Jason Ansley | Fractional COO | $BTC

Friend of Christ. Husband. Father. Fractional COO, #Business Advisor, #Leadership Coach | Driving SMB Growth and Operational Excellence

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Plus #investing #trading #money #wisdom #Bible #Christian

Public Key

npub1ur5ju4pd0xegu7wxal543ywn3aykxmjg2c9gucvtj5aaa43sm74qcxdx2w

NIP-05 Address

REALjasonansley@verified-nostr.com

NIP-57 Address

quickoctopus5@primal.net

Profile Code

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relay.damus.io

n.ok0.org

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Last Notes

2025-03-29 04:46:11

About to wrap up a long day (as I’m already into the next day) and wouldn’t you know?!
Looky what I found!
A Nostrich with too few Followers…
Let’s show @npub15l9…nfym some #grownostr love!

2025-03-28 02:08:15

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#thanks for the #zap @npub175n…g6w0

2025-03-28 02:05:12

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I did a bit more research on my own and it seems:
• Monolithic sent an update_fee with a high fee rate (6444 sats/kw) to adapt to current Bitcoin network conditions or their internal policy.
• My Alby Hub node rejected it, citing excessive dust exposure risk for 6.645 million msat in pending transactions.
Unable to reconcile this (e.g., if Monolithic couldn’t lower the fee rate or my node wouldn’t budge),
Monolithic force-closed the channel to avoid being stuck with an unresponsive or risky peer.
• This appears not to be about inactivity or my brief offline period being the sole cause—it’s about a mismatch in how my node (Alby Hub??) and Monolithic handled fee adjustments and risk tolerance with one another

2025-03-27 00:23:01

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Self hosted Alby Hub.
Woke up to an email saying my lightning channel with monolithic was forced closed.
The event message says “ProcessingError: Peer sent update_fee with a feerate (6444) which may over-expose us to dust-in-flight on our counterparty's transactions (totaling 6645000 msat)”
Not sure what that means but also the email said have to make transactions every two weeks (which I have daily txs) and “Keep your node online as much as possible without interruptions.” Which normally isn’t an issue and I would have expected more than a 12-24 hour grace period.

2025-03-20 23:58:12

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It was supposed to be with the States anyways

2025-03-18 12:12:16

Good morning Notriches!
I’m off of Basketball Training this week as my son is at a week long Basketball 🏀 camp.
Reminds me of this clip from the classic Disney Robin Hood animated film.
AHAHA…
Working on copy for a website today and I have a meeting with someone across the pond.
So I’ll have my head down until then.
God bless you today.
And remember, if it’s worth a like, comment, follow, reNote or QuoteNote; it’s worth a #zap
#GM
#PV
Pura Vida
https://video.nostr.build/7e3c68cedfc492f9a36157d62eade9166356ec55265b59800a2f55e6a954f20f.mp4

2025-03-10 12:12:12

Sooo…expensive…
Good Morning Nostriches!
Dark and rainy this morning.
Excited about this week. While time blocks are fragmented, I want to make the most of each.
Leadership = Relationships
And just like the video via Ben communicated, it doesn’t take a lot to move the needle and it’s cheap to do so.
Stacking’ sats and health. This is the way.
About to dive into devotions then basketball gym with my son then an “out of town” run to Trader Joe’s for my wife’s food and the FIL wants a special buy from there too.
A day of serving the family!
God bless and remember, if it’s worth a comment, like, follow, reNote or QuoteNote; it’s worth a #zap
#GM
GM
#PV
Pura Vida #note193z…vddg

2025-03-09 13:42:32

Good Morning and Happy Sunday Nostriches!
Remember the 4 R’s of Rest today.
1. Relax
2. Recharge
3. Reconnect
4. Refocus
God bless you today and don ‘t forget: If it’s worth a comment, like, follow, reNote or QuoteNote; it’s worth a #zap
#GM
#PV
#Christian
#Biblestr
#Bible
Pura Vida

