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2026-02-16 01:26:14 UTC

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I recently hit a solid milestone in my BTC journey. My wife downplayed it saying “Wow you’ve been at it for a while, it doesn’t seem like much.” It was like a knife in my gut. My fucking kingdom for one person that “gets it”. Hours of doing what seems like graduate level math figuring out what I can do to stack like a psychopath and still keep us afloat. The sinking feeling in my stomach realizing that my time preference game needed improvement. The peace of knowing I’ve done it with a solid allocation and security/succession model, and can weather a storm. I don’t care if I have to look like a retard for 355 days out of the year. Because I am. But I’m a nice retard that cares about their family’s future.

2026-02-16 00:44:34 UTC

Has anyone ever moved to a new place and noticed that for the first days you’re there, you vibrate with an energy that makes people gravitate toward you? People reaching out to you and offering opportunities. Attractive members of the opposite sex obviously flirting with you. Jobs and business opportunities seemingly coming out of the woodwork. Then after a time, as you get into the regular day to day, it seems to fade. I’ve experienced this more times than I can write off as coincidence. I wish I could bottle this and take a shot of it every day. I know what it feels like, but I’ve never been able to replicate it. How does one keep this vibe flowing?
#asknostr #randomthoughts

2026-02-09 22:47:16 UTC

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Didn’t Flock just buy Ring?

2026-02-07 20:55:26 UTC

Do any North American plebs on here play Elden Ring? I figured surely there must be a few masochists on here considering we hodl BTC and many have been computer geeks for three decades. It’d be fun to coop this game with someone rather than getting headstomped repeatedly by bosses, while trying to solo them. Best game I’ve ever played. But it is hard. #asknostr #oldfartgamers

2026-02-02 00:53:32 UTC

Goodbye Mom. October 14, 1950 to Block Height 934633 Feb 1, 2026. Thanks for giving us the best upbringing a kid could ask for. And for passing on a “take no shit” attitude that made me start questioning it all in the first place. 🫂👊🏽
#grownostr
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2026-01-25 23:04:35 UTC

Unlike my parents, I’m aware of the importance of a financial education. A basic understanding of the monetary system. It’s obviously important, because our monetary system has a direct impact on one’s ability to benefit from the value they add to their country and their community. Literally everything is downstream of money.
But I really question sometimes if the lessons I’m trying to impart to my kids are sinking in.
In my early 20’s, I was intensely interested in the markets, investing, global trends and technology. But in this highly distracted generation, I don’t see the hunger for knowledge that I had, let alone these kind of nerdy topics. I guess all a parent can do is provide the information and repeat the lessons in different ways, and hope that part of it “sticks”.
What ways do other Bitcoiner parents try to stress the importance of opting out and not being trapped in the matrix any more than necessary?
#asknostr

2026-01-24 23:49:48 UTC

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Sent

2026-01-24 19:37:19 UTC

I reconfirmed this morning that I enjoy shooting firearms exponentially more than I enjoy cleaning firearms.
When I was a kid, my Dad would let me take any weapon out for a session or a hike. But if it got discharged even once, it had to be cleaned and lubed before it got put back in the closet.
As an adult, finding time to shoot is hard enough. So often a weapon gets put away with the best intentions of cleaning it the following day. That rarely happens. So you end up with three or four to clean on a Saturday such as this lol.
But I must say, these Bore Snakes are the slickest thing ever. It’s nice having a few for each calibre.
#gunstr

2026-01-24 19:29:52 UTC

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“It’s not about you. It’s about glorifying God.”

2026-01-23 16:23:29 UTC

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Well that’s good if you can sell close to spot on short notice. I’ll have to pore through that pod he did with Natalie to get more context.

2026-01-23 15:28:35 UTC

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He sure makes a good point about taking an effective 15-20% haircut trying to liquidate physical metals. Not so with BTC.

2026-01-23 05:06:17 UTC

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Naw, that was in jest. I just mean your mental ledger of your cost basis ie when you’re figuring out your real gains have been. I think even if your stack is relatively small it’s good to have a self custody setup that won’t leave you scrambling to order and set up a bunch of new signers and multisigs and seed backups if BTC does a quick 5x.

