wolfbearclaw
Counter Narrative

No one is forcing anyone to buy any of this.
This “free” mentality stems from being the product of Google, Microsoft, and countless other marketing campaigns.
You can still use Damus without purple
You can opt to not buy a hat or shirt
You can make the economic decision to not pay and even say it’s too much but this “everything should be free” shit is dumb.

2024-06-14 17:07:04

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90s action movie music was playing in my head while reading this through. 😂

2024-06-14 01:20:57

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I understand what you’re saying and I think the problem really is the size and scope of the federal government.
You can observe that a New York democrat is actually different than a Kentucky democrat, especially on the local level.
I feel the problem is partially because we focus on a body of government to represent 320 million people in a single party ideology.
State, county, and city politics are different even though you will have some overlap and some of the concession voting.
I could be wrong in some aspects though I maintain that if you look more locally it’s a little less party line.

2024-06-03 00:45:26

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Downvoted by who? I think if downvotes are “free” I can spin up a million bots to cause some trouble or counter balance downvotes. Maybe I missed some additional context earlier in that thread.

2024-06-03 00:29:47

GN https://i.nostr.build/WG7Pj.jpg

2024-05-25 18:21:40

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The microblogging is kind of a segue to the other stuff. Identity and the social graph people refer to will need to be the basis that brings some of the other things together.
It seems that we’re in the “replace with nostr equivalent” phase before we get to that unique killer app. Or maybe the greater ecosystem of apps connected loosely through identity and web of trust will be “it”.

2024-05-25 18:16:16

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Wonder how many people have scheduled a reply calling you out. If it goes to 80k plus it just looks out of place. 😂

2024-05-25 18:13:55

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They used to be used more widely for jobs too. Never understood the jobs that didn’t require access to sensitive data required stellar (the justification that bad credit people will do bad things to get out of debt). I think that went away after everyone’s credit tanked a bit or i just haven’t seen it much more.
Also I’ve come to accept that credit scores for loans are for people who have no collateral to issue debt against.

2024-05-22 04:34:25

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Is this how the letter agencies conduct customer service surveys? 😂

2024-05-22 02:38:02

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I think that’s twitters static image hosting server. Like profile pictures and image uploads.

2024-05-22 00:43:21

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Here me and the brain trust buying all the way down to $15k.
https://image.nostr.build/212c6309b93f502e621b2a14fea0f7ef94c85a47f3162a5d1d39fa5574ffb9c4.gif

2024-05-20 00:30:08

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“Because true communism hasn’t been tried. True communism is when I’m allowed to play video games all day or make art. Not toil and the fields in between coal mining seasons. Stalin was a capitalist!”

2024-05-19 00:40:34

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This hits on multiple levels here.
I used to think that this was just normal shit given my upbringing.

2024-05-16 17:10:07

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Light prism?

2024-05-15 06:15:06

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Not me. I don’t have anywhere else to go though!

2024-05-15 00:31:41

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Technically they have multiple copies of the data.
There’s “your copy” and their copy
You just deleted your copy. Their exclusive world wide perpetual copyright to your data still probably stands. Etc and so on.

2024-05-14 22:02:59

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Haha. The other day watching a Bitcoin podcast it hit me that some of this probably sounds like cult militia in the woods shit to the average person.
I agree and before you can get to the “fuck the state” stage you have to ease into it.

2024-05-14 21:55:13

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Back in my day when we wanted to send the sats we had to post an invoice. And we liked it! Uphill both ways in the snow!

2024-05-12 22:28:58

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- Heat
- Goodfellas
- Matrix
- Dark Knight
- American Psycho
- Training Day
- Fight club

2024-05-12 14:35:53

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Methallica
My chemical addiction

2024-05-07 23:52:11

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Yeah I think maybe you’re being confused for the other purple cats on this platform who do use multiple clients. 😂

2024-05-07 00:21:02

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Haha that is one fucking impressive NPC mesh network.

2024-05-05 21:05:24

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https://zap.cooking/

2024-05-05 16:25:58

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Price predictions are an automatic ignore in my book at this point. The “moon boys” are probably more annoying.

2024-05-05 00:57:05

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17 LLM algorithms have viewed your profile. Upgrade to pro so we can extract more info from you while pretending to network.

