It’s the pharma/insurance/govt complex. There is nothing that resembles a free market. 98% corruption. If patients just paid their doctors and surgeons we wouldn’t have a problem at all.

Lmao I posted the wrong video 😂

It was one about a patient charged over $1000 with insurance and had a $270 copay, when the “no insurance price” of the very same work was only $44.

Now I can’t find it and am wondering if I even remembered to save it. But this video just shows they are doing the same thing to energy provision… which is a terrible omen for our future unless we find a solution to that as well.

what more can i say

Minnesota limits it's citizens to

ordering 24 bottles of wine per year.

Make it make sense

...and now they make you verify the wallet you want to send the Bitcoin you purchased to.

Fuck all of them. Fuckers. Fuck this shit. So fucking mad. Assholes. Fucking spyware bullshit.

I'm so tired of people old enough to be my child all like damn Boomers buy gold instead of Bitcoin.

Yo, gold is a shiny yellow rock. You can go to a store in the mall and buy it for cash bills. You can then put it wherever you want and it doesn't just disappear from there because you got the wrong software update, or clicked the wrong hyperlink, or whatever, as rocks aren't digital. They are rocks. And if you want to sell it, then you take it to a store in the mall and they give you cash bills back.

_Of course they buy gold instead of Bitcoin_, as Bitcoin is a gigantic, electronic PITA and people are constantly misplacing their Bitcoin keys along with their reading glasses and the document they were supposed to bring back to the car repair shop.

Silver heading up over NVIDIA, to the second spot. Bitcoin is holding its own.

You don’t get to talk shit about the #USA & then come here on #vacation & act superior. #getfucked

#GFY if you don’t like it.

We are a young country & are throwing a temper tantrum. You’re either with the world or against us. FAX 📠

It was an illusion from day one

Frohe Weihnachten!

Die Europäische Union ist zu einem wirtschaftlichen Desaster aus Regulierungen und Stagnation geworden.

2016:

🇪🇺 EU-BIP: 16,4 Billionen US-Dollar

🇺🇸 US-BIP: 18,8 Billionen US-Dollar

2024:

🇪🇺 EU-BIP: 19,4 Billionen US-Dollar

🇺🇸 US-BIP: 29,2 Billionen US-Dollar

Die EU hat 100 Millionen Einwohner mehr.

450 Millionen auf 350 Millionen

GM

It has more to do with costs and the shittiness of fiat than architecture.

GM

We've been marries for 15 years today! 🧡

In unserem neuen, deindustrialisierten Sozialismus hat es keine Arbeiter mehr, deshalb sollten wir die Fahne auch etwas anpassen, hier mein erster Vorschlag.

"It does not protect against a determined nation-state adversary with unlimited resources. What it does is raise the cost of surveillance dramatically. It removes you from the bulk data collection that treats billions of people as raw material for behavioral prediction markets. It forces anyone who wants your data to target you specifically rather than simply purchasing it from a broker."

Then it is of limited use.

Sadly, our biggest enemies in 2025 are often our own governments and state actors.

1. The level of discourse has degraded considerably (if that can be believed)

2. Most replies appear to be bots

3. The “for you” feed is full of AI slop

4. Most of my “following” feed is people complaining that it has never been worse

I used to spend three hours a day on Twitter.

One year ago, I deleted my account.

Now I’m only on Nostr, and I spend maybe ten minutes a day scrolling.

The difference is extraordinary.

The noise is gone.

The manipulation is gone.

And when I leave, I don’t feel drained, I feel uplifted.

That’s when I realised something important:
the new system isn’t just technically superior. 
It’s psychologically healthier.

But the real question is this:
how do we help people transition?

The answer is monetisation.

When creators can earn directly from their audiences, without platforms, advertisers, or banks, they will come.

When they come, they’ll bring their communities with them.

And when those audiences can earn by promoting what they love, the migration becomes inevitable.

That’s what Fanfares makes possible :
a media economy where the network itself becomes the discovery engine.

Every person who finds something valuable becomes a paid promoter of quality.

No algorithms. No ads. Just trust, consequence, and value flowing peer to peer.

Decentralised, open networks are not just better technology.
 They’re the next phase of human communication.

They are where attention becomes aligned with meaning again, 
and where we finally reclaim our time, our minds, and our freedom.

You’re welcome.

Studies show that hanging out with Bitcoiners improve happiness by 21%