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Their unit of account is broken and they don't understand that Bitcoin makes sending money as simple as sending an email. They are chasing broken money because they are drowning in this booming economy that threatens their, job, water, or whatever.

2026-06-05 13:49:34 UTC

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Kewl.

2026-06-05 13:49:08 UTC

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🤙

2026-06-05 13:48:36 UTC

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Yeah, you know... Freedom Tech.

2026-06-05 13:43:51 UTC

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Have you posted any paintings on DiVine yet? There's a lot of new people there. So e of them are doing cool stuff with art on the client too.

2026-06-05 13:42:06 UTC

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Thank ls. That sounds better than my pitch.

2026-06-05 13:23:53 UTC

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Your friend sounds like me.
I'm thinking about telling people I do volunteer work that makes it easier to use money like email instead of using the L word. My hypothesis is that Money email makes more sense to a general audience than "lightning address."
What's your Square merchant pitch?

2026-06-05 13:08:40 UTC

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Lol. My wife says I say things people don't understand. My autism shines through the mask. People ask me about sports and I say I'm a fan of PGP.

2026-06-05 13:02:01 UTC

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It's huge for me. Most of the time people think I'm a hacker when I ask to pay with Bitcoin. I guess I am a hacker, but I'm interested in paying people with Bitcoin, not stealing it. 😂

2026-06-05 12:58:51 UTC

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I wouldn't be surprised if some of the ZCash shills new about this zero day exploit before they started shilling it.
I read in a book that ZCash actually went to a million bucks at one point and then crashed. I think it was The Age of Cryptocurrency, but it's been over a decade so I'm not actually sure anymore.

2026-06-05 12:52:03 UTC

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@npub1v7k…tfk0 ?

2026-06-05 12:45:06 UTC

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Exactly.

2026-06-05 12:43:48 UTC

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I agree, but I don't understand why judges do judge stuff.

2026-06-05 12:42:17 UTC

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Good morning. The stuff I saw from Oslo was amazing. I do want to go next year.

2026-06-05 12:40:28 UTC

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Not a lawyer, but I suspected this might be a problem eventually.

2026-06-05 12:36:00 UTC

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What is it? Some sort of ancestry website?

2026-06-05 12:34:39 UTC

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I put my blog on GitHub. It's spaghetti prose. I suck, but the budget app Shakespeare pushed makes me look smarter than a 5th grader. I don't even know how to do a version number yet.

2026-06-05 11:59:27 UTC

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Is this app on GitHub?

2026-06-05 11:55:55 UTC

Good Morning .
https://blossom.primal.net/9ef02a867978be796652bcb9d1269636cc642016b5373d1952893ee1955f6a37.jpg

2026-06-05 11:51:41 UTC

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I'm amazed how much it's improved in a couple years or so.

2026-06-05 11:46:57 UTC

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I haven't finished the pod, but it's an interesting conversation. I need to listen to Mechanic though to have a frame of reference. I lost all my cash because I didn't know what I was doing...So I have an anti-fork bias.

2026-06-05 11:41:29 UTC

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Seriously...And he's not wrong.

2026-06-05 01:32:51 UTC

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What do you mean? Is it like an LNbits offline extension?

2026-06-05 00:51:44 UTC

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Nice.

2026-06-04 22:01:01 UTC

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What do you use it for? I'm trying it with a budget app, but it probably needs some code review by someone more experienced than me.

2026-06-04 21:54:29 UTC

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Here's how I see it. Bitcoin has a fixed supply. Obviously we all know this, but 95% of the world has no idea,( I think I heard Troy Cross say this on a pod)
NGU is Bitcoin demand. Most of that demand is driven by big fiat number dreams. The Johnny come lately's in the bull markets mostly think Bitcoin is something like a stock. They are not here for p2p cash. They want more slavery cash held by a trusted third party.
NGD happens because the slave cash maxis masters tell them their Bitcoin is dead again. Like all good slave masters, they don't teach their slaves how to read. Show one of these people Clark Moody's Dashboard and you'll know what I mean. The slave money maxis lose faith and buy fiat. It says In God We Trust after all. They trust that. They don't trust bitcoin, but they also don't know how to verify it.
When we exchange dates for goods and services, we also don't trust Bitcoin, but we verify it..We don't need to send out data to a slavemaster to buy stuff. It stays within the Bitcoin economy and out of the fiat economy where people only buy fiat. Only buying fiat can only reduce the demand for bitcoin.
Demanding Bitcoin for real stuff decreases the demand for Fiat. Decreased fiat demand is how we win. Buy Bitcoin is the wrong approach in my opinion. We need to boycott fiat as much as possible.

