Contra

The unexamined premise is the only tyranny that asks for your consent. Reformed Christian, Nostr class of 23, I think

Host of The ContraCast Podcast
https://fountain.fm/show/XRuDwbnAzVdjjchD4Veq

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2026-09-11 16:18:14 CEST

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🤙🏼

2026-09-11 16:17:06 CEST

I always look forward to waking and saying GM to some of the most underrated people on the planet. I don’t give a crap how small or weird y’all are. This is my favorite place in the internet hands down. Y’all make me a little better each and every day and for that, I say thank you.
Gm Nostr

2026-09-11 16:10:45 CEST

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Haha. I told ya

2026-09-11 03:51:43 CEST

How about a song about Debasement?The chorus turned out sick IMO. LMK.
https://wavlake.com/track/4cf57dff-2778-4123-a6b8-18754a94c12e

2026-09-11 03:40:38 CEST

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I’m going with mic explosion

2026-09-11 03:03:22 CEST

We lost a good man one year ago today! #CK
https://image.nostr.build/d456f8ad81dd1a6d41fb97408557901fa0ac098e49135a56e8dbb813191b8f58.jpg

2026-09-11 02:54:27 CEST

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Oh man. We used to stress test wallet of Satoshi for about 30 minutes sending zaps to other like mad men.

2026-09-11 00:59:13 CEST

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Likewise brother

2026-09-11 00:34:11 CEST

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🎣

2026-09-11 00:11:24 CEST

#zapathons were a ton of fun. Nothing like a good old lightning wallet stress test.
https://static.klipy.com/ii/4e7bea9f7a3371424e6c16ebc93252fe/c0/c5/qY9EFWoh23g9FMVpJh.gif

2026-09-10 23:59:59 CEST

When do we bring back #zapathon
https://image.nostr.build/c3be9d3d3650b98c5b69984d8d293471ce11096847ef3656515d2dc0c55a06c2.jpg

2026-09-10 23:56:37 CEST

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Fair, and you're right that some conditions were never going to answer to diet. Type 1, epilepsy, genetic stuff.
But the baseline comes before the diagnosis, not after. You can't know diet is irrelevant until you've asked. And even after it's ruled out, what someone eats and drinks still moves dosing and interactions.
Also the note said if. That word is doing the work.

2026-09-10 23:51:43 CEST

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Big pharma is a profiting machine. It’s sick

2026-09-10 22:19:07 CEST

A True Anon…
Loves truth
Loves justice
Works together
Cares for animals
Does not look for fame
Fights for what is right
Does everything for humanity
Does not betray other anons
Does not claim other anons' work
Does not steal other anons' work
Does not spread or support infighting
Does not try to control other anons
Does not sell anonymous merchandise
Does not censor for personal reasons
Loves/respects the Anonymous idea
Never breaks the anon unofficial rules
Loves peace & always tries to pursue it
Cares for the earth and its environment
Never profits from the name of Anonymous
Does not dox other anons for personal issues
Does not monetize his videos, blog or website
Researches his information before publishing it
Never uses the name Anonymous for political reasons
Never uses the name of Anonymous for personal gain or glory

2026-09-10 21:09:09 CEST

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Sure, wasn’t what I said though.

2026-09-10 20:57:31 CEST

Crackhead Shitcoin
https://video.nostr.build/7aa8a66a80bf02b1884ef93f1640c1bd4bc3a24983264e5c4b53e6cec35e1034.mp4

2026-09-10 20:49:10 CEST

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Justified

2026-09-10 20:39:38 CEST

ISRAEL IS NOT A COUNTRY.
IT IS A U.S. MILITARY BASE.

2026-09-10 20:24:54 CEST

PSA: if your doctor prescribes meds before asking about diet & lifestyle, you have a dealer not a healer

2026-09-10 20:09:38 CEST

https://image.nostr.build/f9d5b0a06838872727672e53b4483f12c5fc6e4165cb3427318da8394023d7e7.jpg

2026-09-10 19:35:56 CEST

BRAINWASHED PEOPLE GET
REALLY MAD WHEN YOU'RE NOT BRAINWASHED LIKE THEM.

2026-09-10 18:20:42 CEST

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https://static.klipy.com/ii/e293a233a303a98e471f78d04e13a1b0/80/c7/NgpW8evm.gif

2026-09-10 18:19:18 CEST

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https://static.klipy.com/ii/d6b0ce929193df3c242ac34b5654d2ce/ec/36/Ju4FaHn7.gif

2026-09-10 18:17:04 CEST

Pleasing everyone is a prostitute's job.
Hint, you’re wasting your time if you think everyone is going to like you on any social media apparatus.

