Ov1, a Taoist Bitcoiner

A long time Bitcoin Standard bearer actively training myself and my peers (so I have some), in the battle over ownership of our data, our money, and our communication channels in the war between decentralized free individuals and the centralized tyranny of the crowd. Schedule an appointment with me here: https://lncal.com/Ov1

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2024-09-07 17:11:20

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Seems to me that bringing the Bitcoin and Nostr tool sets to the Permaculture and Homesteading communities will be much lower hanging fruit, as they already understand long term thinking, distributed networks create resilience, and sovereignty over supply chain verticals matter.
It's not 'your' data unless it's on your device and not 'your' device/node/relay/AI agent unless it's on your land in your building. Same as it's not your wallet if it's not in your pocket.

2024-08-31 14:15:20

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I remember the fur bikini worn the Barbara Bach (I think that was her name) far more than the Beta cave-boy Ringo played...

2024-08-31 14:07:47

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I fully expect that a few decades from now using paper with dead white men will be regarded the same way we currently view using sea shells or glass beads as money; an archaic, obsolete, and fragile accounting and value communication system used by the technological and economic illiterate.
ALL forms of money, even Bitcoin, are still only 'potential energy' that only becomes useful when 'realized' through use. It is the love of the money 'above all else' that is the source of all evil. The point of a journey, and the vehicle used for it, is to reach a destination, not to perpetually float as pure potential.
In sport it's said that there's no greater tragedy than wasted potential. The same applies to dying with unspent satoshis. I can't count on my offspring to deploy my sats as effectively as I will, so I plan on sliding into the grave with all my financial energy spent enjoying my life. Leaving the surplus in an irrevocable #BitcoinTrust defending my heirs from themselves.

2024-08-31 13:52:14

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Why have I been forced to listen to commercials when listening to podcasts on your platform? They drove me to use other options many months ago, when you had been my go-to choice.
Is it because I refuse to pay for a subscription..?
You market yourself as a V4V platform, but are forcing me to pay to avoid ads, same as Pandora & other fiat platforms do!

2024-08-15 17:12:47

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I prefer 'peers'...

2024-08-15 17:10:17

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Consider making the 5 Tibetan Rites for Immortality a daily practice. Those 5 sets of 20 movements can be done anywhere with no equipment in 7-10 minutes. They're designed as self mobilization techniques for the hips, shoulders, neck, and waist.
https://youtu.be/j_bY6REpIPE?si=XoK_apHZWYTXFmQ_
They will help your neck & shoulders deal with the postural challenges of breastfeeding, as well as the consequences on your back/hips from pregnancy and delivery. This suggestion is based on having been a professional massage therapist married to a Pilates teacher thru two pregnancies, as a wounded healer/athlete/martial artist myself.
The principal to keep in mind, no matter the issue, is that healing occurs most effectively through small consistent therapeutic stress/movement under light resistance through full range of motion.
Good luck and remember to enjoy both the peaks and valleys of your journeys.

2024-08-11 19:31:14

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I didn't save the link to the study providing these numbers that surprised me.
History has shown that our most productive decade of life is in our 60s, followed by our 70s, and 50s. Productivity of real value comes mostly at the until end of our journey.
Everything through your 40s is mere preparation for when you're ability to produce value to your fellow man kicks into high gear as knowledge accrues exponentially.

2024-08-07 16:21:30

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He was specifically referring to people and governments, not Bitcoin, when he made that statement. Taken out of context this contrast is amusing though, as it highlights the fact that the weak link in Bitcoin's protocol is the human link in the chain.

2024-08-07 16:11:40

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Even in real life, in one of the major US metropolitan areas there are only a small handful of places to liquidate gold coins. They not only have limitations on business hours and amounts, they also charge premiums well above Spot prices IF they are even buying when you want to sell.
Typically, we want to sell when the price rises and they don't want to buy when it does. So, they simply close their OTC desk when you most want to use it. They also generally don't have proper authentication tech on hand so will only buy stamped coins they recognize and trust.
This is all inferior to true P2P markets, like cash<=>LN sats physical trades. The problem that arises when transforming a physical to a virtual phase state the physical liquidity pool and departures from it must physically be defended.

2024-07-28 16:54:44

Another tool for our Bitcoinization of our personal and commercial lives is now available. Adding an important stair for many to step on when climbing towards becoming 1st Class Bitcoin Citizens by running fully Self-Hosted nodes.
An alternative to Voltage, that integrates with your browser and Nostr. This tool can empower many on their journey to self-sovereignty over their entire data storage and communications tool stack.
#nevent1q…yej5

2024-07-20 14:27:53

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Would never pay them a single sat, but some of the side events are tempting. The travel expenses and opportunity costs are feeling hard to justify. Feels like stacking more sats will probably provide a better ROI.
Since I haven't set myself up to be a shark, there's little benefit to swimming in shark infested 'red' water full of ignorant chum. I might be mistaken for either predator or prey.
When in fact I'm a regenerative builder cooperatively cultivating sovereign soil with my peers, neither parasite nor host.

2024-07-20 14:11:00

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So, am I correct in thinking that for instance this could create a physical n424 NFC tag that would query a Nostr dataset to authenticate our:
-physical ID providing physical access to Nostrich planes, trains, automobiles, and home/offices
-Sending and Receiving Zaps
-Signing into Nos2x or something similar..?
Providing a physical MFA device, to effectively create a Nostr 'Yubi-Key' type device in the form of a sticker!

2024-07-12 15:23:29

This is The Way.
Simple, not easy.
Humbly stacking sats incentivizes efficiency, over-production of value, and long term planning.
Invest in your personal infrastructure locking down the supply chain for all your daily needs, protect your health, and cultivate strong peers as allies in both local and remote networks. You can't eat your satoshis and a peer to peer network requires peers. Your own team and physical infrastructures, or lack thereof, either strengthen or weaken your trusted supply trains.
Choose your hardware, software, and crewmates carefully! Loose lips sink ships, but so do bad maps and weak hulls, sails, and ropes.
#note1dsm…fu8c

2024-07-10 23:01:57

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The NFC n424 chips used by Boltcard are often used as pin protected ID badges, that just need to access a directory to confirm/deny verification. Seems like having that as a directory of approved Users accessible in a private Nostr relay can allow the same functionality, to create an physical Nostr-signing device.
Am I wrong, or will something like Bitwarden on a Start9 OS be necessary for keeping that data directory available..?