2026-06-04 19:12:53 UTC

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Most of them don't know what a peer-to-peer network is. That's great for VIP ticket sales at conferences, but bad for the network. They only care about the fiat price, not p2p electronic cash.

2026-06-04 18:03:04 UTC

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I used to listen to an Andreas Antonopolis video every day before there were any podcasts aside from a couple Joe Rogan and Econ Talk episodes. I guess Bitcoin Talk was around, but I didn't look kenir as much as Antonop's speeches.

2026-06-04 16:26:29 UTC

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He's still around. He gave me some Baklava last month. He's a cool dude. I think he's mostly on X.

2026-06-04 16:24:20 UTC

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Pro looking butchery bro.

2026-06-04 16:22:31 UTC

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Seems like fractional reserve banking engineering to me. That's what I use Bitcoin to get away from. 😐

2026-06-04 12:45:30 UTC

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Thank you. In the US, people use Venmo QR codes at Farmer's Markets and lemonade stands. I wanted to make a program that easily lets them do it with a lightning address.
It looks like you had the same idea. It's beautiful.
Onward. 🫡

2026-06-04 11:52:52 UTC

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True

2026-06-04 11:51:34 UTC

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You'll do fine.

2026-06-04 11:50:43 UTC

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I started blocking people too recently. It's a mad world.

2026-06-04 11:44:46 UTC

Crypto means cryptography.
I wish people I meet in real life talked about crypto like this instead of shitcoins.
https://blossom.primal.net/6e07efc07332119f0a5afc5f4e5d16be6d5754dd59f440215d6ec1e6fa06e2b3.jpg

2026-06-04 11:36:25 UTC

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Actually, I made my own sign that has a lightning QR code. Your art is better than mine. 😃
I turned my sign into a vibe coded website that allows anyone with a lightning address to make their own.
https://btcpaysign.shakespeare.wtf/

2026-06-04 11:33:30 UTC

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Is there a particular reason?

2026-06-03 19:26:28 UTC

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I like the sign. How was it made?

2026-06-03 18:37:32 UTC

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Do you think judges understandrthat code is speech written on a distributed network and that locking up the writer for wrong-speak does not change this?

2026-06-03 17:25:20 UTC

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Bookmarked. 🤙

2026-06-03 16:58:59 UTC

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Sorry about that it was early in the morning, my glasses were dirty and it was still dark. It's pretty funny though. 🤣

2026-06-03 15:40:59 UTC

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🤔
Well...When you frame it that way... It makes sense.

2026-06-03 14:29:07 UTC

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What? I didn't know @nprofile…auvd found Bitcoin via nostr. I want to learn more. 😃

2026-06-03 14:25:59 UTC

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Agreed, but I seem to remember Epictitus saying something about people who have not studied philosophy do not have the ability to understand philosophy. That's a terrible pseudo -quote and I don't exactly remember which book I read it in, but I think it's true.
We won't be able to convince the masses to adopt Bitcoin as a unit of account by making ethical arguments. Everyone who was convinced by the ethics of Bitcoin are already here, myself included.
How would you increase Bitcoin adoption without using philosophical arguments?
I know you wrote a philosophy book about financial slavery. I think it's great, but how do we make it easier for the unwitting slaves to use freedom money?

2026-06-03 14:14:01 UTC

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Good morning Onyx. How did you get into Bitcoin anyway? I bet you could write an interesting memoir.

2026-06-03 14:10:38 UTC

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Good morning.

2026-06-03 14:10:12 UTC

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I feel a calling to go to this conference next year. Hopefully this speech ends up on YouTube.

