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https://bitcoinapolis.blogspot.com/

Mostly Bitcoin Only. My stuff is TLDR on purpose so you can pick/choose what you want.
Bitcoin Store of Value first but then MoE, least friction.
Open Source is King.
Filters are not Censorship.
Bitcoin is Time (Gigi). Timechain. Ocean. Bitcoin Knots.
I am a 35 year BI Developer using a competing product of Microstrategy but now am a MSTR /Saylor supporter.
Non-Partisan.
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2026-03-10 18:50:23 UTC

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Crap, I think I friendly fired you...the threads are unclear in the notifications.

2026-03-05 12:04:57 UTC

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If you still support Core, you are a BINO and no different than an altcoiner. Especially you influencers, you will lose your audience and not recover. I am not stoked with BIP-110 but it's better and a solution rather than following the terrible default Bitcoin Core. Terrible communicators, coders, vision, execution, people. The opposite of Satoshi.
Look at all the people who support Knots over Core, the best of the best, including Szabo and Booth.
We fight.
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2025-09-27 12:59:03 UTC

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You did your time, we taxpayers paid for it all. How about the rest of your life try not to sue or be sued and stay out of court? That is a goal of mine. Been sued once but my part still intact.

2025-08-14 22:06:54 UTC

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Love those trees. Only word with all the vowels. (At least what I was taught pre-AI)

2025-08-13 17:57:22 UTC

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You are a fun guy

2025-08-01 10:38:33 UTC

I really hope Trump's veiled threat to Putin doesn't end on TACO Tuesday. Praying for peace for dear family and friends in Ukraine.

2025-06-26 01:26:21 UTC

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Really slick. Even just to store Notes. Rather than message myself. Thank you

2025-06-13 12:06:46 UTC

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Great parents produce great children. Love that he was a surgeon. You are a Financial Surgeon cutting out the cancer and knowing the cure.

2025-06-05 04:31:20 UTC

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I was too lazy to debug this. Thank you. It’s been months for me. Frustrating but that’s new tech/small co.

2025-05-21 12:30:15 UTC

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Thanks for the follow, Elon. So cool it's really, really you. 🤓

2025-05-19 23:47:38 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/5eef02a295cc5bfb8df406d342e87c52b847b356246ebc4b4ca3d92c389f25ae.png

2025-05-17 17:34:50 UTC

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Why did I start singing “Whoa Black Betty” but replaced it with “Whoa-old Jack Mallers”?
Bitcoin rewires your brain.

2025-05-08 22:37:00 UTC

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2025-05-02 21:10:10 UTC

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This profile picture is of our dog, Odesa, named after that awesome city where we got our daughter in at Orphanage #1. Amazing City. Amazing People. Peace.

2025-05-02 12:03:17 UTC

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It may be hard to release those files if you are one the guys who was there taking part in it all. Agree on the Fraud...Hitlary made me laugh.

2025-05-02 11:17:32 UTC

Tariffs, Greenland, Gulf of America, Canals, Mount Rushmore, 3rd Term...what crazy box is left to be checked?
https://blossom.primal.net/adcb0a17c5b7ddc95ab4232708da419684b02c909da5a5b1ffc581b42cb112e9.png

2025-05-01 00:11:58 UTC

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Perhaps they work for the Department of Redundancy Department?

2025-04-24 05:00:12 UTC

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😔

2025-04-18 14:03:00 UTC

Don't you just love FIAT world with Amazon, Google snooping on you all the time and then placing ads that are perfect for you?
Get this, I looked into renting a mini-excavator and now I have ads to buy one for less money than it is to rent for a week DIY project. One small catch, to get the price I need to order 20 of them. Who is with me?
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2025-04-14 13:00:37 UTC

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I was only on Reddit talking about Russia/Ukraine war, it was intense. No big deal. But as soon as I went after the mods (from India) asking if India was parasitical in everything they did, did I get my lifetime ban. Three years and counting.
Good Riddance Reddit. Not missed.

2025-03-28 13:42:19 UTC

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59 year old, first year Gen-X here, coder, but to your point, I could learn a ton about soap and still understand Bitcoin. Less than 10% of my followers are in my age group. It is incorrect to think Age is a factor in understanding Bitocin and FIAT/Mortgages, our careers were brutal too.
One of my best buds, is 78, computer illiterate, painter, lives in the pucker brush in NW WI and is a whole coiner.

