berean jones

Bitcoiner. Engineer. Christian. Theologian
Writer. Husband. Father. Trapped on Prison Island UK.
#Bitcoin #Christian #Family

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2025-09-19 16:51:00 UTC

"Look out for the way concentration on a particular destiny reduces the present to the lowly status of a paving stone towards a predestined future" ~ Ogilvy, Living Without A Goal.

2025-09-18 06:09:17 UTC

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Yes.

2025-09-17 23:07:37 UTC

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Ugly MF.

2025-09-17 07:35:29 UTC

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GM 🌞
#nevent1q…6h4n

2025-09-17 07:32:46 UTC

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Bitcoin is full and final settlement, fiat is not. There will always be risk as we move between the two.
Multiple small transactions with different parties limits the risk.

2025-09-16 13:35:24 UTC

Is @nprofile…48t9 working?
Went on today and tried to add funds, but I get "Internal Server Error" instead of a ⚡ invoice.
Still run by @nprofile…vvup?
https://blossom.primal.net/480e9d143e127ac21c24bd8755466ec84c473ccc27effef6a575463ab02ee28d.jpg

2025-09-16 09:42:53 UTC

#GM
#Bitcoin
https://blossom.primal.net/9ff27306154859ecb5204a4186ba5dfc0d061851807b3ec9c97f5e66a36de94b.jpg

2025-09-14 23:47:15 UTC

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Only if we win the fight tho...

2025-09-14 22:32:49 UTC

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First time I laughed out loud in a while.

2025-09-12 00:06:35 UTC

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I disable autoplay on all clients. It's enough to build up a picture from words that my fellow plebs are using, and to see the odd photo.
You're right about empathy triggers, and I don't need to waste mine on things that didn't happen right in front of me. I've seen tragedy up close and it's enough to be dealing with my portion over my lifetime.
I understand the scale and implication of the event, and the background and complexity surrounding it. I have sympathy for the family and respect for the lifework of the deceased. I share the universal call for justice and understand the deepening rift in society between those who want to build civilization and those who find pleasure destroying it.
But I don't need to become a voyeur of other people's suffering just because the black mirror in my hand wasn't restrained enough to interrupt my day and serve it cold to my face. Shortly followed by a meme or two, cementing the banality of it all to my already overloaded brain.
I hit this point during the pandemic nonsense, and again during peak eurowar, and most recently with peak ziowar.
Empathy, like attention, needs to be guarded as a precious resource, something to be denied to the machine.
Sometimes, less is more.

2025-08-18 22:29:32 UTC

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Resisting it all is just becoming exhausting.

2025-08-16 15:17:33 UTC

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Laughing.
I don't disagree but what specifically brought this on?

2025-08-15 06:54:58 UTC

#GM
"Guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it", Proverbs 4:23.
https://image.nostr.build/0ea51d6c6e3b3083411278ef115ff6596b792b09335767345eaef87a9124e6af.jpg

2025-08-09 20:47:35 UTC

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Excellent.
#nevent1q…5g2e

2025-08-06 12:28:37 UTC

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Still... a useful practice drill.
Many felt it was gameover simply because regulation moves in this direction.
Misinformation doesn't mean this is nonsense, only that we have a bit of time before slop-conjecture becomes reality. How can we take advantage of that time.

2025-08-04 06:40:51 UTC

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I believe the current phrase is "the enshitification of"... in this case, "code" or "your current job".
But your alternative description of the productivity revolution is also catchy, "it used to take me an hour... it still does".

2025-07-31 18:27:36 UTC

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Inverse Cramer 🤪

2025-07-31 10:18:37 UTC

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I hold some in bitcoin and some in sats.

2025-07-23 10:21:46 UTC

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The prisoner in the yard is more free than the prisoner in solitary confinement.

2025-07-20 18:06:04 UTC

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Mebendazole is easier to access in UK. Sold over the counter in liquid or tablet from, since Brits worry about itchy butts.
Ivermectin is a whole different story, it's a case of order to a private mailbox from overseas and pay in bitcoin. Not even funny.

