BenGunn
The Ben Gunn

ungovernablemisfits.com

Too young to retire
Too poor to quit
Too ugly to strip

Stay humble, stack sats - (that's great advice)

Public Key

npub1lt8nn8aaa6qa63wjwj8gz2djf5nlhg3zfd0v6l45v8zhvuyh0p3s5zzt5y

NIP-05 Address

bengunn@nostrplebs.com

NIP-57 Address

orchiddragon2@primal.net

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relay.primal.net

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2025-06-02 06:27:03

Balance of internal pressure to external pressures in a semi rigid structure...
When external pressure > internal. Collapse
These are the people who's ambitions exceed their abilities and are crushed by their constraints.
When internal pressure > external - explode
These are the people with nothing to challenge them, and have more potential than their challenges provide.
The person with balance between what they need/want and what they are capable of, even as that changes through life, is a person in control of their life.
Stay humble, not too humble. Stack sats, but dont just stack sats.

2025-06-01 05:57:21

The 2 things to get, just get, are a tractor and/or and excavator.
Easily sourced and resold, easy to learn, extremely powerful, and sooooo useful. Self contained businesses. Rent them contract yourself with them, and used every single day on land management.
Both extremely extensible with attachments and so on. The bases for hydraulic scale penknives.
These are the 2 things, a tractor, and a digger.

2025-05-31 07:04:05

The longest measured distance in human history is the time between STANDBY and GO.
The shortest distance ever measured is between GO and CLEARED.
Them just the facts. Ask anyone.

2025-05-31 06:47:13

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@nprofile…s2s2 taught me about paradox, and the world doesnt look the same since. Just so I'm sure i'm not plagiarizing work of his - credit to that bugger - he's a good 'un. .
Paradoxes reveal deep truth. And when the truth is close by, it is so exact and profound - it divides all affairs into extremes, and things are at their most extremely contradictory, often sad and amazing at the same time, when you are closer and closer to the truth.
I find it easier to attribute it to a failure of language. Where our ink scratchings and honks and hisses are too low fidelity to capture what we see and feel.
A fool will dismiss a paradox as proof of a failure of reality. But language is subordinate to natural law and universal truth. We do not judge the superior with the means of the subordinate.
A real paradox, when found, is simply a gate to pass through.

2025-05-31 06:31:36

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Anything deeply true, when expressed in vernacular, presents as irony/paradox.
Secrecy, and privacy are such 2 extremes that start in the same place, and horseshoe into extremes in our language.
The issue of visibility, is then, like a coin, with total anonymity on one side, and a centralised panopticon of audit on the other.
The human action that balances that coin on its thin edge, is the right path. And is just as hard to walk, as to land a coin on its side.
We need to focus on the control of the topic. We are not in control if we lurch to one side or the other, of a deep truth.
The resolution here is. How can we demonstrate our virtues to others more formally, without revealing so much, that we are not free., and can be attacked.
We need peer to peer reputation scores on the NOSTR layer, but broad. We have them on exchanges, Uber, Google.
But as a movement - we pay a tax to the psychos who can move through high signal people, and deniably take advantage of anything they can, without consequence, and in a way they are able to repeat.
No oracles or moderators. Just give me the audit history of an Anon, and the other parties side of the story, and the patterns will emerge.
In Bitcoin, some have lived their entire working lives without ever having a job, or building anything. And they wear the same hats. Make the same noises.
Root them out - they are more expensive than Governments. This is not social credit scoring, because there would be no hub.
This is self organisation, in response to the costs of dealing with shadows who speak as friends.

2025-05-31 06:11:45

We need value backed reputations on NOSTR. Yesterday.
You will know them by their fruits, and there is no objective scoreboard to record value (outside of Mainnet).
Can't wait but I'm too regarded to do it. GPT 6 will prbably sweep it up in one prompt.
Someone will though, and then we'll know who Anon is by how they share value.
A full half of the privacy movement are monkeys who enjoy the lack of accountability that anonymity provides - and this is a huge cost to the rest.
Privacy is not secrecy. It is the right to selectively reveal oneself to others.
We need to work on the "showing things selectively" side.
NOT hiding things indiscriminately.

2025-05-18 05:56:16

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pfftt
https://blossom.primal.net/b42ec166b18d51fd9e5cc0e1457afcdddd36506a8f0717b79f676ea8d7bc41c7.png https://makeagif.com/gif/handbags-7wGNuE

2025-05-16 09:52:52

Don't crumble and sack twats 🫡

2025-04-18 06:41:02

God and the soldier - all men adore,
in time of trouble and never more.
For when wars end and all is righted
God is neglected, and the soldiers slighted.
absent friends
https://m.primal.net/QUcy.png

2025-04-13 06:16:39

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never seen a warm light fridge either - this is solid signal

2025-04-13 06:10:32

GM Sers.
Citadels grow like trees.
Upwards and outwards in accordance with nature, from a seed and always from a fixed and immovable centre.
Easy as that.
https://m.primal.net/QNit.png

2025-04-09 11:16:13

Own your vertical
Be your own supply chain
Live as 'long vol' as your money is.
Tariffs are tax and tax is theft - thats all on them.
But self sovereign means not being subject to force or authority. If you are affected - own it.
If your livelihood relies on captured third parties - you are captured. It's a sliding scale, but have a mode of life that can adapt to 105% import/export costs. We're going back in time basically. 18th century costs of transport, for all planning purposes. And the plagues (of stupidity).
This is just the current day's reason why productive people are being robbed - again.
Suffer on the vaccine is coming, suffer on we will investigate what happened with the vaccines, suffer on, we're fighting a trade war and the trade being used to fight with is YOURS as risk, and OURS as reward. Suffer on, suffer on plebs.
Work on your Citadels sers.... All said.

2025-04-04 17:56:12

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Bitcoin: https://m.primal.net/QELi.png

2025-04-04 14:53:22

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wen monero?

2025-04-04 12:51:50

Corn running flat when all assets are collapsing is the thinking man's green candle.
#pricetalkwanker

2025-02-15 06:36:25

GM my FULLY nostarded friends....
“Do not love half lovers
Do not entertain half friends
Do not indulge in works of the half talented
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half a drink will not quench your thirst
Half a meal will not satiate your hunger
Half the way will get you no where
Half an idea will bear you no results
Your other half is not the one you love
It is you in another time yet in the same space
It is you when you are not
Half a life is a life you didn't live,
A word you have not said
A smile you postponed
A love you have not had
A friendship you did not know
To reach and not arrive
Work and not work
Attend only to be absent
What makes you a stranger to them closest to you
and they strangers to you
The half is a mere moment of inability
but you are able for you are not half a being
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life”
― Gibran Khalil Gibran

2025-02-14 08:47:06

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europeans are skinflints... who knew????

2025-02-14 08:26:24

GM,
@nprofile…s2s2 showed me that the Truth is found in paradoxes, and the failing premise in these contradictions is not in the Truth but in the language we attempting to describe the indescribable.
An unbreakable chain that ends slavery
A coin with no Head and no tails
The absolute finite means to infinite abundance.
Trustless and trusted
Bitcoin is Stateless,
and
Bitcoin is a State of Mind
Ayn Rand said contradictions don't exist, perhaps she is correct, but when you find one, and before you check your premises, note first that as a human being, being engaged in resolving your contradictions, is the moral area of life. You're in the right place.

2025-02-13 06:46:02

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wen visit
GM real one!

2025-02-12 06:56:28

Bitcoin is not a weapon
And it is absolutely NOT a religion.

2025-02-08 09:10:27

imagine loving a ball SO much, you have to put in it with your food. He's nearly 5, this is a male adult HAHAHA.
https://m.primal.net/OWBN.png

2025-01-23 07:22:24

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wen visit

2025-01-23 07:22:11

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can we call it house printing please. I just want that out there. We print houses.

2025-01-21 07:29:04

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Instructing...

2025-01-21 06:52:45

They launched Shitcoins before they free'd Ross.
Fuck these clowns.

2025-01-21 06:44:17

GM Brothers.
Thus I will honour pious men whose virtue shines so bright
(Though none are more amazed than I when I by chance do right),
And I will pity foolish men for woe their sins have bred
(Though ninety-nine per cent. of mine I brought on my own head).
And, Amorite or Eremite, or General Averagee,
The NOSTARDS, Lord, Thy people, are good enough for me!

2025-01-20 07:46:34

This is being addressed as a business problem in the UK.
Await further orders, fellow sovereigns....
Standby, standby....
https://m.primal.net/NqCY.png

2025-01-02 08:24:56

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ONE OF US!
ONE OF US!
https://m.primal.net/NOhY.jpg

2025-01-01 09:37:46

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are you gonna be the connor mcgregor of the old set?

2025-01-01 09:34:36

GM.
“Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth.” (R 12:3-4)
They don't even hide it.
https://m.primal.net/NNbV.mp4

2025-01-01 05:17:10

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Andy McRib

2024-12-30 05:42:57

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i made an unreal floater this morning. Curry helped make that one too.

2024-12-30 05:28:55

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still amazed all the useful/talented people are brought together, by a highly regarded british boglin called max.

2024-12-29 18:45:57

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with AI that translates at the same time, and is AR friendly, i think it has its time soon.

2024-12-29 18:39:54

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Expensive that though, 20 wpm (from 1000 + without the cost of eye movement )
Spritz fixes this
https://codepen.io/keithwyland/pen/yLyLNz
No idea why this isnt used in more mobile apps that deliver long form.

2024-12-29 07:23:19

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
https://m.primal.net/NKHa.png

2024-12-24 08:36:43

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2024-1913 = 111
80 IQ 4 Lyfe!

2024-12-24 08:14:01

It was 101 years ago today, that the US first broke faith with objective reality.
The only time you will see politicians working on xmas eve will be to subvert, at the root, the very concept of value and fairness.
Until it returns to it's own Constitutional standards of law and morality - the USA and Bitcoin will never be compatible and have always and will always be, mutually exclusive concepts.
“No State shall… make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.”
Ar1, Se10. US Constitution
https://m.primal.net/NEzv.png

2024-12-22 08:37:18

GM, Emperors.
-------
I'm building an empire
I'm building it with all I know
I'm building an empire
Starting from scratch, it began with stones
I'm building an empire
I'm building with my body and soul
I'm building an empire
So little time and so much to do
But I must say: this is as good as it gets
So why you wasting your blood, your sweat, your tears??
build an empire,
build it higher
I'm building an empire
I'm building with the stars in mind,
I'm building an empire
That's one day gonna scrape the sky
I'm building an empire
That's led by my heart to know my home
I'm building an empire
And now I'm never gonna look back,
I must say this is as good as it gets,
So why you wasting your blood, your sweat, your tears??
build an empire
build it higher
It's gonna touch the sky
I build it higher higher high
It's gonna touch the sky

2024-12-21 08:46:52

Calling it here.
Gonna stand in front of the Elon Musk train.
Too much power, flawed guy, on ket, almost total ubiquity on media, as a vertical, much else.
Feels like he's completely priced in/ overpriced unless he cures ball cancer or meets aliens.
The trend is your friend, but i think that guy and his potential is already realized or already expected as certain.
and GM, wankers.

2024-12-18 20:21:03

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10 btc gets you 1 this is spun by competitors as shitcoining. Book it.
Superb and exciting, otherwise. Maybe even better to the howls of weaker offers in the market. The narratives slide, but the level of honking - that's steady and predictable.

2024-12-16 11:08:20

Absolutely OK to share, we have scope for 3 part time devs on this starting Jan 3 2025.
FOSS PWA
Real world applications
Proof of work for NOSTR.
Badges. Because - RECOGNITION is the first form of IDENTIFICATION.
#note18gn…yc5w

2024-12-05 07:24:58

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when did Ben Arc fork???

2024-11-22 20:39:19

Where my 99k gang at?
Been a pleasure boiling the oceans with you retards.
Here's to a few more 0's!
https://m.primal.net/MeXl.mp4

2024-11-17 14:53:39

Still my favorite Bitcoin presentation.
Love you, appreciate you @npub1der…xzpc
https://youtu.be/C7ynm0Zkwfk

2024-11-06 05:21:54

Ulbricht
Out.
Now.
He's got a mum waiting for him at home, and is ready for some home cooked food and a bath and a sleep in his own bed. And for that matter some blue sky and fresh air, and privacy, and grass.
Can you fucking image?
Long past time, get the boy home and safe.
No delays.
Promises made...
https://m.primal.net/LuHV.jpg
#freeross

2024-11-03 17:15:04

GN
(Will boop for sats)
https://m.primal.net/Lrad.png
#dogstr

2024-10-31 08:26:22

GM.
Fuck fiat adoption.
It's better to grow on bitcoin rails than watch the misallocated world contort itself to Bitcoin's law.
All the upside calcs for Bitcoin's price are zero sum. It's supposed to be 'done' when enough %'s of the fiat world hold it on balance sheets.
The potential for Bitcoin is far greater than the dung pile it is being germinated in.
Denied areas of the economy, and entirely new economies will far exceed in value, what can be salvaged from fiat economies. And now we have a unit to calculate real ROI's.
The cost of capital is 200% a year in base money.

2024-10-29 05:50:40

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Ma'am, this is a NOSTR

2024-10-29 05:48:26

GM all.
Why do we price Bitcoin in dollars?
Why is Bitcoin "doing well" by this measure?
Is that dollar price clean?
Is it debt?
Is it real?
In a real deflation, we might see Bitcoin go down in dollar price, as it gains market share as global money.
Dollars seem to be a very retarded way to understand what is going on.
Right in the middle of the culture.
Isn't that a 'uuuuge self-own?

2024-10-26 06:08:33

GM
just jumping on the nostr for some high signal stuff.
Like 50 links to the Trump interview - cheers dudes might've missed it.
#keepNOSTRinteresting

2024-10-26 05:59:36

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wasnt, but the point stands!

2024-10-24 06:24:44

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🤣 fixed the boiler yet?

2024-10-24 05:57:03

GM men of NOSTR
Delete the 'fairness' value in your mental config file. It's from an old version of LifeOS that doesn't use it anymore.
Moaning about the fiat world is even worse than bitcoin price talk, i think.
Sick of staggering through endless iterations of "that time life wasn't fair to me" with grown ass men. It's a waste of life.
No-one cares! You're moaning to other MEN who are also carrying their own water without complaint.
You're a.... man. The pitch is tilted. Crack on anyway and make the more interesting story about how you won, how you responded in a way you can get some pride from, how you found a way to win.
Being right is worthless - like a good idea. You gotta do more and bring home some red meat, even when the situation is "unfair".
Winners win. Losers quit and then moan about the wrong card flopping for them.

2024-10-22 05:52:27

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yes. its a problem but not a huge one.

2024-10-22 05:36:17

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you can almost see the foundation updates swirling in the black mass.
GM to YOU ser

2024-10-22 05:31:19

I'm INTJ. off the charts.
I think INTJ is about 2% of gen pop, and 40-60% of all Bitcoiners
#note1l7r…kjss

2024-10-21 08:53:53

GM fellow Ride or Die 'ers
Rollie Free stripped to his skin to beat the land speed record.
Shit or bust.
Win or die.
Be that IN, or fuck off and die anyway. Surrounded by all the ghosts of your highest potential staring back at you on your deathbed.
Nothing less will be remembered. Or matter.
https://m.primal.net/LczL.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrGOs1a1lOk

2024-10-19 19:41:16

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hear hear, well said mate.

2024-10-19 19:39:43

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you can't
let it go.

2024-10-19 16:12:06

GN!
https://m.primal.net/LbFz.png
#snootstr
#dogstr
#dogsofnostr

2024-10-16 06:25:35

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oh dude. you got me.

2024-10-16 05:49:20

in a good week - i win all my big battles by wednesday.
This week, it'll need all of today, to break the back of the important tasks.
I have no motivation.
When it abandons you, all you have left is a vision of what you could achieve, if you just did it anyway.
If the vision is good enough, if its authentic and valuable. You will get up. Motivation or not.
Thurs and Fri must always be about: consolidation, change, bayoneting the low urgency stuff expanding on your wins, gathering the info needed the the next week.
Wednesday is my breakeven day.
My close of play today, I'll have won my week, my ideas will be alive and stronger. My world will be a little safer, more predicable.
Don't lose your way anon.
We need the pipe hitters for what's ahead.
https://m.primal.net/LXOO.png

2024-10-14 07:29:21

Looking past the man for a second.
Starting a hard Monday is easier when a dude landed his own rocket on sunday.
That's exciting to me, I feel like I'm part of a species that is going somewhere again. We broke a ceiling as a species, and so my own ceilings are more breakable.
My work feels more worthwhile, because it will be realized into a world more worthy of the effort.
It's not nothing.
Whatever you build, or do, SHARE IT HERE.
We had a Lighting Torch a few years ago, lets get some #buildtr torches going!!!!
Who wants to light this one?

2024-10-13 05:31:38

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Humbly stacking ser 🫡
https://m.primal.net/LUSx.bin

2024-10-08 09:11:05

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Dev can't keep trying to build businesses, imo, their moat is drying up, and the user wins.

2024-10-08 09:00:45

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fuck em. Walk the dog, play with the kid.
f-u-c-k-e-mmmmm

2024-10-08 05:37:06

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V4V works at scale. It works with more value than a podcast or an image or blog.
It is a commerce feature, not a social feature.

2024-10-08 05:35:24

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digital business models will be riskier than land-anchored businesses that bootstrap the tech to analogue use cases, which can never be as efficient and therefore defends its margins better.
Bitcoin businesses tend to be ran by or influenced by, autistic devs, who are poorly skilled to be a fiduciary or man manager. AI will help remove them as gatekeepers, and the business models will have to be excellent to survive.
Demo's and wireframes are worthless.
Apps with no income are worthless.
Built and beg is not a strategy.

2024-10-06 08:13:04

GM.
Running lightning....
https://m.primal.net/LMmS.mp4
https://m.primal.net/LMmO.jpg
https://m.primal.net/LMmP.jpg
https://m.primal.net/LMmR.jpg

2024-10-05 05:45:14

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kill them all. Burn the boats.

2024-10-05 05:35:49

GM
Without government - who would block the rescue supplies?
Burn it the fuck down.

2024-10-02 06:20:26

Would add...
Very little in life is so urgent, you cannot think about what your very best response to something should be. It isn't your first thought, and it doesn't have to be. Don't be predictable.
For everything more urgent, there are drills.
GM sers and seresses...
#note12wl…p49s

2024-09-30 22:34:16

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a fellow ben - and we're always at the leading edge....
https://m.primal.net/LGkK.png

2024-09-30 22:28:35

Oh I love this.
Focus on your Craft
#note1ll5…k9nm

2024-09-29 23:15:54

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ive heard there's a UK beef mafia starting ser. 1 cow buy in.

2024-09-29 08:50:50

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Sad to report, it didnt work.
Moon landing cancelling, i'm going to hose myself down.

