Ian

https://www.flirtingwithbitcoin.com

Creator of The Flirting With Bitcoin Podcast

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Ian@flirtingwithbitcoin.com

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flirtingwithbitcoin@getalby.com

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2024-09-13 11:43:53

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he has 5 of the top 10

2024-09-07 14:02:38

#GM my #Nostriches
SATurday is for stacking sats!
... and the farmers market.
$4 for a garlic clove?!?!
https://m.primal.net/KiGP.jpg

2024-08-26 11:39:36

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I remember this comedy show we went to one time the guy was going on about "black people are like this and that..." We were sitting in the front row and her turns to me and says "you're black... You know what I mean.
" I responded " I'm Ian... And Ian doesn't know what you mean." Ruined his set for a solid 5 minutes.

2024-08-24 22:56:49

Hey gang my buddy here just paid off his student loans with his #Bitcoin and is back at stacking.
"Without Bitcoin I would never have paid off my loans"
But he doesn't know about Nostr let's zap him up to get his stack back.
https://image.nostr.build/0f8bdf84c3a41f1fa28c06b416dd5401a6c071eb16e557058dcea7e08c9533a0.jpg

2024-08-22 16:13:53

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https://github.com/grunch/rana

2024-08-22 02:45:16

https://youtu.be/AD4GQ-NGgNs
YouTube just put this old school soul train video from the 80s in my feed. Damn if this isn't TikTok. Everyone doing different dances to the same "sound". And even a sudo swipe visual. The more things change the more they stay the same.
#GN my #Nostriches

2024-08-22 01:42:55

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I recently switched to unami. You can even host it from a home server like an umbrel so you don't share the data with any company
https://umami.is/

2024-08-21 21:10:02

Good vibes 😌
https://wavlake.com/track/80ffe3ef-bc4c-439a-ac7e-fa2b28022fee
#nevent1q…hssl

2024-08-21 18:39:16

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Hey that's me LOL

2024-08-20 23:06:12

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I feel you pain. My dad and his wife are coming in a couple weeks and she always brings plastic crap. I'm like Jesus give him Bitcoin

2024-08-20 03:50:55

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yessssssss this is what I was looking for!!!

2024-08-20 00:14:52

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Yeah one of those bastards was ony back door the other night almost gave me a heart attack

2024-08-20 00:11:49

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Have you tried balders gate 3? I was never a D&D guy but that game got me into it real fast. It is really good

2024-08-19 20:51:50

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https://fountain.fm/clip/0XAbyywbRKmzefBeuGMD

2024-08-19 20:48:18

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I suspect it will be a major artist. I did a whole bit about how Kanye West would be a great candidate during his whole JP Morgan Chase debanking.
https://fountain.fm/clip/w0wzxfiZU6xeG6ybMrHX

2024-08-19 20:43:10

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Or what if they could earn them just from being on Nostr. I'm about to launch a new nostr app that does just this. Here is a draft NIP that we will be building on top of
https://github.com/Promoted-Note-Network/promoted-note-network

2024-08-19 19:49:39

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Yeah I was on there then my subscription lapsed. Just renewed and got 300+ followers back LOL
@nprofile…wv57 and @nprofile…g4nv have a really good product if 300+ people are on there and not on a single relay I'm on

2024-08-19 18:56:21

#asknostr
What is an acceptable amount of SATs for a private relat? Bonus points if there is a list of private relays and that prices. I feel like I've seen something like this in the past but have no idea what to Google

2024-08-19 17:30:20

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Liiiiiiiive!!! 😂

2024-08-19 16:08:44

#GM my #Nostriches
Interesting story I saw this morning. Tech entrepreneur superyacht sinks. After he was cleared of fraud charges. It's the guardian so take it all with a grain of salt but.... What are the odds.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/19/yacht-sinks-off-sicily-in-storm
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/06/mike-lynch-fraud-trial-acquittal

2024-08-18 23:55:13

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It is called the Flamming Bluth?

