Alvaro

Catholic, husband, father of four, friend, bitcoiner.

Central banking is evil. Currency debasement is wrong.

Bitcoin is a moral imperative.

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2026-04-01 07:25:02 UTC

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How would they ask for ID or freeze funds? My understanding is that this is not possible

2026-04-01 07:22:02 UTC

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Enhorabuena a los dos. Por el primero de muchos!
Ahora empieza la prueba de trabajo :)

2026-03-30 10:46:52 UTC

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Thank you for posting this. I was think about potentially installing solar panels.
Is there a way around that dirty signals?
Alternatives you would recommend?

2026-03-26 21:59:50 UTC

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Vamos!!

2026-03-26 10:39:26 UTC

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Sin palabras…

2026-03-25 18:37:19 UTC

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Do I read The Bitcoin leap? Haven’t heard of it yet

2026-03-23 19:47:37 UTC

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I thought since some months they already need to collect the information of the wallet owner every time someone makes a withdrawal / transaction? Do you know what will be the difference here?

2026-03-20 22:23:53 UTC

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After a miscarriage a couple of months ago, the ultrasound scan confirmed my wife and me that we are expecting our fifth child, and so far baby seems to be doing great 🙏😊

2026-03-19 11:28:48 UTC

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💯 the real PoW

2026-03-19 11:27:08 UTC

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I agree, taking into account todays society.
But your second point is only valid for people that don’t live in a Bitcoin standard. Gradually, there are more and more people measuring their wealth on sats
And your third point is only valid for KYC, State-compliant transactions. Which is something that’s voluntary. Of course, buying a property with Bitcoin without the tax authorities knowing that will be difficult, but for smaller purchases there’s nothing stopping people from doing it

2026-03-19 11:21:50 UTC

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Cierto. Confirmo que yo soy uno de los que paga para olvidarse del asunto, especialmente si son de baja cuantía

2026-03-19 11:20:36 UTC

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Entiendo! Entonces la App estaría entrenada con criterios para recurrir multas de tráfico, o cualquier tipo de multa?
Porque tienes razón, yo las de tráfico las pago sin pensar (a fin de cuentas el coste de oportunidad de todo el tiempo dedicado a recurrir una multa de 80€ es alto), pero las multas de Hacienda, especialmente a los autónomos, eso y es otro cantar…

2026-03-18 21:24:10 UTC

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Me interesa. Por curiosidad: de donde tienes el dato o la experiencia de que el 30-40% de las multas tienen errores que las anulan?
Mi experiencia personal , aunque con una muestra pequeña, es la contraria…

2026-03-17 21:26:37 UTC

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Bitcoin should allow not only sovereign families, but beyond that a cultural renaissance. More: an inflection point in Humanity’s history.
Absolutely crazy to think in those terms. But I think that outcome is more likely than Bitcoin being a technology that gets forgotten, or worse, used only by a tiny minority.

2026-03-16 21:26:24 UTC

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Even from an etymology perspective, aesthetic and ethic are profoundly related. There’s no one without the other.

2026-03-11 20:51:22 UTC

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Alles gut, kein Thema

2026-03-11 10:37:48 UTC

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Can you point me to a place (article, podcast or whatever) that has debunked those claims, as you say they have been?
All the time I spent so far listening to both sides have let me to lean towards the Knots side. And I have no reputation to maintain, so this was a rational process for me.
Happy to be corrected if you can point me in the right direction.

2026-03-10 21:38:46 UTC

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To this, I just read today from Arkham that the Winklevoss have allegedly sold 92% of their bitcoin in the recent years, with a 130M sale just recently

2026-03-10 21:31:33 UTC

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In cases of publicly known people, sometimes follower count is one of the things that help distinguish among the 37 equal profiles

2026-03-09 20:32:14 UTC

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Prayers to your grandma and to your son. May he go to Heaven at the end of his life, too

2026-03-09 14:26:24 UTC

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Correct

2026-03-09 14:24:54 UTC

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I’m not sure and, honestly, I don’t care either. I have my bitcoin in cold storage.
But why is the Excel file theory crazy? There is no need for any onchain transaction if Coinbase is both the custodian for virtually all BTC sitting in balance sheets of public corporations, and the OTC desk at the same time

2026-03-09 14:21:51 UTC

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If honest, most of the buys of public corporations equate, on practical terms, to a change in a column named “ownership” in an Excel file at Coinbase HQ. That would mean that OG’s have been selling BTC worth billions during the last couple of years. Curious as to why.
If dishonest, the BTC balance of these corporations keeps increasing because Coinbase is updating the numbers on the Excel file, while pocketing the $$