2026-01-22 23:15:39 UTC

Sample Offsite/Evac Kit
- 3 labelled, cloned Cold Cards
- 4 mini SD cards
- combination USB A/USB C, SD/mini SD reader
- CoinKite Cold Power 9V power adapter in a baggie
- CoinKite Cold Power “power only” cable
- 3 “power only” Cold Card inserts
- 2 standard USB A to USB C cables
- Two 9V batteries in baggies. (Remove for long term storage or burial).
- padlock (stowed)
- 2 “marked” external zip tie tamper seals
- 6 spare unmarked zip tie tamper seals (stowed)
Make the whole kit redundant and secured by PINs. To protect from situations where it becomes inaccessible or is destroyed, make sure it has a fire safe twin. If the twin becomes inaccessible or is destroyed, fall back to locked and tamper sealed steel backups and an uninitialized signer at yet another (third) location away from your residence.
When calculating your BTC cost basis, make sure to add the cost of signers, plates, nodes, laptops, burner phones, decoys, storage solutions, firearms and passage out of Dodge lol. It’s the cost of being the manager, teller, head of IT and head of security at your own bank.
And we wonder why adoption and self custody are slow to spread….
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2026-01-22 20:24:38 UTC

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Damn. Zap failed. I can’t wait to see the adventures

2026-01-22 20:24:05 UTC

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Nice setup

2026-01-22 15:47:05 UTC

I’m moving. Tell my family I’m sorry.
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2026-01-22 14:48:34 UTC

It appears there are three choices:
- rage against the tide, be miserable, and look like a nutter to the majority around you, including your extended family, who are totally blind to “the long game” of totalitarianism
- focus on those things you can control (building a family, educating your kids, building local networks for the provision of essentials, securing means of obtaining water, growing your own food, maintaining means of trade, securing your family’s physical space, staying fit, and finding other awakened individuals to cooperate with), and watch “what has already been written” play out while you try to be a source of inspiration, assistance and hope to those around you.
- go full insurgent and make sure to take a few of “them” with you before you leave your loved ones behind to navigate a shitstorm by themselves, that you could have made a little more bearable and happy
The only thing that has ever turned such tides and pushed back such assaults on human dignity and freedom, throughout history, is blood and human sacrifice. Buckle up.
What other constructive responses to the current timeline exist?
#asknostr
#note1aps…sxee

2026-01-20 15:31:56 UTC

The Death of Quality Time
The distractions eating into quality time with loved ones sure have ramped up over the past 10 years. Remember when relationship therapists were saying that a couple watching a movie together didn’t constitute “quality time”? I whole-heartedly agree. The activity requires zero focus on communicating and sharing thoughts and ideas. In fact, it actively discourages it. Sure, the physical closeness is great, but it hardly constitutes a “relationship building activity”. At best, you might come away with the shared experience of a great cinematic experience or interesting story to discuss later. Or maybe a little warmup for an intimate time to follow.
But now, even that is being voluntarily destroyed by peoples’ inability to set down these damned devices.
Even substandard “together time” like watching a movie or show together on a cold winter night has been degraded. ie One or both people spending the entire time with eyes on their devices or the TV, completely missing brief key parts of the narrative and having to fill the rest of the time asking questions about missed scenes and further ruining the already substandard experience. And forget about the fact that the activity of watching a movie or a show is already abstracting the couple one step away from genuine connection and conversation.
I’m seriously considering unplugging our router each day when I get home, and putting schedules on the cellular data access on the family’s phone accounts. As a 70’s and 80’s kid, it all feels like utter madness.
What does everyone else think? Have you felt this too? I’m ready to unplug completely.
#asknostr
#unplug #technologylashback

2026-01-19 04:09:39 UTC

Great episode. @npub14hq…jjzu so much of what you said resonated and aligned with my philosophies on freedom and other topics to a tee. Brother from another mother. 👊🏽
https://fountain.fm/episode/xXHjmp1NNzSiZDG7naog
#note1rh2…lt6t

2026-01-17 19:20:44 UTC

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Wow that’s a pretty tight haka

2026-01-15 14:23:55 UTC

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Mallers says it all the time. How fortunate are we to be alive in this timeline! Crazy.

2026-01-15 14:16:42 UTC

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Yeah it’s pretty easy to recreate the same BS rage bait feed that we came here to get away from if you don’t regularly prune out people posting cut and pastes from other socials and legacy propaganda sources.

2026-01-14 23:36:21 UTC

Another week and I’ll be driving home from work in the light. Finally.
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2026-01-14 23:10:01 UTC

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Had to drive several hours back and forth to Saskatchewan for work today. Was rocking out to your Beautiful Devastation album on repeat much of the way lol. That and some podcasts of course. Man those two singles, track 1 and track 3 especially.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2p4HzF1Q3JDGlB06TxPhQf

2026-01-14 23:04:44 UTC

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Yeah I can handle being ok with the steel. You can be “just ok” with a shotgun. But being proficient at countering drones would be pretty handy and marketable.

2026-01-14 22:59:31 UTC

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Or drone defense systems/jamming.

