jamw

#NOSTR since 767573 15-12-22
#Bitcoin since GFY
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2026-08-27 12:44:13 CEST

Good Morning!
https://blossom.primal.net/706236e561c155e6e7c1f1299c191c1a1473e50f7f87ec2d48dc283b3a39c3b2.mp4

2026-08-27 00:02:02 CEST

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My favourite too! Tend to switch between broccoli, asparagus and fine beans. I sometimes cube the potato, parboil, then toss/fry in butter, garlic and rosemary.

2026-08-26 23:40:58 CEST

I’m addicted to #Squaredle
I played https://squaredle.com 08/26:
36/36 words (+2 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 6% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 50

2026-08-26 23:38:04 CEST

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I love the simplicity of “meat and two veg” in the 🇬🇧 culinary sense. Less so in the slang 🤣

2026-08-26 23:28:09 CEST

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Same

2026-08-26 23:26:24 CEST

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Exactly! 🤣 I’m just here for the journey

2026-08-26 23:23:01 CEST

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Yeah odd… I’m also too retarded to figure it out. The joys of using Nostr 🤣

2026-08-26 23:05:34 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/570171aed2a6abe20ed18c2e55cb5c3d017955ae8cc6970f5b019a237d584da0.gif

2026-08-26 22:53:30 CEST

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🤣

2026-08-26 22:50:31 CEST

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Does it affect Spark and Breeze? 🤷🏻‍♂️ @nprofile…4k44 was able to receive zaps 4 days ago.

2026-08-26 22:47:41 CEST

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Hmm that is odd… who knows what the feck is going on 🤣

2026-08-26 22:45:22 CEST

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Should be able to zap me. Hmm. @nprofile…4k44

2026-08-26 22:40:47 CEST

The reason I stick around on NOSTR is because I don’t like social media 🤣

2026-08-26 22:35:10 CEST

“The Great Software Reset: AI heralds a new era in software testing.”
Made that up, but it does feel like that…

2026-08-26 22:25:42 CEST

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Definitely!

2026-08-26 22:16:20 CEST

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Oh yeah. Why did I not see this?? Thanks for the reply. 🤙

2026-08-26 14:50:22 CEST

What kind of timeline am I seeing in @nprofile…4k44 and can I change it? I’m seeing a string of replies from follows but have to click out of it to gain context. Seems messy. Can I just see the top level posts of my follows?

2026-08-26 11:18:28 CEST

#Wordle 1,894 4/6
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2026-08-25 12:29:33 CEST

Shout-out to the £58k gang 🇬🇧

2026-08-24 21:35:38 CEST

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Does make one think. Would be interesting if Iran creates the world’s largest bitcoin reserve.

2026-08-24 20:45:14 CEST

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Content gets attention; relevance earns it; distribution multiplies it.

2026-08-24 15:23:54 CEST

If Iran was accepting #bitcoin for transit through the Strait of Hormuz, I wouldn’t be surprised if it stacks heavily in a strategic effort to circumvent international sanctions and the up-coming “economic D-Day.”

2026-08-23 12:29:38 CEST

#Wordle 1,891 6/6
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2026-08-22 17:37:25 CEST

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Walkmans!

2026-08-22 17:34:07 CEST

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They are certainly a nation very focused on detail and perfection as well as elegant simplicity when it comes to making things.

2026-08-22 16:54:05 CEST

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I like fine-tuning or optimisation.

2026-08-22 16:04:16 CEST

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Yeah, similar here. Stopped zapping via Damus as a result and now use other clients’ wallets.

2026-08-22 14:29:03 CEST

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2026-08-22 14:26:35 CEST

Is the #coinos wallet integration in #damus now a bit of a dodgy option for users? @npub1xts…kk5s @npub1nzh…z7rp

2026-08-19 22:49:27 CEST

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😂. In the UK, not only would the tablet be taken but also the selfie-stick mounted camera and then later the car. But probably not before a parking ticket was issued and a flash downpour of rain.

