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Good list, Ben!

Some people need to get on top of their UTXO management!

Any recommendations for a tutorial or system setup for relatively non-technical bitcoin and lightning node?

#asknostr

So far, I've enjoyed "What Bitcoin Did" by nostr:npub16le69k9hwapnjfhz89wnzkvf96z8n6r34qqwgq0sglas3tgh7v4sp9ffxj , "The Bitcoin Standard" by nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak , "Coin Stories" with nostr:npub1ahxjq4v0zlvexf7cg8j9stumqp3nrtzqzzqxa7szpmcdgqrcumdq0h5ech, and "The Bitcoin Infinity Show" with nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y

I appreciate your balanced, thoughtful analysis, nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a.

In particular, your insight on the inflows from USDT/Tether is enlightening. It seems the US dollar is only strengthening.

Do you share nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m ‘s perspective that USDT will become digital money instead of bitcoin?

It’s a happy day up here!

More like “Becoming Pseudoscience“. Let’s not do this.

If Saylor is friends with Jared Kushner and MicroStrategy has an interest in Whitehouse support, Saylor has many good reasons to align with Trump’s plans.

My hypothesis is that Saylor is now a spokesman for the Trump bitcoin strategy, which will aim to continue the USD global dominance.

He’s no hero.

True. And there’s always a new batch of get-rich-quick suckers.

I’m pretty new to the bitcoin world. Met with a crypto veteran/expert a couple of weeks ago to triangulate on what I might not be seeing. I was shocked at how blatantly scammy his worldview is. It’s like the flip side of the bitcoin honesty ethos.

Hi all 👋🏻

I’ve been lurking here for the past few weeks, and thought I should drop an intro for anyone passing by.

I’ve been deeply concerned about the state of western civilization, particularly our Big Money Cycle (a la Ray Dalio), currency devaluation, government control, and the woke ideology takeover, for several years now. Little did I realize that the money solution was under my nose all along.

I give credit to my friend nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe, who orange pilled me a few weeks ago. I’ve gone deep down the rabbit hole since then and now see the brilliance that is bitcoin.

Since exiting my business in 2021, I’m exploring how I can best contribute to improving our world. I look forward to connecting with all the other world-changers here.

I can see that parts of it are unstoppable. I can see how the scarcity, decentralization (mining and nodes), honesty, and p2p transactions can never be taken away. And that’s enough for me to be a full patch Bitcoin advocate!

I’m still uncertain about the fullness of it, though. For example,

- The IMF can still compel El Salvador to abandon their bitcoin plans.

- The US still may follow Saylor’s world domination “evil genius” plan and compel USD stablecoin currency.

- Governments could use taxation and implicit violence to dissuade retail acceptance of Bitcoin payments.

My sense is that governments will fight hard against this once they realize their centralized control is being challenged. And they have a lot of power over the general public who may not have relocation flexibility.

I’m still not seeing how fiat replacement is inevitable, even though it clearly would be a massively better world.

And Merry Christmas to you too!

Ah ok. I guess his perspective wasn’t a surprise to anyone else. I’m starting to get the lay of the land on who’s taking which outlook.

It would be unfortunate if Bitcoin turned into just another prop for the IMF-rape-and-pillage society. The promise of infecting the world with an honest money virus that undermines the current world order is appealing.

But, the black hat in me recognizes that history tends to favour those with money and guns.

Is nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m's goal to support the USD world dominance?

On this recent podcast about an hour in: https://www.galaxy.com/insights/podcasts/galaxy-brains/michael-saylor-on-btc-at-100-k-and-the-future-of-micro-strategy/

He says Bitcoin will never be a currency. He wants USD-backed stablecoins to be the world’s currency. He wants them to be issued by US-based financial institutions like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.

He says, “My evil genius strategy: you dump gold, demonetize the gold network, buy bitcoin to monetize the bitcoin network. You support digital currency and you define digital currency as the US-dollar backed by US dollar equivalents in a US dollar custodian.”

His ideal view of the world seems to be a US-centric, Wall Street ruled custodial currency that continues the US world dominance at everyone else’s expense.

I’m curious what nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y and nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe and nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a and nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 think.

Anyone doing this in Vancouver?

This is a good example of living the talk.

I have a genuine question about Bitcoin’s deflationary economy in this example.

If the Sat purchasing power keeps increasing and prices keep deflating, at some point you won’t be able to add enough value for the market to bear your sponsorship cost, right? So, at some point, will you have to decrease your Sat price? And, at what point will the continued decrease in your sponsorship Sat price eliminate your motivation to continue offering it?

In other words, at what point does the deflationary economy drive motivation to zero?