What? I come from the southern hemisphere, I can see the angle of the sun there at that time of year that's in the north, then I travel and see it around the horizon. Draw triangles. It only works if the earth is round.

If you get a chance go to the Arctic circle in summer and you will see the sun move around the horizon. This is not possible on a flat earth. It's a pretty cool experience, I did it in St Petersburg a few years ago

Is it time to buy chairs yet?

Arthur Schopenhauer (pessimism kid → bitter adult)

Becomes the perpetually grumpy uncle who says things like “What’s the point? We’re all going to die anyway.”

Collects failed relationships like trophies of “proof” that love doesn’t exist.

Has a dark, sarcastic sense of humour but also secretly listens to sad piano music at night.

Friedrich Nietzsche (edgy rebel kid → contrarian adult)

Grows into the guy who thinks every rule is a conspiracy against him.

Always says “I’m built different” while working out shirtless.

Might either become a gym bro philosopher or a chaotic artist who smokes cigars and quotes himself.

Karl Marx (political radical kid → revolutionary adult)

Becomes the friend who turns every conversation into “you see, that’s capitalism’s fault.”

Starts three podcasts and a co-op café that constantly goes broke.

May either end up as a professor, a union organiser, or the guy handing out pamphlets outside Starbucks.

Marcus Aurelius (stoic kid → chill adult)

Turns into the calm, unshakable dad figure who says “control what you can, let go of the rest” when your life is falling apart.

Drinks black coffee, reads before sunrise, and gives unsolicited motivational speeches.

Most likely to own a minimalist apartment with only a chair, a desk, and a copy of the Bitcoin Standard.

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Number 5 because they lost all their Bitcoin on MtGox

Not saving in monero is a psyop.

Price is needed to attract hashrate which is needed to secure it and prevent 51% attacks.

Bitcoin is getting pumped with billions from wall street, but it is only 2x 10x pumps from the total global wealth. It can't sustain the price rises.

Monero is 400 time smaller than Bitcoin

If that's where privacy is going to go the market cap is much larger than 0.25% of Bitcoins.

Will be fixed soon

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An Iranian colleague got stopped by customs trying to import a kg of honey into Australia. He put up such a fuss and refused to give up the honey that they held him and tested it for drugs.

Trading is war.

Bitcoiners are celebrating Bitcoiners doing the very evil that Bitcoin was made to fix.

The hypocrisy will come back to haunt us when we are blamed for destabilising the financial system.

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You said that at the best case you were 5 times higher cost than it being profitable.

I stated that actual electrical wholesaler prices are regularly below 5c per kWh. In actually practice they are often negative for a large part of the day where I live due to solar feed in.

By financially profitable not being the same as actual profit I assume that means the cost of capital and maintenance? Which is why I said that it could make sense for idle computing capacity.

I don't know what you mean by subsidised? This is wholesale prices.

What I am saying is that the returns are close to the marginal cost of production.

At 5c per kW the daily cost is $0.072, roughly equal to power price. If you had idle computing capacity it makes sense

The commercial power price is probably closer to 5c most of the time.

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Anyone who wants to use it as money

Might need to build it on BitTorrent

This is not a good thing

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Don't vote is a psyop.

Even is you are disinterested in politics, politics is still interested in you.

I think we might be at peak whole coiner. I think price will spike before mass adoption

God is infinite and we’ll never grasp Him entirely. But that doesn’t mean we can’t know anything about Him. Christianity rests on the claim that God chose to reveal Himself, not through speculation, but through specific events, words, and a person. Revelation is partial, not because it’s censored, but because we are finite.

As for contradictions between religions, that’s precisely why not all can be true. But it doesn’t follow that none are. The presence of counterfeits doesn’t prove there’s no real thing, just that we need a way to measure truth beyond human projection.

To call God’s word “heavily censored” assumes it was entirely man made and manipulated. But if revelation began with God, then the question isn’t whether humans shaped it, it’s whether truth can survive human hands. The Christian claim is that it can, and has.

Vlad hosts the best podcasts by far and isn't afraid to call out bullshit and have difficult conversations.

Sad to see so many bad takes in the comments.

Bitcoiners needs to have chronic unless, to keep our eye on the goal and not settle for a banker controlled asset.

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Going through my kids books and realising how many have woke themes. What books would you recommend for 5-8 year olds? #bookstr

Congratulations that's awesome

What client do you use to see that?

I'm not convinced Nostr is dying. It feels more like it's in a lull, not a decline. Hopefully it's the kind of quiet stretch that gives space for better UX, stronger moderation tools, and more resilient infrastructure to emerge.

One of Nostr's weaknesses has been marketing itself primarily as censorship-resistant. Truth is, most users don't care about that until they really need it. And ironically, it still relies on DNS for relays and clients, so it's never been fully censorship proof anyway.

