thejohn

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2024-07-27 22:14:39

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1 day of bitaxe mining = 50,000+ years of nerdminer mining

2024-05-07 00:09:09

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Just for a different perspective, watch this Dr John Campbell video regarding use of Midazolam in aged care facilities during initial covid outbreak because it might just raise a bit of doubt before swallowing what you have been told.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cqo9V2MzM
This hits very close to home for me personally.

2024-05-06 23:29:41

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That is a conjecture not a fact.
Anecdotally, from the small group of unvaccinated people I know... those of us who eat meat daily and get regular sunshine, caught covid once and it barely felt like a cold.
Yet my vaccinated, boosted & sun and meat phobic friends and colleagues have had covid many times, and EVERY TIME they were bedridden for days!
I knew three fit middle aged people who have "died suddenly" and one fit person who got turbo cancer leaving a young family behind. Tragic.
Open your eyes.

2023-10-26 06:42:27

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Go eat a bag of dicks. Leave Bitcoin alone! Do your shitcoining somewhere else.

2023-10-25 01:17:04

Spot on!
#nevent1q…c2fs

2023-07-25 05:27:29

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The final archvillain is every single government around the world.

2023-07-09 22:50:05

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Spot on!

2023-06-27 23:53:37

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Does MicroStrategy take custody of their own keys? Or are they rightfully playing cards close to their chest and not being specific?

2023-06-23 21:57:09

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Beautiful images.

2023-05-05 23:19:28

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Appreciate your well thought out comments thank you Jimmy.

2023-04-24 05:57:27

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A thing must be desired AND scarce to command a high price or value.
Of course there are many items that are important to our survival that are free. Fresh air & water for most of us in the rich countries is an example. Another example is the childcare worker who is paid low, yet their role to look after children is extremely important - arguably more so than being a plumber. Yet the plumber is often paid 3 times more than the childcare worker. Prices hence value are set by supply and demand.
The honest billionaires (that don't steal) have figured this out and specialize in offering value.
Therefore, billionaires are not taking a large share of the cake and making other people have to go with less. Billionaires are making the cake much larger for everyone.
Capitalism (small business & billionaires) have driven down prices drastically over the last 200 years. And this is why poverty is less than a tenth of what it was then.
***Making profit by offering value (not stealing) is one of the most ethical things one can do***
Also, since you were talking about ideas and reading books, let me start with some recommendations that say it much better than I can.
"The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
"Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt.
"An Introduction to Value Theory" https://mises.org/library/introduction-value-theory (Mises Institute).

2023-04-20 11:30:23

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Shitcoin

2023-04-20 11:29:47

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Remember that the state is incompetent. Eg. The most oppressive powerful country on the planet, China, banned mining a few years ago. Yet China still has very significant hash rate.
The state, even the mighty US, cannot afford to control enough hash rate to censor transactions at scale for any significant length of time.
Bitcoin mining is the most competitive business Vs the State which is the most wasteful organisation on the planet. Difficult for them to win that one.

2023-04-20 10:33:44

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Tough question and my answer is pure speculation. I think the next war won't have anything to do with the bitcoin protocol itself.
Some soft fork proposals and methods of activation will continue to be contentious but not a biggie in the overall scheme of things. Also not widely known but there is at least one hard fork in bitcoin's distant future (block number 5101541 in 86 years) which I won't get to see unfortuantely... but that is another story.
The next attack IMO will be from the state or through their proxies. Such as:
- closing or restricting on-ramps to #Bitcoin using FTX & other scams as an excuse to introduce legislation to "protect" us.
- increasing electricity prices for miners
- attempting to censor transactions
- legislation targeting Bitcoin hodlers to disclose their stack addresses
- legislation targeting Bitcoin hodlers with unrealized capital gains tax consequences
- psychological attacks such as writing more articles describing ppl who hodl #Bitcoin as "Impulsive psychopaths are drawn to Bitcoin and other crypto"
- low probability 6102 attack but perhaps some countries will try
- CBDCs are more of a #Bitcoin promotion and getting normies used to the idea of digital wallets
Many of the above are highly highly speculative. But ultimately any or all of these attacks will make #Bitcoin stronger and if anything accelerate #Bitcoin use and adoption. The mining ban in China was a perfect example.
What are your thoughts? Where do you speculate that the next attack will come from?

2023-04-20 07:30:05

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Yeah that is really neat I agree.

2023-04-20 04:55:04

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Instead of left vs right it should be
Freedom vs tyranny
Both the left and the right are bumping up against the tyrannical end of the scale.
Ultimately
More government=tyranny
Less government=freedom

2023-04-20 04:48:00

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A more accurate meme would represent crypto as a parasitic worm hanging onto the log instead of a smaller version of dog.

2023-04-17 00:12:23

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Try putting your question to the GrapheneOS off topic telegram group. Someone might be able to give you the name of a good hardware repair person.
And yes the inbuilt GrapheneOS backup works very well. I use it along with the brilliant opensource "syncthing" to sync in realtime my photos and Keepass over my private tailscale network.
https://t.me/GrapheneOS_offtopic

2023-04-13 09:26:43

This Saturday at the Sydney Bitcoin Alive conference will be my first time meeting a group of Bitcoin-only people & I honestly can't wait.
Any conference do and don't tips you can give?
I'm keen to make connections and start a Bitcoin-only group in Cairns.

2023-04-05 22:20:29

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Thank Paul, I'll set up an lnurl this weekend cheers

2023-04-04 10:53:46

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Fantastic content. Name change welcome too. I never understood why it had trader in the name because his videos are top tier.

2023-04-03 04:10:19

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Not open source and runs on Windows but I run Blue Iris + DeepStack AI on a VLAN that is completely separated from my secure network. I like that I can self host and functionality is superior to existing open source alternatives.
A compromise that I have decided to live with for now until open source alternative solutions catch up.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nLH9GEcdb9

2023-03-30 02:22:43

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2023-03-28 00:57:25

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My first nostr post - a Satoshi Quote
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