disparatebits
DisparateBits

Booth’s book is on my list too, and I’ve read The Bitcoin Standard. I wasn’t there in the beginning so the early looks and the precursors to Bitcoin fascinate me. Satoshi stitched up something powerful on the backs of all the cypherpunks before him

2025-07-14 03:50:26 UTC

reading Bitcoin Billionaires and fuck I don’t have enough bitcoin lol.
Think I’ll read The Genesis Book next.

2025-07-13 02:55:59 UTC

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I guess, I’ve been known to eat the extra cilantro and onion straight by itself so I might just be a savage

2025-07-13 02:49:24 UTC

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Cilantro tasting like soap is genetic interestingly

2025-07-06 16:38:07 UTC

Nic Carter said sound money, stablecoins, and prediction markets were the only big things out of crypto.
Do you agree, or do you see other things in the horizon?
I’m very bullish on Bitcoin, Lightning, Nostr, but I’m aware of the UX and this is nothing the average person would use.

2025-07-04 22:05:16 UTC

Wonder if the 80k Bitcoin really is Roger and this is how the SBR is funded and he gets citizenship again

2025-07-02 15:06:03 UTC

opened a new channel after having lost power and forgetting to restart the ol' albyhub.
kinda doubt the average person will ever use lightning. I don't find it hard but it is more work than the average person will commit to.🤷

2025-07-01 14:36:23 UTC

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Can’t wait!

2025-06-29 20:51:38 UTC

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I feel bad for laughing a little, some of those stories are WILD. I have asked LLMs about a great many things, including advice, but always under the knowledge "it's a text predictor" and nothing more. It's really sycophantic, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't somewhat helpful.
I guess it is much more important to have that distinction than I thought. It's just software and as the saying goes: don't trust, verify.
slightly more accurate magic 8 balls, but apparently more convincing to some!

2025-06-29 16:40:17 UTC

proof reading is extra important on nostr 🤷
still better than anything else.

2025-06-29 16:34:11 UTC

what does do you run at home vs what do you run in the cloud and why? I run my Bitcoin node behind tor as that seems best practices but I don't connect to it on the go.
it would be nice to run stuff on a home server, but I worry about a mix of privacy (ip leaking, security vulnerabilities), and uptime (power outages or network outages). recently lost power, forgot to restart my albyhub, lightning channels closed 😕

2025-06-29 16:15:54 UTC

twitter limits the number of people you can follow apparently. I have a lurking account since there is just more activity on there in general.
what a load of shit. I have a huge array of interests so I tried to follow what I'm interested in so the algo can recommend more things and I get rate-limited? lame.
bullish on nostr.

2025-06-29 16:12:59 UTC

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is it? I've been trying to learn, feel like I suck at coding, and using agents or AI feels like cheating. do you let it write most of the code or what? is it really learning if you're just passively reading?
not trying to shit on what you said I'm genuinely just curious about how to approach learning with it. I want to be a really good programmer, and I often see people saying then don't use AI because otherwise you're not learning anything.

2025-06-10 13:53:15 UTC

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put AI in it and Sam Altman might offer you a couple billion! You could beat Ivy to the punch 😂
In all seriousness, neat project, I like seeing all the work you're doing on this stuff.

2025-06-10 05:19:16 UTC

I like the idea of nostr but I hate social media. Like censorship resistant money and comms are important in my eyes. p2p, decentralized, even better!
But social media sucks. Advertising sucks. I remember a Bill Hicks standup clip where he asks the audience if anyone works in marketing, and then he tells those people to go home and kill themselves.
I’m not sure “fix the money” will fix what bugs me about the world.
From food to entertainment and just about everything else, it’s been studied and engineered to make it addictive. Salted and seasoned and perfectly crisp, or manufactured, edited, directed, it’s all just designed to be as addictive as possible so numbers go up and you come back for more.
I hate the meaninglessness of it all. A whole economy of little real value propped up by addicts.

