Thank you for this. Beautiful collection of quotes here

Been about two weeks to download 84500 blocks of the blockchain, index, and synch fulcrum over tor behind a vpn. Will probably be another week before fully up to date.

Get your full nodes in order. All these 1TB nodes will need to be updated.

Everyone should be enjoying the sweet freedom of verifying their holdings against their node.

This.

It's an inconvenient truth. As with everything in life you need to build the skills to adapt to new situations. Most people fell they are "not technical" but can still use an iPhone, email, a webbrowser, EBay, Facbook, etc.

Sadly in order for people to feel the need for change they need to either get hurt or through curiosity dive deep and start to understand.

It's a slow process, but I believe the NGU of bitcoin slightly reflects this general global pbenomenon of people waking up. Bitcoin is the first step, then the rest comes slowly.

This is at leas what I see in myselfe and hope is happening.

Hello world

SIGNED IN VIA @DAMUS ANS WAS LIKE 🤯 IS EXACTLY RIGHT.

WELCOME!

This is the way! One granny at a time!

Like Windows, iOS must die. Either open-source it or GTFO.

I’ve had a real chip on my shoulder lately and been feeling pissed off about a lot of things (personally and otherwise).

And even in that, I thank God every day for bitcoin. Like, fuck the money part, I just am so grateful that there is something they cannot control, they cannot kill, they cannot stop. That even as captured, as played, and as controlled all of the dialog around it is; they cannot have my bitcoin, and they cannot stop me from transacting with whom I choose and they cannot break cryptography from the very functions that are its nature.

The crypto sycophant shit is disgusting and vile; and it’s also an essential component of Bitcoin’s development. Nothing provides a better smoke screen for how important bitcoin is than the crypto bros and their active destruction the entire financial system with their debased garbage, outright scams, and criminal conduct. When the smoke clears, and all of that garbage shows itself for just what it is; bitcoin will still be plugging along, block by block, bit by bit.

And even more, Bitcoin gives me a reason to have hope. Hope that even with as fucked up as everything is, no one can’t make more bitcoin, no one can stop the network, and no one will control it. That hope is the smallest of light in a world of utter darkness; and yet it is in the darkest of nights that such a light can shine the brightest.

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 “need” 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.

Feels good, first node online and syncing!

Top-down, find clarity in the big picture. 🌊 #nostr #bitcoin #photography

A timely reminder:

Donald Trump could have pardoned or commuted the sentence of Ross Ulbricht while he was the sitting President, but he didn't.

- He made millions off of his first MAGA (TRUMP) meme coin

- He just released another $TRUMP meme coin

- His stated views on Bitcoin before election season:

> I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug >trade and other illegal activity....

Donald Trump tweeting on July 11, 2019

> Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam," Mr Trump said. "I don't like it because it's another currency competing against the dollar."

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He added that he wanted the dollar to be "the currency of the world".

Donald Trump in an interview with Fox in June 2021

Additionally...

Trump’s pitch to Libertarian voters was that if he's re-elected, he’ll push for Ross Ulbricht’s life sentence to be commuted.

**"However, during his 2024 re-election campaign announcement two years ago, Trump called on Congress to pass a law mandating the death penalty for drug dealers."**

**Whistleblower Chelsea Manning** was initially sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013 for leaking classified documents. **But in one of his last moves in office, former President Barack Obama commuted her sentence.**

She was released on May 17, 2017, after serving about 7 years of her original sentence in isolation and excessively harsh conditions.

**In response to Manning’s first column for The Guardian since her commutation, Trump tweeted that Manning was an “ungrateful traitor” and should “never have been released.”**

Whether or not he will pardon Ross remains to be seen. Maya Angelou's words ring true:

> When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

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> — Maya Angelou