Here's to abundance in spirit, health and joy for 2026 🥂

Now this is a cage match I'd love front row seats to. If this goes to trial and a jury hears arguments, I'd be very surprised if they were sympathetic to Live Nation.

The hubris from this company is appalling but right on brand. They see ticket buyers as moronic mouth breathers and after raking each and every one of them over the coals, extracting as much money as possible, the buyer then becomes a liability. One for which they now need to honor the agreement with.

Not on trial for this but...

Live Nation does more to kill live music than help it flourish.

If I sound bitter, it's because I am. This is all too reminiscent of my years playing professionally and being controlled by another monopolistic organization (management company) Sam Feldman and Associates. Feldman controlled almost every room (100s) across Western Canada. If you wanted to play, you played by their rules and that meant - NO ORIGINALS! Feldman put bands on the road with a budget liability of a small tour. 5-ton truck to haul a mini concert set up, PA, lights and backline. After paying the crew, the truck, gas etc, the bands were left with a few hundred dollars, from a $6000 a week gig. Meanwhile Sam Feldman and Associates took 15% off the top from every band booked into every room all the while killing original/independent music. Parasitic behavior like this and that of Live Nation needs to be wiped out.

The DOJ might be a start but it's also incumbent on us. We might need to make some tough choices and if that means not seeing a favorite act in protest of the abhorrent practices Live Nation enforces, then it at least signals a vote with our wallet. Instead of paying top dollar + service charges for a Live Nation show, take a friend to your local independent club. The price will wash. You aren't feeding the beast and you're supporting the true champions of live music and the players who earn their living through door receipts and merch.

This has been a steady trend for 2 generations now. Began with high school dances changing from a live band to a DJ.

The next attack was liquor tax. In many regions the "sin tax" added 20-25% to the cost of goods. This had to be passed on to the consumer. Bar managers noted the decline in nightly receipts and only so much would be acceptable by the patrons in cost escalation or they'd go elsewhere. This left few options for managers to cut costs. Entertainment was the victim. From rooms hosting bands for 6 straight nights to 3 nights over a weekend, eventually lead to duos and singles acts. Bands had trouble finding places to play. Few gigs, fewer clubs and much less exposure to live music.

Computers, Internet and Mp3s were the kill shot. Rather than buying a band's album in anticipation of an upcoming tour in your town or one close by, listeners "snacked" on music like hors d'oeuvres. Play a track then switch to something else. Often only playing a single heard on heavy rotation. The concept of a B-side was lost, as was the long play format.

If live music ever had a chance to come out of its coma, streaming took it off of life support.

As a result of the above; music became about the latest musical fad rather than discovery. The formula involved 13 weeks. Push a song performed by anyone that fit the suit, pump it then dump it. Song factories wrote the hit and everything started to sound similar, so it mattered not who performed the number. It became about how they looked or about something shocking to break through the overcrowded soundscape of millenial woop sound alikes.

Inevitably, music became a throw away. Rather than a vinyl album that is a part of an audiophile's treasured collection, music is now merely background to a Tik Tok influencer's 15 min of fame. The band that wrote the song (if it isn't in fact AI), gets no recognition. Their musical work is treated like the paper liner on an In-N-Out Burger tray.

Bands haven't been appreciated for what they do or how they impact our lives for more than 40 years now. Unless they are crammed down the throats of the pre-teen set (Taylor Swift) most will have no connection to the idea that music is performed live.

Independent venues are the last bastions of a culture that used to thrive, launch careers and break out talent on a nightly basis. Go to the club Monday, check out the band to see if they're happening, if so, you'd be back Friday and maybe Saturday too. You could stumble across an act that was touring in support of an album you'd never heard on local radio. After they blew the doors off the place, you were at the record store the very next day buying their album and then sharing it with friends who'd also go grab a copy.

We need to support independent clubs as an endangered keystone species. Otherwise their loss will cause a cascading effect across a system barely hanging on. If we let this element of the music world go extinct, it will never come back and the knock on effects will only be apparent when irreparable damage is done.

Projects on Nostr like nostr:nprofile1qqstn5pvhr7aavv3wq0vqeywxlk376hm5f37qps0cpsfnf3g28f9upqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skueqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejs9uu5e4 are doing something about this threatened extinction event. Using the Internet to launch independent artists and put a cushion beneath them until they are able to draw well at an independent club, not only works for the artist, it supports the club, it supports the eco-system.

Thanks, I'll check it out. I love this kind of stuff!

Just finished watching it.

I'm curious what the mud flows were.

Free energy has been possible for centuries or maybe longer.

The cycle we are in is a real doozy!

try an update, that usually corrects issues. Side load from GitHub if you can.

