Back from Nashville, and after a little reflection, I need to reiterate a message I frequently put out there: kill your heroes.

Most of the people talking about the moon, laser eyes, power law, get on zero, digital energy, strategic national reserve, etc. etc., or who are telling you to buy this device or use that service are **buying and selling your attention to make themselves richer** -- they generally do not have your best interests at heart.

Think for yourself and don't fall for marketing. Educate yourself about bitcoin, discuss it with people you respect, think critically about the risks, and then, if it makes sense to you, make a sensible investment in it with reasonable expectations, while keeping your larger financial situation and your personal priorities in perspective.

I am a believer in bitcoin in spite of, not because of, all of the wild assertions, influencers and aggressive social marketing out there, and it has taken me 11 years to get to where I am.

Be careful our there anon, don't buy the hype.

Seems like it works. ⚡️🤙

Your Lightning address doesn’t seem to be working btw.

Core Lightning was used, but don’t think a seed phrase was given.

Does anyone know how to get the seed phrase of the wallet that Ride The Lightning uses to generate receive addresses?

Asking for a friend that sent some sats on-chain but the hard drive died. Prob can’t do much but it’d be good to know for the future.

#StartOS #bitcoin #lightning #asknostr

Future Plan: Get out from Indonesia, Move to #####.

Hey #damus users. Could you test connect to my bouncer wss://bostr.lecturify.net and see if there's any problems connecting?

Hey #damus users. Could you test connect to my bouncer wss://bostr.lecturify.net and see if there's any problems connecting?

Both Biden and Trump are kind of retarded. We have known this for a long time.

During the debate, Biden’s age issues became unmasked. And then during the tragic shooting on Trump, he had the courage and presence of mind to fist bump and come out very strong. And in their emotion, people of course rally behind strength.

But then when we go back to hearing Trump speak for an extended period of time, we are reminded that he is kind of retarded, like where we were before, prior to the emotion of the crisis.

Nothing stops this train. All our heroes are retarded. Stay humble and stack sats.

For the "reserve asset" rumor, Trump merely announced in his speech that he wouldn't keep selling America's existing 200,000+ seized coins and would instead retain them.

In interviews over the past week and in my recent report, that's the lowest hanging fruit that I pointed toward.

Bro roast all of his political opponents and talks next to nothing about bitcoin

I watch Snowden, listen to the underlying message of cooperation to change the system. Bitcoin is great but datasets will know everything, we are all doxxed. What is my takeaway ? Honestly, I haven’t got a clue how I as an average individual can help. I moved to Bitcoin for NGU, I stayed for the Revolution but I’m about as useful as a chocolate teapot in bringing about meaningful change. I am awake I guess. Sometimes as the saying goes ignorance is bliss, because the flipside is constant frustration and inner torment at the wrongs being allowed to occur. What’s the answer ? I really don’t know but I’m not going anywhere. I hang my hopes on the clever devs and I just remind myself to never capitulate

i read a lot of monero here atm, here's my little story: sold 10 btc two days ago, had to go through a kyc hell (as the non-kyc market is dead/never worked for bigger amounts) ... bitcoin has become part of the surveillance state, sad but true

I don't get it. People get their accounts suspended after they've build up a lot of followers and keep coming back to the same place to start at zero. I really don't get it.