2025-03-07 12:37:15

Good Morning Nostriches!
A crisp 40°F in Florida today…
I think this is why the Farmer’s Almanac says to wait to plant the Spring garden until after the 15th of March.
Well not this rebel! The cooler weather crops are doing great!
Just need to solve for that top soil issue for the rest of my beds.
—
Had a good day yesterday. It was a recovery day for my son so no basketball training. But we hit the gym again today. Gotta hit Steph level on the threes 🏀
Also made about 10 new connections which felt good from a Leadership = Relationships perspective.
This weekend is a quasi home stay marriage retreat for my wife and I, of which she informed me her goal is to deep clean the house…not exactly the spiritual connection I was thinking of Clark! 🤣
I’m about to dig into devotions so let me leave you with:
1. #Jesus loves you more than you know
2. Remember if it’s worth a comment, like, follow, reNote or QuoteNote; it’s worth a #zap
God bless you today.
#GM
#PV
Pura Vida

2025-03-05 14:05:40

Good morning Nostriches!
Just a short GM today.
Woke up to an unsatisfactory email from our accounting team…seems they are months behind on something and just telling me.
Partially my fault for not following up, but we also have a level 5 delegatory relationship with them so I’m 99% hands off…
Guess I should of had my hands more active this instance ✋
Off to the basketball gym with my son for a couple hours then home to grill a steak then back to the gym for tonight’s practice!
Full day for sure.
Don’t forgot if it’s worth a comment, follow, like, reNote or QuoteNote; it’s worth a #zap
God bless!
#GM
GM
#PV
PV
Pura Vida

2025-03-03 20:44:23

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@npub1jcr…3whq #thanks for the #zap

2025-03-03 01:52:55

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Welcome

2025-02-23 13:28:23

Good Morning Nostriches!
(I love that term)
Today is church, will probably hit the basketball gym with my son, then watch a game this afternoon.
Oh…and grocery shop!
Fridge is a bit bare 🤦🏻‍♂️
I guess that’s what happens when you were sick for 10 days.
I THINK I’m finally past this darn respiratory infection.
Yesterday I fed another 8-10 feet of my pineapple plantation. Gotta do a little every day so I can get the mulch pile off my front lawn and/or have more delivered!
Ran out this season and it took a couple months for me to get more delivered so my soil factory is behind schedule and it’s time to thin garden bed #1 but I’d just be putting the transplants into mulch and not top soil…so I may find myself buying some top soil…
We shall see.
Got our son’s birthday this week and with mom traveling for business this week, I think we gonna have a father son adventure week exploring the area and I know we have a reserved a cave snorkel later in the week!
Alright y’all…today is a great day to create Notes and send #zaps
Don’t forget! If it’s worth a follow, comment, like, reNote or QuoteNote; it’s worth a #zap
God bless and I’ll try to check back in later today.
#GM
#PV

2025-02-18 23:43:45

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Wasn’t there a wallet someone mentioned a month or so ago that auto switched (or gave a choice) between
Onchain
Lightning
Ecash
And some other thing too
Based upon size of transaction and therefore efficiency of fees?

2025-02-15 20:32:44

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Good job. I especially appreciated the course sites as we are looking to replace our son’s current homeschool curriculum and move to a more project / real world based / certification approach

2025-02-09 22:54:46

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Yea all my DM’s disappeared from Primal but are present on YakiHonne.
Issue is too many people still use Primal (for DMs) which are not secure (NIP-44 I think it is, gift wrapped)
So it’s frustrating I’ve lost some coms with people

2025-02-09 18:54:24

#asknostr
Is ESG (Environmental, social, and governance) part of social credit score system, green movement, and NWO Agenda?
Or is there just some crossover?

2025-02-09 17:16:51

Just heard a line in a movie….
“Imagine what all that gold could do for my people…”
—/
Now say to yourself, “Imagine what #Bitcoin can do for your family”
#BTC FOR THE WIN!

