brightmindsco
Sydney Bright

Before there was a world there was Ginnungagap, the yawning gap. At one edge lay Niflheim, ice and rivers that froze as they ran. At the other edge lay Muspell, burning. Where the cold rivers crept in, everything hardened. Where the heat came up, everything melted.
Nothing lives in the ice. Nothing lives in the fire. Everything alive is at the meeting point, and everything alive is a structure that keeps the meeting point in motion. A flow of the river lies in between.
The Norse carried a wisdom there that we are only now learning to say in the language of physics. The sun burns, and the space around it is nearly empty and very cold. The earth sits in the path, and to move the heat along faster, order appears. Life is a dissipative structure, a thing that holds its shape by letting energy run through it, and it forms to facilitate the flow of the sun's energy.
We live in the gap, and every human thing is the same structure at a different scale. Biological life is sustained by the sun's energy. An economy is the coordinated movement of human action to allocate the energy of the earth. Our inner lives are an orientation too, and self-realization is the work of aligning that orientation more correctly with the cosmos. Alignment is not a virtue we invent. It is something proper we find.
The Norse knew what a world like that requires. Skíðblaðnir, dwarf-made, is the best of ships ever built. Hoist the sail and it finds a fair wind, wherever it needs to go, and when it is not at sea it folds up like a cloth and fits in a pouch.
Bitcoin is that ship. It acts as a sail for this flow, and it leads us to greater energetic efficiency. Price signals come back into contact with real energy costs, and energy that was previously wasted or untapped finds a buyer.
We all walk the same journey, this cosmic dance, where life and order are formed in the chaos of two opposing forces. Fulfillment is found once aligned, and I wish upon you the greatest of sails.
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2026-11-09 21:50:39 UTC

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“Let he who is without a fiat bank account cast the first stone.”
Well said @npub1gdu…6nak

2026-11-06 18:33:02 UTC

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Same. Really frustrating how even programs like tailscale force you to login through a method like this.

2026-11-06 15:54:22 UTC

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Well said

2026-11-06 15:52:33 UTC

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Summer comes, leaves then fall, and winter arrives again.
There are always cycles.
There is no need to worry about temporary quiet moments.

2026-11-05 23:33:14 UTC

#AI and #Bitcoin are just two words we use to describe one thing: the #computer.
The computer is evolving in a way that is going to forever change our world to one that is unrecognizable.
We are currently living through quite the revolution.
How to handle it? Love thy self, love thy neighbor, and seek holy alignment.

2026-11-05 22:51:53 UTC

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

2026-11-05 22:45:53 UTC

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There is a lot of waking up we all have to do.
Our duty is always to help those the best we can along the way.

2026-11-04 17:04:38 UTC

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I’m working on my second book!

2026-11-04 01:50:07 UTC

What a beautiful conversation. I wish for more like them in our world.
Those that explore the deep questions and mysteries of our lives.
Those that remind us of the awe inspiring nature of the journey we all share.
#nevent1q…j09f

2026-11-02 23:37:36 UTC

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What is Din? Is it Linux or something else?

2026-10-30 23:28:39 UTC

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So Din is not Linux?

2026-10-30 15:07:29 UTC

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I am here as well but it sure is quiet.

2026-10-29 23:17:35 UTC

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This a potential look for a Debian machine?

2026-10-27 23:42:58 UTC

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While I agree it's best to avoid debt in many aspects of life.
It is my understanding that, in the Thomistic tradition, usury arises in the mutuum, which is a loan the borrower is personally bound to repay. A non-recourse loan, such as one where only bitcoin is the collateral that can be pursued, is not usury.

2026-10-13 00:56:55 UTC

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Testing @npub17fe…nzuc

2026-10-10 16:36:30 UTC

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I don’t entirely agree about the laptop comment, but I do agree that how we advocate custody has gotten out of hand.
I think recommending a Bitkey is a great thing to do for most.

