yeah, i think i will continue buying BitRefill gift cards with lightning. maybe eventually Walmart will just integrate lightning into the App.

they already have the lightning symbol front and center in their promotional materials

it looks like they don't charge a fee and maybe ~0.4% spread

i had to try out the Walmart OnePay app to see if Bitcoin was really in there.

It's there. they even gave me 5$ of bitcoin as a sign in bonus.

they only have Bitcoin and E***um which seems like a great start.

unfortunately it's just "Buy/Sell" and no "Send/Receive" --yet. i'm sure if they realize people want a lightning wallet too it will happen.

i finally start to have some sympathy for people with XDS or X Derangement syndrome. i think i had a mild case with the Charlie Derangement SYndrome or "who killed charlie kirk and why are they getting away with it and rubbing it in our faces".

it's a real syndrome and can lead to psychotic breaks, elevated heart rate, anger. so show some love to anyone who has had TDS or any other because what they are feeling is quite real.

so i've got to step away from watching Candace and all the slew of influencers getting money and clicks from breathlessly pursuing every angle.

i'm starting to think that the Game theory of social media monetization might actually solve the mystery.

but it won't matter once they solve it because the perps can get away with it anyway. they don't really need alibis.

why--> because they control the money printing of course

i'm going back to full-time offending family members and friends by arguing about bitcoin:

latest zinger in response to "what happens when the electricity goes out"

"i'm so glad that gas station keep teams of horses out back to pump up the gas when the electricity fails and we all forget how to turn it back on"

vermelho is a long way from red, rojo, rouge...

interesting

how does this make it CIA ware?

they did manage to collect all the influencial people like a rolodex with their well-trained & sophisticated slick marketing team.

makes me want to go to target!

after burners ignited!

it's probably like cleaning. it gets easier as you go to clean more rooms.

"it's too late to move to New York City, all the real estate's already been bought"

i recently discovered Bitrefill... i think it's only 0.5% spread which is best i've ever seen and no fee.

i get it that it feels weird buying giftcards-- however it works very well. in fact it's sometimes less problematic because the giftcard can be a printout or screenshot in case you don't have internet or sometimes Lightning wallets decide to freeze. --maybe it's just my old phone camera scanner doesn't like to work sometimes

and now i'm starting to think if Walmart/Amazaon etc starts realizing that Bitrefill is selling so many giftcards for bitcoiners, they might just do the same.

so maybe the giftcard route demonstrates demand that will drive merchants to just accept the bitcoin themselves...

plus giftcards can be bought with base layer bitcoin which is more fun to use than lightning.

hahaha you're funny. yeah, his realness just feels like a psyop. as long as he doesn't cast doubt on bitcoin and recommend buying gold he's on my approved list and we're safe.

YES Teho Von...

i never see anything from him but on rare occasions. but he's such a slick one --in a good way. must be a fed!

some people are just too-- je ne sais quoi-- he's one of them. renaissance man is what i used to call them

the weave... i know that reference from somewhere. yes, it's the humor that pulls me back in every time

i can't believe i'm waiting for the next installment of the Candace series drop like a new album.

and then she spends an hour and mentions how so many people seem like robots.

and i'm like a robot stuck in a matrix listening to her. but i know what she's talking about.

it could just be our new MO--like people recording people being victims of violence instead of helping.

so setting up a tent where he was actually killed for people to take selfies might just feel normal now.

but yeah, it struck me as weird. it also struck me as weird how TPUSA CEO mocks the idea of "Egyptian planes"... i don't know how anyone grieving over someone would mock someone else who is also grieving over the same someone.

it's just weird. and i'm watching like some weirdo.

it turns out that squashing GenZ dreams wasn't enough and now the boomers in the cable news coliseum need to have purportedly radicalized GenZ specimens frequently thrown to the lions.

i'll settle for smug next time...

no the problem is, i still like the crazy mr. T. and that will always eventually surface.

i can't live with any of them, but if i have to live with any of them, he's the only one i want.

i stepped inside my abode after work and immediately could tell something was amiss.

the table by the door was in disarray. the shoes were spread about on the floor. i felt that someone besides me had been there.

then, i heard a noise on the steps, and a nose stuck though the stair rail.

it was the farm dog! i must have opened the door to go out after lunch and he ran inside totally unknown to me.

he had helped himself to the trashcan while he was trapped. poor guy.

at least he wasn't bored--he was chilling eating trash and watching the mempool screen.

i'm so surpised that bitcoin is part of this venezuela story that i'm almost tempted to see what cable news is saying about venezuela and bitcoin.

