BophadesBawls
Bophades Bawls 🇺🇸🇨🇭🇬🇧

https://youtube.com/@bophades_bawls?si=wccw4dxz5_QznImy

PM, OCIO. Opinions my own. PC Gamer. LOTR & Witcher Fan. FPS enthusiast. Personal Account. Not investment advice.

Public Key

npub1ws7r8ndj8gvv45ukxdrrxdsee0622tuwkzwvu0stph0wqjzst73qy2kcea

NIP-05 Address

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs8g0pneker5xx26wtrx33nxcvuha99978tp8xw8c9smhhqfpg9lgspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0ds5dgl5t

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nos.lol

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npub1ws7r8ndj8gvv45ukxdrrxdsee0622tuwkzwvu0stph0wqjzst73qy2kcea

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2025-10-01 02:48:31 UTC

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Yes great show. Got the whole series on disc.

2025-09-28 16:58:26 UTC

When someone asks me what is money:
#bitcoin #gold #fiat #btc
https://blossom.primal.net/63f3a5b4d7b6512ba3a027a03fcdd2ba61f7f6a85dea7c9491c6ca4300e496c2.mp4

2025-09-14 03:45:41 UTC

@nprofile…9j36 it would be great to generate more than one profile/lightning address for my account.
For example, one might be used with strangers where you don’t want to reveal real identity whereas another you might use with friends and family where it is super clear that it is you.
#btc #bitcoin

2025-09-09 01:26:51 UTC

Most people have heard of the legendary Greek warrior Achilles, but few have heard of Bophades.
Like Achilles, as a baby he was dipped in the river Styx, but where Achilles was held by his heel, Bophades’ mother held him by the bawls - that’s right, she dangled him in the river Styx by his bawls.
But that only served to make him a more legendary warrior, everyone protects their bawls in battle, that’s a force of nature. But eventually in the heat of an epic battle he was fatally struck by an arrow right in the twig and berries, his only weak spot, and was killed instantly. A tragic Greek death: an arrow to the bawls.
Everybody knows about Achilles and his heel, but now you know the legend of Bophades Bawls.

2025-09-06 02:04:27 UTC

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For sure. You can build something awesome for less than half that.

2025-09-06 02:00:04 UTC

For all of those LOTR fans and gamers, you all probably remember Battle For Middle Earth.
I give you one launcher to rule them all!
#LOTR #lordoftherings
https://www.moddb.com/mods/battle-for-middle-earth-patch-222/downloads/patch-222
https://media.moddb.com/images/downloads/1/224/223640/LOGO_launcher.png

2025-09-06 01:56:30 UTC

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Nah man coffee and oatmeal for me.

2025-08-25 02:46:58 UTC

Who uses coinjoin or similar services to enhance privacy of their bitcoin? Any tips or tricks?
#bitcoin #btc #privacy

2025-08-24 15:29:14 UTC

Something I think about a lot:
https://blossom.primal.net/92a50244100348e78d113338a19a8bb064bfcad3be096a1698d75f70c64bd728.png
#history #democracy #government #dictatorship #gold #bitcoin #btc

2025-08-24 15:04:01 UTC

Not all quantitative easing is the same.
https://blossom.primal.net/c3af11e545a8121822fdb34ebf80f92dbf34f50f13de31972810fb2e666c6f34.png
#QE #quantitativeeasing #centralbanks #federalreserve #gold #bitcoin #btc

2025-08-24 15:01:40 UTC

Great slide on how China grew to the super power that it is today:
https://blossom.primal.net/83be2ddfb3f208705ef4121e3851b6ead4b47ea67736f86b790f8f64a4e236a9.png
#china

2025-08-24 14:59:03 UTC

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I have deleted my facebook and just put my X account on protected. I am increasingly just using Nostr now. The noise to signal ratio on those platforms are just too much.

2025-08-24 14:55:59 UTC

This is legit one of the best presentations on Artificial Intelligence and it is crazy that it is free: https://www.bondcap.com/reports/tai
#ai #artificalintelligence

2025-08-24 14:20:09 UTC

The Eurodollar market is tens of trillions in USD right now and by its nature is largely outside the regulatory authority of the US Federal Reserve. That is a LOT of potential power the US Sovereign COULD have.
With USD stablecoins backed by USTs, a different arm of the US Sovereign (the Treasury) could effectively absorb and replace the Eurodollar market.
This allows the US Sovereign to exert more direct control beyond its own borders AND it allows the US Treasury to take significant power at the same time while diminishing the power of the US Central Bank.
#gold #bitcoin #usd #markets

2025-08-16 00:34:29 UTC

If not your keys then not your coins then not your disks not your media.
#bitc #bitcoin #fallout
https://blossom.primal.net/e0f63faf5091cfef5731f5d7b1e61deae4215177ea0d746f303ef66f940a10ff.jpg

2025-08-14 13:17:08 UTC

In case you missed it, the money supply wars have just begun.
#bitcoin #gold #usd #banking #deposits #treasuries
https://blossom.primal.net/403bee4d2d9a303eeda90233990a106297fb220cf792d61ad2a12d3544b0f169.png

2025-08-12 02:28:35 UTC

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Yeah that makes sense but tax free sheltering in Roth IRAs is no joke.

2025-08-12 01:20:41 UTC

Unless I misunderstand something, most of the bitcoin I own are in ETFs in my traditional brokerage accounts. I really like how I can add the exposure to Roth IRAs, solo 401(k), etc. Plus with all the estate planning work I’ve done including revocable trusts. It’s just so convenient and the cost of carry is like 15 bps. I can also do a pledged asset line on Schwab for a cost of 8% to 9% which is pretty damn competitive. Given all of that I find it hard to justify owning most of my bitcoin exposure natively in wallets.
Am I just too retarded to understand?
#bitcoin #btc

2025-08-12 01:15:05 UTC

How many of you guys go through efforts to blur the likelihood that someone could trace how much bitcoin you have? I started looking into what coinjoin does and other types of techniques.
#btc #bitcoin

2025-08-03 03:35:39 UTC

I’m clearly new at this, but I think I just figured out how to send my own bitcoin in a hot wallet on a exchange directly to my cold wallet. In a lot of ways, a deep understanding of traditional finance is helpful in analyzing this new technology, but it also sometimes makes it slower to understand the details.
#btc #bitcoin #fiat

2025-08-02 19:43:30 UTC

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Ahh good point.

2025-08-02 17:18:54 UTC

Anyone experiment with #bitchat? Would appreciate insights.

2025-08-02 14:28:21 UTC

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Tier 1 assets represent the core capital of a bank and are the primary measure of its financial strength. These assets are intended to absorb losses without requiring a bank to cease its operations.
Common Equity is the highest quality of capital and is the most loss-absorbing.

2025-08-02 13:34:07 UTC

As someone who has been in finance/capital markets for over 20 years the following cannot be understated enough especially in the context of history:
On July 1st, 2025, Basel III banking regulations officially reclassified physical gold as a Tier 1 asset, specifically a high-quality liquid asset (HQLA). This means that U.S. banks can now count physical gold at 100% of its market value towards their core capital reserves. Previously, gold was considered a Tier 3 asset, requiring banks to discount its value.
Many times in markets the catalyst for great change is when the RULES change.
#gold #bitcoin #markets #banks

2025-08-02 13:31:29 UTC

Great insight here:
“Money is not the point of civilization and it’s far from the most important feature,” Rickards argues. “Still, it’s part of the bedrock and performs crucial roles. Money is an advance on barter. Money is an alternative to violence. Money facilitates commerce and investment, and acts as a store of wealth. Money is among the institutions, along with law, religion, and the family, that enable civilizations to be civil and avoid a Hobbesian war of all against all.”
#bitcoin #gold #money #markets

2025-08-02 13:05:08 UTC

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O yeah I have watched a lot of the youtube stuff and started using strike for personal usage. I just never tried incorporating #BTC into my business both as a portion of treasury and as a payments system for my people until now.
I have largely consolidated my personal #BTC buying with Strike at this point.

2025-08-02 12:54:46 UTC

I run my own business and our treasury consists of floating rate US Treasuries and #Gold Bullion. As I have gotten more experienced with #BTC I am thinking about including it too.
I am leaning toward using Strike but would be interested in folk's views on this.
I would want a solution that permits me to also pay my people in #BTC if they so chose as well.