2024-07-09 15:42:12

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We cannot break Natural Law, only ourselves (or our families/businesses/countries) upon it.
What we can do is to learn to better apply Natural Laws (like math, gravity, aero/hydro-dynamics, electri-magnetism) to our advantage.
The smartest among us are combining all the above to gain an advantage in collecting capital in all its phase states on the physical, contractual, digital, and virtual planes. Doing so by mining for bitcoin with self-soveriegn decentralized hybrid power generators.

2024-07-03 17:13:12

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Have you read the book 'Ishmael' by Daniel Quinn?
In there the author also compares modern agriculture to modern warfare and points out the many hazards in it. It was a good read that made me think as it provided a different view in human history than the I'd encountered elsewhere. Enjoy...

2024-06-23 15:27:46

The journey IS the destination.
Seeking is its own reward, celebrate not the peaks of pleasure as much as the depths of pain.
It's not just "more pain, more gain", progress is maximized by "correctly applied pain, stimulating greater gains".
Do 'The Work', reap the rewards. Just realize that the Work, and not the Win, is the true goal. So, celebrate the work when wading through muck in the pit more than the leaping for joy at the Win in the peak. There's always another mountain to climb, more impact to create, and more sats to stack.
This strategy creates long term resilience, in our physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial bodies.
Stack value daily, diminishing consumption and maximize production of ever greater value for yourself, your family, and your community.
This IS The Way!
htps://youtu.be/xLORsLlcT48?si=05hF9voUS2YzsCSC

2024-06-18 19:22:28

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Pleasure or Pain,
Sunshine or rain,
Predator of prey,
Sovereign or servant,
The Tao flows from one to the other, each provides contrast to the other. Shadows are inevitable and essential to add depth when dancing in the light.
So this goes as well with:
Public or Private
Commercial or Residential
Collective or Individual
&
KYC or non-KYC
Each one has its time, place, and use-case.
(I find even voluntary slavery repellent, but is it even slavery when it's a choice..?)
Freedom comes from riding the 3rd side of these coins, the Edge!
Surfing the waves from crest to trough, because, as Permaculture teaches us: Creation occurs on the fringe, where the fun, the inspiration, and the awe reside.
Many will crash, burn, and arise again when learning how to balance on the narrow path of the Tao of Satoshis.

2024-06-18 17:47:19

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Cattlemen Bank & Trusts have a long history of providing these services to local communities. Commodity futures markets help the Ranchers manage risks of time, but they've been co-opted by fiat speculators and manipulated by the money printers. Creating a "Circular Satoshis Economy" within the Ranchers' control will be a big upgrade and a means for their supporters to create a "Proof of Steak" system many Bitcoiners could support. 😀

2024-06-18 17:26:50

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I've been thinking that we should work with the Bitcoin Beef Initiatives to create Noste Identies for each cow, combining a GPS tracker and live tracking to enable "herd audits" to back a Cattle-mint that can be redeemed for meat or LN sats. Seems like a great form of commodity reserve based on proof of work empowering the Ranchers with a means of hedging and raising capital for reinvestment into maintaining and upgrading the ranch.
With a LN routing node and Nostr relay, these ranchers could evolve into semi-trusted localized food banks performing Uncle Jim and custodial solutions built on the "branded reputation".

2024-06-18 17:18:17

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Next time, how about I design & 3d print some branded drink coasters with embedded NFC tags that can include eCash vouchers, smart card data sharing, or LNURLp functionality. I just got my 1st batch of 100 ntags with Boltcard integrations to enable Membership bearer wallet/IDs.
Let me know if any of this interests you. Just send me the graphic for the coaster, with up to 4 colors, & I'll work up a 3d model for your approval.

2024-06-17 17:10:55

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If you're in the Austin area, I not only paint, but also replace any/all appliances and fixtures, resurface anything but carpet, and do framing/finish carpentry, and plumbing electrical work that doesn't require pulling permits. I've many local references and dozens of 5 star reviews if you want to see some reputational capital first.
I also offer a 20% discount on my labor rate for payment in LN sats!

2024-06-17 17:04:05

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This reality has brought me out of retirement back into working in residential renovations. My elders are retiring, my few peers are fully booked, and few in the generations after Gen X have been interested in acquiring trade skills.
Having a half dozen of those skill sets, and more beyond the mainstream (Permaculture, Pattern Language, & Off grid design/build/operate) allows me freedom to choose when, where, and for whom I work. It also allows me to deploy my own capital with maximum efficiency because none will do as high quality of work for me as I will for myself.

2024-06-05 14:36:31

Those who write the rules always leave themselves a solution for keeping their own privacy. There are 21 exemptions to this rule, only one of them is functionally available to most of us; non-statutory Trusts, private contracts never registered with any Secretary of State.
All other businesses now not only must provide state issued ID, but also residential addressesforr every individual owning more than 15% of a business. Basically firewalling the undocumented population behind a bureaucratic barrier to business designed to keep their families in multi-generational poverty under the boot of the surveillance state.
#nevent1q…vw5w

2024-06-01 14:39:58

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I can 3d print dog tags with embedded NFC tags if you'd like. Perhaps your own version of this with an NFC link to the band's Wavlake hosted music...
Pick you color, I have Nostr purple and Bitcoin orange, B/W, gold, silver, just pick your branded colors and mascot/logo/icon and reach out in my DMs. I'm also curating training materials for onboarding armies of fans into the Nostr, LN, and Bitcoin protocols.
Here's the link to my early version of these I entered in a Bolt Fun hackathon quite awhile ago.
https://bolt.fun/project/Stream-cards

2024-05-31 15:18:26

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There IS a perfect match though for private businesses and membership associations to operate Mints withoutt government or centralized rug pulls. Any organization, not serving the general public, can use eCash as an in-house accounting system. Perhaps as payroll systems that can be redeemed into LN sats on-demand by employees for saving or spending outside the 'company', using eCash within their closed system.
Private Membership Associations are another example of where semi-trusted Mint operations can manage identity, reputation, and compliance risks for Members. When joining the Club, ID has to be provided for the signature on the contract to be valid. But only to the witnesses of the contract.
Once that public/private firewall has been passed Members and the Mint are not running a MSB serving the public and therefore are NOT subjuct to the jurisdiction of the Nanny-State charged with protection of the general public. The Hosts are merely providing data storage and transmission services for the Membership.

