waking up to a view like this every morning has a way of invigorating the soul ❤️‍🔥

#bariloche #patagonia #argentina

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Loading up on some power projection powder

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I saw a few posts here dunking on Dan for his anti-Nostr posts on Twitter/X.

I'm grateful for them. Happy to treat it as a marketing/education opportunity. If life gives you lemons, see if there's a way to make lemonade.

costco selling tallow seems like a societal turning point

As Bitcoin circular economies multiply and grow, they will eventually become The Economy… as in the world’s economy.

As this parallel reality increases over time, then government fiat currencies, and their associated economies, will literally cease to exist.

The future is already here, but only a few people yet realize it.

Until they do, help build and support Bitcoin circular economies.

Okay I’ve got another question (thank you to everyone helping me learn here). Maybe this is a stupid question.

Is the goal or one of the goals amongst the bitcoin community to eventually get to a world where everyone uses it - day to day - for every transaction? Your employer pays you with bitcoin, you buy your groceries with bitcoin, you rent Netflix movies with bitcoin?

When that happens, what does the price of bitcoin look like day to day? Is it more stable? Or will it still be down 5% one day, up 20% the next?

7 the head in the back isn’t connected to the body to its left and they’re both hidden partially by the one in front of them.

Question for any business owners out there making a physical product - do you guys have to pay suppliers with cash? None of ours take bitcoin. And if so, how do you balance wanting to grow your business (which requires making more product and thus needing cash) with holding bitcoin? This is something I’m still wrestling with. I’d love to keep and hold what little bitcoin I have… but I have to make more shirts to keep growing the business. Down the road, when my business is bigger, and we’re able to distribute profit and/or have cash we don’t need for growth (hopefully 😂) I could see that being much easier. But at my stage now, we’re still trying to grow. Not for some vanity reason but to survive. Curious if anyone out there has some thoughts or strategies around this?

That's one of the "selling points" made by the big corporations when encountering people thinking of self-hosting. Not everyone wants to deal with the hassle of self-hosting, but I strongly believe this "hassle-free" approach is causing people never to question who truly owns their data.

The beauty of self-hosting is that you decide the level of security and redundancy. Depending on your comfort level, budget, and the risk factors in your geographical location, you can select the setup that makes the most sense for you.

In my case, I live in Florida, so the likelihood of a hurricane is high (potential for water and wind damage). However, Florida is large and my parents live in a different town about 3 hours away, so I can have a NAS at my parents and my server at my place.

You can have local backups like in a RAID set up for your drives (in case the physical drive goes bad) and then have a redundant NAS located at someone else's house in your family (parents/kids/best friend).

If I wanted to be extremely secure, I could set up a NAS at my brother's house in Seattle across the country.

Ultimately, what you start realizing when you self-host is just how much of what you think is digitally "yours" actually isn't.

There are so many great options available now with umbrel, start9, citadel, plus os load able nas, even standard servers all help meet you where your budget is.

I went down this path because I currently have about 1TB of data in just photos of my family and kids. Thats only going to grow and ive noticed Google, Microsoft, and Apple all have raised their prices and lowered their data limits for their tired offerings. I mean practically speaking I saw the writing on the wall.

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Going to try new packaging. Which is better, more attractive, a superior quality?

Left, or right?