2025-02-05 13:32:05

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What you bring up is what’s known on the Adoption Curve as The Chasm.
We are at the tail end of the Early Adopters.
Even for myself, wherein I’m usually in the innovation of not leading edge of Early Adopters, it’s been harder to accept Bitcoin in my business.
There are still a few too many hurdles, not so much for me, but for our clients. They most certainly are on the other side of The Chasm.
So what’s the solution?
As you pointed out, education. But not so much in the format of “sit in a room or on a Zoom and learn about #BTC”
A few Early Majority people might, but not the late ones.
Thus, we have to introduce people to it in micro steps through incentivization.
Much like Zaprite does with their invoicing system.
We create a scenario where customers and clients are presented with both fiat and #Bitcoin payment options and, for example, we offer a 10% discount if paid via Lightning.
You can then have a blog post and video on your website which is linked to from this payment page which explains the options and softly introduces and educates clients and customers.
Also as I suggest in #note1gc4…crqa when we ourselves are shopping with small businesses, we can simply ask “do you accept Bitcoin?” And 9/10 that will open the door for a casual conversation which can be followed up on in the near future.
I’ll close with this, to my point above. Too many times Innovators and Visionaries are so stoked about “the thing” that they turn people off by their passion.
Others view us as obessed which scares them.
While all the while, we are simply trying to help others discover what we have.
Passion can be amazing; but it can also cause pain. And that is something we as Leaders must learn.
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2025-02-05 13:17:24

I agree that #BTC education is a barrier we must overcome.
Last night I was interacting with a young small business owner and when purchasing one of her goods I took the opportunity to ask if she accepted Bitcoin.
Her response was rather intriguing. She posited, “no, it’s not worth anything”.
This of course led to a casual exchange of questions between the two of us.
Ultimately I left her with the homework of “if I was a young business owner I’d begin my #Bitcoin journey by asking “what is money”.
I encouraged her to start there, paid a little extra fiat and when she tried to give it back to me I simply said, “you keep it, you’re gonna want it with inflation”. 😆
It was a bit tongue in cheek but the older people in line got a good chuckle out of it. #naddr1qq…k5e6

2025-02-05 13:07:41

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Probably 10% of the initial people I used to engage with are “gone”…they haven’t posted in months.
I genuinely hope they are ok (at least two of them travel and are fairly nomadic)
That being said; while I used to gain at least 1-3 followers a day and likewise discover a few new a day that I’d follow, that has almost come to a halt.
Periodically I’ll switch back and forth between YakiHonne (my primary client) and Primal just to make sure the feeds are aligned and it’s not a user error issue…
But for the most part, I do feel it has become a bit of a relational ghost town for me.
I’m even following my own early advice that since there is limited discovery tools on Nostr, the way to grow is by commenting on other’s notes and relationally engaging with them.
I’m reminded of this #note1ftx…ysqp

2025-02-03 02:36:42

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One struggle I encounter in particular with VPN is not only are banks, but basic other types of websites block access via VPN.
And while I’d love to go 100% BTC and off Google services (for business):
A. It’s market share makes migrating away from it difficult when collabing
B. NextCloud sounds cool but I’m not really interested in running my own server again (did it about 20 years ago) and the hosted NextCloud solutions are not that impressive.
—-
The excuses (albeit realities) stated above, privacy is something most people need to micro-step into. It’s hard to go cold Turkey.
For example, I could tell all my clients “sorry we are Bitcoin only for payments now” and the I’d lose most of them becasue they are behind the times or not interested in “crypto”.
Likewise, LinkedIn is still a solid lead source for our entities.
If we go all in, all at once on privacy; what we gain in sovereignty we lose in ability to (at least temporarily) pit food on the table.
So our moves toward privacy must be a bit more calculated and strategiclly executed.

2025-01-30 01:55:01

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Do you have comparison benchmarks against ChatGPT, grok, Claude?
I like the idea, price is fair (on par with competitors), but I’m also knee deep in ChatGPT. So I’d have to have confidence this solution performs on par with 4o.