2025-06-01 14:57:00 UTC

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I was just thinking about this yesterday. I had started thinking about BBS door games and Nostr as a modern/inverted BBS alternative. Nostr might benefit by having something like BBS door games, powered by Lightning, ecash, RGB, etc.
Open interoperable protocols = limitless potential

2025-05-26 00:05:09 UTC

my daughter has said she wanted to be a teacher for some time now. today she broken down crying at the thought of AI/robots eliminating that as a job.
personally don't see it happening as it stands now, but it's harder and harder to prepare your kids for a future.

2025-05-18 19:17:55 UTC

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if you can't learn what a sat is you don't need to worry about bitcoin anyways mfer
#nevent1q…cllj

2025-05-18 18:39:28 UTC

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This sounds like ChatGPT wrote it.

2025-05-01 13:11:26 UTC

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What a fucking joke.

2025-04-18 13:56:24 UTC

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I meant like a book, article, etc was just curious of the context and shit lol

2025-04-18 02:19:21 UTC

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What’s that quote from?

2025-04-16 01:52:22 UTC

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we both know white people like us ain’t the ones that gotta worry about deportation.
yet.

2025-04-15 13:30:23 UTC

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That’s a lotta words to just admit you don’t give a fuck unless it’s your own ass on the line.

2025-04-15 11:48:24 UTC

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It’s weird how quickly freedom techies got in line to gargle the balls of authoritarians

2025-04-15 11:25:15 UTC

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There are a lot of rapists in this country Peter, a huge backlog of untested rape kits. Costs a lot of money to investigate and test dna.
Maybe we should just kill or castrate alleged rapists without due process.
How would you feel about that, I wonder?

2025-04-12 10:56:15 UTC

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GM and damn that looks great

2025-04-06 22:21:56 UTC

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Yeah what is this magnificent piece of tech

2025-04-06 15:11:47 UTC

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Have not been as productive as I wanted to be.

2025-04-06 15:11:19 UTC

I only know some Python/Django and wanna pick up Go too. My end goal is to work in Bitcoin for a living. I don't have a traditional CompSci education, middle-aged with a family, so time is precious.
But Bitcoin has made me interested in everything -- game theory, networking, decentralization, comp sci, economics, all of it.
What is your best advice? There's no clear roadmap, and the software dev job market is apparently in the shitter for the foreseeable future -- I imagine the Bitcoin dev space is even smaller with higher expectations, too.
Feel free to share/mention if you know any devs who could help.

2025-04-05 12:38:25 UTC

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love to see it.

2025-04-02 22:25:57 UTC

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Genuinely curious how any of that is malware.

2025-04-02 16:29:29 UTC

Goose or Claude code, and why?

2025-04-01 02:38:28 UTC

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Pineapple and anchovy for the win. Sweet and salty

2025-03-28 12:28:27 UTC

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Not his biggest fan but that was pretty funny.

2025-03-27 12:19:56 UTC

GM! as I drink my coffee and ruminate, I realize I am getting older and a bit crotchety and I'm okay with that.
I am so tired of hearing non-stop about fucking LLMs and having them in fucking everything. Also vibe coding. What the fuck?
get the fuck off my lawn

2025-03-27 01:39:02 UTC

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fucking preach. Idk what studio ghibli is but I like this mfer

2025-03-26 12:27:03 UTC

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1jjpse1/his_bank_wont_allow_him_to_withdraw_money_unless/
The comments are cute. “Just close your account.” “Just go to a different bank.” “He must be a criminal, this isn’t the banks fault it’s the authorities suspecting him of crime. “
Motherfuckers have gotten too soft and comfortable thinking life is that easy and everyone is free.
ITS MY MONEY AND I WANT IT NOW, like the old commercial goes. Stop being an apologist for authoritarian states and fiat bankers.
Give yer balls a tug.

2025-03-24 12:05:34 UTC

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Well said. There’s a fine line between “I like privacy” and “My neighbors are CIA spooks and using the microwaves to cook my balls through the apartment walls because I discovered the truth on 4chan and am now just like Jason Bourne”

2025-03-24 11:58:39 UTC

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The worst imho is “it’s just a spreadsheet”. I hate that one.

2025-03-23 13:24:03 UTC

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Irrefutable proof of ownership just like bitcoin. Publicly verifiable. What’s not to love?

