The system of elite power is corrupt to the core. There are layers of compounding evil occasionally seasoned with good intent (or at least good PR). It almost collapsed in 2008 and has been juiced on adrenaline and liquidity ever since.

Bitcoin threatens that system. First they ignore you. Then they fight you. [Then they try to co-opt you]. Then you win. The HAVE to co-opt Bitcoin. They HAVE to pump our bags and fill their own. But Bitcoin is indifferent. It can be used to traffic children or used to end trafficking. It is simply an honest ledger. Some truths are uglier than others. And honesty is the one thing the elite cannot bear.

The system will collapse on its own. It was always going to. And when as does, Bitcoin will be one of the few things that keeps working as designed. Collapse is not a destination, it is the path. Choose a different path now before the masses do.

a half-baked thesis on stablecoins, v0.1 for public beta:

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(Customary + common) law > Statutory law

Bitcoin is opposed to capitalism. The teachings of Jesus go against capitalism. Simple.

new beefsteak course

Hope to see you at a #KCBitcoiners meetup, local circular economy market, or block party sometime! Tagging some of the crew to get a welcome wagon rollin' for ya 🥳

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I say one nice thing on here ever and everyone's gotta assume the worst 🤨

I joined NOSTR

Here’s what it taught me about B2B sales and business leadership:

I encountered a note that I found valuable, so like any red blooded freedom lover would do I zapped that note. That zap journeyed its way through the lightning network (much like how we journey our way through sales cycles as business professionals) from my wallet to that Nostrich’s wallet. It then clicked: V4V (value for value) is the new B2B. V4V > B2B. After that experience I locked up my sales team’s water cooler; they only get refreshment after zapping the QR code on the tank. This made the concept of V4V/B2B a tangible reality for them. V4V 🤝B2B. As a natural result our call volume went up, the KPI’s are KPI-ing, and my team now Zapvertises actively.

I also encouraged the individual I zapped to zapped me back in order for them to bolster their D2C (direct to consumer) metrics. More valuable than the sats I initially zapped.

NOSTR is the LinkedIn replacement the world has been waiting for; that fact is more valuable than the decentralized nature of the protocol or the bitcoin correlation. Don’t miss the revolution.

#finance #business #industry #valueforvalue ##nostr #linkedin #b2b #leadership

I joined NOSTR

Here’s what it taught me about B2B sales and business leadership:

I encountered a note that I found valuable, so like any red blooded freedom lover would do I zapped that note. That zap journeyed its way through the lightning network (much like how we journey our way through sales cycles as business professionals) from my wallet to that Nostrich’s wallet. It then clicked: V4V (value for value) is the new B2B. V4V > B2B. After that experience I locked up my sales team’s water cooler; they only get refreshment after zapping the QR code on the tank. This made the concept of V4V/B2B a tangible reality for them. V4V 🤝B2B. As a natural result our call volume went up, the KPI’s are KPI-ing, and my team now Zapvertises actively.

I also encouraged the individual I zapped to zapped me back in order for them to bolster their D2C (direct to consumer) metrics. More valuable than the sats I initially zapped.

NOSTR is the LinkedIn replacement the world has been waiting for; that fact is more valuable than the decentralized nature of the protocol or the bitcoin correlation. Don’t miss the revolution.

#finance #business #industry #valueforvalue ##nostr #linkedin #b2b #leadership

Anyone using smart locks at home? Looking for recommendations, and also if anyone has privacy advice

five years ago, the us went into lockdown, destroying many lives in the process

since then:

married

had a son

launched ten31

launched opensats

launched bitcoin park

launched bitcoin policy institute

push forward, never stop 🫡

I feel like a noob. I've been Zapping off & on on Primal since 2023. Today it says I don't have LUD-6 or LUD-16 connected. What do I do?!?

open source as much as possible, control as little as necessary

A lot of people have heard my moped story, but heres the math on it.

In 2016 I needed $5,000 to pay my wife’s master’s school tuition.

I didn’t have $5,000 cash at the time, but I did have bitcoin.

Bitcoin was trading at roughly $500, so I would have had to sell 10 bitcoin in order to pay the tuition.

I didn’t want to do that so I sold my car instead for $5,500.

I took $500 of that and bought a shitty moped and used the rest to pay my wife’s tuition.

So I rode the moped around the rest of the year and everyone made fun of me. Usually I play this part of the story up, but tbh it didn’t bother me. The people making fun of me were poorer than I was, they didn’t understand bitcoin or the market or even basic budgeting.

When people would make fun of me I would tell them why I was doing what I was doing. Then I would start peppering them with questions about their financial life.

“Oh so you financed your refrigerator? You’re still paying that off huh?”

“You have a timeshare you’ve never been to? How’d you get talked into that?”

People would generally go from laughing at me riding the moped to feeling shell shocked by me popping their bubble of comfortable delusion.

Still I drove the moped and everyone thought I was being weird and ridiculous and silly etc…

At 100k that decision was worth a million dollars.

At a million it will have been worth 10 million.

And at 10 million it will have been a nine figure decision.

100 million dollars.

I only rode the stupid moped for 8 months.

Ask yourself? Would you face 8 months of sacrifice and ridicule for 10 million in the future?

Because there are things you could be doing today that would generate that for future you.

My advice is to have your own moped moment.

Do something a little weird/cringe/out there in order to stack more sats and then check in on the sats in 10-15 years.

I think you’re going to be happy with the results.

Running nostr

The overwhelming desire to buy a Dance Dance Revolution arcade cabinet to celebrate crossing $100k #Bitcoin is starting to infect my brain.

I played a lot of DDR in the early 2000s. Hardest difficulty, and played in some arcade tournaments. I bet I could be even better today. 😂