2026-03-06 07:00:58 UTC

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Talks like Larry Fink. Hard to believe he was a hardcore cyberpunk, foundational to Bitcoin

2026-03-05 19:44:44 UTC

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💯
Kratters recent video dissecting Jon Atacks talk at Plan B in El Salvador was so revealing. A must watch

2026-03-04 22:39:59 UTC

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Happy to hear that. The only thing I’ve been reading lately is Kagi News, pretty happy with it, actually.
The article I posted was referenced in a Kagi article

2026-03-04 22:38:03 UTC

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I’m a simple man. A happy pleb. Just want to live my life and enjoy it with my wife and kids, while I save in bitcoin and use it for whatever I like in the most sovereign way I’m capable of.
But this is really the only thing that bothers me. The plain and malicious changes that Core has done. Removing limits. Removing configuration possibilities to node runners. Changing definitions to adapt to narrative. Making changes because of need of Citrea, a private company that has nothing to do with Bitcoin. Closing debates.
I won’t idolize Luke or Mechanic because I don’t know them and I’m sure they have or will fuck up at some point, too.
But the non-zero possibility of having an eventual chain split, and having to vote with my family’s money on it with my very limited information makes me rage towards Core.
And BTW, the way podcasters and educators like @npub1yn3…mzt0 or @npub16le…ffxj, who I truly respect and owe a lot to, either dismiss the importance of the topic or plainly side with Core, exceeds my understanding
Very frustrating this whole situation.

2026-03-04 21:57:27 UTC

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Hey @npub1vm7…sm7s you live in Cyprus? Stay safe!
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-sends-anti-missile-anti-drone-systems-and-a-frigate-to-cyprus/

2026-02-18 12:58:49 UTC

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No. Attention comes from the eyes mainly. Attention is money, so no incentive to change that

2026-02-18 12:58:00 UTC

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There’s a saying in Spanish that goes something like: “don’t sell the fur before killing the bear”
Though that would be a victory, I have no reason to believe that her successor would not double down on statist verticalization and CBDC etc, that Christina started.
Zero social pushback to any of that

2026-02-15 14:42:17 UTC

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Gracias por la respuesta Arkad
Miraré Wise, no tengo.
Bisq lo que me pasó hace poco es que la sincronización de la cadena de bloques se hizo mal, se quedó pillado en un bloque, y había que reiniciar no sé qué cosas técnicas
Leí hace poco que había una BIP para consolidar las ofertas de compra venta en las diferentes plataformas?
De ser así en realidad la diferencia será de UX, porque no de liquidez. Correcto?

2026-02-13 20:56:24 UTC

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Hasta ahora los DEX que he usado son de onchain. Pero me imagino que en Lightning el proceso de compra es similar a fin de cuentas.
Lo que lo hace complicado es la necesidad de la coincidencia temporal entre comprador y vendedor. Es muy jodido (y cuesta mucho tiempo) encontrar a alguien que quiera coger tu oferta, y que justo esté conectado en el mismo momento que tú.
Si hay algun DEX, onchain o ser Lightning, que soluciona esto, me cambio de cabeza

2026-02-13 20:32:15 UTC

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Un update por si te sirve. Acabo de realizar un par de trades en HodlHodl donde me han pedido que mande el dinero a Kenya por M-Pesa desde mi cuenta de Revolut (se puede).
No he tenido problemas.
Es cierto también que los vendedores tenían un historial muy extenso.

2026-02-13 20:25:19 UTC

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Need to try that one. In what sense is it better?

2026-02-13 19:11:14 UTC

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But but but, Saylor just created the ultimate yield product!

2026-02-13 17:37:37 UTC

What is the #p2p, non-KYC service that is less time-consuming per trade?
@npub1sqn…5net has very little liquidity, and the trade limits for new payment methods are absurd
In #hodlhodl most people want me to send money to Kenya, and/or they answer like hours later
Extremely time consuming, especially if one splits larger amounts in different purchases, not to raise questions from the bank
I have not tried @npub1gdf…2ffw and @npub1m0s…40un yet, but I guess they work similarly
What is your advice? #asknostr #hispano @npub1yn3…mzt0 @npub12aq…dvgy

2026-02-13 08:27:22 UTC

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Disingenuous statement, you should know it. There are ways around that, also on the base layer.

