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proof of god

The biggest growing metaphysical problem today: it’s hard to tell what is real and what is generated. Those alive today remember a world before AI. Implicitly, we rely on that when evaluating the verity of information. New generations will not be so lucky. To them, any human history could conceivably have been invented. They won’t be able to believe events of the past let alone current events of their present. I believe this will lead to social detachment and disassociation. It also presents a greater opportunity for authoritarian regimes to reinvent history.
Some system of digital proof of history needs to established. Perhaps the only way is democratic - where individuals can attest whether a certain event truly happened, and inscribe that vote into the bitcoin blockchain. The issue is how to do this without bots rigging the vote. How can a voting system be established where:
1. Each voter is verifiably human
2. Each voter gets only one vote
3. Voters are incentivized to vote in good faith
4. The voting system is decentralized. No gov ID/ biometrics are captured for each voter

2026-01-05 21:42:18 CET

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Appreciate the heads up, I’ll stay away. Starting to wonder if I can really recommend nostr to normies if it *may* subject them to shocking content. I stopped following any hashtags (except cautiously the “introductions” one) because any/all do contain adult porn, and I’m worried about what else. Regardless it’s real problem. I’m too scared to browse anything but my home feed. I do not want to see something terrible

2026-01-05 20:48:43 CET

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Welcome to nostr ADCO

2026-01-05 20:47:05 CET

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welcome to nostr!

2026-01-05 20:46:20 CET

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sup Grimm

2026-01-05 20:45:20 CET

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glad to have you here

2026-01-05 20:44:09 CET

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Welcome to nostr!

2026-01-05 20:41:53 CET

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Welcome!

2026-01-05 20:34:29 CET

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Welcome! Your song sounds good!

2025-12-30 00:54:36 CET

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There are 12 major chords and 12 minor chords consisting of triads (three notes). Learn how to play all of them using one hand on the piano. That way, when you look up a chord chart for a favorite song, you can pretty quickly play the chords. Practice moving between chords with your eyes closed too! Just get pretty comfortable switching between chords, like you do on guitar
For ear training, I wouldn’t even worry about being able to call out the pitch of a note by hearing it. This skill is cool but most musicians don’t have it, though it can be developed (relative pitch). What is far more useful: being able to heard a chord, and recognize “oh that’s a major chord”. And then find it on the piano after a few tries. If you can do that, you’ll be able to figure out the chords of songs just by listening to them.

2025-12-29 20:22:15 CET

I’m finally reading “The Creature from Jekyll Island”. Main takeaways:
1. Central banking is a conspiracy between governments and bankers to enrich themselves and stay in power.
2. The roots of fiat and central banking reach much past the depleted topsoil of the last 100 years. Bitcoiners would do well to understand that the Fed is a modern version of other central banks.
3. Central banking relies on usury, where bankers are able to charge interest on money they conjured out of nothing, simply by the permission of the state.
4. Central banking causes inflation, the greatest hidden tax on the populations of the world.
5. Central banking is the major component of a 120 year old plan to gradually redistribute the world’s wealth, create a world socialist government, and a world central currency backed by nothing. All for the benefit of the financial, ruling class.
6. Central bankers have no allegiance to states, and often finance both sides of wars.
7. Central banks bail out commercial banks and corporations, and pass on the cost of those bailouts to the population through inflation.
8. The populations of the world are largely completely unaware that their governments are stealing their earnings through inflation. They simply have no understanding of how central banking works.
Finally, opinions: after reading some few hundred pages, I don’t think Bitcoiners are aware enough of just how terrible central banking is, and how it’s a global practice through the IMF that has caused horrible value destruction and bloodshed.
Further, it seems Bitcoiners really think that world governments will make violent efforts to make transacting illegal within their jurisdictions. I believe that they will, as soon as Bitcoin presents enough of a threat to their system of money creation and world domination. In this event, civil disobedience cannot suffice unless a large enough percentage of a country’s population is already using bitcoin as a med of exchange. There will simply not be enough outcry from the already ignorant populations.
I think that world governments are more interested in castrating bitcoin before trying to quell its use as a currency. This is already in process through KYC laws and cap gains reporting requirements. I believe that there will be more efforts, that if successful will lawfully require citizens to identify themselves and the recipient(s) of a transaction. Too many will comply, and it will be very difficult not to, if one’s UTXOs are already KYC.
Lastly, I’m apprehensive of the new world order described by this book. Someday, our fiat currency will fail. Indeed, it’s designed to fail. The entire system is designed to fail eventually, and meanwhile enrich the ruling class. The difference is that this time, tools of mass surveillance may be sufficient in quelling dissent. And without enough ability to organize dissent, populations will not be able to overthrow their corrupt governments.
I recommend that every bitcoiner read “The Creature from Jekyll Island”. I wish that every single citizen of the world would read it as well. Unfortunately, the people are completely asleep, and the corrupt practices of central banking rumble along, toward the destruction of capital and human lives.