2025-03-23 13:09:48 UTC

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You’ll have to cross post this to X to reach those fucking idiots, but I think you underestimate how much spray-tan is on that flabby ass. They’re gonna be busy for a while.
Remember, just because it’s orange doesn’t mean you have to like it!

2025-03-23 13:00:01 UTC

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I wouldn’t even engage with gutter trash like this, one look at the profile reveals the high level of retardation you’re dealing with. It’s like arguing with a literal pile of shit.

2025-03-23 03:14:15 UTC

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Convinced me to try aider lol

2025-03-23 01:28:32 UTC

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rekt.network looks cool thanks for shouting that out. Used to listen to soma.fm and completely forgot about until just now

2025-03-22 15:54:04 UTC

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Low doses of magic mushrooms

2025-03-22 15:52:16 UTC

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crushing it the same way a garbage truck compresses fucking trash.

2025-03-22 15:47:20 UTC

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The secret to success is just pulling numbers out of your ass, making vague statements, and having delusions of grandeur.

2025-03-22 14:03:49 UTC

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Well the title and thumbnail intrigued me, bookmarked to watch later.

2025-03-20 02:24:16 UTC

it’s tradeoffs all the way down

2025-03-19 15:46:29 UTC

it is fucking hilarious to me that so many in this space are "freedom maxis" but hold fundamentalist religious and conservative views.
eat shit you old fossils. I'm no atheist but your religion is a lot like your dick -- it's cool you're really proud of it but stop trying to shove it down people's throats ya fuck.
the last thing I want is to live in a world run by religious conservatives, and I find it highly repugnant that they are so vocal in the bitcoin/nostr community, but these are technologies for freedom, which includes my enemies and people I find repugnant.
"freedom maxis" my ass.

2025-03-16 03:22:35 UTC

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https://www.thelightphone.com

2025-03-16 02:45:32 UTC

the new lightphone looks great, just add a bitcoin/lightning wallet and a password manager. just the fucking basics. that's all I want in a phone.

2025-03-16 02:40:46 UTC

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I like it. I read Digital Minimalism earlier this year and it really helped me put my phone down and disconnect for a while, but I feel like it crept back up on me. Fucking reddit is the worst for me. I need to reread that book. I've always been into tech but lately it's like I'd love a cabin in the woods and maybe dialup or dsl or a big fucking switch to turn it all off so I can intermittently just disconnect from the enshittified, addicting web, and the glowing little shitboxes of addiction and dopamine factories we carry around.
like tech has positives and the good outweighs the bad I think, but I increasingly yearn for less screen time and more silence and disconnection

2025-03-14 17:40:05 UTC

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Unnecessary complexity for most folks I think. SLIP-39 is more practical for the average person in my opinion.
I’m aware this is controversial.

2025-03-14 13:09:21 UTC

man reddit really hates Bitcoin, I gotta stop reading reddit

2025-03-12 13:13:25 UTC

GM!
If it isn’t Nostr it’s just another shitty algorithm.

2025-03-09 12:39:37 UTC

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rgb.tech if you’re interested. even ChatGPT threw some shade on eth just now 🤣
https://m.primal.net/PZdT.jpg

2025-03-09 12:12:59 UTC

Can’t zap from primal or Damus and idk why. My Albyhub is running. Frustrating

2025-03-09 12:12:08 UTC

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What about RGB? Doesn’t it allow for all that but only with interested/involved parties?

2025-03-09 12:00:13 UTC

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Never owned one but the aesthetic makes me think we peaked here

2025-03-09 11:57:08 UTC

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Damn I feel this. GM at least the ☕️is on

2025-03-09 11:54:46 UTC

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I agree

2025-03-09 03:15:36 UTC

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I can't tell anymore tbh

2025-03-09 01:07:19 UTC

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Is this a shitpost?

2025-03-09 00:56:37 UTC

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Nice sig.

2025-03-08 17:51:04 UTC

Bit late so no GM, just a GA and fuck the government

2025-03-08 17:31:04 UTC

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Welcome! Devil Makes Three?

