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2026-04-19 12:43:13 UTC

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The longer you believe incorrectly that Bitcoin is a scam, the longer you stay trapped in actual scams.
Welcome to Nostr!

2026-04-12 19:11:25 UTC

Bitcoin is mathematically enforced scarcity relative to time and energy and whatever value society gives those things at the time.
Over time energy prices tend to go down, but the amount of energy competing for Bitcoin goes up on average more than the value falls, coupled with a programmed reduction of block subsidy output against time every 210k blocks, and you get near certainty that over the decades the value of Bitcoin will grow against everything else humanity produces.
As you begin to truly understand this and find you have enough sats to live slowly, meaningfully, frugally, uncompromised on the hardest and most honest money, I would suggest stacking silver coins from your largest local mint. For those of us in the United States this means old silver coins from pre-1965 and new Silver Proof coins minted from 1992 onward.
These coins often have no premium, if you pay attention you'll often be able to find them at or even below their current silver melt value meaning they are treated as nothing but the raw metal in terms of market value. Become familiar with the various methods of verifying the coins you receive for true silver content, understand the look of copper-clad vs silver coins by checking the edge, understand the difference in how they sound when dropped, and how they feel when held.
To have savings that bring true peace of mind, you have to make your savings real. Holding real physical silver coins, and even gold for those stackers with truly substantial holdings, truly feels magical and connecting to a time in history when society used quality money in everyday commerce.

2026-03-19 16:38:32 UTC

Most days for me be like.
https://blossom.primal.net/48ca3133e731be8dc8b4c1dd2812a79c9837e1909d06074215cc85dc7fc0ff20.jpg

2026-03-14 17:30:04 UTC

To own Bitcoin, is to be a Shepherd of value.

2026-03-14 00:56:17 UTC

One day, some respectable amount of time from now, 1 Satoshi will be worth more than what 1 Bitcoin is now.

2026-02-24 15:05:06 UTC

My thoughts on the recent price actions between precious metals and Bitcoin:
1: Global stage.
• Recently the US has had an unstable government, since the government supports the dollar the result is trust in the dollar is down on the global stage and central banks are already seen to be liquidating their US treasuries more than normal.
• With governments and central banks around the world reducing dollar holdings, what do they trust most as the alternative? Precious metals. China in particular appears to be stockpiling gold and went from 3000 kg to 40000 kg in only 18 months. If other nations, groups, and wealthy individuals are doing the same that would explain gold growing nearly 3x in the last 2 years. If this continues it may rise further.
• Like it or not Bitcoin is still very much too small for nation states to truly jump into in the same way, it would need to 10x - 20x before that point is reached where it could support that much liquidity. Trust isn't yet there, but with every higher bottom that trust is building.
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2: Pleb stage.
• Average people are really hurting from the last 5 years of inflation, plus they are scared of Bitcoin's historic crashes, so there's been less participation this cycle from this group than previously.
• The unpopularity of the current president after he declared himself the "Bitcoin president" and then proceeding to become in reality the Shitcoin president among other things, also the mention of Bitcoin in the Epstein files, Bitcoin is being hammered in the views of people who don't understand what makes Bitcoin unique and not a part of all the scammer's and elite's bullshit. It's not part of the problem, it's the solution, but people don't know that.
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3: Bitcoin is money.
• AI is causing lots of job losses.
• Government instability and shutdowns are causing government workers to either lose their jobs entirely or go long periods without pay.
• Government tariffs are causing significant strain on the overall economy. Leading to struggling economic activity across the board. Less economic activity = less savings buildup.
• Bitcoin is the easiest asset you can both self custody and liquidate quickly and at a low cost of ~1%~, compare that to precious metals which when self custodied are much harder to liquidate and often have a 5 - 10% fee for doing so.
• All things considered anyone holding Bitcoin as their savings that ends up affected by these things, easily accesses their savings and sells some of their holdings as needed. Bitcoin's advantage as money, leads to it appearing to lose as a long term store of value as its price falls in the short term.
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Conclusion: As the world struggles Bitcoin gets used as emergency access money with savings easily liquidated, and Gold and Silver get jumped into at the nation state level to be used as a store of value. The result is they travel in opposite directions in the short term.
If Bitcoin were difficult to liquidate then it wouldn't have it's fast short term crashes, but it also wouldn't have it's fast increases when times favor such movements. Nobody knows what the future holds, and as the economy suffers Bitcoin will spread from the wallets of those who need it now to those who can afford to stack now. Remember the heartbeat of Bitcoin is it's hashrate finding blocks, while the price has cut in half the difficulty only reduced roughly 25% from a high of 155.9 T in October/November to 125.9 T a week ago, and this last adjustment saw a massive jump back up to 144.4 T.
IMO we're massively oversold, and we're forming a solid bottom around the 2021 ATH level. But things remain uncertain on the global stage as well as in the halls of government, and AI fears continue as well. Those who can afford to stack in these times will be very happy in the future when things turn around. But nobody knows if that's right around the corner or months or even years away. Do your best to disattach from short term market movements and live in the moment, enjoy the rollercoaster that is Bitcoin and life itself. 🤟