2025-03-23 15:39:42 UTC

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$TRUMP coin compared to Bitcoin is like going into Pubkey and ordering a round of 'crypto' burgers for everyone and not expecting any backlash.
Translation: No Bitcoiner would do that https://m.primal.net/PqRA.png

2025-03-19 14:46:13 UTC

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Some of the best mashed potatoes I have ever had were in Ukraine. I remember the Ukrainians using 'Yellow' Potatoes (in America, I have been using the popular "Yukon Gold" but they may not be the same thing.) Also, I remember them whisking in an egg or two before the final whipping.
Thanks for this recipe, saving it. SO GOOD

2025-03-10 13:05:46 UTC

Just remember, Musk wants to turn X into a bank and I bet he goes out of his way to not use Bitcoin because Bitcoiners have been mean to him in the past. BTW it wasn't his idea to put Bitcoin on the SpaceX and Tesla balance sheets.
Musk is vengeful. He wants to punish ChatGPT and PayPal and anyone who has wronged him.
Bitcoiners should do a full court Press on the DOGE Father.
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2025-03-10 12:31:12 UTC

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That's awesome, I see how some people, close to retirement age are buying the new trucks and it adds 5 more years of work just for that truck.
It's like drug addicts without the drugs but just as bad.
I only bought one new car in my life, 1987, right out of college, Chevy Beretta. Cool to drive but SO DUMB financially.
Early on in my career a woman I worked with gave me a copy of a book entitled "Your Money or Your Life."
It made so much sense way back then and just recently I found out that book was the start of the FIRE movement. So I am an early adopter.
If that book was the start of the FIRE movement, Bitcoin is the start of the NUCLEAR-BOMB-TO-THE-CURRENT-FIAT-SYSTEMS-WORLDWIDE.

2025-03-09 21:34:12 UTC

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Thanks my man. I had no chance at 45. Bitcoin is life changing. You never hear “I have enough” no matter your wealth. You do. I am paying $18,000 a year in Healthcare. Zero complaints but I drive a crappy 2007 Honda Ridgeline and I am still stacking. Life is good. You can do it.

2025-03-09 21:09:25 UTC

Today marks 3 years since I told my FIAT job to SHOVE IT. I am below retirement age and the Rule of 55 and Bitcoin saved me.
Hang in there people in cubicle world, with your seemingly soul sucking existence. The Meetings. The Office Politics. Cost of Living adjustments that don't even come close to helping. Coworkers who do nothing but kiss butt and get promoted. Let me know if you need some comic relief, tell me about your situation and try me and I am not an AI bot. I saw it all and made sarcastic comments for 35 years. https://m.primal.net/PaCI.png

2025-03-09 03:54:43 UTC

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Got it. Thanks Dr. J. Fellow Minnesotan here. Sorry about your dad.

2025-03-08 22:45:28 UTC

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Different guy?
https://theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/jeff-ross-2025

2025-03-08 12:55:30 UTC

This post for all the data nerds out there: https://m.primal.net/PYJv.png

2025-03-07 19:01:56 UTC

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I love her and then I saw this and I almost died, she's so damn cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A0iftflme4

2025-03-05 19:28:07 UTC

One of my best buddies called me a "homo" and sent me this: https://m.primal.net/PUwW.png

2025-03-05 11:56:15 UTC

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Outstanding, you have really, really become quite the force, from "whatever boomers" to "whatever your age is dipshits"
Brilliant, Jack.

2025-03-04 12:35:00 UTC

How Bitcoiners are forced to live online and IRL amongst the 30,000,000 shitcoins.
https://m.primal.net/PTUm.gif

2025-03-03 23:18:34 UTC

I am laughing almost 24 hours later, last night, billions of people were watching the Academy Awards and at one point to introduce Amy Poehler the announcer pronounced it, "Amy PO-ELLER" clearly wrong.
It turned out it was Nick Offerman, Amy and Nick have worked for years together and he did it on purpose.
Awesome, she is going to rewatch it and go, "Really? Really Nick?"
Classic good humor.

2025-03-03 14:13:19 UTC

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Smokescreen for him, keep the eyes off of $TRUMP so he can plead ignorance by showing it to the entire world.
Planned.
Why? He made the most money of his life the day before inauguration, no tennis shoes, bibles made in China, steaks well done with ketchup, NFTs right out of Idiocracy, just cold/hard cash deposited in his bank accounts in less than 24 hours.
SWEET.

2025-03-03 14:00:32 UTC

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2025-03-01 12:01:56 UTC

Is it just me or does weather.com totally suck on it's load time. No matter what computer I am on with a WiFi connection of 1Gig/Sec it is SO SLOW.
Literally for 20 years, I used to think it was because so much bad weather is happening but it can be blue sky around the globe and it's freakin' slow.
Just me?

