Happy new year to All ❕️😁
☝️
https://blossom.primal.net/1f1e5ac60c7cbbfa4b910bf996c6d4e35acd0a47ee08231379bf6b13a85eed39.mp4
HNY!
GM and HNY! The sun’s risen in NZ, not just on a new day but on a new year. Time to reflect on the 2025 that was, and look forward to the possibilities of the coming year. Stack sats, stay humble and love your family. Best wishes for 2026!
Good Morning ☕️ 🌨️ 🌊 you wonderful Nostr people 🫂💜
#Bitcoin
https://video.nostr.build/1e16395d272e5ac8cf0083bbfa527f8c35b9b4c6912b0363bad89100472d90c8.mp4
https://video.nostr.build/81f608a1b100f16dfdd735b63036a314d298128984d10651392e163d60dd467a.mp4
GM nostr:npub1hlx26mahecypqppmwqnu5xlust2uq8mz8z0h42sqt9u2qarc5ahsf68mlu you beautiful bastard.
We're up to 24 now for nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqqyps3qg024gnfyaqmzgmthn49f342nust5vx2ecckcw5n63ggnf7s795s23a Season 2!
https://www.runstr.club/pages/season2.html
Not sure if this is the right place to ask but what if I want to support a charity that isn’t listed? Specifically Bitcoin Basin, the growing circular economy in Queenstown NZ? nostr:npub1jva9yqypze6re4jjajj8yz040ex2f3pemrp9ymvvfzj8hac89mrszp5ev6
Loved Bernard Hill’s noble portrayal of Théoden in the movies. If you ever want to see him playing a real asshole, check out “Wolf Hall”. He was a proper bastard as the Duke of Norfolk, Anne Boleyn’s uncle.
Meh, I’ve always thought Ubisoft games sucked. Guess the hackers will find that out for themselves.
This fella is a world-class cunt. Only the most desperate of start-ups would tap him for venture capital.
⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Vince Zampella, the creator of Call of Duty, Infinity Ward, and the current lead on Battlefield died in a car crash at 55.
He lost control of his Ferrari as it exited a tunnel, crashed into a barrier, and caught fire.
Zampella was driving and died at the scene. The passenger was ejected by the impact and later died in the hospital.
https://blossom.primal.net/a8f21127475dc17093a7bf6d8a80f0429faf2d61accd4b7361db6fe92e69053d.mp4
Darwin Award 2025 finalist.
⚡️🇦🇺 NEW - The Prime Minister of Australia confirms the government will implement nationwide antisemitism hate speech laws following the Australian shooting terrorist attack.
The government says new legislation will make it easier to charge individuals who promote hate speech and violence.
The government will also create a list of organizations whose leaders promote violent or racially hateful speech.
https://blossom.primal.net/08be80d1353bec929d800bc0ce64989c1107526be48393f193397323f7218f34.mp4
Yes, because if Australia had had hate speech laws the attacks wouldn’t have happened. 🙄
The most important thing in politics is to be seen to be doing something, even if it’s entirely the wrong thing.
Peach 🍑 nostr:npub15369wu3wzzar5fclhecyqfv683x69n6nhlg7rxqnsg2dydgxflpq3apswl
I wonder if #nostr is one of them “dark corners of the web” that the reportage on this social media ban is so fond of referring to. Gee I really hope so. 😬
⚡️🇦🇪 WATCH - Here is Binance founder CZ arriving at Bitcoin MENA in Abu Dhabi
https://blossom.primal.net/401968d704477854a96eea4e5cc9883180ac3ba91185408b82884cfd31f52225.mp4
Classy bitcoin flavoured kicks…
Today our local #National MP Joseph Mooney visited Bro Barbershop one of our amazing Bitcoin merchants.
@josephmooneymp was offered a hair cut and he paid using #bitcoin through nostr:npub1eltphfvkul6t5ram3wc3tsnrw48p8vvg66tn2su3pmtnrthakcusccmk2v
It's great for our leaders to be on the ground connecting with our business owners.
A smooth process and a sleek cut ⚡️
The Bitcoin Basin has nearly 40 merchants just like @bro.barbershopnz make sure you support them when you can.
Check them out on our website - https://bitcoinbasin.nz/
https://blossom.primal.net/1ed9d42ddbfa459884e3d1f3fc8e7b9a765aa8d218b76388204c3a28e210a88b.mov
Love your work nostr:npub1jva9yqypze6re4jjajj8yz040ex2f3pemrp9ymvvfzj8hac89mrszp5ev6 - that’s where I get my hair cut!
You inspired me, so I also bought 2M sats, didn't quite get it under the US$100K mark but I was close.
