One of my biggest "aha!" moments was realizing that #Nostr isn't just another social media platform.

When I first installed nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg , it felt like #Twitter with a built-in wallet (which was already super cool).

But then, when I imported my private key into nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x and nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 and saw my profile magically appear, it all clicked!

In that moment, I understood—Nostr wasn't just a platform; it was something much bigger. Gosh the hours I spent on LinkedIn / IG / Facebook to create a profile and Bio all over again 😂🫣

Sometimes you just have to dive in and experience it to really get it! Grateful for this patent community here who showed me step by step 🙏🤣💪🏻

Mmm, psychedelics. Curious to reas!

Mmm, psychedelics. Curious to reas!

Okay, hear me out. I’m looking for some advice.

1. I’ve produced a lot of written content over the last few years about Bitcoin (and also a little bit about psychedelics).

2. Most of it is sitting on single-points-of-failure like Medium, Bitcoin Magazine, Swan.com, Citadel21, etc….

3. I want to put it where it won’t get obliterated if there’s a crackdown on such content or if these individual entities disappear.

4. I’m looking for suggestions on how to use nostr effectively to do that.

4a) I do have a high-powered start9OS machine, but don’t yet run a nostr relay on it, although I am willing to learn how, if that’s the right approach.

4b) I want to know how to accomplish this goal in a way that people can actually easily find the content if they are looking for it, and on this point I don’t have any good ideas.

4c) I’d love to include images if I can inline where they belong in the written articles.

4d) It would be really nice to preserve the few movies I’ve been involved in making this way too.

I’m open to all suggestions and assistance and will try to answer any questions any of you ostriches have for me about this.

Sparkling water is insufferable.

The amount of times I accidentally drank it in Europe has only amplified my hatred. Sorry, not sorry.

Gm ☕️☀️

“What I am interested in is people, our integrated health, and the implications it has on collective society.”

It’s wild when you really dig into it, how completely and thoroughly our mental and physical health are tied to the quality of our money.

Hi!

I just got back from a breathwork retreat in Hawaii and learned that @jackmallers shared the story of how I became a Bitcoiner through introducing me to @primal.

Jack’s right, I’ve never been very interested in money (or at least I thought I wasn’t). What I am interested in is people, our integrated health, and the implications it has on collective society.

Nostr helped me to understand Bitcoin not only as a superior monetary technology, but an unparalleled humanitarian tool. Here’s why I’m so bought in:

- It’s been proven over and over that safety is the foundation of integrated health

- Centralized unsound money = collective lack of safety

- Decentralized sound money = collective safety

- Collective safety = better integrated health & healthier society

It’s really as simple as that for me.

I’m grateful Jack shared my story because it perfectly illustrates how change happens. By making it matter to people in a way that sparks their fire. Jack is really good at that.

My spark has been lit. I look forward to lighting my neighbor’s through honesty, connection, and freedom - three tenets of bitcoin that make me a believer.

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Lots of new nostriches here today! Welcome! As long as I can afford it, 500 starter sats for everyone replying to this note.

Make sure you're zap-able!

I'll hit everyone while my wallet holds out.

And.. Go!

Think about it like this.

If you believe bitcoin is going to 2 million.

That’s 32x away from where we are now.

So multiply everything you’re spending in the present by 32 to figure out the true cost of things.

That $20 lunch you had? That could have been a $640 dinner in the future.

The reasonable 30k car you bought? That’s a million dollar super car your future self could have driven.

The 100k downpayment you put on your home? That’s a 3.2 million dollar paid off home.

The 5k international vacation you took last year? That was a 160k baller trip you could have taken later.

Food for thought.

You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Choose carefully.

Nostr is like Bitcoin Twitter in 2016.

Low noise, high signal.

I'm planning to use it more often... Imagine its userbase is seeing a tiny spike this past week (maybe influenced by all the drama goin on with censorship, etc.) ☕️

GN

GM

One of the darker sides of #Bitcoin

People are fixated on number go up, but forget to live life. Then on their last days they are unable to enjoy what their money.

Perhaps being a ordained as a monk and living in a buddhist monastary might be the equivalent of that.

Supremely bored by bitcoin Twitter's book recommendations. It's always the same thing – Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, Ayn Rand, that sovereign individual, yawn, yawn, yawn.

I want books that make me think, not books that reinforce what I already know. Give me niche post-structuralists, anarchists and revolutionaries. Give me poets and weirdos and outcasts, not CIA funded neocon thinkbois. Escape the echo chamber, anon.