If I ever disappear, I am dead and this is the reason. https://video.nostr.build/093129c03de4cc86b5d478e241f7f862de23ec987905e75b0b09aa63589b2b97.mp4
This is why I love Nostr.
Ordinary people like me have cats and dogs as best mates.
Extraordinary people have exotic Nostr bed mates.
Random, feral and awesome .
And you know this? How?
Inbred?
Fucking goats?
I thought this was Epstein's lot. Was he your daddy?
I remember watching Bassent announce that he did a schedule audit of the Fort Knox gold . No one asked him what a schedule audit is.
BS Detector fired up because body language was showing the opposite to what was coming out of his mouth .
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Stacking my truckload of tinfoil.
1. Preparation vs paranoia.
2. Listing what's important to me. Adopting alternatives to protect before needed.
3. Decentralize, compartmentalize and breaking habits.
4. To do list - faraday sleeves to secure id documents .
Thank you ghost. So much to learn while the sands shift beneath my feet.
Room mate is a Pug. Definitely NOT a lapdog.
A dictator . Bed hogger. And has a talent for scoping out food that should be in the pantry or the fridge.
Israel continues to murder the People of Palestine .
No outrage there.
Israel is a country of terrorists .
No outrage there.
And yet Tucker Carlson compares the life and death of Jesus and Charlie Kirk and ......
Go figure.
No I haven't . But thanks for the heads up.
As a side note - I have checked children's books in the Library. They are rubbish.
Aesops fables. Three little pigs. Rhyming books. Can't find them.
Scouring secondhand shops - found numbers and alphabet books. And old fashioned toys.
I've also noted that some of the childrens TV Cartoons have underlying messaging , that creates divisiveness and elitism .
A concerted effort at dumbing down, time wasting, stupid nonsense.
So focusing on making our own stories relating to real animals, instead of unicorns and flying pigs. And creating fun games using chalk on concrete.
Love them.
Carry on with your journey .
I have family and friends like yours.
Let them reach out to you. They are not ready.
These are true gems.
Will be with my grandchildren aged 2 and 6 months. I will be reading your books to them.
A statement of contradiction .
Beatings to improve morale?
Beatings can enforce obedience . The use of violence, threats and fear doesn't lift morale.
Who's morale?
If its the Parasites - their long term plan is collapsing . Their own lies strangle them.
If its the Plebs - the industry of learning and creative thinking is flourishing .
The idea is to keep us dazed and confused.
Keep an eye on the big picture.
The money printer vs the blockchain.
China vs USA/Israel.
Surveillance vs privacy.
Propaganda vs free speech.
Chokepoints vs alternative solutions.
Divisive cultures brought in to create fight clubs to take your eye off the ball. ALWAYS LOOK UNDER THE HOOD.
They want to deconstruct to reconstruct . Because the current plan is NOT working.
All else is noise.
Of course BTC is volatile. Government interference, chokepoints, confiscation, and straight out theft causes that. At least we can see what is happening , because of transparent transactions .
Look at fiat. That too is volatile. The difference is - every Central Bank has a money printer. Short term relief and long term pain. Inflation and debasement. Croneyism and the Bank Secrecy Act.
One is based on solid ground. The other is based on swampy ground.
Agreed . Human behavior is the unknown factor. No matter how perfect a plan is structured, perception and perspective from a human point of view is what drives the strategy to a different outcome.
AI rely on patterned behavior . Humanity is notorious for unpredictability . Humanity break ideas. Create alternatives . Because we have different realities. Different priorities . And different expectations .
Governments have lost control of free speech. Their fake media has lost credibility . So what do they do? They make more laws? What do developers do? They create alternative solutions . NOSTR!!!
Governments have lost control of the money system . More laws. More alternative solutions. BITCOIN!!!
Perhaps we need to look at who the frogs are now.
I'm not a frog.
Classic example of saying one thing and meaning the opposite .
And then the penny drops.
One point for the bs detector.
The Book of Ecclesiastus by King Solomon helped me to understand my purpose on earth.
The Book of Matthew helped me to understand why Jesus was born, baptized and sacrificed for our sins.
The Book of Revelation helped me to understand the future of whats to come. A reckoning of good and evil.