2024-05-31 14:58:14

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After 30+ yrs as a War-Tax-Resistor existing solely in the cash economy I have experienced the liberation of attention freed up by not tracking, labelling, and reporting every cent earned and spent. What I didn't know couldn't be used against me, if I couldn't even track my cash flows the Nanny-State authorities couldn't either.
I've read that compliance costs add 20% to the cost of doing business. That actually seems low. There are many incalculable costs to the artificial obstructions and shrinkage to capital flows. Even the obsolete idea of 'business hours' restricts the velocity of value flow between businesses.
Just as the Gregorian method of accounting was adopted by businesses from the bottom up, despite top down desires to keep them using Roman Numerals for balancing their ledgers. The more efficient method of accounting for value exchanges will win out, eventually.

2024-05-30 15:55:31

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I see this as creation of more resiliency for our civilization through decentralized supply chains that can adapt to local conditions and cultures.
One of my favorite Million quotes is "True security comes only from looking out your window andseeing food growing and your neighbors working." I prefer not to see my neighbors, but to have self reliant peers nearby and would add 'data, energy, water, & waste collection/transformation/transmission systems' to my view out the window.

2024-05-30 15:24:36

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This works well as a short term highly secure solution. But '1 Is None', backing up your own memory somewhere at least once is proper operational security for the long haul. Some argue that while' 2 is 1, 3 is enough, 4 is best' when it comes to redundancies of essential systems. Usually, segregation and compartmentalization of risk is necessary too achieve resilient and effective security. These tactics apply in every realm we interact in; physical, contractual, digital, and virtual.

2024-05-30 14:47:16

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Adding 'The Permaculture Design Manual' written by Bill Mollison AND 'Patter Language Design' by Christopher Alexandria will allow you to add that open source software to your sovereignty protocols. Siegeproof sovereignty requires control over ALL your basic daily needs.
Good luck and have fun 'breaking ground'!

2024-04-13 05:37:25

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Been practicing self sovereign living for 30+ yrs now, since long before "social media".
To quote Bill Mollison, the founder of Permaculture, "True security only comes from looking out your window and seeing your food growing and your neighbors working."
I look forward to the day when all my neighbors are Bitcoiner who understand, value, and provide proof of work. May such a day come soon for those of us ready to stop participating in the upside down fiat clown world we were born into.

2024-04-10 22:45:13

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If they are smart, locking down control of the supply chain for daily basic needs should be a priority. Shelter, water, food, fuel, & waste management must be under control in order to truly be self-sovereign.
Sats are a means to an end, not the end in themselves. When cold, hungry, and thirsty without power or cooking fuel, no amount of satoshis will help. You'll still be dependent on trading your sats for these daily basic needs. Provide them for yourself and you can Hodl on to your heart's delight.

2024-03-22 21:42:49

I just added a new link to my Nostree list My written work! 🎉. This nearly 5 year old resource has held up pretty well. Back then I saw the need for more privacy and transactability, so allowed for the alt-coins as a possible solution.
But Bitcoin has matured and ALL of them have become what I refer to as Zombie coins, dead projects walking looking for other's brains to feed on.
I'd made the 1st Chapter on Communications because I saw the need for uncensorable communication to defend money that had become language.
If Amazon would let me, I'd make this free in ebook form.
I may soon use Nostr to publish and update it chapter by chapter. So look for more coming soon...
I realize I am Doxxing myself here, knowingly doing so as I'm about to begin sharing educational video content here soon, too.
The Tao of Bitcoin Banking, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W7VZBLL
Check it out: https://nostree.me/ov1@bitcoiner.chat/qvmgNDTMX

2024-03-14 17:20:09

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If you're still open to it, I have a specific long standing very loyal Austin community I'd like to introduce to Nostr with a branded client. A macrobiotic and Montessori community I think they will understand the value in cultivating their community.

2024-03-09 16:33:36

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As a Permaculture designer/builder I love how a www.homebiogas.com unit turns my bidet into a source of cooking fuel for the kitchen stove. Bio-char rocket stove wood gas generators turn wood chips into electricity. Just as we heat our home twice, when chopping wood and again when running a BTC Space Heater... the biogas unit fuels you twice, once from the garden and again for the stove.

2024-02-17 21:33:45

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What type of filament are you using?
I have just started testing ABS prints on my Bambu X1c. This seems a good choice of material for these prints. Or might you be using PETG?
Also, can you share any resources for finding a .stl library of models for us all to access and learn from?

2024-02-17 21:24:48

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Nostr, like Bitcoin, has more in common with the oceans than the land.
There no roads to map on the sea. We are discovering new uncharted, volatile, and unforgiving waters with both these protocols for managing the vessels carrying our data treasures.
As in international waters, our crew, our trading partners, and our vessels each have security risks to be mitigated ourselves because no one is coming to save us. Not from our selves, our trusted allies, or our counter-parties' mistakes, which often have catastrophic consequences.

2024-02-17 20:08:40

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Did you embed NFC tags into those dogtags?
If not, next time reach out to me and I'll 3d print these dogtags, or any other form factor you prefer. These can be turned into tap-2-connect business cards, Azteco-type OTC vouchers, or Boltcard/ring-type wallets.

2024-02-04 21:03:38

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I need to figure out how to apply an image to the surface of a 3d object to be stored as an .stl file, so I can 3d print branded swap for individuals and businesses. How about I print and mail your own branded medallion, with an NFC tag embedded in it as payment for your assistance?
I'll practice what I learn with your own custom design...
What can you find for us all on this subject?
I may not be the only one interested in the subject of custom 3d modeling. I've found some stuff, but more eyes on this subject will find more solutions for us all.

