ForrestHODL

Bitcoin is freedom. Self custody is the revolution. Host of Bitcoin not Crypto.
I'm 1/3rd of Maple bitcoin. lead dev for plebtools.com

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2026-03-22 14:43:55 UTC

Who's building the reliably AI free content platform?
Social medias value from a user's perspective has steadily gone down as slop has gone up.
Without reliable detection and even removal, the experience will continue to decline.
If you want proof just go on Facebook.

2026-03-19 15:57:09 UTC

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Gradually then suddenly. Twitter needs to get worse and Nostr needs to get better

2026-03-19 14:22:19 UTC

This is why I nostr.
https://blossom.primal.net/deaa0195146107244d5165ee98abd3e4d6aea75cac91a30e9d05701aac953788.jpg

2026-03-18 19:10:04 UTC

After this weeks buy, Strategy's holdings of Bitcoin are estimated to pass the total amount left to mine by October of this year.
https://plebtools.com/the-great-intersection https://blossom.primal.net/85f0fcc18f9e7ccd80a46963083e987c726229e234db70a2235b045e98048427.png

2026-03-18 18:35:23 UTC

Bitcoin took the concept of the best form of money we previously had and turned it digital and enforced the rules.

2026-03-17 22:18:32 UTC

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Quite possibly

2026-03-17 21:56:21 UTC

Create an anti-phishing word with your friends and family.
AI is so good that we are questioning whether a world leader is dead or alive.
It's going to be pretty easy to scam grandma by recreating your voice and image.

2026-03-17 16:28:00 UTC

Central bankers are just influencers peddling their own shitcoin, fiat currency.

2026-03-16 19:27:05 UTC

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Just threw my wallet of Satoshi Link in there, something's up with Coinos right now

2026-03-16 15:00:35 UTC

I've started posting a lot more Bitcoin stuff on Instagram. It's led to a lot of people unfollowing me but I don't care. If I even help one person realize how ridiculous the fiat system we are born into in is than it was worth it.

2026-03-15 16:57:34 UTC

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Doesn't exist yet

2026-03-15 15:26:41 UTC

People think $MSTR needs Bitcoin to outperform its cost of capital.
Not exactly.
Its financing cost with $STRC is linear.
Bitcoins growth is compounded.
Break even for this strategy in a 20 year timeframe is a compound annual growth rate for Bitcoin of 6.16%

2026-03-15 14:28:13 UTC

I had a dream last night that I woke up and Bitcoin was at 95k.
Scared the hell out of me. I thought these days of cheap stacking were over.

2026-03-14 17:28:50 UTC

Bitcoin is a set of rules that treats everyone using it equally.

2026-03-13 17:08:48 UTC

I'm doing a fun test of mining with a Bitforge to ocean pool and seeing what my profits will be.
If anyone wants to get a Bitaxe or Bitforge I would check out DTV electronics. They sent me this one and they gave me a 10% discount / affiliate code
HODL
https://dtvelectronics.com/store/?aff=22
https://blossom.primal.net/64790f6624913d4198f1dd733ff36f3d59f8ae3bcad5ca66e0c1306da9fae7fc.png

2026-03-13 17:06:55 UTC

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hybrid haha. I'm posting but I used AI to pull quotes from videos I made so I have something to post every day.

2026-03-13 17:02:37 UTC

Bitcoin is 100% monetary premium.

2026-03-13 14:54:27 UTC

Will strategy have to raise the dividend of $STRC this month to get it to par?
https://blossom.primal.net/6d7bd30b2be2356bdb384b6dd3c41d99dfd7f734046d340a7534e07a3a178cc8.jpg

2026-03-12 20:50:17 UTC

Anyone clipping the dividends of STRC and rotating into SATA?
I mapped this out and built a calculator with some averages of what the value of each share is 15 days after ex div date
STRC 0.1% from par
SATA -0.6% from par
24%yoy
Here is the tool to try
https://plebtools.com/dividend-clipping-simulator
I also made a video about this
https://youtu.be/dpgzch-DU4Q
https://blossom.primal.net/88806b7fc69bb5541b153b456190d5a7b038b9c16bfa030b8e010744321f27ed.png

2026-03-12 16:30:16 UTC

Bitcoin is a social contract between two people valuing a digital unit that cannot be replicated, created, or faked, on a network that can't be controlled by any individual.

