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Paul
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Associate Chair, Animation ArtCenter College of Design I’m a bitcoiner. I zap ⚡️daily on Nostr. I believe in freedom and creating the world I want to live in. When you hold fiat, you work for them. When you hodl ₿itcoin, they work for you. $ell & ₿uy⚡️ ₿uying ₿itcoin ₿eats ₿elieving ₿ankster’s ₿ullshit.
Replying to Avatar Keith Mukai

Yo, Nostr fam:

1. I can't wait to show off @npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl onstage

in Miami & discuss how the project couldn't exist without the open-source community. 🔥

2. But traveling to Miami is expensive! And I'm back to being an unfunded volunteer dev.

🙏Any help to offset the costs would be huge.

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Cost breakdown:

* Flight: 1,811,071 sats

* AirBnb: 2,699,571

* Uber/etc: 714,285

* Conf ticket: FREE (thanks @npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx!)

TOTAL: ~5.2m sats

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Meeting people in person is super-important. The relationships I've formed are invaluable.

I've already committed to upcoming trips to @npub1theparkprcs70dcs437ke9zzwsr6u60f8flu7rg28m30438aep9sd94dha @npub17yqgpat6e6ensd78jqhj4c3ef03uq04uqu3z05rhjnlk67lwm8wq9w5269

Pacific Bitcoin, and Adopting Bitcoin.

Would love to say yes to as many #bitcoin events as possible.

But traveling to conferences is a rough financial double-whammy: it's the travel expense PLUS I'm usually billing zero fiat contract hours while I'm away.

Punches a HUGE hole in my finances. 💸😭

Last Nov I did a 2.5wk trip to Pacific Bitcoin (LA), Adopting Bitcoin (El Salvador), and then to Bitcoin Commons (Austin). Was totally worth it. Zero regrets.

But holy cow did that drain my fiat reserves. Set me back a couple months.

So in a shittily ironic twist, the more I travel to #bitcoin events, the more time I have to spend away from bitcoin in order to catch up and bill more fiat contract hours.

Which leaves less time and brain power for #FOSS dev.

I've been working on SeedSigner for nearly two years. I am so grateful for the funding that allowed me to work full-time on the project for ~20% of that time.

Any funding at all for #FOSS devs is a blessing. But the reality is that there just ain't a lot of it out there.

Here’s some sats. 💜

₿lack coffee. Just like every morning.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I like mine to be fast. So I use double letters.

iOS

Settings/general/keyboard/text replacement

You can make all sorts of shortcuts there. Here are a few of mine I use often.

Bb

Going for a bike ride!

Gg

Going to the Gym!

Hh

Heading Home!

I love ₿lackberries!

⚡️Zapped ⚡️

💜 Followed 💜

🙏 ₿oosted 🙏

🤙 #plebchain 🤙

Gm☕️☀️

I’m not awake just yet. Lol

Why do zaps ⚡️ crush likes?

₿ecause likes have zero value.

When a pleb zaps you hard you have proof that value was exchanged.

I can not tell what is good news or bad news anymore.

I’m not saying no, I’m just saying it’s crazy.

That is a cheap fix, don’t sweat it! If it was in the sidewall, that’s a new tire.