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#introductions

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 💜🫂🤙🏻

Anyone in Austin for New Years?

Congratulations to nostr:npub1uense4apn73tvh4u20tzlp6u72g4kdustzsm0k0sqy6yuwh5jxlsy97y76!

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taking a break from twitter and really appreciate how much calmer it is here.

ask me the most wholesome question you can and I’ll zap you in response to its perceived wholesomeness …

What determines the price of 1 Bitcoin?

It is the value of the energy used to mine it.

The network itself is paying humanity for the energy needed to be both functional and secure. This value continues to grow in real terms while it drops in relative/nominal terms.

Bitcoin is paying humanity with units of itself, both declaring the value of the network overall and the value of the units within it, in exchange for the value of the energy and time fed into it for functionality and security.

It then revalues itself every 4 years against that energy when it reduces the subsidy by half. The mining network hashrate does not reduce by half to maintain the previous valuation per coin, instead it has doubled against the time and energy input by the mining network every 10 minutes.

Every time the halving occurs, the value of all Bitcoin's is declared worth twice as much time and energy as before. When the hashrate continues to climb after this declaration then we know it is accepted by the market.

This market acceptance has occurred every time and will likely continue to occur due to the fact that nothing else exists that offers direct value in exchange for energy without a middle man creating something to sell first.

Bitcoin turns all sources of electricity into sources of money. The cheaper the electricity is to create, the more money there is to be made. This changes humanities relationship with energy generation, and gives us a way to create abundant energy the likes of which the world has never seen.

My name is Matt and I represent BLOCKS (Bitcoin Learning Outreach Creating Knowledgeable Students).

About me. - I teach Business Computer Information Systems, Accounting, Management, and Logistics, full time at a local community college here in San Antonio. I became interested in Bitcoin relatively recently (late 2022). After almost two years of increasingly intense study and interest I began a “Bitcoin Club” at my school last August using the same name as here (BLOCKS). As the advisor of a new, emerging, student club, I was puzzling over and struggling with putting together as many activities and instructional materials I could find when I came across “Mi Primer Bitcoin” (English version) and was amazed at the quality of available educational resources and network of like-minded groups and individuals Mi Primer Bitcoin offers. I reached out, applied, and was accepted very recently as a “light node” for the organization. One of the resources/communication channels recommended by the group is NOSTR so here I begin. My hope is that, in large part because of numerous personal and professional contacts related to my job, I can help my students, my school, the Alamo community, (and eventually beyond) learn about and appreciate the amazing gift Satoshi Nakamoto gave to the world not so many years ago. I look forward to expanding knowledge, establishing contacts, and collaborating with others here on this platform (I am brand new to NOSTR and all things related to the protocol but will try to get up to speed quickly).

#introduction

#introductions let’s welcome this new nostrich!

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🇸🇻 Off to Vietnam! 🇻🇳

Carrying the Salvadoran flag with pride as I take this next step in my journey. Representing my country means showcasing our strength, resilience, and everything we stand for on an international stage.

Grateful for this opportunity and ready to give it my all. Let’s do this!

Hello Nostr!

There isn't a day I wake up in the past 2 years, and I'm not grateful for my life, my luck, and my loved ones.

Inner-work, shadow work, whatever you call it - as much as it's hard, allows me to get closer to myself, grow, and blaze through life - unstoppable by fear & hate. The bitcoin community plays a big role in my happiness, too. Thank you - you all make a difference. 🧡🙏

The state of society is sad these days.

I see tons of online posts and hear friends conversations talking about degradation of quality and increasing prices, comments blaming the greed of the businesses for having a harder time affording things.

I really think most people are so far down the rabbit hole that their lives will need to get significantly worse while Bitcoiner's lives just improve around them for them to realize we're right and not just crack pots who don't know what we're talking about.

I have some friends who have outright told me they just don't care about what I've learned about Bitcoin and money, that I'm not an economist.

Just stack and don't worry about everyone else. They'll learn eventually and at their own pace. We can't save everyone.

gm

This weekend I finished the (very) rough draft of my hobby sci-fi novel manuscript.

115k words, 45 chapters, front to back readable.

Written in two months, but thought about for years which made the writing come out faster. It needs a ton of revision work, especially since fiction writing isn't my expertise.

Most people have to edit/revise down their manuscript, but I envision this being filled a bit more to 120k+ words.

For reasons I can't say due to spoilers, the third act was the hardest for me. For most writers, the second act is the hardest, kind of that "meh" middle. My middle was tight and fun and easy to write. But due to a couple nontraditional story structure elements, as well as the most technical action sequence in the story, the third act was *really* hard. But I managed to figure it out and am quite satisfied with it.

Now I have to revise and optimize it all.

the 3rd most downloaded app in the US: a wildfire watch app.

go ahead, tell me why reply guy

Who's Jeffery Tucker?