2026-02-21 15:13:30 UTC

I may seem really smart, but I'm just a math loving mildly autistic person living with childhood CPTSD. Growing up my family was always hyper afraid of government, you could argue they were justified in that fear but you could also argue that they focused on it too much and let it rule their lives.
Not being put in school was good in some ways, it helped me develop my open minded nature which led me to learn about Bitcoin much earlier than the majority of people. But what my parents labeled "homeschooling" was actually child neglect. They were violent with each other, physically and verbally abusive, paranoid of the end of the world and government conspiracies. They were hoarders, who allowed a massive infestation of roaches to continue living in our home for my entire childhood until I took matters into my own hands as a young adult. They even almost let me die from dental infections that would swell up my entire jaw, because they were too lazy to take me to the dentist and they were afraid of the drugs the dentist used (like the super deadly... ibuprofen) would kill me. 🙄 I still like the idea of homeschooling when done right, but I also like the idea of a trusted environment where division of labor gives children a better education than I could alone (provided the government is not involved). I'll probably find a good private school or tutors which will assist me in my educating my own children. But only time will tell.
Despite the early exposure into Bitcoin, I was not in command of much money and I didn't really know what I was doing. So even if I wish I had made different choices and wish I had more Bitcoin, the choices I did make allow me a more comfortable existence than many and that is it's own wealth. These days I study Bitcoin still, I also study the history of the US dollar and the Roman system of money and am in the early stages of writing a few books, but my focus is shifting to working on healing myself from my trauma and supporting my partner in her journey to heal hers as well.
The truth is we're all waiting for/working towards a world of abundance when if you choose to see it the world is already in abundance. When viewed from a lens of the original US gold standard anything that costs less than a 1/2 Goldback (~$5~) is under $0.02. on the $20.67/oz of gold US monetary system. I picked up a package of sliced ready to eat cheese at Aldi's for $1.48 the other day, that's less than a gold standard penny.
I am not posting as much lately, my analysis of a long term bottom in Bitcoin was evidently incorrect given the last 4 months of significant downward price action. So I'm not focusing on Bitcoin right now, I don't know what it's going to do other than eventually go up again. Instead I'm working on letting go of fear, accepting that there's little chance those who wish to control me affect my personal life directly, little chance a pleb like me is on anybody's radar. Even if they did try to affect me, I'm very insulated from indirect methods of attack these days. I could honestly live without a bank account, just order precious metals online and sell them for cash if I need it. I choose not to participate in the broken system anymore, the only fix for the world at large is Bitcoin allowing us to focus on the world immediately around us and help our family, friends, and communities in their own journeys of growth.
Stack Bitcoin, and focus on your own sense of inner peace, the rest will follow. Love you all. ❤️

2026-02-16 22:33:48 UTC

Just paid 21,520 Sats for some Burgers at Steak n Shake for my Mom and I. Feels good to pay sound money, no matter the current fiat price.
https://blossom.primal.net/442dd09a4edf8fb73e0e7c951f55ef86d0dde544fa2acbb00d032b9e0f40d327.jpg

2026-02-16 19:29:33 UTC

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I've been working on doing so, I'll post something eventually. Energy is the hardest one to quantify, all the others are very easy, hashrate is close but we get better at making hashes more efficiently over time so it's not all that precise.

2026-02-16 17:27:43 UTC

Total network value =
Current total supply × block input (Time × Energy) ÷ block output.

2026-02-08 15:43:11 UTC

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We're losing battles, but we're not losing the war.
The war is growing Bitcoin to a valuation that can support everyone on earth. That is happening, but it's a bumpy ride.
To use Bitcoin the world needs Bitcoin to be distributed to it, the primary group that drives that growth in distribution is the mining network. They are the issuers of new Bitcoin that sell most of what they receive to the open market.
Old Bitcoin can be convinced to come into the market when the price rises, and the price rises more than it falls. As long as new Bitcoin is being made in a decentralized way, and sold to plebs around the world, eventually it will become the defacto mode of payment.

2026-02-08 15:04:13 UTC

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In my view the privacy issues in Bitcoin are only a problem in the Fiat world where Bitcoin is a minor player, that's the world we're leaving behind. In a world on a Bitcoin standard the lack of privacy on layer one means the bigger the wallet the more eyes are on it and any activity.
In the new world of a Bitcoin standard, those who are the most wise and patient will be the most wealthy as they outlast those with high time preference who spend what they accumulated.
I'll take 20 years of questionable privacy for thousands of years of honesty.

2026-01-30 18:09:31 UTC

The new protest is chilling at home and living on Bitcoin.
If you are free from the fiat rat race and living on Bitcoin, volunteer more! Help family, friends, neighbors. Mow lawns, pickup litter, help with babysitting, be an example of the world you can live in thanks to Bitcoin.
Their world is not your world, make your world a reality through personal actions.

2026-01-05 16:06:04 UTC

At this point I'm sick of the banks. I've been offering to pay Bitcoin, Goldbacks, Silver Rounds, Silver Coins, US Mint Copper coins, and (reluctantly) cash. I'm rarely using my old credit cards anymore except at big box stores and card only self checkouts.
The banks can go fuck themselves, commerce is between the buyer and the seller and nobody else. Fiat money is the worst but the most accepted. It's actually enjoyable to pay with coins, I wish it was easier to pay in anything but copper and paper though.
I find that your average person still has no clue about anything money related and most are confused even by the US Mint dollar and half dollar coins which they sometimes refuse! It's awkward to offer to pay in Bitcoin or Goldbacks or Silver because they don't understand any of them. So now I have a 4 pocket wallet, I unfold it in front of them to reveal US Mint Copper dollars in the first pocket, old US Mint Silver coins in the second pocket, new silver coins and rounds in the third pocket, and some Goldbacks in various denominations and state series in the 4th pocket, Cash I keep in a different wallet in my bag.
In the old silver pocket I have a peace dollar and a silver certificate as educational tools to show how our money has gotten worse. I'm having some success in offering silver dimes and quarters, and 1/2 and whole Goldbacks, as tips. People generally like the copper US Mint coins and sometimes take pictures or enthusiastically tell me they're going to take those coins home with them. This is a frustrating process, but it's very revealing as to the current state of the economy on the ground floor.
Just have to have patience and gently educate people as I offer to pay my bill in various instruments. IMO once I establish myself as a trustworthy source of low value money, cash and coins, then with time they may open up to accepting the better forms of money.
Bitcoin is better understood by those who understand money, and it's easier to start teaching them with physical sound money and maybe their interest will be sparked enough to lead them away from fiat and towards the best sound money ever discovered. I like Goldbacks and Silver coins for this purpose, they're beautiful and they're free market money backed by precious metals. All types of sound money are beneficial for humanity, and with Bitcoin anchoring the entire system globally Gold and Silver will find a place as physical money again.

2026-01-04 15:09:13 UTC

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Michael Scott sure has come a long way from Dunder Mifflin.

2026-01-04 02:28:11 UTC

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Playing devil's advocate:
The unstable society of Venezuela, mostly caused by fiat currency, poses a threat to the interests of the United States (the biggest issuer of fiat currency).
The US is going to make the Federal Reserve note the money of Venezuela, or at least have it tied to a new colonial currency like with the African CFA, and closely "ally" themselves with the state they ultimately will fully control.
The US has entered the Empire stage of fiat states, it is forcibly overthrowing the current fiat Mafia in order to replace it with subservience to ours. The US is speed running the collapse of empire, and Bitcoin is here to pickup the pieces.

2026-01-04 02:15:00 UTC

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Amen to that.

2026-01-04 02:14:06 UTC

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Let's see Bitcoin shine.
#nevent1q…r0fk

2026-01-01 14:30:39 UTC

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Secular Religion

2025-12-24 13:52:15 UTC

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Beautiful said. I vacillate between stages 5 and 6 most days lol. Ultimately I don't know the future, anything could happen, but it's fun to think about possibilities for the world when it finally has sound money.

2025-12-24 13:45:59 UTC

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Pretty good. Constantly practice being okay with uncertainty, I prefer living in the moment rather than living in an uncertain future. 🤟

2025-12-23 17:44:28 UTC

I don't like authoritarians.

2025-12-23 16:06:26 UTC

What's up y'all. How's life.

2025-12-22 05:10:49 UTC

There are 2 types of people. Those who believe in authority, and those that don't. If you come across someone who believes they have authority over you, and they're supported by a system of other people that says they have authority over you, treat them like you would a gorilla.
You can't reason with a gorilla, talk to a gorilla, or fight a gorilla and win. A gorilla is a dangerous animal, they have no actual authority over you but they believe they do and they have the ability to kill you if you disagree.
You bow down, you make the gorilla believe they're in charge and you are not. If you make the gorilla believe you are subservient to them, they are more likely to leave you alone largely intact.
Like it or not might makes right, "he who has the Gold makes the rules", and those who command the most economic energy are in charge until they aren't. Unfortunately for us, it is authoritarians who in today's world have near total control of the most important good required for a truly free market: money.
Governments every year spend more value, acquired through theft and devaluation, than the value of the entire Bitcoin network combined. But as they do that balance is shifting little by little every day, the more they devalue their networks the weaker they become. It won't be much longer until Bitcoin's exponential growth and the Dollar's exponential devaluation reach a major tipping point and everything changes exponentially fast. Until then, bow to the gorillas in public while fighting them in private.
Understand that there is little point to open conflict, we have already won! We won't win by conflict with them, we win by outcompeting them. Bitcoin is spreading across the world like an out of control wildfire and it cannot be stopped. The world needs better money and while Gold and Silver are great physical trade units, they those and fell on that backs of the authorities that made them too many times in history to be trusted again. Bitcoin fixes everything wrong with money, it's literally just sovereign tokens of values of time (average block time divided by block reward) and energy (average hashrate divided by block reward) and both values are constantly growing.
Imagine Bitcoin powered hospitals, Bitcoin powered food kitchens, Bitcoin powered fire departments, Bitcoin powered schools, Bitcoin powered factories, Bitcoin powered everything. With Bitcoin, just acquire a critical mass of Satoshis and spend them slower than they grow and you'll never run out of money. No obedience to arbitrary rules given by authoritarians needed.
The world doesn't get better out of nowhere, the world gets better when Bitcoin grows big enough that Bitcoiners spend more money and build more services that provide more value to society than the fiat money printers do.
That day is closer than you think.