2026-09-10 17:19:14 CEST

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Likewise. 👊🏼

2026-09-10 09:34:29 CEST

I’ll leave you with this little jam for the evening. Gn Nostr
https://wavlake.com/track/5536f18f-a81b-4ad8-92f3-deda900b1402

2026-09-10 09:06:36 CEST

https://image.nostr.build/03e5ab001317c25a31a88ea1427879bfaba7c6f9e82bfafe453fbcf2cf682cf0.jpg

2026-09-10 09:04:50 CEST

GET YOURSELF A CONSPIRACY THEORIST FRIEND. THEY’LL MAKE YOU LAUGH AT THE ABSURDITY UNTIL YOU REALIZE IT WAS ACTUALLY A REALITY.

2026-09-10 06:10:07 CEST

If we put up a system that allowed us to track every movement of law enforcement and government officials they'd be tearing it down and arresting us.

2026-09-10 04:58:16 CEST

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I’ve noticed

2026-09-10 03:41:49 CEST

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🤡🌎

2026-09-10 03:13:56 CEST

ISN'T IT IRONIC THAT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE LOVE MOVIES THAT CELEBRATE REBELLION AND UNDERDOGS WHO RESIST OPPRESSION, YET IN REAL WORLD THEY OBEY RULES WITHOUT EVER QUESTIONING AUTHORITY?

2026-09-10 02:43:50 CEST

The vault opened exactly as designed. That's the problem.
https://image.nostr.build/6836d136b083768e14e9f17167ae3d284a7ade3b6a3cc4f305855d6f0814af8d.jpg

2026-09-09 21:39:44 CEST

I don't buy that all hatred is poison. I hate innocent blood. I hate theft. I hate somebody taking a man's freedom who never earned the right to. I hate a rigged scale and money quietly watered down so the number holds and the weight doesn't.
If none of that moves you, what do you love? Comfort does a decent impression of virtue.
Love and hate run off the same wire. Aim it at what you love, devotion. Aim it at what's eating the thing you love, hate. A father who shrugs about the guy hurting his kid didn't find peace. Something in him died.
The line is between the evil and the man. Hate the evil, that's the job. Hate the man and you're trying a case that isn't yours, and somebody with the full file already has it. Pick it up anyway and it bends you. That's the kind of hate people mean when they say it rots you. They just never say which kind.
Erase the line and you get a code that ties good men's hands and leaves the wicked alone. Somebody benefits. Never the people getting hurt.

2026-09-09 21:02:53 CEST

A lot of people are showing who they truly are right now.
It's a good time to be paying attention.

2026-09-09 20:56:32 CEST

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I see it everywhere. Freaking soft men everywhere. I just tell em to look down and grab their balls if they have any left.

2026-09-09 20:38:50 CEST

People are so used to others being indirect and phony that clear direct communication appears aggressive.

2026-09-09 20:19:29 CEST

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I’m sore just looking at these. lol

2026-09-09 20:16:05 CEST

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Nicotine and righteous hatred. Yessss

2026-09-09 20:15:03 CEST

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Perfect

2026-09-09 20:06:17 CEST

Look at you, held together by caffeine, audacity and what I can only assume is a legally questionable amount of spite.
Absolutely radiant.
Proud of you, you phenomenal chaos creatures of Nostr

2026-09-09 19:54:33 CEST

It’s “Shitcoin Season”…
https://wavlake.com/track/ca2301f6-c1c8-4193-b6c0-78f2557a07a6

2026-09-09 19:51:07 CEST

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Welcome aboard…🤙🏼

2026-09-09 19:46:50 CEST

Weather has been crazy on the west coast…
https://image.nostr.build/78877f7e4257639bf06dcac3e4ea489e0f3c476a03835697094a9cf3c81b003a.jpg

2026-09-09 19:12:31 CEST

The “Shanty for The Sovereign” went back to #1 on @npub1yfg…v6vg
If you haven’t heard it, it’s pretty good.
https://wavlake.com/track/81c45017-5d13-45fd-a751-c9483b579682
https://image.nostr.build/d3c67f1340a14824643ab9c5ecfbfac41eaa503856b074771dffd3bb27290d9e.jpg

2026-09-09 17:39:07 CEST

Let me know what you think about this song…A preview of what’s coming……….”OP_RETURN” New Album
https://wavlake.com/track/955e5455-b81b-4570-a981-621c5f59b84a

2026-09-09 16:16:15 CEST

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Current cultural toxicity proves there is a lack of masculinity. And we must recognize that to take it back, there will have to be men willing to step up.
Masculinity is the glad assumption of responsibility.

