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Ian Forbes

Prosperity in the information age, economics + built environment. Tinkering @btchpiuk

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Last Notes

2026-04-06 18:00:15 UTC

Baker in Sheffield gets it #inflation
https://blossom.primal.net/f5ba25270436f5bf160e8898d3b72a10905eb5af50396b4ef0189a28bac20834.jpg

2026-03-12 10:38:47 UTC

Seeing more and more websites and charts that feel fresh out of Claude. There’s a definite “Claude look”.
Just like how paragraphs full of em dashes used to quietly signal ChatGPT.
AI tools have fingerprints.

2025-11-23 21:52:00 UTC

Sunday evening sounds like
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3F278cwkRrUqsGIi3t4lGL?si=rtLNcG5lTU2netJrvttDaA&pi=PiTpm5ecRN-LC

2025-11-08 17:23:12 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/e61ec0a898ad45a6a13bedd103c6a970eb12b0a72c3aa25469f68fdc5892110a.jpg

2025-09-07 11:54:56 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/23c4aa9e2617482224555fdd2a9bfe147d24ded4d8deb6e11e327ae1f0b269c1.jpg

2025-09-04 13:30:41 UTC

Life hack for the coffee heads.
Save your V60 paper w used grinds for the shower, very nice natural exfoliant.

2025-09-03 10:21:11 UTC

Barista knows I’m bearish
https://blossom.primal.net/e641a612f144099af56165f364d25aa4fd903f6154391017d4bc4edbff238a91.jpg

2025-08-30 21:16:07 UTC

Spotted today looks cool 📚
https://press.stripe.com/

2025-08-21 12:22:17 UTC

Think big, then think bigger!
https://youtu.be/2pDlaOGA2ac

2025-08-08 13:05:31 UTC

🍯🦡🇱🇻😎

2025-08-03 08:02:58 UTC

https://open.spotify.com/album/53FEYOXnplxBWoQMmWn82U

2025-08-02 12:02:51 UTC

Weekend treat for the aeropress
Organic jungle coffee from La Cruz
🇸🇻 ☕️
https://blossom.primal.net/c0bd0fae7952581e04baac49fa671237b62bcb0f61217515a677703e136088db.jpg

2025-08-02 11:33:47 UTC

https://youtu.be/SITfpgTCix8?si=oLidcmkhDbadu7ES

2025-07-29 21:53:32 UTC

Sometimes the algo on the (other) bird app does deliver...
One of my favourite songs, never heard this version before!
Sultans of Swing live at 'A Night In London' (1996)
https://blossom.primal.net/f0ef9cdcd526cf3bf0c73bb394b9a098e362cc6a34630097096c864090dab560.mp4

2025-07-18 19:33:12 UTC

Gym should be illegal on sunny summer evenings 🚴💨
https://blossom.primal.net/3888cd8d51b00cf299f2cd15cfbf83fbc1e50ccae9bab6a48d1bcec47848c268.jpg

2025-06-27 10:38:58 UTC

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For the nostriches in the yookay - Does Debifi process count as a disposal for the tax man?

2025-06-26 20:45:08 UTC

https://open.spotify.com/track/0HsT2ctHweKXrMfKz6uJfQ

2025-06-26 20:29:54 UTC

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👋

2025-06-26 13:56:58 UTC

Full fat coke on a sunny June day hits the spot

2025-06-17 19:31:12 UTC

https://youtu.be/5eK6SYVyZRk

2025-06-17 13:14:36 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVMsguwPvU4

2025-06-16 13:11:19 UTC

https://open.spotify.com/album/4m2880jivSbbyEGAKfITCa

2025-06-15 20:09:21 UTC

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🎧⚡️❤️

2025-06-15 19:57:42 UTC

👋

2025-05-27 12:42:20 UTC

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GM
☕️
KIS

2025-05-17 08:06:13 UTC

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BTC Conference innit brev

2025-05-16 19:39:56 UTC

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https://x.com/captain_jrm/status/1848399481256993083

2025-05-16 19:39:08 UTC

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Nice precedent here:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mcdgikkgdhfjpoklmedmbffdnhilikjb?utm_source=item-share-cp
h/t @Captain_JRM on the bird app
nevent1qqsvgkk8gudcpt3wme2qkuvna6r63sghdcpwq469hh9nk8a09x5x5ss50xdsa

2025-04-05 12:45:25 UTC

GM
Saturday morning looks like…
https://m.primal.net/QFGE.jpg

2025-04-03 09:42:28 UTC

GM
https://c.tenor.com/V7-QgtuEU9AAAAAd/tenor.gif

2025-04-03 07:15:24 UTC

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🌞

2025-03-31 12:21:44 UTC

AI and robots are coming to steal your job, but they can’t touch your BTC.

