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2024-11-30 13:07:13 UTC

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Nico I gotta say, you always talk about how the China ban cut the last cycle short and we were destined for 100k
But both can't be true. The ever changing and ultra dynamic market conditions present at the time made the price skyrocket. Those same dynamics and changing market forces made the price crash. The China ban was one of those forces for sure, and if it hadn't been so, things would have been different. But if my grandmother had wheels she would've been a bike
You're talking about the retrospective outcome of a marketplace that is directed in proportional part by each of its participants, saying something "was going to happen if not for x" is the same as saying the sky would be green except that it's blue. Like..it's true but.. I mean..
"What each person wills is opposed by what each other person wills. And what emerges is something no one willed"
- Friedrich Engels (as quoted by Dr. Thomas Sowell)

2024-11-11 13:50:39 UTC

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Casi Parece Caracas..

2024-02-04 18:12:15 UTC

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Broad Strategy, increase the frequency of writing at an ambitious yet manageable rate until the goal is reached

2024-01-23 18:37:46 UTC

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And if you want the legendary @npub1h8n…rpev to read this to you: https://fountain.fm/episode/Z9if5Ud1AiMvfYeESdpD

2024-01-22 23:25:59 UTC

Story time! This is a story about how #Bitcoin played a crucial part in my proudest accomplishment, in weird roundabout ways that you'd never expect.
For most of my life my main focus when I was looking for a job was to get as much money as possible. My thinking was that if I had more money I would be able to afford a better life. More money then equals a better life. Checks out, right? Now, I don't want to imply that "this is how society teaches us to.." whatever. No. Just me. That was my way of looking at the concept of a job. And actually I did quite well with this. Every promotion, every new offer I accepted, every time I negotiated my salary it was with the single purpose of getting more money out of the deal, and my salary went up dramatically with that strategy. But the goal of living a better life never actually materialized.
Without trying to sound like some kind of "do what you like and you'll never work a day in your life" Guru or whatever, I didn't realize that I was going about it in a way that doesn't actually work for me. The life that the money was supposed to buy me in the end never seemed to get any closer, in fact it seemed to get farther and farther away, like I was running up the down escalator.
Then, suddenly, #Bitcoin.
Going down the rabbit hole helped me see more clearly what it is that I want out of life. Learning about money made me understand that the best things in life are those that money cannot buy, no matter how much of it you have. It showed me the difference between making money, and making a living. Of course I want as much money as I can possibly get, but I have reorganized my priorities in the service of enjoying my life now, rather than sacrificing that enjoyment for more money. First unconsciously. I didn't realize that I was doing it, but I started to feel a bit.. misaligned. Like I was walking in one direction but looking in another. But then it became more conscious, I started to have concrete thoughts about what I would give up in exchange for a good night's sleep. Until I explicitly asked myself, what do I want to do to earn a living? As opposed to, how much do I want to earn to make my life better?
It's such a subtle distinction, I'm not even sure how to put it into words, but it was a liberating realization. For about 3 seconds. Then it made me feel more constrained than ever before. Up until now, I had a clear idea of how I wanted to build my CV, I had a trajectory, with a specific end goal. But when I decided to focus on the journey rather than the destination, suddenly I saw my CV that I had been so proud of, as a box that I was trapped in, and to get out I needed time and energy, and money. So how could I get out while still paying the bills?
Then, once again, #Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is the only thing I've had in my life that granted me the freedom to chose. I had been accumulating for a few years and when it was time to make a difficult choice, suddenly omg.. I have a runway here. I have a cushion, a buffer. The leap I wanted to take suddenly required a lot less faith. I can do this. I felt hopeful, and eager. I felt Ike I was 18 again and the entire world was before me, teeming with opportunities, all just waiting for me to see them and take them. So I quit my job, haha, I really did, I quit without a standing offer somewhere else. Unbelievable.
It was a tough time on the day to day after that. Especially at the beginning. My relationship took a hit, shaky finances tend to do that. But thankfully she's amazing, and we learned how to communicate on a much deeper level. In the toughest of times we learned to trust eachother more. I learned that being open and honest is more important the worse the news is. It seems the things that money can't buy really shine when there's no money to buy anything. And when we felt like the walls were closing in a bit too much, I'd pop open my cold storage balance and it brought us enough peace to get thru the day. There are some things, after all, that only money can buy.
I set out to find a job in a way that I had never done before. I reorganized my priorities and set down on paper what I need. Just like before, I need to be able to afford my bills, and I need to be able to save some money too, and I want as much money as they're willing to part with. But this time I also need to be able to sleep well at night. I need to find meaning in what I'm doing. I need to be able to use my brain for what it was made to do, and let it rip at the unimaginable speeds at which I know that it can go. I need to be allowed to manifest what is great in me, what is unique. I need to want to go to work. I need to want to get that last task done before heading home because I care that it gets done, instead of being glad that it's 4:53 and I can get away with leaving it for tomorrow because there's no way I'm staying here past 5:00. I need my employer to want me to be me, instead of just someone who can do this or that specific task. I need to trust my employer, I need him to trust me. I need to make money, definitely. But more than that, I need to make a living.
After a long while, much effort, heartbreak and disappointment, honestly I was ready to go back to old ways. Ready to just take that offer I had been ignoring, sit in another cubicle, do the same old thing, and leave at 5. I almost did. But for some reason, on the day when I need it it most, out of nowhere I got a text from an old friend from my childhood. He knew me before I had my first job, before the weariness of adulthud took its toll, he knew me in that way that I was trying to get to know myself again. So I gave him a call. This man was somehow completely different from the boy I knew, and yet still exactly the same person. He listened to what I had to say, he didn't judge me, he didn't try to get a word in, he just tried to understand. And when he spoke he helped me understand that I had stopped short for some reason. That the "epiphany" I'd had was incomplete. He told me that not only would I look for a job where I could manifest true self, but that I would start to manifest that self regardless of any job, or lack thereof. He reminded me of the purpose behind the rearranging of my priorities that I had taken into my job hunt, that living life is now, not later. He saw that when I said I was looking for a good journey and not a destination, I was still treating THAT as a destination. And we talked for a while the way we used to when we didn't know anything at all except ourselves.
I hung up that phone and sat there, for a while, silently stunned at the obviousness of what I had overlooked, and the profundity of his words. I don't need a job that allows me to manifest my greatness. I need to manifest my greatness. I need to get back to being me, as me as I can possibly be. What the hell am I waiting for? A job? Fuck that! LET'S GOOO!
This is the same friend who years ago got me curious about this whole weird crypto thing. The pill he handed me wasn't pure orange, but it sure turned orange once I took it.
I spent the next day harnessing the things about myself that I know are good and pure. And it took me like about a half an hour to find my dream job. It's incredible how effective I can be when I orient myself properly, find my north, and make no compromises about being myself. My true self.
I'll leave you with my favorite quote, and I hope you find the courage to be as authentically you as you can be, because you are amazing.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Marianne Williamson