2026-01-14 22:57:24 UTC

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Personal drones, improvised payloads and payload delivery systems. It’ll be in demand soon.

2026-01-14 22:38:06 UTC

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It’s interesting that ground lost in past historic removals of personal freedoms could gradually be regained after shifts in order. This time, the technocrats are trying to make it a one way gate.

2026-01-14 22:27:24 UTC

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My buddy came home from vacation last summer to find that. 2 weeks thawed in 95 degree weather. It’s a wonder the neighbours didn’t call the law for a wellness check. Had to run an ozone unit to get rid of the dead body odor.

2026-01-14 21:56:56 UTC

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Ouch. Hopefully not too much of a stinking mess. I saw a cool analog method of doing spot checks to guard against thaw and refreeze events that happen without your knowledge, which could be bad. Fill a 2 L soda bottle 1/3 of the way with water. Freeze it upright. Fill the rest with gravel. Cap it. Place upside down in freezer. Check periodically to see if the ice is still in place or if it has thawed and run into the gravel and refroze. Doesn’t help for total unit failure which would be obvious, but could give you a hint in other circumstances that the goods got sufficiently warm at some point that they should be suspect.

2026-01-14 15:38:28 UTC

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I bet she’ll really be upset not getting to associate with state cucked masses with jacked up teeth.

2026-01-14 14:58:34 UTC

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Bah! Take that!
Have a good day 👊🏽

2026-01-14 14:47:11 UTC

Can anyone suggest a good Android nostr client that can be linked to an external zap wallet rather than being forced into using an integrated KYC wallet? On iOS I use Damus and WoS. I have a friend that wants to hop into the fray on Android but I don’t want to suggest a shit client with no external wallet functionality. Thanks all. Have a good day 👊🏽
#asknostr

2026-01-14 14:17:00 UTC

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Their loss.

2026-01-14 03:21:09 UTC

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Welcome! Get your zapper up. 🤙🏽

2026-01-13 23:01:33 UTC

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Cool thx

2026-01-13 16:24:19 UTC

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Is there a similar resource or specific event with a CRA thrust instead of based on US tax authorities. Thx

2026-01-13 16:02:55 UTC

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It has been rebranded to StayFreeAlberta. And be aware the Alberta Prosperity Project nostr npub has no official affiliation with the organization.
Here’s the site where they update signing events for the petition. No new ones announced yet. Check the how do I sign tab for events and dates out as far as the end of January

2026-01-12 23:53:34 UTC

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Yep, I’ve got these as quick reply shortcuts on my phone so I don’t have to type them out every time:
“Sorry, can’t open. I don’t do FaceBook.”
“Sorry, can’t open. I don’t do SnapChat.”
“Sorry, can’t open. I don’t do Instagram.”
“Sorry, can’t open. I don’t do TikTok. Because I’m not gay.”

2026-01-12 18:50:25 UTC

Yikes. Saylor woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
#note1ht8…m35g

2026-01-12 18:21:33 UTC

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I’ll know more after this one shows up but it got great reviews by some competitive slingers online. These are hand made by a guy in Mexico and the craftsmanship and durability are supposed to be really good. He and his wife run an Etsy shop. I know, gay right? But the independent video reviews and field tests were pretty impressive. The one guy was cracking out shots pretty accurately at close to 100mph. The artist is called LaHondaTrenzada.
I cringed a little buying one because they are so simple to braid, but I figure if I’m going to build more of these it would be good to see a proper prototype in action.

2026-01-12 17:34:37 UTC

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Yeah it’d likely be enough to scare off the odd thing. I usually carry a 15mm banger shell launcher and a can of bear spray when I’m patrolling power transmission right of ways. So far the only time I’ve had to use either is for an aggressive dog. But if you’re running in cougar country it’s definitely wise to have something you can deploy in seconds. I’ve come across cougar kill sites and one den once, and I could feel the hair on my neck starting to stand up. They definitely see you before you see them.

2026-01-12 16:58:37 UTC

Another rabbit hole. Slinging. I figured it’d be a fun but more practical skill to add to the knife and axe throwing that I’ve become semi proficient at over the past couple years. I built targets in the back yard and it has proven fun during backyard get togethers etc, challenging friends aiming at playing cards stapled to the target and things like that.
I braided one of these when I was a kid for a history project, and knocked a 3” chunk out of the bark of an Ash tree in the woods next to our house on the first shot. These things are deadly, fit in your pocket and use pretty much limitless ammo. It’d be cool to get good enough to take grouse and small game with it.
#grownostr #slingstr
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2026-01-12 04:01:22 UTC

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Worked in prison 😉. Tasted pretty shitty though.