2025-03-01 11:37:35 UTC

My entire life I have loved British humor:
https://m.primal.net/PPnN.png
Thank you Britain for making us laugh on the other side of the pond. Our world desperately needs more humor, it's free and open sourced to share with all.
LAUGHING is good for the soul in a ridiculously serious world, online and offline.
p.s. Bitcoin isn't funny enough

2025-02-28 13:32:09 UTC

Bitcoin: "I am doing just fine"
"Now I understand, everyone's sh*t is emotional right now." - President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
To me, it's always been Bitcoin is logical in an illogical world.
Bitcoin is math in a human all emotional world. You can't get upset at addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division or numbers strung together but you can get upset at language, any language, via words strung together.
Try to logically think through this.
Nothing is making sense. Governments (e.g. the USA) print dollars/value gold out of thin air.
We may or may not have any gold in Fort Knox, someone may or may not have stolen the 200K Bitcoin that was the basis for Trump's speeches on Bitcoin. Meaning he would keep it but 'starting from scratch' wasn't on his "Art of the Deal" Buzzword Bingo Card.
The problem isn't with Bitcoin, once again it is with 'We the people.'
Just like it was with FTX. Before FTX I told myself, "I am not going to be greedy, I am done stacking sats." Then FTX, I then doubled what I had. In early November 2024, I told myself, "I am not going to be greedy, I am done stacking sats."
Since November:
- We had the President, Commander in Chief of the the United States of America, launch a Memecoin called $TRUMP, alongside his wife's version called $MELANIA. They are both garbage. (translate as you must, it's all emotion and it's HUGE business.)
- His second in command, Musk, loves a memecoin called $DOGE , even tongue in cheek named his department after it. It's garbage.
- The guy his second in command admires, Javier Milei, Argentina's supposed Bitcoiner who was in a viral video showing how he'd dismantle all the government agencies if elected by pulling them off a whiteboard. In public he wielded a chainsaw. Milei goes on to give Musk a chainsaw. Connect the dots. Then Milei goes and launches a meme/scam coin called $LIBRA (garbage) via the same people who for sure launched $MELANIA and it will come out it was $TRUMP too.
- Then the armpit of the world, North Korea, hacks Dubai and steals $1.4B of Ethereum (garbage). And Ethereum apparently rolled it back, so ridiculous.
How can Bitcoin (logic based) make it in such an illogical world with scammer polticians from the United States Memecoin President to Argentina's Memecoin President?
"Crypto" has an image problem and rightfully so, but Bitcoin does not, but the Crypto scammers have funded the politicians.
You can't fault people for being confused and throwing Bitcoin into the garbage.
Bitcoin is totally superior to the 21,000,000 other alt/memecoins, and we have a massive problem with 160 currencies around the world. Starting with the US Dollar being "the best looking horse in the glue factory."
Like it always has been, after FTX, all the other drama, it's all emotion and illogical but guess what, like a few years back, I am now not done stacking Bitcoin. Putting some real estate up this time. It is going to take me longer but this is all nonsense.
Today, I thought I was done but: "I am going to be greedy, I am not done stacking sats." This is for the next generation, hopefully in 500 years we are not getting dumber as a society and turning into "Idiocracy."
For now, I am simply, "Not Sure."
Logic and Bitcoin will prevail.
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2025-02-27 00:29:05 UTC

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Sadly, you take out the strings if people take the time to start the videos at say 5 minutes in or =300

2025-02-26 14:29:19 UTC

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I understand, reputable hospitals don't do that but the bad ones like you say charge $30 a band-aid.
What I don't get is, people spend most of their lives trying to find a trusty mechanic when their cars break down but when it is their body, they go to the closest strip mall or hospital.
I am SUPER happy to pay, completely out of pocket $1500 a month but I do drive a 2007 Truck with 230,000 miles on it and rusty and the other car has dents.
Also, I paid 6 figures when my wife was sick, a ton of bills, but she's alive, best care.
You have to prioritize but to your point, be smart.

2025-02-26 13:00:33 UTC

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I am very familiar with the Healthcare system but as an advocate and BI guy. There are codes out there called DRG codes that do exactly this, have been in place for decades:
Grok:
"DRG Codes:
or Diagnosis-Related Group codes, are a system used in healthcare to classify hospital cases into groups based on similar diagnoses, treatments, and resource use. They’re primarily used for billing and reimbursement purposes, especially in the U.S. under Medicare. Each DRG code represents a category of patient conditions—like, say, pneumonia or hip replacement—and helps determine how much a hospital gets paid based on the expected cost of care. The idea is to standardize payments and encourage efficiency."

2025-02-25 21:45:13 UTC

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I rest my case, this guy is a F**** loser, Fake Hodlonaut, probably CSW: https://m.primal.net/PLOa.png

2025-02-23 22:25:19 UTC

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OH NO...misfire, you were on X the other day saying you were not going to be on it much and how you never DM people. Then I get this and I think I blasted you the REAL DEAL.
Total honor if you messaged me on here, big fan as you know. Every one of these has been garbage yet, this was you?
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2025-02-23 16:54:39 UTC

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Point taken. I do hope Bitcoin will make wars harder to fight if Bitcoin has all the gunpowder and Bitcoin-to-Date the majority https://m.primal.net/PISC.jpg is still made up of individuals.

2025-02-23 13:58:05 UTC

Lavrov has said since almost day one "Russia didn't invade Ukraine" but called it their "Special Operation." How can the US buy in to this BS going on, don't give in to Lavrov, Don Don, or Putin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjWkfCSF52g

2025-02-23 03:28:03 UTC

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I lost interest and moved on

2025-02-22 20:40:29 UTC

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Like the Debt Clock, is there a real time clock showing the debasement of this cash? Perhaps before the next big print.

