Gaines
Gaines

Optimistic Hodler - ‘fix the money fix the world’

Public Key

npub18ylp36424z2xqj2z90cjuys59afsf9n398sfklnt6lfqd5esqrvs43xuj8

NIP-05 Address

Profile Code

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

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Last Notes

2026-03-18 20:52:50 CET

I own a website called bitcoinopportunitycost.com
I tried to get this going in 2021 as a 'give-back' to the bitcoin community. I can't code so I hired a developer. Never could get it to work right.
I recently tried again using claude.AI Spent about an hour on the project and it works just like I had hoped. Coders are in trouble.
Everyone is short bitcoin. See the opportunity cost on my webpage 'past or future' of choosing any purchase that isn't bitcoin.

2026-02-24 22:20:17 CET

It's a wild thing to hold on to bitcoin
It's the only rational move on the board

2025-08-08 18:16:04 CEST

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What an awesome feature
Zapping you back 🚀🚀

2025-05-16 18:25:28 CEST

First customer at local steak and shake to pay with bitcoin. Manager actually came out and shook my hand. Instant confirmation and conversion rate was accurate to the penny. Well done! Leading
https://blossom.primal.net/65466eda001fd18fef052ff213bb7db8931f0a248c4e3a60ed477da46e98797c.jpg

2025-04-11 15:40:50 CEST

GM
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt

2025-03-27 18:15:45 CET

As we all wait for the bitcoin bull, I think it's kind of gonna be like this except in reverse. There is going to be a meeting behind closed doors with a giant money group were they just say 'we've decided it's best if it starts with us and it starts today. Buy it all!!'
https://x.com/OldManDemps/status/1905306706638205139/photo/1

2025-03-26 23:17:14 CET

So happy to hear Trace Mayer re-engaging. He was a big part of my introduction to bitcoin. Brilliant communicator.
This podcast is definitely worth a listen
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/supply-shock/id1558223079?i=1000700884392

2025-03-24 00:37:41 CET

I'm about 10,000 hours into my bitcoin journey. I feel like I've consumed about everything available. Sometimes, I don't really understand why I'm pulled in certain directions. However, right now I am focused on Jason Lowery's work.
https://youtu.be/49Zbuhl-5cE?si=awvTmEZ5j-VarRoI

2025-03-20 17:32:00 CET

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GM
Definitely confused by Jack's response. I'm pulling for Nostr. I've been hodling really hard through 2 halvings. The only way I can do it is to watch the space with all I've got. RHR and Preston Pysch's podcast have been key resources.
Bitcoin on Twitter is where I get a ton of my information. I want Nostr to take that spot but it's definitely a comparison.

2025-03-20 16:52:16 CET

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Anxious

2025-03-20 16:48:17 CET

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Not exactly sure what Jack means, but the engagement on Nostr is pretty incredible.
Twitter is a lot of anger and this little question on Nostr caught the attention of the founder of Twitter!!!
Maybe my bitcoin tribe is fully here now
'Fix the money - fix the world'
Bitcoin only

2025-03-20 12:48:58 CET

I've got a new Chromebook and a one terabyte USB stick. I'd like to use this as a bitcoin full node.
Does anyone know of a good tutorial for how to do this? Is it possible?
Posting this on Twitter too to see where the best information comes from

2025-03-20 12:45:08 CET

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Primal

2025-03-20 02:09:49 CET

Checking back in to see if this is better than Twitter yet.
Hopeful

2025-01-07 16:49:06 CET

For bitcoiners, the answer is 4. We don't give a damn about a trend of wrong answers.
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2025-01-07 16:45:47 CET

Softwar by Jason Lowrey on audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CQ7LDNB1?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=podcast_show_detail

2025-01-03 18:54:47 CET

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2025-01-01 23:37:39 CET

BLS statistics are gonna get real in 2025
Credit @Kluckies with the meme
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2025-01-01 23:35:06 CET

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2024-09-08 20:07:09 CEST

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2024-07-14 03:09:51 CEST

Deep State = Bad

2024-03-26 13:54:55 CET

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Same

2024-03-08 15:29:39 CET

Before bitcoin, Biden's speech last night would have really depressed me and given me a feeling of helplessness. Because of bitcoin, I do not care.
Time is on the side of the producers, and I am so optimistic about the future.

2024-02-23 16:24:28 CET

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legit

2024-02-05 00:37:25 CET

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2024-02-05 00:37:15 CET

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2023-12-02 02:17:02 CET

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2023-11-29 14:58:10 CET

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2023-11-24 18:49:27 CET

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2023-11-23 14:05:04 CET

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2023-11-13 16:13:12 CET

First principle thinking:
This is why the free market beats Socialism and central planning every time.
#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/4ca708df84d248b294c43e387d7c68dc4af4d29723ad1dcb56a6a86e11876899.jpg

2023-11-13 13:43:24 CET

How the government looks at all property owners https://image.nostr.build/19a2078eb5325810364fafc292283dd513e69db913bdfdc0ab0668ab647a1c7f.jpg

2023-11-08 13:40:48 CET

First Principle thinking leads to #bitcoin
Fiat incentives are all broken. A house built on sand.

