Find a Nostr user you like and follow people from their follow list

Or, search the #Bitcoin hashtag, and then over time follow the users from that hashtag that you want to hear more of

Mmm, I can taste the butter

How many tastes of 46% ABV can a guy get through in one sitting?

It's a big deal that #Bitcoin is opt-in.

There's no bodily threat aimed at anyone; no demand it must be used - or else! ( Not dependent upon legal tender laws for adoption ).

We use it because we like it.

It has utility.

And our nodes are like our heads nodding together in consensus on this, as we agree to cooperate.

Don't like it? Make your own fork.

#Plebchain

#Bitcoin Class of 2021.

I see fiat everywhere now.

#Plebchain

What is hard to fully grasp is the significance of absolute scarcity.

Digital scarce assets which can be owned, transferred, and audited, make a sound digital money possible.

This new absolute scarce money will devour fiat monies.

As fiat dilutes in value,

Bitcoin gets denser in value.

#Bitcoin

#Plebchain

Reminds me of: "It's not the healthy who value the doctor, but the sick"

It's fun checking in on my #BitAxe every so often to see if this little number in #AxeOS has gone up:

#Plebchain

#Bitcoin

#Bitcoin is ethical money

What would cause my Nostr Profile Pic to disappear?

#AskNostr

Gresham's Law:

"Bad money drives out good."

Meaning that when two forms of currency with the same nominal value exist, people will tend to hoard the more valuable currency (good money) and spend the less valuable currency (bad money), ultimately leading to the devaluation of the monetary system.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

#Bitcoin

#Plebchain

What is money useful for? -> What traits make something useful as money -> Which things posses those traits?

#Bitcoin

#Plebchain

Digital. Scarcity.

#Plebchain

#Bitcoin

This thing is solid.

Weighty. Heavy.

Bright screen, satisfying buttons.

#Bitcoin

#Passport

#Foundation.xyz

Sometimes we hear comments about the complexity of #Bitcoin self-custody.

I feel like I have a pretty good handle on that...

...but I don't understand most of the technical language of the #Microstrategy fiat printer.

Q: What's the only thing that's better than #Bitcoin?

A: More Bitcoin

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- Saylor, at the Cantor Crypto, Digital Assets and AI Infrastructure Conference in Miami, Florida, Nov 13-14, 2021

#Bitcoin is a hybrid information stream, anchored to reality in the concrete world of physics by Proof-of-Work, and aligned with accuracy in the abstract world of information by mathematics.

Almost like DNA, it's physically-bound information.

So it's not fiat.

My #Bitcoin rabbit-hole journey, which started in 2021 with Coinbase's "free $30 credit for a shitcoin if you create an account with us", has led me further and further backward into history.

"Thank God for Bitcoin" 2020 AD, cites ->

"The Ethics of Money Production" 2018 AD, cites ->

"De Moneta" 1360 AD, cites->

Cassiodrus of Rome 500 AD, cites ->

Aristotle, 350 BC, cites ->

King Solomon, 1000 BC, cites ->

God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.

Proof-of-work makes Bitcoin a commodity money - the commodity being nature's own energy.

The importance of this money-trait was explained in 1786 by Thomas Paine:

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"I remember a German farmer expressing as much in a few words as the whole subject requires:

'Money is money, and paper is paper.'

"All the invention of man cannot make them otherwise. The alchemist may cease his labors, and the hunter after the philosopher’s stone go to rest, if paper can be metamorphosed into gold and silver, or made to answer the same purpose in all cases.

"Gold and silver are the emissions of nature: paper is the emission of art."

...Read More:

https://mises.org/mises-daily/thomas-paine-paper-money

#Bitcoin

#Plebchain

March 16, 1967

"A BILL: To eliminate the requirement that the Federal Reserve banks maintain certain reserves in gold certificates against Federal Reserve Notes."

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Gold_Cover/wBY3AQAAIAAJ?gbpv=1

Yeah, I think about this! And then feel so incredibly fortunate/lucky/blessed that I found #Bitcoin (or Bitcoin found me).

At just the right time. Feels surreal.

I am continually impressed with your prolific posting

Blasting signal through the noise 💪

Day two as a #Meshtastic user!

Love these little guys (Heltec V3)

Question for other users:

1) What is the significance of the lock icon next to each node in the node list? (I notice that some are yellow/unlocked, and others are green/locked.)

My clients seemed to be set to green/locked by default, while most others are yellow/unlocked.

How do I change that setting, and why might I want to?

2) Also, if I broadcast a message in the default primary "Channel 0", who can see it? Is it a public channel for any clients in hop range? What is the significance of setting that channel's encryption setting to "empty" instead of "default"?

Edit: forgot the link

Here's nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u 's original episode of the nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 podcast on the difference between cryptos and #Bitcoin:

https://fountain.fm/episode/e0epl3sH9LJoiQqS307P

Before the #Bitcoin rabbit hole, I had never known that banks could loan out money that they did not have (or even further: money that did not previously exist)

I'm glad that you share your thoughts and observations on Nostr.

I still have XTwitter on my laptop, but removed it from my phone.

The end result is I'm on Nostr much more, following only people and topics I choose and not getting all the other adjacent news that comes in to the feed.

It's been good. Feels healthier somehow.

I think about #Bitcoin all the time

#Plebchain