Are you sure? Those birds don't look like penguins to me.

Imagine being the dude on Bumble who was like “what are you up to for NYE?” and I was like “Downloading Ubuntu”

Happy new year everyone, new year, new GMs 🧡

Hi there!

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Der Untergang. Erinnert ein wenig an Szenen mit Speis und Trank im Führerbunker im Mai 1945. Eva lädt ein zu einem grossen Fest.

Over the past few days, I’ve been involved in a long debate about #Bitcoin, #money, and #economic growth. Below summarises the debate outside of the comments we have had back and forth.

What became clear is that most disagreements about Bitcoin are not really about Bitcoin.

They are about which economic framework you start from.

Two schools of thought

Most modern economics taught in universities today is derived from Keynesian and neo-Keynesian models.

In this framework:

• Money is a policy tool.

• Credit expansion is necessary for growth.

• Debt is not a problem if it funds activity.

• Inflation is tolerated, even encouraged, to stimulate spending.

• Economic health is measured primarily through GDP.

Within this model, a fixed supply monetary system looks dangerous.

If money cannot expand, the assumption is that growth will stall, liquidity will dry up, and the system will collapse under its own weight.

This is why many people instinctively conclude that Bitcoin “cannot work” as money.

There is another school of thought, often referred to as classical or Austrian economics, which starts from different assumptions. This is where Bitcoiners sit.

In this framework:

• Money is a measuring tool, not a control mechanism.

•Growth comes from productivity, innovation, and efficient coordination of capital.

• Credit should emerge from real savings, not monetary expansion.

• Inflation distorts price signals and transfers wealth.

• Falling prices due to productivity are a feature, not a failure.

From this perspective, a fixed or hard monetary base is not a limitation.

It is a discipline.

Why universities teach what they teach

Modern states operate on debt-based monetary systems. Governments, banks, and institutions depend on the ability to expand the money supply.

It is therefore not surprising that:

• Economic models that justify managed money dominate academia.

• Models that limit state discretion are treated as historical or impractical.

• Monetary failure is usually framed as “policy error,” not systemic design.

This doesn’t require malice or conspiracy.

Systems tend to teach what sustains them.

Historical evidence is often misread

Empires did not collapse because money was “too hard.”

They collapsed because money was debased.

• Rome did not fall under a fixed monetary system. It progressively reduced silver content in its coinage to fund military and state spending. Trust eroded, prices rose, and economic coordination broke down.

• Weimar Germany did not fail due to hard money, but due to rapid monetary expansion to service war debts.

• Zimbabwe did not collapse because of sanctions alone. Monetary issuance was used to paper over structural collapse, destroying the currency.

• Time and again, monetary expansion is used as a short-term solution that creates long-term instability.

Hard money systems did not “fail.”

They were abandoned when political constraints became inconvenient.

Where Bitcoin fits

Bitcoin does not ban credit.

It bans base-layer monetary manipulation.

Its base layer is slow by design because it prioritises final settlement, not throughput. This is not new. Gold functioned the same way for centuries. Higher layers always emerged on top of sound settlement layers.

Bitcoin separates:

• Money from policy

• Settlement from payments

• Value storage from discretionary issuance

When people argue that Bitcoin must adopt inflation, tail emissions, or permanent issuance to “support growth,” they are assuming growth must come from monetary expansion.

Bitcoin challenges that assumption.

It forces growth to come from:

• Better coordination

• Better incentives

• Better productivity

Why the disagreement persists

If you believe:

• Money must be managed

• Growth requires issuance

• Stability comes from flexibility

Bitcoin looks flawed.

If you believe:

• Money should constrain power

• Growth should reflect reality

• Stability comes from rules

Bitcoin looks inevitable.

This is not a debate about intelligence, credentials, or good intentions.

It is a debate about what money is allowed to do.

Bitcoin did not create this disagreement.

It simply made it impossible to ignore.

Words reveal your model of reality.

It's pretty nice paired with nostr:nprofile1qqsdy27dk8f9qk7qvrm94pkdtus9xtk970jpcp4w48k6cw0khfm06msppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mz7zvqagl. Easy switching between different models for different tasks.

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Spent too much time with my increasingly normie friendly

I fell in the trap of trying to explain that the money is broken 😬

They still think that a new political party or a new leader or a new investment or whatever can fix the chronic problems the uk faces

And now I’m about to spend a week with my other half’s family.

This is why people book bitcoin events.

Wish me luck!

>300TB of audio files

most of it is metadata… not audio… don’t trust verify

Does anyone hosts "playground" instances of their Nostr clients and services?

It would be great to have a dedicated instance where one could make multiple throw away accounts, try out various features, like posting, posting with photos, videos, creating badges, polls and all kinds of events that will eventually just be deleted after a week or month.

I will probably do this for nostr:nprofile1qqsdr0fnxvmn8hxyz8cwazfm8zu9yt7qmc38ll69nkvsgn8dnej4sxckxm0xe, to avoid polluting the public space.

