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My husband recently observed to me how important conditioning is for people to accept things as normal.

He said that when he first began reading my articles, he was like “Okay but I mean, fiat currency censorship isn’t really *that bad* as you describe”. But then in the years that followed, he was like “oh shit, it actually is. The fact that we have to ask permission to access significant amounts of our own money at banks and say what we will do with it is fucking insane. Why is this normal now?”

In Europe especially but also elsewhere, it’s increasingly common to make cash transactions illegal above a certain threshold value. Above that value, you have to go through centralized, surveilled, corporate/government systems, or you’re doing an illegal transaction.

That seems absolutely insane if introduced out of nowhere, but instead it has been introduced gradually through conditioning and so people are like, “well I don’t use cash anyway so that’s okay I guess, in fact I don’t even know that’s a law now”.

The same is generally true for social media. Filtering communications through centralized pipes is actually a radical position but it’s increasingly the new normal. In fact, the centralization of banking and communications in the hands of the state were two of their ten steps proposed in the Communist Manifesto.

testing out Strike Europe we just realized our USD/EUR cross-currency payments are way better than Wise and everyone else.

was a total accident. we haven't even spent time optimizing or taking a closer look. we're initially focused on core functionality like buy/sell/dca/free on-chain payments/core lightning wallet/etc

this is just the outcome of Strike having:

USD/BTC <--> BTC/EUR

we also support SEPA instant in Europe and we'll be turning on RTP payments in the US this month. so soon not only can we do cheap & instant USD <> EUR but then customers can also have the payments instantly cashed out to their bank

Lightning as an open value transfer protocol is insane. it still blows my mind every time. crazy to see it all come together too. exciting

Four years ago, I posted my first "bitcoin photo" on Instagram. At that time, I was receiving my salary in bitcoin as a designer. I was happy, though I wasn't very vocal about my bitcoin involvement on social media and didn't know much about it, let alone bitcoin maximalism.

Started posting about bitcoin led to a turning point. I was invited to join a podcast, which despite drawing some negative reactions and distancing a financial advisor friend (he still doesn’t talk to me😂), opened new doors for me. It connected me with another Italian bitcoin enthusiast, and he invited me to participate in bitcoin-themed Clubhouse rooms. There, I met my first fellow bitcoiners, who have since become close friends and I even met my boyfriend there.

Before this, I hadn't known any Italian bitcoiners. Now, my life has transformed: I travel the world with my life partner, work for a fantastic company, and am part of a vibrant community of female bitcoin enthusiasts in Italy. I have friends from the bitcoin community all over the globe.

I don’t know where I would be if I didn’t post this pic. If you're asking yourself to do that thing-just do it. 🩷

Answer: I’m not

Why: England

All i’m saying is i stick with the one that can’t literally put you in the hospital or worse for having too much

I’m satisfied with the umbrel home. Plug and play to setup.

I only use a few apps: full Bitcoin node, Electrs, mempool, Nostr relay, and Public Pool.

There’s a ton of other things you can do with it application wise but that’s what I picked it up for.

We're making progress integrating Threads into the fediverse and launching a beta in a few countries that lets people choose to federate their posts. If you see this and turn it on from your profile, you'll see likes from federated platforms appear on your posts here.

Something new to try...

ZEUS makes it easy to upgrade your setup along your lightning journey

Uncle Jim account/custodial -> Embedded “node in the phone” -> Full remote routing node

or keep all three and use them to suit your needs nostr:note1za542p9ypm45zfl7dwzhwrmnhfwt7g23twtcv7fkgatc59dfqhvqvczz5k

Well, what do we have here? Is this a new home for my text notes? 🤗

Since we are making #introductions - I’m Jessica Chasteen, or Garden Variety Jess. I’m a gardener, writer, teacher, designer, and overall social media nerd.

I stumbled onto #nostr over on TikTok during discussion of our collective need for a decentralized social media platform that allows us to maintain digital ownership of our accounts and not be subject to the whims of the algorithms.

What’s funny is I thought: you know who might could help us is nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m without even knowing this existed yet! 😎

Extremely excited to see how this will evolve! Fantastic! 👏