Merci pour ton retour franc 👌

J’entends bien la puissance conceptuelle de BTC comme base monétaire, et je suis d’accord que la frugalité a du sens dans un monde devenu fou de dettes et d’illusion de croissance.

Mais j’essaye d’anticiper comment cette transition pourrait se faire sans casse : aujourd’hui, même des projets éthiques ou citoyens ont besoin de financement, de flux, de création monétaire.

BTC est un socle, mais peut-il couvrir l’ensemble des dimensions économiques et sociales d’une civilisation ? Dans une application concrète imposée dans le monde dans lequel nous vivons et non seulement dans une projection philosophique ou maximaliste.

Peut-être que la vraie révolution, c’est pas de tuer les autres protocoles, mais de les ré-articuler autour d’un centre de gravité décentralisé. BTC en socle, ETH ou d’autres en catalyseurs d’usages.

T’en penses quoi ?

Ba étant une technologie qui offre une monnaie fondamentalement déflationniste son utilisation massive ou exclusive nous demanderai un changement de paradigme énorme car nous devrions fatalement adopter un mode de vie plus frugale. Ce qui coince avec la grande partie de nos actions même quand tu rentre dans les actions qui on des causes noble aujourd’hui on a besoin d inflation pour vivre. Après c est effectivement de mon point de vue une des plus révolutionnaire des invention avec celle de l ia mais sortie de son utilité pour générer et stoker de la valeur de manière souveraine je me demande si les limites ne serons pas trop importante pour s en servir dans une autre dimension là où d autre protocole comme eth son sûrement plus résilient avec leur différente couche après sa pose question sur l émergence d autre protocole comme solana qui eu font régresser a mon sens le socle poser en resentralisant pour augmenter les rendement. Merci de fair avancer ma réflexion j att ton retour 🤙🏻

Where can you exchange sats for food. That's not a thing.

You’re partially right here and I agree that America isn’t just an idea, culture, heritage, and shared experience matter. But unlike Japan, America’s foundation was explicitly ideological: liberty, natural rights, self-governance etc…

We’ve always been a hybrid, part creed, part culture.

So yeah, preserving traditions matters, but so does understanding that what makes America unique is that its core identity can be shared across bloodlines if the ideals are truly embraced and lived out.

That doesn’t mean we don’t have a real culture worth protecting, but it does mean we’re not Japan, and we never were.

We’re something else entirely.

Bien souvent, les intérêts sont égaux ou supérieurs à l'inflation

No, you just think if I don’t fuck with anyone, they wouldn’t fuck with me and we can all live happily ever after, which is kinda delusional.

Give me one good reason why Iran needs to enrich uranium to 60% and hides their centrifuges deep in the mountains.

Just one.

Wow. I don't know why, but that amazes me. While I know it's subjective, imo, one of the ten best movies ever made. Godfather part 2 is fantastic as well. Godfather 3 sucked.

Dr. Hisham Ammous: Life as Clinical Surgery

Sept 1, 1944 - June 6, 2025

Hisham Saifedean Rashid Ammous was born in the village of Atteel in Palestine on September 1, 1944. After finishing high school in nearby Fadiliya school in Tulkarem, he moved to Saudi Arabia to work as a school teacher, then to Kuwait to work in the electric company. Unsatisfied with his career, he decided to become a doctor, and applied for a scholarship from the Jordanian government to the University of Madrid in Spain, through the Spanish embassy in Jordan. He moved to Madrid without speaking a word of Spanish, but graduated as a surgeon with distinction in 1976. After that scholarship, he practically never needed, asked for, or took anything from anyone until his last day.

In his five decades as a surgeon, Dr. Ammous must have performed over 20,000 surgeries across Spain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Palestine, Brazil, Lebanon, and Libya. He relished his work as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. To his profession and mission, he was the most devoutly dedicated man. He lived for surgery. Come rain, shine, snow, checkpoints, military invasions, cranky kids, genocide, or regional war, he found a way to make it to Al Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem almost every day, braving countless Israeli occupation checkpoints and dealing with the young criminals manning them and getting all of their life's meaning from the impunity they have to make the lives of innocent Palestinians hell. He became a regular traveler to wars and refugee camps to perform surgeries. He worked nonstop all day for days on end in warzones. He went to Gaza for surgeries after every Israeli mass slaughter over the years, and was desperate for the current genocide to end so he could return. His favorite 'vacation' was to visit me in Lebanon and perform dozens of free surgeries for destitute refugees.

His discipline was supernatural. He was never late for anything in his life, and was never disorganized. No matter what life threw at him, he relentlessly pursued his mission and was always prepared. His doggedness, determination, focus, and obsession will sound insane to most people, which is why most people will never perform 20,000 surgeries or do anything remotely as important with their lives. In his wake, hundreds of messages have poured in from people remembering how he helped them with his kind generosity, healed them with his skilled hands, and made them laugh with his legendary searing wit. Among the most amazing stories I heard was that he gave his patients’ families the keys to his hospital office so they could sleep in it and not have to drive through hours of checkpoints every day.

His supreme motivation in life, and the thing that gave life meaning for him, was to give his children a life better than the one he had, and he dedicated himself to it until the very end. He never ceased repeating this lesson to me, and he exemplified it every day. All his time, attention, and interests revolved around improving the lives of his children. He understood the whole of our human civilization rests on the foundation of people investing in giving their children a better life, and this was also the most profound lesson I learned from years of studying economics, and the central theme and most important lesson of my third and best book, Principles of Economics. For teaching me this lesson before I could read, that book was dedicated to him.

