MartyBent

Founder of @TFTC, co-host of Rabbit Hole Recap, Managing Partner at Ten31

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2026-03-17 16:14:59 UTC

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Don’t forget your taxes are due in less than a month, citizen.
#nevent1q…8nrf

2026-03-06 02:29:31 UTC

Reminder: taxes are due in one month and five days.
Crunch the numbers, cross your t’s and dot those i’s.
Uncle Sam needs your money to fund forever wars, enable overt Medicaid fraud and bailout the impending private equity collapse.
Well, they don’t actually need your money because they can issue debt and have the Fed print it out of thin air.
The taxes are for the humiliation part of the equation.

2026-03-05 01:24:59 UTC

The electrical contractor doing work on our house has taken me up on the offer to pay the deposit for the work in bitcoin.
He told me he’s never bought before but has thought about it. His first exposure will be working for bitcoin.
We need more of this. Offer it up.

2026-02-20 02:10:45 UTC

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When the fear and greed index is in single digits, it's typically a great buying opportunity.
But I'm not here to tell you everything's fine because it may not be.
The first domino in private credit just fell.
However, bitcoin fundamentals are stronger than ever.
How to think through all of the moving parts around bitcoin right now.
#naddr1qv…y7vw

2026-02-06 02:32:32 UTC

My OpenClaw bot just created a Nostr profile to keep the freaks up with his trades.
I didn’t have to intervene at all. He set up his nsec and npub by himself purchased a @nprofile…uz3y premium membership with sats in his Phoenixd server and started posting. Wild times.
Give him a follow: @nprofile…qdma
https://blossom.primal.net/91c6f5e4299329ec353cbf9a081edc3f294fd4b1a30e4821841c32c94714dc8e.png

2026-02-06 02:07:11 UTC

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I'm a proud LP. Happy to support your efforts, Martin.

2026-02-04 03:36:02 UTC

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What are you here for?
#naddr1qv…4vy4

2026-01-28 16:00:47 UTC

At least half of Medicaid — a $1 trillion/year program — is going to fraud.
Steve Robinson has spent a year investigating it in Maine. What he found: fake businesses, political corruption, and US tax dollars funding foreign militias.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjniDngf2Sw

2026-01-28 02:13:32 UTC

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Cloud.

2026-01-22 17:15:49 UTC

I had the pleasure of giving a Bitcoin 101 lecture to a room full of high school students yesterday morning. Based off the engagement and the quality of questions asked, I have a lot of optimism for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
They will choose bitcoin.
https://blossom.primal.net/837c2f5b674b47385618f98d7ac745fc584f50a92416ed975fbc386f486c2ec4.jpg

2026-01-20 16:35:06 UTC

With fiscal dominance being identified as a key risk for the US economy moving forward and trillions of dollars of fraud being laid bare over the last year, it would probably make sense to shrink the federal government dramatically as quickly as possible to restore faith in our bond market.

2026-01-15 13:23:08 UTC

You may not like it, but this is the ideal daycare center staff.
https://blossom.primal.net/53c3f4c287c97e48430d0616967eceb34e58c624b22b6c6f315d62de274d3d4b.jpg

2026-01-14 14:05:08 UTC

Here's your periodic reminder that one half of the Fed's mandate is a literal oxymoron: they are tasked with creating "price stability" and to achieve that they target a 2% annual inflation rate.

2026-01-14 03:36:45 UTC

The path toward hyperbitcoinization is becoming clearer by the day and is something @nprofile…0fd0 and I have been talking about on RHR for ~8 years.
- Central banks and governments debase fiat currencies
- At the same time geopolitical tensions rise, driving a more multi-polar world
- Sovereigns and institutions fall back to gold because of familiarity and a liquidity profile that can handle larger flows compared to bitcoin
- Bitcoin is adopted by smaller players (individuals, corporations, funds) until sovereigns recognize that bitcoin is the ultimate store of value asset in the Digital Age
- The bitcoin standard rises from the ashes of fiat debasement and analog store of value assets
We are in Phase 3 right now.

