Ugh...ok for the thing of saying a thing if it's a thing:
Evidently Bill & Ex Foundation are dumping a LOT of minor holdings.
GIF for source:
"In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock’s Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be “ETF’d” and tokenized, threatening to fractionalize not just existing assets and commodities, but the natural world, reducing most living things into Wall Street financial products to be traded on a single, universal ledger.
…
“We believe we’re just halfway there in the ETF revolution…Everything is going to be ETF’d…We believe this is just the beginning. ETFs are step one in the technological revolution in the financial markets. Step two is going to be the tokenization of every financial asset.”"
I made this a year ago that night nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m made it rain with 1M sat zaps. I'm as surprised as you are that it didn't make the cut for 1M sats 😂 But tonight is your chance to win 1M millisats if you are the first to name the character AND cartoon this is from. I repeat, millisats 😂 
@jack has already printed, framed and posted this above his fireplace mantle.
Generational art. ;-)
"Zen and the Art of Archery" by Eugen Herrigel. The OG "Zen and the Art of..." book. In case you haven't heard of it.
Little help here:
Supposedly Blue Wallet has a relatively new ability to interact with LNurl. From the website:
"Allows you to have an easier interaction with services that support LNurl. Pay and Withdraw."
Yet I don't see any way to establish/link my LNurl in Blue Wallet.
Are the terms 'receive' and 'withdraw' somehow different?
I would ultimately like to manage my LNurl address thru Blue Wallet.
"A new class of “encrypted RNA” vaccines are being developed where the RNA would piggyback onto an existing wild virus and spread from person to person without any person’s knowledge or consent. Although this may sound like science fiction, it is far from it. Two companies involved in this research have received millions of dollars from the federal government."
I’m ‘bout to get salty but explain to me like I’m NOT SOMEONE WHO RUNS TWO DIFFERENT NODES AND A NUMBER OF MINERS why I cannot fucking figure out how to get zaps on Nostr on iPad.
I reluctantly ditched Damus because Zaps were borked, and went with Alby for Damus (I think) but then Zaps were definitely being sent but I never received.
I got Primal. I’ve spent too many hours trying to figure out why (w/ a Bitcoin @ address) people are zapping me and again I don’t know where they go.
I clearly need to link my node to an Alby or Primal @-account but can’t find any info how. This should be front and center on either of their websites.
(again, salty, excuse me)
What SPECIFICALLY is the obstacle course everyone else has figured out but I can’t find anywhere online that I have to make through Primal and linked evidently thru Alby, pointed at my node, into Primal (which is worse than Damus imo, but whatever).
I just want to post on Nostr (on iPad) and receive Zaps.
Also, I fucking appreciate you all! Thx in advance!
As someone who penned a fairly influential blog in the early 2000's on surviving the coming crisis of modern civilization...
...now as a Bitcoiner I read this and think "we've hit bottom, the bull market for Humanity is not far away."
This video was fascinating for me, as someone who loved San Fran 20 years ago, but is shocked how far it's plummeted. Excellent on-the-ground account.
Reminds me of when NYC spawned "Escape From New York", the story of a city walled-off into a prison because it was unsalvageable. But NYC salvaged itself w/ a strong Mayor and plentiful fiat money...
Sharing music.
I know, no one cares.
But if you don’t know Cloud Cult…I hope you listen to this and many other songs by this amazing group
Bitcoin transaction fees are the new Interest Rates.
Except obviously no small cabal can set them.
But they (will) fundamentally matter, and future economists will chart them and predict them.
Yep.
But bring on the Layer 2 Wars.
Ossify Layer 1.
Let’s fight it out in a board-gaming convention. nostr:note1lc45pw9sqja2qlgycze03z8jqwwsf5n9dmzfjq6x7n39ydlu8ezqnk63rf
We live in a time when there is no money for general healthcare (a bloated inflationary system), no money for education (ditto), no money for retirement (ditto), no money to promote entrepreneurialism, et al, ad nauseum.
And yet there’s ready money to build Large Hadron colliders, and the next gen of the same, and Webb and Hubble telescopes. Projects which generate no revenue. And doubtless money to fund countless other scientific projects not tied to a verifiable income stream.
This tells me - at the point I’ve reached in my life - that these advanced, expensive “humanitarian” projects being funded are ones that move forward Defense projects already underway.
Not the school-children Neil Degrasse Tyson bullshit no country has actual money for.
Which I’d therefore offer means:
DARPA is far, far more advanced than any of us have any idea. They’re fucking around and finding out far beyond University quantum physics.
Just a shower thought…. 
Very hopeful to see, but the data is never truly going to be purged, just mirrored in places that can’t be audited.
Clown-world does have its precious moments…
“This is the shocking moment a boat full of undocumented migrants landed on a beach in San Diego before running into the wealthy La Jolla neighborhood.
More than 20 migrants were filmed storming the beach on Wednesday morning and disappearing into the southern California enclave, where homes go for a median price of $2.2million.”
[…]
“More than 42,000 asylum seekers were released in San Diego from October through December, 2023 - an average of 637 a day, as reported by The San Diego Union-Tribute. That number does not include migrants who cross illegally, like those seen landing on the La Jolla beach.
The county has already spent $3million caring for the asylum seekers, and has allocated another $3million. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13010073/san-diego-migrants-la-jolla.html
Chinese Gov’t Paper admits that many biotech firms there are working to create biological weapons of war not “permitted” by International Law.
Remember when Bethesda announced Starfield's release on Twitter, then minutes later said they weren't releasing Starfield...then a day later released Starfield?
And it didn't cause $50million in wiped trades?
I’m reposting this Note To Self from the first day of the ETFs that when “everyone” is pointing to a bull-run, things overwhelmingly have a way of disappointing “everyone”.
Market Sentiment is a powerful indicator.
(I was referring to the FEELING or sentiment at the end of Bull Markets, fwiw, not a belief that we are actually at the end of a Bull Market. Far from that.) nostr:note1lwp253fzww9lppjgd4pktjr2xycm8lcam96vgyyp47nrrql6pp4qyy4z4e