2025-12-19 18:06:49 UTC

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Pretty much.

2025-12-19 16:23:14 UTC

Is the US in its Emperor Nero era?

2025-12-18 06:36:10 UTC

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Beautiful image!

2025-12-18 05:11:43 UTC

#NOSTR more and more is becoming my most trusted and frequently used app.
I love it. I love you guys (meaning all y'all reading this), and I'm excited for the future we're building.

2025-12-15 14:42:07 UTC

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Like something from a movie. Beautiful and scary.

2025-12-14 22:45:53 UTC

My tolerance for bullshit is basically gone.

2025-12-14 19:49:20 UTC

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Damn, I want one now.

2025-12-13 17:59:38 UTC

#Bitcoin Mining difficulty, vs production cost, vs price, over the last 3 years.
They are deeply related.
https://blossom.primal.net/fb5cc9addbc603d5abc4594b5eba508640a81ba294defedb4df750ced9b275ff.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/9b55946ed8a577d2862fdfb64d97ca2506a5d83fbec50e61c8864bb4d5b37f4f.png
https://blossom.primal.net/ea02252af0a1b41c14189bb442eb1be4d663b5ba9a07599b4f193aecc458e43c.jpg

2025-12-13 17:57:40 UTC

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Here's the production cost of the last 1 and 3 years for reference.
https://blossom.primal.net/5f5304b4162389139ebaa120975e5d6d5c580e4cce428be3c43413bddc034887.png
https://blossom.primal.net/9b55946ed8a577d2862fdfb64d97ca2506a5d83fbec50e61c8864bb4d5b37f4f.png

2025-12-13 17:47:53 UTC

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The difficulty adjustment does fall, it just falls much slower when the price drops than it rises when the price increases. The reason why has to do with the economics of mining operations.
Mining has several costs that need to be considered, the first is the initial cost of the time and money to set everything up. This would be contracts for energy and the purchase, relocation, and setup of the equipment to begin mining that energy into Bitcoin.
The next cost would be the upkeep, staffing, rent, maintenance, and energy costs.
When the price is rising it's easier to invest the primary starting cost to get the operation running and/or expanded, once setup the continuing costs of keeping the whole thing going is much lower, so they can keep mining even at a temporary overall loss considering their original investment, as long as they're still marginally profitable given the operation is already in place.
When the price is falling, the only cost that matters is the marginal continued maintenance and energy costs. The initial investment has been made, it makes little sense to completely shut down an operation during a temporary dip if they're able to keep running at marginal profit. Marginal profit is better than zero profit.
These factors mean mining operations reacts to upside price volatility much more than it reacts to the downside and, since the market reverses quickly, it causes resistance to the downside and helps increase confidence in the network which increases the value and raises the price again.
Take a look at the last 1 - 3 years (attached) and compare the price action to the difficulty adjustments. We're still in a bull market, it's just difficult (heh) to see when focused on the price.
https://blossom.primal.net/fb5cc9addbc603d5abc4594b5eba508640a81ba294defedb4df750ced9b275ff.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/ea02252af0a1b41c14189bb442eb1be4d663b5ba9a07599b4f193aecc458e43c.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/5aa0064bfb4f51b9673439671fe8ddc9ecfdfba5a1017e75c2687b4142ac2c46.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/6e6af5315539f770621ef79c05c4d0ea3e5c933052353a9e5ec71fe84ee0fb67.jpg

2025-12-13 15:29:43 UTC

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It will over the long term.
For those who don't understand why:
The Bitcoin of 4+ years from now will always be worth more mining cost in time than the Bitcoin of today. This fact will always be true due to the halving.
The fact that it's programmed to be worth more time later, gives incentive to get more NOW while it's easier. This drives up competition, which increases hashrate faster than it would if the halving wasn't a thing.
Hashrate is simply an increase in the effort of mining equipment, which don't get more efficient faster than the difficulty adjustment makes it harder. The increased hashrate means increased energy input. Energy has value and, coupled with the increased time required, this increase in the value input leads to an increase in the value of the output.
Regardless of how many Satoshis that value is divided into. The less Satoshis in the output, the higher the value per Satoshi.

2025-12-11 18:07:49 UTC

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"If you're not with totalitarian control of Europeans, then you're against Europe!"
Make it make sense.