I look at religion today - Bhudism, Hindu, Moslem, Taoism, Luddite, Christian and many in between - none of them are right or wrong. Just a measure of joy, love and comfort for our fellow neighbour.
And yet, humanity still manages to corrupt, distort and even kill in the name of church and religion.
Jesus asked for 3 things from us, before he died
1. To remember the significance of his sacrifice .
2. To love our Father in heaven as much as we love ourselves.
3. To love our neighbour.
Focusing on the Lords prayer helps me to be a better person. Flawed.
But pick myself up and keep going.
“Big drama today in the Tor community.
Conrad Rockenhaus, a Tor operator based out of Michigan, United States, was arrested in 2020 after refusing to cooperate with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation
Rockenhaus, a disabled United States military veteran, ran the fastest Tor node in the United States. He was approached sometime in late 2019 when the FBI requested he allow them arbitrary access to his exit node and allow them to decrypt traffic. He denied their request.
Subsequently, in February, 2020 his home was raided. He was arrested for violating the CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act). It was alleged that he was a disgruntled ex-employee causing problems at his former place of employment.
Interestingly, to "help resolve the matter", law enforcement requested he decrypt his Tor exit node to prove his innocence (???). After he refused, he was held in a pre-trial detention cell for over 3 years. He was denied bail after law enforcement stated Mr. Rockenhaus used Linux to "access the dark web" and he was "not complying" and not allowing them access to this Tor exit node.
After Mr. Rockenhaus' wife filed an official complaint, and Mr. Rockenhaus was miraculously released, he was raided by the United States Marshal Fugitive Task Force TWO TIMES(???).
They took him out his home, threw him to the ground, beat him, smashed his windows, and threatened to murder his animals.
They are still requesting Mr. Rockenhaus allow them to access his Tor exit node. Mr. Rockenhaus still has not granted them that privilege.
All of this has been captured on home security camera footage. Additionally, his wife has released all court documents.
See subsequent post for more information.” -vxunderground, on X
https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1ni5drm/the_fbi_couldnt_get_my_husband_to_decrypt_his_tor/
Making a decision to stay true has consequences. Mr and Mrs Rochenhaus make us aware of what would we do if confronted by government demand to expose, so they can exploit.
They are brave.
Look inward . What decision would I make?
Go silent?
Hand over what they demand?
Lie?
Can I stand up to their violence, their threats , their use of weaponised government backup to destroy my life?
Am I a coward? A parasite? Selfish ?
Am I glad that this is happening to Mr and Mrs Rochenhaus and not to me?
Words are cheap. Empty praises mean jackshit.
Strengthening the mindset is a start.
Being aware that government thuggery, failed media exposure, a fucked up justice system, witholding medical care are systems of a deliberate manufactured collapse to life as I know it.
Do I have the same courage?
The trick is animals KNOW they're imprisoned .
Most humans have no idea that they're walking into a prison of their own making. They won't wake up, until its too late. And even then, they'll exchange their freedom for convenience and so called security.
The hardest thing I've found is studying myself. If it wasn't for covid lockdown, I would never have considered it.
1. Health.
2. Mental wellbeing.
3. Who to trust.
4. My values.
5. Building a knowledge base.
6. Connecting with those who embraced Bitcoin Protocol.
7. Joining Nostr.
This has enabled me to discern the language of persuasion from all sectors of society on a macro and micro level.
To understand when perception is used compared to perspective .
To learn the right questions .
To identify the fear, to face the fear, to find alternative solutions .
Still on this journey. To learn, to adapt, to adopt.
A good journey . Regardless of who dominates, what laws come out of the woodwork and the ability to look under the hood, when governments speak.
Big leap.
Baby steps.
Mindset change .
Dumping retard think.
Looking at every electronic in my house for its secondary purpose .
Putting in place your recommendations now, before I need them.
A real sense of controlling my fear.
Facing the fear and doing it anyway.
My biggest achievement is breaking down the fences I built in my mind.
The stupid and the really stupid.
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Amazing dexterity. Love the facials .