2026-06-03 13:59:59 UTC

Today's a good day
To stay humble and stack sats
And fix the money.

2026-06-03 13:13:36 UTC

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Sorry. I don't know if you're a bot, a troll, or retarded. Sorry I don't have time to explain it to you.

2026-06-03 12:44:46 UTC

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Also, I misread it. I didn't see the word don't. Lol 🤣 That makes a big difference.

2026-06-03 12:34:15 UTC

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Thanks. I saw the original before. The fact that so many people still think of bitcoin as an investment some other dude needs to hold for them triggers me. It's as if they read the second sentence of the Bitcoin white paper and think. "Satoshi Nakanoto was a smart dude, but forget about what he says about the main benefits of Bitcoin.."

2026-06-03 12:22:59 UTC

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A fork is if you took the mustard plant and genetically engineered it until it turned into a dung beetle. In my opinion, the dung beetle is not mustard.

2026-06-03 12:16:13 UTC

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Same. Ice heard a lot of people say they are waiting for the clarity act to pass before they buy. It could be total bullshit though. The clarity act seems more like a stable coin bill. I don't see what it has to do with Bitcoin aside from the stuff about throwing developers in cages.

2026-06-03 11:55:15 UTC

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I haven't watched the video yet and I'm already triggered. 🤬

2026-06-03 03:54:37 UTC

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Bear markets are building season.

2026-06-02 20:36:31 UTC

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Same.

2026-06-02 17:32:12 UTC

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Nice!

2026-06-01 16:09:55 UTC

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💯

2026-06-01 12:09:01 UTC

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Here's the link
https://youtu.be/1jhRqgHxEP8?si=8j44wdeIHqZQDbIG

2026-06-01 12:08:16 UTC

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I watched a video about how they use an open source license for their slicer, but officially do not want people to use it that way. So this dude put it on GitHub.
https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab

2026-05-31 16:47:38 UTC

I just noticed the Primal Wallet has an onchain option. Interesting.
https://blossom.primal.net/7e7e85ad24c5c38027efee070bc1a55dce466faf9a6f719398f4fa055d197b9a.png

2026-05-31 15:09:57 UTC

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She has paper bitcoin.
How do we get paper bitcoiners to use real Bitcoin?
I'm considering onboarding people onto Strike or the Cash App and telling them to accept Bitcoin as fiat. They want fiat. They only care about the fiat price. Let them have fiat.

2026-05-31 14:19:59 UTC

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This is one of my favorite parts of The 4 hour Workweek by Tim Ferris.
A nostr app built by one dude or gal with 1,000 true fans theoretically could work. I'm not necessarily talking about Twitter alternatives. It could be anything.
This is harder to do when you have employees, servers to run, etc.

2026-05-31 14:03:47 UTC

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How does this work? For 7.5 k sats, woild I get an album download or something?

2026-05-31 14:00:44 UTC

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2026-05-31 13:59:52 UTC

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Wow.

2026-05-31 13:13:51 UTC

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Agreed. Nostr has zapsplits, but I don't know much about the AT Protocol.

2026-05-31 13:06:19 UTC

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I haven't even used it that much in the last few months. It feels faster.

2026-05-31 12:47:45 UTC

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Congratulations. This is exciting. I heard you say BlackSky is considering using cashu for monetization. I would love to learn more about this.
We can technically already zap anyone on DiVine using their nbub1...@npub.cash address. Is this something you are also considering?

2026-05-29 19:32:23 UTC

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Beautiful. Where in the world was this taken?

2026-05-29 19:30:23 UTC

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Even if he did, that doesn't make the argument invalid. I use AI, but that doesn't mean I think it's 100% safe.

2026-05-29 19:28:49 UTC

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I calculate sats per calorie, but money isn't the only value. I could stack more sats if I ate Top Ramen instead of steak, but I value my health more than the extra sats and believe steak is healthier than Top Ramen.
Time is more scarce than Bitcoin.

2026-05-29 18:11:55 UTC

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It says it is, but I'm not sure what NIP. Maybe 44, but that's just a guess.

