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Sounds great, but remember "Don't Trust, Verify!"

2026-03-02T13:37:37Z

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Sounds great, but remember "Don't Trust, Verify!"

These look amazing. 🔥 Indeed #nevent1q…v932

2026-02-24T18:14:33Z

These look amazing. 🔥 Indeed

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Just when I thought I couldn’t be more bullish on this #Bitcoin Heated Hot Tub setup by snorkel (npub1vyc…gjv5), a #Heatpunk plaque by woodminer (npub1lwx…3kwf) was added! 🔥🔥🔥

The Heatpunk Summit attendees are in for a treat. Thanks for sending me these photos tylerkstevens (npub1cmc…9fnd) 🤙

Only one way to find out

2026-02-16T13:49:42Z

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Only one way to find out

Yeah, it's the privacy concerns too that have me concerned. ...

2026-02-15T12:01:44Z

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Yeah, it's the privacy concerns too that have me concerned. Air gapped for a while for now haha. Thanks for the input. Keep us updated on your success/ failures

Surely the raspberry pi 5 could be used for this with modular ...

2026-02-15T11:28:54Z

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Surely the raspberry pi 5 could be used for this with modular upgrades, at a much lower cost? 🦞

Nostr event nevent1qqs9a2ac8ft99pd7jku3u3a77pzamlfvtt5h2a3xyf673935hn5aacgzyq0x6zlezlu3dw5cpd59cv7kyqksrsme0wa4yratuna54kx8w7n65wsygz3

2026-02-14T17:23:27Z

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Me too. It's all going to plan 😂

2026-02-14T17:17:56Z

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Me too. It's all going to plan 😂

Oh Delali, Oh Delali, Golly what a day!

2026-02-10T15:33:23Z

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Oh Delali, Oh Delali, Golly what a day!

👏The toothpaste is out of the tube. No matter who manufactured ...

2026-02-07T23:02:21Z

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👏The toothpaste is out of the tube. No matter who manufactured it.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become ...

2026-02-04T13:39:15Z

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You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Sick! Is it just compatibility one BitAce, or multiple? Or is ...

2026-02-04T13:35:58Z

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Sick! Is it just compatibility one BitAce, or multiple? Or is that depending on the size of the solar array? Excellent work my good dudes!

🙏

2026-01-18T21:23:05Z

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What did he grab?

2026-01-10T23:12:53Z

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What did he grab?

That's really cool

2026-01-10T21:56:01Z

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That's really cool

...still couldn't get laid

2026-01-08T11:54:24Z

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...still couldn't get laid

Not all heroes wear capes.

2026-01-07T16:42:56Z

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Not all heroes wear capes.

🌭

2026-01-02T21:44:18Z

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Link?

2025-12-31T21:26:19Z

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Link?

Happy New Year Everyone. Build the world you wanna see! ❤️

2025-12-31T21:20:09Z

Happy New Year Everyone. Build the world you wanna see! ❤️

Keep us updated 🫡

2025-12-30T20:41:01Z

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Keep us updated 🫡

...if you're deaf.

2025-12-26T00:14:14Z

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...if you're deaf.

Merry Christmas Everyone. Hope yours is slightly better than ...

2025-12-25T11:04:38Z

Merry Christmas Everyone. Hope yours is slightly better than ours. Be nice and loving to those around you. They (or you) might not be around for the next one! #Hugs

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Santa brought our slide! It's a Christmas miracle! 🎉

2025-12-25T11:02:10Z

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Santa brought our slide! It's a Christmas miracle! 🎉

@nprofile…89mm ✅

2025-12-22T20:12:50Z

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silent.link (nprofile…89mm) ✅

Can we do something via Nostr and build out the Internet we want ...

2025-12-20T14:47:16Z

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Can we do something via Nostr and build out the Internet we want to see? VPNs for some, miniature Bitcoin flags for others.

It's definitely become, "I can't get in or can't ...

2025-12-20T14:43:13Z

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It's definitely become, "I can't get in or can't make the purchase... Ah well... Their loss" . *Closes phone, goes outside*

Well said @nprofile…205a 👏👏 #nevent1q…j6h9

2025-12-20T14:34:11Z

Well said Gigi (nprofile…205a) 👏👏

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It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"
No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.
No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.
Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.
Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.
But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

It's also a term of endearment, a long the lines of a ...

2025-12-15T12:32:07Z

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It's also a term of endearment, a long the lines of a loveable scamp, "gas cunt", "silly cunt", "who dis cunt?", "haha what a cunt!"

Fucking right. 🐑

2025-12-15T09:40:07Z

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Fucking right. 🐑

Excellent Post by @nprofile…wmlp https://primal.net/a/ 💯 ...

