Scott
Scott Wolfe

www.fbce.io

Coordinator @FBCE
Executive Director @BitcoinCoalitionCA
Curator @BTC4SG

Global health and community development professional with 20+ years in not-for-profit leadership.

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scott@nostrplebs.com

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peachpanther4@primal.net

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2024-10-18 11:46:04 UTC

Public service announcement, for the comma good.
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2024-10-18 01:53:58 UTC

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It was great to join you for this run! 🧡

2024-10-16 11:54:07 UTC

It’s interesting to observe this triad (BTC / AUD / CAD). As the exchange rate of #BTC to the Australian dollar (AUD) peaks clearly above $100,000 AUD, the exchange rate of BTC to the Canadian dollar is hovering at $94,000 CAD. This spread on the exchange rate isn’t unusual, as the CAD has had about a 1-10 cent advantage of the AUD for most of the past two decades, with a few very short periods of parity or slight AUD advantage. It will be interesting to watch this over the months and years ahead though, with BTC exchange rate as a lens.
Canada and Australia are both economies with highly financialized housing markets and many socio-economic similarities. As #Bitcoin adoption continues to increase over the coming months and years, and as BTC further displaces other asset classes (housing, gold, collectibles, bonds and equities) as stores of value, it will be interesting to see whether the BTC/AUD and BTC/CAD will remain comparatively range bound or whether we’ll see any divergences.
This triad may provide interesting opportunities to gauge the relative impact of Canadian and Australian fiscal and monetary policy, as well as other public policy directions over the months and years ahead.
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2024-10-12 14:56:51 UTC

Ah, yes. This music is more appropriate for Trump. Not political commentary… just commentary on a lecherous, predatory, sociopathic individual.
#note1es4…rsqu

2024-10-09 01:09:15 UTC

The beautiful thing about #Bitcoin is that it no longer matters who Satoshi Nakamoto is or was. Bitcoin is now the world’s largest, decentralized, open-source computing network and financial system — one that cannot be controlled by any person, government or other third party. If we were to ultimately find out who Satoshi is/was it would be scarcely more material now than if we found out who was the first person to create fire or play chess. All of these are now open-source gifts to humanity, subject to the overwhelming consensus of a massive, decentralized user base. So, watch this HBO flick if you must, but then get on with the task of harnessing Bitcoin #BTC in service of building a better world.

2024-10-09 00:40:00 UTC

A decision was made here. 😂
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2024-10-08 01:01:11 UTC

Gen X revival (1988). Just as pertinent for a 2024 soundtrack.
https://youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0?si=hZSjwG7rlwvHRlt7

2024-10-01 01:42:34 UTC

Beep beep!
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2024-09-27 00:45:20 UTC

Time management; next level.
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2024-09-26 10:49:28 UTC

For all those who have suffered at the hands of grandma’s knitting.
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2024-09-24 11:40:34 UTC

ANALOGY 1: Bitcoin is water
Imagine three unmarked, unlabelled clear containers. They each contain a different, clear liquid: water, bleach, and ethyl alcohol.
Without knowing anything about these liquids one could easily mistake them. #Bitcoin is water. Crypto is bleach or ethyl alcohol.
In the same way that bleach or ethyl alcohol have some limited use cases, so too may a very small number of crypto tokens (if we’re being charitable in our assessment). However, it is a massive error to lump these with Bitcoin #BTC, just as it would be potentially fatal to treat bleach and ethyl alcohol as you do water. Have a sip and find out.
We need dialogue, education and public policy that respects Bitcoin (BTC) as water for humanity.
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ANALOGY 2: Bitcoin is a diamond
Imagine a pile of clear, jagged-edged shards on a table. There are 20,000 or so individual pieces. In their sum, they look like a mass of the same thing.
You sift through them and, for the most part, they are differently shaped and sized pieces of broken glass. Upon closer inspection, however, one piece stands apart: it is an unpolished diamond.
#Bitcoin is this diamond, and crypto are the shards of glass.
To the untrained eye and to someone who has not looked more closely, it’s likely that the diamond will simply be lumped together with the broken pieces of glass. Even then, if one does not know what distinguishes a diamond from broken shards of glass, one may not consider picking it out and treating it differently.
Shards of glass can be used for limited purposes. They can be recycled, they can be used for art, etc. But they are not a diamond.
The point is that we need dialogue, education and public policy that distinguishes Bitcoin (BTC) from crypto.

2024-09-22 20:21:04 UTC

It’s time to update the system. #Bitcoin
https://youtu.be/_DsK340KkUc?si=VL3pjh6fNQ73ml5J

2024-09-22 13:46:46 UTC

That time Prince talked about artists moving to a value-for-value payment model on platforms like #Nostr and apps like @npub1v5u…n0v5 @npub1yfg…v6vg @npub12vk…pugg @npub18m7…q955. He was so ahead of his time!!!
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/Z5bXexG7v7BfXGAH/?mibextid=oKfgLb

2024-09-22 01:57:50 UTC

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If she bought in the 20s she at least doubled her fiat amount. Perhaps another approach is to suggest she keep that profit but buy back the original amount. So if she invested $10k and sold all for a total of $25k (for example), suggest she buy back $10k worth of Bitcoin. In 1-2 years she will be happy she did.

