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2026-03-16 23:16:26 UTC

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I actually look forward to your “marketing” emails. While most companies just want you to see an email with their products, so many of your emails talk about the WHY, and not just the what. We need more businesses like yours, who educate, sell, and help us get better one change at a time. Keep up the great work!

2025-05-30 21:08:58 UTC

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I wish rules against “raw” milk would end. Mark the bottle as unpasteurized and let the market decide.

2025-05-30 20:56:05 UTC

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It’s amazing when you know the AI answer is wrong but it states it like it’s a simple fact. In my experience, if I then tell the model its answer is wrong, it will agree with me that it’s wrong and proceed to give another answer that’s just as wrong as the first. But people who don’t know will just trust the response.

2025-05-30 15:06:26 UTC

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I wonder if the ones who say they’re buying are actually buying…

2025-05-22 00:04:06 UTC

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One step at a time. Real food from ranchers and farmers. Real skills. Real money. Real relationships. Its helps when we find others in the world to be able to support and strengthen each other.

2025-05-20 22:56:37 UTC

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Well done!

2025-05-20 22:52:15 UTC

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While we’re at it, can I go my current job and volunteer, and let them tip me at the end of the day?

2025-05-20 16:43:27 UTC

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I feel like it’s a goal to strive for, but seems to be a spectrum. More sovereign or less sovereign. Our family is taking steps to be more sovereign, and encouraging like minded people we know to do the same. Keep leading by example, and others will notice. I think since 2020 a lot of people are way more open to self-sovereign options, but you’re right that status quo can be hard to overcome.

2025-05-20 16:27:21 UTC

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So sorry to hear this. God bless him and your family during this time.

2025-05-19 21:59:30 UTC

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How about River or Strike can hold some of my cash, vs Chase holding my bitcoin?

2025-05-11 20:39:36 UTC

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I had no idea this was going on in Michigan! I will have to pay close attention to the #MiBTC from now on.

2025-05-11 19:43:53 UTC

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Do you remember buying a tape or cd, and being excited to see all the song lyrics written inside? Looking back, I’m sure some of those songs didn’t make a ton of sense- but some did. And knowing your fans would get that new album and listen all the way through and look at the lyric sheet must have meant something. I don’t think I would know more than two consecutive lines of any song in the past 10 years. But I could go line by line on songs from the 90s that never even got on the radio…

2025-05-07 21:53:27 UTC

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Just added it.

2025-05-06 02:21:19 UTC

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Thanks. I tried to zap you in appreciation of the comment, but it’s failing…

2025-05-06 01:59:45 UTC

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I’m in the USA, and in my state, it gives us coverage. I couldn’t guess if Canada is similar. But I would think if you reached out to some of these providers, they must have a something similar. Like maybe you join a club with a membership fee, and then share homemade products between members? Where there’s a will, there’s a way

2025-05-06 01:22:38 UTC

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I’m just a pleb who’s trying to keep up… I’ve got a start9 and have Bitcoin Core installed. I picked up a Bitaxe a bit ago, and if I’m understanding my options, I can run as the perpetual lottery ticket, or I can move to Knots, Ocean, and lightning payouts (and yes, I know payouts will be next to nothing). I wonder how many others like me are switching to Knots for that ability? I wish I understood the technical nuances, but in the meantime, just trying to learn.

2025-05-06 00:55:32 UTC

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I can’t speak to accuracy, but did you look at realmilk.com? They have a button on the home page for international, and Canada is one of the choices.
I agree that people may not want to say their source out in the open- but for what it’s worth, where I live, it’s “illegal” to sell it in a store, but we can legally have a Private Member Association where consenting adults can buy and sell to each other. Might be something to look into. I started with buying beef directly from a local rancher and asked him where he got dairy from, and went from there.

2025-05-04 22:22:50 UTC

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Can I ask- how did you originally find this article? I follow LibertyGal too, but never saw this in my feed, and when I looked back at LibertyGals timeline (using Primal on iOS) of posts, I don’t see it there. But it’s on Primal that I see your post to share it so you could finish reading later. Any insights?

