Bull markets can be more strenuous and disorienting than bear markets. Tread lightly, don't do anything stupid, don't lose your mind, and try your best to remain calm and focused. It's relatively easy to "stay humble and stack sats" in a bear market. It's harder in the bull, especially the first part. That said, don't forget to take care of yourself and make sure to enjoy the ride.

Grateful to be on this journey with ya'll.

Never forget what you are #bitcoin

And just like that, the $ is gone from the clock.

Use your nip05!

We recently painted a shop with Machankura (using bitcoin without internet) in Dambwa North Market as a way of helping with Bitcoin adoption and spreading awareness.

The owner of the shops now accepts payment in bitcoin. If you wish to show him some love, here is his lightning address:

obriensimutelo92@blink.sv

#introductions

Hi #nostr, I'm normally a bluesky user. Here is a flattering picture of me.

#asknostr why do you hate me?

I heard you are all trying to get rich ditching the dollar with #bitcoin . And I'm here to tell you that that is transphobic and albiest.

It uses to much electricity which causes global warming AND trans people and people of color are dying by the billions due to #globalwarming and #climatechange

More than 8 billion trans black men died from either climate change or from being infected by the unvaxed racist last year alone.

So I'm asking, no demanding you all hand over your private keys to me now.

#bluesky for life

#introductions

Hi #nostr, I'm normally a bluesky user. Here is a flattering picture of me.

#asknostr why do you hate me?

I heard you are all trying to get rich ditching the dollar with #bitcoin . And I'm here to tell you that that is transphobic and albiest.

It uses to much electricity which causes global warming AND trans people and people of color are dying by the billions due to #globalwarming and #climatechange

More than 8 billion trans black men died from either climate change or from being infected by the unvaxed racist last year alone.

So I'm asking, no demanding you all hand over your private keys to me now.

#bluesky for life

Not a single sat of my #bitcoin stack will go to taxes to support authoritarian governments. I will protect it with my life and seek refuge in nations that honour freedom and prosperity.

MARA acquired a wind farm in Texas to mine with “end of life” ASICs.

#memes

I have grill plates over fans to stop little fingers.

Because I wouldn’t want my cat to fuck things up. Also, my GF wouldn’t allow it

What’s your favorite non-nostr, non-bitcoin app? And why? #asknostr

I like Skyguide on iOS. Much attention to detail in the design - something I pay attention to.

For a while now I was considering to buy a #bitcoin miner (Space heater). I kept hesitating whether or not to buy it. But two weeks ago I thought Fuck it, let’s do this, we’ll see how it goes. So I ordered a Bitmain Antminer S9.

Few days later it came in the mail and I was so excited to assemble everything. But of course I had to do a little photoshoot at first 😄.

Assembling this was fairly easy, some parts were a bit hard to reach tho, but overall fun and easy to do.

After assembling everything I needed to configure the miner too, and this process was a little bit of a puzzle, I’m still busy with that tbh, but one thing I know for sure is that I’ll be solomining Bitcoin with it.

So yeah, I’m happy to add a few terrahashes to the Bitcoin network with this machine! 🤩

#btc #btcmining #bitcoinmining #solomining #antminer #bitmain #lottery #s9

lil rant: am I the only one who thinks that NOSTR sorta gained steam at the wrong time?

I know Jack was a big part of the early onboarding back in Q4 2022, but something tells me if it all came together just a bit earlier in the 2021-2022 censorship crisis w/ Jan 6th, trucker protests, etc - NOSTR would be EXPONENTIALLY more complete on a software + UX perspective by now than it actually is today.

the use case for the average person is just not that obvious or impactful in an environment that isn't hostile towards free speech, which Twitter/X isn't at the moment.

and even if it were to become gradually worse, the benefits of using a centralized platform for free speech (like hosting videos natively) vastly outweighs the difficulty it takes to execute the same speech on this one

(maybe I'm shouting into the wind, but I thought it'd be worth posting since I can never delete the thought on NOSTR even if I wanted to, the same way I can't delete the thought from my head 😂)

GN

Replied above on hardware. >7b models run at acceptable speeds. Mistral-Nemo 12b runs a little slowly but faster than I think.

I don't think so. Have just set up a £200 machine that's running multiple local small LLMs at acceptable speeds.