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I was going to ask how you know if someone is vegan, but then I remembered they always mention it within the first few sentences

What type of sources do you want? Peer reviewed university papers? Those types of sources are all corrupted by big money interests.

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I think about this daily. Do you?

Thanks nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe for the clarity of thought.

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Young people have a big advantage here. Drastically lifestyle changes are much easier now than when you have a family and a mortgage to pay. Make the most of your opportunity!

Dox who? The pool cleaning guy?

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A lot of people have heard my moped story, but heres the math on it.

In 2016 I needed $5,000 to pay my wife’s master’s school tuition.

I didn’t have $5,000 cash at the time, but I did have bitcoin.

Bitcoin was trading at roughly $500, so I would have had to sell 10 bitcoin in order to pay the tuition.

I didn’t want to do that so I sold my car instead for $5,500.

I took $500 of that and bought a shitty moped and used the rest to pay my wife’s tuition.

So I rode the moped around the rest of the year and everyone made fun of me. Usually I play this part of the story up, but tbh it didn’t bother me. The people making fun of me were poorer than I was, they didn’t understand bitcoin or the market or even basic budgeting.

When people would make fun of me I would tell them why I was doing what I was doing. Then I would start peppering them with questions about their financial life.

“Oh so you financed your refrigerator? You’re still paying that off huh?”

“You have a timeshare you’ve never been to? How’d you get talked into that?”

People would generally go from laughing at me riding the moped to feeling shell shocked by me popping their bubble of comfortable delusion.

Still I drove the moped and everyone thought I was being weird and ridiculous and silly etc…

At 100k that decision was worth a million dollars.

At a million it will have been worth 10 million.

And at 10 million it will have been a nine figure decision.

100 million dollars.

I only rode the stupid moped for 8 months.

Ask yourself? Would you face 8 months of sacrifice and ridicule for 10 million in the future?

Because there are things you could be doing today that would generate that for future you.

My advice is to have your own moped moment.

Do something a little weird/cringe/out there in order to stack more sats and then check in on the sats in 10-15 years.

I think you’re going to be happy with the results.

I already have a good stack, but I’m selling my Tundra right now and will use it to stack some more. And I love this damn truck

I have the vast majority of my stack on a Trezor. Been stacking from multiple sources since 2016. Have a cold card now. Any advice for consolidating/moving custody to the cold card? Tried using Sparrow but got nervous I was going to screw something up

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I purchased a nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll server this summer and holy hell did it make me feel old figuring that out. Support team was incredible though!

I’ve been on the fence with getting one because I’m worried it will be too much for me

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It’s funny how cyclical things are.

Over the last year, I kept a presence on NOSTR—posting daily, responding to everyone—but I never scrolled much. I’ve never been a fan of the “Latest” algorithm.

A couple of weeks ago, I found out about the nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg 2.0 update that lets you choose your algorithm. Around the same time, the X algorithm changed again.

My feed on X had been pretty solid, but suddenly it was filled with excessive engagement posts instead of real connections—the stuff I actually care about.

Naturally, over the last few weeks, I’ve flipped things: I still post and engage on X, but I spend my time scrolling and connecting on NOSTR.

It’s cool how it just happened naturally as things progressed.

ONWARD.💜

Introspective Preston is the best

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On a recent pod nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs and nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx were discussing the bitkey and debating how much you would store on it. After getting one and playing around with it, I am struggling for reasons why you wouldn’t put your entire stack on it. It’s multisig, can be geographically dispersed, inheritance is rolling out this month, not sure if that will require kyc or not but most collaborative custody does, it allows utxo management, and you can set send limits that do not require the bitkey. What are the drawbacks? nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m

I don’t know much about them, how do they work? Are the air gapped, Bluetooth, USB, etc.?