I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you personally for your support over the years. I'd like to clarify a few points, but I want you to know that I'm still here.

⚡️💬 GRATITUDE - I've kept my word. It is with great pride that I announce that I have reached the 10,000 mark, just as I promised.

This message is going to be long. Some passages may not please you. All I ask is a little indulgence. These are the words of a mentally exhausted man, who has given about 1,500 hours of his life to this project.

I didn't make fun of you. Neither in form nor in content. I've put everything I know into Flash. I count less than a dozen errors out of 10,000 publications, giving us a reliability rate of 99.91%. This is the fruit of invisible work: hours of searching, checking and cross-referencing sources. It's all about making sure that every note is readable, verified and well presented, in line with my self-imposed DA: always an image or video, never text alone. Otherwise it's too simple...

I worked like a craftsman, a pioneer, often at a loss, but with a vision. I even sent out publications while driving, without ever stopping.

And that's the price of the avant-garde: the first build the roads that others will follow... sometimes for much better pay. And I sincerely wish them every success.

At some point when I humbly estimated that I had become the number 1 hybrid media in the entire Nostr protocol, I put my Bitcoin address in bio, frantically opening my wallet 20 times a day, hoping for... a large donation, from a mysterious stranger who would have recognized the value of my work. But... nothing.

I'll let you in on the other side of the iceberg: I've gone through major periods of self-doubt, fatigue and, at times, depression. Covering the news isn't easy. Seeing suffering, war and misery. And to make the choice, every day, to spare you the worst. To censor myself, so as not to offend you too much.

Why didn't I crack? Because in addition to the intimidation, harassment and threats, I received a lot of support and encouragement. And from time to time, anonymous donors gave me a few donations that enabled me to see something other than the negative side of the situation. To them, a big thank you, because without it, I don't think I would have lasted.

I created Flash on December 26, 2024, 0 subscribers and -73500 sats on my wallet to pay Primal OG to get a name back. As I've already said, I hesitated between ALERT, BREAKING or FLASH. I chose Flash for its echo of lightning and the spirit of the network.

Today, June 26, 2025, 6 months later, I have around 8,200 subscribers and almost 2 million sats in my wallet, but let's take a closer look at my POW ⤵︎

➤ Key figures:

• 10,000 notes

• 182 days active

• 1,921,817 sats

• 8 hours of work per day

• 6,789 replies

Breakdown:

• 10,000 ÷ 182 = ~54.9 notes per day

• 55 ÷ 24 = ~2.3 notes per hour

• 182 × 8 = 1,456 total hours of work

• 1,921,817 ÷ 182 = ~10,560 sats per day

• 10,560 ÷ 8 = 1,320 sats per hour of work

→ That’s approximately $0.14 per hour.

I'd like to thank a woman who contributed enormously to this result, without her I might not even have reached the million satoshi mark in 6 months of hard work. I'd like to thank you in particular, even though I know you want to be discreet, you deserve my public thanks!

90% of my activity was done on nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzynhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43q9w4ut3, a solid app. I also used nostr:nprofile1qqsraldwhvwcjgltmxwfu7kw8dqef2692yhzheuurd7k3kfy8cxjdqgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3jamnwvaz7tms09exzmtfvshxv6tpw34xze3wvdhk6q60hrm for notifications, and tested nostr:nprofile1qqsfhc97plq8j4yzxv33v98yu8hunu5tpkeesqg7lmk0qhl9wrja6vcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshe39pt, nostr:nprofile1qqszpxr0hql8whvk6xyv5hya7yxwd4snur4hu4mg5rctz2ehekkzrvcpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vpj9eukz6mfdphkumn99e3k7mgpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vp39eukz6mfdphkumn99e3k7mgfu86qj and nostr:nprofile1qqsgajr2e8ssj7vesefqdrhxkqpz8w8ryed2hvl79rakkwmw999de9sppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyw8wumn8ghj76r0v3kxymmy9e3k7unpvdkx2tn5dahkcue07ws9cg. Thanks to all these customers.

My opinion of the protocol: Nostr is the best social network of my life. It has made me lose all interest in X, Instagram or Facebook. Nostr is a drug.

I've enjoyed reading your posts. Some of them blew me away with their intelligence.

What drew me here? The resistance to censorship. I'm not a technician, NIPs, relays, I only half get it. But that word: censorship, that was my way in.

And yet... I'm a little disappointed. I thought I'd be reading things you'd never read anywhere else. In the end? A lot of slick content. I expected more boldness, more unfiltered opinions — instead, I often found cautious, curated content. A far cry from the courage of Satoshi Nakamoto. But it takes all kinds to make a world.