2024-08-18 23:49:42

#asknostr
#nevent1q…jndr

2024-08-18 17:16:31

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Bars 🔥

2024-08-18 15:44:18

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Yessssssss. That whole interview pissed me off. Terrance has a working drone based on his theories but Weinstein is like let me help you.

2024-08-18 15:36:40

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And this is the commercialization of that work.
It is all extremely fascinating. This is the rabbit hole I was down before #Bitcoin.
https://aureon.ca/

2024-08-18 15:35:36

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This is what their work led to.
https://www.safireproject.com/

2024-08-18 14:51:28

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What is that?

2024-08-18 14:18:42

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I used to be into string theory until I discovered Dr Wal Thornhill and Michael Clarage and the thunderbolts YouTube channel. They actually have a theory that has made accurate predictions over the past decade.
Here is one of their oldest videos. But you should check out the entire channel
https://youtu.be/Oyx72K93GME

2024-08-18 00:39:16

This is why I'm so passionate about the promoted note network.
This guy is literally telling you how he makes money by selling you to other people. And you're not part of the transaction.
With the promoted note network the people sell their attention directly to the advertisers at a price they choose. Cutting out the middle man.
#nevent1q…332p

2024-08-17 22:03:36

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@nprofile…h753

2024-08-17 21:37:06

#GN my #Nostriches
The more planning I about our next season of the pod, the more exciting it becomes. One of the things I'm most excited about is featuring #v4v music/artist on the show. Kinda like the old CW shows... If you're old enough to remember those shows. Shoutout to Smallville.
https://image.nostr.build/c1529a16df1a48586ee86e620816abd41f2b8870198fb73fe26c19cfc710753a.jpg

2024-08-17 00:58:56

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This is hilarious. That's exactly what his show is 😂😂😂😂😕

2024-08-17 00:43:46

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Bitcoin doesn't care

2024-08-16 23:43:05

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I know that stage. Keep us updated. Nostr and Bitcoin not over the Internet should be the goal.

2024-08-16 23:38:21

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That sounds super interesting. Links?

2024-08-16 22:39:11

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Wait are we doing nostr over #hamradio now? I haven't even gotten my #bitaxe yet. LOL
#fomo

2024-08-16 21:19:43

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This is one thing that unchained is good at is reminding people to check their keys every 90 days

2024-08-16 19:58:10

This is a very interesting video.
I think the Bitcoiners are darwinists first with a combination of machine worship and Christianity forming a new alliance to stop Communists
https://youtu.be/EsYm8lbNx0I?si=Zf8oyg4QAHXLT4CH

2024-08-16 19:39:50

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#mises

2024-08-16 18:47:13

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Worse than 911 for Germany. They are literally turning off the lights on Germany. Their leaders hate them.

2024-08-16 18:04:55

Checkout @nprofile…2zfx #smartwidgets
#nevent1q…xjrg

2024-08-16 17:55:55

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LOL we know Bernie... We know

2024-08-16 15:20:06

Yessss!!!!!!
https://youtu.be/41OWAH04kaY

2024-08-16 14:59:53

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@nprofile…dyc2

2024-08-16 14:55:10

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Can y'all see this? What client(s) did it load in?

2024-08-16 14:07:18

#naddr1qq…h20n

2024-08-16 13:27:49

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Apple for a while was blocking apps that supported zaps ⚡. I don't know if that is still true but that's probably why you can zap. 😕
Just when we thought apple and android were equal in functionality android has pulled away with freedom tech 💜✊🧡

2024-08-16 13:21:05

Some interesting #Bitcoin fanfiction light reading with your #coffee. Sad there is no mention of #nostr.
We're so early
#nostrplebs
#coffeechain
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/vote-with-your-feet-a-short-story

2024-08-16 13:03:01

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Primal? Damus? Amethyst? Etc.