2026-01-12 03:38:02 UTC

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Yeah it’s random. I got one to go through to you now. Sometimes the three kayaks, two moose drawn sleds and two sherpas between here and the next node in the nearest city fail.

2026-01-12 03:17:55 UTC

It’s pretty wild when you think about all of the different ways you can preserve and conserve food to get you through grid down situations or supply chain issues:
Dehydrating
Pickling
Smoking
Freeze drying
Canning
Fermenting
Distilling
Salt curing
Water glassing
Root cellaring
Rationing
Fasting
Are there any others you can think of?
#prepping #homesteading #grownostr

2026-01-12 02:46:42 UTC

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Damn. Zapper failed

2026-01-12 02:13:41 UTC

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No worries anytime. If I can save you time that’s great! The big thing to remember it’s a process and there’s no such thing a a perfect setup. You can always do more. Take your time. Get away from an urban area if you can. Turn every square inch of useless space on your town lot into food growing space if you’re in a village like we are (for now).

2026-01-12 02:10:37 UTC

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Be aware it was a Life Straw branded system but not an actual individual LifeStraw like the one for your backpack.

2026-01-12 01:26:10 UTC

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Water is tough to store. What I settled on was:
- some water storage
- remember you have a hot water tank with 40+ gallons
- if you have warning, bleach and fill your bathtub for wash water and flushing toilets with a pail
- a drip filtration system that can be filling a tank as you continue to make daily small quantity water runs to a local semi clean source. The bag, hose and filter setup I got from LifeStraw can filter up to 5000gal between filter changes

2026-01-11 18:43:54 UTC

I got into Bitcoin so I could ignore macro. Didn’t work lol.

2026-01-11 17:28:38 UTC

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I’d highly recommend a deep dive into a selection of episodes of @npub1587…kv0n ‘s The Survival Podcast. He’s one of the grand daddies of prepping and general life skill podcasting. And podcasting in general. He’s been at it for 17 years. His channel covers everything from food sovereignty to off grid capability to home defence.
As far as the prepping journey goes, follow the “rule of threes”. start by laying up enough provisions to make it three days in a grid down scenario. Focus on abbreviated points parts of Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs. Water, shelter, heat, food, physical security. Then try to work up to three weeks of the same. Then try three months. Anything beyond three months, and chances are the nation has gone to shit and you’ll be either dead with your rifle still clutched in your hands, in detention, or hightailing it out of the area to your plan B spot with your “go bags” and any gasoline you’ve stored that you can carry.

2026-01-11 17:07:46 UTC

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They had great bitcoin content. But mostly I miss the dick jokes.

2026-01-11 16:04:11 UTC

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The rare times I get to see my Dad, I am keenly aware it could be the last. We always have the best times and good laughs. Sitting around a fire like we did at the end of the day while burning off brush piles on land we cleared when I was a kid, that has long since been inhabited by others.
After being passed over for a couple of key promotions and denied several negotiated bonuses, he walked away from 18 years as a senior engineer with the company he joined after university and moved us west.
Teenage years spent working with him clearing more land, pounding fences, and him going from nearly two decades of 9 to 5 to being on the road for weeks at a time to keep us fed. Only to find that his new employer was just as full of shit as the first.
After seeing the family break apart from the disruption of the move, him being away a lot working the only good engineering job he could find out west, and all of us being scattered to the 4 corners of the country, I know he wonders if he made a mistake.
But as a middle aged man myself now, stuck in the same corporate lies and bullshit, I admire that he had the courage to go for it. It’s weighing heavily on me that I’m not trying to make a similar attempt. It’d maybe be different if I had the capital he did.
I’ve never been able to build half what he did in this time, but I appreciate that he showed me what grit and sacrifice for family looks like. I’d have given up long ago if he hadn’t.
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2026-01-11 05:55:12 UTC

There were massive turnouts for this weekend’s first signing events for Alberta’s petition to force a referendum vote for the province’s separation from Canada. This report warms my heart. We are easily going to blow past the 177,000 signature requirement to force the referendum.
I haven’t felt a sense of hope and energy like this in this place since the trucker protests.
There’s a lot of entrenched power in Canada that are going to fight this tooth and nail. I am certain the “dirty pool” tactics on the part of Canada’s national news media like CBC @npub1xkj…2mz9 , CTV, Global, and the Federal Government are about to ramp up in earnest. Just like they did during Covid, to squash dissent.
There are going to be attempts to stop the separation referendum vote by interrupting it with an early provincial election. Lawsuits. Bought and paid for judges. Illegal detentions. Defamation of the Alberta Prosperity Project organizers. Divide and conquer strategies. Debanking. The FUD will be strong.
If this initiative fails through legal wrangling and political maneuvering once we achieve a clear majority vote on separation, plan B is going to be a little less pleasant.
We are done being screwed by Ottawa.
#alberta #albertasovereignty
#stayfreealberta
https://youtu.be/FOXqU8AtHkE