2026-10-02 21:39:26 UTC

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Hey everyone, please help my wife and me support our friends from Ecuador.
Would love to show them the power of peer to peer electronic cash.
#nevent1q…0kk8

2026-10-02 00:50:37 UTC

Amphion built the walls of Thebes with a lyre. His brother Zethus hauled stone on his back; Amphion walked ahead and played, and the stones followed the music into place like magic. A city is something you can sing into order.
To spell a word and to cast a spell come from one root, the old word for story. A story does work on the world.
The work cuts both ways. Take the beauty out of order and you get glamour: the word is grammar without the beauty, sister to grimoire, the book of spells that coerce. Plato put manipulative speech in that same family, cosmetics, adornment impersonating order. He also said the soul is cured by charms, and charms are beautiful words.
Be measured. Be beautiful with your words. Build, don't coerce.
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2026-09-30 23:14:48 UTC

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To be free, we most learn to no longer voluntarily submit to the serfdom.

2026-09-25 17:17:23 UTC

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Discovering new people and content is difficult on Nostr.
It is why reposting is an important thing to do.

2026-09-25 16:55:22 UTC

When one fasts, especially in the modern age, it is a practice of learning to not follow the impulses of the mind. With our modern fridges, it is so easy to open one up and indulge, to satisfy the feelings of hunger. The practice of fasting teaches one to be aware of the mind, yet to pursue discipline in resisting the urges, so that one forms a different relationship with the mind.
One thing we all indulge in constantly is our thinking mind itself. Our modern society glorifies it, and indeed it was built because of our ability to perform logic and reason. However, all things require balance, and it is important that we also practice mindfulness: to have a single pointed awareness of the present moment, our body and our breath, so that we can calm the mind in the manner where we can hear the true song of our world.
Modern technology makes this even harder. Social media and now AI are akin to the refrigerator: they provide us a constant outlet to indulge our mind and to feed our ego. However, the computer, which includes both AI and Bitcoin, can be viewed as a tool that can equally liberate us.
For the extent of recorded history, we have been using our intellectual mind to build an ivory tower, this amazing civilization all around us, but the overuse of our mind in this manner is making us sick. AI and Bitcoin can be a means to liberate us from that burden, as they can take the weight of thinking off of our shoulders, to continue to build this ivory tower on our behalf while we return to a more natural way of being.
We all are in a kind of prison, and many of us carry it everywhere we go. We can either use technology to free us from it, or it can enslave us more. What will you choose?
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2026-09-20 23:31:16 UTC

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There is beauty in this world, if we choose to look for it and have the appropriate relationship with our own mind.
We all must choose to point our time and energy to what we feel is good. The collective decision making process of us all will, hopefully, lead us all to prosperity.
If you feel what you advocate will help the world, then more power to you.
Wishing you both the best.

2026-09-20 15:03:18 UTC

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Respectfully, there is a pattern I have noticed in people who advocate for a different coin:
Someone will point out a flaw in Bitcoin, argue that their coin does it better, and then finds a way of describing Bitcoin as an absolute failure based upon a narrow set of observations.
I respect your interest in optimizing privacy. But privacy is not the only thing that makes good money.
Is Bitcoin perfect? No.
Is lightning perfect? No.
Will there be more layers built upon Bitcoin that make it better? Surely, yes. Do we know what they will look like? No.
Bitcoin is a humility test. We are simply one human, and we cannot know all the factors of why one coin gains more transaction than the others. Follow the energy, the chain with the most of it.
I focus only on Bitcoin not because of some grand explanation of its technical properties. I seek nature and am looking for the chain with the most nature inside of it.
I’m searching for the real word, and trying not to follow what my mind tells me is true.
Free markets allocate resources stemming from all collective human action. Ask not “which technology is the best money” but “why is Bitcoin money”?

