Reminds me of the equitable concepts for race/gender... in the leadership of private companies.
Finally time for Bitcoin to start trending amongst the progressives(swamp).
Oh, much more entertaining and practical than a biathlon.
Like a stock exchange with "access permits"?
Some of the small countries and city states aren't far from this.
There were guilds in the middle ages. There were Luddites in 1810s.
I'd say the labour unions were a reaction to industrial revolution and large scale employers.
Later corrupted with Marxism, Mafia, and Politics (which all thrive on fiat).
nostr:npub13ql75nq8rldygpkjke47y893akh5tglqtqzs6cspancaxktthsusvfqcg7 absolutely inspirational on rogan's podcast. a quickly (not by AI) written transcript for your enjoyment.
"here's the thing that i hope and i'm working to make this happen
so we have great podcasts
you know
your podcast
you can't
not everybody can be a joe rogan
we can't just all be looking at the national news
what is happend at a local level is radio stations
they all got bought up, they're all consolidated
no one has local programming anymore
there's almost no local newspapers
even local television stations they're all going away
now is the time
to create a podcast for your TOWN
your BIRD
your CITY
your COMMUNITY"
-joe says some dumb shit about gavin newsom's alleged podcast-
"we don't need that, we need local voices like um
all the advertising locally has been slurped up by facebook
you know, that's where you advertise,
i've started a a local thing in fredericksburg
and people really love it, they love it,
oh wait a minute there's something going on in frederricksburg!?
and, all they have is fredericksburg rants and raves on a facebook page and you can imagine what a mess that thing is
it's crazy
that's no good
rants and raves, no that's no good" - Adam Curry
Nostr and Bitcoin will enable us to ignore the growth and scale and just focus.
We’re gonna Make America Healthy Again 🍎🚫💉 nostr:npub1hq0kkf67h5n63uz0l5zac94un73jnjudn3ryh3aahagx3qvwq0qq8wf9mp 
Awesome! Where did you get it?
It's definitely a regime change. I'd say it's more like a fall down of the Soviet Union.
The progressive ideologues are the biggest threat to the groups they aim to protect.
The "good immigrants" will suffer because of these idiots pushing group identities and equity over the individual and their differences.
Lazy elitist retards.
The name doesn't matter.
No offense to them, but what do they stand out with for the consumers? Average small businesses resaler accepting crypto.
Sure, it's niche, but there are dozens of these.
What do they really stand out with?
- they accept also XMR
-> hence, they attract a lot of XMR traffic.
It's like that rare candy food truck famous for selling mac and cheese ice cream, alongside other standard candies. -> customers from all over the town will line up there to enjoy the famous ice cream.
I'm happy that they accept it, more stores should. But I find these metrics having a limited use.
The latest trend among bitcoineirs is asking monerobros how many transactions happen on LN or "give me a LN transaction", the issue there is of course no one can tell if there is a script kid sending millions of LN payments back and forth to itself, making this a useless debate that does not measure any meaningful economic activity, nor its privacy.
What you can do on the other hand, is actually provide them real world data of real economic activity, which we do have, like shopinbit's latest volume data:
https://x.com/shopinbit/status/1889584085057896498
You can easily see that Monero :default: takes the lead on January 2025 at 56.3% of their volume of payments, while LN ⚡ does a mere 0.4%. That's a really low tx count for real economic activity, plus a really low anon set and not much privacy if you think those users either use custodial wallets or are connected to a large LSP, or even if doing LN perfectly, they are still a small crowd.
Next time a bitcoiner challenges you, challenge them to create a real world business, take LN and Monero as payment, and tell us how it goes! We already have the data, now it's their turn to complete the challenge.
If you want to try a Monero-based nostr client, check out nostr:npub1m0std0zlg4d9gldykfjys342lz85ve2rvpqnpk86vcnzts02m68sl502vt and if you want to get some XMR KYC free, I recommend robosats or retoswap. And share this with a bitcoiner friend
I agree with some of the critique. Yes, Bitcoin is not used for commerce as much as I would expect relative to 2013-2017 era.