2024-02-04 20:57:10

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If I offered my services as a traveling "Make-Ready-4-Sale" punch out guy, would you pay me in LN sats for knocking out the punch-lists you prepare your property owners?
Have tools/skills, will travel. Updating US passport ASAP...
Self-sovereign home/office compounds for self-sovereign sats anyone???

2024-02-04 20:52:54

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I offer the fiat plantation house slaves I often still work for (Bitcoiners tend to be too DIY and too frugal to pay for construction upgrades) a 10% discount of my stated rate for paper fiat at the time of service. Almost ALL of them take me up on this, IF I provide sufficient forward notice.
I also offer another 10% for payments made in LN sats, a 20% "banking inconvenience fee".
The fact is, 90% of the wealth in the world is still in the hands of ignorant, fiat-games winners now in near retirement/dementia/Alzheimer's age ranges. Many "old dogs" can't learn "new tricks", they simply don't have the mental bandwidth. I'm still dealing with clients writing paper checks, as well as not-so-useful idiots using payment rails like Venmo/Zelle/etc.
The ONLY way to be able to demand ONLY sats is to be so useful and have stacked so many sats already that you're able to wait for and find those who value your market offerings more than their sats. For many Bitcoiners, this means we must be Very Thirsty for a solution, or we'll keep our sats to ourselves.
More of us need to learn to value high quality art though. Becoming direct patrons of the Artists and the Arts we personally love, showing it with the apex form of Love Language: satoshis!

2024-02-04 20:31:03

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Your point here puts the risks of Near Field Communication into perspective.
When do I get to #tap2zap with LN sats on an NFC tag, as a voucher or a pin-protected wallet like @npub1may…hl50
What do we have to do to activate this super power?
How about a #GeyserGrant to fund a bounty to the Dev that writes that Nip for us all..?

2024-01-28 18:25:43

This is truly a state-of-the-art construction solution. Both the locally grown bamboo and the basalt versions are amazing building materials in their own ways.
I've been working on many similar designs for decades now. In typical 100th Monkey Effect, the smartest humans having been exploring better ways of building our homes coming up with the same answers. Each variation on these answers works in different times and places for different people.
Our self-sovereignty tool box is filling in beautifully.
Combine this with the www.homebiogas.com and #aquaponics, #blacksoldierfly, as well as #wood-gas on-demand #hydrogen-generators, #micro-hydro, #wind, & #photovoltaic/battery technologies to craft a full stack of solutions providing on-site residential utilities.
Add in #vermiculture earthworm cultivation, bio-sand water filtration and passive heating to fill in the jigsaw puzzle. This is how we use biomimicry to design, build, and inhabit our homesite as highly adaptive and resilient living ecosystems.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDUlw4KLar92_z_xEXQU9tA0i4g205NvQ&si=Rl10Ul35EctiwlEc
https://i.nostr.build/rQx0.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1600x720&alt=A+blue+and+white+tiny+dome+home&blurhash=Z36a%23Gr%3D9GITkXNL9GWWE1tS%3Fa9FRkkDRj%252IUkC_3WA%25MIURiR*NG%25LIT%25L%25MIUxYt6IVWXRkt7&x=0d511aab3594c406e88855545f3646a8324ca1e65c13e8b3c30098302e5d3427

2024-01-23 03:30:10

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You can also use LN Bits on your own server, a rented one, or even LN Bits SaaS. It's wallet excision toolkit let's you spin up your own node through there.
I am about to test this myself soon. Please share your experiences if you try this route, or whatever path you do find works for you as well. Thanks.

2024-01-23 03:16:38

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I guess that's why as a Taoist Tai Chi practioner I was called to write The Tao of Bitcoin Banking in 2019. It's past time for me to update it with the Lightning Edition of the Tao of Bitcoin.
To my eyes I see Bitcoin as Chi, life force made storable, measurable, and transmitable. Simultaneously everywhere and nowhere, a cloud-like Tai Chi master providing no surface area to attack. A bio-electric battery cultivating the fruits of work by closing the money-printing/inflation voltage losses that t can transmit power across time and space at the speed of though/light/energy.
Does this then mean, like The Force, the Tao/Bitcoin doesn't flow through me, it IS me..?

2024-01-23 03:07:13

Wow. It was a huge disappointment when I discovered when in PR in 2021 that Strike didn't work there.
I have been wanting to return there. This is just the sort of reason I needed to return to one of the most beautiful places on earth that's home to some of the my favorite people on Earth.
The population there needs Bitcoin's technology in so many ways. I will be very grateful to help bring liquidity portals out of fiat slave-coin to the entrepreneurs there. I am not talking about most of those in San Juan, the Cantillonian City. I aim to serve those living in the smaller cities and in rural PR. Long time local families not the mainland fiat funded House slaves who've retired into their gilded cages are the ones hungry for freedom and responsibility go up along with number go up technology like bitcoin.
#nevent1q…5lyn

2023-12-11 17:16:32

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Water IS Life! Here's a high pressure non-electric water pump.
https://youtu.be/DFGvAYUc7gM?si=QV8RgM5-5MjnBnwy
This is such a beautiful design for solving one of humanities universal homesteading challenges, "How to efficiently transport water uphill?"
This can be used to fill storage tanks/towers uphill capturing potential energy for use in many ways by using far more reliable technology than electrical pumps that have many points of failure.
For locations with water flows there are many ways to make use of that resource as a pump like this and with enough height drop the potential for micro-hydroelectic power generation too.

2023-11-25 21:26:00

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The answer to this is for us all to become fully-noded. Becoming 1st Class Satoshi Citizens AND Business by running public/private paired nodes out of our homes and local community server vault/s. Federated, entrusted, portal nodes providing physical servers running Start9 VPNs, LN Bits, BTCPayservers, etc. sheltered within private liquidity lounges. These might start as private cooperatives popping up as hosts for Satoshis-only zones providing afrrdom forum for food, drink, & farmers/food/arts/crafts in a hybrid LN/Nostr trading bazaar. (I am about to plant the seeds for one of these Bitcoiner community cultivators in a college town soon...)
I think LSPs and Noderunners will be wise to Private Membership Associate Membership paperwork as a regulatory prophylactic protecting the Host and the Associate Members.