2025-05-03 23:57:19 UTC

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Ok- thanks for clarifying that. Maybe I misunderstood, and it was because I had core installed already, it used that as a starting point.

2025-05-03 23:45:10 UTC

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I’m working through this now. Seems like you install Core and then convert it to knots. BTC Sessions did a tutorial on his YouTube channel that really explains it well for a Start9.

2025-05-03 00:04:56 UTC

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Swarms of drones that look like insects, sting like scorpions, unrelenting. Sounds biblical…

2025-05-01 13:23:57 UTC

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Credit card processing fees too. Which is essentially another tax.

2025-05-01 13:19:26 UTC

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I kinda wish some of these early adopters, especially small local govts, would have a way to receive zaps or other small donations as a show of support for them. I know that’s like an optional tax- and probably high risk for people impersonating with scams… probably easier said than done

2025-04-29 01:06:58 UTC

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Topic? Good luck!

2025-04-27 01:52:39 UTC

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I have heard of robosats and bisq, but never looked into them. Those are all good suggestions- thanks!

2025-04-27 01:45:11 UTC

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I like this idea- any idea how to really do this? I would buy sats from people I know, if they had BTC and needed to sell. But how do they know I’m a buyer and how do I know they need to sell? Honestly I don’t know any real world people with BTC… so maybe someday this will be feasible more than today.

2025-04-23 23:22:41 UTC

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And to your success as well!

2025-04-23 23:00:20 UTC

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Would this be effective for a kid with seasonal allergies? My middle school aged daughter isn’t going to want to smell like a strong scent, even if it helps her. She often takes Claritin or Zyrtec this time of year.

2025-04-23 22:56:40 UTC

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For what it’s worth- we just don’t drink much, or I’m sure I’d be a customer. I will definitely order as gifts in the future, as I definitely seek out businesses like yours to support. I have a ton of respect for you and other merchants moving the ball down the field for all of us.
While I don’t have a business myself, I do help coordinate farm products (dairy, eggs, etc) from a rural farmer to our suburban area. He drops off orders weekly at my house, and I distribute and collect money. Of the customers we have, nearly all ask to pay me with Venmo, and just a couple use cash- and I pay the farmer in cash. Nobody (yet) will use BTC. I try to encourage it, but no takers yet. We are, as they say, still so early. My one success with BT. was with our massage therapist, who I offered to tip in cash, or tip 1.5x in BTC. She’s the only one who was interested by that offer enough to accept it. And she got some sub-$30k sats for it!

2025-04-23 21:48:09 UTC

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I’ve noticed a few online merchants who are adding their credit card fees to the purchase price, which makes sense. But often there’s no alternative payment method. A brick and mortar store could add a credit card fee and have a cash price, but that doesn’t work on line. As a consumer and speaking just for myself, I’d appreciate it if the merchant didn’t average the credit card fees over all purchase types, but (for example) said something like cash/btc might be $100, but credit card price like is $103. I agree with the incentives and desire for adoption, but I also know that if the price for cash/btc are the same to me as credit, and my card gives me 1-2% back, and is more convenient at check out, that’s an incentive too. I know it’s not a lot, but it adds up over time.

2025-04-23 13:08:36 UTC

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The logic that a “golden asteroid” would make humans rich shows just how little understanding some people have of what made gold money for so long of our history.

2025-04-21 21:05:09 UTC

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I’ve heard of that- but never looked into it. I will now for sure!

2025-04-21 21:01:08 UTC

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Yeah, I don’t run a store, so I don’t know how the backends work. I feel like I’ve seen a “pay with BTC” discount before- or maybe the BTC pay server team would know. Or maybe paying with BTC could prompt a “reward” for credit/discount on the next order? Just thinking out loud. I’ll be sure to do my next order on your site with BTC. I should have done it the last time!

2025-04-15 01:37:53 UTC

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I look forward to hearing your thoughts in this forum. I know many podcasts dig into the details of many of the specifics of this technology, but I for one enjoy conversations that take a step or two back and really establish the core fundamentals and set a solid understanding of how the various aspects tie together. I listened to the first few episodes and highly recommend. So far this is a series I could recommend to newer bitcoiners who are curious to understand more without getting lost in technical details.