2024-05-05 00:01:42

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Meh they already do. At least it will lower things to the marginal cost quicker since they can all do it…maybe.

2024-05-03 04:28:13

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On my way to bed and fountain just alerted me. I guess I’ll be up for a little longer!

2024-05-02 00:40:25

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I haven’t checked out zap cooking in a while. This is great!

2024-05-01 22:44:08

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It ain’t the fiat capital of the world for nothing.

2024-05-01 22:38:19

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There’s a way.
#note1980…ejtd

2024-05-01 22:25:06

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I actually didn’t know they still made little golden book stuff. What a shame.

2024-04-29 00:35:59

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I mean if you’re not a professional coder you might just go with what you know too. Maybe he was more comfortable in that environment.

2024-04-28 16:29:55

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Bitcoin is not competing with visa. There is no final settlement with a vending machine and that’s probably fine.

2024-04-28 16:20:13

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I’m talking less about the asset similarities and more about the participants.

2024-04-27 22:54:21

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And would somehow cost 15 billion dollars.

2024-04-27 22:48:23

I’m more convinced that goldbugs and Monero(ers?) have more in common with each other than with Bitcoiners.

2024-04-26 00:43:10

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Well you gotta ask yourself.
Maybe those 33 BTC are in better hands now.
I consider it a damn rescue operation.

2024-04-26 00:41:51

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Ugh. I don’t really like that.
Less of a non-custodial and more a problem waiting to happen.
https://i.nostr.build/M5Ej5.jpg

2024-04-26 00:37:27

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Nostr businesses are going to through many iterations of what doesn’t work and what works slightly better.
A good amount of people may not have been around during the shitcoin that was early internet businesses.
Did you know Netscape used to charge for their browser until Microsoft undercut them?
Did you know Netscape before it finally died tried to bundle an email client and IRC client with the browser?
Does anyone remember the hit the money win a prize.
I mean a lot of this pales in comparison to the ad driven monocultural internet we kind of have now (mostly the web but internet at large).
Let’s not go there but let’s also experiment. Some things are going to be shit. Paying for 700 subscriptions to maintain Nostr like streaming services may not be the most optimal but let’s experiment, give feedback, iterate.
…What was the question?

2024-04-26 00:28:09

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Yep. I figure Wall Street moved in so now their enforcement arm is cleaning house.
With the feds it doesn’t matter if they are wrong. They will ruin your life and/or business before any judgement is rendered. It won’t even matter.

2024-04-25 21:55:12

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Unless I’m understanding it wrong you would want a 2 of 3 multisig. You have 2 keys and the entity has 1.
- you can move the funds with 2 keys
- if you lose one let you can work with the entity to move to another 2 of 3 so while there is risk there, there is also a safe guard
- entity cannot move funds without you.
- I think Casa does this.

2024-04-25 21:35:33

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Neither have I. There’s probably 12 of us.

2024-04-24 00:57:56

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https://bitcoin-vps.com/

2024-04-24 00:54:33

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Good point.

2024-04-24 00:38:38

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The KYC in primal doesn’t verify your info. You can give them any name and any country (don’t use a sanctioned country. Not sure if it checks for that) and you should be good.

2024-04-24 00:27:03

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Thank you sir. Much appreciated!

2024-04-23 01:00:11

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Hah are fees the “new inflation”? Kidding aside it’s anyone’s guess what 20 years will look like and base chain is still probably the safest bet.

2024-04-23 00:44:20

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Remediation then: weekend canceled tape backups better fucking work. Cold spare drives management didn’t want to budget for make their debut. No one thanked.

2024-04-22 22:16:38

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Doesn’t have to involve quitting or stopping anything. For example “more wine” or “increases shitposting” are perfectly acceptable. 😂

2024-04-21 01:06:36

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It’s also because everyone thinks they are a retroactive fucking genius.
“If only I knew about this shit in 2010 I would be a trillionaire”
Meanwhile here’s what really happens:
- Pussy out because even $500 a coin seems like I’m throwing away my money.
- Finally grow some balls to buy some
- Forget about it for a while and either lose keys or just leave it dormant
- Your bags increase and you make $10k-$50k and think “this shit is an anomaly. If I don’t sell now I’m going to regret it”
- maybe you shitcoin for a bit
- THEN you wise up and do the right thing.
I know the above would have probably been me. Especially me simping out at a 10x. I could bet my stack that I would have fucked it up if I got in super early.

