Where do you generally source your photographs and paintings? I like many of them. Or are they (some, ALL) your own creations?

Vielen Dank.

Efrat,

Can you provide the name of that book in Spanish about Bitcoin for children--maybe a reference or link. Also, please share those people/businesses/groups working on Bitcoin in El Salvador that you mentioned in the interview.

Amazing to hear what is going on in the world and how different things run and people's default.

Thank you, fascinating.

Holy fuck.

Beautiful capture of the ever-enigmatic, ever-changing, fire television.

In case you hadn't heard of Project Alexandria... Maybe there is some rich crossover with what you are doing, or want to do!?

1.)

A conversation between Liminal, one of the members of Project Alexandria, and David Bennett, host of Bitcoin and... podcast:

"Liminal and Project Alexandria"

Bitcoin and... podcast. August 16, 2024.

https://fountain.fm/episode/vvZkH5FKqYVuyFAP312V

2.)

David Bennett, host of Bitcoin and... podcast reads an article titled "Understanding Knowledge", by one of the creators of Project Alexandria, Liminal:

"Understanding Knowledge"

Bitcoin and... podcast. April 25, 2025.

https://fountain.fm/episode/sg02JemZbqcj0ACYZXil

The beauty of the battery-powered saws is the lack of splash, oil sputtering, smell and less noise and easy starting. Though having to hold the security button is an extra hassle. I also wonder how they fare in cold season. If there are any parallels between battery-powered chainsaws and battery powered cars,... beware the hype and realities of how cold influences things

The gas-powered chainsaw in my experience has more power and lasts longer. I would probably rather use a gas-powered saw when felling trees. It is also probably more apt for serious (wide diameter logs) and longer sessions of bucking logs--for firewwod.

Beyond the dillemnas and questions around battery-powered vs. petroleum-based chainsaws, enjoy the fire (fire television), forestry and the potential of regenerative forestry systems (including, agroforestry, coppice (see the work, including book, by Mark Krawczyk in the actually long-historied culture of coppicing in Europe, the Americas and beyond) and the general abundance and endless giving of a forestr or a stand of trees in that one can continually harvest something from the forest or stand while also improving the productivity and biodiversity, ecological health of the forest. Amoung others, see the in the field-forest work of Merv Wilkinson based somewhere on Vancouver Island and his spectacular work and observations of regen forestry.

I enjoying trying out a friend's and country neighbour's battery-powered chainsaw.

Also, if you think of the amount of slavery and energy (embedded energy) that goes into the manufacture of the battery-powered saws is greater than all the work that will ever come out of the saw during it lifetime. Though it could be useful if you have consistent power (electricity) whether from the centralized grid or off grid, it is kind of nice to think that you can always run a saw.

Conoces Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, de Ledn???

ledn.io

Uno chango de tu mismo pago.

No se como comodo estas en Ingles, pero aqui hay una entrevista de/con el en el podcast de Natalie Brunnell, titulado "Borrow Dollars, Hold Bitcoin: The Debasement Play with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAqFbPyl59I&list=PLw36M63mB0iCzCRRXL_xZB5dFfFvQX37I&index=7

Tambien visitale o hacete amigo, seguile ("Follow"), en Nostr. Parece que, dado el exito y el enfoque, focus de el y su empresa me parece noble, tendria que tener mucho mas "followers" sobre Nostr!

Lo que siegue es su link y su llave publico (npub).

No te preocupas, no estoy vinculado con el, no trabajo para el y tampoco gano algo por esta noticia, sugerencia, apodo.

https://primal.net/mauricio

npub1gqe9ex6s36msndvq3uaytmm8e56s0gesr6hy33cplgfksj3dfyrs0azj23

Disculpa para mi sacha Espanol. Espero que me entiendes. Mayoria de mi influencia de gringo era por la bioregion del Chaco, especificamente el chaco Santiagueno (Argentina).

Bienvenida en/a Nostr.

Fijate bien en tu hashtag dado que las letras de Nostr me parecen mezclado, no correcto. Pero que se yo, tal vez el acronimo es asi en tu Espanol!!

Nostrbook

A Comprehensive Registry of Nostr Documentation

https://nostrbook.dev/

#asknostr

#Nostr

#GrowNostr

Sad to learn that Carol Sanford died. I don't yet know when she died.

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I read it in Didi Pershouse's most recent e-mailout.

(Find her on Substack).

"Climate on the planet is influenced by many living processes in land, sea, and sky. Humans have influenced nearly all of these processes, as you know from my previous posts. However, certain regions have been changed so radically by human projects, that the effects are compounding and cascading. If we focus our efforts on these places as “trigger points” (or what the late Carol Sanford called “nodal interventions,”) we could have a far greater effect, as we work to restore a living climate."

—Didi Pershouse

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Author, teacher, contrarian, entrepreneur, corporate/business leader.

https://carolsanford.com/

https://substack.com/@carolsanford

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I remember the late Dan Palmer, host of Making Permaculture Stronger podcast, having interviewed Carol numerous times. That may well be how i first came upon her. They got into the material quite deeply and it showed how ingrained into the culture the separation, objective and degenerative programming goes, how successful the mechanistic, quantitative world view has been delivered by the psychological operations.

If anybody wants to explore the Carol Sanford x Making Permaculture Stronger nexus see:

https://makingpermaculturestronger.net/?s=Carol+Sanford

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A few keystones of Carol Sanford's i remember--partially presented as a beginning index--are the following:

imaging,

vs. imagining

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feedback,

the fallacy of

only for machines

it assumes a linear, reductionist, world-as-machine paradigm

life, people, culture is much more "messy", complex, emergent

Writing may not be part of one's job, but writing can improve thinking.

Sanford writes about feedback much more deeply & eloquently in her book "No More Feedback".

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When communicating, use "Earth", instead of "the earth". Problems with objectification. Again, this is very brute and butchered, read or hear her explain it. She is part Cherokee.

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Questioning biomimicry. It's fallacy. I seem to remember part of it might be because we are already living, life, bio.

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Fallacy of watershed. Sanford suggests lifeshed instead. It is problematic when you separate things. She breaks down the simplicity and fallacy of the parts and the whole mindset.

As Bill Mollison (co-originator of permaculture) states below, it takes a real genius to comprehend where something--like a tree--begins and where it ends!

"A tree is, broadly speaking, many biomass zones. These are the stem and crown (the visible tree), the detritus and humus (the tree at the soil surface boundary) and the roots and root associates (the underground tree).

Like all living things, a tree has shed its weight many times over to earth and air, and has built much of the soil it stands in. Not only the crown, but also the roots, die and shed their wastes to earth. The living tree stands in a zone of decomposition, much of it transferred, reborn, transported, or reincarnated into grasses, bacteria, fungus, insect life, birds, and mammals.

Many of these tree-lives 'belong with' the tree, and still function as part of it. When a blue jay, currawong, or squirrel buries an acorn (and usually recovers only 80% as a result of divine forgetfulness), it acts as the agent of the oak. When the squirrel or wallaby digs up the columella of the fungal tree root associates, guided to these by a garlic-like smell, they swallow the spores, activate them enzymatically, and deposit them again to invest the roots of another tree or sapling with its energy translator.

The root fungi intercede with water, soil, and atmosphere to manufacture cell nutrients for the tree, while myriad insects carry out summer prunning, decompose the surplus leaves, and activate essential soil bacteria for the tree to use for nutrient flow. The rain of insect faeces may be crucial to forest and prairie health.

What part of this assembly is the tree? Which is the body or entity of the system, and which the part? An Australian Aborigine might give them all the same 'skin name', so that a certain shrub, the fire that germinates the shrub, and the wallaby that feeds off it are all called waru, although each part also has its name. The Hawaiians name each part of the taro plant differently, from its child or shoot, to its nodes and 'umbilicus'.

It is a clever person indeed who can separate the total body of the tree into mineral, plant, animal, detritus, and life! This separation is for simple minds; the tree can be understood only as its total entity which, like ours, reaches out into all things. Animals are the messengers of the tree, and trees the gardens of animals. Life depends upon life. All forces, all elements, all life forms are the biomass of the tree."

—Bill Mollison

Permaculture: A Designer's Manual, pp.138-139.

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#CarolSanford

#feedback

#watershed

#BillMollison

#MakingPermacultureStronger

#DanPalmer

#permaculture

#DidiPershouse

#biomimicry

#trees

Do yourself a favour and look into the fallacy of the germ theory--which has never been proven yet.

Re antimicrobial: look into the germ theory.

I also remember hearing the name/word had something to do with, or originated from, shake the spear.