2025-02-22 13:31:14 UTC

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Because this idiot shilled me a scam in my messages? Hodlonaut doesn't do that.
Your move.

2025-02-20 17:59:27 UTC

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Totally understand and that is where we need the most education on adoption. Americans are way ahead on SOV. We need the rest, especially Africa to get in now, BTC is way better than their currency and to me, one of my favorite "use cases" was for the unbanked and underbanked. And I love seeing people using Bitcoin on Flip phones with the Internet.

2025-02-20 14:22:13 UTC

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Exactly, Saylor has explained the 'Friction' on this a million times. The problem is, right now it is a taxable event. I mean, Saylor had to pay $40M because he couldn't prove he lived 180 days in two different places he owned inside America in one year.
You think he'll be 'zapping fat sats' when so many hate him and some jackass accountant to get his claim to fame will say Saylor owes .00000023 cents of Taxes and give it to the NYT for another lawsuit?
Also, that $7.75 cup of coffee you proudly took videos of buying 4 years ago in ES is now $28 but if you would have used one of the 160 shitty FIAT currencies that same amount would buy you about 1/4 of that same coffee.
Too early to spend, make the tax laws at least understandable?
I tried to do a deep dive on all the main issues here, no traction but it's actually good 'data' if you want to cut/paste stuff: https://bitcoinapolis.blogspot.com/

2025-02-20 00:34:22 UTC

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This is not THE Hodlonaut, imposter Loser.

2025-02-18 12:30:20 UTC

Today in Minnneapolis:
The Big Chill and The Big Print.
Thanks for bringing the heat @nprofile…h4hk
https://m.primal.net/PBZe.jpg
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2025-02-15 14:01:14 UTC

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2025-02-15 13:59:58 UTC

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From Mr. Serena Williams:
https://www.inc.com/serhat-pala/alexis-ohanian-says-hustle-porn-is-most-dangerous-trend-in-silicon-valley-heres-how-to-eradicate-it.html

2025-02-14 18:50:05 UTC

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https://m.primal.net/OgIM.png

2025-02-13 18:50:54 UTC

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Exactly what I am doing, but I do have the instructions to setup Bitaxe to point to Ocean/DATUM and apparently the hardest part of that was setting up Bitcoin Knots. I pinned to X how ridiculously easy that Bitcoin Knots process actually was, literally 3 clicks and about 2 days of waiting. I smoke a lot of meat, it was so easy.

2025-02-13 14:00:40 UTC

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Yeah, sorting out personality versus vision/functionality is tough for sure. Building your own templates and having too few of the pools being way too centralized is a problem. I think Ocean is 1% , again, I am a hack on this stuff since the Bitcoin is many rabbit holes, not just one.

2025-02-12 21:21:41 UTC

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Many people think Bitcoin Core is compromised, I don't know the technical details comparing them both other than the human side. I do know I am with the Ocean/DATUM, Bitcoin Knots, FixtheFilters side of the world . To me Bitcoin's Timechain should not be filled with Dick Butts but sadly I am in the minority.
Spent my entire career in BI where I wrote most of my code around GIGO because people didn't care about the data until you send them the garbage in their CSV or Excel files and it screwed up their Macros or charts. (...and they would call me regardless so I just coded around it all. Some in Bitcoin Core call that censorship though? Makes no sense to me.)

2025-02-11 22:25:43 UTC

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https://m.primal.net/Obdl.png

2025-02-11 22:24:11 UTC

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Future: All the crops are dying using the liquid from the Gulf of Brawndo

2025-02-09 21:57:13 UTC

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I’d happily listen.

2025-02-08 23:03:21 UTC

Request. Good dry rub recipe for Chicken Wings for the Super Bowl tomorrow.
I love dry rubs but all the ones I love are “secret” and the Internet continues to fail me.
NOSTR?

2025-02-07 22:33:54 UTC

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Why did my brain start singing this Iron Butterfly song? https://youtu.be/UIVe-rZBcm4?feature=shared

2025-02-07 22:29:39 UTC

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Exactly. I sum it up with two cartoons, one for each.
https://m.primal.net/HoJn.png https://m.primal.net/OVSV.png

2025-02-06 16:10:16 UTC

VanEck just updated my favorite Bitcoin chart and sent it to me.
Whoohooo... this is amazing. https://m.primal.net/OTOM.jpg

2025-01-31 23:41:56 UTC

Bitcoiners on NOSTR who understand:
1) How cool Open Source anything is
2) Know Bitcoin Knots is cooler than Bitcoin Core
3) Understand that Filters is not Censorship
...please follow me.