2026-02-12 08:41:10 UTC

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Can you give a bit of context/ advice on your homeschool journey? Really interested in it, but here in Europe it’s super complicated and in some places illegal
What resources do you use?
Who helps create a rough plan per age?
How many kids do you have?
Does wife work?
Do you take over the teacher role yourselves, or do you coordinate with other families?
Sorry for the amount of questions. I’d like a few pointers to assess viability for us and start looking at

2026-02-11 22:51:31 UTC

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It’s no coincidence that, etymologically in Latin, “esthetics” has the same root as “ethics”

2026-02-11 12:30:53 UTC

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I’m sure my understanding is not complete and I might be wrong, I never claimed otherwise.
OK. Code is truth. I would agree to that.
What does that say about the Core vs Knots argument? Both are proposing / have done code changes

2026-02-11 12:17:46 UTC

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I normally enjoy your posts, but this was intellectually irritating. I didn’t expect reading this after that long post with a lot of PoW behind.
Why don’t you care?
In my non-expert understanding, under each side of the Core vs Knots argument will Bitcoin potentially develop in rather different directions
You, if honest (which I assume and take for granted), must have a 90+% of your assets in Bitcoin, the same as many of us here
And you don’t care?
Is that because of conviction that a side will win, or because of conviction that the point of the argument and effects of the changes are negligible?

2026-02-10 21:00:21 UTC

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It’s not a surprise, after all.
From an outside perspective, super interesting to see all these geopolitical shifts happening in front of us

2026-02-10 19:29:40 UTC

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IMHO you should start using Maple AI. It is scary how much a black box LLM, property of a for-profit corporation with close ties to governments worldwide, knows about you

2026-02-07 21:58:32 UTC

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@npub1z3s…3y64 might be interesting for you

2026-02-07 12:48:32 UTC

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Yo con que un gobierno redujera permanentemente cada año un 5% sus presupuestos para siempre me conformaría. Eso ya solucionaría muchos problemas.
Añadiría dos cosas, puestos a pedir.
El que se exceda de lo presupuestado, elecciones automáticas.
Y la financiación por deuda prohibida en la constitución. La gente tiene que notar lo que de verdad cuestan las cosas. Si los presupuestos se financian 100% por impuestos, otro gallo cantaría.

2026-02-06 21:08:03 UTC

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Are you planning to sell paper copies of it? I’d buy it

2026-02-06 07:26:43 UTC

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Check out Seed Hypermedia

2026-02-05 13:16:54 UTC

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I don’t care who’s selling. I’m mad because I’m fiat broke 😭

2026-02-05 11:44:38 UTC

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Even though we indeed contribute to fiat's selling pressure in the moment the transaction is done, it's not that we are destroying any fiat currency units. These are still part of the banking system and subject to endless rehypothecation

2026-02-05 11:43:52 UTC

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2026-02-05 07:08:36 UTC

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Is that a one-time treatment or the regular cleaning?
And what’s the aspirin for?

2026-02-05 07:06:20 UTC

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Thanks!

2026-02-04 20:39:45 UTC

What would a bitcoiner who’s gone down the pharma and natural medicine rabbit hole say to atopic skin and dandruff (probably related to the above)?
How to best treat that using natural products?
Tallow helps on the skin, but the dryness and itchiness don’t go away. Maybe fasting could help?
#asknostr

2026-02-03 21:36:37 UTC

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Seems mostly artificial:
CPI relative under control
stock market in ATHs
loosening fiscal policy
favorable regulation
dedollarization
Etc.
This is what happens when people stop trading the asset and start trading leveraged derivatives that dilute the collateral.

2026-01-27 16:24:25 UTC

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Source? I’ve lived in Germany for a long time, I don’t believe Berlins data to be true

2026-01-27 16:23:18 UTC

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It’s all about getting the socialists reelected in 2027.
All corruption cases have blown up any possibility of reelection

2026-01-23 14:03:42 UTC

Starting with seeking paper ganes through Bitcoin exposure is a start, though. It was for me.
How would I know those were paper gains if I didn’t understand how a credit-based economy and its constant monetary expansion work?
For people awake enough, encountering Bitcoin forces a sudden reframing of reality.
It will take time, but there is certainly hope
#note1e2t…frzl

2026-01-21 13:49:14 UTC

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“The guarantee for trust is independence on central bank side”.
Let that sick in. What a presumptuous statement to make.
Central bankers, bankers and politicians still believe they have the truth and speak for the majority.
They will never understand that individuals are free, have agency, Bitcoin is voluntary, and there’s no way to stop anyone from using it.
They’ve already lost.

2026-01-18 22:11:06 UTC

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Value is subjective. I’d rather call them virtues

2026-01-17 21:06:08 UTC

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The issue is not the speed, but the acceleration that you make your body go through.
If speed is constant, even at a million miles per hour, your body is as chilled as it can be

2026-01-17 20:23:17 UTC

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I believe the most common thing is to go through the SoV, More and UoA phases.
One can convince some merchants, yes. But for the rest of the people it’s still early: since bitcoin is voluntary, they need to want it first. And for that, they need to see value in it.

