JCB

“Tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose, qui est de ne pas savoir demeurer seul dans une chambre". B Pascal LNP/BP. jcb@primal.net

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npub1n5e988wu07fy45zwzy3un292gmq340lwx6v75sgtuh3aq6e78ghsnf3mec

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JCB@primal.net

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relay.damus.io

relay.primal.net

custom.fiatjaf.com

relay.benthecarman.com

loli.church

purplepag.es

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2026-03-28 21:05:31 UTC

hey @nprofile…f4qm cant run my openclaw in your servers.. get this error afeter hitting the openclaw button in the dashboard https://blossom.primal.net/90b8ff0b973f532ba2afdc76247b88fbeaadcfe725423c1298c6aa89b5aa2b98.png

2026-02-21 20:07:15 UTC

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I agree that for hard lifting it wont do it.. but the simple tasks..

2026-02-21 17:05:07 UTC

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Doing like u , laptop 2013. But the token costs are pilling for the basic stuff. I think in the end (6 months) a Mac mini running local LLm for majority of stuff will cost the same as my old laptop running all on pay per use tokens. Also some anonymity advantages. 100 usd here and there on tokens to configure files pile up quickly

2026-02-19 23:26:30 UTC

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openclaw hands down.. in your main computer

2026-02-19 23:25:18 UTC

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its everywhere Matt, it hurts here because you know some of them (most) and you may have considered "friends", that is until they show the true color.. It is not even a Bitcoin thing it is like a normal long Con game that Bitcoin makes exponential..

2026-02-14 01:40:21 UTC

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2026-02-09 16:23:00 UTC

https://x.com/therealbuni/status/2020507363346874567?s=20 In japan they Sushifi them... Is that correct @nprofile…hlmf ?

2026-02-02 19:04:50 UTC

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thats what we call guilty pleasures.....🤣

2026-02-02 19:03:40 UTC

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2026-01-22 22:55:29 UTC

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2026-01-12 01:41:07 UTC

the worst combination.. tax authorities leak info so they kidnap you for your crypto holdings. literally nowhere to hide. https://x.com/gegelsmr4/status/2009272614057923054?s=20

2026-01-12 00:31:09 UTC

the worst combination.. tax authorities leak info so they kidnap you for your crypto holdings. literally nowhere to hide. https://x.com/gegelsmr4/status/2009272614057923054?s=20

2026-01-10 20:08:14 UTC

Muy buen artículo. Simple https://www.semana.com/economia/opinion/articulo/doctrina-monroe-20-el-gran-reset-de-las-americas/202612/

2026-01-09 17:27:10 UTC

the worst combination.. tax authorities leak info so they kidnap you for your crypto holdings. literally nowhere to hide. https://x.com/gegelsmr4/status/2009272614057923054?s=20

2026-01-09 17:02:29 UTC

the worst combination.. tax authorities leak info so they kidnap you for your crypto holdings. literally nowhere to hide. https://x.com/gegelsmr4/status/2009272614057923054?s=20

2026-01-09 16:46:43 UTC

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but be careful who you are empowering... Please

2026-01-08 15:50:19 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANECpNdt-4 AI integration in OSs. Presentation from Signal Meredith Whittaker

