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2026-04-24 16:44:41 UTC

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It's just layers of corpo theatre because no one understands the whole picture.

2026-04-23 16:41:36 UTC

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Across the board! Enshitification.

2026-04-23 00:56:33 UTC

STT on for grok to give me:
# Bitcoin as a Secure Channel in Cyberspace: Unpacking Softwar, Proof-of-Publication, and the Heatpunk Movement
**By Bitcoin Veterans**
*April 2026*
In the evolving conversation around Jason Lowery’s *Softwar* framework, one idea keeps surfacing with fresh clarity: **Bitcoin isn’t trying to shield the entire internet.** Instead, it functions as a powerful, energy-backed *secure channel* for passing signals and ordering information inside your own chosen slice of cyberspace.
I’ve been chewing on this with Grok, and the nuances are worth unpacking in detail.
## Softwar: Electro-Cyber Power Projection
Softwar — the term Lowery coined in his MIT thesis — describes Bitcoin’s unique ability to project power *in, from, and through* cyberspace without kinetic force. At its core, Bitcoin uses proof-of-work (PoW) to anchor digital information to physical reality (energy and hashrate).
An attacker doesn’t just need better code or social engineering; they must out-spend real-world electricity. That makes attacks *physically expensive*. It’s non-kinetic warfare for the digital age.
## Bitcoin as Your Secure Channel (Not a Universal Shield)
Bitcoin gives you — whether you’re a military entity, a nation-state, a corporation, or even a small group — a **provably reliable way to publish and chronologically order information**.
- It’s a **proof-of-publication** ledger.
- Once data is buried under enough cumulative work, rewriting history becomes absurdly costly.
- The result is cryptographically enforced, immutable chronological ordering.
This is sufficient for high-stakes applications: secure command-and-control, uncensorable value transfer, or any messaging where trust in the record matters.
**Important clarification**: Bitcoin does *not* blanket the entire internet and make every bit of data impregnable for everyone forever. It secures *your* channels. Other players can (and will) run their own networks, protocols, and comms. Bitcoin doesn’t confiscate cyberspace — it simply gives anyone who opts in a new, energy-backed enforcement layer.
## Permissionless Asymmetry: Energy Is the New Battlefield
Here’s where it gets strategically interesting. Bitcoin mining is radically permissionless. The “economic entities of hashrate” can be as small as a handful of people who control energy sources.
You don’t need a central authority’s blessing. You need electrons and silicon.
This creates healthy asymmetry:
- Small, energy-smart groups (or even individual households) can participate meaningfully.
- You don’t need planet-scale energy to defend *your own* channel — just enough to keep your timestamped data credible.
The foundation is energy itself. Those who control energy control the ability to secure channels in cyberspace.
## The Heatpunk Movement: Decentralization You Can Feel
One of the most exciting developments right now is the **heatpunk** (or “hashrate heatpunk”) movement.
People are installing miners in homes, garages, and small businesses specifically to capture waste heat for:
- Space heating
- Water heating
- Greenhouses
- Other practical uses
Devices like Heatbit, custom immersion setups, and retrofitted ASIC heaters are turning “waste” heat into a feature that actually subsidizes electricity costs.
**Why this matters for the network**:
- Electricity bill offset → home mining becomes economically viable again.
- Nodes + hashrate literally in every house → massive geographic and political decentralization.
- More participants securing the ledger with their own energy → dramatically harder for any single actor (state or otherwise) to dominate or censor.
This bottom-up, energy-based resilience is exactly what makes Bitcoin’s permissionless security model antifragile at global scale.
## Tying It All Together
Bitcoin/softwar isn’t the one ring to rule all of cyberspace.
It’s a protocol that lets *you* raise and project electro-cyber forces to protect your own bits of information (financial or otherwise) by making attacks expensive in real energy.
It’s permissionless enough that small, energy-smart groups can participate meaningfully. Movements like the heatpunks make that participation not only possible but economically attractive.
That’s why it feels like such a clean fit for military-grade secure channels — without pretending it’s some totalizing shield.
---
**What’s next?**
If you’re running a node, experimenting with home mining, or thinking about how Bitcoin changes power projection in the 21st century, drop your thoughts below. The heatpunk wave is just getting started — and the more of us turning waste heat into hashrate, the stronger the network becomes.
*Stay sovereign.*

2026-04-21 19:31:47 UTC

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LN specifically avoids the chain to defer PoW. LN channels just exchanging signed state updates.
You can just use ssh keys to have signed state agreement.

