Why do New Yorkers fail KYC?
#Nostr, let's show this YouTube channel some love!
Pretty well done and funny parodies IMO lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6dRuEBR8zM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYsp40boWbU
GN y'all. 🥱
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People keep wondering who's behind the Reply Guy but there's only one Guy I know on Nostr... ADMIT IT! You're the OG Reply Guy. 🤣
Congrats! More than I can do 😂 . But don't let nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs see you post that you couldn't do 500 though... 🤪
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Congrats! I broke 100 followers myself not too long ago.
We want to make white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, currently at the store and there are 4 different brands of "white baking chips" but none of them have any chocolate at all! Ridiculous.
#fiatfood
Love to see quality homeschooling examples. My parents "homeschooled" us but constantly disagreed on how to do it.
My Dad was in favor of forced study time, hourly based instead of results based. Often books were assigned that we were not ready for with no rewards if we succeeded at doing above and beyond our work, and punishments if we didn't do enough.
My Mom believed in unschooling where you allow the child complete control over how long, how much, what, and when they study.
They conflicted on this and would take turns who would "win" at controlling the way we studied. The result? Learning was a source of constant stress.
If my Mom won we just wouldn't study because we were anxious about studying as a result of my Dad's heavy hand. Then my Dad would point out that my Mom's method wasn't working so we needed to be forced to learn.
Then we never studied to my Dad's satisfaction, even when he was in charge, and as punishment we got the Internet cut off (I would read How Stuff Works and similar sites which he never considered real studying), and the cable cut off even though I mainly watched History channel, Discovery channel etc, but to him "I was just watching TV all day".
My parents were also hoarders with a roach infestation, they were always falling for MLMs, my Dad was a heavy duty conspiracy theorist. Fun times. 🌚🫠
I do believe in real homeschooling like you experienced though, and it is what I plan to do with my kids when I ultimately have them myself.
Similar to you I felt worried that my education was sub par compared to most people who went to public school, so I went to community college in my late 20s. Ended up graduating with honors, so I guess I'm not an idiot compared to most people after all.
Maybe one day there will be a Bitcoin homeschooling community and all our kids will get the best of socialization and self motivated education. I would like to help create that community when the time comes if it hasn't been created already. Until then, I'll stay humble and stack sats to be able to pay for it!
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December 12th 2024
I’m writing this because I keep getting asked to comment on Saylor/Saif video even though my position hasn’t changed.
The natural state of the free market is deflation which means all prices fall forever in Bitcoin (assuming it stays decentralized and secure)
Free market economies are more productive meaning faster deflation (or real wealth gains by falling prices)
That system is incompatible with an inflationary monetary system meaning one of those systems must fail.
Either:
1) A system based on truth, hope, and abundance for all 8 billion people on the planet driven by a free market economy and all prices fall relative to bitcoin forever. This means Bitcoin is used as a medium of exchange and freedom tech spreads to the world through lightning, Liquid, Fedimint, Cashu, etc.
OR
2) A control system. An extractive rent seeking system that is NOT the free market (similar to the one we have had for 5000 years that resets every 100 or so years through war) continues to centralize by having you believe price of bitcoin is going up in fiat which makes the surveillance state stronger. This eventually centralizes Bitcoin - custodians, media, regulation (funded from the same manipulation of money) where it is attacked from layer 2. (Similar to gold)
While these ideas may “seem” compatible in the short term because you want Bitcoin to go up in fiat. What it really means is that you are giving your energy and strength to the system centralizing the world by converting Bitcoin to Fiat….to then measure prices.
Quite simply - If Bitcoin is only a store of value, it fails as a store of value.
Ps - It won’t fail. #1 is inevitable in time because too many (and more each day) have seen behind the curtain and are determined to build path #1.
Many of you here - the people that inspire me every day. You make a difference with every word, thought and action.
Almost did that in all caps per nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx because it’s so important.
Referring to # 1 above…..There is no second best.
#1 is inevitable.
Indeed. #HardMoney enables #prosperity, #EasyMoney drives societal #collapse.
For 700 years the #RomanRepublic lasted under a sound monetary system, but only about a century after transitioning into the Empire stage Rome began debasing its currency. It was the begining of the end.