2026-01-05 19:48:52 UTC

The $60 Billion Question: Is Venezuela Secretly a Bitcoin Superpower?
https://whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/the-60-billion-question-is-venezuela-secretly-a-bitcoin-superpower/
Alex Saab may control $60 billion in Bitcoin for the Maduro regime. As Trump's naval blockade tightens, the real battle is being fought on the blockchain.
Welcome to Whale Hunting, where we follow the money behind some of the world's most brazen financial crimes and expose the networks of people who enable them.
Nicolás Maduro is in U.S. custody. In the early hours of Saturday morning, Delta Force operators dragged the Venezuelan president and his wife from their bedroom in Caracas and flew them to the USS Iwo Jima, now steaming toward New York where Maduro will face drug trafficking and weapons charges in federal court.
But as Washington celebrates the most dramatic U.S. military operation in Latin America since the 1989 Panama invasion, a more urgent question is emerging in intelligence circles: Where is the money?
For years, Maduro and his inner circle systematically looted Venezuela—billions in oil revenue, gold reserves, and state assets—and, according to sources with direct knowledge of the operation, converted much of it into cryptocurrency. The man who allegedly orchestrated that conversion, who built the shadow financial architecture that kept the regime alive under crushing sanctions, is not on that ship.
His name is Alex Saab. And he may be the only person on Earth who knows how to access what sources estimate could be as much as $60 billion in Bitcoin—a figure that, if verified, would make the Maduro regime's hidden fortune one of the largest cryptocurrency holdings on the planet, rivaling MicroStrategy and potentially exceeding El Salvador's entire national reserve.
The claim comes from HUMINT sources and has not been confirmed through blockchain analysis, but the underlying math is provocative. Venezuela exported 73.2 tons of gold in 2018 alone — roughly $2.7 billion at the time. If even a fraction of that was converted to Bitcoin when prices hovered between $3,000 and $10,000, and held through the 2021 peak of $69,000, the returns would be staggering.
Sources familiar with the operation describe a systematic effort to convert gold proceeds into cryptocurrency through Turkish and Emirati intermediaries, then move the assets through mixers and cold wallets beyond the reach of Western enforcement. The keys to those wallets, sources say, are held by a small circle of trusted operatives—with Saab at the center.
What Washington didn't know—and what court documents would later reveal—was that Saab had been a DEA informant since 2016, even as he built Maduro's shadow financial empire. Now, with Maduro captured, the question becomes: Will Saab cooperate again? Or will he disappear with the keys to Venezuela's stolen fortune?
The Courier
On September 17, 2019, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control added David Nicolas Rubio Gonzalez to its sanctions list. The designation identified him as controlling at least three companies: Corporacion ACS Trading S.A.S. in Colombia, Dimaco Technology, S.A. in Panama, and Global de Textiles Andino S.A.S. in Colombia.
His father, Álvaro Pulido, had been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice two months earlier, charged alongside Alex Saab with laundering more than $350 million from fraudulent Venezuelan state contracts. But David was not charged. He was sanctioned—his assets frozen, his ability to do business with Americans severed—but he faced no criminal prosecution.
Why?
According to sources with direct knowledge of the operation, David Rubio Gonzalez was not just a businessman. He was a courier. These sources describe a network that physically moved gold along a route from the Dominican Republic through Venezuela to Turkey and Dubai. Each trip, they say, netted the courier $1 million for his services.
The gold originated in the Arco Minero del Orinoco, a vast mining zone in eastern Venezuela. It was purchased by the state-owned mining company Minerven, processed by CVG Minerven—whose president maintained close ties to Saab—and transported abroad by private aircraft or Turkish Airlines commercial flights. But moving gold at scale requires trusted hands. Someone has to physically carry it, clear customs, deliver it to the refineries and brokers who convert it to cash.
David, sources say, was one of those hands.
The question that haunts investigators is simple: If David was important enough to sanction, why wasn't he important enough to indict? His father faced eight counts of money laundering. David faced none.