2026-04-21 02:18:39 UTC

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Time to redeem it.

2026-04-19 13:20:55 UTC

GM. enjoy the Lord's day

2026-04-19 02:02:37 UTC

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Nope! Pass.

2026-04-19 00:32:37 UTC

Rolled a spliff with pipe tobacco.
AMA #AMA

2026-04-18 01:39:28 UTC

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Yes many times

2026-04-17 16:02:03 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/69e91f9b3b90f9677848f6d7c855a995b07902c31e8babf9e466de1c3a1b940f.jpg

2026-04-16 20:31:14 UTC

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Yes

2026-04-16 20:26:25 UTC

Neighbor. My age. Rushed to ER for possible stroke. Ticking timer for jabbed up now?

2026-04-15 15:07:05 UTC

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Oh. Maybe!

2026-04-15 15:03:29 UTC

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Who is "self" for Strategy?

2026-04-15 14:33:52 UTC

Strategy Director of Bitcoin Security role opened.
Interesting job posting and curious where they're headed with it. Just check boxes for existing standards or development of new Bitcoin specific standards?

2026-04-15 12:54:03 UTC

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Life is surreal and you're a gift from God. The breath in your lungs is His spirit.
Your local church might have a support group. Or just pick up the Bible and start with the Gospel.
So happy you're through the worst of it. May your day be above average.

2026-04-15 12:32:57 UTC

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Mobile phones are cucked because they needed a way to extract money (bill customers) so the architecture is designed for tracking you through the system. As tech improved, this tracking improved and now is the basis for the panopticon.
You can't find mobile radio chips that aren't gated behind some corpo/govt wall. The baseband chips are locked down because wireless comms are a superpower.
https://fountain.fm/episode/rXDU5rSOw0JYjwNDwMnr
#nevent1q…35ye

2026-04-14 19:20:09 UTC

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No. What is it?

2026-04-10 01:54:11 UTC

Proof of hole.
https://blossom.primal.net/5622dd693c403b22863e99deee2acdfb0f7448e83e69f33cfe73c0fa73bf788d.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/b9d261196d2e8319adba3cb2175ab244449c87ba6639c6ea13f33534a19578f7.jpg

2026-04-10 01:23:02 UTC

Syncthing makes personal cloud very real. I tag a folder and the magic goes to my cloud.

2026-04-09 09:52:32 UTC

GM.

2026-04-07 15:21:01 UTC

Thoughts on treated lumber with direct contact to dirt for raised bed?
https://blossom.primal.net/3b4d260bdea29a25799280803de9d14002854dacb2a5ee523b10734c3faf7672.jpg

2026-04-06 13:52:44 UTC

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I've considered a WoT for a more public relay. But I don't want it for frenz and fam relay.

2026-04-06 11:29:37 UTC

GM
Planning to spin up nostr infra this week. Shill me your favorite setup. #asknostr
Which relay stack has the best admin UX? Will be whitelisting npubs. Thinking pyramid or zooid but open to running three.

2026-04-04 16:33:36 UTC

Bindging @nprofile…xu5w is an upper

2026-04-04 10:33:56 UTC

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It's going to be 68k forever

2026-04-04 10:20:04 UTC

GM.
58k gang was off by 1 in the tens column.

2026-04-03 20:35:02 UTC

How're your trades?
https://blossom.primal.net/f96ef7f7f6c3487afdef44cc01a35827587921f90d1ea988605569273405a2ce.jpg

2026-04-03 00:31:40 UTC

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How's it going?

2026-04-02 19:38:25 UTC

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Pixel 10 is latest supported device

2026-04-02 19:22:09 UTC

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Happy to source, flash and ship you one for sats. What pixel did you want?

2026-04-02 19:20:48 UTC

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You want pre-flashed?

2026-04-02 13:01:24 UTC

Any good bloomberg paywall remover?

2026-04-02 00:44:45 UTC

Joke fbi take down now removed. I got got.
#nevent1q…83a4

2026-04-01 20:51:53 UTC

https://joinstr.xyz
Well fuck

2026-04-01 13:00:28 UTC

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Regards sent.
"master yodl forgive my absence" is the reply

2026-03-31 21:09:03 UTC

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He is OK. Had some cyber things to clean up

2026-03-31 09:51:01 UTC

GM.
The QC FUD is ratcheting up.
Don't get shook.

