Orange pill the World and streaming sats #valueforvalue

Even if you make money as a YouTube or ticktock influencer, it makes sense to maintain a nostr presence.

If you're ever cancelled, your fans can still find you & your content.

It's a bit like Bitcoin in that you need it before the SHTF.

I remind them that AI doesn't exist, and that we have more to be concerned about with Artificial Stupidity.

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The Harry Potter series was an example where, whenever fans voted for their favorite character, it usually wasn't Harry Potter. He'd be in the runningb but not at the top.

Fans were like, "I mean, we all like Harry. But we don't necessarily *love* him. And he's not *fucking memorable*. He's kind of boring.

Many people instead preferred Snape, Hermione, Black, Dumbledore, Dobby, etc.

-The very deep anti-hero or pseudo-villain. Highly conflicted, dark, and emotional, but sides with good. (Snape)

-The smartest one that fixes everything. (The books were read by bookish types, and Hermione was their bookish character identifier.)

-The wise mentor. Usually among the strongest, but from the prior generation. The plot has to factor him/her out. (Dumbledore)

-The chad scary seeming-villain who is actually a hero. (Sirius)

-The ultra-weak character, with charisma and talents, that manipulates things around the margins and morally *has* to fucking win. (Dobby).

New truth: investing time & money into a Nostr audience is worth it for true leverage in the physical world

Imagine a scenario in which your local government doesn’t like your views or opinions

They decide to try & forcefully remove you from your land or close your business

Due to having the ability to speak to a digital audience, which (& this is the critical point) cannot be censored

You would be able to shine a light on their nefarious action (which in itself is also a deterrent)

Google & Meta etc would be happy to cancel or shadow ban you in a flash

Large buying and self custody traditionally happens when prices are flat to lower

This is a sign of large buyers buying over the counter in blocks

What happens in a bull run typically, these buyers will start to slowly unload them on the market over many months on an exchange with an order book

Say it starts at 60k

They’ll wait for retail who just wants to smash buy

60,500 ask = retail bid/buy

62,000 ask = retail smash buy

And so on until they’re out of gas…

I’m from 2017 February, learned this as went from 200 to 20,000 USD within the year

With a decently slow July/august… then bang!

This is a sign of a repeated attempt at massive % gains

Agreed, but never 100%. What's your price?

I get the gambling aspect of buying $hitcoins, but even that is hard to justify.

1) It's a losing, zero-sum game

2) It tells me that you don't understand #Bitcoin

Today I visited a school for mentally challenged and disabled kids that didn’t have a lick of AC.

Classrooms do have ceiling fans but they do sweet fuck all when it gets to a certain temperature.

It was 35 degrees + humid today but felt like 42.

That’s like when you open the oven door to check on your chicken.. every time you step outside.

Why was I there?

Well bitcoiners at btccuracao funded the school’s brand new WiFi.

I wanted to see the impact of this donation and speak to a poorer community about their experience with btc.

Btccuraco paid the internet company that installed the WiFi in Sats as part of the donation. It’s one of many grassroots initiatives they undertake to try to show that bitcoin is better money.

The new WiFi is a total game changer for the school and the teachers were tearful explaining how much it has helped them teach, inspire and lead these less fortunate kids.

But it only goes so far.

The solar panels atop the school’s long roof “stopped working” this week.

A govt contractor installed the panels this year as a “go green” initiative.

Long story of govt enraging incompetence short, basically half the school had working WiFi + ceiling fans. Sometimes the electricity simply cuts out.

So one half of the school had classrooms of engaged kids with YouTube access + useful visual aids for the kids in a semi manageable heat

while the other half slowly cooked and tried to read books in the inferno.

My white shirt was wet and transparent by the time I finished the school tour. I was like how the feck are these kids gonna get a chance in life?

I interviewed the head of ICT who was gushing about the new WiFi and was saying how some of the kids can now learn to code with this Minecraft coding thing.

She had the biggest heart. But like many islanders she had been crypto scammed a few years ago and was still really reluctant about bitcoin.

Really saddening because of course no sane person thinks “oh yeah I’m gonna learn about bitcoin now I sold my gold necklace for a crypto thing 5 years ago and never got the money back.”

I managed to send her some sats to say thank you but if I’m honest I think it’s coz I was recording this during the interview.

In all, I left the school utterly humbled and a little bit angry at the world.

I don’t have a nice thing to round off on, sorry.

Bitcoin doesn’t fix everything. And some things utterly suck.

Wait, so the best engagement hack on Nostr is *gasp* talking to people??

ego is the cancer of media

I need to start counting calories again 😆