2025-01-24 02:43:55

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That’s what cornychat is
There’s another one that is Audio only I thought but I’ve given up finding it 🤦‍♂️

2025-01-24 01:42:18

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Zap.stream may also work for you….but there is another one I thought more similar to cornychat

2025-01-23 16:34:22

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Maybe take a few of those sats and upgrade your computer…looks like you rockin’ a PC from the late 1900’s 😜

2025-01-22 19:52:07

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No Bitcoin for you!
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2025-01-19 18:37:31

@npub1yzv…rf8q Feature Request:
In the "All Notifications" (or better yet!) in it's own Notifications Tab, please have a "New Follower" notification.
Similar to Primal where in the the notifications it shows the PFP and says ""npub name" Followed You"
That would be great for helping to build relationships so we can directly reach out to them and thank them for following and see if we want to follow back.
Right now I have to switch back to Primal a few times a week to solve for this.

2025-01-19 18:02:40

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I mean...you could always go to Radio Shack and buy the raw materials and make it yourself...
P.S. #Thanks for the #Zap

2025-01-18 13:39:17

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Long answer, it depends.
Short answer, yes.
I own several pieces of art from my travels in South Africa and Japan.
I don’t know the artists, no one probably ever will…but I liked the work so I bought it.
Similarly I own a known artist’s work and I rarely think of him, I enjoy the part of my life the artwork represents to me.

2025-01-18 02:48:35

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Welcome

2025-01-17 13:19:07

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@npub18uu…nhm4 #thanks for the #zap

2025-01-11 17:23:55

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But you can close the app, and it still mines, yes?

2025-01-11 13:53:39

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So once you open the app once a day you can close it and it keeps mining?

2024-12-31 22:47:31

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Why no mention of my favorite client @YakiHonne

2024-12-28 02:39:34

It’s been awhile since I said a Good Night. So let’s try that!
GN y’all.
#gn

2024-12-24 23:27:00

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Great!
I think what happened is when I activate the YakiHonne wallet, it made my profile address different.
But that addres you showed was different still.
So no clue,
I’ll just continue to use Primal as my wallet and when I want to zap I’ll find the post in Primal.
99% of the time though I’m using YakiHonne as my main client

2024-12-24 22:09:35

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@npub1lrn…qnw5 mind sending me a test zap? You should not see quickoctopus5@primal.net as my wallet
I found where Yaki replaced my wallet in their app on my profile so I reset it

2024-12-24 14:32:20

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Out of curiosity did you zap me? I don’t see any new zaps in my Primal wallet

2024-12-24 04:07:53

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Weird. It is setup… it’s
quickoctopus5@primal.net

2024-12-19 03:54:41

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Valid point…I meant 180° 🤦‍♂️

2024-12-18 13:14:21

Was reading “Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to build up the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,”
‭‭Titus‬ ‭1‬:‭1‬ ‭HCSB‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/72/tit.1.1.HCSB
To think of the 360° God did in Paul (his Greek name, aka Saul in Hebrew).
As Saul, he persecuted and killed Christians. He was a destroyer.
As Paul, God reversed that role into a builder…no longer a destroyer, Paul was a builder of the men and women whom would spread the Gospel to the ends of the Earth.
Paul mentored God’s elect! 🤯
Man…if God forgave His primary persecutor of the time (Acts 9:3)…there is no human He won’t forgive.
#Christian
#Biblestr
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2024-12-17 15:40:11

Good brunch morning #foodstr and #coffeechain
Avocado Toast with Scrambled Eggs and Turkey
I’m eating 5 ⭐️with my favorite hot sauce by Cutino (small batch; super flavorful with some heat for that extra bit of love!)
Got my fair trade organic beans brewed…
And the view…my second favorite! 🤣
Doing my morning routin then diving into client work today.
Cheers, stack sats, #zap notes, and Pura Vida y’all.
PV
#PV
GM
#GM
#grownostr “ya filthy animals!”
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2024-12-16 14:46:03

Good Morning #grownostr
It’s a Monday. This week Central Florida is going to warm up and get a little muggy before Christmas.
No ❄️ in the forecast
But that just means there’s no excuse to not post Notes and send #zaps
My goal this week is to be more intentional in my Nostr relationships.
So if you haven’t heard from me directly in awhile, feel free to DM me.
(I use NIP-44 gift wrapped messages so use a client such as @npub1yzv…rf8q or @npub1tm9…xn72 which supports them.)
Pura Vida y’all!
GM
PV
#gm
#pv
#freedom
#liberty
#coffeechain
#plebchain
#teachain

