Since I sleep on the floor a 4 hour night is enough for me to be energised... it's wild.

Can anyone explain this to me?

I want to love SimpleX but frankly it still sucks. You have 15min.

Fuck! My birthday this weekend and I still have no plan how and where celebrate 🫨

Three reasons to visit Plovdiv:

1. Watch Botev Plovdiv FC's games 🟡⚫️

2. Spend sats at our fanshops 🛍️

3. Meet Bitcoiners at our meet-ups 👋

More about it 👇

Damus translation is dope! No headache of setting up and auto translates notes very well and clear! Now I can follow more people who don’t post in English✌️

So there's this progression. First you see something like Cashu when you say, "Oh, it's a custodial lightning wallet with better privacy for users and no accounts." And then you realize, "Oh, I can use this to pay someone who is offline. I just send them a string and that’s the ecash note.” And then you realize, "Oh, this works over long range radio with very low bandwidth. And then you realize, oh, if we trust the same mint, we can actually use it to route lightning payments without open channels to the mint (the channel is the trust). And we can use it as a lightning wallet for ourselves. And then you can say, oh, we can create these community mints for “islands” that are not connected to the internet.

And then you realize, "Oh, there can be more than one Uncle Jim, and we don't have to trust this one person. We can have shared custody, and this thing has better privacy." And suddenly you realize you are were not expecting anything like this at all when you first saw it, when it began. It has completely different implications than what I was expecting previously.

It's the same with Nostr. It's like, "Oh, this is not a very good protocol. It depends on a few relays and you can’t even store images on it and who would use it." And it's cumbersome. Now there are blogging platforms and communities and marketplaces and AI communicating over it. And there's this innovation that no one was expecting when they first started. It was like thinking about the protocol and trying to judge it by its design, but its use (and implications) is discovered, not designed. Same way you can send a calendar invite over email, or do encrypted group chats over it (DeltaChat).

It’s interesting to see, how we use technologies that in theory should not have worked, but in practice, they do. Bitcoin is one of them. The probability of its success was very low.

A friend of mine said in a podcast with me that Bitcoin’s risk adjusted value is actually better than a decade ago. Yes, you could have bought cheap Bitcoin. But its success back then was very improbable. Now you are buying the asset of the parallel financial system, back then, it was a membership card in a club of geeks. After several that have failed…

Is the "American Dream" still a thing?

Eruption

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Savings.

Think about that word. Savings rescues people from a plight or a pickle. It's preparation for the unknown. It's a way to account for the bad things that may happen.

Savings is also a way to prepare for something you *do* want. It's capital accumulation and funding for your goals.

Too many people don't know the power of savings. But really, it's about having a purpose, a dream. A goal has no power if you're not working toward it. And savings is a measure of how close you are to that goal.

The depressing thing about fiat money is that it inflates, debasing your savings, moving you further away from your goals. A third party called the central bank has the ability to steal from your dreams and purpose. And what is life without some purpose? It's a zombie existence where the goal is to stay alive, at whatever cost. In a very real sense, fiat money debases your life.

So we invest, trying to clear that ever-present monetary expansion/hurdle rate that will offset the theft from inflation. But that's a job onto itself. Managing money is a cesspool of rent-seeking and unless you do it yourself, a lot of the value you accumulate leaks to the Cantillionaires.

Bitcoin is freedom from this system. But more importantly, Bitcoin gives you back your savings, gives you back your goals, dreams and purpose because it doesn't leak.

Save and build your character so that when you have enough to pursue your dreams, you have the courage to jump.