2025-12-14T17:17:58Z

Excellent Post by Kudzai (nprofile…wmlp) https://primal.net/a/ 💯 worth a read and critical re-evaluation of oneself afterwards. 👏

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As a Bitcoiner have you ever considered what would happen should Bitcoin fail? By "fail" I don't mean anything catastrophic happening to the base layer like the big blockers winning, but something more subtle like if Blackrock and the JP Morgue were to successfully neuter it via paper bitcoin, regulatory capture and thus permanently confining it to "digital asset" status without it being a medium of exchange.

The purpose of this inquiry is not to spread FUD or dish out black pills, but it's to peel back the layers of what Bitcoin truly represents, to each of us individually. Hopefully this little exercise in introspection will make some of us realize what it is we truly desire and the kind of life we would like to have.

The Collapse Has Already Happened

I recently wrote in a previous essay, that societal collapse due to monetary failure happens gradually, then all at once. The cataclysmic event eventually recorded in history books is always inevitable to those who understand the significance of preceding events; the seeds that, as the saying goes, always yield their harvest.

Based on my own assessment, nothing stops this train and it’s only a matter of time until we see everything come tumbling down like Humpty-Dumpty. If that is true, then the only rational thing to do is to build anew on a Bitcoin standard before the inevitable history defining monetary collapse eventually shows up.

This essay extends that argument from a different angle. Where my previous piece examined the inevitable collapse of everything fiat, this one asks: What's your plan if Bitcoin fails, or at minimum, if the hyperbitcoinization you've staked your hopes on doesn't materialize in your lifetime?

The Wrong Kind of Victory

We are always touting how Bitcoin has already won and how hyperbitcoinization is just around the corner. But what does that mean really to say Bitcoin has already won? Does it mean that something technically superior to fiat money is now in existence? The existence of technically superior money is not victory. Betamax was technically superior to VHS. The Dvorak keyboard is ergonomically superior to QWERTY. Superiority alone guarantees nothing in markets shaped by network effects, institutional capture, and human psychology.

Or does it mean a critical mass of people, a remnant, will start their own Bitcoin country? Perhaps. The uncomfortable truth is that Bitcoin hasn't won anything. Not yet anyway. Why do I say so? Well for starters, the vast majority of people still measure Bitcoin's value based on its fiat price, the very system it was designed to render obsolete. That alone is a contradiction so enormous that it borders on tragicomedy. It shows that while Bitcoin was designed to exist outside the fiat system, most Bitcoiners do not.

Living in Enemy Territory

The fiat financial system is controlled by central banks. It's their system. They own the pipes. You can't participate without their permission, usually granted via onerous licensing requirements.

Bitcoin was supposed to be the alternative to this permissioned system. Instead, it exists as a guest in the fiat ecosystem. As we've witnessed repeatedly, Bitcoin's price can be manipulated and suppressed by institutions like the JP Morgue. The reason is simple, while Bitcoin may be fully decentralized at the protocol level, the fiat on/off ramps remain at the mercy of the banksters.

That’s to say nothing of the fact that key economic inputs like energy, food etc., are still to be priced in Bitcoin. This might seem trivial, but stop and think about proof-of-work. PoW anchors a digitally created "commodity" to the physical world via energy expenditure during mining. In other words, PoW is a bridge between the physical and digital realms.

Without key economic inputs being priced in Bitcoin, price discovery is left at the mercy of the wolves of Wall Street and their trading algorithms.

The Chokepoints We Normalized

Since the banksters control the on/off ramps, centralized exchanges became the dominant way most people acquire Bitcoin today, not peer-to-peer as originally envisioned. While this brought efficiency, it created a fatal chokepoint that allowed the legacy system to roll out licensing requirements, letting the KYC censorship vampire slowly sink its teeth into the orange coin.

Pseudonymity was compromised the moment exchanges came into the picture and this spelled danger given the transparency of the blockchain. Compromised pseudonymity coupled with centralized chokepoints are a recipe for disaster. Wasn't the whole point to have a fully decentralized system through and through?

This isn't to say peer-to-peer methods don't exist, they do.; but it's pointing out the fatal financial chokepoint that exists especially when one's Bitcoin journey starts with taking a selfie, scanning your ID and providing your physical address. Aren't these the some of the same constraints that make fiat a permissioned system? If so, why did they become normalized?

How Bitcoin Actually Fails

This is why asking "What will you do should Bitcoin fail?" becomes critical, because our way of imagining failure is usually wrong. Most imagine that Bitcoin will fail with a great thud or a nuclear explosion. Not so. Bitcoin's failure (as well as success) will occur a day at a time, one bad decision at a time, one compromise at a time. Failure is a few errors in judgement repeated everyday.

