.
https://image.nostr.build/a40647674047f9793f731a3c387416f775b540ccd5f1d13e51d03c900edfdb61.png

2025-03-28 11:19:02

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Yea, I'm sure I'm not. My wife's the one that keeps me occasionally able to to blend in with society being a heck of a lot more in tune with what normies expect, and keeps me from being too much of a feral hermit.
The water is the part that's definitely hardest, though rather than being hard, it's the part that reminds me what I'm doing most throughout the day, which I think also makes it the most rewarding part. When you're kept mindful of what you're not doing, it makes you that much more mindful of it when you are doing it as well.

2025-03-28 11:12:31

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14 hours at a time doesn't seem too risky, especially as I'm an office monkey. I could see it being potentially a concern in August if being active and outside though. I also probably drink MORE water before and after daylight while fasting than I do when I'm not fasting, as I start the day with a cup of MUD/WTR and 4 cups of water and end it with at least 4 cups of water and some pomegranate juice

2025-03-28 11:10:06

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Oh sweet. Didn't realize Primal would show these notes as it doesn't appear to support communities at this time. I'd love to see folks use the community directly just to make each others content easier to discover, but at least having the notes propagate either way is helpful. #FreePalestine

2025-03-28 10:59:09

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President Trump: We don't want immigrants from the lower rungs of society; we want the best and brightest, the doctors, the engineers, the lawyers.
Also President Trump: We don't want the immigrant doctoral students who have the ability to spot a genocide when they see one, and the integrity to call it out.
Getting mixed messages on this one.
https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Day-Hall-Walk-Out_09_18_24_CM-10-1-1024x682.jpg
>On March 19, 2025, Momodou Taal was supposed to walk into a federal courtroom for the first hearing of his lawsuit against the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The landmark case would put a temporary hold on the rampant deportations we’ve seen in the last month of foreign students who have spoken out in support of Palestinians against U.S.-funded Israeli genocide. However a day before the case was supposed to begin in court, DHS issued a deportation order for Taal.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/this-fight-is-bigger-than-me-and-we-cant-afford-to-lose-it-momodou-taal-on-his-fight-against-the-trump-administration/

2025-03-27 12:39:09

Been reading about Checkbook IRA's, a way to self custody Bitcoin without relying on even collaborative custody, in an IRA. Looks like there are of course still some costs (as you do need to incorporate an LLC to manage the funds within the IRA), but at annual fees I've seen as low as $150 a year (after one-time set up costs) and with your choice of Bitcoin exchange (thus potentially fee-free buying if you DCA on a few exchanges) it does look like it's potentially cheaper than Unchained, while giving more flexibility, given that you can also purchase other assets through the LLC. There are some accounting requirements, and of course commingling personal Bitcoin with the LLC is a good way to get into IRS hot water, but it all seems quite doable. The big thing I guess I see as a potential drawback is the difficulty of setting up something like Liana for inheritance, though it does look like the LLC can exist in multiple people's checkbook IRA, so it might be conceivable to find a way around that (or just make that person heir to the LLC itself, and make the inheritor keys ALSO something that is property of the LLC, officially).
Honestly a little surprised these aren't talked about more. Curious if @npub1rex…6u3c has any thoughts about them (and if it's not problematic to share those thoughts outside of a client relationship).

2025-03-27 10:22:02

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I mean, they're both organizations that support Zionism. Surprised if she's really still on there given that most who pay attention have gone to their competition that doesn't fund child dismemberment.

2025-03-27 10:19:14

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Conceivably, by smoke signal. Or carrier pigeon.

2025-03-27 09:37:33

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GM from the writhing chaos of reality in all its splendour and terror.

2025-03-27 00:48:01

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Makes me feel much more okay with the prospect of the IMF tearing him down and to pieces. Somehow his rejection of his heritage had slipped by me.

2025-03-26 16:33:11

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Yes, from Fajr (right before dawn) to sunset.

