Can anyone answer why every single hotel and B & B in Europe owns beds that rival slabs of marble? If I have come to appreciate anything about the “old world”, it is how marvelous my old memory foam bed back home sleeps. 2 AM and wide awake on this chink of concrete this B & B is passing off as a bed.

Satoshi doesn’t want a statue. Trust me.

which company enraged the most people? right now I'm thinking IKEA

If I were the Japanese govt. I’d:

- set bitcoin tax rate to 0

- treat it as currency

- create the most lucrative path to permanent residency for entrepreneurs (with optional fast track to citizenship)

- give tax incentives to towns and municipalities who cater to digital nomads

- implement the most friendly bitcoin policy one could imagine with incentives to bring bitcoiners to Japan and to start businesses here (think low tax)

- promote bitcoin education (starting from early school and all the way into adulthood)

- I’d create a bitcoin treasury and a grant program - I’d give bitcoin denominated grants to the brightest of the brightest from anywhere in the world with a fast rack to residency with massive perks.

- I’d fire up all dormant nuclear plants to provide energy with 50% of power and the other 50 go to bitcoin mining.

- for every family that has at least 2 kids I’d open up a bitcoin multisig and periodically deposit bitcoin to their wallets (from treasury or with additional purchases). The more kids you have the larger the deposit.

I think that’d be a decent start.

3 years ago I was browsing r/japanlife and people were complaining about the devaluing yen. I recommended they buy bitcoin and got downvoted into oblivion.

Oh well… can’t help everyone I guess 🤷‍♂️

This is why #Bitcoin was created

Ja ciao!

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While religion can bring people comfort and benefits, I am not a big fan of it for myself mostly because I have not found a religion that is not a shame based system, and a shame based mindset is wildly unhealthy for me.

The particular combination that was my inherently analytical and focused mind + the shame based structure of some of the churches we were in when I was very young was an unhealthy combo for me. One of my first memories is of a Sunday night laying in bed after a long day that included a sermon at Church. The preacher was telling us that if you should, even for a moment, entertain the idea that god isn't real you would go to hell. And well, me being who I am, I couldn't not. So I laid there, terrified to do it, trying to avoid it, but I did, I, just for a moment, imagined that god wasn't real. And then I proceeded to have an anxiety attack worried that I would go to hell.

Also, a few years back while dealing with depression/anxiety, I did this journaling exercise program and discovered that even in my late 30's I still had religious guilt in the back of my head. So much of my subconscious mind was shame based. I realized that, but it's a hard thing to undo. And then one day an interesting thing happened. I was in the midst of a massive wave of depression in what I call a 'should loop' or 'shame spiral'. My head was filled with thinking that I was doing everything wrong and hyper focused on what I should​ be doing. I was walking though the kitchen with 'maybe I should..., maybe I should...' playing in my head like a broken record when I heard something. Hearing voices is interesting cuz I didn't really hear it with my ears, it was more like someone hijacked my internal dialogue, and all it said was "This experience is for you." Which was wildly interesting and so, so different from where my head was in that moment. What if, what if life isn't a test, what if it's actually an experience that is for us, to benefit us?

I now tell myself "this experience is for you" nearly every day. And this is my issue with religion, it views life as a punishment or a test, and not as a self directed benefit.

It does not get more repellent than this. May this hunt organizer be lured into dinner one night a be shot in the head and hung as a trophy in a hall of horrors too.

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Bitcoin is dead. It's $10K from ATH. It had a good run, but it's time to shut down our nodes.

Yup. don't like him but do like that quote!

I made this... #foodstr #datechain

And this goes again to the 'submission' and 'dominant' thing that the Red Pill crew loves. I think they see women being 'bottoms' as them being submissive during sex.

But that doesn't line up with me. And when someone tells me that I ask them "are you submitting to the masseuse when you get a massage?"

You could see that situation as the 'bottom' submitting, or you could see it as the 'top' servicing the 'bottom'.

(I prefer to imagine sex as simply play time. No need for hierarchies in the bedroom.)

Communism, in small groups, is the natural state of humans. It’s built into us to care about our fellow humans, and to share with them. This helps us all.

Things got complex once we started living in groups lager than Dunbar's number in villages and cities as our instinctual communism does not scale. This is when we develop money and ‘market economies’ as this does scale.

As our cities have grown in numbers, they have shrunk in community and connection. There are now a lot of people who are incredibly lonely as we are living unnaturally isolated lives, and this is a big part of what fuels anti-capitalist sentiments.

