I had yesterday a beautiful family day! Started with a bit of computer work and then picked up my grandma and drove her to our apartment. It was the first time she has ever seen it (she’s almost blind, so there’s not much to see to be fair, but it’s still great to have her in our own space!). 💜

We had some cake, nuts, cider and coffee ☕️

Then drove her back to her village (40min~) and drove myself to see my parents (another 40min~) and had dinner over there. We talked about mostly bullshit, but the sun ☀️ was out and it was just a great day and I felt the need to share it ⚡️

#nostr #pleb

If nostr were the answer, people like me would be building on it.

Ask yourselves who the builders are that aren't choosing nostr, and why.

Then ask yourselves what all the people building here have in common.

Then compare these groups earnestly. I dont just mean Bitcoiners vs Bluehairsky. I mean their experience, talent, and reputation.

I mean the most talented and resourceful people; people that innovate, and have deep expertise. Why aren't they leaving where they are to build here?

Examples: Bitcoin Core devs, shitcoin expert devs that really do want to fix things, talented cryptographers, deeply experienced systems/p2p people, experienced entrepreneurs, reputable VCs and funders.

The closest I see here are people that got Bitcoin-rich and are now learning how to be angels by naively funding their friends and dead-end startup projects that arent much better than weekend hackathon submissions. A sandbox for playing.

Everything worth anything here is a subdivision of Bitcoin culture itself and Bitcoin privilege. Bitcoin is the only provider of talent and resources to Nostr. That worked great to bootstrap from nothing, but now what?

Deal with this, and figure out how to be relevant to other people, or Nostr will continue to be nothing more than a perpetual hackathon sandbox subsidized by a Bitcoiner ego-cult.

JUST IN: Ego Death Capital closes $100 million fund to invest in #Bitcoin companies

Which sci-fi book is so good you wish you could read it again for the first time?

It’s always people.

People are the problem.

I thought your name was Ghost?

With inspiration from a nostr:nprofile1qqsvf82j54enveujhxnwfpg4slpgqshmyna9vfwx6eace9wgw5dv59gprpmhxue69uhkc6t8dp6xu6twvaex2mrp0yhxxmmdqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx20lddxx lecture.

To quote Epictetus Enchiridion:

- “Some things are up to us and some things are not up to us.”

- “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

- “Don’t seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do; and your life will go well.”

- “It is not things themselves that disturb us, but our opinions about them.”

- “When someone irritates you, realize that the problem lies in you.”

- “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”

- “No man is free who is not master of himself.”

- “Remember that you are an actor in a play, the character of which is determined by the Playwright. If He wants it short, it is short; if long, it is long. If He wants you to play the part of a beggar, remember to act even this role well; the same if it be that of a cripple, a ruler, or a private citizen. For your business is to act well the given role, but to choose it belongs to another.”

nevent1qqsvq6yzt0weqy6k6eucjqxqfy4m8uvh7ysmdepmgdcuyl9xs7em9wspz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcu95n8z

Tell me more...

if you actively use nostr i appreciate you

every person that uses nostr makes it more useful

Nostr friends! We’re gearing up for round two of our experiment with nostr:npub1tw0t53nnge3m5wmzhzqpudr7whe7qpvyyj9q2dqnsf8ef97xgsrqugjc3r. If you’re curious or want to take part, simply reply to this thread. When the time comes, something magical may occur ⚡️🎵✨

Rember I read that long before being interested in bitcoin, finance and markets... One of the best book on human behavior.

After testing several hyped AI tools for a crawling task at work, I found that the best solution was a $150 Windows application made by an obscure Indian developer.

It’s saving me a whole week of tedious, repetitive work.

Lesson learned: ignore the hype and take the time to test different tools, even if they don’t look polished at first glance.

I caught a cold in May.

How the hell do you catch a cold in May?

#introduction 👋 hi primal people. I’m Sam. Former bleach blonde fin tech corporate drone who was mentally and physically sick, trapped in the conventional medical system for years. I learned how to heal myself through real food nutrition, breath, circadian health, tons of therapy, comedy, art, and God. Got off all of my medication, including psych meds.

It’s been a difficult health journey and we’re still on it, but I’m grateful for it all. Grateful that I continue to meet depths of my true myself throughout the process 🙏

I left corporate sales to work on farms in Hawaii for 3ish years. Had the most beautiful and difficult experiences of my life living in rural and off-grid communities. Did everything from grueling field work to managing a $1.3 million fundraising campaign for a sustainable agritourism farm.

Now, I coach people on circadian and nervous system health, work for regenerative TX farmers, and make sketch comedy that pokes fun at all the insane crap us wellness junkies do to try and be healthy and happy in this wild world. Also a BTC newbie 🤓🙈👼🏼

This is probably way too long for a post but I wanted to introduce myself 😭 don’t yell at me like they yell at me on twitter please 😅

Thanks nostr:nprofile1qqsfye65t5530wq0wpllmdz23luhjxp9drhhh2syae6kk8cp6n3k3zspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0m5qmtr for introducing me to this platform 🙏

Truthfully tell me which you are currently eating:

1. Carnivore

2. Ketovore

3. Keto

4. Low-carb

5, Vegan

6. Vegetarian

7. I'm an idiot and don't think about food*

*If you're not thinking about your diet then big-food is doing your thinking for you, which means big-pharma is in your near future...