2025-03-26 15:59:33

My wife likes to ask me why I'm fasting for Ramadan, as a non-Muslim. I guess a valid question, though strangely nobody ever thinks to ask anyone why they're doing yoga as a non-Hindu, or meditating as a non-Buddhist. I don't normally feel too compelled to explain myself -- my thought is, simply, when I see practices that encourage discipline that seem helpful, I pick them up. But I did just come across a Hadith that seemed to sum it up better than I would normally word myself, and I think is worth sharing🥇
"If anyone finds pleasure in receiving an answer from God in times of difficulty, he should make many supplications when times are easy."
Hadith | Tirmidhi
Hard times create strong men. If your life is full of abundance, that's great, and a blessing -- but if you'd like to find the strength to deal with the times it's undoubtedly going to be tough in the future, it helps to take steps to harden yourself. Giving thanks and making sacrifices are both a matter of avoiding taking your blessings for granted, and of hardening yourself in the future against the perils of hard times. And besides, it is the times of scarcity that teach us to better savor the flavor of abundance when it arises.
Bitcoiners likely don't need much of a sermon on deferring consumption, though I do wonder if we always look at it in this way. When you save for the future, sure, you're putting off consumption so that your existing wealth will grow in value, no doubt. But you're also learning and teaching yourself about what you don't actually need that you may have assumed necessary and taken for granted. So that when the bear market comes (and it always seems to have a way of doing that), you both have wealth you can spend, and the willpower and understanding not to spend more of it than is necessary.So as we approach what many are predicting to be potentially a very sharp run up (and while some are approaching Eid al Fitr), let's remember that it's good to savor the blessing of abundance, but also, to carry with us what we've learned in our rigorous discipline.
#Ramadan #Bitcoin #Alhamdulilah

2025-03-26 15:28:32

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US airstrikes hit Yemen cancer hospital again as bombing campaign escalates
https://thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/articles/687a891e-0a2e-11f0-b476-00163e02c055.webp
US warplanes launched around two dozen airstrikes on several areas of northern Yemen late on 25 March, Yemeni media outlets reported.
“The American aggression launched 17 airstrikes on Saada Governorate last night,” a correspondent for Al-Masirah TV reported on Wednesday, adding that the US also hit the Sufyan district with two airstrikes.
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/29648

2025-03-26 13:04:22

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And I definitely forgot to tag this post with #FreePalestine for visibility like a total noob.

2025-03-26 13:03:48

What's the deal with communities on Nostr? I just made one; #naddr1qv…kj9y
It seems like support for these things is shaky at best; even the link here on Nostrudel is different from what it looks like on Satellite.earth (where https://satellite.earth/n/FreePalestine/ works). Is this just a matter of NIP ambiguity or implementation variation?
Either way, looks like from my perspective as a moderator Satellite Earth provides the better platform for actually seeing posts to authorize, so guess I'll be using it more, but I'm curious if anyone has suggestions for the best implementation of communities on nostr at this time. And of course, also would love to see people join and use the community; it'd be nice to get a little better discoverability of each others conversations on the topic here, especially as other platforms tend to have a different take on a lot of this than I expect to find among the sort of folks who happen to be on Nostr these days.

2025-03-26 12:50:11

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Now, if some of them supporting features could make up their minds about actually supporting those features or not, but not having them in a broken state to make it look like the protocol itself is broken, that'd be neat...

2025-03-26 12:45:20

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Ahh it was in my modqueue, which I found on satellite earth. Didn't seem to be in the "Pending" tab on nostrudel, which seems like it's at least supposed to be analogous.
Guess it's time for me to figure out which client has implemented support for these things best...

2025-03-26 12:42:16

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Of course I say this and then notice the post I just made doesn't seem to be showing up for me in Nostrudel either. Nor can I seem to see it as a community I'm subscribed to in satellite.earth. May have some tinkering to do.

