I'm sorry, but I really don't understand what you're saying or the way you write (maybe it's a translation thing? I dunno.) And I can't really say what "religion is for most people" (who can?). As a Christian myself, "religion" is about reconciling sinful man (me) back with God.

I hear you. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone say "organized religion" drove them away from their faith, I'd have a lot of bitcoin! 😀 No doubt the church has made grievous errors at times in a lot of ways. So often I hear these same people say things like, "nature is my cathedral, that's where I find religion" or something of that form. My personal opinion...they're patiently healing.

Honest question: fine that you're gyming, but why do you feel it necessary to slip in an underhanded snark at many folks' religion? I don't get that.

That kiddo seems to be thinking, "Wait, what? No presents?" 😀 Merry Christmas

We've all heard John 3:16. It's great, but I've always really liked John 3:17.

"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."

Merry Christmas

Not sure what you're talking about, but I just took a single slab of ribs and 16 parts of a chicken out a BBQ. Going to transfer all to the table.

I've long thought we need egg-backed money. $EGG It's universal, everyone knows 1 egg has value, supply is continual, emission rate is sorta stable.

This occurred to me again a few days ago. Watching "Tasting History" on YouTube the guy goes over a recipe. He repeats every item in ounces and again in grams. But then says, "1 egg." Universal.

I've long thought we need egg-backed money. $EGG It's universal, everyone knows 1 egg has value, supply is continual, emission rate is sorta stable.

This occurred to me again a few days ago. Watching "Tasting History" on YouTube the guy goes over a recipe. He repeats every item in ounces and again in grams. But then says, "1 egg." Universal.

Got an old garage door fixed that was broke and stuck. Feeling pretty good. (We'll see if things hold out.)

By the wayn I tried to zap you but got some error. Might wanna check.

No no I appreciate it. Why I asked. Too much, i tend to agree, main reason i ask. New? No. Waste of time, probably. Just doing it because I started it long ago, few years, and I hate having things hanging out there.

Gone south for the winter.

Birdie said, "Forget this, I'm outta here," and is now drinking a coconut rum something on a beach. ⛱️

I've got a "what is bitcoin?" draft going on? How am I doing?

https://stacker.news/items/820464

What is bitcoin?

In a couple of sentences or less…

Bitcoin is a digital system to store, measure, and transfer value. It is run by no one and people can participate with Bitcoin without anyone’s permission and without needing to trust any other person, government, or institution.

Because of the technical side of bitcoin and due to its wide scope, bitcoin can be hard to understand, overwhelming, and outright intimidating. But, an easy way to think of bitcoin is that...bitcoin is digital gold. Many people feel gold is, well, the gold standard of money. And, gold indeed is good money and has withstood the test of time. Gold is good money, but it’s not perfect money. Bitcoin is indeed like gold, but bitcoin offers benefits over gold.

Bitcoin is digital gold, but it’s better than gold.

1. People can hold and control their own bitcoin. People can hold their own gold, of course. People do choose to hold gold in a safe in their home, and that’s a personal decision and that’s great. You can hold your own gold too if you choose. Yet, there are drawbacks. First, you must obtain your gold. Likely, that means buying from a broker or dealer (who charge high fees) and then you must ship the gold (more high fees). What’s more, you must trust the seller to follow through on the deal and trust whoever is physically delivering the gold that it won’t get “lost in the mail.” Once received, gold holders then must deal with security and, eventually, transfer the gold again, maybe to heirs. For these reasons, many gold “holders” choose to “buy gold” but have someone else hold it. In this scenario, I might buy $10,000 worth of gold in a vault somewhere. I have the right to the gold and can maybe “cash out” one day, perhaps when the value doubles to $20,000. If all works as planned, I’m paid and indeed doubled my money (minus the service fees involved). The trouble with this scenario, of course, is that I must very much trust the other person I’m dealing with. Will they pull the rug out from underneath me and take my money? Will the business by in business in 10 years? 20 years? 50? This requires a lot of trust.

With bitcoin, you can hold your own BTC by holding your own private keys. That’s it. There’s a saying in bitcoin, “Not your keys, not your bitcoin.” The other side of that saying means that if you do hold your private keys, then you do hold your bitcoin. You, and only you, hold and control your bitcoin.

2. Bitcoin can be easily transferred worldwide in around ten minutes. If someone does have gold coins in their physical possession, say $1,000,000 dollars in gold coins and they want to give those to their heir on the other side of the world, it becomes difficult. Traveling with that many gold coins is nearly impossible and there’s a chance you will be fined or taxed or arrested or maybe your coins will be confiscated. Even if you’re successful, it’s difficult...it’s physically heavy to carry that much gold, it’s dangerous because you might get robbed, it’s time consuming to literally travel that far, and expensive. Of course, you could “send it in the mail.” But, would you really want to pay the fees to ship pounds of gold? And would you sleep well while it’s in transit?