2025-12-10 18:14:22 UTC

Bitcoin is just the conversion of electricity into spendable tokens, using the strength of advanced mathematics to ensure it's function.
Time + Electricity + Math + Decentralized Consensus = Bitcoin.

2025-12-10 18:10:55 UTC

Fiat money is like a cancer within human society.
Bitcoin is the immune response.

2025-12-10 18:08:02 UTC

The world doesn't need new versions of stuff, it needs new money.

2025-12-10 05:05:58 UTC

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Munster or havarti

2025-12-09 13:48:36 UTC

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With great power, comes great responsibility.

2025-12-08 22:31:03 UTC

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The ecosystem continues to grow, we will outcompete the fiat system on top of open source everything.
#nevent1q…t8yv

2025-12-07 22:52:49 UTC

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In early 2017 we were around $1k. 8 years later we broke $100k. 10x every 4 years approximately.

2025-12-07 22:47:24 UTC

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2017 - $1k
2021 - $10k
2025 - $100k

2025-12-07 21:50:09 UTC

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Bitcoin does a 10x typically every cycle.
$0.1m - 2024
$1m - 2028
$10m - 2032
$100m - 2036
$1000m - 2040.
Checks out.

2025-12-07 20:46:59 UTC

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I don't remember this scene with Captain Lorca...

2025-12-07 00:41:04 UTC

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What about subtractions?

2025-12-05 16:26:15 UTC

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How'd you get a video of me?

2025-12-05 16:26:00 UTC

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I love this 😂
#nevent1q…920x

2025-12-04 14:31:59 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ea4c94473c20bb35a69c56dcc57e1a47aa5f361a4c31f6649d4d715d36dd88e8.png

2025-12-03 21:53:13 UTC

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Instant Family, Wicked: For Good, Rental Family. Enjoyed all of them!

2025-12-03 01:41:01 UTC

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Homelander is great, awesome evil Superman.

2025-12-02 16:12:28 UTC

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Where can I view this data live?

2025-11-29 06:36:14 UTC

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The American Civic Religion.

2025-11-29 05:44:27 UTC

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😹 We call them "fiat people".
#nevent1q…920x

2025-11-28 02:15:22 UTC

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We're winning.
#nevent1q…rdey

2025-11-27 00:01:56 UTC

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#nevent1q…0h4t

2025-11-26 19:19:56 UTC

High time preference has only every cost me my peace. Don't gamble with your peace of mind. Be patient and accept that good things take time.

2025-11-25 07:43:34 UTC

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https://annas-archive.org/

2025-11-25 01:27:25 UTC

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2025-11-22 14:04:07 UTC

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#nevent1q…8lwr

2025-11-21 17:33:24 UTC

I have a feeling we hit bottom.

2025-11-20 20:45:03 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/HMhYjZY3Oa0AAAAC/bugs-bunny-yawn.gif

2025-11-20 20:39:52 UTC

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He'll be back lol.

2025-11-17 04:34:27 UTC

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Love to see it.
#nevent1q…vjz3

2025-11-16 16:49:45 UTC

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It would be nice if the last 3 years of stair stepper growth became the new normal. Nobody losing their shirts for 3 years, that's what significantly hurts adoption.

2025-11-16 15:01:27 UTC

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What's the world?
The world, specifically the global human civilisation, is a macro organism that is struggling to efficiently take care of itself due to the internationally understood language of money and price signals being regularly corrupted and diverting energy away from where it's needed to where it isn't.
Because fiat unfairly, unjustly, and underservedly, siphons economic (life) energy away from people and communities that need it; the end result is the death of more people and more communities who don't even understand they're being effectively murdered. Fiat is literally a cannibalistic cancer within humanity that is slowly killing us, by turning every fiat user into an agent for their own communities energy vampire sucking their life blood and sending it to those who control and are close to the source of easy money creation.
Bitcoin fixes this corruption and solidifies our species' macrolanguage channels in order to help us coordinate energy at the local and global levels with efficiency never seen before. As Bitcoin continuously grows to a network of unmeasurable value, humanity will be brought into a world of global total abundance on a system that is truly fair and balanced for all participants.

2025-11-15 13:42:38 UTC

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Amethyst acts like I muted myself yet I'm not in the mute list so I can't undo it. I get frustrated seeing every single notification "hidden" because it's about a post "from a muted account" 😕.

2025-11-15 05:30:02 UTC

Price is falling much more than expected, my take is the government shutdown made many stackers sell to cover bills while awaiting paychecks, combine that with everyone and their mother believing we're about to enter the next Bear market.
We're not going to enter another bear market, at least not yet. There's been no blowout top, no crazy climb to multiples of the current production cost, no slowdown in the growth of the mining network.
When this bear trap ends we're gonna see fireworks as everyones FUD switches to FOMO.

2025-11-14 01:05:43 UTC

I rate this new 6 7 meme 5 out of 7.

2025-11-13 19:59:18 UTC

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Where can I order one of these?