2024-08-16 12:55:35

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Ironically their wallet is a strike account though 😂

2024-08-16 12:55:08

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What client are you using?
I use amethyst to zap from my strike account but I have to jump out to strike to complete the zap. It's a little slow but it lets me zap from my dollar balance so I'm burning dollars into nostr economy.

2024-08-15 17:39:08

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✅ Done

2024-08-15 13:11:25

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That's exactly what Walmart does with food stamps. They have the Lowest prices around but what they don't tell you is they get billions from the government in the form of food stamps. One of my friends used to work on food stamp fraud and when I saw the data of where most food stamps are spent I was like damn it all goes to Walmart 🤔

2024-08-15 12:32:03

Another great find #onlyv4v find. Has a real #guster vibe 🔥🎶🔥
https://wavlake.com/track/e1c2e15d-656c-41de-a52c-6771292a7312
#nevent1q…dw04

2024-08-15 00:44:33

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Good to know I'll definitely need an onboarding session LOL

2024-08-15 00:44:04

#GN my Nostriches 💜✊🧡
Today was one of those days were I am too bullish about #nostr to even think straight. I've decided that #nostr is actually more important than #bitcoin when it comes to fixing the world. We the #plebs have spent generations leaving under the filter or algorithm is one group or another. Think about what is the Catholic church if not an algorithm that decided what was the truth and what wasn't.
We need nostr because we need to be able to tell the truth directly to one another regardless of it hurts your feelings.
For example I recently discovered a YouTube channel called "The Research Guy". The just of his channel is that most "black" people in America are actually native Americans from tribes that have been scrubbed from the public consciousness. When I first watched a couple of his videos I thought he was full of it. But then I found another YouTube channel with the same theory and information but I liked the way he presented it. Between these two channels they convinced me to do my families genealogy and I discovered my mother's side of the family is definitely native Americans. The Pequot of New England. Ironically they where one of the first tribes to fight the colonist over them counterfeiting their money... Wampum. As I was reading this I couldn't stop laughing. I am descended from people who physically fought inflation of their currency.
Today the "The research guy" made an announcement that he believes his videos are being shadow banned. I am lucky enough to be alive and awake enough where I was able to see this content on YouTube before it was censored and "do my own research". But if they have been able to keep this from me a 40 y/o man, and his mother, what else are they able to simply memory hole. They been running their algorithms on us for a lot longer than the internet. And we all kinda accept that to some degree myself included.
But today it became personal. Today I finish the fight my ancestors started 💜✊🧡

2024-08-15 00:16:44

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Is it in the app store now?

2024-08-14 23:57:05

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I got an answer.
@#nevent1q…ge6g

2024-08-14 17:56:05

#PV my #Nostriches
I'm looking for help doing some design mockups. I could do it myself but that would take way too long for me to learn how and it wouldn't be nearly as good as a professional.
Don't know what the going rate for mockups is but I'm willing to pay in #Bitcoin if the price is reasonable.
DM me with a link to your latest project if you're interested. Or tag someone you think might be interested. The only requirement is that they are on #nostr. I don't give a fuck about your LinkedIn or linktree or linkedidooblah.
#asknostr
This is the project
https://github.com/Promoted-Note-Network/promoted-note-network

2024-08-14 14:41:29

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Already is 😉

2024-08-14 14:40:06

#GM my #Nostriches
After switching to my sovereign lightning address, some payments aren't making it though. I'm assuming the payer can't find a route from their node to mine. What are some the best nodes to open channels with for the most connect-ability. Does amboss give me a way to search/visualize this?
This may be another point for putting the #bitcoin in #nostr via ecash in my opinion
#asknostr
#grownostr

2024-08-14 13:39:45

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Well this is the ideaore fleshed out. Now I need to build the pieces and see if it works 😄

2024-08-14 13:27:04

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https://github.com/Promoted-Note-Network/promoted-note-network

2024-08-14 13:21:43

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There was a club here in DC called Eighteenth Street Lounge that I used to go to all the time when I was younger. This song reminds me of that place and those times 😍.
#goodvibes.