GN

Getting ready for, and looking forward to, the season of the "Long Shadow". Winter. Long nights. Leafless trees (train horn can be heard although train corridor is far away; with sound mostly muffled by leaves during green seasons of year). Sharp, strong shadows. Super luminous--partially from the snowy white background. Backdrop. Where does fore- and back- ground begin and end? (See the eloquent written works of Stephen Harrod Buhner on this last subject.) Moon as projector for much of this light show. Nexus of moon, leafless trees and snow-covered ground. Lighting, and shadows, further altered as well by cloudy vs. cloudless night. Steiner spoke of the crystalline characteristics of Earth at the deepest time of winter. Father winter coming. Fireside for alleviation of chill and animation of the spirit. Fire TV. The show never repeats! Make every (or as many as possible) burn(s) productive by harvesting biochar therefrom before its inevitable loss, progression, entropic march, to ashes. Amazed to learn on Bitcoin and... podcast that evergreens ~ conifers create sugars during the winter--as long as there is sunlight!

#cooperation

A snippet from Marty's Bent (@Marty Bent), October 28, 2025

Bitcoin's Hashrate Growth In Context

Bitcoin Companies Are Choosing Cooperation Over Competition (And Everyone Wins)

Jonathan Kirkwood highlighted a powerful dynamic emerging in the Bitcoin ecosystem that contradicts traditional business wisdom. Strike, a Bitcoin payments company, now partners with BitKey (Block's hardware wallet product) allowing users to automatically sweep their Bitcoin purchases to self-custody. Cash App, another Block product, relies on mempool.space for blockchain analytics. These aren't isolated cases of cooperation; they represent a fundamental shift in how Bitcoin companies operate.

"It's like as if everything that I do, you do, Andrew does, invites the fact that we're all going to win because of it." - Jonathan Kirkwood

This "co-opetition" model, as Jonathan described it, creates positive-sum outcomes where the work of one participant strengthens the entire network. When Strike integrates with BitKey or Cash App uses mempool.space infrastructure, both companies benefit from enhanced user experiences and reduced development costs. The collaborative approach signals that Bitcoin ecosystem participants recognize a shared mission: growing the pie rather than fighting over slices. Every integration, every partnership, every shared tool compounds the advantage of the entire Bitcoin economy.

Check out the full podcast here for more on digital capital, corporate Bitcoin treasuries, and SPAC opportunities for businesses.

Brilliant work.

Though i don't comprehend much of it, this is some very deep work you have done here! So thank you.

How to be as thorough on the sovereign ~ free ~ private ~ autonomous side of things as are the corporates ~ centralizers ~ controllers ~ fiat boys ~ govt's,... with all their different methods, strategies, attack vectors, roadblocking, obfuscation, NOT providing ample/varied public education,...!

Your thoroughness is an inspiration for me to aim higher.

By incrementalism, do you mean the growing computer power to break, alter, rewrite (in one's favour),... the history of the Bitcoin ledger. I remember Guy Swann (Bitcoin Audible Podcast: "The guy who has read more on Bitcoin than...) or Jack Spirko (the of ~16-year running Survival Podcast, and recent Bitcoin Breakout podcast) Supposedly what quantum computing is all about or will do???

If you would ever have the patience to expand on the trojan horse scenario, i at least would be interested in hearing.

Beautifully crafted.

Did it get written "through" you, just as much as by you? (I am thinking of Stephen Harrod Buhner's book, "Ensouling Language: On The Art of Nonfiction and the Writer's Life, where, amoung other fascinating and inspiring topics, he writes about following golden threads.)

Have you lived through any of the authoritarian events covered in this song, poetry?

It's as if people (some people), soil, plants, seeds, nature,... have a default, inalienable knowing that is stronger and timeless; sense of what is true and right which puts the current variant of tyranny and degenerative authoritarian ritual into its rightful illusory place!

Thank you for sharing.

The quote referred to in 1st paragraph follows.

"The smaller the site the more the edge effect is emphasized, because the ratio of the perimeter to the total areas of the site increases as the site gets smaller."

—Chirs Meuli

"Sponge Ladders", Permaculture Drylands Journal, April 1996.

Below i have included a photograph of the cover, the publisher's/editor's message and the Table of Contents of the first Permaculture Activist magazine i got my hands back in 1998, No. 39, which focused on Knowledge, Pattern and Design. It is the same actual copy i bought in 1998! Its contributors include some keystone permaculture figures like the late Toby Hemenway, Rosemary Morrow and David Holmgren, the co-originator of permaculture.

