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No doubt Jesus phrased this truth in a way to agitate the Pharisees, but the truth of it remains. Physically, we are what we eat. The food we eat is broken down by digestion and the nutrients absorbed to make our own body parts. Mentally and spiritually, we are what we consume, as well. If we feed daily on the Word of God, we will absorb him into our spirits and live.

#devotional

Just wondering if there are any communities. Have a friend going there in the spring as a full time missionary.

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Finally clicking through the takemysats.

NOICE.

Going to post my meshtastics there and see how it goes.

One feedback on the shipping settings page link out to the Bitcoin Postage API docs or something. idk what that is and having a link directly to where i can learn would be helpful.

Any bitcoiners down in the Dominican Republic?

#asknostr

Replying to Avatar Gigi

It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

Glad to be part of your human experience in this ephemeral realm.

don't chill. go for a brisk walk. at least, that's what I did. Felt good. ymmv.

<3 you homie

GM.

If you want a list of the people who are likely to enslave you, here it is:

Accenture

AMD

Anthropic

Armada

Amazon Web Services

Cerebras

CoreWeave

Dell

DrivenData

Google

Groq

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

IBM

Intel

Microsoft

NVIDIA

OpenAI

Oracle

Periodic Labs

Palantir

Project Prometheus

Radical AI

xAI

XPRIZE

Source: https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-collaboration-agreements-24-organizations-advance-genesis

Oh, any expect that money printer to go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Replying to Avatar uncleJim21

People saying #bitcoin "isn't real" reminds me of how people saying imaginary numbers are fake. Many of the most important abstractions are dismissed first because they don’t map cleanly onto existing intuition until a better mental model arrives.

Imaginary numbers are an incredible discovery, without which we could not have reliable controls for machinery, telecommunications, or AC power systems . "Imaginary" is a very poor choice of terms because implies they're useless or made up. But they have very real consequences. A better term for them might be "resonance" or "rotational" component. It was a terribly bad branding to call them imaginary. Imaginary numbers are very real in the sense of describing physical reality in a way that unlocks thousands of inventions.

In the same way, Bitcoin is dismissed as “not real” because it doesn’t fit our inherited intuition of what money is supposed to be. It isn’t physical, it isn’t issued by an authority, and it doesn’t look like the money we grew up with. But that doesn’t make it imaginary. It means it’s orthogonal to the existing system. Bitcoin adds a new axis to money: trustless ownership, cryptographic finality, and settlement without permission.

Just as imaginary numbers didn’t replace real numbers but completed them, Bitcoin doesn’t replace all money...it completes the concept of money in adversarial, digital environments. The mistake isn’t that Bitcoin is fake. The mistake is using the wrong coordinate system to judge it.

“We’re using an old map to navigate a new world.” - nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe

And like imaginary numbers, people will learn and forget bitcoin. All the while taking advantage of it's awesomeness.

There are so many Scriptures that expose the oppression of the poor by the rich. In this world, the corrupt and easily corrupted are more likely to obtain wealth than the honest, hard-working Pleb. Because they have no integrity, they will steal or launder or counterfeit (or legally print) money to enrich themselves. They will receive bribes and default on loans, but never feed a hungry child.

#devotional

Yes. Using remote signer. Chrome browser

GET IN HERE

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And DoW with a mandate to use AI. Funnel the money into the technocrats pockets.

The discussion about looking backward for forks to determine hashrate centralization issues is something worth learning more about.

https://fountain.fm/episode/FoaAzAQ6qj0bLUM0cyez

Replying to Avatar gsovereignty

Cybertruck underrated.

eHash: efficient futures markets for hashrate.

I argued on the internet too much today but space boy is back talking about centralized mining again.

And definitely don't build those roads that lead to Rome. They are only useful consolidating power.

Pioneering the Artic soon.

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nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg have there been proposals to address Cashu mints by nostr pubkey instead of DNS based address?

API commands would be sent over Nostr. I'm even thinking double ratchet could be suitable for this, providing forward secrecy for past API calls 🤔

I'd also like to have that on npub.cash so incoming lightning txs would show up instantly from the nostr subscription.

Iroh seems promising

Replying to Avatar Matt

I'm tired of buying products and services that clearly show how little I mean to the seller. Fortunately, I've been able to replace most of the garbage with better stuff over the past several years.

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I haven't needed a new wallet yet, but when I do, nostr:nprofile1qqsx845ex2wm3cu9d8e93xm282nmpu33emyr5aufu20s5wt8sx7h6uspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7tr2s0f is on the radar for that. I'm seeing the same good traits in that builder.

Alternatives to legacy social media built on #Nostr helped me find these people, making it clear that there's room for a completely parallel world to the fiat system.

I don't remember where I was going with this (typical 😂), so thanks to the producers giving me good products. I'm sure there are many others on Nostr that I'm unaware of or haven't purchased from yet.

When do we get a Wives Meetups at the Park? But it's just a spa day where the other wives can orange pill my wife. 🙏

https://fountain.fm/episode/YEVbz1N2kw5fAv7E8WxE

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Replying to Avatar Jack K

🫡 I’ll do my best brother, hopefully someone will. I hope you don’t plan on going soon. It’s a great usecase to show inscriptions have purpose and meaning.

Throughout scripture and christian tradition, inscriptions have always been used to preserve memory and truth. Stone tablets of the Ten Commandments, names carved on tombs, inscribed names in the Book of Life. Writing into permanence is a way to anchor faith across generations. An inscription is a testimony, a covenant, a marker of truth that does not fade with time.

When we carve names in stone, we are saying: this life mattered, this truth must not be forgotten. The medium matters: stone resists decay, so the inscription becomes a symbolic echo of eternity.

Now, if money is not just paper, tokens, or numbers but conserved energy, then what we choose to inscribe with it reveals what we believe about permanence. Most money today is fiat (erased by inflation/entropy). It cannot hold testimony given enough time. But Bitcoin’s ledger is different: it is the first incorruptible inscription medium. It preserves energy as memory, every 10 minutes, with no “priestly”intermediary.

If Christians have always valued permanence in inscription, truth written into stone, faith written into covenant, why would we dismiss the one system God allowed man to discover that writes into an incorruptible ledger of time itself?

Why should we only inscribe names in stone to remember the dead, but not names (or truths) inscribed into the living ledger of God’s own laws of conservation? If eternity matters, then the medium of remembrance matters too. Stone was good for a time. But the timechain will never forget.

This is more to say, we don’t understand Bitcoin.

Always be learning.

This is a new perspective to consider.

So we're good with inscriptions for inputs?