Faith & Practice 🍁

Christian, husband, father, son, therapist

Public Key

npub1a02sf243epa7zyjpzxlaq220sktkuwhcjzq5wvk70fszqc7zv63skglqst

NIP-05 Address

SatoshiPsychotherapist@iris.to

NIP-57 Address

faithandpractice@walletofsatoshi.com

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relay.wellorder.net

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npub1a02sf243epa7zyjpzxlaq220sktkuwhcjzq5wvk70fszqc7zv63skglqst

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2024-08-29 23:28:44

Hi nostritches👋 I'm adding psychotherapy clients to my private practice. If you're in Canada and have time throughout the day let me help you move toward your goals and values. I specialize in behavioural health, sleep,, OCD, BPD, and mind and mood. If you have extended health care benefits those apply and you may be able to work with me for free. Message me for details.

2024-07-06 03:14:28

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Hey, I think you could explain it over a beer 🍺

2024-07-06 02:18:23

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I remember seeing a graph of voting outcomes if women's votes are selectively removed... Astounding.
The desire for patriarchal safety, provision, security, and authority cannot be satisfied in any civil government. These are domains that only rightly belong to the natural family unit and patriarch as he images God as father. Western women have largely rejected this but still seek it in government; a new kind of father.

2024-07-01 18:51:15

O Canada! Beneath thy shining skies
May stalwart sons and gentle maidens rise,
To keep thee steadfast through the years
From East to Western sea,
Our own beloved native land,
Our True North, strong and free! 🍁
Ruler Supreme, Who hearest humble prayer,
Hold our dominion within Thy loving care.
Help us to find, O God, in Thee
A lasting, rich reward,
As waiting for the Better Day,
We ever stand on guard. 🙏

2024-06-27 12:26:58

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My only critique relates to (kids' choice). This is a covenantal household, bucko. Daddy has veto rights and you bet your little keester we're singing a Psalm.

2024-06-24 21:36:35

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Did you get any sats back? In Canada ShakePay has a 1% satsback card

2023-12-28 15:11:56

I just wanted cheap on-chain transactions this Christmas 💔 🎄

2023-12-14 00:52:28

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Just be precise in your variables and measures and you should learn what factors predict Bitcoin openness as you run your analyses 🤙

2023-12-13 03:16:50

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Idea:
1. screen participants for prior knowledge of Bitcoin. Factor out those that self-rate as already knowledgable, or decided about Bitcoin. Invite the uninitiated to participate in study
2. Administer personality inventory and demographic survey to these uninitiated participants.
3. Introduce solid and concise Bitcoin 101 material to these uninitiated/undecided participants
4. Ask participants their interest to explore, buy, or demonstrate openness to Bitcoin
5. Study these scores compared to their willingness to demographic or personality inventory data points such as trait openness, income level, agreeableness, value of freedom, etc.
In so doing you should find out who and how and why people 'get' Bitcoin right now, or don't.
#Psychology

2023-12-04 00:23:18

Hey y'all, any Canadians looking to use their extended health care benefits for psychotherapy and looking for a remote practitioner that isn't a statist shill? DM me

2023-12-04 00:22:09

Reflecting on a refreshing Lord's day in worship and fellowship

2023-11-29 01:53:05

https://image.nostr.build/d8a69407897c95abcb91f425852f500b043a1eb0fc46daeb571748f029c8ee94.jpg

2023-11-15 16:46:46

Mood and mind have a bi-directional relationship to behaviour: it's not one-way. If you want to change your psyche, adjust your actions. It may in fact be more effective to commit to meaningful action before you have the internal motivation to do so. Without the benefits of completed behaviour, your motivation may never come. #Psychology

2023-11-15 16:13:18

Men, this is an important book. Do the wise thing and pick up the e-version for free today.
https://image.nostr.build/e5bd6f3b74d2d2f3c466750a5e1b4fea7fceee096376daeb9cefa7faba97bf7b.jpg

