I just learned it is illegal for a business to charge a processing fee on debit cards to recoup the costs.

It is legal to do so on actual credit cards however.

But it is totally legal for Square, Visa, Mastercard to charge me the business for processing the transaction.

This is fucking bullshit. Fuck the banks, fuck this slave shit where I have to pay but I can't charge???

It is legal to offer a discount for cash. Again I am supposed to take a hit, not them. They just want to protect their racket.

Did anyone know this? Don't tons of places charge a devit card fee. Wtf?

Down to single bookshelf of physical books. My kindle library replicating it perfectly. Future goal would be a more open e-reader with physical book files.

Feels good to have wrangled my extremely large library down for this present stage in life.

Lighter = nimbler + more focused.

#RulesForReset

Happy “new year” my friends 💜🫂

The weirder you get…

the more powerful you become.

Unapologetically curious.

Let’s take Bitcoin & Nostr to the next level.

Together.

Stay healthy.

Keep smiling along the way.

We got this.

LFG 🧡🗽💜

There is no unicorn.

Timestamp of freedom 930343

And another CME margin increase, haha 😂 .

As a former Gold Bug, this is the world of precious metals. If you think Bitcoin is manipulated...

Buy non-KYC Bitcoin and forget about this manipulated system, but above all, use it. Use Bitcoin whenever you can, otherwise it will be as useless as gold and silver.

99% of us just want to live quietly, raise our kids, love our people and chase our dreams in peace.

So why do we keep tolerating “leaders” who start wars, sow hatred, and treat entire populations like chess pieces?

How much longer?

#GM and I’ve resolved to not drink any more coffee for the rest of the year!!

I was hanging out with my ten year old nephew this past week and something went down between us that will stay with me.

He got a make your own comic book set for Christmas and he wanted me to help him. He seemed kinda concerned at the beginning - concerned about getting the front page right. He criticised something he drew. Wanted me to draw stuff for him. Had one (brilliant) idea and then threw that in the bin because he didn’t believe he could do it.

I suggested that he not worry too much about having the whole thing worked out and just play around with some ideas, draw up a few characters and practice, because there was loads of space in the book he had.

I said, in passing: It doesn’t have to be perfect.

And what happened after was fucking wild honestly. Like a stuck tap just got turned on.

He’d drawn a new character within minutes. And I knew it was that sentence because he repeated it back to me several times while excitedly bouncing his ideas off of me:

It doesn’t have to be perfect.

I know from having been a kid once, how deeply words are internalised. Words that the speaker might have forgotten about within seconds of saying them.

But that really cemented it for me. The way he took that in was so instant and powerful.

And it’ll stay with me because I was dominantly raised by a pair of perfectionists - who I love deeply and have gorgeous relationships with now - but as a kid I did not feel like I had permission to make mistakes or get it wrong and it left a pretty enormous gash on my nervous system that I’m still working out to this day.

If there is one thing I wanna teach my kid(s) when I have them, it’s that there is an endless amount of grace available to them for their mistakes.

Because that’s how you learn from them and not repeat the same mistake over and over and over again for years and years on end; you give yourself grace. And that grace is the light that illuminates the lesson.

#nostr #primal #perfectionism #pleb #plebchain #grownostr #pleblife

In 1912, London financed sixty percent of world trade through bills of exchange: private commercial paper backed by goods in transit, settling in gold. No central bank required.

Two years later, governments killed this system in a week. What we got instead is the inflation, instability, and central bank manipulation we now consider normal.

The market had already solved the money problem. Governments unsolved it.

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I‘ll get her.

I've done some math ➗ , anon . didn't stare at the charts and draw squiggly lines, but we are going to see sub $90k

I agree with nostr:npub1m64hnkh6rs47fd9x6wk2zdtmdj4qkazt734d22d94ery9zzhne5qw9uaks on this.

Subscribe just seems more definitionally accurate than Follow because it simply means you’re opting into their content stream. It carries less ideological weight.