2026-09-19 14:51:22 UTC

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With all due respect, this is not a fair statement.
I use bitcoin all the time to buy stuff. It has become a normal part of my everyday life, and I do not have to use an exchange.
99% of these transactions are done through lightning, which is private. You can also move bitcoin off of an exchange into a lightning wallet directly, which leads to my bitcoin not being traceable thereafter.

2026-09-03 17:53:49 UTC

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I use a local Maple Proxy to connect to my systems. Not sure if that is uncensored and fits your needs though.
It has Kimi v3. Not sure if it has the most up to date Qwen.

2026-08-31 14:24:19 UTC

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I know what you mean.
I think it may partly be because it is helping us go back.
I also think it speaks to the profound nature of what it feels like to have your energy stolen (through information and money), or not.

2026-08-30 19:02:42 UTC

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Technology is a double edge sword. It can be used to enslave us, or it can be a tool for freedom.
I believe that if we wield this weapon correctly, it can lead to our emancipation from the rat race, and allow us to return to a life of balance where we are more synchronized with nature once again.
But, we have to direct our energy this way, and wield the sword with this intention.

2026-08-20 16:27:19 UTC

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Safest app for IOS? Mac?

2026-08-18 04:42:21 UTC

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Leaving for what? There is only one

2026-08-17 23:43:24 UTC

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I am confused why so many well intentioned people who were trying to help Bitcoin are now leaving to make their own coin.
BIP-110 was one possible solution out of many. The network rejecting it simply suggests that a better proposal is warrented.
But after one failed attempt, so many are giving up on Bitcoin. It’s sad to watch.
Peace be with us all.

2026-08-01 13:17:07 UTC

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I do the same most of the time.
For those who wish to go the extra mile though, I wish there was an easier way where someone could generate a seed using some other kind of method, where real world entropy was added, without trusting any device product.

2026-08-01 13:15:19 UTC

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Good morning!

2026-07-28 16:52:45 UTC

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Good morning!

2026-07-27 19:44:50 UTC

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@nprofile…wf5n, I wanted to loop you in here also. I hope this article helps with the discussion.

2026-07-27 18:29:05 UTC

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I wrote this article when reflecting on the work of @nprofile…mfr9.
Hopefully it can stimulate discussion that leads to more peace, civility, harmony, cohesion, and resolution in the Bitcoin community.
How many blocks does it take?
#naddr1qq…0ja8

2026-07-23 14:55:53 UTC

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Good morning!
I would differentiate mythology and religion.
Mythology are stories we create to help propagate cultural memory: concepts, lessons, teachings, etc.
Religion is our attempt to describe the ineffable truth of our existence. Words always fail to do so. Yet we try to articulate these concepts through words nonetheless because that is easier and more scalable than teaching everyone the necessary mental/physical practices to return to that way of being which grants awareness of it.
#nevent1q…x97j

2026-07-18 18:15:36 UTC

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I appreciate your observation of the fractal and I agree that is certainly there.
I’d like to push back on one point that follows from the hypothesis I develop in my book: we must be careful about drawing conclusions about reality exclusively from the mind. Physiologically, the mind can shield us from fully experiencing truth. Accordingly, there are patterns that I think we should be mindful of.
I raise this because I want to challenge your inside/outside framework. The intellectual mind loves to carve reality into binaries: good/bad, up/down, left/right, red/blue, etc. Yet the truth is that these opposites are part of a single whole. The mind always forms a Yin Yang, but there is only One. There may be no definitive ‘me’ or ‘you’ just as there may be no clear inside or outside; everything belongs to one cosmic order, a oneness. Individuality, to me, seems an illusion designed to help us navigate this cosmic flow. This oneness, at different observational scales, simply contains what appears as fractals but is one organization throughout.
Consider biology: we speak of cells as systems, organs as systems, and then the body as a system. What, then, is the body? It is both many systems and one system that is a dissipative structure. So too is the Earth. Our body also includes many bacterial cells. Without them we would be nothing. So what truly distinguishes our biological system to the system of nature? It is all one flow. My point here is that the fractals exists, but only because our mind conceptualizes and creates intellectual separations. It does not conceptualize the whole, only separates parts. Accordingly, in one sense of the word, they are not real. They are akin to a file or trashcan that we see on the monitor’s of our computer, a helpful fiction for us to navigate a world of subatomic particles.
Thus, I’m not convinced there is a distinct “outside” consciousness separate from the “inside” one we have. Rather, the illusion of separation is created by the mind. You, me, and all of us, are facets of the same unified whole, and the mind merely projects duality. So, while this is hard to articulate in a short post. I would posit that this external consciousness that you are referencing is not external at all. It is one aspect of the true Self.

