gladstein

https://hrf.org/programs/financial-freedom/

Public Key

npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu

NIP-05 Address

gladstein@primal.net

NIP-57 Address

gladstein@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3wamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvekhgtnhd9azucnf0g0687c9

Publishing to

nostr.oxtr.dev

nostr.fmt.wiz.biz

nostr.wine

Author Public Key

npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu

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Last Notes

2025-11-12 19:31:05

Today I learned that my essay “Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money” in the October edition of the Journal of Democracy is the most widely read/downloaded essay in the first 30 days of publication in the Journal’s entire 36-year history
I think we are on to something 😎
https://image.nostr.build/2fd154bd3f8035bf196f3652453077791fe62d035dbc06626984881b19ab4b4a.jpg

2025-11-09 08:55:32

Astounding interaction lmao
https://image.nostr.build/acec04466abb1d49f681ca4e46b112b5321594101e2af7f482d2f0c01dadded7.jpg

2025-11-04 22:56:21

😂
https://image.nostr.build/662df63b936b1851f7f3d623ae54c299672cb98f5fd62c2d7761b717464e4c65.jpg

2025-10-31 17:08:35

New HRF report
Research by Alex Li
Many thanks to Presidio Bitcoin and Chaincode Labs for their work in this area
Something big to think about for the future
https://image.nostr.build/2bb2769737f70e7499211472bbbc981719f1514885fdfd8cbb893400b48f7665.png

2025-10-31 17:07:09

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Beast

2025-10-29 19:00:19

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He’s literally going to confront me in person a few weeks. A person that thinks I am “pure evil” to quote him directly — But glad to know that you think I don’t have anything to worry about

2025-10-29 05:52:41

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I don’t really care, but you missed the part where he said he was going to confront me in person at an event in a few weeks

2025-10-29 04:52:40

The latest zcash lunacy
This guy (who apparently works for and serves on the board of the company that runs zcash and launched its new VC wallet) went from (unprovoked) offering me a truce (?) to saying he would "end" me and calling me "evil" in 20 minutes flat
Probably the most bizarre altcoin community
https://blossom.primal.net/04d76ffb6839c45bd9b299cbaca38eeb06e6bc14401c63170f5cbe552fe31c33.png

2025-10-28 17:28:32

1 billion sats donated to:
✅ Decentralize mining
✅ Add privacy to Bitcoin transactions
✅ Expand Bitcoin education in dictatorships
✅ Improve nostr tools
✅ Grow the cashu ecosystem
🚀
https://blossom.primal.net/24f71e3cf89f4a51a16109441e1c5b946c06cd915b22104e155a003445087d90.png
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/builders/human-rights-foundation-1b-satoshis

2025-10-28 03:48:33

🙏
#note1eye…kpy2

2025-10-27 01:36:12

The zcash people are the worst
If we had listened to them, we would have ditched Bitcoin for a coin that has dropped in purchasing power by 98% against Bitcoin
The worst part isn’t the premine or the PoS migration shenanigans, it’s the moralistic attitude that if you don’t use a coin that has perfect privacy (which zcash is not anyway) then you are putting people in danger
When in reality living in fiat is dangerous
If I had to assign blame it’s that many of them are computer scientists chasing perfect privacy with zero understanding of real world economies etc

2025-10-15 22:05:11

https://image.nostr.build/6a0467f8609756058e36cfd1b2761768e2b68f82ea3a0ed6824736840253801a.jpg

2025-10-14 22:45:15

Stone cold banger from the bird app
https://image.nostr.build/5c95b90a66f8854f93746a736b5e711bf4523f5c0a621bb675093a009ec04430.jpg

2025-10-13 18:06:50

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The event is private with no photos or social media during the event, this is for security and privacy reasons. If folks want to post photos or thoughts *later* about their experience they may with permission of the people pictured. HRF will not be sharing anything officially.

