ahplummer

Bitcoin is a strange thing. It evolves a person's thinking:
* Scam
* Ponzi
* Novelty
* Speculation
* Investment
* Savings
* Escape Valve
* Necessity
Where are you at?

2025-08-17 01:04:26 UTC

Yesterday marked 54 years since President Nixon temporarily suspended the gold standard from the dollar.
Sure am glad it was temporary, because money printing sure would be terrible.

2025-08-03 18:05:13 UTC

Pork chop sandwiches are underrated.

2025-07-05 15:32:47 UTC

😥Oh no! Not the privatization of money....
https://blossom.primal.net/687dde461251a4b0ac1b1ff1b1e3f41ee794b1599168e42cd305fa0cd5fab0db.png

2025-07-03 13:14:03 UTC

Shout out to @nprofile…ys9t . I needed to make an adjustment to my business account, and the customer service was stellar. Dealing with customer service usually leaves me frustrated and demoralized. Thanks Maddie! (or Mattie?)

2025-07-02 11:57:41 UTC

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"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."

2025-07-02 11:00:21 UTC

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Central banking IS a printer. 😎

2025-06-25 12:39:02 UTC

Words that have really never been put together in a meaningful way:
"unconfiscatable bearer instrument"
...until now. #Bitcoin - it might just catch on.

2025-06-24 17:28:09 UTC

Saylor: "Tickets to escape the matrix are priced in Bitcoin."
Apt.

2025-06-05 17:03:28 UTC

We're at the place where Elon is posting videos from dead economists....
Maybe he will go full tilt into #bitcoin.
https://blossom.primal.net/5f842d90ab002cf55ca930fde91898f290aeac4d2d762fca53bb156fd82fd0f2.png

2025-05-30 18:15:23 UTC

I bought this 10 Trillion dollar note a couple of years ago because it stands as an object lesson to me about the intertwining relationship between life energy and how a person "saves" that life energy.
@nprofile…869y defines money: "Money is a technology that stores life energy".
That definition has stuck with me, because it is super simple, and carries a load of impact. It reminds me that I should be looking at places to store my life energy from today for tomorrow's needs.
As @nprofile…6dtc says (from @nprofile…m2qp ), "why save your energy in a money that another man can print?"
Equal weights & measures.
#LowTimePreference with #Bitcoin.
https://blossom.primal.net/f3f8f08515898339db7024a1e00befa7efe02d8164e17fc1dbe8bdb86d79a946.png

2025-05-30 15:07:55 UTC

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Just casually flopped jumbo-sized testicles onto the desk. `I didn't BUY in, I MINED in`
🤯

2025-05-21 16:24:51 UTC

Sad day.
The sats-per-dollar has hit the lowest ever. You can now only get 917 sats per dollar.

2025-05-20 16:28:30 UTC

Listen to the turn of phrase by Cramer:
`and when bitcoin became legitimate, I added it....`
Curious minds want to know: when did bitcoin all the sudden become "legitimate"? Was there a point in time? As I recall, bitcoin was only used by drug dealers and terrorists.
🤔
Overton window is shifting. Get some #bitcoin before it's too late.
https://blossom.primal.net/2483f56ff3903beeb0e08e3ef345be1032cb4eea11b520d8f064567761996061.mp4

2025-05-12 00:42:40 UTC

The Latin word "fiat" is instructional. "Let it be". This word is captured in the Latin Vulgate in Genesis, "Fiat Lux" (Let there be light). For governmental entities to create money via fiat is putting themselves into the place of God: "let there be value", or "let this paper be money".
Find the escape valve. #bitcoin

2025-05-10 15:36:39 UTC

Lagarde's quote back in 2021 was impactful when I heard of it on a later podcast about #bitcoin:
“There has to be regulation. This has to be applied and agreed upon [...] at a global level because if there is an escape that escape will be used.”
This coupled with a very simple definition of money that I first heard from @nprofile…869y : "Money is a technology that stores your life's energy"...sort of becomes a bit of a red pill moment.
It makes one ask, "Why would a central banker care so much about an escape valve from the existing monetary networks?"
Answer: "They need to steal your life's energy."
Protect your life's energy. This is fair and honest weights and measures. This is the investment of the Master's talents. Make no mistake: it's a spiritual thing, when you see it rightly.