Yes it is. Doesn’t justify this overreaching law, however.
Sure, that’d be swell.
Ah STP a vastly underrated band and one of my favourites.
⚡️🎮 GAMING - The early access of the new open-world survival game *Prologue: Go Wayback!* from the creator of *PUBG* will be released on November 22.
Equipment is minimal, including items like a compass or a map, and the terrain changes dynamically with the weather.
https://blossom.primal.net/f793f4d4abf8f0cd1bfef6491527f96e103e853dbc1a49d4eeb4d0c5e87b36bc.mp4
Sounds more like Day Z.
Governments force banks to report your activity, judge whether you are being suspicious, and close your accounts when you step out of the norm.
How? It dates back to 1970.
https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2025/10/28/55-years-of-financial-surveillance
President Richard Nixon had not yet been caught surveilling his political opponents. Instead, Oct. 26, 1970 marks when Nixon signed the Bank Secrecy Act and set the foundation for a new regime of financial surveillance.
Often abbreviated as “the BSA,” the Bank Secrecy Act was originally enacted over fears that the rise of air travel in the late 1960s would lead to Americans hiding their money in Swiss bank accounts.
As the times changed, so did the concerns. Congress initially targeted tax evaders, but the Bank Secrecy Act was later expanded to also go after drug traffickers. Later, it would be expanded again to go after terrorists.
Most recently, Congress has been weighing where and how to apply it to cryptocurrencies.
https://www.cato.org/blog/warren-misses-details-bank-secrecy-act
Yet, it hasn’t just been the targets that have changed. Congress has also steadily expanded who must report their customers under this regime.
Even the @USPS and pawn shops are defined as "financial institutions" here.
This ever-growing list of both targets and informants is partly why more than 27.5 million reports were filed on customers last year. https://www.cato.org/blog/reporting-fincens-suspicious-activity-again
Congress has prioritized ever-increasing financial surveillance over protections for people’s privacy for 55 years now. It’s time for that to change.
It’s time to respect financial privacy and stop treating ever-expanding surveillance as the norm. Reform needs to happen before the Bank Secrecy Act gets to celebrate its next big milestone.
For more on how, check out my latest in nostr:nprofile1qqsrgaz8zg984qgj8uf34n7ezuyd62u94jswdgvxglrv422eznj9wdsd66ugv https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2025/10/28/55-years-of-financial-surveillance
Not to mention the fact that the US$10,000 threshold in the BSA hasn’t changed in 55 years. Back then it was a meaningful amount of dough, equivalent to around US$90k today. As the government prints money and inflation erodes the value of the dollar, more and more of the economy is forced through this dragnet.
“Tax will eat up $158,000”. Is that a tax on unrealised gains or is he selling the sats? If the latter… WHY?! 😢
⚡️🇺🇸🇲🇾 NEW - President Trump dances at Malaysian arrival ceremony
https://blossom.primal.net/52f07e2395257724a22cea97cad1dea25d52defb542956ff12eaa7513fcb2e70.mp4
Is *that* what you’d call it? Really?
Looks like they both are…
⚡️🇬🇧 NEW - "If you were looking for a hill to die on, it might as well be this one."
Neil Oliver on the UK government's imminent attempt to impose mandatory digital ID.
"BritCard makes possible the tracking of your movements, what you post online, what protests you might attend, how you spend your money... All citizens would become digitally visible to the state across every transaction."
"What happens if you refuse to comply with some or other future diktat? Will you lose access to your funds? Will you have your freedom to move curtailed?"
"If we let this happen, then all of the mechanisms for totalitarianism are handed to government, and to the transnational corporations, and unelected bureaucracies, and three-letter agencies pulling their strings."
"By means such as this, the rights our predecessors fought and died for are transformed into privileges we may or may not be granted conditional upon every aspect of our behaviour."
https://blossom.primal.net/e8026c3f0c33af7d4ea10ab7185902cbfd923ec4e6ed3a837b8b0646982219c0.mp4
“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.”
- George Orwell, 1984
It’s only the first 9” that count, anyway, so…
To paraphrase Louis CK - the inside of your mind is infinite. You have no right to be bored.
Rumour has it the owners / operators of Hobbiton in Matamata, NZ have plans to open a hotel so you can stay in a hobbit hole…
There will come a time before the end of this century when all the computing power in the universe will not be able to mine more than 1 #bitcoin in a year. Bullish.
We hold these truths to be self evident. nostr:note1suxc3065y9ad4cpnqnvvp08uutw5kq5t4a829sqa4d7ggxay3lssyzyvzx