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https://bitcoinapolis.blogspot.com/

Mostly Bitcoin Only. My stuff is TLDR on purpose so you can pick/choose what you want.
Bitcoin Store of Value first but then MoE, least friction.
Open Source is King, huge fan of Dorsey.
Filters are not Censorship.
Bitcoin is Time (Gigi). Timechain. Ocean. Bitcoin Knots.
I am a 35 year BI Developer using a competing product of Microstrategy but now am a MSTR /Saylor supporter.
Non-Partisan but I will never vote Grifter Trump.
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2025-03-09 21:34:12

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Thanks my man. I had no chance at 45. Bitcoin is life changing. You never hear “I have enough” no matter your wealth. You do. I am paying $18,000 a year in Healthcare. Zero complaints but I drive a crappy 2007 Honda Ridgeline and I am still stacking. Life is good. You can do it.

2025-03-09 21:09:25

Today marks 3 years since I told my FIAT job to SHOVE IT. I am below retirement age and the Rule of 55 and Bitcoin saved me.
Hang in there people in cubicle world, with your seemingly soul sucking existence. The Meetings. The Office Politics. Cost of Living adjustments that don't even come close to helping. Coworkers who do nothing but kiss butt and get promoted. Let me know if you need some comic relief, tell me about your situation and try me and I am not an AI bot. I saw it all and made sarcastic comments for 35 years. https://m.primal.net/PaCI.png

2025-02-15 19:44:59

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51st state geese?

2025-01-26 17:08:47

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Thank you. I agree with this all. Jeff Booth. Mallers. Dorsey. You. Actually me. But corporations will take forever to adopt MoE. We can but it’s small. I am for it though. When will it be? I say 10 years. Are you more optimistic?

2025-01-26 14:37:18

"Bitcoin as SoV first: Let All the 'Crypto/Worldwide' Currencies Fight to their Deaths on MoE and UoE."
Note: Author is 100% anti-Crypto and 100% Pro-Bitcoin
This uproar on Sayor is totally ridiculous. You haven't been listening or researching the words alongside researching the numbers. Saylor for over three years has been explaining how the "friction" with Bitcoin comes in if we adopted Bitcoin as a currency. Nothing has changed as far as Saylor's beliefs and opinions on Bitcoin. Most of this post is from what he was saying three years ago.
In a perfect world Bitcoiners imagine, Bitcoin is everything, no second best to anything and everything:
1) Store of Value (SoV)
2) Medium of Exchange (MoE)
3) Unit of Account (UoA)
For now it's a dream that may be realistic 20, 30, 100 years from now. But currently, Bitcoin isn't even close to carrying that Trifecta. Why? Because of the US Dollar and Accounting systems. Legacy systems. The friction. The politics.
Bitcoiners are going to war essentially with themselves and it is a combative approach. You think Trump would give up on the United States Dollar? A currency in his DNA, his motivation, via a man who wants his face on Mount Rushmore and that very dollar bill.
Saylor's audience to adopt Bitcoin is big business, not individuals, as they adopt Bitcoin as a Store of Value (SoV) first but it won't be currency/money for a long time. Nothing wrong with it using it that way though obviously.
Savings: SoV, Bitcoin only. Digital Property/Digital Capital
Checking: Everything else, the US Dollar, 159 other currencies, XRP, ETH, CBDCs....yeah, they are stupid and are weaker to Bitcoin and that is OKAY. Let people FAFO? We all did it. Put the lesson to scale, let the United States Government teach people quicker that "Crypto" isn't the same as Bitcoin but if you want to use weaker MoE or UofA, who cares for now when you are holding digital financial dry gunpowder in the ultimate SoV Bitcoin canon? A canon that should never fire.
But for now,
Please go back and Listen to this one Podcast Saylor did with Saif, the question and answer part was great too.
December 2021: <--- YEARS ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRvBj7j24B0
Partial Notes:
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Saylor:
If you’ve looked at every single banker, every time they say, Well is Bitcoin a currency? Well I mean their answer is, No, it’s not a currency. Jerome Powell can’t admit it’s a currency. Christina Lagarde is saying it’s not a currency. And then the Bitcoin community oftentimes recoils in horror like, Yes we are! Yes we are! Why do you want to be? Why can’t you actually be property worth $10 million dollars a coin and not be a currency? If I told you you could basically go from zero to $10 million dollars a coin and everybody will help you along the way — every company, every government, will help you along the way to become worth $10 million dollars a coin — or, you can fight with everybody the entire way, and if you succeed you’ll have toppled every government and every political group and every company and destroyed the entire 20th century economy, but you’ll have your currency. Like, what’s left? If I rip every single company to zero and I destroy every country and every political system, you’ll have your currency, but what are you going to buy with it when every company is non-existent and every government doesn’t exist? You can’t even buy bullets to defend yourself in the post-apocalyptic anarchy that follows, because bullets get manufactured by companies that use accounting systems that run on dollars.
In this case, after the Currency Battle, SoV Bitcoin can do this:
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Other personal Opinions (Warning a bit unhinged):
* Ripple/XRP is a parasitical business, from the pre-mine to the missing 30K first transactions, $10s of millions in 'marketing' to disparage Bitcoin. Losers. They are weaker than Bitcoin, inside the USA and 100% outside of the USA. I agree with Bit Paine's call to action but only with Yellow's temperament. Let's have fun dissing these Crypto unregistered securities?
* I am appalled by a post from Oz on January 25th that said: "Kill your heroes" (not slay but kill) and essentially had Saylor in the crosshairs of a sniper's rifle. Fuck off you mouth breathing, Putin supporting dick. You spend all your days on Spaces blathering on and on how tough you are, yet you essentially want to threaten Saylor so he can NOT go out and selflessly share his thoughts on Bitcoin for free because of safety concerns because of idiots like you? You have benefited but are a complete loser. Wrestle Bears, yeah, because Russian Orcs are so tough and cool. (Yes, I choose to be triggered but your one post was my motivation for this entire post. Thank you.)
My raw notes:
https://bitcoinapolis.blogspot.com/2022/12/bitcoin-bitcoin-as-digital-property-is.html
Great post here:
https://x.com/danieleripoll/status/1736848104836702568?s=20
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Trying to turn spot #BTC into an everyday spending currency undermines what's valuable about BTC. Being a store of value is right on the mark. It solves a problem for everyone on earth. Being a medium of exchange has little value. An MoE that isn't backed by anything is basically worthless.
The Bitcoin base layer was optimized for security, immutability and decentralization. That forms a granite foundation on top of which all other (lesser) functions of money can be expressed.

2025-01-17 13:11:19

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Correction it does have dialogue...just not much, no explaining what is happening, visions do the talking. True David Lynch and Bitcoin. You can't explain it.

2025-01-17 13:05:09

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I meant to add Wes Anderson to the list.

2025-01-17 12:48:37

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Same. His first, "Eraserhead" has stuck with me forever. No dialogue. Black and White. Brilliant.

2025-01-11 13:34:07

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🤣 on Hoser, haven't heard that one in about 30 years. ah..wookookoo..uh-wookookoo

2025-01-04 06:51:03

On of my favorite Internet sites is really, really old called despair.com and it is so full of Bitcoin/anit FIAT Gems on it. Here is one of their newest "2025 DEMOTIVATORS":
https://m.primal.net/NRQv.webp
As a former 35 year Corruptorate America cube slave, half as an FTE and half as a 'Consultant' this poster proudly hangs in my garage:
https://m.primal.net/NRRJ.webp
I spent 35 years in BI using a competing product to MicroStrategy. BI is all about the data, thus my effort to protect the Bitcoin Timechain from GIGO which is rampant in our society.

