I have been told my whole life that this sentence is so evil that the sentence itself has even been replaced by the euphemism "the 14 words":

"We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."

Saying this sentence in public or saying you believe in this sentence is such a social stigma you may still be cancled over today over it.

Does this sentence seem evil to you?

be reliable.

get shit done.

lead by example.

family. work. and life.

no excuses. results only.

happy new year 🫡

And that's all for 2025.

Don't worry about the price of Bitcoin. Tomorrow there will be more fiat money, more gold, and more silver in the world, but there will never be more than 21 million Bitcoins.

So just sit back and enjoy the collapse of the fiat system, enjoy all the stupid situations that are created by the fiat system.

Happy 2026!

heading into 2026 with strong vibes

fuck the haters, fade the excuse makers, lets push freedom forward on all fronts

Just saw someone wearing a mask while driving alone in their car.

In the year of our lord 2025.

⚡️🇲🇭 NEW - The Marshall Islands are launching a groundbreaking universal basic income program, with quarterly payments of $200, available in cryptocurrency, for every resident citizen.

This is a world first!

Citizens can choose between three payment methods:

➥ Bank transfer

➥ Check

➥ Dollar-pegged stablecoin, sent to a government-backed wallet.

The goal is to ease the cost of living for these citizens, who are often severely impacted by poverty.

"A world first in terms of the nationwide rollout of a universal income," says Dr. Huy Pham (RMIT).

⚡️🖥️ NEW - Netflix quietly killed casting from phones to newer Chromecasts and Google TV Streamer.

Netflix no longer supports casting from mobile devices to most TVs and streaming devices, regardless of your plan.

GM! ☕ 😎

Less rain 🏜️ Or more rain 🌧️ Spin the wheel, no matter what, if it's bad, it's your fault, and the only solution is to pay a carbon tax. 💸

A GM tax coming soon once they realise how many GMs are going round.

⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - EU reportedly plans to pass the controversial "Chat Control" legislation "without discussion" behind closed doors.

what do we hit first?

$70k or $150k?

⚡️👀 NEW - Apple unveils $229 iPhone Pocket described as 'a piece of cloth'

The short-strap version costs a whopping $149.95, while the long-strap variant goes for $229.95

⚡️💬 FYI - To make nostr:nprofile1qqsy67zzq5tc9cxnl6crf52s4hptdwhyaca5j7r8jwll535tdadedvcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvsm3t9dk my full-time job, I did the math: I would need to earn 33,000 sats per day, or about €30 per day.

Over a full month, that comes to €900, provided I don't miss a single day.

So that's the minimum threshold for living solely off Flash.

➥ Do you think this goal is achievable by 2026?

To be honest, this follows some bad professional news I received at the beginning of last week, and I am trying to establish several strategies for the future and Nostr is clearly one of them.

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⚡️💸 NEW - Disney+ Price Increase from $79.99 - $159.99 (starting Nov 19th) WTF!

gm from primal, a nostr client

feels good to be a UTC maxi

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⚡️🇺🇸🇰🇵 STORY - He wanted to share his knowledge about Bitcoin and Blockchain. He ended up in prison... for a simple conference.

Virgil Griffith.

Discover on Nostr the incredible story of the developer who dared to challenge the United States by going to talk about crypto... in North Korea.

🔹 The provocative genius.

Born in Alabama in 1983, Virgil Griffith is a pure product of the world of hackers and researchers.

From an early age, he stood out for his brilliant mind and insatiable curiosity.

He studied cognitive science, then turned to computer science and cryptography. But he was no ordinary student: Virgil was a free spirit, a rebel.

In 2003, he made a name for himself by launching WikiScanner. This tool revealed who was editing Wikipedia pages. The result: it was discovered that companies, governments, and organizations were secretly manipulating the encyclopedia.

WikiScanner made headlines around the world. In just a few days, Virgil became a hacktivism star: a mix of researcher, provocateur, and whistleblower.

