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That is a useful and eternal truth, it’s just a very small part of what Jesus taught.
He taught us who created the universe and why. He taught us our place in it. He taught us that people are broken and need help from outside to be able to live into our purpose.
He taught us about God’s nature. That He is a person and yet a community in Himself. A being who desires relationship with us.
He taught us that without sanctification we cannot stand to be in the presence of the divine, it will destroy us.
He taught us there’s a place separate from here that is Heaven and it yearns to be joined with Earth but it’s not yet time.
He taught us there’s a separate place from here that is Hell which keeps evil out of Heaven.
He taught us that God will go to any lengths to save us, even sacrificing His own child.
Yes Jesus taught us that it’s important to seek the divine, and that in work and suffering there is much to learn and connection to make. Jesus did cultivate His mind through meditation and other practices in common with Buddha.
His teachings are just so much bigger in scope, and narrower in their prescriptions about what is a good life. (Even though I believe many Christians have too narrow a definition of a good life)
I’d love to learn more about Buddhism from your perspective, I just don’t think Jesus and Buddha teachings are the same.

2025-05-25 20:09:40 UTC

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What eternal truth do you think they both point to?

2025-05-25 15:45:10 UTC

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I hear this a lot and I could see why people think that. Some of the practices and wisdom overlap.: (stillness, humility, kindness, detachment from possessions, etc)
But Christianity’s cosmology and call on a person’s life is not inwardly focused (where there is more overlap with Buddhism).
The call is to bring heaven to earth: to speak truth, to oppose evil, to fix poverty, to heal the sick, to bring people hope they lost a long time ago, to teach people about the God made human in Jesus who did the work to make it all possible.
I believe there is goodness is Buddhism but I don’t think Jesus and Buddha would have haven’t along philosophically on what mattered most to each of them.

2025-05-23 15:15:39 UTC

If we were to redo or add to the US constitution in a re-founding of the US I’d want to add
1. Separation of currency and state
2. Only citizens may donate to political causes and there’s an annual limit (no corporations, no NGOs)
3. Clarify that the right to bear arms includes all that goes into warfare (artillery, fighter jets, cargo planes, fuel, all the way down)
4. The buffet amendment: if deficits go over a certain percent of domestic production sitting congress people cannot be re-elected
One of the greatest tricks played by the state over the last hundred or so years is scoping the second amendment to just guns and “personal defense” the real goal should be that there’s more privately held capacity for war than publicly held capacity for war.

2025-05-23 14:49:32 UTC

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Boring Bitcoin is better
Means it’s becoming money.

2025-05-14 17:52:05 UTC

Hard money is inevitable in a multi-polar world. Fiat is only sustainable in a unipolar world.
When empires collapse the world reverts to hard money. When nations use hard money, there’s less war.
Seems like the world would be better without a hegemon. Even though I think the US is exceptional, I think it’d be better if we focussed inward

2025-04-22 22:28:41 UTC

There are two types of people in this world. Those that are grateful for nothing and those that are grateful for everything they have.
It’s so much better to live in gratitude

2025-04-21 11:19:51 UTC

Yesterday my wife and I were reading Isaiah 65 as part of our Easter practice and it’s a description of heaven.
It’s where that famous verses about “lions will eat straw”and “wolves and lambs will eat together” come from.
This passage also talks about how living 100 years will be just the beginning for you. And that death and disease will be no more.
But something that struck me anew this year was this long description about how people won’t labor in vain, that they will work and get to keep the fruits of their labor.
According to God: theft is up there with death and disease as the great injustices of the human condition.
I believe you can boil the call of every Christian’s life is to help bring Heaven to Earth. It’s important to work on things that bring Heaven closer, it’s the only worthwhile goal to labor for in this life.
Bitcoin is not the savior, but Bitcoin feels aligned with bringing Heaven to Earth.
It’s takes power away from corrupt people and reduces the theft perpetrated by those people.
I’m glad to be working on something every day that feels aligned with my values and could help all people live better lives.
Happy Easter friends.