2023-11-25 18:02:51

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My "Nym" is a privately created WY LLC created on my behalf by a WY legal agent. Clients pay the LLC, avoiding their needing to 1099 me when compensation exceeds $600. This LLC has a River Financial DCA account setup as a fiat off ramp that turns fiat accepted into LN sats sent to a prism wallet dispersing sats out to multiple accounts.

2023-11-20 23:52:15

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First of all it got a rave review from CryptoCloaks who has more experience than I do with 3d printing. My limited experience on a low end entry level printer was that bed leveling, adhesion, print time, and climate control of the filament all impact the efficiency of quality prints. I like that this set up has cases for both the filament spools and the print bed to keep chemical smells contained and dut out, while reglating temperatures. I also expect this to give faster prints, done quietly, more consistently, with multi-color prints made even easier.
With the holiday shopping season on us discounts on these are becoming available too. Spending that on more filaments of different types and colors is something I intend to do.
I have seen other printers that have a laser attachment as an add on, but haven't seen one for these yet. Not being able to add that functionality is perhaps cost of better printing, for now at least.

2023-11-19 21:58:51

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Toshi

2023-11-19 18:23:52

Soon I will be getting my hands on one of these. I look forward to running this 3d printer around the clock.
I am already collecting 3d models to print on this printer.
Please send suggestions and requests here.
https://us.store.bambulab.com/products/x1-carbon-combo
3d printer

2023-11-13 19:21:55

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Let's build a Nostr Market for these 3d model files, perhaps a Plebian Market stall, for selling these files for Zaps...
I like the idea of having trusted hardware hosts running 3d printers, for instance PlebLab out of Austin, with sats-bounties for Plebs in the office who clear these off the printer plates & provide Proof of Print/Shipment to the designers and the Buyers.
This will let 3d graphic designers to outsource the printing hardware acquisition and labor costs out to the closest host of a 3d printer. Printers NOT running 24/7/365 waste opportunities to collect sats, just as letting a mining rig sit dormant. Let's fix this "waste" print capacity!

2023-11-08 18:46:26

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This seems like potential use case for the hardware that www.satslink.com is about to make available to us all...
I envision localized physical popup only at first, then permanent #SatoshisOnlyEconomicZones, with the Hosts running a Satslink device to enable off line Zapping between peers in the local LN trading post.
Am I mistaken here?
Do you see what I see?

2023-11-08 18:36:38

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When I build I don't just sweat, I bleed, and if I reacted to pain and/or failure by crying rather than laughing, tears would likely be a daily occurrence, too. A true Warrior, not an armchair spectator, enters the fray prepared to fail, bleed, and possibly die. Doing so because it needs done, without concern for their personal survival.
Building one off prototypes by oneself like this is hard. But coordinating the capital and the people to do so at scale is exponentially more difficult. This applies to the contractual, digital, and virtual realms, as well as the physical.
https://i.nostr.build/QKwJ.jpg

2023-11-08 18:12:25

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Here's a solution I've found works great to activate phone numbers anonymously. I used a BTC Co prepaid USD cars to pay the $4.99 one-time expense for them to ship me a Sims card to a friend's PO Box.
Now, my Uber drivers only see me as Ov1!!!
www.textnow.com
There are zero monthly fees for unlimited calls & texts, only some ads to deal with. IF you don't use your number at all for a week or so, they will take it back and issue a new one. Which I like as it creates a Dead Man's switch that makes even that number and those I've used it with, effectively "amnesiatic". Or not, if I keep using it.

2023-11-08 18:06:50

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I've been working out of PlebLab in Austin, using the 3d printer there to create NFC tag holders that can be programmed for spending, receiving, and/or ID badges. We have local private poker houses using PMAs to enable gambling behind their Membership contractual wall despite the State not allowing gambling.
These protocols and contracts can be adapted for our own use to enable EVERY Member to become a LN OTC desk. KYC docs need only be provided once to the House, in this case TCT. Building all that from "scratch" isn't necessary, we simply need to fork their contracts to better serve our use cases.
I am working on creating and coordinating a League of these sort of Private Membership Bitcoiners Clubs. Open-sourcing the hardware, software, contracts, and OpSec for all to use and/or fork for themselves.
Please DM me so we can coordinate efforts between ourselves and our peer groups.

2023-11-07 19:24:17

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I would expect that my idea of combining Nostr IDs, LN Bits, and NFC wallets as access medallions into a Private Membership club ID badge/wallet interface is not an idea that's crossed your path yet...
https://eastcoastpma.com/strength-in-unity-the-advantages-of-unincorporated-associations/
Seems to me these Clubs, like yours, could also provide node, relay, and VPN services to it's Membership.
I'd love to discuss how to pull this all off with anyone else interested in these tactics. In this thread or my DMs.

2023-11-06 20:14:28

@npub1mar…p7hd
Here's an opportunity for us to begin to bridge Plebian virtual markets with no-coiner real world pop-up markets and concerts.
Given some interest from my fellow Nostriches worldwide I will work with these musicians to plug directly into their soundboard to broadcast this show to a Nostr Nest and potentially to a Zap.stream too.
Any Zaps sent to these live feeds I'll distribute as cash tips to the musicians physical tip jar. I'll also work with those willing to learn ahead of time and set them up with Nostr accounts, LN Addresses, and QR codes to receive tips to directly as LN sats.
@npub14kw…j7y0 might you want to assist in this?
@npub18am…p424 perhaps you'd be interested in promoting this live-stream from the Live Music Capital of the World.
It seems a shame for only the few locals here in Austin, TX to get to enjoy the massive musical talents this town holds. I believe that bringing LN bitcoin into the music scene here is one of our best tactics for getting control of some sats onto the signing devices of talented Creators who must earn and cannot afford to buy their satoshis. They will then be incentivized to share this tech with their fans and their peers. Giving Bitcoin yet another Trojan Horse into the "impenetrable fortress" the fiat rulers have built to protect their privilege to print counterfeit money.
#grownostr #plebchain #livemusic #nostrmarkets
https://void.cat/d/TnwGAZzNNRbxFT2J8DZwEx.webp

2023-11-06 16:09:02

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You just described my morning perfectly.
So, hello, GM, and Aloha to you too!
Now, if only, Cafe` Bitcoin, on the App formerly known as Twitter, was available on Nostrnests too... I wouldn't be tempted to use that platform at all.

