⚡️🗣️ Good night everyone. Just before going to sleep, I’d like to share a little story I experienced today.

A guy DMs me, super polite. He says he likes my content and wants to work with me on his “platform,” offering $130 for two days. I just have to keep doing what I already do here.

He plays the serious guy: negotiating, saying he can pay in USDC, or BTC but with a 10% loss. He even slips in that I should stay neutral if I talk about elections — basically, just social engineering talk.

But here’s where the trap closes: in the end, he sends me a link to download an app — thinking I’m gonna click like a fool.

Moral of the story: don’t fall for it. Scams today are more subtle than “you’ve won an iPhone.” They flatter you, mimic professional language, try to gain your trust. They’re patient and sneaky.

This will be part of my experience. I learn every day, even when dodging a malicious person. There’s always a lesson to learn.

Watch out for your keys, your clicks, and your energy. Good night, my comrades, let’s stay sharp.

And know this: I’m loyal to Nostr. I won’t leave you. What we’re building here is worth more than any fake promise.

📰 On this day 🔹1986

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World's worst nuclear disaster: The fourth reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union explodes, 31 die and radioactive contamination reaches much of Western Europe.

#OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr

The amount of millennial couples I know who have broken up and are now doing dog visitation or sharing dog custody is just…

Why in the actual fuck are people treating dogs like human babies?

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

Credit card transactions are one of the largest spy tools there is. They know where you spent money and what on all the time.

Most people are so captured by the guarantee for safety and security through the state (which does not exist in any meaningful way) vis monetary and economic means, that the idea of any form of life outside of that seems like nonsense.

It is nothing more than trying to explain the freedom beyond the cave to the slaves enamored with the shadows on the wall. They will insist their chains protect them, and the darkness is security.

Ok here’s the deal, I’m grieving the loss of a survivor that I served. I’m completely devastated.

I’m not going to be responding to any questions or theories about her death. Please don’t @ me in anything of that nature. I’ve been around the Epstein case + social media frenzy for long enough to know how things go. If it gets to be too much I’ll just log off for a bit. 🫶🏻

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I grew up with the idea that politics should not be discussed. As if having a political opinion was like supporting a football team, something that automatically made you the enemy of someone else. As if it were something dirty. A bit like money.

But the truth is that you can’t live your life without doing politics. Not talking about politics is politics. It’s accepting the status quo. And what’s so wrong about saying what you want for yourself? About saying who you wish could lead your country? We ended up where we are also because they turned into taboos everything that actually gives people real power: money, politics, freedom.

Today 25 April in Italy we celebrate the liberation from fascism. And I keep wondering how it was possible that so many people stayed silent during those years. Were they afraid? Were they convinced it wasn’t their problem? And would we really act differently if faced with the same injustices?

I wonder if we would have the strength to speak up when something becomes too big, too dangerous to denounce. Maybe we already are. Because groups like ours are already a form of resistance. Against something that has already become too big, too oppressive, too exclusive: the financial system.

Our grandparents fought against physical violence. We are fighting against economic violence. And it can be just as brutal. Because if we don’t have the freedom to earn, keep, and spend money without permission, we are not free.

Bitcoin is our way of resisting. And this community is our way of keeping the spirit of freedom alive. Every generation must find its own way to defend it.

Happy Liberation Day, Bitcoin Bitches.

Crypto is doomed and always has been…

All crypto suffers from the same risk and will ultimately reach the same end as #ETH is coming to.

The reason 90% of the "investors" buying any particular “crypto token” are there in the first place, is because they were excited about the “cool new hyped tech that will launch to the moon!” It’s only interesting to the majority of them because it’s illiquid and could rocket up quickly, and because it’s got a fresh new narrative that makes great marketing. Meaning after their token is already somewhat established, they all just look for its replacement. They are in love with the commercial for it, while the long term reality is boring, so they just move on to the next great looking commercial.

Only the new crypto with “better tech” can fulfill a narrative of being "new" and the promise of overnight riches. It must have low enough liquidity to jump 300% in a few days. In fact most only find their "new token" because they looked at a bunch of charts, saw a ton of green candles, and then went to read their website and join their discord. As soon as their current token can no longer provide that energy and hype, the overwhelming majority lose interest and move to the next one.

This is why there are MILLIONS of these things.

We will see this chart over and over and over again, but it will increasingly be on shorter and shorter time frames as the infrastructure matures and slowly Bitcoin eats any and every random "utility" that crypto bros are certain needs its own blockchain and consensus system -- for no good reason (which is a very small set of uses anyway).

Consider, what on earth can ETH not do in a world where almost every claim I’ve seen of “utility” that has any real use is about creating tokens and trading them in token swapping markets? Did ETH lose the ability to do those things, or has it just become old news?

The reality is that $ETH is literally the poster child for the entire crypto narrative... and it’s failing. The fall of ETH isn’t a signal that there is "better crypto," it’s the signal that the entire crypto narrative is nonsense.

The crypto ecosystem made one grave error due to ignorance of the role that money plays. Being a trustworthy, incorruptible set of rules for the definition and ownership of the money itself is the most foundational and, by orders of magnitude, the most valuable utility. Every last one of the 10s of millions of tokens they printed cannot even slightly compete with the assurances and consistency that Bitcoin provides. And because of that, they will all suffer the same fate together.

But that’s just my 2 sats.

Growth = Progressive Overload

Small repeated stress → Recovery → Adaptation → Growth.

This works in everything.

Do it long enough, and what once felt impossible becomes your warm-up.

If your self worth relies on thousands of bots boosting your posts then you are probably not cut out for nostr.

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Accidentally orange-pilled a sticker vendor in Mexico. I only had 500 peso notes, and he didn't have change. So I had him install Wallet of Satoshi and sent him 100 pesos (~$5 USD) via Lightning.

He was actually pretty clueful. He seemed to understand that this was like digital gold. He also seemed to understand me when I explained how Bitcoin was a protocol – kinda like email – and that's why I was able to use different software to send him Bitcoin than Wallet of Satoshi. And he seemed to understand that since the amount was so small, Wallet of Satoshi was the one who actually had his Bitcoin, not him.

Second time I found someone who was willing to accept ₿, but normally didn't. First time was a t-shirt vendor who knew all about Bitcoin, but didn't himself have a wallet, and just got his friend to accept it for him.

Bitcoin is getting to the point where so many people know about it that you don't have to convince people its valuable. They already basically know what it is even if they've never personally used it.

You can spend 20 years studying the intricacies of a single discipline, get a doctorate and every accolade there is, but have built it all on an incorrect premise.

While someone else can be interested only in discovering the truth of the premise, and "know more" than you after a few youtube videos.

If you start on the wrong foundation and never reassess, all the study or degrees in the world won't save you from being wrong.

The truth: if you’re outside freezing in the cold with no jacket and someone brings you inside and gives you a blanket and a hot soup you will go from miserable to happy... and it was stuff that made the difference.

The lie: is when you think to yourself “if a little bit of stuff made me this happy then a lot of stuff will make me that much happier”. Doesn’t work like that.

My blood type is coffee positive. Good morning!

Sipping @ #coffeechain