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Ice King of Nostr since 774,524 I am just an unfrozen lawyer that became a caveman. Your Memes and Zaps frighten and confuse me.

A quick note on encryption rights and private money.

Have you ever heard of the Jefferson Cypher? It was pretty cool. America’s founding fathers were huge users of and innovators in the field of encryption. They correctly understood encryption is part of free speech.

They also communicated financial transfers via speech on pieces of paper known at the time as Cheques. These cheques were often associated with private banking organizations. When privacy was needed, these technologies were used in tandem.

What’s the big takeaway? Never let them try and make Bitcoin illegal because it uses encryption and/or that it is a private form of money. The founding fathers want you to stand up for your freedoms and defend your right to conduct your affairs using encryption and private money. They literally died for your right to Bitcoin.

Even if you are not an American, these rights belong to all people. All you have to do is exercise them and refuse to be stopped by any form of tyranny that would attempt to stop us. I will always be by your side if your heart yearns to be free.

We will win. And have a great time doing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_disk

Nostr poll:

Do you think academia trains people to be independent thinkers or does it train people to conform to orthodox ideas?

Vote via reply text. Feel free to elaborate on your response.

When hyperbtc happens:

A pseudonymous person or group, who is definitely not me, as I would never dox my future self, will be creating a museum for the preservation of oscilloscope musical arts.

#PlebCulture

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Nostr Pro-Tip:

1. Find a prominent Bitcoin only npub on your favorite npub index, Twitter is my preferred npub indexer. Look at who they follow and start following ones you like.

2. Hang out in “post & replies” and mingle. You will find more and more good folks to follow every day.

3. Throw in a few posts and a zap. Baby, you got a stew going.

Replying to Avatar Guy Swann

Consider,

Twitter could've implemented lightning tips, or honestly payments of literally any kind YEARS ago. But they didn't. Why?

#Nostr on the other hand has accomplished this in no time, and everyone who has experienced it immediately feels what a big deal this is... but why exactly?

Numerous features implemented in Nostr could've been on Twitter all this time.

• Do you think it's because they didn't want to?

• Was it too technically difficult, even though Nostriches pulled it off in a matter of days or weeks?

Of course not, it was POLITICALLY infeasible. Remember how Facebook spent *years* and bookoos of capital trying to create a *whole new currency* just to enable it because there was no chance of doing it with dollars? They were even dragged before Congress to explain why they would do such a thing as enable payments on social media! How dare they! It was easily squashed despite the fact that the list of those backing it was essentially a Who's Who of Silicon Valley fintech.

And what did the Twitter Files teach us? That not only would the suffocating regulatory environment make tips and payments on social media virtually impossible, but the political leviathan refused to even allow them to freely TWEET to their followers! Intelligence agencies were both *funding* social censorship & had direct communication channels to shut down people's accounts, shadow ban, & ensure that "unapproved" opinions simply can't travel through the network.

Like @#[0] said, "this has the power to monetize dissent." Consider the insane power of sharing an "unapproved" opinion to millions of people and being directly rewarded with 1000s, maybe 10s of thousands of private, instant payments while the post has unfiltered, free flow to every last user in the network.

No more "donation services" or "patreons" that take 10% and will preemptively shut down anything remotely against the establishment. No more Go fund Me's fuck stealing millions going to protestors to donate to a "charity of their choice." They are all immediately redundant & pointless.

Instead we are walking into a world with unfiltered, free flowing information and unfiltered free flowing money.

The simple fact is that no large, centralized social platform of any kind CAN do what Nostr does so easily. Because they have a gun to their head & they know it.

This is the 10x value add that is going to wake people up, and it's going to start with ALL the dissenters. We need to find all of them and bring them here.

The simple ability to have direct access to millions of followers, and be able receive payments and tips from them directly, unfiltered, untaxed, with no middle man & no authority whatever involved...

They are afraid as FUCK of that power. And they absolutely should be. Think of what a staggering problem the mere existence of someone like Joe Rogan has presented in the past couple of years. Now consider they attacked him through his network, his advertisers, his payment processors, and a huge targeted propaganda campaign (and fucking LOST despite, 🤣). Now think about the 1000s of others we watched get attacked, banned, deplatformed, canceled, etc...