2026-09-09 15:48:07 CEST

As you enter the Purpleverse for the first time today, remember that you are part of the earliest revolution in our time. Nostr may not be the biggest, or cleanest or smoothest but it damn sure beats any platform. It doesn’t hurt that I like you guys also.
Gm Nostr.

2026-09-09 03:44:25 CEST

https://image.nostr.build/7802bc22278fb8026b1175e510d1c47b5150f831fef8fab8d09c9c03ee08eea3.jpg

2026-09-09 03:04:43 CEST

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even I know things that aren’t worth knowing. lol

2026-09-09 03:01:10 CEST

selective ignorance is underrated
most of what's demanding your attention was engineered to get it, and knowing about it doesn't hand you a single thing to do

2026-09-09 02:25:45 CEST

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I am undeserving

2026-09-09 02:12:32 CEST

I just heard my buddy refer to mansplaining as “correctile dysfunction”

2026-09-09 02:11:46 CEST

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Love these peeps. The wife always has them playing in our house

2026-09-09 01:45:32 CEST

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https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqqqqqlmqrfq5v3dxcnutppel6kuvzdxtgegc9pu7zgj6spudrwxczyrjws3lek03fayct8uzjrpm8s28cmh26c9mltt2x5esk75h9cd7k6qcyqqqqqqgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qftzt08

2026-09-09 01:39:45 CEST

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Coo

2026-09-09 01:31:43 CEST

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Fair, and I think I overstated it. Range proofs plus a deterministic emission curve does get you supply verification without enumerating outputs. The remaining difference is what you're trusting, arithmetic versus a proof system and the code implementing it, and that's a real tradeoff rather than a flaw

2026-09-09 01:28:16 CEST

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True, and that's the real distinction. The part it doesn't buy you is supply. Asymmetric crypto protects the transaction and leaves the total unverifiable, which is the trade you're making whether you like the framing or not.

2026-09-09 01:26:42 CEST

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This is the second warning post I have seen with zero claims of vulnerabilities

2026-09-09 01:25:30 CEST

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That standard eats both. If unknown capability is the test, no privacy claim survives it, and the tracing research on ring signatures isn't hypothetical. At least on bitcoin I can verify the supply while I'm worrying about it.

2026-09-09 01:21:13 CEST

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Why

2026-09-09 00:58:40 CEST

Strip the lightning address off your profile then. No zap button, XMR only. If private tips are the better rail you lose nothing.
#nevent1q…cps8

2026-09-09 00:44:44 CEST

George be vibe coding like @npub18am…p424
https://video.nostr.build/0f9e2d2059d8fa4bb58f9b5c462dfa732a8096b7ecb9b86c546325743d950fdb.mp4

2026-09-09 00:36:21 CEST

Ask what a payment network is for and you get two incompatible answers, and both of them are correct.
Privacy money and public money are answering different questions about what a network is for. Private money assumes the goal is exit. Get out from under surveillance, transact without permission, stay unreadable. Public money assumes the goal is a functioning commons, where reputation and value are legible so strangers can coordinate without trusting each other first. Nostr is trying to be the second thing. It's a public square where people build audiences, and an economy is only visible if the payments are.
A zap does something no private transfer can. It makes the value of good work legible to third parties who weren't part of the transaction. Price discovery only happens where prices are public. Everything else is bilateral deals.

2026-09-08 23:45:18 CEST

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I have no quarrel with that. He was talking about men doing it to be seen by men, and that's a heart problem, not a visibility problem. Same act done as testimony is a different thing entirely. The record on the note isn't for you or for him, it's for whoever's watching and hasn't been persuaded yet.

2026-09-08 23:35:01 CEST

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No argument, it moves directly. What I'd still hold is that zaps are wired into the note and Monero tips are wired to a person. One tells everybody where the good writing is, the other is a private transfer that happens to occur near a social protocol.

2026-09-08 23:09:11 CEST

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Lightning is in the protocol for a reason. A Monero tip needs an exchange step before it's anything the receiver can use here. The public part isn't credit either, it's evidence, and anonymous sats prove nothing to whoever's still deciding if this works. Build the private one, nothing's stopping you.