At first I'd cover tech, bitcoin and current affairs in the broadest sense, but as I refined my sources I'd have to pretend to ignore a major current event like the situation in Gaza? I couldn't do it. Then came the situation between Iran and Israel, and each time I decided to cover the events, because that's my role and my responsibility now that I cover the news.

There's nothing to stop me covering a volcano eruption in Peru, a flood in France, a blackout in Spain, bitcoin conferences, discussions on AI and wars in the Middle East. I've shown that I can do just that, centralizing all the world's news on a single account and on Nostr.

Over time, I began to be a divisive figure. Some people love me, others hate me. This is no doubt the price not of glory, but of a job done with integrity, and I accept it.

I hope I've delighted you. I hope I've left a mark, and that when you hear "Flash", you'll think of me.

I’m just a simple guy, with no sponsors or partnerships, who likes to try new things in life. I’m a sensitive person, and if at any point I lacked tact or delicacy toward you, I sincerely apologize.

But one thing is certain: from now on, Nostr will no longer be my priority. I left a lot of energy and time. The most important currency isn't bitcoin: it's time, supply is limited and it's impossible to buy back lost time.

I feel like that miner with a pickaxe who's digging and is this close to finding diamonds and turns back ... or maybe I could keep digging for another ten years and find nothing. I don't know.

I just wanted to prove that it was possible to succeed here, from scratch, without friendship among bitcoin celebrities. It's up to you to judge whether it's a success or a failure. I've got my answer.

Maybe this is the end of a chapter. Maybe the start of another. In any case — thank you for reading me.

Our time on Earth comes to an end. No matter how long you live, your life will be short. It is very important to decide on your path. Thank you all again. Respectfully, Flash.

I know people are upset about the communist mayor winning the primary, but Cuomo really shouldn't even show his face in public after killing all those people and writing a book! about his leadership before the truth about the deaths came out.

I didn't think the joke was that funny but I'm kinda retarded

I always thought how absurd Jurassic Park sequels were: Like, how do they not learn all the ways it could go wrong and stop doing dumb things?

Yet then again here we are in real life haha

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U.S. intelligence assessment concludes that the recent strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities have only delayed its nuclear program by a few months.

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60 is a number; 90 is a number.

THEY CLOSE!

Would you pay 100k sats a month to fund your favorite developer?

200k?

50k?

Why or why not?

U.S. 🇺🇸 / Iran 🇮🇷: Ahead of the OAS summit, the U.S. urges Latin American nations to “choose a side” in the conflict with Iran, calling Tehran a state sponsor of terrorism. A State Dept. official defended Trump’s recent airstrikes on 3 Iranian nuclear sites as “precise.”

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I see what you're saying. I think it's partly a matter of how confident one is with their assessment of Trump's motivations and commitment to promises, based on lots of interviews and past actions, vs conceding he's no different based off a few recent actions that are still playing out. Definitely waning a bit, but feels too soon to declare him an outright fraud.

Right, but you're framing it as though it's random that the MOAB didn’t lead to a protracted quagmire, and similarly that this might randomly be the start of one.

I’m saying I don’t believe it’s random because the guy doing it is a rational actor, contra the legacy media and credulous narrative swallowers, and doing so was neither in his interest then or now.

Not necessarily. Remember the MOAB he dropped on Syria in his first term? Nothing came of that.

The embroilment is the embroilment itself. If you believe as I do that he doesn’t want that, then you would see him bombing evacuated sites as not leading to it, but a way to avoid it.

If you believe he’s owned by Israel and wants Iraq 2.0 for the purpose of regime change, then you’ll see it as the key first step.

Whether bombing those sites was right or wrong then depends on your interpretation of what’s happening, what the purpose was.

I have no special information about this, but one thing I’m not doing is rushing to conclusions, e.g., that it’s wrong or it’s the start of WWIII, or whatever.

But that’s the narrative right now. I choose to ignore it, make up my own mind. If facts prove me wrong, then I’ll change it. But seems like “Israel owns the US including Trump”, once a counter narrative, is now the new narrative, and many seem caught up in that mania.

Reminds me of the covid vaccine. I didn’t take it, didn’t even say it was bad initially — just argued mandates were bad. People lost their minds over that because of the mania, the rush to conclusions about what was necessary and what “good people” obviously thought.

Turns out they were all wrong. We’ll see whether that’s the case here.

Yeah I'll be (among) the first to ditch him not because of alt-media hyperventilation, but because he actually embroiled us in a conflict that gets lots of people killed for no reason.

The narrative that Trump rugged his supporters before there’s been a single war casualty seems overeager. I can see on this protocol so many people badly want it to be the case. They badly want to believe that Israel owns Trump. Some love to rail about the JOOOOSSSSS, some just love that their TDS is validated, and he really is the bad guy.