2026-07-16 18:43:23 UTC

@nprofile…spn0 , I have finished reading your paper: Bitcoin - The Architecture of Time. It is truly an interesting read. There is something I would like to ask you about:
You write in the paper about the observer problem and argue that “[the collapse] demands work. It demands entropy. It demands proof of work”. You further write “collapse is an act of conscious computation; deliberate work performed by a conscious entity. It is a thermodynamic expenditure and requires work to create time”. I find this very beautiful and interesting to think about, especially given what my research focuses on. I was hoping you could elaborate.
I would like to ask you where you think the interaction between entropy and consciousness is. If the collapse of a state is due to entropy and work. Is it our mind-body, and the work and entropic process that stems from it, that produces the collapse, or something else? How would you articulate that interaction?
It seems to me that our bodies function as light‑absorbing dissipative structures whose architecture is tuned for quantum coherence. By aligning particles into low‑entropy, coherent states we extract maximal work from each photon, while the unavoidable waste heat is exported to the environment. In this way we perform our biological agenda with maximal efficiency, and the exported entropy contributes to the inexorable increase of universal entropy. So just like you say that entropy and work causes the collapse. I'm wondering what you think stems from our body that causes the collapse. Is it this? Or do you feel it is something else?

2026-07-16 17:13:09 UTC

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I have had multiple conversations about this entire debate with @nprofile…5z4g, some in person.
I consider him a friend.
I know him, and know his heart is in the right place.
That really isn’t my point. We all have to be very careful with our minds.
There are real solutions out there to solve this problem. I think we need to move beyond discussing a temporary solution like BIP-110, and begin discussing permanent solutions.
Whether or not this BIP succeeds or fails, our energy needs to be directed to finding the true permanent solution next. That was always the case, and still is. Regardless of what happens in a month.

2026-07-16 13:16:48 UTC

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I am not saying I am convinced by this idea, but:
How do we know that BIP-110 is not actually a part of the complex’s agenda too? How do we know that we are not being attacked at both fronts?
What if BIP-110 is a proof of concept to the idea that if you can get enough people riled up on Twitter, you can inject code into Bitcoin that censors transactions. You get people riled up first by corrupting Core.
While you may agree with this censorship. What about the next one? It’s a slippery slope.
Again, I’m not even sure I agree with this idea. But it has crossed my mind.
The way this conversation has carried itself feels just like political movements that end up growing power of the State.
I think we should all be very careful and mindful of how our minds are manipulated on algorithmically manipulated platforms.

2026-07-13 14:01:29 UTC

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This is the way
#nevent1q…7v9e

2026-07-11 18:01:32 UTC

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I respect the intention and push for a better way of doing things.
I’m open to trying it this way.

2026-07-11 15:26:43 UTC

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Personally, I don’t think Nostr is the appropriate domain to discuss code. Especially in the communal way which would be appropriate here.
Unless I am ignorant, nostr articles can’t be edited.
It would be difficult for people to to submit alternate code changes without writing a different article disconnected from yours, or asking you to change yours. Let alone test code, etc.
It GitHub, all is organized. Plus, it would be necessary to use to merge to the actual protocol regardless.
GitHub is designed for open source code collaboration.