He is survived by his two sons, Ahmad and me, his daughter Dana, and three loving grandchildren who lit up his last ten years. Nothing can compare with the joy his grandchildren brought him. No money or accomplishment by him or me could have made him happier than my 2 year old making ever more outrageous demands for gifts as she tries to discover if there is anything he won't get her. His joy around her convinced me that the best thing you can do for your parents is to give them grandchildren. It seems offensive that life could be this simple and banal, that mere reproduction is the secret to its satisfaction, but he showed me it was true, and far from banal. We humans are wired to spend our lives seeking reproduction, and having it shape our happiness and satisfaction, because we wouldn't exist otherwise.

In my 44 years of life, I never recall seeing him bedridden with illness, and after five decades of caring for patients and children, he must have dreaded the thought of being on the receiving end of the care of others.

Dr. Ammous passed on the first day of Eid Al Adha, while taking a nap, after having called his friends and family to exchange Eid greetings. He died suddenly and immediately, and almost certainly felt nothing, and never had to suffer any serious illness or confront his impending mortality.

He lived blissfully immersed in his life's mission until its very last second. And he succeeded in it completely and perfectly. He gave his children everything they needed until they needed nothing more from him. The only consolation in his passing is that until his last minute he was strong, cheerful, healthy, sharply-dressed, and eagerly looking forward to seeing his grandchildren in a few days and giving them the many gifts he bought for them, and looking forward to vacationing this summer with his family in his beloved Madrid.

In his passing, he deprived his loving children of the chance to provide him a tiny fraction of the love and care he provided them for decades. This was a man determined to contribute more to this world than take from it, and to give his children everything. And he accomplished his life's mission clinically, like his surgeries.

If I don't call for the murder of anyone, how am I possibly extreme? Consider the obvious alternative explanation that you are do pathetically and heavily proagandized that you view the idea of Jews and goys being equal under the law as extreme.

⚡️💬 POW - Flash has just published its 9000th note in 164 days.

And I must confess: in my eyes, it's a failure.

For me, Nostr is not a secondary network, nor a protocol to be "tested". It's the network I've staked everything on. And maybe it's precisely because I believed in it so strongly... that I expected too much.

This feeling has been with me for 2 or 3 weeks. I've kept it to myself. But when you add up the time invested and the payoff... the result is hard to ignore.

Am I selling the present moment for an uncertain future? I've had this feeling for a few days now, and it's making me sincerely anxious. I tell myself that I've spent so much time dreaming of a future where I'll be living from Nostr, that I've forgotten to live in the present.

Despite the 164 days I've given up and 163 nights I've sacrificed, this dream is still far away, very far away indeed. As they say, it's when you start learning about a subject that you realize you're swimming in an ocean of ignorance.

That's a bit like what I experienced with Nostr, at the beginning I believed in it like hell, I threw myself into it with determination and stars in my eyes, the first few months went by super fast, I received 100 sats and exploded with joy, I thought that if I increased my work exponentially it would be the same for my income, but that's not the right calculation. Between theory and practice there's an unknown variable that can't be calculated.

Far be it from me to pity the readers, never. It's my failure, not yours. On the contrary, most of you have pushed me to push my limits, and that's quite a feat. I achieved the biggest speed run and the first speed run in the history of Nostr. Without you, I'd never have succeeded.

Now if I change my perspective and tell myself that the goal is not my personal success but the improvement of the Nostr protocol. So it's a success, I've documented my journey from the start and shared all my statistics with you. If anyone wants to embark on the adventure of making a living from Nostr, they can draw inspiration from my account and retrieve all the information they need. I encourage them to do so.

I think the things that have contributed to the success of my account are the concern for a job well done, both in form and content. Each publication is reworked, meticulously checked and, for those with an eye for detail, I've even established an artistic direction so that every time you come across a flash note you'll recognize it among 1000.

To sum up, from a personal point of view it's a failure, but from a collective point of view it's a success. The adventure isn't over yet, I've promised to write 10,000 notes, and words are very important to me. Words are worth a man or a man is worth nothing.

Maybe I'll go beyond that, maybe at 10,000 I'll take a break, maybe I'll stop and think about how to improve my life now, I don't know.

Some will be delighted, others will be disgusted. Either way, I wish only the best for both parties. As you know, I have nothing but love to offer.

Anyway, enough about me, let's get to the numbers: 164 days 9,000 notes 6,306 replies 1,580,588 satoshi received.

➤ 9000 / 164 = 54.878 notes per day

➤ 54.878 / 24 = 2.287 notes per hour

➤ 9000 + 6303 = 15.303 traces of activity

➤ 15303 / 164 = 93.311 activity traces per day

➤ 93.311 / 24 = 3.888 activity traces per hour

➤ 1580588 / 9000 = 175.621 sats per publication

➤ 54 * 175 = 9,450 sats per day

➤ 9000 * 8 = 72,000 working hours

➤ 9450 / 8 = 1,181.25 sats per hour

About €0.90 per hour worked for a btc at $105,000 as I speak. And I'm a little uncomfortable with the fact that one person has contributed almost half of my income, without him I'd be at €0.40 an hour, maybe even less...

I put Nostr ahead of my work, ahead of my sleep, ahead of my family and friends, that's just me, I'm like that when I get into something it's all or nothing. I hate doing things by halves.

I'm proud of how far I've come, I'm proud to know you, I'm proud to have made my place among the internet elite. Thank you all, I'm going back to work.

(Ps: I've also improved my English a lot thanks to you.)

Buy #bitcoin.

Get hardware wallet.

Stamp seed in metal.

Bury metal seedplate.

Buy more bitcoin.

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The whole point of bitcoin is not create dependency.

No dependency in anyone having control over inflation.

AND

NO DEPENDENCY OVER CUSTODY

Reject depending on anyone and any company for your bitcoin sovereignty.

#LearnToSeed until we have no dependency alternatives.

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