2024-08-13 23:56:11

I beg to differ 🤓
#nevent1q…weph

2024-08-13 21:57:12

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I have a couple good nuggets in here as well
https://www.flirtingwithbitcoin.com/p/the-married-with-bitcoin-series

2024-08-13 21:11:25

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https://www.flirtingwithbitcoin.com/p/fwb095-the-last-fiat-fathers-day

2024-08-13 19:03:51

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Tether is basically going to be the buyer of last resort for all the treasuries. It is truly fascinating to watch people hate the US but scramble to get their hands on USD instead of #Bitcoin

2024-08-13 15:42:10

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Well damnit now I have to watch

2024-08-13 14:51:19

Doesn't @nprofile…vwyf use tether @nprofile…wmnv
#nevent1q…wcy9

2024-08-13 13:18:41

Became a little more sovereign on my #Bitcoin journey today.
✅ Sovereign lightning wallet address
✅ Sovereign nip-5 validation.
What else and I missing?
https://image.nostr.build/ce023dc916a16f1b0b0868b3f44018861cc40ceb01fe2b2717e675f5cd6cdb57.jpg

2024-08-13 12:32:48

Well well well
Viva Bukele! Viva El Salvador
Oh and #GM my Nostriches
#nevent1q…7r56

2024-08-13 00:40:50

So the dead bird 🐦 is dead right now? Am I understanding that correctly?

2024-08-13 00:03:36

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They're the mofos that Hamilton kicked of the box simping for the King.
https://image.nostr.build/12f34377bb8e795a35e05095265f80274c2d1ae3ed1fec629a24f39b231dae72.jpg

2024-08-12 18:58:47

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Oh sure you don't need it but it would be part of the "sovereign stack"

2024-08-12 18:19:31

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https://image.nostr.build/deecb2da1df3e6806227bbcaba20f3db357e301ccbe1231324cda9a88f93aad7.jpg

2024-08-12 17:51:11

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Yes. The guild of #nostr client developers is always trying to improve their craft.

2024-08-12 17:21:57

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I wish I had the time to learn how to do hardware stuff. And Maybe I'll do it in a couple years if it doesn't exist by then, but I believe someone will put it together. @hodlparman on Twitter is working on the closest thing I can think of off the top of my head. Just add a Nostr relay and hook it up to a domain via cloudflare

2024-08-12 17:18:29

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Yeah I'm thinking something low powered and not trying to be an app store. Just a normalized relay in a box. Shouldn't even need terabytes of memory if you're doing nostr only. But if you add a full Bitcoin node and lightning you'll need the space.

2024-08-12 17:05:48

We need custom nostr hardware like these cool bitaxes. A premade nostr relay that includes your own personalized nostr.build for Media hosting. Then people could more "easily" get in the game. Bonus points of the hardware runs a Bitcoin node and lightning mode but baby steps first. I wrote about this a little bit last night.
#nevent1q…9k5h
#nevent1q…l2jw

2024-08-12 15:35:08

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I don't understand what I'm looking at. LOL . Does this make a nostr client? And then I just tweaked things in my fork?

2024-08-12 15:29:37

This blind spot is because lightning isn't Layer 2... Nostr is.
#nevent1q…dwrm

2024-08-12 15:24:47

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And I answered my own question. Going to give nuxtr a shot from @nprofile…4nqe

2024-08-12 15:19:39

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#nevent1q…t6uc

2024-08-12 15:15:33

🔥🔥🔥🔥 we're winng
https://wavlake.com/track/efadc234-3b21-4024-9cbf-59f10fc3ac2a
#nevent1q…lly6

2024-08-12 15:13:41

#GM & #PV my Nostriches.
Question for the day. What is the popular framework for building PWA #Nostr clients? It's been a while since I did front end work. I'm a js/node guy. Is nuxt still a thing? Or what is the new hotness?
I just need some for basic prototyping and iteration. Not trying to build anything to heavy.
#asknostr

2024-08-12 14:29:15

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Yeah we put Kian down around 730ish. The last couple of night I've fallen asleep with him. But my 'farm' is the podcast and the laptop for the moment. Although I do need to add some fertilizer to the garden today 🌱

2024-08-12 10:56:03

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I got some but back up again at 6am. This kid is like a farm animal. Good practice for the citadel living.