2024-01-22 07:54:29 UTC

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I'm not sure I understand the benefits all that much.
I feel like ecash was a beautiful upgrade for fiat rails in a digital world, which failed before Bitcoin because of the permissions nature of that crapshoot.
But Bitcoin is already a natively digital programable bearer asset. The permissionless nature of it makes ecash an inevitable reality, but the improvements are lost on a money that can already do the things ecash promised to enable fiat to do.
Much MUCH smarter people than I have come to a different conclusion and seem to think ecash is an incredibly useful and worthwhile technology that we should definitely be implementing on Bitcoin, so I honestly feel like I'm missing something here, just haven't been able to nail it down.
Why do you see ecash on top of lightning as an improvement? What does it solve for you that lightning didn't already solve? Maybe I'm not seeing enough of the picture to even be able to phrase that question properly or to even know what to ask here but I'm very curious why you're so keen on ecash.
And to be clear, I don't NOT like it haha I just don't quite understand the hype

2024-01-21 19:50:05 UTC

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Ohh man I gotta make some reinas soon thanks for reminding me.
I love chicha but I've just never found anything that compares to Juan Chichero, it's never the same

2024-01-21 19:22:55 UTC

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Great, I'll keep all that in mind. The sovereign individual has been on my list for a while now so I may start there either way. Thanks again!

2024-01-21 19:06:22 UTC

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This one's already in my library and my next listen for sure. Thanks a ton!

