Contra

The unexamined premise is the only tyranny that asks for your consent. Reformed Christian, Nostr class of 23, I think

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2026-08-21 16:40:00 UTC

We are a toxic generation that doesn't know how to build healthy relationships. We end up throwing lines like "I don't owe anyone anything".
You do owe people something, you owe those you offended an apology. You owe those who gave you support gratitude. And you owe those you disrespect, respect.
Accounting is a personal act of integrity and morale principles over what the trends and society say.
We will forever live in a broken society, until we learn to account for our actions that impact other people's lives negatively.

2026-08-21 16:21:47 UTC

I like lowkey people. People that don't worry what car you drive or what clothes you wear. People that don't live to impress, people that enjoy small moments and appreciate little gestures. Simple people. Easy going people. Content people.Those are my kinda people. Nostr is my kinda people. Gm

2026-08-21 06:07:18 UTC

Good night, tomorrow you get to be a magical badass all over again, so get some rest.
If you’re awake on the other side of the world…just be a badass now ✌️

2026-08-21 06:03:53 UTC

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2026-08-21 06:00:13 UTC

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Ok Gn

2026-08-21 05:55:30 UTC

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that tells us we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over us all.

2026-08-21 05:31:51 UTC

To everyone who...
puts the grocery cart back, smiles at strangers, waves people ahead even when it's their turn, practices empathy for others, actively listens with the intention to understand, is kind to animals, notices the small things, offers to help, isn't afraid to ask people if they are okay, sends the "Did you make it home?" text, feels compassion
when someone else is hurting:
Thank you. The world needs more of you.

2026-08-21 02:55:33 UTC

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Your tax money does

2026-08-21 00:20:37 UTC

We spend billions of dollars to find life
on other planets, and trillions of dollars
killing the life on this one.

2026-08-21 00:13:49 UTC

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For sure

2026-08-20 21:54:15 UTC

Having voices in your head is normal. Listening to them, common. Arguing, acceptable. However, when you lose the argument, you're in trouble.

2026-08-20 16:05:41 UTC

Borrowed identity has no weight to it.
You can spot it fast. Guy chases whatever’s trending this month, running one season, something else the next, and none of it holds up when things get hard. There’s nothing underneath it because none of it came from him.
Real doesn’t need to be polished. It just needs to be yours.

2026-08-20 15:58:07 UTC

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Prove it

2026-08-20 15:56:51 UTC

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You sound amazingly intelligent

2026-08-20 15:56:09 UTC

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Ad hominem

2026-08-20 14:26:50 UTC

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🫡

2026-08-20 14:25:58 UTC

Most arguments online don’t fail because people disagree. They fail because nobody’s trained to spot a bad one.
Category errors, ad hominem, moving goalposts. These aren’t rare tricks, they’re the default mode for half the comments you’ll read today. Nobody taught the difference between a claim and an insult.
Logic used to be a subject. Trivium, rhetoric, the whole toolkit for building and testing an argument. We dropped it and wonder why every disagreement turns into a shouting match in under three replies
You can’t out argue someone who was never taught what an argument is. That’s not a debate problem. That’s an education problem.

2026-08-20 14:16:32 UTC

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“Anti intellectual” from a guy who’s thrown four insults and zero arguments. Physician, heal thyself.

2026-08-20 14:00:48 UTC

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You went from “you chose this” to slurs in one comment. That’s not an argument,

2026-08-20 13:39:16 UTC

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By that logic every guy who’s ever griped about traffic hates driving. Doesn’t track.

2026-08-20 04:25:22 UTC

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Wowhttps://static.klipy.com/ii/f87f46a2c5aeaeed4c68910815f73eaf/53/df/1p0hC4b8.gif

2026-08-20 03:10:41 UTC

Men, you need to be able to tell the difference.
Sometimes she needs your ear to vent. Sometimes she needs your hands to fix something. Guessing wrong on either one may cost you

2026-08-20 02:15:23 UTC

I shall boost
#nevent1q…uhcy

2026-08-20 02:12:19 UTC

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Haha

2026-08-20 02:11:33 UTC

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lol. The void is real

2026-08-20 02:07:24 UTC

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I like it.

2026-08-20 00:54:01 UTC

anyone “newish” need a reminder? nostr is worth the grind.
write your notes like somebody’s gonna read them even when nobody does.
that’s the whole difference between the guys still here in two years and the guys who vanished after month three.