Well, it would make for easier convos with friends.

"Vote for Kamala and keep your friends"

I didn't know that Yodl...

I'm the one who's slow always.

oh, you really voted for Kamala?

this makes me feel like i have a bargaining chip--jk i wouldn't bargain like that with anyone just seems fake. but why would God want your heart just because he can't have it?

He's also Satoshi 😁. Although I don't know who came up with "Don't trust, verify".

It's on blockstream jade boxes too

sounds like he just wanted to have a quiet family car ride...

i had problems with Start9 (connected via wifi) until i moved it right next to the router.

then i tried FreeGPT on the old Dell Optiplex, and it ground to a halt again, so i've deleted all but the basics (including Mempool).

i saw his PBD appearance... impressive young man, however i can't help but feel he's a useful idiot right now.

he has bad experiences with the violent "left" but that's not a logical reason to believe that Tyler Robinson killed Charlie Kirk.

from just seeing the headlines about him, is he like becoming a Charlie Kirk-esque figure?

i thought that's what metaplanet does

sounds like an adventure... are botcoiners AI investors?

I just had a look: XXI formerly CEP went from "paper bitcoin summer" high of 50 to now ~9.

that's a drop of 80%

his investors should consider themselves lucky.

Smarter Web Co TSWCF went from 9$ to 0.45

a drop of 94%

even the $MSTR with fully fledged strategy went down

66%

ASST: 94% down

Metaplanet: 77% down

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to me it looks like he saved his investors from a further 14-16% drop experienced by the other new companies.

awesome, i'm going to save your note for my next Grok prompt.

interesting observation about that "spur to action" bit-- it does seem to do that. it even had a "Start small" suggestion of trying a weekend get-together with friends.

so i invited a couple down from NYC. they have a toddler though so not up for traveling right now.

I read Cathie Wood's suggestion that she would start a business with ChatGPT if she had to do over, so i asked what business would Grok design for me:

Grok: Build and operate premium rural "homestead hubs"—beautiful, off-grid-ish properties (think modern farms/ranches with high-speed internet, solar/Bitcoin-mined energy).

So Grok thinks I should be a glamping hotelier.

the truth is, i love the suggestion. i like living in places where people come and go and bring new ideas/recipes/excitement.

i'm currently in such a rural place. however, there's nothing else out here besides furniture factories. Not sure how i would advertise that.

"Drive down the Blue Ridge parkway, exit before you fall over the divide into North Carolina."

"don't mind the farm dog, he only likes women."

"If you're a couple and not married, you'll get an extra complimentary room on the house"

"i'm sorry we are a tad bit Amish without all the romance novels"

"it's a bit of a dry household, but we have lots of lemonade made with well water"

project ideas:

ham radio tower --> can sats be sent out over this thing

mesh network --> the cows in the barn need wifi

potential water wheel in the creek?

can we use quartz rocks to make electricity?

treehouse?

summertime new river kayak/canoe adventure?

stargazing would be amazing here.

i can attest to this

Strangers in the bank

and then down to 84k after that somehow--i can believe the 444 part, but the 84 k part? unless market makers can just push the price around at will for 24 hours.

or what if they could shut off global internet for 24 hours so that the US market for bitcoin could drop to 84k without worrying that coins could migrate away from US...

not sure

funny cat

a bitcoiner friend was making hamburgers and she dropped one of scoops of fresh hamburger in the cat bowl.

"bitcoiner pets are the luckiest"

i was kinda shocked, as i thought all pet food came from the pet food aisle in the store.

so now i regularly drop fresh hamburger in the dog bowl if im dogsitting.

i'm on a cattle farm, so i'm hoping it doesn't give them a taste for fresh cow...that would be bad.

i dunno but i've always thought Marathons were sus. they are often sponsored by healthcare corps and it throws people who are usually in an office/home office and challenges them to run further than they probably should run. so they end up getting injuries or taking steroids to perform...

maybe i'm just lazy and dont' get it, but i've known too many people say "i'm going to do a marathon" and i don't think they are ready for it whatsoever.

ok, haha, so someone else has been hearing this pop stuff. you make me feel better.

i was just about to delete this in shame.

i just find it ironic a contender song of the year is called "Golden".

Oh I see the screenshot is of the last frame.Funny. I'll just assume he did.