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Toby McMann
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If you look at a plate with a cheeseburger and fries, chances are only 1/3rd of the calories are from the meat. If you pass on the bread and fries, etc, no one is used to eating 3 burgers (and you don't really need to do so either)!

This isn't a slippery slope, it is just stupidity. The same way some US colleges stopped requiring freshman to know how to swim, because it was racist.

The #bitcoin rabbit hole is a deeply personal journey, shining light on cognitive blindspots, discovering truth in the world, and yourself. It is hard. Like overcoming any addiction or dark shadow, it requires honest introspection and the help of community. But, the rewards of happiness, serenity, and freedom are life-changing. Enjoy the journey, with much thanks to all who are contributing to our success.

Replying to Avatar Seodan

Social media is a reflection, a mirror for all the garbage and beauty within human consciousness.

If you try to suppress the garbage, you deny reality. And if you deny reality, you can't work with it, you can't heal it, you can't move on towards brightness.

If you do the same in your personal life and only project the 'good' side of you in opposition to your 'darkness' that needs to be eradicated, you will be stuck in conflict, a loop of pain, disease and suffering. That's where we are at as humanity right now.

That's why the individual inner healing work, the spirituality is so important. Because once a person has explored and made peace with the darkness inside, sees reality as it is and not as it's wished to be, then he/she won't radiate conflict out into human consciousness any longer.

Fear of hate speech or disease won't be predominant anymore. Fear mongerers and control freaks won't stand a chance and will need to go home to do their meditation.

I prefer garbage in social media any day over censoring freedom of speech. Hate is a reality within our collective consciousness. We need to embrace it, heal it, individually and collectively. If we surpress it through censorship it will stay with us, grow stronger, end in disaster, before everybody temporarily wakes up and can't fathom what happened. Sounds familiar? We had that a thousand times over.

WE DON'T NEED TO GO THROUGH IT AGAIN!

#freedom #freedomofspeech #consciousness #fundamentalrights #awakening #krishnamurti #hermeticprinciples #meditation #love

Honesty and full transparency is hard, but always wins. The "walled" gardens are not honest and transparent, made even worse by the distortion of political agenda.

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Enjoy being the best you.

I was listening to a rich, US citizen say a wealth tax is beneficial because it would help stop the growth of the deficit.

I noted the assumption that politicians would not use the new revenue to borrow up to ~20x it's amount (at a ~5% interest rate), and increase spending, the deficit, and inflation. "Do you trust any politicians not to borrow against the new revenue and spend?" No answer.

The fundamental problem is not economic, it is political.

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I took your advice and built a gif nostr companion app:

https://gifbuddy.lol/

You can download the PWA to your home screen, search for your gif, copy the address and paste it into your client

On the back end, for every gif that gets copied/clicked, an API request is made to upload to nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 by nostr:npub137c5pd8gmhhe0njtsgwjgunc5xjr2vmzvglkgqs5sjeh972gqqxqjak37w

From there a nip94 request is done so that the content can be accessed by any client in the future

Now, anyone who searches for gifs using this tool is also helping to build the gif repository for nip94 and adding fallback urls to nostr.build

And all they did was click to copy #gifs

Replying to Avatar Peter McCormack

The studio is ready, Danny's flights are booked, and next week we’ll begin recording episodes for our new podcast.

I wanted to share the reasons behind this shift as many have been asking. Three primary factors influenced this decision:

1. I hate making remote shows—I never want to do them again. These interviews need the intimacy of being in person.

2. Traveling constantly has been detrimental to my health and my family.

3. My commitments here with the football club and local community are growing.

So, the solution was clear: build a studio in the UK and produce the show locally.

We’ve secured a fantastic space in Soho, London, and we’re ready to go but given the limited number of Bitcoin guests available in the UK or those willing to fly in, it’s time to retire What Bitcoin Did.

Our new podcast will be similar in feel but will cover a broader range of topics. While some episodes will focus on Bitcoin (though less frequently), most will explore other interesting topics or people.

Having made nearly 900 episodes covering a wide range of #bitcoin topics and guests, we’re now aiming higher. By diversifying our content and guests, we hope to introduce more people to the concept of sound money through podcast osmosis. If we get this right, it will be a bigger show, if we get it wrong, well we tried.

For a long time I have felt there is a need to get out of the #bitcoin corner of the party. Real Bedford FC was a way of integrating sound money into a traditional business model. CheatCode purposely did not include Bitcoin in the title, so changing the show feels like a natural next step.

Sometimes when stuck in the #bitcoin landscape you can lose site of how other people in the world think, lose empathy for the complexities of the world. I have felt this. I'd come home from spending two weeks with Bitcoiners and be with friends and family locally and notice a distinct difference in how we see the world. As everything feels like it is going to shit, I feel like there is a bigger job to do now.

The Bitcoin podcast landscape is well served, from Marty and Odell to Natalie and Preston, from The Blue Collar guys to Stefan Livera and anyone I haven't mentioned. There’s no shortage of high-quality Bitcoin podcasts.

However, there seems to be some fatigue in the space, with similar guests and topics being revisited. With our new show we want to bring fresh perspectives and ideas, aligning with sound money where relevant—think of the shows we’ve had with the likes of Eric Weinstein and Michael Malice.

On a personal note, I’m need the challenge, test myself wider, get fit and find a good woman. I can't do this travelling all the time.

When I started the podcast my life was a shit show - divorced, coming off drugs, heading towards bankruptcy. I've had an incredible 7 years, travelled the world, made amazing friends and got to live my dream by buying my local football club.

To everyone who has helped us get this far - the guests, the listeners, the sponsors, we could not have done this without you. I am forever in your debt.

I hope you’ll check out the new show and enjoy it, though it may not be for some of you. Regardless, Danny and I will work hard to deliver the best show possible, like we always have.

Roll on The McCormack Show!

Came for the money, left for the money. Bye, bye.

Bharat Ramamurti is a graduate of both Harvard and Yale, and should know that there are no gains, of any kind, factored in property tax. Awful.

Property tax is not an unrealized gains tax. Nowhere in your property tax bill are they calculating any sort of gain. The tax rate applies to the assessed value of the home.

Bharat Ramamurti graduated from both Harvard and Yale. He knows better. Shame on him, and those like him.

Replying to Avatar NICO⚡️

After my first personal experience with censorship / deplatforming and watching nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m talk with nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx at Nostr Riga and regardless of what happens with Simply Bitcoin’s YT channel we will be posting our news aggregation content, video content, and livestreams to Nostr regardless of initial viewership engagement

As a Bitcoin media organization we feel like it’s our responsibility to promote protocols where not only can people transact freely but can also speak freely without any risk of censorship

Appreciate the support from nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u and nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr on this front. If anyone else has additional resources for me so the Simply Bitcoin team can learn to post our video / livestream content to Nostr it would be highly appreciated 🙏

BITCOIN OR SLAVERY.

NOSTR OR SLAVERY.

Nico, we know this has been tough. You do great work. Just know, you will be stronger for it all in the long run. 💪