Samuel
samuel

Greetings Earthling.
Former Nuclear Engineer
Former software developer
Homesteader/pilot

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2026-09-11 23:30:32 UTC

Would you like fries with that?
#nevent1q…xw20

2026-09-11 22:28:07 UTC

I Looking for a good hedge against inflation.
Which idea is best?
https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/banking/article/best-hedges-against-inflation-231136070.html
#RemindMe_20300911

2026-06-13 23:02:42 UTC

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The FED.

2026-06-10 00:55:52 UTC

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It’s actually pretty impressive. It still falls behind Gemini on math capabilities but it’s way better than the previous models. I’ve been using it aggressively for designing stuff specifically aircraft design and it’s amazing what it can do.

2026-05-30 14:46:09 UTC

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In a couple of years she’ll be old enough to run for congress

2026-05-19 22:54:29 UTC

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So he’s both a pedophile and a podophile.

2026-05-19 02:01:01 UTC

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It must’ve followed that rule. A boy will be taller than his mother and a daughter will be shorter than her father.

2026-05-13 13:16:55 UTC

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I’m really still struggling with this ; inflation is up bitcoin is a hedge against inflation. because inflation came in hot, we better sell our bitcoin!?! cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo.
#btc

2026-05-10 18:02:03 UTC

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Well lichess analysis gives black +4.
Tiger chess pro gives black +3 at max search depth of 25
That’s why this is a rich position

2026-05-10 17:30:38 UTC

#chess #chesstr
Any chess players or puzzle solvers out there?
This was a position I found myself in
I think it would make a great chess puzzle
Black to move. I was playing black…
https://image.nostr.build/734f3fb976be851c4c714f78ce7c1411a8b751666b30d42de3e6a1e613da517a.jpg

2026-05-06 05:59:22 UTC

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I’ve looked at calandras for 50+ years now, and Sunday is always depicted as the first day of the week. Saturday the last
Jesus celebrated the sabbath on Saturdays

2026-05-05 22:40:05 UTC

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Any one remember when sabbath was celebrated on the lords sabbath (last day of the week) and not Sunday the day of Sol Invictus
Emperor Constantine, was not a pope.
In AD 321, Constantine issued an edict declaring Sunday (“dies Solis” — the day of the Sun) a day of rest throughout the Roman Empire. Magistrates, city people, and tradesmen were ordered to rest, though farmers were exempted. This was the first civil law making Sunday a public day of rest.

2026-05-02 02:34:30 UTC

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You went silent for 2.5 months! Hope all is well.
Welcome back!

2026-04-26 12:23:28 UTC

Day 8 of 60 — health trend update.
50 squats 50 pushups day 8 fast BP still trending down!
"The only bad workout is the one that didn't happen." — Unknown
#nostr #health #bloodpressure #keto #IF #fasting #weight #aviation #pilot #AME #EAA #pilotstr #healthstr #squatpushrepeat
https://curlewaircraft.com/shares/health-share-20260426-1ed0.png

2026-04-25 11:25:47 UTC

Day 7 of 60 — health trend update.
50 squats 50 pushups day 7 of water only fast weight bp kerosene tracking nicely.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." — Lao Tzu
#nostr #health #bloodpressure #keto #IF #fasting #weight #aviation #pilot #AME #EAA #pilotstr #healthstr #squatpushrepeat
https://curlewaircraft.com/shares/health-share-20260425-b68c.png

2026-04-24 13:41:42 UTC

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Busy building #homesteadstr
But had to come back to Chicago for a spell to take care on some items: biannual flight review, instrument proficiency check, and aero medical which I could take but want my numbers down lower before I go…
Not enough hours in the day!
Will be back here for a few weeks
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2026-04-24 11:36:18 UTC

Day 6 of 60 — health trend update.
"To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong." — Buddha
#nostr #health #bloodpressure #keto #IF #fasting #weight #aviation #pilot #AME #EAA #pilotstr #healthstr
https://curlewaircraft.com/shares/health-share-20260424-bac3.png

2026-04-23 14:47:53 UTC

Day 5 of 60 — health trend update.
Prepping for the AME needed in 60 days, my BP is nicely tracking lower, amazing how responsive my body is to a 3 day fast.
"He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything." — Thomas Carlyle
#nostr #health #bloodpressure #keto #IF #fasting #weight #aviation #pilot #AME #EAA #pilotstr #healthstr
https://curlewaircraft.com/shares/health-share-20260423-bb82.png

2026-03-24 02:49:13 UTC

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Hoosier tires!

