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Location: Middle Tennessee, USA Homesteader, entrepreneur and all around goofball Talks about: Guns, knives, pipes/tobacco, livestock, Liberty, Freedom, Free markets, Austrian Economics, AMSOIL, Infinite Banking, Bitcoin, Shitcoin, Lightning payments, building meaningful social relationships, business, entrepreneurship, homesteading, permaculture, agriculture, generational wealth, personal finance... Member of npub1qktts9naunvjdwsktq5xjdhwh539xt4x0mqj4yxq0q9dvm03ljvs6sms0r get on the mission #GrowNostr #AMSOIL #AMSOILLubeDirect #LubeDirect #InfiniteBanking #FinancialTailwind #plebsrustica #ChestnutRidgeTN #middleTN #Tennessee ⚑⚑ zapper Nostring since 4/20/23

Moving the chicken pen today. Wow it's windy, but warm... Had to put shorts on as I was sweating.

Stick around, it will change. Highs in the low 30's next week.

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Thoughts about citizen journalist ratting out all the corruption in Minnesota?

🚨 Nick Shirley...

When a journalist simply shows up, asks straightforward questions, and documents what’s happening β€” and people immediately panic and lash out β€” it’s a clear sign a nerve was hit.

No spin. No guardrails. Just facts on the ground.

That’s real journalism.

It is very obvious that the police are just as corrupt as the government there. They are robbing the American public out of our tax dollars and nothing is being done about it to this point. The governor and people responsible need to return the billions they have stolen and go to prison for a very long time. Justice needs to be served or the American people will be entering civil war

SILVER is one of the most leveraged commodities there is and right now there is a mad rush for physical SILVER instead of paper. This massive demand is happening worldwide. They are gobbling up all the supply available because they understand this is the end of the fiat currency experiment that started August 15 of 1971. Fiats are collapsing. This is the Hunt brothers on steroids because you have the entire world buying physical.

The Hunt brothers got into trouble because they were buying paper contracts, and COMEX changed the rules. COMEX can change any rules they want. It won’t matter because the rest of the world is buying cash and carry. They will not accept paper contracts. They want real physical metal.

Here is where it gets both interesting and dangerous. What happens if the short sellers cannot deliver the silver promised? People say if they can’t deliver, and I am going to tell you at some point they will not be able to deliver, when that moment happens, it’s game over for the entire financial system. Silver, and I believe it will be silver that fails to deliver, silver is the blasting cap to the gold nuclear bomb. When silver fails to deliver, then immediately there will be a pile into COMEX gold, and they will not be able to deliver the gold.

Once that happens, you have failures of contracts that are proven fraudulent. They are zeroed out and cannot perform. Then it spreads to cattle, pork bellies, grains and you name it. This is not to mention the financials of stocks and bonds. Once you prove fraud in silver, that’s going to spread to all the derivatives, and we will have a derivative meltdown.

The world wants gold and silver because those are the only two monies that cannot default.”

What you are seeing in the gold and silver markets now is far from a top. This is just getting started. Behind the scenes is a gigantic leveraged derivatives market that is blowing up. It will bring down the entire system, so that we can move back to a system of honest money, that is decentralized and the people have the power.

That derivatives time bomb is exploding and the short sellers, who have suppressed and manipulated the SILVER price for many years, are about to trigger the implosion of the entire crooked derivatives market. That’s a good thing.

These contracts are a zero-sum game. There is a winner and a loser. If the loser loses so big that they go belly up, then the winner becomes a loser because they can’t get paid. That is the problem. When this actually hits and there is a failure to deliver, gold and silver will be wiped off the shelves, and there will be none to be bought. This will be a run for safety, and fear is the greatest emotion there is. Fear is a far greater emotion than greed.

This is going to turn into a reverse bank run into gold and into silver because they cannot default in a world that is defaulting. What you are witnessing is the end of trust. When you have the end of trust, the confidence breaks and credit is forthcoming only when there is trust. Once confidence breaks, the credit markets will begin to seize up. When credit stops, it’s game over. You will see markets, institutions and stores shutter.”

reposted from Missy White Mason

That's okay, it's what we do... I think we've fostered probably 30 or so over the years. We had 3 over Christmas, dropped one off yesterday. This gives us room for another to rescue... This is the one we took in an emergency, as our local animal control was going to euthanize him in hours... Because of a bite risk. He is a little snappy, but not horrible. He was also my buddy and was a total different dog just 24 hours after we got him.

Replying to Avatar Ava

Good Lord I need a nap after fact checking and writing this response. Lol

Monero doesn't have a fixed cap. It has tail emission. 0.6 XMR per block, started May 2022. Creates about 1% inflation initially and trends toward zero over time. Keeps miners incentivized long-term without relying on fees alone.

Supply is predictable. We know exactly how many coins exist: roughly 18.44 million XMR plus 0.6 XMR every 2 minutes. Accounting for lost coins, probably deflationary in practice. That's scarcity.

On 51% attack resistanceβ€”yeah, attacks were attempted recently. August 2025 saw a 6-block reorg. September brought an 18-block reorg, the deepest in Monero's history. The selfish-mining attack peaked around 33% hashrate, not majority control. No double-spends executed, no funds stolen, but 118 transactions rolled back. Real stress test.

Monero's response was immediate. FCMP++ development accelerated. An alpha stressnet launched October 3, 2025.

FCMP++ moves from ring signatures with a ring size of 16 (15 decoys + 1 real) to full-chain membership proofs. Instead of proving your transaction came from one of 16 possible outputs, it proves it came from one of millions across the entire chain. Makes tracing effectively impossible.

Optimization competitions ran. 100 XMR bounty for helioselene, 250 XMR for ec-divisors. They achieved a 5x speedup in proof generation. Beta stressnet targeted Q1 2026.

Consensus hardening happened at the same time. "Share or Perish" fork-choice proposals are under active development. They’re designed to penalize delayed block broadcasts and kill the profitability of selfish mining. Additional finality layers and merge-mining concepts are being explored.

December 2025 status: hashrate at 6.74 GH/s, network stabilized, 17 active FCMP++ implementation issues with 4 closed, XMR up 94% year-over-year despite the attacks, privacy cryptography intact. Zero protocol compromises.

The network got tested. It responded with technical fixes, transparent crisis management, and fast timelines.

If you need untraceable transactions at scaleβ€”nothing else does what Monero does.

I like it. Wish more wouldn't call it a shit coin. I like both btc and xmr.

Haven't had a vehicle payment in years as well. I was 🀏 close to pulling the trigger and I got my health insurance bill, it went from $250 to $1500 (was going to be $2400) so I switched to tricare retired reserve... 4 more yeas when I turn 60 it will be free.

78 year old man is looking for a companion... Looks like the perfect fit. Gonna miss my little buddy...

Did pretty good most of December, bought some stuff for the Christmas holiday and got totally bent last night. Fuck sober January, I'm doing sober forever. I'm still feeling it.

And I'm spoiled as hell, since I bought my last new truck (2008 f150 xlt) at $23k Jan 2009 it was $35k on the sticker. I just sold it for $8500 with 140k on the odo. I want a new one and the best I've found for one is about $62 that's a 3/4 ton with a gas motor in the XLT package. Add $15k for the power stroke and the Lariat package.

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Not that hard it has its own sound, just take one you know is real, and ping it, then ping the other. They should sound the same https://amzn.to/4beOZWG

Just got up... Thinking about going back to bed... No more drinking! I'm still messed up. πŸ€¦πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