2024-12-30 16:31:59

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Wife and I honeymooned in Tofino before Nanaimo was on the map. I love Vancouver Island BC.
1992 we were there

2024-12-30 16:30:22

NOSTR musicians. I know it’s not cool to post from X but check out this singer, her song, the lyrics. She needs NOSTR and zaps.
https://x.com/iyahmaymusic/status/1873697062329758048?s=46&t=YWC79OfCrPaCG1APbpOpRQ

2024-12-17 06:10:21

One thing holding me back on NOSTR is the search. I spent my entire career in data/reporting so I view all posts as database entries to go back and 'mine' words, Dorsey's, yours, and mine.
For instance, I painstakingly wrote up notes on Saylor explaining the 5 types of investors in Bitcoin. Going to the transcript, reformatting it, etc.
I remember it had Denier and Skeptic in it but I can't find it using any client search inside NOSTR or using "The Google."
For 2025, I would like to not renew my blue check on Twitter but it is impossible for me to be limited on my posts (TLDR) and some of us need the search.
I know, I know, everyone likes to think what they post today is earth shattering but I really, really like to go back to what has been said the past almost 16 years in Bitcoin and last almost 4(?) on NOSTR.
Huge Fan of NOSTR and I am patient as Hell. Some of us were around when the Internet was being built:
"404 Page Not Found - Site Under Construction"

2024-12-07 13:52:20

Thanks to Bitcoin, I was able to skirt around my governments antiquated rules on only being able to invest $9300/yr (I am and married.) How, I took my crappy HSA and moved it to Fidelity and was able to invest almost 8 years via some Bitcoin products. Thanks Satoshi/Saylor/Fidelity.
Stop glorifying spending/debt USA Government and vilifying SAVINGS. Any type of SAVINGS. Health SAVINGS. You want me bankrupt when I am one blood test away from financial ruin because our healthcare sucks?
How sick does the world have to be to see what Bitcoin can solve and apparently I live in the healthiest of nations?
What a joke.

2024-10-25 12:02:52

Not sure if the rumor I heard was true but since there are no filters anymore on misinformation I am going to put this out there as fact.
It makes sense that Peter Schiff founded Midvale School.https://m.primal.net/LhjH.webp

2024-10-12 16:33:09

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Laughter, yeah no, my dad told me early on, "never trust a guy with two first names."
It's applied every time in my life for decades.

2024-10-12 14:39:16

How is it possible to even begin to thank Satoshi for his gift to the world?
How would you measure the positive impact of Bitcoin? What metrics? What graphs could you show if you collected all the data points you need with the billions of rows of data ?
It's way more than a God Candle with Godzilla screeching and fire breathing as the NGU.
Bitcoin is a mind blowing, life altering, positive human battery charging , energized gift that helps with people's Physical, mental, and financial well being.
Human Being. On Earth.
p.s. - I didn't say Spiritual on purpose because that is stupid.
(Bitcoiners: some of the most opinionated MoFos on the planet.)

2024-10-07 12:10:01

Great post, and the biggest thing to me:
1) Your savings, your asset, is the bank's LIABILITY
2) Your Loan, your liability, is the bank's ASSET
....Bitcoins is a SAVINGS vehicle
Only two dots to connect here.

2024-10-03 22:47:07

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Yeah. She had it all set and the last part of KYC was “utility bill with her name on it.” Odd

2024-09-21 14:50:34

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I can't add cheese to the classic, however, we do these kinds of sandwiches with cheddar (yum) and a good ripe (not hard) avocado.
Put a soft egg on there too, super messy, you can't even cut these.
By the way, my wife/daughter laugh at me, I love the 'plastic basket' dinners (I do them a lot), with a sheet of aluminum foil or the red checkered pre-square paper.
Easy cleanup and fun.
Thoughts on the plastic baskets for dinner at home?

2024-09-21 13:01:56

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Exactly, so much easier to cook bacon like this rather than splattering on the stovetop and having to flip them all the time.
No flipping. (Bitcoin is more like Bacon, not Ethereum)
I line the pan with parchment paper for easier cleanup too.
For those of you outside America, one of our most popular sandwiches is called a BLT (Bacon Lettuce Tomato)
So easy. Try it.
1) Toast your favorite Sandwich bread
2) Mayo (top sides of both for anti-sog protection)
3) Slices of Bacon
4) Lettuce
5) Slices of Tomato
Cut in on the diagonal and eat it.
Incredibly good.
(Here come the..."You can't cut on the diagonal or other opinions." 🤣 )

2024-09-21 12:50:37

Second attempt: "How to get money from US Bank to a French Bank"
Situation:
Daughter over in France for DEUX (2) years. She has to setup a bank account in order to function over there, cell phones etc.
She is going to Uni (college) and she is as poor as I was at her age.
So, my wife and I are helping her out so she doesn't have to start out in the world following the lead of our US Politicians and broke ass government.
The options are terrible.
The best was to use Strike via the LN, easy right?
Nope, here is why, part of the KYC is you have to bring in an electric Bill with your name on it.
Hard to do when you are in temporary housing in a foreign country being a broke ass Visa tethered/monitored American citizen just trying to pay too much to be educated and a productive member of the world.
So, what......<me losing interest like all of you>

2024-09-16 21:03:08

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Thank you, not worried about KYC at all, I'd give a urine sample if I had to.
I can't believe the process has to be this insane/inane.

2024-09-16 20:14:10

I feel so dumb asking this, I thought I was paying attention with Remittance fees and Strike and the LN.
Now our daughter is in France for a long time, we need to wire her money to her new French Bank account from US Bank.
The options we have are expensive and dumb, anyone know how to do this without my having to give up the Sats I clawed to get from living in the US and depositing to various Lightning wallets?
I would like to be able to send up to $5000 with the least Friction and not trip the alarms our stupid banks have.
Our daughter is a wonderful, upstanding, college student not a criminal nor are we bad actors but we are forced to feel this way.
Thanks a lot Freedom based Les Etats Unis for all my decades of following all the rules and you put me in this box?
Zelle, Wire Transfer, PayPal, Western Union...all awful options with the incredible fees attached.
French Bank is LCL if that matters, not sure if it is best to start from French or American side.
Good God is banking broken worldwide.
Let us live in peace with the money we earned, LEGALLY.

2024-09-16 17:30:14

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Cool Mel, the only way I could find it (since it's a cover?) was on YouTube but I think it is this one? Love it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzrNKr7Y69A

2024-09-16 14:14:06

Music request.
I really like harder rock that go ballad or are mixed with rap or heavy doing ballads.
For instance,
Post Malone and Ozzie "Take What You Want"
Five Finger Death Punch with the late DMX "This Is The Way"
....of course the ubiquitous Disturbed/Simon and Garfunkel "Sound of Silence"

2024-09-16 13:40:51

Bitcoiners: "A call to Action, your voice on a Stablcoin called World Liberty Financial"
Today Donald Trump announces from Florida, his family's vision of your financial future via a Stablecoin called "World Liberty Financial."
I don't care who you are, where you live, or who you vote for in your various countries elections.
I do care about Bitcoin.
I do care about the Spam on the Base Layer of the Timechain and for Ocean's decentralized mining via various template offerings.
Many of you don't care at all and "everything is good for Bitcoin" and it is all about NGU technology?, But I am asking, not begging, you to care about this latest development.
Donald Trump, less than 2 months ago, was the Bitcoin Hero in Nashville but his latest 'crypto stunt' is a total disservice to Bitcoin. Note, Bitcoin doesn't care at all, but it is a huge disservice to the Bitcoiner heavyweights who have spent so much time trying to educate the world. Broken down why there is Bitcoin and why there is crypto and why the latter needs to be rejected at all costs.
This is the image I use:
https://m.primal.net/IxWP.png
There was a supposed "leaked white paper" on CoinDesk (I am not going to provide the link because they didn't post the document.)
But supposedly:
- It's a Stablecoin called World Liberty Financial rebranded from "The Defiant Ones" (aka a "Mr. Obnoxious" feel)
- A massive 70% premine of the ICO to the founders including Trumps Eric, Don Jr., and Barron.
- Eric and Don Jr. are given the titles of "Web3 Ambassadors" and 18 year old Barron is titled "Defi Visionary"
- Built on Aave, a platform currently on Ethereum setup by 'experts' from recently hacked Dough Financial.
- Trump wants to ensure the financial dominance of the United States Dollar
I have to stop here, waste of time writing this if Bitcoiners will not unite to reject this Stablecoin proposed by an unstable family who are clearly using politics for personal financial gain, under the guise of being a Patriot fighting for the worldwide dominance of the American Dollar.
Of all the 173 currencies worldwide, Bitcoiners have correctly deemed the US Dollar to be the "best looking horse in the glue factory."
How about focusing on the problem, one that is not fixed by Crypto, stablecoins, or Billionaires like Sam Altman (Worldcoin launched a mere 6 months ago) or Donald Trump launching today.
The solution is Bitcoin.
Bitcoin only, but you need to do the work, with your precious time and financial savings, not carelessly investing your time and your assets into something people like Trump and other Crypto influencers don't understand. Their crypto efforts are about them while Bitcoin is all about you.
This is a call to action, for your voices, all of you, but I assume you will you just be silent majority. Casually letting the Bitcoin education clock to spin backwards again for Bitcoin.
Thank God, Bitcoin doesn't care, I just felt compelled to write this for me, not you. Thank you Satoshi, no premine, no conflict of interest, for your solution to the problem.
"It's Bitcoin, not crypto....there is no second best." - Michael Saylor
Will the real Mr. Obnoxious please stand up?
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2024-09-15 12:27:18

