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Matt
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Formerly @PortsmouthBTC on The Dead Bird. Used to do some stuff. Finally started doing stuff again. Possibly the only Bitcoiner to have *actually* lost everything in a boating accident. 🟠2013 🟣2023 #photography & #boatlife & #growstr #fishing amd #vibecoding fan and reforming church goer.

We made it through the weekend!

It's MONDAY! 🥳🤙🎉🙏

I read that it's compatible with existing hambradio antennas - also saw someone saying that it'll be possible to broadcast nostr notes over it - I'm thinking one on my yacht, one at several locations around the home city

Very interested in the #meshtastic thing - it looks like the answer I've been looking for for a long time

They released the iOS app before the android one, but I don't know if it's publicly available or only via the testflight system

Nearly Monday 🎉🥳

Sitting back with coffee, hope-scrolling through #Amethyst, zapping artists who's music I'm enjoying on the nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg app on android.

As Sunday mornings go, this is shaping up nicely 👌

Hope you're all enjoying the day, where ever you are 🙏

The overall project is just a pipedream atm, the bit I'm working toward is my own take on lightning based advertising - I need it to exist in a particular way to even begin getting the pipedream running

I work at several shelters, trying to help them acquire the skills and mindset they need to survive out on their own - it works often enough, but we can't help everyone of course

I used to run workshops and had an offer of a place I could use long term, but I want to stay stepped away from the education but for now

I just got my disclosure and barring service (DBS) report back and I'm officially all cleared to continue supporting vulnerable homeless people in my home city 🎉🥳

I only started this work because the lockdowns ruined me and I didn't want to revive the bitcoin work I'd been doing prior to '20, I want to build something else...it turns out that I really enjoy it, and it challenges me so it's fun 😄🥳

In the mran time I learn and study and experiment and build, coz my commitment long term is still #Bitcoin

When you insure them, yeah 😄

I brought it from a mate, I had one more payment to make on it then I was going to insure it and move it to a nearby marina, do it all properly. In the meantime, because he's a mate, he let me move everything on there in preparation.

Laptop, tablet, hardware wallets, back ups...all in one place, exactly the opposite to what I always preached. Lost all my nice clothes, camera gear, passport etc as well. Even gifts from my daughter. Now everything I have is distributed among multiple different locations, not just my bitcoin.

Over the years I've given away, spent, lost, burned, gambled and otherwise wasted more bitcoin than I'll ever retrieve. I even lost a load when my yacht burned down in 2020. Not kidding. That hurt.

I believe every sat I spent or gave away was worth it. Pushing for and encouraging adoption and use was critical in those earlier years.

It still is, but the bitcoin economy has changed and evolved. As such, my spending habits are changing and evolving.

These days I'm mindful that if I sell bitcoin, there's a fair chance that BlackRock or some other bastard entity will hoover it up and I'll never see those sats again.

Even if I spend it via a card which converts my sats at point of sale, or gift cards from great companies like bitrefill. People who I don't want to have cheap sats get a chance to grab them.

So, in bitcoins 16th year, I will stack and only ever spend my precious sats with other bitcoiners who I know will likely either save it or spend it with other bitcoiners. I refuse to directly empower people that hate me.