2024-08-12 10:54:39

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Kian is Bitcoin heir, aka my son.
@nprofile…h753 is my good lady. 😁

2024-08-12 10:42:18

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Kian wakes up in the middle of the night sometimes. And then I can't fall back asleep.
There is always a Nostrich awake somewhere 💜✊🧡

2024-08-12 02:15:03

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https://github.com/Promoted-Note-Network/promoted-note-network

2024-08-12 00:08:21

#GN my #Nostriches
So while we been taking the summer off from the pod, I've been doing a lot of thinking about what is the next evolution of conversation for us to discuss. And lately I've been drawn to nostr. I'm gonna riff some ideas off before while they are still fresh in my head.
#1 Nostr hardware
I think companies like umbrel and start 9 are fundamentally flawed. They are selling specialized hardware to run docker images of servers. I think they should be selling specialized hardware to run a suite of Nostr only applications. I shouldn't have to docker compose my applications. They should run from any compatible nostr relay I point my client to. And should I have to lose years of data because some company went out of business. Anyone should be able to pick up where'd the failed business left off. I should never lose an application to time again if I willing to run my own nostr relay.
# nostr as an OS
Building on the above idea this means that we have a decentralized operating system. Where there is no such thing as "that app doesn't work any more"
# sovereign nostr businesses
I think after some the major projects shutting down like mutiny, we need a new category of nips. I think we need the nip-b. Where b stands for business. The nips in addition to locking in A set of events to power application. They also present a business model of the application can self fund itself. These Nostr businesss them become something like guilds w/o the geographic monopoly. If these businesses operate on Bitcoin only, then under which jurisdiction is it taxed if at all? These businesses would truly be sovereign as long as they only do business with other sovereign entities. I'll admit this one is a stretch that brings me to last thought.
# I think I've come up with one
I've been working on this idea for the last 6 months and I think this would fall under my definition on nip-b. What I'm proposing is a decentralized ad network that anyone can opt-in and opt-out at will turning your attention into a commodity. So I guess it's it's the ad marketers guild working to every one the most value for their attention. I imagine the best in the industry that are drawn to nostr as well will be able to help make the best decentralized ad network that removes the scammy parts of the business no one is incentized to ruin their business. This is very similar to Bitcoin mining. They all are working in the service of the commodity Bitcoin. And no one is incentivized to run a mining operation that would be detrimental to Bitcoin.
https://github.com/Promoted-Note-Network/promoted-note-network

2024-08-11 23:34:44

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I'm pretty sure one has looked me in the eye and peed on my rubber tree

2024-08-11 22:59:20

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I have a porch garden. And they squirrels dig in all my pots if I don't get out there early enough.

2024-08-11 21:25:26

As a person who battles squirrels every single day I can assure they are real... Real disrespectful.
#nevent1q…q3j5

2024-08-11 15:53:00

#GM my #Nostriches
With all the censorship going on these days, running your own personal #nostr relay feels like a cheat code. Just setup my umbrel and connected all my clients. Now I have the entire #Bitcoin ledger and my entire personal social ledger "on-prem".
How they gonna extradite me on my boat?
⛵🏴‍☠️
#bitcoinflotilla

2024-08-11 14:44:22

This is the only data point I use when initially 🍊 💊 someone. If this doesn't trigger their curiosity I stop and say "well I could be wrong. Let's check back in 4 years"
#nevent1q…3tly

2024-08-11 14:38:01

Sounds like we need the #bitcoin Olympics
#nevent1q…ys0j

2024-08-10 21:20:38

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Found it
https://foiaproject.org/case_detail/?title=on&style=foia&case_id=33514

2024-08-10 21:19:15

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Need more context