2026-05-29 18:08:22 UTC

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Cool. @npub18am…p424 made Onyx as an Obsidian alternative. Have you tried it yet?

2026-05-29 17:47:18 UTC

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I met the dude who created Oshi about 4 years ago. He explained it like Groupon for Bitcoin nerds.

2026-05-29 17:46:06 UTC

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Love this idea. Where can I findnthe spec?

2026-05-29 15:25:59 UTC

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Yeah, but an author who puts "Blockchain" in a title is a huge 🚩

2026-05-29 15:18:03 UTC

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Me neither, now that I think of it.

2026-05-29 15:16:06 UTC

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The OG cupjerpunks used the term, "trust-minimized," but somewhere along the way that concept got lost.

2026-05-29 13:40:20 UTC

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Same. There are trades people around me who accept Bitcoin. On one hand, I want to support their business, I can't pay for paint without giving them my address.

2026-05-29 01:50:06 UTC

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My reputation is way more important than 12,000 sats or whatever. I would wait for at least one confirmation if I sold a car. 6 if I sold a house. 😂

2026-05-29 01:42:15 UTC

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I mean it depends on the threat model. I know about a 100 people in real life that are competent enough to rug-pull the brewer for a ten dollar beer.
I'm almost certain none of these people would do that because
1. They're stand up people.
2. Even if I am wrong, $10.00 isn't even worth the trouble.

2026-05-29 01:37:37 UTC

DiVine let's you embed it into your personal website.
Can you do that with Tik Tok?
https://npub1marc26z8nh3xkj5rcx7ufkatvx6ueqhp5vfw9v5teq26z254renshtf3g0.blossom.band/03c7cb1b3330e6de6a23b3c3dcddb3e5618db51a4adbdac29f68a0fdf61b30d6.jpg

2026-05-29 00:25:26 UTC

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I did a quick search. Apparently, Ulysses S. Grant was arrested 3 times for speeding by horse. He was in office in 1872...So I guess it would not be the first mugshot on the US Dollar.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-president-ulysses-s-grant-was-arrested-for-speeding-in-a-horse-drawn-carriage-180981916/

2026-05-29 00:20:04 UTC

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That's what I'm thinking. Donald Trump bucks might as well be Donald Duck bucks. This Monopoly debt money can't last much longer, right?

2026-05-28 20:40:31 UTC

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I've done some websites, but no apps yet. I might give it a shot.

2026-05-28 20:39:39 UTC

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Every one on nostr is a free speech maximalist, all 500 of us.

2026-05-28 15:14:09 UTC

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What do you mean? That's like a weeks groceries for a vegetarian family of four.

2026-05-28 15:13:03 UTC

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Why are two, analog signatures on paper fiat required?
I assume it was an attestation prior to 1971. Two dudes verified the dollar was backed by an ounce of silver in Fort Knox or something.
WTF does it mean now?
"This monopoly money is backed by bullshit.
Thank you for your attention to this matter."
Signed by two frequent Epstein Island visitors.

2026-05-28 14:19:34 UTC

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Can confirm. We didn't really talk, but I saw her in Vegas. She is a real person. 🤙

2026-05-28 14:15:33 UTC

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Yeah that would be awesome. Hopefully the zaps support devs in 10 years, but that's total hopium.

2026-05-26 23:52:33 UTC

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Good questions. I don't have any good answers but I like taking time stamped photos.

2026-05-25 13:26:57 UTC

Good morning before I go into airplane mode.
https://blossom.primal.net/957da8a89d28a277f38526d45a5bb13fec0a4bd9289659d945353958905ac612.jpg

2026-05-24 09:56:56 UTC

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That's the dream.

2026-05-23 10:46:27 UTC

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Damn dude. That's pretty cool.

2026-05-23 10:15:30 UTC

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Be careful. You know how accident prone Bitcoiners are with boats. 😏.
Just kidding. Sounds like fun.

2026-05-22 23:48:50 UTC

Proof of Pizza
https://blossom.primal.net/06a9f8435b657c240b88626bb8cdcdef3db20f87c25783e8dd64debf6328e9c7.jpg