2025-10-13 02:06:18

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I used primal to upload it on a Mac laptop
Phone app Damus may work better

2025-10-12 16:00:25

Sound on, volume up
Let's go, eyes on the prize
https://blossom.primal.net/7189e23cd44b2450dafd3828f97ff54e81886cccc778870e58ca974ad90a0482.mov

2025-10-10 18:04:21

It’s been awesome to get to know John Perkins, who wrote “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” and revealed a very dark side of the fiat currency system
Hard to top his shirt — but @npub1330…2k82 made mine, which I think at least competes
Here’s to a world where governments can’t simply impose currency devaluation (as John helped orchestrate many times in his prior life) with an arbitrary decision
And here’s to Bitcoin helping people everywhere become “reverse” economic hitmen :)
https://image.nostr.build/398629c49c9734d5f524889c2273dbcd0bd1879e591b66b117ca08e7e2fb8971.jpg

2025-10-04 04:41:20

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No but it is nothing without the people who run it

2025-10-04 04:35:16

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Simple
https://image.nostr.build/cd6a2c9f53f3242aff4e913f5b82fc5b90fbe6883ced46dcbed851165e20b090.jpg

2025-10-03 17:18:34

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They cannot if the person uses Bitcoin properly
Even if the person isn’t careful all you have is assumptions
And they ALWAYS can using banking system

2025-10-03 17:08:29

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Lmao. What?? You don’t have to attach you ID to Bitcoin. Banking dollars are ALWAYS tied to your name

2025-10-02 02:16:32

https://image.nostr.build/f503681225ef869a58931c899c344ba0293d28fb29aea4b0d0bb72cc2f93f9df.jpg

2025-10-02 02:14:33

X algo is ferocious
Something about Zcash popped up on my feed (apparently it’s up 40% in a day but still down 90%+ from its ATH) and all of a sudden every other post is zcash related
These people have zero knowledge about ecash :)

2025-10-01 15:43:59

Step by step!
https://image.nostr.build/e7f88038e94e5901913e277b15764a1a0a991d32d1866fe0e5df03b9136a7ba5.jpg

2025-10-01 13:37:48

Out today: Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money
Journal of Democracy
Volume 36, Number 4, October 2025
Johns Hopkins University Press
Ideal to share with normies, academics, journalists, and intellectuals of all stripes
Packed with undeniable facts and stories about Bitcoin's rise as a human rights tool, all in a very credible package
Very glad to include a section on "Why Bitcoin, not Crypto or Blockchain"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970346
https://blossom.primal.net/228044bc31d90280086e5652f3a07f339fb744845b2cf5c67df2e5b44ae20671.png

2025-09-30 23:59:39

Tomorrow I have a long essay about global Bitcoin adoption coming out in probably the world’s premier political science journal, and I have a section titled: “Bitcoin, not Crypto or Blockchain” — dedicated to the endless nonsense I see every day
We will defeat it, eventually 🫡

2025-09-30 06:19:00

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Source:
https://bitcoinpark.substack.com/p/monday-sept29

2025-09-30 06:13:12

Cool to see Wences Casares make this case
https://image.nostr.build/5689884cfc3a8e9b294a68488dbbccc4466cfd5e13be78cf317024dfd5cbf103.jpg

2025-09-30 00:09:55

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No but I don’t really think we will have issues with that 20 years from now

2025-09-29 23:06:08

Useful? Yes.
Freedom money? No.
https://blossom.primal.net/31d9d69044cc6d44492c097c9f3cddd2360aab64c861a43af3e550dacbeac602.png

2025-09-29 04:23:44

Local market 🔥
https://image.nostr.build/0dcf6cb53d5965dbde3c8e07374e7709b9b052aef02b38906e1dedb7f73e8fa7.jpg

2025-09-25 06:24:56

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This isn’t a statement about “life”
This is about a way to communicate on the internet
Either you are in control, or you are not

2025-09-25 06:06:22

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🤷‍♂️

2025-09-25 06:00:00

Simple but deep: if you aren’t using nostr, you’re someone else’s bitch
#note1ftl…l28n

2025-09-23 23:44:25

Love this
Purchased with ecash in Indonesia 🇮🇩
https://image.nostr.build/fc34431e8ab0c1f42fc3dbd3843d5e1df3a69e47f8a846fea3e979a35d8402f8.jpg

2025-09-22 23:07:20

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Maybe qualify this
Ecash is debt and super private

2025-09-22 21:35:23

First the IMF now this… Milei in the middle of a massive dollar bailout
https://image.nostr.build/bb1a274a1e49f5333cfd7325f2aba5c728d5ada67c3b81d482699ead61e638a3.jpg

2025-09-21 15:14:38

I don’t necessarily think the UN is a very effective use of anyone’s money but power abhors a vacuum…
https://image.nostr.build/21bc9ada75aa825dc0b2817d96d07ea450515086bec4aa9a39d49f105babe8eb.jpg

2025-09-20 23:02:37

Imagine…
https://image.nostr.build/5e033b9dcc39ee12a01e3b011d9be9f623d93c2efb9709bb029714c2d32c7401.jpg

2025-09-16 17:24:49

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I didn’t vote for him

2025-09-15 23:08:12

I have a new essay up at Reason on why Trump is not the Bitcoin president
He’s the stablecoin president
Bitcoin separates money from state, but stablecoins expand and strengthen state power
https://reason.com/2025/09/12/donald-trump-is-not-the-bitcoin-president/
https://image.nostr.build/d778674668e48192f5a36d2a3a384d418379cdd3c104218e0819bcb546248758.jpg

2025-09-11 02:08:34

I opened Blue Sky. It was worse than I expected. Sad times.

