Rangeman

You live in a world where you are considered weird if you decide to look at things such as acupuncture, accupressure, meditation, yoga, Saunas, hot/cold plunge, Reiki, massage, Kinesiology, tapping, red light exposure, blue light blocking, hypnosis, herbal remedies, fasting, detoxification, parasite cleansing, diet overhauling, grounding, clean water or sun light maxxing in order to address an underlying health problem.
But.....
What could be weirder than sitting in a packed waiting room with a bunch of zombies whilst waiting for your name to be called by a disinterested non player character for you to enter the magical realm of a GP's office who takes 2 minutes to diagnose and then write you a secret ticket for some wonderful magical pills.
But...
These magical pills can only be dispensed by another non player character at the local magical pill wonderland, where you have to queue with a different bunch of zombies before gaining access to the disinterested 50 something bot wearing a magical white cloak, whose instructions you MUST follow to the absolute letter without question.
And then, and only then, will the wonderful magical pill work it's wonderful wonderment of magical powers and suddenly cure you, but only after the last one has been taken.
We live in an inverted world of nonsense and you, my fren, must remember that you are not the weird one.
Have a great Sunday.

2026-01-11 11:57:34 UTC

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Amen Daniel

2026-01-07 20:33:48 UTC

The Austrian theory of time preference reveals what mainstream economics obscures: interest rates reflect something fundamental about action through time, not arbitrary policy choices or capital productivity. It also exposes a popular inversion: hoarding bitcoin is not low time preference. Only lending or investment expresses time preference; a hoard is liquidity held for consumption. Understanding this framework illuminates what interest actually is, why it necessarily exists, and how common discussions reverse its relationship with wealth.
Why does merely waiting command a return? A man who lends money receives back more than he lent, and a capitalist who advances wages to workers before goods are sold expects to profit from the exchange. Classical economists struggled with this puzzle, often appealing to the productivity of capital: machines and tools produce more output, so their owners earn returns. But Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk exposed the flaw in this reasoning over a century ago. Productivity explains the rental value of capital goods, the payment for their services in production, but it cannot explain why the ratio between present investment and future return should be positive. A highly productive machine commands a high rental price, but this tells us nothing about the percentage return an investor earns by owning it. The productivity of capital determines which investments are undertaken; it does not determine the rate at which present goods exchange for future ones.
The Austrian answer derives from praxeology, the general science of human action. Ludwig von Mises built his economic system on a single axiom: humans act, meaning they employ means to achieve ends they value. From this foundation, all economic theorems can be deduced without appeal to empirical observation. Time enters this picture immediately, because every action takes time to accomplish. The actor must consider not only what he wishes to achieve but when he expects to achieve it. And because man cannot suspend consumption indefinitely while he lives, because he must eat and drink and shelter himself continuously, time is always scarce.
Consider what it would mean to lack time preference entirely, to be genuinely indifferent between satisfaction now and satisfaction later. Such a person would never consume, because there would always be a reason to postpone consumption until tomorrow: tomorrow he could have the same satisfaction plus whatever additional goods another day of production might yield. But tomorrow he would face the same logic, and the next day, and the next. A being without time preference would starve waiting for an eternally receding optimal moment. The preference for present over future satisfaction is therefore not a psychological quirk that some people have more strongly than others; it is embedded in the very concept of purposeful action. To act is to prefer earlier achievement of one's goals to later achievement, all else being equal.
This does not mean people never save or invest. Obviously they do. What it means is that people will only sacrifice present consumption for future consumption if they expect the future yield to more than compensate for the wait. The ratio of this compensation, the premium that future goods must carry to induce postponement of present satisfaction, is the originary rate of interest. It exists prior to and independently of any particular investment opportunity, because it reflects the fundamental temporal structure of human action.
This definition immediately exposes a popular confusion. Hoarding bitcoin is not low time preference. Hoarding is maintaining liquidity for consumption; only lending or investment expresses time preference. A person who hoards rather than lends refuses to part with present goods in exchange for future returns. If everyone hoarded and no one lent, interest rates would be infinite, reflecting infinite time preference. The claim that accumulating a hoard demonstrates low time preference reverses the term's meaning entirely.
Murray Rothbard systematized this insight into what he called the Pure Time Preference Theory of Interest. On this account, individual time preferences aggregate through the market process into a social rate of time preference, which manifests as the pure interest rate throughout the economy. This rate pervades all economic activity, not merely lending: every capitalist who advances present goods (money for wages, materials, equipment) in expectation of future revenue implicitly operates within the time market, exchanging present goods for future goods at a ratio determined by social time preference. The market interest rate we observe contains additional components, including entrepreneurial profit or loss and the price premium reflecting expected inflation or deflation, but underlying these fluctuations is the originary rate determined by time preference alone.
