Damn my lightning payment failed 3 times when I was trying to buy a prepaid Mastercard but its all good because I used onchain #bitcoin to pay for it. #bitcoin

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#Bitcoin  Facts.

With only less than 90 days from the #Bitcoin halving,

what do you think is bound to happen with BTC price this cycle? 🤩

#bitcoin

Here’s to #bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto and the cypherpunks! For not just giving us sound money but for teaching us how to VERIFY. #plebchain #umbrel #nostr

I was on the LNBits telegram chat today asking a question (I don’t telegram much so am unfamiliar). Scammer impersonating admin DM’d me and started ‘helping’ me. My first question to her was ‘how do I know you’re the admin’? But she just posts pictures of her account and the group list of admins. I checked her @ name vs. the one in the group and it ‘checked out’ but later found out those don’t mean anything.

LONG story short: thank you to Sparrow wallet telegram group who pinned excellent guides against scammers. And this lady was breaking a lot of them. Finally went back to the main chat and asked if it was a scam and got a resounding YES. Luckily she didn’t get anything important: just public node id and nostr npub (which I was like WHAT!? does my npub have to do with getting LNBits to work!? But I thought well ‘what do I know’)

I BELIEVE IN KARMA. and what these scammers do will come around to them. And I can forgive, because once upon a time I was a scammer too. (Not really but you know, in terms of the unethical things I’m not proud of in my own past)

Be safe out there friends: trust AND verify ✊

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Okay, finally saw John Wick.

Fun enough, interesting-ish world. Keanu is Keanu but no one's expecting amazing acting here.

Then watched John Wick Chapter 2. Bit more "meh". Still more enjoyable than not.

Do I continue to Chapters 3 and 4?

Also, you can zap events other than notes. You can build a full blown merchant system on this. Pretty sure people have already done that.

"Let's #Blackmail people into not selling #Bitcoin #Mining equipment that keeps the only honest, open, transparent monetary network on the planet running".

- #Stripe #2024

Fantastic idea... Watch what happens next. #FuckStripe.

Was just chatting with a dude in the Sauna. Investing came up & I usually never mention #Bitcoin  in meat space for OPSEC reasons, but I threw out a

“do you think the ETF’s gets approved”

“What ETF’s?”

“Bitcoin”

“What’s Bitcoin”

Is this happening everywhere! Wtf?!

Yes✨

Zap ⚡️

Re: NOSTR FUNDING..

In my humble opinion, people should seek profit.

We do have a lot of funding available from OpenSats (new grants approved every week), HRF, Angels and VCs. But they won't make you "rich". PHILANTHROPY and/or VC, are great means to get boosted but are not sustainable long term. (aside from protocol and research work, which is basically academic work and take the academic philanthropy route)

Profit is freedom, profitable ppl don't need to ask for permission.

SUSTAINABLE and ETHICAL revenue positive businesses last generations. And very satisfying if you don't mind me saying.

Timing is EVERYTHING! We are ultra-early in nostr, almost too early. Almost everything you see around you won’t be here in the same shape/form in a year or two. Find ways to cockroach the early days, survive another day. Build expertise, build value, build IP, build relationships. All this fun and pain of the early days can have very good returns for those who survive.

I'm here (and many others), If you need help, advice or just a capitalist to scream at.

😘