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Are bitcoin-associated securities (e.g. STRD, STRK, STRF, etc) shitcoins?

New laptop yay… actually I’m pissed AF

Dell Pro 14 Premium, looked nice thought so… well 6 days in and finally found a distributor that works, fedora. Everything else is just a pain, spend 3 days debugging sound driver issues on Ubuntu and graphical issues on arch…

Dell: Ubuntu Certified

My ass this is BS and ofc as a B2B customer they will happily deny your request to give it back 🥳

Last time I got a Dell… well now what 🤔

"Low Tide"

The coffee tastes burnt. Dad stirs his black coffee with a plastic spoon. His hands shake a little. Seventy years of working hands.

"How are the girls?"

"Good. Emma lost her first tooth. Sophie's learning to ride her bike."

He smiles. First real smile I've seen from him in months.

"Remember when you learned? Took you all summer. Scraped knees every day. Kept getting back on."

A seagull lands on the window ledge. Fat from tourist scraps.

"Your mother says Sophie looks like you did at that age. Same stubborn streak."

"She gets that honest."

We watch people walk the beach. Families. Couples. Kids building sandcastles that won't last the tide.

"How's retirement treating you?"

"Can't complain. Get to spend time with the kids. Help with homework."

"Lucky man. Forty-three and done."

His coffee sits untouched now. Getting cold.

"Market's been crazy lately."

"Yeah?"

"Down thirty percent this year. Everything I put away for forty years. Just... gone."

The seagull flies away. Smarter than us.

"Your mother keeps watching the news. Every day it's worse. Says maybe we should sell. Cut our losses."

"Timing the market's tough."

"Tell me about it. Bought high. Always buy high."

An old couple walks past. Moving slow but still moving.

"Your uncle says it'll come back. Says to buy more while it's cheap. Easy for him to say."

"He's got different circumstances."

"That's what I told your mother. But you know how she listens to him."

Dad finally drinks his coffee. Makes a face. Cold and bitter.

"Your sister called yesterday."

"Yeah?"

"Needs money for the lawyer. Divorce is getting messy."

"Sorry to hear that."

"Can't say no to my kids. Even when they're forty-two."

His shoulders sag. Seventy years of carrying weight.

"How's the night shift?"

"Long. Double shifts most weeks."

"That's rough."

"Back's killing me. Feet hurt. Everything hurts."

The tide is going out. Leaving shells and debris on the sand.

"Mom's job situation?"

His face goes dark.

"They're shipping it overseas. AI's taking the rest. Forty years of experience. Means nothing now."

We sit in the quiet. Two men running out of safe ground.

"Dad?"

"Yeah?"

He looks at his hands. Working hands. Tired hands.

"Son, we can't retire."

The words hang between us like smoke. Everything we've been dancing around. Everything he's been trying not to say.

The market. The job. The sister. The uncle's bad advice. All of it leading here.

To this moment. This truth.

I want to fix it. Want to offer solutions. Want to give him some Bitcoin or a check.

But I don't.

The waitress brings the check. I reach for my wallet.

"I got it."

"Dad, let me—"

"I got it."

He counts out bills slowly. Leaves a decent tip.

Sometimes the best thing you can give someone is silence. Let them keep their dignity intact.

The ocean takes. The ocean gives back. But never what you expect.

Only what remains.

Lawns are a population control mechanism.

Nobody with a lawn has the time to revolt.

⚡️👀 NEW - Stablecoin transaction volume has reached $33 trillion over the past 12 months.

That's nearly 20 times PayPal's volume and nearly 3 times Visa's volume, according to a16z.

🇺🇸 ERIC TRUMP JUST SAID PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A “#BITCOIN MAXI” 👀🤯

TODAY IS THE DAY, LET THE SHOW BEGIN 🚀

The beauty of bitcoin is the simplicity of its design.

There will only ever be 21 million bitcoin.

Blocks come in every ~10 minutes.

The difficulty adjusts every 2,016 blocks.

The block subsidy gets cut in half every 210,000 blocks.

Blockspace is limited.

A transaction must be valid to get included in a block.

In a hyper-financialized and centrally planned global economy bitcoin's simplicity is counterintuitive.

"Monetary systems are complex. It can't be this easy."

Not only CAN money be simple, but it SHOULD be simple. We've been brought up in a counterproductive centralized system and humanity has succeeded in many areas in spite of the central planners.

Imagine what we'll be able to do when the central planners are replaced with a simple, neutral and incorruptible permissionless monetary network. Those who abide by and adapt around bitcoin's simple rule set will be able to coordinate economic activity with orders of magnitude more certainty than they have today.

No more guessing about what the Fed will do, how much debt the Treasury plans on issuing or whether or not capital controls will be turned on like a light switch.

That all goes away under a Bitcoin Standard.

Keep it simple, stupid.

Lots of Bitcoin content on nostr, not enough Christian content. I’ll be changing that

My daughter just casually rocked this out in 10 minutes on a tablet at Costco while I was ordering prescription sunglasses.

She almost deleted it when I saw it and said, “Oh, it’s not very good.” #artstr

If you’re in Bitcoin and you gave the Feds your fingerprints just for TSA PreCheck….🤦‍♂️

🥷 #FREESAMOURAI TODAY! 🥷

LAYING THIS OUT HERE TODAY AGAIN

🫡🏴

The customer is always right.

Always a good mantra.

The European Data Protection Board says if you can't anonymize transactions on a blockchain, you have to delete the blockchain. Funny, since they've spent the past 10 years trying to make software that does exactly that illegal.

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️

-THE BITCOIN BORACAY ISLAND LIFE-

Diving In The Philippines & S.E. Asia.

Post #105: Dives at Angol Point, and then Camia shipwreck dive site made for a great Sunday.

🤿 "Something wicked this way comes"

Pura Vida 🏝️

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Sentinel

Sure but we need vendors to accept sats. Probablly need a noob focused ecash wallet that runs on all operating systems, that educates the user on bitcoin from within the app ecash

⚡️📈 DATA - Global money supply is exploding.

Who needs steak n shake when you can have steak n hearts

GM

Inventing a life for yourself, as Dostoevsky once said, is extremely underrated. Fuck the system. Be who you want to be and do what makes you happy – fuck the money, fuck the fame, this is the only measure of success that matters 🩷

The noose is tightening.