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2026-04-17 12:44:41 UTC

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The thing is, if we agreed with Elon on this, we'd have to bring his statement to its logical conclusion, namely that everybody should have the right to a money printer. After all, the effect would be so incomparably small!

2026-04-17 11:40:34 UTC

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Sure, lett's keep the wealth extraction machine going in the hope that technological productivity is going to offset the stealing. What could go wrong?

2026-04-16 08:15:47 UTC

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This is part of the attack of labeling Bitcoin as an asset. We need 99% of so-called Bitcoiners to abandon this idea.

2026-04-14 10:37:00 UTC

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How old is the guy?

2026-04-12 10:22:17 UTC

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The brave among us will create a new future.

2026-04-10 11:37:16 UTC

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"Confirm is a retired major league soccer referee" (probably Alexa's answer)

2026-04-03 09:01:11 UTC

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I hope this is a sick joke. Quasi-consensual?

2026-04-01 22:49:30 UTC

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Inflation should only be defined as an increase in money supply IMO

2026-03-26 12:26:47 UTC

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What's the term was Nostr though? "ReNote"?

2026-03-21 15:54:58 UTC

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How do you get paid assuming you have a job? Also, how do you pay rent or your mortgage assuming you have to?

2026-03-20 14:17:02 UTC

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I anticipate explosions

2026-03-20 12:43:00 UTC

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Any recommended sources on the labor standard thing? It seems similar in nature to what Richard Werner has been advocating for, that is a monetary setup where banks can only create money for productive investments (so for example one cannot borrow new money yo buy a house).

2026-03-20 10:35:22 UTC

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I was randomly gonna be in Belgrade exactly that weekend, too bad!

2026-03-16 17:16:21 UTC

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Sure, has anyone ever been unable to carry out this maintenance though? How many times have people that wanted to open/close/reshuffle channels bumped into the Impossibility of doing so?
All I'm saying is that we're talking about the potential scenario where everyone and their cousin is paying via lightning, when in fact most probably a large percentage of so called bitcoiners don't even run a lightning node.

2026-03-16 16:56:00 UTC

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Just zapped you from my lightning node. Why is lightning unfixable? Is it because the average person doesn't want to run a node? Can one be sovereign without infrastructure?

2026-03-13 14:18:32 UTC

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Why does it feel bad?

2026-03-11 19:45:46 UTC

Btw what about Ark? #asknostr
#nevent1q…5ljz

2026-03-11 19:30:58 UTC

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I don't doubt there is a use case for this trust profile, but why claim that something is non custodial? Unless they're playing with words and they want to state that *self* custodial is different from *non* custodial

2026-03-11 18:39:33 UTC

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Thanks for confirming my suspicion, seemed like that to me as well after skimming through the Spark docs. Not sure why Cake Wallet decided this was now good enough for them, especially on the privacy side of things ( https://blog.cakewallet.com/our-lightning-journey)

2026-03-11 18:26:26 UTC

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Is Breez fucking with us when they claim that they offer a “nodeless integration that offers a self-custodial, end-to-end solution for integrating Lightning payments, utilizing Spark with on-chain interoperability and third-party fiat on-ramps“?
https://github.com/breez/breez-sdk-spark-go?tab=readme-ov-file#what-is-the-breez-sdk---nodeless-spark-implementation

2026-03-11 13:34:56 UTC

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How does that work in practice in your opinion? Would strategy buy 1000 BTC and then Coinbase increase the number on their account with them, but no actual transactions happening? If so, how is strategy fine with it?

2026-03-11 09:42:20 UTC

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How is price barely moving though?

2026-03-09 16:35:05 UTC

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Was it? https://image.nostr.build/6cc85fb5758f71f738ebedf805b8867910a804a470ac2849f937ff781653f996.jpg

2026-03-09 12:21:29 UTC

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Also have the same doubt: how are there buys actually happening without almost any visible price effect?

2026-03-05 18:04:11 UTC

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I see what you mean. This has never sounded like a compelling argument to me: wouldn't the ideal block be full of actual transactions, with the associate utxo lookups and signature verifications cost? The opposite to me feels like saying that I prefer to use my car as a container for stuff because that's cheaper than actually going places.

2026-03-05 17:54:34 UTC

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>Saying that spam kills bitcoin is like saying if bitcoin gets used, it dies.
What do you mean exactly?

2026-03-04 13:05:33 UTC

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How is that the case?

2026-02-21 18:06:10 UTC

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Why is LND bad for privacy? Also are BOLT11 invoices not that great too?