2025-05-09 00:40:47 UTC

It's a sad day for many. Yet again, we've arrived at a sell-dollar price of less than 1000 sats. 😭

2025-05-08 21:08:16 UTC

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Hey there,
Take my paltry sats....
Regards,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Unlicensed Money Transmitter™

2025-04-01 01:04:56 UTC

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Awesome thought, connecting freedom to death in this way:
"It is appointed for man to die once, and then the judgement....."
"He who the Son sets free is free indeed..."

2025-03-31 16:19:32 UTC

It's very interesting that Blackrock was just a few years ago lampooning bitcoin. Now the owner of the biggest and most successful bitcoin ETF to date, Blackrock is now positing that bitcoin can potentially eat into the US dollar's reserve status, due to the US's massive debt in their annual report released today.
https://m.primal.net/PzeQ.png

2025-03-28 23:56:36 UTC

It's fun transmitting money as an unlicensed money transmitter.....
#zapathon #bitcoin #nostr

2025-03-28 23:48:08 UTC

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Just money transmitting....

2025-03-23 23:09:27 UTC

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Literally, the definition of a Ponzi scheme is,
"an investment scam where returns for early investors are paid from the money of later investors, rather than from legitimate business profits, and relies on a constant flow of new investors to sustain the scheme."
Sounds like Social Security to me. 🤷‍♂️
#nevent1q…fwme

2025-03-22 12:19:34 UTC

GM. Block 888907, and $84k is the new $58k. #bitcoin

2025-03-20 15:34:53 UTC

I think this is Pomp's way of saying "buy MOAR!"
🤷‍♂️
Or, maybe a nothingburger?
#asknostr
https://m.primal.net/Pmhb.png

2025-02-26 17:33:57 UTC

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FINALLY!! All the podcasts, all the posts, tweets about all this never made any sense until this write-up. This makes 100% sense now.
TLDR:
* AWS key exploited
* Malicious JS targeted for one by modifying it in the S3 bucket
Thanks @nprofile…d27a ! You connected the dots for me.

2025-02-22 13:24:40 UTC

GM. It is block 884857 on the timechain.

2025-02-21 16:00:31 UTC

The #Bitcoin network is core to the identity and value proposition of #bitcoin (the money). These two properties of value are necessarily correlated and intertwined to make #bitcoin more valuable than any other digital asset.
The money is valuable because of the network. The network is valuable because of the money. It's why it can't be copied/duplicated/replaced with another.
To separate bitcoin (the money) from Bitcoin (the network) is nearly analogous to attempt to separate hydrogen from oxygen and still retain water. Water is valuable _because_ of the binding of two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen. (Obviously, hydrogen and oxygen are valuable in their own right, so the analogy breaks down for the more pedantic among us.)
GM, it's block 884732.

2025-02-20 13:29:21 UTC

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It's the new 58K gang.

2025-02-20 13:21:26 UTC

bItCoIn iS nOt BaCkEd By AnYtHiNg 🤡
It's backed by the energy needed to produce it. This acts effectively as a floor for price.
https://en.macromicro.me/charts/29435/bitcoin-production-total-cost

2025-02-15 02:57:35 UTC

Energy flows to where your attention flows.
Corollary: whatever has your attention has your energy.

2025-02-10 22:30:49 UTC

odd times: all time high hash rate, while mempool is empty. #PaperBitcoin?

2025-02-09 19:39:00 UTC

It's block 883075, and mempool is clear https://m.primal.net/OYPN.png
96 is still the new 58.

2025-01-29 00:38:27 UTC

The generally accepted 2% inflation per year target is still actually just theft against your life energy by another name.
Find the escape valve.