2026-01-11 04:31:28 UTC

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My friend and business partner were down for a trade show hosted by the Louisiana Police Jury Association at the Lake Pontchartrain Centre in 2005. We did drainage maintenance contracts down there and in TX. We hopped a cab downtown to go for a good dinner and some live music during the festivities. The actual festival ended a week earlier but it was still rocking down there. I hopped out of the cab, looked up. Nothing but boobies. Then a guy walks up to me with 4 precut lines of blow on a plate and offers me one. Couldn’t get away with that nowadays without getting busted I bet lol.
A few months later Katrina hit. The Treasure Chest riverboat casino and our hotel across the parking lot beside the conference centre got hit pretty hard.
We were in the area for two weeks. Loved it there.

2026-01-11 03:36:41 UTC

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Yeah I reached out via their website but never got a reply.

2026-01-11 03:28:08 UTC

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Sure does

2026-01-11 03:23:42 UTC

Does anyone have contact with Dan and Josh from the former Blue Collar Bitcoin pod? I miss that show. They went dark over a year ago. I didn’t know if maybe they caught some heat from the firefighter’s union or the department for some of their content or what the deal was. They had great guests and great takes on Bitcoin, markets and self custody. Maybe Dom Bei knows. But I don’t think he’s on Nostr.
#asknostr

2026-01-11 03:14:21 UTC

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Grew up on that. I love it. So did the cat haha

2026-01-11 03:10:28 UTC

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Basic forcible entry tools are a great part of a prepper stash. I also want to get a Halligan. If you have a wrecking bar, a halligan, a sledge and a cordless zip grinder, you can get anywhere.

2026-01-11 02:47:15 UTC

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Damn. Zap failed. Will try again later. I spit out my milk

2026-01-10 16:00:20 UTC

Just hit a 60x. Checked our 50/50 ticket from last night’s Junior A game. $1195. Quitting my job lol. Well not quite, but it’ll buy some sats.
#grownostr

2026-01-10 15:10:50 UTC

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Prayers that you heal quickly. I’ve been there. Ended up under the knife at 25, three decades ago. I woke up one morning to that pain, and total paralysis of the muscles that allowed me to raise my left foot to take a normal walking step. Surgery worked. Only one problem since, about 10 years later, when I had to army crawl to get to the phone to call my sister for a lift to the MD. Living in the bathroom on a mattress for a few weeks. Then one day I rolled a particular way getting out of bed, felt a “pop” and within 30 minutes I was 100% mobile again.
We should all just get new skeletons at 40. Prayers going out now brother. Hang in there. 👊🏽

2026-01-10 14:48:00 UTC

Fiat monetary debasement is the reason why the term “The Good Old Days” exists.
#randomthoughts #grownostr

2026-01-10 14:39:18 UTC

The biggest positive takeaway from my study of Bitcoin has been understanding the concept of time preference.
#randomthoughts #grownostr

2026-01-10 14:33:22 UTC

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Your quads and glutes must be on fire

2026-01-10 14:30:15 UTC

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GM! Today is the day. 👊🏽

2026-01-10 14:28:21 UTC

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GM 👊🏽

2026-01-10 14:20:07 UTC

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Cool thanks for the new rabbit hole 🕳️ 🐇

2026-01-10 14:17:29 UTC

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I’ll tell you one thing, if the drive that has my tax records that were lost in a fire years ago was found, someone would magically recover them lol.

2026-01-10 14:12:20 UTC

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I don’t know. It’d be cool to hear a story of someone recovering some lost corn and funding something like “The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Want to Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too". Lol
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2026-01-10 07:02:00 UTC

GN. Outside day tomorrow. It’s supposed to be 3 degrees above freezing. That’s T-shirt weather here. Peace out Nostr.
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2026-01-10 06:02:44 UTC

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If you have been able to make that happen, good on ya. It’s the way.

2026-01-10 05:52:44 UTC

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GN 👊🏽

2026-01-10 03:38:11 UTC

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Depends on your definition of property rights and where they end. Not a simple answer.

2026-01-10 03:34:02 UTC

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We once fenced off a 30yd x30yd square area with paige wire, with 2x8’s trenched in around the border, and stapled the fencing to them at the bottom. There were three 6’ high mounds of dirt in there, about 6 yards of soil each. Weeds up to your waist. Half a dozen hogs had that area flat as a pancake and completely stripped of all veg in about 6 days. Amazing.

