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

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2026-08-30 15:23:36 UTC

Gm. Today we rest . We war all week just to arrive at this day, to set it apart, and remember that this life is fading. But eternity breaks through here. This day is a small glimpse of what Heaven feels like.
#ToChristAlone
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2026-08-29 20:20:47 UTC

People sometimes only label themselves blessed when money is involved.
It's deeper than that.

2026-08-29 15:51:35 UTC

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Oh ya

2026-08-29 15:19:43 UTC

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lol

2026-08-29 15:11:47 UTC

I don't even see politics, entertainment
or celebrities anymore...
I just see liars, cheats, thieves, creeps, actors, narcissists tyrants, fools, psyops, puppets, controlled opposition,
& satanic rituals.

2026-08-29 14:07:43 UTC

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2026-08-29 14:06:19 UTC

Testing @npub16lv…7j3k with a little piece.
“They’re Rigging Bitcoin Every Morning at 10 AM. Good. Keep Buying” click, pay and read
#nevent1q…nmn3

2026-08-29 14:01:43 UTC

Gm
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2026-08-29 06:36:11 UTC

🎯
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2026-08-29 06:32:47 UTC

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I’m confused. lol

2026-08-29 06:30:10 UTC

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Church and state are two human institutions, both answerable to something outside themselves. Divinity and science aren’t parallel to that at all. Science is a method for measuring the physical world. Divinity is a claim about ultimate reality and moral order. One tells you how fast a ball falls. The other tells you why dropping it on your neighbor is wrong.
Collapsing those into “same thing” doesn’t simplify the argument. It just skips it.

2026-08-29 06:25:44 UTC

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Nah, that’s a pricing problem, not a self worth problem. Guy who shows up on time and delivers exactly what he promised should charge more, not because he’s fragile, because he’s derisking the client’s whole operation. Reliability is the premium, not the discount.
Burnout hits when he doesn’t know that and works cheap to prove himself. Fix the invoice, not his psyche.

2026-08-29 06:21:56 UTC

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I’m ready for this…

2026-08-29 06:21:13 UTC

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God says government is His servant for good, not His replacement. Romans 13, not romans zero. That’s the whole argument.
Kuyperian sphere sovereignty keeps the state out of the pulpit. Magisterial tradition says the magistrate still answers to God’s moral order in how he governs, not neutral, not godless. I hold both because they’re not actually in conflict. The state stays out of your church membership. The state doesn’t get to pretend morality is up for a vote.
That’s not a guy who wants Hitler with a cross. That’s a guy who thinks government answering to nothing is the actual historical monster. Every regime that erased God from its foundations still enforced a religion. Just called it ideology instead.

2026-08-29 06:10:04 UTC

Talent is common. Reliability is rare.
The person who shows up exactly when they said they would, delivers exactly what they promised, and does it consistently without being chased is worth ten talented people who require management.

2026-08-29 06:08:21 UTC

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What side do you think I’ll take?

2026-08-29 06:07:29 UTC

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By what standard

2026-08-29 06:06:39 UTC

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2026-08-29 06:01:48 UTC

Let’s debate Christian nationalism… who’s ready

2026-08-29 05:33:45 UTC

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That’s weird

2026-08-28 15:35:22 UTC

Men,
Strength is forged in the fire of struggle.
Real power comes from discipline, honor, and relentless grit.
Own your flaws. Face your fears. Take control of your life like a true leader.
No excuses. No shortcuts. Rise with purpose, build your legacy, and never back down. And also, Good morning!

2026-08-28 05:28:04 UTC

Sometimes when you’ve been in Bitcoin long enough, especially on Nostr, you forget what we have. What we discovered. What we use every single day.
Let’s not lose that excitement. Let’s not forget what we use. How it impacts those here and those yet to come.
This revolution stems from excitement over a historical currency, one built to be used as money, peer to peer every damn day.

2026-08-28 05:22:16 UTC

Hayek argued decades before Bitcoin existed that government monopoly over money was neither necessary nor desirable, that competing, privately issued currencies would discipline each other the way competing goods discipline producers. Bitcoin is the first serious empirical test of that thesis

2026-08-28 05:13:11 UTC

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Yup.

2026-08-28 05:12:48 UTC

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lol. Apparently my body forgot what it felt like to go upside down

2026-08-28 05:04:24 UTC

Number go up culture without payment culture is a half finished revolution.

2026-08-28 00:40:59 UTC

Drug Dealers:
- Sells an easy and quick solution.
- Gives them a transformation. From facing withdrawals to temporary relief.
- Makes them hooked
- Customer retention is built into the product itself.
Implement all 4 into your business, specifically the second one because everyone buys to go from A to B. The fat person wants to get fit. The lonely individual wants to get a girlfriend. The poor person wants to become rich

2026-08-28 00:35:37 UTC

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lol.

2026-08-28 00:18:36 UTC

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2026-08-27 21:39:41 UTC

Did a cartwheel the other day, thinking it's like riding a bike.
It's not.

2026-08-27 21:02:18 UTC

Flaws: I got 'em
Laws: I broke 'em
Dues: I paid 'em
Scars: I bare 'em
Lessons: I learned 'em
Problems: still have 'em
That's life....still love it.

2026-08-27 20:42:30 UTC

The internet gave every working person on the planet the ability to build an audience, sell a skill, create a product, and generate income completely independent of any employer's approval for the first time in human history.
Most people used that access to watch other people do exactly that. The tool and the outcome were both available. The decision to use one to build the other was always the differentiator.

2026-08-27 17:26:03 UTC

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This was good. Really good

2026-08-27 17:24:41 UTC

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Welcome back! Quite a ride you guys have been through 🙏

2026-08-27 17:24:00 UTC

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Incoming ⚡️

2026-08-27 17:22:55 UTC

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🙏

2026-08-27 17:01:08 UTC

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I think if we’re honest, there’s always a boring part.

2026-08-27 17:00:30 UTC

Nostr’s real adoption signal isn’t follower counts or note volume on the social clients everyone screenshots. It’s that serious builders like Block, Blockstream adjacent mining devs, mesh network engineers, and ham radio operators are choosing Nostr as infrastructure for problems that have nothing to do with posting.
When people who don’t care about “Nostr the social network” still reach for Nostr the protocol, that’s a stronger signal than any engagement metric, because they had other options and picked this one for what it actually does: identity without permission, signing without a platform.

2026-08-27 16:45:50 UTC

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True

2026-08-27 16:34:42 UTC

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If you’re at an airport. That apparently is a judgment free zone

2026-08-27 16:31:54 UTC

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That’s the real fault line. A signature scheme is only as quantum safe as the wallet software’s ability to never touch a used key path twice, which means every custody provider now inherits a cryptographic obligation, not just a UX one.

2026-08-27 16:29:11 UTC

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Look no further than everyone around you. Some have passion and some have skill. Very rarely do those coexist in one career today

2026-08-27 16:27:17 UTC

SITREP: THE QUANTUM BILL COMES DUE
SITUATION
Bitcoin’s signature scheme runs on elliptic curve math. Sound today. Theoretically breakable by a sufficiently powerful quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm. Nobody’s built that machine yet. Doesn’t mean you wait until they do.
NEW ASSET IN THE FIELD
Blockstream researcher Jonas Nick, working with Mikhail Kudinov, published a formal proposal this week. Codename SHRINCS. First post quantum signature scheme built specifically for Bitcoin, not adapted from a government standard and jammed into place.
COST OF THE MISSION
Every defense has a price. Deploy the NIST approved quantum safe signatures and Bitcoin’s throughput takes a direct hit, dropping from roughly 6.5 transactions per second to under one. That’s not a minor casualty. That’s a different network limping home.
SHRINCS holds the line at close to three transactions per second. Signatures start small, 324 bytes against Schnorr’s 64, and only grow as the mission requires.
SUPPLY LINE
SHRINCS runs on SHA-256. Same hash function already securing Bitcoin’s mining operations. No new math to trust, no unproven asset dropped into the field. Just more load on infrastructure that’s held for seventeen years.
EXPOSURE
Every operation has a weak flank. SHRINCS is stateful. A wallet has to track every key it’s already fired. Restore a seed onto new hardware and it falls back to heavier signatures. Reuse a spent key and funds are exposed. This isn’t a problem for the developers back at command. It lands on whoever’s holding the coins.

2026-08-27 16:09:50 UTC

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2026-08-27 16:09:03 UTC

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Sure, but stocks don’t need you personally explaining self custody to your uncle. That’s the part that’s unique.

2026-08-27 16:03:22 UTC

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That’s the trap though. If the narrative only shows up after price moves, it was never conviction, just spectators

2026-08-27 16:01:11 UTC

Wish I knew this sooner…The skills that make you money and the skills that make you happy are usually different skills.
And you need both. The mistake is optimizing only for one. Make money with one set. Build a life with another.
Running both is the actual goal.

2026-08-27 15:25:21 UTC

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Maybe that generation has some hope after all.

2026-08-27 15:24:29 UTC

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2026-08-27 15:23:28 UTC

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Gm lady

2026-08-27 15:23:08 UTC

Not seeing the usual push lately, might just be me.
Either way, price doing something is not education doing something. Never forget we must continue to educate and orange pill those around us.

2026-08-27 15:16:34 UTC

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Been shady for a long time. Some are finally waking up and some remain asleep.

2026-08-27 15:13:49 UTC

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Until the line is crossed. Then…

2026-08-27 15:12:11 UTC

Gm.
Don’t underestimate your freedoms.
#nevent1q…zhey

2026-08-27 15:11:09 UTC

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lol. Let’s repost it. Timing is everything

2026-08-27 15:10:46 UTC

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Haha. There’s also good “actors”

2026-08-27 15:10:11 UTC

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No, I think you’re right! There’s also those who don’t care at all.

2026-08-27 03:45:25 UTC

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2026-08-27 03:44:40 UTC

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Precisely

2026-08-27 03:44:11 UTC

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Haha.

2026-08-27 02:47:37 UTC

Free speech on #Nostr guarantees you can be heard. It guarantees nothing about being understood. The zap is where the gap closes.

2026-08-27 02:24:36 UTC

Nobody applauds the easy stuff. You don’t brag about the workout you skipped or the fight you avoided.
The stuff that actually sits in your chest as pride? That came from something that could have gone the other way. Difficulty isn’t the tax you pay for accomplishment. It’s the ingredient.
Strip out the struggle and you strip out the meaning too. A guaranteed outcome doesn’t build anything in you. It just happens, and you watch it happen like everybody else.
Proving yourself was never about the crowd. Most of them weren’t watching anyway. It’s the version of you that knows exactly how close you came to quitting, and didn’t.
That’s the only audience that matters. And that one doesn’t accept excuses

2026-08-26 22:12:02 UTC

Being good at your job protects you less than you think. Relationships, reputation, and visibility matter just as much. The technically excellent person with no relationships is always more vulnerable than the slightly less excellent person who's known and trusted.

2026-08-26 19:23:59 UTC

Use every unfair advantage you have.
Your mind, your network and your skills.
There is nothing noble about choosing the hardest route when an easier one exists.
Most people are so obsessed with proving they came from the mud that they forget the goal was to rise out of it.

2026-08-26 16:01:14 UTC

Everybody I know is hunting for peace. Real peace. The stuff we grab for instead, the vices, the noise, they buy you maybe twenty minutes before you’re right back where you started.
This life ends. Afterlife begins after it. Eternally with God or without Him. I fought that idea for a long time. He didn’t wait for me to clean up first. He came while I was still a mess, still turning away, and He died anyway.
To the cross I cling. Some days that’s the only sentence I’ve got, and it’s enough.
#ToChristAlone

2026-08-26 14:53:36 UTC

Surround yourself with relentless humans. People who plan in decades, but live in moments. Train like savages, but create like artists.
Be great at work, relax in life. People who know this is finite, and choose to play infinite games. Find people going up mountains. Climb together. Gm Nostr

2026-08-26 05:35:49 UTC

no ads. no algorithm. just feral freedom lovers awake for no good reason
Nostr after dark

2026-08-26 02:26:38 UTC

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Look it up. It’s real

2026-08-26 02:26:29 UTC

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Not lying

2026-08-25 23:14:00 UTC

God’s wrath be upon many…This is straight EVIL
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2026-08-25 22:38:04 UTC

“We made record profits by not paying you enough to live and not paying taxes to maintain the infrastructure we are destroying and raising prices on everything while adding meaningless fees to every transaction while making our products worse.”
-CEO of Everything, Inc

2026-08-25 21:29:59 UTC

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2026-08-25 19:00:03 UTC

The phrase "what the entire f*ck" implies the existence of fractional f*cks.
"what the absolute f*<k" implies the existence of positive and negative f*cks.
"what the actual f*ck" implies existence of imaginary f*cks.
Conclusion: f*ckery is isomorphic with the complex field.

2026-08-25 16:48:17 UTC

When we understand that each day isn't one more day, but one less, we'll start giving more value to the things that truly matter.

2026-08-25 15:36:53 UTC

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Um no

2026-08-25 15:36:32 UTC

I’ve thought about this a long time. The worst circumstances I’ve ever seen produced some of the strongest people I know.
The best circumstances produced some of the emptiest. It was never about where you started. It was always about how bad you wanted out.

2026-08-25 15:25:34 UTC

Gm Nostr
#Coffeechain
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2026-08-25 06:23:13 UTC

Gn
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2026-08-25 06:06:58 UTC

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Haha. Also true

2026-08-25 05:54:25 UTC

Listen bro...The man who understands supply and demand at a fundamental level never runs out of ways to make money.
Find what is scarce, find who needs it desperately and position between the two.
That triangle has funded empires for a long time.

2026-08-25 05:53:31 UTC

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We should all strive to be 👊🏼

2026-08-24 23:27:43 UTC

There is a specific kind of person who makes everyone around them better without trying to.
They ask better questions. They hold higher standards. They model what full commitment looks like.
Find that person and stay close. Proximity to them is a shortcut that no course ever replicated.

2026-08-24 23:01:48 UTC

The real flex is how many people's lives you can positively impact..

2026-08-24 19:52:09 UTC

The right life rarely looks like you thought it would. It usually looks quieter. Slower. More real.

2026-08-24 17:03:41 UTC

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Muted like 5-6 of those accounts

2026-08-24 16:59:58 UTC

Social Media has taught me a couple of things.
First, there are some incredibly briliant people in the world.
Second, they are vastly
outnumbered..

2026-08-24 15:57:06 UTC

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I’d say I have conviction in the matter. That’s the fairest way to put it without pretending I know another man’s heart or motives.
We all go down that rabbit hole. It’s captivating. You start pulling one thread and the whole thing unravels the world you thought you understood. Money, time, incentives, none of it looks the same after.
Conviction’s not the problem. It’s what a man does with it once he’s got it.

2026-08-24 15:54:12 UTC

I’d hang with most of the peeps I’ve interacted with over the last few years. Too many to name. In the meantime, just video call with guys like we’ve done with @npub1xr4…d3nu @npub1p37…d6pe and @npub1jfn…t047
#nevent1q…nc6w

2026-08-24 15:48:28 UTC

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True. Secondhand conviction is the weakest kind. A man needs to arrive at a thing himself.

2026-08-24 15:44:33 UTC

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I’m not gonna paint everybody with that brush. Most guys saying it aren’t preaching a religion, they’re compressing an argument. Fix the money, fix the incentives, watch a stack of downstream garbage untangle itself. That’s a real claim.
Agree though, Bitcoin as sound money is a tool, not a soteriology

2026-08-24 15:36:15 UTC

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What’s that delusion you see here?

2026-08-24 15:35:12 UTC

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At the least expected times.

2026-08-24 15:34:39 UTC

Legacy social media made men obsessed with women they've never met and made women feel entitled to lifestyles they've never lived and can't afford.
Everyone is chasing illusions instead of building reality.
I don’t see that on Nostr. Nostr anons are different.

2026-08-24 14:14:53 UTC

Walking out of the door every morning and making it back home is something most people never stop to think about.
But it is not guaranteed. Getting through another full year safe, healthy, and still standing is one of the most underrated things to be grateful for.

2026-08-24 14:05:39 UTC

Gm Nostr. Stay humble and laser focused. There’s work to be done.
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2026-08-24 14:03:10 UTC

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This is an easy answer. War with Iran. And there are other reasons I believe.

2026-08-24 14:02:00 UTC

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Watched. Or still in the process of watching. lol. 4+ hours

2026-08-24 13:59:26 UTC

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Yup

2026-08-23 15:02:38 UTC

Gm and Happy Lords day! May you find rest in Him today.
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2026-08-23 14:57:45 UTC

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Yup. I watch when I can