Bitcoin is money, everything else is an unregistered security

How I sound when someone asks me about the Bitcoin Bull Market:

please explain this

When I first put out my "Bitcoin accepted here" sign I never expected anyone to actually pay with it.

Dan Held was someone who I listened to a lot early on in my Bitcoin journey and he randomly popped up at a farmers market to become the second person to ever buy my wine with Bitcoin.

It's become clear that he's no longer really fully on board with this mission we're on, but I'll always appreciate him for helping me get started on my journey.

Kill your Heros.

Use NOSTR. 🍷💜

Are there still places with vibes anymore? Or did the internet kind of kill it?

I feel like digital spaces have vibes. Nostr has a vibe for sure, but everywhere I go (in America at least) feels flat, steril and homogenous now.

People like to pretend otherwise, romanticizing local charm and it’s fun to do so, but in reality there is no meaningful difference between New York, LA, Chicago, Austin, Miami etc…

The differences feel increasingly superficial. Miami with its neon pink and bad Latin art. New York with its identical minimalist cafes selling identical oat lattes. These aren’t cities anymore, they’re brands. “Keep Austin Weird” feels less like the rallying cry of a bohemian collective and more like a safe corporate brand slogan.

It wasn’t always like this. Cities used to incubate true subcultures that couldn’t thrive anywhere else. Seattle once had grunge music emerging organically from local clubs, distinct in sound and attitude. Detroit was a birthplace for techno and industrial grit that couldn’t have been manufactured. New Orleans had jazz clubs and vibrant local traditions that permeated every street corner authentically. Before the internet collapsed distances, you could sense deep authenticity upon arriving somewhere new. The vibe wasn’t something designed by marketing departments; it was organically woven into the streets, the people, the music, and local myths.

Now, vibes feel engineered and commoditized, reduced to Instagrammable moments and easily replicable aesthetics. I once watched from the balcony of my hotel in Nashville as 200 women waited in line to take the same stupid picture with the same stupid set of angel wings.

Digital spaces, ironically, have become refuges of uniqueness, fostering communities unburdened by geographical homogenization. Platforms like nostr host unique niche communities, from hyper-specific gaming bitcoin cultural milieu to obscure philosophical discussions, that retain genuinely distinctive vibes.

Perhaps we’re now entering a strange inversion, where real-world spaces chase digital popularity, adopting blandness to maximize broad appeal.

In this inversion, digital worlds might become the primary spaces where unique vibes survive, thrive, and multiply—leaving our physical world as little more than a flattened reflection of what used to be.

Nostr is where the vibes are at.

A terrible thought just occurred to me: what if Europe united against Nazi Germany, not because it was evil but because it was going to be first to install what you’re seeing here?

Seems to me Europe has always had a penchant for this type of behavior but they just couldn’t bear to watch Germany do the deed.

Nothing is as it seems for nothing we’ve been told is true. nostr:note1zudfwdf4ys0jd7m8tljky7ck2v2806ers87nlwq08wclclgjkccsnc36lf

One of those "Remember where you were" moments for Bitcoiners of a certain vintage 🤣

Your biggest meal of the day should be just after the sun has risen.

If you're gonna implement intermittent #fasting - skip dinner, not breakfast.

#Peatstr

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