I thought the same thing the other day when I accidentally almost zapped myself a ton of sats. That's lame if people are doing that to me it bugs me when people repost their own stuff on X. I guess self promotion in a selfie driven-me-me-me-society is just the way it is?

With Bitcoin you can be your own..

- bank

- company

- president

- country (no need for Samson Mow to focus on this one bullet, each person is the goal.)

All this accomplished without legal fees, property taxes, C suites, politicians, marketers, self promoters, scammers, skin color, religion, sexuality, diet, dictators, war, experts, media, change management, corporate values, hate, auditors, noise.

Bitcoin allows you to be you, decentralized yet blissfully economically compartmentalized to be loved, to love, for peace. Offline in your real world on online in your digital world. Bitcoin is a gift, to be protected, and the beauty is the person who has one Sat on the base layer has the same security as the person with 100,000+ whole Bitcoins.

Side note:

(If you laughed at 'Change Management' then you understand a developer's disdain of over-processed drivel.)

Thanks again, I need to spend more time over there for sure on HABLA. Thank you.

Thanks for this reply. I totally appreciate it. You are super patient to do a 3 hour 1on1 but you could never do that a million times. When it came to cancer, I got massive traction, taking lymphoma, I compiled lists and lists of the best medicines at the time, some in Clinical Trials, all updated for easy consumption by the patients and their families. I know my efforts made doctors say lymphoma patients were the best informed worldwide. If you know lymphoma Ritxuan+CHOP is standard but it wasn't when it was IDEC-C2B8 with the first ever monoclonal antibody ever approved for cancer on Thanksgiving, 1997. Data 2 Information 2 Knowledge 2 Power is a great formula, especially when your life is on the line. Bitcoin is a huge disruptor and I am so stoked to be working on something not cancer that can CURE economic ills of the world. Power to the Patients. Power to the People.

It's difficult to describe, thanks so much for your time. Let me try this. Bloggers like to 'contain' their content so it can show multiple articles they have written. With HABLA I found it is pretty much just single threaded and hard to find everything by that one author in 'one stop shop.' This is Blogspot, I do like how it shows things this way, but can't stand the Google connection. Thanks again, I follow you and enjoy your content.

That's exactly what I am thinking. Maybe I need to rethink 'blog' versus how can there be one 'note' link on NOSTR that constantly gets updated so it can be dynamic. Of course, Bitcoin turns thinking on its head because it is so damn different than everything else. To me, some of the greatest comments on Bitcoin on most every angle/topic have already been SAID. Perhaps even today? I mean, so much great stuff on AI, I took at stab at it a couple months ago but so much has changed. I think there is room for 'one stop shopping' rather than everyone doing Google searches, combing through "+Bitcoin +AI" results?

Yeah, I wrote I tried that one, the issue is that is good for one off articles but how can I have it so you can see all the ones I am working on at the same time? Bitcoin is different, instead of 10,000 "static" one off articles all talking the same thing, there really can be 10 "dynamic" articles constantly updated. Thanks a lot for the reply though, still struggling with this one.

BUYING mine now, thanks Lyn.

#asknostr What is the best NOSTR based blogging site? I am trying to get onto a NOSTR Standard for all my social media.

I want to get off Google's 'blogspot' as it is dated but I can't find a good alternative with the basics on NOSTR. I have visited Habla and others. I simply want a place where I can post large entries and go back and edit the exact posts as new info is added or updated.

I know 'blogs' are so 2000 but with 1000s of hours of podcasts on Bitcoin almost weekly there is room and my behind the scenes analytics are showing there are people out there like me who:

1) Wonder if Bitcoin topics have already been discussed on Gold, Store of Value, POW, Property, AI from Satoshi then to Saylor today.

2) Want to go grab specific quotes with links to the videos or articles

3) Don't have the 1000s of hours to listen to podcasts then and now only to find that one nugget that is shared with just the listener?

Feedback please, is this a waste of time? I am using the same formula I used for my volunteer cancer advocacy. Instead of Bitcoin/Podcasts/Bitcoiners it is Cancer/Journals/Doctors.

Cancer is deeply personal, Bitcoin is a hobby, the latter is really, really fun to me, if it isn't for you, count your blessings because HEALTH is way more important than WEALTH and we all are one blood test away from lives being upended. Be thankful. Stack Sats.

