My Bitcoin node is back in action! It only took 2 days after Christmas to re-sync. I guess Christmas wishes come true! 🤣

You know what I'd like for Christmas this year? For my Bitcoin node to finish re-syncing. God, it's been so slow. It's been several months. I even got a download bandwidth upgrade! It could just be that my hardware is old... 😩

So do we have a Merry Christmas around here on NOSTR? If so, what kind of Merry Christmas? 🤔

Unfortunate, isn't it? Welp, time to go get some more sats into my custody! ;P

The the OG and the GOAT has started to study Bitcoin! Bart is a legend! 🤯

https://www.youtube.com/live/o-5tUIQgURw?si=2pWqCCtmubdlJK4P

Just found this video. It's quite good. 👍

https://youtu.be/0aOlMc68UUo

I love your videos! ♥️

Hold on... I think I'm figuring something out. I've been doing this whole thing where whenever I get a paycheck, I keep my money in dollars to pay for gas and groceries and then I plan on dumping it all into Bitcoin. But that doesn't end up happening in regards to Bitcoin savings. It's been like this for months now.

So I'm not really stacking on sats and I keep getting these annoying payments, financial goals, or worries in my way where I end up keeping my money in dollars to ensure my money is liquid and easily usable. One of the worries goes something like this: "oh maybe I should keep some dollars for the next week in case I need gas ASAP or food ASAP." But I could literally just use lightning to pay for a gift card or maybe even wait 10-20 minutes for a confirmation on-chain. The spam might be bad but the fees are still good!

Another worry is capital gains taxes. I haven't contended with converting Bitcoin into dollars because of the capital gains tax. But I've been thinking about it and I think I actually need to part with some sats to actually learn how to convert Bitcoin into dollars and pay the tax for when push comes to shove. This is if I'm ever going to live on a Bitcoin standard; which I don't seem to be doing much to my chagrin!

Of course I'm back again to the gift cards. It's not completely bulletproof since sometimes I'll have a few cents left on a gift card for my means and I know the gift card companies will just eat up the remaining money once it expires. I'm basically wasting a bit of money; it's like it's a gamified, conditional tax or fee in some sense. Not only that but my Android phone (which is getting older by the day) has been a bit persnickety with NFC use on GPay.

On top of that I have this dumbass subscription that I pay at the beginning of every month that I'm not really getting much out of. Then I'm also using a credit card for when I want to delay a payment. Like, what the fuck!? I'm just doing the stupid ass fiat thing! Why the fuck am I still sitting here on a dollar standard? I know Bitcoin is the answer. I know Bitcoin fixes the savings problem. So why don't I just hoist my money in Bitcoin every paycheck?

Then it hit me. This is a deep game the fiat system is playing to get me to stay in their gilded cage. They know I don't want to do the work-arounds and fiddle with the capital gains tax stuff. They know I'm not okay with the imperfection of gift cards. The reason I have all those worries about next week are only because of the way the dollar functions, shortens time horizons, and maximizes high time preference. I've been using the dollar for way too long and I think I'm starting to see the conditioning.

The ah-ha moment is that I have to level up. I need to become more vigilant and agile. I have to continually test GPay on my phone or upgrade to a new phone entirely. I need to learn to deal with shit like converting my Bitcoin to dollars when I need to. I have to accept the imperfection of gift cards. I also have to have backup wallets in case my Bitcoin node goes down. And lastly, I need to just dump all the money into Bitcoin, figure out what I'll need to do if I need to spend it, and then never look back on worry.

The reality is that there's nobody near me that would accept Bitcoin directly for what I need so I have to go through the hoops. I was also thinking, maybe I should start accepting Bitcoin for the gig work I do. I literally had a person who couldn't tip me because she didn't have cash on hand. If I had suggested Bitcoin to her and given her an address, I might have gotten a tip by now.

With that said, I think we all know how hard it is to orange pill people. But then I had a realization about that too. Perhaps I'm making the orange pilling process more difficult on myself because I'm not living on the standard I want to be living on.

I need to pick a day and make it all about leveling up. I need to assess my current Bitcoin setup and financial situation, shake things up, and then take the plunge. I need to go back to what I originally wanted to do all along-- save AND spend on a Bitcoin standard.

I feel like I will never naturally save in sats unless I'm putting it all into Bitcoin and then spending those sats when needed. That's the epiphany that I had for myself. It might not be for everyone but I think that's what I need to do, despite all the road blocks and hoops I'll have to jump through in order to spend. Besides in absolute emergencies where I'm forced to use fiat, I can always use my credit card and then plan to pay it off when I have fiat to pay it ASAP. Or maybe I'll use Strike's bill pay... I dunno, I'll have to figure it all out. 😵‍💫

Nice! 🤩

Ya but you can still use it as PJ's. 🧠😉

Oh my god. I had no idea that you made this shirt. There's no doubt about it, I gotta get one sometime! 😁

Not gonna lie, eating meat every day isn't hard. The hard part is revealing the truth to the stubborn and the sleepwalkers.