2026-01-10 03:12:55 UTC

Thanks to @npub1tn2…hmc3 , watching this and chilling with the hound while fam is out.
https://archive.org/download/My-Favorite-Movies_202503/World%20War%20Z.mp4
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2026-01-10 02:08:27 UTC

It’s pretty wild that there’s access to $75M worth of Bitcoin sitting in a .dat file on a hard drive in a landfill somewhere in the world right now.
#bitcoin #grownostr

2026-01-10 00:02:42 UTC

Ok. I’ve been totally caught up on market research projects, project file housekeeping, new bids, job planning, invoicing, receivables, and 2026 rate sheet adjustments for days. Just waiting out the clock to escape my cell. Time to lay a little story on you about how easy it is to get yourself into hot water in today’s overly connected world. I apologize it’s a little long, but holds a good lesson and may allow some laughs at my expense.
So first we have to rewind to 2003 when I first met my wife. We had been seeing each other for only about two weeks, but I was already getting a strong feeling that she was “the one”. I had been through a horrific first marriage 12 years earlier that ended in revelations of extreme, “boil-your-rabbit” type infidelity, another very significant three year common law relationship with a girl I absolutely adored and planned to marry, and then six years of intentional bachelorhood, during which time I intentionally avoided romantic involvements of any kind. This new budding relationship with my (now) wife of 22 years was so refreshing, after having withdrawn from anything more than the occasional fun date for half a decade. I could tell that she was a really good person right from the get go. And my type? Forget about it…fit, strawberry blonde, green eyes, 8 years younger than me, employed, and a Christian. Yowsa. I had been hoping to meet her for at least six months, but never wanted to ask her out at her workplace like a hundred other retards that no doubt had. When we finally did end up crossing paths out in the world, I did not let the opportunity pass me by.
I got off work on that spring Friday afternoon, and drove to my new love’s place, excited to spend time with her and maybe go for a hike and make dinner afterwards. She was living in the same row housing complex that my sister and my niece and nephew were living in, so I wasn’t surprised to see my 8 year old niece running up to see me. I was surprised however at what came out of her mouth. She said, “Uncle, Uncle! Your girlfriend _____ called my Mom and left her phone number. She wants you to call her. I let Auntie (my new girlfriend) know too!” My niece and nephew already liked my new girlfriend enough that they were calling her Auntie. The blood drained from my face.
I parked and walked up the stairs to my new love’s door, dreading the impact this “blast from the past” attempt at reconnecting would have on our budding relationship. And wanting to strangle my niece for mentioning it to her lol.
My (now) wife opens the door. Her expression was blank, rather than filled with the warmth I had been greeted with only the evening before. A sub zero gust of air enveloped me. Aw shit. I came in. So instantly she pipes up, “So what is former Ms. Right wanting to talk about, huh?”.
I could tell in the days leading up to this that our new relationship was going very well, and that we both REALLY liked each another. I was distressed that the current situation could derail things, and I said “I have absolutely no idea. This is so out of the blue, and I haven’t even spoken to her in 6 years. I’m not even going to call her.”
Well, that wasn’t going to fly. Not with this redheaded firecracker. Not only did she want me to call my ex back, but she wanted to be there when I did. If she was going to give even one more iota of her heart to me and let me into her- and her three year old daughter’s lives, she wanted to know that this was a clean slate.
That evening we went down to the beach for a walk and my wife says “OK, can you call her, PLEASE! This is driving me crazy!” The situation got resolved within the next hour, but not without my wife hearing parts of the conversation that damaged her brain forever.
So it turns out the whole reason that my ex wanted to talk to me, was to apologize for the way she had ended things after us being together for three years and being very close to an engagement. However, in the course of the conversation, and in full earshot of my wife, my ex said “Yeah I was looking through the personals in the paper where you are living now, and thought about you when one of the SWM seeking SWF posts mentioned being “into extreme sports” and claiming to be “a devil in the bedroom”. I thought maybe it was you that posted it, because of that tattoo on your ass”. Lol.
I’ve never posted a personals ad in my life. My wife nearly fell over, and I have not heard the end of it in nearly 23 years. In some ways, serves her right for wanting to snoop on the conversation. But this poor sap here is the one that has been the “butt” of it all this time lol.
Sorry for the long background, but it was important.
Fast forward 22 years. Another child between us who’d recently turned 19. One already moved out on her own a few years earlier at the same age. A ten year vow renewal on a beautiful beach, many family trips, lots of good years and tough years alike, all among our memories.
In that time I’ve never had a social media account of any kind aside from a brief stint on FakeBook around 2006 and a nym on Twatter a few years back when I latched on to Bitcoin. As part of my managerial role at the company I work for, I reluctantly allowed my face and my name to be posted on our corporate website. It’s literally the only image of me that exists online. And that’s all it took about a year and a half ago to plunge me once again into the shit with my beloved.
When a new customer reaches out to us online via the contact form on our website, an estimate request email is generated. That email goes to three people; me, our GM and our president. That way, nothing ever falls between the cracks. Imagine my horror when I am driving around doing sales calls one afternoon, and this estimate request comes through from someone with my now nearly 30 year ex’s name, looking for ME, because she had been “sleuthing around on the interwebs”, and came across my name and picture on our website. From all the way on the other side of the world in Australia. Saying that she was moving back to Canada.
My mind was racing. So, considering the history of our former relationship and the effect that this girl’s brief contact with me near the beginning of my current life-long relationship had, I thought: “Ok I’m not touching this with a ten foot pole”. Then I realized, “Shit, this email just went to our GM and the president.” “Those bastards are gonna wait till my wife and I are at the Christmas party and let this story slip to my wife just to make my life hell.” Confirming my fear, as soon as I got back to the office, both of them were ribbing the shit out of me that my ex had reached out via our company website. They were like “Holy shit dude you must have really rocked her world eh?” I thought “OMG I have to head this off at the pass or it’s going to bite me. Hard.”
Yeah, well it bit me anyway. I figured it’d be better being 100% up front, rather than trying to keep a lid on it and look like I was being sneaky later. Besides, I didn’t need the GM and our president having that kind of leverage on me.
I shared the email with my wife that evening. It resulted in about three months of turbulence and required repeated assurances to my wife of my commitment to her. It didn’t help that my ex had expressed she was moving back home to Canada within a couple hours of where we live. Everything almost escalated when my wife reached out to my ex on FakeBook. My ex got the hint. Wife reassured. Disaster averted.
The point of this long winded story is this. The internet is great for making connections. Just don’t be surprised if you get a few dots connected that you wish hadn’t been.
#grownostr

