DominikWeil

Co-Founder BitcoinVN ( https://bitcoinvn.io/ )

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2026-01-07 09:40:00 UTC

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Most people are not ready for it and never will be.
The idealism *WILL* get blunted by repeated encounters with reality.
But it will also make you more effective if you take the right lessons from it.
#nevent1q…j3rl

2025-10-13 02:49:15 UTC

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We got these little orange fellas in town by now.
https://blossom.primal.net/913dab922fb6d51efba2c1c3cc4c2d04e9526746a28652e2347f51104946fd02.png
#nevent1q…zehp

2025-09-29 09:43:40 UTC

It is certainly curious (or maybe not, after all these years) how any pro-natalist message seems to get quickly buried by the algo on certain Social Media platforms.
If you don't promote self-destructive degeneracy - that's not what the algo overlords want the users to see.
Long Nostr.

2025-08-04 10:23:07 UTC

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In this house, we appreciate the arts.
#nevent1q…08ze

2025-07-21 00:50:43 UTC

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...and if in Vietnam and the merchants don't accept it just yet - we've got a solution for that 😜
https://bitcoinvn.io/?deposit=btcln&settle=vndinstant
https://blossom.primal.net/f21f20f36b4a88359fa17497308c0ae6b63dd7e088ee74b17cb596de974e8e52.png

2025-07-21 00:47:12 UTC

9 kids from 4 different wives from 4 different continents. Family history traceable back hundreds of years to one of the early American settler families.
Freelancing as "Caoboi" or - depending on the season - Santa Claus, while building out a coffee chain that brings the flavor of real Vietnamese coffee to the American palate.
Possibly coming to a midwestern town near you soon?
What exactly is stopping you, anon?
https://blossom.primal.net/36f0a4b9addcef89656f80b53b7c894ac39a04d66746f79f3c8890fa95dc73b9.png

2025-07-12 08:04:48 UTC

The majority of people is not thinking enough about Bitcoin - and it shows.
Furthermore:
Generally, the majority prefers to outsource their thinking - and that shows too.
Which - again - might make you feel “superior” for a brief moment… until you realize what this really means for you:
That those who blindly trust in “authority” and the (perceived) majority opinion of the herd are willing to believe - and do - anything, no matter how irrational it may seem to you.
And we’ve been shown that, too, in recent years — with a vengeance.
And that should make you feel pretty anxious.
At which point you either tell yourself - for your own sanity - “it’s not that baaad” and try to deny this part of our shared reality...
Or you accept this circumstance - and do everything within your abilities to reduce the negative impact the crowd’s insanity might have on you and your inner circle.
Will it be enough?
Who knows.
But if you don’t even try - you’ve already lost from the get-go.

2025-06-27 13:02:28 UTC

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#nevent1q…j722

2025-06-02 14:37:49 UTC

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Thank you for your inspiration.

2025-06-02 13:21:22 UTC

Remember the old tales of people in the Eastern bloc having to cook up dirt as "Ersatzschokolade"?
https://blossom.primal.net/83cf18a2a678ec664d01150f9a54608ce2e754377f8087624c33738d96fbaba0.png
And real chocolate made out of cacao was only reserved for the privileged few with connections?
Yes, people in Western Europe used to make fun of it and found it quite unbelievable that people were forced to put up with it.
Well, that was in the latter half of the 20th century.
Fast forward to 2025 and the success of the combined wisdom of Berlin & Brussels economic planning make it possible to see a revival of that specific type of product.
"Raw materials right from your own region!"
"Good for the climate!"
"Vegan!"
https://blossom.primal.net/9283cb628f6633c3fd50eea8e2d174858fed0a3e453636a7a90c8e13b0bc2b9c.png
At least back in the old Eastern bloc days, they did not have the audacity to sell the people on how their ongoing impoverishment and destitute is "akshually good for them" - and had at least the intention (albeit with misguided means) to improve the standard of living of their citiziens.
https://blossom.primal.net/1cf71e5af771404333cd30067fe57ef1db605e3256cd95c6dd9d6cf294eab97d.png
Meanwhile in Asia:
https://blossom.primal.net/73f4ee5831944ee27c9de08f49260fb93fdd22e29a723e35770088857bd11b8f.png
The good thing:
If you use & save in real money, you can afford real chocolate.
The people who use & save in fake money, will be forced to go for fake chocolate.
We all make our choices and will earn the results.