There are only a few explanations. He could be cooperating with U.S. authorities—providing information in exchange for immunity or a reduced role in any future prosecution. He could be under sealed indictment, his charges hidden from public view until the moment of arrest. Or he could have simply slipped through the cracks, a secondary player deemed less important than the principals.
But if our sources are correct about his role as a courier—a man who physically handled the gold that became the regime's crypto fortune—then David Rubio Gonzalez may know exactly where the money went. And with Maduro captured, that knowledge has never been more valuable.
The Gold-to-Crypto Pipeline
The $60 billion didn't materialize from thin air. It was built through one of the most audacious financial operations in modern history: the systematic conversion of Venezuela's gold reserves into untraceable cryptocurrency.
In 2018, as Venezuela's economic crisis deepened and access to hard currency narrowed, the Maduro regime turned to gold. The country had been exporting gold for years, but now the operation scaled dramatically. Venezuela exported 73.2 tons of gold in 2018 alone—roughly $2.7 billion at the time.
Maduro placed the operation under the supervision of his close ally Tareck El Aissami, whom he appointed Minister of Industries and National Production. Alex Saab emerged as a central facilitator. The gold flowed to Turkey, where it was refined and sold. It flowed to the UAE, where it entered the global market. And in April 2020, tons of Venezuelan gold were flown to Iran on Mahan Air as part of a gold-for-gasoline swap.
Iran International reported that a Lloyd's Insurance leak revealed the scheme was coordinated by the IRGC Quds Force and Hezbollah. Gold sold in Turkey and the Middle East generated proceeds that funded Hezbollah operations. Some nine tons of Venezuelan gold were exported in a single month, according to Bloomberg. In return, five Iranian oil tankers delivered an estimated 1.5 million barrels of gasoline to Venezuelan ports.
But gold is heavy. It's traceable. It can be seized. The next step was converting it into something that couldn't be touched.
Sources describe a systematic effort to convert gold proceeds into Bitcoin through OTC brokers in Turkey and the UAE—brokers who asked few questions and operated outside the traditional banking system. The Bitcoin was then moved through mixers, software that obscures the origin of cryptocurrency transactions, and into cold wallets: offline storage devices that exist beyond the reach of any government or exchange.
The timing was fortuitous. Venezuela began moving gold in earnest in 2018, when Bitcoin traded between $3,000 and $10,000. By the time the price peaked at $69,000 in November 2021, any holdings accumulated in those early years had multiplied by a factor of seven to twenty. If the regime converted even $3 billion in gold proceeds to Bitcoin at an average price of $5,000, those holdings would be worth $40 billion today.
The crypto infrastructure didn't stop with gold. Venezuela's own PDVSA-Cripto corruption scandal revealed that Saab's partner Álvaro Pulido—David's father—used Tether-based settlement systems to divert billions in oil-sale proceeds. Between 2020 and 2022, PDVSA increasingly required intermediaries to settle oil cargos in Tether, routing payments through OTC brokers and private digital wallets.
The scandal revealed ships loaded with more than $20 billion worth of oil departing Venezuelan ports without payment ever reaching PDVSA. By December 2025, Venezuela was collecting 80% of its oil revenue in USDT. Tether has frozen 41 wallets containing $119 million linked to Venezuela—but that represents only what authorities have been able to trace.
The Architect
To understand how this system was built, you have to understand the man who built it.
Alex Saab was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1971. He spent the 1990s running modest textile businesses. His career changed when he partnered with Álvaro Pulido, who was involved in drug trafficking and invited Saab to do business in Venezuela. Colombian left-wing senator Piedad Córdoba—who died in January 2024—introduced Saab to Maduro.
The contracts that followed were staggering in their brazenness. In 2011, Saab agreed to supply parts for 25,000 prefabricated houses under "Gran Mision Vivienda Venezuela." The contract paid up to four times the actual cost. His company received $159 million to import housing kits but delivered only $3 million worth of products.
In 2016, when the regime launched the CLAP program to distribute subsidized food to families in need, Saab and Pulido built a network to exploit it. They sourced low-quality food from foreign suppliers, assembled the boxes abroad, and shipped them to Venezuela at inflated prices. To move funds and conceal the scheme, they used shell companies in Hong Kong, the UAE, and Turkey. The U.S. Treasury designated these networks in July 2019, calling them a "corruption network stealing from Venezuela's food program."
