Anyone find a reliable way to find square terminal merchants that haven’t yet flipped bitcoin on?
Nothing like an automated year-end usage recap to let you know big brother is watching and the YT algos have you dialed.
Irresponsibly long.
Focused on revenue.
Humble. Grateful. Patient.
Merry Christmas.
This De Peres bar that opened in 1879 and still serves a mean burger may have served your great great great great granddad.
Don’t forget to query how to protect the species you choose from deer. The deer were happy to make dinner of my uncle’s pine plantings one year.
The game theory winning ensures the war against Bitcoin will grow fierce.
And they will work to undermine the fortress walls that are the codebase; while they let fly their arrows at price through their paper markets.
If one thinks the war will be fought ethically, one must look to history. The same players sit around the table.
That’s how mine goes too. She can escape a life threatening situation at will by pulling away if the leash is caught, and to put it on for a walk I hold it and she dives in snoot first. 🤣
My dog knows the leash is like a seat belt. There’s no emotional effect on her at all. Even less than this dog. Her release after I unclip her to get some crazy running done is a bit of verbal and a hand pat. She loves it.
Alright libertarians and anarchists. Is the freedom of this dog not important? Can we enslave animals while demanding that government not enslave us? Is the world really just about power? 😭🤣😂
https://video.nostr.build/2139fff2a247608373da23069c19e1af565202cef5f45cf707cec4ec47149880.mp4
Dog was freed from the leash.
The human was still the center of its world.
Restaurants can suck. They grill the steak, but the cow picks the ingredients. I have trouble trusting restaurants to pick good ingredients.
Spent 20 years loving a simple cappuccino. Also spent the last 10 years slurping coffee from a Keurig when at home. No longer. Keurig broke. Espresso machine arrived today. First capp at home from a local roaster. Perfection.
Looking forward to the Passport Prime and SDK shipping from nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j
I thought we wanted stable prices so it could be a currency. Go buy stuff. The price is even keel on a breezy day! 🤓
Speaking specifically about the US landlord/investor portfolio equity migration, these are people with low time preference by default. They are not inclined to jump from one lifeboat to another until the other is proven and necessary, or the diversification is warranted; and even then it’s not a leap but a gradual calculated migration of equity. Many of these people won’t risk a migration at all, and will die first, leaving the portfolio to the children to rebalance. My perspective tells me that it takes five to ten years for the migration to really start, and I suspect it takes around 8 to 12 years for there to be a momentum that sizably impacts the real estate market, and 20 to 25 years for it to find a new equilibrium between the asset classes. There are markets that will get impacted more quickly than real estate. It’s just slower than we think.
But for US individuals as homeowners, if you want to buy for you to live in it, and you just can’t yet swing it, just stack sats, focus on earnings and spend way less than you earn while increasing earning and stacking sats. Patience and sats will cure a great deal with time.
Those wanting to buy a home, if this scenario plays out, would need to have patience and Bitcoin.
Met nostr:nprofile1qqsw2feday2t6vqh2hzrnwywd9v6g0yayejgx8cf83g7n3ue594pqtcpzemhxue69uhkgctkd9jzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6qg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsrwlzv5 at Bitcoin Park today. Can’t wait to be able to attest in Primal that I met an npub in person that is human. #WoT and Nostr can be helpful when adopted and well structured.
Is it because it’s someone else’s secret?
My own focus is helping people get more bitcoin. Helping people not lose their bitcoin. And helping people migrate equity from real estate to bitcoin. Which in turn is going to help people that don’t own a house end up owning a house. If I’m not doing those things I’m enjoying my family, and there’s been a hell of a lot of work to do this year, so I have seen my family marginally less than last year.
Everyone’s focus and nearby opportunities are different though. What are your immediate and peripheral opportunities? Is there revenue you’ve already seen where that value proposition could be replicated?
When you’re throwing hooks in a pond, you know how big of a fish you can catch, and even though it’s quick and easy, it doesn’t scale. When you cast your line in the ocean, the lessons of the great fishermen are now able to be applied but it’s new and hard.