2025-04-10 15:48:29 UTC

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I have this dream that someday I’ll be the “Uncle Jim” in my area, running nodes, maybe issuing ecash, providing in person training on the tools. I’ve learned a lot on line, but I know most won’t spend hours watching YouTube tutorials too. The tools keep getting better, but I couldn’t throw people in the deep end and wish them luck. A bad experience at this point is worse than them waiting until things are easier for the average person. IMHO

2025-04-10 14:48:08 UTC

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Got it done. Thanks again

2025-04-10 13:21:32 UTC

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I need to get on the bike today. Thanks for posting- it’s motivating to get back on it.

2025-04-10 13:20:10 UTC

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Gm!

2025-04-10 13:09:51 UTC

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I’m trying to up my homesteading too. I’ve got seeds started under lights inside (still too cold here outside). I’m also coordinating meat and dairy from our nearby rural areas to our community. Agree that every little bit helps!

2025-04-10 12:49:49 UTC

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That’s awesome. I often feel overwhelmed on the technical side of all this- as I have a fiat job and family and can only dedicate so much time to it. But I want my kids to be aware and comfortable with it. And I have to remember that even if I feel behind the cutting edge, we are so far ahead of most people today.

2025-04-10 12:16:28 UTC

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I’m on a similar journey with Start9. Trying to get a set up to support a Bitaxe mining with Ocean and lightning payouts. I know it’s not much, but it’s a good learning tool for now, and hoping i can get it set up to then add more hash power in the future.

2025-04-09 02:50:36 UTC

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Stay humble and… target price buy initiated- again.

2025-04-08 22:22:09 UTC

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That’s excellent! It definitely on my short list for future international travel/vacation spots.

2025-04-08 01:46:23 UTC

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Just low enough to kick off my target order at about $75k. But buying sats on sale is never a bad thing!

2025-04-07 17:38:05 UTC

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I found my rancher because I listened to an interview with Texas Slim talking about ranchers nationwide taking BTC for direct sales. I now spend probably 50 percent of my total grocery budget with him, and all because he took the step to accept BTC alongside fiat payments. I’ve been ordering consistently for over a year, and referring others to him. Win win.

2025-04-07 02:05:52 UTC

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Do you boil the leaves to extract the sweetener? Or how would you use the plant?

2025-04-06 02:47:19 UTC

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On primal app (iOS), this looks like an image with no animation. I flipped over to Damus and see the animation. Looks great- hope people will be able to see it.

2025-04-03 22:03:56 UTC

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Working through the process to get a lightning node set up on my start9 server. Trying to use a bitaxe, ocean, and lightning payouts. Still in process

2025-04-02 23:37:57 UTC

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Totally right. And it’s not just that the big cities are democrat majority. They’re a single point of corruption that can negate the rest of an entire state.

2025-04-02 22:38:45 UTC

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Search for nearly any topic (especially the most common/popular ones) and have some absolutely despicable content tagged to come up in the results.

2025-04-02 19:14:43 UTC

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Ha- no! I just assumed it needed care and maintenance, but I’m guessing that was a bad assumption now. 😂

2025-04-02 17:16:16 UTC

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Love to see this! Wonder how many times we as taxpayers have paid to have that piano tuned and maintained, vs how many times it’s been played. Maybe (hopefully) it’s played often- but somehow I doubt it.

2025-04-02 17:13:37 UTC

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Agree. I try to talk to my kids about how to use these tools, vs the tools using us. I think you’re right that our AI “helpers” might pick up on our mood changes, early signs of depression or anger, etc. I hope they are there to help us, and not (potentially) used to manipulate us or put us at risk. Like a suicide hotline- power to help or hurt in the moment of need. I would hate to have a computer without real human feelings take that responsibility fully. It’s going to be difficult frontier to navigate. Best we can do is have eyes wide open to the benefits and the risks.

2025-04-02 15:28:49 UTC

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I forgot how much I loved that character. And contrast that with Iceman. So different, but both so well done and convincing in the role. Such a loss.