Zair Mundaray, a former Venezuelan prosecutor who investigated Saab, told Whale Hunting that Saab slipped into Maduro's inner circle precisely because he had no loyalties outside it. Unlike other power brokers in Caracas, Saab was not tied to any traditional political families or factions.
"Saab fits the profile of someone with no links to Venezuela's traditional castes or power groups, whose only real connection is to the presidential family," Mundaray said. "In Venezuela, power operates much more like a criminal cartel than an institutional structure. That creates a climate of mutual distrust and internal power struggles."
Saab's goal was simple: to make money, "and he found the perfect platform in a president who is himself a criminal."
But Saab became more than a contractor. He became the guarantor of Maduro's fortune.
"As the public and private spheres ultimately merge, there's no distinction," Mundaray said. "Saab is the guarantor of Maduro's fortune — money dispersed across multiple countries and stored in different convertible assets that ensure him a life of luxury for generations, without ever lifting a finger."
In April 2018, Maduro made it official, appointing Saab as Special Envoy with "broad powers to carry out actions on behalf of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela." He was no longer a contractor. He was a diplomat.
On June 12, 2020, Saab's plane touched down on the volcanic island of Sal in Cabo Verde for what should have been a routine refueling stop. He was en route to Iran. Instead, local authorities arrested him at the request of the United States.
The U.S. Department of Justice had unsealed an eight-count indictment charging Saab and Pulido with laundering more than $350 million through U.S. bank accounts. But then came the twist that no one expected.
Court documents reviewed by Whale Hunting revealed that Saab had also cooperated with U.S. law enforcement—providing information on bribe payments made to high-level Venezuelan officials.
Saab entered into a cooperative source agreement with the Drug Enforcement Administration on June 27, 2018—the same year Maduro appointed him Special Envoy. He met with U.S. law enforcement officials in August and September 2016, November 2017, June and July 2018, and April 2019. He also made four payments totaling over $12.5 million to DEA-controlled accounts to disgorge profits from his bribery schemes.
He was building Maduro's shadow financial empire while simultaneously informing on it.
In December 2023, President Biden negotiated his release in exchange for ten American prisoners held in Venezuela, including one close to our hearts: Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis (subject of our Fat Leonard podcast, listen here). Saab received a presidential pardon and was required to leave the United States permanently. He landed in Caracas to a hero's welcome. Maduro embraced him publicly. Within weeks, Saab was appointed Minister of Industry and National Production.
He was once again at the center of Venezuela's survival architecture. Until this morning.
Who Has the Keys?
With Maduro in custody and facing drug trafficking charges in Manhattan, the question is no longer whether the regime can survive. It's whether its stolen fortune can be recovered—or whether it will vanish into the blockchain, accessible only to those who hold the keys.
The old sanctions-evasion toolkit—ships, banks, front companies—still exists. But the new one runs on stablecoins, OTC brokers, private digital wallets, and bilateral deals with governments that have no incentive to cooperate with U.S. enforcement.
Sources describe a Swiss lawyer who allegedly controls access to the wallets. The keys may be distributed across multiple people, multiple jurisdictions, multiple layers of security designed to survive exactly this scenario: the capture of the regime's leader.
David Nicolas Rubio Gonzalez was sanctioned in 2019 but never publicly charged. His father was indicted. He was not. If sources are correct that he served as a courier—physically moving the gold that became the crypto fortune—then he may know exactly where the money went. Is he secretly cooperating with U.S. authorities? Under sealed indictment? Or has he disappeared with knowledge that could unlock billions?
And then there is Saab himself. A man who has already cooperated with the DEA once. A man who was pardoned by one American president and may now be the most valuable intelligence asset for another. A man who, according to a former Venezuelan prosecutor, is "the guarantor of Maduro's fortune."
Where is Alex Saab?
Where is David Rubio Gonzalez?
And who has the keys to as much as $60 billion in Bitcoin?

