It would be a hard pill for you to swallow but a bitcoiner and right libertarian don’t line up…especially if you believe that the “Christian” god would support trump.

People be like “you can’t shit talk the trump administration after voting for it”.

lol the fuck I can’t…

To be an American idealist is to be a constant hypocrite.

What’re the odds that god would put us all in one spot?

It has to be destiny.

Indeed - as noted below - but... so there are files after all

If you have a million dollars in bitcoin today you’re sitting on 10 million in a few years time and a hundred million in 15-20 years time.

It’s best not to screw it up.

When you put three piles of shit together, you end up with a huge pile of shit.

if i listened to every person on the internet who told me not to do shit i would never get anything done

Odell being a core cuck was not on my 2025 bingo card

With Strike’s and nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2mz3uf3 recent BTC loans announcement, I’ve been reading a lot of the back and forth on the subject. Having over 10 yrs of fiat lending experience, I have some reflections.

TL;DR

1) If you use the BTC loans to consume, you will fail and will never get your Bitcoin back. Might as well just sell some to live your life

2) If you use the BTC loans to produce, you will have access to amounts of capital that have the potential to truly make the world a better place. If you provide value to the world, you’ll take out the loan and never lose your BTC (you might even have more than if you hadn’t taken the loan)

Bitcoin is just a financial tool. It’s the best one we’ve ever had, but it’s only a tool. I like nostr:nprofile1qqsx45yrjtgm4glklaafgz0z4309gs6cwfja3d99s8rqvlvgagcptpqprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet54gjttu's take on topic. If you have your values misaligned and you only want to be a degen consumer in this world, Bitcoin will not change you. It will actually help you do all of that to a much greater degree. You will still be a degen, just with a Lambo and a yacht (maybe even a Lambo yacht, I heard those exist). The beautiful thing about this scenario is that it allows the spread of Bitcoin to those who will possibly value it more and have values and virtues to help guide their decisions. In turn, maybe they will use the Bitcoin to create a better life for themselves and their families.

BTC loans will just accelerate the degeneracy if one uses them for consumption. It’s like leveraged trading… if you go the wrong way, you just get rekt faster and more violently. That’s exactly how BTC loans will play out for those who decide to consume.

On the flip side, BTC loans will be the greatest tool to free capital into value producing and world building humanity has ever seen. We will live through some unprecedented growth. In every way possible our lives will be better, our children’s and their children’s lives will be better. BTC Loans will accelerate growth and allow builders, creators and entrepreneurs to build and create faster than with just native BTC. This will in turn actually increase BTC adoption and the cycle will continue. Some entrepreneurs will succeed and some will fail. No matter what, it will make the system stronger and all of our lives better.

If you have BTC at this point, no matter how much or how little, put yourself in the shoes of nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqnz0fd0 and nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdumlww9r. What will you do with all of that wealth 10 years from now? What will you build? What will you create that will make your family and community better. We are all just them from10 years ago.

Anyone in Canada have a raw milk source?

If no, how do we make it happen?

#asknostr

GN ♥️

Are there still places with vibes anymore? Or did the internet kind of kill it?

I feel like digital spaces have vibes. Nostr has a vibe for sure, but everywhere I go (in America at least) feels flat, steril and homogenous now.

People like to pretend otherwise, romanticizing local charm and it’s fun to do so, but in reality there is no meaningful difference between New York, LA, Chicago, Austin, Miami etc…

The differences feel increasingly superficial. Miami with its neon pink and bad Latin art. New York with its identical minimalist cafes selling identical oat lattes. These aren’t cities anymore, they’re brands. “Keep Austin Weird” feels less like the rallying cry of a bohemian collective and more like a safe corporate brand slogan.

It wasn’t always like this. Cities used to incubate true subcultures that couldn’t thrive anywhere else. Seattle once had grunge music emerging organically from local clubs, distinct in sound and attitude. Detroit was a birthplace for techno and industrial grit that couldn’t have been manufactured. New Orleans had jazz clubs and vibrant local traditions that permeated every street corner authentically. Before the internet collapsed distances, you could sense deep authenticity upon arriving somewhere new. The vibe wasn’t something designed by marketing departments; it was organically woven into the streets, the people, the music, and local myths.

Now, vibes feel engineered and commoditized, reduced to Instagrammable moments and easily replicable aesthetics. I once watched from the balcony of my hotel in Nashville as 200 women waited in line to take the same stupid picture with the same stupid set of angel wings.

Digital spaces, ironically, have become refuges of uniqueness, fostering communities unburdened by geographical homogenization. Platforms like nostr host unique niche communities, from hyper-specific gaming bitcoin cultural milieu to obscure philosophical discussions, that retain genuinely distinctive vibes.

Perhaps we’re now entering a strange inversion, where real-world spaces chase digital popularity, adopting blandness to maximize broad appeal.

In this inversion, digital worlds might become the primary spaces where unique vibes survive, thrive, and multiply—leaving our physical world as little more than a flattened reflection of what used to be.

Nostr is where the vibes are at.

gave up all caps and good mornings for lent

Bitcoiners with TDS are having a hard time grasping the situation at hand.

Fun to watch.

I remember having conversations with friends who said "if it's that big of an idea, wouldn't governments find a way to stop it."

It was very hard to argue the point to someone with zero hours in bitcoin

Now we have the US government with an executive order re bitcoin and a crypto summit at the White House tomorrow

And some bitcoiners are still bitching

100% pre mine. 20y old tech project. Not blockchain technology. Not decentralized. Founders got Trump some votes so Trump threw it in the Reserve. U know all this.

Good morning nostr 👑

Be thankful for all you have

🫡

Welcome to nostr nostr:npub1xr7t5h0l25ej73pm04zgz9afeexyzsjx67s5v0xxf2sshjn4sx6sep2gqh glad to have you. nostr:note10gu7qwzsv9h7y03pt928q6s2k44egvwc8a050ljanteuv7tnmqps0fxgze