Isn't it fun and rewarding to continuously pursue the perfect curation of content you consume on the Internet? I'm #grateful to all the content providers who offer their talent, intellect, data and insight to the world. And the developers who provide the platforms.

Thoughts?...

For the past 10 years, I've donated x% of my income to charities. About $500 annually.

In 2022, I stopped donating and bought #bitcoin instead, with the intent of building up a more significant sum to donate every 5 years.

As of today, that's turned what would otherwise be a total of $2700 into almost bang on $5400 worth of #BTC.

So now I'm thinking, rather than sell the BTC for dollars to donate, or donate the #BTC direct, instead I could borrow against it from eg nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5tm8sjr' #strike who I think will lend 50% LTV and offers product with zero capital repayment until the end of the term, at which point I could roll over into a new loan.

So the BTC balance, ever increasing from the usual $500 per annum purchases by me, never goes down but allows me to spin off 50% of the increased $ value balance every 5 years.

With no tax implications for me.

Sounds right?

Any better variations on this theme?

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."

H.L. Mencken

And the last was no exception

For romantics.

Thanks Brian

https://youtu.be/5lP8BZcyoEQ?si=IKjXYCiXe_vPkFmq

*clean sats

Aging like Mr Wonderful's "clean says"

Oh except the same made pre 1970 (and the implications aren't lost on me) eg Some Like It Hot 😂

Gangster/crime tv and movies

Only look at short-duration #BTC price charts for fun. And therefore enjoy the downs as much as the ups. For useful information, consider only long-duration charts.

With #BTC buy what you want in exchange for grains of soil, #hodl the rest and exchange your time and energy for new grains of soil.

Jimmy, replace "coffee" with "alcohol" and you probably already have your answer

Me and a bunch of strangers got together and agreed we'd take the pet rock known as Bitcoin in exchange for the value we deliver.

In the meantime the government printed tons of local currency which dropped the currency's value.

My BTC balance is unchanged but the govnt demands a fee in local currency if I spend my BTC.

So I have to pay for them devaluing the local currency.

What's fair about that? I didn't even want them to print tons of local currency.

Biggest obstacle to me spending BTC?

If I did so, the government would charge a fee in their local currency.

Even if I just bought a coffee.

What's that all about?

Think Bitcoin's volatile?

I bought 0.01 BTC a few years ago and it never changes.

Check it daily. Sometimes many times a day. Never moves. Still exactly 0.01 BTC.

What's all the fuss about?

Trust (like respect) should be earned, not given ab initio. In the meantime, be unswayed or verify.

nostr:nprofile1qqswmnfq2k830kvnylvyrezc97dsqce343qppqrwlgpqaux5qpuwdkspp3mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7qg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsgp2pcv great interview with Saifedean. That topic of bitcoin's finite supply increasing in value to as value stored in the economy increases needs to be deep dived by more people.

Call me old fashioned but I prefer my constitutions to enshrine equality rather than racial discrimination #thevoice #australia

I'd probably open a standalone bank account for the purpose. Bounce dollars into there then into sats via strike. Just don't like linking anything of value to something else.

Ah that's what his interview with Jack Dorsey was that I saw on YouTube.

Written constitutions should enshrine equality. The Voice would enshrine inequality.