2026-08-20 00:12:39 UTC

The gym is easy. Life is hard. Fitness isn't about what you do for an hour. It's about what you don't do the rest of the 23 hours in a day. Master the hours between workouts.

2026-08-19 22:05:46 UTC

You ever notice the fights we’re having aren’t even about the stuff that’s killing us.
Rent’s up. Groceries are up. Nobody can buy a house before forty. And somehow the national conversation is always about some other guy in some other group who supposedly hates you for existing.
That’s not an accident, man. That’s the play. Keep everybody swinging sideways so nobody looks up.
Because the second you and your neighbor realize you’re mad about the same things, that’s a problem for somebody. Doesn’t matter what team you’re on, red or blue, this hashtag or that one, you’re both getting squeezed the exact same way by the exact same hands.
So they hand you a flag instead. Something to hold onto. Something that feels like meaning. And you go to war over it while the actual decisions get made in a room you were never invited to.

2026-08-19 04:30:59 UTC

Bitcoin is in the process of making central banks irrelevant.
Tick Tock…

2026-08-19 04:22:43 UTC

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That’s pretty good bro. Well…

2026-08-19 03:12:02 UTC

The single biggest red flag in any person is a fast talker who relies on fancy words and jargon.
Complexity often hides incompetence. The people who actually understand something can explain it simply. Beware of those who can't or won't.

2026-08-18 18:41:29 UTC

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Sometimes survival mode has to kick in with life’s circumstances. In the end, you made it.

2026-08-18 00:12:38 UTC

Building a legacy #Bitcoin stack means thinking past your own lifetime. Not just stacking for you, but stacking so your name is talked about long after you're gone.
Most people spend everything and leave nothing but stories. Plant trees you'll never sit under.
That's how real wealth moves through bloodlines.

2026-08-17 19:20:02 UTC

You'll find peace when you realize that people are at war with themselves, not with you. The pain they carry, the wounds they avoid, and the battles they refuse to face often spill into the way they treat others. Not every harsh word, cold reaction, or act of disrespect is a reflection of your worth. Sometimes you simply become the closest target for a conflict that began long time ago.
Understanding this frees you from carrying burdens that were never yours to hold. When you stop taking every action personally, you reclaim your energy and protect your peace. Compassion grows when you realize that people can only offer from the state of their own state of consciousness. Don't take it personally.

2026-08-17 03:15:33 UTC

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False shepherds are real, no argument there. Jeremiah and Ezekiel both tear into pastors who feed themselves and starve the flock. But that’s exactly why “so skip church” doesn’t follow.
The Bible already told us frauds would show up in leadership. It never said the answer was going it alone, it said find a true shepherd and test everything against the Word yourself, like the Bereans did in Acts 17. And if all you got handed was “just pray about it” with nothing behind it, that’s the church dropping the ball on something it’s actually commanded to do. James doesn’t leave wiggle room here: faith that doesn’t show up for people in need isn’t real faith, it’s dead (James 2:14-17).
Bad shepherds aren’t a reason to walk away from the flock. They’re a reason to go find people who’ll actually feed you the Word and show up when it counts. Cutting yourself off after getting hurt by church is the one thing Hebrews 10:25 specifically warns against.

2026-08-17 03:07:17 UTC

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So does every church have false shepherds and therefore, you conclude don’t go to church?

2026-08-17 01:12:03 UTC

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It’s terrible. lol

2026-08-16 15:05:59 UTC

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lol

2026-08-16 15:05:32 UTC

Gm. Enjoy the Lords day and rest.
#ToChristAlone
https://image.nostr.build/64053720097da561833af339fb9b48faf188c02c22e9d69aadc3bb6109298ad7.jpg

2026-08-16 05:46:06 UTC

We do not throw away perfectly good food in our house.
We put it in tupperware until it goes bad, Then throw it away.

2026-08-16 05:35:01 UTC

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The belt would come out from my father and I’d cry before I even got hit because I thought it would help him sympathize with me. Nope.

2026-08-16 05:13:20 UTC

I think we can conclude that the timeout generation did not work out as well as the ass whoopin generation.