2023-11-01 02:41:47

Guys I've gone dark on nostr for a bit now.
Part of the reason is that I've been trying to get outdoors a little more, including trying my hand at hunting.
I'm happy to report my first hunting success during my WMU's turkey shotgun season. 🦃
https://image.nostr.build/c8dc744a6dc2bc7a9908409f3af322efa528ced00edd4041d3bee2c85f408aee.jpg

2023-08-11 21:56:21

Hey #nostr. I know you like #steakstr. 🥩 🥔 🌽
https://nostr.build/av/4c58fa78d31bd87c1da9103a7381a85002a373363ce20e9ef10bfee3aa1ee043.mp4

2023-08-11 01:49:37

One day we are all going to look back at ourselves recklessly zapping generational wealth away and universally regard ourselves as wild madmen.

2023-08-09 13:52:59

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That's flexible responding as long as you can be serious when you need to.

2023-08-06 02:06:09

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They're all going down together at relatively similar rates, hiding the value degradation. It's a coordinated Keynesian psyop from the top.

2023-08-05 22:58:30

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#value4value

2023-08-05 22:15:11

#pipestr #beerstr 🍺
Presbyterian mixture in a Morgan bones tulip
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/aeb90002301e8261c52a382b2863f2ff5bfc347f083366f53940e31d7b4bb7d0.jpg

2023-08-05 02:00:21

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https://store.coinkite.com/store/cc-q1
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/3a271e4eb2f356c5a50fdbd0065c69680ae3be66e7cfa03e2ff36e7ef13bb673.jpg

2023-08-05 01:49:11

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Ok what about the Blackberry QR code ColdCard though?

2023-08-04 19:22:52

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Medications either targets symptoms or the illness itself.
Symptom management medication is over-prescribed and commonly reinforces the unhelpful idea that we should be free from the consequence of our actions. Nature however determines that we are not. Symptoms serve a function of alerting to fundamental behaviour change needed.
I mean this message of course with the caveat that there are exceptions to this rule.

2023-08-04 17:55:19

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I'm guessing it somehow broke? What's the issue?

2023-08-04 15:28:21

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Memories. The JRPGs on that thing were legendary: Chrono Cross, FF7, FF9, legend of dragoon..
chef's kiss

2023-08-03 21:55:04

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So basically...
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/3b89a27a99d689d09dbe11ff4230572bfe299ebca189c449a26336e882baaf5f.jpg

2023-08-03 21:28:09

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So when blockstream says they're a Bitcoin-only company it's sort of like.. kinda?

2023-08-03 20:33:38

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That's what I'm getting. Liquid Bitcoin is a distinct crypto currency and is not in any way redeemable for Bitcoin without incurring transaction fees and using an exchange?

2023-08-03 19:44:25

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Educate me if you will. This post really is for a friend and I have very little understanding of what liquid is.

2023-08-03 19:28:08

What you think and what you believe must be distinguished. Even in this moment. To fail to do so is termed cognitive fusion - reducing self-concept and awareness to only what your broken and highly suggestible thinker thinks.
The truth is, sometimes thoughts mislead us. You can't entirely rest your trust on them. They take us away from what's true or what matters, and lead us only to immediate gratification and away from pain.
We think from our of our varying states (hungry, irritable, sad, anxious, despondent).
Beliefs, goals, and values are truer, and not as momentary and suggestible as thoughts. They are based on higher more pure and unreachable things that are less given to momentary destabilization. They are firmer to base your speech and actions upon.
Be present, open up, and do what matters.
#Psychology #AcceptanceAndCommitmentTherapy

2023-08-03 19:12:57

Hey #nostriches, what's the best way to get liquid Bitcoin into plain old on-chain #Bitcoin? Asking for a friend.

2023-08-02 22:28:46

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2 Corinthians 12:7-9
English Standard Version
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/616068004eb54e9e39796b6aa6e25d6e345aa46464fb047eb1328aca0a0d2c77.jpg

2023-08-02 19:54:08

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24/6 bro
But for real, farmers do need to perform some labour on the Lord's day.
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/6d09b97427e0f0262810dfbed254db193a31c321e61008b0b9c874f3755bd133.jpg

2023-08-02 18:32:16

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Make it stop...!!