2025-05-13 19:19:39 UTC

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Colleagues been rolling out the first machine down in Vung Tau - the "city beach" of HCMC.
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs2lsrzs85j8c66n73ngz6jjd9exm0u9pguznffyc7dcde64382t3gjky0vw

2025-04-28 01:27:32 UTC

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This is correct.
The sooner you start having kids, the sooner you start having a stake in the future beyond yourself.
The sooner you start having a stake in future, the sooner you start building for it.
#nevent1q…yzzj

2025-04-27 18:42:31 UTC

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Good & insightful entry which matches with personal experience shared by other node operators.
Unless you:
- run a business (where the LN Node is just a part of your infrastructrue)
- are a passionate hobbyist and/or put great value on privacy/self-sovereignty
...running a Lightning Routing Node as "profitable undertaking" is definitely not worth it.
You must have some other purpose or ways to "gain value" from it to justify the risks, costs and resource allocation to it.
#nevent1q…qs9g

2025-04-26 11:12:36 UTC

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@nprofile…ls58 is right.
Do not assume that "things just fix themselves" (the low agency mindset of the 2nd half of the 20th century in the West that led us to where we are now).
Either work on fixing the problems you perceive yourselves - or support the people with the skills, capabilities and grit to do so.
#nevent1q…6r5w

2025-03-20 16:28:56 UTC

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Good to have you on here - leading from the front(ier).
Greetings from Vietnam & thanks for pushing on and sharing your thoughts and experiences!
https://m.primal.net/Pmkn.png

2025-03-20 16:19:48 UTC

View from an irregular Nostr user (myself):
Disclaimer:
As things change on here by the week, as a "non-power user" one is certainly quickly falling behind, so the following statement might be already outdated.
With that said:
While Primal seems to have - currently - the best UX ( you can read most notes and loading times are fast - which is not necessarily true for some other interfaces such as Snort or Iris)... when it comes to "ZAP"ping, it seems that it simply is not possible if you follow standard Bitcoin security practices.
https://m.primal.net/PmiJ.png w
As in:
You never (as in: NEVER!) have the ability to sign transactions on the same device that you use to browse the Internet.
Currently - it seems - "zap"ping on Primal requires either the Primal Wallet/App ( I use a Browser and keep any apps on my phones to an absolute minimum - hence not an option ) and or NWC... which also requires signing capability on the same device that you use to browse the Internet.
On some of the other Nostr clients it is possible to zap from a different device - you can press the "zap" button, obtain a QR code/Lightning invoice... and then simply scan the QR code from a separate dedicated device connected to a dedicated node.
Browsing and transaction signing capabilities clearly separated.
Currently Primal makes it easy if you are fine to ignore these iron security rules - but also leads to more Sats being held in a closed ecosystem/custodial where... it is absolutely not necessary (imho).
The current way the Zap mode on Primal is provided is not interoperable with any other Lightning wallet (and/or node!) - it requires you to have Sats on your Primal Wallet and/or NWC... on the same device that you use to browse the Internet.
Some (most?) people might just not care, but it's currently the "main blocker" in my personal Primal UX.
I do not want to install an app.
I do not want to install a Browser extension.
Kim Jong Un wants me to press the button - and I do not want to press it.
Yes, it is paranoid.
But as the old saying goes:
"Only the paranoid survive".
Or the recent beautiful iteration of it by @nprofile…ls58 :
"Systems that heavily rely on trust have the best UX until they have the worst UX."
Currently on Primal, if I want to zap someone - I need to load the note via a different interface... and hope, that I can even load the note.
At which point - unless I really, really want to zap the person - the drop-off rate increases drastically and the Zap will not take place.
With that said:
All of this might have already been solved at the time of writing - and I just haven't discovered yet how to do so.
If so, feel free to call me out as a noob'ish Nostr laggard - and lmk how to zap on Primal from a different device than the one used to browse the internet.