But that's also where its real strength lies: interoperability. Using DNS makes it incredibly accessible. Websites, apps, and services can plug into Nostr with minimal friction. There's no wallet requirement, no token gatekeeping. Just keys, events, and relays. That low barrier is a feature, not a flaw.

That said, I agree development has hit a ceiling by insisting on being Bitcoin only. It doesn't need to gate integration. It could have bridged to other protocols, apps, or ecosystems and absorbed them through network effect alone. That maximalism is creating unnecessary friction.

I'm watching Pubky closely. It's elegant, and PKARR solves a real problem, but by dropping DNS and requiring DHT based discovery, it creates a higher barrier for web developers. It might solve more in theory but appeal to fewer in practice. Unless it abstracts away that complexity really well, I see it as complementing Nostr, not replacing it.

Nostr still has reach, Pubky has structure. They would both be stronger if they bridged.

Sorry, replied under the wrong comment.

I think you are forgetting that protocols are tools for an audience you need to serve if you want your product to work.

Bridging the two would allow you could post on one and have it appear on the other, with proper threading, authorship, and identity intact. Pubky gets real time activity and a bigger audience. Nostr gets structured content, federation, and long-term storage.

Most importantly, it keeps the community together. We don’t need another protocol war. We need connection, compatibility, and freedom to choose our tools without losing our voice. Bridging helps make that real.

If pubky is better, over time nostr clients and relays will drop off and be replaced by pubky clients and servers.

You were a useful idiot during the block size wars and now bitcoin doesn't scale as a payment system to serve the world even with lightning. Now you are here demanding another all or nothing split when nostrs coming together.

Yeah, but I think it was like 300 to 2 in favour of the Nicene creed

I've read your blog and am interested. Is the Pubkey app the only client. Can anyone write a client and Interact with people on the Pubkey app?

How does spaces bypass ICANN, you only register your name on chain?

Also, why is it capped at 3600 spaces per year? That means most people need to trust someone to give them a subspace.

Does that mean we are now in the bear market?

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That's where the reformation started. Similar vibes.

Hahaha, that's funny

Non-interactability

First? Doesn't nostr:nprofile1qqsth7fr42fyvpjl3rzqclvm7cwves8l8l8lqedgevhlfnamvgyg78spp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqyxtl4r use MLS for gruops

Just use samiz with citrine and amethyst

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Just check it first and say #GM

You’re right that regimes like the Soviets and Communist China committed atrocities to maintain power, but removing God made that kind of unchecked power possible. Without a higher moral authority, they weren’t just suppressing rivals, they were eliminating any competing source of truth, meaning, or accountability. Atheism wasn’t the sole motive, but it created the vacuum where the state could become absolute and conscience could be crushed without restraint.

The same pattern is true of much religious violence throughout history. It was often about control, not genuine faith. Leaders used religion as a tool to legitimise their power and eliminate competition. That wasn’t obedience to God, it was a distortion of belief for political gain.

The difference is this: when religious violence happens, it usually violates the core teachings of the faith, especially in Christianity, where Christ taught love, mercy, and nonviolence. But when atheistic regimes commit violence, they aren’t violating their worldview, they’re often acting entirely in line with it. Without God, there’s no moral limit to what can be justified in the name of progress or power.

I was surprised when he told me he used to, but stopped. If people don't hold their keys it increases the chances of a 6102 and fractional reserve, which ultimately hurt all bitcoiners. We need to do better at promoting self custody options that are pretty solid but achievable. I don't know of a resource to point him to. #asknostr

I have always lived on the east coast and rarely experience the sun slowly fading to red over the horizon. For me the sun just gets obscured by trees or mountains, then it's dark.

There is something about the red light of the sun over the water that signals the end of the day and makes your body unwind and relax.

Just spoke with a guy at work who moved all his Bitcoin from holding it at home on a ledger to having it in an ETF. He glassed over and looked at me strangely when I told him he is better to hold it himself, but he was scared of having "that much money sitting in a draw at home".

What's a good tutorial on bulletproof ways to secure your keys?

Is #buzzbot still a thing?

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They will be getting jobs soon

https://snapnostr.app/

Has anyone used a Bitcoin miner to make beef jerky?

Love your stuff. Keep up the good work.

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Friday night pizza. This is the best tasting pizza I have made in the ooni pizza oven. #foodstr

It would be cool if someone got Astral working for nostalgia.

Ouch

Yeah, it's a shame. It would be good if there was a real nostr client for music. Wavlake is ok for discoverability, most other solutions arent great for discoverability. I want to see music that is popular from my friends playlists. A client that could do that well and was truely open would be great.

#GM #travel #Sicily #beach

Bitcoin to one million 🚀

#GM #coffee with milk and biscuits