2025-03-28 15:47:30 UTC

Happy Friday nostr nerds
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VtTuQ6lypMoOBcm6VMzdh

2025-03-27 22:38:25 UTC

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Nice hodl for tax advantaged accounts like isa and sipp

2025-03-24 12:30:12 UTC

Monday 7th April 2025.
New financial year, new ISA allowance.
14:30 UK time, the US stock market opens 🇺🇸
How many Brits are smash buying £20k of $MSTR? 😎

2025-03-23 19:34:24 UTC

https://m.primal.net/Pqdi.jpg

2025-03-23 19:33:55 UTC

https://m.primal.net/Pqde.jpg

2025-03-18 08:21:09 UTC

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💯

2025-03-18 08:19:45 UTC

GM Nostr, let’s go!

2025-03-15 09:41:30 UTC

GM 🌞
Did someone say something about 84k?
https://m.primal.net/PgbY.jpg

2025-03-14 19:45:19 UTC

https://open.spotify.com/track/7ouMYWpwJ422jRcDASZB7P

2025-03-13 14:48:48 UTC

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Fiatcoins sure ain’t stable

2025-03-12 20:51:27 UTC

Keble College quad yesterday late afternoon, beautiful brickwork.
https://m.primal.net/PcMU.jpg

2025-03-09 14:18:30 UTC

🚴💨💨
https://m.primal.net/PZhh.jpg

2025-03-08 08:33:03 UTC

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Fasting + feasting, this is the way

2025-03-04 18:59:10 UTC

There’s a saying about Fiat cars being unreliable, that brand stands for “fix it again tomorrow”.
You can apply the same saying to fiat currency.

2025-03-01 20:33:01 UTC

Feels a bit like spring to me 🌞
https://m.primal.net/PQOs.jpg

2025-02-26 15:41:18 UTC

Yesterday felt like a buy the dip kinda day.
Tried an exchange deposit since Bisq’s order book was quite thin. What a disaster:
• Starling Bank: Remembered that exchange deposits are blocked
• Wise: Found out that exchange deposits blocked
• Revolut: Transaction frozen, fraud quiz, then a 3-hour hold
• Monzo: Transaction frozen, passed around support agents with no ETA, account frozen.
4 banks, only one deposit went through after hours of hassle (ongoing with Monzo)
Are there any UK banks that just trust you to send and receive transfers?

2025-02-07 08:02:21 UTC

GM
Heading home after a month + on the road.

2025-02-05 12:13:20 UTC

The real Bitcoin dominance is 97%
Compare apples with apples, only proof of work projects
https://howmanyconfs.com/

2025-01-20 05:37:21 UTC

Cool to see @npub1xr7…2gqh popping up on the nostr feed today, big following on the legacy stuff

2025-01-15 11:11:20 UTC

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🤝

2025-01-13 08:24:37 UTC

#asknostr
GM
What’s the best content you’ve come across re. Bitcoin and quantum computing FUD.
Thinking one pod and one article.

2025-01-03 14:17:19 UTC

~60 million millionaires in the world.
If 1 BTC = $0.1m, their net worth is 10 BTC or more at the start of 2025.
How many of these people will still have a net worth of 10 BTC at the end of the year?
A massive wealth transfer is brewing.

2025-01-03 10:57:00 UTC

Starting 2025 with a vacay, on the road today

2025-01-03 10:56:16 UTC

Twitter “For you” feed just full of Elon quote tweets 💀

2025-01-01 11:43:16 UTC

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Happy New Year, Leon!

2025-01-01 11:26:13 UTC

Happy New Year folks!
2025 is going to be great
https://m.primal.net/NNfV.jpg

2024-12-27 19:34:24 UTC

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How many people can pull off the quad?
https://m.primal.net/NIaq.jpg

2024-12-27 18:13:17 UTC

Heading out for the annual beers with the boys from school 🍻

2024-12-27 18:12:14 UTC

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Let us know how you get on!

2024-12-27 14:48:15 UTC

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☕️

2024-12-27 12:37:22 UTC

yearcompass.com

2024-12-27 12:36:08 UTC

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The last few years I’ve worked through the YearCompass prompts, really helpful.

2024-12-27 10:11:39 UTC

GM
I revisited this Ram Dass tape on the yoga of relationships – still fascinating.
https://youtu.be/QYZi1bwQx8U

2024-12-26 13:34:06 UTC

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Many such cases…

2024-12-26 13:30:06 UTC

Merry Christmas everyone!
New Wallace & Gromit well worth a watch!
https://m.primal.net/NHGF.jpg

2024-12-24 09:38:29 UTC

GM
🎄

2024-12-23 09:24:12 UTC

GM
☕️

2024-12-21 13:33:14 UTC

#asknostr
Where's a good place to find a world map vector with all 195 countries outlined? 🤔

2024-12-21 12:48:04 UTC

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Noctua fan waaay quieter!

2024-12-18 10:29:36 UTC

The HODL meme was born 11 years ago today!
🌕
https://m.primal.net/MzgG.png

2024-12-13 16:37:32 UTC

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Bookmarked 🔖

2024-12-13 15:01:50 UTC

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Mad how often second and third order effects of policy seem to get skipped over

2024-12-13 11:34:45 UTC

Friday AM looks like
https://m.primal.net/MusJ.jpg

2024-12-12 11:53:09 UTC

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I’ll give it a try

2024-12-11 17:50:01 UTC

#asknostr
Almost out of sandalwood, which incense should I try burning next?
https://m.primal.net/MtKz.jpg

2024-11-23 15:17:26 UTC

Brits finally realising that bitcoin > premium bonds 🇬🇧
https://m.primal.net/MfIC.png

2024-11-21 21:51:11 UTC

What's going on with MSTR? Lots of signal in here.
https://youtu.be/8U1JqBQ82b4

2024-11-21 17:17:06 UTC

https://open.spotify.com/album/7saSlN9qdW5wKoN4M9nNRq

2024-11-09 13:46:54 UTC

🚴‍♂️💨💨 https://image.nostr.build/d9587fc1735169c036a103e5ec0f124c931cd251d902695791d6bf595016839c.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/b6902f17346666a254a95c8a3727f2a99450acde8cd92513ff5a72bb9163a9f8.jpg

2024-10-19 20:34:09 UTC

https://open.spotify.com/track/67Hna13dNDkZvBpTXRIaOJ

2024-10-19 17:57:30 UTC

2024-10-16 20:49:36 UTC

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For now... Keep an eye on bitcoin and pep*c*in 👀

2024-10-16 20:42:33 UTC

Brits love buying premium bonds and houses 🇬🇧
https://m.primal.net/LXtu.png

2024-10-16 18:04:52 UTC

If you've lived for decades thinking about the world in terms of £, starting to think in ₿ isn't going to happen overnight.
Luckily we've got volatility to get everyone's attention.

2024-10-12 08:04:05 UTC

GM 🍂
Yoga ✅
Coffee ⏳

2024-10-11 19:07:19 UTC

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Stablecoins dude... Super centralised though, just black list an address with the token contract and rekt ☠️

2024-10-11 17:34:25 UTC

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There are a few of good products. Thoughtful design for bargain prices. But yeah, a lot of fiat vibes too..

2024-10-08 13:09:23 UTC

Sometimes relistening to an old pod beats a new one
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ijkVfaht5kcFPvHcCbYYD

2024-10-05 15:26:39 UTC

Old skool G in the early evening sun https://image.nostr.build/d9631d6d3c8720c80d2ac7885378a0cec1ae753bc180bcbbebf1dd1a8d0b0f7d.jpg

2024-10-05 15:25:13 UTC

Visa and mastercard NGMI here
🇩🇪 https://image.nostr.build/4dfc309e9d2554a67f80096e0591cf999d7db1e41546241c4fa3be9c842f01eb.jpg

2024-10-04 06:59:09 UTC

GM https://image.nostr.build/be7e7e9e443581a90bc60ffc1146bd0a4b7337f458fb9f5329072be218c28c13.jpg

2024-09-27 07:58:55 UTC

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AS LONG AS YOU HAVE AN UMBRELLA

2024-09-18 21:38:05 UTC

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🤝

2024-09-11 12:41:33 UTC

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Vivos for the win. Daily in the snap, oxfords, gym trainers + hiking boots in the stack too. #shoestr
https://m.primal.net/Kmnb.jpg

2024-09-09 16:38:31 UTC

No surprise that this chart overlay has been doing the rounds.
Bitcoin's 4-year CAGR low is ~24%
https://studio.glassnode.com/workbench/btc-4yr-cagr https://m.primal.net/KlFd.png

2024-09-08 15:16:32 UTC

Flicking through the journal, it's been a while

2024-09-06 12:21:02 UTC

Hard to beat a long phone call with an old friend.

2024-09-06 12:10:47 UTC

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Creativity, community too!
Turns out cheap money is very expensive indeed.