2024-01-21 18:56:37 UTC

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Amazing. Do you think I should I read the sovereign individual first then?

2024-01-21 18:37:17 UTC

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# thanks cyborg

2024-01-21 18:34:14 UTC

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Those fries are missing cheese curds.
#poutine

2024-01-21 18:23:16 UTC

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It went down for 1 reason and 1 reason only.
Supply and demand. As always.
The ETF opened the door to a lot of new trading, and new selling has outpaced new buying. That's all.

2024-01-21 18:20:15 UTC

New goal, one #Bitcoin post and one #grownostr post per day
Bitcoin is my biggest interest, but I have plenty of others too. Let's explore them all!

2024-01-21 18:16:40 UTC

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Amazing, I've seen it floating around. Your blurb here hits all the right buttons haha, il add it to the list, thanks so much!

2024-01-21 18:07:22 UTC

#Greyhounds Are Amazing
Fair warning, this post has no point, just want to get this out of my mind and into the world.
My mom and I used to breed Brittany Spaniels when I was young, and we were heavily involved in the dog scene with many many friends who had dogs and lived a very dog centric life.
Every once in a while we would get the whole pack together and take a trip down to the beach, I'm talking like 40-50 dogs and a couple dozen of their humans. It was such a blast, watching the pack dynamics play out, the pack leader laying down the law with newcomers, everyone having fun.
But what's most memorable about those trips, and it's still burned into my memory, are the greyhounds of the pack. There were 2 greyhounds in all, and they were always laying around lazily, sleeping most of the time, but when they were up and about around the cabin they were always just so regal and looked like royalty.
But when we were by the sea with miles and miles of sandy beach, with all the dogs together, a gigantic pack of all shapes sizes and colors, it was unbelievable how the greyhounds set themselves apart from the rest. One of the guys always brought one of these contraptions to throw a ball extremely far with little effort, and the whole pack would go after it. But the greyhounds invariably took the lead and got the ball most of the time. With so many miles of beach for them to run, they could really go all out for a good while. And boy did they ever.
My god what a masterpiece of biological engineering these dogs are. From the perfect shape of their head and long pointy snout to their lean shoulders and slender front legs down to their incredibly muscular back legs they are so well suited for speed. The distribution of their bodies and the way their torso bends and extends when they're galloping, their movements are absolute perfection, not a single motion is wasteful. And the joy with which they run, you can just feel it in the air.
I remember watching Tito, the bigger greyhound, when he got the ball and all the other dogs would chase him, he would easily outpace them all, and just the way he'd turn his head back and look at them chasing him, almost confused as to why they were all so slow. I felt like I could read his thoughts, something like "why aren't you guys running?" You could tell he was slowing down to make the game more fun but even the fastest of the other dogs couldn't come close. Just putting in 50% effort was enough to outrun everyone else and still have time to jump around a bit and enjoy the ball in his mouth.
Ahh greyhounds, what a Marvel, I can't explain the satisfaction I get from watching them run, it's so cathartic, like they are fulfilling their fundamental purpose with glee, everything about them is majestic to me.
I've wanted one ever since but the winters where I live now are too rough for such a skinny dog with such a short coat, I wouldn't be able to give him the life he deserves.
What about you? What's your favorite breed? What do you like in a dog?
#grownostr #dogs #dogsofnostr
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2024-01-21 18:00:00 UTC

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I was debating wether all the books I've listened to about similar and related topics and economics in general would fit into the list but there would have been like 11 by Thomas Sowell and the list would have been way too long so, I had to keep it narrow but yes. Yes. This is what I'm here for. This is the reply I was looking for. Thank you.

2024-01-21 17:30:55 UTC

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I'm pretty sure nostr has absolutely nothing to do with Nostradamus, it's an acronym for "notes and other stuff transmitted thru relays"
This is the kind of flimsy connection that pseudosciences like astrology rely on
There's never anything solid behind it. Just people eager to believe

2024-01-21 16:54:26 UTC

What's your favorite #bitcoin book?
Here's a the list of books I've listened to on Audible in no particular order. I highly recommend all of them, and a big big thank you to the author's tagged below, you've all enriched my life.
Please PLEASE let me know what you think I should listen to next. And yes, this does in fact reveal a strong preference for books narrated by @npub1h8n…rpev the man's voice and style are golden idk what to tell you.
I am 1000 times more likely to finish an audiobook than a physical book. It's just how I absorb information best. I'll take recommendations for anything, but audiobooks are what I am specifically looking for.
Bitcoin: Everything Divided by 21 Million
- Knut Svanholm
Bitcoin: Sovereignty Through Mathematics
- Knut Svanholm
The Book of Satoshi
- Phil Champagne
The 7th Property
- Erik Yakes
Check Your Financial Privilege
- Alex Gladstein
21 Lessons: What I've Learned From Falling Down The Bitcoin Rabbit Hole
- @npub1der…xzpc
Inventing Bitcoin
- Yan Pritzker
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
- Vijay Boyapati
Bitcoin: Hard Money You Can't Fuck With
-Jason A Williams
Layered Money
- Nik Bhatia
Mastering Bitcoin
- Andreas Antonopoulos
The Blocksize War
- Jonathan Bier
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains
- Antony Lewis
The Bitcoin Standard
- @npub1gdu…6nak
The Fiat Standard
- @npub1gdu…6nak
Bitcoin is Venice
- Allen Farrington, Sacha Meyers
Broken Money
- @npub1a2c…w83a

2024-01-21 16:23:12 UTC

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Don't the fees mean that they make money no matter which direction the flows go?
Well.. "money"... They make fiat but you know what I mean

2024-01-20 21:41:01 UTC

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After listening to The Blocksize War I looked you up and listened to every read I could find until it really got a bit too outdated. Been my favorite podcast ever since haha I get all grumpy when I have to do menial tasks and there's no new content.
I'm curious Guy, what's YOUR favorite podcast?

2024-01-19 21:34:51 UTC

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Don't send here thox bots will get it. DM to make sure the intended recipient gets it

2024-01-19 21:34:18 UTC

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2024-01-19 21:28:26 UTC

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That smoked meat looks really sweet, but I know it ain't from Smoke Meat Pete's, so while that meat may be a treat, it still can't ever beat Pete's meat
Looks great actually, cheers

2024-01-19 21:18:07 UTC

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It's got electrolytes

2024-01-19 17:48:20 UTC

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Wassup my maxi! Be stackin'

2024-01-19 15:19:39 UTC

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Hey Doc, question for you.
When you say "expert", what do you mean exactly? Expert in what? And what makes him an expert?

2024-01-19 05:49:09 UTC

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Lol that sounds like you came into the madhouse to study the crazies
Careful tho, I feel like people here are so nice and interesting and helpful, before you know it you might find yourself greeting some other journalist that came here to study you too hahaha welcome, welcome

2024-01-18 00:39:18 UTC

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This thing
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2024-01-18 00:37:56 UTC

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One of those tiny but incredibly functional and spacious utility vans that they have in places like Korea. Don't know what make or model they are but they look so practical

2024-01-18 00:34:46 UTC

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That's amazing. Cheers man.
I paid for a friend's Starbucks drink in el Salvador a few months ago all the way from Canada, there's something about paying for a physical thing instantly from thousands of miles away in a different country that just makes so hopeful for the future. Or that it is the future. So cool

2024-01-18 00:29:09 UTC

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Holy crap, how long did that take?

2024-01-17 18:06:56 UTC

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Me neither entirely, but just the fact that there are no liquidity concerns is just so nice, so refreshing, and idk it seems easier to move around than lightning payments, you can send it via any communication network, it's got a lot of cool shit going for it.
Thanks for helping me with it btw haha I've done every experiment I can think of

2024-01-17 17:20:43 UTC

There are so many traders in Bitcoin just trying to make a quick buck, normal people who have been in tradfi their whole lives, who are keeping the price floating in a narrow band. It will take some time for the ETF people to run up against the wall of psychopaths who won't sell at any price (that's my peeps right there) and at that point they'll only be able to buy up the marginal supply being mined each day. That's when the price will start to climb.
The longer this takes the better for parabolic jumps, because the longer it takes, the closer it will be to the halving.
Historically, this explains why it takes time after the Halving for the crazy jumps to happen. The marginal supply gets cut in half, but the total supply is still quite big since not everyone is a hodler. But slowly slowly more and more Bitcoin comes into the hands of true holders.
This time, the demand jump is already eating away at the total supply, slowly slowly, but by the time the marginal supply gets cut in half there will barely be any left on the trading floor.
Then, factor in the inevitable QE and it really looks like this year all the domino pieces are lining up.
And then...
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2024-01-17 15:27:16 UTC

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Sup Sai, glad to have you here man, already enjoying your posts

2024-01-17 15:21:02 UTC

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Does it mean everyone living there will die by 2050?