2024-09-17 22:22:17 UTC

I came across this image and prose today, and thought it a valuable meme through which to reflect on the concept of freedom, something which those of us in the #Bitcoin ecosystem tend to wax on about quite a bit. Freedom, responsibility, rights, justice, compromise. These are not a spectrum, but a mosaic.
"This person took his part, but affected others. He exercised his freedom, but with injustice. Freedom can’t be exercised as everyone wants. Justice disappears when you harm others. I’m not talking about morality, I’m talking about the bad exercise of freedom."
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2024-09-15 15:58:11 UTC

As we head into the U.S. playoffs, latest stats suggest Team Blue is slightly more likely to take the title than Team Red. It’s close though and will likely come down to the wire. If this plays out, Team Red has a lot of major decisions to make in the off-season: possible changes to front and back office; key on-field roster changes; and possibly exploring new ownership structure.
It’s no huge victory for Team Blue though. Both clubs will need to contend with similar challenges in the off-season: an aging roster; diminishing membership/booster numbers; growing competition from alternate leagues.
Given these trends, it’s very likely that ownership teams and management representatives from both clubs will meet this off-season to discuss and revise terms for the league. There could be new media rights arrangements, a refreshed marketing framework, revised playoff structure for 2028, etc. There are various options to explore and no doubt some things will be contentious. However, with aligned incentives and increased concentration and overlap between the clubs’ ownership teams, there’s a good chance they’ll be able to settle on updated terms.
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2024-09-14 11:59:04 UTC

Thing is, this will get play in the clubs too. I’m pretty certain.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_23x8qIFO0/?igsh=MWNyaXo4YW9meTJmaA==

2024-09-12 00:30:08 UTC

I remember House before House had loops; I remember House before the whole world knew.
https://youtu.be/ZQZg35RKcHc?si=HNjnVKMuJEVUzAnw

2024-09-11 13:28:14 UTC

I lived and worked in Washington DC on 9/11, 2001. I was with a global health organization focused on Latin America and the Caribbean.
As the news from New York broke and the plane struck the Pentagon there were also a couple of loud blasts heard within the city. I’ve never heard confirmation of what these were, but we heard and felt them. Colleagues of mine in DC from Latin America, including several Chileans, were moved to screams, tears and sheer panic as all of this unfolded. The trauma of 9/11 (1973) and the Pinochet years were very much still with them.
My Chilean colleagues were not alone in their reaction. Nicaraguans, Haitians, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Venezuelans and other nationals also had their trauma-memory triggered. Bombs, death squads, foreign-funded bloody coups. It all came back on 9/11.
Ever since 2001, on 9/11, my thoughts return to these colleagues, to the people of these countries — many of which a former U.S. President called “shithole countries” — and to all of the less remembranced “9/11s” of history. There are far too many.
May our children know more peace in their lifetimes.
https://youtu.be/-CW9jwUN8Jw?si=JbD6neD3Pr0Gbsro

2024-09-11 12:39:48 UTC

IMHO, history will record the true hubris of the 2024 U.S. Presidential race as belonging to Republicans and anti-Democrats. So cocksure were they that “Sleepy Joe” would hand them the White House that they casually welcomed Donald Trump back to the throne, failing to appreciate that the bar he sets…policy-wise and as a campaigner (not as a human being, because that bar is extremely low)… is just inches higher than that of the opponent on whom they had set their sights.
Trump looked like a Rhodes scholar and Toastmasters Golden Gavel Award winner on stage beside Biden (2024 version of Biden). Whether the Democrat candidate switch was by design or merely circumstantial, we may never know. Regardless, Trump is now revealing himself as the court jester he truly is. Not looking good.

2024-09-06 12:46:29 UTC

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Haha! Yeah, my grown up stomach can’t handle that food anymore so I guess I’m also “that” old!

2024-09-06 12:36:46 UTC

Yup! 🍕
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2024-09-05 23:17:44 UTC

😂😂😂
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2024-09-05 21:10:31 UTC

Touché!
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2024-09-05 14:48:57 UTC

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Thanks for all your work, Jeff. I heard you say, not long ago, that you have gotten a lot of grief for your bullcrab stance and market assessments. You’ve been spot on and, regardless, you have always provided very reasonable, transparent assessments of how you arrive at your conclusions. Many of who don’t have your technical insights greatly appreciate the way you come at all of this and communicate your views — so a big thank you! Have you provided any recent updates to your assessments of markets generally, and Bitcoin specifically? I haven’t seen/heard any. Best to you and your family! 🙏

2024-09-05 11:53:54 UTC

Hip hop, ya don’t stop. 🧡
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2024-09-05 11:47:56 UTC

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Everybody knows!

2024-09-05 08:50:30 UTC

Daily reminder. It costs you nothing. It will yield you emotional, physical and mental wellbeing. It will help you find common ground and shared humanity, even where there may be a disagreement. ✌️
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2024-09-04 16:32:41 UTC

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That’s very kind, Ike. Sending you positive vibes! 🧡

2024-09-04 16:32:07 UTC

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Thanks, Logan! Positive vibes to you and family! 🧡

