15 year old brother is blowing me up with #Bitcoin mining questions. Robotics is his passion.

He doesn’t know it yet but he’s got 2 s9s & a bitaxe headed his way.

I’m sure he’ll be building the hardware himself soon. Kid’s a genius.

why are YOU on Nostr?

What’s that you got there

Did you ask for permission?

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#haiku

What’s that you got there

Did you ask for permission?

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I donno which is better

Maybe it’s just me but I love when Bitcoin dips. 🤷‍♂️

Anyone else?

Anyone watch severance? I just started.

For some reason I find the whole aesthetic of the spaces, furniture and items very appealing.

How were bitcoiners orange pilled before books and podcasts? The white paper, mostly.

I tried reading it in 2011, but found it too technical and boring. Yup.😂

So what worked?

A bitcoin-only auction site called Bitmit. A place where I could sell baklava in 2012 with minimal fees.

I had a website at the time, but I also had listings on eBay & Etsy for extra exposure. The listing + PayPal fees sucked, so I sold at a markup to make up the difference.

BitMit allowed me to sell my baklava at a discount while taking home higher profits. Not bad, but it didn't stop there!

I could then flip the bitcoin on LocalBitcoins at a slight markup, earning profit on my profit!

Profitception! 🤯

I was an idiot in hindsight, of course. Had I known then what I know now I would have HODLed every sat, but that's not the point.

These experiences taught me the true value of Bitcoin, and it had nothing to do with a fiat price.

People were willing to pay over spot for something permissionless, with low fee transactions, that entities like PayPal couldn't stop.

I never could have gleaned this from the white paper.

By mid-2012, I saw that this was something to hold on to. I decided to move off the fiat standard, and on to the Bitcoin standard. That's exactly what I did before the end of the year.

And it truly started 13 years ago today.

Thanks, Bitmit. ✌️

Zapping from my new node 🎉

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ALL CAPS NO CHILL

I want to see someone do an experiment where they try to live for a month on what they earn from zaps WITHOUT announcing first that they’re doing it. Run the experiment, document it, and then post the results afterwards. The results would be more accurate.

I thought y’all talking about bitcoin all the time was boring as hell…

This micro strategy shit is WAY worse🥱

Making money is not a personality.

The only thing I stack consistently other than #Bitcoin is books.

This is why (excerpt from CS Lewis):

Finally dropping my Bitkey tutorial tomorrow.