2024-12-12 15:09:30

1. Just noticed @npub1tm9…xn72 added Cashu support
I’m sure @npub12rv…85vg had something to do with it 😎
2. Minor typo I noticed (see image) “form” should be “from”
3. First time Cashu user…I assume I can convert Sats to eCash by: Receive > Deposit eCash (pay Lightening invoice)
So I can put some eCash in my Cashu wallet that way?
4. Lastly, is the reason I’d want to use eCash over sats via Lightening because:
A. Privacy
B. Cheaper fees on Cashu vs Lightening?
#asknostr
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2024-12-11 13:44:46

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Have you thought about documenting these, at least for yourself and maybe your family, in something as simple as a text file?
I’m a little out of practice on reading and updating mine, but I have a doc that is my Credo…
It lists these types of beliefs and valuable quotes I come across.
Just something to think about. Ways for you to create value for yourself and your family.

2024-12-11 13:10:58

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Care to share these beliefs?

2024-12-11 03:23:33

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Yes I do.

2024-12-04 03:42:50

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While I don’t know what is required for approval; does it make sense that one could run AlbyHub on Google Cloud?
Even maybe have Google pay for it via a startup credit?!

2024-12-04 03:17:19

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Can you expound for those of us in the back of the room?! 👂

2024-12-02 14:06:08

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Morning back at ya @npub1yrf…n8p0

2024-12-02 14:05:46

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You are most welcome.
It’s from Mark Batterson’s book “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day”
Which expounds upon an obscure scripture (2 verses) in 2 Samuel 23:20-21
PS
I gave you a follow!

2024-12-02 13:43:28

Good morning Nostriches!
Are you a Lion Chaser?
“Lion chasers know God is bigger and more powerful than any problem they face in this world.
They thrive in the toughest circumstances because they know that impossible odds set the stage for amazing miracles.
That is how God reveals his glory-and how He blesses you in ways you never could have imagined.”
That’s 👆Pura Vida!
#pow
#proofofwork
#Christian
#Bible
#Biblestr
#leadership
#PV
#GM
GM
PV
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2024-12-01 16:03:52

Relationships.
First with God
Second with myself
Third with my family
Fourth; everything else.
#btc fits into the fourth category of Heirarchy of Relational Leadership
#note1ff2…vuu4

2024-12-01 15:02:36

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@npub1xtw…6rus #thanks for the #zap

2024-12-01 14:00:12

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How specifically are you using the widgets to connect with your audience?

2024-12-01 13:58:15

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Yes it was a great listen!

2024-12-01 13:57:16

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You as well Stu.
I’m just finishing up my devotions then will probably scrap together some breakfast.
After that, I’m going to get some #proofofwork done.
#pow

2024-12-01 13:55:25

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Totally agree. This goes back to what I’ve termed the Heirarchy of Relational Leadership.
Most people have the order backwards.
It should be:
1. God
2. Self
3. Family
4. Others (Business, Team, Community)
Too many people put their relationship with God last, slave away earning fiat, get home and have little to no energy remaining to engage with the family in a healthy way, and rarely ensure their own self is optimized.
It’s important we recognize the correct order of relationships and prioritize them accordingly.

2024-12-01 13:50:20

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Good morning to you!
I’ve got the Turkey bone broth going.
I thought it’d be ready this morning but it needs a solid 24 hours or more yet.
I’ll probably manually break the bones later this afternoon.
I checked them this morning and they were still a bit tough. So I think we have a ways to go to get all the goodness out of them.

2024-12-01 13:48:11

I’m always amazed at:
1. The #wisdom of those who came centuries before us, and
2. How many similarities there still are in today’s age. #note1q0n…l7wa

2024-12-01 13:46:27

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Hoping to take my wife there this year.
We’ve gone numerous times not during Christmas; but would like to go when the lights are up.