2025-03-08 17:23:30 UTC

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That has been said for fucking decades and it still isn’t true and I don’t believe it will be.
Cannot wait for these AI companies to go tits up, good riddance

2025-03-08 15:09:24 UTC

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this was fucking funny. tried to zap, not sure why it failed

2025-03-08 14:58:30 UTC

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Just started learning Go. I like it a lot so far

2025-03-06 13:48:44 UTC

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Will check it out, I like the look of it

2025-03-06 13:46:21 UTC

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SLIP-39 and a lawyer if you’re not worried about a 6102 style confiscation. Easier than multisig and allows for some redundancy.

2025-03-05 16:56:27 UTC

I find myself wanting to use social media less and less with each passing day. that includes nostr. when I was a kid the Internet gave my weird, nerdy, introverted self a chance to find other misfits on the weird and wild web.
social media is mostly an echo chamber and a collection of in-groups or out-groups. the same vague platitudes and GMs are recycled, and just like Bitcoin podcasts it's the same old shit on repeat. if you disagree you become part of the out-group.
I'm weary. I was an alcoholic/addict and those friends are either dead or gone from my life in one way or the other. I've found no tribe. I think I'm perpetually going to be on the fringe and permanently in the out-group, and I've become okay with that. Not sad, not depressed, this isn't a call for help. I've no patience or time for online arguments or disagreements
Just acknowledging what I've come to realize about myself. I think I'm at the point where I would rather have the silence and solitude, maybe the company of a book, rather than change myself to make friends and join a tribe. I just don't know if I see any real value in social media at all.
https://m.primal.net/PUqB.jpg

2025-03-04 21:05:29 UTC

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I have no intention of fighting or enlisting for another country. But I have no real qualm with giving aid in the form of old US arms scheduled for demolition anyways.
Eventually you run out of places to go, and will have ceded control to the enemy. What then? At some point fighting is the best option.
If it were the US being invaded or my home, yes. I own guns and would use them to protect what is mine—my property, my family. If your best suggestion is pack up and run then I’d argue you’re a coward.
I have no intention of discussing this further ✌️

2025-03-04 20:58:08 UTC

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If only anyone in my contacts was into Bitcoin lol.

2025-03-04 17:14:30 UTC

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Philosophy and religion are fine things. Non-attachment is good. But when the drones and bombs are in your backyard I reckon you'll view things through a more pragmatic lens.

2025-03-04 16:36:49 UTC

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I don't think anyone is pro-war in Ukraine, it's anti-Russia. Ukraine gave up nukes after the USA/UK/Russia agreed to leave them sovereign and provide security assurances, which has obviously been violated.
It amazes me that conservatives are suddenly so pro-Russia. The Cold War never ended, it just stopped getting press and changed faces and some tactics. Russia has propped up and allowed cybercrime to run rampant and continuously stirs the pot trying to divide and destroy America.
I don't have all the answers but it seems stupid to suggest we do nothing and let other nations steamroll through the world and continuously interfere with our own affairs.
It's the equivalent of sitting in your own apartment listening to someone going through the building torching and murdering the other occupants and thinking "not my problem".
Do you think they'll stop before they get to you?
Like half of what we gave them was old ordinance set to be decommissioned anyways and it's been like less than 1% of US GDP to fuck up Russia's day.

2025-03-04 03:36:00 UTC

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Finding a new blog is great. I remember when you could easily find unique blogs and personal websites on google. Now it’s just bullshit spam and content farms and junk.
make the internet weird again

2025-03-04 03:08:22 UTC

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Damn now I have a new blog to rabbit hole

2025-03-01 03:55:18 UTC

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No I'm a newer reader of his, but I will check it out, thanks!

2025-03-01 03:50:40 UTC

furthermore, fuck suits. "oohhhh Zelensky you didn't wear a suit like us big manly men" well I didn't notice no shitass spray tan either or whatever fucking eyeliner JD Vance wears.
I don't wear suits, once or twice for a wedding or something I've rented one, but I am decidedly blue collar and I don't pretend to be something I'm not.
Suits are the ones behind enshittification of everything.. Suits are the ones regulating without understanding. Suits are the rapists, the pedophiles, the sex traffickers, the economic terrorists behind every financial crisis in history. Behind all the money printing, the rules for thee and not for me, the endless wars and politicking, you'll find a suit -- maybe a pantsuit, but a suite nonetheless.
"the suit makes the man." no, the suit is a warning.
I'm wary of guys in suits, and I think everyone else should be too. What makes the man is the quality and integrity of his actions, not the suit. The suit is a distraction, like the wolf in sheep's clothing.