2026-08-15 22:24:13 UTC

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Just saw that. lol. You’ve already been up. 🤦‍♂️

2026-08-15 21:46:30 UTC

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Gm P

2026-08-15 21:44:35 UTC

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Haha. Ok, you have a point

2026-08-15 16:14:06 UTC

Men, when things get tense in your marriage, and they will, think of yourself as the thermostat in the room.
Not the thermometer.
A thermometer just reflects the temperature. Whatever's happening, it matches it. She raises her voice, you raise yours. Tension climbs, you climb with it. You're not leading anything, you're just measuring the damage as it happens.
A thermostat sets the temperature. It doesn't react to the room, it decides what the room becomes. Cold air comes in, it kicks on the heat. Things get hot, it cools it down. Either way it's doing something on purpose.
That's the job. Not suppressing what you feel, not going numb, actually choosing the temperature you bring into the room instead of matching whatever's already in it. Most guys never make that choice. They just get carried by the moment and call it honesty.
Be the thermostat.

2026-08-15 10:53:01 UTC

You'll be the reason your family won't worry about money anymore. #Bitcoin

2026-08-15 09:02:28 UTC

If people want to know why Gen X is always mad it's because we had to replace our record collections with a tape collection and then replace that with a CD collection that we slowly replaced with an MP3 collection and now need a subscription to listen to music.
But now we have V4V where people like me, give you music for free. We are early

2026-08-15 06:46:36 UTC

Let’s get to #1 Nostr
https://image.nostr.build/1dd503d590434a70a8be66ffc56d6c69e7e08ac8abdbc2a3b7519f11e18ce1b2.jpg

2026-08-14 15:00:07 UTC

WE LIVE IN TIMES WHERE COMMON SENSE HAS TO STAY QUIET SO STUPIDITY DOESN'T GET OFFENDED.
REVERSE COURSE WE MUST.

2026-08-14 14:50:08 UTC

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Agree. 👊🏼

2026-08-14 14:39:16 UTC

I heard people say kids are different these days.
I disagree. Kids are the same.
What's changed is a society with lowered expectations, lack of discipline, and acceptance of disrespect.
Give kids boundaries, expectations, rules, limits, rewards and consequences. They will rise to the challenge and exceed your expectations, every time.
Gm Nostr

2026-08-14 04:18:06 UTC

So let me get this straight, I go to the grocery store and buy: a pound of sliced ham in a plastic bag, a loaf of bread in a plastic bag, a gallon of milk in a plastic jug, a pack of napkins in plastic wrap, a store made salad in a plastic tub, a plastic bottle of mustard and ketchup, but they won't give me a plastic bag to carry it home because the plastic bag is bad for the environment? Gtfoh..

2026-08-14 01:00:21 UTC

Chat, we’re climbing the top 40 list quick with our last album release. Multiple songs. Thank y’all. Value4Value is the future. https://wavlake.com/album/d1e33580-ef5e-4fcd-ae9f-5863dc763754
#V4V #MusicStr
https://video.nostr.build/907d19399d2cb55c829b86f3655e30f9f7001e49ec1bec59158f7eaccd4fc7db.mp4

2026-08-13 22:05:45 UTC

Having an opinion is okay. Disagreeing is okay too. What's not okay is tearing someone down just because they see things differently.
Respect should never go out of style, and it's exactly what our society is missing most.

2026-08-13 21:55:30 UTC

I just massacred 119 Nostr zombies using #PlebsVsZombies! 🏹🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️
Purge Breakdown:
⚫ 🔥 Burned (deleted): 6
🟠 🧟‍♂️ Rotting (180+ days): 113
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2026-08-13 20:38:29 UTC

Nsec Creed
This is my nsec. There are many keys like it, but this one is mine.
My nsec is my sovereignty. It is my identity. I must master it as I master my own life. Without me, my nsec is worthless. Without my nsec, I am silenced.
I must sign with it true. I must guard it better than any password I have ever kept, for it does not reset, it does not recover, it does not forgive. Before God, I swear this creed: my key is my voice, my voice is my witness, and my witness shall not be revoked.
My nsec and myself know that what counts in this life is not the platforms we trust, but the keys we hold. We know that it is the signatures that count. We will sign…
My nsec is human, even as I am human, because it is my identity. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its entropy, its bits. I will keep my nsec clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will.
Before God I swear this creed: my key and myself are the defenders of my word. We are the masters of our censors. We are the saviors of my speech.
So be it, until there is no more tyranny, but peace.
https://image.nostr.build/43f8a2a1c7bfc3dc0a3179a9335f5cbca51838d6a9c91f9058de9d451ce655e4.jpg

2026-08-13 20:14:45 UTC

Your role as a father isn't to be flawless, it's to model how a man deals with his flaws.