2025-04-05 19:59:09 UTC

How overvalued do you think the stock market is? What about houses?
I take perverse pleasure in watching asset prices crash because that wealth wasn’t real anyway.
I say keep unwinding the cantillonaires’ wealth

2025-03-20 15:43:34 UTC

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I was just talking to a friend about this. Nostr could disrupt email in this way. No need for passwords anywhere just sign events 🤔

2025-03-20 15:41:02 UTC

If brute force isn’t working. You’re not using enough of it.
Learn that at work every day 😂

2025-03-16 17:40:40 UTC

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After my experience with Stripe today I am adding this option ASAP

2025-03-16 17:40:09 UTC

Fucking hell.
Once again Stripe shows why we need Bitcoin.
I’ve launched a small tool that folks can use and I charge based on usage.
But Stripe in their infinite wisdom has deemed my Stripe account suspicious so they’ve blocked the ability to send my revenue to myself.
I thought to myself “that’s fine, no one has paid yet, it’s still early”
Come to find out today that everyone that’s tried to pay has been blocked from doing so…. Because my account was deemed suspicious.
Sigh.
I thought my launch was off to a rocky start… Nope! I was just kneecapped by fiat gatekeepers.
Fiat is hell.

2025-03-14 18:28:35 UTC

The abundant economy of the future requires the unimpeachable scarcity of money.

2025-03-14 18:08:08 UTC

If you’re an idea person that’s wanted to build something on Nostr, coding with cursor is worth a try.
It won’t write great code, it can’t handle big applications, but it can get you from nothing to something.
And these days it’s easier than ever to accept payments (fiat or Bitcoin).
If anyone wants advice hit me up, I love to help folks get over the hump and build their first project.

2025-03-11 14:06:27 UTC

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I’ve done some work for a few YouTubers recently and they told me that Nostr is cool but without a large enough audience the “keep more of your income” thing isnt a winning argument. And they’re barely scraping by as is with YouTube constantly changing their algorithm.
And all the other great things about Nostr require there to be a lot of content (algo choice, zaps, never goes down, censorship resistance, etc)
It’s definitely a chicken and egg problem.
I think the only way out is apps that can ONLY be built on Nostr that will thrive. Things that are impossible for X or Insta or YouTube to do.
That can be a bigger base audience than just people who care about freedom tech. And can attract increasing number of folks to other stuff

2025-03-11 13:53:06 UTC

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In the post scarcity future, it’s going to be what most humans do with their time. Figuring out how to help people make a decent income doing this work is critical to the future

2025-03-09 20:41:49 UTC

Any writers out there? Been trying to write a sci-fi book and could use some advice

2025-03-07 17:41:28 UTC

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Fuck me, forgot to put the url: https://anystory.io
Seriously gotta be careful on Nostr ‘cause… ya know… no edit nor delete 😂

2025-03-07 17:40:37 UTC

Just launched an AI assistant for writing. Like cursor but built for blog posts, books, sermons or video scripts.
It’s free to start, pay as you go (no subscription) and I’ll be integrating Bitcoin for paying for credits.
Would love any and all feedback!
https://m.primal.net/PXLS.mov

2025-03-06 16:05:31 UTC

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DM sent but I’m not sure if DMs still work the same on Nostr or if people have moved to non NIP4 platforms as a matter of course

2025-03-06 16:04:18 UTC

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LFG! Love that thank you

2025-03-06 14:51:57 UTC

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Would I be able to get physical cash that way? I thought Bisq was digital only?

2025-03-06 14:07:19 UTC

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Hell yeah this is great way to power a wallet business. What’s the simplest way to just accept payment to a lightning address? Is it as simple as creating a lightning invoice but hardcode the destination to my corporate wallet?
Is there any way in Bitvora to get observe payments so I can get a webhook when an invoice is paid (so I can add credits to the account that just paid)

2025-03-06 14:04:31 UTC

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This is great. Super simple.

2025-03-06 13:55:44 UTC

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👀

2025-03-06 13:51:32 UTC

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👀

2025-03-06 13:46:39 UTC

If I want to accept bitcoin as payment for API credits on my app what’s the best service to use?

2025-03-06 13:40:24 UTC

Optimism is rebellion in today’s culture.
I love Nostr for many reasons but the optimist to pessimist ratio is a big one.

2025-03-02 16:53:53 UTC

Sooooo hyperinflation wen?
Five years?

2025-02-28 13:26:45 UTC

A future of abundance is more likely today than ever before.
People that have fought for decentralization have made tremendous progress.
Because of their work, the most important developments in technology are now uncontrollable by elites.
We are going to see an explosion of human flourishing powered by abundant intelligence, mechanical labor, more energy than we know what to do with, and hard money.
Buckle up folks. It’s gonna be bumpy in the short term, but a bright future is more than possible.