2025-03-01 03:28:59 UTC

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fuck 'em all

2025-03-01 03:26:03 UTC

I like Ed's writing, and I think it is important to always temper your sky-high fantasies https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/

2025-03-01 03:24:25 UTC

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god you have no idea how much of an annoyance this fucking is to me. wife bought some new sheets a while back and I was drenched in sweat, realized it was the microfiber. never again. went to buy sweatpants, and literally every pair at two stores I went to were polyester or a combo and proudly advertised "made from recycled water bottles"
why the fuck would I want to wear water bottles? turn that shit into plastic bins or something for industrial use. make my fucking clothes out of fabric like a normal fucking human
what's the fucking deal with this shit

2025-03-01 03:13:58 UTC

It's disturbing how so many on here shill for Trump and Vance and shit on Zelensky.
A lot of people on here think they are free-thinking, freedom loving maxis, but they're really just cunts parroting other cunts. Muted Walker the shitcaster and a bunch of others. Ya'll talk about "clown world" yet I see you all getting out of the same tiny car echoing the same shitty jokes and espousing the same tired beliefs.
I like Bitcoin and freedom, not Russian oligarchs and billionaire populists-- don't forget just a couple years ago your Orange Idol was ranting that he didn't like Bitcoin because it was competition for the dollar. He has no spine, no convictions, only greed. A husk of a man hollowed away by hunger.
If this offends you please gargle my balls and then mute me in that order.

2025-02-28 02:59:05 UTC

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sweet baby Jesus

2025-02-26 13:20:04 UTC

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GM, I’d give my left nut to have a view like that outside my window.

2025-02-25 17:23:28 UTC

have some stuff I need to save for in cash, considering @nprofile…ys9t since they pay out interest in Bitcoin. Also looking at switching over to the Fold debit and credit cards.
open to other suggestions. I get more bullish as time goes on. tired of juggling different credit cards, points, cash back, etc, all of which often get devalued or are simply a pain in the ass to redeem, transfer, etc.

2025-02-25 15:36:47 UTC

GM I FUCKING LOVE NOSTR

2025-02-21 15:38:33 UTC

https://m.primal.net/PFgb.png
imposters

2025-02-20 17:08:44 UTC

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Got a copy of The Trivium on my desk I'm about to start reading. I've thought a lot about this very topic lately.

2025-02-20 16:06:58 UTC

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already is. AI is just a VC hype word for algorithms. advertising and social media is a psyop.
always_has_been.gif

2025-02-20 14:08:55 UTC

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Can you not get credit? Even @nprofile…za3a lives on a credit card. Borrow trash dollars, pay off the credit each month, if you don’t want taxable events hold just enough dollars to meet your bills and put the rest in Bitcoin.
Most credit cards give you points or cash back, but these points are often devalued with little notice, or are complicated—have to use certain cards for specific categories, or for travel you have to transfer points to specific partners, calculate the value yourself, etc, on top of any annual fees.
That all just muddies the water and makes the true value of a credit card harder to see. I like that Fold is just giving a flat 2% back in Bitcoin. No categories, no juggling cards.
One card, clear rewards: 2% back in Bitcoin, more valuable than cash or made up points.

2025-02-18 15:58:26 UTC

GM nostr!
gonna take this opportunity to shill the greatest keyboard imo: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com
I switched back for a couple days to my old Apple Magic Keyboard. Can't do it. While I appreciate the slimness, I get wrist and shoulder pain, especially on the right (mouse) side, and the UHK completely alleviates this. It's a more natural position for me and I also use the two modules so I can scroll and mouse around without leaving homerow. Will probably buy a couple more eventually out of fear the company goes out of business. Not interested in building my own keyboard so while the price is steep, it's well worth it to me.
#gm #keyboardstr

2025-02-16 18:03:06 UTC

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definitely happy to see someone say this. lotta people out here trusting and forgetting about verifying

2025-02-16 15:26:22 UTC

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fuuuuck that looks good