2026-01-16 13:33:53 UTC

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Buenos días
I believe Root and Checkmate do some regular analysis on this, but speaking out of memory here

2026-01-13 11:51:17 UTC

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Thanks!

2026-01-13 11:30:47 UTC

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Who was the guest?

2026-01-10 08:31:12 UTC

@npub1lnm…rrnt can you please point me to where to read (as unbiased and nuanced as it can get) about:
- BIP444 and probability and risks of potential chain split
- the role of Ocean in a post BPI444 scenario
I’ve been busy with life for a few months and just set up my node with Knots prior to V30 being rolled out and never looked back into this topic since
TIA
#asknostr

2026-01-09 21:45:18 UTC

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Broken money, broken incentives, broken society. It just seems too obvious, as if there’s literally a bloody elephant in the room, and people just can’t see it.
I feel like a schizophrenic talking to people about why Bitcoin is the solution to the problems they see.

2026-01-09 12:24:58 UTC

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Two questions pop up:
1. Best resources to further read into this / start practicing?
2. How do you know you’d benefit from this / you run sympathetic on adrenaline, if you are 95+% of the time calm, quiet, grounded and happy? Any quick test to check on “need”?

2026-01-08 20:50:15 UTC

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As a Spaniard, I can say that whatever our PM says is absolutely irrelevant in most international circles.
And whatever this corrupt shame of a man says, even more so.

2026-01-07 22:42:15 UTC

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I was not aware of private micro villages in Germany. Interessant.
Schulpflicht kills a little bit this citadel ethos I guess

2026-01-07 22:39:17 UTC

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The idea is compelling. But it’s only sustainable if different families of the same kin live there.
Putting together a random number of small families (1-2 kids), just because everyone is a bitcoiner won’t work.
People will spend there a nice 1 or 2 years and move on

2026-01-07 22:30:31 UTC

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In which country is that?

2026-01-03 08:37:47 UTC

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World destabilizing is greatly due to fiat existing in the first place, so even if Bitcoin wouldn’t exist, it would keep destabilizing.
Hopefully adoption is as smooth as possible, so that a growing part of the population slowly rebalances that destabilization, without unnecessary busts in the middle through empty promises and paper Bitcoin
Staying humble stacking sats in cold storage without leverage.
This is the only way IMHO

2026-01-02 13:36:35 UTC

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How do you calculate entropy? I looked in some websites but somehow the “years to crack the password” that each one had showed great discrepancies (still in the billions)

2025-12-31 21:39:23 UTC

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I believe it was Antonio Machado who said it: caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar
Joan Manuel Serrat put that into a song. Very nice. If you don’t speak Spanish, translating the lyrics might make sense

2025-12-31 14:09:04 UTC

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Very true, at least for myself. Still, your own self is somewhat already conditioned in that way, so that it becomes quite a frustrating “frame” to break or get out of
Probably the reason why every generation needs to do stuff different than the prior generation, indefinitely

2025-12-30 21:53:49 UTC

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True. But general opsec awareness and measures should be the default, and people are way to biased to overexposing themselves in centralized socials, and there is an entire generation that never knew anonymity (and the rest have forgotten). Speaking about a friend…

2025-12-27 21:47:35 UTC

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Yes, but only out of love and admiration, not out of pity.

2025-12-27 21:45:40 UTC

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It seems like an appropriate disclaimer 😅
I believe parenthood somehow completes one’s self, as in giving its true purpose.
When you have kids, remember two pieces of advice of a random Nostr guy: 1, be generous, and have as many kids as you can. There is no greater joy and no greater ROI in life fulfillment. Low time preference always pays off. Al carajo with all those little, close-minded people that have two kids and no more because “it’s enough”. Since when just this love is enough?
And 2, your job as a parent is to raise kids so that they are successful in leaving your nest. So, your number one priority, and the person who will remain after the kids leave, is your spouse. Treat your husband like when you were still dating even when you have kids.
There are few sure ways of ruining a marriage. Forgetting about the spouse and living solely for the kids is one of them.
PS. This applies for husbands exactly in the same way, but you mentioned you’re a wife

2025-12-26 21:56:11 UTC

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I had exactly the same question but forgot to #asknostr

2025-12-26 21:52:26 UTC

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Here in Spain you have public kindergartens, but also private ones Among the private ones there are plenty of different options where one could pick from
Unfortunately they are always overbooked, at least in my experience

2025-12-26 20:58:45 UTC

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I hope you could already find a new kindergarten for your son

2025-12-23 22:59:38 UTC

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Identifying one’s self with a political party (out of just two!) is even more retarded
All the merch being worn in public is somewhat embarrassing
In Europe we have even more retarded and more corrupt politicians, but since that’s kind of known, nobody who’s not affiliated to a party would defend any party to the extreme of being a walking ad

2025-12-23 10:44:44 UTC

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As long as non-KYC, I honestly don’t care about the technology behind. It should just work.
Of course, if custodial, I’ll never leave large amounts there

2025-12-18 22:06:40 UTC

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If only Bitcoin’s market cap were $200T and quantum was around the corner.
Oh yes, sir, would I freak then.
At $2T? Nobody cares, we’re not that important yet.

