A story that illustrates why I will never orange pill anyone ever again.

2015- Attempt to orange pill friend multiple times. No dice. Totally uninterested.

2019- He asks me if now is a good time to get into bitcoin. “It’s always a good time”. I set him up with a HW wallet and tell him DCA and chill.

2019- Friend calls me a few months later, he wants to put the down payment money for his house into bitcoin, but he’s nervous. I say no worries I will backstop your investment. What’re friends for?! I want you to succeed. He now has a no risk investment. Financed by me.

2020: Friend is doing well. Has been stacking hard and has 2 coins. A great stack for his income.

2021: He starts watching cringey YouTube videos about shitcoin trading. Gets into a private telegram, trades his 2 bitcoin into 4 and then gets rug pulled and loses everything.

2021: He’s near suicidal, very dark times. He doesn’t tell me anything because he knows I warned him about trading and thinks I’ll be disappointed in him. Finally he tells me. I help him get a personal loan so he can take advantage of the remainder of the bull run. He sells at 55k and manages to break even. He’s not up but he’s got his house money back.

2023: We’re out drinking with some other friends from high school. He expresses some jealousy towards me in a semi awkward fashion. “Every time I see this dude (me) I think about bitcoin.”

2024: I meet up with him so the kids can play at the park. Vibe is off. Lots of insecurity and tension. They’re going on a trip to San Diego and I ask if they might go to the zoo while there. “I can’t afford that. That’s for rich people like you”. Odd interaction, but I shake it off.

2024: A few weeks later he gets drunk and hits on my wife via text messages. She shows me immediately and I confront him. He’s like “sorry bro I was drunk I didn’t mean it”. I tell him off and make clear this is the last time we will ever speak.

No good deed goes unpunished. I could not have been nicer to this dude and more helpful along the way and he is fully consumed by envy towards me.

Unfortunate.

What is happening in Spain?

It appears automatically or do I have to restart my machine?

Is there such a thing as private zaps? Would you want it if it existed?

See you at the top…with the other #Bitcoiners #BTC #Bitcoin

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Largest market cap:

1 Microsoft $3T

2 Apple $2.66T

3 NVIDIA $2.16T

4 Saudi Aramco $2.05T

5 Amazon $1.79T

6 Alphabet $1.73T

7 #Bitcoin  $1.42T

8 Silver $1.39T

9 Meta $1.24T

10 Berkshire Hathaway $875B

Gold market cap: $14.68T

you know what I love about using nostr as my primary social media?

I have never worried or have had any anxiety about my follower count. I follow those who post interesting content that I want to see, not because they were suggested to me by some XYZ algorithm. I don't care who follows me or if someone I followed followed me back or not.

because a) the app I use doesn't push notifications about follows to create that ugly fomo feeling and b) it depends on your relay so the follower count changes anyway.

The percentage of your total wealth that you hold in Bitcoin dictates how good a Bitcoiner you are.

Are you in the 99% club?

If so, congratulations, there's little more you can do to screw the fiat system 😂.

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We got a big snowfall today. Two kids just knocked at our door, offering to shovel our front path for $5. I counter offered them, to pay 12,000 sats instead ($10-ish). They both thought about it and agreed.

They downloaded WoS on their phones, I showed them how to write an invoice, and sent them 6,000 sats each.

Their response: "Woah, cool! We've got Bitcoin!"

Can't wait for them to realise their $5 of SATs are worth $10 soon.

Hi, I’m just a simple CIA analyst specializing in profiling. Nostr protocol is invaluable for my work, providing insights into the impact of digital currencies like Bitcoin. I appreciate threads like this one, they make my job more efficient. Remember, while we gather data, we respect privacy rights. Looking forward to engaging with this community!

I still control the Google business profile of a gas station that I worked at a few years ago and I get all of their messages. Sometimes I have fun with it.