I've started stockpiling dry goods

Broken Money has now sold over 100,000 copies.

The readership demographic is really broad as far as I can tell. Many sales are individuals, in many countries.

But for example there is a big tradfi institutional money manager that has given out dozens of copies to his money manager friends, and there is a big CEO that gives out dozens of copies to his CEO friends and members of Congress and stuff.

Throughout this year more translations will come out. I think my foreign rights agent has like 7 languages out so far, and another 13+ are in the pipeline.

Nostr lately

Ah thanks keen to go down this rabbit hole also

Wish I could! Us only

Wine is fragile and difficult to ship.

Bitcoin is volatile internet money.

Neither seemed like a foundation for a business—

until I found my best customers: Bitcoiners.

🧵 How I took my winery from zero to all-in:

2021

I’d just started selling my wine at farmers markets.

One day, a guy asked, “Do you accept crypto?”

I said, “I’ll take your bitcoin,” and had no idea how I’d actually do that.

He walked away.

But it stuck in my mind.

The first person who ever asked.

I was a Bitcoiner, but didn’t think that had anything to do with wine.

Bitcoiners were 0% of my sales.

2022

I joined Twitter. Went to my first Bitcoin conference.

And the people in it? They were my people.

Honest. Curious. Genuine. Driven.

A few folks started asking if they could buy wine with bitcoin.

I said yes—not because I saw a business opportunity.

I just wanted more bitcoin.

I added a little Bitcoin logo to my wine bottles.

Put up a “Bitcoin Accepted Here” sign at the farmers market.

But that was mostly for my own obsession.

I mostly had old men come up and warn me about bitcoin’s volatility.

But sometimes, real ones would trickle through.

One woman saw the sign and said:

“You accept Bitcoin?? I HAVE TO GO GET MY HUSBAND.”

I could tell she was married to someone who couldn’t stop talking about bitcoin, like me.

Sure enough, I now consider him a friend.

Bitcoin sales still felt more like a fun side quest than a real channel.

Bitcoiners were ~10% of my sales.

2023

This is when I felt the shift.

Early in the year, bitcoin sales started covering my living expenses.

By the holidays, the momentum was undeniable.

Still not everything—but enough to make me pay attention.

Bitcoiners weren’t just buyers.

They were thoughtful. Loyal. Fun to talk to.

It didn’t feel like marketing—it felt like alignment.

Bitcoiners were ~50% of my sales.

2024

Things got wild.

I released Satoshi’s Reserve, a wine I’d quietly been setting aside since 2021.

The auction blew past anything I’d seen before.

In dollar terms, it beat the entire prior year of online sales.

Then I dropped HIGHER, my second bitcoin-focused wine.

Another record. Same story:

Enthusiasm. Loyalty. People telling other people to support me.

Meanwhile, I was still at farmers markets.

Twelve-hour days every weekend.

Pitching the same story to strangers who’d never come back.

Bitcoiners were showing up, rebuying, and selling for me.

That made the decision easy.

Bitcoiners were ~75% of my sales.

2025

No more farmers markets.

No more trying to reach “everyone.”

I’m all in on Bitcoiners now.

I’ll probably make less money this year.

But I’ll be fired up by everything I do.

And I’ll have complete alignment between my job and my mission.

Selling wine for bitcoin isn’t just good business.

It feels like doing my part to make the world better.

And the fact that I get to do that with wine from my family vineyard?

That’s about as soul-filling as it gets.

Bitcoiners didn’t just become my best customers.

They joined my mission.

Bitcoiners have high expectations, are discerning and HATE deception, but if you have that, then they are dying to become your best customers.

Plant a Flag.

Bitcoin Preferred.

PeonyLaneWine.com 🍷

In 2008, Europe's GDP was higher than that of the United States, but now it is almost half that of Europe.

You will tell me how you readapt to this, if you do not believe that Europe is in decline... you are suffering it in your own flesh, high inflation, unemployment, uncontrolled immigration, attacks, insecurity...

Europe is totally destroyed, this is the consequence of being subjugated to the USA after World War II, the same goes for Japan.

Biographies are fascinating, someone people are truly incredible. The best part of the human existence is how imperfect we are and how those uniquenesses /nature or nurture/ take people on their different paths.

Been eating up alot of the recommendations.

It's done. Biden is gone. Trump is in office. The horrors of the last four years will be repaired and reversed.

I'm currently producing a video sharing why I no longer post my photographs to twitter or instagram. Really looking forward to introducing my YouTube audience to Nostr. If just one person comes over here, i will have won.

#photography #landscapephotography