2025-04-02 14:48:03 UTC

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You can tell me to mind my own business… but reading that message is a good example of my concern about the AI tools. We might laugh at a story of a guy marrying a robot or something… but the more these tool seek to replace our human interactions, to fill emotional connections that are what make us human and unique, the more concerned I am that the next generations will start to “prefer” AI friends over real life ones. I’m definitely not implying that’s you or what you’re doing. Clearly I don’t know you. But I worry that my kids will feel safer taking to an AI than parents or friends. There will be a time and place for it, but this slope is slippery. And this comes from someone learning about AI and using it for work. I’m not afraid of the tech itself- I guess I’m afraid of what I could/will do to most people over time… does that make sense?

2025-04-02 14:27:37 UTC

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I agree with you. When I think back, my on chain footprint used to be higher- getting sub-$50k BTC, building up a bit and moving to cold storage primarily. But now, I have way more BTC interactions- DCA, zaps, paying in BTC when I can. But I have far fewer on chain transactions. If the BTC price moves up 2x or 10x or 100x, I’d personally have WAY fewer on chain moves the higher it goes. Just thinking through it and not sure how to reconcile, other than paying for things on chain just because it’s cheap now, even though Lightning might be a better option.
Genuinely open to ideas on this. What do you think about it?

2025-04-02 13:52:30 UTC

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Agree. I feel like it’s hard to find other Bitcoiners out in the real world because of this. Personal opsec logically leads us to not advertise we have a stack of any size. It would be like telling everyone you have gold in your house. So we all feel more isolated and “crazy”, not knowing how many of us might be feeling the same but are hesitant to even bring it up.

2025-04-02 13:32:11 UTC

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I keep thinking that merchants who give a “BTC discount” of a few percentage points would start to move things. But I can’t control that. But that got me thinking- for every person that’s using Venmo to send me $20 for this or that- it’s those people that I can offer a BTC discount to. Or, I owe someone $30, but I could offer to send $35 to them using Strike or River… Granted, most won’t be ready to send or receive yet, but it might spark a curiosity. Like why would I take $18 in BTC equivalent vs the $20? Also, think of the mindset shift for that person who thinks it’s “too expensive “ to buy BTC now, but if their friend wants to “give them some…. It hits differently. Honestly, I’d give up a couple of bucks per orange/purple pill to my network of real-life friends if that was what did it for them. Again, think about what each of us can do ourselves- and make the future we want to see.

2025-04-02 12:18:14 UTC

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GM- and thank you.

2025-04-02 11:59:15 UTC

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We see it too. A red area becoming more and more “blue” as people move in- but to talk to them, you’d think they came to the area BECAUSE it’s red. It’s like they think the D they vote for in our area couldn’t be as crazy as some of those ones from deep blue areas. I know the vote counts are illegitimate in our area as well- but still, it shouldn’t even be close.

2025-04-02 00:16:26 UTC

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I know what you mean. I bought an item through a social media platform market. When I picked it up, I felt the woman’s sadness. I could have just taken the item and left, but I couldn’t. Her husband has dementia, he’s hurting himself, they can’t afford caregivers or to move… there is real despair out there. Trust your senses, and realize just showing you care for someone and will listen might be more than anyone else does for them all day.

2025-04-01 15:19:55 UTC

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I’ve been working through setting up a bitaxe, using ocean, with Lightning payouts through a start9 server. It’s been quite a process, but a good learning experience more than anything. Appreciate @nprofile…68p3 tutorial on it, and @nprofile…9hac who helped Ben make that happen. Glad Ocean is out there as an option too

2025-03-25 20:32:10 UTC

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It was a cool video- but might have been too optimistic to think the zaps would come in fast enough while you were with her to make the point. As nostr grows, this might be more realistic, or maybe over a bit more time than a few minutes. But I like the idea!

2025-03-14 18:07:09 UTC

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Any outdoor-safe water heating mining options you like? My current pool heater is natural gas powered but won’t last forever. I’d be interested in a mining option that can use the pool water as a heat sink. This would be used maybe 6 months of the year, as I can’t justify heating the pool through winter here.

