UK

Seven countries have now officially established national #Bitcoin reserves:

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

🇸🇻 EL SALVADOR

🇰🇿 KAZAKHSTAN

🇰🇬 KYRGYZSTAN

🇵🇰 PAKISTAN

🇧🇹 BHUTAN

🇦🇪 UAE

And this is just the beginning.

Can anyone shill me on why Superman 2025 was a good movie?

I thought it was awful, but apparently I'm in the minority.

geh hol dir halt a Schnitzel und a Manner

Oef! Who is going to tell her? The math and the reality of year 19 is going to be max pain!

Yeah his dune I wish coulda came to production possibly as a tv show. The original dune was better then the new dune 1 & 2.

Nostr is where you speak your mind for all of your assigned feds to see.

I am so dumb 😔

With the Trump administration going after speech, the United States of America is on the verge of having its Nostr moment.

I like Bitcoin, here's my Shitcoin, here's my Fascism. That escalated quickly.

It hurts how true it is. 🤣😂

I’m keeping anonymous for now- but in real life, I’ve been in over 35 episodes of television. I’ve made one TV show, and one Movie. Sold both. I currently have over 1 million followers on social media. And I think I’m going to walk away from it all, to solely focus on new technology, new types of social connection (Damus), and AI.

If ANYONE has any questions about Hollywood, the entertainment industry, social media, etc. - I know damn near everything there is to know behind the scenes, and more. I’d love to answer any questions you have about this industry, if in return I can ask you a question about Nostr and this type of technology. I’m trying to be a sponge and absorb as much as I can.

Question for Question?

#nostr #q4q #help

Part of me wants to get an actual camera 📸 that’s not a phone camera, but the other part doesn’t want to carry it or edit photos. Phone camera makes it easy to take a photo any time, you get crappy-ish quality but it’s good enough when viewed on a phone, and easy to adjust in seconds.

Real estate investing is a gamble but most people don't want to admit it

I don't care how great the location is

You buy houses because you expect the price to go up

On a Bitcoin standard, real estate investing makes no sense, no matter how great the location is

Real estate investors NEED inflation, but Bitcoin is deflationary

The price of a house is going below 0.1 BTC

The reason institutions and governments aren't buying Bitcoin right now is because at 16 Bitcoin is too old for them.

I caught up with some friends today and when Bitcoin came up, they responded:

"Oh you're still into that?"

Da werden Liegefahrräder und Meldestellen nicht voll berücksichtigt.

The masses probably won't come to #Nostr until an application/service that's hated by most current users is created and popularized.

Another round of

h/t twitter @sfliberty

A 16th-century Spanish priest wrote the first systematic defense of sound money, identified inflation as theft, and justified killing tyrants who imposed taxes without consent.

Kings banned his books. Executioners burned them. The Inquisition tried to erase them from history.

But this Jesuit monk had developed the core insights of Austrian economics 250 years before Austria even existed.

This is the story of Juan de Mariana, the original “politically incorrect” libertarian who out-Rothbarded Rothbard, out-Misesed Mises, and challenged the entire power structure of his time.

While most people think free-market economics started with Adam Smith, the real intellectual revolution began in the lecture halls of 16th-century Salamanca.

Born in 1536 as the illegitimate son of a canon, Mariana joined the Jesuits at sixteen and quickly became one of Europe’s most brilliant minds. He taught at Rome, Sicily, and the Sorbonne, the Harvard of its day.

But brilliance wasn’t enough for Mariana. He wanted to change the world.

In 1598, he published De Rege et Regis Institutione, a political treatise that made a shocking argument: any citizen could justifiably kill a king who imposed taxes without consent, confiscated property, or prevented democratic assemblies.

The book literally advocated for killing tyrants.

When French King Henry IV was assassinated in 1610, authorities immediately blamed Mariana’s book. The Parliament of Paris ordered it burned by the public executioner.

But here’s the twist: the assassin had never even heard of Mariana. The ideas were just that powerful and that feared.

Mariana’s most revolutionary work came in 1605: De Monetae Mutatione (On the Alteration of Money). In this treatise, he did something unprecedented: he called out his own king, Philip III, for debasing the currency.

He identified inflation as theft. In the 1600s. Before anyone else.

He understood what modern economists took centuries to rediscover: when governments debase money, they’re secretly taxing everyone who holds it.

He wrote that reducing metal content in coins “inevitably leads to higher prices” and “all accounts collapse.”

This was the first systematic critique of monetary manipulation in history.

For this “crime” of economic truth-telling, the 73-year-old priest was thrown in prison for four months. The king ordered his officials to buy and destroy every copy of the book they could find.

After Mariana’s death, the Spanish Inquisition expurgated the remaining copies with ink and scissors.

Here’s what they tried to hide: Mariana and the Spanish scholastics had already developed the core insights that would later define the Austrian School.

Subjective value theory, the impossibility of economic planning, the nature of entrepreneurship, and the evils of inflation.