2026-01-09 20:27:58 UTC

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Those look like Ponderosa Pines. Reminds me of home.

2026-01-09 20:16:19 UTC

I’m so proud of our young twenty-something kid. She proclaimed a couple weeks ago that we shouldn’t be alarmed if it takes her a little longer to get messages, as she deleted most of her socials and has all phone notifications turned off pretty much full time. She’s finally had enough. After watching and reading a few clips and articles I’ve sent her on the massive impact of excessive screen time on constructive activity, she started doing the math. As a side effect, she told me that her almost constant feeling of anxiety and FOMO is gone. No more interrupted workouts. No doom scrolling instead of studying. More time outside. More face to face with friends.

2026-01-09 19:42:23 UTC

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Corinthians 13:4-7 has saved my ass so many times now that I’ve finally got it through my head. Especially the not being easily angered and not keeping a record of wrongs part.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

2026-01-09 18:22:22 UTC

I just can’t say enough about this tutorial from @npub1zqm…x9fs.
It’s rare that I learn something new about Bitcoin self custody that I haven’t already tried and employed to some degree. But this is a real game changer for the security and portability of the asset that I didn’t even know about two weeks ago. I mean this literally gives you the ability to go through any security checkpoint or temporarily sweep funds to an alternate location, knowing that, if you can get access to a laptop/desktop and an internet connection on the other side, you can transport and maintain control over an unlimited amount of wealth in your head, without having to memorize a properly ordered sequence of 12 or 24 words. All you need to do is remember a shape on a grid, and one word. Easy.
You no longer have to worry if your uninitialized signing device, phone or laptop get confiscated or stolen at the border, or have to risk physically transporting your primary seed phrases, (even if they are microstamped on tiny stainless and nylon washers and sewn into your clothing and luggage). Border wallets abstract away the need to ever store or transport your primary seeds in an insecure way, and in doing so give you the freedom to store and transport the access instructions and seed precursors in plain sight (on multiple online and physical locations for redundancy), and safely restore access to funds at your destination.
If you have the luxury of being in a situation where you ARE able to travel with your phone, laptop, and an uninitialized signing device, even better. But if you aren’t, and you are literally in the trunk of a vehicle with only the clothes on your back, you can access any funds that you send to these addresses prior to your departure. You can wipe every piece of wallet and transaction software off your phone and laptop before you travel. If you are smart and have thought ahead about your installed apps, media, general password management and recovery scheme for your online accounts and socials, your phone and your laptop can be made to look REALLY boring prior to travel. Anything that matters can be stored in a way that you can access later, without it mattering one bit if it falls into the wrong hands.
As far as BTC goes, with the border wallet method, you can even use the seed precursors as the legitimate seed for a decoy or duress wallet, with a couple hundred bucks worth of BTC on it. The possibilities are endless. In fact, the border wallet method could be adapted to ANY BIP39 key storage requirement. It is genius.
One word of caution, border wallets are software wallets. So while they are good for temporary storage to get you to your destination, you will want to have a plan to move coins into addresses protected by an air-gapped signer soon after, once you are safe.
Anyway, watch the tutorial and zap the shit out of @npub1zqm…x9fs for it.
Play around with this. Create and delete a border wallet. Restore it. Record some addresses before and after deleting the wallet. Check the addresses again. Send $5 to your test border wallet, and prove to yourself that your restoration process works, if you want to see it in action. Establish a couple border wallets and record a couple of their addresses somewhere so you can move funds to them with almost no notice in an emergency.