In case it was not clear or explicit enough--the sentence structure could have been better--at the end of the third paragraph in the original post, i meant black humor. That putting August 2024 instead of August 2025 was maybe an example of black humour since the magazine arrived in 2025!

Looks like a brownie.

Reminds me of when i was walking around with some seedballs (made of clay, soil and compost) at an eco fair and somebody thought they were chocolate balls, grabbed one from the tray and put it in their mouth!

Nice photograph. There's nothing like fire TV. Never the same twice.

@Jack Spirko

Thank you for this inspiring episode. I especially appreciated the section on Lightning. Though i comprehend Bitcoin and Lightning more on a fundamentals, zoomed out or pattern language kind of way, i appreciate hearing about the technologies that exist to make the V4V, P2P, transacting, spending/earning and as savings vehicle actually happen for our practical day-to-day living needs. The programmability or customization (using Miniscript) with the inheritance examples, explanation and use case was mind-blowing as far as its non-monocultural orientation solutions/uses and also how it can be used for complex yet allow for seemingly antifragile execution of original plan/desire.

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It was nice to hear your recommendation and testimonial of Jack Spirko's AI course on one of his latest episodes (The Survival Podcast, episode 3724 "The Curse of Interesting Times").

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In that same episode, i was fascinated by the segment on AI and how language evolves (with and without AI) and how we ought to be wary of the degenerative path AI can take us on--surprise surprise with our kingpin social engineers--while learning to wisely use these LLMs. Situated somewhere in the rich continuum between it (AI) will:

1.) devour (our jobs and) us all (make us irrelevant/obsolete); and

2.) bow down to it and let it run our minds and lives.

I truly appreciate the succint format and well-crafted, well-researched summaries and perspectives these reports are that Jack makes.

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DB,

Beautiful graphics in this awesome and thought-provoking series. I particularly like this last graphic.

Are these graphics your own creation, or--no offense meant--are they AI generated?

I appreciate the detail you get into in this series and the exploration of the rich possibilities that such a model and worldview brings.

Fukuoka should be the only author of The One-Straw Revolution no?

Does somebody know where the term "time preference" comes from (bibliographic reference or link) and what the original and proper definition is?

BTW, is there anything you can share about how you got started setting yourself up to send/receive zaps--company, technology, system, supporting hardware, etc,...?

Can anyone explain, or point me to a place that explains, why some posts or other communications in Nostr are displayed twice, thrice,...? I know it would be better with a lot more specifics, maybe having some kind of (debug) log, though i seem to remember coming upon this experience in different clients.

The blue-flowered plants look like spiderwort or "Santa Lucia" as they called them in Argentina. There is something about the "dew" drop that forms on the flower in the morning which can be medicinal for the eyes. This plant has interesting looking adventitious root-like things (similar to corn) and can stand drought.

Thank you so much for this Bitcoin And... episode and also for the related one interviewing Liminal. The same themes and great ideas and inspiration has also surfaced in those podcast episodes of yours in which Obsidian is discussed. So much to think about. There is so much nuance and so many rich edges in the new landscape being opened up for us in Nostr and similar tech stacks. I appreciate the hard work you have done in putting a dent into revealing the power (as in empowering) and characteristics of Nostr and it's exponential potential to reboot our world and time.

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I have always found it a challenge to file my notes, writings, drawings in the "correct" folder, file or pile since they NEVER usually just lived in one theme, topic, project, folder, file... I think that the tools and way of doing/looking at things which you remind me of, or have introduced me to, will greatly facilitate in organizing, editing, reworking and revealing surprising connections in my pile of writings and drawings which i have amassed over the decades and am now trying to move and group/package to fruitful ends. Since i am not amassing so many more new writings now and am, instead, in the distilling and organizing phase, i am looking forward to what can come out of using a tool like Nostr to facilitate that proces. The challenge is also how to best work all this together given that i swim in both the analogue (paper, pen(cil), drawing, printed) and digital, internet, online world.

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Getting some more snippets of the technical details of Nostr's many different kinds, events, media type and what requirements or elements make up an event/note/type was useful and invites me to want to delve further into this juicy world. I am still trying to grasp and catch up with the Nostr lingo, though i am confident in what i have and can already do and sometimes even see the golden thread linking back to the fundamentals, founding principles of IT, computers and of the freedom and simple power of the internet in its earlier manifestations.