In his own words, he loves "throwing grenades into a room and seeing who jumps on them."

In 2008, when Bitcoin was just beginning to emerge, the New York Times Magazine published a profile of Griffith.

The title was evocative: "The Internet's Man of Mystery."

The hacker with unruly hair was fascinating. He appeared on a geek reality TV show called King of the Nerds. He was sued after revealing flaws in campus ID cards. But each time, Virgil came out on top.

For him, everything was an experiment, everything was a provocation. A friend once said of him: "For Virgil, life was a video game."

At Caltech University, then in open-source circles, Virgil became passionate about decentralization.

He quickly became a respected figure in the crypto world.

He joined the Ethereum Foundation, alongside Vitalik Buterin and other pioneers. Virgil is not just a technician, he is a speaker, capable of explaining technology to a variety of audiences.

He is a well-known and respected figure at crypto conferences. He travels around the world explaining what blockchain is.

Somewhat provocative, he wants to "liberate" societies from censorship, state control, and the banking system through crypto.

In May 2019, the FBI contacted him and asked to meet with him.

Griffith agreed without really knowing what it was about. He then met with Special Agent Cavanaugh.

He didn't know it yet, but this meeting marked the very beginning of his downfall.

🔹 The forbidden journey.

Against all odds, Virgil Griffith makes a decision that surprises everyone.

He flies to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, to attend a conference... on blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

Kim Jong-un's country is subject to extremely strict international sanctions, accused of massive cyberattacks, notably via the Lazarus group, and suspected of using cryptocurrencies to finance its nuclear program.

So what is Virgil doing there?

Those close to him say he is obsessed with one idea: "talking about technology without borders." In his view, blockchain is universal and should not be constrained by political considerations.

He even asked the US government for permission... but was reportedly refused. Never mind: Virgil is going anyway.

🔹 The fateful conference.

The conference was held in Pyongyang in 2019, under extremely tight security, in a building shaped like an atom.

On stage were a few foreign delegates, North Korean officials, and Virgil Griffith.

His presentation focused on blockchain, smart contracts, and how cryptocurrencies can bypass traditional financial systems.

In the eyes of the US authorities, this was a real provocation, as Virgil described exactly how North Korea could circumvent economic sanctions and move money out of the international banking system.

Griffith even goes so far as to present a smart contract linked to a North Korean missile: "If the sanctions are lifted, the missile will automatically deactivate."

This is too much for the US government, which considers the gesture to be treason.

🔹 The arrest.

In November 2019, as Virgil Griffith was preparing to return home, he was arrested by the FBI at Los Angeles airport.

The charges were serious.

👉 Conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

In short, he was accused of providing technological assistance to a regime under international sanctions.

For this, he faced up to 20 years in prison.

🔹 The trial.

His trial attracts worldwide attention. On one side, US prosecutors portray him as a man who knowingly helped North Korea circumvent sanctions. On the other, his supporters describe him as an idealistic researcher, guilty of recklessness but not treason.

In 2021, Virgil pleaded guilty, admitting that he had crossed the line. But he insisted that his intention was not to strengthen North Korea, only to share knowledge.

In April 2022, the sentence was handed down: 63 months in prison and a $100,000 fine.

The hacktivist genius is now a federal prisoner.

🔹 Release.

In July 2023, after serving most of his sentence, Virgil Griffith is finally released.

His release goes almost unnoticed... but in the crypto community, the news spreads quickly.

Today, Virgil is free. But his name remains associated with one of the most explosive cases in the crypto world.

Ultimately, the Virgil Griffith case raises a real question: where does freedom of expression end?

For the United States, his trip to North Korea was unacceptable, a clear violation of international sanctions.

For his supporters, it was just a conference, reckless, certainly, but not illegal.