2026-03-31 01:28:47 UTC

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getting bored of the same pokemon over and over again
#nevent1q…u72l

2026-03-29 21:30:18 UTC

Uh. Where's the Quartz code? @nprofile…2lxp

2026-03-29 21:12:59 UTC

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Yes

2026-03-29 21:02:57 UTC

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Welcome

2026-03-29 20:36:11 UTC

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Nice. Will check it out. Thnx.

2026-03-29 20:35:33 UTC

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Hm. Not quite my thought. I mainly just want accountability for who added the bots or whomever is posting illegal content.
Having one admin to start makes sense. And a group for using the ban hammer. But ultimately, just want accountability.

2026-03-29 13:49:32 UTC

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Is the whitelisting action tied to the inviter?

2026-03-29 13:47:06 UTC

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Eh. Not interested in forking nostr.

2026-03-29 13:10:10 UTC

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Zooid relay?

2026-03-29 13:01:58 UTC

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I was imagining an onboarding where it tracked who onboarded who for accountability purposes. Then when bots show up, you can know who dunnit

2026-03-29 13:00:45 UTC

Amber doesn't let me use localhost (Citrine) as a bunker relay. 🤔
It switches it back to relay.nsec.app

2026-03-29 12:38:30 UTC

Did we figure out communities on nostr yet?
I imagine a dedicated app and site with a dedicated relay and blossom server. Tightly coupled. Like the jumble client but only one relay. User doesn't have to think about it.
Shipping the iOS would probably be the most difficult.

2026-03-29 02:32:17 UTC

my local county supe tried to dunk on me about tech. Here's my essay I wrote him in reply to "Your node doesn’t connect to the web ? Your phone doesn’t connect to the web? "
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Excellent point! Many people didn't have electricity or AC before it came out. Many many years later the technology got to a point where it was widely usable by everyone. We're seeing a similar trajectory with the "web".
The "web" is a very nascent technology. Older than me but likely younger than you. It began with large mainframes using telephone lines to transmit data bit by bit. It gradually grew over time as more people connected to the "web". Each new connection added nodes and eventually there became a need to route between the nodes, similar to how mail works. You can exchange packets between nodes and have multiple "hops" along the way to your destination. We developed algorithms for routing this information in a way that was resilient and also fast. We made routing information human readable so we don't need to remember numbers. This allowed individuals and companies the ability have things like gary.com be easy for browsing the web by humans.
As the web built itself out, companies would run their own computer servers and join the ever growing web. But the hardware required specialized labor and cost to maintain. Entire departments of companies were dedicated to infrastructure of any "web" presence. Since it's economically rational for companies to focus on making money, they often outsource things they don't specialize in. Enter the "cloud" (which is just someone else's computer). Cloud pioneers saw that there was profit to be made by removing the burden of running "web" infrastructure for other businesses and people. This birthed AWS and many other cloud providers. They specialized in "web" and sold their services (infra as a service, platform as a service, software as a service) to businesses and people who didn't want to deal with hard drives and software engineers. This lead to hyper-commoditization of hardware. Cloud providers made it easier and cheaper to just replace instead of repair, all the while collecting MASSIVE profit margins. Once software is written and running, it can be sold over and over again.
Now this is where it gets interesting, throughout all of this time, there was very large time investment to get software off the ground. Custom shops like Microsoft had built a huge moat around this. But information wants to be free and open source projects won out against proprietary software. This is why Linux runs the web and not Microsoft Server. When engineers from around the world work on open source software projects, everyone can benefit. The cost (time and otherwise) can be distributed. There's no reason to build it in house, if there's a free version that works just the same or better. This is a big reason why cloud providers are able to make boatloads of money.
Now we're at the point where we have commoditized hardware that is relatively fast and abundant. And we have software that is freely available and supported by enthusiasts and professionals alike. This means you can become your own cloud. You can take a modern (or even last 5 years) laptop or computer and run appropriate software that allows you to connect directly to your peers. You're correct in understanding that this post is on some data center, but that's because Facebook offers it for free so they can capture and sell all of our data. We are the product here. But I often use technology that avoids centralized servers and don't require data centers. if I can't run it myself, I can connect directly to my friends devices that can run it for me. This connection does not route through a data center.
Now enter AI. And that intense cost for software is plummeting. Anyone can use plain language to get desired outcomes. It's been clunky and weird and required big robust compute to run, but recent advances are making it so AI can run on consumer devices just as easily as they run in a data center (see https://research.google/.../turboquant-redefining-ai.../ for a recent example). The open source AI models can and will be run by anyone with a desire to run them and they'll be wielded to great effect. The "web" is forever changed by AI and our technological future is bright, but first we will suffer some growing pains, as any nascent technology does (remember email scams from Nigerian princes?).
Now that we're caught up on history, back to your original question: Your node doesn't connect to the web?
It does! It just doesn't connect to a data center, it connects to other nodes, some of which I know personally the owner. There is networking gear that lives outside of data centers that all devices use, whether they are in a data center or not. It's not a one way street to Ashburn and then elsewhere. There are switches and routers at various levels of the networking stack scattered throughout the world that provide just networking for the "web". And any computer (in a data center or not) has long used these networking routes just fine without a man-in-the-middle data center.
The internet started with massive computers but I don't see it ending with massive computers (data centers). Compute and storage will only get smaller, cheaper, faster with time and networking infrastructure will continue to be developed between entities and locales without needing a central checkpoint. (my friends deployed off-grid radios in Western NC during Helene relief efforts). Sure, we will have us-east-1 in Ashburn still, but the necessity for dense compute is dwindling. There will still be use for it, but most people that aren't trying to crack the matrix will suffice with off the shelf hardware running a local AI that drives a personalized computing experience.
(for a concrete example of a project that enables peer2peer connections, you can see: https://www.iroh.computer/ as an example)
Thanks for being curious <supervisor name>! hit me with more questions if you have them.