2025-09-10 05:43:44

Found an excited @npub1sk7…jraw fan in the jungle 🐘
https://image.nostr.build/c1949802192e68a497681688cbfff25e311fafe940bfe8f931044f5669cdf04e.jpg

2025-09-08 07:27:16

I appreciate the sci-fi nature of this building
https://image.nostr.build/1d927ee241d88139978e19cffdc60332b1cc24035bfb4140000cedbffe471ec7.jpg

2025-09-05 07:48:04

“Bitcoin is a tool for resilience that no bombs can destroy”
-Fadi Elsalameen with the 🔥 quote
https://image.nostr.build/eecb7582b2e02349c82b1e65449c2c5963d65cd5b4ac42a03d6a897e195a1e06.jpg

2025-09-03 22:34:26

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🔥

2025-09-03 01:20:51

Music post
This album, released just a few days ago, is proof that rock and roll is not dead
Give it a listen, you won’t regret it
P.S. The live show isn’t bad either 😉
https://image.nostr.build/de459ac388771d9b347e99bbc259d064cc1fd7af97fd55e23a04c737db0b0d08.jpg

2025-09-02 00:47:39

The scale of nation-state level shitcoining is already surpassing any reasonable expectation
https://image.nostr.build/f66db51c96a7b0b580be2200ea29f204b6c88b09b2e8f16f7c3b2789511de358.jpg

2025-09-01 19:06:30

😂
https://image.nostr.build/546b2cce7fa80c3e16f058f3a504182fd51362342ee510b5f9ccdd7c221aaaeb.jpg

2025-08-28 20:32:47

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Full talk: September 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyK4P7ZdOK8

2025-08-28 20:32:26

Need to get so fired up you can run through a brick wall?
Watch this section of maybe my favorite Andreas talk
“Money as a System-of-Control” and the four properties of money
https://blossom.primal.net/b5728f3a9c793ba8ec204da695c2d6620045c1535e4d4e34183890bfcde77e8f.mp4

2025-08-27 04:02:07

https://image.nostr.build/b64446687b4adcae4e519dd7711748a956a07ab75ed88184868b28d6f21421bf.jpg

2025-08-26 03:15:31

There is a surprisingly large YouTube genre of Internet personalities “reacting” to great songs and albums that they have ostensibly never heard before
Easily one of my favorite internet rabbit holes
https://image.nostr.build/26a2b160b2cc5af8b6cd93482016fee49427bf5354f8a935af1e1df571d56721.jpg

2025-08-24 04:02:11

Milky Way with the Tetons in the lower right
Captured last night on an iPhone 15 w/ 10 second exposure, a short hike away from the magical Blue Heron Lounge in WY
The galaxy stretched completely across the night sky and was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen
When you look at something like that, it’s hard not to feel insignificant
But keep on, we do!
https://image.nostr.build/0f66662466cd4713cdd414b01e3c45f6f0d763ef50dc692a63dfe8eb4a2570c6.jpg

2025-08-14 15:32:41

🤡
https://image.nostr.build/f4f6902f15aebf80074d4535dbf26f064d4e52449230ad033710d939ddd0ca08.jpg

2025-08-10 00:27:23

Is this winning?
https://image.nostr.build/b762084c1e585be8a21b6d57e6611b647aee28da6785890558ba4d7c7ffe46df.jpg

2025-08-08 16:44:35

Yep
#note19nu…0y7e

2025-08-08 01:34:05

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Source:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-07/bolivians-use-crypto-to-cope-with-inflation-and-dollar-shortages

2025-08-08 01:33:54

In Bloomberg today 👀
https://image.nostr.build/599354aab1a8ec83fe0dfc09e3f0ec9996cd232ec3a69f3c19618589675fd20a.jpg

2025-08-08 00:08:27

The promised land
https://image.nostr.build/2ab1df3ddc49b85357d7aa60544c7cf4b6b2211026273940784a465efa84f976.jpg

2025-08-05 23:25:13

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Like what? Terra?