My Bitcoin only blog site I want to move to NOSTR:

https://bitcoinapolis.blogspot.com/

Disclaimer on this post for the Red Banner you may see how I am permanently banned from Reddit, over a year now: I was a fan/supporter/contributor on Reddit for years and I do miss it some days. I never once caused any issues but as soon as Russia started a War in Ukraine where our daughter was born and where we have many friends, I started posting. Even then, nothing caused any issues, nothing psychotic or threatening UNTIL...until I mentioned anything India/Russia as in India being opportunistic. I will go no further... Regardless, here is an innocuous post on something on r/Bitcoin I liked and I hope it doesn't offend any Indian Bitcoiners. Bitcoin is hope for us all to avoid this manmade social chaos.

https://void.cat/d/BqUB7R14GJYFz4MwUukBJD.webp

Just when you think Jim "Duh Street" Cramer can't get any lamer, this happens: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/long-jim-cramer-etf-shutters-222647364.html?.tsrc=fin-srch

Bet against Bitcoin and Fail. Go Long with your own stock picks in an ETF and Fail.

Never too late to opt into Bitcoin Cramer, but please don't tag your name/brand to anything you do with Bitcoin please.

Signed,

-Bitcoiners

"Sometimes anonymous protocols are silent bliss to all the noise signaled by the ill informed."

Question: Who is one of your top 10 Bitcoiners that no one talks about or discusses online. My choice is easy.

"Brian Brooks: Bitcoining Bad Ass"

By BR

August 21, 2023 (NOSTR only content)

I am shocked more people haven't listened to Brian Brooks about Bitcoin. Brian addressed Congress a couple years ago as he sat next to now shamed SBF. I remember thinking how Brian seemed to be a professional and how SBF answered questions as an amateur.

Further, in all the SEC/Binance filing, CZ (prounounced SLEA-ZY) shows how the previous two CEOs at Binance are known as Hostile CEO A and Hostile CEO B.

But who are these previous two CEOs at Binance?

1) Hostile CEO A is: Catherine Coley who is presumably still missing.

2) Hostile CEO B is: Brian Brooks

When Brian addressed Congress next to SBF:

Snippet 1:

"Can anyone explain, for example, why Fidelity Investments, one of America’s best known investment advisors, had to go to Canada to offer a Bitcoin ETF, or why physically settled crypto ETFs are safe and legal in Germany, Brazil, Singapore, and elsewhere, but somehow not in the United States?"

Snippet 2:

"The second point is lots of these decentralization protocols are designed to solve the exact problems that create the need for enforcement in the first place, because most enforcement in the securities and banking system is about some combination of human error, human negligence, human greed, or human bias. And the point of some of these decentralized systems is to take that out and have an open source piece of software everybody can look at and do those things algorithmically."

Snippet 3:

"Well, Mr. Huizenga, it’s good to see you again. I think the most important reason of many is international competitiveness. Other countries make this easier. Let me just make clear. Other companies make this easier, other countries. I just came yesterday from the Middle East, where in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, they have super clear derivatives regulations, super clear ETF regulation. They’re trying to lure Americans over there to build these products, and they’re moving there."

Snippet 4:

"Mr. Budd: (03:18:04)

I thank the chair. United States has a huge opportunity with crypto, but my fear is that this regulatory state is going to crack down on an industry that the regulators really don’t understand yet, and it’s going to force the next generation of financial tech to be created outside of our country. Well, we can’t let that happen. So Mr. Brooks, it’s good to see you again, where do companies draw the line and say that enough is enough with this anti-innovation “regulation by enforcement”, and then just decide to take their industry elsewhere to another country? Where’s the line?

Mr. Brooks: (03:18:47)

Well, Mr. Budd, it’s good to see you and thank you for that question. What I would say is in some aspects of the industry, the line is super clear. There are some products that are legal in other countries and are just not legal here. So I take some of the investment products we’ve talked about earlier today, for example exchange traded funds. One of the things that makes crypto risky is that consumers may not understand the difference between one token and another token. And so they may want to diversify much as I own an S&P 500 mutual fund. We don’t allow that in the United States, we do allow it in Canada. We allow it in Germany, Singapore, Portugal, and a number of other places. So if you’re a developer of those products, there’s no fuzzy line, it’s super clear. You can’t do that here. So you have to go abroad. Okay? There are some other places-

Mr. Budd: (03:19:29)

Can you say why we can’t do that here?