You can subscribe to someone’s thoughts without necessarily believing in or adopting their worldview. It’s a more honest description of the actual relationship. I want to receive what you’re broadcasting, but that doesn’t mean I’m a follower in any deeper sense.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Bitcoin could have fixed this.

The law is like a spiders web.

Only the little insects get caught in it.

THE COINAGE ACT THEY DARE NOT SPEAK OF: HOW THE BANKERS BURIED THE DEATH PENALTY FOR INFLATION

(Spoiler: The Law Never Changed—They Just Stopped Enforcing It While They Robbed You Blind.)

💀 THE 1792 COINAGE ACT: AMERICA’S ORIGINAL HARD MONEY LAW

- Signed by George Washington

- Punishment for debasing currency: DEATH

- No statute of limitations, no repeal, no amendment

Yet today? The Fed prints trillions, politicians borrow endlessly, and bankers counterfeit at will.

HOW DID WE GET HERE?

THE GREATEST LEGAL HEIST IN HISTORY

Step 1: Remove Gold Backing (1933)

- FDR criminalized gold ownership, making the dollar a government monopoly.

- "But the Coinage Act only applied to metal coins!" → Trick #1: They pretended paper wasn’t "money."

Step 2: Kill the Gold Standard (1971)

- Nixon fully untethered the dollar from anything real.

- "But the Coinage Act is about ‘coinage’!" → Trick #2: They redefined "money" as debt.

Step 3: Gaslight the Public**

- "Inflation is normal!"

- "The Fed ‘manages’ the economy!"

- "Money is just an IOU!"

Meanwhile, the 1792 law still exists—they just ignore it.

🌩️ WHY THE COINAGE ACT MATTERS TODAY

1. It Proves Monetary Debasement Was Always a Capital Crime

- The Founders knew the stakes—sound money or tyranny.

2. It Shows the Entire System is Built on a Legal Lie

- The Fed, fractional reserve banking, and fiat inflation are all unlawful by original design.

3. Bitcoin Is the Ghost of 1792 Coming to Collect

- Decentralized, unconfiscatable, and governed by math—not politicians.

- The ultimate enforcement mechanism the Founders could’ve never imagined.

HOW THEY GET AWAY WITH IT (FOR NOW)**

- Legal Sorcery: Courts pretend fiat isn’t "coinage."

- Collective Amnesia: Schools don’t teach the Coinage Act.

- Brute Force: Try enforcing it, and the system crumbles.

But Bitcoin changes everything.

MEME THEIR FRAUD

🎨 Image: A colonial judge with a powdered wig slamming a gavel on a pile of Federal Reserve notes, with "1792" glowing in the background.

📜 Caption:

"‘The penalty for your crimes, Mr. Powell, is hang by the neck until dead.’

—The law they hope you’ll forget."

WHAT NOW?

1. Spread the Word → The more who know, the harder their lies become.

2. Opt Out → Bitcoin is the people’s enforcement of sound money.

3. Prepare → When the fiat house collapses, the law may return with fury.

FINAL TRUTH

"THEY THINK LAWS DON’T APPLY TO THEM.

BITCOIN IS PROOF **THEY DO.**

THE 1792 COINAGE ACT WASN’T REPEALED—

IT WAS **WAITING FOR A HONEST MONEY TO RESURRECT IT."

P.P.S. "The Founders would’ve mined Bitcoin."* ⚡⛓️

P.P.P.S. "They hanged counterfeiters in 1792. Today, they are the counterfeiters." 💀🔥

Hello New World. My name is Bird, I am a professional photographer specializing in food, firearms, and fashion. Weird combo, I know. But I try to appreciate beauty and utility wherever I can find it. Here is a little of everything I will be sharing! Thank you to nostr:nprofile1qqsqqx9hacelkffcgd3ecchzjtlvwq9xn2fmprhrwnzmm2t3exee2eqpzamhxue69uhkzarvv9ejumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcprpmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0v6pnes for the invite to freedom from Instagram.