2023-11-06 07:04:58

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What you refer to as Truth Oracles I see as a form of Notarization Service. An interesting point regarding the law in the US at least, is that an Affidavit signed by two Witnesses testifying that we are who we say we are and that we signed a document in theory presence has the same legal standing as if it had been Witnessed by a State licensed Notary.
This seems a perhaps relevant precedent to model for the CivKit ID service. The security protocols from the Paper realm won't entirely translate to the Digital centralized and Virtual decentralized realms, but some protocols are worth considering and perhaps modifying as appropriate for each phase state of our data.

2023-11-06 06:56:12

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My spiritual kin call me OV, you are obviously a Brother-in-Arms, more Kindred in spirit than any of my actual blood relations... So please, address me in more familiar terms.
This is one of the major problems of the world, so yes, I AM interested in brainstorming solutions for solving this. I have many ideas on how to combine both legacy and modern means of accomplishing this, as a starting place. But these ideas need fleshing out in detail and tested in practice.
My current calling to contribute value to the realm has been to work on a multi-phase state solution. One that like water takes form as a physical solid as a Nostr ID/LN wallet NFC bearer instrument, a paper Private Membership Associations' contract, a digital browser wallet through LN Bits, and cloud verification of identity through Nostr social verification.
The reality in EVERY realm is that He Who Creates It, Controls it. So, in order to control our identities, we must create our own verification systems. For our keys, our transactions, our data, our audience, AND our identities.

2023-11-05 22:29:14

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Perhaps there is a way to decentralized from anysite dot com to this site dot com?
Enabling semi-trusted brands to compete for users of their domain, provide value to users who do, and enable self-hosting Nip 05s easily for those that the many that already have domains.

2023-11-05 22:21:08

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My problem is that by letting myself become fully undocumented by choice, I have effectively been barricaded behind enemy lines. Without a physical mailing address or a state issued ID I am having issues renewing my passport. Remedying this lack of "Papers" is not a simple or quick operation these days. But I AM going to take this opportunity to create paperwork strengthening my standing as a free man who is NOT a resident of the District of Columbia. Acquiring a US State National passport rather than as US Citizenship passport.
So much of law depends on establishing personal and subject matter "standing". Establishing who we are and where we stand is how humans take back power from the Naked Emperors. Part of that involves not using the "coin of the realm" used by the corporate states by using Bitcoin as our standard for measuring value or the communication lines of centralized media by using Nostr. BUT part of defending ourselves against Paper Dragons involves putting on Paper Armor, both personally and professionally.

2023-11-05 21:55:29

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The very best bio-char comes out of hemp, so we simply grow the bio-mass on site in greenhouses using the fastest growing form of bio-mass on earth. The outputs of this become biodiesel or electricity and bio-char to increase outputs in ALL our gardens. Part of what makes hemp superior also is the the bio-char produced from it can also be used to manufacture graphene, creating yet another locally sourced, organically grown building material. Beyond what can be done with the hemp fibers for manufacturing everything from cars, planes, and houses with it as the sourced building materials too.

2023-11-05 20:26:57

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Sure, but as I am voluntarily undocumented providing KYC paperwork is not even possible.

2023-11-05 20:18:18

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So are you gonna make it to El Salvador next Springvfor the Halving Party?
That's the next conference I'm most looking forward to, although what's going on in Madeira in January/February looks interesting. That doesn't count as the global South.
I am curious as to what you think of India adopting Bitcoin..?
They're not at all part of the "West" and Balaji's suggestion that they may surprise the world and leapfrog themselves to world leadership by adopting Bitcoin soon.

2023-11-05 15:15:11

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The guy is Tennessee, that does NOT have a year round growth cycle, is growing all the bio-mass needed to generate 500Kw of continuous power off of 3 acres of cane grass. Any form of wood chips works for this, with the only waste product being bio-char that can be put back into the soil to further improve the soil fertility.

2023-10-21 23:10:08

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Wind, bio diesel (likely run off fish oils), and wood gasification (on-demand hydrogen as with http://www.protonpower.com/technology ) will also eventually have a place in this tool stack.

2023-10-21 23:06:36

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Closing the food cycle loop by integrating Black Soldier Fly Larvae, BSFL, turns ALL organic matter into fodder for feeding chickens and fish. Food production on our seasteads I'll best be done by modeling the systems developed by the Earthshio Biotecture Institute. Likewise methane biodigesters can also turn blackwater into cooking and heating fuel sources.
There is also incinerator tech for not only dealing with our "night soil" but also for turning plastics, tires, and more into energy for use and storage as sats thru mining when not using it all.
Rainwater cachement, aquaponics and grey water gardens, and wind/solar/wood gas/biodiesel generators will also be necessary to close our energetic cycles and become fully self contained on our seasteads.

2023-10-20 23:15:22

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Also, practice and test your recovery info has been recorded accurately too, before loading large amounts onto any signing device. For long term storage it's recommended to verify all is still functional on an annual basis too.

2023-10-20 23:08:50

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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
This is the Way.

2023-10-19 17:59:06

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This is why I believe what's needed is to help us all learn how to establish multiple satoshi income streams every way possible. For our goods, for our services, and for our ideas, we establish "bodies" of work attached to our Nostr accounts that are continuously streaming sats into our wallets.
Only then does sending them back out again become less painful. It must also become normalized to be on zero fiat (or or close to near zero), transitioning back to slave debt-notes ONLY when necessary to interact with those still in the fiat plantataions.
It's also FAR easier to spend anything once full stack sovereignty over nearly all daily basic need has been established. As in clear title to land/house and energy, water, food, and waste management ALL managed on site. Siege proof sovereignty enables a higher velocity of money flows through our wallets.
This is the Way.