I recently spoke with Peter McCormack about several undercovered aspects of the Epstein case and what it reveals about the power structures of the US and beyond. Check it out here: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/09/press/the-peter-mccormack-show/
Thank you Whitney for your unrelenting pursuit in unraveling Epstein. This is way bigger than Trump and Trump is grappling to control the narrative. Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino failed the credibility test and unfortunately for them, this is not going away.
You have this ability to take such a complex 'duck and dive opaque tunnel' subject and weave the scattered crumbs into a coherent file of swamp monsters in a cesspool of lies, deaths and corruption . The Rothschild connection is the biggie.
Please keep safe Whitney . You're NOT suicidal.
Thank you Peter. I love the vibrancy that you two generate when you're together . Like two friends catching up with each other. A genuine show of joy and respect .
Some people prefer perspective. Some people prefer perception . One is based on reality. The other is based on assumptions . It is important to know which one is being used, when communicating.
Since Covid lockdown - governments, fake media, Big 7, pharmaceuticals, some influencers have weaponised fear, to control, coerce, manipulate. Electronics are designed to collect our habits, decipher, repackage and auction our data to the highest bidder.
This is happening today - in the real world .
Using general statistics to back your statements on governance , climate change etc implying mental wellbeing deterioration and FUD following is total bs.
Your assumptions are off base.
If you want to scare yourself off this planet - read this article -
The Modern Slave by Joshua Stylman.
I follow him on Substack.
I would be interested in your thoughts.
I've decided to collect up the rest of his writings and check out his links.
China has set the surveillance template. So it is expected.
What people are unaware of - is the coming nanobot tech just through RNA collection. This is diabolical . Follow DARPA and the reasons the US Military are hard out atmospheric seeding. Exposes and exploits humanity to neural linking transhumanism.
I follow Joshua Stylman on Substack - His latest article The Modern Slave should give some credence to why Elon Musk has reservations about AI safety. DARPA, Palantir namely through Peter Thiel, Bill Gates and Sam Altman are pushing this through as fast as they can, before Governments regulate .
It is obvious that you do not take the time to listen and back check Matthew Kratters work. He commands respect . You don't.
I'm not interested in who wins the Core/Knots debate . The Nodes still have the ability to choose confirmation . Regardless of whether the size of the blocks increase.
Health organisations have led to the sickest population in 70 years. The CDC has never cured a disease.
Yet people rabidly defend this like a religion, while 3/4 of the population have a chronic disease. People are lost and subverted.
https://video.nostr.build/921a20ab04eae30f9dc3bb661d7b69bb3e83b5c43ff72fec8b06ca5855c7308c.mp4
Slay the incompetence Mr Kennedy.
Translation : childrens online safety is an excuse to bring in internet passports. Centralized censorship and spy tactics. A mechanism to scoop up your data, repackage and sell to the Big 7.
No thanks . Bitchat provides a possible solution.
the last and everything between. No other like it.
Respectfully disagree.
1. Silence can be interpreted as tacit approval of eroded values.
2. Fear can enforce silence.
3. Silence about shameful acts of pedophilia allows sick fucks to continue abuse.
4. We learned during lockdown, how media silenced vaccination deaths.
5. Silence was the perfect playground to break minds.
So no. You are using a protocol that embraces free speech and you want it silenced.
That's what happened to journalists like Julian Assange. Doctors, lawyers, scientists were deregistered , debanked and silenced for what they believed in.
Export yourself to fb and try your experiment there.
Go find someone else to regurgitate your vitriolic pile of crap.
Andrey Arapov took the time to breakdown and explain both sides of the argument , the impact on the nodes and the longterm intent.
You spent your time using wild accusations and bloated assumptions on who is trustworthy and who is not. It didn't work.
I am not wasting my time with someone who advocates pedophilia. So fuck off.
Read my note again. I want to understand the following:
1. Why wasn't this addressed in an open forum.
2. This directly affects BTC nodes. What is the impact on them?
3. I sense the deep resentment from both sides and name calling seems to be your response. So
4. Who benefits?
5. Who suffers?
6. Where does it leave the nodes.
The silence is deafening .
Who has the power to force people against their will?
Why is it happening?
What is the future for BTC Core.
I knew nothing of the split inside Bitcoin Core. But I understand Marty and Matt were aware of it. The anger comes from finding out about the split from Mathew Kratter and he backs it with relevant evidence. Calling him a snake is a deliberate psyop to denigrate. I've seen that pattern before.
