I love going to conferences.

Because I usually never actually go to the conference itself.

I go to see the plebs, it rejuvenates my soul. To connect with more likeminded folks, see what your friends and others are working on, to share ideas, to be heard, challenged, accepted. To strive for more, to honor the social contract.

Every time Erik & I are going to the same conference, we get an air bnb for it and throw a hobo bbq. It’s always better than hotels, you get to decompress with the boys in a more luxurious and comfortable setting.

The BBQ has zero expectations, so it’s always a raging success 😂 this year was hilarious, nostr:nprofile1qqstuyc7uxqtde2gggkxqpxnee0l7792nz64hl9zwzjglclalug27lqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhg3xhvhg got nuked! And someone actually brought something to grill 😆

We also got to go nostr:nprofile1qqsggrlyqx9p3pzgwjzgxa2ux0w2y30qfjqc9e3cs2dm5u9mjgtp4gqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurvv438xarj9e3k7mgpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82csxek6av wedding, which was beautiful and officiated by the one & only nostr:nprofile1qqsfrjd9ux5hgsg5cmlz6cdwfh5zv2024g8m2t6g9zqf83l8uqm0svspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgsl78ks. Their vowels were as perfect as anything human can be, and I wish them all the best 🧡🤝

The reminded me of another aspect that I love when “going to these conferences”, it’s where plebs meet the love of their lives, and in the end, love ultimately always wins (thank god).

Thank you to all I saw, I’d missed you, and I am cheering for your success!

I won’t be at another conference for a very long time, as I’m starting a family. God bless you all and I look forward to our next hobo bbq 🧡

Surprising they would be so bold and overt, yet simultaneously not surprising at all.

Ya, any BE plugin is easy brother.

Let’s jump in Figma, design what you actually want, and make it. Zero ongoing cost other than Shopify, plus you own the code and get wayyy more specificity for customization.

Can do it for cheap for you, a premium product needs a premium storefront.

Besides, you’ve helped me a lot with info and quality products, so I’m happy to do it very cheaply, which would basically be a year or twos cost of the Wordpress / wix anyway, and it doesn’t need to be up front even. Can be the same monthly cost you would have otherwise paid, and then after a year / 2 - no more cost! Gentlemen’s agreement.

Hello, sing out if you would like some help with a website sir.

Ooooxxxxxxx

“Well… this paragraph seems quite prophetic to what’s happening today…” - dirtbag commenting on this pastebin from 2012! Line 1335.

https://t.co/YxajQr70sJ

If I were the US Government and had co-opted the "core" Bitcoin dev team, you know what I'd do? I'd encourage ground-up alternate implementations knowing damn well that the kind of people dumb enough to work on them expecting to create a viable competitor anytime soon aren't going to succeed. Every time anyone tried mining with one, I'd use my knowledge of all the ways they are incompatible to fork them, making it clear they can't be trusted for mining. Then I'd go a step further and "for the good of Bitcoin" create a process by which regular soft-forks and hard-forks happened so that Bitcoin can be "improved" in various ways, maybe every six months. Of course, I'd involve those alternate implementations in some IETF-like standards process for show, but all I would have to do to keep them marginalized and the majority of hashing power using the approved official implementation is slip the odd consensus bug into their code; remember how it was recently leaked that the NSA spends $250 million a year on efforts to insert flaws into encryption standards and commercial products. With changes every six months the alts will never keep up. Having accomplished political control, the next step is pushing the development of the Bitcoin core protocol in ways that further my goals, such as scalability solutions that at best allow for auditing, rather waiting until protocols are developed, tested, and accepted by the community that support fully decentralized mining.

I leave on the Friday - just missed ya. Ping if you’re around for a beer, the party is on Tuesday through the day, but I have little else planned. The best plan for these, is none!

Got some tickets to that bugle thing, Weds night

I like the Bible binding. I’m making this for me first but definitely cool to see some demand there.

Mine will be with some metal on the inside, so it doesn’t fry your balls. The problem is, that this will likely mean you will get low / no reception when the case is closed, which is actually ideal for how I use my phone. You will be able to u clip to open the camera, and voice / speaker / audio jack & charging section.

The idea to have some magnetism, for whatever wallet part on the back is cool, but my concern would be that the magnetism may have some effect on the phone itself. Need to investigate further.

Have some gig work atm, wrapping it up this week and then traveling for a month, so I will be doing this, it will be in my own time which may vary brother.

Will you be in Vegas per chance? I’m going, probably not to the conference, it to lobby con & throwing a party.

But how do I do that and trust the science? This sounds like a threat to our democracy.

This is a great pod, because, while Bitcoin is money, it touches everything in the political apparatus, in such a unique way, that it’s so much more.

It changes the dynamic of the state, the sovereign, who not only creates the law and paradoxically dwells both in and outside the law - but now the “citizen”, the individual, also gets to choose the exception, as there is no financial dependence and capital flight is much more accessible.

This means that the sovereign will be increasingly less able to debase the currency, which means the representation of the citizenry will need to be engaged further. You want xyz war? You’ll have to raise taxes, you will have to get consent and buy in from the people.

Their cronies and those closer to the monetary spigot will increasingly be less able to rent seek simply because of their proximity to the money printer, now you’ll have to be productive like the rest of us.

“Don’t tread on me” is transitioning to “can’t tread on me”.

“Our” (mine, but I think Bitcoiners, and I hope yours too) mission is to ensure we don’t suffer the same fate is gold - capture through convenience (someone else taking responsibility for your custody) and centralization, which enables rehypothecation.

It’s “our” duty to ensure the Bitcoin Dollar does not become the standard. Many will likely not care, as the Bitcoin dollar standard will make them rich, but honoring the social contract, honoring God, requires us to be lower time preferenced.

Therefore, we must self custody - otherwise you are trusting, not verifying. We must care about the damn spam filters (not saying for, or against, just that we care), because we must be economic nodes (“merchants” & full archival nodes) who care about block sizes , UTXO bloat and initial download and sync times - the cost to run a node.

In order to participate in these conversations, perhaps you, like me, will be ostracized for stupid opinions. So be it, it’s how you learn, by jumping in and testing what you think you know - strong opinions, held lightly.

If “we” fail, we’re likely still rich (although, those who don’t self custody may not be, because they may have just IOU’s), but we (and our future generations) still enter into the social credit system, and that is completely unacceptable on every level. I will do everything I can to overcome or avoid that.

He who has the Bitcoin makes the exception > He who the gold makes the rules

It’s so amazing to be on this journey, and I pray we overcome this inherent globalist / Zionist / “They” evil sooner rather than later.

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa0w5mE_434

I am a retarded sinner taking action, take from that what you will 😂☠️

GN

Bring your racket to Vegas, battle of the Ben’s!?

Congrats sir! Herculean effort to get that up and running

Yeah I noticed the .dev website no longer works, but it currently works, so we’ll use it for the meantime, may have to fork and maintain ourselves.

Nonetheless, thank you, legend! 🤝

GM sir 🤙

😂☠️ who told you?

“Simple Nostr Software Toolkit for Retards (Still in Development)” - speaking my language nostr:npub1s9etjgzjglwlaxdhsveq0qksxyh6xpdpn8ajh69ruetrug957r3qpklxzl 😂😂

https://github.com/AustinKelsay/snstr

I’m under contract and can’t leak anything, they will announce the news around Vegas conf (end of May), but I suspect you can see the website slightly prior. Once I can share that, I’ll circle back and let you know 🤝

Blasting Fleetwood Mac while build a landing page for what will be the biggest player in Bitcoin security and key management.

This is my happy place.