Like many others have already articulated, the Charlie Kirk assassination yesterday was a turning point for me personally. It shocked me and instilled a sense of fear in me that quite honestly, I needed.
Last night and this morning the only thing I can think about is the safety and security of the people closest to me. That is my number one priority.
Unfortunately, that led me to the conclusion that I will likely no longer use this npub since I’ve doxxed myself. This makes me feel extremely sad. Nostr has allowed me to be my true and authentic self and I thought I would be able to balance that with personal privacy, but I currently don’t feel it is wise to be putting myself out here like that.
To everyone in this community, myself included, it’s time to go full cypherpunk. Re-read Eric Hughes manifesto if you have to. We need to quit fucking around with the fiat games. That world is collapsing as we speak. What will your MSTR shares be worth when the dollar is worthless? Now is the time to embrace open protocols and freedom tech. Not because we want to, but because we have to.
Who knows maybe at some point in the future I might pop back on here but until then:
see you space cowboy…
I don’t think anyone, even us already here, understands how important nostr is going to be when shit hits the fan
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Stay vigilant out there fam. Rough seas lie ahead.
People are the most irrational and dangerous when they’re operating out of fear and feel like they have nothing to lose.
“You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
Charlie Kirk will be remembered as a hero.
Again, I want to shoutout nostr:nprofile1qqsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhx7un59eek7cmfv9kqmwtzjf for keeping the conversation about COVID alive and not letting it get memory holed. This conversation with Jessica Rose is a must listen.
Keep up the good work sir 🫡
Spotted at local meetup.
The ex-sneakerhead in me can’t deny these are heat
⚡️🚨 ALERT - Nepal parliament stormed by protesters, set on fire. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned after youth took the streets over social media ban
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This is wild. What’s even more wild is this would be happening in every country around the world if gen Z wasn’t psyoped into oblivion and essentially forced into being complete dopamine junkies. I mean that literally. This is straight up addict behavior. Doing anything it takes to get that next hit, that includes burning down your government.
We’re finally starting to see that dark side of tech addiction manifest in the real world. We will see more of this over time.
Always love seeing bikes on nostr 🫡
Imagine thinking the US government will just sit back and allow MSTR, Coinbase, Fidelity, or any publicly traded US company to “own” millions of coins as the dollar collapses…
People stuck holding a MSTR bag are just getting relentlessly beat down by Saylor lmao
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Beautiful bike. I’m too much of a bitch to ride fixed anymore but there is something about that simplicity that I miss.
First of all damn typos really get ya on nostr…
But to clarify this though. I’ve been a huge earl fan since the early OF days. He’s been a legend to me since Doris. But to be putting out such unique and introspective music for over a decade really puts him in that legend status. He’s really that good.
Probably not many hip-hop heads out here on nostr but if you’re are 👋
New Earl album is so dope. He’s going down as a legend
$110k BTC makes no sense in this current climate. On a risk adjusted basis sats are an absolute steal right now
I am pleased to inform you that I have purchased a new drone 😂
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This is sick. Makes me wanna book a trip to the southwest ASAP
A great explanation by Dr Jack Kruse of why orange tint blue light blocking glasses aren’t a fad, aren’t a scam, but greatly impact mental, physical, and sexual health. Tech comes with consequences. Know better, do better.
#DirtDawg #JackKruse #Krusestr #Healthstr #Wealthstr #BlueLight #Sunlight
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What interview is this clip from? I need to watch this
I’m in the process of figuring this out in real time. Learning to not spend my time/energy on things that aren’t important is a blessing
Bitcoin is simultaneously complex and simple. This is what most people actually struggle with, holding two conflicting ideas at the same time. To understand its simplicity one must also understand its complexity. Because without that framework, it is too good to be true.
To see Bitcoins simplicity you have to internalize that it’s a truly decentralized, military grade, self regulating network that doesn’t use time as we know it. Once you can see that it seems very simple. But there’s no way to explain that to someone with no frame of reference without sounding like a absolute crazy person 😅
Profound ideas just take a long time to permeate into society.
