Today I cooked burgers with mitts on and shoveled for 3 hours

Dunno if I'm in heaven or hell

Maybe a bit of both

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I have yet to share my personal #Bitcoin journey, but I believe now is the right time to do so. It marks the beginning of my descent into the Bitcoin rabbit hole and, much like the Bitcoin White Paper itself, my story is closely tied to the financial crisis of 2008.

This account is deeply personal, laced with self-pity and a sense of stupidity. That's why I've kept it private and not even shared it with my closest friends, but I think it's important to share it now with you. Giving back to a community I received so much in the previous years. All too often, those who fall victim to the shortcomings of the fiat system internalize the guilt, unaware that they are being taken advantage of by a corrupt fiat system.

My parents, hardworking individuals who dedicated their lives to building their own business from scratch, had little time to acquire financial education. In the early 2000s, they were advised — like many companies and individuals in Austria — to finance their company/house with a Swiss franc loan. The arrangement was complex and opaque, involving multiple loan accounts and significant commissions for both the bank and our financial advisor. My parents, trusting the system, unknowingly became entangled in a speculative gamble, exacerbated by the euro's introduction and the franc's relative strength over time. It turns out that debt in a strong currency and income in a rapidly depreciating currency have only one outcome: Default over time.

As a result of the financial crisis of 2008, the Swiss National Bank could no longer suppress the upward pressure on the franc in 2014 and the fallout was inevitable. Overnight, my family faced a substantially larger loan burden than initially anticipated, to threaten us to file bankruptcy and lose everything we worked for in the previous decade. This devastating turn of events — driven by corrupt banking practices and greedy financial advisors — left an indelible mark on me. As a young man, witnessing my parents' hard-earned savings and efforts eroded by a system they trusted was enough to cement my distrust of financial institutions forever. At this point in time I made a promise to myself: Trust no one, educate yourself and verify.

A few years later, I discovered Bitcoin. It clicked immediately. Here was a decentralized, incorruptible solution to the very problem that had caused so much pain for my family. Bitcoin represented a chance to opt out of a fiat system riddled with perverse incentives and predatory practices. My family's experience — our suffering under the weight of a corrupt financial system — motivates me to advocate for Bitcoin adoption. For this reason, I will never trade my Bitcoin for fiat currency ever, no matter the fiat price. It represents more than wealth to me; it’s a symbol of resilience and justice, a way to honor the sacrifices my parents made.

Looking back, I am almost grateful for this painful chapter of my life. It woke me up and set me on a path I might not have found otherwise. Many people experience similar losses at the hands of the fiat system without even realizing it because the theft happens incrementally, through inflation and hidden costs. Fact is, that honest, hardworking individuals are being robbed every day — second by second — by a system designed to erode their purchasing power over time. Like my parents, but more gradually.

While it’s exciting to see Bitcoin’s fiat price increase, that is not its ultimate value. Bitcoin represents so much more. And I know, many others who HODL Bitcoin not for fiat wealth but for deeply personal reasons — reasons rooted in justice, independence, and freedom. For those of us who have been wronged by the current system, Bitcoin is not just an asset, it’s a revolution for a better future.

Yours forever thankful, Carl. 🧡

No thanks. 🙂‍↔️ You can choose to look and read them or not. Constantly answering the same questions isn’t my way. Never has been. Hashtags exist

Already answered all these questions before. You can choose to read them or not.

Speaking with #american #USA #women … we don’t want to be made into forced decisions. We read Project 2025 & it’s not good for most anyone.

Once they overturned Roe Vs Wade & most men didn’t respect women’s right to choose … it angered many of us. Why are men’s rights always the first priority?

IF American 🇺🇸 men cared about women the ERA would have passed. FFS 🤦🏻‍♀️ it’s been more than 100 years.

And #fren I don’t fear the right. I’ve seen the results of toxicity firsthand and up close. So kindly & respectfully: just don’t.

Life update w/ TMI warning:

If you don’t care, I don’t blame you 😂

Was put on hormones following my endometriosis surgery to hopefully slow down regrowth/help with pain.

The first round I was on for 2 months and TMI… I bled the whole time, which was counterintuitive to their purpose and made my symptoms worse.

The doctor agreed it wasn’t working and had me go off of them immediately. Then my specialist prescribed me a new round at a different dose about 2 weeks ago.

These two weeks, I have had nonstop brain fog, insomnia, loss of appetite, hot/cold flashes, fatigue, random agitation, and continued pelvic pain. I feel like a shell of a person in some ways and I know these take time to regulate, but if anyone has had any experiences similar to mine or just knows stuff about it, let me know.

What I mainly want to know is, how the fuck much longer before I feel normal again?

#hormones

#endometriosis

If you had a Ph.D would you put Dr, before your name🤔?

#Asknostr.

That is the problem with sovereign technology.

If you don't have the mental capacity to be sovereign, should you be able to use this technology? If the answer is yes it may stay away from mainstream forever, if no it needs a lot more work.

I don't have the time or patience to validate each download or bulid the client myself after reviewing the code. It is only a matter of time in which a client appears that collects nsec.

A password can be changed, a twitter/x account can be deactivated or post written by imposters that got hold of the credentials removed.

You don't have a daddy or mommy here, that is somewhat a good thing, but you also have no way to get your stuff back if you are just mindless once.

It's true. I will never seriously use this unless I can invalidate a leaked key. This thing is hot, you throw your nsec into clients like some dudes their dick into chicks. Some protection is needed.

Until then (an probably later because wtf is social media anyway) this is just fun

🫠⚡️ 250 SATS FOR ADVICE YOU'D GIVE YOUR YOUNGER SELF⚡️😎

I've only given away 178K sats, but #Bitcoin isn't 100K yet!

That means I need to give away at least 22K sats to have a proper pleb to progress ratio.

Remember, I'm trying to increase adoption and pleb ownership.

🧠 Drop me some advice you'd give your younger self (10 years ago)

✅️ Like + boost the post so others see

🙏 Follows are appreciated

Follow the rules and be patient waiting for your zaps!

Uncomfortable Nostr Reality check:

I've tried to Nostr-pill all my YouTube friends (some of them have incredible amounts of subs), but none of them care about the censorship resistance or decentralization. Even though they know Nostr exists, they have no incentive yet to come here. Their audience would follow them anywhere, but they need the tools to create community communications.

It's a sad reality, but it all comes down to usability, UX, and ultimately the easiness of paying and signing up for the community. None of these can afford to have a sign-up problem or issues with someone being interested in joining the community/their platform. It needs to work flawlessly and feel and look professional. Some of them charge $3-5k a year just to get access to this closed space, and people are willing to pay for this.

Another big pain point is community management. All of these YouTubers create these platforms to help their audience have a safe place to communicate with each other and build their own tribe.

Nostr is capable of facilitating all of this - we're just not there yet. We need to somehow invest so much more into UX and design.

All of this will come when the time is due. So, knowing that all of this is possible and that ultimately, Nostr will be powering most of these via the social graph, is what makes me extremely bullish. But also, let's not get ahead of ourselves and expect them to come already.

The UX and features are not there yet for these people. I am more than happy to help anybody trying to make this a reality. I want nothing more than having these people join Nostr. But I also totally understand their pain points. So, if you're a dev or a company working on this, please feel free to reach out - I can tell you all the issues they told me. Or just tell me how to best do this; maybe I can jump on a podcast so the issues are open-sourced for the whole community to hear.

#nostrdesign #asknostr

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