Hello world.

Good morning #nostr

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps. 💜🫂🤙🏻

It's the start of the work week. That means it's time to also continue building freedom tech.

Real friends share their wife.

A story that illustrates why I will never orange pill anyone ever again.

2015- Attempt to orange pill friend multiple times. No dice. Totally uninterested.

2019- He asks me if now is a good time to get into bitcoin. “It’s always a good time”. I set him up with a HW wallet and tell him DCA and chill.

2019- Friend calls me a few months later, he wants to put the down payment money for his house into bitcoin, but he’s nervous. I say no worries I will backstop your investment. What’re friends for?! I want you to succeed. He now has a no risk investment. Financed by me.

2020: Friend is doing well. Has been stacking hard and has 2 coins. A great stack for his income.

2021: He starts watching cringey YouTube videos about shitcoin trading. Gets into a private telegram, trades his 2 bitcoin into 4 and then gets rug pulled and loses everything.

2021: He’s near suicidal, very dark times. He doesn’t tell me anything because he knows I warned him about trading and thinks I’ll be disappointed in him. Finally he tells me. I help him get a personal loan so he can take advantage of the remainder of the bull run. He sells at 55k and manages to break even. He’s not up but he’s got his house money back.

2023: We’re out drinking with some other friends from high school. He expresses some jealousy towards me in a semi awkward fashion. “Every time I see this dude (me) I think about bitcoin.”

2024: I meet up with him so the kids can play at the park. Vibe is off. Lots of insecurity and tension. They’re going on a trip to San Diego and I ask if they might go to the zoo while there. “I can’t afford that. That’s for rich people like you”. Odd interaction, but I shake it off.

2024: A few weeks later he gets drunk and hits on my wife via text messages. She shows me immediately and I confront him. He’s like “sorry bro I was drunk I didn’t mean it”. I tell him off and make clear this is the last time we will ever speak.

No good deed goes unpunished. I could not have been nicer to this dude and more helpful along the way and he is fully consumed by envy towards me.

Unfortunate.

Lowkey sus, wth is ISIS doing in Russia, wouldn't it make more sense for them to use their resources on fighting Israel?

GOOD MORNING NOSTR, CORRUPT POLITICIANS WILL ATTEMPT BITCOIN BANS, WE WILL MAKE THEM IRRELEVANT. 🫡

Why nostr:

- You own your identity

- Your speech stands on its own

- You can run your own everything

- You own and control your social graph

- You are free to say and do anything, but you are not free from consequences (non-repudiation of cryptographic signatures)

- You can proof realness via proof-of-work, either directly or indirectly

- Proof-of-work is what allows you to successfully combat bots, spam, and trolls, as it brings real cost to destructive actions

- Ownership and realness allows you to build and curate webs of trust, which allows for canonicality without central authority

A part of me want to stay private, a part of me wants the world to know who I am.

I usually go like this: if I see a good #note or a fantastic #reply, I make sure to follow that #pleb right away.

And then I proceed and follow everyone he follows (just click on tue follower count on his profile). It’s much easier to clear the spam and/or not good content then patiently wait.

I got great results with this so far.

France deploys troops to Ukraine, illegals immigrants, 🇺🇸 $1.2 trillion funding bill, terror attack in moscow, elections in the USA

What they are trying to hide from us ? 🤔

Thaks Men! It'working...

Interesting how simple the system is.

I really want to follow more npubs, but I can't figure out how to do that without my relay and feed filling up with nutjobs, stalkers, and porn.

Fear of Following is real.