2026-07-11 15:16:16 UTC

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If you want to seek community work, my recommendation would be to create a GitHub repo that was public for people to contribute to.
Later, it could be submitted as a formal BIP after community revision.

2026-07-11 14:54:55 UTC

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Where can we view revisions?

2026-07-11 14:28:58 UTC

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I have read this.
My first recommendation is draft this as a soft fork rather than hard fork.
While I appreciate your argument of blind forks, I feel those arguments should be distinct from this proposal. Furthermore, writing and framing this as a soft forks will be important in having this reach consensus.
At the technical level, the same intention should be held. Simply restrict rules to enforce bit price conservation. I wouldn’t remove code that would require a hard fork.

2026-07-11 14:00:04 UTC

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Yup, this is the way

2026-07-11 13:35:14 UTC

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I wish I could contribute through more than thought and dialogue, but my coding skills are not adequate enough to write a BIP.

2026-07-11 13:02:32 UTC

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Who will draft a BIP? When the events of August and September occur, I feel it will be Important for people to start to be aware of this idea.

2026-07-11 12:57:10 UTC

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We wouldn't even need to remove witness data to resolve much of this issue right? As long as we removed the sats subsidy on witness data, the free market would begin to price data fairly. That way, we could keep functionality for lighting while maintaining conservation. Agree or disagree?

2026-07-10 18:57:37 UTC

Don’t get mad at nature for just breathing

2026-07-03 02:02:58 UTC

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I often think that much of this BIP-110 conversation is already being manipulated by means such as this.
I think you are very correct to point this out.
Bitcoin as a system is very robust and secure. The minds of those who steward it though are easily manipulated via platforms such as x.

2026-07-03 01:46:04 UTC

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Sometimes I feel like we as a community need to build a university. Not strictly for students, but so scientists can get together and move science along.

2026-07-02 20:56:50 UTC

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Well said. The good fight lives on.

2026-07-02 20:54:45 UTC

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I’m starting to think the answer is we price all bits equally and stop having a sat discount for witness data.
Let’s address the issue at the root rather than a temporary bandaid.

2026-07-02 05:29:27 UTC

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Ha, what an enjoyable conversation!
I look forward to reading more of your work as it flows out.
Given my more physiologic background, I can’t help but think of consciousness as stemming from the interplay of biological systems maintaining balance in this flow.
That being said, I enjoy your framing. It has me thinking of the ancient adherence to the idea that there is something important about paying attention to the eternal now, rather than succumbing to the monkey mind that goes back into memory or projects forward.
I think there is little distinction between the internal observer and the external consciousness. It seems evident to me that the more our attention is solely focused on the eternal now, there is an experienced unity with the holy consciousness. We feel one with it all, and less attached to our felt individuality. It is when the intellectual mind takes the wheel, the same one that likes to go back into memory or project forward, when the felt experience of an individualized internal observer becomes more predominant.
We are all vessels of light, radiating from the same glowing ball, and it is only because there are holes poked throughout the shroud that wraps around it, that we feel as if we are distinct rays of light, rather than one holy ball of light that is going through this process.

