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All views are my own. Tech finance manager, Bitcoin believer.

Isn’t paying for daycare for people who don’t work fraud itself?

Paying taxes makes you and your neighbors’ lives worse. If you still can’t believe that in 2026 there’s no hope for you.

Happy new year!

I’m actually starting to like the All In guys?

Fountain is my favorite Nostr app. Feels so organic and fun.

As technology gradually eats the world, both in life overall and in Bitcoin without basic math, logic, and technical knowledge you will always be a step behind and easier to con. Harsh lesson of 2025 as it was during the Bcash split.

https://fountain.fm/episode/ph08yj2ZcciIVm1eFcag

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Getting together with family around Christmas makes this painfully apparent.

And we are completely dependent upon that trade so we cannot afford to live without it. So the Peter zeihan retards who say we will just blockade them are insane.

iPhone spelling autocorrect is at retarded fifth grader levels. I’ll be one letter off the word intend and it picks a different word that is 3+ letters different, and constantly changing words I spell correctly. wtf?!

Privacy.com and nostr:nprofile1qqsvn0dkjt80raqrxd470c98n7zrdehmcvj6p5hgw3kyku6zyd8z0fqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn9429j36 bill pay is the best way I’ve found to live on a bitcoin standard in a fiat world.

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It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

I refuse to use any website, service, or app that blocks VPNs. Vote with your Bitcoin, eyeballs, and dollars.

On iOS it was unusable for me after in enabled faceid. For some reason it worked fine before but once faceid was enabled it crashed out every time.

But again if that’s the case, why be concerned? An optional new quantum format if it went through and you don’t like just don’t use it…

I really don’t get the quantum FUD. Even if you set aside the fact that it’s a venture capital scam: If you are worried, buy and hold in a Segwit address and wait until the fork to fix it.

https://fountain.fm/episode/GAa4m3IWUWVeR1CW5eyP

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GM! A failed fork now and then is a positive learning experience for the whole BTC system. #bitcoin

Me to wife and kids: do you want this dumb knickknack or can I throw it away?

Wife and kids 100% of the time: NO WE NEED THAT IF YOU THROW AWAY WE WILL FREAK OUT.

Me: waits a week or two to see if anyone uses it or remembers and if not throws it away. Has worked without anyone noticing at least 100+ times over the years. Get so much dumb junk for birthdays and holidays when you have kids.

It you think 1-5 devs control everything about what Bitcoin is then no wonder you’re so easy to scare and panic all the time LMFAO

It’s all so fucking tiresome when normies send you XRP bullshit

GM! I guess I missed the memo that Bitcoin had changed from decentralized permissionless money to please beg a central committee to not have your coins confiscated LMFAO

The only thing that matters in a fork is where the economic majority goes. And it’s consistently been one way.

The fact that you can still 10x+ your money if you believe BIP 444 will activate, and almost no one is doing it tells you all you need to know.

The governor of IL is claiming he had $1.4M of income from β€œgambling”. Sooo bribes? What a joke of a person and state…

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GM! The guy who ran BlockFI is now launching a trading app with an 8% yield product at Galaxy. Time is a flat circle.

GM! No one can change your node but you. You can just drop `-datacarrier=80` in your config or run LibreRelay. Bitcoin is purely voluntary.

If the government fired a few million bureaucrats and instead paid for or built 50+ James Webb Telescope caliber scientific experiments I wouldn’t hate taxes. But …. will never happen. The exception really just proves the rule.

GM! Proof of coffee with a beautiful nostr:nprofile1qqs0gjsl60n4uxsg6mhz9jlx8ft28lu9qn8hqnhwzj76shq7xygagygpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhx65mlhf cup #coffee

I like him. I think it’s funny and harmless. If people can’t bring themselves to save in BTC (obviously the best) gold is a decent second best. VERY distant second but better than bonds

I get it if you live in an authoritarian poor country, it’s better than your other local alternatives and you’re just trying to survive. Otherwise seems INSANE

Using nostr:nprofile1qqsvn0dkjt80raqrxd470c98n7zrdehmcvj6p5hgw3kyku6zyd8z0fqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqytnja8 bill pay since implemented has been wildly profitable. HFSP to the Bitcoin is not money crowd.

GM! I will die on the hill that Bitcoin is money.