2026-02-21 16:32:50 UTC

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Removing the segregated witness would break lightning, but as far as I know the discount could be removed tomorrow with no consequences other than higher fees for opening channels, and in general for spending segwit outputs. In hindsight, the discount was most probably something that could have been avoided, and I'm with you that it should probably be removed.

2026-02-17 22:00:34 UTC

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Hey didn't you know that you're not allowed to have these kinds of reactionary ideas? Are you against progress or what?

2026-02-17 21:51:06 UTC

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Do you have 60 minutes? https://youtu.be/JPE7X_q3A7A
Some good points made by mechanic here

2026-02-16 14:52:03 UTC

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What do you think about pubky and its vision?

2026-02-16 14:49:56 UTC

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You're generalizing my point of view, that was just one among many potential reasons, which why I said "maybe". What do you think the reason is for Nostr apps not to be popular?

2026-02-16 14:40:56 UTC

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Maybe, maybe not

2026-02-16 14:40:00 UTC

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Or maybe the vast majority of people wants to spend their time looking at a combination of tiktok entertainment and porn, which Nostr doesn't provide? We should define a reasonable measure of success for Nostr based apps in my opinion

2026-02-16 14:37:00 UTC

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I don't think there that many users on Nostr as a whole to begin with though

2026-02-16 00:26:43 UTC

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@npub1yzv…rf8q?

2026-02-15 23:59:34 UTC

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What's the minimum liquidity for a channel open in your estimate?

2026-02-15 23:17:43 UTC

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Is this about inflation? I guess I'm dreaming

2026-02-15 23:07:10 UTC

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You mean we need to break into the mainstream media and show them the problem without writing boring books instead? That could work

2026-02-15 22:49:21 UTC

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How do we go about making sure that people actually understand money? Not only that, they need to keep feeling the importance of the concept they learn day in and day out, otherwise the fact that their time and energy is being stolen via debasement might simply fade away in the background after a few days, leaving them more worried about incoming bills and second jobs than anything else.

2026-02-10 13:31:08 UTC

This is a very interesting take: Bitcoin as digital Latin
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bitcoin-as-digital-latin-asymptotic-ossification-and-the-end-of-semantic-drift/2214

2026-02-06 13:19:54 UTC

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Reading your reply it seems that the only direct reason for opposing BIP-110 is related to OP_SUCCESS? Care to elaborate on this point? Thanks!
I'm with you when it comes to the difference between what large and small miners can hope to mine, but does not it arise entirely out of the fact that consensus and policy are different? Would not having BIP-110 close that gap remove this source of out of band revenue currently being enjoyed only by large miners?
To clarify the intent behind the initial post, maybe my original question should have been framed as follows: if Bitcoin were to come into existence today with the rules of BIP-110, would anyone oppose it in favor of a version closer to its current state?

2026-02-06 10:41:40 UTC

Why would node runners and other Bitcoin users oppose this? Genuine question #asknostr #bip110 #spam
#nevent1q…hlxv

2026-02-03 18:19:39 UTC

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So you can be a high achiever only if highly motivated by money?

2026-02-03 18:09:05 UTC

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True, but what makes them willing to do the work in the first place?

2026-01-29 18:17:41 UTC

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But you had enough time to reply in a completely useless way?

2026-01-29 17:11:22 UTC

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I didn't get your point sir

2026-01-29 10:18:52 UTC

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> Giving humanity meaning, can jeopardise the meaning individual humans give themselves.
I struggle to see what the meaning is that we're supposedly giving humanity by technological progress. I'm not talking about AI only here, but all forms of technical progress.
I don't think there's a meaning here other than higher levels of "complexification", as Terence McKenna would say: the universe seems to be an engine of novelty creation and preservation. As time goes by, more things happen and at a faster pace. This seems undeniable, yet why would it be meaningful? The same McKenna also stated many time that history is an absolute nightmare.
Just some thoughts on the spot!

2026-01-27 19:10:20 UTC

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How would that work?

2026-01-26 18:24:42 UTC

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Genuine question: I see many posts like this, but what's the point of vibe coding another cashu wallet? Wouldn't this time be spent better by improving the protocol or contributing to existing wallets?
I hope this does not come off as confrontational, because it really isn't!

2026-01-23 12:36:10 UTC

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No gold?

2026-01-23 11:06:12 UTC

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Great points, thanks for the reply. Would you personally have any hope for Bitcoin to succeed as money given what you've just said and how would that look like in your view (is possible ofc)?

2026-01-23 09:54:31 UTC

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I think KYC is impeding a lot of payment use cases, since in many (all?) jurisdictions one has to pay capital gains tax for selling Bitcoin.
Plus I'm not sure how things work on the merchant side of things. What new processes/problems do merchants have to go through in order to accept sats from a legal/fiscal point if view?