2025-03-02 04:16:47 UTC

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Congrats guys!
Leading by example.

2025-02-19 11:52:07 UTC

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Toying around with it or rather "learning by doing".
Speeds up the knowledge acquisition of what works/doesn't work with Nostr at the current stage.

2025-02-19 11:27:03 UTC

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Yep (pic is not from our phone - but we had the same model and same trendy pale yellow 70's style colouring).
All the numbers in our suburb where 4 or 5 digit.
Also had the big heavy physical printed paper phone books with everyone's address and number laying next to it 😄

2025-02-19 04:15:47 UTC

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In Germany that was still pretty much the standard until the mid-90s.
One of the beauties I grew up with.
https://m.primal.net/PCVG.png

2025-02-14 08:35:29 UTC

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Still relatively "fresh/inexperienced" to Nostr.
Is there a possibility to zap (when using the Primal interface) WITHOUT having NWC extension and/or Primal Wallet installed?
E.g. on Iris I can send the Zaps "manually" from my own (external) Lightning Node to the invoice provided.
https://m.primal.net/OfSk.png

2025-02-14 05:05:34 UTC

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🤝

2025-01-13 16:34:29 UTC

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Would love to read!
Your podcast back in the day brought some regular inspiration.
Our farming operation set off this month as well.
https://m.primal.net/Newa.jpg

2025-01-13 16:22:31 UTC

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Voice messages are a great way to not receive a reply.

2024-12-23 04:53:12 UTC

"...could we interest you in a conversation about Bitcoin?"
The orange Vietnam-El Salvador bridge being built one pillar at a time.
https://m.primal.net/NDxW.png

2024-11-18 15:22:06 UTC

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This seems guaranteed once the flywheel goes into the other direction.
Emil Sandstedt wrote some more in-depth piece on the matter:
https://medium.com/@bdratings/microstrategy-a-sea-of-misconceptions-7874013644e3

2024-11-08 14:40:45 UTC

Never too early to learn about Waterloo, Hamilton and all the basics which made our modern world.
https://m.primal.net/Lwlp.png

2024-10-18 02:22:24 UTC

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Highly agreed.
People would like to see everything just "going their way" without doing any work for it to make it to bring it about.
It is a comforting thought... but also not a very realistic one.
If you want to move the world closer to the direction of your liking, you must put in the work.
And with that said:
It will always be a small minority who are active players and shape the world around us, have an impact rather than remaining on the passenger seat of life.
It's those we must connect with and focus on rather than some blurry vision of "mass adoption" (which is mostly driven by NGU fantasies).
We have 2024.
Everybody has heard about Bitcoin by now and if they're still not on board, they might just not be the people who are ready & well-qualified to be part of an impactful minority.

2024-10-13 16:39:35 UTC

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99%+ of my personal relationships came about - directly or indirectly - through the connectivity the Internet brought about.
Used purposefully, the Internet is one of the most powerful tools ever brought into this world.
#note1s7c…v4j4

2024-10-13 16:14:03 UTC

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A really cool shirt, successfully obtained. ⚡️

2024-10-05 10:58:17 UTC

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While it likely won't pass, it is an important shift in the framing of the conversation.
You can not win if all you do is fighting a defensive battle.