2025-07-20 17:47:25 UTC

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Basically if it's been touched by tech bros with gazillion dollar valuations, it's bad. If you roll your own with some care and attention, it's good. The future belongs to those who don't outsource their thinking.

2025-07-20 17:41:59 UTC

On first pass I thought @nprofile…escj owned 17,000 BTC and thought "yeah man, that's how you underwrite independent thinking".
Went back for a closer look and false alarm, @nprofile…wr42 was taking about the social engineering experiment that is Michael Saylor.
Sometimes I think the alternative reality formed by misunderstandings is far more interesting than the world as it is today.
🤪
https://blossom.primal.net/646bd778f1b195b02e0f8d882e91f7c15a91cb04d2ad705faa3efdd379dc7722.png

2025-07-20 17:30:03 UTC

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Democrasocialism is a great portmanteau. I must find a way to use it in conversation this week.

2025-07-03 18:14:21 UTC

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Why rug long term users this way?
This was a completely pointless and backward step. I wasn't aware I was even on a free trial, just been using the app for a while since Mutiny Wallet folded.
Makes sense to change the offer for new users going forward, but taking something away from existing users is bad practice. You're already taking good fees for using Olympus, this is just provocation now.

2025-06-24 20:15:11 UTC

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Looking forward to a big drop in the next couple of months.

2025-06-24 20:00:44 UTC

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and sometimes that's a good thing.

2025-06-02 19:01:51 UTC

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I recall, with nostalgic fondness, the days when he railed against Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

2025-05-14 23:18:43 UTC

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Still chugging along with a Raspiblitz... old school 😎
But bruh, my 1TB SSD is nearing capacity... wondering how much runway I have left before parting with sats for a 2TB replacement.

2025-02-28 18:46:05 UTC

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Interesting way of looking at it. I'm mining for heat as a hobby, with an S17 and an S9... they're efficient heaters and there's the novelty of few sats reward each day. But yeah, it's like gaping wide arbitrage between what I can buy with failing fiat (the anomaly) and the real cost of grinding out sats through mining (the enduring reality). It's like there's a tear in the space-time fabric and we get to play in it for a few years.

2025-02-28 08:26:10 UTC

GM!
Transmitting this Kind01 #GM to you by various relays.
Such is the magic of Nostr.
https://image.nostr.build/d31280b859f1bad8b1c444d79a5beba9779eb77ebca27cdb1e8e662059c66d58.gif

2025-02-26 16:32:39 UTC

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True story.
Once I had to represent my employer, a listed company, at an investors and analysts meeting.
I parked my beat up ten year old Asian Wagon between a Porsche and an Aston Martin, got out and surveyed all the other luxury brands in the venue car park. Seems it was a big deal for these guys to have driven out of London.
I catch one of the analysts staring at my transport and I smile back. "Nice, isn't she? Gets me from A to B just the same, and yet she's unique, not another one like her in this car park".
Guy laughed and took me inside to introduce "the man with the unique car"... and we kept it going a bit as people came out to see this marvel, only to discover it was my turquoise Asian Wagon.

2025-02-25 15:54:39 UTC

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Sounds good.
Yeah I feel I reached saturation point with bitcoin podcasts, newsletters, channels, feeds, blogs, books, and half-baked product launches. Along with all the immediately adjacent stuff like prepping, regen, austrian, and so on.
Maybe it's because I've been consuming for seven years and feel my goodwill hasn't been rewarded with a growth or maturing to quality that I expected. Everything's still half-assed but 'please support because bitcoin'.
As per other posters this week, we've also lost sight of our bitcoiner values too soon, so everything in this space feels directionless, while we wait for $1m bitcoin to make us all richer, and a few entrepreneurs sell us shovels along the way.
I'm not entirely sure what's bothering me, so here for the nos-therapy... but your phrase "bored of the traditional bitcoin podcasts" touched a nerve.
Sigh.

