Our founding fathers revolted over much less

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Was at the gym today. Most people there were just sitting on a machine scrolling on their phone. Then didn’t a couple of light reps every 5 minutes. Then left without ever having even broken a sweat. Just lol.

Interesting to see how "Bitcoin Fixes This" is setting up to solve other tech problems the Web3 space is failing to solve. Nostr, Synonym, 'Web 5', Zion, TBD, Impervious, Keet and Holepunch all range in how much they interact with Bitcoin. Although Keet doesn't interact with Bitcoin at all, without Bitcoin, the project wouldn't be funded.

Saw a few posts recently suggesting that Bitcoin causes people to do buy Bitcoin and then do nothing, getting rich without doing anything. Hard Disagree.

It will be truly interesting to see how these systems interact. A content creator on Nostr gets a certain amount of LN tips so starts a livestream "spaces" not from a central server, but using Keet instead. Or perhaps if a new relay wanted to backup files from other relays, they could receive the files via Keet as well. (Sorry both examples involve Keet and Nostr, that's where most of my experience is at the moment, I need to dive into the other things still.)

A funny thing about building a world around an internet-native digital currency is that eventually the flaws of the internet start to impede your progress. That's why I think these projects are so important. Let's add more tools to the belt of freedom.

I tried this on Twitter before and I'm pretty sure the algorithm suppressed it and also that reputation means more here than on the bird app, so here it goes:

I am a Bitcoin miner since 2017 starting small and always growing slowly as opportunities arose. In early 2020 right before the lockdowns I co-founded a company with two other people experienced at raising capital because I wanted to mine at larger scale and of course get more Bitcoin. We spent over a year raising money on Zoom calls in an environment where everyone was freaking out about committing capital.

What I learned through this process is that the venture capital world is mostly full of awful people who only think in dollars and can't wait to tell you how to compromise your vision and bend the knee to what the hot idea of the moment is. In our case, it was eTheReUm mining because the risk was considered lower because of all of those cheap GPU's and a large supplier willing to discount them even more for a part of the deal.

Long story short, I was out voted by my fiat partners and the VC's and decided to leave the company. I ended up working on some gas flare mining in Wyoming and then an on grid project in Missouri where we helped some Chinese miners escape. While much smaller, these projects were a lot more fun.

So, with some context and history out of the way, here is the pitch. I have a couple of sites in Missouri and Texas with a lot of available power. Everything I personally have is in Bitcoin and one of these sites. I would like to build them and am open to hosting, however I want to do this with real Bitcoiners who share my beliefs about how important it is and want to have fun and earn some corn along the way. The sites require transformers and other electrical infrastructure which is not cheap. I don't have a plan beyond having the energy and the experience to build and run it and I'm genuinely curious how many of you would participate in something like this if given the chance? I'm happy to have this conversation publicly and also in DM's if you need to send something privately.

If all of this sounds sketchy or too shitcoiner, I would like that feedback as well. I see Foundry's hashrate going through the roof and I have no idea how smaller miners committed to Bitcoin can help to protect the network without joining forces.

Is this thing working?

How do you use coinjoin? And if all your bitcoin is KYC does it matter?

I’m here!!! Now what??

So when I first got on #nostr I added a bunch of relays thinking I needed to, paid for a couple so I’ll leave them, now I’m afraid to clear them and lose those I associate with… looking at my relays, is there a way to see what I should delete off of them? Or just let it ride? Thanks from a newbie #plebchain 🫡⚡️

Think it’s time I start looking into my own lightning node 🧡⚡️ anyone shoot me some helpful info I would appreciate it #plebchain 🫡

First person who can tell me the name of this "mineral" and how it's formed gets a sat attack.

1 more Free gift For the quick !! Happy zapping ⚡️⚡️