2024-09-04 12:39:40 UTC

A special 3am run this morning to wrap up my 12-week summer plan of one early morning 21km run per week, on top of my other runs/workouts. I may continue until the temperature drops further.
These early morning sojourns have given me a much deeper sense of gratitude and clarity.
They have given me a greater appreciation of the quiet and peace that can be found in busy places at rest, places that are typically bustling.
They have brought into greater focus the nuances of pain that exists in our midst — the broken lives of people living on the streets, the substance-fuelled escape from pain and trauma, and more.
They have also taught me to see and appreciate simple moments of magic and beauty, like crossing paths twice this morning with a baby rabbit that seemed to be on its own early morning running program along Lake Ontario. On the second of these two brief encounters, we stopped and looked at each other for what must have been 5-10 seconds as if to recognize something sacred in the other. Read what you will into this, but it was one of those moments for me when I sensed a higher power at work, a higher purpose for this life, a frequency that deliberately placed us along each other’s path.
I’m grateful for all these experiences, these reminders, and the spiritual anchor that they provide in an otherwise hectic life.
This universe wants us to be at peace, to find purpose, and to be of service. This truth is screaming to be heard and embraced amidst the noise and chaos of a tumultuous world which often seems to be spiralling toward greater conflict.
I hope that I can increasingly be and become an instrument of that truth, a channel for the peace and abundance which all of us deserve to experience.
Peace! Salam!
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2024-09-04 09:17:17 UTC

By the yard, it’s hard.
But inch by inch, it’s a cinch.
#YouCanDoIt ✊
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2024-09-03 21:55:24 UTC

Truth! 😂😂😂
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2024-09-03 13:48:52 UTC

Dispatches from persistent inflation.
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2024-09-03 12:53:18 UTC

Memories of my childhood. 1988 - 1992 battle for supremacy not just of Milan, but of Serie A and the world.
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2024-09-03 02:24:06 UTC

A little dose of badass! John Bonham would be impressed, I’m sure. https://youtu.be/91pz1E8pAOY?si=PkswzbdjWyh4cw9h

2024-09-03 01:40:38 UTC

One of the most inspired, captivating performances I’ve ever seen. If only I could have seen it live. Do yourself a favour and watch it until the end.
https://youtu.be/zA8hE50xJeE?si=tHuPHnnsI2yhaaU1

2024-09-02 11:32:25 UTC

Be kind
Be humble
Stack sats
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2024-08-31 13:32:28 UTC

We regret to inform you that the Empire’s cancer appears to be inoperable.
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2024-08-29 10:23:29 UTC

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this is the most important #Bitcoin related podcast episode of 2024. It underscores — with data and thoughtful descriptions by @npub1n3s…te5l — what many of us already sense and know.
✅ The most publicized narratives about who Bitcoiners are, are simply not true. This is even more valid when one looks beyond the U.S., Canada, UK, Europe, Australia at the global landscape of Bitcoin adoption/use.
✅ ~75% of the most publicized, most promoted, most capitalized Bitcoin content creation (via various platforms) skews very heavily to a small portion of the actual market of people who currently study and use Bitcoin globally.
✅ From a marketing perspective many of us — especially in the U.S., Canada, UK, Europe, Australia — are failing miserably to get Bitcoin adoption where we say we want it to go. Why? Because we are allocating more than 80% of our marketing energy to a small market segment (~10%) of which roughly 4 in 10 are already now Bitcoiners. If Bitcoin were a company and this was the marketing department’s record/approach, the entire department would be fired.
I have so much more to say — and I probably will. For now, I’ll leave it at “please watch or listen to the episode” and take the messages to heart, particularly if you are a Bitcoiner in any of the regions I mention above (U.S., Canada, Europe, etc).
Peace! Congrats @npub14mc…frlx on the great run with What Bitcoin Did. 🧡
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/who-owns-bitcoin

2024-08-28 12:06:58 UTC

Hello Nostr folks, if you wouldn’t mind, please follow @npub1l00…nypq and help us build visibility and momentum for #Bitcoin circular economy efforts around the world.
Head on over to www.fbce.io to learn more and to connect with #BTC circular economy projects from different parts of the globe.

2024-08-28 11:36:42 UTC

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Welcome!

2024-08-28 01:39:02 UTC

If you listen carefully now, you will hear.
https://youtu.be/VkndVzfOeRc?si=RWzL7anjpRrKdQRq

2024-08-27 13:43:43 UTC

I’ve been using #Nostr, on and off, since the @npub18m7…q955 app was first launched as a test flight app. I’ve come and gone from Nostr, seeing a couple of upticks in momentum, which have then faded. This latest uptick in users and activity feels different. It feels as though we’re hitting new heights of adoption and use that won’t fizzle out. It’s up to all of us though to make that happen.
For my part, I’m going to continue to allocate more of my time to communicating via Nostr as opposed to X, Facebook, etc — which, yes, I will also continue to use for now. I hope others on here will do the same and we enter 2025 with exponential growth of Nostr use. Let’s go!

2024-08-26 02:18:12 UTC

Only thing more bless than Beres + Buju is Beres + Cutty!
https://youtu.be/BKwDeddE1io?si=xwY9i0gQSSOsKmF4

2024-08-25 23:05:06 UTC

Mi familia salvadoreña en Toronto siempre se asegura de que esté bien cuidada. Puro amor. 🇸🇻🧡🇨🇦
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2024-08-25 19:42:49 UTC

Day1. Three days of time alone with mini me, my youngest. Some boys time on the town. Fun, sun, food, football and none of that blachh girls stuff (just kidding). 😂
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2024-08-25 10:43:41 UTC

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Rise up!