Greetings to you, Virgil, if you are on Nostr 🫡

opensats has sent $30 million to 330 open source contributors over the last five years

every month we send roughly $1 million worth of bitcoin to recipients in 40+ countries

we operate on a full bitcoin standard and take zero fee on donations

push forward

never stop 🫡

⚡️🏆 Finally the owner of 0.04 BTC!

0.04009025 to be exact, I know that for some people, this may seem insignificant, even ridiculous. But I celebrate every little victory in my own way, because that's how I stay motivated.

After more than 300 days of hard work, I can now set myself a realistic goal, say 0.1 BTC by the end of 2026.

I am fortunate to have the unwavering support of many of you. The names I see appearing under my posts are often the same, and I want to repeat this: you are the real driving force behind Flash. The energy that powers it all.

This got me thinking. I would like to develop Flash into something that belongs to all Nostr users, a kind of community-powered account ⤵︎

Imagine if Flash were "co-owned" by the network: everyone who values independent information contributes a little, so that no one person has to fund it all alone. So that Flash's "salary" is spread across many hands, rather than resting on a handful of people.

In exchange, I will continue to do what I do best: provide daily information with consistency, integrity, and passion.

Tell me if my idea is crap. Anyway, my message was to tell you that I have 0.04 BTC

⚡️🧮 NEWS - Results of the international study assessing student performance in mathematics and science at different school levels, generally in elementary school (4th grade) and middle school (8th grade). Organized by the IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement), this assessment has been conducted every four years since 1995. The most recent assessment was held in 2023, and the next one will take place in 2027:

For elementary school students (4th grade) in mathematics:

1- Singapore 🇸🇬: 615

2- Taiwan 🇹🇼: 607

3- South Korea 🇰🇷: 594

3- Hong Kong 🇭🇰: 594

5- Japan 🇯🇵: 591

6- Macau 🇲🇴: 582

7- Lithuania 🇱🇹: 561

8- Turkey 🇹🇷: 553

9- Ireland 🇮🇪: 546

10- Romania 🇷🇴: 542

11- Netherlands 🇳🇱: 537

12- Latvia 🇱🇻: 534

13- Norway 🇳🇴: 531

14- Czech Republic 🇨🇿: 530

14- Sweden 🇸🇪: 530

14- Bulgaria 🇧🇬: 530

17- Finland 🇫🇮: 529

18- Australia 🇦🇺: 525

19- Germany 🇩🇪: 524

19- Denmark 🇩🇰: 524

21- Serbia 🇷🇸: 523

22- Belgium (Flemish) 🇧🇪: 521

23- Hungary 🇭🇺: 520

24- Portugal 🇵🇹: 517

24- United States 🇺🇸: 517

26- Cyprus 🇨🇾: 516

27- Slovakia 🇸🇰: 515

28- Slovenia 🇸🇮: 514

29- Italy 🇮🇹: 513

29- Armenia 🇦🇲: 513

31- Albania 🇦🇱: 512

32- Canada 🇨🇦: 504

33- Spain 🇪🇸: 498

33- UAE 🇦🇪: 498

33- Georgia 🇬🇪: 498

36- Azerbaijan 🇦🇿: 494

37- New Zealand 🇳🇿: 490

38- Belgium (Wallonia) 🇧🇪: 489

39- Kazakhstan 🇰🇿: 487

40- France 🇫🇷: 484

41- Montenegro 🇲🇪: 477

42- North Macedonia 🇲🇰: 484

43- Qatar 🇶🇦: 464

44- Bahrain 🇧🇭: 462

45- Kosovo 🇽🇰: 451

46- Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦: 447

47- Chile 🇨🇱: 444

48- Uzbekistan 🇺🇿: 443

49- Jordan 🇯🇴: 427

50- Oman 🇴🇲: 421

51- Iran 🇮🇷: 420

51- Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦: 420

53- Brazil 🇧🇷: 400

54- Morocco 🇲🇦: 393

55- Kuwait 🇰🇼: 382

56- South Africa 🇿🇦: 362

BREAKING: gm

GM! ☕ PSA: I will not be running Bitcoin Core v30. 😎

There are two kinds of people in this world. Avoid both of them.

