I never can keep up with Arizona time. The Daylight Savings Time rebels you are.

Not yet in Mountain Time!

I agree with 99.99999% of what you say here. I think that individuals are primary characters but God himself is the prime.

The moral of the Jesus story is true. Political power and retaining of power is a major theme of the Gospel accounts. Jesus is the rebel that leads his people to real truth instead of political maneuvering.

Ultimately it’s the substance of the real truth that’s what’s most important, and that is sin is present in every individual. I believe 100% that “Power corrupts. But absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This is the temptation of sin. The reason why I’m a Bitcoiner is the same reason Im a Christian. Governments are incredibly tempted by selfishness and power. People are tempted by the same. The only hope for mankind is what Jesus offers in restoration back to something foundational and hard. Just like Bitcoin brings us back to the same with money.

Deep thoughts for a Monday night. Thanks for the 2 sats!

Bitcoin logo in Vincent Van Gogh impressionist style.

This might be fairly controversial but it’s interesting to me to see that hardcore Bitcoiners are often anti-nihilistic. This screams to me the proof of divinity, design, and objective truth.

Fiat = False subjective reality

Bitcoin = True objective reality

This means that God isn’t whatever you want Him to be. God is God. If God is God, then who is He actually?

Evidence and reason has Orange pilled me into being a #Bitcoin maxi. I have not experienced the future of hyperbitcoinization but I have faith that it will be the case.

The same is true about my Christianity. Reason and evidence have convinced me of Christianity even though I have not seen God face to face, but I have faith that I will one day.

Definitely not trying to slam the Bible at people but find the two things very interesting.

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#jesus

Yea, it feel like one big economic experiment, and we are the mice getting electrocuted.

I think you’re right. But if history is our guide, it’s short term.

I’m still pretty fuzzy on them as well. It sounds like fiat built on the gold standard but with Bitcoin instead of gold backing it.

To me, the problem is that you are trusting the Fedimint for a lot, but it has to be better than the current system.

Great article from #[0]​:

If this scenario does come to fruition, Lyn cautions that the Fed will become a hyper-politicized institution and calls for it to be more tightly managed by the government will grow. At this point, it will be all but over for any semblance of autonomy for the Federal Reserve and likely the dying breath of the US Dollar as the reserve currency of the world.

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Is a fedimint a possible way to move the US dollar onto a Bitcoin standard? I don’t see why Bitcoin still couldn’t be legal tender, but could this be a simple way to get the general population onto Bitcoin? What are the pros and cons?

Ideally, everyone learns how to self-custody, but I know boomers who have 17 Facebook accounts because they keep forgetting their passwords and just create new accounts. I couldnt imagine trying to help them remember their seed phrases.

#bitcoin

#plebchain

To be honest, I can’t see how the spikiness doesn’t go away. I don’t think the Fed will let us go into default. They’ll just go into money printer mode to “save” the economy ultimately jacking up prices again due to asset inflation.

Would this just be a version of the news curated by the larger shareholder population? Presumably, shareholders could stack sats through subscribers and article contributors? So they are incentivized to curate good content and to take a chance on new content producers.

Sounds like a great idea as long as you’re not talking about dirty fiat.

What do you mean by go down? It’s been going down for a long time. Real estate prices may go down short term but they go up long term due to asset inflation. For better or for worse, US is propping up the world economy still (until hyperbitcoinization IMO).

If you see real estate as a long term option, then you’re probably going to end up ok.

Just added the nostr.wine relay and really impressed with the speed and load time, especially global. Thanks #[0]​!

This is the reason why inflation isn’t going away. Preston Pysh explains it well. The Treasury and Fed are giving mixed signals. They are raising rates (hitting the brakes) and yet still expanding the money supply (hitting the gas).

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This is a reverse repo.

“The party executing the reverse repo sells assets to the other party while agreeing to buy them back later at a slightly higher price.”

Marty Bent has an excellent post on how visible this is in the grocery store through something called shrinkflation. Basically, everything is getting smaller as a way of hiding that the dollar is losing value rapidly.

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I get it

Tailscale changed the game completely. It’s incredibly fast and easy to setup

More bullish on #bitcoin today than ever due to #Nostr. Zaps are incredible. UX on #Damus is unreal and opens up those who will be signing on.

Fantastic idea. I really love using Zeus and with the hosted Lightning address support, I can use my own node and don’t have to use custodial services like Wallet of Satoshi.

Were you thinking of stacker.news?

Lightning address. Not a Lightning invoice. You’d have to generate one using LNBits or BTCPay if you’re trying to generate from your node. Otherwise, try Wallet of Satoshi which is the easiest option.

Looks like you have an expired Lightning invoice in your profile. You’ll need a LNURL that you can get from a Lightning address.

Most people here are getting them on Wallet of Satoshi, but it doesn’t work on iOS for me. You can get it from your own node as well.

An easy setup is Zebedee. They give you a Lightning address when you sign up.