2024-08-25 10:43:22 UTC

Be like St. Jude.
Judith Milhon (married name, Behling).
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2024-08-25 10:31:27 UTC

We’re gonna chase those crazy bald heads out of town.
#Nostr #Rumble #Revolution #Bitcoin #BTC
https://rumble.com/v2nfq9k-1977-bob-marley-crazy-baldheads-live-at-rainbow-theatre-in-london..html

2024-08-25 10:31:20 UTC

We’re gonna chase those crazy bald heads out of town.
#Nostr #Rumble #Revolution #Bitcoin #BTC
https://rumble.com/v2nfq9k-1977-bob-marley-crazy-baldheads-live-at-rainbow-theatre-in-london..html

2024-08-24 20:53:31 UTC

Please follow and support @npub1l00…nypq here on Nostr to help raise the visibility of #Bitcoin circular economy efforts around the world and to help grow this important movement!
#note19r2…3s5t

2024-08-22 17:42:27 UTC

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That deserves a follow! Welcome to #Nostr. 🫡

2024-08-21 10:33:14 UTC

This is a fabulous discussion which hits home on many levels. Thanks @npub1jdd…4s60 @npub1cj8…rz4u. I’m reflecting on my own #Bitcoin journey as the podcast sits with me. A few years after the deeper Bitcoin “aha” moment happened, it still amazes me that this puzzling, fascinating technology, global network and digital money would have caused me to move on from 20+ years in the community health non-profit world to pursue the goals of community development, social justice and human empowerment via different means. I’m excited about how the new Bitcoin Research Institute at the University of Wyoming will help catalyze and support that journey for so many others over the coming years. I’m even more excited about what this portends for humanity and the prospect for a better, kinder, fairer and more united world.
#note1zel…q9qz

2024-08-21 09:13:44 UTC

More please! 🇧🇫✊🏿
#note1l7m…nx90

2024-08-21 08:54:51 UTC

Out for my early morning run. Looks like this guy had a late night at the club.
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2024-08-21 00:45:37 UTC

One of the most beautiful songs ever written, one for me that epitomizes “saudade”.
https://youtu.be/DjU6ZjrQulc?si=4Mk-5U9M7eI5uRuH

2024-08-20 22:29:59 UTC

IYKYK 🎂🚀 @npub1k7v…c04l
https://youtu.be/nzjrA1k17IE?si=-XcqE55TzrmL2u2U

2024-08-20 01:41:16 UTC

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😂😂😂

2024-08-20 01:33:13 UTC

Hi all, I just wanted to take moment to let you know that you can also find me on this old app called X. You can connect with me using my handle over there: @ScottAWolfe.
X is a centralized, proprietary app owned by X Holdings Corp. While you don’t get to own your personal ID on X, you do get to participate in an ecosystem that feeds you carefully selected content via an algorithm operating with opaque rationale and objectives. Just in case you need more, you also have the opportunity to be censored for a number of reasons, most notably if your thoughts stray from approved government parameters (oopsies!).
Yes, I know you like the experience of non-algorithmic content consumption and engagement over here on your Nostr app. But come on over to X if you’re open to some good ole algorithmically-fulled click bait and toxic repartee with a diverse range of nyms and basement-dwellers.
I’ll be over there for a bit still. Come find me!

2024-08-19 19:47:33 UTC

Hatred pulls you in
And love pulls you out.
Love sets you free.
https://youtu.be/J7yyd0cfVa4?si=zPl5bKIIACdNi5DK

2024-08-19 09:18:18 UTC

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Thanks, Trey! 🙏🧡

2024-08-18 23:27:43 UTC

I try to remind myself often…and a lot more than usual as of late…that over 90% of the world would love to have my “problems”. Attitude of gratitude.
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2024-08-18 20:32:09 UTC

Very important new article by @npub1g8w…82gq. Bitcoin is for everyone and it’s critical that elected representatives and political parties recognize that this means large segments of their voting base.
Two key messages for Democrat-leaning Americans:
#Bitcoin is for everyone. Study Bitcoin, and go from there.
#note1ddj…agsa

2024-08-18 20:10:14 UTC

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No, I haven’t. Do you have a link or more info?

2024-08-18 15:24:54 UTC

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🙏🧡

2024-08-18 00:30:32 UTC

Parenting and life thoughts. My little one (7yrs) is beginning to outgrow his current football squad and league. They won 5-2 today and he scored four goals and was clearly the most dominant player on the pitch. He needs to play up a level and be more challenged. What I was most proud of though was not the goals, but that he was talking on the pitch, trying to help his mates get in position, use space, and get back on defence. This was the first time I had ever seen him do this. I made little mention of his goals after the match and instead focused on his blossoming leadership skills.
Even when it’s clear that we excel at something or are dominant in a particular context, there is always more to do, more to learn, and more we can become. We should always strive and push at new goals, new limits. Hopefully this is something I can instil in him as a parent-coach, and something that will resonate, whether on the pitch, in the classroom, or in other aspects of life. I hope he remembers that we did not celebrate his goals, but instead celebrated the areas in which he is pushing into new parts of himself. I used this as lesson for myself. There is still so much more I can and should become as a person.

2024-08-17 18:51:31 UTC

Bring back Olympic tug-of-war! Let’s start a petition to the IOC.
#note1zqe…v9d8

2024-08-17 18:31:21 UTC

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On another note, is there any work underway to have a “lists” function on Primal. For me, that’s the single biggest missing piece. I use lists a lot on X to track content and create content. I would be dedicating a lot more time to Nostr if I had that functionality here. I want to migrate a lot more of my time to Nostr.