2025-02-25 11:10:40 UTC

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GM Anon.
Don't worry about the dip, it's just a psyop intended to unsettle your otherwise unshakable belief. The great thing about bitcoin is that it doesn't care. Everyone looks for causes and correlations but none of it matters. The price goes up until it goes down until it goes up.
Sit back, relax, enjoy the ride... if you wanna buy the dip then go ahead, if not that's also fine.
#GM ☕
#nevent1q…9tvj

2025-02-23 23:23:52 UTC

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Honeypot.
#nevent1q…6dvp

2025-02-23 23:00:42 UTC

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What's that logo 😱

2025-02-23 22:57:05 UTC

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You'll need better security.

2025-02-23 22:23:32 UTC

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Thought @nprofile…vu4p bought them all already

2025-02-23 22:01:52 UTC

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Well that's my overthinking laid out for the next few hours when I was hoping to get some sleep.
https://image.nostr.build/e428f5439c97b1ea5acfdcc616abf1d4ef6dc388218c4457a4e774b804c883ba.jpg

2025-02-23 21:33:55 UTC

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You're taking this far too seriously. We're putting memes out there that converge with other memes to create more complex memes that eventually tip reality. We make outrageous speculations about price and somehow these materialise... a few years later than we hoped, but slow and steady wins the race. We predict the downfall of current financial order and they seem to oblige us by printing to infinity and misplacing the gold. It's all surreal and also quite fun.
We're also psychos that converted unhealthy amounts of old system money into magic internet money to affirm our beliefs and focus our attention. There's loads of holes in the arguments out there but that's all fine, as long as you stay alive, out of jail, and in possession of your private keys... it'll all work out one day soon enough. The more earnest among us worry about wrench attacks and government going full retard with a 6102. But mostly we just distract ourselves with chants like
- fix the money fix the world
- separate money and state
- stay humble and stack says
- laser eyes till fiat dies
- not your keys not your coins
I've been a maxi for a few years now, we're all fanatical about something, might as well be Bitcoin. If nothing else, it gives me the illusion of control in an otherwise chaotic world, and a framework to improve my life in the meantime.
If price ever did go to zero or I lost the coins, the intangible value I have already obtained more than compensates that loss. Money isn't everything. It creates opportunities for sure. But life is what I am living today.
Hard to explain it any better than that.
🧡

2025-02-23 21:06:06 UTC

Remember, the state doesn't become your buddy just because it now owns bitcoin and advocates the benefits.
It will take years for bitcoin to reform government. Meanwhile they want your bitcoin, and failing that they want to keep you in line, peasant, taxing your off ramps, your unrealised gains, and your inheritance planning. Not so generational wealth.
We gotta hold a fair bit longer, until the game theory has played out, and there's a new equilibrium. We're far from that in 2025, even though $1m BTC feels like we're winning.
Get you some 2014 energy and keep a low profile. This isn't the time to be bit-cavorting, but strategizing and preparing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YbzNJr26H-4

2025-02-07 14:13:20 UTC

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Things don't get better while we blame others, they get better when we take responsibility for ourselves.

2025-02-06 09:18:49 UTC

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USAID funding cut this week? 😂

2025-02-06 08:41:35 UTC

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I have to use amethyst now because primal's wallet is kyc. Can't use famous because android. These notes are unnecessary oppression of the faithful.

2025-02-05 12:08:41 UTC

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They're doomed to failure by virtue of not being Bitcoin. We already had the zero to one moment, not when Bitcoin was first released by Satoshi, but when Bitcoin grew beyond state capture without the guiding hand of 'founders, stakeholders, and investors'.
That will never be replicated, mainly because we now live in a world where Bitcoin exists.
Every project begins, by definition, as not Bitcoin. The slow grind to failure is merely a symptom of that fact.

