Being a man means duty and obligation.

Duty is the root of masculine love.

A man understands that his duty is a gift, not a burden.

He doesn’t complain because he’s stoic, but because there’s nothing to complain about.

He enjoys being responsible for others.

Seeing those under him happy and healthy.

He knows he provides that and without him the world would be a much darker place for those he loves.

GM.

I'm bullish on bitcoin, and I think a lot of people overthink it.

One of my favorite metrics is the market value vs realized value ratio. The realized value is basically just the on-chain cost basis. The value of UTXOs at the dollar price during which they last moved between wallets, which often means the time people pulled them from exchanges or deposited them to exchanges.

A relatively small amount of marginal buying can push up the market value by a lot. Like how if you buy one house on a street, it can boost the estimated price of all houses on that street even though only one of them traded hands. But when market value becomes stretched relative to cost basis, it means that part of the market value is kind of illusory. We don't *really* know what houses on that street are worth if only one of them traded hands recently and thus liquidity was low. Over time, as more houses on that street trade hands and we have more price points, the estimated value of the street becomes more real. The same thing for bitcoin; as more bitcoin trades hands at certain levels, it starts to make that level "real" compared to how real we should consider it when it just touches a certain level for a little while with limited volume.

Right now, bitcoin is at an all-time high in its realized price, i.e. cost basis.

Back when bitcoin was poking over $60k in April 2021, the cost basis for the network was only about $350 billion. Now, at the same market price, the cost basis approaches $650 billion, or more than twice as high. The marginal bitcoin has traded hands and moved between wallets at much higher prices than years ago, even though the market price is about the same. In other words, these levels have been truly liquid and been consummated by the market more than they were back in 2021, and thus the price is more robust at this level than back then.

The launch of the spot ETFs pulled forward some excitement this year, and so we've been in this big consolidation since March. But even in that time period from March to the present, the on-chain cost basis increased from like $520 billion to $640 billion, and so price discovery and progress is being made despite the ongoing price chop.

As the network builds a bigger and more solid base like it has been doing, it can set the stage for the next major breakout. The network looks healthy to me.

Just got stopped, searched, bag strewn on the airport floor on arrival to Germany.

I’m a bit shaken up that was horrid.

The Alsatian sniffer dog was adamant I had something on me.

I know I dont have any drugs so I was trying to be helpful to speed it up. But it’s pretty intimidating when they’re so abrupt and aggressive.

The policeman was a massive cunt though. Threw my stuff on the floor and was the “guilty until proven innocent” kind of guy.

“You have drugs. I am going to find them .”

He made me repack my bag in front of the queue leaving the plane.

I held up the queue though and they were all scowling, naturally.

They tested my hands with some swab thing and the lady policemen had to check with the other guy and said “it’s high.”

It can’t possibly be the case as I haven’t touched weed since maybe the summer?

Hate to judge but there weren’t a lot of brain cells between them.

But they still weren’t satisfied so i got paraded through past the gate to do a “underpants search” as they were adamant I had something.

At this point i was like what are my right here, you can’t just strip search someone.

Once we went through the gate though the sniffer dog changed its mind.

It stopped butting my right thigh. Thank fuck for that.

But man. All that coz they thought I had a bit of weed?

Gahhhhh. Jesus wept what a waste of resources. I missed my train and I’m probs gonna go full radicalised.

Fuck the fucking fuckers.

welcome to germany lol

Same here. In addition to there being a large population of #bitcoiners on here 🙏 I'll be volunteering at CheatCode. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts

I’m going to be a dad!!!!!

Accurate.

I think this is something we're going to need to work on if we want to make Nostr as a viable platform for creators.

What do you think of this development?

nostr:note10yr3zt5wfmccwle7uqn4nh3pgndckfnemmkkvkanx4t8pj0e2xhqkl980z

not a product per se but enabling self fulfilling solutions from market choice/ natural law follows value & i will pay for value. does this make sense? not just ux but clearly designed choices for peeps like me. scuse, it's late here & nostr is in early stage dev.

I Joined Nostr, because X was banned in Brazil, Pavel Durov arrest in France. Innocent people in UK arrested, imprisoned for upto 20 months for stating an opinion about UK immigration policy on social media. Crazy.

Within a week I signed up, and never looked back.

I feel free to express what I want and not be afraid of being banned, censored, and arrested. (*Use a pseudonym when expressing controversial views that could get you arrested* especially UK)

Nostr feels great.

Thank you Nostr devs / relay operators / all nostr supporters for making this possible. 🙏 ❤

Who would've thought micro payments & social media could be so much fun?

The world is sleeping on Nostr & Bitcoin.

What’s the best life advice you got or can give? Let’s compile a list:

#asknostr

Going to be on a panel at Cheatcode with a Nostr focus

What was the main reason you decided to start using it?

#asknostr

(If I answer myself, it's the idea of not being censored, ie a content creator cannot be de-platformed... GAMEchanger)

Congratulations! Are you doing any rapping as you are now the MC? This would be dope 🍊

congratulations !