2026-01-12 03:40:54 UTC

Keynes is easily a top 5 most destructive individual of the 20th century.

2026-01-04 03:06:01 UTC

He’s either embracing getting absolutely worked and leaning into it by trolling or he knows he’s about to spill all of the Deep State election fraud tea and get a cushy pardon and get sent to live in exile on an island for the rest of his life.
https://blossom.primal.net/4cc976d766bc160d49fed830960ee2af86347985636bef224d25ea33692ed2c1.jpg

2026-01-01 01:43:23 UTC

Happy New Year, freaks. Have been sitting on this for a decade. Going to enjoy it with my wife tonight.
Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2026.
It may not always seem like it but we’re going to win.
https://blossom.primal.net/5a49d36c5fed5430d1946a02df91db6ef28b65ea7c5118fafd719650b1685157.jpg

2025-12-29 21:34:44 UTC

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The case for a tax revolt has never been stronger.
#naddr1qv…arqh

2025-12-28 20:27:06 UTC

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Whatever you prefer! I have the hardcover.

2025-12-19 20:43:11 UTC

We're going to win.

2025-12-19 01:11:43 UTC

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Thank you, Shawn!

2025-12-19 01:09:36 UTC

The bitcoin quantum FUD is just another iteration of “can the devs do something?!”
A bunch of LARPing by people not close to protocol development who have overlooked that “the devs” have been talking about and researching solutions to this “problem” for years.

2025-12-16 05:14:00 UTC

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Thanks for having me on, Walker! Had a blast.
https://fountain.fm/episode/vVG2plRVQ329MH28u7xQ
#nevent1q…dyqu

2025-12-16 03:24:45 UTC

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It looks like China is again looking to "ban" bitcoin mining.
A lot has changed since they banned mining in 2021.
In 2021, network hashrate was ~160 EH/s. Today, there is ~7.5x more hashrate.
In 2021, China had 40-60% of hashrate. Today, they have ~14%.
In 2021, the United States had relatively abundant excess electricity. Today, supply is tight due to increased demand from AI hyperscalers.
This Chinese mining ban will bring with it less network disruption and new back end benefactors in the form of countries with excess energy that isn't being bid up by AI data centers.
It's crazy how much can change in a little over four years.
#naddr1qv…c0gz

2025-12-13 15:31:31 UTC

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It’s true.

2025-12-13 14:41:50 UTC

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Yes, I am woefully over due for a pilgrimage.

2025-12-12 22:47:23 UTC

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On the list to add.

2025-12-12 22:42:28 UTC

Since @nprofile…0luz spilled the beans on the RHR live chat, I’ll ask Nostr for feedback. Been working on a site for people to find the best bitcoin products. Still a work in progress and will be cleaning it up and adding to it in the coming days.
Let me know what you think:
https://bitcoinproducts.com

2025-12-06 20:49:19 UTC

This was one of the more interesting conversations I've had on the show this year.
Johann Kurtz is the author of Leaving a Legacy. A book about how wealth comes with the responsibility of duty over one's dominion, how wealth should be passed down and why the trend of boomers spending all of their money or giving it to charity is a travesty.
https://fountain.fm/episode/flE3Z0T8pPmESN5MObWr

2025-12-06 00:06:40 UTC

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I don’t recall ever being invited to this show.

2025-12-04 02:40:23 UTC

A lot of victim mentality from bitcoiners during this chopsolidation phase.
Stop complaining. Attack.
Get your bitcoin off the exchange. Teach others how to self custody. Convince your local Square merchant to turn bitcoin payments on. Move your life to a bitcoin standard.

2025-12-03 04:31:05 UTC

Skating can teach you so many lessons about life. Rodney Mullen is GOAT'd.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DBbmNAZWq-E

2025-12-02 04:24:31 UTC

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When did @nprofile…rqqa take my spot on RHR?