Mr. Brooks: (03:19:31)

Sure. It’s because the Securities and Exchange Commission has consistently refused to approve products that other G20 nations have approved.

Mr. Budd: (03:19:37)

So we’re behind the curve?

Mr. Brooks: (03:19:39)

Unquestionably."

Snippet 5:

"Mr. Brooks: (03:32:37)

Sure. Well, thank you for the question, Mr. Kustoff. I actually do this talk at local rotary clubs and things around the country all the time. So I think I can do that pretty well. I think the easiest way to understand it is let’s contrast blockchain transactions with normal banking transactions to see how much easier it is to trace them on a blockchain than it is in a banking transaction. So let’s imagine for a moment that… I would never do this because this would be flagrantly illegal, but let’s say I bought you lunch. Okay? And let’s say that afterwards you wanted to Venmo me your payment back, right? So you hit your Venmo button on your iPhone and you sent me money. What many people don’t understand is that there’s seven or eight different steps in the Venmo transaction.

So all Venmo does is send an instruction to your bank. Your bank then receives that instruction, they write it down in their books and records, and then they then send an instruction to an underlying transfer network. It could be the automated clearing house, it could be the Fedwire system or something else. That system then contacts my bank. It inquires whether my bank has enough money to pay you. Once that’s been done, then there’s a debit from my account. It’s very complicated. And in any one of those steps, information could be lost. There could be a breach, something bad could happen.

Versus in a blockchain, there are no intermediaries. I’m not sending instructions to a third party to send instructions to another third party, to eventually send you money. I’ve sent you money. And when the block is validated, I can see that my wallet address transferred that value to your wallet address, simple as that. The easiest way for people to understand how easy this is, because we’ve had a lot of talk of hacking and cyber security issues, the reason that we found the bad guys in the Colonial Pipeline hack, was because they asked for Bitcoin. If they had asked for diamonds, if they had asked for cash, if they’d asked for almost any other thing, we’d never have caught the bad guys. We caught the bad guys because, not in spite of, because they used Bitcoin and we could tell exactly where the money went.

Mr. Kustoff: (03:34:31)

So, because the blockchain was used, it was traceable?

Mr. Brooks: (03:34:36)

Correct."

Snippet 6:

"I love that question, and thank you for giving me a chance to address it. Couple of things. So first of all, let’s ask, why do we have so many underbanked people in the United States? And the answer is a combination of minimum balance fees, monthly account maintenance fees, and all kinds of other things that are a hallmark of the money center model that banking is built on. Right? If you talk to Mr. Allaire about his product, he would tell you they don’t have any minimum balance fees. They don’t have any monthly maintenance fees. You can keep your assets in a tokenized bank deposit for free. So that’s the first answer is there are no $10 a month fees. There are no $25 wire charges. Those things don’t exist that eat away at your life savings. A.

And B, the next most important thing about crypto is here you have an early stage asset, which unlike the IPO boom, unlike venture capital, doesn’t require that you know a guy or that you be well connected or that you be an accredited investor to participate. This is a chance for underrepresented communities to be in on the wealth creation stage of some new thing as opposed to coming in at the end. So what I always say is that’s the way you solve under representation is through wealth creation. This is an opportunity, and that is why there are more minority investors than white investors in crypto in the United States is because of this."

Mr. Brooks: (04:15:51)

It’s all incumbency protection. The big banks don’t like this. The big banks have been slow to adopt because they make a lot of money on those fees I just mentioned.

Snippet 7:

"Mr. Steil: (04:16:03)

… if I can, Mr. Brooks, in the time that we have. In your opening testimony, you talked about the do no harm approach, and that approach helped bring in a period of tremendous growth and opportunity in really Web One. You mentioned that some of the countries that U.S. crypto businesses are moving to. What are some of the examples of the positive approaches to digital asset regulation that you see in those countries if you had a put your finger on it?

Mr. Brooks: (04:16:21)

Well, I mean, for example, responding to market demand. If a whole bunch of customers want to buy a Bitcoin ETF, why is it our business to say they can’t do it? I mean, you see this domestically in New York versus the rest of the United States. Lots of investors like to buy certain tokens. New York won’t let New Yorkers buy tokens. So there’s safe in Nebraska, not safe in New York. Why would that be?"