2026-01-20 14:08:39 UTC

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⚡️ I'll give 3.000 sats to the comment with the most likes on this post. ❤️
Comment a meme, a quote, mention someone... anything you want. 24 hours.

2026-01-18 15:03:28 UTC

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Is it actually that easy to associate an original (maybe KYC'ed) address with an output that has gone through, let's say, 10 or more rounds of coinjoins, where each round takes in ~30 inputs and produces 30 outputs for example? Honest question.
I'm not so sure about the other point. I often hear that outputs that have gone through coinjoins are easy to detect and hence will be blocked by traditional financial institutions. I can see how this is a problem for those who are trying to get in and out of the fiat system, but I don't understand why XMR would be better in this regard since it's often claimed that one of its main advantages is that it always gets removed by centralized exchanges. So XMR is not even trying to "mix" itself with the existing economic system, and this somehow does not matter in the analysis? Help me understand the comparison here

2026-01-18 13:54:01 UTC

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Sure thing, but it allows increasing privacy by a lot without sacrificing finite supply. Would that still not be private enough for some use cases, and if so, which use cases?

2026-01-18 12:54:24 UTC

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Aren't coinjoins a good enough solution though?

2026-01-17 12:44:29 UTC

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How do these people know whom to target though?

2026-01-16 19:14:59 UTC

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Governments doing what governments do (stealing)

2026-01-14 12:27:39 UTC

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Unless we see some incredible advancement in AI and robotics such that virtually all human labor becomes obsolete, those who have hoarded Bitcoin won't just keep it aside forever and ever, but will reasonably spend it bit by bit.

2026-01-12 16:55:14 UTC

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And why was that?

2025-12-31 09:38:32 UTC

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Nice, I'll look into it! To go back to my original question, does this leave cash as the only KYC free option?

2025-12-30 22:55:50 UTC

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Why do you think Bisq and Robosats are not KYC free? Genuine question

2025-12-19 00:12:14 UTC

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Hmm but what is it though? I mean what is actually depicted there? I cannot really understand it

2025-12-05 16:24:47 UTC

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Nothing wrong with you're saying, but banks today are not exactly neutral custodians.

2025-12-01 16:40:39 UTC

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Seems like a realist conclusion, yet how does money converge to one when most people aren't able to drive its adoption?
Do we expect that the dollar will one day implode and then everyone will sort of wake up and start accepting their wages in Bitcoin?
I guess what I'm trying to say that I fail to see the path to mass adoption, maybe projects like Square enabling it for merchants is how to make some meaningful progress, or other similar initiatives

2025-12-01 16:34:39 UTC

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Correct. Understanding Bitcoin requires a whole lot of work though. How do we bring the foundational insights that we have to normal people busy with their lives?

2025-11-28 23:52:16 UTC

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It's exactly 1/21M of everything

2025-11-27 10:42:50 UTC

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That's obviously true, but what drives it? My take is that there is a fundamental difference in approach towards uncertainty.
Socialism wants to plan and control everything. It literally fears unknown dynamics.
Capitalism embraces uncertainty and places its trust on the naturally emerging behavior of groups and individuals.

2025-11-27 10:30:12 UTC

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I agree with your take, yet I also think that these things are implemented in degrees, where each choice leads societies closer to socialism or to capitalism.
Quick example: capitalism rests on the free market principle where prices are free to move wherever demand and supply bring them to. This is not currently happening with the most important price: interest rates are determined by the central banks. We can conclude that in this respect we're not closer to capitalism.
I wanted to propose this example since too often we hear that "X has not been really tried" and it seems like a mischaracterization of how complex systems work.

2025-11-26 11:22:36 UTC

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Will the masses ever discover zaps and v4v?

2025-11-21 21:49:59 UTC

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Etymology is a rabbit hole, especially when one thinks about how words relate to each other in different languages as well.
One example I'll never forget is the German word "greifen", which means to catch or hold onto something with your hands.
This is related to "begreifen" which means to understand, and it's fascinating to me since this brings us back to our origins as monkeys hopping between branches. Which is why in English we say we grasp a concept or an idea.
This goes so deep that in Italian there's the same relationship as in German: "prendere" means to take or to catch, "comprendere" means to understand.
Beautiful stuff if you ask me

2025-11-19 20:37:18 UTC

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https://video.nostr.build/623f675c2ddc12c9b06e2c97d487ad8837c3ddd49d8aec6963d1475ca5ff2047.mp4

2025-11-13 10:14:54 UTC

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I had no idea that taproot was presented, among other things, as a potential improvement with respect to QC threats. How could this have been given the exposed pubkey? Am I missing something either in my understanding of how taproot works or more generally?
Also what debate are you referring to? I'd like to know more, thanks