2023-08-02 17:12:12

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We are the battlefield. We are the mountain. Man is both marble and sculptor.

2023-08-02 16:54:31

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It's multifactorial. There are plenteous government and establishment media psyops interested in taking way focus on future, freedom, and progeny. You are being deluded into believing that children are thieves of joy, when in fact the opposite is true. Our ancestors knew better.
Then there's the fact that reproduction and family-raising right require tremendous moral compass, power, and self-controlled committed action. This is far more available and thus more common among religious conservatives. Psy-op'd people are more inclined to think instant gratification and absence of pain is the way to happiness. That's animal-like.
For the modern person it's safer in many ways to decline to take a risk unless an individual and their monogomous partner (husband/wife) can be trusted to keep their word and faithfulness through thick and thin - a trait that's in high demand and low availability today. Who can find a noble woman/man worthy of this commitment and investment, to carry and bear their children?
#psychology

2023-08-02 14:59:34

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💯

2023-08-02 14:32:27

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It's truly an investment with a great return. Corporate zaps are a corporate Bitcoin marketing no-brainer. ✅

2023-08-02 14:19:27

I got zapped by @npub1jg5…6n8n. A part of me is geeking out. Another part of me gets it.
When you think of it, corporate zaps for plebs are an excellent marketing and customer engagement strategy. Loyalty, value, and brand or cause-positive speech can be instantly rewarded.
Bitcoiners are irrationally excited about zaps. I get it, it's awesome. It's also notable that the monetary cost is nil. We are getting excited instead about adoption and novelty. In my own example, blockstream has reinforced my positive attribution of the brand, and made me more likely to consume or purchase their products. Well done!
This is extrinsic positive reinforcement. Zaps modify human behaviour through immediate reward. This is a good thing and is a great example of rudimentary behavioural psychology at work.
What reinforces or punishes your behaviours?
#Psychology

2023-08-02 02:32:24

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When is Nostralia taking immigration applications?

2023-08-02 02:31:25

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2023-08-02 02:29:16

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https://cdn.nostr.build/i/52ad12349f4aa75002083352cc0246ed395b80a790265cc82771836b3455551e.gif

2023-08-02 02:28:32

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https://media.tenor.com/04coQa9mz28AAAAC/spongebob-my-eyes.gif I've made that mistake before.

2023-08-02 02:05:16

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I'm a simple man. I see bible on nostr, I like.

2023-08-02 01:33:08

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Nice presentation

2023-08-01 23:43:00

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This is cool, I'll have to check it out next time I'm mowing the lawn👌

2023-08-01 23:24:07

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Bitcoin's fundamentals enable us not to fixate on money.
Without it, we're trading our time with the state with diminishing returns for a unit of value they can print out of thin air. The funny thing is, Bitcoin is such a revolutionary fix that it's worth quite a lot of devotion to discussion, propogation, and thought! So here we are thinking about money again.
But truly, sound money frees us to think about things other than money. Let's set an intention to practice that freedom allowed and live our lives by what matters and is right and lasting.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs

2023-08-01 23:02:32

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🤙

2023-08-01 22:28:48

True in Tom's day, true today.
#nevent1q…8cvs

2023-08-01 21:17:29

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Plated 🍽️
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/8c4289448c634776f8c24042ddfa1c5b5d639cdcbf917dbc1f52eecb7d9e3513.jpg

2023-08-01 21:12:04

What's cookin', #nostriches?
#steakstr 🥩 🍢
https://nostr.build/av/b89b38dd5bff7f53ce0f019b0475eb9f923e4a564ca789c4f2b7cfe1c2578e56.mp4
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/2b0a38716826ad0a0e44ed759720ff1a67ec79be3cd0dc11e15830fe25b17a2e.jpg

2023-08-01 20:59:56

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Do you do NFTs?

2023-08-01 20:01:56

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Ok now I really want it.
Is your repost for sale?

2023-08-01 19:33:32

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😅 whether or not it's original or lifted, I felt I needed to reproduce/produce and distribute it. The concept was amusing.

