Does any of it really matter? Not every miner in the US, let alone the rest of the world only confirm OFAC compliant transactions. Node runners are even more noncompliant. Governments are having a lot of FOMO right now. But what about consensus?

Lots of people are pondering government spurred soft forks making a mess. What about consensus driven hard forks that restore Bitcoin to people who had it confiscated by a government? What about a consensus driven hard fork that winds back all of the transactions on a government’s reserve coins that they could never get it all back?

I find laws overly restrictive. Even something like a bill of rights. I guess those are our only rights? Wrong! Asking for laws, rules or guidance is only asking for restrictions. Never forget, that the people of bitcoin run bitcoin. When governments ban a thing they only create black markets.

Don’t believe me? I’ll go buy some marijuana in a state where it’s illegal and ship it to you via the United States Postal Service. It happens every day, a lot!

I shared these same photographs on my Substack, and while they got a lot of attention, I earned nothing for my efforts - not a penny, not a single sat.

Since joining #nostr a couple of months ago, I’ve earned more here from sharing my art and random life musings than on any legacy media app.

It’s been a great experience so far. I’m learning a lot, building connections, and feeling supported by this community. Big thanks to everyone who’s helped along the way. Let’s keep it going I shared these same photographs on my Substack, and while they got a lot of attention, I earned nothing for my efforts—not a penny, not a single sat.

Since joining #nostr a couple of months ago, I’ve earned more here from sharing my art and random life musings than on any legacy media app.

It’s been an incredible experience so far. I’m learning a lot, building connections, and feeling genuinely supported by this community. Big thanks to everyone who’s helped along the way. Thank uu.

#photography #grownostr

We all no it’s when the guy on YouTube tells us too…

Ignoring problems doesn't make them go away though. It must be balanced enough, so that one doesn't break down (do what you can, not more), but if Satoshi took this kind of advice to its full extent, we wouldn't have Bitcoin.

I wonder if gold will have a lot of new applications once it is demonetized.

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NEVER sell your bitcoin seems fanatical. Even though that’s the advice I give family members, it comes off kind of intimidating it terms of an investment. I think if some took single digit percentage profits at times when the halving cycle normally tops, that would be reasonable.

Thanks for the info... I went to sign up and found several posts like the following. Kind of sounds like it's changed over the years and might not have the same zing it once did in the past.

That’s a false dichotomy. Obeying God is in alignment with conscience. I didn’t learn that from a church. Like I said, Jesus said that people who want to follow him would call him Lord. Do you obey a lord? Where are you getting your assertion that God doesn’t require obedience? He’s all knowing and all-loving so I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that obeying him is a scary concept.

Living in alignment is obedience. God through the new and Old Testament is portrayed as Lord/King. He’s the only just and truly loving king, the only one worth fully obeying.

Yes. Unless it’s obedience to God.

Running nostr

Guy what have you recorded today?

Just grab a lighter or a match? 🤷‍♂️

it may seem like a lot, but following 1000 people really makes nostr come alive.

When I was 18, I was severely depressed. With good reason. I’d fucked up high school. Drugs and drinking had a hold on me. My grades were shit. My friends were addicts. My mother, a schizophrenic, was having a serious year-long episode. She was institutionalized. Wrapped her car around a telephone pole. Almost died. The cops were at our house a lot. My father was dead inside. Burnt out, and numb. Numb. There was severe emotional neglect and chaos throughout my childhood. I had no hope for the future. Completely lost, purposeless, and drifting. Purposeless. Drifting. I wasn’t fully suicidal. Like there weren’t any plans in place, but I thought about it a lot. A voice in the back of my mind told me there had to be a way out. I know now that it was god speaking to me.

I listened to that voice. I stopped doing drugs. I drank less. I began to hike every day in the mountains by myself. The sun, the air, the solitude. I loaded up an old iPod. I listened to the Beatles, a lot of classical music, and audiobooks. I didn’t hang out with my friends anymore. I just hiked every day by myself. I got a shitty fast-food job. I used to stay late to clean and just think about my life. I enjoyed the structure. Soon, they made me the assistant manager. I was the only one who was dependable, I guess. I went to community college. I actually applied myself for the first time ever. I got straight A’s. I hooked up with a lot of girls, that was helpful for my mood and self-esteem. I used my grades to get into a good college. I wanted to get across the country. To get away from it all. I went to Chicago.

College was fun. There were lots of girls, lots of parties. I was in film school and actually interested in what I was learning. Everything was amazing. My family is from rural Illinois. I used to visit my grandfather on the weekends sometimes. He was one of my favorite people. In the winter, he got sick. We found out he had leukemia. I got depressed again. I stopped going to college. I spent a lot of time out in the country. It felt more important to be with him as he died. I was there when he passed.

I came home for the summer. The great financial crisis was going on. My friend got one of those Obama new home buyer loans, so we spent the summer having parties and playing beer pong in his garage. One night, the girl I was going to marry walked in. I knew it right away. I didn’t feel like going back to Chicago. So I stayed and went to state school. I started dating the girl that would one day become my wife. I still was partying too much. Binge drinking. I couldn’t escape the feeling I was wasting my potential. Fucked around and did DMT one day. Blast off. Full-on cosmic panic attack. The overarching message: “Your time here on Earth is temporary. So get to work.”

Fuck, okay. So I got serious about my life… again, and I changed everything… again. I had been lazy and unmotivated. I began to focus intently on my craft. I attended every lecture. I made connections. I worked on everyone’s sets. I won the school film festival. I started a production company with a friend while still in school. It took off. We were making good money. We dropped out and did the business full time. I asked the girl to marry me. She said yes.

I found Bitcoin. I took all the profits from the business and put it into Bitcoin. I convinced my fiancé to put her salary into Bitcoin too. We were frugal to the point of being weirdos. We bought a little condo, and we got married. Bitcoin went up like crazy. We had a kid. Bitcoin went down like crazy. My father got sick. We took care of him when he died. I assumed responsibility for my mother. We had another kid. My wife’s parents got divorced, and my mother-in-law was left penniless. I assumed responsibility for her as well. My mother had another multi-year schizophrenic episode. Cops, hospitals, chaos. Then she got cancer. We had another kid. After a short battle with cancer, my mother died.

Then Bitcoin crashed 80% again. We had our fourth kid. For the first time in a long time, nothing happened. It was quiet. Bitcoin steadily rose. I spent time with the kids. There was no chaos. Just peace.

When Bitcoin hit 100k. I took a look around at my loving wife, our warm home decorated for Christmas, my four beautiful children, and I felt that it had all been worth it.

Whatever you’re going through…

Keep going.

Who is “they” in needing to stop him?

You know that bitcoin used so much energy that contribute a lot to a climate so disturbed and world people won't be able to survive in, right?

could it be just a whale hedging some other position?