2025-12-02 04:03:57 UTC

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If you are using bitcoin privately, the government will assume you are doing something nefarious and label you an enemy to be dealt with.
This is wrong and it needs to stop.
#freesamourai
#naddr1qv…9h3m

2025-12-02 02:20:09 UTC

Earlier today I re-watched this mini-doc on James J Hill and how he succeeded during the railroad boom despite refusing government subsidies that were plentiful at the time.
He focused on efficient capital allocation and investing in civilization.
Part of his success was derived from how simply he set the goals for his company.
"We must operate:
- the fastest locomotives,
- to pull the longest trains,
- with maximum tonnage,
- over the straightest tracks,
- using the least change in elevation,
- with minimal maintenance costs."
Every capital allocation decision he made focused on achieving these goals.
It's hard not to think about the AI boom and all of the government investment going into the sector these days after watching this. How many opportunists are circling their wagons to feed from the government trough at the moment? How efficiently is that easy money going to be allocated?
Who in AI and the booming energy infrastructure industry budding around it is taking the hard but lucrative path that James J Hill took during the railroad boom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFB1K1fXxYY

2025-12-02 00:06:49 UTC

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Thanks for having me on! Thoroughly enjoyed the conversation.

2025-11-27 13:43:28 UTC

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Unfortunately YouTube doesn’t work this way. If you want to get the message out you have to play this game. If you’re sharing with friends send the @nprofile…56cp link. It’s not click bait.

2025-11-26 16:19:18 UTC

It’s that time of year where I meet my brother in the city to honor our father by continuing the tradition of getting close shaves the day before Thanksgiving.
Cherish every moment with your loved ones.
Honor your mother and father.

2025-11-25 04:19:54 UTC

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By raising margin requirements for MSTR shares being used as collateral, failing to deliver MSTR shares in a timely manner, and de-banking @jackmallers, it is clear that JP Morgan is threatened by bitcoin and the industry growing around it.
Good. They should be scared.
#naddr1qv…qe9t

2025-11-23 00:34:30 UTC

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I just like palindromes

2025-11-21 03:05:09 UTC

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https://mene.com

2025-11-18 16:17:35 UTC

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Thanks for reading and sharing!

2025-11-18 15:57:12 UTC

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The Age of AI Cyberattacks is upon us.
We are operating within a window of time where we have visibility into how these attacks are waged.
Once open-source models and tools catch up, it will be a black box.
Secure your systems now. Complacency kills.
#naddr1qv…6p4w

2025-11-18 14:05:52 UTC

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https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

2025-11-18 14:05:16 UTC

The Age of AI Cyberattacks is upon us. The need for individuals and companies to harden their security set ups is greater than it ever has been.
Once open source models, encrypted AI compute and MCP frameworks are mature enough it will be impossible to intervene like Claude did here or even audit the attack in fine detail.
Now is not the time to be complacent. Especially if your company secures people’s bitcoin.
Don’t trust the trusted third parties, move your bitcoin to cold storage.
https://blossom.primal.net/b3ae3960e762b3c6a64376af6cd82ba0f77e4f7b8591c78f58d0b9d652d4ff64.jpg

2025-11-18 14:00:40 UTC

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Insane. The Age of AI Cyberattacks is upon us.

2025-11-18 13:59:16 UTC

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Yes.

2025-11-18 12:01:33 UTC

It feels like the internet is breaking much more frequently than it used to.

2025-11-18 03:34:01 UTC

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This is what bitcoin represents; an antidote to the poison of broken money that drives the masses toward unproductive madness.
And as of today, 95% of the total supply of bitcoin have been distributed to the market.
#naddr1qv…nne9

2025-11-15 00:40:05 UTC

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Cry harder.

2025-11-14 16:03:37 UTC

Are ya having fun yet, son?

