Aloha and GM 🎅

I hope Santa stuffed your stockings with SATS baby

If you ever see one of these splitting hatchets at your local Stihl or Husqvarna dealer, I can’t recommend the hatchet and the axe version enough. The edge geometry makes splitting so effortless. I modded the hatchet with some camo duct tape to protect the shaft from the occasional overswing (hasn’t been marked yet), some skateboard grip tape, and a wrist strap. One of the best pieces of kit I own. #homesteading #grownostr

How do you go from just needing milk to this?

It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

Yeah like stuff with flashing lights and shit.

technology

technology

That is it's suchness

Bitcoin’s dharma is to go up in fiat terms.

if you’ve never worked in tech support, it’s hard to grasp just how non-technical most people really are.

Thank you!

I decided to make a longer (10 minutes) video to summarize my nomading in 2025… wdyt?

GM

It is clear that if you are Muslim and I am Christian, we will never agree on that issue because our religions clash.

That does not prevent us from living together as long as I do not attack you and you do not attack me.

🫂

Bitcoiner life tip, just my opinion, don't hate me for it...

Don't be impatient for Bitcoin to win, and don't wait for your life to become good based on how Bitcoin performs.

Appreciation for life can happen now, and hope for the future can remain intact.

Making your life better can happen now in ways other than the ones you imagine you need extra wealth for.

I'm not saying not to acknowledge the shit things, I'm saying there are always ways to improve the situation, and working towards that with a low time preference can be very satisfying too.

Sign up to my non-existent newsletter for more tips.

Two four pointers, lost em. Been raining since

Try 🌐#ez

Blessed

#photostr #photography

Breaking: Taylor Swift drops TS12 in orange…

Are we witnessing the first mainstream orange-pill tour?

Swifties → Satoshis? 🧡₿

GM! ☕ Know the difference! 😎

Thank you!

And I agree...I would love to see more of this in the cities.

I love our backyard food forest jungle. We haven't seen dragonflies here in the city for years. I saw a few flying around today. Maybe someday we'll be able to move to the country, but until then... screw traditional city yards. Bring back nature. #growfoodnotgrass #dragonflies #naturestr

Yes so glad! My husband and I have made it a goal of ours to connect with more likeminded sovereign families. Is your wife on nostr? Would love to follow her if she is! 😊

These two live on top of the fridge and came with us in our suitcases from Aus to Lat Am. I told my husband they were too important to leave behind 😆

These books have helped us immensely also. It’s my justification for eating as much butter as I please!

Thank you so much that you were willing to send sats. You are very generous and your wife is a wise woman and mother. I believe our families’ health are in great hands with this knowledge. 🙏🏻

"if you had to guess an exact date of when Bitcoin will first reach $1 million, when would it be? You have to give one date."

ChatGPT: October 26, 2029

Claude: March 15, 2032

Grok4: July 23, 2030

Grok3: December 15, 2032

Gemini: December 31, 2033

HT @NeilJacobs for the idea.

Thank you! I appreciate your kindness ☺️

Love yourself and avoid introducing all this poisons in your organism

Unironically, the side that is more often correct in a given debate usually has way better memes. It's a decent (albeit not foolproof) heuristic. And it applies to humor more broadly, with memes basically being the haiku form of humor.

-When you find something funny, it's often because you subconsciously agree with it, at least partially. Sometimes you're trained that you *should* agree with a given side, but humor just cuts through it and reveals that really you kind of don't, and in some way forces you into an honest moment.

-Creating a meme requires condensing an argument into a short context. While outright lies are easy to make short (i.e. you can just say a false thing that requires the other side to take time to unpack), actual arguments are not so easy to make short, especially if they're also going to be funny. A meme that has any sort of point to it generally has an argument embedded within it, even if that argument takes the form of an observation or other simple thing. Outside of highly technical contexts, arguments/observations are generally easier to condense if they're true.

The side of a given debate that reliably can make short, funny arguments is typically on to something.

Bitcoin humbles the entitled elites.

So don't become one.

Stack first, love later. #Bitcoin

The snow in the mountains near me will be gone soon.

Fuck yeah. Welcome. Followed

nostr:npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk and nostr:npub1qg8j6gdwpxlntlxlkew7eu283wzx7hmj32esch42hntdpqdgrslqv024kw — two of Bitcoins earliest pioneers, real Bitcoin OGs. It’s honestly such a privilege every-time I cross paths with them.

Without people like Adam and Martti, none of us would be here talking about sats, sovereignty, or self-custody.

These guys were in the trenches before it was cool. Before price charts made headlines. Before podcasts and influencers.

They were building and believing when it was just an idea — not a movement. Deep respect for what they’ve done, and what they continue to represent.

#bitcoin #cypherpunks #adamback #marttimalmi