Nostr feels way more personal, I post unfiltered thoughts with no expectations. It’s quite liberating and addicting.

It’s a vibe.

Bro, the world is more than $300 TRILLION in debt. That’s a stack of $100 bills reaching the moon and back, 50 fucking times. What a clown world!

Better stack some #Bitcoin, just in case.

GM

⚡️🇬🇧 NEW - The U.K.’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) wants to ban Spongebob clips.

Friendly reminder that you’re currently dying and this moment is the youngest you’ll ever be and your inevitable death is rapidly approaching and you’re likely stuck in a midlife delusion where you think what you’re doing is important and integral and it’s likely something that you’ll look back on at the end of your life and feel was ultimately pointless and wasted time and you’ll want it back and wish you weren’t so delusional in your 20’s, 30’s and 40’s because now that you’re old the pain of regret is crushing you like a boulder on your chest and you find yourself unable to move from under it. Omg you wasted all your time and there’s no going backwards. The delusion is gone, all you can do is sit in the regret. Why didn’t you say what you really thought? Why didn’t you do what you wanted to do? Whose life were you living? Why did you let them convince you to live it? How could you have been so misguided and delusional? How could you have been such a coward? but then you realize you’re on nostr and you’re still youngish and there’s still time and you just suddenly WAKE UP.

⚡️💬 Okay, I'm getting old. Today, nostr:nprofile1qqsy67zzq5tc9cxnl6crf52s4hptdwhyaca5j7r8jwll535tdadedvcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skueqxd28ts celebrates 200 days on Nostr.

200 days of consistency, rigor and relentless news coverage. 200 days of doubts at times, but above all of passion, discipline and deep faith in this project. Since day one, I've chosen transparency: I've shared with you my highs, my lows, my thoughts, my trials and tribulations. And I try to document this journey as much as possible, so that it leaves a trace in the history of Nostr.

Sometimes I imagine being the first to make a living from it, to be interviewed by journalists, to one day receive a whole bitcoin - and publicly testify to it, causing a tidal wave of onboarding on Nostr.

I've read too many stories of pioneers in Bitcoin and elsewhere not to want to write my own.

You never know (You can scoff, but that's kind of what drives me intimately).

Time for some numbers, a bit of quick POW:10,900 notes, 7,279 replies.

➤ 10,900 ÷ 200 = 54.5 notes per day

➤ 54.5 ÷ 24 = 2.27 notes per hour

➤ 10,900 + 7,279 = 18,179 traces of activity

➤ 18,179 ÷ 200 = 90.89 traces of activity per day

➤ 90.89 ÷ 24 = 3.78 traces of activity per hour

I share news with you every day, but the first person learning something new... is always me.

Thousands of working hours, hundreds of nights sacrificed, hundreds of days dedicated to this project. Still no automation - by choice. Because I want to preserve the authenticity that I believe makes all the difference.

I think you sense that I respect your attention, I respect your time, I respect your available brain time. There are things you don't need to say, you can feel it, in the details, the little invisible efforts that make all the difference.

With that, it's time for me to close the Internet window and wish you a good night. Thank you for being here, for reading all the way to the end, I guess I mean a lot to you.

The Strategic Flash Reserve is, of course, public and can be audited (or supported) as you see fit ⤵︎

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Doesn't seem fair at all.

Some Thoughts on Adoption (and other nonsense).

There's this old Louis C.K. clip—recorded long before he was cancelled—that summarizes our modern conundrum well: "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy."

As I was walking towards the hospital today—after a way too early 5:30 rise—it dawned on me that wide-scale nostr adoption (and "proper" wide-scale bitcoin adoption, for that matter) is probably not going to happen. The good news is that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The bad news is that lots of people will suffer.