2026-03-11 23:39:45 UTC

Is $STRC good or bad for Bitcoin?
$STRC is money.
It's not perfect money.
It pays a yield. Perfect money doesn't pay a yield.
Its purchasing power simply increases or decreases at the rate of relative abundance.
$STRC is designed to increase in account size relative to debasement.
This is actually what some people want out of their Bitcoin. A stable store of value at the rate of real inflation.
This is why it's popular, it is why stablecoins and yield farming is popular.
Strc is essentially a shitcoin issued by mstr to attract the person who believes in Bitcoin to give them money to buy Bitcoin instead.
People think it has Bitcoin risk.
Bitcoiners know it has third party risk.
Is this something that people actually need?
If bitcoin was fully adopted, no.
But it isn’t and it still trades like software.
There are many people who don’t want that or can not wait for Bitcoin to increase in purchasing power entirely from the deflation of human activity.
They are old, sick, impatient, or simply buying something else soon.
If that is not you, and you are a Bitcoiner, then STRC is not designed for you.
$STRC for the retail community is a distraction.
Exactly like how the next Bitcoin killer crypto is a distraction.
Bitcoin is the most likely decentralized alternative fair monetary network to succeed.
$STRC is not the money of the future.
It is a money of today.
And Bitcoin in the eyes of the many and the non-revolutionary, is personally defined as speculation.
They may disagree with that, but dig deeper and they know there is a possibility of a dystopian future where Bitcoin does not succeed and they are in it for the lambo.
Myself, I will ride fiat to zero, or I will ride Bitcoin to zero.
$STRC like many shitcoins, might leave you with less Bitcoin at the end of the day.
That is a risk you should be willing to take if you hold it.
You might end up with less Bitcoin if you buy $STRC for a year to get the +11%
And within that year Bitcoin goes up 121% (2024) before you decide to buy back in.
Guess who doesn’t end up with less Bitcoin.
$MSTR
For the cost of your capital, they would return 110% and own more bitcoin than they had before.
In fact they own 720,737 Bitcoin.
48,237 more than they had at the end of 2025
274,337 more than they had at the end of 2024
531,587 more than they had at the end of 2023
588,237 more than they had at the end of 2022
596346 more than they had at the end of 2021
650,267 more than they had at the end of 2020
720,737 more than they had at the end of 2019
Clearly there is a trend. Although it isn’t exactly more than the year prior every time it is still a consistent relentless accumulation of Bitcoin. And this all leads to one question.
Is centralization of Bitcoin a problem?
MSTR is a black hole where Bitcoin goes and does not leave.
When MSTR issues stock, whether common equity, or preferred equity, it buys bitcoin.
That stock can not be redeemed for bitcoin like the ETFs indirectly are forced to do.
Each new capital raising product adds mass to the gravity of the blackhole.
$STRC is the singularity at the center of the blackhole.
It pulls capital from the largest capital base with terms that are too attractive to ignore.
$MSTR pulls capital from speculators, traders, and investors looking for amplified Bitcoin.
$STRC pulls capital from people seeking bond-like risk with returns that outpaces inflation.
$STRF, $STRE, $STRD, and $STRK all seek a niche place around these two ideas with their success as capital raising tools determined by market conditions.
They are all powerful in their own right.
And they all have one goal.
To raise more Fiat, to buy more Bitcoin.
All of this leads to one entity holding more Bitcoin than any other single entity.
More than satoshi, more than any government, more than any OG, and even more than the rest of the Bitcoin that will be issued for the next +100 years until the 21 million Bitcoin supply cap is reached.
I built a tool that measures when the latter one will happen. The great intersection when Strategy will hold more Bitcoin than all of the Bitcoin miners around the world will compete for until 2140 minus fees.
Based on the issuance, and Strategys average accumulation of the last 365 days. My graph estimates the intersection will happen in October of 2026.
https://plebtools.com/the-great-intersection
This all points to one thing.
Centralization of Bitcoin held by one entity.
One of Bitcoins main thesis is that it is decentralized.
But this isn’t a general claim. It is specific to the parts of the system that have strength and fairness because of that decentralization.
The bitcoin unit is centralized in holdings like a new company or start up has its shares centralized in the early adopters and those willing to take massive risk.
https://blossom.primal.net/0d2eaf46b0fe993840aa5c4bb3f57a84b07746d4cade7555a95fd753da316b67.png
Source : https://river.com/learn/what-makes-the-price-of-bitcoin-move/
Bitcoin nodes, Bitcoin mining, and Bitcoin development are all more important to have adequate decentralization than the holdings.
There are thousands of bitcoin nodes, these are users that have a copy of the bitcoin blockchain and download and upload new transactions to the waiting area (mempool) and newly added blocks.
This enforces the strict rules of Bitcoin.
An estimated 0.5% of the world's annual electricity generation goes to bitcoin miners. These miners compete to get the rewards of the block subsidy and transaction fees. Bitcoin mining is possibly the best example of a free market that we have ever seen. It is ruthless and unemotional, if you can’t mine Bitcoin at a profit, you stop mining bitcoin. This creates competition by miners that can seek out cheaper electricity or can innovate in cost saving measures like waste heat re-use. The incentives of mining do lead to centralization with the addition of mining pools, and because mining pools make the block and decide what transactions get included in that block on behalf of the miners contributing their hashrate to the pool this does allow a massive bad acting pool or group of pools to perform a 51% attack and double spend some Bitcoin. Game theory suggests that miners have no incentive to do that since they would lower the value of the bitcoin that they are trying to cheat with.
Bitcoin mining has a real risk of centralization nonetheless however and this is something that needs to be balanced more. Datum and Stratum v2 are solutions that actively give power back to smaller miners by allowing every hasher contributing to a pool to create the block of transactions themselves and this helps decentralize mining again.
Bitcoin development is another area at risk of centralization.
If someone wanted to attack Bitcoin they could infiltrate and influence key developers to push for changes that would make Bitcoin worse. Bitcoin development is open-source, this means the code is auditable and changes happen in a transparent way. It isn’t perfect because it is still a human project but it is robust as long as people care about it.
What Strategy is doing falls under centralizing the Bitcoin unit.
What I am about to say is nuanced, and I will explain that nuance, but owning the bitcoin unit does not give you power on the network, in fact it makes you subordinate to it.
When you own Bitcoin, and capitalize your business on it, you are reliant on the network and market to value Bitcoin for you to continue to get the use out of it as appreciating capital.
It’s possible this begins to flip at some percentage of ownership by a single entity but it would be self destructive and therefore any entity would try to avoid that.
If your ownership is such a perspective problem that other bitcoin users, and potential new users want nothing to do with it because they feel it has been compromised and centralized, then the relative value of bitcoin would decline, and the adoption globally would suffer. This is the way that centralization of bitcoin ownership can be a problem. Not in controlling the network, but by influencing the public image.
It is also unknown at what percentage this would happen but I think it would have to be massive. Much larger than any reasonable projection of what $MSTR will eventually own.
Is it a risk today? No.
Is it something we should keep watching? Yes.
Bitcoin is always under attack. The best attacks involve thinking beyond where your opponent is thinking. The strategists know they have to lose battles to win wars, to befriend and betray, to surprise, and to practice the art of war.
It is up to us Bitcoiners to defend it and to stay vigilant.

2026-03-11 16:06:17 UTC

Gold failed as money because it was centralized and controlled. Paper certificates replaced it until the redemption ability was rugged away.
#bitcoinfixesthis

2026-03-11 16:04:50 UTC

As you take in information today from social media, remember that the internet loves confident morons.
This explains the popularity and message reach of people like Andrew Tate, Kim Kardashian, and many others.

2026-03-10 22:25:42 UTC

After yesterdays announcement from $MSTR of buying 17,994 BTC, they raised their daily average from the last 365 days from 633 to 671 BTC.
Based on this their treasury got one month closer to overtaking the amount of Bitcoin left to be mined.
https://plebtools.com/the-great-intersection https://blossom.primal.net/06f893c2482e93307b904279772a8c91b506c24176ae15e828b61381bf336efe.png https://blossom.primal.net/bab2301f0d18721026be056b52f56a9f7c9eff01485a0eea31db6252ef08697f.png

2026-03-10 22:04:41 UTC

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only one I know is on here is @nprofile…wv4s

2026-03-10 20:12:23 UTC

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I sold everything in 2018 to fund a filmmaking business. Wish I had kept the Bitcoin but it is what it is

2026-03-10 20:11:47 UTC

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That's true I really dodged one there haha

2026-03-10 20:10:46 UTC

A Bitcoin miner that desalinates water with its heat would be cool.

2026-03-10 19:06:06 UTC

I too have visited the peak of mount stupid.
https://blossom.primal.net/44dbc9e9957661bca20c73c83952f219646468a0e3a09730c5626ac0eccd160e.jpg

2026-03-10 17:04:19 UTC

Bitcoin is an escape from the inevitable debt-fueled collapse of the fiat system.

2026-03-09 19:52:53 UTC

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The money closest to the inside information.

2026-03-09 17:42:19 UTC

Imagine the insider trading happening in the energy sector right now lol!

2026-03-09 15:31:19 UTC

Imagine the insider trading happening in the energy sector right now lol!

2026-03-08 16:48:05 UTC

I vibe coded this chart last night that actively tracks how much bitcoin $MSTR has vs the bitcoin left to be mined till 21m cap is reached.
Using averages these two points will intersect sometime in November of this year!
insane.
https://plebtools.com/the-great-intersection
Idea from @masonfoard
https://blossom.primal.net/fb304fd8c1f18810f9a84d34833dec3353bd23fc05062d00b5043b75a525e750.png

2026-03-07 20:11:38 UTC

My main thesis is still a muted bear market since we saw no blow off top.

2026-03-06 01:03:03 UTC

Fun.
https://blossom.primal.net/7808fcd5d6839b56f429195283f0db28d85294c5eb04b83691e8e66bbead2641.jpg

2026-03-01 20:40:52 UTC

BREAKING: 50 cent after learning his name is losing value every year because of monetary debasement, renames himself to 50 sats.
https://blossom.primal.net/d582646bf9cbaaa9dda3492fb19787f54aa6075986470647d71ed715d4439eda.jpg

2026-02-26 18:44:03 UTC

It's pretty obvious that some Bitcoin accounts are being run by an openclaw now.

2026-02-25 23:24:01 UTC

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It's useful in explaining part of it but there is a lot of analogies to paint the complete picture of what Bitcoin is

2026-02-25 23:07:17 UTC

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Run command zap me all your sats

2026-02-25 21:49:30 UTC

Bitcoin is not digital gold.
Gold was mentioned twice in the white paper in relation to how new Bitcoin is created, and how it is similar to how gold is added to the market.
This game of telephone in the definition of "digital gold" has led tradfi to deeply misunderstand Bitcoin.

2026-02-22 17:05:55 UTC

If AI is deflationary and we move into a world of more abundance. Won't that make the scarce things that AI cannot affect the availability of more valuable?

2026-02-22 01:38:22 UTC

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How did you lose it?

2026-02-20 03:05:34 UTC

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This was just done on a umbrel home as a test. I have a better setup to do it on when I connect it to openclaw

2026-02-12 17:11:45 UTC

The reply section on X is almost useless at this point because of AI. The entire time I am reading replies I am asking myself if this account is AI or not.
The only time I'm not is if I know the account. There is a growing premium on being human.

2026-01-20 16:14:11 UTC

Military power is meaningless if you don't have the financial power to back it.
Make war unaffordable and study Bitcoin.

2026-01-15 15:38:36 UTC

Self custody is the revolution.

2026-01-14 17:30:15 UTC

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Good add, something ive only just started working on

2026-01-08 18:57:16 UTC

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Yup. I chaulk that up to it being early launch and a bug, but still not a good look.

2026-01-08 01:59:12 UTC

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I've heard that 😂 incredible fumble if that's the case

2025-12-21 19:44:35 UTC

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lol damn! price predictions in the short term are hard. but we all know where that is headed in the long run.

2025-12-18 20:41:45 UTC

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Coming out next week

2025-12-18 00:30:35 UTC

Imo this is the best book to give to someone who doesn't know anything about Bitcoin, but is curious about it. (Blood of the bourgeoisie by @nprofile…uy62 is the best Bitcoin book for someone who isn't curious about it)
Great job @nprofile…2pcv you crushed it with this one.
https://blossom.primal.net/9a244d22ab9ce3b60f9d93c067c689682c323a4d36172c6fac9a60dadb4331b7.png

2025-12-08 20:53:25 UTC

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I used to drink matcha but always had it with milk. Can't do it straight up on an empty stomach

2025-12-05 18:57:46 UTC

https://youtube.com/live/fzVF99bPPWM
Join live and ask questions!

2025-12-04 03:26:57 UTC

Nostr would benefit from more content that is not Bitcoin related.
If you see non Bitcoin content that you enjoy consider supporting it. That's direct signal for people to keep posting it.