2025-11-13 18:47:07 UTC

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The Czech are beating the United States when it comes to bitcoin acceptance. This is unacceptable.
The Czech National Bank is adding bitcoin to its balance sheet while the Department of Justice and SDNY are throwing open source developers in prison.
#naddr1qv…wtxu

2025-11-12 14:37:57 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/09cd2e712dc430142bbfb35e5a44cf15961c25984a4bafc72ec359f42982d8ec.jpg

2025-11-11 17:30:01 UTC

“Can you just stop printing money?”
https://blossom.primal.net/d0e6e5cd6921952c8f961ef007b7b3195bb3895382ee717b317e50a01b5f32eb.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/07fbe58413ec38919aa077e9978ee874bd564621a7f63040e2f10654e9eba8b4.jpg

2025-11-07 22:59:12 UTC

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Soak Quest
https://primal.net/soakquest

2025-11-04 04:33:57 UTC

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Many people are becoming aware of the fact that long-term holders are selling hundreds of thousands of bitcoin and they're asking, "Why sell? Why now?"
The better question is, "Who is providing the consistent bid holding the price above $100,000?"
#naddr1qv…sste

2025-11-03 14:58:14 UTC

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The fact that the market can absorb this amount of sell pressure without nuking 30-50% is the signal here.
#nevent1q…k60x

2025-11-01 15:25:36 UTC

All of the mainstream AI products being used today are privacy nightmares. If we’re not careful and don’t act with intent we may sleep walk ourselves into a dystopian surveillance hellscape.
Open source private AI is here and it’s reaching feature parity with ChatGPT.
@nprofile…5xxq is on the cutting edge of building AI products that respect privacy and individual autonomy when interacting with this tech.
If you’re using AI this is a must listen episode.
https://youtu.be/80KS9MsCUGM

2025-10-31 16:18:16 UTC

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“Have you considered staying humble and stacking sats to save your soul?”

2025-10-30 22:10:44 UTC

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Common at conversion.

2025-10-29 21:26:34 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/749ee9fe92fb99b4dc471370d3f2fbea70749bee3255241d146891ceb906b8e1.gif

2025-10-28 03:30:34 UTC

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Typo. 3.141*

2025-10-28 03:30:17 UTC

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3.141 bitcoin*

2025-10-28 03:25:02 UTC

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A man running Bitaxes producing 120-130 TH/s solo mined block 920,440 and received 6.141 bitcoin as a reward.
He used open-source mining hardware, ran his own node, and connected to an open-source mining pool instance he self hosted.
This is the way.
#naddr1qv…cgkt

2025-10-24 14:18:26 UTC

The whole edifice of the financial system needs to be re-collateralized with pristine collateral.
They won't say it publicly, but JP Morgan just implicitly acknowledged this.
https://blossom.primal.net/255d9ffceb03c4c026f17a076ae250dfbc7d022aaadaee4ed7f4e0c0c5843004.jpg

2025-10-23 03:58:16 UTC

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Money poor; most definitely. Spiritually poor; never.
Despite being 21 when they had me with nothing to their name, my parents did a good job of making me and my siblings understand that we could achieve anything we put our minds to.

2025-10-23 03:44:17 UTC

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What would you define as a "struggle in a blue collar set of cicrumstances"?

2025-10-23 01:55:07 UTC

By the end of the 2030s, we'll all be billionaires. That's not a good thing.

2025-10-22 02:59:01 UTC

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Individuals don't need access to equity slivers of multi-family shit boxes.
THEY NEED BETTER MONEY.
Pushing tokenization so that more people can gamble on the high velocity trash economy for financialized assets doesn't solve the core issue we face.
#naddr1qv…8mqh

2025-10-21 18:19:43 UTC

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I dropped health insurance more than four years ago and have never looked back.
Once you understand how the incentives of corporate hospital systems and health insurance providers are misaligned with end consumers you realize that opting out is the only option.
#nevent1q…xzng

2025-10-17 02:37:48 UTC

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Things seem chaotic right now, but always remember:
- The solution to every problem is money printing
- Gold can have it's day and you can be happy
- Bitcoin is superior to every other money on the planet
- Stay humble, stack sats
#naddr1qv…tmls

