These ideas apply to our Bitcoin operations as well. On chain publicly viewable internationally distributed transactions on one pole and off chain privately validated locally custodied balancing of accounts on the other. Security, decentralization, and privacy are never absolute, merely good enough. Perfection is the enemy of progress, extremes at either pole become impractical, balancing polarized sides of any coin is done by residing on the 3rd side of the coin, the edge. Riding this edge over time requires situational awareness, discipline, and focus to maintain a dynamic balance.

This is how we manage risk, in all realms, the physical where we live, contractual where we coordinate, digital where we communicate, and the virtual where we transact with our peers. Part of this balancing act is knowing who YOU are and where you are in order to know who your true peers are and what attack vectors create risk. ONLY then can confidence, not certainty, be captured, as we follow the Tao of Bitcoin.

Part of this balancing act is realizing that these polarities are fractal, scaling both up and down. For instance, eCash becomes the centralized point of interaction within the decentralized LN network, which is itself the more centralized version of Bitcoin. While, Bitcoin itself is pure potential, in the form of purchasing power, that only "realizes" that potential when turned into realized assets that support our life by spending it.

Remember, tomorrow is a fiction, we live today, but must balance today's consumption with tomorrow's productive capacity. You can't eat your satoshis, they won't keep you dry in a storm, and your self-custodied hardware running your self-hosted software requires shelter to protect in the real world.

Sovereignty over ALL our daily basic needs is the goal, over as much of our supply chain verticals as possible. Freedom is NOT having nothing left to lose. Freedom is having no-thing that can be taken from you, which requires ownership of the ideas, the knowledge required to support and cultivate our physical lives, to be manifested into form as needed. Thieves may seize my house, but they cannot steal the knowledge, skills, and satoshis I used to manifest it into form. My intellectual, experiential, and financial capital is beyond reach of those willing to use violence in an attempt to place my capital under siege.

Soon, I'll be sharing the knowledge, skills, and resources I've used to build my own self funded sovereign shelters using local materials and basic construction skills. Decentralized solutions for providing shelter for ourselves, our families, and our businesses are coming soon.

I would be interested in helping your Head of Communications integrated a Nostr strategy patterned after Geyser and Fountain. I'm not qualified for the Lead Position, but could provide strong support to whoever does take on that role. I have met and spoken to both Obi and Justin more than once over the last few years, watching your evolution closely and would love to help others understand where and how your solution fits in their personal, family, and business toolboxes.

No rational mind can ignore that genital mutilation of 80% of the US males, as circumcision is the most common surgical procedure performed every single day.

Here's what I see: culturally it is supported to defend women from sexual trauma, while baby boys are being mutilated, without consent, legal protection, or acknowledgement of the wound. How can anyone be surprised when traumatized people traumatized others.

This barbaric practice should not even be legal!

What I see are women complaining about someone violating their bodily autonomy. While young boys are having their body permanently scarred damaging their ability to bond, trust, and enjoy intimacy damaged as their introduction to the world.

Divide, control, and profit, while gaslighting those complaining about it. This is the Fiat Way!

Seems to me that bringing the Bitcoin and Nostr tool sets to the Permaculture and Homesteading communities will be much lower hanging fruit, as they already understand long term thinking, distributed networks create resilience, and sovereignty over supply chain verticals matter.

It's not 'your' data unless it's on your device and not 'your' device/node/relay/AI agent unless it's on your land in your building. Same as it's not your wallet if it's not in your pocket.

I remember the fur bikini worn the Barbara Bach (I think that was her name) far more than the Beta cave-boy Ringo played...

I fully expect that a few decades from now using paper with dead white men will be regarded the same way we currently view using sea shells or glass beads as money; an archaic, obsolete, and fragile accounting and value communication system used by the technological and economic illiterate.

ALL forms of money, even Bitcoin, are still only 'potential energy' that only becomes useful when 'realized' through use. It is the love of the money 'above all else' that is the source of all evil. The point of a journey, and the vehicle used for it, is to reach a destination, not to perpetually float as pure potential.

In sport it's said that there's no greater tragedy than wasted potential. The same applies to dying with unspent satoshis. I can't count on my offspring to deploy my sats as effectively as I will, so I plan on sliding into the grave with all my financial energy spent enjoying my life. Leaving the surplus in an irrevocable #BitcoinTrust defending my heirs from themselves.

Why have I been forced to listen to commercials when listening to podcasts on your platform? They drove me to use other options many months ago, when you had been my go-to choice.

Is it because I refuse to pay for a subscription..?

You market yourself as a V4V platform, but are forcing me to pay to avoid ads, same as Pandora & other fiat platforms do!

I prefer 'peers'...

Consider making the 5 Tibetan Rites for Immortality a daily practice. Those 5 sets of 20 movements can be done anywhere with no equipment in 7-10 minutes. They're designed as self mobilization techniques for the hips, shoulders, neck, and waist.

https://youtu.be/j_bY6REpIPE?si=XoK_apHZWYTXFmQ_

They will help your neck & shoulders deal with the postural challenges of breastfeeding, as well as the consequences on your back/hips from pregnancy and delivery. This suggestion is based on having been a professional massage therapist married to a Pilates teacher thru two pregnancies, as a wounded healer/athlete/martial artist myself.