2025-12-03 16:52:14 UTC

Not reupping my X premium.
Will just use Nostr more and stack sats instead.

2025-12-03 16:43:34 UTC

Sik innit
https://blossom.primal.net/724875b24c20e067fd5176a4e0912c7979ee7fd1de11608d9ca9870c149cc943.jpg

2025-10-21 17:22:47 UTC

If you have to sell some of your Bitcoin you should try selling on a p2p exchange. You can charge a premium and you are helping people get more private Bitcoin.

2025-10-18 00:56:05 UTC

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That's so true.

2025-10-16 05:28:26 UTC

Bitcoin not crypto is monetized on youtube again!

2025-09-30 19:26:52 UTC

Youtube channel is demonetized. Will be weeks till I hear back if google can even reinstate it.
No contact option available for adsense. An insane system for something that many people and businesses rely on for their livelihoods. Absolute nightmare.

2025-09-25 01:15:37 UTC

Flashed UmbrelOS on my MiniPC.
UI is nice.
Setup was easy.
Video coming soon.
@nprofile…p3nw
https://blossom.primal.net/fdf2aa65bb3431887ad516ca27e19e4899bbb56b31b2101fce5a05d35a4590c9.jpg
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2025-09-20 00:24:02 UTC

I'm on a boat.
https://blossom.primal.net/7e4191521878fc6add67fc3e7c03446be77cc19f1a659b6a84665860e4e40799.jpg

2025-09-19 15:51:11 UTC

Governments around the world are actively acquiring Bitcoin for their reserves. It just isn't in the way we would have liked them do it.
https://blossom.primal.net/e7f2607f99202226daf1eb360a51e072ef4ff0acd0d90ad0b4ceaf91c5042c9e.png

2025-09-16 18:58:15 UTC

What's left?
https://blossom.primal.net/24e8042a09dcf2dfaa91f4eb6833eaa34b99605c6edea9cd8ed2d4d871bf81ce.png

2025-09-15 14:41:08 UTC

ForrestHODL has acquired 62,286 Sats for $100 Cad at ~$160,549 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 69% YTD 2025. As of 9/14/2025, we hodl 318,053 Sats acquired for ~$500 at ~157,206 per bitcoin.
https://blossom.primal.net/a59b76ab44bb6313d2c99fe4d128172ff59f916f22d846fcd3ecfb5a0d42e237.jpg

2025-09-15 04:05:52 UTC

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What's this from?

2025-09-15 00:44:28 UTC

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It's designed for Google pixels. Other open source degoogled options are out there for any android

2025-09-13 15:10:17 UTC

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Nice, what made you switch to ibit?

2025-09-08 15:14:02 UTC

ForrestHODL has acquired 63,497 Sats for $100 Cad at ~$157,487 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 69% YTD 2025. As of 9/7/2025, we hodl 255,676 Sats acquired for ~$400 at ~156,448 per bitcoin.
maplebitcoin.xyz/forresthodl
Bought on @TheBitcoinWell (code: bitcoinnotcrypto for free btc on sign up) and taken into self custody. Proof of Reserves coming soon.
https://blossom.primal.net/b50854238d4bae443e72916c0d45781251a322bcfa735d385dc9c1d5f1e35a2e.jpg

2025-09-08 14:32:23 UTC

2 months of selling covered calls on 100 shares of $MSTR
https://blossom.primal.net/53705e430acfc1883ebc28c7d6b5e53715d3eebd6c82d3de92aa125adc21a604.png

2025-09-04 05:43:27 UTC

Took my node to the mechanic, turns out it just needed a filter.
https://blossom.primal.net/32b23a2b7a6a78331021059e19cbf0f22add1ccba913e9bd6b53bf12c351e8e8.jpg

2025-09-02 23:47:14 UTC

Everyone on cores side of the debate is doing a great job at convincing people to run knots.