Yuri Bezmenov was right when he said the ideological subversion of the US was complete. Anyway, #Bitcoin treasury companies will face a similar fate once the dollar starts cratering. EO6102 plus this new precedent, means it's highly likely nationalization is coming for the precious corn sitting on those balance sheets. Strategy will be the first casualty.
https://blossom.primal.net/8b0eb6113092b44e77c77f79891ea0bde8cba79953768e952c518265b6453ac6.mp4
100%
MSTR/Coinbase are effectively arms of the state at this point. This is clear as day but number go up is more enticing to most. Not realizing they’re paying for America’s strategic bitcoin reserve.
Doctors in centralized medicine don’t work for you, they work for the hospital/pharmaceutical companies.
Decentralize your health so you can use your decentralized wealth!
#DirtDawg #Healthstr #Wealthstr #Decentralize #DannyJones #JackKruse #Podcastr #Clipstr
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We need to get Uncle Jack on nostr ASAP
There are those who say Bitcoin doesn't scale, and build blockchains with more throughput at the cost of more centralization (generally in the form of it being way harder to run a node), and then also point to Bitcoin as having low fees as a criticism.
The limiter it turns out, 16 years in, is not how many people *can* self-custody bitcoin. It's how many people *want* to.
Not everyone wants to deal with the technicalities of their own car, and not everyone wants to handle the technicalities of their own money. Quite few, in fact. It's always a subset for these types of things. People who are hardcore over their area of knowledge.
I leave my car details to pros down the street who I know the name of, and handle my money myself. There are those who handle their own cars but leave their money details to others.
Bitcoin currently processes about as many transactions per year as Fedwire, which handles $1 quadrillion worth of gross settlement volume per year for the US and for a good chunk of the world (in context, it's approximately 200 million $5 million average-sized transactions). That's actually a crazy stat. Bitcoin is casually this open-source global Fedwire with its own scarce units, and unlike Fedwire anyone can permissionlessly build on it or transact with it, for low fees despite it being a +$2T network. And if it gets clogged there are all sorts of permissionless layers above it with certain trade-offs.
Some people say paper bitcoin holders detract from the network. I say the opposite- their willingness to hold IOUs helps add to price stability and network size without clogging it. That leaves more room for cypherpunks to develop with, and work on. And those who finance them.
This has been foreseen as early as Hal Finney in 2010, when he wrote about bitcoin banks (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2500.msg34211#msg34211).
We live in a sweet spot by most metrics. A golden age. Historically, so few recognize it when they have it so good.
Bitcoin is big enough to be of interest to many, and yet is still niche enough in a global context to have low base-layer fees. Suitcoiners are happy to add to its scale, and yet cypherpunks can also build, and users can transact right on the base layer, and move to Lightning and Ark and BitVM and Liquid and any sort of trade-off they want if fees get high.
And you're bearish, anon?
The real battle, though, is the ongoing government crackdown on privacy.
Bitcoin itself is in a pretty good technical place. It's a great tool. Certain conservative low-risk covenants might make it better, but even the existing design space is great and still expanding.
The US, Europe, and China cracking down on privacy is the threat. The headwind. And they're all expected. They're not surprising, but they're indeed fierce. That's the real battle- for the hearts and minds of people to embrace why privacy and permissionlessness are good traits.
In this ongoing funny contrast between podcasters and developers, that's the ideal role of podcasters- to spread the good news of what developers have built. To educate people. To tell them what's now possible thanks to developers. To articulate why cypherpunk values are good to a broad non-technical audience. That's where the overlap is. In overly-simplistic D&D terms, those with high CHA try to spread the work of those with high INT. It's not so much that "governments" are the problem. Governments often at least partially represent the people. If you convince a lot of people that privacy and sound money are good things, then you defang the problem. And you also challenge them legally in jurisdictions where it makes sense.
The technical foundation is good. The development of the past 16 years has been amazing, and it has brought us here. The scale has reached institutions, which is expected, not a threat. The actual threat is not treasury companies; it's anti-privacy regulations by governments. And more deeply that's a social issue, given how many people accept it. A vast amount of people believe privacy is only important for bad people who have something to hide. There's a ton of education work to do on it. Privacy is good. It's the default. But most people don't realize it when it comes to money.
We're winning. For 16 years ya'll have been amazing. But we'll need another 16 years more. More developers. More podcasters. All of it. We're a $2 trillion in market cap entering into a global fiat network of hundreds of trillions. And as their own institutions melt down from their own failures, their own top-heavy demographics and false promises, they will look for scapegoats. They will look toward those who are winning, and say they are the enemy.