2024-11-30 11:53:26

Yep @npub1yzv…rf8q has become my preferred client of choice.
#note10x2…3jhz

2024-11-29 13:07:53

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Ok I think I did that…
In the lower left corner of the app (on iOS) I pressed the comment button and added it there as well.
I see there are apparently 2 comments on the article now.
However in YakiHonne, when viewing the article, where / how should I see other comments? When I click the comment bubble it only slows me to write another comment

2024-11-27 13:40:01

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Thanks
I want to use it to have clients pay invoices I generate or they pay via link on my website.
It would be infrequent.
My ISP does not offer a static IP so I’m trying to ascertain if I need to use a 3rd party hosting company or can run it on some old hardware from home

2024-11-16 00:58:31

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My understanding and experience thus far is you have to use the Fountain wallet for earning…
But you can send yourself some sats to boosts with inside Fountain app (wallet)

2024-11-15 03:13:06

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Another doozy…that Prob 22:16 will get ya!

2024-11-15 03:12:00

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Stop with the guilt trip already LOL 🤪
Sometimes versus just hit you upside the head don’t they?! 😇

2024-11-15 02:59:48

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Can you expand on what you are trying to say?
(For context 50k Sats is the minimum Boltz exchange transaction from lightning to on chain)
Are you suggesting to wait longer or do smaller?!

2024-11-14 15:42:21

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Got it...yea I only came across Alby for when I was looking for a self-custody wallet solution. So that may be how I was unaware they also had a custodial solution.
I still don't have my Alby Hub setup as:
1. I don't want to pay for the monthly fee (its a bit high imho especially given the limited number of Sats I earn a month
2. I don't have an "always online" hardware solution at home yet to ensure I can receive and send zaps 100% of the time.
Therefore, My idea at the moment is to simply use Alby Hub as a sweep cold wallet...but at that point I think it's better to just move my lightning sats to onchain btc once I 50k Sats which is the minimum via https://boltz.exchange/

2024-11-14 03:32:02

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Keep up the good work!

2024-11-13 03:42:19

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Does coinos support NIP5 I believe it is (where we have an “email addy” to receive zaps ?
(Ie I can use my coinos wallet addy on Nostr?)

2024-11-11 18:40:46

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And @npub16se…jdxk #thanks for the #zap

2024-11-11 18:39:36

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Thank you.
Driving you see soooo many really bad and fatal crashes.
I’m grate I’m just sore and not laying in a hospital or dead.

2024-11-11 18:38:53

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#thanks

2024-11-11 18:38:40

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May I ask what it’s for? (Like what problem you trying to solve)?
PS no pressure to answer, my response either way was probably going to be “start with chiropractic care then later on Accupunture if you want to try and “boost” the results”
But generally my experience has been it’s a small improvement and I’d rather invest that time and money into other areas of my health where I KNOW the result is happening

2024-11-11 18:34:00

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Will this help?!
#note1nsv…f0ca
PS if you know of a way to get our notes into a spreadsheet that would help me!

2024-11-11 18:29:34

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Got it scheduled for 10am tomorrow 😜

2024-11-11 18:29:08

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This is a mindset shift I’m working on.
I gravitate towards “store of value”.
I need to work on “medium of exchange”.
In process of implementing “unit of account”

2024-11-11 18:24:06

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Not gonna lie; this last week has been playing with my “I don’t yet have enough” emotions.
(And generally speaking, I’m really not an emotional guy especially when it comes to investing and money)
Then I think about the “predictions” from numerous sources.
Imagine BTC does get to $1M or multiple M’s a coin…even 20-45M as some believe…
Or at the least “it will just go up forever” crowd.
$80-100k is a steal!

