So what is the really really big news that this spat between Trump and Elon is meant to distract us from?

I think we can finally appreciate how Peter Schiff feels when he watches people talk about a Bitcoin reserve

Same way we feel about an XRP reserve

This would be a real blessing... the longer the US Govt keep their tiny little hands off of #Bitcoin the better for everyone

But yeah, tell me again that the FAA, USAID and NOAA were full of "fraud, waste and abuse" but XRP, SOL and ADA are fine 😂

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This man founded Solana.

And this is how the shitcoin grift works, hoodwinking their followers.

what music are we jamming to this morning, nostr?

My bank put me on fraud investigation after I reported a glitch to them where they were marking various purchases on my card as credits (i.e. refunds) instead of debits.

After initially denying the glitch they realised something was wrong — yet somehow blamed me - the customer who reported the issue to them.

They froze all my accounts including unrelated business accounts.

After several weeks of investigation, they realised it was an internal glitch… but by that point the fraud team had ruled my account be permanently closed.

The most infuriating thing was the disrespect I was shown throughout the whole process.

Denial of the issue, sending me to FAQs on how a credit card works, making me wait hours on the phone… then after realising the glitch, assuming I was some reckless kid trying to steal money.

I can’t wait until I’m completely off fiat, I’m sick of using banks. Hell, I’m considering a move to the USA just to use nostr:nprofile1qqsw4096vtjqyyjyfuzys8pqkxtpacdgtm7ljl2dftyfsjpfqqcp2fq20jrgx …

The endless graft, prostitution, and sycophantry found in contemporary social media is so endlessly dark and nihilistic that you would really think it’s just a dark forest out there. A pointless dark world where lies, theft, and guile are the only form of real power. That there is no purpose, reason, or greater meaning to life itself—just a black nothingness.

Truth is there is something much greater to this existence, and that is much more scary than nothing at all. It means we actually have a purpose and reason for existence, and that these projections of darkness are really just a means of manipulating all of us. The media apparatus projects the shadows on the walls and gives microphones to the most callow and anxious to make these shadows real. While they are little more than shadows on the walls, most people will believe it because they too are in bondage, chained before the wall, incapable of turning back to see how the sunlight is manipulated for such dark purposes.

Most people are good and are deeply craving a world of honor, dignity, and reason; they are just incarcerated into a fiat bondage, and conditioned through fear and terror. We have all just been captured by a fiat world view for so long that to reason outside and beyond it without a means to fight it (i.e. bitcoin) is utterly impossible. That is why the understanding of what bitcoin offers in contrast to fiat is so important, as it becomes a way to see through the dark forest and understanding that it is not dark at all, but merely a projection of power, a means of control through presenting only one view. To turn and see how the light is projected to make this dark forest, the shadows on the wall creates a new and different means of power. A power of reason and meaning, where the possible of breaking the chains of bondage is a real possibility, but only with this knowledge.

Anyway, I didn't want to insult but just to be very direct because it's very sad to have gone from people like Antonopoulos to these speeches or to the books of Saifedean Scammous who rewrites economic history just to support his own, however shareable, thesis. You can't say that the powers that be have kicked you out of the academy when it's simply that you invent facts and theories.

Or people like @HODL who says “don’t invest in yourself invest in bitcoin”. How do you earn more bitcoin if you don’t invest in yourself and become more valuable?

Or nostr:nprofile1qqsxpfwtq34xpnqy9djsg7jjayq3rrst95r4xflje0nqlwjjwhfhrycjn09s7 and nostr:nprofile1qqsyw2lflynya6sj2net9a7d9ksvxxw6unlye4jf7ppya9prfh9vl9cwf5nyr who interview scammers like British hodl and stay are on a superficial and sensationalistic level.

Sorry to be brutal and I hope no one gets offended but we need to recover quality in this space. Bitcoin is not the same as 15 years ago. It has grown and improved. We are not the same as 15 years ago: we have gotten worse. Where are the Hals, Rosses and so on?

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Everything is better in a bear market except the price.

Everything is worse in a bull market except the price.

Setting up an account with Ledn.io was a breeze.

We’re ready to live on a bitcoin standard by posting bitcoin as collateral and receiving a loan in USD.

I like their proof of reserves + how they minimize their counterparty risk.

I also like how you don’t have to make monthly payments until the loan is due in 12 mo from the origination date.

Downside, KYC requirements.

Upside, no capital gains tax.

Poors Law

The cost of AI technology drops by half every year

True or false: most people on nostr are over 30, and many over 40.