Bitcoin: "SPAM"
When you think things are all good and fine with Ordinals/Runes/Stamps etc., you are not listening to @npub1au2…t53j or @npub1wnl…n3wr or @npub1ywj…6ejf
Use Leo's version of Mempool so when you click on the Block you can see the True Bitcoin Transaction health, right Antfool?
https://m.primal.net/Kqjm.png
https://mempool.orangepill.ovh/

2024-09-15 12:21:09

"Bitaxe Plus Ocean For the Win"
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#note1zp6…5gd8

2024-09-13 12:22:02

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Laughter, after several bouts spanning my lifetime, I can't believe (say at a huge stadium packed with people drinking and eating too much) how we don't see more people doing the duck waddle and exploding in corners everywhere.

2024-09-12 20:29:44

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Tears....Yellow...Tears. In your honor, I am making Ground Beef/Ground Lamb meatballs with homemade Tzatziki sauce. Salute to my online Yellow friend.

2024-09-11 11:40:26

Harris kicked Trump's ass last night.
It may be 8 years before the US gets a pro-Bitcoin president but I am on a low time preference and would rather wait than have that jackass back in office.
In the meantime, how about some other country step up to lead with Bitcoin and let America play catchup.
The educated American people will be able to buy Bitcoin along side everyone else regardless.

2024-09-08 02:59:22

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Can you please tell the exact string to put into a BitAxe? I know they are long shots but who cares? I have been asking and searching for this answer but want to know from someone who understands Ocean and BitAxe.
Thanks in advance hopefully.

2024-09-05 10:35:49

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A buddy remembers, years ago, when he was teaching his son about saving his money. I told him, if you can't get through to him, perhaps he could go across the street and talk to your neighbor.
My buddy busted out laughing.
The neighbor across the street on his garage door in huge letters had: "JESUS SAVES"

2024-09-04 21:15:14

"17 Satoshis"
If there is one indicator of how a currency is crap, you don't even have to look at the US Dollar but look at the US Penny.
How many of you would stop to pick up a penny? A loaded question, the majority of us would. But we subliminally view 1/100th of a dollar as almost worthless.
When we get pennies, we chuck them into change jars where most of the 288 Billion pennies live and seldom go back to take pennies with us out into consumer land.
Now compare those of us who are into Bitcoin, we get excited for ONE SAT which is 1/17th a penny's worth of Bitcoin at today's prices.
Why? Because we know today's penny is worth less tomorrow and the day after as inflation steals our buying power. But we believe, based on millions of hours of collective Bitcoin analysis, that Bitcoin NGU and therefore a penny's worth of sats today could be worth a lot more tomorrow.
But what about the Penny today, those 17 Sats at today's price, when Bitcoin hits $1,000,000 a coin, then one US Penny is worth 1 Sat so picking up one US penny today on the street could be like picking up 17 pennies tomorrow.
Convert your pennies to sats today?
https://m.primal.net/KeWX.png
Or at least, seed Phrases on Pennies is cheaper than buying washers.
https://m.primal.net/KeWo.png
Sign me,
The Thrifty Bitcoiner

2024-08-30 10:01:13

Looks like NOSTR has uncovered something ginormous:
https://m.primal.net/KUxn.jpg

2024-08-24 13:58:21

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My very first "Bookmark" goes to Yellow for this gem. Man this guy's content resonates with me.

2024-08-22 23:36:22

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Health over wealth

2024-08-21 21:48:02

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My very best day ever in NOSTR was a call out to one of my posts that had almost zero interaction before they picked it up.

2024-08-21 20:02:25

Bitcoin: "Jack Mallers to Debate Peter Schiff"
https://m.primal.net/KGzM.png
Snippets from specific talking points and other people's views (Lepard, Saif, Dorsey, Winklevoss) on Gold versus Bitcoin including why Saylor doesn't want to debate Schiff on gold.
Saylor (from a while ago documented above)
"The fundamental point here is is you have to give the world a solution to their problem not just be a Critic if you want to be a Critic you can criticize everything but but what's his answer if you listen if you listen to Peter's (Schiff) debates what he says is he only has five percent of his portfolio invested in gold which means that he has 95 percent invested in something else.
But what is this something else and the point is he you know you're back in the same you know hedge fund Shuffle mentality it's like just give me all your money and I'm just going to shuffle it with random 95 opacity on random stuff back and forth but don't question it. What about the five it was a recommendation he would own more than 50 percent of his portfolio in the gold but he doesn't believe in it so but his argument would be I don't recommend people to buy 50 percent I recommend people to buy two to five percent that's his position he doesn't have an answer to the that that means that you're going to lose 95 percent of your wealth.
The issue with Peter is Peter's not offering a solution to the world right he's simply trolling Bitcoin and he's not trolling Bitcoin with any any real concrete criticism other than he just doesn't like it. Find me somebody in the world who has invested more than 50 percent of a portfolio in gold or at a billion dollar level. I got my position is pretty clear I've invested almost four billion dollars in Bitcoin."
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Specific Reasons Saylor won't debate Schiff:"Why the Peter Schiff/Michael Saylor Gold -vs- Bitcoin Debate will never happen"
Subhead Spoiler: "It's a waste of time"
Me: All in Saylor's words from a recent Quoth the Raven episode (at almost the very end of the two hour podcast)June 6th, 2024 on YouTube but recorded end of May.
Michael Saylor:
...In terms of Peter Schiff I think my issue here is we mostly agree on the problem we have just have two different solutions and my solution is technology digital capital via Bitcoin his solution is gold.
But it's not constructive to debate him because he hasn't changed his position position in 15 years while bitcoin's gone from like a dollar to 66,000 and he
doesn't introduce any new arguments all he's doing is just arguing in favor of gold and at the end of the day.
Peter Schiff doesn't own gold and so so he does own gold he he said for the record only a small portion of his portfolio is gold he's not even majority invested in Gold he doesn't have a billion in Gold he's got half half of his portfolio is in miners.
The point is those miners are short gold Chris they're short gold they're selling gold every day in the market so the point is if you're arguing in favor investing in gold miners.
Well you might as well be arguing in favor of investing in like soybean Farmers or natural gas Drillers or whatever you're an industrial analyst promoting industrial stocks which is fine but that's not money. He (Schiff) would disagree with you that he's short gold he would say is that if the price of gold rises, miners are going to rise as a multiple of that because that because you're essentially long goal with leverage. Which is very different than being short, I just don't really think it's constructive or a good use of anybody's time.
Peter has has been debated on this topic for a decade, I mean like heck, when I got into Bitcoin in 2020, one of the reasons I bought Bitcoin was because I saw Eric Voorhees and Peter shift debate from 2017.
Like he (Peter Schiff) wasn't persuasive in 2017 he (Schiff) hasn't been persuasive since. I think that it's a disservice to actually promote that in general.
By the way I think it's I think the elephant in the room here is I don't think you can find a single person in the world who owns a billion dollars worth of gold. I challenge you to find one yeah go go find me a person that owns a billion dollars worth of gold
as an investment and then bring them and if you can find me that person Chris I'll debate them, I will, I will debate."
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Other Points of view and more Saylor:
- Larry Lepard: "If you melted all the gold in the world down it would fill 2 Olympic sized swimming pools." (And they can add 2-3% more a year or even more if the 'price is right.')
- Saylor: "Gold is Dead Money"
- Saylor: "Gold is an awful monetary asset."
- Saylor:
"So, commodity, the kiss of death is, when the price goes up, everybody's going to charge into that business and they're going to double the production of it. If the price of gold goes up, there are more goldminers coming online. When it goes up by a factor of ten, there are a lot of goldminers coming online. And by the way, that's not the problem; that's a part of the problem; that's a first order of problem. If I actually take the price of gold to $50,000 an ounce, I'm going to get a lot more goldminers.
But here I'm going to tell you what the real problem is. When the price of gold goes to $50,000 an ounce, and hundreds of billions of dollars get invested in goldmining, they're going to double the production or triple the production of gold; they're going to drive the price down. But, the variable cost of producing gold's going to be $2,000 an ounce; the price is going to be $50,000 an ounce; the price of gold is going to get driven into the dirt to $40,000 to $30,000 to $20,000 to $15,000 to $10,000 to $5,000. When it gets to $2,000 an ounce, it's possible that the goldminers will go offline, or the commodities will go online. "
- Saifedean Ammous:
"...but I think it’s reality at this point, and I think clinging on to gold was probably the biggest financial mistake that I’ve ever made."
- Saylor:
"You’ve got the fiat monetary system—and as we’ve said, if you put $100 million into fiat, you’re gonna lose 99% of your money over a hundred years. And then you’ve got a gold monetary system: you put $100 million in gold, you’re gonna lose 80% or 85% or 90% of your position over a hundred years, because it’s inflating, and it’s got counter-party risk. "
Saylor:
"Over the course of the century, 95% of the gold was confiscated (Me: documented) in the last 100 years. So maybe theoretically the United States government might have got that gain. But everybody in Russia, China, every country in Europe, everybody in South America and Asia, they all lost their gold. So if you do a risk adjusted calculation, you find that you invest a dollar, it should be worth $100. But you lost it, not all of it 95 from the time you get five bucks."
Saylor:
" So my view here is, is Bitcoin is the ideal architecture to be a currency and gold isn't. I started my career modeling commodities and the history of commodities is as the price goes up, the demand decreases, the supply increases. Gold is a commodity, Bitcoin is a scarcity. "
Saylor:
"You said that on Stansberry December 2020, and then the famous Peter Schiff said, quote, I don't own much gold, I own more gold stocks. "
Back:
https://x.com/adam3us/status/1641394621749026818?s=46&t=YWC79OfCrPaCG1APbpOpRQ
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- Caitlin Long:
"in my opinion, there's nothing special about gold itself. What gold did was literally just put a tether on the dollar, on how much credit could be created."
- Tyler Winklevoss "Our basic thesis for bitcoin is that it is better than gold.”
-Saifedean Ammous: “It’s just a digital, decentralized technology for doing gold’s job. It’s just the simpler, faster, cheaper way of doing what gold does.”
Steve Wozniak:
“Only bitcoin is pure digital gold… and I totally buy into that. All the others tend to give up some of the aspects of bitcoin. For example, being totally decentralized and having no central control. That’s the first one they have to give up to try to have a business model.”
- Jack Dorsey:
"(Bitcoin) is designed to mimic the supply of a real-world commodity, gold. This means that the number of coins that it is possible to mine is restricted: the supply will eventually hit a ceiling with 21m bitcoins."
- Pomp:
"Bitcoin is a 100x improvement over gold as a store of value. The world is realizing this and beginning to reprice digital currency in real-time. Although bitcoin has increased hundreds of percent in the last few months, it is likely to continue appreciating in US dollar terms over the coming years. I suspect that bitcoin's market cap will surpass gold's market cap by 2030. For this reason, I own no gold and have a material percent of my net worth invested in bitcoin."
Space Mining?
(me: iif you think we will live on Mars, mining Gold in space isn't too far fetched, you can't do this with Bitcoin):
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/asteroid-16-psyche-may-be-worth-more-than-planet-earth-at-10-quintillion-in-fine-metals-180979303/
#note19gq…z2g4