2025-02-05 11:53:12 UTC

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My conversion to bitcoin maxi began when I first heard Saifedean unapologetically say "shitcoin" in his dulcit Lebanese American accent.

2025-02-05 11:51:28 UTC

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Or if I'm among futurist types, then 'Bitcoin is sixth wave but your coin is a regression to fifth wave and doomed to failure.'
Or 'ypur coin is Bitcoin reinvented for a fiat paradigm'... which is, ironically, an encouraging compliment because they don't know any better.
But LARP Coin is more punchy and likely to provoke discussion.

2025-02-05 11:46:35 UTC

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LARP Coins.

2025-02-03 20:52:33 UTC

WTAF? I wanted to zap a note not open a bank account. Feels dirty to even consider KYC in this context 🤮
https://m.primal.net/OOub.png

2025-02-03 20:05:02 UTC

One day I hope to use bitcoin to acquire a stake in a business that earns and operates in bitcoin, so I can generate a bitcoin return on my bitcoin investment without touching fiat.

2025-01-31 11:13:33 UTC

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Makes sense.
Samuel means "hears from god" and the surname altman breaks down obviously into alt(ernative) man. Which is a signpost to the transhuman being directed by a sentient digital 'god'.
Another vocal prophet for all this nonsense is WEF's Yuval Noah Harari, Israeli Professor of Waffle.
Noah and Sam share common heritage. Interestingly they're also both gay. The combination of these things seems to drive a desire to replace God with 'god in our own image', and at the same time replace humanity with transhumanist 'man in our own image'.
It's a weird vision of the future to resolve the inconsistencies of the present. Narcissistic, dystopian, and sad.

2025-01-31 10:38:21 UTC

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I keep having this difficult conversation at home.
My wife trusts my judgement but prefers to hold 'tangible' assets like real estate.
I keep reminding her that our claim to that real estate depends entirely on a 'register' kept by the people most likely to seize it... or worse to g rind us out of it and then claim forfeiture.
To assert our right without force, we depend entirely on rule of law persisting and that law being fairly written and fairly judged by independent judiciary and fairly enforced by a police force or military that acts without fear or favour.
That's a lot of ifs right there.

2025-01-22 22:07:52 UTC

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No zaps.
But to be fair, the npub has been around from the start, while it was still ghost town around here.
What's the beef?

2025-01-22 22:00:05 UTC

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Yes, anything that isn't bitcoin is in the fiat category, even if it has a blockchain and other camouflage.

2025-01-18 12:38:14 UTC

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Go redeem your brethren from their degenerate ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwqzfviEb_Y

2025-01-17 23:31:08 UTC

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Ephesians 5.
Husbands love your wives...
Wives respect your husbands...
It's not so much about our felt needs as it is about aspiring to model our marriage on the ideal of Christ and His Church. At least to the extent this relationship has been revealed to us.

2025-01-17 09:54:21 UTC

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Sounds like you need to be reading Michael Simmons.

2025-01-17 09:53:41 UTC

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Super helpful roundup @npub1pvg…dx8c.
Of course, once Jocko's voice gets into your head and starts saying "get up get after it" when you're lazy, or just "good" when something bad happens.... there's no turning back. 😂

2025-01-16 17:07:55 UTC

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FB private groups are close second to WhatsApp... but still meta monopoly on coordination.
Signal functionally identical but never hit critical mass because of 'muh network effects'... perhaps that's part of the problem, more security wasn't a selling point coz people thought WhatsApp already secure.
So an alternative would need to offer similar coordination functionality and ease to the Meta tools, but have enough differentiation beyond that to not end up being Signal 2.0
Clearly nostr offers enough variety, for clients to add enough 'other stuff' - like "yeah I know you prefer WhatsApp but you can also publish longform/join zapathons/post notes/log in across multiple platforms/ join zapathons/do v4v within your groups/join zapathons etc

2025-01-13 21:21:19 UTC

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How does the network state overlap with my hierarchy of needs? Bitcoiners talk of citadels as if some kind of physical colocation of those already citizens of Bitcoin. Difficult concept to thrash out given that Bitcoin is for enemies too.

