GE. I’ve got something to confess about that’s both embarrassing and very frustrating.
Last week I posted on a telegram home mining page about wanting to buy 2 x S19 XP’s to immersion mining and heat our pool and asking if anyone hade feedback about buying directly from Bitamain or their Chinese reseller Beacontek.
Someone called Sats4me replied I could buy them locally (I’m in New Zealand) for a sharper price through Rich at Used ASICs and said he good to deal with.
I was immediately DM’d by Rich at UsedASICs, (in retrospect a red flag) who said he has 6 month old S19 XP’s at the sharp price of $1300 AUD each.
I was cautious of not getting scammed, said I needed to conduct some due diligence, asking for his mob no and npub, but he asked if I’d like referee and gave me a telegram contact to message (probably him too) who said all he’d bought arrived as stated.
He didn’t provide me with his mob no or npub though. (Once again, another red flag.)
In retrospect I should have pushed for those, especially the npub, and a website. The social proof of the npub would have been valuable, but I felt I was being difficult and rude and he ‘seemed’ to be politely accommodating my due diligence checks.
I paid him the $2600 AUD, and emailed him the next day asking for the tracking.
I then checked my telegram chat with him only to find all messages wiped. It was then that the penny dropped.
I was naive to have not been more suspicious. Lessons learnt (the hard way.) 🙄
Not that it will probably stop his shitbag behaviour, but I text him:
Really? Is this how you make a living? Ripping people off.
Going through the motions of building trust when you’re really a fraudulent thief.
The fact that with Bitcoin, Nostr, Fedi etc, we’re trying to make a better, fairer, more harmonious world, but then there’s you, a lying fraudster scamming people rather than work towards a better future and trying to be the best person you can be.
You’re obviously intelligent, you should have more faith and self respect of yourself and aim higher.
I know humans can justify anything. How do you justify this cuntfuckery?
I’ll recover from this theft of yours and will let my wife know I’ve been scammed, while you have to live with your conscience that you’re a thieving, lying piece of shit.
Sleep well scumbag.
Anyway. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes.
Be careful out there people.
Satanic, totalitarian, psychopathic, parasitic power freaks (who are doomed to fail), as our innate desire for freedom and personal sovereignty burns too bright to submit to their demented plans of global control to the exclusive benefit of a few thousand so called, but erroneously named ’elites.’
Is that a good sentence?
Nostrocket fixes this.
And elevated genital cancer.
Damn straight! Well said, quiet.
Here’s the Riga pres:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddvHagjmRJY
My only problem with contributing to Nostrocket is a current complete inability to code. 🤷🏼♂️ Lucky there are plenty of talented devs working on Nostr.
Have you seen any presentations about Nostrocket? I think that has much promise in general and specifically for the decentralised Nostr based equivalents of Airbnb, Uber and Amazon we were talking about. Here’s G Sovereignty talking about Nostrocket at Nostrasia. He also presented about it in Riga recently.
Hey peeps. What Nostr signing app can I use for signing into Nostr clients without having to enter my nsec when using new client for the first time, (for better nsec security)?
Ran out of Bitcoin podcasts so I just played this on repeat for the last 3 hours straight.
https://video.nostr.build/6487fd2f3115869a4b5966279dd3f50673dd67f4b910a16c9e1e66dfc65b4713.mp4
Love it!
GA!
I know am preaching to the choir, but here's link to my Telegram channel I created: The Case for Bitcoin and Financial Freedom.
I made this as a repository for all the stats, videos, presentations on inflation and Bitcoin that are both profound and undeniable.
Like most here, Bitcoin along with Fedi and Nostr gives me great hope for the future for myself, my family, friends and for a free, fairer, more prosperous world for all.
If the content is valuable to you, please feel free to share this with people you’d like to orange pill.
If anyone has a suggestion of how I can create this repository on Nostr instead of Telegram, please let me know. 😉
The Fountain podcast app is corrupt bullshit
It's NOT "Powered by the Bitcoin Lightning Network"
It's a custodial bank account, closed source app, hosted on Amazon, with Gmail verification, letting you insert an RSS feed to one government domain.
Unlike the Arweave RSS system I presented yesterday,
Which is true and genuine freedom and censorship resistance by transcending physical locations with the files served on a 30+ gateway global CDN, going directly peer-to-peer,
With Fountain, you're putting your private Nostr key in a closed source mobile app, served to you by the censorship oppressors Google and Apple. They use the word "open" on their website, but their github doesn't have the code itself: https://github.com/fountain-fm
You think you're using peer-to-peer Bitcoin? It's a custodial bank account.
Look at this bullshit:
"Fountain charges a 4% transaction fee on top of every payment you make to a podcast but you can join Fountain Premium to reduce your fees to just 1%. We also charge 10 sats for comments and replies to reduce spam."
In Summary:
--Not Bitcoin, it's a bank account.
--Zero Censorship Resistance, Regular Files
--Insert Private Nostr key into closed source
--Heavy integration with Big Tech
--Surveillance of who is listening
--Leeching Bitcoin fees for RSS feeds and Nostr, which are both peer-to-peer without Fountain
You're being manipulated to reject real solutions like Arweave RSS, so these institutions can maintain power and control.
Thanks for making me aware of this.