2025-12-18 22:01:12 UTC

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He must have eaten something particularly heavy that morning

2025-12-17 21:11:10 UTC

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Yes

2025-12-16 12:58:46 UTC

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Hey, remember even thinking might not be permitted. I still remember the scene of the UK lady praying in front of an abortion clinic.
She was of course detained.
LOL. Will there be an inflection point that triggers social rebellion agains this?
Because, as you say, for all my friends, family and close circles, everything here is just fine

2025-12-16 12:44:14 UTC

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Though European, I am exposed to much more US-centric socials and news, so I might be biased.
Is the US more fucked up in terms of cultural destruction, or are we Europeans like sedated sheep, who cannot see the truth anymore, and our situation in terms of cultural decay and collective mistrust is even worse?

2025-12-15 10:54:10 UTC

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PS. Have you ever used halcash as a method of payment? Pros/cons?

2025-12-15 10:53:41 UTC

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DAC8 is to my knowledge something that is going to be effective starting 2026. But from 2025 there was this Travel Rule, whereby information was also shared
I honestly don’t have a good understanding of all the details of all laws that are being passed, but the bottom line remains: Bisq and Robosats are more important than ever

2025-12-15 10:46:27 UTC

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War narratives building up slowly but surely especially since last year.
The lack of willingness to engage in political dialogue and negotiations, as well as the schizophrenic negation that political, military and economical actions against another sovereign nation should have any consequences, is leading us towards a dark place
The lack of public awareness or even interest in these topics is also no good sign at all

2025-12-15 06:44:53 UTC

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True. But Bitcoin is much more than gold in so many ways. Through its verifiability we’re able to “not trust, but verify “.
This creates a very healthy dynamic whereby incentives are aligned, and people seek harmony within themselves, communities and nature.
Gold is just relatively sound money, which is very good in itself but does not create any relevant cultural shift.

2025-12-12 13:57:11 UTC

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💯
That I fully subscribe

2025-12-12 13:35:32 UTC

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I still don’t see your point. How have we been betrayed, other than through overconsumption of existing resources, facilitated through ever expanding debt?
And which of their actions 40 years ago would you have done then differently?
Because my thesis is that there’s no malice (in general). Everyone tries to play the game with the cards they’re being dealt to their own advantage.
And in that regard we are no different than boomers

2025-12-12 13:16:08 UTC

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Oh yes. More market distortion, and unwanted long term consequences.

2025-12-12 13:11:27 UTC

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That’s just impossible. It would mean our dear central planners are omniscient
Maybe they anticipated first-order, short-term effects to some extent.
I don’t grant them anything further than that.

2025-12-12 12:59:11 UTC

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Sounds like victimhood. Surprising to read from you.
Nobody betrayed anybody.
Humans think and extrapolate based on known patterns and experiences.
Nobody knew, nor could they have predicted, the extent of the impact and the ramifications that creating a currency with no PoW to generate more of could bring.
FFS, even transgenderism through chemically modified food is a downstream effect of having money backed by “faith” in the system
Everyone and cousins (nations, corps, smes, individuals) have financed themselves for decades with debt.
Implication?
Current wealth was already used long ago. We owe the liabilities now.
Financing a State with debt should be explicitly prohibited in the Constitution. Even in states of emergency.
No taxes? No money for schools, pensions, social security, or wars.
Societies should come back down to earth.
When did we lose rational thinking?!

2025-12-11 21:57:20 UTC

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Pretty amazing. Wouldn’t it be better though (for opsec and tax reduction) that the fiat pleb pays the fiat bill, and the bitcoin pleb sends the bitcoin to the fiat pleb?

2025-12-11 19:47:50 UTC

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That’s the killer app for DEXs!
Is there any liquidity comparison between NIP-69-compatible platforms and the rest (e.g. Bisq)?
Would like to post my orders wherever I have more counterparts

2025-12-11 07:40:43 UTC

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Yeah, I hope that WoT will fix that incentive over time