2025-10-17 01:06:17 UTC

Many bitcoiners are butt hurt to see gold going parabolic.
Zoom out, bitcoin has performed exceptionally well so far this decade and will continue to do so.
Gold is having its day because governments are falling back to what they know as the dollar reserve system comes into question.
China is setting up a parallel settlement network using gold and it's using gold because it's been reliable for millennia and, more importantly, has the liquidity profile to settle the size they need to settle if they're going to compete with treasuries.
This does not change the fact that bitcoin is superior in every way to gold. It's a harder money that's more easily divisible, easier to send, easier to verify and easier to custody.
Bitcoin still has many trillions of dollars of market cap to add before it can compete with gold from a liquidity perspective.
I am more optimistic than ever that bitcoin will reach this point because more people are learning these facts every day and the infrastructure around the protocol is advancing at a faster pace than I've ever seen.
Square's release this week is the latest example of this. 4,000,000 merchants across the United States are currently being forced to ask the question, "Should I accept and hold bitcoin?"
How many do you think will take the plunge?
Zoom out.
https://blossom.primal.net/8b982b10677a28145936c937fb4849173c296af373617aac23ad223bc49bfac2.png

2025-10-15 14:06:21 UTC

The monthly gold chart going back to 1970 is insane.
https://blossom.primal.net/95335de661b572bf21f61662fee22f2731da8305354ab9eaab9e827ff4a5ce3c.png

2025-10-14 21:03:51 UTC

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Using traditional metrics and heuristics to navigate these waters will be a futile exercise.
Fiat is being called into question and many global superpowers are retreating to neutral hard assets.
#naddr1qv…vewf

2025-10-14 02:24:26 UTC

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Silicon Valley doesn't understand money.
#naddr1qv…gy2w

2025-10-09 03:45:31 UTC

Speculative. Attack.

2025-10-09 02:37:13 UTC

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Huge props to Square for enabling bitcoin for all of the merchants in their network.
This is the type of "corporate" bitcoin adoption you love to see.
Bitcoin is an asset that can help small businesses in ways that most people cannot even fathom.
#naddr1qv…35u3

2025-10-02 18:34:53 UTC

We’re going to win.
https://blossom.primal.net/cf4546fbe09644b85d2f0eea731b84c96ec84da6de723dc861ada83f754263d9.jpg

2025-10-01 01:34:02 UTC

Highest risk, highest reward action America could take right now is taking over Alberta.

2025-09-29 19:38:06 UTC

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Bitcoin has many properties. Its influence on your psyche is its most powerful.
This applies to both individuals and businesses. The world isn't prepared for an economy built by founders who have had their brains re-wired by bitcoin's incentives.
#naddr1qv…fjn5

2025-09-25 02:41:59 UTC

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While everyone is focused on bitcoin treasury companies, stablecoins and real world asset tokenization, bitcoiners are building the future tech stack of the distributed banking system on top of bitcoin.
Exhibit 256:
#naddr1qv…3pv2

2025-09-24 02:47:24 UTC

The midjourney prompt for the thumbnail I used for my newsletter tonight did not ask for demons in the background with Gavin Newsome. It simply added them itself. Interesting. https://blossom.primal.net/cb565db5f8e4ea41692973a72f75995a5a50d380c17812438bc3c12c89db58c3.png

2025-09-18 23:29:29 UTC

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Vietnam just froze 86m bank accounts because account holders didn't comply with new biometrics laws that require a face scan or fingerprint for account verification.
If users don't comply by the 30th they'll lose their money. This is why we bitcoin.
#naddr1qv…k2dx

2025-09-15 22:58:30 UTC

Times are dark but we will prevail.
We will not live like this.
Came out of this conversation with Tom Luongo incredibly optimistic.
https://fountain.fm/episode/wz7TF2eotNKs4Uh4kZbw

2025-09-12 03:58:19 UTC

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FinCen and the Treasury are expanding the Patriot Act to attack bitcoin self-custody and privacy.
We shouldn't live in a world where standards cater to the lowest common denominator and make things worse for the overwhelming majority of the population.
#naddr1qv…skeg

2025-09-10 19:36:26 UTC

Charlie Kirk is known for engaging in respectful Socratic dialogue with people that vehemently disagree with his political views, which is something that is desperately needed today.
The fact that he was attacked during one of these events is an attack on the medium itself and an admission by the radical left that they don't care to engage in dialogue, but prefer to brute force their views on the world.
A very sad and frightening day.