We all know. It's just that so many don't and stubbornly refuse to listen. It's a massive axiomatic shift to go from a SAD to a PHD. It goes against everything we've been conditioned for regarding food and health in American culture. That conditioning goes far back deep. As deep as childhood.

Imagine a world where NOSTR is popular and very, very different. What does it look like to you?

Sometimes I think to myself "man I should make a bunch of annoying little business cards that advertise carnivore diets and then put them inside people's food bags when I'm doing DoorDash." Then I think to myself, "do I really want to be that annoying ass who starts that trend? I mean imagine, someone leaving a bunch of bad reviews because they feel judged or something." 😂 🤔 😔

"There is no pain, you are receding..."

Fantastic video! 🤗

Kind of a chicken or egg problem. Malnourishment is an effective way at lowering IQ.

Ya people just want to hear the status quo.

Personally, I want to maximize all my money that isn't being spent on living into Bitcoin. That means full send paychecks. The problem is that I'm a moron and I keep buying shit that I want instead of being smart and buying Bitcoin. 😡

Hm interesting... If I post something and then edit it on Amethyst, then it doesn't really show up here on Primal. Can someone remind me of why that's the case? I feel like I've heard the reason before but forgot.

I duuno, when you adopt a better idea don't you kill it inside you in some sense? Could there be a host of extinct ideas that we no longer know of? 🤔

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https://youtube.com/shorts/uoXZVxvQA8M

Dr. Berry is the GOAT. 😁

Ya it's crazy good. Great to hear you're discovering the proper human diet. Spoiler alert, we're obligate hyper carnivores. ;)

As someone who eats only meat, yes. And the health and energy benefits alone are enough to endure whatever you may not enjoy. There's no way I going back to the way I used to eat.

Incorrect. Consumption of sugar is not a requirement for human nutrition and it is not a requirement for intense exercise. Im fact, many on carnivorous diets find themselves perfectly capable of intensive exercise; they even seem preform better than those on omnivorous or plant based individuals. What is a requirement is glucose for your muscles to even fire and work properly in the first place. Believe it or not, human beings have this thing called gluconeogenesis and it's very efficient at producing and recycling glucose for our body. Ergo, we do not need to eat carbs because our body efficiently makes a sufficient amount given whatever the task may be. This includes activities like resistance training, sprinting, walking, gesturing with your hands, typing, etc. Any and every movement your muscles do has it's supply of glucose through gluconeogenesis. It's even happening even if you eat carbs.

Time to be a omega moron and regret my decisions! Don't mind me, just sending CivitAI an email on my opinions regarding Bitcoin and crypto! I should probably say, I like the company and AI. I wish people could get just a tad more creative with the LoRA's they train there though. If you know, you know. 🤷‍♂️

Probably not.

That's a pretty fire list of things you like. 😃 🔥

Um... I agree that the commercial isn't great but not exactly for that reason. I mean, they're advertising their business. Not Bitcoin and their business. So IDK... Not my favorite commercial I suppose. 😕

I've always loved this band's sound. This track's in my head. I bought the album after the first listen. Seeing them go with the same artist that made their first album's cover art got me hyped to try this new one out. I haven't really thought about the lyrics yet. I know TFS has this political bent in their lyrics that I've been torn on and trying to think through recently. Regardless, I'm loving Fairyland Codex and I still love A Laughing Death in Meatspace. https://youtu.be/cHPANiP5Fug

Seems true.

LOL! 😂

Post incomplete. You did not show us the path you took to get to the fire. 🤣

Hey, I think you might be right! 🤣

NP, here's also an issue on GitHub that talks about it a bit more and with nuance. https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/5594

I don't want to give false information here and it's been a while since I looked into this but this is what I remember... There were arguments over whether LND should adopt BOLT 12.

Arguments against:

-LNURL & LN Addresses work just fine

-"LNURL is great for businesses" which is somewhat valid because people like using human readable addresses

-BOLT 12 has a lot of stuff in it; it could be bloated so let's be careful

-LND devs should just stick to implementing "taproot assets" (which could mean stablecoins and other scam garbage)

Arguments for:

-BOLT 12 implements something called a resuable "offer" that would make LNURL and lightning addresses obsolete in a sense. It would allow people to have the functionality of a lightning address without the human readability part. You would have a QR code or long string of characters.

- BOLT 12 seems to enhance privacy by doing more things over TOR (this I'm a little fuzzy on and it seemed to certainly be more technical at the time I came access BOLT 12)

-I really don't remember all the features so I'll link to the BOLT 12 website. https://bolt12.org/

There was a debate about BOLT 12 vs LNURL at a Bitcoin conference once...

https://youtu.be/Vk7Eyi9SHj0

That's kinda all I know so far...

Basically more spam and garbage. It's an "extra token" on the Bitcoin blockchain. So basically a scamcoin. Bitcoin Knots allows you to filter out runes and inscriptions as well as enforcing OP_RETURN filters.

Well I'll be... Don't forget to turn spam filters on! For example, in Umbrel you have to go into the Knots app and change an advanced setting in "optimizations." You can also filter out tokens like runes. :D