2023-10-17 21:50:13

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This is the MOST state-of-art version out there. A meat processing plant, Wamolers Farm, in TN is generating 500 Kw 24/7/365 off of 3 acres of cane grass.
http://www.protonpower.com/
Here's a talk by the inventor of that version of these:
https://youtu.be/1qFMqiW7oYM?si=2ub95aIzIaMYZ--m
This is commonly referred to as "wood gasification", some crazy DIY guys have Ben running their trucks off a wood stove in the bed of the truck. Creating biochar as a "waste" product is a massive value add if it's added back to the soil too.
Those ProtonPower versions can somehow create liquid diesel fuel too, rather than just running generators off the smoke. Then the deisal can be used to harvest and mulch the on-site bio.ass.
Humans are not only incredibly stupid, some are amazingly brilliant!

2023-10-16 20:45:16

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The character from which this quote is taken, Lazarus Long, when given the opportunity to colonize a planet set himself up as the Central Banker. IF money is your scorecard then nothing beats control of the money printer. BUT, without the skills he listed above having only money you are at the mercy of those with these skills.
The goal here is full stack self sovereignty, which is what money is truly supposed to buy. Being at least competent in all these things then becomes a failsafe backup keeping one from becoming codependent on the servants whose lives money still buys.
“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but often times better than a master of one.”
by William Shakespeare
Butcoiners are best off when ALL of us become auto-didact polymorphs, self-taught across many fields. We must become cyber-MMA masters to truly level up and protect our identities, our data, and our wealth.

2023-10-16 19:37:03

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I like this one a lot. No idea who to attribute it to on here though...
https://i.nostr.build/ywyA.jpg

2023-10-16 18:30:56

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That is a Heinlein quote I have built my life around. Another great one by him that all Bitcoiners can relate to is this one. I believe from Time Enough for Love, the notebooks of Lazerus Long. A great book all should read!
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

2023-10-16 18:11:40

Sats are my love language.
Keep your words of praise, don't bother with acts of service for that which I can do myself, touch I can purchase from professional massage therapist, and the only gifts others can give me that I value are satoshis.
Fiat debt notes are used on slave ledgers, I treat digital IOUs as hand grenades and paper promissory notes as hot potatoes. All my surplus energy is funneled into cold storage of on-chain satoshis. The house of cards is experiencing a not-so-controlled demolition. I don't plan on the rubble landing on my head or that of my loved ones, but an Ark is not enough. Safe harbors and #satoshisonlyzones on stable ground are necessary in the long term.
Centralized electricity, water, wastewater, fuel, and food are as subject to disruption and corruption as centralized monetary systems.
Freedom is NOT having nothing left to lose.
Freedom is having nothing that can be taken from you, i.e. self-custodied sats (and gardens, rainwater cachement, power generators, skills) etc.
My questions for my fellow Nostriches are these;
"How many of your daily basic needs are you truly in control of?",
and
"What are you doing to establish #siege-proofsovereignty for yourself?"...

2023-10-16 02:54:33

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Checkout what they are doing here..The Devs in the Telegram Group are still promising a better version in "2 weeks".
https://plebeian.market/

2023-10-13 05:51:16

I am looking forward to not just Meet-ups , but #SatstackingSaturday #SatoshisOnlyEconomicZones as neighborhood Bitcoiner garage sales/flea markets/art & crafts fairs popup in small towns everywhere.
This will eventually become the norm, the sooner we clear the Way, the sooner the no-coiners discover #TheTaoOfBitcoin.
#nevent1q…0mn9

2023-10-12 18:50:33

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None of the trade crafts are anywhere on anyone's list. My peers are aging out of this industry and there is a massive shortage of skilled residential construction trades. No one wants these careers because they require doing actual work.
Bitcoiners though appreciate the value of proof of real work done well. The satisfaction, the self reliance, and empowerment that comes from owning a useful skillet is something most of these kids will never know.
Even "Doctors" careers have been broken by fiat clown world with the debt, insurance models, and liability risks turn real healers into drug pushers.
I wonder how different these answers will be in countries other than the US...

2023-10-12 05:50:54

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A communications protocol enabling users to own their identity, their data, and their audience.
Brand ownership with fans and data controlled by the Creator, not thapplicationnor platform used to reach your fans, store your data, and grow your personal and professional brand names.

2023-10-09 02:35:03

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Is this available for download through F-droid perhaps?

2023-10-08 00:29:39

Equals #siegeproof capital that's immune to physical attack at point of use & point of production.
Brains beats Brawn when the wealth of one"s "Life-Time" dematebullies capital beyond reach of the bulloes. Doing so with zero holding costs while maintaining international liquidity without permission.
#nevent1q…22wx

2023-10-01 21:14:25

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I have been using the 3d printer at @npub1an8…z6yg as containers for NFC stickers programming them thru LN Bits to create bearable and wearable spend/receive/sign/connect key tags. Combining the ideas from www.plebtag.com with Nostr identities to form a membership ID badge/wallet/key.
Physical interfacing devices that bypass paper and fiat money systems enabling face to face cash<=>LN satoshi OTC trading with reprogrammed LN vouchers.
I need help scripting the autimation of the many operations I currently am doing manually so this tool becomes scalable. Reach out in my DMs if you have the interest and skills to help with this.

2023-10-01 03:56:07

What does financial sovereignty look like to you?
What do you think should be part of a Bitcoiner's financial literacy?
Vocabulary...
Grammer...
Disciplines...
Protocols...
These were fun ideas to consider and talk about with my freedom loving peers.
The benefits of the connections made with my fellow bitcoiners in person can not be measured or predicted, yet it is very real and powerful. Face to face interaction builds more depth and breadth of trust in less time than online interactions ever will.
It was my pleasure to share the small part of the 7 Satoshi Seas I have personally sailed in the decade since I first heard about Bitcoin. The connections made with my peers there are already leading to some interesting and unpredictable possibilities.
Next time we'll do better at capture content for reuse later. I'm gonna try to do so again here in the Puna district of Hawaiian soon. As the poorest county in the entire US, this community needs financial literacy and sovereignty and may be thirsty enough to drink from the fountain of hope that Bitcoin is.
#nevent1q…fmw7

2023-10-01 03:38:14

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Nope, I was able to send you those 500 sats directly to this post from my Android app. Just a small token of appreciation for what you do my friend.
Reach out when you have a moment, I'd love to get your ideas on how we might use Nostr to create a Nostr replacement for Purse, the now defunct decentralized BTC/Amazon marketplace.

