Sats ser, its always sats. Faced the same decision and couldn't justify NOT taking that amount of sats out of circulation forever. When a Block clock costs a few hundred sats I'll get one. 🫡

Yeah this is very off-putting and raises concerns. I prefer Robosats UX better anyways.

Energy money good, monopoly points bad

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Worth mentioning in this context - the absolute easiest way I've on boarded the most people to not only bitcoin, but LN, is through the THNDR mobile games. I have my tech-challeneged mother playing Bitcoin Club Solitaire throughout the day and zapping her rewards into her Muun wallet, she's teaching her older friends & her siblings the same. She excitedly called me when she stacked 2000 sats from Solitaire. 😄

Most of my normie friends just want to earn something for the time they spend on their phones/games & I catch them playing Bitcoin Bounce or Bitcoin Bay when I'm driving us around or if advertisements come on for a few minutes watching something on Hulu or whatever.

They have become familiar with receiving Lightning invoices through the Trojan horse of games. Nostr will be the next step!

Indeed. The Monero community taught me a lot about other adjacent privacy-enhancing tools, practices, protocols, & services outside of anything crypto related.

Definitely check out @sethforprivacy and his podcast "Opting Out" for a ton of good info on increasing your privacy in the digital age, especially if a lot of this stuff is outside your wheelhouse - he's a great explainer & offers useful information on getting off Big Tech, KYC, and apps for protocols, FOSS alternatives, and self hosted options for everything you do on the daily.

Monero community is awesome to me as a paranoid and private individual. Good peeps!

Monero is great as a transactional function, I mentally frame it as a privacy layer for bitcoin's value to flow through as needed. Hold wealth in BTC, use Monero for certain purchases. For instance Silent.Link NoKYC phone numbers.

It is the only other interesting thing in the broader market worth caring about. If Monero's chain didn't exist, humanity would worse off - dissidents and people living in totalitarian hellscapes having the technical ability to perform commerce privately is good. Too much risk using Bitcoin if your life depends on being anonymous.

I also *LOVE* using Monero to buy Bitcoin on Robosats. Having no ties to any of my accounts or usernames, Strike, CashApp, Zelle, etc is phenomenal. And with 2 minute block times & instantly seeing the transactions in your wallet, Monero makes a wonderful MoE.

I'm a Bitcoin maxi and I adore Monero's value proposition. Truly private, fungible e-cash is a benefit to humans - ideology be damned. You don't have to invest or hold it to use it briefly. Its liquidity could be better but hopefully nostr, Robosats, and other P2P exchange platforms can improve that. Monero is hilariously what what most normies/nocoiners think Bitcoin is.

💪 Love it! We may have stacked more per dollar, but we didn't have a fleet of powerful nostriches claiming our sovereignty on the internet, zapping each other at light speed with cheerful attitudes.

These days I'm only more confident and cozy in our success. Good days every day with orange and purple pills.

Pura Vida fren! 🫡⚡

Is it just a Nostr client, or what's the point?

That will be my child's cost for a home. Nahh 😁

"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them."

- Andy Bernard

At least for those who need it most. I'm okay with being a niche subculture as long as possible to continue stacking & zapping. It won't be long before fiat literally cannot buy you much more bitcoin. The times we're in now is like the tide pulling back before the tsunami hits and everyone realizes they need protection.

Fucking legends, all of you plebs.

Early birds making other nostriches future-rich for fun with Zaps is part of the joy of Purple pura vida 🫡⚡

Out here setting up security for the NHL playoffs. All profits go to bitcoin ⚡

Soo good! 🔥

"Proof of Stake is an alternative to Proof of Work the way Astrology is an alternative to astronomy."

Deliciously apt comparison 🙏

Incredible article hahah

I never saw the memo demanding employees "fall in love with" the metaverse lmaooo 😆

Finally feels like the clown world is starting to take down *some* of the circus tents. Thought I was going crazy for 3 years.

Just fiat things.

Thank you! ⚡❤️

Whoops, one more time there 🤡

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Godspeed

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Pharmausca has been around awhile, you can make it yourself - check the DMT-nexus site for instructions - but the ritual of drinking the potion is as important as the chemical itself.

In terms of accessiblility, if you're in the US, check out the ONAC churches (Oklevuha Native American Church) they have branches all over you can visit for doses. I'd recommend the one in Orlando, FL called Soul Quest, run by Chris Young, he's legit. There's another in Tennessee, as well out west - the Peyote Way Church of God is another that comes to mind.

Just don't get too obsessed, DMT is a never ending rabbit hole, giving more questions than answers, oftentimes.. can be maddening to integrate what it shows you into your worldview..

"How does one love when you give the Spirit of Love credit to something that shall pass off the face of the earth?

DMT is timber in the eye of the forest. The answer to a question that was not asked. A tongue not a prophesy.

So long as we love something of this earth, we submit our will to things that will pass away, something incomplete, and of the jurisdiction of the spirit of death. Even DMT is not holy in and of itself. To you it is as gold to the Spanish, as the apple to Adam, as all a gift against its giver. It is the only thing you will still carry Sacred, I'm afraid."

How is he not already here? It's like, do you even zap, bro? Surprising he's not a nostrich yet.

The Nostr Standard: A Decentralized Alternative to Central Platforms

His next book writes itself