2025-02-15 16:23:12 UTC

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The start of unwinding of the Cantillon Effect in real time

2025-02-15 14:20:12 UTC

Civilisation is whatever reduces violence between humans.
Conquest and theft are the base way to resolve conflicts between humans, and any system we put into place that reduces that is an improvement.
Monarchy, theocracy, communism were all innovations that reduced violence for a time but each had a ceiling in its effectiveness because centralized power always leads to corruption.
Capitalism is one of the most civilizing forces imaginable. Pushing violent conflict for scarce resources into the realm of competition in business.
Democracy pushes political violence into the realm of campaigns and strategic caucusing.
These two systems together have no upper limit on how many people they can help, but they backslide when the money is broken.
Both need Bitcoin to continue civilising the world and spreading prosperity and freedom throughout the world.
Glad to know the people of Nostr because yall are soldiers that fight for fairness, freedom, and human flourishing. Every day I see something that makes the future seem brighter.

2025-02-04 15:23:21 UTC

Lasting hope is not found, it is cultivated.
It requires daily practice reinforced by taking action to improve the world around you.

2025-02-04 14:14:36 UTC

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Total Trojan horse.
At the very least it’s taking out a massive loan to invest, we don’t have surpluses to invest.
And I doubt it’ll beat the index funds, so it’s just a huge losing proposition.

2025-02-02 20:33:03 UTC

If Bitcoin was the only currency on earth and every bank was Thanos snapped out of existence…would banks exist 20 years later?
I think they would. They’d have less influence and fewer of their products would be profitable, but a Bitcoin future likely involves Bitcoin banks.

2025-01-28 15:02:47 UTC

Man i can’t wait for a Bitcoin future.
I’m in Argentina and I can’t withdraw money from an ATM using my US debit card without a 25% fee but I can’t go to a money changing place and send Bitcoin to get local money. And I can’t find any working Bitcoin ATMs.
This is such a stupid problem.
There would be serious money in being one of those folks in the park who does money changing but with Bitcoin. Just hold pesos in cash and accept lightning or on chain payments. You could orange pill a ton of folks and save everyone a ton of money. Way more accessible than requiring people to bring US dollars in cash.
If you know anyone doing this let me know! I want to use their services.

2025-01-28 14:35:50 UTC

I’m in Buenos Aires and someone has painted the raw Bitcoin genesis block on a house near where I’m staying. Love it.

2025-01-14 13:50:50 UTC

Just arrived in Buenos Aires, it’s a beautiful city and the people are very friendly (even when I attempt my broken Spanish 😅)
Does anyone have advice on how to pay with Bitcoin or how to exchange Bitcoin for pesos to spend locally? It’s easy to be eaten alive by exchange fees out here.

2024-12-26 21:17:23 UTC

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There’s so much hate in your post I’m not sure what you’re actually saying.
Happy to debate if that’s something you’re open to. I often change my mind when presented with good arguments.
I’m hopefully for a fully decentralized Bitcoin future but I’m also realistic I haven’t seen good solutions to doing everyone on chain and cheaply without compromising something critical about Bitcoin.
If we get to a future as I mentioned in my original post things are better than today and can evolve forward to an ideal future when the right solution comes together

2024-12-26 18:18:38 UTC

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It makes sense to me that lightning becomes a decentralised version of ACH but for bigger payments or settling between bigger players (the future of interbank transfers).
While Cashu is used for all the day to day spending of everyday people.
Then on-chain is mostly for governments, rebels, wealthy folks, and banks.

2024-12-12 01:38:42 UTC

People are finally catching on!
Fuck seed oils. https://image.nostr.build/7ecd80b00bf480df3261cc664c3abfe71296739d55e96bffd00dcf4a660d2ca5.jpg

2024-12-04 19:25:01 UTC

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What was he doing to not play along? Another whistleblower silenced?

2024-12-04 19:14:28 UTC

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That would make some sense but the shooting looked well prepared.
Either professional or someone who planned for a while.
Anyone that would hire a professional can afford not to be fucked but insurance.
And most of the time when it’s a distraught person they don’t care about being caught. This guy seems to be working hard to get away with it.

2024-12-04 19:09:50 UTC

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That was my thought to but the hit looked pretty professional.
Might it not be power politics getting kinetic?
Just so bizarre.

2024-12-04 19:06:03 UTC

Anyone got a sense of why the CEO of United Healthcare was assassinated?
I’m no fan of pharma, but it’s usually not the good guys doing the assassinating

2024-11-14 06:00:37 UTC

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Please! I’d love to read and help 🙋‍♂️

2024-11-11 18:08:06 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/c3f6924f70cea7a858c51a800214ff6a735b3623014a687812260b5dd7698f3c.jpg

2024-11-01 04:39:27 UTC

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I’ll be spending six month there starting in January! Any other recommendations?

