The banks use them for transfers within the bank (eg: you transfer money from your checking to your savings). So the dollar price doesn’t really matter since it is always being converted right back to dollars. It is more there to make a proper log of transactions with better security features than what the banks themselves could come up with on their own.
Yes. That’s why that coin is spiking so high. Its value, besides the usual speculators, is basically being propped up by the big banks buying it up largely to use for this purpose.
Exclusive: US Set to Sanction Key Staff at UK’s Speech Regulator
From Infowars
Willingness of Trump admin to sanction the U.K. over free speech is a historic development with profound implications for global internet governance.
Aug 21st 2025 3:30am EDT
Source Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/exclusive-us-set-to-sanction-key-staff-at-uks-speech-regulator/
Share, promote & comment with Nostr: https://dissentwatch.com/boost/?boost_post_id=1023875
Now he should dissolve Five Eyes. Why cooperate with countries that would do what the UK is doing to their own citizens? You think they’d be any gentler to anyone else? They have already threatened American companies for telling the stories of their crimes.
The banks try to hide how much they are using it. But it is basically the standard for all of the major US banks now. Could be even more broadly ubiquitous.
Banks themselves can (like the main stores). But the end users are still using basic pins. Also, most banks have begun using ripple/xrp for intra-bank transfers. So there is also whatever vulnerabilities THAT has.
Beyond that… the banks are also compromised with H1B Chinese and indians, technocrats, and other insider threats to the point that I’m not sure any encryption will make them safe. Encryption doesn’t matter if you cannot trust the admins.
I do worry about BTC, don’t get me wrong. Long term, some new technology may make BTC simply too vulnerable to be useful, even if it isn’t current level quantum computing.
YO, this slim nostr:nprofile1qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj95ezu7n9vfjkget99e3kcmm4vshsqg8je9kf0ajpnffclpx087njugv5vp0psjqfdeh9zuxvukmk0xw5qq8tj292 build is so f'n sexy!
Really hard to appreciate it in photos. It's so much nicer!
https://v.nostr.build/CGxmMTLMsWd2WgJA.mp4
---
Video tutorial:
Step 1:
* 2x20 header pins
* soldering iron
* wire snips
* empty proto board
You're going to have put in a little more effort to solder the gpio headers on. But it's not terrible.
https://v.nostr.build/APljWlgK5uGpYiIO.mp4
---
Step 2: Solder!
ps - Pi Zeros are only sold in bulk WITHOUT the headers soldered on. Anyone who thinks you can make mad profits by selling preassembled nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mz7qguwaehxw309ahx7um5wgknytn6v43x2er9v5hxxmr0w4jz7qgkwaehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uqzpukfdjtlvsv62w8cfnel5uhzr9rqtcvysztwdeghpn89kanen4qq5tgdpe hardware is OUT OF THEIR F'N MINDS.
This is 8x speed. Yeah, with practice I could get faster. But still. GTFO.
https://v.nostr.build/eq0NlFssSWq6DxTv.mp4
---
Step 3: Inspect your work.
Hey, look, something went wrong. Because of course!
Pro tip: I did the soldering with an old broken display hat, not knowing if the heat or anything else might screw it up (I think that loose pin was due to a flaw in the old hat's connector).
https://v.nostr.build/RR8R1TU6SFl747Gx.mp4
---
Step 4: Inspect again, trim solder cones.
Off camera I did find one more bad solder (the pin came loose) that I had to repair.
https://v.nostr.build/mEucqDCqAQvrnB2a.mp4
---
Step 5: Final assembly, boot up and test!
I am still a bit of a Nostr newbie…
What’s the point of a seed signer?
Both are right. Quantum WILL be used to steal BTC. But the banks and fiat are being used to steal your wealth right NOW. Quantum will be used to target both, but it will probably target banks first just due to ubiquity.
Basically, yes
EVERY company does this. Until we return productive capacity back to the masses, this will keep happening.
Have you noticed that your grandmother’s cabinet or desk has lasted 100+ years but everything in idea is particle board that falls apart in 10? That’s not an accident.
Kiddo Freestyle pt2 #randombeat #kids #singletake #familytime #kids #cute #cutekids #funmoments #music
What I have noticed is that people have zero capacity for nuance now. They treat major figures like they and everything they do is either entirely good or entirely evil and then project that onto others.
“Hey, it was a good idea for Putin to keep out the globalist financial canal”
“You must support the invasion of Ukraine, Putin worshipper”
“Hey, I’m glad trump is cracking down on illegal immigration.”
“Stop sucking trump’s nuts. You should to ask daddy trump about his project warp speed”.
Yes, I’m aware of the project. I can call him wrong on one thing and right on another. They are not contradictory stances. Individual people can and do make a mix of wrong and right moves.
They also apply this retroactively.
“I love that Jack Dorsey is focusing on Nostr and decentralized infrastructure like bitchat.”
You got one camp that will invent conspiracies and say that his hand in the centralized Twitter censorship means anything he is doing now is some sort of conspiracy. Then there is another camp that treats Jack Dorsey like some god saint of freedom and decentralization while totally ignoring and/or whitewashing the stain that is Twitter from his past.
It’s like people can’t be objective and can’t just be objective and say “jack did wrong then. He is doing better now. But I will trust but verify out of an abundance of caution and his past track record.”
