Had the opportunity to sit down with nostr:npub15vzuezfxscdamew8rwakl5u5hdxw5mh47huxgq4jf879e6cvugsqjck4um in Prague and discuss all my favorite topics: from psychedelics, Bitcoin and language to truth, love and God.
I really enjoyed our conversation - thanks for having me on the What is Money show! ⚡
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Plumber, father and philosopher nostr:npub1sg2rt9uqazh2y0zg9k20mvzm9lvkch6hg07qphknjz5sqgj4a6aqdlz8fx from Oslo explores the many ways to think about and learn from #Bitcoin in his brand new podcast "Enogtyve tanker".
Join him LIVE on #BitcoinforBreakfast at 12pm CET ⚡
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A special thanks to one of many unsung heroes of nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r:
nostr:npub1c5235v26q0evzjzrytampyxkvj68n4c6wgdw6465s9m9hxpgg6psd6r8ec took excellent care of people I love, treating my roofer friend the exact same as my billionaire friend - the #bitcoin way 🧡
Deserves a big tip:
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The Czechs snap their fingers at kings. They laugh at popes. When they built up tyrants, they brought them down again.
It was here in Prague that the Czechs lodged the word defenestration firmly in our dictionaries by literally throwing representatives of an oppressive international order out of a window to protect their freedoms.
Not once. Not twice. But three times.
It was here in Bohemia that many peasants refused to fight for their imperial overlords in WWI. It was here in Czechia that the first bullets against an occupying nazi force were fired. It was a Prague Spring that exposed the evil of the Soviet empire to the whole world.
Many Czechs died on those hills, but their children giggle and eat ice cream in past palaces.
Because it was also here in Prague that the corrosive corruption of communism was finally thrown off in a revolution so peaceful we call it velvet. A moment in history that should be of endless inspiration to any bitcoiner who despairs at our entrenched fiat system.
Will I see you at nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r? ❤️🔥
The Czechs once threw representatives of an international organization out of a window for threatening their freedom of conscience.
Should I include a call-to-action in my talk at BTC Prague?
Fun fact: This event is known as the THIRD defenestration of Prague and I doubt we would even have a definition for it without the Czechs.
A consistent trait of bitcoiners is that they study history.
Does this make me a farmer?
"About 290 years after Christ a Roman Emperor named Diocletian took over. He really grabbed the bull by the horns.
He took over in a period of turmoil and severe depression.
The first thing Diocletian did was call in the gold and closed the banks and raised the taxes. He reduced the power of the Senate delegated its power to a lot of little government burеaus.
Do you know they even had a Transportation Act back thеre? Prescribing the fee required to rent one laden ass per mile and at today’s rate of exchange it would have amounted to about 1/8th cent per mile? Which meant that in order to make a profit a jack ass would have to carry five passengers.
That was simply beyond the capacity of the jack ass.
Diocletian put millions of people on the public payroll, but when this failed to do the job, the country was still in trouble, he asked more personal powers for himself.
For a brief while, incidentally, they were standby powers, but then he used them, all at once. He froze wages, he froze prices, he froze jobs, he stopped profits, he dictated to the farmer what he should plant, when and how he should sell it and for how much and he rationed food and what happened?
The labor market closed down, incentive was gone. Farm life became dependent on bureaucratic red tape. Exorbitant taxes cost the farmer his land. He kept for himself only a small plot on which he might grow turnips for his family. He lost the rest of it to the state.
And without food and with incentive gone city life stagnated and declined. And Rome past into what history has recorded as the “Dark Ages". Lasting a thousand years.
Just by turning to the left, the world has gone in circles.
A nation would evolve from a monarchy, into an oligarchy, from oligarchy to dictatorship, from dictatorship. To bureaucracy, from bureaucracy to pure democracy where, finally, the people would cry out from the chaos and confusion of the streets “Oh! Please God give us a king!”
And God would give ’em a king and they’d have a monarchy again and start the whole silly cycle anew.
Now either we will profit from the errors of their ways, or it follows as the night the day, our children are going to have to relive the dark ages, all over again.
Just by turning to the left, the world has gone in circles.
All over again."
- Paul Harvey
I suspect we are somewhere between the murders of the Gracchus-brothers and the assassination of Caesar, probably the period when Caesar and Pompey were still making common cause as populists, around 70 BC. The end of the republic is near.
Did we find one with salads yet?
"You have no enemies, you say?
Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right.
You’ve been a coward in the fight."
- Charles Mackay
We used these for the Northern Lighting Conference to exclusively accept Lightning.
They orange pilled the places we made use them by their sheer brilliance and simplicity.
#Bitcoin for Breakfast has been a weekly ritual for Norwegian bitcoiners for years.
With the success of the #NorthernLightning conference, we want to extent our channel and community to the Nordics.
The 1st episode of our new Nordic edition airs 8.30 next Wednesday!
We want to connect & support all the great Bitcoin meetups, educators, entrepreneurs and plebs across our region.
Join our new group chat (open to all, English language) to follow & contribute:
- What did we learn from this experiment?
- That you're bored, daddy.
Wen #onlyzaps on Amethyst? 🥹
My post-#NorthernLightning break is over, and I'll get back to #Bitcoin for Breakfast, #NorthernLightning 24 ⚡, & building the Nordic community.
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Switzerland has become a "tax haven" because citizens have to vote over every change to the tax code. What does that tell you?
How to get into any club in Berlin:
Being European is like having a nightmare from which you're always trying to awake.
But I promise you, our children will giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of these tyrants too.
