You may not believe this but in my first few #zapathons I was speed posting most of the WLC or Heidelberg and actually got zaps for it (🤯). You have to look around a bit but there are some solid brothers and sisters on nostr. I started following hashtags to find them, and that was helpful.

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I’m the last Strobel in New York. But in the 1850’s, my ancestors ran a flourishing furniture business in Manhattan, called Philip Strobel & Sons Inc. Philip is my great great great grandfather and today not a single person in my family owns any furniture from our family’s business. With your help, I’m trying to find a dining table for my apartment in the West Village.

For background, Philip Strobel & Sons operated for several decades and was a leading furniture maker in the city. Strobel & Sons primarily made furniture for restaurants and cafes, but they also built home furnishings.

The warehouse was located on 53-55 Elizabeth Street, what is now Chinatown and the building still stands today. I walk past it from time to time and imagine what it looked like in its full operation 170 years ago.

What happened to the business? It grew to be very successful and was featured in The New York Times, and The New York Tribune, and now the full furniture catalogue is housed in the National Archives. I read in one article that there was a large fire in 1888; however, the business rebuilt. I’ve asked multiple family members about its final closure and have heard things from it taking a hit during Prohibition because no one was drinking, to The Great Depression, to gambling. No one is quite sure and it remains a family mystery.

I am decorating my new apartment and would love to be able to break bread with my friends and family on a table that my family built. I've scoured the internet for years, but tables from Philip Strobel & Sons are elusive. I am embarking on this treasure hunt to connect to my past — if you have any leads, please DM me. Thanks! 🫶

## Heidelberg Catechism

Q. 26. What believest thou when thou sayest, "I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth"?

A. That the eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (who of nothing made heaven and earth, with all that is in them; who likewise upholds and governs the same by his eternal counsel and providence) is for the sake of Christ his Son, my God and my Father; on whom I rely so entirely, that I have no doubt, but he will provide me with all things necessary for soul and body and further, that he will make whatever evils he sends upon me, in this valley of tears turn out to my advantage; for he is able to do it, being Almighty God, and willing, being a faithful Father.

Q. 27. What dost thou mean by the providence of God?

A. The almighty and everywhere present power of God; whereby, as it were by his hand, he upholds and governs heaven, earth, and all creatures; so that herbs and grass, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, meat and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, yea, and all things come, not by chance, but be his fatherly hand.

Q. 28. What advantage is it to us to know that God has created, and by his providence does still uphold all things?

A. That we may be patient in adversity; thankful in prosperity; and that in all things, which may hereafter befall us, we place our firm trust in our faithful God and Father, that nothing shall separate us from his love; since all creatures are so in his hand, that without his will they cannot so much as move.

#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

the envy i have for anyone who was living through the 80s is undeniable

the envy i have for anyone who was living through the 80s is undeniable

Does the right to bear arms extend to cyberspace?

Like suppose you try to attack my website so I in turn hack your computer and destroy it.

Is that self defense?

#zapathon

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on a scale 1 to 10: how well do you think you understand bitcoin?

Why does Netflix always recommend new stuff when im in the middle of watching something.. and have to scroll a ton to find what I was watching.

Had lunch near three weird piles of stones, and then went over to check them out.

"Maybe in the lifetime of a typical person, they will do a handful of base layer interactions." -Bob Burnett, CEO of Barefoot Mining

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In this episode we talk:

- Full blocks & 300,000+ tx awaiting confirmation

- Block scarcity and #Bitcoin fees

- In the future will people be able to afford to hold their own keys?

- Will there be another Blocksize War? Next time a Block *Time* War?

- Bitcoin scaling through layer 2s like Lightning and Fedi