2024-08-21 18:48:22

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I can totally relate. I have it too. Daughter called eating while talking. Yeah. Call me back when you are done.

2024-08-21 10:33:41

Taking bribes in Cash and Gold didn't work out very well for this criminal.
Then:
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Today:
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2024-08-20 21:15:57

I am posting this simply so others can find it, it took me way too long to refind this.
This is Jack Dorsey giving a profound speech to a packed, hot hotel room in Italy. Bare bones and pure signal.
Bitcoin is Freedom Money, he explains NOSTR and other topics in an incredibly interesting simple format.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-40158eRqo
June 2024

2024-08-20 12:42:29

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Yes, way better asked than me. Is an AI using Bitcoin now where let's say it needs to do micropayments (7x24) for energy use or to get a legal signature/timestamp/"digital wax seal"?

2024-08-20 12:38:29

What are some of your favorite websites (extra points for old school) that should have better exposure? I will start, https://despair.com/ and their 'Demotivators' have made me laugh for decades. Totally underrated/under appreciated.
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2024-08-20 12:25:31

Bitcoin: Will we ever be able to know when AI starts to use Bitcoin on its payment rails or could it already be happening?

2024-08-19 12:58:37

Bitcoin: "Bitcoin Core: Protecting Open Source"
Subhead: "The 5 Horsemen"
Jack Dorsey is my goto guy for Open Source. I have struggled on Social Media, especially X, it's all so "empty" exactly as Dorsey has explained repeatedly. It's about Free Will not Free Speech. So, why the Hell am I still on X with my ridiculous Blue Check? I am trying to get to NOSTR only (aside from snarky replies on X, that's my infotainment.)
I am older, first year Gen X, like Sayloris , but I am three months younger. Dorsey is so right on all his Open Source, Saylor is so right on Bitcoin. Both men can't be similar experts as I addressed via the previous "Thank you Note to Odell" post. Damn that podcast meant a lot to me.
I am a 27 year volunteer national level Patient Advocate in cancer, I just explained last week to a group of world known Hematologists/Clinicians/Pathologists/Radiologists, after they asked me a question about how to talk to other Advocates . I explained how the first 7 years of my advocacy, I learned from a lens of anger and desperation. When I started to learn I could communicate with anyone on the subject, my emotions subsided and I was invited behind the scenes. I WAS TOTALLY WRONG on most of my assumptions.
Most of you aren't interested in Cancer, perhaps just like I wasn't either, completely complacent. "We all have to die of something..." I won't scold, I was exactly like you before my wife, then 31, diagnosed with incurable Stage IV cancer. She's alive, thanks to wildly diving into the data and learning all I could about her disease. I am so grateful, so now I am learning all I can about Bitcoin using the same techniques I did to learn about cancer.
Yes, I am wordy. I am a walking talking TLDR, but my motto is "if you can't fix it, feature it." It works for me and I quote a 'study' done the early Internet days. The premise was "the more information people have at their disposal the more overwhelmed they will be."
The conclusion, "those with the most information were THRIVING."
Bitcoin is my hobby.
Cancer taught me Health over Wealth.
Like with cancer, there's the Generalists and the Specialists. If you are a Generalist, you know a little about each letter in the alphabet, perhaps like a surgeon needs to know. As a Specialist you are a generalist too, but you are are experts in one or a couple letters.
Perhaps you specialize in Brain Cancer?
Regardless, people spend their entire lives looking for a trusty car mechanic, but when they get a life threatening cancer diagnosis, they go to 'the doctor.' Some generalist? Close by?
If I could sum up almost three decades:
1) If it's your radiator go to a radiator specialist
2) In the past I'd say get a 2nd opinion at least, now with AI I am hoping in the future you can get a million opinions on your Diagnosis. Using the data from people just like you who had the same diagnosis?
So how the HELL does this relate to Bitcoin? Like with cancer there is an entire Bitcoin alphabet and there are generalists and specialists. Some of you know a little about each letter and some of you know a lot about certain letters.
I am looking for the expert on this Letter:
Bitcoin Core (and why at this point I promote Bitcoin Knots, misguided?)
I am only in my first 4 years of Bitcoin so I know I am still learning and unenlightened. Perhaps there is a similar anger so I really want feedback not validation.
Like with cancer, I am a hack with my Bitcoin knowledge.
However, to me the giant red flag was when Udi was on stage at a previous 'Bitcoin' event (for the record I have 0 trust in Bitcoin Magazine and their employees. Like with cancer, parasites make money off the disease. Misguided?)
As I try to become a Bitcoin generalist what is Bitcoin Core from a people standpoint?
My concern is the most obvious, people are the weak link in code, projects.
It comes down to an anonymous quote from a college textbook to me:
"Computers are incredibly fast, incredibly accurate, and dumb. People are incredibly slow, incredibly inaccurate, and smart."
- Anonymous
Are we smart with Bitcoin Core? Why don't we know the 5 people who hold the keys to software that runs the Bitcoin network? There are a lot of checks and balances
Trust is what motivates and challenges us to be experts.
Some of you techies are too cool to focus on the teachings or efforts of others who you deem not worthy because they are not techie enough for your taste. However, there are lessons to be learned in other letters of the Bitcoin alphabet, namely those experts on Bitcoin Communication.
They teach you, your EQ is just as important as your IQ.
For instance, Natalie Brunell:
"Gloria Zhao on Bitcoin Network Defense: Core Developers, Decentralized Nodes, and Emerging Tech Threats... "
https://fountain.fm/episode/TmC6KGSxTKYt8X9Zb2zY
My notes are, Gloria Zhao is one of the 5 Bitcoin Core key holders. We trust them until we can't. I really liked how her biggest fear is "how people perceive Bitcoin Core."
But it wasn't until she said 'why' did it resonate with me, she used an example of some people who give Bitcoin Core a bad name, as they are over the top with their approach.
DAMN RIGHT
Was she talking Udi and those who support him like Bitcoin Magazine and, Starknet?
The latter matters, I have written about it a lot. It's a problem when VCs infiltrate 'open source.'
Compromised?
I get it. But I also understand how the first Oncologist/Hematologist told me "You will burn out in 2 months, I see husbands like you all the time."
Yeah, that was 27 years ago Mother Fucker, while most of my anger has subsided on cancer, your words still motivate me today. Thank you. I take comfort knowing you are retired and I don't have to go to any more funerals of your patients. (I went to 3.) Thankfully it will never be my wife's funeral and it sure would have been if we didn't fire your ass. You weren't a specialist in her cancer and yet you graced the cover of Minneapolis Saint Paul Magazines as if you were? (See "Bitcoin Magazine?", it matters.)
Thank you for the motivation, thank you to the actual experts who know how to use their EQs and IQs to help.
Thank you Bitcoin Experts. Thank you 5 Horsemen of Bitcoin Core?
Sign me,
- Four year Bitcoin Advocate learning the basics as the Hack I am