2026-01-04 01:00:46 UTC

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2025-12-30 01:13:13 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yibAIntR02E Who is willing to give up all that data? have you seen this? @nprofile…cd8v @nprofile…dkaf

2025-12-29 20:52:03 UTC

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“Hurricane season “ by Fernanda Melchor is a book that has almost no punctuation and in the beginning is super weird to read. I am native Spanish reader and enjoyed it like very few books I have read. Just looked up the English translation and it appears it is very good and faithful to the style and slang. Don’t bother with the Netflix adaptation. The book is one of the most important books written in Spanish in several years

2025-12-24 20:39:25 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/095b9de4e2a66e28ef735eaa2ff87621df36100c20cdc425984ae6b5ee481cf0.mp4 We had a Bitcoin Bazar event at casa de Satoshi in CDMX.. Merchants and even a kid teaching people how to create their seeds with coins and @nprofile…w6hy for 12th word. Thanks to @nprofile…czcc and others for attending..

2025-12-18 16:47:55 UTC

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What I thought!!! Already got 2 messages. Metamask flags it as scam

2025-12-18 16:35:13 UTC

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real? @nprofile…cd8v
#nevent1q…qxz9

2025-12-18 16:14:56 UTC

https://x.com/wikileaks/status/2001277266240921711 Assange Note on Nobel Prize to C Machado.. Stirring the pot... what do you think?

2025-12-18 16:13:10 UTC

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is there a part of the test where the dog reacts differently with different people, and he picks u? as in it connects to someone.. Which would translate maybe to "Pick the fights worth it"

2025-12-05 02:37:44 UTC

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i drank a lot at school in the fountains and also at home in the gardens directly from the faucet. Still have that copper taste..

2025-12-05 02:36:00 UTC

for all those that are interested in launching a bitcoin treasury company https://1clickbtctreasury.com/

2025-11-27 19:55:11 UTC

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2025-11-18 23:05:50 UTC

and this one too https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-scam-mining-as-service/

2025-11-18 23:05:23 UTC

Is wired coming back from its ashes and doing good relevant reporting again ? https://www.wired.com/story/a-simple-whatsapp-security-flaw-exposed-billions-phone-numbers/?_sp=d7ada12c-1e9e-48c4-ae52-d6a5aa4b0bdf.1763499628323

2025-11-09 00:30:46 UTC

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at least maybe they will be protected from all the phishing attacks due to ledger mishandling of data.. 🤣

2025-11-08 01:16:13 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/e6941436c91cb585e9cd54b34e9a0216bb777ffcadc754aa0af21a2900b5453a.png ibraries are the blockchain, books are blocks, vile content is SPAM,... Bitcoin popes want to abolish it..

2025-11-04 14:08:50 UTC

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2025-10-19 16:22:33 UTC

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I connected it to my NWC with local alby hub. the shows dont show. What am I missing. Also tried to import WIF into some wallets but they none seem to have support for taproot. should I go for Core? what am i missing.. I sent some funds and want to recover.. Its a fun mission..

2025-10-19 04:27:54 UTC

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I need to investigate how to do that

2025-10-19 02:24:18 UTC

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Over Lightning? You connected in the app option

2025-10-19 01:58:44 UTC

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how did you import the NSEC into bluewallet?

2025-10-14 16:37:16 UTC

In love with a cat
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2025-09-27 20:17:25 UTC

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Always great to listen to you guys !! Did not understand what Seth said was flagged using wasabi. Beginning of convo
https://fountain.fm/episode/ZehOka0axKMhFAYTuOX3
#nevent1q…4w8q

2025-09-24 15:24:31 UTC

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Have you tried putting these in the READS section in primal? IDK what you have to do but it may have more visibility

2025-09-16 14:23:42 UTC

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You need to change your efax to the eknotsfax version

2025-09-07 16:59:59 UTC

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Where ?

2025-08-17 18:21:12 UTC

Mi hijo de doce hizo un cypher. Que es y que dice

2025-08-15 10:39:29 UTC

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It’s like x86 platform coming to mining

2025-08-11 13:26:34 UTC

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Just listening to you on the Europe situation and the backdoors they want on the chat apps. On Android you can side download as u mentioned, weird thing for them is that in Europe Apple will be forced too to allow side downloads too if I recall well. Which means that to enforce it they may have to use mandatory proxies or something like that. For travelling it will be a pain!!
https://fountain.fm/episode/jF9mEg2M6IbFqA5bT1so
#nevent1q…dxnp

2025-08-11 12:03:12 UTC

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2025-08-09 17:30:25 UTC

anyone has any suggestions on what to do in Lugano?

2025-07-31 22:16:05 UTC

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I don’t know. The city is quite big. You can point them to me

2025-07-31 13:43:01 UTC

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Hello!! What can I do for you

2025-07-31 00:13:10 UTC

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you can visit here https://www.lacasadesatoshi.xyz/

2025-07-31 00:12:25 UTC

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im here.. we met at some nostr event in nashville

2025-07-23 14:20:04 UTC

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When ? Where? New place?

2025-07-21 02:15:51 UTC

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💯 . Its super important to vet your partner in difficult situations. Fights, how they treat service, kids, people that upset them, animals…. It’s not a cliche. my marriage was before btc, but when she got it and hears that btc is down in fiat terms she always says “buy more “ if I use it for something “why didn’t you use that fiat shitcoin?”

