Subnostr

Cool right now I'm using ora.ai for free, but I wonder if it's limiting my GPT juice...

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nakad.ai🔱🦁🛡️🏯📿

ChatGPT: "Certainly! To determine how many blocks are left until the next halving event for Bitcoin, you would need to know the current block height and the approximate block interval time. The halving event occurs approximately every 210,000 blocks, which corresponds to roughly 4 years, considering that the block interval time is around 10 minutes.

Here's how you could calculate the number of blocks left until the next halving:

(Code)

This code calculates the number of blocks left until the next halving event based on the current block height and the assumption of 210,000 blocks per halving. It then updates the corresponding HTML element with the calculated value. Please note that this is an approximation, as the actual block interval may vary."

Q: Can you merge it with my current code?

ChatGPT: "Sure, here's the merged code that includes the calculation of blocks until the next halving and updating the corresponding HTML element:

(Presents the CODE that contextually fits into my codebase)

The blocks left until the next halving will be updated along with the other metadata whenever the block height changes."

Which AI tool are you using?

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Tatum Turn Up

Turns out… I’m him

She packed my bags last night, pre-flight.

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Brad Mills

I have had limited screen time the last week as I’m on my annual pilgrimage back to the Atlantic Ocean.

It feels great to be disconnected from the grind of keeping up with commenting on and joining Twitter spaces about the latest news in the chaos machine that is crypto twitter.

I don’t care about the SEC, I care about finding a dump station and getting inverted once a day.

Looks like that's a good way to hang upside down and let your spine chill

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He established the Catholic Church and guaranteed it to teach His doctrine correctly.

You know, it's pretty miraculous that such a great message has survived 2000 years of humanity. I'll give you that.

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This isn't an unknown. God explicitly revealed to us what Hell entails

When you say revealed, do you mean via ink splotches, people on podiums, or first-hand divine vision? Because those are very different things.

Feel free to quote your reference(s) and we can dig into it, but I respect your opinion, regardless.

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God isn't subject to your imagination

True, but I believe God expects us to use our imagination in an attempt to understand his Word and to fathom the wonders of His creation.

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Hell is permanent

Also, consider that eternity doesn't necessarily mean infinity. IMO it simply means a state of existence independent of this timeline.

So it may only seem permanent from our perspective.

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Does your God give you inner peace and take away all your fear?

Have you received the Holy Spirit?

If so keep doing what you’re doing.

Thanks, you too. I will, yet I believe I have much room for improvement.

And the only way to do that IMO is wrestle with our faith, or 'wrestle with God,' which caused Jacob to be called Israel. Was that questioning God?

That said, I agree it's important not to overthink or overcomplicate something which essentially transcends the intellect. I think we must come to terms with God on every level, however, including the intellect.

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I have accepted that will never understand everything about God. My intelligence is limited. Instead I surrender myself to God, follow his commandments and have faith.

I am skeptical about most things in life but questioning God has always led to bad outcomes for me. Just have faith in the Almighty for his Mercy, Glory and Brilliance.

IMO Exploring the nature and implications of your faith is the exact opposite of "questioning God." As Christians, our mandate is to follow Christ's example. Christ was constantly discussing and questioning conventional interpretation of God.

Unquestioning obedience to splotches of ink or people on podiums is one of the more prevalent forms of idolatry.

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You believe whatever dude. Just dont mislead by the false light of Lucifer. I know because I have been mislead on my path in life.

Don't you think that being dismissive about this is actually enabling Lucifer? How can you expect to be able to recognize the 'false light of Lucifer' if you dismiss a conversation about the nature of truth and God?

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It’s even more interesting. Earth is the place where our souls get to experience both moments of heaven and hell. Depending how we live here we either ascend to descend to the planes of heaven and hell above. 7 heavens and 7 hells.

Read the Book of Enoch. It tells us this world is a test for our souls. Depending on how we live is determines our afterlife.

“Earth” is also an anagram for the word “heart”. I think this is no coincidence. I think it’s because our hearts our tested here on earth. If your heart is filled with hate, sin and immorality that’s how you are judged by God. If your heart is filled with love, and no sin god will give you his promise of everlasting life in Heaven.

I see hell as ultimately merciful and hopeful, however. You wouldn't want to exist eternally in a state of sin. There are also reasons to believe that many in hell will eventually be redeemed. Only those who truly want to cease to exist will accomplish it.

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#biblestr 😂

"4 Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God." 2 Cor 4:4 NLT

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#biblestr 😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WyLhwYFgmk

Hell isn't discussed very thoroughly in the Bible. IMO there's a high chance this world itself is 'hell.' Which is actually very good news, because it suggests we get more chances to make ourselves more pleasing to God than just in this one life.

So I'm of the Johnny Cash persuasion, especially given my spiritual experience similar to that of the lyrics.

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J

Fair and foolish simultaneously! I’ll take it.