2024-11-11 18:19:04

Good news I’m alive with only minor aches.
I was driving in Orlando last night, had the Green light to turn left, entered the intersection then
BAM!!!
Someone ran the Red light and hit the rear of my vehicle.
…then they ran!
When I saw they weren’t going to stop, I followed in hot pursuit!
Dialing 911 while I was in chase, I relayed the license and vehicle details to FHP and let them know where the other driver was heading.
About the same time I realized the era end of my vehicle was in the middle of another intersection,
FHP instructed me to return to the scene and wait for a patrol unit.
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Apparently it costs a lot more to repair vehicles then I would have guessed because the repair shop said he wouldn’t be surprised infinsurance totaled it 🤯
I was able to drive it home and a second cool thing (God thing) happened.
My GPS kept wanting to reroute me to “save 20 minutes” by taking a toll road instead of the slower paced surface roads. (Which I thought would be more prudent given the state of my vehicle).
After 6 times of the GPS asking me to change routes I was like “ok…I guess I can’t cause too much more damage than already exists”
So I entered the toll road.
About 7 miles before my exit there was a car with its flashers on and someone waving their cell phone flashlight.
Being it was 3am already and the semi trucks were just blowing by them; I decided to stop and see what they needed.
(Probably not the wisest thing given alligators etc) but at this point I was like,
“Holy Spirit protected me once tonight, he ain’t gonna let me get mugged by someone or eaten by a gator…not tonight Satan!”
So amidst my own turmoil, I was able to be a Good Samaritan (from the #Bible ), you know…
#beJesus to the person needing help on the Highway at 3am.
#God is good and I’m grateful He protected me.
I feel blessed to have been a blessing to another human in their time of need.
#worship and #pow comes in all shapes, sizes, and time of day!
#Jesus
#Christ
#Christian
#Wisdom
#proofofwork
#Biblestr
#grownostr
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2024-11-07 03:37:47

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Happy travels

2024-11-05 19:00:25

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Right?!
Interestingly my banks don’t want me using a VPN to access their sites and apps but I also can’t access peer to peer money without using a VPN
On and off the VPN goes!

2024-11-05 02:00:23

Nice that the USA is identified with the likes of countries with tyrannical / communist leaders 🤦‍♂️
Hopefully this changes soon!
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2024-11-03 14:03:05

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I agree, love for all. There is so much hate and divisiveness that it can be frustrating.
I’m sure it’s a movie quote but I recall somewhere hearing “why can’t we just all get along”.
(There are a few opinions I have on the answer to that…but I digress)

2024-11-03 12:12:34

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Thanks for engaging my question(s) and replying.
I hear what you are saying. I don’t necessarily agree with each of the correlations you made with the various service examples.
For example, I don’t see (albeit perhaps they exist), businesses titled “Black Hair Cuts” or “Haircuts for BIPOCs”.
With churches, I have seen a few of them identifying their target audience in the branding, for example here in Florida we are a melting pot of cultures and have seen an influx of Haitians, or Cubans, or other ethnicities due to Hurricane refugees.
So I’ve seen a few “Haitian” or “Christian Indian” or “African Methodist Episcopal (AME)” churches.
To your point about churches I do see those.
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I suppose what I wrestle with (not with you per se but more generally speaking) is that as a country (USA) race (skin color) is used to divide us so many times.
Ironically, even though my skin color is White, I grew up as the minority in my community as I was in an area of town that was heavily populated by Hispanic people.
I guess my point is I can see the prudence (pride in one’s) ethnicity but don’t see the benefit to labeling by skin color (what has been distorted into the term “race”).
Like I can just imagine the uproar if I created a group called “White Bitcoin Society”…
I wouldn’t because that would merely perpetuate the racial divide.
WHEN the fact is humans are all one race…homosapiens.
(In biology, race is used informally to divide a species into distinct groups)
Sadly humans have distorted the term “race” to divide by skin color, body types, facial features, et cetera…
That’s all a power and control thing which from my understanding of the Bitcoin ethos, is not authentic to the Bitcoin culture.
So I guess that’s my point and what I personally would love to see… (not to over quote or placate MLK Jr. but that was the crux of his speeches, that we would be seen as human not by the color of our skin)
I’d love to see Bitcoiners helping people just because we are people. No other labels.
Just people helping and loving on other people…much like Jesus did and would do.
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Again thanks for engaging.

