IN A WORLD WHERE DATA IS CENTRALIZED, SOLD, AND OFTEN USED TO MANIPULATE BEHAVIOR, NOSTR OFFERS A PATH TOWARD A MORE OPEN, USER-CONTROLLED INTERNET. FOR THOSE WHO VALUE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, PRIVACY, AND CONTROL OVER THEIR DIGITAL IDENTITY, NOSTR IS A CRUCIAL STEP FORWARD. IT EMPOWERS INDIVIDUALS, RESISTS CENSORSHIP, AND FOSTERS INNOVATION, MAKING IT A VITAL PART OF THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET.

Bingo. Free is correct. Albumin comes into play too, but it’s a much weaker binder than SHBG. You could have 1,000 ng/dL total, but if your SHBG is too high, you’ll look like a vegan.

Probably Total

Your testosterone levels dictate entirely whether you believe in objective truth or not

So true.

Tell me you're in a cult without telling me

I'm still working on it. I have to do it from my desktop at home, as my tor routing stopped working.

“Destined / Chosen one” characters.

Smash Burger: $12.50 x 50 = $625.00

Diet Coke: $3.00 x 50 = $150.00

Subtotal: $775.00

Tax: $68.77

20% gratuity: $155.00

Total: $998.77

A former president spending #bitcoin at your bar:

PRICELESS.

set up yo zap wallet MF

haha

Good evening.

In the first year after my husband and I bought our house, we kept having the security system’s smoke alarm go off, and it would auto-alert the fire department. A mess, repeatedly.

Literally the same dude would show up, sigh, and be like “you cool?” And I’d be like, “yeah, sorry.”

Eventually I was like… let’s just remove that one. It’s always the problem, it’s too close to the stove. The so-called experts installed it, but from experience it was wrong. So we outed it. Just that one.

And we did, and the problem went away forever. For us and for the firemen.

Sometimes it’s the rules that are the problem. Not the rules’ breaker. Test everything.

It's not exactly the answer to your question but I would like to see an anti-bitcoiner. And not a weirdo, I want someone well articulated, able to have a healthy debate. For me, this is the best way to get out of an echo chamber.

who's is real out there

GM. #Nostr!

Many people are in #Bitcoin for the gains, but think it's "looney" to think Bitcoin will become the dominant transactable form of value storage globally.

Frankly, you are really not seeing the endgame that Bitcoin is speeding towards if you don't realize exceeding something like the value of all Gold, and all FIAT, and the value of global #GDP, are all milestones that Bitcoin will certainly exceed among many others.

₿ has no #inflation, if you already consider that there are only 21,000,000 (and that they just get unlocked at a slowing rate over time) then there is no inflation at all. Unlocking new coins just reduces the value of the current coins closer to what they would be worth if all 21m were already unlocked.

Even if you consider the net inflation effect that ₿ currently experiences, it is less than what is experienced by anything else in #history that could be used as a form of asset #security and a #StoreOfValue for large groups of people. In 4 years that will be cut in half again, and again in 8, and so on.

Bitcoin will grow in value faster than everything else, because (among other reasons) it's supply grows slower than anything else.

Over the next 20+ years Bitcoin will exceed the value growth of:

#ART

#GOLD

#REALESTATE

#FIAT holding #S&P500 companies.

...

#EVERYTHING.

This makes owning anything that doesn't offer a return of more Bitcoin than you invested an opportunity cost, and practically eliminates the demand of everything above their utility values. This is going to be most beneficial as demand for homes drops, home prices will collapse and become affordable again for young families that need a homestead.

The only thing I expect to potentially grow faster, are companies that use it as their treasury reserve asset.

Bitcoin perfectly stores and secures our life energy within it, with no maintenance costs.

Bitcoin's mining network incentivizes huge investment into the most long term cost effective energy production, AKA #renewable green energy sources, globally. Goodbye fossil fuels polluting the air we breath. Hello world of abundant and effectively free #energy.

We're entering a transitionary period that will bring us to a future where humans won't need to work as much. Where consumption is sustainable. Where people will be able to afford to leave the work force sooner, enabling younger people to take their place, and use their stored life energy to fund their own business ideas. Bitcoin will cause an explosion of small businesses, and the retirement age will de facto drop even if it's not de jure.

The birthrate will increase as it becomes affordable to have children again. Stress levels will decrease, and our community bonds will increase as people have more free time to build relationships with the people around them instead of being stuck at work.

Bitcoin is misperceived as a get rich quick scheme where you're effectively gambling your money and practically guaranteed to lose it. But that's completely false. To me Bitcoin isn't about getting rich, it's about changing society for the better. Becoming financially free sooner than others is just one of the rewards for those who are the most patient and supportive of the new system.

I just hope that this transition occurs with as minimal global pain as possible. Though there will be some pain as the old system continues it's slow but accelerating collapse. But that's again where Bitcoin and bitcoiners will shine. We will all help the world in the transition and reduce the pain in doing so. All they have to do is learn that Bitcoin is not the melting ice cubes of FIAT currency, that it is safe and the best place to store their life energy, and they will benefit too.

But regardless of the short term negative effects we may or may not see, Bitcoin is a train that cannot be stopped. The discovery of decentralized, immutable, transactable, absolute scarcity is immense. In the long run it brings incomprehensible prosperity to society. Just as our world today is incompressible to someone living 500 years ago, so too will the world of 2124 be incomprehensible to someone living today.

I'm done being apathetic about the world's problems, waiting for other people to fix things they are financially rewarded for not fixing. When simply growing Bitcoin faster fixes the problems faster, and I will do everything I can to help it reach that point sooner rather than later. With Nostr being a significant part of that.

The more you save your earnings in Bitcoin, the more you ask to be paid in Bitcoin, the more you casually talk with confidence about Bitcoin, the faster this change will occur.

Bitcoin is #peace/#love/#freedom for all. They don't see it yet, but I can't wait for the day when they do.

Have a great day everyone.