2023-08-01 18:38:44

This meme idea was in my mind. Here's my committed action for catharsis:
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/fc3acc67fd332c6242a6405b4aec5a80765e03a1fe4ba5789f77294c4286cb11.jpg

2023-08-01 18:14:18

A man must do what matters to him. If he doesn't, his unease and discontent becomes certain.
#Psychology #MasculineFrame #Values

2023-08-01 18:02:13

John 18:37-38 📖
Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him."

2023-07-31 23:39:20

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Reformed Forum

2023-07-31 20:44:59

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Being

2023-07-31 19:29:48

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I have Pentecostal extended family on my wife's side. If there's anything they think they know about Calvin/Calvinism, it's not a positive attribution. I think mostly they lack knowledge about it though. Pentecostals know even very little about their own tradition.
Side-note: instant cure for Pentecostalism is studying church history

2023-07-31 19:13:00

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You've got me beat! But that's a nice collection. 👌
In retrospect I should've waited for the single-volume of Vos' systematic to be cost-effective in completing it.
A few years ago I stopped stacking books and started stacking sats. My URCNA church has a nice church library too, and we members often lend each other good books when asked.

2023-07-31 19:05:26

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🧐 📚
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/47241229f762a6e86ef92cf5f2c888eb43a1d2cdf92e7afe16c7f7eae6486290.jpg

2023-07-31 03:24:48

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I don't know if it's an error or not but it actually stopped giving sats to me, so I stopped using it 🤷‍♂️

2023-07-30 21:20:40

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I think I like the Westminster divines more

2023-07-30 03:12:12

Okay, I'll bite. Who is Saratoshi Nagamoto?

2023-07-30 02:57:41

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Buckle up, mini history on the New Testament canon and how it compares to Bitcoin ahead. 🎓⚡
Michael Kruger https://www.michaeljkruger.com/ New Testament scholar and professor at Reformed Theological Seminary wrote a book called 'Canon Revisited' which re-conveyed the historic Protesant view that the New Testament scriptures were received and recognized by the church independently separately from one another, and later clarified together as each individual church in each community communicated with one another by letter and visitor bringing news and resources (think Bitcoin nodes confirming transactions!!). Some false writings (Gospel of Peter, etc.) did not receive approval by the churches when they were compared to the rest of established canon and other trustworthy and verified NT writings. Shockingly, there was very little initial disagreement in the living generation, because the scriptures previously written were effective verification tools (like a full blockchain download vetting new transactions). The Apostle Paul praises the Bereans for searching the scriptures to verify if what he says is true (Acts 17:11) rather than by accepting it by his own credentials. Luke's gospel for example challenges listeners to verify what he wrote by consulting living witnesses, providing their names and addresses (communities) whenever possible, though sometimes refraining when anonymity was required to keep the witness safe. (Decentralization)
This is in total juxtaposition to the Roman Catholic model that posits that the scriptures were verified by the central authorities of the church. (Centralization)
As Protestants, we affirm the scriptures formed and validate the legitimacy of the churches, not that the institutional hierarchical and centralized church (of Rome) validates the scriptures.

2023-07-30 02:29:37

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Yes- submission to authority is inescapable for life, relationships, and all knowledge. You can know nothing apart from trust or reference to prior knowledge - what you learned from what you learned before and from whom! Also, how can you trust yourself without purification, also polluted by sin without cure?
In a world of unworthy authority figures, imperfect and marred by sin, let us surrender first to the one who is holy, perfect, and blameless. This is childlike faith, without guile or pretense.
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis

2023-07-30 02:16:08

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I hear you, and yet I still dream of layer 2 with the same fundamentals of layer 1

2023-07-30 02:14:13

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It was such a drag to see behind the wizard of Oz's curtain, and subsequently realize that worldwide lightning liquidity depends on just a few mega-nodes. Layer 2 improvements are such a necessary thing for further adoption, but I also understand many devs are thinking outside the box and hard at work on this. I appreciate what they do.

2023-07-30 02:02:48

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Ha! Point taken!