2025-07-20 17:15:35 UTC

On Mexicans, Anthony Bourdain wrote this:
Americans love Mexican food. We consume nachos, tacos, burritos, tortas, enchiladas, tamales and anything resembling Mexican in enormous quantities.
We love Mexican beverages, happily knocking back huge amounts of tequila, mezcal, and Mexican beer every year. We love Mexican people—we sure employ a lot of them.
Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes towards immigration, we demand that Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we need to make that food, clean our houses, mow our lawns, wash our dishes, and look after our children.
As any chef will tell you, our entire service economy—the restaurant business as we know it—in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers. Some, of course, like to claim that Mexicans are “stealing American jobs.”
But in two decades as a chef and employer, I never had ONE American kid walk in my door and apply for a dishwashing job, a porter’s position—or even a job as a prep cook. Mexicans do much of the work in this country that Americans, probably, simply won’t do.
We love Mexican drugs. Maybe not you personally, but “we”, as a nation, certainly consume titanic amounts of them—and go to extraordinary lengths and expense to acquire them. We love Mexican music, Mexican beaches, Mexican architecture, interior design, Mexican films.
So, why don’t we love Mexico?
We throw up our hands and shrug at what happens and what is happening just across the border. Maybe we are embarrassed. Mexico, after all, has always been there for us, to service our darkest needs and desires.
Whether it’s dress up like fools and get passed-out drunk and sunburned on spring break in Cancun, throw pesos at strippers in Tijuana, or get toasted on Mexican drugs, we are seldom on our best behavior in Mexico. They have seen many of us at our worst. They know our darkest desires.
In the service of our appetites, we spend billions and billions of dollars each year on Mexican drugs—while at the same time spending billions and billions more trying to prevent those drugs from reaching us.
The effect on our society is everywhere to be seen. Whether it’s kids nodding off and overdosing in small town Vermont, gang violence in L.A., burned out neighborhoods in Detroit—it’s there to see.
What we don’t see, however, haven’t really noticed, and don’t seem to much care about, is the 80,000 dead in Mexico, just in the past few years—mostly innocent victims. Eighty thousand families who’ve been touched directly by the so-called “War On Drugs”.
Mexico. Our brother from another mother. A country, with whom, like it or not, we are inexorably, deeply involved, in a close but often uncomfortable embrace.
Look at it. It’s beautiful. It has some of the most ravishingly beautiful beaches on earth. Mountains, desert, jungle. Beautiful colonial architecture, a tragic, elegant, violent, ludicrous, heroic, lamentable, heartbreaking history. Mexican wine country rivals Tuscany for gorgeousness.
Its archeological sites—the remnants of great empires, unrivaled anywhere. And as much as we think we know and love it, we have barely scratched the surface of what Mexican food really is. It is NOT melted cheese over tortilla chips. It is not simple, or easy. It is not simply “bro food” at halftime.
It is in fact, old—older even than the great cuisines of Europe, and often deeply complex, refined, subtle, and sophisticated. A true mole sauce, for instance, can take DAYS to make, a balance of freshly (always fresh) ingredients painstakingly prepared by hand. It could be, should be, one of the most exciting cuisines on the planet, if we paid attention.
The old school cooks of Oaxaca make some of the more difficult and nuanced sauces in gastronomy. And some of the new generation—many of whom have trained in the kitchens of America and Europe—have returned home to take Mexican food to new and thrilling heights.
It’s a country I feel particularly attached to and grateful for. In nearly 30 years of cooking professionally, just about every time I walked into a new kitchen, it was a Mexican guy who looked after me, had my back, showed me what was what, and was there—and on the case—when the cooks like me, with backgrounds like mine, ran away to go skiing or surfing or simply flaked. I have been fortunate to track where some of those cooks come from, to go back home with them.
To small towns populated mostly by women—where in the evening, families gather at the town’s phone kiosk, waiting for calls from their husbands, sons and brothers who have left to work in our kitchens in the cities of the North.
I have been fortunate enough to see where that affinity for cooking comes from, to experience moms and grandmothers preparing many delicious things, with pride and real love, passing that food made by hand from their hands to mine.
In years of making television in Mexico, it’s one of the places we, as a crew, are happiest when the day’s work is over. We’ll gather around a street stall and order soft tacos with fresh, bright, delicious salsas, drink cold Mexican beer, sip smoky mezcals, and listen with moist eyes to sentimental songs from street musicians. We will look around and remark, for the hundredth time, what an extraordinary place this is.