2025-02-20 01:26:13 UTC

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Stuck in suburbia, so livestock will have to wait for the next house. Considering bees though.
But I have a face to face relationship with my meat and dairy producers, and have gotten dozens in my area to use them too. Doing what we can where we are.

2025-02-14 02:20:01 UTC

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Bah dat dat dut dah— I’m Lovin’ It!

2025-02-14 00:24:42 UTC

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I feel like there are people today who have a Venmo account with a small balance that they pay back and forth to others with. If the balance gets big, they transfer back to a bank account. If small, they can add from the bank. While I know we have the potential to do things radically different, I think people will feel comfortable with experiences similar to what they know today. I’d love to use ecash the way I use Venmo- and someday I think I will. I take your point on getting back to fiat money- like, could I take a $20 bill from a fiend and send them equivalent ecash? Then, if they want out, they could send me the ecash for whatever that currency is? Imagine a scenario where I get farm products once a week, and distribute to friends and family. Some use cash, others Apple Pay, others Venmo, others Zelle. They want to give me between $6 and $50 per week, depending on orders. I’m open to suggestions- and appreciate the discussion.

2025-02-13 23:26:24 UTC

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Thank you. I am trying to be the Uncle Jim for my friends and family when they’re ready for the orange and purple pills. I can see a lot of applications, but unfortunately my close network isn’t ready for it yet.

2025-02-13 23:13:55 UTC

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Any recommendations on some tutorials that walk through this? I’ve listened to discussions but would really value seeing it done in a demonstration. I’m trying to understand more but feel out of my depth compared to others who may be full time in the space.

2025-02-13 03:51:05 UTC

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It’s working for me. Maybe reinstall and try again?

2025-02-13 00:32:20 UTC

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I feel like, as early adopters, we accept that there are challenges here to work out. I’m concerned that as we onboard friends and family, and they see despicable content in Introductions or Grownostr hashtags, they will abandon the protocol. Could clients use AI to filter images but be very transparent about it? Like movie ratings- the user selects if they want a G rated experience, PG, PG13, R or NC17. Maybe even require a passcode to change that (think accounts used by minors). Anyway, seems like there could be ways to approach it and different clients could taylor to their customers and let the market decide. For what it’s worth, when primal 2.0 came out and the firehose was an errant swipe away, I suggested making the firehose a little harder to get to and they responded. Imagine X or Meta responding to customer feedback that quickly (and I know it was likely others feedback too). Appreciate the thoughtful discussion all!

2025-02-13 00:14:26 UTC

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Appreciate you Ben! You’re helping the community advance more than you know.

2025-02-08 17:53:11 UTC

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The mindset of the person writing that doesn’t get why people as so fed up and angry. It’s not like $8m wasted is an isolated thing. It’s everywhere. It’s death by a thousand cuts. And some of those cuts are billions in waste. They all add up. They funnel back to the same organizations. They are meant to hide under titles like green energy or affordable care but are waste and grift. Personally, I see a crescendo coming… we have been told that defense and Medicare and Medicaid and social security are off limits for cutting… I think they’re building up to the real money.
I wouldn’t even respond to that person… but that’s me.

2025-01-31 20:40:03 UTC

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Looks incredible!

2025-01-31 20:24:53 UTC

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What is that? And what’s on top of the meat?

2025-01-17 03:28:06 UTC

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I purchased a home miner/heater from a different company over a year ago and still haven’t received it (although it supposedly coming soon). I’ve been hesitant to look into other home miners, but I’m really curious about these new offerings.

2025-01-17 02:48:04 UTC

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Great advice. I never felt inclined to post on other platforms, and didn’t on Nostr for most of the past year. But I want to take advantage of this experience and contribute. Thanks.

2025-01-16 23:56:59 UTC

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I remember you from Twitter- glad to see you here!

2024-04-15 13:30:32 UTC

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It’s a good idea to stick with companies and products that are “BTC-only”. So for hardware, I’d recommend Coinkite and their products (cold card, etc). And I second Derek’s recommendation of watching BTC Sessions tutorials on YouTube. He’s covered just about everything and is a great resource.

2024-04-13 00:52:29 UTC

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I don’t have a son- but both daughters know they need to show they can put the spare on before they can drive on their own. Life skill.