"Why so bearish?" I hear you ask. If you know me just a little bit you'll know that, even though I do have many faults, being bearish isn't one of them. I'm still incredibly optimistic when it comes to the adoption and proliferation of freedom tech. Otherwise I wouldn't be doing what I do.

Here's what dawned on me, though: People aren't even interested in their own health, why would they be interested in healthy money? Yes, everyone wants to be healthy. But doing what is necessary to live a healthy lifestyle? Not interested. Not in the least. Usually something really really bad has to happen for people to change their ways. And even that doesn't move the needle in some cases, as plenty of drinkers who still drink after their liver gave up, or plenty a smoker who still smokes after being diagnosed with lung cancer can attest to.

Which brings me to bitcoin treasury companies. Are most of them interested in taking the responsibility of holding their own keys? Are they interested in providing real value while staying humble and stacking sats? No, of course not. They are interested in paper gains, not in a full-blown reorientation that leads to a healthier lifestyle. And I mean that literally: if you truly and fully adopt bitcoin, the responsibility that is entailed by that will result in a reorientation, a re-alignment of values, which will—down the line—lead to more long-term thinking, healthier business practices, more honest value generation, and so on.

To me, this is what "capital B" Bitcoin is about. Change. Real change. A ridiculous proposition to the balance sheet brain.

...which brings me to nostr.

A short stroll through the current iteration of the internet should make clear that the platforms that most people spend their time on are incredibly mis-aligned with humanity. The outrage-machine that we've built for ourselves is keeping us like rats in Skinner boxes, hitting the dopamine button with every swipe and every scroll, no matter what. We've built a machine that is parasitic on humanity, instead of synergistic. We are optimizing for engagement, which means that we are maximizing addiction by shoving a mixture of uppers (porn) and downers (rage bait) down our collective throats. The machine is catering to our lowest selves, as opposed to our highest selves. (We could also optimize for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, you know. Is that too much to ask?)

But who is to blame for all of that? (And is it worth blaming someone in the first place?)

It is clear to me that the whole military-grade industrial advertising complex that profits from running large-scale and nonstop psychological experiments on the whole fucking population of the earth wouldn't be profitable for long if we would all get our act together. But that won't happen, of course. There won't be a magical finger snap that suddenly shakes us awake from our slumber; that stops us from sleepwalking into dystopia. Just like there won't be a magical finger snap that stops us from our bad habits and unhealthy lifestyles.

Adopting a healthy way of living is hard. It means saying no to the constant onslaught of sugary snacks, fast-food around every corner, and social pressures to indulge. It means taking responsibility for your decisions, cultivating discipline, taking care of your body, your psyche, and yes, also your soul.

A wise man once said that "he who has a 'why' can bear almost any 'how'." And that's what most of us are missing: a strong enough "why." Why go through the trouble of living healthy? It's hard! Why hold your own keys, if someone else can do it for you, and there's even the apparent safety of some insurance? Why cultivate a less destructive relationship to the internet, if you can just autoplay & chill, whether it be with Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, PornHub, or something else? Why not write the snarky comment and trigger a whole cohort of people at the click of a button?

Because it's not healthy, that's why.

"Everything's amazing and nobody's happy." That's the state of the world. Always has been. And I'm to blame too, of course. Sitting in the hospital waiting room, writing these lines, bitching and moaning about the internet, this amazing series of tubes that I so love, warts and all.

But yeah, the internet won't heal itself over night. Neither will the economy, nor the rent-seeking zombie companies that don't provide value, nor the underlying fiat system that broke it all in the first place. It will take lots of time, lots of courage, lots of faith, and lots of responsibility.

It will be hard, but it will also be worth it. And it starts with you.

When the banks are collapsing, but you got -$5.21 in your account because you are all-in #Bitcoin.

✅ Got it, I'm working on it

Fee: 928 sats

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