2024-08-18 15:16:52

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I woke up the other day and scrolled X looking for you/your posts. Great to see you over here, people like you are a huge draw for me on NOSTR and for the right reasons.

2024-08-18 15:14:24

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Excellent take...it's getting tougher and tougher for me to 'spend' time on X when it is such a 'waste' of time and Bitcoin is all about how precious our time is (Gigi's article.)
I am part of the Timechain Gang thanks to Bitcoin.

2024-08-17 13:23:55

I am trying to move over here, Dorsey said how the engagement is so 'empty' on X and I have felt that will all my social media accounts. I have 2 left, an anonymous one on X and an anonymous one NOSTR.
I want to get it down to just here but I struggle. It may be two steps, 1) I still can do snarky replies
2) I will not spend the time for thoughtful, well thought out comments, feedback, criticism, or articles I compile
My engagement analytics are terrible on X but I firmly believe I have better content than the low effort, high engagement 'influencers.'
I am Bitcoin Only and if you post a lot of Bitcoin on here, please let me follow you. I know that isn't what NOSTR is all about but I have a chance to evolve over here.
#note1sgq…2sxw

2024-08-14 12:08:02

Bitcoin: "A Thank you Note to @npub1qny…95gx "
I wanted to personally thank Matt Odell for his interview with Saylor. It meant a lot to the community and me. I really liked the format but of course my favorite part was the same as everyone else. When you addressed the "elephant in the room."
Open source is the toughest environment there is, but having an open mind like you do, shows enlightenment. Of course I gave you kudos for your frustration with Saylor not opening up his checkbook and perhaps his being behind Cathie Wood/ARK not supporting developers (ARK has recently reversed this stance and is donating 8% of REVENUE to open source development.)
It is no question Jack Dorsey is the king of Open Source and at first glance it would appear Michael Saylor is the spoiler.
Here is where my 35 years of cube dwelling comes in, all my years were in the BI space, as a developer, including a stint working on the vendor side, as a tech rep, for a competing BI company to MicroStrategy.
It was super eye opening being behind the scenes of BI Software and all the headaches. I know exactly what kept Saylor up at night and that was making sure his MicroStrategy software wasn't compromised.
I worked the 3rd and 4th level Help Desk at times and that was nerve wracking as I had no clue how some of the software was supposed to work on various operating systems. My example, the WANG.
I knew the mainframe, midrange, DB2/2, PC....but it was hard to learn and I quickly learned, I can't know it all and you had to hunt down the right people in the company or WORLD who could assist. Most of this was pre-Internet so I relied on Knowledge Bases behind firewalls.
But the trickiest were the New Feature Requests (NFRs) or User Written Subroutines the customers demanded.
The reason Saylor is so gun shy to just go gung ho on supporting the funding of Bitcoin development is exactly what I feared as a developer.
Think about it, Microstrategy has 1000s of installations around the world, with millions of users. All behind firewalls and truly centralized. All those developers who are writing billions of lines of code with the MicroStrategy software doing reporting for internal lawyers, sales, or more important the SEC.
Yes, that SEC, there are so damn many rules and regulations and most companies rely on the software to make sure they are not understating (they love it if you overstate and go quiet) PnL, Balance Sheets, General Ledgers. But what if one of those NFRs, was traced back to MicroStrategy's software and they were sued for Billions? Game over.
Saylor is not anti-spending Bitcoin, but he has repeatedly said the most friction is Bitcoin as a currency. He also lays out why, with the legacy systems all built on the US dollar, but he also knows the scrutiny. The government is watching Saylor's every move, they even sued him because they didn't believe he shares half his time in Florida and DC. My friends are quick to bring up he paid $40 million just to settle, they see guilt, I see focus.
Compare and Contrast this with Dorsey. Dorsey can be a lot more free wheeling than Saylor. Dorsey wrote Twitter which essentially is a one-stop-shop installation in one spot. (Coincidence Cash App/Block are all over the news with some recent $15 Million payout?)
With Twitter/X, something goes bad in the code, they can easily do an 'emergency' change it in one place. Have you ever installed BI software in Fortune 50 companies? I have, sometimes all alone. It isn't easy at all. Especially with MicroStrategy, no offense, but I voted against them because I heard nightmares about their installation process. It matters to BI professionals.
So, thank you Odell, for that interview with Saylor, and not bringing up the public discourse of Saylor not supporting open source development.
I bet he does, but super calculated, and behind the scenes. I am sure he'd rather give NOSTR $40 Million than the government.
Best.
So, I know this is

2024-07-02 13:00:01

Awhile ago, I posted on X how upset I was with Edward Jones not allowing me to buy into the ETFs or even MSTR. X is not allowing me to post to @edwardjones. So I am moving the conversation to NOSTR.
I called out their CEO, Penny Pennington.
Early this year, it was stressful trying to move my money out of Edward Jones to Fidelity.
I so, so, so want to send the analysts that fought me so hard up here in Minneapolis the one text I sent my wife last Friday.
I haven't told her anything, other than, "remember when we were on vacation in Tempe, Arizona, swearing about Edward Jones?"
Wife: "Yes."
Me: (sending her a snapshot) "Well, the money I moved is up 88% so far since I moved it to Fidelity."
Wife: "Amazing."
That isn't even a YTD number because it took so long to move.
I am grateful for Fidelity with their true 'thought leader' who doesn't have to call herself that like Penny does, Abigail Johnson, CEO at Fidelity.
Also, side note, my absolutely terrible HSA custodian, yeah, I moved that money too over to Fidelity ---- literally 3 clicks to create and you all have no excuse not to do this ---- and now that one is 'only' up 56% so far this year.
I get it, I understand self custody is the way to go, but so much of your funds for so many are locked in FIAT Jail and it makes sense on HSAs and IRAs and 401Ks to from from "40 NO K" to actually $401,000 K.
No capital gains taxes in HSAs or these accounts.
Bliss.
Thanks to some of you still FIAT Based CEO Wardens who have turned your FIAT Federal prisons into where at least some of us are still treated like criminals but can make money in the meantime. Totally legal and moral.
Thanks Satoshi.
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2024-06-28 01:19:36

Democrats are in massive trouble. The lighting makes Biden look like a corpse and his voice is screaming he needs water because he’s 90% dust.