Releases · vitorpamplona/amethyst https://share.google/b8wcV15Qf6oGbixWe

FYI - always verify the source, ie, don't accept the link below on my recommendation, dyor and ensure it's the correct origin. ✌️

and thank you 🫂 for kind gesture ⚡

Playa Hermosa is spectacular. You can drive and park a few yards from the beach, walk through the mangrove and take it all in.

El Zonte is more walkable imo but Uvita's beaches are hard to beat.

Can't go wrong at either destination and being able to pay in Bitcoin makes both places stand out. 🔥

Uvita - Bitcoin Jungle.

Had this exact thought at 4:15pm

... while in near darkness.

Not my thing.

But with AI music topping the charts on Spotify, this is par for the course.

We lost 2 generations to live music, fine arts and theatre.

Hollywierd hijacked the brains of video kids. Centralized music formatted on millennial woops, so as auto-tuned tracks all sound the same, creative listening is lost. No one paints when LLMs fill canvases in seconds. Theatre, like Jazz and Blues is dead.

Silver lining - Nostr and Bitcoin will fuel a renaissance of sorts, where a human that can produce music acoustically (the guitar at a campfire) or sing in tune without a machine or put color from a brush on tactile media, will amaze and confound the masses as an alchemist was able to in the dark ages.

AI and robotics dazzle today but they are a mimic with no breath, no soul. The connection with human spirit will cut through the dystopia.

#Freedom from the simulation will be the prize for some but not for all.

My bet is on those who do the work and choose wisely for the win!

Thank you TEAM!

#Freedom - winning!

mine works, send and receive.

🔥 stuff!

Who do you trust?

That's not rhetorical.

Really, who do you trust...?

In Bitcoin:

In Politics:

In Spirituality:

In Education:

In Health and Wellness:

Legendary!

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powerful!

AI - mimics life but has no soul (connection with source - God). It is a mirror of ourselves, but like a reflection, it may look like us but it has no breath.

We are being fooled, cajoled by the spectacle.

This is the time to clear our karmic entanglements and create a pathway - bandwidth to the Source.

Use the machine don't let it use you.

This is fun. Our pulse wants to line up with the rhythm. Frame drums call out. Hear with your heart.

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Block vertically integrates - music wins.

I've had Tidal for years, it's everything Spotify is, but with artist support.

If AI slop on your Spotify playlist hasn't been enough motivation to switch, maybe this new feature will be.

Send Bitcoin to those that make your day. It's the "fiver" in the buskers guitar case. It's the extra % we give a serve who's made our meal special. Now it's possible to extend that to musicians at the speed of light.

Why wouldn't ya?

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Really cool!

Do you find there's any delay between guitar and amp/pa when connected via Bluetooth?

and very flat...

hahaha, the guy who saved the snake, offers his friends a touch.

I can vouch for that, saw it action.

This is a cool app and excellent use case for the protocol.

2 more hours of live presentations from Berlín, El Salvador. In a lunch break until 1pm CST. Not 1 sat has come from Government. These plebs have built a circular economy here with sweat and passion. No blinging photo ops with TV celebs, just the builders who are making a difference and unsung. Cuba, Columbia, Peru, Brazil and the host country SV all represented here for Economia Bitcoin 2025. Join us for the wrap.

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Sadly the 🇨🇦 peso is causing massive perceived hikes in food but it's not just knee jerk tarif responses, the purchasing power is impacted as the $CDN loses ground against $USD

But not all is doom and gloom in Canada land.

- Rush just announced they'll tour again #AnikaNilles 🥁

- Oilers signed McDavid to a 2-year extension 🏒

- Blue Jays lead NYY 2-0 ⚾

So there are breads a circuses for distraction, which the frost bitten masses will focus on rather than the broken money.

Canada needs #Bitcoin

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I love nostr:nprofile1qqsqqx9hacelkffcgd3ecchzjtlvwq9xn2fmprhrwnzmm2t3exee2eqpr9mhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet59uqsuamnwvaz7tmev9382tndv5hszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcslkr8d's posts because he doesn't give a fuck about an algorithm or getting "likes", he just puts it out there.

Some recoil in horror un-following him in a rage quit tantrum. Others want to comment but are afraid to (at least their paying attention). Then there are those that think he's off his fucking rocker and ignore anything he says - but defend his right to say it.

Thank you Ben! You're challenging the status quo, shaking things up and making each of us put our "big people pants on".

You go!

I've had a rat come by nightly and eat the drippings from my BBQ. There were little greasy rat foot prints leading from the grill to what I suspect was the post-eat hang, where the rodent, fed to satiety, reflected on his/her amazing rat life and the lack of UV damage to their skin, not to mention their good fortune to have found a carnivor human cooking for them. 🐀

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Jeff Booth just left Vancouver, BC relocating to Florida.