2024-09-21 00:59:54 UTC

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Totally fair. Would you like your own npub to subscribe to?
That way any future alerts could publish there too. I’ve been thinking of adding weather and ux index as well so people can plan runs or activities with their kids.

2024-09-21 00:09:20 UTC

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Oh interest so generate an npub per use and publish to it?
How would you ensure you get alerted and it doesn’t get lost in your feed?

2024-09-20 23:22:46 UTC

Just built a little air quality alert tool.
You pick a location, get daily forecast or an alert if the forecast will go above a threshold you set.
It currently sends text and email alerts.
Would anyone want me to add Nostr DMs as a delivery mechanism for their use?

2024-08-30 19:06:02 UTC

This is amazing high quality, high signal, low view count podcast about bringing about abundance in the world by leaning into capitalism.
Seems right up this community’s alley!
Love the tagline: “prosperity is energy intensive”
https://youtu.be/N6hLGUW3R90

2024-08-30 15:57:19 UTC

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That would make many monetized social interactions much easier 🤔
Nice Sam, hell yeah 🤙

2024-08-30 15:54:34 UTC

On the bright side, Bitcoin having a relatively stable price means it’s actually a good store of value…
The best stores of value are stable with upside so I’d say Bitcoin is maturing into that role. Which means more folks with lower risk profiles will eventually pile in.
Just seems like day to day we’re in that old adage of “a watched pot never boils” but progress is being made on all fronts.

2024-08-30 15:49:14 UTC

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So is the main goal to create anonymity on the zap sender’s part? Thats pretty cool.

2024-08-30 02:38:38 UTC

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Nice can’t wait to dig in

2024-08-29 23:34:33 UTC

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That’s cool. Excuse my ignorance: If each event has a lighting address how does the service ensure the event author can receive that money?

2024-08-29 21:12:00 UTC

Is there a zap only client? Just find someone by npub and zap any amount?
This is particularly difficult on iOS because of the AppStore I think.

2024-08-29 01:16:01 UTC

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This is exactly what I was looking for!

2024-08-29 01:15:21 UTC

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LFG this is excellent. Gonna share with the folks I’m talking to about it.

2024-08-28 18:12:38 UTC

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Thank you!

2024-08-28 15:53:04 UTC

Is there a good explanation of the outbox model somewhere that I can share? @npub1l2v…ajft @npub10np…tl5h maybe?
Having more convos about it as the way Nostr can scale and don’t have a great write up to share.

2024-08-28 06:02:41 UTC

Brown noise is such an unlock for helping get into flow state.
Heard about it on the Lex Fridman podcast, tried it out and BAM. Just spent like 12 hours coding today.

2024-08-28 03:31:56 UTC

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Does it publish people’s answers as events in the clear? Or is there some privacy built in?

2024-08-27 00:27:46 UTC

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Oops sorry

2024-08-27 00:27:31 UTC

Was watching this #Nostriga talk on funding Nostr https://youtu.be/qD-Y0fq5KiA?si=4BHtI0tsDDjTwvxL
I think it’s ok that there aren’t a ton of VCs investing yet. It’s not the role of investors to donate money.
It’s also not the role of protocols to be profitable.
One of the great side effects of capitalism is that you get talented, smart people who get wealthy and can afford to donate when a technology is too young to be profitable.
That means a lot of folks are contributing without being supported enough to do it full time. This isn’t ideal but it does force contractors to be ruthless with their time. Only working on what is critical in their estimation.
From my understanding of history we are on the blessed timeline, and things seem to be happening in the right timing to build something truly great.
Once we can build profitable businesses on top of the unique capabilities of Nostr THEN we will see investment rolling in.
I have every faith Nostr will continue its rapid improvement and we will, in time, eat Big Tech’s lunch.

2024-08-26 22:54:36 UTC

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People who have replaced religion with politics. They’re looking to see their savior in person

2024-08-26 22:27:27 UTC

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You’re in the right place! Welcome!

