Don’t forget about Trailer Park Boys. I listen to more than one Canadian podcast where one can often hear the the gentle clinking of ice cubes against the side of a cocktail glass throughout the show.

When my parents sent my kids birthday and Christmas cards they always included a personal letter written in cursive. I wouldn’t let the kids have the money out of the card until they read the cursive letter out loud to me.

There was actually a good podcast from “what bitcoin did” with C. Jason Meyer who wrote a book on the subject.

“A Progressive's Case for Bitcoin is for everyone who is starting to learn about Bitcoin and wants to understand the reality behind the buzz. Exploring the value proposition of Bitcoin through a progressive lens, Maier's book explores why Bitcoin is good for the environment, how it helps poor and marginalized communities, and why Bitcoin serves as a protest against too-big-to-fail banks: all the people-centric reasons Bitcoin was created in the first place. This inspirational read, which requires no background knowledge, is a great starting point for anyone who is curious about Bitcoin beyond the boundaries of western privilege, clickbait headlines, and social media chatter.”

https://www.bitcoinprogressive.com/

I don’t agree with many of his views, but he try’s to argue the point of view.

More pictures please.

Step 1: get your country on the bitcoin standard and build reserves.

Step 2: find a few trillion dollars in gold.

Step 3: take a loan from the IMF.

Step 4: use the IMF loan to mine the gold and buy bitcoin.

Step 5: flood the market with gold and inflate the price by 30%.

Step 6: pump everyone’s bags.

I played with my new #meshtastic radios I bought from nostr:npub160t5zfxalddaccdc7xx30sentwa5lrr3rq4rtm38x99ynf8t0vwsvzyjc9

today.

I learned how to connect my phone to a radio and how to set up some basic configuration settings on the radio.

I couldn’t see anyone else while I was sitting inside my house. So I carried a second radio up the hill, about 400 yards away, to increase line of sight to other radios and have a direct line site to my house.

Sitting in my living room I now can see 21 contacts as far as 30 miles away. All in all I have spent 2-3 hours of self teaching and experimenting from YouTube videos on this project. Meshtastic is so easy, I highly recommended it to anyone wanting to learn basic radio and secure communication.

#grownostr #hamradio

I think the appeal is private communication.

Does any of it really matter? Not every miner in the US, let alone the rest of the world only confirm OFAC compliant transactions. Node runners are even more noncompliant. Governments are having a lot of FOMO right now. But what about consensus?

Lots of people are pondering government spurred soft forks making a mess. What about consensus driven hard forks that restore Bitcoin to people who had it confiscated by a government? What about a consensus driven hard fork that winds back all of the transactions on a government’s reserve coins that they could never get it all back?

I find laws overly restrictive. Even something like a bill of rights. I guess those are our only rights? Wrong! Asking for laws, rules or guidance is only asking for restrictions. Never forget, that the people of bitcoin run bitcoin. When governments ban a thing they only create black markets.

Don’t believe me? I’ll go buy some marijuana in a state where it’s illegal and ship it to you via the United States Postal Service. It happens every day, a lot!

I am looking forward to getting a tdeck. Just testing out some basics first. Currently the closest repeater is about fifty miles away from me. I want to set up a little connectivity around my area, maybe a little guerrilla node placement so I can reach out to other areas and then travel with a tdeck.

Me too. Currently the closest node is almost fifty miles away from me. I’m going to guerrilla node the shit out of this little town! My goal with this first five nodes is to create line of sight between my house and my wife’s workplace about eight miles away.

Yes, on IOS. I checked for an update when it started glitching and there wasn’t one in the App Store. Today there was an update. I installed the update. It wiped everything out, but it’s working fine again. I just had to re-follow the half a dozen podcasts. I listen to.

Just got the 5 Meshtastic nodes I ordered from nostr:npub160t5zfxalddaccdc7xx30sentwa5lrr3rq4rtm38x99ynf8t0vwsvzyjc9

So excited to start my Meshtastic journey! Everything was well packaged and started right up. Cases appear to be high-quality. Included in the package was a copy of the Cipherpunks manifesto, and a flyer about NOSTR.

Thank you and well done, Gary.

#grownostr #hamradio #p2p #plebchain

It is necessary to maintain several digital profiles, on various platforms. Each with different perspectives. In order to practice good counter-surveillance and counterintelligence.

Do you pick them when they are still green and let them dry or do you let them dry on the vine? What’s your process?

Kind of reminds me of Kodak. So full of belief in their ability to steamroll their competition the world passed them by.

Who cares?

Forbidden

Would you look at that? Lines right up with the outage. Forbidden

What do you want to bet the “investments” they are taking about are government debt instruments? Makes the money printer go burrrr without even involving the Fed.

Meta (facebook, instagram, etc.) went down. Now that it’s coming back online users are reporting that they are missing information, posts, chats, etc. NOSTR fixes this.

https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

#grownostr