Maybe So. But also maybe not. And the more I see how badly they want it, the more I feel they’re going to be sorely disappointed, the more likely I believe it is there will be peace, and he might even get a prize for it.

The world doesn’t conform to anyone’s preferences. So yes, while holding out hope for peace (and genuinely believing it’s the base case) might feel like “cope” in the face of so many people eager to point out how you’ve been rugged, I think it’s the other way around.

The new narrative is the counter narrative.

If Trump starts killing people, puts US boots and the ground and gets us in an Iraq-like quagmire, I’ll be the first to ditch him and admit I was wrong to have hoped for better.

But until that happens, I think it’s less cope on my part, than dark wishful thinking on theirs that something bad happens so they can be right.

Stay frosty af and doubt everything the news media are telling you.

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🚨 USA 🇺🇸 / Iran 🇮🇷: Trump suggests regime change in Iran

“It’s not politically correct to use the term ‘Regime Change,’ but if the current Iranian regime is incapable of MAKING IRAN GREAT AGAIN, then why wouldn’t there be a regime change???

MIGA!!!” said Trump.

TRUMP COULD HAVE STAYED WITH THE ORIGINAL IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL IN HIS FIRST TERM BUT HE WITHDREW

And now Iran either makes deal, or war and U.S. does another regime change operation in the Middle East FFS 🤦🏼‍♂️

I mean, the sum total of ZERO people are surprised about this.

A brief description of the three types of libertarians, categorised by Rothbard in his book 'For a New Liberty':

1. Emotivist Libertarians:

•Their commitment to liberty is rooted in personal feelings or emotional opposition to authority and coercion, rather than in a structured philosophical or practical framework.

•They support libertarian principles because of a deep-seated sense of justice or personal experience but lack a systematic rationale for their beliefs.

•Rothbard acknowledges their passion but sees their approach as less reliable for defending libertarianism in a rigorous debate.

•2. Utilitarian Libertarians:•

•Advocate for liberty based on its practical outcomes and benefits, such as economic efficiency, prosperity, and social well-being.

•Rothbard argues that utilitarianism offers no absolute moral standard for liberty. If liberty is defended purely on the basis of outcomes, it opens the door to abandoning libertarian

principles if different outcomes appear to work better under specific

conditions.

•They argue for free markets and minimal government because it leads to the greatest happiness for the greatest number. If something else does the same, they would be swayed by that.

•Rothbard critiques them for their reliance on empirical evidence, which can be challenged or interpreted differently, making their case less philosophically robust.

3. Natural Rights Libertarians:

•Base their belief in liberty on ethical and moral principles, particularly the idea that individuals possess inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property.

•They oppose coercion as a violation of these natural rights, irrespective of the consequences.

•Their positions are grounded in natural law ethics.

•Rothbard himself strongly aligns with this group, grounding libertarianism in the non-aggression principle (NAP).

2016

Possibly one of the most prominent instances of property rights violations in recent times

India did have an equivalent to Executive Order 6102 of the US government that's well-known in the Bitcoin community.

It was the Gold Control Order in 1962, which was formalised by the Gold Control Act in 1968, only repealed much later in 1990.

The impact of the enlightenment era on the world is far greater than I previously thought

Seems the ideas from that era form the fundamental base of the legal and political system of most liberal democracies today

I don't understand why John Locke isn't talked about a lot more while people discuss the history of ideas and political thought.

He was and is very influential, right?

Can you point me to similar essays/books/authors? Ones that make a case for classical liberalism/libertarianism as a solution to identity-based conflict.

I live in a country that is communally, culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse. This can be a breeding ground for the dangerous and false notion that everything is about power and oppression, leading to unnecessary and perpetual conflict.

I want to be able to articulate a case that a system that respects natural rights to life, liberty and property; treats people equally in front of the law to ensure them just treatment; enables voluntary exchange and free trade; promotes non-aggression; is the solution that will benefit everyone, irrespective of what their identity is.

Of course, but surely individuals within the government would've looked at how much it has appreciated and how liquid it is and got atleast a little curious.

I think the whole thing was a good liquidity test for the Bitcoin spot market

My personal opinion is that it isn't mature enough to be taken seriously by sovereign entities yet. I'm curious to know what the German govt thought about it

I don't think this happens without us doing something about it. Every note, article, tweet, post and conversation online and offline matters.

Even if this movement gets stopped in its track by some unforeseen global or local event, it's up to those who believe in Liberty to keep its flame burning for someone, sometime in the future to pick it up.

Yep, this is why I think freedom wins in the long run.

The rise of the internet has changed the trajectory of humanity more than any other technology. God bless America for that.

It's inherently anarchist and libertarian in nature, with Bitcoin, Nostr and cryptography in general taking this characteristic to another level.