2024-06-27 15:32:39

Bitcoin: "Coinbase Wallet - 1 good use case"
I am Bitcoin class of 2020 notching the Bitcoin Only status in 2021. But not before I fell for the scam coins and scammers. Including, Brian Armstrong. I watched and read everything on this guy, reading how he wanted to help out researchers via the 'blockchain', how Coinbase was brilliantly coded by etc. I even read "The Outliers" he recommended (not a good book in hindsight.)
Brian Armstrong (2020) was believable.
Until he wasn't, but not before I bought into the IPO of Coinbase at its still all time high, not before I listened to his CFO testify alongside SBF to Congress. How essentially Coinbase (read Armstrong) had nothing in place for finance anything before she got there. (It's all on C-SPAN if you want me to refind it.)
Never mind the senior counsel at Coinbase has a .eth in his X handle as he argues for shitcoins set to financially ruin their customers all for profit for them.
Coinbase is not pro Bitcoin.
It all bugs me, the people at Coinbase. Just like the people at "Bitcoin Magazine."
Bitcoin Magazine is not pro Bitcoin.
But regardless, I do keep a Coinbase Wallet with about $10 of Bitcoin in it, with my seed phrase carefully stored in my 1password account.
Just in case of a wrench attack, I can "act" like I am all upset as I turn over my 12 word seed phrase.
Of course, any Bitcoiner knows how idiotic doing this really is but not the ones who support Brian Armstrong and David Bailey.
I feel safe.
And I get to see the idotic things like this Coinbase is texting and emailing out to the customer base they don't give a crap about it.
This one irritates me because 'Ocean' is in here, never mind DOGE was up according to another notification they sent to their profit base:
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2024-06-27 03:08:19

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Nothing at all. Bitcoin is time for finances. NOSTR is time for social.
Organic growth is the most exciting. Dorsey really has resonated with me the last six months. Freedom of Will. Privacy. Etc. I want to support people like Dorsey and you with my precious time for life. Thank you. Like the early days of the Internet, their were millions of “this page is under construction” sites and ideas. Go NOSTR

2024-06-25 12:56:17

Bitcoin: "The Asian EVASION"
TLDR: "Asia isn't getting the right Bitcoin information and education, huge missed opportunity."
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I have watched many of the Bitcoin Podcasts out of Bitcoin Prague. As an American, I am totally saturated with my online, home schooled Bitcoin education. Proven by my not being overly impressed by Mallers and Saylor's presentations. It has nothing to do with them at all. It just has to do with, what has been said and what is being said today on Bitcoin. Starting with Satoshi, he ran out of things to say, even got frustrated at one point emailing:
"I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you."
The most unanticipated reveal to me in listening to these recent presentations was in this one:
"The State of Bitcoin in the World — Jack Lee, Parker Lewis, Abubakar Nur Khalil, Rikki &Joe Nakamoto"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWDJLV6RFww
The reveal was down to one person, Jack Lee. Jack clearly explained why adoption is so tough in Asia, think China. For one thing, fingers point directly (again) to "Bitcoin Magazine" and how they hosted a "Bitcoin - Asia" conference. As Lee explained, it was mostly Crypto.
Asians, unlike America, are not getting the "there is no second best" message or the difference between Crytpo and Bitcoin (I am attaching one of my favorite images to explain it.)
So why is this?
- Most of us thought China 'banned' mining, they didn't
- China doesn't care if you hold Bitcoin as Property, it's a problem when it is currency and you try to take it (thus the - possible - Shanghai Bitcoin ETF will be an excellent onramp for the Chinese government and us - not necessarily the citizens.)
- If you listen (you should) to Bitcoin Mechanic/Giacomo (Dorsey funded Ocean) you know the Chinese (alongside American VCs like a16z) are funding the Ordinals/Inscriptions/Runes/Stamps initiative
- They also explain how the Chinese manipulate the ASICs and Pools
So, why isn't there more of a push, to push out "Bitcoin Magazines'" approach of BINO/Bitcoin Obfuscation (like Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong does to)?
Easy. It's the money. It's so great, for them, keep the people thinking there is a second best as their customers lose their money and then the government can say, "see, we tried to tell you?"
No you didn't, it's about you, you all know Bitcoin is the best but you can make a ton of money off altcoins and you know they are zero threat to your money machine or any government (read politicians) anywhere.
I wish BTC Prague or Swan's Pacific Bitcoin could go on a true/blue Asian tour.
One problem, the Chinese government may not like the truth on Bitcoin?
Satoshi NAKAMOTO picked an Asian name, I wonder why, it's sad if he was Asian and the adoption is so poor. Let's make him or her proud of choosing Asia and Bitcoin.
Bitcoin. For everyone. The People.
Special thanks Jack Lee wherever you are, we have three Jacks now:
Jack Mallers
Jack Dorsey
Jack Lee
This post dedicated to Asian people everywhere, a huge hobby of mine is cooking, I cook all various regions from Thai, to Vietnamese, to Japanese, to Chinese.
I love all your food so much, I tell people I am ASIAN because of your food, I sort of am, Cauc-ASIAN.
Much Bitcoin love to all of you Asians.
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2024-06-15 11:40:06

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I am not on any social media anymore and feel exactly like this on X and NOSTR.

2024-05-13 16:42:22

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Duh...they don't like Ocean either, you would have hated the early Internet days too with the 404 Page Not Founds or 'This Page Under Construction' sites on dialup. This is the future, super easy to post why something will fail. Take a stance.

2024-05-13 16:36:03

"Two Jacks and a Saylor: Are they on the same page?"
Big fan of Jack Dorsey, he's following Saylor's lead with Block.
I always thought Jack Dorsey (JD), Jack Mallers, and Michael Saylor were all on the same page. That's naive. I am still a superfan of all three men but Dorsey to me has the most pure intent when it comes to Satoshi's vision.
I followed the public blow up with JD and a16z. I also listened intently to JD in Portugal. He was crystal clear on why he was there, for Open Source which completely houses Bitcoin/NOSTR thus he was wearing his infamous SATOSHI shirt and NOSTR hat.
He explained how much Big Tech has TAKEN from Open Source and has never GIVEN back to Open Source efforts.
Read, no one is giving big money, other than JD, back into Open Source:
Dorsey: Bitcoin/NOSTR:
- OpenSats $21 Million Donation May 4, 2024 https://news.bitcoin.com/jack-dorsey-backed-initiative-donates-21m-to-bitcoin-nonprofit-opensats-to-bolster-development/ (Essentially $15 Million for Bitcoin and $5 Million for NOSTR)
- His company Block just announced the creation of a 3nm ASIC
- Getting into Bitcoin Home Mining kits
- He supports Ocean and supports the people rightly concerned with SPAM and keeping mining/pools/nodes truly decentralized
- Hasn't publicly supported SPAM/Ordinals/Inscriptions/Runes/Stamps
- NOSTR champion
- Buying BTC for Block's Books
- Understands the Africa/unbanked/underbanked
- BTC SOV and MoE
Mallers: Bitcoin/NOSTR:
- Massive Supporter of Bitcoin
- LN guru and visionary
- Is indifferent on SPAM/Ordinals/Inscriptions/Runes/Stamps by his comments here, basically thanking them for financially supporting the Bitcoin Network's Health https://soundcloud.com/what-bitcoin-did/nobody-understands-bitcoin-with-jack-mallers-american-hodl-alex-thorn-calle (Never mind most of the panel underwhelmed by simply thinking the attack is a 'nothing burger.)
- NOSTR basic user
- I thought he understood Africa/unbanked/underbanked, but not if SPAM isn't a threat?
-BTC is SOV and MoE
Saylor: Bitcoin/NOSTR:
- Bitcoin Chad
- Pro LN
- Supportive of SPAM/Ordinals/Inscriptions/Runes/Stamps with his Orange Checkmark work
- NOSTR, no public support, a few posts
- Bitcoin Development, rumors are he tried to shut down ARK from donating
- I heard one comment in a Lightning Round with Natalie about Saylor talking Africa
- Has Saylor ever publicly supported Ocean or given money to Open Source projects?
- BTC a SOV (I align with this: https://bitcoinapolis.blogspot.com/2022/12/bitcoin-bitcoin-as-digital-property-is.html )
I agree with 99% of what Dorsey is doing, 98% of Saylor, and about 90% of Mallers (he's still a green horn with massive mentors.)
My favorite, albeit crappy, title I achieved in my BI Corporate America career was 'Principal Solutions Engineer' (even though they never listened to me when I said it should be Principle not Principal. Coders are all about precision.)
But I do like Solutions, so what will it take? Open Source is way harder than Closed/Corporate/Legacy/FIAT. So much of it was 'organic' with TCP/IP, SMTP, VOIP, Linux, and now Bitcoin and NOSTR. There are so many ways to 'armchair quarterback' why something will fail, no different than NOSTR or Bitcoin, but you also have to plan for your success. We have to plan for Bitcoin/NOSTRs success. What does that look like? How can we help in a positive way, I can't give millions but I can donate a ton of my precious time. (Only my cancer advocacy is more important.)
Projects I would love to help:
- Decentralization of Nodes -
https://x.com/Bitcoinapolis55/status/1789627285198242153
"...so yah 77% of the UTXOs are useless and are a waste of resources."
- Decentralization of the miners/Pools
I am pro JD's Ocean, but how do we overcome the $$$$$ incentive when people go with the disingenuous because greed overrides what is right? How do we take Ocean from Minority to Majority?
- Developers: How do we make sure we are funding the 'right' projects and are not just turning into shills or supporting those developers who losers like a16z/Bitcoin Magazine support?
Once again, most pressing, elevating Ocean. If you look at our past, some of the best projects and things never made it to mass adoption. Mainly because people with the FIAT money had the best marketing and advertising.
Satoshi had a little budget, how can we get back on the right path and incentivize people to go with Ocean and Bitcoin Knots?
I can't help but think of the story of the guy who developed the Weber Grill. How many demos he had to do in order to get mass adoption. Fueled simply by passion, for his product.
How can we recapture Bitcoin and make it boring again, and move all the SPAM and other non-monetary projects like the Orange Check off the Bitcoin Base Layer onto L2+?
We capture stranded energy for Bitcoin Mining, how do we capture stranded passion for Bitcoin advocacy?
We can't simply let 2 Jacks and a Saylor do everything. There is power in numbers, not images.