But this data has a heavy selection bias. It's like pointing out that people don't pay more with USD in Europe.
Building the Bitcoin circular economy one relationship at a time, here with nostr:nprofile1qqsxqnz6zax7rxcdn2m8tgzvd4w2sz85pad3y9rja69qzayxjzlgz3gwdf3sy
I brew coffee daily, and because it's something I don't produce myself, I need to buy it regularly. Around a year ago, Otis bitmeyer started attending meetups in my area and with him he brought his home roasted coffee. At the time, the coffee source I had been using for years was having supply shortages so I was often running out of coffee and couldn't buy enough to have any in reserve. I jumped on the opportunity to buy fresh locally roasted coffee with Bitcoin directly from the roaster.
Now I buy all my coffee from Otis, and it's some of the best coffee I've ever had. I don't think I had ever drank coffee made from freshly roasted beans before because the difference is huge and I look forward to restocking every month.
After participating in meetups and working hard to earn Bitcoin instead of buying it, I've noticed something interesting. High quality goods that meetup participants need on a regular basis seem to be the most successful items when it comes to earning Bitcoin. If each participant can provide something that a few others in the group need each month, then the Bitcoin literally circulates amongst the members.
https://fountain.fm/episode/xbgxc8vcXlnsiZY8rrCu
#bitcoin #bitcoinmeetup #circulareconony #plebchain #coffee #meshtadel
The only sustainable defense against the overreach of the governments' slush funds is to build our own slush funds (circular economy).
Short. Lol
2 mega je nic. Ale prvenstvi uz si s ETF neziska. Bude muset sahnout primo na onchain.
Bessent is the good cop strategy. Lutnick comes next week.
It would be a forever shame to let Oklahoma, or some blue state to be the first, or to do it better.
ngl the Director Of Government Oversight *literally* being blind is pretty hilarious… https://v.nostr.build/jByJ2mi9rroUyNua.mp4
Blind or not, he for clearly demonstrates a superior knowledge of fraud, abuse, and waste.
How dare we, the simpletons, question their infinite wisdom, and just group it all under a single lazy corruption label?!
I'm so glad that he had been categorizing all these in the correct boxes for all of us.
Truly, a man at the right place.
Effective rate makes sense when it's just about income. If you add some assets, and add property taxes + cap gains, US total tax burden is almost equal on the same level of income.
- ie, the commie level wealth confiscation.
Sure, you can make double income in the US.
But if you retire, focus on family, or just drop the job income stream for whatever reason, then your total tax burden in US is ~4x to the German one.
For sure, US is more dynamic, and provides better opportunities. But you're still their tax slave.
The median taxpayer pays 5.0 BTC in lifetime federal taxes.
- What a nonsensically high number.
It lowers the blood pressure of the people who don't get the Bitcoin yet.
That's how the government should manage any money it demands from us.
An accurate comparison of Elon, DOGE and the lunatic left. 😂🤣
#bullishbounty i can not wait to see the supeebowl tonight, its going to be wild
#bitcoin fixes this shit
https://video.nostr.build/59b78736bfc376e424b8f5c4fb39d663601e3f764564122c31dba5d5ae51e649.mp4 
Q is connected to your #BTC
I'm sure the voting machines always worked perfectly, though.
Yea, some of these things are so bizarre. The hubris is unbelievable.
The USAID stuff has been triggering my DEI derangement syndrome.
Yup. I'm not too excited about these. Making IOU out of Bitcoin.
Can Bitcoin ever leave this network of regulated entities; or that would be against the compliance?
"Built-in compliance, transaction screening..."
They say it's open protocol, but it sounds like it's open only as long as Trump has good mood about your country's overlord.
Me prijde, ze si to Evropa odsira tim, ze je to vsechno malej rozdrobenej trh.
Pokud chces but independent journalist, tak v CZ se neuzivis. Reportovat o Evrope jako celku v Anglictine nikoho az tak moc nezajima, a tak si to tam Ursula s dalsima komunistama pekne ridi a rozkrada.
Jak dlouho myslis ze soucasna EU jeste vydrzi?
Me se zda, ze se jim to nastesti uz celkem droli.