2026-08-13 16:43:04 UTC

If I could pin a song to my profile like MySpace back in the day, this would be it.
https://wavlake.com/track/3c7f4cd5-b4fb-45d9-b3d5-c1942faf9c07

2026-08-13 16:09:40 UTC

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Facts

2026-08-13 16:01:14 UTC

Teaching people how to regulate their emotions is crime prevention.
It's addiction prevention. It's suicide prevention. It's generational healing.
It's how we stop raising adults who explode, implode, or shut down at the first sign of discomfort.
Emotional regulation is not just a soft skill. It's survival. It's the foundation of a society where people can disagree without dehumanizing each other, where accountability isn't seen as an attack, and where conflict doesn't always have to mean violence. You want a better world? Start with emotional education.

2026-08-13 01:37:57 UTC

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Proverbs 13:22… “A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.”
A bad translation/ paraphrase would be, the Lord commands you to stack Sats accordingly

2026-08-13 01:20:50 UTC

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I forgive you

2026-08-13 01:16:55 UTC

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You started this… 🤣

2026-08-13 01:02:40 UTC

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What did this turn into? This is a whole diff kind of hellthread

2026-08-13 00:55:07 UTC

Life is a war. Its a war to create the reality you want. Its a war to become the most capable, honourable, competitive, articulate and excellent version of yourself possible. It's a war against weakness, limiting beliefs, laziness/scarcity to create excellence and self respect.

2026-08-13 00:30:11 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/19efec38cb461e0635bf2fc8c4a17f2ab80ba938f69c09fbfca83d46c9f79f70.jpg

2026-08-12 21:28:11 UTC

We often complain about the repetitiveness of our days. Day in, day out, the same. Morning alarm, breakfast, housework, work, looking after everyone else, dinner, baths, bed, wake up, repeat.
But do we ever stop to think how much peace is in consistency?
How lucky we are if everyday is the same? No big disasters or nasty surprises? How there is so much value in enjoying home life? To get up and do the same tasks day and night is actually a blessing.
Laying your head on a pillow at night and thinking of how wonderful you actually have it. It’s a level of restfulness some people will never experience in their whole lifetime.
This world can be cruel and unnecessary; so if you have the peace of a “boring”home life, you really have won the lottery of life.

2026-08-12 21:07:08 UTC

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Yeah. Been down that road.
Seen things normal people don’t get exposed to during war. Almost torched my own marriage more than once in those early years trying to process it alone, then trying to process it with a stranger in an office instead. Buried my father to suicide. Buried close friends the same way. So when I talk about therapists, I’m not talking theory.
The rooms helped a little. Mostly they gave me a script for the pain instead of a way through it. What actually moved the needle was the guys who’d been in it with me, and the ones who hadn’t but stuck around anyway. People who knew the whole timeline, not the sixty minute version I was allowed to give a stranger once a week.
I’m not saying burn the whole system down. I’m saying don’t mistake a couch for a foundation. Mine came from people, not appointments.

2026-08-12 20:47:56 UTC

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I didn’t either. Explained in my latest post.
#nevent1q…w422

2026-08-12 20:45:22 UTC

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Gn G!G!

2026-08-12 20:44:35 UTC

My 2 Sats…
Shrinks/therapists can’t verify a word you say. They just get your performance of yourself.
That’s the whole rot at the center of it. A guy walks in, tells a story about his week, his marriage, his mother. The therapist takes it as data. But it’s not data, it’s a press release. And most rooms reward the press release. Push back too hard and the client doesn’t get better, he just finds a new therapist who nods more.
So you get validation dressed up as treatment. Feelings get affirmed instead of tested. A rational response to a genuinely bad situation gets filed under “cognitive distortion” because the framework needs a distortion to fix. Diagnosis stops being a description of symptoms and turns into a personality. Guy isn’t having a hard month anymore, he’s Anxious now, forever, capital A.
And nobody’s on the hook for any of it. A surgeon botches an operation, there’s a body and a lawsuit. A therapist runs the same client in circles for six years, that’s just called “the work.” Slow is indistinguishable from broken from the inside the chair.
None of this means the whole field’s a grift. Plenty of people in it do the harder thing, actually challenge you, actually let the session end. But the incentive structure doesn’t reward that by default. It rewards keeping you comfortable and keeping you coming back.
A few good friends will outperform a decade of sessions. They know your history, not your narrative. They’ll tell you when you’re wrong because they’ve got nothing to sell you. That’s the whole system a shrink is trying to simulate for money imo.

2026-08-12 20:16:56 UTC

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Second that. Not fond of random therapists and the techniques utilized. A company of solid friends usually helps.