2024-04-21 00:51:58

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Breaking news!
“A gathering of straight white men were observed disseminating anti-government propaganda earlier today. Authorities are seeking to press charges against one of the so-called patriots for potential terroristic threats by shouting ‘give me liberty of give me death’ a common dog whistle among far right extremists”

2024-04-21 00:43:01

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This is far more likely a scam.
Someone is hand picked to buy TikTok most likely with government strings attached. Everyone will get their cut. I’m sure even the CCP will still have a cut (just a smaller piece of the pie). The “ban” is probably the distraction. The ignorance of our congress is real but also a convenient distraction.

2024-04-20 13:03:27

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“No. I believe you’re looking for rugs in the shitcoin section. Down the hall and through the right.”

2024-04-20 01:07:08

Unlike new years. The halving is seen and experienced by everyone at roughly the same time.
I love that we can all make it a “thing” to celebrate.
It’s a testament to the network continuing along and working as intended.
Cheers you fucking psychopaths!

2024-04-20 01:02:31

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The degenerates are spending mommy and daddy’s tax return money to post pee-pee images on the Bitcoin network.
Once they run out or money and are grounded for a week fees will go back down.

2024-04-20 00:38:06

Absurd. Someone is spending 1400000 sats to send 5000000 sats.
Are these the picture people again?

2024-04-20 00:35:30

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Amen.
I missed the last halving by a few months and have clawed and scraped my way to where I’m at now.
I’ve shitcoined but got out without any real rugs.
Stacked through the good times. The bad times where I thought I was fucked.
Calibrated my thinking and here we are.
To another 210000 blocks.

2024-04-20 00:29:07

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Hope to see you either back here or maybe at pubkey for the next one happy healthy and stacking sats!

2024-04-20 00:10:14

Happy halving!!!

2024-04-20 00:07:09

Old lasty!

2024-04-20 00:01:01

Feeling the lights flicker with the rush of hashrate. 😂

2024-04-19 22:40:09

Inflation is much the norm everywhere that there’s a group of psychopaths that celebrate the reduction of their money’s inflation every 4 years. Can you imagine?!?

2024-04-19 22:36:34

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I’ve seen these as YouTube ads. The deepfakes are so bad they are like those 1990 cgi making animal mouths move.

2024-04-19 22:27:30

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“Shut ‘em down. We’re going 420!”

2024-04-19 16:39:15

While this means nothing for the network but the whole buzz about the halving does feel very “New Years”.

2024-04-19 00:49:45

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I think it’s more like winzip and mIRC. It’s just going to display the number of blocks paste your shareware license and nag you.

2024-04-19 00:40:04

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Hah this is true and even though it’s only $5 worth of sats you can technically buy KYC-free sats with the right info in there.

2024-04-13 16:50:43

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Maybe this might miss your point here.
This sentiment has existed for as long as new things have come along and will happen in the future with newer things.
It is a valid view point because this is how we signal that more work needs to be done in what may be more important.
I agree interoperability as in solving the walled garden problem is probsbly nostr’s best feature.
Nostr is never going to out-twitter twitter or out-do YouTube etc.
The focus will need to be both on some base interoperability and uses for Nostr that are more in the background.
Probably rambling a bit.

2024-04-13 00:45:21

Don’t mind anyone being a Bitcoin maximalist but when the fuck did these plebs become communists?
I think most “contrarian Bitcoiners” are just as full of shit and doing for the follows but there is a point to be made when so called Bitcoiners who have saved up their first 100,000 sats start bitching because someone they don’t like uses Bitcoin.
…bunch of commies

2024-04-13 00:31:49

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These kids and their “vim”.
Back in my day vi didn’t need to be improved.
…but also, the second command I ever ran in a Unix shell was “view” which took me to vi and I has no idea what I did. Just a bunch of tildes on the side of the screen.

2024-04-09 03:34:11

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Checkmate. https://i.nostr.build/6Gd2O.webp

2024-04-09 02:51:33

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Not today fed!
I kid! I kid! 😆

2024-04-08 00:42:13

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Needs to be cold or I won’t sleep well. I can’t deal with a warm room in general. Ice box and blanket please!