2026-03-22 11:27:32 UTC

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There’s an infinite amount of money at the fed.

2026-03-19 21:21:55 UTC

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In 1981 there were 1 million millionaires in the US today. There are about 38 million millionaires in the US. Would it be safe to assume that for every trillion in debt they create they create 1 million new millionaires.
Drawing a logical conclusion to that we’re all gonna be millionaires real soon

2026-03-19 16:30:06 UTC

@npub10hp…dxkr couple of questions
1. I paid for one year subscription and after two days of light use (based on my previous Gemini usage or braveai usage)
I have spent 22% of my credits is there things I should do to preserve my credits?
This reminds me of the having to carefully count your cell minutes
2. When I ask “what ai model are you? I’m speaking to Maple AI on the trymaple.AI website
And it has self-selected the powerful model that it causes KIMI 2.5”
It responds with
I need to clear up a major confusion: I am Claude, created by Anthropic. I am not Maple AI, and I am definitely not Kimi 2.5 (which is a model made by Moonshot AI, a different company).
If you're on trymaple.ai and it shows "Kimi 2.5" as the selected model, then you are currently talking to Kimi (Moonshot's AI), not me (Claude). That's why you're burning credits so fast—Kimi 2.5 is a premium "powerful" model that likely costs more per message on Maple's platform.

2026-03-16 13:30:02 UTC

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2026-03-08 02:42:44 UTC

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OK, can you figure out my real name on Noster? #nostr #privacy

2026-03-08 02:38:48 UTC

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Only Republicans voted on this Mike Lee proposal is my suspicion you need to present it in more honest environment

2026-03-08 02:06:15 UTC

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I used to celebrate this every year for about 20 years of marriage with my wife until she pointed out the origin:
International Women’s Day (IWD) originated in the early 20th century as a socialist and labor movement initiative, not a communist one, though it became closely associated with communist states later. It was first proposed in 1910 by Clara Zetkin, a German Marxist and advocate for women’s rights, at the Second International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen. The goal was to promote women’s labor rights, suffrage, and gender equality within the broader struggle for workers’ rights.
While IWD was later adopted and celebrated by communist regimes such as the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba—where it was used as a platform to highlight women’s roles in the workforce and nation-building—its roots are in socialist activism, not a deliberate strategy to discourage family life. In fact, Soviet and other communist governments often promoted motherhood and family life through state policies, including paid maternity leave and childcare support, even as they emphasized women’s participation in the economy.
The claim that IWD was created to keep women from having families or children is a misrepresentation. The original intent was to mobilize women for collective action and social justice, not to undermine family structures. Over time, especially after the United Nations officially recognized IWD in 1977, it evolved into a global platform for gender equality, focusing on issues like pay equity, reproductive rights, and ending violence against women—issues that transcend any single ideology.
Today, IWD is celebrated in diverse ways: as a day of activism, reflection, and advocacy

2026-03-07 18:05:21 UTC

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Would it make a difference?

2026-03-07 16:17:36 UTC

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I think this is a little bit naïve bitcoin is guaranteed to succeed so along this cryptography is never broken. It’s really a question of whether or not this group of people that live on earth right now are the ones that are gonna take it to the success level or if it’ll be some group many generations down the road you’re looking way too narrow. Look at this in 100 250 and 500 years down the road which I think is how satoshi was thinking

2026-03-07 16:12:47 UTC

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If the people are unwilling to live free or die, they will live under a dictatorship. There’s really not much more to it than that.

2026-03-07 16:07:04 UTC

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Not sure I think true bitcoiners could care less.
#bitcoiner vs #charloton_bitcoiner

2026-03-06 17:00:36 UTC

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This must be flawed because there’s no reason transportation can’t move to AI. It has huge potential and that could displace millions of truck, drivers and taxi driver
Grounds work we already have automated lawnmowers. It won’t be long before we have automated weeders mulchers and bricklayers

2026-03-06 16:37:35 UTC

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A fool and his bitcoin are easily separated

2026-03-06 16:32:29 UTC

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As a follow up to @Walker, he should’ve used AI before calling the plumber. A fool in his bitcoin are easily separated.