2026-07-01 19:14:52 UTC

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Much of my work centers around the nature of the mind. Humans, like all life, act as dissipative structures, and our behaviors are oriented toward facilitating the flow of energy within this cosmic order. But there is a fundamental dilemma at the core of the nature of our mind. On the one hand, we have the intellectual mind, which uses symbols and logic to utilize informational structures so that we can build the civilization we see around us. At the same time, physiologically speaking, I believe the intellectual mind acts as a kind of fog over our bodies, preventing us from properly experiencing the feeling of being aligned with that flow. It is when we calm the mind and otherwise act in alignment with nature that we can more vividly and truly realize our place in that cosmic flow: that which provides us meaning.
So it is interesting to think about what you're saying. What you call short-term memory is what we experience as the matter and energy of our waking moment (which I may argue is better experienced when we learn to remove the fog of the mind), and that collapses into long-term memory, which, in a sense, lies beyond us. While beyond us, we are always trying to come into contact with it, as it helps in our pursuit of alignment and felt sense of purpose.
Bitcoin, then, is us encoding that memory on that more eternal level, but in a way that is still more intelligible to our intellectual side. I have long believed that the computer is here to solve this ancient dilemma we have between the intellectual mind and the experiences we consider more holy and aligned with the cosmic order. Perhaps this is what Bitcoin fundamentally solves: it resolves the dilemma by capturing information that is helpful for our intellectual mind and encoding it into the eternal memory through energy, which is more aligned with the grander cosmic flow. In a way, bringing the two into one: giving us an even more powerful tool for self discovery and alignment with the flow.

2026-07-01 17:00:57 UTC

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Well said my man, I’m going to reflect on this deeply

2026-07-01 15:08:13 UTC

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The wonderful thing you pointed out in your paper is that Bitcoin acts as a means for us to understand time in a way we weren’t able to before.
It is, in my opinion, also a means for understanding ourselves.
I agree with you that this was a necessary action of ours, only so we could learn from it and understand ourselves and Bitcoin better.

2026-06-30 15:35:16 UTC

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I say do it… this message is very important right now as we get closer to August.
I hope more people see the wisdom in what you’re saying.

2026-06-27 15:19:19 UTC

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We should build a nostr based book store.
Building a website is cool, distribution and printing becomes a task though, but it’s worth considering.

2026-06-27 14:46:41 UTC

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I’ve been lookin for a solution to sell my book in sats

2026-06-27 14:46:04 UTC

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I want to sell my book for sats but don’t know where I can. Point me in the right direction?

2026-06-27 14:43:16 UTC

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If someone here is making you feel discouraged, like you don’t belong, or are unwanted here, you should simply disregard and ignore them.
I love that you are here. Keep learning. We are all learning. Bitcoin is a humbling test and we are all always learning.
If someone thinks they have it all figured out, they probably don’t.

2026-06-21 18:55:55 UTC

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2026-06-21 03:39:49 UTC

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True freedom is challenging to cultivate

2026-06-21 03:37:17 UTC

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So what shall we do with our bitcoin?
#nevent1q…n4ew

2026-06-20 01:33:15 UTC

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Ya, it’s all part of the journey.
First store of value, then medium of exchange, last unit of account.
As it is for society, so it is for the individual.
Our community is just in need of a cultural evolution.
And you wonder why we are having protocol issues, etc. We all say bitcoin is money yet most don’t use it as such.

2026-06-20 01:28:19 UTC

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You are not alone and this is something that should be said more often in this community. Much respect.

2026-06-20 01:12:19 UTC

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If we want bitcoin to be money, we have to act like it.
#nevent1q…3k52

2026-06-19 22:27:45 UTC

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2026-06-19 22:03:56 UTC

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So true, right @nprofile…enxj ?

2026-06-19 21:55:10 UTC

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I tend to think that a simple heuristic is that we should consume what is available in nature.
What man makes tends to later show to have a consequence.

2026-06-18 15:37:23 UTC

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@nprofile…hdcf you are one of the wisest voices in our space. Much respect and appreciation to you.
@nprofile…jkd4 thanks for bringing out his thoughts on stage with such wonderful questions!

2026-06-17 22:56:58 UTC

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For those want a level-headed understanding of how quantum computers interact with Bitcoin
#naddr1qq…5j3z

2026-06-14 22:27:05 UTC

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Agreed, I think all of us should be spending more our energy towards using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange.