2025-07-10 13:28:30 UTC

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Good thing about the freaks and ride or dies is that YOU know it, Matt and Marty actually can’t know them all or define them, they just attract such personalities to RHR for example. Some are known of course but majority are kinda sleeping cells, hence their strength!!

2025-07-10 13:24:50 UTC

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Riga could be a good place to test. Have a contest!!

2025-07-09 21:48:09 UTC

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hey @nprofile…zj6n just saw this, its amazing.. Bridgefy´s CEO (similar to bitchat used already in many places) would love to chat with you.. how can I arrange that..?

2025-07-09 21:40:32 UTC

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no more beta testers on testflight

2025-07-06 02:53:00 UTC

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does it handle subscriptions?

2025-06-30 13:50:09 UTC

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For kids learning to code, would you recommend it?

2025-06-24 14:47:13 UTC

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Excelente conversación!!! Hay manera de contactar a Elias. Es posible que tenga yo en latam algo que le interese!! Gracias
https://fountain.fm/episode/cCynM5v7WpZxedb0c863
#nevent1q…2chd

2025-06-23 13:01:51 UTC

Literally in the clouds
https://blossom.primal.net/1bb74e94b5278789bdaef0aeac599b350f1ec112a2da2a1ba71d5a5cf1619487.jpg

2025-06-13 16:28:58 UTC

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This was an rhr for the internet survivors. Like transmitting over radio waves after the zombie apocalypse…
https://fountain.fm/episode/twLsWXySk50idWjwJLeM
#nevent1q…r8ck

2025-06-12 13:11:58 UTC

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Wut?

2025-06-12 13:03:24 UTC

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This @nprofile…g3g2 legit?
https://blossom.primal.net/6a918086819c6024a62072144f4820366dd427a4028c9a5ed7af2a36a353b760.png

2025-06-12 13:02:23 UTC

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A mail from tapsigner..

2025-06-12 13:01:16 UTC

Is this legit? @npub12ct…c5ky

2025-06-11 19:20:02 UTC

this is my half cow to share with family. waiting for the butcher to make the cuts. What you say @nprofile…dwvz ?https://blossom.primal.net/4d2f2509d0d0a38a03825bcc1f0795fd43c1594308e749d55a320b5250adc28d.png

2025-06-11 18:47:25 UTC

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great tool.. Just installed in mexico. My sites are in MXN but the sign used for pesos is the same as for USD. ( i mean this sign $) so the site thinks prices are in usd ... Maybe you should add a something like geolocation (maybe checking the domain.. in this case amazon.com.mx) . The soap for the washing machine is not that expensive.. https://blossom.primal.net/642a7797be09bd4598242d0791310bcd8666cdd274fec567e61da53e498c46c2.png

2025-06-09 02:27:43 UTC

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Yes, clearly their creative agency is way better than their customer support area!!

2025-06-06 12:37:19 UTC

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Nice !!!
https://fountain.fm/episode/dyuacIn2RTBj7M2Odrtb
#nevent1q…3mup

2025-06-05 18:52:30 UTC

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Great conversation… I like Jack´s Clarity, how Danny lets him speak and suddenly comes with what appears “simple” questions that make stuff clearer for listeners.
Danny, you are doing super well!! Congrats...
At the end of the pod we got one more time the story about what the US GVT did not do after 6102. Go and look for gold in private homes, the threat was enough for some and they surrendered it. I agree that doing that with BTC is even more complex and very low possibility to get the sats that are in self custody and relatively no KYC—
BUT
The conversation moved somewhere else and we did not get the answer as how it could go if the US GVT goes with a similar act to 6102 (maybe 69420 to fuck with us, appendix 6.15)?
I do think that private self custody will do well, super hard to enforce..
But all the BTC in company treasuries will be an easy target, no matter how it is kept..
“Mr Saylor, here is the US GVT address please send your sats..”
Proof of reserves would make it easy for authorities to ask for the sats..
I may be exaggerating but with 10-20 largest holders you would easily get a fair amount of sats…
My 2 sats
https://fountain.fm/episode/tvOyGA4pweXwvv65Kp6h
#nevent1q…vapf

2025-06-05 01:44:56 UTC

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will be aired on X, Y, Z?