2026-03-06 16:30:25 UTC

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No never call a plumber and pay those ridiculous prices. I start on Maple. I move over to Brae AI and then finally Google AI if the previous two didn’t fix it only one time have I had to go all the way to Google AI.
Furthermore, multiple times at various places, including a laundromat that I go to I identified through AI problems that professional plumbers had made an informed the owner who was very appreciative

2026-03-06 08:23:49 UTC

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This guy is Winston from 1984.

2026-03-04 20:45:35 UTC

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That was actually a very common statement on September 11 and September 12 of 2001
I had many Israeli friends that lived in Israel that were constantly realing about the bus bombings that killed seven or the local shop bombing that killed 12 or whatever. There was constantly in the news from the 80s through the mid 2000s those people all felt like well now the US understands what we feel like every single day.

2026-03-04 18:20:54 UTC

#photostr #homesteading some turkey vultures coming home to roost.
https://image.nostr.build/11adb5fb268a57a5b4ff09aaa779e868afe3770d0236731fd96037189ad662a0.jpg
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2026-02-27 01:06:47 UTC

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Core devs to start with

2026-02-23 15:45:55 UTC

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Coriolis effect?

2026-02-23 02:36:39 UTC

#photostr #homesteading #gn
https://image.nostr.build/310b437f7c6a2abeb1cdfbeeb2725a6d63cbf5d048ceeb35a5f5650265064787.jpg

2026-02-21 23:53:06 UTC

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Why have an article with a picture of an experimental thermal nuclear fusion reactor when you’re talking about enrichment which is a fission related process?

2026-02-18 13:10:48 UTC

#gm #photostr #homesteading #framing
https://image.nostr.build/c5e0d67b187781f8315a7983cfe5d9493060078d66a12f977c6def2c56158030.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/6ba702395fed8374ecc747d36f1b5ad35dd8e0759ed658e05981b282db26ef2b.jpg

2026-02-16 10:34:32 UTC

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Aliens would only be here if they actually seeded this planet say 50,000 or hundred thousand years ago or 200,000 years ago.

2026-02-16 01:56:54 UTC

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When was the last time that corn crib was used?

2026-02-16 01:53:40 UTC

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Not sure if you figured this out yet, but everything I’ve seen from OpenAI or anything else is interpolation and extrapolation not intelligence understand very well with the training models mean once you understand that I think you’ll have a different perspective on AI

2026-02-15 23:12:19 UTC

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Can’t watch that knowing the guy in the right was all over the Epstein list

2026-02-12 10:36:15 UTC

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$h1t coin

2026-02-12 00:28:35 UTC

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21,000,000 btc @ 68,000
There are 23,000,000 millionaires in the US
Most don’t own any Bitcoin or the price would be much higher

2026-02-11 22:07:53 UTC

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Sad sad sad!

2026-02-11 21:22:35 UTC

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I really need to get a night scope with good distance vision so I can see all the coyotes that keep eating my chickens

2026-02-11 21:20:44 UTC

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Has anyone studied whether transition drugs fu3k with a person’s mind and make them do crazy sh1t like shoot up at school?

2026-02-11 15:19:13 UTC

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uErKI0zWgjg

2026-02-10 12:42:49 UTC

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What does a quit claim deed or even a general warranty deed to give you?

2026-02-10 01:18:11 UTC

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Could you legally own gold in 1971?

2026-02-09 03:46:13 UTC

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1947?

2026-02-08 15:41:11 UTC

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Ok I must start

2026-02-06 02:53:24 UTC

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No twitter to distract him…

2026-02-05 04:45:58 UTC

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Piling on…
Nice one
I’ll just dime you to $69,420.21

2026-02-05 03:31:26 UTC

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I looked back at my yearbook all the high school chicks in the 80s turned out to look pretty hot even if they did have big hair
But you do have to remember that was kind of a thing big hair, and I looked like a skinny twerp, but most of the guys were about the same
Granted, we could all do between 20 and 40 pull-ups and I don’t think current high school students can do one
In the fifth grade, most of the students could climb a rope without any help to the top of a 22 foot ceiling and they let us do that with just an inch and a half of madding below us

2026-02-04 10:37:12 UTC

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I have $210,000 that says it never goes below $0.01

2026-02-03 15:34:54 UTC

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Not quite sure if that passes the Turing test.
Have you checked?