Frank Fetter, who refined the time preference theory in the early twentieth century, put the matter precisely. Capitalists receive returns not because capital is productive but because they wait. They exchange present goods, which they value more highly, for future goods, which they value less. The interest rate compensates them for this exchange, for the sacrifice of immediate consumption in favor of delayed consumption. Workers receive wages now because they prefer present money to a share of future revenue; capitalists receive interest because they prefer future revenue, augmented by interest, to present money. Both sides gain from the exchange, and the interest rate is simply the price that coordinates their differing time preferences.
But time preference is not a moral category, and "lower" is not inherently better than "higher." Production exists only to satisfy eventual consumption; zero time preference would mean no consumption, and therefore no reason to produce at all. Time preference represents a balance between consumption and production, not a scale where one end is objectively superior.
The relationship between wealth and time preference runs in a specific direction that is often reversed in popular discussion. Diminishing marginal utility implies that as a person's wealth increases, each additional unit of present consumption has lower marginal utility relative to future consumption. This means increasing wealth tends to lower time preference, which is then reflected in falling interest rates as the supply of loanable funds increases. The causation runs from wealth to time preference, not the reverse. A person cannot become wealthier by willing himself to have lower time preference any more than he can become taller by preferring height.
This has implications for understanding capital accumulation. When wealth increases and time preference consequently falls, more resources flow into lending and investment. But this is an effect of wealth, not its cause. The feedback loop operates through the wealth channel: productive investment increases wealth, increased wealth lowers time preference via diminishing marginal utility, lower time preference is reflected in lower interest rates and greater capital availability. Confusing this sequence leads to the error of treating low time preference as a virtue to be cultivated rather than a consequence of prosperity already achieved.
The institutional implications follow from understanding what actually affects time preference. Taxation diminishes wealth, and diminished wealth raises time preference through the marginal utility channel. Subsidy increases wealth for some at the expense of others, with corresponding effects. But these interventions primarily shift capital allocation decisions from individuals to the state, resulting in resources directed toward goods that go unconsumed or remain unavailable. People become less able to satisfy their preferences, but this implies no change to the preferences themselves, only to their expression. The interest rate, when allowed to reflect genuine time preferences, coordinates saving and investment across the economy. When manipulated by central banks, it misleads entrepreneurs about the actual availability of saved resources.
Time preference also illuminates the ancient controversy over interest itself. Medieval theologians condemned usury, the lending of money at interest, as sinful, because they could not see what service the lender provided beyond the mere passage of time. But the Austrian analysis reveals the service clearly: the lender provides present goods in exchange for future goods, sacrificing his own consumption to enable the borrower's present use of resources. The interest payment compensates for a real sacrifice and reflects a genuine preference inherent in human action. Interest is neither exploitation nor arbitrary convention but the market manifestation of the temporal structure of action itself.
Time preference, properly understood, is a ratio reflecting subjective valuations across time. It is not a moral category where one end of the spectrum is superior to the other. Economics does not make value judgments about preferences; it traces their necessary consequences. The Austrian contribution is showing that time preference is embedded in the structure of action itself, that interest necessarily arises from this temporal structure, and that only wealth changes necessarily affect time preference through the channel of diminishing marginal utility. Everything else that affects time preference does so contingently, through subjective channels that economics cannot predict or prescribe.

2026-01-07 13:13:41 UTC

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Sadly trezor went the iPhone way much effort in design and looks. Security and protocol implementation suffered. Sad. Was a long time fan of trezor

2026-01-05 22:17:36 UTC

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Yanka getting their bitcoin through confiscation. Great.

2026-01-02 00:44:54 UTC

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FIAT BRAIN IS A DISEASE
(360/365)
Fiat brain is a mental illness
#BitcoinDawg
#BTCMemes #BDMemes
#365MemesIn2025 #bitcoin
#Memestr #nostr #primal #memes
https://blossom.primal.net/c135558ca03d246393d117c1be1abcf7690528c5eddfb811d55debfcddc74943.png

2025-12-20 14:14:38 UTC

Wonder where bitcoin fits in this orweillan future
https://youtu.be/Awmi6GcMih0

2025-12-19 13:09:33 UTC

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I long for the day when I wake up and see that the world has become more critical, more rational, and has stopped applauding its clay idols.
Your only idols should be your family and your wallet, because your wallet serves to protect your family.
Everything else they tell you is lies in favor of other people's interests.

2025-12-11 12:40:57 UTC

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KGB. You got one assignment

2025-12-06 21:54:31 UTC

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⚡️💬 WATCH - Nvidia CEO: “Bitcoin is taking excess energy and storing into a currency that you can transport anywhere you like.“
https://blossom.primal.net/b6ad0e2d4d0f2f577b203dd3a01bb6eb5318aecce8e451f0caab43bb577c0e43.mp4

2025-12-04 12:10:51 UTC

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⚡️🗣️ WATCH - A woman just dropped a 1-minute red-pill nuke that’s already going viral
She’s screaming from the rooftops: the UN’s new carbon-footprint tracking push isn’t about saving the planet — it’s the blueprint for digital slavery.
Her exact words: “Policing humans on their carbon footprint is the PRECURSOR TO GLOBAL SLAVERY.”
She calls out tonight’s Black Eyed Peas performance by Apl.de.Ap as the first celebrity activation of the agenda — “exactly like they did with the vaccine.”
Then she rips the band-aid off:
“We got fact-checked into silence, people died, people are still sick, and now — years later — everyone admits we were right. They’re running the SAME playbook again, but this time it’s permanent control disguised as climate action.”
Her raw closing line: “I’m not waiting 10–15 years for them to say ‘yeah, we overreached.’ Wake the f... up BEFORE they enslave us.”
Are we watching the birth of digital chains dressed in green… or is this just another conspiracy spiral?
https://blossom.primal.net/c95bb472f50d8edf0a4f28b6c43b18e3f075de1f599b855a99a3ecac527576b6.mp4

2025-12-03 12:28:29 UTC

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Debt is not money.
Banks do not lend anything
The government prints credit
Banks create banks credit
Both of them are just one side o f a balance sheet, the other side is debt. You are right when you say it should be a zero sum game, but it’s not, and will never be with debt.
Money MUST BE debt free. Because money is the opposite of debt. That the only fear system. Private property you can own with no counterparty risk.
You don’t need the government to tell you what money is. They will let you know by prohibiting it, and trying to control it or replace it with fake money = debt

2025-11-29 22:16:33 UTC

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⚡️💬 WATCH - “Telegram is a money-losing operation for me personally,” says app founder Pavel Durov.
“I’ve been able to fund my lifestyle from my #Bitcoin investment…I bought in 2013…I won’t sell…and I believe it will come to a point when Bitcoin is worth $1,000,000.”
https://blossom.primal.net/ed324fdcf0c198f648de24299d60d22ad0b2ec9f3c862843aa8c4022f508fe17.mp4

2025-11-29 14:15:12 UTC

Why Europe is going backwards
#nevent1q…7vnt

2025-11-28 13:42:36 UTC

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Bullish
https://blossom.primal.net/b59f45894b039303af570c4126955ed42d9986dd846db746843da3656739d1fd.jpg

2025-11-27 10:01:53 UTC

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For us non knife needs. What makes this so special?

2025-11-27 09:40:43 UTC

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Opt-out. #Bitcoin
https://image.nostr.build/f66a1f19205e2990598bb7bcb5e0bad193796b097f6283b584f18a63b9f990eb.jpg

2025-11-26 09:31:13 UTC

Zen mode
https://youtu.be/wVCYQCyLTc4

2025-11-21 15:21:54 UTC

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Hard to get credit when you are in a btc standard no?

2025-11-21 12:40:40 UTC

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Always remember why we #Bitcoin: It’s the one money you never need permission to use, no one can control, and you can carry across the world with nothing but a few words in your mind.
Whereas fiat currency folks always have to beg for permission to use “their” money.

2025-11-20 16:07:38 UTC

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Advanced SD card backup

2025-11-18 08:40:42 UTC

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https://v.nostr.build/Kc3MIzKZuc4Jvw9a.mp4

2025-11-17 19:26:03 UTC

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Or HFSP

2025-11-14 22:35:59 UTC

Great one
#nevent1q…as7n

2025-11-14 15:18:55 UTC

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#nevent1q…cw04
https://video.nostr.build/f2529f4ce4646298448583c59d18cfc9c02446d8fecf944a1c028f3fb0794202.mp4

2025-11-08 20:22:34 UTC

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same with bitkey

2025-11-06 11:43:13 UTC

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Pedofiles. Don't bother

2025-11-04 10:05:09 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/70a7a2d88f1d6f2f1a78330a9da0b0133302ccc50aa051abbeb5ec4bf77961b3.png

2025-11-02 21:34:06 UTC

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It all justified in their books

2025-10-29 17:08:45 UTC

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keep your fiat job?

2025-10-29 16:01:34 UTC

Exqctly
#nevent1q…0x6x

2025-10-27 09:52:36 UTC

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Slay your heroes

2025-10-27 09:38:47 UTC

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Unfuck yourself. #Bitcoin
- @nprofile…47r2
#BitcoinTwitter
https://bitcointwitter.web.app/images/460.png

2025-10-27 09:37:41 UTC

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Magnesium oil

2025-10-27 09:36:01 UTC

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Bro! By now, every f*cking day, some f*cking government somewhere announces some f*cking new way to seize your assets to pay for their debts. When are you going to wake the f*ck up?
Only #Bitcoin in self-custody can protect your hard-earned money from MF thieves in suits.

2025-10-23 20:09:00 UTC

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Hope they will add mini script and bip85

2025-10-23 11:49:03 UTC

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"If you don't self-custody your Bitcoin, you don't own Bitcoin.
If you don't own Bitcoin, you don't own money.
If you don't own money, someone else owns it for you.
And if someone else owns money for you, YOU ARE A SLAVE."
Francis Pouliot
https://blossom.primal.net/ba3ee2b2992ce80501438c6ba8b8e96a8132461ea7cb885c7b7a4a690b612bc1.png

2025-10-22 13:54:33 UTC

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Better than shilling bitkey no?

2025-10-22 13:53:17 UTC

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How safe is the BT integration?

2025-10-22 13:46:07 UTC

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Nuke em

2025-10-17 13:32:43 UTC

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Capital gains tax is a punishment for beating inflation.
#Bitcoin

2025-10-16 19:57:08 UTC

#nevent1q…uqty

2025-10-14 09:04:23 UTC

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✨🫶
#nevent1q…rjf3

2025-10-12 12:58:02 UTC

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I’m not selling.
https://video.nostr.build/a637a33be8a008ee0db88c150a7e777e0ab8d97d7e3c7d5133e0452db7cccd01.mp4

2025-10-11 18:33:55 UTC

Economic slavery. The worst we had
#nevent1q…07p5

2025-10-11 18:30:53 UTC

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How

2025-10-09 09:01:03 UTC

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Sound on
What's the name of the show?
https://video.nostr.build/e92038a3adfde00a86720a13cea2324d3c6227b69685d73c3da69d0d04e7246e.mp4

2025-10-02 13:06:07 UTC

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And so it begins

2025-10-01 20:00:25 UTC

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Same in Europe sadly

2025-09-30 06:14:55 UTC

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Aliens discuss human debt - who do we owe money to???
https://blossom.primal.net/7ee257a8e2f77b954f1fee8bd9413675a53f66e0ba24c7c237d0454dbc26547c.mp4

2025-09-27 21:45:21 UTC

The way
#nevent1q…40nw

2025-09-27 09:35:14 UTC

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They want it all so they can control and manipulate

2025-09-25 21:00:13 UTC

Yup
#nevent1q…xax5

2025-09-18 06:53:36 UTC

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To even mention a random guy murder says guilty.

2025-09-12 15:04:37 UTC

No. A simple 22 year old did not make a high precision planned shot.

2025-09-11 08:35:30 UTC

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Soros foundation

2025-09-09 20:32:57 UTC

Something seems off with the Ukrainian girl video. Black guy saying. White girl white girl. Mk ultra and psyops here.

