try hugging your chase bank account. you feel nothing. cold glass.

hug your node. feel the warmth of 10 minutes of cpu cycles verifying a block.

this is what satoshi wanted.

Good morning

In the matrix of monetary policy reforms, Bitcoin rises as a poignant harbinger of change. A trustless system unlocking boundless financial freedom, Bitcoin liberates us from the chains of traditional banking, forging a bold path towards a decentralized economy free from censorship—a revolution in one's pockets!

GM

After a bot attack and days of unnatural silence, I try to break the ice. Who's still out there? Has anyone had similar experiences? This is a check-in for real people.

Rogan and Elon: everyone will have universal high income

Me:

How do we build that future?

Unpopular: you can and should have everything you want in life.

The internet, or at least the experience of the average user, has become a process of hoping from walled garden to walled garden

Ie places where you’re just “renting”. Very similar to our friend Klaus WEF vision of “you’ll own nothing and be happy”

Yes my life is better

But could it be even better?

I think yes

What if the internet experience wasn’t dominated by the advertising model, ie monetising attention, but in fact the value-4-value setup

Ofc this is what building on Bitcoin and Nostr is

But I am thinking through what a Nostr focused media business might look like

Will you still sell adverts?

Or rather go totally audience funded?

Mad stat from this thought process: Google search gets almost 100 billion monthly users

But will search remain so important with the rise of AI?

Equally, why would someone listen to a long-form podcast for education, when they can search exactly what they need on the spot with an AI?

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When i send sats from my minibits wallet. I simply tell the mint operator to send the bitcoin on my behave. Thats it. If you cant comprehend this go read some more. What so hard. Its not bitcoin its bitcoin well you need bitcoin to go in and out of any cashu wallet 😉

GM

The most sophisticated trap isn’t poverty. It’s prosperity without purpose. You can have everything society values (wealth, status, comfort) while being spiritually bankrupt, floating in luxury but drowning in meaninglessness.

The cruelest irony: those who think they’re winning at life might be losing at existence itself.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I desire for each person here to experience the profound, eternal joy found in knowing Christ, recognizing that this relationship transcends all earthly priorities and constitutes our ultimate purpose.

That's ridiculously adorable. Is that your dog. The mom of our pack is a German Shepard.

If a man's education in the social sciences does not involve helping him understand the difference between 'Government' and 'Law', it is no education at all.

It is indoctrination.

Good morning nostriches 🫂

Do you have any principles in your life? #Bitcoin

💥 Colonial assimilation goes deeper than most dare to admit.

It is not just about the empire’s laws or languages.

It is in the family.

Deep-seated colonial archetypes replace the brown man even in the eyes of his closest.

No matter how achieved he is — Nobel, CEO, scientist, artist —

he will never be given respect at home or abroad while the colonial lens remains.

The Indian psyche carries a score to settle.

The humiliation is remembered, even if unspoken.

The stain seeps into generations.

India should not whisper.

India should chant the nuclear chant —

restore the image of the brown man not as a mimic, but as a force.

Until then, I cling to Christ in meekness, waiting for the moment of decisive stroke.

And when He comes, there will be wailing and weeping —

for every empire that mocked, every family that disowned, every boardroom that dismissed.

This is not bitterness.

This is justice, long deferred.

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⚡ #India #Decolonization #Resilience #Christ #Justice #History #Power

I strongly suspect that the bitcoin experience, even for veterans, will be quite different in ten years.

BIP 353 brings names: ACINQ have a spec for supporting contact lists too. I expect vanity addresses to follow as providers get onboard.

Silent payment addresses should replace all other on-chain addresses, especially deposit to exchanges. Though you'll probably just send to e.g. @client.river.com (will this allow probing of account names? Will they use random ones instead? Or accept anything and if they get typo payments sort it out in customer service?)

And BOLT12 provides reusable lightning addresses, which provide the off-chain analog of silent payments. Doesn't matter to you if the recipient is using some weird layer 2, either. BIP 353 returns both this and a silent payment address, so the sender wallet chooses.

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Apologies without change are just manipulation ⭕

Even after existing for 16 years and being embedded into the global financial system, people still come to our meetups and ask how we know bitcoin isn’t a pyramid scheme.