2025-01-27 00:19:11 UTC

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It’s

2025-01-26 17:08:47 UTC

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Thank you. I agree with this all. Jeff Booth. Mallers. Dorsey. You. Actually me. But corporations will take forever to adopt MoE. We can but it’s small. I am for it though. When will it be? I say 10 years. Are you more optimistic?

2025-01-23 13:13:09 UTC

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Another terrible Octogenarian idea. Can you guys just retire already? And before you get Plastic Surgery listen to this, you do, you "LOOK WEIRD":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznB7WP4P1o

2024-12-17 06:10:21 UTC

One thing holding me back on NOSTR is the search. I spent my entire career in data/reporting so I view all posts as database entries to go back and 'mine' words, Dorsey's, yours, and mine.
For instance, I painstakingly wrote up notes on Saylor explaining the 5 types of investors in Bitcoin. Going to the transcript, reformatting it, etc.
I remember it had Denier and Skeptic in it but I can't find it using any client search inside NOSTR or using "The Google."
For 2025, I would like to not renew my blue check on Twitter but it is impossible for me to be limited on my posts (TLDR) and some of us need the search.
I know, I know, everyone likes to think what they post today is earth shattering but I really, really like to go back to what has been said the past almost 16 years in Bitcoin and last almost 4(?) on NOSTR.
Huge Fan of NOSTR and I am patient as Hell. Some of us were around when the Internet was being built:
"404 Page Not Found - Site Under Construction"

2024-10-12 19:49:41 UTC

Sad to see this gem on Anna Maria Island is gone. Great vacation memories.
https://m.primal.net/LTtc.jpg

2024-10-12 16:33:09 UTC

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Laughter, yeah no, my dad told me early on, "never trust a guy with two first names."
It's applied every time in my life for decades.

2024-10-12 14:39:16 UTC

How is it possible to even begin to thank Satoshi for his gift to the world?
How would you measure the positive impact of Bitcoin? What metrics? What graphs could you show if you collected all the data points you need with the billions of rows of data ?
It's way more than a God Candle with Godzilla screeching and fire breathing as the NGU.
Bitcoin is a mind blowing, life altering, positive human battery charging , energized gift that helps with people's Physical, mental, and financial well being.
Human Being. On Earth.
p.s. - I didn't say Spiritual on purpose because that is stupid.
(Bitcoiners: some of the most opinionated MoFos on the planet.)

2024-10-11 13:26:58 UTC

"Unprecedented"
Disclaimer: BI Data Guy for 35 years in Corporate America (using a competing product to MSTR) and 27 year Cancer Patient advocate using my basic formula I learned in my profession: Data to Info to Knowledge to Power. (Our world is 'Data Rich, Information Poor') and I AM A HACK.
Begin of my TLDR:
The title is my least favorite overused word, in the world right now. Runner up is "journey."
We are so arrogant as a human species, just like we were 100 years ago when we thought we knew it all.
'Recorded history' is really about 150 years, that is such a small timeframe when the earth is 4.5 billion years old.
Now, with 200 channels and billions online vying for our attention, everything is 'unprecedented.'
The definition is: "Never done or known before."
Really? We used to use 1 in a 100 year storm, but Milton they are now saying 1 in a 1000 years. How did you get to a 1000? That is such a round number.
Yet, here we are, as arrogant as ever, where we think we wield more power than Mother Nature and somehow 'we' are causing all these disasters?
Seriously?
Oddly enough, to see how old the earth is, they use 'carbon dating' and experts say we have been through at least 5 ice ages.
Some say we are in an ice age right now since there is ice on the North and South poles, albeit melting at an 'unprecedented' pace.
Really?
How about when the sun cooled slightly 700 million years ago and Earth was covered in ice, which lasted 57 million years?
How about 7000 years ago there was no ice or glaciers at both poles?
I am no expert on Climate Change, but after working in Corporate America, I have zero confidence we humans could figure it out anyway. Why? Project Managers. There is no one solution to Climate Change, it is about 150,000 solutions with each one needed to be headed up by a human. A human, the same ones who have ruined our lives with wars and financial decay. Each project's outcome, if mismanaged, could do more HARM to our earth. Come on people, think of the faces of the PMs you have worked with at Corporate or the very best leaders you know?
But regardless, I know I am 60 percent water, I live in a dreadful climate (Minneapolis) 6 months out of the year where I know I am solar powered and need to go South for the sun/Vitamin D. I like warm versus cold.
I am stopping here without a dramatic click bait ending, but I just want all you 'experts' out there on both sides to 'consider' you don't have a clue on mostly everything you think you know as fact.
Admit you are a hack like me? Learn everyday. Embrace the chaos.
Not everyone is unprecedented or as big an influencer, maybe we humans as a collective whole are the least influential on what happens to Earth now and in the future?
https://m.primal.net/LSUx.png
p.s. Bitcoin is unique and unprecedented

2024-10-11 12:51:40 UTC

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Thanks for the laugh, inadvertently on the CSW part my brain filled in 'PATIENT' so either one fits great.