2024-11-03 11:29:21

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PS I am in Florida

2024-11-03 03:45:18

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1. Welcome! (Looks like you are newish on #grownostr
2. Please allow me to ask a legit question in light of a couple of your posts thus far:
A. In this post you say if you are human you need BTC note1y5ceq34gar2es6celw75k9g5nsyxech6jtcf8t6kx70amkkwxdnq72vgzs
If it’s about humans needing Bitcoin, why delineate based on color of skin?
(I realize in another post you also indicate your ICA is Black and Brown people but you accept all colors…)
It just seems to me that the espoused beliefs might not be aligned with action? (I’m trying to process this so forgive any confusion my query has)
B. Doesn’t delineating based upon color of skin fuel the root cause of disparaging one’s God given rights as a human?
(Again thinking out loud here processing this…)
I’ve got friends and business colleagues all across the globe and of all different shades of skin tone. One of my best friends is a Black South African, who Lord knows is way smarter than me as he speaks 9 languages, several of which are tribal with clicks and ungs (vocalizations)…he is truly an amazing human.
And that’s how I view him…a human, a fellow man.
(I only identify him as Black above, to correlate my point).
So yea…I struggle to understand why we need to say out loud things like “support Black business” (or similar) when we could (and in my opinion should) just say “hey friend, let’s go support Ben’s business” (and who cares if Ben is darker color skin than me) I want to support Ben because he’s Ben the human…not Ben the Black human.
Make sense? Can you help me understand/process this?
(Hopefully my heart is coming through in this and not just my words!) Blessings!

2024-11-03 03:06:18

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There is a meme token on Solana that has significant MC increase for Peanut.
Most are exit liquidity now but I have a few #tradstr buddies who profited well in the last few days

2024-11-03 03:04:30

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My point being: we also cannot be ignorant of Holy Spirit!

2024-11-02 22:09:33

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Care to expand on this?!

2024-11-02 21:48:03

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Mind blowing!
I think it was first that I saw you post or comment on someone’s post about it.
I thought it was you reading it yes?
And/or the book’s author is a pen name of yours?
(Trying to connect dots to give credit where credit is due!) 🤜🤛

2024-11-01 16:32:53

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@npub193j…ny6k #thanks for the #zap

2024-11-01 06:26:36

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Welcome!

2024-10-31 16:18:33

That’s funny right there!
#note14pq…56vy

2024-10-31 14:58:05

Agree with the action this sticker represents or not…
I’m not posting it for that reason.
#pow matters irregardless
What intrigues me more is my county went #BTC colors!
Not the typical Red, White, and Blue one would see on an “I Voted” participation award 🤣
#bitcoin for the win.
#proofofwork for the win!
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2024-10-31 13:20:50

A Lodging of Wayfaring Men
Written in 2007…
BEFORE the financial crisis…
This fictional novel contains quite the non-fiction.
Purported as Atlas Shrugged 2.0, I absolutely loved it.
While some of its philosophy is taken out of context (especially pertaining to the Bible) it is amazing to me:
1. How prophetic the book is
2. How much “feeedom tech” was available to us 17 years ago
3. How real and accessible the story is to us NOW…TODAY as we sit here nearly two decades later!
So…
I highly recommend A Lodging of Wayfaring Men by Paul Rosenberg
Here is the Amazon link: https://a.co/d/c92QwHI
Here is the audio book in podcast format (free to listen) PLUS if you listen via the @npub1v5u…n0v5 you can earn Bitcoin for merely listening (talk about Liberty)!
https://fountain.fm/show/kYQUyHKX6BQU7VmPzPCI
PS I’d recommend to #zap some sats via Fountain to support the creator
#v4v
#pow
#value4value
#proofofwork

2024-10-30 01:26:49

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“One giant step for mankind; one tiny step for Uncle Rockstar”

2024-10-30 01:10:29

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It’s help if we knew what NGU is/was…

2024-10-24 15:12:23

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I had to create a new user account to get wallet to work.
I can’t get nostr to connect to new account even after deleting old account.
I submitted a support ticket 3 weeks ago and still no reply from @npub1v5u…n0v5