The principal to keep in mind, no matter the issue, is that healing occurs most effectively through small consistent therapeutic stress/movement under light resistance through full range of motion.

Good luck and remember to enjoy both the peaks and valleys of your journeys.

I didn't save the link to the study providing these numbers that surprised me.

History has shown that our most productive decade of life is in our 60s, followed by our 70s, and 50s. Productivity of real value comes mostly at the until end of our journey.

Everything through your 40s is mere preparation for when you're ability to produce value to your fellow man kicks into high gear as knowledge accrues exponentially.

He was specifically referring to people and governments, not Bitcoin, when he made that statement. Taken out of context this contrast is amusing though, as it highlights the fact that the weak link in Bitcoin's protocol is the human link in the chain.

Even in real life, in one of the major US metropolitan areas there are only a small handful of places to liquidate gold coins. They not only have limitations on business hours and amounts, they also charge premiums well above Spot prices IF they are even buying when you want to sell.

Typically, we want to sell when the price rises and they don't want to buy when it does. So, they simply close their OTC desk when you most want to use it. They also generally don't have proper authentication tech on hand so will only buy stamped coins they recognize and trust.

This is all inferior to true P2P markets, like cash<=>LN sats physical trades. The problem that arises when transforming a physical to a virtual phase state the physical liquidity pool and departures from it must physically be defended.

Another tool for our Bitcoinization of our personal and commercial lives is now available. Adding an important stair for many to step on when climbing towards becoming 1st Class Bitcoin Citizens by running fully Self-Hosted nodes.

An alternative to Voltage, that integrates with your browser and Nostr. This tool can empower many on their journey to self-sovereignty over their entire data storage and communications tool stack.

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Would never pay them a single sat, but some of the side events are tempting. The travel expenses and opportunity costs are feeling hard to justify. Feels like stacking more sats will probably provide a better ROI.

Since I haven't set myself up to be a shark, there's little benefit to swimming in shark infested 'red' water full of ignorant chum. I might be mistaken for either predator or prey.

When in fact I'm a regenerative builder cooperatively cultivating sovereign soil with my peers, neither parasite nor host.

So, am I correct in thinking that for instance this could create a physical n424 NFC tag that would query a Nostr dataset to authenticate our:

-physical ID providing physical access to Nostrich planes, trains, automobiles, and home/offices

-Sending and Receiving Zaps

-Signing into Nos2x or something similar..?

Providing a physical MFA device, to effectively create a Nostr 'Yubi-Key' type device in the form of a sticker!

The NFC n424 chips used by Boltcard are often used as pin protected ID badges, that just need to access a directory to confirm/deny verification. Seems like having that as a directory of approved Users accessible in a private Nostr relay can allow the same functionality, to create an physical Nostr-signing device.

Am I wrong, or will something like Bitwarden on a Start9 OS be necessary for keeping that data directory available..?

We cannot break Natural Law, only ourselves (or our families/businesses/countries) upon it.

What we can do is to learn to better apply Natural Laws (like math, gravity, aero/hydro-dynamics, electri-magnetism) to our advantage.

The smartest among us are combining all the above to gain an advantage in collecting capital in all its phase states on the physical, contractual, digital, and virtual planes. Doing so by mining for bitcoin with self-soveriegn decentralized hybrid power generators.

Have you read the book 'Ishmael' by Daniel Quinn?

In there the author also compares modern agriculture to modern warfare and points out the many hazards in it. It was a good read that made me think as it provided a different view in human history than the I'd encountered elsewhere. Enjoy...

The journey IS the destination.

Seeking is its own reward, celebrate not the peaks of pleasure as much as the depths of pain.

It's not just "more pain, more gain", progress is maximized by "correctly applied pain, stimulating greater gains".

Do 'The Work', reap the rewards. Just realize that the Work, and not the Win, is the true goal. So, celebrate the work when wading through muck in the pit more than the leaping for joy at the Win in the peak. There's always another mountain to climb, more impact to create, and more sats to stack.

This strategy creates long term resilience, in our physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial bodies.

Stack value daily, diminishing consumption and maximize production of ever greater value for yourself, your family, and your community.

This IS The Way!

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Pleasure or Pain,

Sunshine or rain,

Predator of prey,

Sovereign or servant,

The Tao flows from one to the other, each provides contrast to the other. Shadows are inevitable and essential to add depth when dancing in the light.

So this goes as well with:

Public or Private

Commercial or Residential

Collective or Individual

&

KYC or non-KYC

Each one has its time, place, and use-case.

(I find even voluntary slavery repellent, but is it even slavery when it's a choice..?)

Freedom comes from riding the 3rd side of these coins, the Edge!

Surfing the waves from crest to trough, because, as Permaculture teaches us: Creation occurs on the fringe, where the fun, the inspiration, and the awe reside.

Many will crash, burn, and arise again when learning how to balance on the narrow path of the Tao of Satoshis.