2024-09-27 08:46:00 UTC

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Visiting Vietnam?
We've got a service there which might be of interest to you.
#note126a…w9ew

2024-09-27 08:22:18 UTC

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Follow (& zap) the local Bitcoin Meetup in #Frankfurt
Going strong for more than 11 years, battling out the fight between good and €vil right in the shadows of the European Central Bank which located itself in the isolated East End area of Frankfurt.
Gotta motivate the crew to ramp up it's Nostr presence ;)
#note1nha…xl82

2024-09-26 07:30:39 UTC

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Enjoy Frankfurt & its local cuisine, the local Bitcoin meetup @BTCFFM still going strong there.
They got to get a bit more active on here though :-)

2024-09-18 15:21:34 UTC

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Morgen abend in Frankfurt / Rhein Main
#joinyourlocalbitcoinmeetup
#note143n…37fq

2024-09-18 11:19:25 UTC

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Currently the (known) Bitcoin developers are still heavily concentrated in the Western hemisphere.
Time to get some more geographic decentralization in motion there as well :-)
#note10j4…x2y2

2024-09-18 04:28:39 UTC

The first flowers appearing.
Normally, it takes a tree three years to start bearing fruit.
This tree is just a bit over two years old.
#vietnam
https://m.primal.net/KtWO.png

2024-09-13 02:58:26 UTC

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Do not delay.
The future depends on it.
#note17yr…wrt2

2024-09-11 08:20:55 UTC

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Welcome and thank you for your work.
Good to see ever more "non-hardcore" Bitcoiners join in on the fun on Nostr.

2024-09-08 16:08:13 UTC

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Use Bitcoin as the benchmark to base your decisions on.
Does the ROI outweigh the opportunity cost of holding onto your stack?
Your ROI considerations do not (or better: should not!) be only driven by monetary return considerations.
Your time on this planet is your most scarce asset.
Use it wisely and make it count.
#note1cvn…ywjg

2024-09-08 03:44:58 UTC

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The difference of life in Germany vs South East Asia in a single note.
Do you do things how "they ought to be" (high on ideology)
...or do you do things that work in reality to get the results desired (high on pragmatism).
And somehow the pragmatists always seem so much happier than the ideologues ( constant mental pain from the gap between the world in their mind vs the world right in front of them).

2024-09-08 02:47:06 UTC

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If history shows us anything, then that the 51% moderates will anyway fall in line rather quick with whatever narrative is the prevailing one at any given time.
And the fight for the control of the narrative are between small groups of the organized few.

2024-09-08 02:44:03 UTC

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Normal people are just a drain on your resources.
Find the few who are worth your time and attention and build beautiful things.
The one's who are called for will find their way and the vast majority...is just not meant to be here.
And that's totally ok!
#note15kr…jl7u

2024-09-07 03:48:30 UTC

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Cacao tree - raised from a seedling sourced from Dong Nai province.

2024-09-07 03:07:05 UTC

2 years in, continued healthy foliage growth.
By next year, it might be bearing fruit.
We shall see what the Saigon climate allows for.
https://m.primal.net/KhdZ.png

2024-09-06 02:20:28 UTC

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It requires a lot of introspection and maturing to come to deal with it.
Function of time - and work.

2024-09-06 02:19:20 UTC

Nostr is right now such a nice place because the average IQ of the user base is so much higher.
Same as for Twitter in earlier days.
Forums in even earlier days.
When (if) the masses arrive, it always becomes toxic and retarded.

2024-09-05 22:27:20 UTC

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"I like to run into the machine gun fire to see if it can really hurt me"
Same vibes.
Either is really moronic behaviour.

2024-09-01 13:26:54 UTC

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It's not "constraints", but commitments.
An inability to commit generally leads to no happy outcomes.
And people in this day and age are generally quite fearful of committing themselves fully to a choice.
But:
To achieve specific goals requires that very commitment.