2025-01-13 10:40:35 UTC

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I think we'll have some botched hybrid globalist thingy for a bit, as a fuzzy transition from USD to BTC true global reserve. It'll be uncomfortable but better than a hard transition.
When all the nations have been weakened by the collapsing hybrid globalist thingy, then they'll be ready to submit to Bitcoin. Including, and especially, the US.
Nation states happily buying up the corn and agreeing peacefully to adopt it as global reserve in some kind of gentlemanly Bretton Woods 2.0 is just fantasy. Current game theory is shore up your failing system with Bitcoin and hope everyone else falls apart before you do. Whether that's at the corporate, state, or nation level. This isn't the path that leads to utopia, but it's an important stage.
Bitcoin won't be subverted that way for long.

2025-01-06 12:41:45 UTC

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GM
What false hopes and phantom fears do you need to throw out today?
#note1pcz…t9ve

2024-12-05 09:26:30 UTC

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Good analogy
I was telling my family this morning that #Bitcoin is the ruler that shows up the crookedness of the current system.

2024-11-22 14:29:52 UTC

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Unnecessary.

2024-11-21 12:02:46 UTC

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Dr Ridiculous > Mr Obnoxious

2024-11-19 08:10:49 UTC

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Sorry but you can't have my #Bitcoin.
#nevent1q…9mxh

2024-11-15 23:48:10 UTC

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Hallelujah.
#nevent1q…s28l

2024-10-03 16:15:20 UTC

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I think about this in terms of all the quarrels I see online.
#note14hd…44mw

2024-10-03 16:13:56 UTC

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Disturbingly wedged into my consciousness now.
#note1zky…a5eg

2024-10-03 16:12:28 UTC

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Much improved from the early prototype they had running around in stadiums and generating sound files to spam impressionable people online.

2024-10-01 14:28:45 UTC

I can't send my lightning wallet balance from Mutiny.
What happens if I go close the channels I opened? Does the balance go to on-chain?
#asknostr #mutiny #wallets

2024-10-01 14:00:06 UTC

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In an ideal world I would just select the house I want overseas, send bitcoin into multisig escrow thingy, get title deeds, and complete. Just like using Bisq but with added steps for the digital title deed stamping part.
And nobody would care when I got those bitcoin, or at what price I bought and disposed - and the KYC was only for the purpose of land registry.
Dreeeeam, dream dream dream...

2024-10-01 13:51:44 UTC

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Kanye was the worst.
Deliberate journey into 'the faith' so he could act out the ritual of 'turning your back on Jesus'.

2024-10-01 13:49:30 UTC

Emptying my mutiny wallet before it's too late.
🔗 Sent the on chain sats, transaction completed 20mins later, in the expected time period shown on mempool.
⚡ Sent the lightning balance using an invoice from another wallet, lnbc etc, still waiting for signs of life an hour later.
It's 2024 and onchain is faster and more reliable than lightning???

2024-09-28 14:03:17 UTC

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It's a good point.
I think the shock comes from being let down by another person that you trusted, relied on, or were vulnerable towards - and that betrayal hurt you.
The question is to what extent that person presented themselves as 'better than a sinner' and to what extent I projected that onto them instead.
At some point, patients in hospital show signs of improvement and progress towards good health. If the metaphor is to work, if church is effective as a hospital for sinners, then members should be making progress in sanctification for service, in mortification of sin, in bearing the fruit of the Spirit on branches pruned from the dead works of the flesh, in growing in the grace and knowledge of Christ, in having Christ formed in them, in going on to maturity, in being transformed by the renewing of the mind, and being conformed to the image of Christ.
We are not just sinners, we are sinners being saved in the present tense by grace that is effective - as well is in the past tense by justification, and in the future tense by resurrection.

