ben73
Ben

Been learning about bitcoin since Fall ‘20

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npub150eky5egxszxl7dw2kwn6mkmhag7d6e84eyls22dkjrmjsd89qtsqlve3l

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ben@zap.cooking

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public.relaying.io

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2026-05-29 05:01:29 UTC

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Woke up with a fire in the belly?
Dropping some color bombs to start the day.
https://blossom.primal.net/fef3bb98e2067dadf4bc98aa6943b4912baba294a1222d7718d9d8e2e16d9a16.jpg

2026-05-21 18:18:52 UTC

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Artichoke hearts

2026-05-18 03:56:00 UTC

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https://fountain.fm/episode/5bTLKd133XxhnolgSyP4
#nevent1q…pydr

2026-05-14 23:57:12 UTC

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Just made my first order. Any of your products work as a beard balm moisturizer?

2026-05-14 22:31:25 UTC

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Emergency exit to KYC Exchange doesn’t seem very sovereign.
How about an emergency safety network of my own making with distributing my own Tapsigner keys?
All I need is the minimal trust that the trusted network of people won’t lose the key card, and make it available upon request. While that one piece of key material is exposed it should be able to interact with the Bitkey system to make a multi-sig emergency vault tied to the original vault but with zero balance until needed. The Bitkey system pre-configures the emergency exit vaults and I distribute the Tapsigner keys. Say there are three safety contacts then the attacker would need to know all three and collect them first before coming for the Bitkey.
Emergency compliance for a full vault withdrawal would generate a transaction to the requested address for some minimum amount of sats and then select at random one of the emergency vaults from the safety network.
At that point the attacker has confirmation that they received some amount of bitcoin and can see on chain that the remaining balance was sent to a different address. But the victim doesn’t know which person in the safety network now has control. Only the Bitkey system knows which Tapsigner was used to create the emergency vault and delays notification as to which contact is needed.
After a delay the victim and safety network are notified and collect either all Tapsigner cards or only the one that was used for the emergency vault. Access to the emergency vault requires that you restore your Bitkey system and have access to the Tapsigner key card. Failure to do that then moves the funds from emergency vault to inheritance protocol.
Programmable money.
https://fountain.fm/episode/qUim0HiEZ9bOxOfQohO8
#nevent1q…cz33

2026-03-28 20:04:18 UTC

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Missing the biggest herbicide of them all: glyphosate.

2026-03-26 04:10:06 UTC

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Great insights as usual Danny. If you want a real hot tub like The Space has heated with a bitcoin miner check out snorkel.com
https://fountain.fm/episode/Os1ntZcMH1sqXxWTNeky
#nevent1q…c598

2026-03-20 03:56:12 UTC

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Why no zap poll @nprofile…yj64?

2026-03-17 15:39:19 UTC

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All the marketing pre-images from coldcard did nothing for me but this is now an I want photo

2026-03-13 05:39:58 UTC

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Snagged a couple. Thank you for the push to try these out.

2026-03-10 04:34:10 UTC

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@nprofile…qztt you going to be there?

2026-03-01 21:54:29 UTC

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I love sound on for a few seconds of silent contemplation!!

2026-01-24 23:47:14 UTC

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Standby mode is now $5 per month and includes a few GB of data. Pick up a hard sided case and you are ready to go.

2026-01-15 18:23:25 UTC

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Left to right. Green makes it look like a classic.

2026-01-10 20:52:36 UTC

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And plans to re-open the mint for belts and other goods or are these beautiful books keeping you at capacity.

2025-12-30 00:34:16 UTC

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Is this Bundle still being offered? Would love to pick this up using Bitcoin.

2025-12-13 05:35:41 UTC

Carnivore’s check your freezer regularly. It might just save you some heart ache and tears. Been a busy 24 hours but I am so grateful I get to enjoy the last of my local beef.
And as necessity is the mother of invention not pictured are the three half sheet pans of stew meat that for the first time I roasted in the oven.
https://blossom.primal.net/53b2da9dd9e2ce00bbe38b51204008253a9de6a1106e50a1acfb11288ea5f85e.jpg

2025-12-07 19:09:34 UTC

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@nprofile…j03s is the best Ghee for your sats. So delicious. About to order more. You want some?

2025-09-23 04:19:41 UTC

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Nice work. The regular improvements you keep making are really proof of that focus. Keep it going!

