What can ₿e, un₿urdened by what has ₿een.

Someone just sent me this as a DM

Beautiful! And true. The others will find their way ✌️

“I use Primal as a #bitcoin wallet for my 10-year-old son. He’s too young to sign up for Strike (or any KYC platform). He’s too young to open a bank account. He’s not interested in paper money. He wants digital money so he can buy game stuff online. I pay him his allowance in bitcoin to his Primal account. He doesn’t have to send me an invoice, I just zap him $50 or whatever. Then if he wants to spend on a game, he can request a purchase through the apple App Store, i get a notification first from apple, then i get a notification from Strike saying that he zapped me $5 to cover the cost of the purchase. It’s perfect for someone his age. I couldn’t do this with cash app, PayPal, a credit card, a bank account. NOSTR + Bitcoin is the future. Some of us are living here now. The others will find their way.”

A friend called me last night while he was watching the debate and said: I think you’re right, It’s all theatre designed to keep us in it.

He’d already taken his first steps down the rabbit hole but that sure helped pushed him a level deeper.

#Bitcoin

“#Bitcoin is too complicated” -US Dollar user

Every sane person is afraid that we are headed toward WW3, and literally none of our “leaders” are even talking about peace or deescalation.

That is because WE will be the ones who have to die by the millions for all of the petty bullshit that our tyrants-of-choice engage in to protect their egos and to look like “the bigger dog.”

Their insecurities are paid for by the blood of innocent people, and they have zero concerns with paying the bills.

love this. best baseline for health and sanity

what are y’all doing to stay fit?

This week I ran an experiment with nicotine via Zyn pouches. I don't advocate using nicotine given its addictive properties, but I wanted to see if Zyn would help suppress the urge to eat late at night without negatively impacting sleep quality.

For me the answer appears to be yes. Nicotine as an appetite suppressant has been widely studied and is well known. My sleep tracker showed that, unlike alcohol and caffeine, nicotine did not prevent me from enjoying a long night of deep and uninterrupted sleep.

If I was a dictator of a nation with a birth rate falling below replacement levels, I'd outlaw abortion in order to boost my population and keep tax revenues from declining. 😈

Something I’ve noticed since I lost Phoenix wallet, is that our ability to communicate or “partner” between projects is kinda horrible.

Example: One of the best ways to get new users sats without any onboarding friction have been services like Fountain and Zebeedee. Yet literally none of the wallets will read or accept a withdraw from those services. Phoenix was the only one that would just do it.

Then the same problem with Cash App, which is easily a dominant service for buying and using #Bitcoin and now #Lightning. Yet none of my wallets will let me enter in an amount if the invoice is for zero sats… which all Cash App invoices are blank.

I thought these would just be growing pains about a year or 2 ago, but neither have changed at all in that time span. Are the wallet builders just not using their own wallets?

(I’ve had a super shitty day so if this is overly critical I apologize, but for lightning to also be a pain in my ass today is just icing on the cake. I’ve tried 5 different wallets and 2 different UI for btcpay trying to get a simple withdraw from Fountain to work)

made it to Europe is #nostr legal here

There is a special place in hell reserved for people on a plane who watch “Is It Cake?” at full volume without headphones.