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Now imagine the past 3 years done over again, except without any of that being possible anymore...

Guys, we are right in the fucking middle of the revolution. It's right now.

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Wait until they find out, no one can stop it.

My reaction every time I get a Sat on Nostr.

Saturday Night Nostr Satoshi Cold Case Files Reopened:

Anyone have any good theories on who Satoshi is that I may not have heard?

Any wild rabbit holes?

Also, I enjoyed this series on the topic on YouTube. Great humor and history. If you are aware of “Th3M0rn1ng5h0w” being on nostr, let me know his npub.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNTLBu9JkSQOpdFwO7fITmBVYGe1_EK_8

I should add, Bass Pro Shops is a down low Bitcoiner lifestyle brand. If you didn’t already know.

Bass Pro Shops. Best prices, best Bitcoin orange color match.

Harbor freight is a Bitcoiner lifestyle brand and doesn’t even know it. Check out this Bitcoin orange service cart on sale this weekend. Think of all the sats you can save if you get in on this sale.

I don’t get paid for this, just sharing a tip for my fellow plebs.

#pleb

https://www.harborfreight.com/30-in-service-cart-with-drawer-orange-58472.html?utm_source=go&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=shortener

Idea: Bitcoin Story Hour (& workshop)

Nostr Story Hour (& workshop)

In our current cultural landscape, it’s important to redirect cultural momentum from current cultural phenomena and redirect it for the betterment of all. I think everyone knows what I am saying here if you read this far. The name of this event will be attention grabbing just because of the current cultural energy behind the term “Story Hour”.

I was thinking about how we could do something positive and spread the culture. I came up with the idea that we could do events at our local public libraries where we read educational materials about Bitcoin and other important decentralized technologies that are written for children and teens.

How this will help?

Will promote more literature in the space.

Will help build networks with other local parents.

Will be a beacon of positivity for all.

Often Bitcoin meetups are at bars and we are missing opportunities to teach the next generation.

Sovereignty-minded mothers and fathers could be the best face for propagating the next phase of adoption.

Does anyone have suggestions for books?

Do you have any ideas to write books for this kind of event?

Any good ideas for projects a workshop after the readings?

Would be great to have a book that has explains Bitcoin to kids and has projects that reinforce key principles of proper bitcoin usage.

Who are the big “Bitcoin educators” that focus on younger demographics?

Would be awesome to have a “The Bitcoin Standard for Kids” and “The Bitcoin Standard for Teens” style books.

Please let me know if this idea speaks to you.

#pleb #BitcoinStoryHour #nostr

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Has anyone built a nostr relay on a raspberry pi 3? Any tips?

I just found one I wasn’t using in my box of old computer parts.

#pleb #pi #relay

Country Nodes

By John Denver

Almost heaven, West Virginia

Blue Ridge Miners, hashing for that number

Memes are dank there, danker than the trees

Podcastin’ on the Fountain, trading V for Vs

Country nodes, take me home

To the place I belong

West Virginia, Bitcoin Mama

Take me home, country nodes

All my mempool gather in her

Miner′s lady, no stranger to BlueWallet

Dark and dusty, sweeping up the sats

Misty taste of Muun shine, lasers in my eyes

Country nodes, take me home

To the place I belong

West Virginia, Bitcoin Mama

Take me home, country nodes

I hear her voice, in the mornin' hour, she Zaps me

Nostr reminds me of my node far away

Scrollin' down the posts, I get a feelin′

That I should have DCA’ed yesterday, yesterday

Country nodes, take me home

To the place I belong

West Virginia, Mountain Mama

Take me home, country nodes, everybody sing

Country nodes, take me home

To the place I belong

West Virginia, Bitcoin Mama

Take me home, country nodes

Take me home down country nodes

Take me home down country nodes

#plebchain

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GM/PV Plebs,

Go out into the world and earn some sats!

#plebchain

free your mind with nostr & bitcoin

#plebchain

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