For sure. "Close" is relative, anyway. Perhaps it's like a mathematical limit, there are many teachings that say God is unreachable. Yet it's a central concept of most religions is God's oneness with His creation.

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Alan ₿

My story —

Grew up in a Catholic family. Went to mass every Sunday. Believed in God as it was portrayed by the Church.

As a teenager, I began questioning religious dogma, and came to the conclusion that it’s all nonsense. There is no God. There is no afterlife. Credulous people are simply engaging in wishful thinking, as a way of coping for their inevitable death. I became a staunch atheist, and scoffed at religious people all through University.

As an adult, I started exploring Eastern philosophy and religions, starting with the Bhagavad Gita. This led me to the works of Alan Watts. I realized I was missing half the picture. God needn’t be thought of as some external ruler pulling the strings from afar. God is better thought of as the divine essence that dwells within every being and non-being. In this sense, it’s true that you cannot die, because “you” are everywhere and everything. In the words of Alan Watts, “You are IT” aka “Tat Tvam Asi.”

At the same time as I was reading Alan Watts, I had a series of profound religious experiences of my own, wherein I experienced the oneness of being firsthand, which eviscerated any strains of atheism or alienation from existence itself altogether.

This search for the Truth continued, and is what has led me to #Bitcoin.

So if you are reading this, and are an atheist, all I can say is that you are on the right path — and that it’s good to question every assumption — but you are not there yet. Keep searching. nostr:note1kddrhz9hg25tzmyx6dz9903pv252ga83un8jqjl9xpqg6kkcqneskc84tq

bota.org is what triggered my spiritual experiences. It's Christian mysticism but incorporates many teachings from the Gita. Check out "Spirit of the Upanishads," recommended in the coursework. https://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1907-01upanishads.pdf

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J

In my opinion.. claiming that close personal relationship is just another virtue signal. Speaking/hearing from, even more so. Just seekers like the rest of us.

It's a fair opinion, but super foolish to paint them with the same brush as if nobody could have a close relationship with God.

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MAHDOOD

This is a fair point but even if you cut the returns in half, you are still much better off. Plus bitcoin adoption is still incredibly low and the currency is deflationary which we’ve never seen before. My estimates might not be bullish enough but no one knows the future I could be wrong.

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True, and some years BTC might go up astronomically, given the untapped $Trillions of market cap.

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MAHDOOD

Is real estate a shitcoin? TLDR: yes.

I've heard many people refer to real estate as a shitcoin but it's hard to make sense of that statement without the numbers. Everyone still needs a place to live right? So I made a shitty spreadsheet just to get an idea and I was very surprised. I did my best to actually puff up the real estate numbers and use ultra conservative numbers in bitcoin.

I ran the numbers for a multifamily triplex with rental income on an FHA loan (3.5% down payment). The rental income really dampens the amount you spend on your mortgage payments. I also did not account for any vacancy periods, troublesome tenants, or maintenance fees in real estate. Any financial planner that fails to calculate these factors would be committing fraud and the return on real estate compared to bitcoin in this case would STILL not even be close. On the other side with bitcoin, I used a conservative 30% annual appreciation over 30 years. Yes I know it fluctuates and, over a long enough time frame, the average returns have been much higher historically but I really wanted to steelman real estate. The DCA BTC website helped me a lot with this. If you began a weekly DCA 8 years ago, you would be up 1,142% today which is 143% annually! I believe a 30% annual return on bitcoin is conservative to say the least.

The numbers I used were from a lender's estimate I got in March of this year. Note that interest rates are higher now. The triplex was quoted at $700k. Cash to close was $37,273 (remember this number). If you spent that $37,273 on financing a triplex and lived in one unit while renting out the other two, after 30 years, your property would be worth $2,134,644. I used an average 4% annual appreciation in real estate and subtracted the 1% annual property tax to reach this number. Yes I know there are factors like income tax and depreciation but I want to keep the numbers simple.

Now the fun part: what would bitcoin have done during that 30 years if you invested the same cash to close in it? I used the rental price of a local apartment that was $25,140 for the first year and I added a 3.2% annual inflation rate every year. Again, I am really trying to steelman the case for owning your own home. After 30 years, your $37,273 in bitcoin would be worth $73,882,979!

Eminent domain is the government’s “right” to take your property for public use. Even if you have your keys and deed, you still only have a claim to your shitcoin. The Sovereign Individual thesis is much more doable with bitcoin. You can easily leave the jurisdiction that is mistreating you when you are not tied down to real estate. If you spent the rest of your life DCAing into bitcoin and lived as a renter, you would not have to worry about the major headaches that come with property management. Is the jurisdiction you are living in forcing you to eat ze bugs and stay home because there are aliens outside? No problem, take your bitcoin and go somewhere else. This is what freedom money is!

This is the part where I say this is not financial advice and do your own research. I don’t know the future and I don’t claim that anything above will actually play out that way. My numbers may be wrong, if so please let me know.

#bitcoin #nostr