2024-01-17 15:19:54 UTC

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Hey doc, just wondering, how is "survivability" defined. Is it a specific temperature?

2024-01-17 08:24:16 UTC

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You can block pretty much anything on Amethyst, and also nostr is in its very early infancy.
As more people join, relay runners will want to attract different kinds of crowds and it will become easier to identify relays that permit nsfw content and avoid them. Relay management will probably be built in in more seamless ways so you can hit a button and disconnect from all nsfw tolerant relays.
If you don't want to give it time to mature and use these features in the future when someone else builds it, build it yourself! Open protocol, free country. I hope you do, I'd like to see this. I'm just also good to wait on it, but I'm sure it will come.

2024-01-16 19:41:59 UTC

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Any way to send you sats on Cashu?
I mean, I know I can just DM you some ecash anytime but, are you using Cashu?

2024-01-16 08:30:55 UTC

Every time I think something about Bitcoin is beyond my reach for being too technical or requiring too much effort or whatever insecurity I have, I am swiftly proven wrong upon actually attempting it.
The tools are getting veeery close to "let's onboard Grandma" level.
Guys... It's working

2024-01-16 08:10:24 UTC

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Bots are grabbing these within fractions of a second apparently. Let me know if you want to do some testing in DMs, I've been fortunate enough to have some people help me in this way and I'd be delighted to pay it forward

2024-01-16 07:36:58 UTC

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Cashu really seemed just out of my non-technical reach until this moment dude, can't that k you enough, I'm gonna do ALL THE EXPERIMENTS! So excited.

2024-01-16 07:30:14 UTC

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Redeemed!
Man this community is incredible, thank you my friend

2024-01-16 07:26:43 UTC

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Bots*
Nostr really teaches one to spell check the hard way.. man...

2024-01-16 07:26:06 UTC

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As I understand it bits claim these within fractions of a second
If I could just get someone to send me a sat or two on my DMs I could try out Cashu
I'm not sure how to send sats from my lightning wallet to my Cashu, any tips? Using Nutstash

2024-01-16 06:55:06 UTC

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Hey doc, I have a couple questions about Cashu and I'm not sure who to ask, so here goes nothin.
I'm wondering if how cashu deals with millisats, since it's interoperable with lightning, would love it if you could shed some light on this.
I also wanted to know about liquidity constraints, seems not to have the issues lightning has but I'm wondering if you could elaborate on this one too, channel management is a pain and inbound liquidity and all that, I wonder how cashu deals with this.
Either way, thanks a ton for your work. Cheers!

2024-01-14 18:29:31 UTC

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It's like the absence of inflation breaks something in their brains and makes their logical faculties short circuit and malfunction until they manage to somehow bridge the gap with absurd leaps of rationalization that brings the whole back to inflation where things make sense to them again and they can breathe. They don't need inflation to finance their wars and deficit spending. They need it for reality to be logically consistent. They need it to retain their very sanity.

2024-01-10 21:22:04 UTC

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BlackRock?

2023-12-04 03:29:53 UTC

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And good evening to you as well!

2023-12-04 03:29:31 UTC

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I would love a zap actually I just changed up a few things and wanna know if it works

2023-10-31 17:57:16 UTC

Happy whitepaper day y'all
Fix the money...
https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper

2023-08-26 20:58:35 UTC

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In the same way that adding even tiny amounts of money to a poker game makes people play way more carefully, adding even a tiny amount of sats to the response makes you answer much more carefully too, so the results of your survey are more reliable. I guess the drawback is that you'll prolly receive fewer answers

2023-08-25 14:33:46 UTC

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Revolutionary

2023-08-25 14:33:34 UTC

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Useful

2023-08-25 14:33:21 UTC

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So stupid

2023-08-24 23:13:08 UTC

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I won! Hehe that was dope