2025-09-08 19:48:12 UTC

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2025-09-08 19:47:05 UTC

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Slay your heroes. Inc Adam

2025-09-05 11:20:28 UTC

https://youtu.be/sS9xidsyxXY
Wow

2025-09-05 11:19:57 UTC

Most important.video so far.
https://youtu.be/sS9xidsyxXY

2025-09-01 08:24:03 UTC

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Some Thoughts on Adoption (and other nonsense).
There's this old Louis C.K. clip—recorded long before he was cancelled—that summarizes our modern conundrum well: "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy."
As I was walking towards the hospital today—after a way too early 5:30 rise—it dawned on me that wide-scale nostr adoption (and "proper" wide-scale bitcoin adoption, for that matter) is probably not going to happen. The good news is that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The bad news is that lots of people will suffer.
"Why so bearish?" I hear you ask. If you know me just a little bit you'll know that, even though I do have many faults, being bearish isn't one of them. I'm still incredibly optimistic when it comes to the adoption and proliferation of freedom tech. Otherwise I wouldn't be doing what I do.
Here's what dawned on me, though: People aren't even interested in their own health, why would they be interested in healthy money? Yes, everyone wants to be healthy. But doing what is necessary to live a healthy lifestyle? Not interested. Not in the least. Usually something really really bad has to happen for people to change their ways. And even that doesn't move the needle in some cases, as plenty of drinkers who still drink after their liver gave up, or plenty a smoker who still smokes after being diagnosed with lung cancer can attest to.
Which brings me to bitcoin treasury companies. Are most of them interested in taking the responsibility of holding their own keys? Are they interested in providing real value while staying humble and stacking sats? No, of course not. They are interested in paper gains, not in a full-blown reorientation that leads to a healthier lifestyle. And I mean that literally: if you truly and fully adopt bitcoin, the responsibility that is entailed by that will result in a reorientation, a re-alignment of values, which will—down the line—lead to more long-term thinking, healthier business practices, more honest value generation, and so on.
To me, this is what "capital B" Bitcoin is about. Change. Real change. A ridiculous proposition to the balance sheet brain.
...which brings me to nostr.
A short stroll through the current iteration of the internet should make clear that the platforms that most people spend their time on are incredibly mis-aligned with humanity. The outrage-machine that we've built for ourselves is keeping us like rats in Skinner boxes, hitting the dopamine button with every swipe and every scroll, no matter what. We've built a machine that is parasitic on humanity, instead of synergistic. We are optimizing for engagement, which means that we are maximizing addiction by shoving a mixture of uppers (porn) and downers (rage bait) down our collective throats. The machine is catering to our lowest selves, as opposed to our highest selves. (We could also optimize for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, you know. Is that too much to ask?)
But who is to blame for all of that? (And is it worth blaming someone in the first place?)
It is clear to me that the whole military-grade industrial advertising complex that profits from running large-scale and nonstop psychological experiments on the whole fucking population of the earth wouldn't be profitable for long if we would all get our act together. But that won't happen, of course. There won't be a magical finger snap that suddenly shakes us awake from our slumber; that stops us from sleepwalking into dystopia. Just like there won't be a magical finger snap that stops us from our bad habits and unhealthy lifestyles.
Adopting a healthy way of living is hard. It means saying no to the constant onslaught of sugary snacks, fast-food around every corner, and social pressures to indulge. It means taking responsibility for your decisions, cultivating discipline, taking care of your body, your psyche, and yes, also your soul.
A wise man once said that "he who has a 'why' can bear almost any 'how'." And that's what most of us are missing: a strong enough "why." Why go through the trouble of living healthy? It's hard! Why hold your own keys, if someone else can do it for you, and there's even the apparent safety of some insurance? Why cultivate a less destructive relationship to the internet, if you can just autoplay & chill, whether it be with Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, PornHub, or something else? Why not write the snarky comment and trigger a whole cohort of people at the click of a button?
Because it's not healthy, that's why.
"Everything's amazing and nobody's happy." That's the state of the world. Always has been. And I'm to blame too, of course. Sitting in the hospital waiting room, writing these lines, bitching and moaning about the internet, this amazing series of tubes that I so love, warts and all.
But yeah, the internet won't heal itself over night. Neither will the economy, nor the rent-seeking zombie companies that don't provide value, nor the underlying fiat system that broke it all in the first place. It will take lots of time, lots of courage, lots of faith, and lots of responsibility.
It will be hard, but it will also be worth it. And it starts with you.

2025-08-28 18:50:48 UTC

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Hmm. Minority report going live

2025-08-27 20:09:33 UTC

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Must be a good joke

2025-08-26 19:10:39 UTC

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mt pelerin has fast kyc free up some amounts, really good and fast

2025-08-26 18:58:10 UTC

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leg room son!

2025-08-25 15:41:35 UTC

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,plus voice calls?