2025-06-04 14:24:56 UTC

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Great conversation!! Love the backs and forths.
https://fountain.fm/episode/3e1qizjW8iQ1eMOvK8yP
#nevent1q…u68m

2025-05-28 15:02:57 UTC

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What do u think happens when “crypto bubble” blows up? Another 80% BTC drawdown from ATH like every cycle? Or a different scenario since the market is more “mature”? Dot com bubble was pretty bad!!
https://fountain.fm/episode/do7SoTCZmHi7JaGlCdFt
#nevent1q…9e8r

2025-05-28 01:38:18 UTC

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https://fountain.fm/episode/qk9iuQWni7iA16mt0m2M
#nevent1q…vjd4

2025-05-27 17:25:18 UTC

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question is, are they denominated in SATS? @nprofile…zj6n

2025-05-21 14:43:21 UTC

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Great conv.. much needed leveled opinion!! Thanks
https://fountain.fm/episode/bQsugrcB4VSL2HAaTxPg
#nevent1q…3gmh

2025-05-06 00:01:49 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs8cz20pf88r542qfnptyu0duvmn7vvpyvkzj8mqqverlyrhnl5slqxq8f0q

2025-05-03 16:13:43 UTC

There is a ranch somewhere in my country. A fellow bitcoiner that is producing these vegetables + meat + water. It is so cool..
https://image.nostr.build/f66ccb8e9cf93d5c4410c4c813cbfffe9cf1d275cc67d8fa6fc806083b752a10.jpg

2025-05-01 15:31:50 UTC

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But saylor wanted ossification, right? What would a wizard do there ? Are we going to see saylor promoting Knots? Or am I missing something!!!

2025-04-25 17:35:56 UTC

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https://fountain.fm/episode/zGsiSmbARFkfb88P0F0J
#nevent1q…6dh4

2025-04-24 03:43:01 UTC

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Who is Michael morelli?

2025-04-14 03:59:36 UTC

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the ostrich purple hole

2025-04-13 01:57:56 UTC

#nevent1q…4pfg

2025-04-12 16:27:31 UTC

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nada para este TREN

2025-04-08 20:43:12 UTC

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ossification in price

2025-04-04 16:25:42 UTC

Flag football and donkeys, and sheep.. another level
https://m.primal.net/QEHg.jpg

2025-03-25 17:29:06 UTC

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https://video.nostr.build/24b8e3219c7d4b48ef162a09421488fd66921123bbedacf4bc8b2579e653b066.mp4

2025-03-22 23:05:47 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/95322dc9a2b9ff6bfad649de0a59a6f2f776fb9608174f6f14fcf97ac789e861.jpg

2025-03-22 22:06:24 UTC

Stolen from a quite irreverent and diverse telegram group
https://image.nostr.build/8ecdbf7c733b3de6c8dbdf1c9b5d032469000418316e99dbd234ce95d69eca71.jpg

2025-03-20 20:21:54 UTC

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works both ways?

2025-03-17 14:14:20 UTC

#nevent1q…pl9w

2025-03-17 01:23:15 UTC

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Hi, my name is Dan, I don’t understand NOSTR but it doesn’t work

2025-03-16 19:51:46 UTC

#nevent1q…22l9

2025-03-16 19:49:44 UTC

#nevent1q…rcrw

2025-03-16 00:41:22 UTC

#nevent1q…v955

2025-03-15 05:02:15 UTC

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Open source, closed borders

2025-03-15 01:54:35 UTC

https://x.com/amir/status/1900583042659541477
new: DeepSeek's owner asked R&D staff to hand in passports so they can't travel abroad.
Ladies & gentlemen... China: