BenGunn
The Ben Gunn

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

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

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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.

2025-02-12 06:56:28

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

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!

2025-01-02 08:24:56

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

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???

2024-11-17 14:53:39

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

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

2024-10-26 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.

2024-10-16 06:25:35

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oh dude. you got me.

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 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.

2024-10-06 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 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.

2024-09-18 07:08:21

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this is all so wrong.
Physical seizure is an attack vector like any other bug in bitcoin

2024-09-17 12:16:24

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GMGG

2024-09-17 09:24:08

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i am, only now, starting to understand that.
The obstacles and the good times are irreducible parts of the same thing. I am having fun mate dont worry.
on safety - ive done it a different way. Standard practice on my site is still far too dangerous, so we've gone from industry standard 300 trees a day, to 5-25 trees per day, because we also mill them and sell timber products.
I dont need to risk a dude for a fiat quota, they go slow and steady but forestry is horrible. Only thing ive done that keeping to the rules youre still v unsafe, and v short error chains with v bad outcomes

2024-09-17 07:35:25

When your stoic self destructive happiness and money sponge project starts getting good.
Gradually then suddenly.
Long vol feels a lot like short vol for a very long time.
https://m.primal.net/KsYe.jpg

2024-09-17 07:01:29

Hoping the case goes well today
#freesamouri
https://m.primal.net/KsXm.png

2024-09-17 06:56:37

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1) decide what you fukin want
2) wen the cake says hello again, think of that reason why you dont want it
3) remove the decision to bend on that from your head. block it out.
4) get all the crap out of the house, all the people who think food is love, all the easy ways to remove pain of being tempted
5) after you've passed on the big sundae, shown some resolve, put in a smaller something later in the day, as small reward, .

2024-09-17 06:27:49

Paper money created literal zombies. Mindless consumers, drawn to sounds of life, where they find it - they eat brains.
They grow in number when a living human is stripped down enough to become one of them. It's often a permanent change.
They are individually unimpressive and numerically intimidating.
They are to be avoided, and can be easily worked around with a serving mindset, and iron disciple on basic rules around them.
It's a zombie movie. Less and less metaphorical as M2 rises.
https://m.primal.net/KsWX.png

2024-09-16 18:48:50

GN your highnesses
https://m.primal.net/KsAI.jpg

2024-09-16 08:31:00

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i think culturally we over-define risk.
Bitcoin IS a hedge, but that's only a few lines on your life's risk register. We are all ultimately short vol/mortal.
Money is just a means to the ends of achieving freedom and human potential, but we still own the 'total' responsibility of that.
The money's fixed. Good, but the analog map has not been made any safer, arguably less safe in a transitional period.
So it's a spanner for a bolt, and a hammer for a nail.
And its a bitcoin for an inflationary, confiscatory and censorious era, and freehold productive multi use land for the scramble we're sailing into. Long vol = most amount of options in the widest range of future circumstances. Basically stay humble. Not a glib line, literally plan along the lines that you dont know what is going to happen. First fear you think of is the first risk on the register.
And let the hammer people argue with the spanner people about who's the best. Have a bit of everything, even luxury.

2024-09-16 07:23:10

PACE everything
Primary
Alternate
Contingency
Emergency
Example
A woodland
P: High value timber products
A: Standard sawmil
C: Firewood and training location
E: Shelter, water, food.

2024-09-16 07:21:18

GM.
Nothing. Nothing. I ever buy or spend on, is EVER single use.
Get something with 3 jobs and it's 1/3 the price per job.

2024-09-16 07:20:19

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lots of thoughts - scarce along which use case?
Land IS scarce. And is unhedgable for your meat suit.
Our hearts on Bitcoin, our ass in meatspace.

2024-09-15 18:13:02

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🤣 oh stawp!!!

2024-09-15 17:53:43

Bro landed the Hawk Tuah multi sig.
Definitely a brother of the corn...
https://www.hellomagazine.com/news/553919/conjoined-twins-abby-and-brittany-hensel-taylor-swift-song-intimate-wedding-pictures/

2024-09-15 11:56:50

Love this, endorse this, and would also add - the physical pleb layer is coming to support these god-like tools.
We all need somewhere to feel safe, be well fed, kept warm and this is an irreducible part of the bitcoin movement that needs to be un-bootstrapped from the fiat world.
We're losing people to low end physical seizure, and to depression and compromise. Let's build it out.
I'm here for it.
#note1x63…gv6j

2024-09-15 10:10:56

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All the UX devs. They'll learn, that lot.

2024-09-15 10:05:24

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yes mate - dont sleep on that place - im there all of nov if you fancy a hop over, scoping out some development sites - i'll do your PADI with you - best diving there mate and the Dive Operator is a Bitcoin chad!
And yes, it beats currycow for corn adoption ser!! But will have a thumb war about it over a margarita at the bar!

2024-09-15 10:02:36

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everyone understands dilution.

2024-09-15 10:02:04

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no, people start to look down at the floor ;)

2024-09-15 05:32:34

GM.
Got a little tip to use on the normies.
Don't say inflation, say dilution.
Dilution is a less loaded, less arcane word that everyone already gets, and still strikes at the root of the problem.

2024-09-14 13:00:56

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how are they planning to adapt the business model of telegram?

2024-09-14 12:53:13

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*western, sorry 😉

2024-09-14 12:52:40

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fact check ser! Prospera, Roatan is eastern carribbean and btc is legal lender there, you can even pay local taxes. 100pc adoption ser.

2024-09-14 12:49:23

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its been the million sat question for v long time, much discussed, but these physical nodes are being a reality in various forms via places like bitcoin park, prospera, plan b's locations, berlin, el salvador, my own in wales UK, and many others.

2024-09-14 10:24:02

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Happiness - loyatly to the idea of yourself, and loyalty to the realization of that image.
Love ya mate - hope youre still having fun in far away places - come to UK one day!

2024-09-14 10:22:10

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12 angry men
Top Gun
The Princess Bride
Cannonball Run I & II

2024-09-14 10:21:17

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chris cole should be up in the premier league. i already regret that, he deserves to be. I'm prob based b/c hes still alive and not a bitcoiner.

2024-09-14 10:20:05

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atlas, fountainhead same book really
The Divine Comedy
Both absolutely transformational
and then direction changing stuff, ,making whats there better
How to How Impossible Conversations
Meditations (applied, not read)
Works of Chris Cole Artemis capital - vol papers
count of montecristo
treasure island
Damnation of Faust
Born to run/supple leopard
trying to get @npub1hk0…20pf and @npub1rtl…jtfs to make some content that analyses and covers Dante's masterwork, i think its a very large opportunity to study ethics that are compatible with bitcoin and beautiful maybe @npub1cqm…hjec would cover it on his show sometime but, my gosh why is dante not talked about more with this group - i do not know.