2026-09-08 22:26:33 CEST

Why is it easier to zap a shitpost than a note you actually thought about? There’s a gap that shows up in the data I think we should talk about…
There's research on public gestures that should bother us. People who make a visible token show of support for a cause, wearing the pin, joining the group, signing the petition, end up less likely to do anything real for it afterward. Do it privately and the real support goes up. The public gesture settles the account. You looked like someone who cared, and the impulse that would've cost you something is gone.
Hand somebody a dollar in quarters and they spend it. Hand them the same dollar as a bill and they hold it. People take the large denomination on purpose when they're trying to stop themselves. Nobody wants to break the bill.
A sat balance is one bill. No coins in your pocket, just a number, and a number reads as an amount instead of change. So the default on a full wallet is leave it whole, and we tell ourselves that's discipline.
Money is never generic in practice. People sort it constantly, same currency filed into rent money and money you'd never touch, and identical dollars behave differently depending on the pile. I’ve read some documentation on it and it holds up everywhere anyone's looked.
We filed all of it into one pile. Every sat, savings. Correct call for fifteen years and it's the conviction that got us here. But the filing system can't tell cold storage apart from four thousand sats sitting in a hot wallet for exactly this purpose.
@npub1sg6…f63m ‘s line about bitcoin going irrelevant if nobody spends it gets read as a merchant problem. It's smaller and worse than that. Money that never moves stops being money inside the head of the person holding it. You stop thinking in it. It becomes a number you check.
Zapathons worked and the event had nothing to do with it. For one day everybody moved sats into a different pile and called it play. Nothing was being decided. Sats went out over dog photos, over jokes that didn't land, over a riff somebody recorded in their truck.
The fix is a filing change. Move a chunk of sats into a pile marked play, small enough that losing it all costs you nothing, big enough to last the month. Then spend it like it isn't yours, because you already decided it isn't.
We're the only network on earth where paying somebody for a good note is a normal thing to do. That only stays true while we're doing it.

2026-09-08 20:49:31 CEST

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Good one

2026-09-08 20:21:42 CEST

In 1907 one man was the Federal Reserve. No office, no ballot. The Treasury handed him $25 million and asked what he planned to do with it.
Three years later six men rode to a private island under first names only and wrote a plan for the American money supply.
That trip is real. Every man on it wrote about it later.
Then the plan lost. Crushed in an election.
So who wrote the thing we got in 1913? The answer is worse.
Chapter 2. Discounted at 210 sats. Share it, get 42 Sats back for each referral
https://fanfares.io/s/qO9Emm

2026-09-08 19:56:20 CEST

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Thanks. I like it so for. There’s a few people willing to spend some sats. Nostr is notoriously cheap though. They’d prefer you pay them for visibility via @npub1dsn…2h64
Chapter 2 coming out today as well.

2026-09-08 19:41:39 CEST

Check out this exclusive content on Fanfares!
https://fanfares.io/s/Eklgvh
#naddr1qv…zpc4

2026-09-08 19:38:30 CEST

Took this last night. With all the noise, sometimes it’s best to just look up and admire God’s creation.
https://image.nostr.build/53ce930fcec200047b90160e414299edee528597cb13c8e5ad28c03e7ce6076f.jpg

2026-09-08 18:02:12 CEST

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Haha

2026-09-08 17:59:20 CEST

Do you think that when fish get thrown back into the water by fishermen they go swimming around yelling about alien abductions and the other fish think they're crazy and stop talking to them?

2026-09-08 17:44:08 CEST

Stack Sats…..Run Code…..That’s The Only Mode….

2026-09-08 17:43:00 CEST

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lol

2026-09-08 16:27:19 CEST

Mute me, block me, tell me I'm wrong to my face. Do all three. What you can't do is have me removed, and neither can anybody else, and that's worth more to me than a million people I'd never talk to anyway.
Hard money underneath, real people on top. I'll build here.
GM to “The Few, The Proud” who show up every single day!

2026-09-08 16:12:49 CEST

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Just a father and son interaction.

2026-09-08 16:12:04 CEST

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Agree

2026-09-08 02:51:49 CEST

Shawn Ryan on his podcast has been open about going through psychedelic treatment. A lot of guys out of that world have. I know some of them. And the accounts keep landing in the same place. Something was in the room. Something spoke.
I don't think they're lying.
The old Reformed Christians had a category for this and it wasn't "bad trip." Pharmakeia in Galatians sits right next to idolatry and sorcery. The problem was never the plant. It was going looking for a door God already nailed shut.
What bothers me more is the fascination. Encounter turned into episodes, told and retold. The tradition treated curiosity about the demonic as part of the same sin, not a safe balcony seat above it.
But I won't tell you a man is guaranteed to pick something up because he sat in a ceremony. Nobody gets to promise that. Job 1 is the whole framework for this. Nothing moves without permission from the throne, and the enemy is a creature on a leash, not a second god.
Some of what gets reported has ordinary causes too. Depersonalization is real. So is psychosis that was already loaded and waiting. Providence runs through secondary causes and the honest answer is usually that you don't know which one you're looking at.
The remedy Christianity offers is boring on purpose. Repentance. The Word preached. Prayer. A church that knows your name. No formulas, no binding sessions, nothing you perform.
Not a hair falls without the Father's will. That covers the ceremony and everything that came home with you.
#ToChristAlone