2024-09-23 06:44:30 UTC

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GM ☕
Is it even a worthwhile day if you're not thinking about the Roman Empire, twice or thrice?
https://m.primal.net/Kyvz.jpg

2024-09-21 11:36:13 UTC

Strayed back to Amethyst.
Every conversation infested with Reply Guy.
Hurried back to Primal.
I'm guessing it's not a client thing, as there's a Reply Guy for different relays
But yeah Primal was shielding me so we'll I didn't even know it was a problem.

2024-09-21 11:30:11 UTC

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Nostr + AI 👀
#note1ck7…sm44

2024-09-21 11:22:15 UTC

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This is a great filter to use across all my curated information streams.
#note1zc2…yvlg

2024-09-21 11:19:34 UTC

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Matthew 7:13-14

2024-09-21 11:17:05 UTC

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"The love of money is the root of all evil, but poverty sucks, so stop being poor", ~Proverbs 30:8-9 ish.

2024-09-19 21:27:37 UTC

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The main breakage was blocking access to mobile data. Thanks for letting us know that you're rolling it back.
Pixel 5 is my favourite so I'm in no hurry to upgrade.

2024-09-17 17:37:06 UTC

Did you know about the Bitcoin Puzzles?
Apparently Puzzle #66 was solved recently and the bots were poised to snaffle the rewards.
There's a party going on and I wasn't invited 😁

2024-09-16 09:16:20 UTC

GM 🫡
Do we still talk about #antifragile or has #resilience taken the field?

2024-09-16 09:05:49 UTC

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"Yes son, we would have wiped out the WEF before 2030, but we got pulled into an infinite meme orbit around $58k, giving the WEF ample time to recover and press on."
#note1jqa…pptq

2024-09-14 13:52:19 UTC

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TIL about 'Fictional Reserve Banking'. 😱
#note1knw…9dt8

2024-09-10 21:01:19 UTC

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If you change protocol because you dislike a font, you are weak.

2024-08-28 21:27:18 UTC

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My relay game is stale.
What advice would you give me? If you were starting over today, how would you set up?
#asknostr
#note14jt…rmly

2024-08-26 09:19:26 UTC

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Need the story now

2024-08-26 09:08:21 UTC

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Surprisingly accurate 🤣
#note19wr…ch5a

2024-08-26 09:04:26 UTC

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Bitterness and resentment.

2024-08-23 21:45:15 UTC

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A 12 pack is two 6 packs, one for her and one for him - if they lay off the beer and follow a decent abs plan instead.
https://m.primal.net/KJvM.jpg

2024-08-23 21:29:54 UTC

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I'm sure Sora or Runway could oblige...

2024-08-18 21:08:40 UTC

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"One keypair, everything Nostr, with Bitcoin".
#note1vk9…8a92

2024-08-17 17:21:53 UTC

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Bitcoin is objective truth.
It defends the pronouns most aligned with biology and doesn't bend to the ebb and flow of our minds.

2024-08-17 17:19:50 UTC

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"It's wrong to be right too soon".
#note1vzh…w0fh

2024-08-17 15:10:43 UTC

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Generative AI = Tech Stagnation (Second Order Effect)

2024-08-13 22:14:03 UTC

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Eastern, direct line from what we believe to what we then do. Especially considering the enormity of the one in whom we believe. It's cognitive dissonance to believe that God will raise me from the dead into eternal life in His presence and at the same time casually disregard what He says for my present life.
Western, floating disconnection between what we believe in the abstract and what we do in the materialist hedonistic utilitarian present. So it is an interesting discussion point that God is the judge of the living and the dead, and I still indulge my vices seeing no connection or relevance between these things.

2024-08-12 22:14:53 UTC

I seem to have left both bitcoin and nostr alone for a while... and both are doing just fine without me.
Ego check complete.

2024-08-12 22:04:34 UTC

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Don't need a second invitation to say "Jesus is Lord" 👍
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8HHYt40whHQ

2024-08-12 21:42:30 UTC

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Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him as righteousness.