It seems like the powers that be only have war, money printing, and indoctrination in their tool box.

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Hash tag take your kids out of government schools

I believe they will at some point.

Once banks become smart enough about it, they will all offer free Lightning transactions.

It will be many months yet before that will happen.

fee < 10 sats/vB

You're asking us to go to twitter from nostr 😂

Everything is a danger to national security nowadays.

Next up: Tacos

Sure, I have been learning and figuring things out as I go. I only have very casual audio recording and engineering experience.

I bought a Samson Meteor Mic, Auphonic pop filter, and a boom stand to hold them. The mic is amazing and works perfectly with Audacity on Linux out of the box. I recorded the pilot without the pop filter and you can really hear the difference. I also had to work on my voice a little to relax and get some more resonance out of it so I wouldn't need any post processing like equalization or filtering. I'm recording in my bathroom closet because it's nice and quiet in there.

To edit the recordings, I silence out any breaths I take, remove the background noise, adjust the pauses between phrases and sentences to be the same length, and finally compress and normalize to set the right volume. I'm using rss.com to host the podcast and handle the v4v stuff, and it distributes it everywhere else.

It takes a little while now to get from start to finish, but I hope to get faster with time.

There're two types of people

Those who know the important role #bitcoin will play, and those who don't

I will begin to look around, I’ll notify you when I find a spot around me

I love empanadas but never had nor seen a pumpkin one crazy

Pumpkin empanadas no way they make those

Bitcoin = Bitpower,

& Bitpower = Bitcoin.

The crucial factor is the protocol's function, not its name.

His perspective on using watts to safeguard our digital assets (PoW) is entirely sensible; he's certainly ahead of his time.

Well, it's a long story. The way Preston tells it, he was basically found in the wild by Greg Foss, beating up suits on LinkedIn about Bitcoin. Foss said, hey man, if you want to talk Bitcoin, come over to Twitter.

So he comes over to Twitter and the first thing he goes and says is, "Bitcoin is violence." And he shows up on Pomp's podcast and waves a gun around, comparing it to Bitcoin.

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People didn't like that. Bitcoiners had developed very entrenched ideas about the Peaceful Bitcoin Revolution and libertarian ideas of nonviolence. But Lowery comes from the military and basically speaks a foreign language where "violence" has a very different meaning (he's since switched to using "power projection") that most people find hard to reconcile with their existing ideas of violence, offense, and defense. See, in the military, even defense is violent. Try squaring that circle.

But Lowery was at MIT specifically to study the military significance of Bitcoin, and his thesis was extremely interesting and held water for the most part. But people knew him as the "Bitcoin is a gun" dude, so he started off with a lot of haters.

He also performed social experiments on Twitter to demonstrate abstract power projection in cyberspace where he systematically blocked people who were mostly likely to complain about it and caused a huge uproar. But the thing is, he always said exactly what he was going to do beforehand.

Then he finished his thesis, and while the digital copy was held up by MIT until he graduated, he sold it as a full color textbook on Amazon for a few months. That also became controversial because despite this community's belief in value for value, many people just wanted the PDF. But people bought it anyway and it rose to the top of Amazon's charts in multiple categories and still has a 5 start rating there.

Nowadays, he's been gag ordered, allegedly, by the Pentagon. And his book is no longer for sale. And he's dropped off Twitter, but I think he's still active on LinkedIn.