When interviewers ask my price predictions, I tend to be conservative. That's mostly a liquidity assessment, and a rotation from OGs to new buyers. Price growth does take time.
But under that surface, I also have the benefit of being a general partner at among the largest bitcoin-only venture funds. I see what people are building, and I'm bullish. And for those who are working on stuff that doesn't align with profit, entities like the HRF and OpenSats are doing great work. Across all of the options, people are building great things.
I couldn't be more bullish on the ecosystem that's in place. All of you.
Let's go.
Good evening.
Attack on Titan can go toe to toe with the best western TV shows of all time (Breaking Bad, GOT, Sopranos, etc).
I’ll die on that hill
Proto seems v cool
As the interest rate Strike can offer on a BTC backed loan converges towards the interest rate that Saylor can offer on STRC you cross a point where it actually becomes an infinite money glitch. This will likely happen at some point as BTC backed lending gets more competitive.
Sure, this is fiat world games but you’d be insane to not leverage the tools available to make you/your family’s lives better. Miss me with that ethical purity shit.
If you do this in the future just send me some sats please ✌🏼
No I totally agree. If it was Hal this language would be used to intentionally obfuscate since no Americans use that phrase. I don’t think most humans have that level of awareness in real time but then again I wouldn’t put it past a person who claimed to be Japanese either. The longer time I spend in bitcoin the less I think Hal was Satoshi 🤷🏻♀️
lol @ coinbase trying to build their own nostr. Can’t wait to watch that flop so hard
Drake is the shitcoin of rappers
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Totally agree. Pain is necessary to become an adult regardless of your circumstances. The only way out is through
Had a realization yesterday that I’m still trying to flesh out but wanted to put a few words out there so it doesn’t get lost in my ADHD brain.
I come from a dysfunctional family and have spent a good chunk of my adult years working through childhood stuff and attempting to break the generational cycles of addiction and dysfunction in both sides of my family. Through that experience it made me realize that self-sufficiency (or sovereignty if you will) is a form of control. This control is deeply rooted in fear of shame and abandonment. It’s an attempt to minimize uncertainty and avoid my own uncomfortable feelings about the past and present.
Shame and emotional abandonment are how dysfunctional families control children. This leads you to eventually see your parents as authority figures who cannot be trusted. I just realized bitcoiners have a similar relationship with governments and institutions. We have learned they cannot be trusted and in a way have been abandoned by our institutional parental authority figures. Our reaction to that abandonment has been to take self-sufficiency/sovereignty to the extreme and intellectualize the hell out of it. Intellectualization is another form of control to avoid feelings (which is literally what I’m doing right now). We use big, complex ideas to explain the pain but to not actually feel the emotions associated with it.
To be clear, I don’t think this is inherently a bad thing. Self-sufficiency is a rational response to an irrational world. We hide behind our intellectualized morals because it gives us a sense of security. But if we’re truly honest with ourselves, our motivation for self-sufficiency is deeply rooted in fear and shame.
Bitcoin creates a path to healing the sick, dysfunctional system we were raised in but it requires a heavy dose of looking at the mirror, warts and all. If we’re not honest with ourselves and have zero awareness about this, we’re doomed to repeat the cycle we were born out of. We must take active steps to create lasting change.
This is just an observation I’ve noticed in myself and the tip of the iceberg. Maybe I’m projecting all of this onto the world. I’ve heard nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqtxwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tmwwp6kyvtjw3k8zcmp8pervct409shwdtwx45rxmp4xseryerdx3ehy7f4v3axvet9xsmrjdnxw9jnsuekw9nh2ertwvmkg6n5veen7cnjdaskgcmpwd6r6arjw4jsqgq6lcx8fc7h0p8t4ya9u0a92jnwavqe9rgjwwdw3wjgxfuxsz8rd5mths8c be pretty open about his childhood and personal story but I’d also love to hear other bitcoiners stories (publicly or privately). Feel free to reach out if you come across this and would like to discuss further. I’ll leave with this quote for now:
“Adult Children rarely stop to think that self-sufficiency is covering up a fear of rejection which they think could come if they ask for help. Meanwhile, to ask for help and get it might mean that someone would get to know them, and that is too risky. In such cases, self-sufficient power is really a mechanism to ensure isolation and aloneness.”