2025-08-05 22:57:16

Superb essay on stablecoins, well worth reading
https://knifefight.substack.com/p/a-simple-guide-to-stablecoins
https://image.nostr.build/806739303fa8417234f6ae31cd1233c23da942ee5ced8972990af557b1282688.jpg

2025-08-04 23:55:13

Extremely interesting and important stuff on financial privacy from SEC commissioner Hester Pierce in her latest speech
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https://image.nostr.build/340999809917cbf0948787d06d33ea651efdd331fef732b7c08bb41398cb7ebc.jpg
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2025-08-03 06:09:53

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In response to David on the bird app:
https://x.com/davidfbailey/status/1951768975643398173

2025-08-03 06:05:14

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lol right

2025-08-03 05:57:52

Some quick thoughts on what a Bitcoin PAC might want to do in DC. Some more realistic than others. Some ideas that need work. Some just fun:
-de minimus tax exemption. honestly should mirror BSA threshold of $10k but $2,500 would be a good start
-bulletproof legal protections for open source devs especially ones building privacy tools. Cannot be a country that goes after the blacksmith for what others do with the knife
-ability to use self-custodial BTC as collateral
-phase out “crypto czar” and “working group on digital asset markets” and any other federal institution or process that seeks to conflate shitcoins with bitcoin
-tax incentives for home mining and for nat gas facilities or landfills etc that eat methane with mining
-Manhattan Project-level collaborative effort to identify all wasted/curtailed electricity in USA and deploy miners to those locations
-incentivize bitcoin education for high schools
-a bitaxe in every high school compsci/techEd department
-a Bitcoin museum in DC
-educational congressional testimonies from global Bitcoin users: activists, remitters, refugees, off grid miners, etc
-Jan 3 national Satoshi holiday of some kind
-Congressional Bitcoin Committee
-end to the bitlicense
-all formal bodies that do American democracy promotion abroad, to integrate bitcoin
-enable foreign countries that owe America (or IMF/World Bank) debt to pay back in BTC, not just USD

2025-08-01 06:59:54

This is what’s left of Chasiv Yar, a Ukrainian city completely obliterated by the Russian military
https://image.nostr.build/7b69322cf337d3720fe9e826ea638b718d375fcdc17641b9c3495fe8e8f5b864.jpg

2025-08-01 03:01:04

Not Orwellian at all 😅
https://image.nostr.build/fbfba37687e52973822cf5260a1dcd8809af9b97d678dc592844138d986f07a9.jpg

2025-07-23 15:23:13

I appreciate that introducing Bitcoin at the end of my book about the predatory nature of the IMF and World Bank will turn off some normies
But if I didn’t include that last chapter, I’m leaving out the **most important** part
People today trapped in structural adjustment, unlike in the 1980s, finally have a way out ✌️
#note1f9t…wccx

2025-07-23 15:19:27

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It’s not a gotcha at all. Bitcoin is much much more powerful for individuals than for states. Bitcoin gives power to individuals and takes power away from states, especially totalitarian ones. We discussed this I thought

2025-07-23 04:12:43

Just rolled double sixes 5 times in 8 rolls in backgammon… AI says the odds of that happening are:
1,175,463 to 1
We live in a world of black swans

2025-07-14 04:07:35

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Still, 121k is pretty baller

2025-07-13 03:46:09

Love this from @npub1330…2k82
The United States would be a much better place running on Bitcoin than the dollar
https://image.nostr.build/9f3e16e14949ee0be32677f445a2dc5a898cdb3a4fa2fd63b2e9b16ae0174f7d.jpg

2025-07-12 21:40:35

One of the greatest tweets of all time
Client up 25x since then
Gold up just 2.5x 😂
https://image.nostr.build/740cfc272d2da6a093e53c951b9e41f982b258c20c2bb293fd8f9a777bc4ad2c.jpg

2025-07-12 18:28:24

👀
https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoin-versus-the-imf/
https://image.nostr.build/cd1b27d3d1297a2a032275ee662da2aeb47885a0fa3bcf2f88d31da782ac4d53.jpg

2025-07-10 16:57:19

https://image.nostr.build/007171aefd0f74c22da6ecfffee61f2a47ad212077b525109a7a9e4f8b484d88.jpg