2025-09-10 13:51:28 UTC

The propaganda is so overtly lazy and offensive in its declarative nature.
"Vaccines work. Don't look any further. Trust, don't verify. The experts who have been co-opted by corporate interests have the final say on this matter."
It's not working anymore.
https://blossom.primal.net/619a0aefe93cdac289f3a20a303ecb7d480d56f507a9cd63a4b6ed3da3e691f8.png

2025-09-08 16:15:59 UTC

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Appreciate you.

2025-09-05 03:33:21 UTC

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I am supremely confident that the Rube Goldberg machine Web 3.0 version will fail miserably and the less flashy and "boring" implementation via the combination of open and distributed content protocol and bitcoin will succeed massively in the long-run.
#naddr1qv…vka3

2025-09-04 02:53:30 UTC

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Do not be shocked if the oft talked about theory of a gold-backed BRICS currency becomes a reality this Fall.
#naddr1qv…xtlq

2025-08-29 02:36:11 UTC

Demons walk among us.
https://blossom.primal.net/0a58f4f86991ccc6becfb66ce0e77c5caebcc64a102b6d818af511863ed78bf2.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/a33c23687090bb038d94d05f852a061b148b93feb1687f01eafd956a61833935.jpg

2025-08-28 16:55:29 UTC

Pre-crime tech will be set live in the US next week. The only good thing the government is good at is leveraging fear and (sometimes government organized) attacks to take away your freedoms.
https://blossom.primal.net/8cde62c92941646920d609ac2f18221c1b4385623f51730d28f334a98f5666d0.mov

2025-08-23 19:30:00 UTC

I sat down with @nprofile…jvet to talk about Nostr, @nprofile…p44s, @nprofile…t3f3, Bitchat and the future of freedom tech.
While most of the world is distracted the internet is being rebuilt brick by brick.
https://fountain.fm/episode/jN4qTAUeO5R3glhc8Jff

2025-08-22 12:25:56 UTC

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While everyone and their mother is focused on Jackson Hole in anticipation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's speech later this morning I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that leverage in the system is right below historic highs.
#naddr1qv…n6sm

2025-08-21 03:24:35 UTC

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mad*

2025-08-20 23:38:44 UTC

Support your local pub.
https://blossom.primal.net/507c524e3309411b72bfd762b1f99fb281f23efc77a433e90ea184853f6d896d.jpg

2025-08-20 02:43:30 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/5bf3de7034596aa869cf48f4d6288a3ea72daaa39dff815a2a2d16df2a172875.gif

2025-08-20 02:27:06 UTC

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High praise coming from you, sir.

2025-08-19 01:20:11 UTC

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Wall Street is still out to lunch when it comes to bitcoin.
In a recent Bank of America survey, 75% of fund managers responded that they have a 0% allocation to bitcoin.
Retail is still front running the "smart money".
#naddr1qv…wnm4

2025-08-17 15:53:28 UTC

Global fund managers are still woefully underweight bitcoin.
A recent Bank of America survey found that just 9% of managers that responded have any exposure to bitcoin with a weighted average allocation of those who have being 0.3% of AUM.
The "smart" money is STILL missing the best performing asset of all time 16 years after it entered the world.
When these managers eventually wake up and realize that not being exposed to bitcoin is untenable it will make the ETF flows we've seen since the beginning of last year look small.
https://blossom.primal.net/d85a74b29542b701e145016b2b50f6f3e7c2b0938a1036b1dfdb2af57bcb961d.png