2024-10-08 13:05:06 UTC

In researching today's "Electric Money" journal articles I thought this was interesting. Maybe there needs to be a place to not censor articles an publications, anyone?
For instance:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2024&q=Electric+money&hl=en&as_sdt=0,24
https://m.primal.net/LOpA.png
But click on it and OOPS Iraq?
https://m.primal.net/LOpC.png

2024-10-07 11:20:20 UTC

Dave Ramsey still swinging and missing on Bitcoin, calling it gambling. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/mom-borrows-7-000-her-150020618.html

2024-10-04 13:03:57 UTC

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Bitcoin Subliminally telling you via Sugar Hill "Rapper's Delight" lyrics:
"You could rock 'til you're hundred and one years old. I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast. But we're like hot butter on breakfast toast. "

2024-10-04 12:19:06 UTC

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AI will help fuel our nightmares in the future. If you can dream it, we can put it on the big screen to help nourish your crippling insomnia.

2024-10-04 12:11:12 UTC

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*16 years in January 2025, that's amazing but then again it took Warren Buffett 36 years (from Apple IPO) to invest into the stock. Using the Buffet Model so many follow, that means we are only 20 years from mass adoption for the dinosaur TradFi community.
(In the meantime, MSTR is Berkshire-Hathaway 1965, not having the burden of having to pick the right stocks, it's just one thing.....and it isn't even a secret.)

2024-10-03 22:47:07 UTC

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Yeah. She had it all set and the last part of KYC was “utility bill with her name on it.” Odd

2024-10-03 15:44:30 UTC

American dock workers are afraid of losing their jobs to technology? You mean, like China using 5G and then AI to have the trucks automatically load shipping containers? https://www.instagram.com/theinsidedrop__/reel/DAkUdYMu56A/
The past is littered with jobs that 'went away' and hopefully Bitcoin takes out 1000s (and creates) of jobs.

2024-10-03 15:38:52 UTC

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Sorry my man, I was thinking you replied to another post and I didn't see the right threat. My bad.
I will look into it, so far, the only way it works for $4.95 a transfer (way better than the US Bank $55) is to use PayPal but get this, she had to reset up her PayPal while in France so then she could hook in her French Bank account.
Regardless, let me see if this works, the biggest problem is not getting her the money, it's getting the money so she can hook into her French FIAT bank. So far, Strike would have been perfect but she can't show 'her utility bill' because she is a poor starving college kid from America.

2024-10-03 13:39:13 UTC

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Nah, sorry to post something from X but it is one of my favorite graphics posted and every time you can see by Geography where the traffic is (i.e. not Asia) https://x.com/s256anon001/status/1839679330617626686

2024-09-30 12:31:57 UTC

Super Random: "The word Alphabet"
Today I learned this, "alphabet comes from the first two letters of the Greek Alphabet: Alpha and Beta"
https://m.primal.net/LGXw.png
But if you are a developer who has worked with crappy specs from crappy Business Analysts for decades, I say, Huh?
How would you code that?
The Greek words are ALPHA and BETA so isn't it the first 5 Letters of the Greek word for 'A' and the first 3 letters in the Greek word for 'B'?
This is the kind of stuff that keeps me awake at night, it works if you are using Hebrew but the definitions are using Greek?
What am I missing Business Analysts gathering coding requirements for the beloved customers?
https://m.primal.net/LGYC.webp

2024-09-27 11:18:55 UTC

I think it is hilarious "The Street" people are asking Saylor if he would put Ethereum on the Microstrategy Balance sheets.
Be at least aware of who 'founded' your company.
Founder:
"The Street" - James Cramer
"Bitcoin Magazine" - Vitalik Buterin
"Microstrategy" - Michael Saylor
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2024-09-26 14:29:01 UTC

I think in code, IF THEN ELSE.
IF <Bitcoin> EQ <for people> THEN....
- Why does the place on Earth with the most people not buy it?
- Why does "Bitcoin Magazine" host a "Bitcoin Asia" event full of Ordinals and Altcoins (listen to Jack Lee)
I am tired of America leading and then being the punching bag for people complaining about US(A).
Your not getting into Bitcoin, that's on you.
Your not taking the time to understand Bitcoin, that's on you.
No Excuses. Especially the tired ones:
- Your government/Politicians
- I don't have any money to save
- It's too risky, uses too much energy, blah..blah..blah
Grow a pair.
Act.
Be dynamic not static for this one opportunity.
Or not..but if you choose the latter, you can only point the fingers at yourself.
You.
Own it.
https://m.primal.net/LCmg.png