2025-07-08 04:54:29

I have never been so convicted about the critical nature of nostr in our censorious digital world
But I have also realized it just might take a really long time for other cultures and communities to figure it out and join up
It’s similar to the massive gap between fiat and bitcoin. Most people still today at $100k don’t get it even if we all know it would be good for them. Too different, strange
And the best realization? This is fine :)
#note1fmx…4pdj

2025-07-06 18:44:48

Eagle Beach north of Juneau is insanely beautiful
A rare place where you have enormous jagged mountains and rainforests right on the ocean
Bonus: saw Orcas breaching from this very spot, right before I took this photo
https://image.nostr.build/694b0c81769667306c6ef0bcc50e4608621a99de7b2dd2954c35a912f940395b.jpg

2025-07-05 17:37:27

Need @npub1rfh…n5g3 to be posting here more often
https://image.nostr.build/bccf101689a94801f39cde90568310e885f53166331fbe6740b44dc711b7444f.jpg

2025-07-05 05:07:17

Can’t end your 4th of July without a little Bald Eagle action 🦅
https://image.nostr.build/75b743a1f4dda3fad5b281003c079820e262873af7eab0d559d1897d1f59dfe6.jpg

2025-07-02 02:19:38

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Just submitted an 8k word piece for the first time in 18 months
Felt good!

2025-06-30 18:41:05

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Sounds about right but I think we could end up back at $85k or so
stay humble and stack sats

2025-06-30 04:03:40

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Thanks!

2025-06-29 22:20:24

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Don’t trust, verify. We are a 501c3 so we are mandated to provide this kind of info in our published 990s

2025-06-29 14:23:27

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The largest gift we received from Peter in a calendar year was $100k. He has not given in more than 12 years. Our annual budget today is north of $20M. This is completely silly

2025-06-29 00:58:49

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You should watch the talk

2025-06-29 00:34:25

My BPI keynote
"Bitcoin is the Most Important Human Rights Technology of the 21st Century"
Delivered in the heart of DC
Please share with normies who don't think Bitcoin has a use case. We have A LOT of work to do, most people think this way
But we WILL win in the end
https://blossom.primal.net/fbb5c8d98220ae2e323045c9ff199f02637f06f2e735be972df592bc9999259a.mp4

2025-06-28 02:48:11

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🔥

2025-06-27 22:23:01

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Sure. But please don’t affinity scam into Bitcoin

2025-06-27 17:18:46

We live in a timeline where the leader of the issuer of the world reserve currency
A) Is promoting “pay me in Bitcoin” MoE narratives
B) Thinks Bitcoin is “taking pressure off the dollar”
https://blossom.primal.net/53f4e81d361f07a009cab5319f50d12a16849a0cbffd65076b76668be08781bc.jpg

2025-06-27 00:01:09

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I buy a lot of things with bitcoin
Maybe you can’t buy anything with it, but that’s on you

2025-06-26 22:17:13

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Both honestly

2025-06-26 21:51:37

Main reflection every time I go to DC:
It is astonishing how much damage the term “crypto” has done as a one size fits all category
The worst altcoin scam promoters are lumped in THE SAME meetings and treated with the same cordiality with Bitcoin miners and stablecoin issuers. All the time.
Congressmen and women scammed by SBF are weary of “crypto” - and they are right!
We need to be specific
“Crypto council” type constructs are silly. Why should Bitcoin miners have to share a table and discuss fart coin? Completely unrelated to what they do
Huge respect to BPI for pushing in this direction, their name alone means and does a lot
There should be Bitcoin meetings, legislation, working groups etc which exclude affinity scammers or anyone not working on Bitcoin

2025-06-26 12:40:12

The nostr manifesto
🫡
https://image.nostr.build/7b1f34bb96caea611bd01f72cab2bf2d01d66b761a89f5b8d35eeef831e2879c.jpg

2025-06-25 11:27:37

What a city
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2025-06-24 14:53:45

Taking off for DC
Exhibit A why I like California
Pilot: “I wish the weather was like here, but it’s going to be 97 degrees around 5pm, and it’ll feel like 105 degrees”
Great suit weather 😅

2025-06-24 01:05:17

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He absolutely did not make this point
He just said LN was cope and a failure which is laughable
Many times I argued that LN is far from perfect, won’t be digital cash for everyone, etc
What you miss is LN is an open global network

2025-06-23 21:39:55

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Not sure but it’s lightning connecting different pools either way

2025-06-23 01:08:41

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I’m almost always using a self-custodial set up

2025-06-22 21:05:32

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