A lot of people who have perfectly natural and healthy human instincts make the error of trying to scale their sharing tendencies. They see ‘the state’ as their vehicle for recreating community care. These are the people who want the ‘social safety net’. And of course that is how humans are made to function, a community safety net is what we are built for. The issue, again, is with trying to scale it not only to above Dunbar’s number, but to millions of people.

People who don’t know how to connect with others, for any reason good or bad, the ‘anti-social’ people, some autistic people, sociopaths, etc. tend to become “capitalists” in big part because they have less of the sharing instincts and have less ability to perceive the needs of others.

Quite often the ‘bleeding heart liberals’ are the more psychologically and relationally healthy people. Their big error isn’t in their instincts, it’s in not understanding that the policies their instincts want them to support were built for small groups and don’t scale to millions.

The solution here is to bring back the tight knit smaller communities, practice the natural communism in those groups, create social safety nets there, and to engage in ‘capitalism’ or ‘market economics’ with the broader world.

HOW DO YOU SEE NOSTR IN 2 YEARS FROM NOW ?

WTF is this?

Had my VPN location set to the Netherlands and now X wants me to verify my age? To watch a video of someone spending sats at a rural shop in Kenya?

Turned VPN off, and restriction is gone.

All Christopher Nolan films ranked from best to worst

1. The Dark Knight (masterpiece)

2. The Prestige (masterpiece)

3. Dunkirk (masterpiece)

4. Interstellar (near masterpiece)

5. Batman Begins (near masterpiece)

6. Memento (great)

7. Inception (great)

8. Oppenheimer (great)

9. Insomnia (decent)

10. The dark knight rises (decent)

11. Tenet (garbage)

There should be a name for when the market overvalues your company so much that you print new shares to buy bitcoin to justify that crazy paper valuation with real assets. Is that some type of shareholder valuation insurance? People have done this with land/gold/etc, but they never had a name for it. Isn't that how holding companies usually operate? Maybe it is just the same old "arbitrage". It's just too generic. AI doesn't seem to know a name.. so.. perhaps we need to choose one for these newer times.

Does anyone else manually offload

- photos

- videos

- etc...

From your phone ? I've always done this I don't use cloud storage...

Thoughts 💭🧐

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#asknostr #photos #videos #mobil #phone

Imagine working 9-5 for 50 years

Then the Fed prints 40% of the total money supply and inflates away 20 years of your work

Bots aren’t normal people…

Social networks were meant to unite us. To connect people, ideas, movements. And for a while, they did. But somewhere along the way, something broke. The same platforms that once promised freedom chose a different path: control, manipulation, and data centralization. What started as tools for connection became instruments of control. The platforms we once trusted (social networks, messaging apps, cloud services) turned into chokepoints. Centralized. Fragile. Easy to pressure. Built not for freedom, but for compliance. Every node of control is a point of censorship. Every server, a source of surveillance. When speech depends on permission, it’s no longer speech. It’s submission.

A Way Out.

Encryption is not just technology, it’s a political act. A gesture of resistance. Over the years, new social networks and messaging platforms emerged, promising freedom. Many failed because they relied on intermediaries: corporations, servers, gatekeepers. CEOs and companies are points of control. They can be pressured, censored, compromised. True freedom demands a system where middle-men are minimized, our trust is rooted in mathmatics, and privacy is cryptographically guaranteed, not a policy written by lawyers.

A New Hope.

Open Source projects like Linux and Bitcoin have proven that open, distributed networks of people can build systems the world can count on. Systems based on rules, not rulers. Systems that can resist attack. Nostr builds in this same spirit, creating a network where speech can't be silenced, no matter where you're from or who you are.

Built on Nostr's open network, White Noise emerges from a deeply held belief: you have the right to speak freely. We're building the world's most secure messenger, one that protects your conversations and your communities and leaves no metadata behind in the process. We run no servers, we collect no data, we have no rulers.

White Noise Is:

- Encrypted by default: Strong, modern end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is standard, not hidden in a settings menu. Our team has no access to any keys at all.

- Private by design: Your identity (or identities) are yours. White Noise doesn't need your phone number, email, or any data about you.

- Decentralized: Built on Nostr's global network relays. Data always remains portable and uncaptured; no single entity owns or controls your data or the network.

- Resilient against coercion: Open-source governance ensures no one can unilaterally alter terms of service and zero data retention means we can't be forced to give up private data.

We Believe in Building

1. A world where Privacy is a Right, not a privilege for the technically elite.

2. Tools that prioritize usability, without compromising privacy.

3. Open protocols, over closed platforms.

4. Trust through transparency.

Make some noise. Protect out silence.

(Stay tuned)