Yeh I’d say we hold standard traditional values too that would’ve been pretty normal 10-15 years ago. As frustrating as it is that nobody talks about it, we’ve learnt just to focus on our family now and keep building towards a better life.

Awesome! There’s some incredible women in the Bitcoin space in fairness

Couldn’t agree more. I feel like so many people in the UK just go along with whatever’s fed to us from the news without thinking for themselves. When I try to bring anything up, the subject is swiftly changed to football or the latest celebrity/royal family drama instead. Incredibly frustrating!

Finally got ‘Broken Money’ by the brilliant nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a for my birthday. Can’t wait to read!

This. Rather than be in the ‘never sell’ club, I just simply use Bitcoin as money. I save in Bitcoin and spend in Bitcoin. It’s such a simple hack for seeing your purchasing power go up over time.

Many banks have been met with this screen today due to a single point of failure. Whilst #Bitcoin has continued to work as normal, like it has for the past 15 years. Maybe that magic internet money isn’t so risky after all …

#Crowdstrike

I write a monthly newsletter for everyday people in the UK who want to learn more about money, the fiat system, banking, national debt, credit, fiscal spending, inflation, deflation, and so on. The aim is for it to be short, simple to understand and to introduce new concepts to people. Does anyone on #nostr know of any topics that ‘normies’ typically struggle to wrap their heads around that could be useful to cover in my newsletter?

Yeh it blows my mind how many cool things are being built at the moment!

Thanks for sharing these, they do a good job of explaining the premise of shared UTXOs which I didn’t understand before!

That’s insane, all under the guise of AML. But if he’d won the money in the lottery or through gambling sites that’d be absolutely fine …

What an awesome idea!

In 2017, my house was worth 24.6 #Bitcoin.

In June 2024 it was worth 6.1 #Bitcoin.

Yet when priced in £s, it’s gone up by 47.7%.

For people to afford a home in my area, they would need to save/borrow 47.7% more £s than before. If you save in £s you will afford less over time. #maths

1 week into being #Bitcoin only in the UK using a combination of nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9, nostr:npub1m7r9aayrqjtt2q0whkyrwlys75s5d828c5uewvqwyfd2kxefkfjqgeny2w & nostr:npub1l49ccxu5kvpccapwq269yjnc9jj5tteunfgkhl774hn2v0sdzq0sqa62g8. So far it’s been surprisingly easy. Due to the dip, I’ve spent more sats than last week. But good news is that my salary bought more sats which will benefit our purchasing power more in the long run.

Weekly grocery shop paid with #Bitcoin using nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 & nostr:npub1m7r9aayrqjtt2q0whkyrwlys75s5d828c5uewvqwyfd2kxefkfjqgeny2w! Quick and simple to use. Maybe it’s possible to live on a Bitcoin standard after all …

Awesome, happy to help! I’ll DM you shortly.

This is a great goal to aim for! Initially, passion might be the main driver to get ecosystems like zap.store going but if you succeed, there’ll definitely be the incentives to attract skilled people from all backgrounds. In the meantime, if you or any open-source projects you’re linking in with need pro bono security/penetration testing or advice to get up and running then I’m your man!

Couldn’t agree more. People have to work harder and harder year on year to afford the same things and simply survive, sacrificing precious time with family and friends. It’s crazy to think that if all of our productivity gains weren’t being stolen from us, how much more fulfilling lives we could all lead.

The first Hard Money, Soft Money newsletter article has just gone out today! This month’s article discusses how money emerged, what problems it was brought in to address, and what made good or bad money over millennia.

I believe that economics shouldn’t be so complicated that 90%+ of the population can’t understand it. This is the problem this newsletter is trying to solve.

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Congrats! I’ll be using a combination of nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 UK and your integration with Bitrefill to go bitcoin-only!!

If you work full-time, say an average of 37-40 hours per week, then you’ll work around 2000 hours per year for money. Within a lifetime, on average you’ll work 80,000 hours for money. Yet many of us don’t question what money is. The British Pound has lost approximately 98-99% of its value over the past 100 years. Yet many people, me included, just think about how we can earn, save or acquire more of it whilst not asking - ‘what is money?’ and ‘why is everything costing more year-on-year?’.

In 2020, when the world shut down in reaction to COVID-19, I was surprised to see assets and stock prices rocket in value. I couldn’t reconcile how this could happen when so many people weren’t able to actually work or produce as much. Since then, I wanted to understand how money works and as I go along, I thought it’d be useful to share what I come across via a monthly newsletter for everyday people in a hurry. Whilst I’m no expert, the newsletter will translate the knowledge of greater minds than mine into something simple and concise, aiming to ask and answer the big questions about how money, banking and the financial system works.

My belief is that if you work hard for your money, it may be worth knowing more about it. If you think the same, then subscribe to my newsletter at https://www.hardmoneysoftmoney.com/.

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