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Mike Nunn
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It’s strange that the best part of many buildings are the windows. The part where there is no building.

I was just watching a video on YouTube and it once again asked me to rate the app. I find it hard to believe that the success of YouTube in 2025 relies heavily on its score in the App Store.

Real Coffee is going to be amazing! Well done nostr:nprofile1qqs2auxkkgfgylem580xrztp8ek5sf83s86k0vfq2feuz6y4lkhskgcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6un9d3shjtn4de6x2argwghx6egfqyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpds8mqt3q and team. Good luck tomorrow. Really impressed with how Pete is pouring into his home town.

One of the curiosities of Bitcoin is that it makes saving addictive. Somehow Satoshi took something that was traditionally boring and sensible and gamified it to feel radical and exhilarating.

As for strategy - just trying to stay humble, just trying to stack sats.

Sometimes I find myself rehearsing a speech in my head that no-one has asked me to give, nor am I likely to ever need. Why do I do this?

Replying to Avatar Bitcoin Boomer

When nostr: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 announced bill pay in Strike, that pushed me into a bitcoin standard. I was HODLing as much as possible for my future savings, but left a good portion in fiat to pay monthly bills. I always wondered about eventually finding a way to stay mostly in bitcoin, but still have a way to pay bills. Strike gave me that way, and I appreciate it! Thank you, nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wsq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdsq35amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2aspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszxrhwden5te0wpex2mtfw4kjuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxxatjwfjkuapwveukjqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmqqyrzw4whphc70v4aurp27up0xnh5lqkwt0gzeyfck3wqt39mpe0zwqevqp08 and the nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqzpjdak6fvau05qvekhelq570cgdhxl0pjtgxjap6xcjmngg35ufaynl4wv2 team! Well done!!

How does this work in a bear market? Do you need a Jack Mallers sized stack to cushion the fall?

Who is using Strike bill-pay? I have questions.

When the penny finally dropped and I really began to understand Bitcoin, it felt like a small miracle that I could buy any at all. Let alone that I could buy 1000’s of sats from my phone as I made my way to work.

Everything is downstream of money.

Fix the money, fix the world.

Bitcoin buys you the most valuable asset of all: Time

All bitcoiners expect Bitcoin to appreciate over the next 100 years. We also expect that it will appreciate more than anything else. And by understanding this you can buy back your time.

Traditionally, people plow some of their hard earned money into retirement accounts accounts typically investing in something like an S&P500 index fund. This is to protect against inflation. And it’s worked, to a point. It means that hopefully you reach a point where you can quit work and live off your ā€˜savings’

But Bitcoin does it better. It’s designed precisely to store value over time. Since it will appreciate faster than anything else, it brings forward to day when you don’t need to work for money anymore.

There’s only one thing more valuable than Bitcoin and that’s time. But Bitcoin allows you to buy time. That’s pretty powerful.

Replying to Avatar Jeff Booth

If #bitcoin stays decentralized and secure, it is imposing the first global free market the world has ever seen.

Productivity gains flow to broadly to society in free markets through deflation.

Everyone gets richer every year and competition to provide value increases driving a cycle of unprecedented prosperity.

But, if you are pricing #Bitcoin in USD, you are still in the system of extraction and centralization which must centralize faster through the extraction of the productivity gains that should flow to society in the form of lower prices.

The two systems are incompatible!!

And…It is a confusing topic because we have no reference for what a global free market looks like……so many people will get rug pulled (eventually) by not choosing self custody and running nodes. Instead trusting institutions and a paper derivative of their #bitcoin.

Why: because it will appear they are getting wealthy (in USD) Protecting the decentralization and security by running nodes and being constantly vigilant for new attack vectors will seem like a stretch! For most people pressing the easy button in an ETF or other centralized entity will seem like the right thing to do which ensures faster centralizing.

That centralized system of extraction MUST eventually attack Bitcoin or fail.

This may be a long time out. Ie - if I was on the other side of the fight - I would make my system as easy to integrate to bitcoin as possible and use the natural biases of humans against them. Ease of use, trust in institutions, time, etc so they didn’t ā€œneedā€ to worry about self custody and understanding how the protocol works.

Those on building on #Nostr, Bitcoin, Lightning, Ecash and spending their time contributing on this open protocol and teaching others are on the front edge of the greatest change the world has ever seen. From extraction to cooperation.

Stay vigilant, stay focused, run a node, and tune out the madness of the system of extraction trying to drag you back into its centralized structure.

For the opportunity to exist, It had to be this way!

We are so early.

As time goes by I guess we will price more and more in Bitcoin. If you can do that now, you are already living in the future.