2024-09-29 08:50:08

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i do that loads, but i reckon it'd be different during a god candle. Might try again to get a second pump.

2024-09-29 08:46:13

Gonna open source my secret.
The Gunn Stack is officially issued under FOSS rules.
https://m.primal.net/LFQv.png

2024-09-29 07:42:14

GM.
You're not a tenant - you're a LAND CUCK.
If you cant feed yourself, home yourself, warm yourself, and you run a start9 startsfine Raspberry ubuntu blitz lightning node nostr signer NAS whatever the fuck.
You ain't no full node. You're good only in a 1 sigma event. Any more vol than that and you've procrastinated a lead in life away by being dogmatic and narrow viewed about what Bitcoin actually teaches us.
Be your own bank with bitcoin
Be your own soul with productive LAND

2024-09-28 19:46:17

Unlocked a new skin.
GN!
https://m.primal.net/LEsJ.jpg

2024-09-28 10:02:43

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Pete McCormick’s good on UX.
All his sponsors crush their UX.
Even blockfi

2024-09-24 21:10:59

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mixed views.....

2024-09-24 03:37:07

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dude - looks pretty not shit - well done!

2024-09-24 03:35:18

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people cant stop being fiat.

2024-09-24 03:31:58

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its like "Dr ABC" for admin, v popular/well known

2024-09-23 16:58:44

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A @npub1k6r…x6lp OG Classic

2024-09-23 06:52:28

GM fellow capitalists....
https://m.primal.net/KywK.png

2024-09-22 16:31:13

NOSTR DiD keeps improving...
AI keeps going....
People are going to die and give their npub to their LLM, and their bitcoin goes to it, and we'll have account acting like the dead pleb, online forever.
Zappin from the grave!

2024-09-22 13:55:45

Mr Gunn ser, are you saying we can buy anything we want?
No, I'm saying when you are vertical - you don't have to....
#meshstr
https://m.primal.net/KyJT.png

2024-09-22 12:15:51

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GM - we're friends tho

2024-09-21 12:17:19

I found this sick and ugly sapling fighting for it's life between 2 concrete panels, and I thought - I'll dedicate this tree to @npub1lqv…fx0r
This is now the Ungovernable Oak, if it lives (prob not) it'll be planted for Max in Citadel timber's private reserve, and belongs to him.
https://m.primal.net/Kwcs.png

2024-09-21 07:22:34

GM fellow solutions...
#note15uk…azp6

2024-09-20 17:52:21

As of today - NOSTR reputation determines what doors open, and what doors are yet to...
Tap to sign. Tap to enter. Tap to pay.
NOSTR Challenge Coin: Reputation Layer Access Controls.
Pleb arrives at a private location.
Beep boop
Pleb is legit meshdadel pleb - door opens. Signature approved.
Beep boop
NPUB Doesnt know what an XPUB is.
Red light, try airbnb.
Delivered today!
@npub1dqe…mmgt @npub1cn6…wt8a @npub1m83…l7yk
Next up...... not telling you, announcements always after its working.
https://m.primal.net/Kvuv.png
https://m.primal.net/Kvuq.png

2024-09-20 08:54:16

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not idea ser, incorporated ser, DMs are open ser!

2024-09-20 07:04:33

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insurance..

2024-09-20 06:59:12

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hurdlers.

2024-09-20 06:43:42

GM, your Eminences
https://m.primal.net/KvWr.jpg

2024-09-19 19:52:46

Fuck trump getting boomer onboarded. That dude has a shitcoin project out RIGHT NOW and we're all wanking over a politician again.
My land can be accessed with an npub.
Way bigger news.
GFY!
PV!
GN

2024-09-18 07:13:46

GM
Heroic, innocent people in jails we pay for should make you go cold.
Our very best people. put in a box for years without trial.
Fix this or the money will never be fixed.