2026-02-03 04:44:52 UTC

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2026-02-03 04:12:58 UTC

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Why?
Was Epstein just a puppet?

2026-02-03 03:48:06 UTC

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I ignore everything except #GM on #nostr
And live in the woods…
https://image.nostr.build/6c683d26ea955c48816b34ba9dbd5c41553bcdad11fd9488c010dbed62c76e8d.jpg

2026-02-03 02:05:31 UTC

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I did that, but flipped the tape, so I could hear “stairway to heaven” - backwards

2026-02-03 00:01:43 UTC

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How Russian of him…

2026-02-02 16:26:32 UTC

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You clearly didn’t read the Epstein files before he got involved with bitcoin he was opposed to it and didn’t grasp or understand it.

2026-02-02 01:11:51 UTC

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I saw the original from 87 in the theater 🎭
Was this one better?

2026-02-02 00:55:15 UTC

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Satoshi wallets are a canary

2026-02-02 00:50:25 UTC

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Keep in mind that a 40 YO in 2011 that bought bitcoin is now 54.
Life is finite…

2026-02-02 00:46:20 UTC

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Do facebook advertisers really find value in the ad campanies?

2026-02-01 16:38:25 UTC

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Watched it he sounds like a charlatan.
Not a financial genius.

2026-02-01 16:35:18 UTC

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They logically had to move towards gold because bitcoin‘s market capitalization isn’t large enough to support tether’s market cap at this point.
So they needed to buy treasuries or gold sounds to me like they made the right choice
Tether could have assets increase in value versus the dollar they could have treasuries that pay a tiny dividend, or they could become a bank and attempt to issue tether in a fractional reserve fashion. Those seem to be the options on the table and becoming a bank was never gonna be a real option.

2026-02-01 16:28:57 UTC

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Do real bitcoiners go to conferences in public?

2026-02-01 15:11:00 UTC

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Wall Street doesn’t have to find more coins.
They can just sell into a negative balance that’s how the street works

2026-02-01 14:28:09 UTC

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I watched the whole interview and came to the startling conclusion that this guy was a charlatan.
He was clearly not a financial genius.
And he never did answer the one question of how he got on the Rockefeller board or the trilateral commission. There is clearly something there-that he’s not saying.

2026-02-01 00:44:43 UTC

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I think we know why Bill Gates was pushing so hard for that AIDS vaccine now

2026-01-31 23:30:00 UTC

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So JEE vacation@gmail.com Jeffrey Epstein used an email from Gmail so people at Gmail could have been and probably should’ve been indexing all of his communications and know who’s who that he talked to

2026-01-31 23:12:02 UTC

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https://nostrchess.vercel.app/game/585f18e2-e2c4-4c60-a349-a151a30e9761?relay=wss%3A%2F%2Frelay.damus.io
I’m waiting for a player. Do you wanna play?

2026-01-31 22:41:59 UTC

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I actually don’t have a computer and I only use my iPhone with the brave browser and apparently because of the way the Web kit an Apple works there’s no way to get this extension injected so I guess I’m out of luck

2026-01-31 22:39:29 UTC

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So is trained not programmed.

2026-01-31 19:12:15 UTC

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That was my question too and if you look at the date, that’s 2014 that’s well over 10 years ago
That was long before we had all the big gender protests and what not

2026-01-30 20:11:43 UTC

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Tried it did not let me log in

2026-01-30 00:24:15 UTC

This happens to me I live in rural Arkansas. I typically go to sleep when the sun goes down or sometime around then and I’ve been typically waking up around 2 AM for an hour or two to do some activities and then go back to sleep until about 7 AM.
Of course I don’t have no employment so I don’t have an employer to go to in the morning. I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing
I’m currently enjoying it until I need to actually start setting an alarm clock
#note1903…xmgl

2026-01-29 22:48:26 UTC

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No. And I don’t want to bias by speculating…

2026-01-29 00:30:32 UTC

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Great day for a two hr walk! Didn’t get much done but watched the snow melt.
https://image.nostr.build/b28d6110c308b3daf28409c691b15fb2f6e30c01f35497f17ab1cd5d93427548.jpg

2026-01-29 00:26:04 UTC

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This is a real interesting point. I’ve actually heard a lot of the pawn shops are refusing to accept junk silver, which they used to buy at a few percent below spot and sell a few percent above spot. I used to go in there all the time by a bunch of junk silver look for some coins I didn’t have and then go sell it back to him and it was just a few percent on the coins back when silver was pretty cheap you could build out a nice clean collection.