PS one little trick to even further obscure the fact that your precursor word grid (a pdf file) has anything to do with BTC, is to simply change the file extension to another common one. If anyone gets access to it and double clicks on it, it’s gibberish. Just remember the proper file extension when you go to use it and change it back.
Another idea for storing seed precursor info like your grid, your precursor seed and your code-written unlocking secret is to email them to yourself in a couple inoccuously titled emails that get archived in your webmail. Open up your webmail when you get access to a computer at your destination, and there it is. Properly worded, these emails can be made to look like nothing interesting at all. Install Sparrow and restore with that info in minutes, along with an easy to remember shape, and one word. Thanks Forrest. And thanks to @npub1hea…g9v2
#grownostr
https://youtu.be/1MYdCsNySa0

2026-01-09 14:55:45 UTC

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Beautiful work! Having that large thermal mass right in the middle of the room must be amazing for heating efficiency.

2026-01-09 10:20:04 UTC

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Awesome guys. All the best.

2026-01-09 10:12:44 UTC

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Feels like a social credit score precursor,but built by the same community that rejects digital ID and social credit scores.

2026-01-08 16:20:20 UTC

Miss the good old days.
https://youtu.be/KMd4pAWAmFw

2026-01-08 06:56:50 UTC

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Ouch

2026-01-08 06:54:51 UTC

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As long as you understand that at such a low hash rate the likelihood of hitting a block is extremely low, the BitAxe ticks all those boxes. I
Just search for BitAxe Gamma online for various distributors. Nerdminer store and others.
I can’t recommend a seller because the place I got mine in Canada took 6 months to get it to me. But I’m sure there’s others that have better availability. BitAxe’s are really for educational purposes only, but there’s always that one chance every ten minutes…..
I grabbed a BitAxe Gamma with a cooling option that has a fan that pulls air sideways on top of cooling fins on top of the chip, rather than sucking air inline through the components. Less likelihood of gumming up the inner workings of the unit with dust.

2026-01-08 05:24:36 UTC

MSCI salted the earth. The damage is done regardless of a retraction.
#wallstreet_scumbags

2026-01-08 02:42:00 UTC

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It might be a regional difference in naming. We call the individual pieces in a head of garlic “cloves” of garlic. But the actual cloves you are referring to would likely be a good experiment

2026-01-07 20:37:32 UTC

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Better than the time as a kid that I placed my well worn sweaty rubber boots that I used for cleaning stalls next to the trash cans in the garage. Put my bare foot in the next morning to go down to the garden and the boots were teeming with fly larvae. 🤮

2026-01-07 18:17:05 UTC

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Yep the powers that be successfully doubled the tax base and made sure the state gets to raise everyone’s kids. Mission accomplished

2026-01-07 15:27:00 UTC

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Have an awesome day guys

2026-01-07 04:53:07 UTC

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Oh man if you can put a fermentation lid on a jar to keep the cloves submerged, both the honey and the infused cloves are SO good.

2026-01-07 03:01:35 UTC

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Might be beneficial start off with brand clarity for your awesome venture. Not a bad thing.

2026-01-07 01:51:08 UTC

Pretty awesome heavy guitar riff. Detuned to the max. Xander Raymond Charles. @npub14hq…jjzu I figured you might dig this.
#metal #grownostr
https://youtube.com/shorts/Wmj5eWpqgic

2026-01-07 01:37:00 UTC

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You may have to indian leg wrestle Nat Brunell for the News Block moniker haha. Just making fun, the more content the better.

2026-01-06 23:02:04 UTC

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It’s going to be a good year.