Practically, this is what the Romans did - provide basic staples to the poor so they weren’t hungry enough to rebel and overthrow the elites whom they vastly outnumbered.

Nowadays the poor are subsidised by the productive classes and poisonous slop is subsidised for them in the food deserts in which they live.

Bitcoiners should consider how they can bridge this divide to get the poors onside before the leftist rabble are turned against them. Rice and beans (or your local equivalent) is a small price to pay.

I prefer once or twice a day at the most. Quality is better than quantity.

Hey #Nostr, quick question: what do you think of the timing of posts?

I’m trying to find a sweet spot for posts appear at a reasonable time both for people in Europe and Americas.

Should I adjust the timing? Please leave a comment below.

Zaps are ready to be deployed for most constructive suggestions ⚡️

#asknostr

Full biometric KYC for a sandwich.

Absolutely not, Jeff.

Could you link me to a step by step guide on how to get it on the store or explain what signing for @Zapstore means? My github release is already signed.

Could you link me to a step by step guide on how to get it on the store or explain what signing for @Zapstore means? My github release is already signed.

People really don't understand the 1st Amendment. It's not whether it's rude to show up in someone's country and protest, it's not whether you agree with the person's views, it's not whether that person is someone you *want* in the country, it's not whether that person's speech might lead to radicalization of others, it's that the framers of the Constitution realized allowing the government to prevent speech it doesn't like is MUCH MORE dangerous than having to deal with that speech being allowed.

What would you like to see in Alby Hub or Alby Go in 2025?

Version 0.9.2 is rolling out.

You can now select a specific channel as the first hop for your Lightning payments. Combined with setting the last hop, this feature also serves for channel rebalancing.

Someone tell me how to get a hardware device in Spain in the next 3 days so I can tip my tour guide an actual UTXO.

#Spain #Barcelona #Europe #Hardwaredevice #Wallet #Travel

Hi there. Since v. 2.1.2, Sparrow (in Ubuntu Linux, .deb package) does not find bitbox hww. I click on Scan and nothing happens. Before that version it was working flawlessly. Any ideas on what might be happening?

EU seems to be going down on very hostile route to sovereign bitcoin usage.

True. It’s easy with stuff like Nostr, wavelake, cashapp, and fountain. Problem is not enough people are willing to bridge the gap and introduce it to large black platforms.

The government has done so much damage to ensure that people’s needs aren’t met and they’re too distracted to see or hear the truth.

Broken money has taught people to be greedy narcissists with a scarcity mindset leaving them with a high propensity to be scammed and become scammers.

Idk how to fix it other than living the example and having as much open and honest conversation as possible.

There is no such price, only the risk of him destroying the very market on which his stock is listed. The concentration of it is a different issue, but it’s spread out among many different shareholders.

If you buy a car and schedule a pickup for tomorrow, who owns it, you or the dealership?

Saylor’s strategy + proof of reserves would be epic.

I know Saylor's gotten some criticism of late for saying “crypto” but talk is cheap, and actions speak.

Who is buying the top like an animal every time? Who is printing fiat system stock and debt to do so?

I don’t know how it ends because he’s using the financial system itself to bring in the very thing that will obsolete it, but the least of my concerns is whether he said the word “crypto.”

Literally everything we believe in is just a story that we humans tell each other. Outside of the lawn of the jungle and physics, everything in maternity we were relating to humans. It’s just a story we make up.

This video about #bitcoinmining was removed from TikTok

On Nostr, not only does it live on

…but it’s about to pay for dinner tonight 🤯

#NostrIsFreedomTech

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What Nocoiners seriously undervalue and misunderstand is that Bitcoin is not subject to any single legal, trade or economic barriers. Information technology is going to create economic inequality unlike anything ever experienced before.

Bitcoin commands a higher value precisely because it undermines the ideas of every single nation state. Bitcoin is highly valued because it is settled under no jurisdiction.

In a economic climate where rich industrial countries face backlash from its citizens because of economic inequality, that very fact alone will make assets that are beyond the reach of the nation state all the more valuable. Bitcoin is the most secure/hardest/valuable asset in the world in this scenario.

Plan accordingly.

#bitcoin #freedom

OK, so if BTC rallies to two hundred something thousand, MSTR cost basis is ~150k, and then a bear market starts and they decide to "buy the dip" with more debt pushing cost basis even higher to try and prop up BTC, and all of a sudden you start getting FUD pushing price lower...

Now the 2026/27 maturities are coming up, you've got margin calls and forced liquidations up your ass and you've popped the bubble.

"Investors panic" is a problem if you're raising money through debt. You cannot tell them to suck it up like you can to shareholders.

imagine a debt based system that requires continual debasement. everyone is chained together, slaves to the fiat masters.

trillions of dollars of capital, passive flows from hundreds of millions of people, are locked into bond and pension funds that are regulated against buying bitcoin or even equities outright.

then Saylor comes along. he starts buying BTC hand over fist, and begins issuing convertible debt to fund it.

now, all these bond funds have a new and novel investment; if they want to escape from getting locked into negative real yield bonds, they can buy convertible debt which gives them exposure to MSTR and thus Bitcoin.

A hidden escape from the fiat prison, one that has never been seen before. A siphon on a dying monetary system.

A WAY OUT.

about 9 hours ago.

Sorry Ben, we know we said you could send up to $10k per month to exchanges but we have arbitrarily changed our minds and blocked your transaction - Commbank nostr:note1pt2n3x88vy090wknpjrjxw5jcgfxa03mav4t0mjvlt28yh6cmw2s6pt2k5