2026-08-12 19:21:35 UTC

Every bitcoiner has a story like this. Y’all should listen…
https://wavlake.com/album/d1e33580-ef5e-4fcd-ae9f-5863dc763754

2026-08-12 18:55:57 UTC

There’s some “influencers” who’ve been awfully quiet on Nostr…
In the meantime, Nostr has been on fire the last few days!

2026-08-12 18:04:14 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/4cd467abe39098dd0e1d5770d8dd945b633bcb5a99ec6bd1ac455fd9d20de6ed.jpg

2026-08-12 17:16:04 UTC

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Haha. True

2026-08-12 16:54:49 UTC

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Circled in red
https://image.nostr.build/95b681829d015aaa9d548a4d603507168f61974779b420b34605d09f678ef024.jpg

2026-08-12 16:53:50 UTC

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That why I said “Almost”. It matters. But people…

2026-08-12 16:40:53 UTC

i've learned it's almost never about what you're doing. it's who you're doing it with.

2026-08-12 16:37:55 UTC

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2026-08-12 16:35:24 UTC

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2026-08-12 16:28:21 UTC

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2026-08-12 16:27:56 UTC

One of my fav nostr features is not missing a note from some of my fav peeps. Note notifications are underrated. 🔔

2026-08-12 16:23:34 UTC

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2026-08-12 15:47:22 UTC

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2026-08-12 15:42:46 UTC

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2026-08-12 15:36:52 UTC

You can literally communicate back and forth with just memes and gifs here..
Nostr is like that @npub1u53…nzt7

2026-08-12 15:10:42 UTC

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Visiting a shrink is not a super power.

2026-08-12 14:59:06 UTC

Everyone you pass today in your own house, at work, at the gym, on the street, or just grabbing coffee is fighting battles you know nothing about.
Nobody wears a sign saying, I'm struggling
Your kindness, your energy, your encouragement, even just holding the door might be what saves their day. Choose to lift others while you're lifting yourself. Gm Nostr

2026-08-12 04:49:35 UTC

When Nostr Coinkite badge?
#nevent1q…06fr

2026-08-12 04:40:14 UTC

Nobody who's genuinely happy needs to prove it online. The people posting about how amazing their life is are usually trying to convince themselves.
The actually happy ones are too busy living to document it.

2026-08-12 04:36:08 UTC

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Prayers bro

2026-08-12 01:34:29 UTC

You can trust someone’s judgment and still go check the thing yourself. Those aren’t in conflict. If anything, the more you trust someone, the more DYOR matters, because you’re way less likely to catch yourself skipping it.
#nevent1q…c632

2026-08-11 23:52:04 UTC

Fiat trains you to be safe.
Safe means your money loses value while you sleep. Safe means asking permission to move it. Safe means trusting a committee to stay honest for forty years.
Bitcoin doesn’t do that. Nobody’s smoothing anything out for you. You hold the keys or you don’t.
Most people choose safe. Very few choose free.

2026-08-11 18:31:42 UTC

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Yeah this is the thing nobody in that Discord thread I was reading seems to get. You can’t fire miners by walking away from them. They keep hashing SHA256d tomorrow same as today, same paychecks, same chain. The fork’s the one bleeding hardware, not them.
And picking your algorithm off a block hash is wild to me. That’s supposed to be the whole debate. Instead it’s a coin flip with extra steps.

2026-08-11 18:15:09 UTC

So Dashjr’s picking Bitcoin’s new mining algorithm with a Testnet4 dice roll today.
Quick catch up. BIP-110 needed 55% of miners signaling for it. Got 2.56%. Two blocks mined on the fork and then it just stalled out.
So now the move is a proof of work change. Watch Testnet4, grab the next block hash, last character picks the algorithm off a list nobody agreed on til this morning.
One of the Knots guys said the reason for ditching SHA256d is to fire the miners, not because it’s broken.
We watched this movie in 2017. Different fight, same instinct. Small group decides the majority’s the problem and hard forks their way out. Ended in Bcash last time.
Watching this one play out live today.
#nevent1q…v9kz

2026-08-11 17:54:00 UTC

The things that matter most in life are not for sale. You cannot swipe your card for discipline, you cannot order integrity online, and no amount of money will buy you genuine respect. A strong body, a clear conscience, real love, and peace of mind.
Every single one of those has to be earned through how you live.

2026-08-11 17:37:44 UTC

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Nostr only is the way