2025-01-28 15:58:48 UTC

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Use a couple of probes in the meat, and one "outside" the meat for ambient temp inside the smoker. I discovered that the ambient temp in the smoker was radically off from the smoker's thermometer. I found that I had to run the smoker at a lower temp (190 or so), to achieve a 220 degree ambient inside temp.
TLDR: Get a good digital wireless thermometer with like 4 probes on it. I got mine on Amazon for a few bucks. Well worth it.

2025-01-28 15:55:51 UTC

It is block height: 881218
GM. ☕

2025-01-27 17:06:45 UTC

GM. Stay humble, stack sats.

2025-01-26 03:36:59 UTC

I have a sneaky suspicion that any books published these days probably have had some sort of AI assistance. It's rather disheartening.

2025-01-26 01:08:38 UTC

What's it called when I no longer think of "buying bitcoin", but now think "selling dollars"? Is this some weird form of autism?
(Thanks @npub1cn4…3vle for educating about "getting on zero" with @npub1ex7…vyt9)

2025-01-03 15:26:15 UTC

I'm becoming more convinced that the best number to watch in Bitcoin is the hashrate, rather than the price in US dollars.
https://m.primal.net/NQWI.png

2024-12-09 13:04:22 UTC

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Do you have a gas fireplace with a switch on the wall? I ran into this before for my own home. That switch isn't wired into your electric service. It controls the "thermopile". Just flip it on, and use the fireplace as normal. https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/37877/what-kind-of-wall-switch-is-needed-for-a-natural-gas-fireplace-to-ignite-consist#37904

2024-08-29 11:28:29 UTC

The irrationality of humans is what maintains our edge over artificial intelligence. Non-determinism can be infuriating, but counterintuitively, can bring order to chaos & entropy.

2024-08-05 13:58:42 UTC

https://m.primal.net/Jopx.jpg

2024-06-15 15:45:35 UTC

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Self-custody is truly how bitcoin's most underrated property of "unconfiscatability" can fully be realized.

2024-06-15 15:34:56 UTC

AI is all the rage. Look deeper. An AI economy and permissionless payment systems will be what shifts things into the next gear.
Imagine a world where an AI needs to pay another AI, and follow how this might happen.
There will exist a need for AI to exchange value (information) with other AI's (and humans). The technology exists now to accommodate this.
Take a look at Nostr/zaps, and layer 2 tech like Liquid, Lightning, and apply this to AI....and follow the incentives.
Digital scarcity will be the unlock that will unleash the next wave of AI into our world.

2024-06-15 15:14:34 UTC

The word "confiscatable" is in the dictionary, and means "Taken without permission or consent, especially by or as if by a public authority."
However its inverse (unconfiscatable) is not found in any dictionary I can find.
I believe this is because the idea of owning unconfiscatable property is the big idea that has rapidly arrived to mankind.
This is what drew me to #bitcoin a few years ago.
Owning #bitcoin however, is actually a misnomer. When one owns Bitcoin, one simply knows the 12/24 BIP39 seed words in order that gives them permission to make transactions to unlock value on the public timechain.
This is borderless sovereignty that is true freedom to lock life energy into digital scarcity. Future generations can reap what their ancestors are sowing now.

2024-03-25 16:52:57 UTC

Always use an air-gapped signing device with seed in a brain wallet, also steel in a safe place. Never connect your seed phrase to the internet.
If you know, you know.
#BIP39 for the win.

2024-03-22 12:12:32 UTC

Hold opinions lightly; principles tightly. Know the difference between the two.

2024-03-22 11:32:15 UTC

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To zap, or not to zap...that is _not_ the question.... 😉 (of course we zap.)

2024-03-20 13:17:35 UTC

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Part of growth is through pain. Sorry about your journey; but it is a good warning for all of us to not put faith in any one mortal.

2023-07-27 11:07:56 UTC

The eternal debate.... Do I do what I think it wants? Or do I remain a purist? https://m.primal.net/HGte.png

2023-07-17 21:40:18 UTC

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"a very low-lift touchpoint for people to experience bitcoin". Awesome episode.