Sebastian Strub / is on Nostr

payments consultant | bitcoin enthusiast | hobby monetary economist | tea nerd

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2025-04-14 15:01:04

As governments around the world need to find ways do diversify away from the Dollar as a settlement network (SWIFT system) and reserve (UST), it is perplexing to see why only China and Russia seem to grasp that Bitcoin is the ideal solution.
What are your top reasons as to why that is? Do you think governments are so regarded that they first load up on gold just to realize its ill suited for settlement?
https://www.vaneck.com/us/en/blogs/investment-outlook/our-portfolio-managers-weigh-impact-of-trumps-tariffs/

2025-04-13 06:03:21

This makes you high if you‘re not and if you are it makes you double as high
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2GFoSLDJ_Mg&si=dLkpVQWnzh4mdZ0X

2025-03-01 20:44:52

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Well, that stuff is rather grown in Japan / China. Definitely worth a visit as well, however! I’d rather be interested in those aged yunan gushu pu-err, Chinese withe, or Taiwanese oolongs

2025-02-27 10:23:04

As a huge tea nerd, I’m planning to travel Taiwan to source the best oolong teas. Maybe I should start an import business based on direct bitcoin payments to local farmers. @npub1au2…t53j and planB have already planted the seeds there.

2025-02-25 07:46:41

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My gf comes in with an excited tone to tell me how well she farted 🫣💘

2025-02-13 07:53:49

I'm drinking a 2007 aged Sheng Pu-Err tea from the deep mountains of Yunnan. Life is mysterious with this tea, full of wonder. In the depth of my insecurities, I cherish this moment, hopeful of future days

2024-11-01 14:44:26

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some stats: 1.93m, peak @101.5 kg, 4500 kcal daily.
Now starting a diet to go down to around 9% body fat and 90kg.
This will take around 10-13 weeks. Then I'm planning to lean bulk all the way to 105-108 kg

2024-11-01 14:42:12

Bodybuilding Bitcoiner: in May 2024, I started taking bodybuiding serious after going to the gym more or less consistently for the past 6-7 years.
I took the best coach I could find at 94.5 kg with around 12% body fat.
Until end of October, I gained a solid 7 kg and stand at around 16-17% body fat.
4 workouts a week, high intensity, basically no junk food, no skips, very little alcohol. And besides, I'm 33, still achieving my best physique.
#proofofwork

2024-11-01 14:33:42

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Hey Lyn, did you ever think about making content in egyptian? When I was there last week, I asked couple of people how they protect themselves against inflation. Most hold USD or EUR, one buys gold, but Bitcoin is too novel for them, it doesn't feel real to them.
Seems like a lot of lost potential for such a huge & young populus

2024-04-05 18:31:49

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it would be great if this could be a kind of cypherpunk 2.0 platform, but I'm missing the controversy and original ideas

2024-04-05 18:29:54

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I drink mostly tea, feeling much better and positive this way. It's also a huge rabbit hole to get into quality tea, from green to oolong and pu-err which actually makes you high ;)

2023-10-08 16:19:20

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To me the biggest insight is that I would never understand more than at most 1 or two topics really, and deeply. And that this is okay. So I spend a lot of time to understand finance, banking and monetary economics. But I have no opinion on most other matters. I don't consume any news. Feeling much more healthy that way.

2023-08-15 07:10:57

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very suitable to bring a book called "Broken Money" to Egypt. The despair of people with their governments, the military, the fruitless revolution, and how the rulers build useless megacities for themselves far away while Cairo looks like a Blade Runner set was impressive and saddening. Still a super charming city in some spots with wonderful people.

2023-04-30 16:14:23

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why is there so little talk & activity around bolt12? it's such an important update

2023-04-23 08:08:19

Das Unglück scharfsinniger und klarer Schriftsteller ist, dass man sie für flach nimmt und desshalb ihnen keine Mühe zuwendet: und das Glück der unklaren, dass der Leser sich an ihnen abmüht und die Freude über seinen Eifer ihnen zu Gute schreibt.
nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, 181

2023-03-02 18:33:38

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this is also the result of years of regulation that creates hurdles for newcomers & thus concentrates power.
There ain't much competition out there in many industries, hence the pricing power.
Sad that the left will see even more regulation as the cure, not as part of the problem

2023-03-02 18:05:00

ECB: "wages have been growing far more slowly than inflation, implying a 5% drop in the standard of living for the average employee in the euro zone compared with 2021"