2024-03-28 12:15:10

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I have spent a couple decades with cancer researchers as an advocate. One thing people know for sure is how important the sun is, especially with cancer diagnoses. The closer you get to the equator, the less cancer, other than skin.
In cold weather states, there is a high level of Lymphoma. There is a thought it is because of the lack of Vitamin D. Similar, in these cold weather states/climates, there is a higher incidence of MS too.
We humans are 60% water, could we be more plant based than we realize (we share 40-50% of our DNA with a head of cabbage.
If you follow American politics, politicians share about 90% of their DNA with cabbage.
We think we know so much, we don't have a clue, no one understands how our brains work or what the Mechanism of Action is for aspirin.
Aspirin wouldn't eve be 'approved' today because of all the rules.
We are messed up.

2024-03-08 01:52:27

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Not to be a total dink, but I can't find any reference to 'Grammer' being a police squad anywhere other than an obscure reference on the movie 'Airplane' that was a typo.
Yeah, I am that kind of guy, developer, who loves language and 1s and 0s. Life is binary, alive or dead.
Peace.

2024-03-07 17:22:58

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Thank you, I like this kind of stuff. But you do know it is Grammar, not grammer in you profile, right?

2024-03-07 13:24:17

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Hey, thank you for the sats, totally appreciate it. I am a massive language guy, I chuckled when I saw "Grammer Chef" in your profile. Come on man, laughter.
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2024-01-11 13:10:49

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Will do, I am still working on this, just been busy with other stuff. Covenants and what they are trying to do is a logical thing to be working on and addressing. A lot to digest. Thanks as always, I am still compiling and reading and comprehending but there needs to be a central spot for consumers to go as it is updated constantly as things/views change etc. I am not a fan of Google's Blogger but it is the best platform I can find to be able to go in and edit and keep things central. I have tried numerous NOSTR versions and others outside but they are not that great either. Thank you.

2024-01-05 17:05:22

Heading: "Bitcoin Covenants"
Subhead: " I stumbled into yet another Rabbit Hole with Bitcoin."
Covenants, specifically Bitcoin Improvement Proposal:BIP-119.
Not new to many of you. Is it worth the effort to compile a large list of resources with the experts weighing in on the pros and cons and keeping it current and things/views/developments change? To me it is a complicated facet that needs to be thoroughly understood yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
I want to do a 100,000 foot level before getting into the weeds. (Yeah, pulling out some of my worst Corporate Jargon there, sorry in advance.)
My high level analysis so far is that the pros outweigh the cons.
Including this part (attached png) from Dallas Rushing @npub10ly…ah4e
Thank you.
Special thanks to @npub1775…9jcw for my getting this far. https://m.primal.net/HWgJ.png

2023-12-02 13:52:40

@npub10wv…v22x did you get tossed off X? You have some of the best content. I just saw your Snoop Dogg one on Reddit and laughed hysterically.

2023-11-04 13:16:18

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This is simply brilliant...and of course has the humor factor in there.
Education + Humor = Yellow's Gift to the Bitcoin Universe

2023-10-12 19:38:18

Bitcoin Post
Coinbase blasted this out today to all their customers. Article from BeingCrypto.com
To me, JPOrgan and Jamie Demon have been so anti-Bitcoin, why do they care so much? I am just guessing with Hash Rates at ATH and with all the other Halvings not impacting. Why this next halving? Isn't this the low hanging fruit of concern of Bitcoin. 20% doesn't sound terrible.
I just get tired of all these articles but I am going to scrutinize the Bitcoin ones sent out by Coinbase to their entire customer base.
https://m.primal.net/HNTy.jpg

2023-10-07 12:47:36

I normally don't recommend Netflix shows or movies BUT (there it is) this one is good /short showing how Potatoes are used today as currency. https://www.netflix.com/title/80209006#:~:text=A%20traveling%20trader%20provides%20a,Watch%20all%20you%20want.

2023-09-17 21:35:19

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Jade is my favorite, it should be cheap, nothing fancy, and it is built by a Bitcoin genius (Adam Back) versus some marketing guy pointing finger guns at you. I just got my buddy onto Jade, he's 75. He understands, the BlueTooth is dropping on it, annoying but I am telling him it's the cheapest and cold storage is sort of a one and done forget it. Further, I had to do a 'factory reset' at one point, with the 12 words to 'recover' it. SO EASY. I love it. No frills.

2023-09-17 13:17:58

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Nope it was Satoshi.
Pulled from https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/p2pfoundation/3/ then the original is here http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source?commentId=2003008%3AComment%3A9562
https://m.primal.net/HLVf.png

2023-09-17 12:49:32

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2023-09-11 15:09:04

Need some Ammo, how do I respond to a really smart friend of mine who thinks.
1) BlackRock will get best MIT people and come up with a Better Bitcoin
2) On Saylor after I sent a link to Saylor BTC Prague Keynote; "Yes, I’ll listen to it. I recognized MicroStrategy and Saylor. He’s had a number of legal issues, particularly fraud and most recently tax evasion."

2023-08-25 20:27:26

@npub13tm…nkcs, did @npub1gu4…907g give @npub1ccs…dc57 his $5 back from WOS? Thanks guys, I wasn't going to listen much to BBB but you guys make it interesting. I am a big Simply Bitcoin fan because of your efforts. Thanks. I learned a lot today.

2023-08-24 22:32:15

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Thanks Spoonman, I feel the same, I can't even get myself to a local get together in Minneapolis. I do have some favorites that is for sure but talking to people all on the same wave length is like a massive verbal masturbation session to me.

2023-08-24 21:46:14

Bitcoin Fatigue? Is it me or is it beginning to be 'too much' with all the Bitcoin Events? The "Bitcoin Magazine" Bitcoin event, the one going on now in Austin (BitBlockBoom), and then Pacific Bitcoin in 6 weeks? All vying for the same speakers with unique new soundbites, contents an memes? "Perhaps" (Mols) like High School Reunions, once every 5 years would suffice? Or is this just natural because once Bitcoin gets to 100K this wave of Bitcoiners, in which I am a part, will disappear? Like those other waves of Bitcoiners before me who got in at 2009, 2015, 2017 have disappeared because it gets to be just so damn obvious and dare say boring?