2024-09-24 11:03:03 UTC

"UnBank you Very Much"
Yesterday I walked into a US Bank branch because I wanted someone to verify something that is completely unclear. Never mind the 'Make an Appointment' button went to a dead link online with my desktop and confirmed on my cellphone app (same site.)
The situation:
Our daughter is in France for 2 years and because of French law/rules/regulations, she has to have a French Bank Account in order for her to function over there. So she can get a French phone, deal with locals/cash for housing and some food. (People like cash everywhere, hmmmm.)
Regardless, I simply need to move money, transfer from our US Bank Account to hers or from her US Bank account to the French account.
I explained this to the US Bank employee and she confirmed what I already knew without attaching the price (not clear anywhere on their site.)
US Bank: "In order to do this, you have to do a wire transfer."
Me: "That is the only way? I need this to be ongoing for two years, sporadically but probably frequently."
US Bank: "Yes, the only way."
Me: "How much is each transfer?"
US Bank: "$50"
Me: "$50, regardless of denomination?"
US Bank: "Yes."
Me: "That's ridiculous...(me turning my back and walking out with the still unresolved issue.)"
From a previous note, I can't us Strike (they require my daughter bring in a utility bill with her name on it for part of the KYC process.)
Does anyone know if Venmo or PayPal or CashApp or any other 'mainstream' POS Fiat based online system can beat the 1950s Bank technology with a US to France simple transaction?
Bathtub Section of Extraneous
I am showing you how there are 6-7 hops in a Venmo transaction.
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While he was in front of Congress (2020) to Brian Brooks, one of my favorite Bitcoin voices. Brooks gets drowned out online by Bitcoin Maxis sometimes because he talks about Web3/Blockchain but he is freakin' smart and his Bitcoin analysis is incredible. I am going to repost more on him later.
For now, when Binance's nuts were in the vice, the Binance filing, Sam explains the previous two CEOs at Binance to CZ (Slea-Zy), known as Hostile CEO A and Hostile CEO B
CEO A is: Catherine Coley who is presumably still missing.
CEO B is: Brian Brooks (Former Head of Crypto for Trump/CEO of Bitfury)
Mr. Kustoff: (03:31:56)
Thank you, Ms. Haas. Mr. Brooks, if I could, to you, thank you also for being here. If I could, I think obviously there are people who believe that cryptocurrency is difficult, maybe even impossible to track. Can you talk about that as it relates to the blockchain? And we talk about illicit activities, alleged illicit activities, oftentimes will be investigated by federal authorities. Could you explain maybe the fallacy in that as if you were talking to our local police chiefs or local sheriffs?
Mr. Brooks: (03:32:37)
Sure. Well, thank you for the question, Mr. Kustoff. I actually do this talk at local rotary clubs and things around the country all the time. So I think I can do that pretty well. I think the easiest way to understand it is let’s contrast blockchain transactions with normal banking transactions to see how much easier it is to trace them on a blockchain than it is in a banking transaction. So let’s imagine for a moment that… I would never do this because this would be flagrantly illegal, but let’s say I bought you lunch. Okay? And let’s say that afterwards you wanted to Venmo me your payment back, right? So you hit your Venmo button on your iPhone and you sent me money. What many people don’t understand is that there’s seven or eight different steps in the Venmo transaction.
So all Venmo does is send an instruction to your bank. Your bank then receives that instruction, they write it down in their books and records, and then they then send an instruction to an underlying transfer network. It could be the automated clearing house, it could be the Fedwire system or something else. That system then contacts my bank. It inquires whether my bank has enough money to pay you. Once that’s been done, then there’s a debit from my account. It’s very complicated. And in any one of those steps, information could be lost. There could be a breach, something bad could happen.
Versus in a blockchain, there are no intermediaries. I’m not sending instructions to a third party to send instructions to another third party, to eventually send you money. I’ve sent you money. And when the block is validated, I can see that my wallet address transferred that value to your wallet address, simple as that. The easiest way for people to understand how easy this is, because we’ve had a lot of talk of hacking and cyber security issues, the reason that we found the bad guys in the Colonial Pipeline hack, was because they asked for Bitcoin. If they had asked for diamonds, if they had asked for cash, if they’d asked for almost any other thing, we’d never have caught the bad guys. We caught the bad guys because, not in spite of, because they used Bitcoin and we could tell exactly where the money went.

2024-09-21 14:50:34 UTC

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I can't add cheese to the classic, however, we do these kinds of sandwiches with cheddar (yum) and a good ripe (not hard) avocado.
Put a soft egg on there too, super messy, you can't even cut these.
By the way, my wife/daughter laugh at me, I love the 'plastic basket' dinners (I do them a lot), with a sheet of aluminum foil or the red checkered pre-square paper.
Easy cleanup and fun.
Thoughts on the plastic baskets for dinner at home?