Failure looks like convenience. It looks like custodial services disguised as “innovation.” It looks like ETFs absorbing supply until Bitcoin becomes a zoo animal: admired, priced, but no longer free. I will not bother discussing how Coinbase has become one of the largest custodians for institutions thus creating another centralized chokepoint, the centralization of mining and mining pools, the core vs knots controversy, as well as the so-called strategic Bitcoin reserves (SBRs) that the suitcoiners are constantly touting. These are either growing pains or possibly symptoms of a much bigger problem.

I acknowledge the fact that Bitcoin is still in its early phases and a lot of these issues can be overcome, however the window is slowly closing to remove these centralized chokepoints and vulnerabilities. Especially given that the fiat collapse has already happened.

When Money Dies, Virtue Dies With It

Adam Fergusson’s When Money Dies is often misread as a technical history of Weimar hyperinflation. In truth, it is a study of moral disintegration that follows when money collapses. Fergusson shows that when money loses its integrity, society loses its sense of proportion. Signals invert. Prudence is punished. Speculation is rewarded.

That inversion is no longer confined to history books. The New York Post recently ran a story about actress Milana Vayntrub launching a wildfire relief initiative called Only Philanthropy. Donations were solicited through “flirty and tastefully risqué” content inspired by the OnlyFans model, raising over $500,000 for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires.

At first glance, it appears innovative. Benevolent, even. On closer inspection, it is neither a solution nor progress, it is a symptom. When disaster relief must be mediated through eroticized attention markets, the problem is not creativity. The problem is that core institutions have failed so completely that charity must now borrow the incentive structures of soft pornography to function.

The Pornification of Value

The OnlyFans model exists in large part because attention, particularly sexual attention, can be monetized, often more lucratively than traditional professions. Today, some content creators on these platforms reportedly earn income that rivals, or even exceeds, what many engineers, doctors, and elite athletes make. For example, collectively, OF creators amassed $6.6 billion in 2023 alone, surpassing the NBA's total payroll of $4.9 billion, with some models outpacing LeBron James' earnings through non-nude content.

The modern attention economy already rewards intimacy more than craftsmanship, virality more than virtue, spectacle more than service. This is not prudish moralizing but it is an economic signal. When eroticized content consistently outcompetes sustained skill and long-term contribution in income generation, the incentive structure has inverted. When money dies, virtues follow. OF's rise isn't liberation; it's a symptom of this rot, where bodies become currency in a system where actual currency falters.

The Only Philanthropy model intensifies this inversion. Imagine that to direct capital to wildfire victims, tragedy became a marketing hook, a cultural logic rooted in eroticized exchange. Disaster relief has now become a side effect of fetishized attention markets. Relief is contingent on titillation. For the victims, the implicit message is devastating:

Your pain was not enough. It required sexualized attention to be noticed.

In other words ‘Only Philanthropy’ is not just a fundraising story but a revelation of a decaying society in which traditional institutions no longer fulfill their moral obligations and economic rewards accrue to attention markets divorced from long-term societal value. When victims of catastrophe must compete in the attention economy, the problem is not innovation, the problem is that money is dying, and with it, the moral compass of those who depend on it.

This twisted society where sex work is the dominant industry isn’t the world i imagine most of us want to leave for our children.

The Real Question: What Are You Building For?

So with this in mind, I ask again; What would you do if Bitcoin fails? Would your entire world shatter? Would you literally lose everything?

If the answer is yes, you've misunderstood Bitcoin entirely. You've merely treated it as number go up technology (NgU) and a get-rich-quick scheme, a speculative asset, a ticket to Lambos and moon. You've confused the signal for the noise.

Bitcoin isn't about NgU. Bitcoin is about freedom.

It's a freedom transfer protocol disguised as money. It's a tool for opting out of a system that steals your energy through inflation, surveils your transactions, and controls your economic participation through permissioned access. It's the ability to save in something that can't be debased, transact with someone without asking permission, and preserve purchasing power across time and space.

If Bitcoin "fails" in the sense that it never becomes the global reserve currency, but you've used it to build a parallel economy, establish peer-to-peer trade relationships, develop skills outside the system, and construct a life less dependent on institutions designed to extract from you, then Bitcoin succeeded. For you. In the way that matters.

The question isn't whether Bitcoin wins some abstract victory over central banks. The question is whether you're using Bitcoin to build the kind of life you want to live, regardless of what the broader world does.

Freedom as First Principle

Bitcoin is fundamentally a freedom transfer protocol. Its technical properties; decentralization, permissionlessness, censorship resistance, fixed supply, are not ends in themselves but means to a more profound end: individual sovereignty and freedom of economic action.

This reframing changes everything. If Bitcoin is primarily a freedom protocol, then its "success" cannot be measured in fiat price appreciation or institutional adoption. Such metrics represent category errors, attempting to measure revolutionary potential using the yardstick of the system being overthrown. Bitcoin's success is not measurable in dollars.

Instead, success must be evaluated by freedom metrics. How many people can transact without permission? How many have escaped financial surveillance? How many have achieved genuine monetary sovereignty? How robust are peer-to-peer networks? How resistant is the system to coercion and capture?

By these measures, Bitcoin may already be failing. not despite its rising fiat price, but partially because of it. High prices attracted institutional capital, which demanded institutional infrastructure, which required regulatory compliance, which necessitated surveillance and control. The very success we celebrated may have contained the seeds of capture.

The Choice Before Us

When you truly understand Bitcoin as a freedom protocol, then the relevant question is not "when Lambo?" but "how free?" Your decisions, daily and cumulatively, determine the answer.

Will you acquire bitcoin peer-to-peer despite inconvenience? Will you run your own node despite technical barriers? Will you measure your wealth in bitcoin terms rather than fiat proxies? Will you accept bitcoin for your labour and goods? These are not trivial questions. They represent the difference between genuine revolution and mere asset class diversification. They separate freedom-seekers from number-seekers. They distinguish those building parallel systems from those merely seeking better returns within the existing system.

More fundamentally, they reveal your time preference and time preference is civilization's bedrock. Contrast this with the high time preference of speculators waiting for NgU. They want wealth without work, freedom without sacrifice, revolution without risk. They treat Bitcoin as a lottery ticket rather than a foundation for building. If Bitcoin becomes merely another vehicle for high time preference behavior, it will have failed at its deepest level, regardless of its fiat price.

The uncomfortable truth: you cannot build a low time preference civilization on high time preference behaviour. You cannot achieve freedom through convenience. You cannot create parallel systems by taking the path of least resistance through KYC'd institutions. Every shortcut is a compromise. Every compromise is a step toward capture

The Remnant and The Path Forward

History suggests revolutions succeed not through majority adoption but through committed minorities, what Albert Jay Nock called "the Remnant." These individuals remain uncompromised by expedience, unbowed by institutional pressure, unwilling to trade principle for convenience. They understand that freedom is not granted but seized, not negotiated but exercised, not purchased but practiced.

If Bitcoin fails, it will fail because we chose convenience over sovereignty, because we measured success in fiat terms, because we normalized the very surveillance and control mechanisms Bitcoin was designed to obsolete, because we forgot that freedom; real freedom demands sacrifice, vigilance, and uncompromising principles.

Build Anyway

What I've learned is that the people most worried about Bitcoin "failing" in the technical sense are those who've invested nothing but capital. They bought an asset. They're waiting for a return. They've built nothing, changed nothing, learnt nothing new.

The people least worried about Bitcoin failing are those who've used it to fundamentally restructure their relationship with money, work, and freedom. They've:

Learned to run a node, verifying rules rather than trusting institutions

Established peer-to-peer trade relationships outside KYC'd rails

Developed skills that create value independent of fiat employment

Built businesses that accept Bitcoin and pay employees in Bitcoin

Created local circular economies where Bitcoin flows without touching fiat

Taught others what they've learned, expanding the remnant

These people understand something crucial: The victory isn't Bitcoin replacing the dollar. The victory is building a life where it doesn't matter if it does.

This is why the question "What will you do if Bitcoin fails?" is so clarifying. It reveals whether you're building on Bitcoin or simply betting on it. Whether you see it as a freedom protocol or just another speculative asset. Whether you're part of the remnant or just another tourist waiting for NgU.

The Remnant Builds in the Dark

The fiat system will not go gentle into that good night. It will fight. It will try to co-opt. It will regulate, capture, and neuter every threat it can. Paper bitcoin, ETF wrappers, KYC requirements, mining restrictions, node criminalization, every tool will be deployed.

Bitcoin might "lose" in the sense that it never overthrows the fiat regime. The central banks might successfully contain it. Hyperbitcoinization might not happen in our lifetimes. Even if Bitcoin were to cease existing today, the genie is not going back in the bottle. There is now verifiable proof that decentralized money can exist without the blessing of the state, and whatever replaces it will be even better, in the same way that Bitcoin was a better invention than previous attempts at digital money.

That said, the remnant will persist; because they're not building for hyperbitcoinization. They're building because the alternative, remaining fully captured by a system designed to extract and control, is unacceptable. They're building because money is dying, institutions are failing, and someone needs to construct something worth inheriting.

They're building because freedom isn't something you wait for permission to have. It's something you take, one transaction at a time, one node at a time, one relationship at a time.

So ask yourself: If Bitcoin "fails," what will you have built? What skills will you have developed? What relationships will you have established? What freedom will you have claimed?

If the answer is "nothing", if your entire Bitcoin strategy is "buy and hold until moon", then you're not a Bitcoiner. You're a speculator cosplaying as a revolutionary, and should the system co-opt Bitcoin, you'll move on to the next thing, having learned nothing and built nothing.

But if you've used Bitcoin to fundamentally restructure your life, to build parallel systems, to establish sovereignty over your own economic participation, then Bitcoin has already won. For you. In the only way that matters.

The collapse has already happened. The question is: What are you building in the ruins? Build peer-to-peer. Build without permission. Build like your freedom depends on it, because it does.

Still running, like Bitcoin

2025-12-10T20:28:52Z

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Still running, like Bitcoin

Not including the ones in many and (m) = 8

2025-12-09T08:56:07Z

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Not including the ones in many and (m) = 8

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2025-12-09T08:12:58Z

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Welcome to Nopevember! Buckle up! #bitcoin

2025-11-05T10:24:12Z

Welcome to Nopevember! Buckle up! #bitcoin

Did I hear it correctly that Ledger nano S won't be updated ...

2025-10-23T12:07:18Z

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Did I hear it correctly that Ledger nano S won't be updated anymore going forward with firmware updates?
If true, is this a risk to owners of Nano S?

Link for further details? I live abroad, but if it's ...

2025-07-29T18:50:12Z

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Link for further details? I live abroad, but if it's interesting and big enough, could happen as part of a larger tour.

*Well

2025-07-21T21:10:54Z

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*Well

We'll said

2025-07-21T21:10:44Z

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We'll said

Or did you mean what phone from the outset?

2025-07-12T11:50:45Z

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Or did you mean what phone from the outset?

Calyx

2025-07-12T11:49:13Z

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*Calyx*

Graphene or calle?

2025-07-12T11:48:36Z

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Graphene or calle?

@nprofile…xqkm join us ...

2025-07-09T21:58:14Z

White Noise (nprofile…xqkm) join us
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It's a prison sentence

2025-07-07T16:00:57Z

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It's a prison sentence

Hardest sport in the world to be good at... and stay good at.

2025-07-06T20:30:33Z

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Hardest sport in the world to be good at... and stay good at.

Happy 4th of July 🎉

2025-07-04T11:10:55Z

Happy 4th of July 🎉

Seems to be working much better in safari than Firefox. Thanks.

2025-07-03T13:07:13Z

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Seems to be working much better in safari than Firefox. Thanks.

💯

2025-07-02T08:59:03Z

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https://bitcoinbizhub.com/bitcoin-businesses-1 List including ...

2025-07-01T17:09:30Z

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https://bitcoinbizhub.com/bitcoin-businesses-1

List including yourselves 🍷

Should we start a carnivore version? Rib-eye infused.

2025-06-25T12:29:12Z

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Should we start a carnivore version? Rib-eye infused.

The rims rip the wheel arches off.

2025-06-24T20:07:37Z

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The rims rip the wheel arches off.

I'll ty a different browser first, but running a 2012 Mac, so ...

2025-06-24T20:06:10Z

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I'll ty a different browser first, but running a 2012 Mac, so can't get chrome anymore. Running Firefox for now. I'll see if I can investigate the error. Cheers 🙏

Nah 1gb fiber, but have a VPN. Could be that, but it doesn't ...

2025-06-24T19:37:50Z

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Nah 1gb fiber, but have a VPN. Could be that, but it doesn't get much better when turned off. 🫠

@nprofile…q0jg loving the new Sats Comparitor tool ...

2025-06-24T14:29:51Z

MartyBent (nprofile…q0jg) loving the new Sats Comparitor tool "Opportunity Cost". Makes you really think every online purchase. Nice work 🤙

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Nice work MartyBent (nprofile…q0jg) Look forward to using it and never buying anything again. 😂

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Why do I keep getting the error: "Error in input stream", ...

2025-06-24T11:33:58Z

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Why do I keep getting the error: "Error in input stream", when running a prompt? Just as half of the answer comes in, it stops, freezes and eventually spits out the error. Is it the model "Llama 3.3"?

Unconfirmed, but 🙌 if true #nevent1q…lwhf

2025-06-23T10:19:56Z

Unconfirmed, but 🙌 if true

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Whirlpool is back. The Ashigaru devs have implemented Samourai Wallet's ZeroLink CoinJoin protocol in a new coordinator.

💯 I've said if it all went tits up and I lost my money... ...

2025-06-20T19:30:42Z

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💯 I've said if it all went tits up and I lost my money... It was the best education I've ever had in all things macro.

Convenient marketing to cover up shrinkflation. Now they're ...

2025-06-20T19:11:12Z

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Convenient marketing to cover up shrinkflation. Now they're not even bothering to paint the things and charge you the same price #optout 😂

Epstein obviously! Why do you think he had that list!

2025-06-19T11:27:52Z

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Epstein obviously! Why do you think he had that list!

Stay safe out there! Nice summary of the differences between ...

2025-06-19T11:26:47Z

Stay safe out there! Nice summary of the differences between Replace By Fee (RBF) and Child Pays For Parent (CPFP). Also the difference between wallet fees that use Sats (total Satoshis) and Sats/vB (Sats per Virtual Byte).

quoting
nevent1q…4mv6
📰 News Alert...

🔖 Title: How One Bitcoin User Accidentally Paid $60,000 in Fees — Don’t Make the Same Mistake
🗓️ Published: 2025-06-01T00:00:00-04:00
📄 Summary: A Bitcoin user recently made headlines after accidentally paying an exorbitant $60,000 in transaction fees due to misunderstood use of the Replace-By-Fee (RBF) feature. RBF allows users to resend unconfirmed transactions with higher fees to speed up confirmation but requires detailed knowledge of fee units, wallet behaviors, and how transactions are structured. This incident serves as a crucial reminder for cryptocurrency users to fully understand wallet functionalities before making high-stake transactions to avoid costly errors.
🔗 https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-one-bitcoin-user-accidentally-paid-60k-in-fees?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

🗞️ Source: Cointelegraph by Onkar Singh
💓 #Bitcoin #CryptoSafety #BlockchainEducation

Does this mean we're totally fucked now? AI can now buy and ...

2025-06-18T18:34:44Z

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Does this mean we're totally fucked now? AI can now buy and build stuff we don't want. It can now order robot parts and pay for them to be delivered, without is knowing? 😂🤖💀

Create advise, 1% improvements constantly. #nevent1q…k9ff

2025-06-15T14:36:28Z

Create advise, 1% improvements constantly.

quoting
nevent1q…k9ff
DON’T TRUST, VERIFY: OPSEC FOR NORMAL PEOPLE

You don’t need to be a spy. You just need to stop acting like an easy mark.

OPSEC (operational security) isn’t about paranoia. It’s about probability. Every time you click, share, like, swipe, or log in you’re feeding the system. Not just with data, but with predictability. And the more predictable you are, the easier you are to profile, track, influence, or destroy.

But this isn’t a guide for spooks. This is for you. You, with the day job. The rent. The normal life. You’re not trying to hide from satellites, you just want to make it harder for data brokers, cops, stalkers, and advertisers to run your life without your permission.

Here’s how to build real world OPSEC for people who don’t live in bunkers.

THE BASICS: NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU

Stop outsourcing your thinking.

VPNs won’t protect you if you log into Facebook on the same session.

Tor doesn’t help if your exit node hits your real email.

Secure messengers mean nothing if you send selfies of your license.

Password managers are great until your master password is Password123.

You can’t bolt on privacy. You have to think differently. That means trading convenience for control, comfort for clarity.

THE CORE RULE: DON’T TRUST — VERIFY

Every person, app, network, and company must be treated as a potential leak. Not because they’re evil. But because they’re not you. They don’t care like you care. They don’t suffer the fallout when your info leaks. They won’t lose sleep when your information gets doxed. So stop assuming trust. Assume compromise.

Then verify reality:

Is this connection encrypted?

Is this app open source?

Is this site phoning home?

Is this device mine, or just leased surveillance?

Default to skepticism. Not cynicism. Just practical defense.

MENTAL MODELS THAT ACTUALLY MATTER

1. EVERYTHING YOU SHARE IS PERMANENT

Messages get screen-capped. Emails get forwarded. Cloud backups get subpoenaed. If it’s digital, it’s duplicable. If it’s duplicable, it’s uncontrollable. Say less. Send less. Assume nothing is private unless you control every link in the chain.

2. ANONYMITY DIES IN CROSS-REFERENCE

You use the same username on Reddit and GitHub? You’re already deanonymized. You check Telegram from the same IP you use for online banking? Done. You walk around with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on? You’re trackable by MAC address. Your habits are the fingerprint. The tools don’t matter if you glue them together with laziness.

3. THREAT MODELS

Most of your threats aren’t hackers in hoodies.

They’re:

Employers snooping

Advertisers building profiles

Cops asking for metadata

Creeps stalking exes

AI scraping your digital trail

So act accordingly. Encrypt your messages. Keep your devices locked. Don’t post your kids’ full names. Use fake birthdays. Rotate email aliases. You don’t need spy gear. You need boundaries.

4. METADATA IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN CONTENT

What you said matters less than when, where, and to whom.

Call logs > call audio

Message timing > message content

Location pings > social posts

You can encrypt the payload, but if the headers stay public, they’ll still build your network map. Use tools that don’t just encrypt, use tools that erase or decoy metadata.

HABITS THAT STACK THE ODDS

You want practical?

Here:

Use different usernames for different roles (social, work, crypto, political)

Compartmentalize accounts with burner emails and password managers

Turn off Wi-Fi/Bluetooth when not using them

Use privacy-respecting browsers (Brave, Firefox, or Mull with uBlock, JSBlock, CanvasBlocker)

Use DNS that doesn’t log (like NextDNS with hardened settings)

Keep a separate phone for dumb tasks (ride shares, deliveries, junk apps)

Run a VPN over Tor, not the other way around

Don’t reuse passwords. Ever.

Encrypt your devices full disk, no exceptions

Use 2FA

Check what your apps are really doing (Exodus Privacy, NetGuard, TrackerControl)

MINIMIZE YOUR DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

It’s not about deleting your life. It’s about casting less of a shadow. Don’t post in real time. Don’t geotag anything. Don’t sync everything to “the cloud”. Don’t store your life in Google’s hive mind. Every extra bit of data you leave behind is an anchor point for advertisers, cops, creeps, or HR looking for a reason not to hire you. Cut the anchor. Move lightly. Leave gaps.

KNOW WHEN TO WALK AWAY

If an app gets shady, drop it. If a service demands ID, burn it. If a platform changes its terms, don’t argue. Exit. You owe nothing to the digital landlords. No app, platform, or device is sacred. No habit is worth your safety.

FINAL WORD

You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to be less predictable than the next target. You just have to make surveillance harder, more expensive, more uncertain. That’s OPSEC for normal people. It’s not magic. It’s not elite.

It’s just a mindset:Don’t trust. Verify.

Then act like you give a damn.

GHOST

https://untraceabledigitaldissident.com/

Just watched Hacksaw Ridge on the recommendation of a #bitcoin ...

2025-06-13T22:20:08Z

Just watched Hacksaw Ridge on the recommendation of a #bitcoin podcast. What a film!

Hold my beer!

2025-06-13T21:05:09Z

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Hold my beer!

Like this ...

2025-06-13T20:21:48Z

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Like this https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsv0m0309q046tcrnr2q29v37xaueuvjn6lafrm7vuxhymqh2nvezc4t4f7k

Sats card by coinkite or a DIY NFC loadable sticker on a plastic ...

2025-06-13T20:19:28Z

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Sats card by coinkite or a DIY NFC loadable sticker on a plastic card?

As it should be!

2025-06-13T19:50:15Z

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As it should be!

The opposite of Spain, who are making it difficult take out more ...

2025-06-13T08:53:38Z

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The opposite of Spain, who are making it difficult take out more than €3000.

🙌 #nevent1q…f3pw

2025-06-12T21:55:39Z

🙌

quoting
nevent1q…f3pw
Bitcoin teaches you.

Bitcoin makes you a better person.

Spend and replace (plus 10%). Spend $1 of bitcoina and replace ...

2025-06-12T21:50:31Z

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Spend and replace (plus 10%). Spend $1 of bitcoina and replace with $1.10 of Bitcoin

LOAVES or F1$H€$

2025-06-12T21:49:22Z

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LOAVES or F1$H€$

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2025-06-12T21:22:31Z

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🙌 #nevent1q…mcsl

2025-06-12T12:33:33Z

🙌

quoting
nevent1q…mcsl
Your seed phrase is a list of words that can recover your wallet. Store it offline, in a safe place, ideally on paper or metal.

I love buying from small local businesses, even just for the hand ...

2025-06-12T10:54:37Z

I love buying from small local businesses, even just for the hand written, personal thank you notes! ♥️♥️

Do your possessions constantly go missing?

2025-06-11T19:49:02Z

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Do your possessions constantly go missing?

😂😂😂 what's in your hat?!

2025-06-11T19:15:26Z

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😂😂😂 what's in your hat?!

Are rage rooms really a thing. Would people really use em? The ...

2025-06-11T18:47:23Z

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Are rage rooms really a thing. Would people really use em? The concept sounds great.

😂

2025-06-11T17:01:30Z

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😂

That and they say refuge point is a safe place in a fire alarm, ...

2025-06-11T14:45:29Z

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That and they say refuge point is a safe place in a fire alarm, but you shouldn't use a lift in the event of a fire alarm 🚨😂

The fact that the treasurer and president's rooms are the ...

2025-06-11T14:44:44Z

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The fact that the treasurer and president's rooms are the same way as the Epstein building?

HODL's plan would suggest that you keep asking her until one ...

2025-06-11T13:17:40Z

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HODL's plan would suggest that you keep asking her until one day she's your wife, as if your life depended on it.

Need any help from Nostr users. Tech savvy and not?

2025-06-11T13:02:04Z

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Need any help from Nostr users. Tech savvy and not?

Nice work @nprofile…q0jg Look forward to using it and never ...

2025-06-11T10:37:59Z

Nice work MartyBent (nprofile…q0jg) Look forward to using it and never buying anything again. 😂

quoting
nevent1q…mnuk
It's time for better tools so that you can price your life in sats.

Here's how and why we built Opportunity Cost.

The top and bottom of the bitcoin funnel need better, memetically powerful tools. That's what we're bringing to market.

https://primal.net/marty/introducing-opportunity-cost

Can confirm.

2025-06-10T19:31:35Z

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Can confirm.

@nprofile…q0jg still hasn't read either version. 😂

2025-06-10T13:12:32Z

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MartyBent (nprofile…q0jg) still hasn't read either version. 😂

🤙#LFG #nevent1q…hvup

2025-06-09T15:56:08Z

🤙#LFG

quoting
nevent1q…hvup
Using Bitcoin as your capital creates time and space to try (and fail) at any endeavour you want to pursue.

Unfuckable Uncorruptible Money

2025-06-07T18:47:13Z

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Unfuckable Uncorruptible Money

🤙

2025-06-07T18:29:08Z

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🤙

I suppose it removes the connection between "I remember ...

2025-06-07T15:06:50Z

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I suppose it removes the connection between "I remember Mom/Dad reading to me".

Tuttle twins https://bitcoinbizhub.com/bitcoin-for-kids

2025-06-06T12:43:23Z

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Tuttle twins
https://bitcoinbizhub.com/bitcoin-for-kids

Would anyone be surprised? Nothing burger imo.

2025-06-05T19:22:28Z

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Would anyone be surprised? Nothing burger imo.

👏👏👏Well said! #nevent1q…xdck

2025-06-05T17:01:57Z

👏👏👏Well said!

quoting
nevent1q…xdck
The coolest thing about running a Bitcoin based business is that we aren’t competing like in fiat world. 🤡

We are collaborating to build a better economy for all. Together we prosper! 🙌

Fucking scammers! #nevent1q…tcr5

2025-06-05T11:34:31Z

Fucking scammers!

quoting
nevent1q…tcr5
DEVELOPING: California passes bill allowing the state to seize Bitcoin left idle on exchanges after 3 years under ‘Unclaimed Property’ laws. 👀

Not your keys, not your coins.

Don't apologise, offence is taken not given... and nothing ...

2025-05-30T20:37:58Z

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Don't apologise, offence is taken not given... and nothing offends me. It's just why bother? Hindsight is 20/20. Something like that is unlikely to convince someone to DCA, it'll just make them feel like they're late to the party and then they won't bother. Plus it was probably too long for a newbie to read. Don't mean to rag on you, as you're doing the right thing. And Kudos to you, I think it's just the wrong way to "convince" people. Keep it simple.

TLDR... Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda Marge.

2025-05-30T19:01:50Z

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TLDR... Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda Marge.

And that financing company is going to lose money through ...

2025-05-30T17:16:36Z

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And that financing company is going to lose money through defaults. 🫠

Yeah, that's class!

2025-05-29T16:45:53Z

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Yeah, that's class!

@nprofile…q0jg please! For the love of fuck, spell check! ...

2025-05-25T21:03:39Z

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MartyBent (nprofile…q0jg) please! For the love of fuck, spell check! It's been like 8 years of you posting and we love it, but fuck me, hit "review/ spell check" before hitting "send" you sexy fuck! 🤦tell him ODELL (nprofile…0fd0) please 😂

Like "moths" to a flame! 😉😂

2025-05-25T21:00:38Z

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Like "moths" to a flame! 😉😂

The amount of adults that can't swim is astounding.

2025-05-23T20:22:52Z

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The amount of adults that can't swim is astounding.

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2025-05-22T08:50:27Z

Happy Pizza Day Er'body! 🍕