Long term, I’m optimistic for the reasons you mentioned. The near term could be ugly, especially with rapid price appreciation and influx of adopters.

I’ve been bringing this up mostly to bring attention to the dishonesty of people, like Saylor, who talk about how revolutionary self custody is, but leave out the fact that only a few million people will be able to do it. Plus, in his case, advocation for no more soft-forks ever (to address limited availability of self custody) and KYC/AML/tax compliance built into the LN bank apps, so as to not threaten the power of the State.

Both of these guys

- are from Steinkjer, Norway

- were born in 1972

- graduated from the same highschool

At 50, the guy to the right (Bjørn Arild Gram) became the new Minister of Defence of Norway, while the guy to the left (me) became an author of books on money, a speaker, bitcoiner and freedom activist.

#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=935x566&blurhash=iUJR5P_3IU9%5EuPcFofr%3D%253%3FGX7V%40s%3At6t7WVbIWr9uS5ofxFn5ofj%5BoejY%25hx%5DRkbItRxuofRPM%7BX8Rje.s.sTjFkCW%3DNG&x=6f7327dd30ae15730a40d1887a2a028acb1e0be0f44bf5105a92d17a894d7895

#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1079x1081&blurhash=%7C35q-M%7EVwunOIoNaM%7CI%3A9ts%3As%3AxbRkV%40e.bYt6ad%3D%7B%252xZsAV%40IpW%3BS4NdnhxG%24%2BWBf6ayR*S1R*MxV%40t7spofbFjYj%3FbaxZ%3D%7C%24%24RjWENGS%23NbNdIAWBbcRQRjWBxaxtt6%7EW-oxZjrRjofR*NHM%7D-poLWBRjRjkCayofWo&x=ecffd4f5672f3ccec6aa8bf7ed55bcb493d13e8301f6e1edb83fefd5b6dfeb44

We all seem to be in agreements this year is gonna be ROCKY….

Can’t help but wonder if that’s by design. Keep them on edge. The collective consciousness is in agreements bad shit will happen soon. Maybe a self fulfilling prophecy.

I know WEF made these predictions, election year yada yada

Seems like it is by design to keep us all on edge. Lacking trust. Anxious.

$34 fucking trillion dollars

Yup. Apple is the S&P. Literally.

Barclays is the joke here. Who the fuck are they and why would their opinion on anything matter at all.

Happy new year my dear friend 🫶🫶🫶🫶

Hey Nostr!

On January 15th it will be a year of me joining this community. I learnt a lot from you and I feel privileged to witness you build a new technology.

Now I have my thoughts about Nostr and they are not always the most popular but I respect what you're trying to do here. If I have one advice (or wish) to give you is to keep fighting. Don't give up on Nostr! Don't give up on BTC! Don't give up on building anything that would give the masses freedom! And don't give up on America!

Why am I saying don't give up on America? Because for the past couple of years (post Covid) I have been witnessing more and more Americans leaving the US. Trashing how life here sucks and it's better anywhere outside.

As an immigrant I can promise you that life outside isn't any different from here and in many instances it's way worst.

If you want to build something, if you really want to make a change in the world you have to be in America.

It's easy to leave. I know I have done it twice. I left Morocco to go to Canada. Then left Canada for the US (For different reasons). Many times I look back and ask myself, what if I stayed? What if I fought for what I believed in and built my country instead of going through all this? And my mentality changed thanks to Americans. YOU taught me to fight and build. YOU taught me that everything is possible. YOU taught me to dream. At the end of the day this is the land of the free and the brave, isn't it? So be free and be brave. Stay and build.

I'm saying all this because I saw a post on Twitter from a page of someone that always degrades the US and encourages ppl to leave. They try to make it sound like it's the coolest new thing. When in reality it's just cowardice and giving up. I know because I did it first.

If you consider yourself a freedom fighter, the biggest fight is here. If we lose America the rest of the world will go crazier.

And if you're not American, fight where you are no matter how hard it is.

P.S: When something breaks we fix it. We take care of it. We don't throw it or run away.

I guess this is my last post for 2023 and my wish for 2024 is that we unite even more and we build even better. God bless you! Go bless the US! And Happy new year!

WE COULD CALL THEM CITADELS

You have me beat in the hopeless romantic department 🥹🫂💜 that sounds lovely ☺️ but on nostr we all a little too far from each other 🥹🙏🏽 but I do have a fantasy of a meet cute where I’m in a bookshop in London and I maybe reach for the last copy of a book at the same time as a lovely guy and then in the end it won’t matter who gets the book cos we end up having a library together one day 😍🥹

I am so fucking bored of having to fight this shit constantly. I am now in prepping mode, and who knows if we’ll need it. I am away alot working so need to know my fam are ok if I’m stuck. If i get stuck in USA maybe i can sleep on your floors 😉

#Nostr

I say leave Europe anyways; we run NATO and fund that shit ourselves