2024-09-21 13:01:56 UTC

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Exactly, so much easier to cook bacon like this rather than splattering on the stovetop and having to flip them all the time.
No flipping. (Bitcoin is more like Bacon, not Ethereum)
I line the pan with parchment paper for easier cleanup too.
For those of you outside America, one of our most popular sandwiches is called a BLT (Bacon Lettuce Tomato)
So easy. Try it.
1) Toast your favorite Sandwich bread
2) Mayo (top sides of both for anti-sog protection)
3) Slices of Bacon
4) Lettuce
5) Slices of Tomato
Cut in on the diagonal and eat it.
Incredibly good.
(Here come the..."You can't cut on the diagonal or other opinions." 🤣 )

2024-09-21 12:50:37 UTC

Second attempt: "How to get money from US Bank to a French Bank"
Situation:
Daughter over in France for DEUX (2) years. She has to setup a bank account in order to function over there, cell phones etc.
She is going to Uni (college) and she is as poor as I was at her age.
So, my wife and I are helping her out so she doesn't have to start out in the world following the lead of our US Politicians and broke ass government.
The options are terrible.
The best was to use Strike via the LN, easy right?
Nope, here is why, part of the KYC is you have to bring in an electric Bill with your name on it.
Hard to do when you are in temporary housing in a foreign country being a broke ass Visa tethered/monitored American citizen just trying to pay too much to be educated and a productive member of the world.
So, what......<me losing interest like all of you>

2024-09-20 20:49:56 UTC

Justin Bechler just got me into thinking we need to find theme songs for the other Altcoins.
For ETH: Aha (Shittyfluted)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukFhmf9Hg-U
For ADA: (Beach Boys Shred)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYc4DT18EJg
For Trump's new coin, "Richard Cheese: Lounge Against the Machine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukFhmf9Hg-U

2024-09-20 20:45:43 UTC

Damn it feels good to be a shitposting gangsta right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIoPlLEXM2Y

2024-09-20 20:13:20 UTC

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🤣 "Hey this guy's good..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frcRMQ2m1B4

2024-09-20 13:07:57 UTC

Public Thank you Letter to Abigail Johnson
Dear Abby,
This is a thank you note, written from my heart, grateful for my financial health, thanks in part to you.
I will focus on one aspect, my "Health SAVINGS Account" (HSA)
Without planning, 2.5 years ago, I hung up my soul sucking existence with FIAT. I couldn't take it any longer, 35 years, awful.
I had the same worries, kid in college, would we have 'enough' money to make it.
Regardless, I took the leap, but one of those bullet points of worry was my HSA.
I maxed out as much as I could for so many years. The Max, I don't even recall what the amount is, but it was a worry. If I 'quit.'
I looked at where my HSA was and where it had been, making such crappy returns all those years but I had hope.
The hope was thanks to you, your being the CEO of Fidelity. I moved from some unknown HSA third party custodian who probably knew the empty-headed-finger-gun-pointing-'there he is'-CEO I worked 'for.'
Sure, you are worth Billions, thanks to your well known family history, but you are a true leader. One of the best compliments I have heard was from a former employee of yours who said when it came to Bitcoin, "it was a top down" approach. Where the CEO, (you were mentioned by name), was the one explaining the benefits of Bitcoin 'down' to your employees.
That is the difference, 99% of the other companies, nations, the employees, the company drones, are trying to get the Queen Bee's attention but it is so nice when the Queen gets it first and then educates and helps the drones get to their financial independence. Financial independence is something you have always had but obviously don't take for granted.
Selfless.
So, back to my HSA, I pulled every penny out of it this year to transfer it to your Fidelity HSA and it literally took 3 clicks and someone at Fidelity worked with me via a 'telephone.' I didn't even initiate the call, via some Comcraptic-phone-tree-into-Xfinity-Hell or dialing 15 ATT 'customer service' lines that all end up at the 'Thanks for calling ATT Adding New Products' line
The thank you is, after years of suffering FIAT Financial Abuse via banks and companies and Edward Jones, where I have worked for and paid for via their customer or empluyee services, thanks for Fidelity.
Thanks for your true leadership, as I have been able to, simply with my HSA, been able to truly SAVE for my medical insurance future into Bitcoin based products thanks to your vision without any ceiling for a maximum amount I can save per year.
Wow.
Financial Healing, best therapy ever.
Thank you Abigail.
https://m.primal.net/Kvjo.webp
Sign Me,
-BR

2024-09-19 16:20:03 UTC

Did someone at Primal piss off Jack? The worry I always have is often developers are busting their ass coding under duress (FIAT time pressure) and many have shitty people skills. Then they bite the hand that feeds them and the hand stops feeding them.
I worry about Open Source Development, plumbers, doctors, teachers don't work for free.
I like Primal, it has never been slow, sure it needs work but it's cooler than Twitter 1.0 already.
My uncle: "Fuckem' and feedem' rice. If they complain, take away the rice."

2024-09-19 11:37:55 UTC

Over 1000 bottles of lube found in Diddy's homes, I never knew he was a Crypto Altcoiner.

2024-09-19 06:57:34 UTC

“Write it down”
A few days ago a guy posted on here, “Bitcoin is going down 30% Thursday (today). Write it down.”
All people doing these claims repeatedly are exhausting.
If Bitcoin could talk, here is its official statement:
“I’m Bitcoin, not your little Bitchcoin.”