Somewhere you have a unique value proposition for those around you, your community, your city, your state, your country, the digital globe. Is there revenue if you leaned into it? Where does what you enjoy doing overlap with what someone else doesn’t, but needs to do for their financial well-being, but they don’t want to, don’t have time to, or don’t know how to.
Show the answers to these questions and further exploration into Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok. Weigh their answers against one another, combine the good parts of their answers, make them do the work for you and refine to a todo list, then ask them how they can help you accomplish whatever it is they pressed toward. Make them think hard, make them get creative. Make them do their research and not just BS you. Make them explore the edge case.
Odds are they’re not going to give you the answer. Odds are they’re little retarded minions that you can use to explore for the answer yourself, but they can cover more ground than you. They can do more research than you. They can cite more results than you. They can gather more data than you. They can explore what tools may work best.
They are not the answer. But they can add to the momentum once you use them as soundboards to arrive at the answer for your situation and goals. You’re still the strategic source, but they can be a heck of a vibrant team of executive assistants.
You got the long answer because I brain dumped while walking the dog. Enjoy! Hope it sparks an idea!
Delivering a fresh batch of books to the local meetup organizers. This book is perfect for those who prefer reading and are starting at zero on their learning path. If you host a meetup hit me up and I’ll get you a batch at my cost. Just under $5 ea if you take my shipment straight from the publisher. Recommend keeping 5 or 10 handy for those noob-pulp-readers that are eager to learn, but can be intimidated by the tech.
Was nice to meet PlebSource at #MiningDisrupt. Snagged this bad boy from them. Also good to see the nostr:nprofile1qqstrcgctzz2d52thl8r3xwt205pswkauep0yexsla83w3fhrcrpxnqprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5xp62jx booth there. Missed nostr:nprofile1qqs03eyq7ja4xlavcx7m6qs0dhh6zdht650s27u4ldq9p039yncucycpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumnsw43zucnpwgksazxd though. Solo Lotto Collection thanks all of these reliable Bitaxe shops.
I’ll let you know how my first conv with a local owner that uses Square PoS goes:
The cornerstone of the communities that make healthy nations.
Don’t interfere, Purple. You never know who may be the karmic vessel.
Two angles here.
I can’t keep you from yapping. Right.
But you can’t force me to listen. I don’t have to have you in my living room.
Nevermind! Found a way!
Maybe kind of a roundabout way, but looks to be a list of active square terminal users:
GM.
Building today. Join in.
Happy to beat this into shape with you.
My default use case personas are:
Individual Pleb (Most of us)
Famous Individual (Personal Brand)
Brands (Corps with Agencies)
Fully Anons (/dev/null)
Love it. Ping me when brainstorming the functionally against real world use cases if it would be helpful. That’s my forte.
Here’s a longer dump of the ideas bundled…
They’re completely from a UX perspective so forgive any lack of technical understanding of key gen and key derivation limitations at drafting. Would love to see this concept make it to a client. I did a writeup of UX as perceived in a client. Will see if I can find that and link it too.
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Eleven years ago when you could buy a whole bitcoin for around $600, someone made a video of a purchase using a no-KYC ATM.
At the end of the clip, he shows the public key. I scanned it, and there’s $200,000 just sitting on this fucking paper wallet that hasn't been touched since 2019. 🤯
https://mempool.space/address/1LEPcEdueWT5UYEH2nHY4dn5jfVkNDMS3b
That is Mike Maloney. Gold bug that became also a Bitcoiner. He’s a Hodler. Wrote The book on investing in gold and silver and owns GoldSilver.com. He didn’t lose his keys. Unless it was in a “boating accident” on the way to his farmstead in Puerto Rico.
I like the naming conventions you landed on. Clean and to the technical point. 🤙
GM
May your efforts pierce the haze today.