2025-12-28 04:16:59 CET

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Since you’ve been spitting hot takes here’s one of mine: dog couples are boring as fuck. Not sorry

2025-12-27 23:48:20 CET

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Learn some chords (major and minor) and then use them to play some of your favorite songs. That’s a great way get started and have fun. For music theory, start by learning what chords make up the major and minor keys. And learn some intervals. I used YouTube when I started, but it’s full of slop/click content now. I’d suggest getting a few lessons in person. Anyway, lmk how it goes - tag me if you have any questions. I’ll help you out for free. I’m a musician and songwriter. And oh yeah last point, you gotta start to develop your musical ear. Greatest strength as a musician imo

2025-07-21 22:22:45 CEST

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The leverage should be tied to the mNAV of the paper bitcoin company being discussed. For example if mNAV = 2 then 1 hr of listening counts for 2 of your #40HPW. More paper bitcoin means more free time for Paper Bitcoin Summer @nprofile…ytlp

2025-07-16 08:24:28 CEST

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Yeah I can’t view it either on @primal

2025-07-14 22:11:09 CEST

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Link works for me using primal

2025-07-12 09:04:17 CEST

I can’t stand it when btc pumps. I’m so grateful and so nauseous at once

2025-07-08 05:34:34 CEST

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Crouching tiger hidden dragon 🥲

2025-07-02 23:31:37 CEST

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I either upload the file to a cloud provider (Dropbox) or email the file to myself

2025-06-26 23:28:21 CEST

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Something like this comes to mind for solving the “send file to myself across devices” issue I face. Is that the intent of a clipboard or are we talking just text here?

2025-06-26 15:41:12 CEST

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Hmm if you can’t make those expenses without going further into debt (credit card) than I guess you either find a way to raise income or consider selling something. If it has to be some BTC, ok, but that hurts. I’ve had to do it myself at some point this year

2025-06-26 15:16:21 CEST

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For me, the point is that the $7k debt is not a big deal - the problem is when someone decides to finance a car instead of paying cash (I’ve been guilty, trust me). Maybe you can sell your car, pay off the loan and use the rest on a cheaper car, no financing.
Given the situation you’re in now, if you have a job, just pay the monthly payments if that’s affordable and let your stack do its thing 😎 . Don’t panic like “I need to get out of debt right now!!!” unless that debt really really represents a lot of stress and risk for you. Just change your behavior going forward (“I promise not to finance a car ever again”)

2025-06-25 21:17:26 CEST

Bitcoin won’t save you. It only saves your money.

2025-06-25 21:16:43 CEST

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I agree. Bitcoin won’t save you, it only saves your money. The challenging part is trying to figure out how you should serve the world in an authentic way and get compensated for it. The orange pill can’t do the work for you.

2025-06-25 21:09:02 CEST

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I would be asking this: should I sell my car so that I don’t have to sell my btc?

2025-06-25 20:57:52 CEST

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You could try to put gold on a blockchain aka a ledger. You’d get a kneecapped bitcoin - no true custody of the asset after a transaction unless you physically move the gold. Centralization of gold is a tendency, then you run into counterparty risk. You’re trying to use gold in a digital way when you can just use bitcoin - it was designed to solve a lot of the problems that gold presents.

2025-06-25 20:29:24 CEST

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I’ll pray for you

2025-06-07 18:34:33 CEST

Ok I just reluctantly tried vibe coding with Framer and I’m very impressed. Can you modify the wireframe using chat beyond the initial prompt though? #asknostr

2025-05-27 00:08:09 CEST

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My take: continual process of clearing out the bullshit in your life. Bad habits (typically digital addictions) are the “energy vampires” that leave you feeling unmotivated. Instead of trying to do more productive things, do less nonsense first. (I should follow my own advice more)

2025-05-07 19:34:10 CEST

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hot track, nice work rod @nprofile…5z9z

2025-05-05 07:26:58 CEST

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Can you tell more? One reason I left the church is bc I was uncertain that Jesus should be worshipped as God. I began to view him more as an enlightened and powerful man that zealots formed a religion around. What did Christ become to you?

2025-04-25 20:45:28 CEST

I didn’t vibe code shit I’m out here hustling

2025-04-15 23:55:22 CEST

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I think about this quote pretty often. How do you come to “some agreement” without a few/some/many ppl getting screwed? How do you determine which transactions were legit and which were malicious?

2025-04-15 23:52:59 CEST

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Trying to not quit, this job is very difficult. Most of my new coworkers have quit already

2025-04-09 07:28:00 CEST

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woah 🤯

2025-04-05 03:22:41 CEST

85k gang is the new 58k gang

2025-04-05 03:21:45 CEST

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#LAIH #40HPW

2025-04-05 03:19:20 CEST

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Love to hear it. Good luck

2025-03-22 23:57:31 CET

Technology is amazing. One day, the best baker in the world could be a computer. It will be voice activated, so you could say to it “bake me a cake for my wedding” and it would refuse because you are gay

2025-03-22 23:55:16 CET

for the first time in my life I’ve just realized that the saying “you can’t judge a book by its cover ISN’T necessarily talking about books

2025-03-15 05:08:24 CET

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need full version asap

2025-03-09 16:42:36 CET

starting to think that “this cycle” is never different 😭

2025-03-04 01:02:59 CET

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It’s beautiful

2025-02-16 18:21:13 CET

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That was my first thought too. However, if you don’t have an income because you can’t provide economic value to society, how do you purchase a robot? Further, the robot technology, at least for a while, may be proprietary, closed source and expensive for some time. And even if they do become cheap, and your robot can take care of your house, kids, etc. how can you afford food, gas, electricity (physical goods) if you have no income and no land? Robots could automate lots of your tasks without being able to provide you with economic value. Just brainstorming out loud

2025-02-13 18:06:52 CET

USAID shows the world that the Cantillion Effect is real

2025-02-13 02:57:07 CET

fat cat bitcoin persona perspectives don’t work for plebs in the trenches. Turn off your smug Bitcoin podcasts and go make your own path. In the trenches no one gives a fuck about you. And no one’s gonna save you but yourself

2025-02-06 20:22:29 CET

Bank stopped my check because they “didn’t recognize my signature” (???) and now I have to show up in person. Banking is unnecessary. I don’t want to have a bank account. The network effect of others having banks and using fiat is the only reason I have one. Fuck banking.

2025-02-05 16:20:57 CET

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“There’s nothing American about the USD” 🔥

2025-02-03 23:07:02 CET

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ppl still cling to their centralized media sources though, right? I.e. even in a saturated AI world, a brainwashed CNN stan will still trust CNN.

2025-02-01 06:08:47 CET

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I’ve tried typing a reply many times. All I can say is my mind is blown. Are you the inventor or are you building on others’ work?

2025-01-30 08:03:25 CET

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GM!

2025-01-29 19:30:35 CET

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Cool idea, seems like a potential solution. Appreciate the discussion. I too am just spitballing, but this kind of productive discussion is what I’m on nostr for.

2025-01-28 02:50:36 CET

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I believe cookies are stored on the client. So the reason for the intrusive cookies confirmation banners is that the site is asking permission to store those cookies on your device. I don’t think a signature from your nsec would match this use case. But maybe you could use your nsec to add in your own client’s “policy” so that you don’t need to be asked about it. I guess cookies are dumb and they’ll be done away with. But businesses do like to have some sort of analytics on their site visitors. Fine with that, just looking to automate that policy and place control with the client. And do it in a way that’s not retarded like the current way (cookies prompts).

2025-01-27 14:36:01 CET

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hi, I think so, but tbh I'm not enough of a dev to weigh in on that. I just think these UX patterns are really disruptive. I don't know what web browsing on nostr would look like but I think it should strive to solve these.
I don't think any gov should be able to regulate how clients build their sites and require things like cookies banners. Cookies architecture is something that could be replaced - by what, not sure.
Verification codes could be sent to an npub instead of a phone number. Can't wait for this.
It's annoying when bad UX patterns are adopted by businesses because 1) they're mandated, or 2) they choose to adopt them bc "experts" have recommended. 2 factor verif involving a phone is a good example - imo completely reckless due to sim swap attacks. "Best practice" tho!
It all revolves around separating web from identity: Stop trying to figure out who I am, just let me browse and do business on the web.

2025-01-26 15:01:05 CET

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Welcome Alberto! I get very authentic vibes from you. Namaste

2025-01-26 14:56:49 CET

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Welcome! You’ll fit in great around here

2025-01-26 14:53:25 CET

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What the fuck is this. My eyes

2025-01-22 14:20:31 CET

congratulations Ross Ulbricht

2025-01-20 21:01:41 CET

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Welcome! We could use a nostr ambassador like you who can explain in non-tech language why nostr is the future to the tictok and X normies

2025-01-19 14:54:48 CET

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It’s gonna get deleted one these days I swear. I feel like a fake corporate bitch whenever I scroll on there

2025-01-16 19:34:04 CET

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Can you use an old laptop and hard drive to run a node?

2025-01-16 15:50:53 CET

Had to sell a bit of bitcoin today. Forgive me Satoshi

2025-01-10 18:26:10 CET

UX is dead. Friction from cookies billboards, verification codes, cloudflare traffic checks ruins web browsing

2025-01-08 14:14:52 CET

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AI detected, opinion rejected

2025-01-07 04:44:33 CET

I’ve finally figured out that I really just want very few things in my life:
- to be stacking sats for my parents as they age
- stacking sats for myself
- to be playing/writing/learning/teaching music AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE so I can sing to the world
- to be strong and eating real food
- finding time/sats to see the world
- learning languages so I can speak to the world
- to be enjoying life while I’m working towards these goals

2025-01-05 20:35:08 CET

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duckduckgo’s just because it doesn’t require an account to use

2024-12-30 02:10:38 CET

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Thanks Matt, I’m trying to enjoy the holidays and relax with my family and the IRS just has to fuck up my evening and ensure I’m compliant

2024-12-18 23:57:15 CET

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I like coldcard. Well made. Can use them in a simple way or more advanced ways (airgap). I like navigating the device and the helpful prompts/warnings it gives you when performing actions. Pair with Sparrow wallet and you have a great experience.

2024-12-18 20:44:31 CET

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Hard clip. Waiting for my family and friends to wake up.

2024-12-16 03:50:58 CET

I’m grateful watching #bitcoin rise over the last year. I suddenly fear it rising too fast now, before I can convince my family to buy some. How on earth has it gone from being terrorist money to blackrock’s fav asset in like a year

2024-12-13 00:37:48 CET

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QUIT PORN STACK 🌽

2024-12-10 08:31:07 CET

Transacting air gapped, on chain using multisig and open source wallets makes me feel like a cyber cowboy in the digital wild west. Not in a gay way tho!

2024-11-20 14:47:59 CET

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cat detected

2024-11-13 19:08:19 CET

thank you Satoshi

2024-11-10 18:07:46 CET

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My first intuition is that it was meant to be filled with liquid. They speculate it could have been an oil lamp. Seems too delicate to be structural or to turn an axle or something.

2024-11-10 17:36:28 CET

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Welcome! We share the same passion of music. Post some of your music sometime.

2024-11-10 03:44:46 CET

sir, wen inflation-adjusted ATH?

2024-11-08 22:19:53 CET

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GM, I like the art, who is the author please

2024-11-08 22:19:12 CET

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What’s hash and how do you get it from a deer spine?

2024-10-31 06:28:07 CET

How many bitcoins do I need? Enough that I can scream “MORE, MORE” abruptly while clanging my spoon against the side of my tray and my many servants circuit in with various platters and plates unsmiling and unceasingly

2024-10-30 03:50:58 CET

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ecash cypher? 🤔

2024-10-23 21:21:31 CEST

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Gave it a shot. Love it. Such a relief to remove obnoxious thumbnails. Reminds me of early YouTube. Thanks

2024-10-18 23:33:43 CEST

If you don’t choke up for a least 1.65 seconds after watching your old car being driven away by some guy, and use the wad of cash now in your hands as a big ol’ handkerchief, you’re fucking joking bud

2024-10-17 00:18:39 CEST

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Chess. I wish my answer was music theory or history. Working on that.

2024-10-16 16:08:02 CEST

Gradually, then very suddenly, I have decided to pursue my dreams.

2024-10-11 06:07:21 CEST

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Hard pic ngl

2024-10-07 02:36:45 CEST

I have addiction issues with games like chess and poker. I dodged alcoholism but I get harmfully addicted to games. It’s a weird thing.

2024-09-30 18:53:06 CEST

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Smashing bathroom walls with hammer

2024-09-21 18:06:11 CEST

The greatest life lesson this year: there is a true poverty in staying in a lucrative but life-sucking job. What you gain in dollars, you are squandering in life energy. Believe in yourself, create a new plan and quit.

2024-09-21 17:59:45 CEST

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GM. I’m getting caffeinated now and working later, the weekends are for stacking 🌽

2024-09-20 15:25:37 CEST

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gotcha, well I guess the challenge is doing that on the client. I don’t see how it’s possible yet. But nostr still works, we can all chill out and live with the spam while we discuss solutions. I hope devs don’t view spam as a failure and feel they have to rush in any fix

2024-09-20 03:17:47 CEST

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hello matthew

2024-09-20 03:16:59 CEST

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hello james how’s life