thomasforsyth
Thomas Forsyth

Keep experimenting, keep exploring, keep adventuring… just because it doesn’t please the algorithms doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth doing. Keep up the great work Joe

2025-12-20 17:00:33 UTC

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Something I wrote a little while back on the topic: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs0645qgglp53c447ct6t3me0yfc45mqvhh53540zs2elcq8cmx8ggknh0s4

2025-12-19 16:54:14 UTC

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Haha 😄 Brilliant… Make love not war; the man practices what he preaches

2025-12-19 16:49:52 UTC

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Probably easiest to show you, so I’ll link to a little overview video I put on Nostr, but I also happily take on smaller projects with nice folk. Past examples have included: bespoke furniture or engagement ring box, custom hallway storage fit out, reverse engineering and batch making a set of out-of-production parts to save someone from having to refit 28 perfectly good windows… kind of a new age handyman 😄
Anyway, here’s that video:
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsqakmy46vkjdum7wd00zxj50syl8df6dk3ng4jamp5xrhag7wgcjgax8uu7
I’m a big believer in the growing orange economy and would love to transition more of my work in that direction to align with that. Finally got around to getting my business set up to receive Sats this year. Exciting time to be alive.

2025-12-19 15:58:40 UTC

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Always happy to take on private commissions for Sats (or fiat) when people want something extra-special/personalised and custom designed/built by a UK based craftsperson. Makes a nice change from the commercial projects. Actually had a great idea for a little Nostr only Christmas product, but was sadly too late to get it together in time, so will probably have to wait until next year. Absolutely loving Nostr though!

2025-12-15 19:34:43 UTC

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Yes

2025-12-15 19:30:05 UTC

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Exciting times

2025-12-13 20:00:25 UTC

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It’s on! These tools and the paradigm shift that’s going on give me a lot of hope.

2025-12-09 07:59:33 UTC

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What a powerful pair. Lovely to see and big respect to you both

2025-12-09 07:57:39 UTC

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Keep up the incredible work. It’s so very appreciated and the UK badly needs this shift.

2025-12-03 17:15:34 UTC

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Rad opportunity for a rad cause; if I had graphic/web/app design skills I’d jump at this one.
#nevent1q…n4w7

2025-12-03 08:32:17 UTC

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Thanks! Exciting times. Yes let’s!

2025-12-03 07:22:31 UTC

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😄 what a dude. I need to learn some moves like that.

2025-12-03 07:11:47 UTC

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I often wonder about this too… guessing we’re very early/niche in the grand scheme of things, plus it mainly only becomes desirable to use when all other options go down/dark?

2025-12-02 16:40:12 UTC

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Sadly not going to be able to make it down tonight, but really appreciate the shout out! Tx

2025-12-02 16:24:40 UTC

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Very possibly! Looking forward to hearing more about it.

2025-11-30 12:20:48 UTC

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Seven ✋✌️

2025-11-30 12:18:44 UTC

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Well said

2025-11-30 09:07:35 UTC

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Sounds like fun

2025-11-15 23:27:29 UTC

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Yes 👏 Gorgeous

2025-11-07 09:26:52 UTC

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Brother, it sounds like you need rest, recovery and nourishment.
You’ve been pushing it and achieving incredible things for years at a remarkable pace. And you’re such a valuable voice, creator and asset in this historic shift. Without people like you, Bitcoin never reaches adoption.
It’s totally normal to reach points of burnout and reflection when you carve your own path. I know this well from my own journey (in design and fabrication). It’s a wonderful and brutal world that we’re navigating.
If you ever feel the need for a companion to navigate stormy patch with and chat about the journey; know you can reach out for a call or a cup of tea.

2025-11-06 14:44:57 UTC

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Beautiful work, wonderful idea; a worthy cover for a gem of our times.

2025-11-06 11:50:41 UTC

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Definitely very exciting; continued integration and infrastructure development options are all very much needed for ease of long-term adoption

2025-11-05 18:18:59 UTC

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Great work Matthew

2025-11-04 20:09:34 UTC

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Phone calls and voice notes are still my favourite

2025-11-04 20:06:54 UTC

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Wikipedia is such a captured crock of horse s**t these days. Your work is respected and valued by many Lyn. Always appreciate your calm and grounded take on things.

2025-11-04 19:56:59 UTC

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Probably just an agent of the central banking elites. Sorry to hear about the stress.

2025-11-03 17:53:14 UTC

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Plus… find them a nearby coffee shop/pizza place/etc on @nprofile…996k so they can have a little adventure and go spend it

2025-11-02 08:06:28 UTC

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Another: https://youtu.be/LA4ofK8DQ3s?

2025-11-02 07:43:49 UTC

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Enjoy friend: https://youtu.be/-uCyFQPpdGI?si=Axrb0-6FjWGbuZRQ

2025-11-01 16:42:53 UTC

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Watch @nprofile…20wr documentaries on the mountain village in Peru… when you’re living on a Bitcoin standard as the base of your micro-economy; Bitcoin is the stable measuring stick for the free market, regardless of what the dollar value is doing…

2025-10-30 18:38:21 UTC

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This is so rad!!! Congratulations. Nostr is actually frickin working!

2025-10-30 18:16:15 UTC

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Thank you so much for your work Matthew. Your knowledge and insight are always mind-blowing, and delivered in such a calm and grounded fashion. Huge respect for you brother.

2025-10-30 16:30:16 UTC

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This is the way friend. Personal growth + deep learning about the bigger picture. We’re part of a story that may well be talked about in thousand of years to come. This is a gift to be conscious of it.

2025-10-30 16:24:31 UTC

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Thank you brother! I stack Sats for my daughter to be, my little nieces and nephews, my loved ones; we can build the life raft. Bitcoiners are like Noah, Bitcoin is the Ark for a better world. We got this my friend.

2025-10-30 15:48:45 UTC

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Every single person that receives a single Sat is a win for humanity. Even just starting to wake up to Bitcoin not being a scam is progress. Most people don’t even understand the basics of price and investment, let alone Bitcoin. People are waking up to the problem; life is becoming unaffordable. It’s a matter of time, education and development for them to arrive at the solution. It’s a time to be stoic, patient and to share from a place of love. There’s no forcing true, peaceful and lasting revolution; only inspiring the hearts and minds of others and proving it in reality. We live in wild times

2025-10-30 15:33:15 UTC

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Thank goodness for that! May as many ships rise with the tide as possible.

2025-10-30 15:28:49 UTC

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We are seeing the birth of a fairer global economic and informational infrastructure; and we’re gifted with living to see it happen; f**k the short term price action. This is a generational revolution, building a better world for all. Peace brother.

2025-10-29 12:29:34 UTC

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3.) Create value for the world and those around you

2025-10-28 22:13:55 UTC

I am so orange-pilled, that; I now glow in the dark…
How orange pilled are you? Pass it on… 🎃

2025-10-28 18:32:25 UTC

Fun little job; helping a friend’s father to reverse engineer and remake some out-of-production vintage window parts, so their shared-building doesn’t have to do a full window refit.
Prototyped, 3D printed and hand finished here in London, in a high performance nylon/carbon-fibre composite material.
Someday I dream that these jobs will be payed in Sats;
Craft + Bitcoin = The New Renaissance
I look forward to that.
https://blossom.primal.net/75eff26bd04b63462559646612c685fa5c72f8cbe63535d6a367d4d9c051b34e.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/b286cc0f1f3a2d9abdaa2e254b8ddfea6468fc5d38f594e8a403798c3afed8c8.mp4

2025-10-25 18:56:32 UTC

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Fire 🔥

2025-10-03 10:52:59 UTC

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Beavering away on it again today… just got to pray for no tool breakage on some tricky milling operations 😄

2025-10-02 10:20:49 UTC

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@nprofile…7fuu apologies for the massive explanation before, had been a long day 😄 Here’s a little sneak peek of something that’s in the pipeline

2025-10-02 10:17:33 UTC

OMG: I just had a bot/scam call from ’Indeed Jobs’ and they sounded about 12yrs old 🤣 Absolute gold.

2025-10-02 08:39:33 UTC

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Thanks for the repost!

2025-10-01 16:34:33 UTC

I’m super excited to announce that Thomas Forsyth Limited is now fully set up to start accepting Bitcoin (BTC) payments in exchange for services in; 3D design, fabrication and artisan craftsmanship. This includes both: on-chain (Layer 1) payments and also faster/cheaper transactions via the Lightning network (Layer 2).
It’s something that I’ve had in the pipeline for a long time now, so after many years of study and careful experimentation with the technology behind the scenes, I’ve finally put in place some sensible infrastructure to make it easy, secure and smooth for accounting in the business, so that I can offer this new option for local and global customers.
A rapidly growing number of businesses, institutions and even nation-states are currently adopting Bitcoin, because it helps them to solve a vast range of challenges and new opportunities, such as:
🟠 Protecting purchasing-power against inflation and expansion of currency/monetary supply
🟠 Cheaper, faster, more secure, global, peer-to-peer transactions, 24/7, whether you’re sending a fraction of a penny or £100M+
🟠 Incentivising and supporting green/sustainable energy technologies and use of wasted-energy (no seriously; check out the work of Daniel Batten @nprofile…4dvj )
🟠 Layers of institutional-grade security options that (if used) make hacking, theft or extortion near impossible
🟠 Balancing electrical grid infrastructure and making it viable to provide electricity in isolated geographic locations for the first time ever
🟠 Financial protection against political discrimination, de-banking and even war, in an increasingly turbulent era (Alex Gladstein will help you to get your head around this)
🟠 As well as giving some of the poorest and most remote people in the world the ability to create their own micro-economies, to independently bank and save, and the ability to access a fair and global capital network (@nprofile…mtx5 creates some incredible documentaries around this kind of adoption)
For me and my small business; I'm passionate about helping people make things, I’m very cautious and conservative by nature, and I'm certainly not aiming to be a ‘Bitcoin Bro’ who's rolling in millions and buying their fleet of Lamborghini's; but that’s exactly the point. Studying Bitcoin changed my understanding and relationship with money; it gives warranted hope through changes and rainy days to come, and it gives a glimpse at a brighter tomorrow for our future generations.
Whatever your current understanding is of Bitcoin, it’s well worth taking a much closer look at this fascinating and exponential paradigm-shift, because it’s taking place in our time and is very likely here to stay, regardless of the short-term volatility.
And, if someday you decide that you want to do business together using Bitcoin… now we can!
https://blossom.primal.net/0b962964ffa14017f0b6599592e8c2191b5278807fbb3630599512df92f790a8.mov

2025-09-28 04:46:25 UTC

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I hear you. Some people are scared, some feel lost… and occasionally some people genuinely just want to be the gimp. Lol

2025-09-28 04:41:05 UTC

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While Bitcoin, Nostr and Bitchat exist; so does a pretty decent freedom toolkit to un-f**k ourselves. There’s still hope friend.

2025-09-27 17:53:48 UTC

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Appreciate the kind words sir!

2025-09-27 16:52:08 UTC

Very few things in life scare me: I find the prospect of our people sleepwalking into a Digital ID system utterly terrifying (regardless of whether it’s state or corporate controlled).
If you pair this Digital ID, with the Online Safety Act (new powers that have already been rushed into place in the UK), a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC’s are very much in development and are already in effect in some places), and a Social Credit Score system in the near future (again, some countries are already grading their citizens); you are giving away your rights and the freedom to be able to meaningfully disagree with your government on any topic ever again (and also to every other even more nightmarish government that may enjoy having these powers in the future). If at some point you also add an ‘unrealised gains tax’ (that wipes out any form of property you own), a bank bail-in (that wipes out your savings like Cyprus or Lebanon did) or an exit-tax for the UK; then at this point most people won’t feasibly be able to leave even if they eventually decide that they want to. A modern-day mass form of subtle slavery, from a series of small changes that sound so harmless.
Think this all sounds kooky? Just take a look around our current world and its history books. Then take a look at manifestos from influential groups like the World Economic Forum (WEF) - who suggest that: “you will own nothing and you will be happy”. Notice how it’s not: “we will all own nothing and we will all be happy”.
People are distracted and caught up in polarised in-fighting, pointing to each other and pointing to symptoms of the problem; this party/that party, housing, immigration, crime, healthcare, inflation, yet another boogyman; when as usual the root causes are generally to be found much further upstream and effect all of these things.
Call it whatever you want; money printing, coin clipping, quantitive easing, diluting purchasing power, expansion of the monetary supply, counterfeiting. Every time in history that elites have figured out a new way to break the technology that we use to store and exchange energy/value with each other (also known as money); basic living becomes increasingly unaffordable to the average person, and society begins to break down. Our time is sadly no different. This time it started to break preceding WW1 with the Bank of England and with the creation of the Federal Reserve in America. It accelerated in 1971 when Nixon ‘temporarily’ and permanently de-coupled the world reserve currency (the dollar) from the gold standard (sound-money that is difficult to counterfeit). And then every time afterwards when there was another ‘big print’ enabled by these previous changes (such as 2008, 2020…).
If you want a simple illustration of what happened and how it affects you; then just look at a graph comparing the average house price, to the average wage over the last 100yrs. No prizes for guessing that asset prices have skyrocketed away from wages to unaffordable levels for the average person, especially after 1971.
We have significant issues to solve in the UK; Digital ID isn’t a solution to any problem that you or I are experiencing in our lives. It’s a transfer of what little independence, power and freedom we all have left; handing it directly to the exact same various elites that figured out how to break our money again.
If a small group of humans can expand the monetary supply and create for free the things that most humans have to work tirelessly for to acquire; then the ‘money’ that you hold will rapidly loose its purchasing power and will afford you less goods, services and quality over time. Those closest to the money printing will benefit disproportionately from it (funnelling those counterfeit monetary units into any thing, cause or atrocity that they want). And if we let it happen, once again society will continue to fray and crumble as it has before. History often rhymes, even if it doesn’t exactly repeat.
Follow the money. Stay curious, stay grounded and openly question those that attempt to rapidly force change (I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember voting for this).
I choose: freedom, integrity, fairness, kindness, compassion, love. And no, no Digital ID here thank you; regardless of what utter nonsense they try and pin it to:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194
Tx

2025-09-27 15:48:17 UTC

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Or… the most democratic platform ever created: a fully blown civil war with no deaths; seems like a big win to me.

2025-09-27 15:03:08 UTC

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Keep at it Matthew. Massive respect for your take on things

2025-09-25 20:26:04 UTC

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Insidious

2025-09-21 17:56:24 UTC

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You too brother! Let’s grab coffee sometime, be fun to have a further natter

2025-09-21 11:02:22 UTC

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First time to drop by, looking forward to it!

2025-09-21 07:08:30 UTC

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I live in the UK. The elites here have been denying it as a conspiracy theory for years and here we are. Scary shit… Buy Bitcoin.

2025-09-17 06:41:01 UTC

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Great video. Concise

2025-09-17 06:20:50 UTC

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Beautifully and calmly articulated. Thank you

2025-09-11 18:49:56 UTC

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*an* idea… I’m 100% with you on the sentiment, but you really need to change that photo, because it takes all clout out of the message.

2025-09-08 07:18:41 UTC

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Great questions.

2025-09-07 12:58:52 UTC

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Absolutely smashed it with this one; beautifully broken down and articulated. Both of those videos are solid choices too. Thank you

2025-09-07 08:09:02 UTC

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It’s been so sad to watch our leadership repeatedly dropping the ball on such a significant, positive, paradigm-shift in technology. Bitcoin can be a game-changer for the average person/business. Wishing you the best for this and very much hoping you manage to wake at least a couple of people up.

2025-09-01 16:41:03 UTC

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That is a crazy looking chart! Yeah no idea either but would love to know more.

2025-08-27 14:21:58 UTC

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Meditation and prayer work pretty well too. But yes, code is rad.

2025-08-27 05:18:39 UTC

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Haha! 😄 Brilliant

2025-08-26 14:15:08 UTC

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Another fantastic video Matthew. Your tireless work is so impressive and appreciated

2025-08-26 09:04:53 UTC

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Yes @nprofile…t3ww ! Excellent video. So concise.

2025-08-26 09:02:01 UTC

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$95,785.78 but I’m actually very bullish still

2025-08-25 16:03:01 UTC

Any idea what’s going on with the UK geohash? @npub12rv…85vg
https://blossom.primal.net/ccb1631be0b55493c45289270aa97f689d9e1575505f2201ee64b9af8b4888f6.jpg

2025-08-25 08:00:04 UTC

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My goodness, incredible piece @nprofile…dvmc So beautifully articulated and a hope filled gem

2025-08-24 13:31:18 UTC

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This is the way

2025-08-24 06:17:06 UTC

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Whoah, ever heard of redemption? We all have the capacity to make some pretty big mistakes, doesn’t mean we can’t have the capacity to learn and grow from them.

2025-08-23 11:01:39 UTC

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Using Bitcoin to help create wonderful things in this world is a respectable way to use your Bitcoin. More power to you brother.

2025-08-21 12:55:46 UTC

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Using Bitcoin to grow food is a respectable way to use Bitcoin… plus that is a badman whip.

2025-08-21 10:26:24 UTC

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The New World Order…

2025-08-19 08:13:49 UTC

Has anyone else here noticed their Bitcoin related comments on YouTube disappearing? Is this a thing or am I going mad? Even when the video creator liked your initial comments…

2025-08-18 08:10:07 UTC

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Loved this episode! Great work

2025-08-17 14:02:46 UTC

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Gem of an episode

2025-08-17 11:21:43 UTC

Bitcoiners have a phrase “fix the money, fix the world”… It seems to me that what we’re looking at is actually the beginnings of an entirely new, parallel global civilisation emerging. I’m certainly not alone in this thought.
Religions or languages are also examples of protocols for flourishing, though history and current examples show that humans have often managed to corrupt them.
While people squabble with each other over ideologies (capitalism, socialism, communism etc); Bitcoin seems to be laying the foundations for a fairer, more democratic, less corruptible, better world; where you get rewarded for your individual efforts and contributions, while the tide simultaneously helps all ships to rise.
You can become part of this paradigm shift any time you want, for a fraction of a penny… or even a single free post of merit on Nostr…
You don’t have to be @nprofile…m09e or @nprofile…g6za to start building wealth and transforming your outlook on the world (though I do greatly respect visionaries and humans like this). All you have to do is; take the time to learn what this thing is, then to verify what you learn by carefully applying it and experimenting with Bitcoin as a part of your life’s toolkit.
As a designer, a maker and someone who is very used to deep-diving and learning to apply new tools and technologies; I have never in my life come across anything so mind-blowing, with so much potential for positive global impact as Bitcoin. If it continues to evolve the way it has been, I suspect we are looking at one of the greatest human stories to touch this earth.
What an exciting time to be alive… live a good life friends.

2025-08-13 21:36:55 UTC

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Fantastic episode once again!

2025-08-13 15:31:12 UTC

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Your videos are always fantastic. Was a fun idea, but a slight issue is that it most likely works better for people who are popular, attractive, have a following etc, rather than people who are badly struggling with the basics of life. Keep doing your incredible thing though Joe. It’s massively appreciated.

2025-08-13 15:26:04 UTC

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Preach sister. This is so true. Even without the expensive treatments, understanding this stuff can change your life and can basically be free for those on a budget. Infra-red==Sun, Cold-plunge==Swim in a clean lake… etc etc

2025-08-07 12:53:05 UTC

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You too Ed! Lots of fun and I hope our paths cross again

2025-08-06 07:01:58 UTC

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Please bring this to the UK! We desperately need it! Thank you so much for all your pioneering hard work

2025-07-04 14:30:54 UTC

What would my Nostr/Bitcoiner people like to design/make? Maybe I can help…
#maker #bitcoiner #art #design #fabrication #creative #bitcoin
https://blossom.primal.net/98459d68488ecb5d0fe078060dcacfb955a448a5dc14c7533ecabf0da4df90ca.mov

2025-06-09 10:17:10 UTC

I love what Bitcoin is and I love making things for people; Nostr seems like the right place to be.
https://blossom.primal.net/6b49d719d722e141f6882a5eee49af52d213fd647ee733c970eabb3ccf6ef684.mov