User's could go crazy and learn with confidence, before committing content for "eternity" on the public nostr network.

It would be great if the relays and media servers for this could be a collaboration, would improve compatibility testing across implementations.

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I just searched how to disable something in your YouTube account and the website I landed on was result #3 and was 100% generated slop that has nothing to do what I searched for. Interesting that Google lets this slide …

Is that a stainless steel pot in the instapot?

EU-Beamte sind - was für vonderLeyen ja recht praktisch ist - von der Chatkontrolle übrigens ausgenommen. Ihre Kommunikation soll ausdrücklich NICHT überwacht werden. Die bloße Tatsache, dass diejenigen, die dieses Gesetz ausgearbeitet haben, nicht wollen, dass es für sie selber gelte, sagt Ihnen eigentlich schon alles, was Sie darüber wissen müssen.

Mir fallen immer mehr auf: Mercedes, Bosch und dutzende deutsche Mittelständler. In der Metroarea Wroclaw in Polen produziert es sich wirtschaftlicher und angenehmer. 🇵🇱 🚀

#poland

My name is Regina. I’m 29 Years old. I was addicted to various kinds of drugs for 8 years of my life. I was suicidal, depressed and diagnosed with Borderline, PTSD and so much more. I hurt myself this is why I chose unconsciously over and over again stay in toxic relationships where I gave all my energy to finally be loved. But I didn’t find outside of me the love I was searching for. The love is inside, and I learned to give it to myself first. And that is exactly what I now support others with — reach out when you want to end the drama circle in your life. 📩

#trauma #drama #addiction #toxicrelationships #suicidal

Is diamond actually a scam? 🥹🥹🥹

What if you like how it looks on your neck, but you also know it holds almost no real value?

What should you buy instead if you want something luxurious, something that shines, but you don’t want to keep big gold bars at home? Gold rises in value, yes, but that’s not exactly something you wear.

So what’s the alternative for someone who wants beauty and intrinsic worth?

#asknostr

Imagine if we’d started off with replaceable events.

I don’t really have any use for Cashu. Bitcoin already gives me what I value most, self-custody and trustless settlement.

Some say Cashu is about "trade-offs" and that trusting multiple mints somehow spreads the risk. But that logic misses the point entirely. Bitcoin's breakthrough was that you don’t need to trust anyone. Once you reintroduce trusted intermediaries (even in a "distributed" way) you’ve already stepped off the Bitcoin path.

That’s not decentralisation; that’s just federated trust. It’s the same thinking that gave us Ethereum and its layers of custodial complexity. Systems where you manage risk by trusting more people, not fewer.

Bitcoin isn’t about balancing trust. It’s about removing it.

That’s why many Bitcoiners have no use for Cashu.

Es gibt sie, die guten Nachrichten aus Deutschland 😁

you can squeeze a ~20-30b model onto a double layer, to be fair. and if it was a bluray disk you can put a 50+b model, 25gb is a pretty decent sized model, it might be able to do visual or reasoning tasks at this level.

After 5 years of live streaming with a green screen and months of building I’m really excited to announce the Simply Bitcoin Live Studio.

Bitcoin is the best money and it deserves a studio worthy of it. We hope to make our supporters proud.

Tune in NOW to see it live⚡️

i just unmuted my muted list , i believe people needed to be heard , no matter how much you dislike their speech .

free of you go , my muted list!!

you free as a bird now .😍

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Yakihonne made a huge leap, I don't know when. It is the best Nostr client on Android, not even adding IMO here. Instead of IMO, I'll be adding 👀 and 😱 to visualize my astonishment.

Pimmel and Amethyst don't even come close. Pimmel has ossified, Amethyst is a Bosch painting.

Yakihonne ftw, the time is September 2025.

Pura Vida #Nostr 🤙

The question is, does it bring all the boys to the yard🤔?

Thanks to nostr:nprofile1qqs0usp7uwjn9jwv3y6kdnwavppusuh6jfsakfqpyltq8kguqf3erkgpr9mhxue69uhkgctndqhx6mmrdd5kuemeda6jucm0d5q32amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3w0pkhytnjda3kkucsg6kwp i got set on nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcpzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuurpwfjhgmeww3hhwmspr9mhxue69uhkummnw3exx6r9vd4jumt99aex2mrp0yn7plng today on the Nostr protocol. Thanks!

Anyone knows how the ancient story did end?

35 weeks 🌺

Hey thanks for the reply 😊 I followed him and planning listening 🎧 to the podcast... Looks interesting I'm getting into Nostrnmore and more every day personally I'm loyal to PRIMAL and loving it nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcpp3mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7qg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsrrnrxl nostr:nprofile1qqsdv8emcke7k3qqaldwv956tstu40ejg663gdsaayuuujs6pknw7jsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9utmnhhk

Building a #Bitcoin Cafe🤌😎