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Perhaps a nice simple statement about Nostr--from the perspective of a very early beginner--is that there appear to be much fewer (or no) layers--e.g./i.e.: technology, permissions, trust, deceit, control, manipulation) between oneself and the Nostr network/technology. It was fascinating to learn in John Michael Greer's book, "The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future", about how one can choose, mix, match, customize, design, integrate,... the tools, technologies, worldviews, ways of living, (sub)cultures,... desired. These can include: the same or different cultural norms; the characteristics and what is done by in your particular cultural-geographic place; or from a particular time in history to be mimicked or or pulled from. Nostr would be one of those options or tech stacks in my particular lifestyle design* palette, table of contents, quiver or menu. Anyways, the author explains it way more eloquently than i. If you would like to hear the author interviewed about this book, where he does speak about this conscious choosing and designing of one's life, then check this episode of the Legalize Freedom podcast:

https://legalise-freedom.com/shows/john-michael-greer-the-retro-future-looking-to-the-past-to-reinvent-the-future/

* I first heard the term lifestyle design through Jack Spirko host of the Bitcoin Breakout and the Survival Podcast.Hear an interview of him on the Legalize Freedom podcast:

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I love how you challenge the "superiority" of the mainstream, centralized, walled gardens of the large social medias and show that they are really infantile attempts and highly manipulated compared to the open, exploring, emergent of Nostr--even though temporaly and as far as network effect, Nostr is in its infancy. The non-liinearity and emergent characteristics of such systems as Nostr and the new flow of information is hugely attractive, mind shattering with its unexpected connections and revelations. Thank you for providing and explaining the various tools and pattern language of this creating, sharing and emergence of media--including to remind us that the hierarchical and logical flow and set up of documents/media can be just as important as the non-linear. In continuing my notes for this episode, i am trying to fathom the final version of, including the extensive index of concepts you have introduced or enumerated. I noticed that index came up in the podcast. I have found it quite empowering over the years to create my own indeces as this presents information in a multifaceted, searchable, organized and powerful way; though i could see it also working in non-linear ways or where unexpecteds arise.

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Also, i really like the "Thinking Day" (versus your "News Day") genre or category format of your podcast and that you differentiate in this way. If you have heard of teacher, author and business woman Carol Sanford, she has some interesting things to say about diferentiation and how this links to entrepreneurship.

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I appreciate also that you eloquently weave in the Bitcoin and Nostr conversation with permaculture, natural patterns and the like. It is important that both the permaculture ~ regen community learns more from the Bitcoin ~ Nostr community and vice versa although there surely is not line seperating the two.

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Maybe you or others might find the Thank God for Nostr Podcast series on McLuhan of interest--including the third and last in the series in which the podcast hosts interview the 3rd and living generation in the McLuhan line continuing to carry the legacy torch--since the conversations cover similar themes as covered in this episode of Bitcoin and..., invite us to think about media as well as offering some tools on how to possibly go about that questioning, exploring & comprehension of media and our technologies in general.

You might have hear the quote by Marshall McLuhan?:

"The medium is the message."

Thank God for Nostr (TGfN) podcast series on McLuhan:

TGfN. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan

(1 of 3)

https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/5593cac6-4a82-40ea-9a38-e19a1c9c6c0a/episodes/bad53a91-ba7a-4c70-bb89-189a61a01372/audio/5e7c765b-2fbe-497e-90ed-4786ccdf4927/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=VsKScJdA

TGfN. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan Part 2

(2 of 3)

https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/5593cac6-4a82-40ea-9a38-e19a1c9c6c0a/episodes/fe783e6f-b92c-4b8d-8064-bb8a96e8728b/audio/e051b998-dea2-466f-9342-046131417d2a/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=VsKScJdA

TGfN. Andrew McLuhan

(3 of 3)

https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/5593cac6-4a82-40ea-9a38-e19a1c9c6c0a/episodes/4b552187-ee6f-4ee0-8a87-d2ee8e4ae1a6/audio/354cfef9-886c-49ba-9f00-f7b1e6a6e70f/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=VsKScJdA

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I am greatful for having discovered you via Jack Spirko's excellent the Survival Podcast.

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Fare ye well.

NOSTR newbie question. See photograph.

Also, how do you post your own notes, as opposed to as a comment, or repost, on/of somebody else's 'profile', 'identity'--i am struggling to find words to describe things on this other social, technological, paradigm (Nostr) very foreign to me.

Finally, how do you get those posts to go to a certain hashtag, like #nostr, #bitcoin, #permaculture, #coppicing,...?

Thank you.

Merci.

Gracias.

Dankeschön.

Grazie.