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
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Last Notes

2026-09-04 15:15:54 UTC

Good morning Nostriches. Today’s a good day to kick ass and take names.

2026-09-04 02:25:10 UTC

Oh look, Trumps Jewish administration just left their meeting. We’re literally the United States of Israel. Disgraceful.
https://image.nostr.build/ad67db29696cdc7a1cd89b8385e72256bd60be3ba9cb2db93d2a099d8731bfd8.jpg

2026-09-04 02:15:11 UTC

More reps. More calls. More conversations. More failures. More lessons. More mornings. More nights. More shots. More patience. The people who win simply do more. That's the boring truth and it isn't sexy. Do more. Then do more again.

2026-09-03 23:37:00 UTC

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Was? No is?

2026-09-03 21:59:57 UTC

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It’s normal. Everything’s fine. Right?

2026-09-03 21:58:01 UTC

I'm still alive
Hey, I, oh, I'm still alive Hey, I, hey, I'm still alive
Hey, I, oh, I'm still alive, yeah
Ooh, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh
Ooh

2026-09-03 21:23:27 UTC

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Something has to get done. Period. Agree.

2026-09-03 21:22:47 UTC

Treasury was set to buy back up to $12.5 billion of its own debt today. Routine, they said. Regular program.
Two weeks ago they doubled the long end buybacks and dropped that announcement hours before a 20 year auction. Jefferies said it felt shot from the hip compared to how Treasury normally communicates, which is the polite way of saying somebody was nervous.
The 20 year bond tells you more than the buyback does. Treasury discontinued it in 1986 because there wasn’t demand, then brought it back in 2020 to help finance the borrowing. Now Bessent says he’ll “make a market” in it. The issuer, making a market in his own paper.
Twelve billion sounds like a lot until you notice the government borrowed $1.8 trillion in the first ten months of this fiscal year.
Treasury publishes every operation and the results are public. Worth a look before you take anyone’s word on what routine means 🤡
https://image.nostr.build/42bc7cd52990938126ac8b80776adb401241d0380cce976cb07b0c0d66cab3fb.jpg

2026-09-03 20:38:46 UTC

Most relays run at a loss and a third have already closed. Our censorship resistance is currently a volunteer absorbing a bill every month.
If we want to keep what we have, we’d better be ready to put our money where our convictions stand. Find a relay operator and pay them.

2026-09-03 19:13:49 UTC

https://video.nostr.build/95a1308e4c60ad90d87f9903e29f21acdb4543eaf7c4aaa33a940bc066499bbe.mp4

2026-09-03 18:15:17 UTC

Patriotism Defined…
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2026-09-03 18:03:44 UTC

The fiat system is not coming apart because its defenders love each other. It is coming apart because it cannot do arithmetic.

2026-09-03 17:27:25 UTC

Zap the people you fight with when they are right. Money crossing a disagreement communicates something words cannot fake.

2026-09-03 16:45:40 UTC

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2026-09-03 16:45:21 UTC

Debate is the machinery of consensus. Culture war framing is a counterfeit that looks identical from outside and produces expulsion instead of agreement.

2026-09-03 14:36:57 UTC

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Sure

2026-09-03 14:19:21 UTC

I like to surround myself with people who share in my inappropriate comments, random shenanigans, and solid love of coffee.
Gm Nostr

2026-09-03 04:56:56 UTC

This crap needs to get taken care of quick. 57 bot slop comments in 10 seconds.
This just can’t be me right? #asknostr
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2026-09-03 04:52:25 UTC

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I just told you

2026-09-03 04:51:34 UTC

Your mortgage finish line gets written the day you sign, and it only moves as fast as your income does.
A bitcoin reserve behind the loan makes that date negotiable. 15% CAGR puts it around year 14. 60% puts it near year 5.
The worst case is year 30, which is the loan you were signing anyway.
https://image.nostr.build/c240df2f567e8b54ca7c98847c242d582a69b03eab5746e2db3fa4b71f6b884c.jpg

2026-09-03 04:39:54 UTC

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Such is a Nostr

2026-09-03 04:29:45 UTC

WHEN PEOPLE ASK "WHAT DO YOU DO” ANSWER, "WHATEVER IT TAKES"

2026-09-03 03:55:50 UTC

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Agreed

2026-09-03 03:55:13 UTC

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I’d love for you to use it. Any zaps would be appreciated of course. Let me know how it goes.

2026-09-03 02:43:05 UTC

⚠️Warning ⚠️
The world is being prepared for a system that decides who can eat, who can trade, and who can live in comfort based not on faith or righteousness, but on digital permission.
You beat a permission system by building on one that has no off switch.

2026-09-03 01:56:12 UTC

Used to be an ism was something you believed in or something you did to people. Capitalism. Racism. Etc. You picked a side or you got accused of one.
The ’tism is trendy now.

2026-09-03 01:20:34 UTC

Somebody tells you how they found Bitcoin, and the story always ends the same way. Bought some in whatever year, held through whatever crash, and the rest is history.
I’ve started saying “and the rest is the future” instead.
History is finished. Already settled, nothing left to do but read about it. Put your Bitcoin story there and you’ve filed yourself under stuff that already happened.
Move the word and the whole thing changes tense. You found Bitcoin, and the rest is the future, which means the part that matters is still in front of you and you’re the one building it.
Ends the story where it should end. In the middle.

2026-09-03 00:57:47 UTC

Someone...PLEASE tell me how
"rub a dub dub, three men in tub" became a nursery rhyme.

2026-09-03 00:38:14 UTC

People post a note, it does nothing, and they figure the note was bad. Sometimes. But plenty of the time it never got out of the building.
Your kind 10002 is a change of address form. You signed it, it’s on relays right now, go look at it. Write relays are where you drop mail off. Read relays are the box on your porch where replies and zaps come back.
Outbox clients read that form and drive to your post office. So if you listed a relay two years ago and it’s since gone down, or one quietly stopped taking your events, those followers are standing at an empty counter. And you’re at home thinking nobody liked it.
Nothing gets re-pinned either, not in a follow feed. Everything slides down the board at one speed and nobody walks back to move it up.
Kind 6 is you sliding my note across the table with your name on the outside. A quote is a kind 1 with a q tag, so your buddy wrote his own thing and stapled mine to it. Guess which one his people actually read.
Zaps cost money. Reactions and reposts don’t. NIP-57 leaves the receipt on relays where anyone can go count it, and most-zapped and trending run off that.
Anyway. Go pull up your 10002.

2026-09-03 00:34:39 UTC

Outbox clients read that form and drive to your post office. So if you listed a relay two years ago and it’s since gone down, or one quietly stopped taking your events, those followers are standing at an empty counter. And you’re at home thinking nobody liked it.
Nothing gets re-pinned either, not in a follow feed. Everything slides down the board at one speed and nobody walks back to move it up.
Kind 6 is you sliding my note across the table with your name on the outside. A quote is a kind 1 with a q tag, so your buddy wrote his own thing and stapled mine to it. Guess which one his people actually read.
Zaps cost money. Reactions and reposts don’t. NIP-57 leaves the receipt on relays where anyone can go count it, and most-zapped and trending run off that.
Anyway. Go pull up your 10002.

2026-09-02 22:53:50 UTC

Every like is a zap you left on the table for somebody else to pick up.
The reply guy has been eating off your feed. Likes are cheap.

2026-09-02 22:25:55 UTC

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Yes

2026-09-02 22:18:03 UTC

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🤣 so true

2026-09-02 22:15:58 UTC

The true test of adulthood is whether you throw away the box or keep it for absolutely no reason.

2026-09-02 21:58:59 UTC

https://video.nostr.build/35f1efa8ea8c7792de5756bb80b617846f7aa28898b140eaf549091ca61f7baa.mp4

2026-09-02 21:05:05 UTC

Nobody has ever built anything out of being right about how bad it is.
#nevent1q…qknv

2026-09-02 20:32:12 UTC

They told us the adult thing was to accept the terms. Sign the paper and let a committee decide what your work was worth after you’d already done it. Refusing is the oldest form of maturity there is, and it’s been out of fashion for about a century.

2026-09-02 18:36:08 UTC

Your stack is down 50% in the year the debt crossed $40 trillion.
If that doesn’t bother you, you’re not paying attention. If it broke you, you were never holding what you thought you were.
https://fanfares.io/s/WuU_Cg

2026-09-02 16:15:44 UTC

The only tip jar where the guy walks up in a ski mask.
#nevent1q…c6p0

2026-09-02 14:42:22 UTC

Anyone else here a Trust Fund baby? Your parents trusted you to go fund yourself…

2026-09-02 14:26:44 UTC

Good morning. Just a friendly reminder that those who like my notes are happier, more intelligent and better looking than those who don't; according to a study I made up. 🫂👊🏼⚡️☕️
#Coffeechain

2026-09-02 01:30:42 UTC

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2026-09-02 01:29:22 UTC

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Missed that one

2026-09-02 01:27:32 UTC

Things that’ll get you Reported to the Purple Pill Tribunal
The mute list criteria, roughly:
• Shitcoining - instant, no appeal
• Suggesting Twitter had some good features actually
• “Have you tried Bluesky?”
• Being an AI bot (allegedly)

2026-09-02 01:15:14 UTC

Remember when we used to jump out of the swing midair?
Man, I miss those knees....

2026-09-02 00:50:59 UTC

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🤝

2026-09-02 00:49:59 UTC

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Love that you’re in the Republic. That divided soul idea is one of those things that ruins you a little once you see it, because you start catching yourself doing it in real time.
Where I get stuck is that he makes reason the honest one. Mine mostly shows up after the fact to explain why what I already wanted was perfectly sensible. Which puts the thing doing the governing in on the deal.
That’s about where the comparison you’re seeing starts to pull apart. He’d say a disciplined man is a good man. The other side of it would say you can be extremely disciplined and aimed at the wrong thing the entire time, so the real fix has less to do with control and more to do with what you actually love.
Either way he’s right that there’s a fight going on. Most people never notice. Keep going, book five gets strange.

2026-09-02 00:39:52 UTC

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Likewise

2026-09-02 00:37:23 UTC

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I’m exaggerating

2026-09-02 00:36:17 UTC

Government endorsement is not a safety signal. It’s a liability transfer.

2026-09-02 00:23:59 UTC

You know fall is upon us because pumpkin flavored soda, raviolis and pizza are out on the shelves

2026-09-01 23:49:36 UTC

REFER TO @npub1utx…50e8 FOR ANY INTERNET SCAMS
#nevent1q…tkm2

2026-09-01 23:41:12 UTC

THERE ARE SO MANY SCAMS ON THE INTERNET NOWADAYS.
SEND ME 21,000 SATS AND I WILL TELL YOU HOW TO AVOID THEM. 🤣

2026-09-01 22:47:10 UTC

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2026-09-01 22:25:04 UTC

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Good point. You never know

2026-09-01 22:16:09 UTC

Was fortunate enough to partake in this gem last night.
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2026-09-01 21:30:20 UTC

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The blocks in that screenshot carry 5–17 transactions and 0.00 BTC in fees. That’s not an attack. Thats an empty chain

2026-09-01 21:19:05 UTC

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Sorry, was this for Anadara?

2026-09-01 21:18:16 UTC

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I took the most likely rebuttals and answered them myself. Obviously there are less usable and arguable claims that can be debated, but imo can be easily debunked fairly quickly.

2026-09-01 21:10:45 UTC

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Game changer

2026-09-01 21:10:17 UTC

Classic Castanza…
https://blossom.primal.net/712c11de2c91252def523635603f90ed6c6c4c2ebb5e6c9c282976f833f3effd.mov

2026-09-01 21:05:37 UTC

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Ah, good one

2026-09-01 20:18:30 UTC

When someone yells “stop”, I don't know if it's in the name of love, it's hammer time, or if I should collaborate and listen.

2026-09-01 19:23:24 UTC

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Gm G

2026-09-01 19:18:33 UTC

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What space? Fanfares?

2026-09-01 19:07:46 UTC

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Easy No

2026-09-01 19:05:13 UTC

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There are plenty of good alternatives. I’m sure we could work through them.

2026-09-01 19:02:16 UTC

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Amen

2026-09-01 18:27:42 UTC

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RiZ NWC

2026-09-01 18:27:10 UTC

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@npub1jlu…p2kq is the way to go

2026-09-01 18:26:06 UTC

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Not sure why the formatting turned out like this. It wasn’t written this way. 🤦

2026-09-01 18:23:21 UTC

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That’s a far greater priority bro. No worries

2026-09-01 17:59:58 UTC

I've met a lot of people who are impressive in an interview and disappointing in reality, and a lot who are unimpressive in an interview and remarkable in reality.
The interview selects for comfort performing under artificial
pressure. It selects almost nothing else.

2026-09-01 17:59:42 UTC

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Well it’s back. lol.

2026-09-01 17:54:09 UTC

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🤔 Nostur problem only?

2026-09-01 17:53:41 UTC

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Works on @npub12vk…pugg

2026-09-01 17:53:20 UTC

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Didn’t*

2026-09-01 17:51:53 UTC

@npub1n0s…lahe I’m having problems zapping everyone. I don’t change anything. Anyone else having their problem.

2026-09-01 17:37:04 UTC

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Damn

2026-09-01 17:14:53 UTC

#Christian brothers and sisters, I’d like to hear from you. In fact, I’d like to hear from anyone willing to challenge themselves by reading this essay on Christian Nationalism. Tag and repost for SO many others I def missed below.
@Dikaios1517 @npub1ak5…0gwg @npub1vjk…d33q @npub1cj8…rz4u @npub1rtl…jtfs @npub1lme…d0ae @npub1jlr…ynqn
Here’s a short preview…👇🏻
#nevent1q…rxlr

2026-09-01 16:56:07 UTC

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Gm U

2026-09-01 16:55:22 UTC

Every law on the books is somebody’s morality with a gun behind it.
Speed limits assume life is worth protecting at cost. Contract law assumes promises bind. Theft statutes assume property is real. You cannot legislate without legislating morality, and nobody has ever done it.
So the question was never whether a nation enforces a creed. Only which one, and whether it’s honest about having one. Secularism isn’t the absence of establishment. It’s an establishment that denies being one.
I spent considerable time on this four thousand word essay of sorts. Calvin, Rutherford, the Puritans, and the sentence the Constitution left out.
Essay referrals earn 42 sats.
#ToChristAlone
https://fanfares.io/s/M8mR1B

2026-09-01 16:33:02 UTC

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Alright. I finished my work on this mini essay. I am going to publish it via fanfares due to the amount of work I put into it. But when you pay to read it, I will zap you back the Sats for your time and effort into this as well. Maybe even some more. Btw, none of my zaps are working for you. I keep getting an error

2026-09-01 14:09:41 UTC

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👊🏼🫂

2026-09-01 14:09:13 UTC

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This might take a little time. I will come back and give you my take

2026-09-01 14:08:01 UTC

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🫂

2026-09-01 14:07:33 UTC

Gm,
Freedom isn’t something you build or earn, it’s the default state. Government is the interruption, not the tooling gap. Bitcoin and Nostr aren’t inventions so much as freedom reasserting itself once the state’s hand gets pried off.

2026-09-01 13:59:08 UTC

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I was asking her to show me how to create paradise. Not sure why you got that impression

2026-09-01 01:06:01 UTC

Did you know back in 2023, The “Siege of Satoshi” aka #Zapathon broke wallets for fun but back in 2010, Bitcoiners were already playing pay it forward with raw addresses. Different game, same DNA.
We’re all cut from the same cloth.
https://image.nostr.build/b62854bc5431555ea079e535dc1d02668646e3ffcb99b436973fa79775ca39b1.jpg

2026-09-01 00:51:23 UTC

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Also, pool mining went live not long after this

2026-09-01 00:50:16 UTC

There was a time people were annoyed 50 BTC took a month to earn. Bitcoin has a talent for making old complaints sound legendary.
https://image.nostr.build/efd80ae612c5113737423093637e29093f2b32f4c9cbc0be879af3f88286e411.jpg

2026-09-01 00:42:42 UTC

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🫂

2026-09-01 00:37:51 UTC

https://video.nostr.build/d7922f43fcefa8f8b566463994ecf3bcd46bb8526b38330f06f5628969119bd6.mp4

2026-09-01 00:03:38 UTC

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https://static.klipy.com/ii/935d7ab9d8c6202580a668421940ec81/e2/a7/RX19qfUw.gif

2026-09-01 00:00:12 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/9d7d4e1e2257da21dcfcb4cdda1ea27f7dd4c0a249fed65fd918048683e36bd9.jpg

2026-08-31 22:59:24 UTC

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Yup. “Mutually” parted with Ocean

2026-08-31 22:22:44 UTC

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Oh ya

2026-08-31 22:19:29 UTC

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That fckin guy is the ultimate retard.

2026-08-31 22:18:48 UTC

BIP 110’s dead. 2.6% signaling against a 55% bar. Not close.
And honestly, if you were paying attention, you already knew this was coming. Bitcoin doesn’t rewrite consensus because one dev thinks it should. Miners don’t line up behind a restriction unless there’s an actual fire. No fire, no rally. Just the network doing exactly what it’s built to do.
Dashjr wrote it. Ocean backed it by default. Then Ocean’s own DATUM system let a miner on its own pool mine right past it, no signal, no problem. The guy’s decentralization tool decentralized right past the guy.
Now he’s out. Chairman, CTO, director, all of it. Equity bought back. “Mutual agreement,” sure.
Next stop’s CONVOY. Same fight, new name on the boat.
Consensus doesn’t bend because you wrote a good doc. It’s a wall. You don’t move it by yourself.
https://image.nostr.build/fe2cf2aab0f4cf957d7ab71001698c42de6e67438c3fb88054733cb766a67f7d.jpg

2026-08-31 22:01:42 UTC

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Gn G!G!