2024-04-07 17:14:35

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Facebook is classmates.com with an assigned FBI surveillance agent attached.

2024-04-07 01:07:42

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I think you’re making a lot of assumptions of me. Yes, I read and listen to things. No, I don’t blindly agree because someone’s an “influencoor”.
Want to ease up a bit or am I next on the guillotine?

2024-04-07 00:40:29

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https://i.nostr.build/5GQ9v.jpg

2024-04-06 16:04:51

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It’s called the “fuck my stack up” special.

2024-04-06 16:03:07

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It was a pretty good read and living in that city made it all that more real.
Feeling a little like I’m in the novel now…

2024-04-06 15:57:20

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Fair enough. I was just giving my take on why he was doing what he was doing. In no way defending it.
I am also with Odell in terms of this guy not supporting development in the space as well.

2024-04-06 15:28:42

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My thoughts on this is looking at the forum. He’s on CNBC. These viewers don’t care about it beyond it being an asset to invest in.
I wouldn’t say medium of exchange is a distraction and maybe that the FUD around Bitcoin because you can’t spend it at the store is a distraction.
Also Saylor lives and breathes in the fiat world. This is just what he cares about.
Overall we shouldn’t look to Saylor or ANY ONE PERSON to push the future we want to see of Bitcoin going beyond “digital gold”.
I also agree we shouldn’t LARP around like Saylor cares about medium of exchange anytime soon.

2024-04-06 03:29:58

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Mouth pieces of Wall Street to get people to sell their corn and panic.
Not falling for it.
If the price drops I’ll buy the sats on sale again.
These scammers can go fuck themselves.

2024-04-06 00:02:15

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They always correct the numbers afterward and never broadcast it. Pretty sure the added jobs were mostly shit shovelers and federal government jobs.

2024-03-30 04:01:41

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E because the 14 hour silences would allow me to focus.

2024-03-29 23:49:46

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Free and open doesn’t mean I need to see everything. Muting doesn’t infringe on any other part of the protocol including your ability to read their notes or other data.
I am my own authoritarian.

2024-03-29 21:57:14

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Or…people watch this, find it hilarious and using the ability to read will see who made it and YouTube channel.
Oh yeah and Odell is totally just thirsting for likes. If you want to see how bad the grift is just go to opensats.org. Total scam!

2024-03-29 21:39:01

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Yeah that’s why I have a entourage of cables that seem to have followed me in life.
You never know when civilization collapses and an s-video adapter is needed.
#wirehodl

2024-03-29 21:35:07

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Yeah like insects waking up in the spring these fuckers start activating in a bull market.
Btw, how’s your trade going?

2024-03-29 21:31:56

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Nukes first. Max nukes.

2024-03-29 21:00:48

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Anyone in a position of authority in NYC are already hallucinating. I guess it’s just the training set.

2024-03-29 20:56:48

Most people don’t have anything interesting to say or choose not to say their interesting thoughts.
Why would he expect an influx of that majority into Nostr?
We can ask them to talk about non-Bitcoin stuff and they don’t have anything interesting to share.
We can’t increase adoption with the laggards first.
While it might be a legitimate observation the lurkers aren’t going to get any value from seeing content they don’t care about.
Complaining that Nostr isn’t more Twitter than twitter seems meaningless.
People will come when they have a reason to take advantage of it.

2024-03-29 17:48:16

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That’s quite a stack.
I would probably sell the cape too.

2024-03-29 01:00:36

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I’ll be sitting on the floor awaiting replies…

2024-03-29 00:45:03

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“It’s for the Blockchain data” is the new “it’s for Linux ISOs!”

2024-03-29 00:42:21

I can empathize with my wife when I get the wrong thing from the store after discussing what I needed to get.
It’s like telling your buddy about Bitcoin and them coming back stating they “stacked some ETH”…

2024-03-29 00:33:10

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True.
I mean I incorrectly figured there was fuck-around buying like stack chain and real buying for…saving.

2024-03-29 00:29:26

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$10,000? Wtf were these people doing, redeeming recycled cans and bottles for sats?
Obligatory “Everyone’s LARPING except for me”

2024-03-28 00:05:42

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He ded. confirmed flip flop