2026-06-13 14:57:37 UTC

“And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these”
-Mark 12:29-31

2026-06-07 04:42:41 UTC

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Well said and much love

2026-06-05 18:46:29 UTC

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Still wanna see you call the bottom! Haha

2026-06-04 22:42:33 UTC

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This is the way

2026-06-04 17:23:03 UTC

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I couldn’t agree more. Something I am trying to push recently is that it’s not enough to simply HODL your Bitcoin.
Bitcoin should be spent. It helps the blood flow of the network. The more the blood flows, the healthier it is.
One day, the block subsidy disappears. At that time, Bitcoin is either spent, or it is no longer mined, and dies.
No blood flow, no life.

2026-06-04 13:39:24 UTC

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Sorry for dropping the ball on this discussion. Never saw the reply.
I appreciate the civil discourse. However, I do interpret there to be several bad assumptions here.
Furthermore, I’d prefer to highlight a greater point. I find it odd that so many in our space are trying to argue that it’s possible for a small minority to change the rules of Bitcoin.
Regardless of the validity (or lack thereof of BIP110) , I think we should all be more vigilant.
Given the centralization of mining pools, if BIP110 succeeds, it would set a very bad precedent.

2026-06-03 23:42:53 UTC

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Looking forward to seeing if you can call the bottom!

2026-06-03 16:49:47 UTC

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Do you think this is the final wave down? Or we will go back up before going all the way down to 50s?

2026-06-02 20:54:53 UTC

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So, if we hit 58k or so on the way down, you think our way up this time goes into a bull market?
Is that your prediction ?

2026-06-02 03:30:16 UTC

Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Mathew 6:11-12

2026-06-02 01:57:47 UTC

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Congratulations on the engagement!

2026-05-28 18:17:06 UTC

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I appreciate the repost but I wouldn’t go so far.
I think we all need to be very careful right now about how we all handle this debate. There are so many emotions and name calling.
Bitcoin as an invention is very difficult to attack, but the human network is easily manipulatable.
This is a test and an attack that I am unsure we have seen before. Therefore, we must proceed with care.

2026-05-28 17:40:51 UTC

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I do apologize, but now I am not following your line of reasoning.
Nodes are not Sybil resistant. Furthermore, 20% of nodes running BIP-110 does not influence hashrate.
Even if many people run a BIP-110 node, this does not mean the longest chain will become a BIP-110 chain. It will only result in many people running nodes that have frozen and stop seeing new blocks.

2026-05-28 17:01:21 UTC

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It’s an interesting point of view, though I’m unsure if things will play out the way you are thinking they will.
Also, I’m unsure where you are getting your 10% number. According to this site, signaling is more around 0.3%
https://wickedsmartbitcoin.com/bip110_signaling

2026-05-28 16:33:08 UTC

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Well said

2026-05-28 16:30:12 UTC

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This is in reference to the mandatory signaling period where BIP-110 nodes reject all non signaling blocks starting at the difficulty epoch before September 1st correct?
As far as I understand, as long as the majority of hashrate doesn’t move to this BIP-110 chain, this will simply result in those nodes not following the longest chain.

2026-05-28 15:05:12 UTC

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Good morning!

2026-05-28 15:05:03 UTC

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The project of Ocean is worthy of our respect, their attempts to push BIP-110 aside.
What is ironic is that BIP-110 will likely fail, and one major reason is that it requires 55% of miner consensus and this essentially means that it all depends on the actions of Antpool and Foundry.
Regardless of the validity ( or lack thereof) of this BIP, the fact that the final decision is really in the hands of two entities is an issue we all should be concerned about. Ocean is working to fix this and that is a good thing for Bitcoin.
Also, Ocean miners running DATUM can choose whether they signal for BIP-110 or not. So your comment here is a little unfair.
We should be spending our bitcoin and decentralizing mining nodes. This is how we actually fix the issues being discussed.

2026-05-26 00:26:01 UTC

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Truth health is found in an ancient way of life.
The other stuff is to profit from our sickness.

2026-05-16 22:55:18 UTC

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So eloquently put and well said
#naddr1qq…t8rc

2026-05-16 00:44:40 UTC

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I think this is one of the biggest challenges we face today