2023-07-30 02:02:21

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I tried maintaining my own lightning node and found it onerous, and did make me appreciate how easy centralized services make it look.
I have frequent seasonal power outaged and in consequence my channel partners punished me with unilateral closures. This experience, the fees, the necessary knowledge, and maintenance involved made me hope for an improved layer 2 to see instant cheap and anonymous payments become easier to truly self-custody and operate.
As a result lf this experience I learned to appreciate again Bitcoin's base layer.

2023-07-30 01:46:07

Strike and WoS are wildly popular among bitcoiners, but also wildly centralized and custodial. They're convenient, but you trade for that convenience with your liberty, privacy, and responsibility. What gives?

2023-07-30 01:23:31

Tomorrow is the Lord's day.
Use this map link to find a faithful Reformed church to worship with tomorrow, local to you.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1d_UbOHoEYBmcyriC09r3x2AdcP4&usp=sharing

2023-07-29 23:58:11

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Spook got called back by the brass. He takes orders from above.

2023-07-29 02:51:45

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Sad but true. There will be an adoption curve with nostr as there was for bitcoin and other tech that is ahead of its time. One day, others will wake to it. Until that day, it's good to be here.

2023-07-29 01:55:18

What's the best android client for nostr these days? I use Iris but also Amethyst sometimes now.

2023-07-08 17:34:48

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Zaps are the only notifications I need and they show up in my lightning wallet 🤙

2023-07-08 04:35:52

Does anyone else admire some of the technical programming conversations going on here? I wonder how much I'm learning by observation and osmosis.
The most ambitious coding thing I've done is launched, troubleshooted, and frequently repaired an Umbrel node + open and maintain lightning channels on Linux. 🤷‍♂️
It's good to admire high skill in others in the domains we ourselves lack.

2023-07-08 03:54:19

Therapists that insert themselves into the social network of their clients as cheerleader-for-hire are cruel and sadistic manipulators. They may not realize it, but they parasitize upon the weak and hate rather than love their clients. This method of care doesn't result in patient independence, it creates an expensive addiction not much better than a chemical one.
People stuck in struggle don't need more shallow affirmations to accept dysfunctional aspects of their lives: they need freedom from bondage. They came to these therapists looking for an expert to bring change to what needs fixing.
Think: We need both the love of a mother and the love of a father. We need a mother's doting and tender counter-conditional love, but we also need the push of expectations and behaviour modelling - both positive and negative discipline to prosper as a person in the world. Any one of these alone is not enough.
We all know too many sons and daughters that live their lives short of their own high potential because of too much of this pseudo-mothering "therapy". Enough is enough. Delusion affirmation is not sufficient psychological treatment.

2023-03-02 19:54:34

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Me trying to understand your original post
https://i.imgflip.com/1j9mml.jpg?a465984

2023-02-22 17:38:13

Okay, who keeps zapping my alby wallet? Not cool guys, I'm on team No-Zap. #QuitZapping!

2023-02-17 14:24:30

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AFAIK Whirlpool helps to lose trace of the coins through obfuscating the transaction trail. It doesn't change the reported amount of Bitcoin bought from a regulated exchange, but it at least doesn't make it easy to find out what wallet those coins eventually ended up in.

2023-02-16 21:58:00

Sorry to taint nostr with politics, fellow nostriches, but I have bad news to bring for most of our provinces and territories as it pertains to Canadian rights and freedoms over the coming years. 🇨🇦
https://www.rebelnews.com/premiers_accept_ottawas_health_care_funding_offer_continue_to_negotiate

2023-02-15 19:54:17

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It doesn't show up for me, your profile is bare too. Is it potentially a relay problem? I'm on Amethyst
https://i.imgur.com/GzO2Dyp.jpg

2023-02-15 19:03:11

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Add a wallet of Satoshi address to your profile so I can zap you!

2023-02-14 16:58:10

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It's critical for sensitive missions-funding where privacy and safety from government surveillance and control. Non-KYC Bitcoin across borders... Chefs kiss for the church militant.