2023-09-27 22:58:02

This feature will create new ways to create value by curating quality content for our followers. No doubt entirely new ways to stack sats using this monetization model.
#nevent1q…jehu

2023-09-22 16:19:19

The 1st Pleb Hut is coming together and the 2nd set of 3d printed brackets is almost complete.
There are many ways to "skin this cat", but I believe the latex cement canvas design pattern combines perfectly with this framing. Altogether this is will be a beautiful application of the Gradual Stiffening pattern from Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language book.
Here's a few photos of where I am now and where I am headed with this design. Decentralizing DIY manufacturing is an essential part of achieving #siegeproofsovereignty in our #SatoshiCitadels
@npub1an8…z6yg @npub1tlv…7fdm
https://i.nostr.build/n24o.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/jz3r.jpg

2023-09-19 16:56:40

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Hardest part of brake pad replacement is taking off the tires. Save your sats and buy the pads to install for yourself. I just did this on my BMW for under $100, this level of maintenance is barely beyond doing your own oil change and not even as hard as a tune up replacing plugs, wires, etc.
You can do this! At most, you may need to buy a few cheap tools, i.e. a caliper press & maybe socket set.

2023-09-06 21:47:57

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My work only expands my wealth when I can trade my excess production for other's work that I could not, would not do myself.
For instance, I have done the work of writing a very useful book, yet no one has read it due to my lack of exchanging it with them, so that potential created by my doing the work has yet to be realized. Likewise, my doing the work of providing 10k hours of massage to clients on my tables created some small amount of wealth for me from each of them. But doing the work of curating, capturing, and distributing my knowledge and skills to the market through a video enables me to exchange that work with potentially many 10s of 1,000s. Yet, the capital creation won't occur merely from my "doing the work" of creating that educational course, it will only happen when I mannage to provide my knowledge in exchange for their sats that "new" value was created.
Now scale this up another level, looking at those providing services that cultivate higher volumes of exchange occurring more frequently, as you are doing with Azte.co and I intend to do with these PlebKeys. Facilitating faster settlement, more convenient entrance/exit of capital into/out of the marketplace, and not forcibly capturing their private data will create more wealth as a byproduct. Taking the brakes of the velocity of money settlement, removing the friction shrinking the flow of current, and removing impediments to entering/exiting the marketplace creates massive potential for growth once the parasites have been removed from the system.

2023-09-04 22:28:07

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'Tis the flow of those messages between peers that creates new capital, value birthed outta thin air due to our financial intercourse.
Exchange itself is how wealth is created; ideas, goods, &/or services measured & weighed in satoshis as the universal common denominator or value.

2023-08-13 17:57:51

Like a well designed food forest, your satstreaming fountains will cascade ever more sats over time. Just as the next best time to plant a tree a decade ago is to do so today, so is launching your satstreaming content fountains today. Your future Self will thank you for both investments of your life energy.
#nevent1q…tggq

2023-08-07 21:39:19

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Thanks, feels more like toiling in obscurity than in producing useful fruit and seeds than being seen by the masses. Worth it though when standing inside the proof of my work that will be enjoyed by the family I built it for over decades to come.
https://twitter.com/TaoistBitcoiner/status/1627474016863719424?t=fmNUN7P6XZqNFTu0BmT-6A&s=09

2023-08-07 21:24:12

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I am a residential builder looking to coordinate with my fellow bitcoin builders, land owners, and financiers to literally build a cottage industry building cottages for off grid Bitcoin Citadels..
Spent last winter building a geodesic timber framed Ohana Cabin on the Big Island of Hawaii. I'm about to go help a land owner in FL flip 18k Sq ft of residences on a 10 acre lot there. That may make a perfect multi-purpose Citadel for Bitcoiners to take over this Spring.

2023-08-04 22:40:21

Is anyone else on here interested in hosting and/or attending a watch party for this tomorrow evening?
https://jonesplantationfilm.com/premiere/
If/when enough Zaps come in I will broadcast out this onto zap.stream tomorrow evening for my fellow Nostriches to tune in and share commentary and kinship as humans freed from social media plantations.
Bitcoiners understand very well, and Nostriches are learning how hard it is to convince those falsely believing they are free, that in fact they are slaves. When slavery is all they've ever known, freedom feels uncomfortable.
It is important for us to understand that a Freed man is a threat to both slaves and their masters. There is strength found in fellowship, gathering with our Satoshi kin strengthens those bonds.

2023-08-03 16:33:34

I would suggest integration of zap.stream for live and recorded video broadcasts nostrnests.com for audio-only live stream concerts into your tool kit as a musician too.
#nevent1q…3x7k

2023-08-03 15:30:47

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🤙
Building in private, about to launch out of PlebLab just before Bit, Block, Boom in a couple weeks.
Consider this the announcement of the announcement of our LN/Nostr/NFC/PlebTag integration.
COMING SOON:
A reusable self-programmable NFC LN "voucher" programmed onto a permanent and/or throw away Nostr ID and LN bearer tag.
Self sovereign programmable cash loaded and reloaded with LN Addresses and QR codes. Touch less Tap-n-Pay convenience OR physical ly exhangable NFC "Money Orders".
Company branded 3d printed NFC key chains powered by LN sats and protected by Nostr protocols.

2023-08-03 15:02:10

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Specifically interested in an account for my WY LLC with Strike.
Which I'd expect to be easier than say PR and HI, or I'm guessing NY. Even my personal account stops functioning when I pass thru those jurisdictions.
Perhaps Montana or Delaware are friendlier jurisdictions too...

2023-08-02 15:02:22

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Will these be available for US business accounts too?