Harbinger?

Keeping it real... don't be an apologist for old skool vax either. Kids from the 60s and 70s were guinea pigs. Then heavily indoctrinated to believe and parrot that what was being injected into their veins was "good for them". There's a reason it's called medical pRaCtIcE

Shooting cow puss c/w thimerosal into the body is one of the most self inflicting harms imaginable. But it's SCIENCE Riiiiiiight?!

The body's immunology is a miracle. Give it what it needs, avoid what it doesn't. Thing is, we want it both ways. To stuff our faces with shit, drink alcohol, do drugs and bathe ourselves in blue light, then cheer for "modern medicine" to defrag our putridly inept immune system, while exclaiming, "it's not my fault, it's my genes"

It's all about FREEDOM of choice, which comes at a price. Like Bitcoin, we get health at the price we deserve. Pay now or pay much higher later.

Drink booze, eat seed oils, smoke, play video games - but accept the consequences like an adult. Own it... just don't give your power over to the Pharma-witch-doctor to fix the 𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑠 of your shitty choices.

... and that's exactly what it was meant to envoke. As the system collapses, things are going to get crazier.

Pulling us from the energy of love toward hatred, fear and desperation. Now more than ever, we need to stay together not pull apart.

What a horrific few days. I pray for us.

Noice!

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The chart only goes parabolic in the mid 90s... I blame "Grunge"

Now do gay frogs.

For me, it's individuals longing for attention. Piercings went to an extreme. When an individual no longer stood out in the pierced crowd, body mods began.

Tattoos went from body parts to the face untill that was no longer extreme enough to stand out. The trend to change gender is no different. Stand out from the crowd by changing your sex but as with all trends, they run their course. Piercings can kind of heal over. Tattoos are a more permanent reminder of one's choices but artificially altering hormones, puberty blockers and adding or removing body parts, "that's gonna leave a mark". Mostly in a cry for acceptance and belonging.

In my opinion this is a result of programming. Media, schools, socials...

Stupid impetuous humans.

While we're on the subject... did the drones get it right? I always thought it was infinity over 21. Got me thinking, is 21m Bitcoin divided by infinity fiat or should it be infinite fiat divided by 21m Bitcoin? Using the parlance 21 goes into infinity or vice versa

#asknostr

Not a chem-trail

There is a difference.

hmmm relay conflict?

Just responded to DM test

#Nostrbuild - upload question nostr:nprofile1qqsglv2qkn5dmmuhee9cy8fywfu2rfp4xd3xy0myqg2gfvmjl9yqqrqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46qye8cpd sent you a DM re subscription and possible upgrades to that... hope to see a reply 🙏

I was considering becoming a mind reader...

What are your thoughts?

That would be me

Nice likeness, similar to my courtroom deposition 😋

Some insightful observations in this post. - Meet people/merchants where they are.

- Keep money circulating in our town

- Boost community pride

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export US debt.

Why wouldn't ya?

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Gold at best is Bitcoin insurance. We hope we'll never need to use it but have some anyway.

I relate to nostr:nprofile1qqsx8zd7vjg70d5na8ek3m8g3lx3ghc8cp5d9sdm4epy0wd4aape6vspz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqzymhwden5te0v9kxwmeww468smewdahx25ymrr2 with CLI, I'm intimidated. But I was able to use AI and build out yt-dlp. I was amazed that it worked. Just create a folder for the project follow the AI commands and Bob's your uncle.

great observations and summary!

Closed out a Bitcoin Rodeo standing on the shoulders of giants. I was honored to be invited to Emcee the 2 days.

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Nico Moran nostr:nprofile1qqsxpfwtq34xpnqy9djsg7jjayq3rrst95r4xflje0nqlwjjwhfhrycpzpmhxue69uhkumewwd68ytnrwghszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhse6ztph, nostr:nprofile1qqs9a486n5w72dsn72tyentdrj08ppqk2yyq707qdmlm347lkl6jmpgpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0cs64rc, #EricCason, #RogerHuang, #SteveBarbour, nostr:nprofile1qqstnn4wadqh3f2fazc9wre53vk25jl03yeluver630rsawqryv69ssppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy0hwumn8ghj7cn0wd68ytnvd9nksarwd9hxwumsdaex2tnrdakj7fvwlvy and so many more that add colour intellect and passion to drive this event into it's current iteration.

Thank you Dave, Amanda (Co-organizers) and the pallet of nostr:nprofile1qqsfkmv4ka4qzxg6f3mcrptgrmtl808d9ll63eq4zmk8sfqtyyegtagvsyudd for making this space for all Bitcoiners.

#BitcoinRodeo 2025 🧡