2026-09-08 02:38:48 CEST

Me and my son just now…
16yo: dad, im getting a butt cramp
Me: ok
16yo: dad I'm getting cold sweats
Me: hahahahaha

2026-09-08 02:28:27 CEST

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Same guys got called paranoid for dodging the biggest one, which has been rugging slowly since 1971 and still has a AAA rating

2026-09-08 02:21:56 CEST

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Haha. No doubt

2026-09-08 02:20:34 CEST

I found a bug in your wallet. Invoice attached. It's 15%, and I went ahead and paid myself.
https://image.nostr.build/319a0711bce4125c204f489be5e8abd024d578aad3099eb5a3d5f77a185a6a46.jpg

2026-09-08 01:51:41 CEST

write like me but better and also exactly like me
#nevent1q…edqf

2026-09-08 01:37:58 CEST

https://image.nostr.build/23320b34a456424e5fa98a85a6d4ddb4900ee964835bc8cb1a2e044c27a91b2b.jpg

2026-09-08 01:25:26 CEST

America's next growth industry is betting on itself. But a contract that pays on an event creates a paying customer for arranging it, and we're scaling that across rates, wars and elections.
Which is the case for owning something nobody can decide the outcome of.

2026-09-08 01:08:39 CEST

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The channel opens onchain. Onion routing hides the hops, not the door you walked in.
And 598 is about a tenth of Lightning's whole public capacity. You'd be building a second Lightning to move it, in full view of everyone watching the graph.

2026-09-08 01:06:15 CEST

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What am I losing at? Was this supposed to be in conjunction with your quote-repost?

2026-09-08 01:05:06 CEST

Derek's framing is right, and the interesting part is why.
The chain confirms possession. It can't confirm consent. A bug in Elements produced a valid signature over an invalid claim, and a transaction being valid says nothing about the authority standing behind it. Code executes. It doesn't adjudicate.
So "white hat" is a claim about intent, and intent is the one variable nobody can verify onchain. Everyone else in this ecosystem gets told to prove it. He gets an exception because he described himself that way in an OP_RETURN.
Maritime law settled this problem a long time ago. A salvor who saves a drifting ship is owed something real, and the award gets set by a tribunal, not by the salvor selling off part of the cargo and calling the remainder a return. The moment the rescuer prices his own service out of the property he's holding, the rescue becomes something else.
The 598 is that moment. Blockstream can still pay him, and generously. That call was always theirs to make.
#nevent1q…ljen

2026-09-08 00:34:07 CEST

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WTH are you talking about

2026-09-08 00:21:37 CEST

....we don't give up around here.

2026-09-07 23:24:22 CEST

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Will do

2026-09-07 22:58:22 CEST

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✅

2026-09-07 22:53:37 CEST

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Full of insane people so it checks out

2026-09-07 22:26:53 CEST

Modern travel these days is a hollow performance.
Most of the world doesn’t travel to see the world. They travel to show the world they were there.
They have traded the soul of exploration for the validation of strangers.

2026-09-07 21:26:40 CEST

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True. I believe it has to start with ourselves. Then to find other like minded peeps around us.

2026-09-07 21:02:06 CEST

#ColdCardHack
https://video.nostr.build/ecf9cce440131443acd4b66722384c0a624374a5500f7c5face26552529bb1ca.mp4

2026-09-07 20:35:24 CEST

https://fanfares.io/s/Eklgvh
You know why fiat is broken. You don’t know how it got built.
In 1519 a merchant bought the Holy Roman Empire. Seven electors, votes openly for sale, and Jakob Fugger covered half the bill. His man won an empire from Vienna to Peru.Four years later Fugger sent him a letter reminding him who paid. It survives. Reads like a contractor chasing an invoice.
No lodge. No oath. A ledger.
Fifteen parts on how the money machine actually got built, starting four hundred years before America. Every claim labeled. Documented, contested, or speculative. When it doesn’t hold I say so.
You can’t see where this is going if you don’t know where it’s been.
Episode one. 1000 sats. Share it, get 210 back on every sale.
Oh, and the man who bought an emperor died broke. Wiped out by the grandson of the emperor he bought.