2025-08-02 01:08:26 UTC

The whole turf fight over control of the USD (US Treasury vs US Central Bank) does not bother me as much because I am sailing out of the system in this:
https://blossom.primal.net/3e3c7b8771c17793368f27d2c90cda2d5747201c98d117dc7ab23e5fb2d97ad8.jpg

2025-07-27 16:33:43 UTC

Fun fact, "greenbacks" were issued by President Abraham Lincoln’s administration during the Civil War to fund military efforts when traditional borrowing in specie (gold) proved insufficient.
They were non-convertible paper currency, legally mandated as "legal tender" for all debts, though notably, import duties and interest on public debt still required payment in gold.
Wouldn't it be interesting if the current tariffs were declared to be payable in gold?
#gold #tariffs #trump #inflation #money #bitcoin #zaps
https://blossom.primal.net/83c4dec223249a541306c785539727c32549ddd5f7eb84fdad03084f897c7a07.png

2025-07-27 16:15:18 UTC

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Thanks @nprofile…llq2 ! I’m trying to figure out whether I should use the primal wallet or my default strike wallet. Not sure why I don’t have the lightning icon in my profile…

2025-07-27 14:38:00 UTC

Incidentally, you might think college tuition has gotten really expensive and you would be correct to say it has generally gotten more expensive at a faster rate relative to other things…if you price it in USD.
Yale College Tution, Room & Board priced in a debasement resistant monetary asset like gold is near all time lows in cost for the past 125 years.
#gold #bitcoin #hardmoney #inflation #debasement
https://blossom.primal.net/70524ba693e6a91677173f582b8a08130f3fc5b39af84ecea97f237e149ca891.png

2025-07-27 14:22:31 UTC

Give Us Back Our Gold! The 80-Year Journey of Poland's WWII Bullion
#gold #bitcoin #zaps #WW2 #poland #germany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waZtO35-RG8

2025-07-27 14:19:32 UTC

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The full podcast is awesome: https://youtu.be/o9nSmSvV0K4?si=hNkVRoMERUQh9Fx-

2025-07-27 14:16:51 UTC

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Yup I watched the whole thing twice. It is excellent.

2025-07-27 14:15:54 UTC

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The full podcast is awesome: https://youtu.be/8Al2blDsI1Y?si=q_4estgyP_8s3VmU

2025-07-27 14:09:16 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/f367458c006634ba18b8dc6596dca3217a6d31bed1f83c3d11ce9058beed9f98.png
Great and relevant passage from the book:
"Inflated, Money, Debt, and the American Dream"
Even as the United States was beginning to mobilize for the conflict in 1940, Keynes published a pamphlet How to Pay for the War, which set forth the three ways a war can be financed: taxation, inflation, and forced savings. Keynes favored the last and believed that along with taxes and debt, savings by individuals should be the way government not only financed the war but also managed supply and demand.

2025-07-27 14:05:11 UTC

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Testing as I learn the Nostr thing.

2025-07-26 15:49:23 UTC

Does anyone have experience using Swan Vault for bitcoin cold storage? I would love to get feedback on real life usage. #bitcoin #btc
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/vault/

2025-07-25 03:34:29 UTC

❤️ #bitcoin #btc
https://blossom.primal.net/41027ec0a2cdfaae2272b84d87c3d123508713d109166224bf6b330e31e33ec3.jpg

2025-07-20 22:56:07 UTC

Final kill is a lightsaber kill and ends with a Victory Royale.
Pure 🥇
#fortnite #fortniteclips #gaming #starwars
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GPU: GeForce GTX 3080 FTW
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Memory: 32 GB RAM
Current resolution: 3840 x 2160, 120Hz
Operating system: Windows 11
https://youtu.be/7YIhL42-F7o?si=VA__01QKiz6D74i7

2025-07-20 22:51:45 UTC

Offensive Map where we held the last hardpoint FTW despite wave after wave of assaults.
Hell Let Loose 2025 06 06
#hellletloose #hll #ww2 #milsim #fps #hellletloosegameplay
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GPU: GeForce GTX 3080 FTW
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Memory: 32 GB RAM
Current resolution: 3840 x 2160, 120Hz
Operating system: Windows
https://youtu.be/wSilUgJDB18?si=YKNsmFm4mzYTUr1n

2025-07-20 22:49:26 UTC

Warfare Map where we held the mid hardpoint FTW. Smoke grenades made all the difference.
Hell Let Loose 2025 06 06
#hellletloose #hll #ww2 #milsim #fps #hellletloosegameplay
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GPU: GeForce GTX 3080 FTW
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Memory: 32 GB RAM
Current resolution: 3840 x 2160, 120Hz
Operating system: Windows 11
https://youtu.be/3y3c4-15qL0?si=RCQ2sxUBe9nZwfrd

2025-07-20 22:43:57 UTC

Warfare Map where we held the hardpoint for a freaking hour FTW.
Hell Let Loose 2025 06 06
#hellletloose #hll #ww2 #milsim #fps #hellletloosegameplay
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Rig
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GPU: GeForce GTX 3080 FTW
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Memory: 32 GB RAM
Current resolution: 3840 x 2160, 120Hz
Operating system: Windows 11
https://youtu.be/CmN2DXZXYYA?si=wX1dSd6FCCFKLEqG

2025-07-20 22:38:29 UTC

Offensive Map where the Banter was as powerful as our Offensive.
FTW!
Hell Let Loose 2025 06 06
#hellletloose #hll #ww2 #milsim #fps #hellletloosegameplay
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GPU: GeForce GTX 3080 FTW
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Memory: 32 GB RAM
Current resolution: 3840 x 2160, 120Hz
Operating system: Windows 11
https://youtu.be/EI5CuJSQlEA?si=Ii2HJM4JapSZNLkz

2025-07-20 22:33:26 UTC

“Nvidia’s Jensen Huang brushes off U.S. fears that China’s military will use his firm’s chips”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/nvidias-jensen-huang-downplays-us-china-concerns-ahead-of-trip.html
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*Opens History Books”
Between 1934 and 1938, American exports of motor fuel and lubricating oil to Germany nearly tripled. The United States was a significant supplier of raw materials to Germany during this period, providing between 31% and 55% of its imported phosphate of lime, 20% and 28% of its imported copper and copper alloys, and a substantial 67% to 73% of its imported uranium, vanadium, and molybdenum. Additionally, half of all German imports of iron and scrap metal came from the United States.
This economic engagement was part of a broader "economic appeasement" strategy, where American policy-makers, including President Roosevelt, sometimes pursued commercial self-interest despite the growing aggression from Axis powers. While U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull advocated for multilateral trade liberalization, this approach, alongside Britain's bilateral agreements, effectively continued to foster trade with Germany.
This influx of resources allowed Germany to press ahead with rapid rearmament, as Hitler's government prioritized military buildup and state control over the private sector to meet rearmament targets. Some American ambassadors, like Joseph Kennedy Sr. and Hugh Wilson, even "saw no objection to giving Hitler a free hand in Central and Eastern Europe".
This trade and investment, therefore, directly supported Germany's industrial and military expansion, enabling its war machine until "the fall of France effectively buried the policy of appeasement".

2025-07-20 22:30:17 UTC

The greater the surface area of your knowledge, the greater the circumference of your ignorance.

2025-07-20 22:25:08 UTC

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I play that game all the time and yes I do find it cool!

2025-07-19 03:46:06 UTC

Funny enough I had a client who recently read Broken Money by @nprofile…djhw and wanted to have a conversation with me about it.
I said of course! I read it once and I’m reading it again.
Suffice it to say, the client was most pleased 😍

2025-07-19 01:02:05 UTC

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Haha as I started using BTC more and getting used to BTC lightning I had that exact thought haha.

2025-07-18 14:46:35 UTC

What are peoples opinions on Strike for BTC? I am exploring the thought experiment of trying to live on BTC but have easy integrations with US Fiat and strike seems to offer solutions for that. #bitcoin #BTC #strike #fiat

2025-06-21 20:42:13 UTC

Is there a way to see if accounts you follow on Twitter are here in a quick way?

2024-08-28 01:31:56 UTC

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Yup I joined a few weeks ago and getting close to deleting twitter.

2024-08-21 00:54:23 UTC

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thank you! will check it out.

2024-08-21 00:49:39 UTC

Ok slowly learning how all this stuff works.
What wallets do you guys like using?
I had a coinbase one years ago.
#nostr #bitcoin #bitcoiners

2024-08-18 22:41:19 UTC

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