2025-11-13 04:58:50 UTC

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Think of the government as the eye of Sauron, it has no true authority over us, but once it notices us and demands something of us, to defy it is to effectively end our current lives as they are.
You're wife just wants a life where the government mostly leaves you alone, which would be to kiss the ring and go on with your lives. If you fight, your life will change drastically and be full of stress and your wife would rather kiss the ring and lose the chickens. The stress isn't worth the chickens, value your life more than you want chickens.

2025-11-12 21:17:31 UTC

Exactly how much value has the dollar lost since 1960? It's not just the value a unit of the dollar supply lost against a unit of the gold supply, it's worse:
Global above ground gold supply from 1960 to 2025 grew 2.8x, while the global human population grew 2.73x so the Gold network's Supply/Demand pressures are basically the same and the small change will be ignored.
Since 1960 you need 120x more dollar units to buy the same amount of gold ($35/oz vs $4200/oz), while the total dollar network has unfairly increased divisibility by only 74x. This means the entire dollar network combined can only purchase 61.7% of the volume of gold it could 65 years ago.
Further, in 1960 all Gold combined globally used to be valued about $86.6 Billion while all dollars in existence (M2) totalled about $300 Billion. So all dollars, when tied to gold, represented the value of 3.46x of all the gold in the world. Holy Fractional Reserve Banking Batman!
Today, no longer tied to gold, all dollars in existence (M2) are valued at $22,212 Billion while all gold is valued at $29,226 Billion. So the dollar network went from being valued at 3.46x (346%) all the gold in the world in 1960, to only 0.76x (76%) 65 years later, which is a 78% decrease in value relative to the rising global population and global gold supply.
So since all dollars combined have lost 78% of their relative market value, we can combine that with a 74x dollar unit supply increase. That supply increase itself lead to a 98.6% value loss of each individual dollar relative to the total dollar supply. Accounting for both, the total value lost relative to the global population and total gold supply per each individual dollar since their inflated 1960 high is... 99.7%.
It's no wonder the US economy is dying, it's holding onto a sinking ship.
Opt out of unfair supply debasement with Bitcoin. 21 Million. That's it. We can subdivide and change the names of units all we want, but the total supply will never be debased unfairly.

2025-11-12 15:12:23 UTC

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Now we need to work on a way to subdivide them on chain.

2025-11-11 14:53:12 UTC

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It's just a new tool, human genius will use it to make stuff you can't imagine because they will be unburdened from the costs of doing business that current studios pay.

2025-11-11 14:50:06 UTC

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I accept calling them Bitcoin's if the network consensus updates to allow another division into another 100,000,000 pieces lol.

2025-11-10 14:21:19 UTC

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No change from yesterday for my area.

2025-11-10 14:16:25 UTC

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Appreciate the info! Hopefully all square merchants automatically have the option for customers to pay with Bitcoin now, but if they don't automatically I'm sure most will enable it soon enough.

2025-11-08 05:54:20 UTC

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If they aren't interested in Bitcoin suggest they give Goldbacks a try as a Cash alternative.

2025-11-08 05:52:25 UTC

Love CGP Grey. 😊
https://youtu.be/SumDHcnCRuU

2025-10-31 04:28:08 UTC

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Fiat is death. Bitcoin is life.
#nevent1q…6xmj

2025-10-31 04:21:45 UTC

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Market price has so many variables that affect it, many of which aren't even related to Bitcoin and are more the overall economy, that it's not a very good metric to view the network by. Although even I attempt to do so as my previous posts of attempting to plot an overall trendline show lol. But really the hashrate and difficult keeps rising, as does the production cost, and those are the real metrics to pay attention to.
Since Jan 2023 the production cost has risen 550% from $20k to $110k today. That's about 5.15% growth per month averaged over 34 months. Granted, this includes a halving, but the next 34 months also includes a halving... We'll see what happens.

2025-10-29 22:19:06 UTC

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It will never be a concern.

2025-10-22 18:13:55 UTC

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I like it.

2025-10-21 13:24:11 UTC

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I love pineapple pizza! Here's my favorite meme about it.
#nevent1q…9l02
https://blossom.primal.net/8ede770f2ffa4bbe807bf73bc311aa920830db7e2663864ea3835620da787bdf.webp

2025-10-21 03:07:05 UTC

So I've been wanting to use physical Cash instead of cards for any bills that don't accept BTC yet, but it is quite a headache for all involved given the 13 different denominations in circulation.
To solve this I believe I have figured out the most efficient Cash system, by reducing the denominations you use to only 6, allowing quick and easy exact change with no need to fumble with receiving anything back.
Simply carry with you:
* Paper denominations: $50, $20, $5.
* Coin denominations: $1, $0.25, $0.05.
The paper adds up to $420, a reasonable amount of buying power, in only 18 notes. And you can always withdraw extra $20s at an ATM whenever you need a top up. Also having only 3 note sizes means you don't have to search through your wallet for the right note: the back is $50s, the center is $20s, and the front is $5s, easy peasy.
While the 3 coins are visibly different in size or color from each other which makes selection from a single coin bag easy and fast.
Further, the beauty in the system is how simple it is:
$50: divides into 2 $20s and 2 $5s,
$20: divides into 4 $5s.
$5: divides into 5 $1s.
$1: divides into 4 $0.25.
$0.25: divides into 5 $0.05s.
Every step up of currency between $0.05 to $20 is either 4x or 5x. Very simple. While the $50 is able to be broken into the smaller units for more value density in a small amount of bills. Also, you very well might spend a $50 on a single bill and few places don't accept them unlike the $100. Since $20s are the bill likely used the most, it works well since that's the most common bill able to be withdrawn from ATMs when top ups are needed. 🤟