2025-03-26 12:37:31

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Just decided to throw this together to try to provide a place for people to discuss Palestinian resistance and the broader occupation, as well as Palestinian history. I am noticing just how few clients out there support communities, but if you're seeing this and yours does it poorly, I can at least recommend Nostrudel.ninja. Curious about others.
Meanwhile, a video from a man whose been tireless about reporting on the efforts of the brave fighters of the resistance for the last 17 months: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKjWfv6hsNI

2025-03-26 11:42:45

#GM folks. Seems like the whole media apparatus is using whatever funding they have left from USAID to shout from the rooftops about the alleged leaked confidential information being shared over Signal. Except...it seems like there may not have been any confidential information. And it also seems like Signal may be widely used and even preinstalled on many if not most government systems for non-confidential information (having replaced gmail a few years back).
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/25/signal-chat-encryption-hegseth-cia/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43478091
It seems to be a thing in the past few years for the mud to fly about how everyone's using insecure communications in general. And to be fair, they all are. Perhaps rather than worry so much about how government's confidential data is handled though, we should be seeking a government that doesn't involve itself in so much cloak and dagger nonsense, and focuses instead on, you know, making and enforcing laws, and not stirring up enmity around the world.
Meanwhile, we did get some good looking content in the leak;
>The ‘JD Vance’ account noted that “3% of US trade runs through the Suez. 40% of European trade does” and went on to say “I just hate bailing Europe out again” while adding “if there are things we can do upfront to minimize risk to Saudi oil facilities we should do it”. The Pete Hegseth account responded “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”
>Participants openly discussed the United States being the only naval power “on our side of the ledger” capable of ensuring freedom of navigation through the Red Sea region. A participant speculated to be White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller added “we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return. We also need to figure out how to enforce such a requirement. EG, if Europe doesn’t remunerate, then what? If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost there needs to be some further economic gain extracted in return.”
>source: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/how-signal-leak-kickstarted-mar-lago-accord
This sort of angle, rather than talks about specific targets or dates, seems to be why the media is so panicked. Forget about Brent Johnson's Dollar Milkshake; this looks like an attempt to turn on the industrial shopvac to pull dollars out of the Eurodollar system and force nations to hold more treasuries to cover their dollar liabilities, driving down interest rates and allowing the national debt to get refinanced at lower rates. In short, taking Europe down a peg into the "emerging market" it's been functioning as.
Let's be clear; I definitely don't love bombing of Yemen; one of the only countries that is stepping in to enforce morality (sure, International Law too, but that may as well be toilet paper for all I care) in the face of the Zionist genocide. The sooner they get left alone, or better yet, get assistance such that it can be enforced with less haphazard violence, the better. But if it's going to be happening, it being done in a context that will finally be sucking the power away from the European power structures is better than the realistic alternatives. In the meantime, I've no worry that the Americans are going to do with half assed attacks what the Saudis with American assistance couldn't get done over a decade of war against Ansar Allah. They'll stop the blockade when they decide to, and not a moment sooner.
Egypt is the other player here, and let me just specify that the world's smallest violin plays for the impact on their economy caused by the blockade while they refuse to open the Rafah crossing and continue down the path Kissinger put them on in the 70's. That anyone is being hit with missiles has everything to do with Egypt not putting the blockade on at the canal itself, where it belongs. Anyone doing trade with the Zionist occupation is complicit with genocide and warcrimes, and the only thing we should be doing about Ansar Allah is assisting in carrying out justice. And perhaps sending them some food to feed their starving population, as compensation for doing the work we couldn't be bothered to.

2025-03-26 10:13:47

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Even worse if they call my phone, especially without texting first. Some people.

2025-03-26 01:36:42

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That computer is more like 30 years ago. Maybe 25, it looks like it has those new zip drives in it, though one is probably a 3.5" floppy.

2025-03-26 01:30:09

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Cashu is like having one in your 🍑

2025-03-25 09:21:12

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Sometimes you can develop across platforms. When you can't, you can develop for the freer platform so as to either pull users to it, or pressure the platform to open up, or both.
Gotta know what's in your sphere of influence and what isn't, and maximize what sort of power you can lever through what is.

2025-03-25 08:56:44

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The good news is they don't own my iPhone either. Because there has never been a 'my iPhone' and there never will be.