My point is this:
1. This first broke out in 2013.
2. Did Marty and Matt decide that Bitcoin Core is a nothing burger. They made a choice - to keep followers in the dark by implying nothing to see here.
If that is the case that is not BTC Protocol .
3. Someone had a thread advertising a podcast with Jeff Booth over this issue . It didn't happen.
4. Trust is the big issue here. Verified trust.
5. And as for the BTC Nodes
4.
I figured that.
Won't be happening in future.
I sent a similar note to Matt ODell.
1. What is happening to BTC Core Developers .
2. This shit happened in 2013 and I didn't know anything about this until Bitcoin Knot nodes turned up in my feed.
3. Originally I thought BTC nodes and BTC knots were one and the same.
4. They are not.
5. I usually follow you and Matt and yet nothing from you two.
6. I fucking trusted you two.
Thank you . I didn't know Nostr had an app index . Still working my way through it.
There are those who say Bitcoin doesn't scale, and build blockchains with more throughput at the cost of more centralization (generally in the form of it being way harder to run a node), and then also point to Bitcoin as having low fees as a criticism.
The limiter it turns out, 16 years in, is not how many people *can* self-custody bitcoin. It's how many people *want* to.
Not everyone wants to deal with the technicalities of their own car, and not everyone wants to handle the technicalities of their own money. Quite few, in fact. It's always a subset for these types of things. People who are hardcore over their area of knowledge.
I leave my car details to pros down the street who I know the name of, and handle my money myself. There are those who handle their own cars but leave their money details to others.
Bitcoin currently processes about as many transactions per year as Fedwire, which handles $1 quadrillion worth of gross settlement volume per year for the US and for a good chunk of the world (in context, it's approximately 200 million $5 million average-sized transactions). That's actually a crazy stat. Bitcoin is casually this open-source global Fedwire with its own scarce units, and unlike Fedwire anyone can permissionlessly build on it or transact with it, for low fees despite it being a +$2T network. And if it gets clogged there are all sorts of permissionless layers above it with certain trade-offs.
Some people say paper bitcoin holders detract from the network. I say the opposite- their willingness to hold IOUs helps add to price stability and network size without clogging it. That leaves more room for cypherpunks to develop with, and work on. And those who finance them.
This has been foreseen as early as Hal Finney in 2010, when he wrote about bitcoin banks (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2500.msg34211#msg34211).
We live in a sweet spot by most metrics. A golden age. Historically, so few recognize it when they have it so good.
Bitcoin is big enough to be of interest to many, and yet is still niche enough in a global context to have low base-layer fees. Suitcoiners are happy to add to its scale, and yet cypherpunks can also build, and users can transact right on the base layer, and move to Lightning and Ark and BitVM and Liquid and any sort of trade-off they want if fees get high.
And you're bearish, anon?
The real battle, though, is the ongoing government crackdown on privacy.
Bitcoin itself is in a pretty good technical place. It's a great tool. Certain conservative low-risk covenants might make it better, but even the existing design space is great and still expanding.
The US, Europe, and China cracking down on privacy is the threat. The headwind. And they're all expected. They're not surprising, but they're indeed fierce. That's the real battle- for the hearts and minds of people to embrace why privacy and permissionlessness are good traits.
In this ongoing funny contrast between podcasters and developers, that's the ideal role of podcasters- to spread the good news of what developers have built. To educate people. To tell them what's now possible thanks to developers. To articulate why cypherpunk values are good to a broad non-technical audience. That's where the overlap is. In overly-simplistic D&D terms, those with high CHA try to spread the work of those with high INT. It's not so much that "governments" are the problem. Governments often at least partially represent the people. If you convince a lot of people that privacy and sound money are good things, then you defang the problem. And you also challenge them legally in jurisdictions where it makes sense.
The technical foundation is good. The development of the past 16 years has been amazing, and it has brought us here. The scale has reached institutions, which is expected, not a threat. The actual threat is not treasury companies; it's anti-privacy regulations by governments. And more deeply that's a social issue, given how many people accept it. A vast amount of people believe privacy is only important for bad people who have something to hide. There's a ton of education work to do on it. Privacy is good. It's the default. But most people don't realize it when it comes to money.