2025-11-08 20:06:38 UTC

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That's called slavery

2025-11-08 08:59:36 UTC

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I wasn't aware of this. KYC mints seem antithetical to the whole idea honestly

2025-11-07 16:57:07 UTC

Is ZCash the new Bitcoin? #asknostr

2025-11-04 17:14:55 UTC

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This must be one of those "Bitcoin drops to 100K" headline moments

2025-11-03 11:20:44 UTC

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Thanks for the reply, interesting points and I think I share your view. Maximalism per se doesn't guarantee a bright future, especially if Bitcoin gets transformed into some sort of financial asset the value if which gets measured in dollars and other fiat currencies.
My main doubt with solutions other than Bitcoin is simply one related to feasibility. It seems to me that in real life (in the west) almost nobody cares about Bitcoin, which is supposedly a household name by now. Or if people care, they do so only with regards to price whenever big moves happen, and that's the end of it.
Given that's already very hard to make the general public see the value of Bitcoin, what hopes can one have when it comes to Monero, Zcash, or something else entirely? Maybe this is not even the right way to think about the matter?

2025-11-03 10:07:07 UTC

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So the plan is for everyone to move to Monero? Genuine question

2025-10-28 10:31:38 UTC

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There's BIP 360 - https://bip360.org - which definitely seems a step in the right direction. I don't get the impression the Bitcoin community is dismissive of quantum threats honestly

2025-10-23 17:16:37 UTC

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Why? I personally don't like colleagues who use AI to generate code they barely look at, wait for reviews, and then implement all the required changes to address the comments.
What's the point of this? I thought AI was going to improve their code, not just allow them to push stuff quicker and then wait for reviews

2025-10-23 16:23:31 UTC

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and somehow being the only one not exactly enthusiastic about all this

2025-10-23 11:47:05 UTC

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Self custody or this was all a worthless adventure

2025-10-22 12:52:50 UTC

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I was expecting more debate on this point @npub1myg…sn5p - is it true that Monero is not experiencing these issues and if so, is it true that it would change if it crossed a certain size threshold? Why would that be in both cases?

2025-10-22 10:40:26 UTC

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Hard to disagree with this, yet I'm not sure the solution to centralization can only be technical in nature. Without the average individual being informed and interested in sovereignty, would ideally perfect UX and tools ever be enough?
What's preventing the average self proclaimed Bitcoiner from self custody + operating his/her own lightning node?

2025-10-21 12:02:07 UTC

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Wake up? It seems you're inferring the totality of what I know or don't know from one or two sentences I wrote.
The fact that historically we always had to build a payments layer top of gold highlights a factual limitation of gold. Gold's use case is money, it's not that of being a reserve asset to be owned by a few centralized institutions. That happens because of physical limitations.

2025-10-21 11:53:53 UTC

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It's not for that or it cannot be for that?

2025-10-21 11:47:19 UTC

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People had doubts?

2025-10-21 11:46:23 UTC

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Fishy as in?

2025-10-19 15:55:41 UTC

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Sunday mountain view for me
https://image.nostr.build/a2dec6252d5a9fc534b3b3c514c750e708495a9b679434d3eae17064c4969b6b.jpg

2025-10-19 11:26:41 UTC

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I never understood the memes representing cats as superior beings. Fuck cats

2025-10-18 23:38:19 UTC

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Weird also how the fact that the pound is called a "pound" precisely because it referred to a unit of weight goes entirely unnoticed

2025-10-18 23:34:45 UTC

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That's a pretty unclear reply in my opinion. Data availability in an unconfirmed state for users that cannot wait?

2025-10-17 09:33:28 UTC

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What's driving the current price action in your opinion? Forced liquidations? The buying spree these treasury companies are ostensibly on does not seem to add up with the current price level

2025-10-16 22:09:58 UTC

How many people can transfer a meaningful amount of gold to someone else and have it verified in around 60 minutes? #note1zsl…hc93

2025-10-16 16:51:47 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/70debd5ab566b0f5924b56fbad37ee63ee76940627f3084348a8f2a25a0104fb.jpg
NGU

2025-10-16 16:43:50 UTC

https://video.nostr.build/8164a6a76763a54888bc8a433eb3675e6931f050beec2b55ef5824a960879f96.mp4 #note17s6…67vs

2025-10-11 16:04:41 UTC

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Don't know much about him to be honest, he seems to have done quite a few things for El Salvador as far as I know.
So yes we can have good leaders, I'm just not sure they're reliable over the long term. Best case, they get replaced over the decades and nothing ensures we get good ones again