2025-03-24 22:24:51

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Awful use of a blockchain it was.
Nostr DM's are a mess too though.

2025-03-24 22:23:07

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Still backing the Zionists, so yea.
Nobody's worse than the Brits of course. But we're still simping for 'em.

2025-03-24 22:20:58

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You can just build things.

2025-03-24 21:32:39

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I've had this thought so many times.
Though i'm less concerned with public cancellation than I am having to explain my internet presence to HR...

2025-03-24 21:31:02

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Well, at least between us and them is fiat, which is less centralized than they are.

2025-03-24 10:30:21

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Could be, though that absence was largely seasonal, with a LOT of time spent very much together through the cold dark winters.
I do wonder how much the shift away from agrarian society had to do with a shift in the perceived value breakdown of domestic vs public work. Running a farm and cleaning a small house are very different things (and often come with very different staffing arrangements). The isolation that comes with a more modern domestic life surely had a negative impact on the wellbeing of women in more recent modern society. That, and the relative access to capital. Some cultures seem to handle this better than others. I hear from the Japanese that men get lucky if they're given an allowance from what's left of their paycheck, while it wasn't very long ago here in America that women couldn't even have their own bank accounts or a credit card without their father or husband cosigning.
I would agree though that Christian marriage values are certainly healthier than contemporary secular humanist ideas. Where they'd rank among other traditional cultures is something I don't feel quite as qualified to weigh in on.

2025-03-24 10:07:43

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Indeed. Though preferences do change with cultural norms, so it's hard to say whether that's a natural state of things or something that is culturally determined.
Worth remembering is that a few centuries ago the norm in western cultures was to seek out plump women. And sure, thickness is making a comeback in come circles, but let's not forget just how insanely thin people were urged to be and seek out in the 80s and 90s. It does seem though that youth has been sought for long enough though that it may be a bit more than a cultural norm. That said, some cultural trends have longer arcs than others. It'd be interesting if women somehow had the upper hand economically speaking if the tables turned, in time. I'd say men often like younger women in part because they're perceived as more of a blank slate, and women like older men due to a degree of maturity, and economic stability. Is masculinity the inherently proactive, or yang, force? Or is it seen as such merely because of how things have shaken out in a post hunter/gatherer society? And even if it's always been this way, if our technology brings about a foundational shift, will it continue this way into the future?
All legitimate questions; I don't have some major prediction of it changing. Just curious how deep our aesthetic preferences run.

2025-03-24 09:58:18

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I'd be curious to see the distribution of that across the globe.
My reading of the Norse sagas involved women wielding a notably large amount of power in society. Admittedly largely domestic power, but when a household consisted of over 100 people, wielding absolute power was no small thing. And then being able to goat their husbands by simply suggesting that doing anything other than what wives wanted was cowardice... Perhaps it's not fair to say this was indicative of all women of the time, given that of course these were the wives of the chieftans being written about, and not the thralls or other lower classes, but they did seem to be more empowered than many Christians of the era.
I would believe though that in Southern and Eastern Europe cultures would have been different, especially with smaller household structures around the same time period.

2025-03-24 08:23:29

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Like any Alan Moore work if you've read the graphic novel the movie pales in comparison.

2025-03-24 08:21:32

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Underrated: The Fountain
Overrated: Anything Marvel.

2025-03-24 08:13:46

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Grimes really fucked him up.

2025-03-24 08:12:17

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That makes sense. It's a cruel twist of nature that the male sexual peak is decades before the female peak, and perhaps surprising that it hasn't resulted in more relationships between younger men and older women. I'd wonder if that boiled down to economics except that the trend has been opposite for millenia.
Guess we all like getting that which is harder to get.

2025-03-23 19:39:39

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Perhaps both strong enough to do so and not enough of an shitstain to actually do it. Except when there's been the appropriate wink wink nudge nudge anyway.
And the crazier you are, the more it goes from "let's have a safe word" to "I'm going to slap you in the face until you snap just so I can see it happen."

2025-03-23 19:13:12

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Hah, fair enough. I express my concern more due to an abundance of caution (my wife calls it "paranoia"...), and figure that wrenches without knowledge about hodlings are just asking for trouble.That said the 1971 orange shirt is nicely subtle but recognizeable to just the right people. Assuming that the right people don't also occasionally resort to wrenches.

2025-03-23 15:17:37

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If I could have a butterfinger made with actual butter (or tallow), I'd eat way too much sugar.

2025-03-23 15:05:41

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Every day is a new day, so I'd not count anyone lost completely beyond repair, even if to an extent everyone has some damage that will never fully be reversible.
That said, it can be a real uphill battle. Especially with head trauma. Sometimes wake up calls come and can actually help though. My brother recently wound up in the hospital after losing over 50 lbs not eating and on the verge of a diabetic coma. He finally let me know he was interested in picking up running after all these years of being a couch potato.
We'll see what sticks. At the end of the day you do have to give people room to make their own decisions, but that doesn't mean you have to completely give up hope.

2025-03-23 10:01:06

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@npub1dtg…up6m has pointed out that the word "meek" in the bible is translated from a word that is more like "has a sword but keeps it sheathed," suggesting that it's not about a lack of fortitude or ability to wield it, but rather, the wisdom and emotional stability to know when it is better not to.
Most women, like most people, admire strength. A lot of people are entranced by unhinged strength, and particularly crazy people like to fling themselves towards it.
There are a lot of ways women are different from men, but I don't think an admiration of strength in general is one of them. Though perhaps the way that expression of strength is varied is, as the strength to fight physically is different than the strength to bear or raise children (or manage a household). I would certainly not be interested in a helpless flower of a woman, and I suspect those men that would are perhaps covering for insecurity around how they perceive their own strength. Maybe they can talk to Dr. Freud (or Dr. Leary...).

2025-03-22 13:18:42

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Fine, don't say GM to the rest of us then 😄.
GM.

2025-03-20 12:01:51

#FreePalestine #PermissionlessResistance
https://image.nostr.build/481a9f65bbf1941d92d2394b44f083b4f86cb88755d6160c6ed10efadfa67146.png
https://video.nostr.build/b36ae4d62797ad23b62b64fb7a00b05b76d8e50892bee05f7a863596de300e70.mp4

2025-03-20 10:04:38

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They made a movie about Liar's Poker, also by Michael Lewis,which I just found out. Back in 1999. Definitely gonna be watching that one; inspired by his time working as a bond salesman in the 1980s.

2025-03-16 11:02:05

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That just made these emoji smuggled nuts a lot more interesting.

2025-03-10 13:42:01

#GM folks. Back to the fiat mines for me after taking Sunday off for a weekend in the white mountains with my family. Got to spend a good few hours reading Bushido of Bitcoin and also cracked open Mastering Bitcoin in a very relaxing mountain front view by the fire place.
The biggest issue is that I'm now in the middle of 3 bitcoin books (not to mention the others I've been in the middle of even longer). Or the audiobook of Shogun. I need more bitcoin fast and then it needs to moon so I can just retire already and spend way more time actually catching up on all this reading I'd like to get done.
I am at least halfway through Bushido though, and it's been fantastic so far. Highly recommended unless you're easily triggered, and even then, you should probably learn to get over it because under his rough edges @npub1dtg…up6m has a wealth of information and perspective to share.

2025-03-10 09:49:38

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100%. Bitcoin's value proposition necessitates it being used as money. Scarcity is a necessary requirement for value, but it is not a sufficient requirement in and of itself. Arguably even gold only maintains its value because people see that fiat will one day collapse, and that gold may need to return as money. That's certainly the mentality the preppers have when hoarding it anyway. And how many nation states are using it, with demand spiking amid breakdowns between their fiat (and the uncertainty of access to the dollar rails).

2025-03-08 15:43:14

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Anyone who's watched what Israel has done with American made weapons has been very familiar with this type of attack.

2025-03-08 15:39:24

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They can just take things.

2025-03-07 18:30:31

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You wanna go down a rabbit hole into an underground cavern, run a lightning node to handle self sovereign zaps.