I found another RoninMiner by nostr:nprofile1qqsfnd2dtl5qsh33xwkw0rz3g5gsgtllcyvseuf24fxnh9z33ywq28qpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuum5dahx2u3wvdhk6qguwaehxw309aexzem094hx7um5wghxgatrddjxuuewdaexwnfxrp3 in the wild at nostr:nprofile1qqs9mus73mq3ug08kug2cltvj3p8gpawd85n5l70p59rach6cn7usjcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99ut56e3e in Nashville. Do you think that waste heat is feeding that commercial espresso machine somehow?
Probably. Yeah, probably.
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Nostr and its ilk among freedom tech are an imperative. Math, science, politics, society constructs, religious discourse; the undercurrent of all humanity is free and open communication, unfettered by power constraints from the shadows. Prop this protocol up and fix your life then fix the world. Prop up all freedom enabling tech. It’s ours to build and we have everything to lose.
“Where does the yield come from?”
Many need to hear this. Hunt down this talk when released by nostr:npub1theparkprcs70dcs437ke9zzwsr6u60f8flu7rg28m30438aep9sd94dha . 🧐
My take: Shenanigans that always come with early IPO and major mergers. Early money exits in whole or part, new money enters on fomo and headlines, smart money v dumb money, then shake out the weak and revalue to market balance, etc.
There are a lot of builders at this point. Can you cover the rest, nostr:nprofile1qqswswmx4rkj6d7q05dtafhpkqq2z42fc62s37jvtp642m2jkpfxc2cpzamhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdue0c2e6 ?
This outburst came as a result of an in-depth discussion with a friend about what fixes this and that and how Bitcoin may be co-opted and used for bad. Fiat has made people inherently shortsighted and pessimistic. That healing will take time.
Lao Tsu, Seneca and Bitcoin are philosophers of the ages that fix humanity one mind at a time.
As you’ve seen, I’ve been diving into Will Durant’s Story Of Civilization, book 3, Caesar and Christ, and the serene clarity of the Tao Te Ching’s 16th chapter echos the wisdom of Seneca. Both point to a powerful truth: when you grasp the root cause of things, whether it’s the nature of life or the rath of the lunch lady, peace flows in and decisions become clear.
Now, in that truth lies “fix the money, fix the world.” Knowing the tendency for truth to well up like I geyser once truth Pierce’s the veil of lies, Bitcoin with its unshakeable foundation of decentralized, sound money, cuts through the chaos of fiat systems. So you wonder why Nostr is more peaceful, and less of a host to ideas that retard corrections being made? Nostr is full of those who understand Bitcoin. There’s an overlap here.
Much like Seneca’s rational clarity or Lao Tzu’s return to the root of the many things that come at us, by fixing the root of our economic system, Bitcoin offers a path to stability that frees us from the theft of our time, and thus our optimism and hope, thereby letting us focus on what truly matters; we get to focus on our families, our communities, the giving of our talents, and the righting of the course of our nation. This Stoic and Taoist peace through foundational clarity is fortitude.
So, Bitcoin is the strength to stand firm in your values, to act with purpose, and to build a life of meaning, no matter what the world throws at you. Here’s to finding the source, fixing the root, and living with unshakable resolve.
Good cousins are good to have! Can’t wait for the Events he is putting on there in Sept. Would also enjoy recommendations to any Nashville must-meet folks for while I’m there for the week in mid-sept. Categories to effect are: Custody for family offices and Succession planning, Power Generation, Local grid management, plus Nostr Dev and Bitcoin Edu. Point the way if you think of anything.
I follow nostr:nprofile1qqsqqx9hacelkffcgd3ecchzjtlvwq9xn2fmprhrwnzmm2t3exee2eqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsz8nhwden5te0dehhxarj94c82c3wwajkcmr0wfjx2u3wdejhgtclzqvdd just in case he finds the door.
The problem with democracy is that he who controls the media message to the less intelligent controls the government merely through a “get out and vote” campaign. It’s what leads to ochlocracy, or mob rule, where passion and emotion override reason, demagogues manipulate public sentiment, and instability ensues.
This is what living on the bleeding edge of change looks like, folks. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
And by dead you mean, dead in the eyes of the free, I presume. Any of these that play ball with state requirements of access and censorship get to ‘survive’.