2025-10-17 14:10:26 UTC

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Wow. Just tested with my @nprofile…2km9 readable receiving address and it was able to extract my full transaction history.
Testing the invoices and/or readable receiving addresses from @nprofile…jv3w and @nprofile…0j5p both did not reveal that data.
Until this changes I will stop using Wallet of Satoshi. It's a shame, I really like the app.

2025-10-13 18:48:15 UTC

Hey Nostridges, I updated my personal charts with the last few weeks of highs and lows which I'm attaching below. This time I'm also including more zoomed in charts with 1.05x and 0.95x the trend line showing how both the daily lows and highs relate to them over the last year. I think the charts speak for themselves, but if you have any questions I'm happy to answer to the best of my ability.
Unlike most chart makers I'm not a trader, and this is not an attempt to find a hard bottom or hard top. My intent is just to help visualize the long term growth pattern and what might occur if that growth continues. If you find this interesting that's cool, if you don't that's okay too. Don't use this as a basis for decisions to trade, just don't trade, stack and HODL.
If you're transitioning to actually living on Bitcoin and spending it to cover expenses, then if trends continue my calculations show you can safely withdraw 1 - 2% a month for living expenses and never run out of savings. The amount of Satoshi's you sell will go down each month as the value rises, eventually you'll be selling less than one Satoshi per month; this will be possible as IMO it is an inevitability that consensus will be found to divide Bitcoin beyond the Satoshi, within a decade. It is also likely to be done by adding lines of code that automatically increase division capacity in regular intervals, like perhaps at every halving. I'm not sure how it will play out exactly, but with a growth rate of 10x roughly every 3 years we're losing 1 decimal of value divisibility in the same time frame as long as we don't increase divisibility.
Bitcoin is a 1000+ year network, it will change in ways you don't expect. But you can live on it today, sustainably and forever.
#TheBitcoinBattery
https://blossom.primal.net/9e1bc047a0e5e58ac070218347f8835e814dee87251a5b29bc7d4be175b271ed.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/b4c0e2af1a69189b0262b123caa77d0c22a7ae6eebfed43d7dbff69748635236.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/e72fcaaeece3c3a66a8dbfbfb41acce82cdd58024f82238a648f9d7fbfd46e53.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/15cb0f01510ee68b3e23ad239f530a15f84aa79d662c22e129f869a7fc5fe22e.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/aa95220b8c1a9df91f26361c6afcda73c98c1419669730ae38fbfe7b4da33a2d.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/b68fd07d87690624384ecf7ea7f24c28dc03725fd4370dfd71c87affc1f653db.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/99d336398b09e80353ef8233d747c0f496346905d53f17d8149a02b0403342dc.jpg

2025-10-11 13:05:59 UTC

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This is unrelated to Core v30 come on, the entire market is crashing.

2025-10-08 13:40:41 UTC

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Yep. We've been attempting to recover from a depression ever since the Dot Com bubble burst, 2008 was just a continuation of the Dot Com crash. We recovered a bit up to the end of 2019 but already lost half of that value since COVID.
https://blossom.primal.net/1bf6835b65e5796215081651810a57fc94d75dfc634493ec5e6e2c945ad2a097.jpg

2025-10-02 12:34:55 UTC

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I'm happy about it but it does worry me. The military doesn't get paid but they're required to keep working. That can only last so long before shit starts going south...

