I used to believe in the banksters, until they froze my money without reason or explanation.
Now I believe in myself and I have 12 words to prove it.
Just somebody that I used to know.
“If having 12 words in your head is illegal, something is terribly wrong with the law.
If the police storm your building because you are finding or creating a random number in the privacy of your own home, something is terribly wrong with the police.
If the peaceful exchange of messages is seen as dangerous or immoral by society, something is terribly wrong with society.
If speaking or knowing numbers becomes a criminal act, I don’t want to be a law-abiding citizen in the first place.”
— nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc
If knowing12 words becomes illegal, what does is say about our 'elected' representatives?
This is where magic is happening. And it's outside of all the crazy who, wef, imf, gates, schwab, us, Euro,etc. These are the people who need it the most and have been forgotten, or worse, abused by the systems that people like Jamie dimond and Liz warren are promoting.
Lugano is Bitcoin friendly and relatively close to the Zürich airport.
The water consumption must be why #bitcoin transactions are getting so expensive right now 😂 Journalism is dead.
"Bitcoin has a new concern, as a recent report outlines that it uses 4,227 gallons of fresh water for every single transaction, either for buying or selling. Because of these transactions, many countries, such as the United States, could face freshwater shortages if the currency becomes more widely adopted."
https://news.yahoo.com/bitcoin-transaction-uses-4-200-124337502.html?guccounter=1
Imagine how much water the clothes dryers are using.
Clown world working overtime
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/inflation-prices-buying-habits/676191/
When the power of the state is used to extract taxes from the citizens, it's almost unreal.
Then, as if it's not enough, the state comes along and devalues the currency that people are forced to use as citizens.
What a racket!
Family time and shit posting on Nostr. Fiat job kept the first one from me.
In 1950, an average home could be paid in full using 100% of an average employees 2 years of income.
Today the national realtors association reports the median price for an existing home is 410,200. This would indicate you need an income of 205,100 or year in order to buy it with 2 years of income.
Now my question is, what tax rate did you have in 1950 compared to the tax rate you have now with 205k income?
Oh FFS… It’s time to bring back nostr:npub1fq09fxq0rtsg7cyu5pqjqu43xreky0sp3a6ynt0hw2gg7mguugxs22uhjj …
#StopThePresses 🛑
If you feel like creating any memes/counter-propaganda feel free and I’ll blast out the best ones on the bird app so normies might see it.
Place your miners in clothes dryers to recapture the water.
Bring back the water, use a clothes dryer.
When they come to confiscate your #bitcoin but fuck ‘em
https://video.nostr.build/b3816c3921d1d2b53eca0c0c8de0da463d2a0053927a557900e2b588170a9a0e.mp4
This is the moment big government has been afraid of.
This is why we need Bitcoin.
For the first time in human history violence does not have power to take what you have saved.
This is going to change how wars are faught.
Satoshi enabled the most powerful peace technology the world has ever seen.
This will greatly simplify the onboarding experience!
Welcome, we are pleased to see you here.
After leaving xitter this spring it is really hard to imagine a better place than right here.
I was also on mastodon for a few years. I kept wanting to see it work. Then, once I found Nostr, it was obvious why it never could. Having said that, thanks to everyone who tried to make mastodon work!
Nostr: it may not be the best place to meet and share ideas, but I haven't seen anything else that even comes close.
When you have big government, the answer to every question is more government, more regulation, more central control, more looking into every person's life.
When you have decentralization, the answer to every question is personal responsibility, more privacy, more incorruptible structures, lower time preference.
We all know which is the harder path to take. For meny of us there is no option but to take the Bitcoin / Nostr / open source path.
If it wasn't for Bitcoin I would feel like there is no hope.
I knew the Bank of Lebanon was no good. But until today, I didn't know quite how no good. They didn't just print too much money. Officials embezzled from the bank, invested in Ponzi schemes, and then lied and printed to cover it all up. Result: Lebanese Pound down 98% vs. USD.
There are a lot of sources that go into more detail on this, and the story isn't over yet. For one recent overview, see: https://www.dw.com/en/how-lebanon-was-plundered-by-its-own-central-bank/a-66613994
When the World Bank released a report about your monetary and fiscal system entitled "Ponzi Finance?" you know you messed up: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/08/02/lebanon-s-ponzi-finance-scheme-has-caused-unprecedented-social-and-economic-pain-to-the-lebanese-people
One interesting element of this particular case is how authorities across monetary, banking, financial, and fiscal systems conspired to create a crisis. And 'create' is not an exaggeration, according to the World Bank. They call it a ‘Deliberate Depression’.
Abstract power always had and always will corrupt. And the ones who suffer the results are the average people working hard for their shrinking paycheck.
Easy times make weak people.
The Streisand effect???