I really am. He’s my middle kid, but he seems most interested in collaborating with me because he found out he likes doing these freestyle rap verses or whatever you want to call them. You can hear my oldest (my daughter) on our podcast “the story game” on Wavlake.
https://wavlake.com/episode/c9b9a0a7-a1ab-483f-8f0d-d61d0993fbd6
My opponent didnt guard jump really. I shot a single leg takedown. He sprawled. I had an underhook so I punched it high to squat up. My goal was to create space underneath to follow up with a duck under out the other side. He did a tani otoshi while I was still basically in a lunge position and squatting up. My knee collapsed underneath me in much the same way. The injury was the same, but he was NOT recklessly jump guarding. The issue is that the tani otoshi is safe when the opponent is on his knees or on his feet… but it is dangerous AF ANYWHERE in between.
Meanwhile, I’m just old enough that I have a kid just barely old enough to rap about… I’m not sure what… to my beatboxing.
Kiddo Freestyle #randombeat #singletake #kids #familytime #cute #freestyle #acapella #music
And here I thought you were younger than me
You don’t look so old. How old are you?
Not me, but basically the same injury and sport.
Kiddo Freestyle #randombeat #singletake #kids #familytime #cute #freestyle #acapella #music
I had to convert kg to pounds to even understand how much of a zurcher squat that was. I might join you in about a month or two if BTC hasn’t gotten too high then. I’m recovering from a leg injury now.
This is what it looks like to be deliberately unwilling to listen to an argument. The only others I’ve seen been this deliberately obstinate are the literal Nazis.
Agreed. Sadly, I simply lack the visual art skills required for film/painting/etc. My skills are in literature and music. I’m writing a novel and I write music.
Like my song “beach glass”:
Like a sculpture, glowing in the rays of sunlight,
The glass, a prism for the world
Slowly scraping at the edges
Mocking the vision of this little girl
She watched as her own likeness
Began to fade
As food and poison began to blur
The smallest compromises she ever made
Added up until all that was left of her
Was the glass
#favoritebookquotes #books #aynrand #altruism #ethics #philosophy #postmodernism #socialism #welfare #morality
Sunrise Beat
#randombeat #beatboxing #singletake #freestyle #workingman #acapella #vocalmusic #music #grownostr #beautiful
https://blossom.primal.net/338bdeb460afccbcb9469fb65095ac415db423247ed5a8537296ecbeb0356a59.mp4
Gotta be a reply bot at this point.
Get ready for these fedbot and/or ape-IQ children to flood Nostr when/if X collapses or when/if #nostr becomes mainstream. This is my DAILY experience on X, and only my first time seeing it here on Nostr. This is clearly due to Nostr being more of a niche community for now.
But, I assure you, this will be more common if Nostr becomes the normie/politico app that X is now.
And another one. 🤦♂️
I’m ethnically Irish, btw.
My god… keep being a sore loser.
He just can’t let this go.
I think he can just keep getting put on display. I know I’m not going to convince him of anything. But any and everyone watching should know how incapable of grasping nuance and criticism nostr:nprofile1qqspwpet0tyefmjyrlrglhyh7wup6hwl9f4c93gy6djyyhd4n3waqcqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qprempt is.
#spotthefed #sockpuppets #soreloser
Thanks. But, yeah, at this point, I’m keeping it up for people like you than for myself or them. Obviously neither them or myself are going to be convinced, but they can keep making fools of themselves by the immaturity of their argument forms for the audience if they want to keep invalidating themselves.
You got a follow btw. I couldn’t zap you though.
So you post to nobody and don’t expect anyone to ever disagree or comment on anything you say publicly online? I wonder if Trump or Obama or AOC should expect that too…
And again with the woefully inaccurate ad hominem.
The amount of Reddit/Twitter-level undeserved vitriol in here is case in point why the right hasn’t won. The left pretends to be your friend while lying to your face about their real intentions. Meanwhile the “based” and “patriotic” groyper types like this act like children and make every negative assumption possible while being so entirely wrong that you doubt if they even read what you said.
If the technocrats are to be removed from power, there are only 3 options literally possible:
1) they are agorist-ed into irrelevance. I already explained previously why I think this is unrealistic, but certainly some element of this WILL play a role.
2) There is a Revolution/revolt that ousts them
3) there is an internal reform where a reformist political force cracks down on the rogue elements of the government. This can happen in one of two ways
A) the political force directs the existing law enforcement apparatus to initiate the crackdown or
B) the political force deputizes its supporters into functioning as the NEW enforcement apparatus to begin the crackdown
Right now, this move by Trump looks most like 3A. I didn’t say he was perfect, or that he hasn’t “compromised” (eg: committed treason) on Israel, Epstein, etc… in fact, I had previously called him out for many things.
But he also has a personal vendetta and bone to pick with the established technocrats who tried to ruin his life and robbed him in 2020. He also locked down the border better than any other POTUS in my lifetime. He can do things that are right and others that are wrong.
The level of confirmation bias these asshats had was bad enough. But the complete inability to even ENTERTAIN a criticism was appalling. It’s one thing to not be convinced, which I expected them not to be, but they couldn’t even acknowledge the substance of the argument I ACTUALLY made.
More over, nostr:nprofile1qqspwpet0tyefmjyrlrglhyh7wup6hwl9f4c93gy6djyyhd4n3waqcqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qprempt and his echo chamber butt buddies kept resorting to Reddit/twitter-level gang commenting like I have not seen on Nostr before. They not only convinced nobody, but actually alienated someone that, up until today, was majority on their side.
Fucking buffoons the lot of them.
#argumentation #alliances #socrates #plato #philosophy #politics #maturity
Nope. Because their millennial parents and boomer grandparents ruined the schools and they’ve been so loaded up on revisionist history that most of them have no idea what their real problems are.
Random Beat #randombeat #singletake #beatboxing #acapella #noeffects #throatsinging #throatbass
I’m on board. No more fake faces and lying by omission.
Don’t have the bs licenses, but a butcher does as a butcher does. Or meat curing specialist?