2024-08-30 17:05:23 UTC

One of the challenges on a Bitcoin standard is that very few investments make financial sense.
As long as Bitcoin remains in its monetization phase, it will likely continue to outperform almost every other investment you could consider in terms of risk-reward ratio.
It is exceptionally difficult to find investments that have a reasonable chance to yield a positive ROI when measured in BTC.
The only outliers might be some successful, high-flying startups, but those come naturally with a high risk of failure.
Otherwise, unless a business can consistently achieve growth of 50%+ per year, it's tough to justify allocating any capital to it.
Some potential "non-monetary" justifications to invest regardless:
a) you treat these investments as "insurance" in case Bitcoin fails
An insurance generally COSTS money, but provides you with downside protection.
b) If investing into startups, beyond the pure monetary return:
You get something out of it beyond a pure "financial investment.
- e.g. you gain closer practical expertise/insight into a general sector worthwhile paying attention to
- you have the ability to work with some of the brightest and dynamic minds and "level up" your own expertise
- the start-up is building solutions complimentary to your own core business (hence: strengthening your own business positioning alongside on a mutually beneficial basis)
- stuff "you want to see exist/happening" (which is almost semi-altruistic motive)
These factors might make investing outside the Bitcoin realm worthwhile, despite the significant risks involved.
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With that said, being more cautious in allocating capital is NOT a negative thing.
It encourages savings by only allocating capital to actually viable business models.
Very different from investing on a fiat standard where you can spray your $$$ around wildly and still "be profitable", especially since on a weak money standard blowing (& bursting) bubble investments are highly encouraged.
While few things are built to last and the capital stock of society is eroded along the way...

2024-08-30 12:10:52 UTC

For friends in #Frankfurt & #RheinMain
Follow @BTCFFM:
npub1m3msk8ssz6rv3kvqmsavufry0qayzxx5cldx22plrhlrntgkmh7qr37c50
https://m.primal.net/KVGJ.png

2024-08-30 12:04:27 UTC

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Congrats & thank you Mick for the continued efforts!
Just took a first look, looking clean!

2024-08-29 18:06:29 UTC

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The non-autist part of the population (the majority) operates on emotions and feelings, not rationality, logic and facts.
Failing to "sell" one's ideas might not make them less valid, but certainly less impactful.

2024-08-28 09:34:22 UTC

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Yes.
Horrendous childhood memories.
A reason to migrate away.

2024-08-28 09:11:46 UTC

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Okay, based.
Awesome work @npub1zk6…l6ef!

2024-08-25 15:05:44 UTC

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Happy families with young kids (the more, the merrier).

2024-08-25 08:33:26 UTC

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Any centralized platform operating at scale runs on borrowed time.
They're all in the crosshairs now.
#note1pqe…sau5

2024-08-23 17:09:09 UTC

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Majority of society will never care, but many small-sized local community cells will exist to cater & solve such needs.
Some places will always be easier and more accessible and that's where brains & capital will flow.

2024-08-23 04:43:19 UTC

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Plenty and more every week.

2024-08-21 04:05:18 UTC

The gathering point for Bitcoiners in #SEA in 2024
https://primal.net/e/note17lmstcfv2h574m64drt7pcvn8atg0cgumzuh86vzq7xs5jwlf7wqdwjw2r

2024-08-20 16:38:50 UTC

@npub1z3s…tq8s ads rollin' in Saigon / Vietnam
September is the month to be in Asia if you're looking to connect with the local communities & business.
First #TBC2024 in Bangkok by the good folks around @npub1pry…2xcv& the Rightshift crew, then Tokyo for a first in Japan.
Asia is on the move.
https://m.primal.net/KFro.png

2024-08-20 15:35:53 UTC

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There are still gems of content on Twitter/X, but they are basically invisible.
Even though I go to their timeline ~once a week to check out some of their latest thoughts, they will never show in my TL.
From my usage it should be pretty clear that I like to see more of their stuff, alas... they won't ever show up unless I specifically go to their profile.
"The Algo will just show you more of what you already like!" - yeah, no.
If 50% of my time on that app is spend on specific profiles and they never show up on the general TL... - seems off.
The "monetizers" otoh adjust their poasting behaviour all to chime in on the "current thing" of the day.
The psychological warfare & mind control tools are certainly becoming much more refined and subtile.

2024-08-19 08:19:22 UTC

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Our family & community is on a quest here to take back more control of our food supply chain.
If you're in (Southern) Vietnam and are on the same journey, let's get connected.
Starts small with home-gardening & home-made food items - going to vet and build out our own direct network of farmers.
It's a long journey and is better done as a group effort.
#note12nj…g3th

2024-08-19 03:34:53 UTC

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It took about a decade from that initial seed of doubt to finally physically exit the system.
Left Europe and never looked back.
Now, over a decade in Asia:
Still no regrets about the choice made.
#note1a72…zznd

2024-08-19 02:15:14 UTC

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We are meant to reproduce.
It is an essential part of becoming a full adult and changes your timeframe beyond your own life.