With bitcoin, sending BTC is as easy as sending an email. You enter a BTC address and send. Within about ten minutes a first confirmation is received. Within an hour, about six confirmations are received. With each confirmation (each new bitcoin block), the bitcoin network is agreeing that the transaction is real and legitimate. The more confirmations, the more certain and secure the transaction is. Six confirmations has become somewhat of the de facto standard for settlement, but you and the your recipient are welcome to say, “Yep, it’s settled,” after any number of confirmations.

Bitcoin is bitcoin. With gold, you really can’t be 100% sure that your “gold” is truly, 100% gold, can you? How do you know it’s not “watered down” gold, that is, mostly gold with a few cheap metals mix in to make it a gold-colored alloy? You really can’t be sure unless you have your gold assayed...a scientific examination of the metal (or metals) in your coins. Only then would you truly know what you hold. And, that assay takes time and requires a hefty fee.

3. With bitcoin, you know 1 bitcoin equals 1 bitcoin, 1 satoshi equals 1 satoshi, 100%, every time, no questions. There is no watered down version.

4. Bitcoin is usable. Critics of bitcoin often say, “You can’t buy anything with it.” This is not true. Anyone who wants to sell you something can easily accept bitcoin for payment. If merchants are currently not accepting bitcoin as payment, that doesn’t mean you can’t use it. This means they’re currently not accepting payment in bitcoin. Another favorite line of bitcoin critics is, “You can’t buy a cup of coffee with it.” Again, this is not true. There are coffee shops, many of them, that accept bitcoin as payment. And by comparison, can you buy a cup of coffee with gold? Everyone agrees gold has value, but can you literally buy a cup of coffee with gold? And if the merchant said, “Yes, you can pay in gold,” how would that work. Would you pull out a gold coin to pay? A one ounce American Eagle gold coin (33.93 grams) is currently worth a couple of thousand dollars. The smaller gold sovereign coins (7.98 grams) are worth several hundred dollars. Would you give either of those coins over for a cup of coffee? And how would the cashier give you change back, in fiat currency? That’s not really buying coffee with gold, that’s buying coffee with gold and fiat. Or, what if you had a gold nugget in your pocket that you found. Would you chip off a small grain that you think equates to the price of the coffee? And would the merchant accept the size of your grain of gold? Would you weight it? Would you trust the scale to accurately measure such a small weight and get it right? Even if it worked, this sounds like a lot of work and a lot to time to buy a cup of coffee. A lot of effort and time spent, not to mention that you gave up your gold coin and got paper money in return!

With bitcoin, paying a few sats for a cup of coffee is precise and fast. Both you and the merchant can be 100% sure that the intended value in sats was 100% what was transferred.

5. Bitcoin is completely finite. New gold is found every day. Certainly, there is only so much gold on planet Earth. However, how much is there? We really don’t know. New caches are found on occasion and new mining techniques make gold mining for productive which increases the supply somewhat randomly.

With bitcoin, new coins are found every day too. However, bitcoins emerge at a set, known, predictable pace. We can estimate how much gold will be found today, but we can’t be sure. And, the number of new bitcoins emerging are growing fewer and fewer and fewer. Eventually, the day will come when zero new bitcoin will be found. Zero. Then, the only bitcoin that exist are the one’s that exist already. There will be no more. It is truly, mathematically, finite.

#bitcoin #asknostr

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7um0d3hkxmewdekz7qgnwaehxw309ahkvenrdpskjm3wwp6kytcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uqzq3frhevd89d3kxt2nwxg9vpck6y4evptdq7scff6j4gx3kapltxs5drm5w I was going to make a how to join nostr video/tutorial using iris.to (because I think it's super easy to start with and is device independent), but when creating a new account...I can't find where it shows my new nsec. Before logging out it prompts me to save my "secret key", yet I can't find it. My expectation is that it would be in "Profile." Maybe I'm blind. My guess is that if I can't find it, a nostr noob won't either. Hmm.

Its not particularly new, but I can't get used to it...

McDonalds is expensive.

#bitcoin vs #gold - nice, quick comparison

https://fountain.fm/clip/qwIs5EWEHJpE4PcxD535

Just got back from a Christmas party. They're nice, but for some reason, they're stressful.

Pretty late, but...fall colors.

#nature

GM nostroids

For me, its 3. coracle.social has a special place in my heart (the first client I used to post, it just looks different, kinda avant garde in autumn tones, love to watch my WoT score fly around seemingly randomly, and hodlbod seems like a nice guy), nostrudel.ninja is my top go-to while using web (non native app like Amethyst), nostrudel has so many functions, and iris.to is where I got my "verified " username (and I'm thankful for what Martti Malmi has done for bitcoin. Simple and clean UI (and ecash wallet built in to boot).