I am traveling to Chicago to to attend a conference and meet a bunch of people. Will be there for the next 6 days.

I would love to meet up with any fellow Bitcoin plebs who happen to be in the area!

Do I know anyone from Austin, TX here on nostr??

I might be considering a move there and have location questions.

I hear there's some good Bitcoin culture?

Is housing affordable?

Very cool! Thanks for the link.

I got to interact with Grizzlies when I was at Washington State University as they have a grizzly rehab program there.

https://bearcenter.wsu.edu/

Where are they??

I want to try to setup a nostr relay, what should I be thinking about? Where should I start learning how to do it 🤔

Feeling accomplished. I just ripped open my new @msiUSA laptop and added another SSD drive to it. 🧑‍🔧😁

Only some minor case maring. Everything works fine and I now have another 500 GB of local storage.

What are the limitations of current nostr relays? Should nostr scale by more smaller relays and/or a smaller amount of larger more technical relays?

If anyone out there is interested in trading Bitcoin for a brewery or brewing equipment... we need to talk. https://nostrcheck.me/media/a45fccdaf89a2c9eaebff0e34649b9d7329b2893135f5d3445f6938a18db9566/30de07c21a8a9416740e41ddf557a1986e345911c793f55987235e4617cc719f.webp

Does that work now 🤔?

Yes. I'm a big UPS fan.

I'm getting interested in potentially running my own relay. I see I can do it through Umbrel, but what are other options? What should I know or be reading? 📚 🤔

I'm going to Chicago 16th-27th. Also hoping to find a Bitcoin event!

Ok, ok, I'm reading The Forth Turning now! 😆

So at this moment I don't know who I'm going to vote for.

I'm probably going to vote for RFK Jr.

I'm not voting for Trump.

I wasn't going to vote Biden.

But now...

Might the DNC actually put someone else decent up??

Harris seems too close to Biden for me now, so she would really have to distinguish herself well and fast on all the issues. Where has she been the past few years? It feels like I haven't heard from her since she joined the ticket.

DNC should go open primary.

Now I'm actually going to have to think about my vote again.

Welcome!

I'm watching this now. Feel this was a needed discussion after some of the craziness lately.

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Funny enough, my Bitcoin journey started with a podcast that covered it back in 2013. The Stuff You Should Know podcast did an episode on Bitcoin that really caught my interest when I heard it back then, and ive been into it ever since!

Beyond that, the podcast I most highly recommend to people is one that was called The Earth and Environmental Systems Podcast by Christian Shorey at the Colorado School of Mines. He released ~65 episodes between 2007-2011 or so. This podcast was a series of lectures covering geology, history of the Earth, climate, all of natural science, and human history.

Just spun up my secondary node because the network needs me tonight...

I listened to that today! Great conversation. 👍

I just had to draw a QR code by hand! 😂

That was kinda difficult, but I'm enjoying my Jade so far!