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Good Morning! Thankful for you!

what is the term for bitcoiners who defend their shitcoinery as "it's so i can buy more bitcoin"

bitshitcoiner? bscoiner?

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I was moved to tears several times at Bitcoin Atlantis in Madeira.

The quality, sincerity, generosity, kindness, respect, and encouragement which characterize the interactions I had is on a level I’ve never before witnessed or experienced.

All those people, with a shared passion and dedication for the mission, humbled by all which it represents, interacting with each other as fundamentally equal, but experientially and intellectually unique, creates the best possible foundation for friendship, for mutual understanding, for helping and supporting each other, or for just hanging out and basking in the shared experience, and whatever forces are generating it.

It’s become such a consistent occurrence (though more pronounced each time) that it’s easy to forget just how special it is.

Bitcoin (only) conferences aren’t ‘industry events’, they are little wormholes to the future that flash open for a few days so people can feel what things are like when we orient and express our actions around such a form of truth - as represented in, accessed through, and propagated by, bitcoin.

‘Number go up’ is great and necessary, and none of this would happen without it, but it’s a ‘means’, not an ‘ends’.

What is experienced between people when they are so humbled by the truth, and so lifted and liberated by its presence, is the true nexus of creative inspiration, from which all that is good and beautiful may spring. That is the true ‘ends’, which we might simply understand to be alignment with the generative force we call ‘love’, and the products thereof.

Not the phony, wishy-washy, ‘everyone can be right’ kind of ‘love’, but the one which allows for argument and debate, honest feedback and opinion, while remaining grounded in a paramount aim that is movement toward Truth, which subordinates any divisive differences to this, ultimately uniting, shared objective.

Anyways, Bitcoin Atlantis just reminded me how incredible what’s happening here really is, and how much of a pleasure and honour it is to be sharing it with you (you know who you are).

Thank you.

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truth, lovely put - and was great to meet you guys

watching most news is like letting malware in your brain

i know nostr clients are far from perfect

but man twitter is just desperate now

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h flip any moment!

so what's the state of relay discovery? can we search by topics / types?

#asknostr

Hope is the proof-of-work.

As someone who attended many fiat and even tech conferences, it struck me how authentic, positive and hopeful bitcoiners are by comparison.

Yet what makes it really special is that it’s not just hope - people are putting in the work: the coders, the podcasters, the book writers and the street preachers…

As nostr:npub1tdc9um9kqfp9cqvjqtwswzsvqzdsgzkpn9swamed3286kfwpaljsrr8r0y aptly said: “just do” - and your reward will be hope.

And the combined hope is what makes it hope for everyone.

it's the fiat in you calls you to the btcusd chart r/now...

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