2023-08-20 14:25:04

@npub1nw5…n2gn may not be for everyone but It makes no sense if you are a Bitcoiner and don't understand or find Yellow's humor funny. He is so spot on and his latest on Saylor is off the charts comedic genius. Why? Because Yellow knows most of what has already been said, the meat, has already been said, starting and ending with Satoshi. Saylor is incredible, however, in picking up the 'communication ball' and advancing Bitcoin via education. It is all about education, education is Michael's passion with Saylor.org and on Hope.com. Saylor is selfless. His 10 steps are fantastic, two of which are Train your Mind and Train your Body. Yellow shreds Saylor in this video and the result is hilarious. The "real" Michael Saylor, eats healthy, runs, and plays chess. Compared to this smoking, drinking, belch talking , swearing, mentally/physically unhealthy fool talking about banging Playmates? Yellow taps into the psyche of the antithesis of Michael Saylor, this is exactly how Michael would be if he were a crypto conman, all about him, stacking ICOs, premining for his buddies Altcoining Lizard.
Incredible once again Yellow, not once did you even mention Bitcoin. I know that was by design. The 'So is there a Second Best?' then 'Cut'? Amazing.
https://twitter.com/ICOffenderII/status/1693231952487149842?s=20

2023-08-02 11:58:31

I am not sure how long this will stay up and running but here is a downloadable copy of that book with the Antlers on it that is supposedly banned? (@`CARLA`and @npub1cj8…rz4u because you know the value of searching for the best parts for your amazing content. ) https://drive.proton.me/urls/12Y1SW9ERR#OnNky8sz5IfN

2023-07-24 00:07:08

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Love it all except for the cloves. Cloves would cause me to throw all of it right into the garbage.

2023-07-21 11:37:03

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Slick Carter defended this, enough said on that SC (Sh*tcoin Capitalist).

2023-07-20 19:06:02

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I hear of people doing Bitcoin documentaries. I’ve seen a few. Then I see one of the Carla/Walker videos and think. I wonder what they could do with a $5 Million budget like that wasted on GreenPiece-of-mind-trash. Your three minute videos are comprised of about 100 soundbites. Incredible talent/content. Bitcoin is lucky to have you. Like Saylor. Team Bitcoin.

2023-07-08 22:46:12

NOSTR is brilliant, this is just outstanding. I have been chuckling all day. ZapplePay. What a total cock punch to AAPL.
http://nostr.build/i/2d30ff99573677d47bce348e683d116ed376f027b705040a63a6cec0bb687e9e.png

2023-04-26 00:36:34

Craig Wright is total human garbage. Wasting time, Bitcoin, and resources. https://www.btctimes.com/news/bitcoin-legal-defense-fund-of-jack-dorsey-gears-up-for-case-with-implications-for-open-source-developers

2023-04-11 15:13:26

Trying to get away from Shitter but it will take me a while, sorry if you see this twice. Just posted this to challenge Bitcoin Maximalism to use AI first to fight the detractors and distractors of Bitcoin. https://bitcoinapolis.blogspot.com/2023/04/bitcoin-bitcoin-and-ai-marriage-made-in.html

2023-04-08 23:27:18

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I’ll agree with it. Let me guess. Guy pulls a gun. Other Guy shoots him with an AR-15. Guy who was scared/defending charged with murder. Plot twist. Guy who shot was a cop. I’m pro cop but let’s wait until guys like you analyze the piss out of it in your underwear chugging Mountain Dew and wiping your Cheetos stained fingers on your sweet couch.

2023-04-08 23:19:52

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You win. Winner. Want a Sat?

2023-04-08 23:17:29

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You can’t make me. Frustrated? Even with your big gun. Idiot

2023-04-08 23:15:35

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I’m here to talk Bitcoin. Nothing else. If I did analyze the piss out of the article I’d probably agree with you. So what? Does it change anything? It’s your passion. Mine is cancer. One in two chance of killing you if you are male. One in three if female? Want to talk about that or your AR-15? I’m only interested in Bitcoin. Go to Facebook

2023-04-08 23:01:11

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If it's about Minneapolis, I don't need to read it, have you been here? Lived in Minneapolis for 30 years, keep laughing.

2023-04-08 22:47:41

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*Weird

2023-04-08 14:00:09

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whatever, I will be unarmed and gun downed I guess if I can't defuse the situation. Guns in the wrong hands are always bad. You know what you can't make me? AFRAID. What a joke, you can't even go get a sandwich without conceal and carry? What a shitty way to live your scared life.

2023-04-08 00:16:27

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Just walked from my house to downtown Minneapolis to see a baseball game. We live close to where George Floyd happened and ten blocks where the Australian woman in her pjs was gunned down. I love Minneapolis. How about working to all be better human beings. Laugh. Share a meal. Love over hate. A lot of effort just to piss everyone off. Just stop

2023-04-04 22:27:02

Do you all remember Hotbot , Altavista, and Ask Jeeves? This was all early day Internet, before Google Search. It was the Wild West and tough to navigate. No different than Nostr but I would rather help Nostr than help a fake Wild West Maverick over on Twitter shilling a dog turd meme coin. The more I look into Elon the more I see the comparisons of Bill Gates to Steve Jobs. Bill Gates bought DOS and was an expert marketing guy but not technical. Steve Jobs is more like Jack Dorsey expert technical guys and Apple/to Next/back to Apple went through Hell. Nostr needs a ton of work but man alive I would rather be here than on Twitter. I can't stand looking at the Doge i-CON. What a disservice, once again as the Crytpo bros try to drown out the Bitcoin Bros but time will tell and time is Bitcoin's best friend.

2023-03-02 23:43:08

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I wasn't even thinking of your picture with the lighting or the wabi-sabi reference, but I had to laugh when you said the "lightning" was off. Have a great day.

2023-03-02 23:39:12

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You look beautiful, just remember, Nostr is the antithesis of Insta or FB. No filters or perfect lighting needed, if you are here, you are even extra beautiful.
One of my favorite things in Japanese culture (aside from their food and maybe Satoshi) is Wabi-Sabi. Nostr is Wabi-Sabi.
Wabi-Sabi: a Japanese aesthetic concept that finds beauty and serenity in objects, landscapes, designs, etc., that are simple, imperfect, and impermanent.

2023-03-02 23:10:12

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I saw that too, at first I thought it was a cool little identifier for iris only. I was one click away from losing my cool @derekRoss NIP-05. That's playing dirty to me. Not cool

2023-03-01 22:17:15

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Four. Three Desktop. In this order
1) iris
2) Snort
3) Astral (to see if things are posting correctly, this was my first.)
There are subtle nuances to each one, from the heart to the hang loose symbol, iris seems faster etc.
One Mobile (iPhone):
Damus
I have multiple wallets, Muun, WOS, Strike, but I like Alby the best on desktop.

2023-02-20 08:49:45

Here is My Effort/My Story. Quit my FIAT job last year for Bitcoin and because one more day I would have jumped. 35 years of working in huge American Corporations in BI (loved the work/hated the job), 26 years+ of volunteer as a National Patient Advocate for Cancer because my wife's life was on the line (Stage IVb Cancer Dx at 31, incurable, actuary gave 7 years max. She is alive today thanks to the right doctors/best minds/mining enormous amounts of data.) Here is my formula, it has worked massively well at work and personally, go back and organize what the smartest people in the world are saying or doing about whatever topic. Pass it on to the patients or the people.
Bitcoin best minds need to be organized. Here is the start of my effort. The words spoken about Bitcoin since 2009 are the same as today. Backed by math and perfect execution. Satoshi wrote a masterpiece when it comes to his 9 page white paper.
1) That said, when people rip on Bitcoin and praise gold, click here: https://bitcoinapolis.blogspot.com/2022/12/bitcoin-digital-gold-versus-analogue.html
2) Why it may make sense to listen to Saylor on Flipping Gold versus Bitcoin being the world currency. The latter is almost pure friction. https://bitcoinapolis.blogspot.com/2022/12/bitcoin-bitcoin-as-digital-property-is.html
3) Why Bitcoin is the only Digital Commodity. (ETHeoryists hate this one) But don't listen to me, go listen to Gary Gensler (SEC head formerly professor Gensler at MIT teaching Bitcoin) and lately Rostin Behnam (Head of the CFTC - Bonus his predecessor is/was pro Bitcoin) https://bitcoinapolis.blogspot.com/2022/12/bitcoin-only-digital-commodity.html
By the way, these are 'dynamic' not 'static' documents as I am adding/updating them all the time. Opposite of Bitcoin, the timestamp/timechain appears to stay the same.
Thanks NOSTR community and Bitcoin, I finally found a home. I can feel it.
https://void.cat/d/3SjUcX8XPAVvi7zhTrXfaD.webp