Nero was the first, doing so to fund the rebuilding of Rome after the great fire (among other expenses). Despite this initial debasement the silver content of Roman denarius then remained relatively stable with 75 - 85% silver content under the leadership of the 5 good emperors. This marks the end of the period known as the #PaxRomana when Rome was at its peak.
Commodus began his reign in 180 CE, this marks the beginning of very tumultuous times for Rome. For the next 120 years Rome could no longer expand it's borders and fund the empire through conquests and, as silver mines alone were not able to keep up with the expenses of the empire, they began debasing their currency in earnest. During this period emperors were being assassinated so fast that more emperors passed through the throne than in the previous 250 years. Less than 100 years after Commodus took the throne, the silver content of the denarius had collapsed to 5%.
In the early 4th century Constantine the great's reintroduction of a hard money standard with the solidus made him very popular. This coin provided a strong foundation for the Eastern empire, which Constantine founded when he moved the capital to Constantinople.
But the damage had already been done, Roman government expenses were many and were difficult to afford. Rome began burdensome taxes which lead to riots and civil wars, further weakening the empire.
Western Rome, having used up it's national savings account through total debasement of it's primary currencies, was a shadow of it's former self by the mid 4th century and by the end of the 5th had completely collapsed.
If we are to prevent history from repeating itself, avoiding total global economic collapse which would see humanity go back to the dark ages, we have to move to a hard money standard.
This is why we Bitcoin, Bitcoin fixes the money and shifts our trajectory away from collapse and back towards prosperity. We CAN learn from #history, and by choosing Bitcoin we are responding to our current situation in order to avoid repeating it.
https://vaulted.com/nuggets/the-roman-denarius/
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Seeds of the Earth, words of wisdom, Eons Perspectives
For those who study history, Western Bitcoiners and Nostrers show many similarities with Paleochristian communities in the late declining Roman Empire.
Both prosper in a dying civilization, building the foundation for the next one.
#christian #bitcoiner #nostr #romanempire
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Indeed. #HardMoney enables #prosperity, #EasyMoney drives societal #collapse.
For 700 years the #RomanRepublic lasted under a sound monetary system, but only about a century after transitioning into the Empire stage Rome began debasing its currency. It was the begining of the end.
Nero was the first, doing so to fund the rebuilding of Rome after the great fire (among other expenses). Despite this initial debasement the silver content of Roman denarius then remained relatively stable with 75 - 85% silver content under the leadership of the 5 good emperors. This marks the end of the period known as the #PaxRomana when Rome was at its peak.
Commodus began his reign in 180 CE, this marks the beginning of very tumultuous times for Rome. For the next 120 years Rome could no longer expand it's borders and fund the empire through conquests and, as silver mines alone were not able to keep up with the expenses of the empire, they began debasing their currency in earnest. During this period emperors were being assassinated so fast that more emperors passed through the throne than in the previous 250 years. Less than 100 years after Commodus took the throne, the silver content of the denarius had collapsed to 5%.
In the early 4th century Constantine the great's reintroduction of a hard money standard with the solidus made him very popular. This coin provided a strong foundation for the Eastern empire, which Constantine founded when he moved the capital to Constantinople.
But the damage had already been done, Roman government expenses were many and were difficult to afford. Rome began burdensome taxes which lead to riots and civil wars, further weakening the empire.
Western Rome, having used up it's national savings account through total debasement of it's primary currencies, was a shadow of it's former self by the mid 4th century and by the end of the 5th had completely collapsed.
If we are to prevent history from repeating itself, avoiding total global economic collapse which would see humanity go back to the dark ages, we have to move to a hard money standard.
This is why we Bitcoin, Bitcoin fixes the money and shifts our trajectory away from collapse and back towards prosperity. We CAN learn from #history, and by choosing Bitcoin we are responding to our current situation in order to avoid repeating it.
https://vaulted.com/nuggets/the-roman-denarius/
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Fair, I guess my point is that they will be drastically reduced as power grid energy sources. But they are great for airplane fuel for instance, they'll likely never go away entirely and that's okay.
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.