2024-08-18 12:13:01 UTC

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That's pretty much the numbers they were projecting us ~20-25 years ago.
The math was off, but everyone pretended that it will all work out somehow.
"Magic", "adults in control" or some other fairy tale to make people feel good and not having to think to much about the ultimate outcome.
In hindsight, quite grateful for this early severe crack in confidence in the system I took away from that school day.

2024-08-18 05:06:01 UTC

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"And so Baby Boomers had like a 3.5 worker-to-retiree ratio to support in their peak earnings years, while Millennials will have more like a 2.5 worker-to-retiree ratio or less to deal with. " //
I certainly vividly remember how, in our later high school years, during the "Social Studies" class, we were presented with very similar formulas for the German social security system.
The math simply did not seem to check out.
It just didn't make sense "what the adults were trying to tell us".
It did not square.
When a few of us inquired about it, the teacher didn’t have any satisfying answers. (Well, duh—he’d been on the Ponzi train long enough to know that it would work out for *him* as long as a sufficient number of people kept paying into the system for the next 20-30 years.)
We were presented with all these rosy words and theories about how great Germany is because "everybody is taken care of."
But when you looked at the cold, hard numbers, it seemed evident that a cold, hard stop would follow - and that our generation would bear the brunt.
That specific day never got out of my head.
A severe seed of doubt had been planted.

2024-08-17 12:08:47 UTC

Sun-dried #chili from the rooftop garden
https://m.primal.net/KCKa.png

2024-08-17 09:33:59 UTC

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Looking forward and thanks for bringing the community in SEA together once more!

2024-08-16 11:55:19 UTC

See you in #Bangkok next month!
https://primal.net/e/note1efp2n5qazqqupzuzdg7lq8pxlm7cpgf0rdklctacey07l0rjhc5qyz2hq4

2024-08-13 04:14:29 UTC

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Welcome!
Critical mass forming.

2024-08-11 17:26:09 UTC

Ads for #TBC2024 running in downtown #Saigon
https://m.primal.net/JwIw.png

2024-08-10 17:48:32 UTC

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Truly enjoyed your old posts and writings years back.
Good to have you on here.

2024-08-10 17:44:02 UTC

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🇻🇳🤝🇸🇻

2024-08-10 11:54:12 UTC

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Welcome and good to have you here James.
Let's grow the critical mass.

2024-08-07 13:42:47 UTC

Looking to compile a short list of paid/private relays to recommend.
Nostr without the use of paid relays is painfully slow - which makes the initial experience quite off-putting to most.
Which relays do you utilize and why?
#relay #paidrelay

2024-08-05 09:50:59 UTC

And on that note:
If you are seriously into Nostr and are based in #Saigon and/or #Vietnam - feel free to reach out, looking to gather the community here further.
https://iris.to/note1r2ktvkt59ker7edg6xec838kmljytxkhkw7wm0p8h539nc837zsqxjuhz5

2024-08-04 15:47:16 UTC

Vietnam's uptake on Nostr has been slow compared to e.g. neighbouring Thailand - but I am starting to become increasingly bullish that we'll get out of the starting blocks within the next year.
We'll look to do our part.

2024-07-31 12:42:37 UTC

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Hopeful sign.
A talk of Saylor on Bitcoin who has thought long & deep about the matter is certainly of much more value to the audience.

2024-03-27 03:35:35 UTC

First deployment of our new fleet.
#binhduong
https://image.nostr.build/bda3e15096687aafd0306cf7ebe46ce9563cfb394c0623d2fd6d8d4c190c0243.png

2023-08-12 11:48:30 UTC

What has been your most insightful
"Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it"
moment in business or human relationships you had in the past year?