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Me: A lot more content and links found here:

Who is your least favorite Bitcoin writer in mainstream media?

By name.

The name is actually more important than the Media Company that owns it. Most media can mostly be traced back to one name, Rupert Murdoch. Rupert is a friend of Musk/anti-Bitcoiner so try to please the boss over writing the truth? Run a business based solely on ad revenue, get in bed with the Advertising Cartel?

Tangent, sorry. I will go first with my Orange Bitcoin Terrible Reporting Award goes to....

Every time I see a really bad headline with "Bitcoin" in it, I know who wrote it. I have been over 90% accurate guessing. Who? Jack Denton of "Barron's" (Murdoch) LONDON. Watch out for this clueless 'journalist'? Some of his latest garbage. Note how he loves to use "may, might, could"? Poor journalists write that way, poor weather experts do the same way with a huge broad brush? Can you imagine? The temperature today will be from zero to a hundred degrees (never mind Celsius or Fahrenheit as they still get a freakin' paycheck. Pathetic.)

https://void.cat/d/BeiguHjtCnsW9Tye6eyRN3.webp

https://void.cat/d/TFdKCTo1KX5Gn4XWMMAkjp.webp

https://void.cat/d/FwpihFwh8tsuCYFqVV4a35.webp

ARE WE AS ARROGANT TODAY AS WE WERE 100 YEARS AGO?

Written By: BR

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Even with the minutia inside Bitcoin, we arrogantly parade around like we know so much, go back a 100 years and people thought the same way. I just read another recent article saying how oil will be depleted from our Earth in xx years. Exactly like we said 100 years ago and the date of 'no more oil and gas' has passed.

But here we sit,

- a plane full of 230 people all with cell phones can still 'disappear' after a crash.

- Fountains of diamonds can erupt? https://www.yahoo.com/news/fountains-diamonds-erupt-earths-center-130010302.html

- We have only explored 78% of all land and 22% of the seas on Planet earth

- Scientists say the subterranean ecosystem has twice the amount of water than our oceans, challenging how earth was formed

- We mapped the entire human genome over 20 years ago, but we are still right here scientist Eric Lander from the Human Genome told us back then:

"If you take an airplane, a Boeing 777, I think it has 100,000 parts. If I gave you a parts list for the Boeing 777, in one sense you'd know a lot. You'd know 100,000 components that have got to be there, screws and wires and the rudders and things like that. On the other hand, I bet you wouldn't know how to put it together. And I bet you wouldn't know why it flies."

- We humans are genetically similar to other animals and plants. In US Congress most can compare to a head of cabbage.

Cat: 90%

Cow: 80%

Mouse: 75%

Fruit Fly: 60%

Banana: 50%

- The Earth's core is hotter than the surface of the sun, could it be 'brewing' up more oil and gas as a byproduct to whatever the Hell is doing in the middle of where we all stand?

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With Bitcoin, as with so many topics, true experts are few and far between, don't be arrogant, we really don't know much about anything. Be humble. Keep pushing. Keep Learning.

PEACE.

Future 'use case' for Bitcoin: Bury yourself on the Bitcoin Timechain? https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/funerals-china-cost-much-money-190344695.html

Never too late to revisit historical comments on Bitcoin specifically with the Bitcoin White Paper. Since the white paper, version 0.10 of Bitcoin has flawlessly executed/transacted almost 100 Trillion dollars, worldwide, speed of light, open source ledger on a network with over 99% uptime spanning 14 years owned by no person or corporation. Economic Power to All the People Everywhere on Planet Earth.

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Technical people on the 9 page Satoshi White paper:

Jack Dorsey: "Poetry"

Guy Kawasaki: "Genius Math"

Michael Saylor: "Digital Steel"

Investors/Politicians:

Warren Buffet: Ponzi Scheme

Elizabeth Warren: Ponzi Scheme (Politicians want to control and there is no getting Bitcoin back into the stable.)

Charlie Munger: Rat Poison

#asknostr We know if someone guesses your 12 word seed phrase that’s bad but could two people ever generate the same 12 word seed phrase? Base layer would not allow? (Long day, probably idiotic question.)

Excellent but 80 hours a week is a toxic FIAT byproduct. Hustle Porn is real:

https://www.inc.com/serhat-pala/alexis-ohanian-says-hustle-porn-is-most-dangerous-trend-in-silicon-valley-heres-how-to-eradicate-it.html