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Jim Smij
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snowbird between CFL & CNY

we're talking about 2 different things. the audio trimming is bring done intentionally by fountain. to shorten podcasts. clipping is done by the user to save parts of an episode to share. this works for creators to share multiple shorts from an episode and listeners to share segments as opposed to a whole show.

i agree, the trimming can be annoying, especially since I listen to most things at 1.5 or 2x

fountain allows you to clip a podcast episode into a short clip that can be shared, etc.

it's still pretty buggy, though.

Replying to Avatar rev.hodl

Now that transaction fee storm has passed I'm back to heating my living space primarily with wood in a rocket mass heater instead of Asics.

https://v.nostr.build/Ee2K.mp4

Wood is burned in the small firebox and heat radiates from the barrel warming the space quickly while the fire burns.

As the exhaust gasses make their way to the chimney, they pass through ductwork in a plywood box filled with pea gravel.

The majority of the heat from the exhaust is transfered to the gravel before exiting up the chimney. By the time the gases exit the box, they are cool enough for me to put my hand on the chimney pipe.

After the fire burns out, the heat absorbed by the pea gravel slowly radiates out into the living space until the next fire is burned and the gravel is recharged with heat once again. I built this rocket mass heater for a fraction of the cost of a wood burning insert, with no special tools, materials, or skills.

It has been an unusually warm November and December here at the homestead. Normally we have to start burning wood in the rocket mass heater early November to stay comfortable but this year, the bitcoin mining dehydrator was enough to stay warm and do some food preservation simultaneously.

Transaction fees started climbing and I was shocked to see the most efficient miner I had approaching break even at my electric rate.

I didn't have the circuit to run it wired yet but this bump in fees was the motivation I needed to get the miner hashing. Coincidentally, the weather also started to get colder finally so getting the miner up and running was a win/win.

It successfully kept us and our guests warm through the holidays, even earning some Bitcoin beyond the cost of power at times, all while allowing us to save our firewood.

We did have to fire up the rocket mass heater a handful of times, but so far we've burned less than half the amount of wood compared to previous years. This is thanks to the combination of the warm weather, and high transaction fees allowing us to stay warm with heavily subsidized electric heat.

This might be the first winter we make it through with wood leftover for the next year, typically I'm scrounging for the last couple weeks.

#permaculture #permies #homesteading #selfsovereignty #meshtadel #rocketmassheater #woodburner #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #plebminer #rmh #grownostr

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I don't know what #btc is at today, don't even care. I keep getting spam #sats in my wos. thx, spammers!

#smij is stacking. lol

this one made me actually lol.

PSA: let's try not to promote YouTube on Nostr at all. We have nostr.build and flare.pub for hosting video media.

If content creators aren't going to put their videos on Nostr, then fuck em, we'll do it for them.

Use this app to rip videos from YouTube, Twitter, or pretty much any other site:

https://github.com/deniscerri/ytdlnis/releases/tag/v1.7.1

Then use this app to compress the video for upload:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.aravi.compressor

If the file is under 100MB, you can upload it to Flare.

If it's larger, or if otherwise you just want it to play natively in most Nostr clients, you can upload it to nostr.build. You'll need a paid Nostr build account to upload large files, but you should have one of those anyways, fren. If you've been a Nostr build freeloader up until now, well now you have another reason to support them.

Fuck YouTube. Don't give them more traffic when we can host media natively on Nostr. LFG! 💜⚡🚀

it's prohibitive. hard to be evangelical when high fees ruin it.

I wanted to spread the love this season, but not at 60% fees. who'd have thought spam would pay but fees would be lightnings down fall!?!

Replying to Avatar Jack Spirko

The following came from twitter where a fellow called "Check Engine Light Maximalist" stated bitocin collateralized loans suck and the future ones will suck more.

I am not picking on the guy or calling him out. I think he's a good dude and will give the link to the entire thread at the end. But I though this may make some good Nostr discusison on the topic. Here is my final response in the thread to him.

His comment preceeding this response was....

"Well you wouldn’t open a bitcoin short position right? Why would you get a bitcoin loan on a bitcoin standard? It’s the same thing. I’d just spend some bitcoin before I did that. I’m just trying to understand your perspective"

As you can see he is not ill informed and he has a solid base, we just disagree on what will happen in the coming years in the macro. Here is my response.

"""I would not take a Bitcoin loan on a "Bitcoin standard" but there isn't going to be a "Bitcoin standard" the way you mean it here, not anytime soon, likely not in my lifetime.

The most valuable scarce assett that is imutable and 100% verifiable and uncensorable is not EVER going to be used as currency to the exclusion of the state printing "currency".

Lightning will allow us to use some of our stash for the time in side markets, gray markets, etc. Paralell economies, etc.

This idea that in say10 years we will have no euros, no dollars, no pesos, etc is just Poly Anna bullshit. Sorry the accounting alone is not tennable to the entire global system. It would take more than a decade if the G7 were on board with doing it.

We will have some form of fiat toilet paper for a long time, I am 51 so I will likely die before that changes. So would I borrow say 3% of the value of my BTC in fiat (a depreciateing asset) to be paid back in fiat later instead of spending an appreciating asset?

Yes and anyone with a moderate financial IQ would do the same. Keep living in your fantasy land about the "death of the dollar". Oh it will die but it has "died" 5 times since the constitution was signed. FIVE.

The next rebasement is coming but we will still have a form of fiat toilet paper to conduct the majority of transactions.

I know people think this makes me like some sort of anti-maxi but it just makes me logical and a student of history. No one gives up great power easily and the power to print money is the ultimate power. It may fall but dont' bet on it, not in the coming 5 decades.

I say "Bitcoin is 7th generation thinking", well we are generation ONE and I am not saying it just to sound cool, I am saying it because it is the only way this works."""

Here is his orginal thread, be nice to the guy he is clearly a good dude if you happen to engauge with him.

https://twitter.com/FinneJay/status/1741105244036112768

there seems to be this notion of "the one" thing. where has there ever been just one of anything, ever? there are always alternatives. there always will be. all you maxis may realize one day that #btc is the way, but it will never be the only way. never. and why would you want to put all your eggs in one basket? when has that ever been good advice?

#smij is bullish, but not just on bitcoin. don't limit yourself with narrow thinking.

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when did you realize that everything is all propaganda? and the "news" has always been about manipulation & control. #smij wonders.

it's about 15 years for me. that's a long time. I've spoken about it all this time. I hear others speaking about it. yet, here we are. those waking up now don't realize it's an uphill battle to red pill let alone orange or purple pill the masses. memes here on nostr are good, but we need more out there, on the socials they use. this is turning into a noisy echo chamber.

so, go! spread the #btc & #nostr love out there, we're good here. :)

#grownostr by getting them off the other socials to come here, but we can't be slapping them with it too much once they've here. just my 2 cents worth.