2025-09-28 14:28:18 UTC

How to stop sitting on your stack, and start to slowly live on Bitcoin as it grows.
In the years of helping friends and family understand and use Bitcoin, it's become obvious to me in hindsight that using Bitcoin immediately is better than Hodling forever without ever using it. Reason being if you are a die hard HODLer then it HURTS to convert value out of Bitcoin. Like mental pain as you're going against consensus on what is best: continuing to HODL. But while HODLing for the future is ideal, if you never withdraw anything and you're struggling to cover life expenses then you have no immediate benefit from stacking. This may cause you to reduce your DCA amounts out of concern that you may need the cash more later and don't want to feel bad that you sold some of your stack. Thus HODL-ONLY mode may actual reduce how much you end up stacking over time.
Instead, by using it immediately and automatically there's no mental struggle and there's an obvious benefit to stacking while negligibly affecting the overall long term value growth.
How to live on Bitcoin today:
1: Stack an initial lump sum of Bitcoin, then steadily DCA over time to increase it. Whatever value you stack, when the cost per coin is close to the cost of production, will be returned to you (and used to cover living expenses) within 3 years, 5 at worst. The first year of stacking often matters more than all the others combined, as you may find that every year you need to save twice as much FIAT to stack the same amount of Satoshis as the year before. The beginning matters the most.
2: Don't just HODL forever and never benefit directly from it for years, start using it immediately. Anything you put into Bitcoin can support a steady expense of 1% a month while only reducing the ~3~ year multiplier of value from ~9x~ to ~7x~ (if entering at the bottom of the trend line, often close to the mining production cost). 6x would remain in the stack, while the original 1x investment amount is spent on life in that time.
To easily do this calculate 1/4% of your stack's spending power in FIAT or Precious Metal (whichever is easier), if you have Bitcoin worth 400 Oz of Silver than 1/4% would be 1 oz, vs if you have Bitcoin worth $200k 1/4% would be $500. However you do it, lock in the initial spend amount for the entire year and withdraw it from your stack every week automatically. This means if on Jan 1st 1/4% is $500 you stay at $500/wk all year even as the stack grows, and recalculate this amount in 52 weeks time.
3: Keep track of your stack value over time, if you enter when the cost per coin is close to the production cost (I find estimates by MacroMicro.me are helpful) it is highly likely you won't have to worry about suffering through a devastating bear market.
Note however if the total stack value falls by more than half the value it was when you calculated the monthly payment, you will want to adjust the weekly payment down to avoid spending too fast. Otherwise just leave the withdrawal amount alone and use the weekly stack withdrawal to cover a bill or other life expense and don't worry about it. With this immediate concrete benefit to your life and budget you may find you have a fire under your butt to increase the stack value as much as you can before the next recalculation so you have a higher usable amount each week.
Living on Bitcoin is the end goal, instead of going from never spending Bitcoin to spending it all the time and all over the place, potentially spending it too fast, this system of regularly growing withdrawals is like training wheels that slowly wean you off FIAT and onto a personal Bitcoin standard.
The most important thing is 1% a month usage is long term sustainable with Bitcoin, whether the future growth rate is 18%, 30%, 70%, or 109%. 1% a month never runs out. Bitcoin is engineered to make humanity value it and compete for it over time, forever increasing it's value against time and energy. Use it to make your life better TODAY, not only 10 years from now.

2025-09-26 16:37:38 UTC

The people make the network, and there are no better networks or people than those who understand freedom of money (Bitcoin) and freedom of speech (NOSTR).

2025-09-26 16:34:58 UTC

I'm grateful for Bitcoin and NOSTR.
And all the people the built and use them, including you 😉.

2025-09-26 15:13:00 UTC

It's interesting.
The hashrate is at all time highs, the stock market isn't having a crazy crash that's bleeding into Bitcoin like early this year with the tariffs, no new outbreak of war, no major FUD announcement from any country.
From what I can tell there's no reason to make the price fall this low, yet we're almost 1% below the long term trend line which is IMO a fairly significant. Although we are still a bit above the production cost on the mining side which recently hit a new ATH of $106k. The trend line is not fool proof, nor is it an attempt to set in stone what the price will be in the future, it's just an observation of the lows the price has hit over the years and if that trend is plotted where it might continue into the future.
I like to think of the trend line as an attempt to plot out the long term support of the organic growth of the network, essentially showing the influence new and existing users continuing to stack and new and existing miners continuing to mine have on the price.
Even if the price drops below the trend line in the short term, it's unlikely the trajectory of the momentum of growth would change all that much, especially if the mining network is hitting new highs. I'm still confident we're going to see $150k+ by the end of the year, or March at the latest.

2025-09-26 14:56:35 UTC

The human mind is a funny thing, focusing primarily on stuff that scares it even if they're very far removed from normal existence and everything in real life is going great. If we put down the news and look at what's in front of us, things are rarely as bad as we fear they are.
It's a struggle sometimes. But I find going outside and physically moving helps the most, talking to others helps as well.
Stay well hydrated, well rested, well fed, and never stop moving for too long. Take regular breaks from the news cycle, if there's something important someone will let you know or you'll see it when you check the news next. 🤟

2025-09-26 12:59:34 UTC

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It's fun to offer people *Silver as payment. SMH.
#nevent1q…jurp

2025-09-26 12:58:03 UTC

It's fun to offer people Solver as payment.
Helps break the ice to talk about Sound Money and the problems of FIAT, and how Bitcoin is Sound Money which can fix it all.
In the last month I paid for 3 breakfasts and 10% of a used car with Silver coins and rounds, totalling over $300.
The economy needs sound money in any form, carry silver with you along with cash. If people don't accept Bitcoin yet, offer silver and see what happens. 🙂

2025-09-26 12:45:19 UTC

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The game is a masterpiece.

2025-09-26 12:39:50 UTC

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Because the debt is the inflation.