The majority of people have a strong tendency to want to be part of something that is bigger than themselves. It is why they not just get up in the morning, but why they are *energized* to get up in the morning.

Clans and religions were among the earliest bigger things. People know that they will die, and so they invest into their descendants, honor their ancestors, and contemplate metaphysics and the nature of life. Many people will willingly sacrifice themselves for their children or for their highest ideals because of this.

In the modern era of printing presses and telecommunication systems, there is also a broader set of choices for people to group together around, either combined with those other ones or sometimes instead of them. Sometimes they choose nationalism. Sometimes they fight for a political ideology that transcends borders. Sometimes it is a professional guild or professional recognition. Sometimes it is the environment. Right or left or anywhere in between, you can often tell what someone adheres to as their highest ideal.

A powerful exercise is to 1) identify what you feel a part of in the bigger sense (it could be a few things) and 2) whenever someone’s behavior confuses you, stop and think about what they likely feel a part of in a bigger sense, if anything. You might feel that what they associate with is fucking retarded, but if you can at least identify it, then that is the first step toward successful communication and debate and rebuttal.

Using myself as an example, my professional experience is in a combination of engineering and finance. Separately, my ethical philosophy is grounded in virtue ethics (that’s a whole other longwinded topic), and as a result, what I feel a part of in a bigger sense is various social movements and protocols that utilize technology to bring financial autonomy to people. That’s where I put my time and capital toward.

Successful commerce involves the combination of value and communication. Therefore, I want people to be able to communicate freely and transfer value freely. As such, I strongly associate with the leading technologies in those fields, such as Bitcoin and Nostr.

If I thought they were weak, I would sympathize with them but not invest in them or have much hope for them. That was my view for a while. But if I view them as technically capable and achieving of network effects, then my rationality combines with my sympathy and becomes full support.

I don’t care what peoples’ race, sex, orientation, ethnicity, or nationality is. Instead, what I care about is doing whatever tiny part I can to bring technologies to people that allow them to transfer value and information to others, or to educate people on those technologies, etc. That is where my time and capital is focused on. Outside of family, that is what makes me energized in the morning to work toward.

What is yours?

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You can get kyc-free sats through mining

Just buy hashrate and send to mining pool account

I started a project - Rigly.io - to make this easy for people

They look like what we call honey mushrooms… armillaria… the same? Beautiful flush…

Dear #Nostr community: please describe your experience buying or selling #BTC for fiat in the cash app. Good, bad, indifferent? How high are the fees? Any "gotchas," restrictions or privacy leaks I should know about? Recommended alternatives?

#Openquestion #Newb #Help

That’s what I always say when people talk about a house being a bad investment. Bitcoin is obviously a way better store of value. But also, if you don’t pay your own mortgage and property taxes you are just going to be paying someone else’s and have nothing to show for it in the long run. You also aren’t going to be allowed to modify or improve it and have to get permission from a landlord to have pets, run a business out of it, or whatever else you might want to do in it.

Be that as it may I gotta live somewhere and I prefer it to be a house that I build equity in vs renting and building the landlorda equity.

On the topic of #bitcoin #hardforks

I heard some folks saying we should have hard forks in bitcoin more often to encourage development. It sounds good but consider when bcash split off. I immediately collected my bch and exchanged for more btc, and most of you probably did the same. I made the decision to do so for a mixture of technical and ideological reasons. Someone was on the other side of that trade for their own reasons, and they got rekt. Every time there is a hard fork, a large group of people will get rekt. Personally I think the base layer is like 98% ossifyed and most of the innovation will be in in layer 2+, because I'd rather not see people lose their purchasing power cause someone wanted to change the protocol.

Idea millonaria: llevar a la realidad los bares de café ☕ hechos con #AI en #negr0art

Conseguir un equipo de diseñadores, arquitectos, conseguir fondos de inversión y construir bares a dueños con su imagen o lo que quieran que se vea

NADA FACIL pero sería innovador porque no existe aún

Eso sí, únicamente pagos en #bitcoin

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P/d: no me copien la idea 😂🫣

Got about 75k in my hot wallet, everyone will get 5,000 sats who replies till I run out. 😎

#Plebchain #Introductions #Zap #Nostr.

#grownostr

Grow just one thing that you eat regularly, even just some pots on your apartment balcony.

I really don’t understand how any bitcoiner can be a Trump supporter.