Someone should build a machine that you can dump your pennies and other loose change into in exchange for sats.
Btw — no one is nearly pissed off enough about unelected technocrats feeling entitled to control their fellow citizens via surveillance, biomedical mandates and CBDCs.
The answer isn’t just no, it’s fuck no, and it isn’t just fuck no, it’s fuck you.
Got a bunch of DMs from fake accounts purporting to be prominent bitcoiners, which while annoying is good for the immune system: when more sophisticated scams arrive, I’ll be more on the lookout for them.
The scammers are harming their own future income streams with the weak shit they’re trying.
If you’re a scammer, have some fucking discipline and don’t send that DM until it’s capable of actually fooling someone.
It’s pathetic enough that you’re a criminal, but at least have a basic modicum of competence.
If you’re into fantasy football, I’ll be live-posting from my sports-only NOSTR account during the games today. #grownostr
https://iris.to/note1cypg6yrwtv8pd7sm2ut3xhvnuuc7l0uqyp0a6fsfxuwa6c6pdpuqxnq8c5
My Twitter guys tried to convince me to live-post on Twitter (that it would be a better driver of new accounts to nostr — think I’ve brought over ~8 people so far), but I realize I actively want to make Twitter worse. I want people to say “where’s that commentary I used to follow?”
I’m only one person with a modest following there, but under the Kantian “Act only on that maxim you would will to be a universal law” I think everyone with a modest following should stop building up that site for free and take ownership of their content. So I’m doing it individually, and if we can persuade enough people, it’ll happen at scale.
Here’s the discussion we had about it earlier this week:
If you’re into the NFL, I have an NFL-centric (though also MLB and soon NBA) account too:
https://iris.to/note1cypg6yrwtv8pd7sm2ut3xhvnuuc7l0uqyp0a6fsfxuwa6c6pdpuqxnq8c5
Ask Venezuelans who bought dollars if they’d sell them back for bolivars after the exchange rate skyrocketed.
Why, is there something I should know about Brave?
The senior party apparatchiks were wealthy, but feel free to substitute your non-communist tyranny of choice!
It’s like immigrating to a free country from Soviet Russia. You might have to leave some of your wealth behind, but better to set yourself up in the land of the free, rather than toil at the mercy of a capricious authority.
There are job requirements no decent person would do. Increasingly so now. nostr:note19em3rkv7ns65snfkl29sjrw39qv5zec7pmkrtez22mrwl58x448sj9knsn
The disinformation is calling from inside the house! nostr:note1cugm6j52gmrsx92qrnpuzjtyzfkm7vu33u3atmcwakp054jeh5cqdjcf7k
The disinformation is calling from inside the house! nostr:note1ttrqgkwk24xzyf9uhzm47vra96nh8vpzwf66qdzjvkvd3hn3vhvs8u0pjv
Everyone in that case would only accept bitcoin, and that means everyone with a job would get paid in it.
I know everyone hates CBDCs and the prospect of a digital euro, but nothing is more bullish for bitcoin than money that can only be used at the cost of total surveillance, the same way Linda Yaccarino’s hiring was bullish for NOSTR.
New Podcast
Alcohol explained
Planting a seed
Holding the line.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2rk2txO4GK3X55Sqf6CqJs?si=9d15bb2887d04b7a
Ditching X for NOSTR (rant)
11 very short, Black-Mirror-style pieces of dystopian fiction if you’re into that kind of thing:
I support anyone’s right to post anonymously if they choose, but I think people should consider using their real identities if possible.
Anonymity confers a certain amount of power and invulnerability, but showing your face takes more courage and sends a message that what I am doing *is* normal and legitimate, and I don’t need to hide while doing it.
I get it that governments can harm you, but paradoxically the more people who stand up with their real identities, the less power they have to do that harm.
If only people hidden in the shadows are using NOSTR or bitcoin, then it’s easy to see it as a fringe, subversive thing. While it *will* subvert the existing grift going on among the ruling class, that subversion is healthy and wholesome, a return to providing value instead of rent-seeking, then people will have to adapt to that healthy subversion.
In short don’t play into the framework that you have to hide yourself as though you are doing something wrong. You are not, and the more people who are open about it, the persuasive it will be as an alternate paradigm.
I’m sympathetic to this POV, and anonymity is often necessary. But on the other hand, people should have the courage to put their name to something they believe in, both because it’s more effective at convincing others to do so openly and it also sends a message to the State about what will and will not be tolerated.
Why I largely ditched Twitter and spend most of my time on NOSTR: