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Does anyone enjoy zapping 99 sats as much as I do?

Replying to Avatar FLASH

⚡️🗣️ STORY - They wanted to build an entire city on Bitcoin. A utopian, libertarian city that appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Except that in reality...

It was a fake city and a real scam.

Here is the true and completely crazy story of Bitcointopia.

➥ The genesis of a dream.

In 2018, Morgan Rockcoons (aka Morgan Rockwell), a Californian entrepreneur obsessed with Bitcoin, had a completely crazy idea.

He wanted to create an independent city-state, based entirely on Bitcoin, in the Nevada desert.

Bitcointopia was born that day in his mind.

Morgan presents himself as a visionary, who wants to build as the pioneers of the Wild West did before him.

➥ His plan?

- Buy 500 acres of land near Elko.

- Sell plots to Bitcoiners at 0.5 BTC per acre.

- Build a decentralized community "outside the system."

- Use Bitcoin for everything: schools, banks, businesses, energy.

"Become a citizen of Bitcointopia. Buy your acre of land for 0.5 BTC. Let's build a city together where blockchain reigns supreme."

On his website, Rockcoons promised futuristic infrastructure:

- 3D-printed houses powered by solar energy.

- Drones to monitor the streets.

- Tesla Powerwall microgrids.

- A digital parliament called BitCongress.

- Autonomous buses.

- A 100% Bitcoin economy, without banks, without a state, without taxes.

Dozens of investors took the bait.

Morgan promised to do everything by the book with real legal documents.

It was the ultimate dream for any Bitcoin maximalist.

➥ The promise of land.

Rockcoons was selling plots of land in Nevada.

Each buyer became a "citizen" and co-founder.

Except there was a problem... Morgan didn't own the land he was selling.

But that's not all. He even started reselling the same plots of land several times...

Most of the land in Nevada belongs to the federal government, and Morgan had actually only managed to acquire 10 acres, even though he claimed to own thousands.

The first doubts arose when some investors demanded their official deeds of ownership.

When they were provided, the documents were vague.

Morgan stalled for time and came up with plans and sketches... but nothing really concrete.

That's when the local press began to investigate.

The Nevada Independent revealed that the vast majority of the land promoted by Rockcoons belonged to the Bureau of Land Management, the US federal agency that manages public land.

This revelation comes as a shock to many investors, who begin to realize that they have been deceived.

They demand refunds, but Morgan Rockcoons disappears.

The losses amount to more than $45,000 for several complainants, sums that alert the authorities.

➥ The trial.

In court, prosecutors portrayed Rockcoons as a manipulator, an entrepreneur who took advantage of the Bitcoin hype to trap gullible investors.

In March 2019, Morgan Rockcoons pleaded guilty to two charges:

- wire fraud.

- illegal operation of a money transmission service.

He was ultimately sentenced to 21 months in federal prison.

After the trial, investors realized they would likely never see their money again; the Bitcointopia ideal was nothing more than a mirage.

Lighter sentence than the Samurai one.

Sometimes you just need to persevere a little longer than you thought. Something might just happen.

It is Monday, my beautiful Sunday is gone. Maybe I will live in the past.

If I make a post on Nostr and I don’t get a refollow, did I really make a post?

Replying to Avatar NewGarden

I just planted my very first fruit bush!

Today I planted aronia (black chokeberry) in my garden. It’s my first fruit shrub ever, and I’m genuinely excited about it. What motivated me was a simple thought — why not grow my own ingredient for Pogačar’s “magic recovery drink”?

As a passionate cyclist, I often struggle to calm my body and mind in the evening after intense training. I’ve noticed that Tadej Pogačar always drinks a special sour cherry recovery drink after every Tour de France stage. That caught my attention, so I decided to look into it.

It turns out that the drink is made from an extract of tart cherries (specifically the Vistula variety), which are rich in anthocyanins and polyphenols — powerful antioxidants that help muscles recover faster and reduce inflammation after effort. This drink, for example Enervit Magic Cherry, is used by several professional cycling teams, including Pogacar’s.

What it does:

neutralizes free radicals produced during intense activity,

reduces muscle inflammation,

speeds up recovery and prepares the body for the next session.

And that’s where my aronia comes into the story. I found out that aronia berries contain similar compounds as tart cherries – a high amount of anthocyanins, polyphenols, and vitamins. So once my bush grows and starts bearing fruit, I’d like to make my own “recovery elixir” – a homemade, natural drink perfect after cycling, running, or hiking.

My plan:

I planted aronia – my very first fruit shrub in the garden,

I’ll let it grow and produce its first harvest,

and in a few years, I’ll be able to make my own recovery drink, similar to what the pros use,

but straight from my garden – no chemicals, no marketing, just nature and passion for training.

#garden #gardening #farm #farmstr #offgrid #nature #training #cycling #hiking #running #cyclingnutrition #biohacking #naturalbiohacking

Nice!

This one didn’t get the reach I was looking for. Regardless of the topic I felt it was one of my better ones.

That’s great to hear! I was thinking about the next zap I get from someone!!

Maybe, but he sure talks about his old oven a lot.

I would say so! It is pretty flexible with what you can do with it. The name pretty much means grill what you like. Base is flour, eggs, cabbage to make up a kind of batter, then other things you like.

Replying to Avatar Rizful.com

nostr:npub1vm7echqz9wl9hzpmsm5225x8m8ys6286y3r4f38hxtndl6gledvqassm7s nostr:npub1pj09u9lmma24aaqa4u7r5xt8f8yy37w8jxtx7v86uhjvqjqwsu9s7jznjh nostr:npub14hq5lgadtyy9dhvtszq46dnl0s0xwdddqr7e32rdqqhma8a4xhsspxjjzu (or anyone else who cares) -- do you happen to have a CoinOs account? My first step with NWC on Primal on iOS is to answer a simple question: Will it display NWC transactions from a non-Rizful NWC service?

Just now I have tested a CoinOs NWC code, and I'm seeing the exact same issue -- nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg just shows a spinner, doesn't show any transactions.

Again, we're focusing here on nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg for iOS, not Android.

In order to fix it in Rizful, we first need to prove that there IS some OTHER service that provides NWC codes and these codes DO work in Primal iOS....

Not sure if it helps, but I received your zap on nostr, but when I zapped it back it sent from a different wallet, even though my primal is set up for rizful

Trying out primal, got it set up today. I like the zap animation when you zap. Keen to watch a live show on here.

Can’t say I have been looking, but other places in Japan you could try is Rakuten Ichiba, merukari, if you are after second hand. Are you buying in Japan, or want to import to Japan?

So I asked my dog about the current knots vs core issue. He said I should use Doge. Can you believe this guy ?

Percentages, percentages. 😏