2025-08-30 05:33:49 UTC

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The primary and possibly only purpose for a digital currency like bitcoin is to pay node operators in the native currency for securing the network through verification of transactions on the blockchain. There is no intrinsic value.
There are two methods of payment: transaction fees, paid by the current holders of the digital currency and system rewards of new units or coins being issued.
When the code was written the transaction fees were initially zero and the system reward was coded to be a decreasing amount over a fixed interval of time: resulting in a fixed supply. All to encourage node participants, usage of the network and value creation.
As the first invention of its time the design decision could have resulted in any fixed supply as the 21 Million is the result of starting the block reward at 50 bitcoin along with a fixed length of 210,000 blocks before decreasing the reward by half.
It could have been any fixed supply but 21 Million definitely has a good vibe.
Had Satoshi started with 100 we could have had the answer to the ultimate question of life in 42 Million.

2025-08-09 00:26:05 UTC

When does one bone-in ribeye equal two pocket steaks?
When it is the biggest spinalis top I have seen.
https://blossom.primal.net/c966818b93b6cf411204a1c7a59660b503b45f3f73987be5cda1f120581df420.jpg

2025-07-24 17:53:42 UTC

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Older or younger brother matters.
My younger brother orange pilled me thru Dollar Cost Averaging.
Back in 2020 this was with Swan. For me the factoid was the idea that sats per dollar will decrease forever.
If you are the older brother the I would send him memes to constantly show what he is missing out on interlaced with key book recommendations or YouTube videos.
I did this with my two step brothers who are same age and younger. Jeff Booth Price of Tomorrow was the unlock for them. We now have a text thread regularly talking about bitcoin and are closer now than ever before.
Brothers need persistence and the reinforcement that it comes from a place of wanting shared success.

2025-07-24 01:23:14 UTC

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First is yield, then cast iron. Their relationship could be beyond disrepair.

2025-02-27 04:48:40 UTC

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Yes.
I tried as a multi pronged apprentice to plantar fasciitis. After about 2 months of pain I finally had enough. Combined acupuncture with podiatrist wrap; hot cold therapy, massage with cupping, and continued stretching from the two prior months.
Recovery after two sessions over two weeks. Kept the treatment for the foot going for another 6 months with sessions every three weeks.
The acupuncturist is key. Mine took a vacation to go back home and the substitute was left chart notes and then I explained what we were working on. It was about the five month mark. Same general locations as far as I could tell but a completely different experience.
This year when she took holiday I skipped. Local recommendations of specific experience will help make sure you have success out of the gate.

2025-01-31 02:24:19 UTC

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Best way that I have found to change this mindset is do a daily DCA of $10. Watching the sats go from 2000 per $1 to under 1000 per $1 really helped lock in the deflationary mindset.

2024-09-19 04:28:45 UTC

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I read a “free market economy” as both the exchange of goods, and the free speech of #Nostr as you can’t have exchange without communication.

2024-09-18 18:20:51 UTC

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5 January 2025
Assuming that it is the first guess of a date, and is it 100k to the closest but not after?

2024-09-12 03:09:25 UTC

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For me it is:
#kickingassover50
#bitcoin
#family

2023-09-28 04:55:05 UTC

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Your friend can apply for the TSA pre-check program to receive a Known Traveller Number. Before pre-check was created you could request a KTN if you had a common name that was on the watch list. That no longer seems to be an option. TSA will finger print you for pre-check but the KTN will clarify that your friend is not the Jan 6th rioter.

2023-09-03 23:47:03 UTC

@npub1s5y…6q7z or @npub1hxw…40pf seems like one of you two needs to see if @TImMLatimer has been introduced to bitcoin. We need volcano bitcoin in the United States.
https://x.com/timmlatimer/status/1681304496234991620?s=46&t=Pawxoz0wWNruAaoHvBIu0A https://cdn.nostr.build/i/7ad7cd6dd0a7d875944e99e6fa44acf8ab8cfb01471991d81f0b02118204303a.jpg

2023-07-27 20:37:13 UTC

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I really enjoyed Tim Urban’s approach with the audiobook for “What’s our problem?”
He published a companion pdf with all the diagrams.
https://waitbutwhy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Whats-Our-Problem-Audiobook-Visuals-Companion.pdf
Then during the audio book he would give a basic description which for most situations was sufficient. But then others I was able to pause and look at the diagram before moving on in the book.
Just a thought.

2023-07-05 21:43:09 UTC

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Looks like the Nostr Deck might be ready??

2023-05-07 05:04:20 UTC

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https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_701fbfd32c8e865e9e1e33bcd669db7fd7201e1a162f51158692195fe1f97966.jpg
Still building networks