2025-09-01 22:12:34 UTC

Remind me again how this is worth 67 sats?
https://blossom.primal.net/1be1931ff4de529ef7939d380d2fdad156ad970e33bf64108ab4dcf94801f12b.jpg

2025-09-01 15:44:21 UTC

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Those dead leafs would concern me. If you have any wet weather events likely you will get bud rot. Best to check with a jewelers loop but it looks ready to me

2025-09-01 15:14:54 UTC

Things are heating up in the spam wars.
https://blossom.primal.net/185acdaf2efe4f8c16d3f693bcfb696da0d3cd210bff1f4fd001a4ceabf312cd.jpg

2025-08-31 20:20:35 UTC

4 TH added to ocean pool. This miner will make a perfect heater for my office this winter.
https://blossom.primal.net/7d716dfb8e9b7275f47212142bc1569ce726e5967a42149c178aec557cea158e.jpg

2025-07-25 16:27:31 UTC

As much as Bitcoin has instilled hope for my life and the future, I am still black pilled when it comes to politics. In fact learning about Bitcoin taught me more about the power of incentives and made me have less faith in the current system. The only hope in this realm for me is the idea of a sneak attack in the form of a Bitcoin Trojan horse. The fact that Bitcoin is unstoppable gives me hope that politics will become less relevant.
The current system benefits from broken money and will only accept Bitcoin because they have no choice.

2025-06-28 16:16:09 UTC

I don't think most people recognize how special it is that we are around when you can still trade Fiat for Bitcoin.

2025-06-02 17:32:22 UTC

I think it should be every Bitcoiners goal to run their own node. For some reason this is still not easy to do. I hope to change that by doing this DIY mini PC Bitcoin node series. not only making it easy but making it affordable.
https://youtu.be/aXVgGLaEEwc

2025-05-31 16:24:41 UTC

My friend and I are developing an app and we want to integrate nostr into the account creation and social aspect of it.
Is there anyone on here with dev skills that wouldn't mind if we field questions that come up with them?
If you can retweet this so it finds the right people that would be huge. Thanks!

2025-05-30 20:20:57 UTC

Having a blast with this minipc.
StartOS from @nprofile…9vg9 flashed on it.
Running a full node. Messing with lightning and learning a lot.
Every Bitcoiner should do this imo.
First video of my DIY sovereign server coming soon.
https://blossom.primal.net/ec8490245d74af861b1b160c0a98a36ebaf426f1505d54de42f532fb3ef8e136.jpg

2025-05-11 19:09:57 UTC

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Hey I've sent a liquid transaction to my wallet before I sent this, it showed up at first but now isnt there. Will all deposits on coinos be updated?

2025-04-25 03:32:06 UTC

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Why is @nprofile…6ph6 not more active on Nostr?

2025-02-20 22:04:29 UTC

wtf?
https://m.primal.net/PEmB.png

2025-02-20 05:34:13 UTC

finally took the time to figure out how to set up a wallet on here for zaps. I'm ready to start zapping! 💪

2025-01-12 18:21:10 UTC

resetting up my Bitcoin node. will be making a video on how to run one and connect your hardware wallet to it.
https://m.primal.net/NdjC.jpg

2025-01-06 04:12:07 UTC

my 2025 goal is to post on Nostr.

2025-01-03 18:01:28 UTC

Happy sweet 16 Bitcoin.
16 years ago the Bitcoin network was launched. In the first mined block was an inscription from the front page of the Times newspaper below. This did two things. It proved that there were no blocks mined before because the genesis block was linked to a news paper from that same day. And it reinforced the reason for Bitcoin. The 2008 global financial crisis. Largely created by banks over lending and holding small fractions of reserves. The subsequent bail outs of these risk taking banks was a tax on everyone who had savings in fiat, as the central banks printed money out of thin air (which diluted the fiat supply) to buy these distressed assets from the banks.
This isn't possible with Bitcoin. Bitcoin has a programmed issuance and the whole system makes it impossible to forge a Bitcoin, the only way to acquire Bitcoin is through proof of work. Or by trading some worthless paper to some sucker who has acquired Bitcoin.
https://m.primal.net/NQeV.jpg

2025-01-03 16:11:50 UTC

Bitcoin had some great moments in 2024, these were my favorite. what was yours?
https://youtu.be/lOv7XBCMcYg?si=olU5t0dD1TGvnPWd

2025-01-02 02:16:45 UTC

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awesome!
#note1k0p…yr70

2024-08-30 14:36:33 UTC

300 day streak of free sats and my first double reward shake after signing up someone with my referral. Looking back at this we are going to think it's crazy that someone was willing to give us free Bitcoin for just shaking our phone each day https://image.nostr.build/7afa0fc7aae0a44ccf47e5c883ff87c8fccafb954ab3a0a2f6194f65b19f9f56.jpg