Think of all the greek food at the #santorinihalvingparty barbecue event.

Greek beer, wine. Cheese. Yummy 🤤.

Netflix detects that I think

Agree climate hysteria is nonsense

A story that illustrates why I will never orange pill anyone ever again.

2015- Attempt to orange pill friend multiple times. No dice. Totally uninterested.

2019- He asks me if now is a good time to get into bitcoin. “It’s always a good time”. I set him up with a HW wallet and tell him DCA and chill.

2019- Friend calls me a few months later, he wants to put the down payment money for his house into bitcoin, but he’s nervous. I say no worries I will backstop your investment. What’re friends for?! I want you to succeed. He now has a no risk investment. Financed by me.

2020: Friend is doing well. Has been stacking hard and has 2 coins. A great stack for his income.

2021: He starts watching cringey YouTube videos about shitcoin trading. Gets into a private telegram, trades his 2 bitcoin into 4 and then gets rug pulled and loses everything.

2021: He’s near suicidal, very dark times. He doesn’t tell me anything because he knows I warned him about trading and thinks I’ll be disappointed in him. Finally he tells me. I help him get a personal loan so he can take advantage of the remainder of the bull run. He sells at 55k and manages to break even. He’s not up but he’s got his house money back.

2023: We’re out drinking with some other friends from high school. He expresses some jealousy towards me in a semi awkward fashion. “Every time I see this dude (me) I think about bitcoin.”

2024: I meet up with him so the kids can play at the park. Vibe is off. Lots of insecurity and tension. They’re going on a trip to San Diego and I ask if they might go to the zoo while there. “I can’t afford that. That’s for rich people like you”. Odd interaction, but I shake it off.

2024: A few weeks later he gets drunk and hits on my wife via text messages. She shows me immediately and I confront him. He’s like “sorry bro I was drunk I didn’t mean it”. I tell him off and make clear this is the last time we will ever speak.

No good deed goes unpunished. I could not have been nicer to this dude and more helpful along the way and he is fully consumed by envy towards me.

Unfortunate.

Just finished the Bitcoin Veterans podcast with @ODELL from last night, stellar job guys.

I’ve had one social media account since 2021 which was X/Twitter to stay up on bitcoin news.

Based on the truth spoken by Odell in regards to social media, I just deactivated & deleted X/Twitter from all my devices.

@btc_retiree now is dead!

For those committed to freedom tech, Nostr is the only way forward. Cut the cord & break free!!!

I woke up and chose optimism.

The EU's new rules do not apply on self-hosted wallets because they know they can't regulate that anyways.

Do the work. Run your own setup. We have the tools. The only thing stoping you, is you.

If the EU by accident promotes self-hosting, be my guest.

Gm,

If you have a self custodial lightning address, please drop it below.

Feel like breaking some European laws today, since any anonymous Bitcoin payment is illegal to them lmfao

Will send you an anonymous payment from my node. It'll be our little secret 😉

Oddly specific indeed.

Having 12 words in your head is not a crime.

What I'm looking for mostly is search. Like, really good search. Object recognition, all the metadata, etc.

I want to be able to find all the pictures that have a banana in it that I've shot in 2021 with my Canon EOS 5d Mark II, and I want to find them in 5 seconds, typing a single query.

Google Photos used to be good for that, but it isn't anymore. Object recognition got worse and worse as the woke overlords restrict everything and most queries return zero results now.

I often look at the price of electricity instead of the weather forecast. Low price often means lots of sun. But it can also mean lots wind (and rain), oops.

Prices in the chart below include a €0.13 / kWh tax and about €0.02 / kWh margin for the power company. Otherwise it would be zero or negative.

Any good FOSS photo search tools? Like Google Photos, but without the suck?

Argh, I meant to day "does NOT make it less dangerous"

Nice to meet you all!! 🙌🔥❤️

#introductions

Day 2

I can see the potential, but I need to find my friends if this is going to work

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