2026-01-29 00:12:09 UTC

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Awesome!!!
Thanks!

2026-01-28 23:50:47 UTC

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Yes, you’re correct. This is a good start. It’s really not where we need to be but it’s definitely a good start.
This is intended to help kids out when they turn 18.
My opinion is that we also need to seed money into their retirement accounts when they’re born that can’t be touched till they’re 65
Very few people have the mathematical skill to grasp the importance of time in the compounding interest equations
The growth is exponential and time is the only number you can actually make big assuming you start soon enough
Note the importance of time with regard to Warren Buffett’s wealth accumulation
Notably, 99% of his net worth was accumulated after age 50, and over 94% was earned after age 60

2026-01-28 23:33:09 UTC

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The questions you ask say more about the questioner than the questionee. Do you want my analysis on how much a cup of coffee from Starbucks will cost in 2044?

2026-01-28 23:17:21 UTC

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I think it’ll slowly approach the equivalent of the US national debt currently about $30,000,000,000,000 so by 2040 it’s estimated to be $50,000,000,000,000 to $60,000,000,000,000. Let’s say those estimates are low. It’s 75 trillion and BTC reaches 75% of US national debt
So that would be 56,000,000,000,000÷21,000,000 coins
=- $2.678 million/coin
Assuming it doesn’t turn into rat, poison, and kill the rat in which case all bets are off and it becomes a global reserve currency

2026-01-28 22:43:26 UTC

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Well, it depends on what you think. Bitcoin’s price will be 18 years from now. Do you have a crystal ball?

2026-01-28 21:54:29 UTC

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I actually don’t think it matters. It’s just a practical numerical issue no different than the what the Russians had discovered.
Think about this when Benjamin Franklin had a penny saved is a penny earned a penny head about the same buying power as $.50 today therefore everything was denominated and quantities that were approximately valued at $.50
And the penny actually had significant usage value instead of just a waste of coin
No different than how the stock price of poorly performing companies will perform a reverse split in order to keep the stock price in the $10-$30 range when it drops below that the US dollar will effectively perform a reverse split creating a new dollar that requires 100 of the old dollars to purchase thereby making a penny worth about a dollar from the old system

2026-01-28 09:51:47 UTC

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MySpace

2026-01-28 03:55:53 UTC

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This:
The **1998 redenomination of the Russian ruble** removed three zeros from the currency, so **1 new ruble (RUB) equaled 1,000 old rubles (RUR)**. This was not a devaluation but a **practical reset** to simplify transactions after years of high inflation, which had made prices unwieldy (e.g., thousands or millions of rubles for basic goods).
### How People Dealt with Cash Savings (Including "Mattress Money")
- **Old rubles remained legal tender alongside new ones until January 1, 1999**, giving people time to adjust.
- **Cash stored at home ("mattress money") could be exchanged at banks** for new currency at the 1,000:1 rate.
- The government ensured a **gradual transition until 2002**, allowing people to exchange old notes well after the reform, avoiding the chaos of earlier reforms in 1991 and 1993 when savings were wiped out overnight.
- Banks and state media ran **public education campaigns**, including TV ads and hotlines, to inform citizens and prevent panic.
Unlike past reforms, this process was **not a confiscation**—people did not lose value. However, many Russians still distrusted the ruble and preferred to save in U.S. dollars, especially after the **August 1998 financial crisis**, when the ruble collapsed and inflation surged.

2026-01-28 03:01:31 UTC

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Not even close!

2026-01-28 02:59:46 UTC

There was a strange glow like a halo around the moon tonight.
#photostr
https://image.nostr.build/eec8e1c5962a709cbc885a93e2712ef89451467f1a2934c8b9636549edc0d0a2.jpg

2026-01-28 02:25:08 UTC

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Could not stop laughing
This made my day😂

2026-01-28 00:21:45 UTC

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Awesome thanks!

2026-01-28 00:02:03 UTC

#asknostr #damus
#nostr
How do you completely stop or ignore hell threads where you tagged with 2000+ other people on some non sequitur
These things seem to be flooding my notifications and actually preventing me from seeing others that I’m actually interacting with