2026-03-28 17:19:55 UTC

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1984

2026-03-27 11:11:12 UTC

GM.
#nevent1q…vj7r

2026-03-27 01:18:31 UTC

https://bitprintsolutions.com/collections/virginia-freedom-tech
https://blossom.primal.net/3bc147e9b38aafb4cdb9b811eb274217041e50dc7c4d2f5ac2b887b0eeea9faf.png

2026-03-27 01:02:41 UTC

wen year of Jubilee?

2026-03-26 15:52:02 UTC

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Yes.

2026-03-26 13:40:00 UTC

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Absolutely. Anything I'm pedaling is not worth the sats.

2026-03-26 13:13:59 UTC

Reminder.
Everyone's a Scammer
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/everyones-a-scammer/

2026-03-26 12:25:44 UTC

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GM to all the threat actors. Inside and out.

2026-03-26 02:25:09 UTC

I have a limited need for a payments gateway due to low volume. I was using Zaprite. My subscription is up in May. I canceled because they started to implement a % per tx fee. It was called "incentive alignment" but I see it as rent seeking. Opinions may differ. Bootstrapping businesses is hard.
Anyway, was clanking tonight a waterfall document for how one could make a simple checkout doable. I think it can be done using a lightweight daemon that just sits on your probably already always on computer. Or your Start9 or Umbrel. The daemon would be a nostr bot that chats via marmot directly with the customer to manage their cart and payments. The API keys for your preferred payment (mine are Square and Strike (yes, I know I should self-host, fuck off)) sit on the device you're running it on so there's some mitigated security concern. The messaging between the daemon and customer is well structured following a protocol so there's hopefully not a lot of ambiguity.
it's just an idea at this point but you can explore it here: https://github.com/EthnTuttle/purser
no guarantees that i actually make it happen but it seems doable.
GN nostr.

2026-03-26 00:04:34 UTC

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@nprofile…56d8

2026-03-26 00:04:22 UTC

It's a beautiful evening to be alive.
https://blossom.primal.net/5d5f9f5ad0821ccb0be23f2b24d9c68874a92dee42dd15c1d5eac793b36c7d9f.jpg

2026-03-25 14:17:38 UTC

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2026-03-25 14:12:05 UTC

LMAO.
https://blossom.primal.net/00092053971f6d9e850146e6b643d8e8fe5f40c5a5d46fb0023b184e045029c4.jpg
#nevent1q…34av

2026-03-24 14:10:37 UTC

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Who will they pay is the better question?