2024-08-17 01:37:23 UTC

✅ Bitcoin4Trump
✅ Bitcoin4Kennedy
✅ @Bitcoin4Harris (on Twitter)
What we need all political parties in the U.S. to grasp is that, just like the U.S. dollar, #Bitcoin is used by Americans across the political spectrum. More so week by week. Recent research from the @NakamotoProjct makes this abundantly clear (see link below).
Both @npub1hq0…f9mp and @realDonaldTrump (plus @GOP) have gone on record expressing their reasons for supporting more explicit U.S. Government adoption of and strategic policy support for Bitcoin.
We have yet to see any of @KamalaHarris @KamalaHQ @Tim_Walz @TheDemocrats @DNC @USProgressives step forward and express policy vision for #Bitcoin in the U.S. Make no mistake though, there is a significant population of voters inclined toward Harris/Walz who are waiting and watching. @Bitcoin4Harris @TPBPod are two beacons amidst dense fog, providing signal for Democrats to follow.
I’m a humble Canadian observer hoping that more people in the realm of Democratic Party decision-making will grasp the powerful role Bitcoin plays (and further potential) in financial inclusion, community empowerment, human rights, and climate action. This is a truly global movement with the power to bring forth humanity’s greatest, most unifying potential.
The forward march of Bitcoin adoption and use will continue around the world, regardless of whether U.S. policy makers decide to be part. By choosing to self-select out of this global march, however, U.S. policy makers will relegate the U.S. and Americans to the margins of tomorrow.

2024-08-16 19:17:18 UTC

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Thanks for hopping to it!

2024-08-16 14:14:16 UTC

For all my fellow hip hop heads. ✊🧡
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2024-08-16 12:59:27 UTC

In both the U.S. and Canada recently, we see @KamalaHarris @KamalaHQ and @theJagmeetSingh raising the idea of price controls to combat the impact of inflation. Thing is, time and again they’re shown to not work. They sound nice, but so does the idea of just printing a million dollars for every person. We need informed policy on the political left, grounded in political economy, not pandering for votes through bread and circus ideas and appeals for us to simply punish strawman villains.
https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/lets-talk-about-price-controls?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

2024-08-15 09:19:28 UTC

It must be underscored that what is being passed off as a potential “reset” by the U.S. Democratic Party appears to be an “everything but #Bitcoin” crypto fest. Fine, if that’s what is intended by this new “Crypto4Harris” campaign and what is desired by planners and decision-makers aligned with the party and Harris/Walz. But we should be clear about that and we must note what that portends.
It says that a potential reset on crypto is being approached strictly as an openness to repurposing Silicon Valley tech narratives via tokenization and more insiderism.
It is not about the values expressed by progressive members of the Democratic Partyy: values that Bitcoin exemplifies: financial inclusion, climate action, inclusive global development, and a program of peace. These global domains of #Bitcoin and its particular use cases, as distinct from the vast ecosystem of crypto, appear absent from the program.
While some may find business value in these other crypto (fair enough), let’s be frank: they are not ushering in change. They are simply continuing the frameworks, systems and structures of tech-forward, Silicon Valley, venture capital dominated industry, via new means.
Communities around the world are not harnessing these crypto to empower the unbanked and marginalized, nor to resist authoritarian rule and to fight for human rights.
There is no Solana Beach.
There is no Ethereum Ekasi.
There is no Doge 4 Social Good.
These other crypto are not revolutionizing energy production and economics like Bitcoin is. They are not scaling the supply of renewable energy and mitigating escaped methane like Bitcoin is. They are not outfitting communities around the world with electricity for the first time through unprecedented energy demand/supply models, again, like Bitcoin is.
No, these inspiring phenomena that are significant parts of the Bitcoin story around the world are apparently not up for discussion within the “Crypto4Harris” led reset.
These positive phenomena associated with Bitcoin are the domain of Bitcoin mining, and no representatives or researchers focused on Bitcoin mining have been invited to the list of esteemed speakers and thought-leaders within the new “Crypto4Harris” reset agenda.
Bitcoin, the first technology to use a blockchain; Bitcoin, the largest digital asset by market cap (larger than all others combined); Bitcoin, the world’s largest decentralized computing network and open-source software; Bitcoin, the world’s 14 largest currency; #Bitcoin, the truly revolutionary network and global money, feels absent from the “Crypto4Harris” program despite its overwhelming size, impact and clear alignment with progressive values on the global stage.
It must be said that this Crypto4Harris forum appears to characterized more by its glaring omissions than anything else.
Perhaps those of us who scratch our heads in bewilderment that the Democratic Party (or at least its Progressive wing) have not yet embraced Bitcoin with full-throttled passion will be pleasantly surprised as this “Crypto4Harris” process continues to unfold. Maybe. I hope so. So far though, signs do not look very promising.
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2024-08-12 11:18:08 UTC

In five years we will look back at this episode of Donald Trump and the Republican Party feigning support for #Bitcoin, and all of the people lining up behind Bitcoin Magazine’s recent platforming of this “package” as one of the biggest favours for the values and vision and expressed by progressive values (which I distinguish from values and policy expressed by the Democratic Party in the U.S.).
Bitcoin is a network, money and tool that is gradually freeing individuals and communities around the world from the shackles of global debt-money structures and systems.
Bitcoin is disrupting narratives and binary political and social frameworks.
When Bitcoin was created and launched, it was done with the understanding that, ultimately, human self-interest, ego, fallibility would remain motivating forces for many (most?) people adopting and using Bitcoin. Human, all too human, we remain.
It is, of course, this human fallibility which is causing many Bitcoin adopters in the U.S. (with some allies elsewhere) to promote freedom, moral and spiritual renewal, and progress, on the one hand, while on the other hand investing hope for these into a character (Trump) who is the archetype of moral and spiritual decay, decadence, opportunism, and psychopathy. The cognitive dissonance is piercing.
Yet, this episode will raise the visibility of Bitcoin; it will contribute to adoption (albeit skewed); and it will shift that Overton Window surrounding Bitcoin’s use and role globally. In so doing, however, it will advance a tool and movement globally that is disrupting the Imperial project perpetuated by the United States and it will extol the virtues of inclusion, equity and fairness that forms the basis of a progressive program, but which many politicians in the U.S. that are breaking away form the Democratic Party are still not prepared to effectively bring forward, captive as they are to strategy hinged on social and cultural analysis and bankrupt in political economy. The shift will happen, but not just yet apparently.
In the long run, the opportunistic and highly individualistic support by Trump, Republican Party, and Bitcoin affiliates will seed and fertilize the ground for the next stage of this evolutionary process for/with Bitcoin; one that is fundamentally more inclusive, communitarian, and global/humanitarian.
In the meantime, those of us who can see a bit further into the future must hold our noses and endure the stench of the manure. However, I do firmly believe it will be worth it.
Love and peace, y’all! 🧡

2024-07-23 15:21:39 UTC

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I have no idea!

2024-07-22 22:46:30 UTC

Special kinda crazy! https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6kA5C6gmhi/?igsh=MTMwOHBnMHpybDEzdg==

2024-07-10 19:32:33 UTC

A big thank you to the German Government 🇩🇪 for selling 80% of their #Bitcoin #BTC at these very cheap exchange rates (below USD $60K) especially since a very large portion will now be held by individuals spread around the world, building a true global people’s movement of hope.
I relish the thought that many of these sats, once held by the German state, will now be held and used in communities throughout the global South to assist in true community development and empowerment where so many years of national “foreign aid” and multilateral loans have failed. Power to the people! ✊🧡
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2024-07-01 10:39:17 UTC

Truth! 😂
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2024-06-29 11:32:07 UTC

Our brothers and sisters in #Kenya 🇰🇪 need our attention and support right now.
1. Follow #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #RutoMustGo and help spread word.
2. Read @npub1sn0…tr2x article at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/06/26/kenyan-youth-embrace-bitcoin-amid-deadly-protests-over-finance-bill/
3. If you *HAVE* already learned about the connection between #Bitcoin , human rights, and financial inclusion please consider donating to groups leading this charge in Kenya. Links below.
4. If you *HAVE NOT* yet made the connection, read @npub1trr…hdpu's article at https://journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/how-to-dictator-proof-your-money/ and then👇
LEARN ABOUT / DONATE TO:
https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoindada
https://geyser.fund/project/mtaani
https://geyser.fund/project/afribitkibera
https://geyser.fund/project/thecore21m
https://geyser.fund/project/btcnairobi
https://geyser.fund/project/tando
https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinbabies
Give hope to those giving hope and building solutions on the ground! 🧡

2024-06-15 11:38:15 UTC

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I can help. I’ll send you a DM and we can find time to talk. For starters, keep tuned to @FBCE as we’ll be doing a lot more at global level. I would recommend being in contact with @npub1th5…mnel and @npub1tam…0ynt which are the two most advanced circular economy efforts in North America right now, as far as I can tell. I want to help support more of this via @FBCE and it’s also on our national priority list for Canada at @npub1j46…dffy

2024-06-10 17:52:22 UTC

So many people talking about WTF happened in 1971, looking at the history of dollar debasement and the cantillon effect…but no one paying attention to this. We need to get to the root of this problem. 😂
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2024-06-07 01:09:56 UTC

Without a doubt, my favourite interview of the year so far. Checks all the boxes!
✅ #Bitcoin
✅ Toronto
✅ 🇨🇦
✅ Basketball
✅ Music
✅ Public health
Please follow @npub1jz0…h5z8 and her awesome new show “Ask a Bitcoiner 21.”. 🙌
https://youtu.be/DMEc-0-XoRE?si=8wnth2e5G27oD05B

2024-05-20 10:50:03 UTC

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Lightning!

2024-05-14 21:58:45 UTC

TLDR - #Bitcoin is a tool for financial inclusion, human rights, economic growth, climate action, AND a savings tool to protect against inflation. By saving in #BTC your purchasing power GROWS over time. The key to this is to look not at short timeframes but at longer timeframes (3yrs +). Case in point:
10 Canadian dollars exchanged for #BTC in September of the following years would enable you to now (ie, as of May 2024) purchase the following number of shawarmas at @npub12ym…2gc5 :
2022: 3 shawarmas 🫔
2020: 5 shawarmas 🫔
2019: 8 shawarmas 🫔
2018: 10 shawarmas 🫔
2017: 16 shawarmas 🫔
2016: 104 shawarmas 🫔😲
Now, chances are you are not saving for shawarmas (if you are, give @npub12ym…2gc5 a heads up). However, you may be saving for a house, home renovations, university/college tuition, retirement, or other goods and services down the line. Think 3+ years out.
At @npub1j46…dffy we have a variety of accessible resources to help you better understand how to put #Bitcoin to work for you and, at the same time, contribute to building a better world. That's a double bottom line every Canadian should get behind!
🔗 https://bitcoincoalition.ca/why-bitcoin%3F
🔗 https://bitcoincoalition.ca/educational-resources
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2024-05-12 02:58:45 UTC

In a response to Canadian Member of Parliament, Mark Gerretsen, back on Sept 29, 2022 (linked below) I indicated that I would timestamp and revisit his post in the future. It's time.
First, let's get some maths out of the way. Yes, that shawarma which Official Opposition Leader @PierrePoilievre purchased at @npub12ym…2gc5 with #Bitcoin on April 1, 2022, at a Canadian dollar equivalent of $10.00, would have cost a Canadian dollar equivalent in Bitcoin (BTC) of $22.35 on Sept 29, 2022.
Fast forward to today, however, and that same shawarma purchased with #Bitcoin would cost CAD $5.60. That's almost 50% less.
All of the above is based on the closing exchange rate of BTC to CAD as follows:
Apr 01, 2022: 1 BTC = $57,936
Sep 29, 2022: 1 BTC = $26,772
May 11, 2024: 1 BTC = $83,300
Mr. Gerretsen was seeking to discredit Mr. Polievre's claim that Bitcoin is a powerful tool to help Canadians protect themselves from inflation. Thing is, he was wrong.
In fact, if Mr. Gerretsen had decided to exchange 10 of his Canadian dollars for Bitcoin on Sept 29, 2022 (the date of his tweet) he would now be able to take that very same CAD $10 worth of Bitcoin to @npub12ym…2gc5 and buy 3 shawarmas. There would even be enough left over to leave the server a nice tip!
Yes, the price of #BTC in Canadian dollar terms can be volatile, especially on shorter timeframes. That's because it is a commodity-currency which is still quite young (launched in 2009) and early in its global adoption.
However, when one zooms out and looks at the trajectory of BTC against the Canadian dollar and other government-issued currencies around the world, the trend is clear. BTC is continually appreciating in value and purchasing power over time. This is the key point which I believe Mr. Polievre was making when he called Bitcoin a powerful tool to protect Canadians from inflation.
The double significance of Mr. Polievre's shawarma purchase at @npub12ym…2gc5 -- an amazing Canadian food chain owned by Canadian-Egyptian entrepreneurs Aly, Omar, and Ahmed Hamam -- was to underscore the global dimensions of Bitcoin. This includes the even greater importance of Bitcoin as a tool to save people from hyperinflating currencies like the Egyptian pound, and its role around the world as a tool for human rights, for financial inclusion, for community development, and for energy growth and climate action. I'll touch further on these in a moment.
Getting back to the question of this famous shawarma purchase in April 2022, let's do some more investigation. Let's keep zooming out and take a look at what Mr. Gerretsen's purchasing power with Bitcoin would be if he had exchanged 10 Canadian dollars for BTC on Sept 29 of years before 2022.
We've already seen that Mr. Gerretsen's "2022 Bitcoin" would now be able to buy him 3 shawarmas today. What if he had exchanged Canadian dollars for Bitcoin in previous years? Well...
Mr. Gerretsen could take his CAD $10 exchanged for BTC on Sept 29, 2020 and buy 5 shawarmas today.
He could take his CAD $10 exchanged for BTC on Sept 29, 2019 and buy 8 shawarmas today.
He could take his CAD $10 exchanged for BTC on Sept 29, 2018 and buy 10 shawarmas today.
And so on, and so on.
The point is that Bitcoin is in fact a tool for Canadians to opt out of inflation. Another way of saying this is that, over medium to longer time frames, Bitcoin helps Canadians preserve and INCREASE their purchasing power.
The key is for Canadians to study this technology and currency in order to understand how it works and how best to make it work for them. We need education, and we need policy makers to get behind this effort.
For many years, various Canadian educators and content creators have done their part of increase education about Bitcoin hoping that it would resonate with a diverse audience. In 2014, educator Andreas Antonopoulos presented information about Bitcoin to the Canadian Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce: https://youtu.be/xUNGFZDO8mM?si=x2EF1x25P9q8PADr
However, more was needed still. This is why a wide range of stakeholders from across Canada came together over the past two years, including at the 2023 Canadian Bitcoin Conference in Toronto, to discuss the potential to establish a body for these purposes in Canada. This year that became a reality with the establishment of the Bitcoin Coalition of Canada @npub1j46…dffy in January 2024.
The @npub1j46…dffy is a multi-partisan, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to engage federal, provincial, and municipal policymakers across Canada, as well as media and the general public, to increase awareness of Bitcoin and its many benefits to Canadians and people around the world. This includes not only its role as a tool to protect purchasing power, but a tool for human rights, financial and social inclusion, energy abundance, and climate action.
We outline the many uses and benefits of Bitcoin at bitcoincoalition.ca/why-bitcoin%3F and other resources.
What's perhaps more encouraging about the potential impact of Bitcoin across multiple domains, is that it should appeal to policymakers across all political parties and it should unite Canadians.
As we approach the 2-year anniversary of Mr. Gerretsen's tweet below, I say let's move on. Let's make sure that all policy makers, across all political parties in Canada commit to studying Bitcoin and to engaging in sincere dialogue about how we can harness this technology and commodity-currency to increase opportunity across Canada and to build a better world.
https://x.com/markgerretsen/status/1575521175044001793?s=46&t=wq0GoOCdXxA5DblxlsJJng

2024-05-08 11:53:14 UTC

Hey @npub12vk…pugg, I’m so impressed with the evolution of the app over the past year. The functionality via this app for Nostr is amazing! Wishlist item: a lists function, to help keep track of and follow accounts by theme. This would be HUGE and really help to supercharge our use of Nostr for @npub1l00…nypq and @npub1j46…dffy. Is that in the development pipeline? 🙏

2024-05-05 22:44:17 UTC

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It’s the first Nostr account we set up. Unfortunately, we lost the private key so needed to abandon that account and start a new one.