They were doing Austrian economics 250 years before Austria.

The connection isn’t coincidental. In the 16th century, Spanish Emperor Charles V sent his brother Ferdinand to rule Austria. “Austria” literally means “eastern part of the Empire,” and that empire was Spanish.

The intellectual influence flowed directly from Salamanca to Vienna.

Mariana didn’t just theorize about freedom; he lived it. He criticized his own religious order, challenged papal authority, and faced down kings who could have had him executed.

He understood that ideas without courage are just academic exercises. Real change requires real risk.

When Carl Menger founded the Austrian School in 1871, he was rediscovering what Mariana and his colleagues had already proven: that human action, not government planning, creates prosperity.

That individual choice, not collective force, generates value.

The “Austrian” revolution was actually a Spanish renaissance.

Today, as governments worldwide debase currencies and expand power, Mariana’s insights burn brighter than ever.

He showed us that challenging authority isn’t just a right; it’s a moral obligation.

The battle for freedom always starts with one person willing to speak truth to power.

h/t twitter @sfliberty

A 16th-century Spanish priest wrote the first systematic defense of sound money, identified inflation as theft, and justified killing tyrants who imposed taxes without consent.

Kings banned his books. Executioners burned them. The Inquisition tried to erase them from history.

But this Jesuit monk had developed the core insights of Austrian economics 250 years before Austria even existed.

This is the story of Juan de Mariana, the original “politically incorrect” libertarian who out-Rothbarded Rothbard, out-Misesed Mises, and challenged the entire power structure of his time.

While most people think free-market economics started with Adam Smith, the real intellectual revolution began in the lecture halls of 16th-century Salamanca.

Born in 1536 as the illegitimate son of a canon, Mariana joined the Jesuits at sixteen and quickly became one of Europe’s most brilliant minds. He taught at Rome, Sicily, and the Sorbonne, the Harvard of its day.

But brilliance wasn’t enough for Mariana. He wanted to change the world.

In 1598, he published De Rege et Regis Institutione, a political treatise that made a shocking argument: any citizen could justifiably kill a king who imposed taxes without consent, confiscated property, or prevented democratic assemblies.

The book literally advocated for killing tyrants.

When French King Henry IV was assassinated in 1610, authorities immediately blamed Mariana’s book. The Parliament of Paris ordered it burned by the public executioner.

But here’s the twist: the assassin had never even heard of Mariana. The ideas were just that powerful and that feared.

Mariana’s most revolutionary work came in 1605: De Monetae Mutatione (On the Alteration of Money). In this treatise, he did something unprecedented: he called out his own king, Philip III, for debasing the currency.

He identified inflation as theft. In the 1600s. Before anyone else.

He understood what modern economists took centuries to rediscover: when governments debase money, they’re secretly taxing everyone who holds it.

He wrote that reducing metal content in coins “inevitably leads to higher prices” and “all accounts collapse.”

This was the first systematic critique of monetary manipulation in history.

For this “crime” of economic truth-telling, the 73-year-old priest was thrown in prison for four months. The king ordered his officials to buy and destroy every copy of the book they could find.

After Mariana’s death, the Spanish Inquisition expurgated the remaining copies with ink and scissors.

Here’s what they tried to hide: Mariana and the Spanish scholastics had already developed the core insights that would later define the Austrian School.

Subjective value theory, the impossibility of economic planning, the nature of entrepreneurship, and the evils of inflation.

They were doing Austrian economics 250 years before Austria.

The connection isn’t coincidental. In the 16th century, Spanish Emperor Charles V sent his brother Ferdinand to rule Austria. “Austria” literally means “eastern part of the Empire,” and that empire was Spanish.

The intellectual influence flowed directly from Salamanca to Vienna.

Mariana didn’t just theorize about freedom; he lived it. He criticized his own religious order, challenged papal authority, and faced down kings who could have had him executed.

He understood that ideas without courage are just academic exercises. Real change requires real risk.

When Carl Menger founded the Austrian School in 1871, he was rediscovering what Mariana and his colleagues had already proven: that human action, not government planning, creates prosperity.

That individual choice, not collective force, generates value.

The “Austrian” revolution was actually a Spanish renaissance.

Today, as governments worldwide debase currencies and expand power, Mariana’s insights burn brighter than ever.

He showed us that challenging authority isn’t just a right; it’s a moral obligation.

The battle for freedom always starts with one person willing to speak truth to power.

Friends 😞 #Bitcoin is dead again

STACK AND HODL #Bitcoin, so you can walk away from situations you don’t like.

I'd like to congratulate eth holders you've had a great week and still running. Big run against bitcoin.

Just think, you are now only down 75% against your BTC all time high 😂

Flippening happening any day now.

Europe is the best place to live

USA is the best place to make money

India sucks

China is retarded

❤️

Where the fuck does a dude in the jungle charge $6 USD for a coconut?

What happens when the sheep finally wake up… and realize the debts were never meant to be repaid?

Stack #Bitcoin accordingly.