We're winning. For 16 years ya'll have been amazing. But we'll need another 16 years more. More developers. More podcasters. All of it. We're a $2 trillion in market cap entering into a global fiat network of hundreds of trillions. And as their own institutions melt down from their own failures, their own top-heavy demographics and false promises, they will look for scapegoats. They will look toward those who are winning, and say they are the enemy.
When interviewers ask my price predictions, I tend to be conservative. That's mostly a liquidity assessment, and a rotation from OGs to new buyers. Price growth does take time.
But under that surface, I also have the benefit of being a general partner at among the largest bitcoin-only venture funds. I see what people are building, and I'm bullish. And for those who are working on stuff that doesn't align with profit, entities like the HRF and OpenSats are doing great work. Across all of the options, people are building great things.
I couldn't be more bullish on the ecosystem that's in place. All of you.
Let's go.
Good evening.
Sound money and privacy.
I've come across some in my crypto meetup that believe in or have done
1. keeping their BTC on the exchange
2. in a hot wallet on their phone
3. in a ledger wallet and they've lost the seed phrase.
Each of these issues - are not 5 minute fixes and yet a quick fix is expected .
So when I ask them how much time have they got, to understand what they hold - I get the glazed look.
Supplying them with one or at most two links - I get the glazed look.
When I tell them you are holding plan B - if one day the ATMs are closed, the internet goes down or the power grid is shut off - I get the "there is no way that any of that will happen ".
Now I understand how Jehovah Witnesses feel.
But in saying all that -
1. I've learned to listen.
2. Not make assumptions .
3. Understand we all have our own realities and therefore different priorities.
4. Realize that some do NOT like talking about money.
5. Some need to feel pain, before they wake up to the alternatives .
Does this put me off?
Hell no
I consider myself as the gardener . Enriching the soil and planting seeds.
pt2 - sorry I stuffed up.
4. B gives the code to his local broker, pays a fee and collects the sats.
5. The transaction is informally recorded by both brokers and the debt is settled later, through various means such as cash, goods, services etc
without a direct money transfer .
6. Its fast, and fees need to be low, to make this work.
Fun fact -
Hawala is still practiced today from Persian times. Western countries outlawed it.
And it works with offline networks.
The gatekeepers are the brokers - I don't have an answer for this.
Perhaps someone else like Lyn Alden can give us a clue.
Agreed.
1. Tether = USD.
2. Stable coins= CBDC.
3. Stable coins keeps the money train going.
4. Stable coins = closed bank accounts.
5. Stable coins = fiat.
No thanks . I'll stick to BTC and monero.
Amen.
Thanks for the reminder. Bookmarked . Great everyday mantra.
This might be off topic.
Is anyone creating a Nostr app store?
Apple store is not my go to place.
The implications /use cases for Bitchat is awesome .
No, India is not a third world country. This is an attack on BRICS+, specifically China. China has USA by the short and curlies.
1. China holds the most Treasury bonds.
What happens if China sells them back to USA?
USA is forced to buy them back - with what?
The printer will go brr.
What happens if China demands payment in gold? It too, is also a global reserve currency .
The underlying threat is to stop the yuan from becoming part of the global currency.
2. So attacking India is designed to force India out of BRICS. The public signal was USA weaponising Pakistan to attack India. This weakens BRICS.
My assumption is USA's threat on India will backfire.
3. The biggest threat is that China has cornered the rare earth minerals - USA desperately needs them for military weapons. So, China is humbling USA through bureaucratic overload.
China's playbook is the game of Go. USA is playing chess.
The same tactic was used in Vietnam . And somebody lost.
Stealing a comment made by Saifedean Ammous - and using it to attack Jack Mallers shows how stupid YOU are.
Knowledge is also a defense mechanism in today's chaos.
Knowledge is a fight against ignorance.
Knowledge helps to understand the story from both sides of the coin.
This is an attack on self custody against developers.
For a country sanctioned by the West for a long time, limited energy and internet access
It has trade. It has nuclear power. It has BTC.
Media won't touch this - because it shows how sanctions fail.
I speculate - it has help from the Swiss.