2024-05-05 15:13:56 UTC

It’s my honour to help move forward two important organizations as part of the global #Bitcoin movement. I sincerely hope you will give them both a follow here on #Nostr. Thank you!
@npub1j46…dffy and @npub1l00…nypq
My hope is that the work that we’re doing to advance Bitcoin circular economies globally will soon have more local nodes here in Canada too. The sort of work that @npub1th5…mnel is doing and the SATurday Market initiative led by @npub1rxy…hnp8 @npub1r4x…0jus in Calgary are exactly the sort of efforts that will lead to flourishing Bitcoin circular economies here!

2024-05-03 02:17:59 UTC

Things are getting grim in the United States. At the behest of the White House, federal agencies have been carrying out a series of enforcement actions against individuals and groups that develop privacy tools which #humanrights activists around the world rely on for their work and to stay free of authoritarian oppression.
These enforcement actions are being carried out in the context of regulatory ambiguity from FinCEN and other relevant federal bodies. In the process, they are causing a chilling effect to reverberate in the U.S. and beyond, further eroding trust in U.S. institutions and, in many cases, placing lives in danger.
What is at the root of these prejudicial actions? We are left to speculate. Regardless, they are exacting non-trivial collateral damage. These dubious enforcement actions imperil the rights of the American public and they undermine the interests of diverse populations around the world living under the yoke of dictatorships and authoritarian regimes.
Ironically, tragically, these U.S. enforcement actions impact human rights activists and resistance movements fighting tirelessly against regimes which the U.S. government claims also to oppose, often at immense expense to the U.S. taxpayer.
The game afoot appears not to be one of moral righteousness, democratic principle, and the sanctity of the law, but rather, one of power, privilege, and Empire.
These prejudicial enforcement actions come in the wake of recent re-authorization of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which contains new provisions, within Section #FISA702, granting U.S. agencies unprecedented authority to surveil the communications of Americans without a warrant.
These enforcement actions also coincide with the troubling resort to brute force being exacted upon student protestors on campuses throughout the U.S. who are calling for an end to the murder of innocent children, women and men in Palestine. This militarized response, though not centrally coordinated, is one being legitimized by a state-sanctioned mischaracterization of what these protests fundamentally aim to achieve.
A thread runs through it…
Policing tools for privacy.
Enabling the surveillance of Americans.
Squashing dissent and protest with force.
These are the signposts of creeping authoritarianism, of a state apparatus that has detached from its moral foundation and its raison d’être as expressed in its guiding documents: the Constitution, its amendments, and the Bill of Rights.
This creeping authoritarian state seems to grow more self-assured and more self-referential by the week. Having pierced the veil of covert operations, however, it stands naked now before the subjects whom it chooses to villainize: students, privacy tool creators, and no less than the everyday citizen who presumes to transact privately and to communicate freely in the digital world with her peers without fear of interference from and censorship by the state.
A thread runs through it.
It is time for America to hold up a mirror unto itself and ask, which direction now?
cc: @ninaturner @IlhanMN @RepRashida @AOC @SenSanders @RepBobGood @HRF @ACLU @EFF @hrw
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2024-04-29 02:25:45 UTC

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
https://youtu.be/Hu3mpAtbGuo?si=iQZiqoq6rYAnmmQO

2024-04-27 15:40:25 UTC

“Debt-based money is a public health issue”.
Please watch and share this interview by Tom Karadza with my friend and colleague, Dr. Emma Apatu. Emma is an Associate Professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario 🇨🇦, Founder of Dream Grad Academy, and a member of our @npub1j46…dffy Education and Public Engagement Committee.
Emma discusses the evolution of #publichealth practice, the social determinants of health #SDOH, and how some of our most pressing social challenges are the downstream consequence of broken money and broken systems.
She shares a bit about her journey, as an educator and public health practitioner, coming to understand why and how #Bitcoin is a key ingredient for fixing many of these entrenched problems in Canada and globally.
https://youtu.be/YLiVCXh-AQI?si=PzzYArS911v0xDaH

2024-04-26 13:12:48 UTC

On the eve of the “People Power Academy”, here’s a very important new article from @npub1trr…hdpu. Please share it widely! ✊
QUOTE: “In almost every dictatorship, the financial system is weaponized. Whether it be Erdogan in Turkey, the military regime in Zimbabwe, the Gnassingbé family in Togo, the Maduro junta in Venezuela, or Putin in Russia, a “first-choice” tool of autocrats when dealing with dissidents or political opponents is financial deplatforming. Protests are expensive, and if organizers can no longer receive donations or pay community members, democratic momentum can fizzle out. Within this context, the rise of #Bitcoin #BTC as a dissident currency of choice starts to make sense.”
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/how-to-dictator-proof-your-money/

2024-04-25 23:57:08 UTC

The U.S. national debt has been expanded consistently by both Democrats and Republicans. Don’t be fooled by the theatre of politics and partisan sabre rattling. Fix the money, fix the incentives, fix the world. #Bitcoin #BTC
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2024-04-23 00:14:20 UTC

THIS DATE IN HISTORY
April 22, 1978: Bob Marley performs at the One Love Peace Concert in Kingston, Jamaica. He had just returned from14-months in exile outside of Jamaica after armed gunmen had raided his home in Kingston.
The concert was organized to help stop the violence between the island’s rival PNP and JLP political parties. Pictured here, Bob had invited PNP Leader, Michael Manley, and JLP Leader, Edward Seaga, onto the stage, clasping and raising their hands upward together in a sign of unity.
One love!
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