2026-03-23 17:01:18 UTC

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The real question is who will do the dev and what is their competancy?

2026-03-23 16:57:10 UTC

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Self denial seems a better pursuit. Just not maxxing it.

2026-03-23 16:50:38 UTC

Did I do this right?
https://blossom.primal.net/e4255cbc2a82d1d8a7501fdbb4b1299ff0646a21ae66a63e4bfef0b30ab502ff.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/79752aeb0406d932240b11cc780b012923958deb906a7d655d910ab37fa9089a.jpg

2026-03-23 15:53:28 UTC

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🙌🏻🙏🏻🤝🏻

2026-03-23 14:52:32 UTC

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Pleasure is probably the wrong thing to pursue. Methinks.

2026-03-23 14:52:04 UTC

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You're allowed books on private jets.

2026-03-23 12:50:26 UTC

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@npub1guh…6hjy
For your cross country flights. Consider a physical book instead of doom scrolling.
https://fountain.fm/episode/nAZo4GE8WFjdxtoql31R
#nevent1q…eqpa

2026-03-23 12:47:10 UTC

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How define "good"?

2026-03-23 00:19:28 UTC

Maybe the easiest way to reduce empire spend on bases overseas was to have another nation blow them up. 🤷🏻‍♂️

2026-03-22 23:44:42 UTC

is oil the new weimar gold?

2026-03-22 02:10:11 UTC

everyone is a dev now and i'm so fucking here for it
like all the times people were like "you're a dev, can you build me X?" and I would have loved to but it was so slow and tedious to do. And now, competent people with agency are just shipping and it's so beautiful

2026-03-22 02:08:09 UTC

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Heard that a lot in the Navy...

2026-03-22 02:02:01 UTC

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ordered one

2026-03-22 01:57:18 UTC

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#hashfag 🤣

2026-03-22 01:36:43 UTC

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Did you try calling him gay and retarded to change his mind?

2026-03-22 01:32:25 UTC

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Run for local office. Sheriff probably best.

2026-03-22 01:16:13 UTC

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@nprofile…ngef
new product idea.

2026-03-22 00:37:47 UTC

in my journey closer to Christ, I have found more questions than answers and I find it exhilarating.

2026-03-21 19:07:05 UTC

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Glad to see NIP05 being used as one facet.

2026-03-20 15:06:56 UTC

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So data blobs over nostr or used for connection establishment. Seems nostr is ideal for discovery and peering by there are other protocols more ideal for data sharing.

2026-03-20 13:38:25 UTC

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Blossom?

2026-03-20 13:20:18 UTC

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How do?

2026-03-20 13:20:09 UTC

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Credit to wife for the name

2026-03-20 11:27:03 UTC

Where does your value flow?
You generate value in your job (assumedly).
Then you pay bills.
Where does that value go?
How do we ensure this value stays local?
How do we ensure the value flows to those whose value align with yours?
How do we end monetary slavery?

2026-03-20 00:15:42 UTC

Any bitcoiners that want to pursue or expand cannabis into Virginia?
#ApotheGary #asknostr

2026-03-19 20:15:00 UTC

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This was my biggest theological point that convinced me Catholicism isn't the way.

2026-03-19 13:39:43 UTC

Darth
#nevent1q…cgrt

2026-03-19 13:17:00 UTC

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No idea on those. Would have to reach out. Cab you see the phone number?

2026-03-18 23:46:37 UTC

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@nprofile…dgdk @nprofile…man7 @nprofile…000c @nprofile…72gh @nprofile…jdfe @nprofile…tpxn

2026-03-18 23:45:09 UTC

What is the biblical perspective of politics? Or more broadly, power games in general? Christ wasn't a conqueror so what does that mean for apprenticing under him? I know there is Romans 13 about submitting to the wirldly authorities but that mean it is un-Godly to pursue an office of authority over others?
Along similar lines, are we called to be leaders? In what capacity?
#asknostr

2026-03-18 23:44:36 UTC

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Gotta have jobs for the crazies. Why not cremation?

2026-03-18 18:18:26 UTC

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In what way?

2026-03-18 18:18:00 UTC

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Idk but all brick so strong foundation?

2026-03-18 17:37:50 UTC

Anyone want to buy a former asylum?
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2026-03-18 17:09:09 UTC

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This is what building exit liquidity looks like.
#nevent1q…artu