2026-08-19 11:32:00 CEST

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2026-08-18 23:43:45 CEST

It’s not wrong 🤣
https://image.nostr.build/ad42e68f5f20705f39e8cfa9d0e7e88a8fbb17d86fec1f93400e16ea4c04a752.jpg

2026-08-18 10:17:27 CEST

https://media1.tenor.com/m/C_yaccHwisAAAAAC/btc-bitcoin.gif

2026-08-17 02:10:19 CEST

Do. But also be patient.

2026-08-16 22:02:46 CEST

Absolutly smashed tonight’s dinner. Two grass-fed Scottish fillet steaks, local farmshop bought steamed fine green beans with boiled halved baby potatoes that were tossed and crisped in butter, grated garlic and black pepper. Plated up and drizzled over with the juice from the rested steaks. Sorry, no photos this time but it hit the spot! 🤤

2026-08-15 11:44:11 CEST

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Ah yes, but it’s more of a gateway/API isn’t it? I was just imagining the big players accepting bitcoin. One day perhaps! Still feel that bitcoin needs some big names to accept it to help with adoption. (Amazon, Google, etc) - it’s like validation for the masses.

2026-08-15 08:41:13 CEST

Do any AI providers/frontier-model companies denominate their token rates in bitcoin yet? #BTCadoption

2026-08-12 20:30:13 CEST

Final one: I did crop into this one.
https://image.nostr.build/e051548f8bbc7864c5c105767a1e8075662077cdc35b80f88c1344fad09c7224.jpg

2026-08-12 19:54:29 CEST

https://image.nostr.build/94981e5a0e0cfcdcb347adc217f466195d42f92d61dcdd1df9cd85461be59c70.jpg

2026-08-12 10:35:00 CEST

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😅 agree! A few years ago I gave myself concussion and split my elbow doing the exact same thing!

2026-08-11 11:21:48 CEST

How I use #nostr
https://video.nostr.build/bde4aac6e91fa9dc716e2c03950b836eb298be9661a61b5c56e99987edb6e945.mov

2026-08-09 17:08:52 CEST

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#nevent1q…hs3z

2026-08-09 17:05:53 CEST

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Yep.

2026-08-09 12:57:38 CEST

“Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”

2026-08-08 23:30:10 CEST

So to sum up, this is what just happened:
https://media1.tenor.com/m/OyWKpXZI6GsAAAAC/basketball-fan-ignored.gif

2026-08-07 11:34:58 CEST

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I wouldn’t send them back but definitely demand a refund!

2026-08-06 02:51:09 CEST

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That’s actually impressive. GM!

2026-08-06 02:42:45 CEST

We’ve probably all posted things here that we may later regret or perhaps be used against us.
Post wisely.

2026-08-06 02:33:11 CEST

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The key here is we don’t know. Currently conjecture. I need more info in order to forgive. Right now, owning the mistake (if it was one) would go a long way.

2026-08-06 02:18:26 CEST

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Whoopsie! At least it’s nostr. We don’t care that much unless she stole our bitcoin.

2026-08-06 02:15:20 CEST

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Looks like it! She and @npub1ymt…pxnz should meet up.

2026-08-06 02:11:13 CEST

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All banks are shit.

2026-08-06 02:08:36 CEST

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Yeah - and a nice cameo appearance…

2026-08-06 02:06:28 CEST

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Wait! You are with child?

2026-08-06 02:04:54 CEST

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Modus operandi since inception.

2026-08-06 02:01:53 CEST

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Half-way through it right now - and enjoying it. Better than I thought it would be.
I’m still waiting for a ThunderCats movie though (not an animated one).

2026-08-05 00:47:49 CEST

[N]onrandom
[V]ulnerable
[K]eys

2026-08-04 21:37:16 CEST

If only the thief secured their wallets with a coldcard…

2026-08-04 16:49:33 CEST

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Love the summer dress design!

2026-08-04 16:38:37 CEST

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It’s mad! I looked back to July 2023 when I bought a 1TB NVMe SSD stick. £45. Checked yesterday and the exact same one is now £225.

2026-08-04 01:16:44 CEST

*FOR UK SALE*
Anyone in the UK want to buy two 8GB Raspberry Pi 4s? One is mounted in a Flirc case and the other is mounted in an Argon One V2 with Argon One V2 M.2 NVMe Expansion Board base. Had issues trying to boot directly from an SSD with the latter but it did work with UmbrelOS booting from SD card with the SSD recognised as storage.
Neither come with SD cards or SSDs nor original boxes but each will be supplied with power supplies (Argon Type-C 18 Watts 5 Volts adaptors).
They will both be packed in a single zipped hard case.
100,000 sats and I’ll cover postage.
I will need your UK delivery address however (which is probably an issue here).

2026-08-03 19:25:12 CEST

Banks…
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-treasury-fines-ubs-financial-services-125-million-secrecy-violations-2026-08-03/

2026-08-03 17:12:21 CEST

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It’s also hard because “they” already have a money system that they were born (brainwashed) into and is “easy to use”, so why change? If only bitcoin had the same impact AI has had. Very few people I know care about bitcoin but they’ve all been exposed to AI via their jobs, AI apps, and its constant presence in the MSM in a very short space of time. It has entered their lives with far greater impact than bitcoin has.

2026-08-02 21:48:43 CEST

Let me go get my coinkite dice…
#entropy
https://image.nostr.build/3bd84a5354f210df85801ef26e2c250ad6b5046a07fec296944b829075eeb524.jpg

2026-07-31 11:37:38 CEST

Has coldcard just become hotcard?

2026-07-29 11:14:50 CEST

A fresh install of #StartOS 0.4.1 was far cleaner than the over-the-air upgrade. Less SSD space used too. (Perhaps a result of the new file system - btrfs rather than ext4). A fresh, full archival IBD took 16.5 hours this time around.

2026-07-29 00:12:06 CEST

Current mood:
https://youtu.be/xMV6l2y67rk

2026-07-28 23:00:55 CEST

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Only see the link in Wisp

2026-07-28 22:51:30 CEST

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Ah the TDK SA90 cassette tape. An icon of the time 😁

2026-07-28 22:49:38 CEST

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Me too. Ironically it felt far more social - friends met up more, we went “out”, more house parties, more freedom. So hard to give up the phone now as we’re so connected but it is a different type of connection now - a shallower one.

2026-07-28 22:40:09 CEST

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It sure was! I was 19 and guess what: no phones and consumer access to the Internet in the UK had yet to land!

2026-07-27 20:56:23 CEST

IBD (full archival) = 18hrs 47mins 20s 898.23GB

2026-07-27 17:30:32 CEST

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2026-07-27 17:24:59 CEST

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I stick around here for these type of convos 😂

2026-07-27 16:56:49 CEST

And this is why I stop at step 13…
#nevent1q…j69e

2026-07-25 17:58:08 CEST

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Yeah, £400 on a 4TB NVME SSD at the mo…

2026-07-25 17:40:18 CEST

2TB is beginning to not cut it with regard to a bitcoin node + fulcrum electrum server…

2026-07-25 02:06:15 CEST

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Next, cows are made of beef 😅

2026-07-25 01:30:55 CEST

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Just done it. Electrs is no longer in the marketplace.

2026-07-24 23:18:19 CEST

Start9 bitcoin node backed up and updated. Back in business!

2026-07-24 01:18:50 CEST

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#nevent1q…jg48

2026-07-22 23:29:33 CEST

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Such eloquence in the delivery, like you would never believe.

2026-07-22 02:37:39 CEST

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Always having issues with it too.

2026-07-22 02:11:34 CEST

Is #coinos wallet down or not working any more? #damus

2026-07-22 01:59:22 CEST

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Added!

2026-07-22 01:59:12 CEST

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Added!

2026-07-22 01:56:06 CEST

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We can’t escape time!

2026-07-22 01:52:37 CEST

Compiling a “driving” playlist for an upcoming 8-hour drive. Suggestions welcomed. All decades considered.

2026-07-22 00:51:07 CEST

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Why do I want to dive in 😂

2026-07-22 00:39:49 CEST

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Now take some of those and blend them with some fresh basil, garlic, a little onion and some good olive oil (with him). He will surely love to eat what he gathered with some pasta/spaghetti! 🙂

2026-07-22 00:22:07 CEST

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Love it when others learn about biology. It’s not all dev work 😁

2026-07-20 23:11:11 CEST

AI be thinking… 😁
1. Let’s acknowledge the strong parts of the “replace fiat with Bitcoin” case:
• Medium of exchange:
Bitcoin works as a medium of exchange today: you can pay, settle cross‑border, and do it without central banks or commercial banks deciding who is allowed. Lightning and similar layers make small, fast payments realistic in practice.
• Store of value and credible scarcity:
A fixed, transparent issuance schedule is miles ahead of “trust us, we’ll manage inflation”, especially after repeated rounds of QE, negative real rates, and stealth financial repression.
• Fiat isn’t “backed by” anything tangible:
The dollar is backed by law, guns, tax authority, and network effects, not by gold or some objectively scarce commodity. That’s both its strength (flexibility) and its weakness (abuse risk).
• Debt‑driven, pro‑cyclical fiat system:
A credit system built on elastic money tends to produce cycles: cheap credit → leverage → asset bubbles → bust → bailouts, then repeat. A hard base money constrains that.
So I’m not “fiat‑brainwashed”; I’m taking seriously both why Bitcoin fixes real problems and why replacing fiat completely is not straightforward.
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2. Fixed supply: what it improves, and what it breaks
What it improves
A hard cap does three big things:
• It kills the “print our way out” reflex. Governments and central banks lose the option to silently tax savings via surprise inflation.
• It rewards saving and long‑term thinking rather than leverage and chasing yield just to stay ahead of inflation.
• It forces fiscal discipline: you can’t easily roll over infinite deficits in a currency you don’t control the issuance of.
All of that would reduce the frequency and severity of some types of crises, especially those born from monetary excess.
What it breaks or makes harder
Where the fixed supply bites is in coordination and adjustment:
• Credit still exists under hard money.
Even under a gold standard, you had banking crises, panics, and depressions because credit cycles and maturity mismatches don’t disappear just because the base money is scarce. Hard money is not a magic shield against human risk appetite.
• No elastic buffer during shocks.
Imagine a sudden, massive demand for liquidity during a pandemic, war, or global margin call. Under fiat, you get fast expansion of base money plus lender‑of‑last‑resort facilities. Under a Bitcoin‑only base, all adjustment has to happen via prices and defaults, not balance‑sheet expansion. That’s brutally honest, but also brutally painful.
• Recessions don’t vanish; they change character.
With hard money, recessions come more from real shocks and credit misallocation, and they clear via deflation, bankruptcies, and unemployment. Some would argue that’s better than “papering over” problems, but it’s not no‑recession; it’s different‑recession.
So: fixed supply can reduce fiat‑style boom/bust tied to policy mistakes, but it doesn’t abolish cycles. It mostly says: “no more cheating; we take the pain when it comes instead of smearing it with money printing.”
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3. Volatility: not just classification, but adoption dynamics
Bitcoin’s volatility is partly a side‑effect of it being treated as a speculative asset rather than a unit of account.
But there are deeper reasons:
• Path from zero to global money is inherently volatile.
Any asset going from niche to trillions passes through speculation, bubbles, and crashes. That’s a feature of adoption dynamics, not a label in a regulator’s filing cabinet.
• Reflexivity:
Expectations about Bitcoin’s future role feed into today’s demand. When people fear fiat debasement, Bitcoin spikes; when they relax or need cash, Bitcoin dumps. That won’t vanish until it reaches a very mature, widely distributed holding pattern.
• Unit‑of‑account problem:
Salaries, rents, long‑term contracts are overwhelmingly in fiat. As long as that’s true, everyone constantly “marks” Bitcoin against fiat, amplifying perceived volatility. Even if Bitcoin is the better money, the legacy unit of account is still the lens.
If we actually treated it as currency and denominated things in sats, volatility would drop. That’s plausible—but getting there means a huge change in behaviour, law, and infrastructure worldwide.
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4. The dollar isn’t backed by a scarce commodity. It is backed by:
• Legal tender law (you must accept it for debts and taxes).
• The ability of the US state to tax a large, productive economy.
• Deep financial markets and a global network of contracts written in dollars.
• A massive military and geopolitical footprint.
That backing is political, not physical.
Bitcoin says: “back value with math and scarcity instead of political power.”
Fiat says: “back value with institutional and coercive power instead of scarcity.”
From a moral or philosophical standpoint, Bitcoin’s model is cleaner. From a real‑world standpoint, those institutional levers are exactly what states use to stabilize and coordinate during crises.
So the question is less “is fiat backed by nothing?” and more “do you want to replace institutional backing with purely protocol‑based backing, and accept all the implications?”
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5. Thinking outside the box: what a Bitcoin‑based world might really look like:
1. Base money: Bitcoin only (or overwhelmingly).
2. No central bank control over issuance or surprise inflation.
3. Governments live on explicit taxation, not stealth monetary taxation.
4. Credit exists but must be funded from real savings, not cheap elastic reserves.
5. Prices, wages, and contracts mostly denominated in sats.
What changes:
• Governments get smaller (or more honest).
They have to explicitly tax or borrow in markets; no quiet debasement. That constrains war, large welfare states, and bailouts. You get more limited, transparent government—if people actually accept the trade‑off.
• Asset prices deflate relative to fiat expectations.
With no forced inflation, long‑duration assets won’t get constantly pushed up by cheap liquidity. Housing, stocks, and bonds would be priced differently—possibly more affordably in real terms, but less “up‑only”.
• Personal responsibility goes way up.
No meaningful inflation to erode debts; no central bank put under markets. That suits people who plan, save, and take risk carefully. It punishes those who rely on the system to cushion them.
• International power rebalances.
States that accumulate Bitcoin reserves (or that mine / secure the network) gain monetary leverage. States that refuse to adapt lose it. That can be good for some, chaotic for others.
To me, that is outside‑the‑box thinking compared with the current fiat paradigm. It ends a certain kind of fiat‑driven cycle, but human behaviour and shocks still exist.
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6. Where Bitcoin fits best right now
Instead of treating it as “all or nothing”, there’s a middle path that preserves the upside of Bitcoin without pretending that present‑day institutions vanish overnight:
• Parallel hard reserve asset (“digital gold”).
States, firms, and individuals hold Bitcoin alongside fiat, reducing their exposure to monetary abuse and providing an escape hatch.
• Neutral settlement layer for cross‑border payments.
Bitcoin (plus layers) can act as neutral rails where neither side trusts the other’s currency or institutions.
• Opt‑in money for those who want it.
People who share your view can already live heavily in Bitcoin: earn, spend, save, and price things in sats within communities that accept it.
Over time, that parallel track can grow strong enough that “fiat‑only” becomes the weird choice, not the default. At that point, a deeper transition is realistic.
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2026-07-20 22:47:47 CEST

AI getting defensive… 😂
“So I’m not “fiat‑brainwashed”; I’m taking seriously both why Bitcoin fixes real problems and why replacing fiat completely is not straightforward.”

2026-07-20 19:36:39 CEST

It was literally a PM swap that took an hour or so, including speeches. MSM made it feel like all day and they’re still rabbiting on.
#uk

2026-07-06 15:35:20 CEST

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The more bitcoin that gets exchanged for fiat the better. And the more fiat that gets exchanged for bitcoin the better. #WinWin

2026-07-04 21:28:30 CEST

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You were right about us Brits not going to dentists. I hadn’t been since 2001. However, apparently my teeth are in very good nick generally (good genes?) but I do need two small fillings. They have promised composite fillings at no charge. Not complaining…

2026-07-04 21:20:38 CEST

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Volunteer guinea pig. Had to sign my life away first though 🤣

2026-07-04 21:16:54 CEST

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I’m currently a guinea pig for final year dental students in Fife (Dundee mainly). They’re supervised by senior qualified dentists so the work is top-notch and I get really pampered too. 🤣

2026-07-04 21:09:36 CEST

Buy iPhone 17 Pro now or wait for 18 Pro 🤔

2026-07-04 20:41:53 CEST

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British company already shitted…
https://www.techspot.com/news/108173-builderai-collapses-after-revelation-ai-hundreds-engineers.html