2024-08-25 22:49:57 UTC

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Depends on what you truly want from social media.
If your goal is connecting with people then leaving wouldn’t improve your health unless your people aren’t here/responding.
If you find your true motivation is validation from other people responding to you. Then a full detox may actually be healthy.
There are many other motivations too.
But it seems like you are saying you’re not getting what you want out of social media and I hope that changes for you. 🫂

2024-08-25 22:19:26 UTC

Anyone know if there’s a VPS provider in El Salvador?
Seems like a jurisdiction that may be safer than Europe for hosting apps.
I can’t find one with a data center actually located in El Salvador.

2024-08-25 04:17:57 UTC

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Forgive my ignorance. What’s a relay hub?

2024-08-25 03:25:43 UTC

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Helping people cultivate hope when things are hard. Wish I could do it more

2024-08-25 03:24:30 UTC

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Hell yeah, where at?

2024-08-25 03:24:04 UTC

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Totally but we have to share relays in order to see each others’ content. Are there any safe jurisdictions that we can host in?
Even then is a VPN or access via Tor the only way to access it if our native country starts trying to block access to relays to take them down?

2024-08-24 23:30:20 UTC

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Totally but unless we share relays then you can’t see each others’ content so we definitely need to aim towards having as many relays as we have DNS servers for the internet

2024-08-24 22:27:32 UTC

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If there are heads to the hydra it’s the relay operators right? How healthy is that ecosystem at this point in history?

2024-08-24 22:24:12 UTC

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What does active resistance look like for the average person? Genuinely want to hear your and others folks’ ideas.

2024-08-24 19:03:09 UTC

Feeling excited to build stuff today. What are yall working on?
I’m trying to build something to alert me in the morning when the smoke forecast in my area exceeds an AQI limit I set.

2024-08-24 00:32:31 UTC

Wow integrating with Telegram is so easy.
Just built a system to alert myself to new user signups and errors and it took me 5 minutes.
I can’t believe it took me so long 😂

2024-08-23 03:28:25 UTC

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Sounds awesome thanks for connecting

2024-08-23 03:24:12 UTC

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That makes sense. I keep forgetting we are on Nostr where folks actually do the thing instead of just build knowledge about the thing.

2024-08-22 22:21:53 UTC

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Thank you!
What do you mean yours isn’t ready yet?

2024-08-22 22:21:00 UTC

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Oh damn I wanna meet @npub16ux…lra7 based on their profile even if they don’t have answer. I am a huge regenerative agriculture nerd

2024-08-22 22:19:37 UTC

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That’s what I’m wondering. If farmers want it and it doesn’t exist I’m also happy to build a directory 😂
“Solve problems you have” and all that

2024-08-22 17:49:01 UTC

I’m looking to buy a half a cow to put in a chest freezer so I can buy direct from a farmer. Any advice on how to find someone?

2024-08-02 18:50:39 UTC

1. Commercial real estate losses mounting
2. Housing prices declining
3. Unemployment up
4. Deficit spending still high
5. Interest rates still high
Is this finally it?
I think this will be the beginning of the next printer round if the losses are bad enough banks have to finally realize all those unrealised losses they’ve been hiding since the collapse of SVB.
I’ll be it’s gonna be a wild few months

2024-07-24 19:10:33 UTC

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Who wants to pave the streets with gold? Seems like that wouldn’t be crazy with what we can find in asteroids.

2024-07-24 18:24:09 UTC

If countries start using Bitcoin as a reserve asset, do yall think that’ll be positive? Or is it too centralizing a force at this point?

2024-06-26 19:23:53 UTC

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Sure but can it be built so arresting people wouldn’t stop it.

2024-06-26 17:16:44 UTC

I wonder if there’s a way to build wikileaks on Nostr as a protocol instead of a company. So there’s no one to arrest and no central server to shut down

2024-06-21 23:47:15 UTC

Thinking about spending a few months in El Salvador. Anyone form there or lived there for a while? Hoping to plug into a local community.

2024-06-20 15:08:04 UTC

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I’ll have to check it out 💪 thanks 🙏

2024-06-19 21:54:35 UTC

Anyone aware of any books or essays on abundance generated by technology? Been doing my research but it seems not much thought has gone into the possibility of a radically abundant future (and how it may not be far off)

2024-06-07 16:39:35 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/UFXpodC9gLUAAAAC/this-is-the-way-this-is-the-way-mandalorian.gif

2024-06-04 23:12:52 UTC

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Wonderful thank you!

2024-06-04 19:09:17 UTC

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Been thinking of spending a few months there. Any advice for an American looking to get the most of of time there?

2024-06-04 19:08:24 UTC

Finally coming up for air after a while heads down. How yall doing?
What’s new in the nostr-verse?