I seem to now be on the Nostr. Thanks to Lyn and Eric.

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I'll post on Twitter.com/rudyhavenstein so you know it's me. Don't expect too much right away.

Baby steps.

Back from Nashville, and after a little reflection, I need to reiterate a message I frequently put out there: kill your heroes.

Most of the people talking about the moon, laser eyes, power law, get on zero, digital energy, strategic national reserve, etc. etc., or who are telling you to buy this device or use that service are **buying and selling your attention to make themselves richer** -- they generally do not have your best interests at heart.

Think for yourself and don't fall for marketing. Educate yourself about bitcoin, discuss it with people you respect, think critically about the risks, and then, if it makes sense to you, make a sensible investment in it with reasonable expectations, while keeping your larger financial situation and your personal priorities in perspective.

I am a believer in bitcoin in spite of, not because of, all of the wild assertions, influencers and aggressive social marketing out there, and it has taken me 11 years to get to where I am.

Be careful our there anon, don't buy the hype.

BREAKING: TRUMP IS STILL TOTALLY CLUELESS ABOUT BITCOIN AND HIS SPEECH WRITER IS EQUALLY INCOMPETENT

Start9 does it better. Haha.

I havent had VPN issues. 🤔

Reachable nodes dropped a lot??

And then Novogratz just shows up out of nowhere. Only at PubKey.

Who has the dude grilling for the "wow.... did you catch the game last night?" Meme?

Morning Coffee Bitcoin Report ☕️

Price: $71,450 (1,400 sats/dollar)

Hash Price: $56.27/PHash

Hash Rate: 591 EHash/s

Immediate Fee Rate: 324 sat/vByte

Hour Fee Rate: 281 sat/vByte

Block Interval: 10:13

Mempool Count: 246,772

Block Height: 846,897

Supply Issued: 93.85%

Blocks to Halving: 203,103

Puppies of nostr! Meet Belle 💜

What's better to detect impersonators?

Private names: you can change everybody's name to something only you know. You will need to remember the name you like to use. (Like using "Mom" instead of your mom's first name)

Minidenticons: an additional icon that is assembled from the user's pubkey. A different pubkey will be a different icon. You will need to remember the icon associated with each key.

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I occasionally ope the NYT app.

it never disappoints.