2023-10-31 16:51:43 CET

100% agree with this.
The fire has already been lit. Bitcoin is the key that unlocks the door to the emergency exits. https://image.nostr.build/13c6488992c9adfe89fac96978a1d6a777d63da66a1b6e7355473ce4a55e21b3.jpg

2023-10-27 14:34:48 CEST

Definition of 1st principle thinking https://image.nostr.build/0dba28eac55f74e818be8de69e067fb50bbee7a6da12921a61a45a5a8567a28d.jpg

2023-10-22 21:52:14 CEST

First time I’ve ever cared about an Argentinian election. Hope this starts a huge winning streak for sound money and first principle freedom thinking. https://image.nostr.build/393e8e9cc9aa5f2bdb6d73a79f10f06e6da3831582267a0aa70a566fb1d6d3d7.jpg

2023-10-21 17:39:08 CEST

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I’ve spent 7 years trying to prove bitcoin and my conviction wrong. This has only deepened my conviction while improving my understanding.
Don’t blindly believe

2023-10-21 01:37:58 CEST

Pick a side. Traitor - Patriot.
I refuse to play. #Bitcoin is Revolution. https://image.nostr.build/8174fb4e264d0f0bbb1c20e073ca13142ef4fa397095aedba34383116d86af53.jpg

2023-10-20 20:13:33 CEST

Bitcoin is truth!

2023-10-14 15:30:22 CEST

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2023-10-10 15:24:47 CEST

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2023-10-09 16:02:29 CEST

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Go back to Twitter. This garbage is unwanted.

2023-10-09 15:50:59 CEST

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2023-10-09 15:17:12 CEST

Heading into a recession, a presidential election, war all over the world, a halving, an impeachment hearing and the approval of a spot bitcoin ETF, buying bitcoin right now should seem obvious to anyone that’s halfway paying attention. https://image.nostr.build/612b467060da74c5b53d466226a7587f305d6f51d0bbc763100f2757d18eea00.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a6f2274ae1a404b2e89a23a05df938da33151774e8eddfc72062ef0363afcfb8.jpg

2023-10-06 18:57:33 CEST

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2023-10-05 02:24:01 CEST

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2023-10-03 16:48:02 CEST

International Brrrrrrrr
Buy #Bitcoin
The great debasement has begun https://image.nostr.build/5b4e49f1c437a35dfe5d0aed6b37a06b17b7b4b3c594a54b253315141e38600a.jpg

2023-10-03 03:40:52 CEST

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2023-09-30 02:38:35 CEST

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2023-09-25 23:47:36 CEST

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2023-09-24 17:55:01 CEST

Those who understand and are holding #Bitcoin without debt on a 3+ halving time frame are my tribe. I’m coming up on my third halving and my time frame has extended until bitcoin has to be earned (not purchased by fiat).
I feel like my tribe is a bunch of non-violent revolutionaries (historically unique) who have also already won the lottery.
Our weapon / superpower is time. Time is on our side.
Time is the enemy of debtors and the whole existing system is drowning in debt.
All we have to do is patiently hold bitcoin and let time work its magic!

2023-09-23 19:53:40 CEST

100% this! https://image.nostr.build/70c0fab1dca97c453d9b826ad0e429cff5bb9d544b9d5d047e715ae808963027.jpg

2023-09-23 16:33:43 CEST

Had a banger of a bitcoin discussion with three guys in real life at a high school football game last night.
Talking about #bitcoin in person with people that have done the homework builds confidence in a way that can’t be done online.
By the end of 2024, I bet we won’t be looked at like weirdos for talking bitcoin.

2023-09-21 19:26:16 CEST

Credit @hkuppy https://image.nostr.build/5fd13ba15d17fe5a231c162a9b94528be10270d558cabbdc75dda29d8ea45d2a.jpg

2023-09-20 21:02:57 CEST

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2023-09-06 02:16:15 CEST

@LibertyCappy https://image.nostr.build/a143958030a7672bf367d2ad1f65cd803f54a083cd1bfb8d75cba9330bd5714e.jpg

2023-09-05 13:40:11 CEST

US Dollar getting stronger!
Can’t taper a ponzi

2023-09-04 23:20:27 CEST

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2023-09-01 16:18:41 CEST

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2023-08-31 19:03:56 CEST

Credit @LibertyCappy https://cdn.nostr.build/i/087c3775d4a98aa6ae52bb6150db58cf77ceeb61d0246f4e7c873c192c0d4c88.jpg

2023-08-24 18:23:48 CEST

I read Atlas Shrugs in 2018. I was too early in my thought process to really get it. Also, the world has changed a lot since then.
I am listening to it right now on audiobook. It is such an incredible second or third level thinking description of crony capitalism. Can’t recommend it enough.
The productive class (if you are one of the very few that will see this, you are most likely a member of that group) is being attacked by unproductive labor and unproductive capital. It is a squeeze that in the end it will destroy all production.
I really hope that the productive class fights back. I think #Bitcoin is the tool that gives us a chance.
https://www.audible.com/pd/B002V18AC6?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow

2023-08-23 12:50:19 CEST

The times make the man. Oliver Anthony is putting a voice to a truth so many of us feel. https://x.com/jackposobiec/status/1694143915602182430?s=46&t=bDfMf9a-_yo8LwW0qX2PfQ

2023-08-23 00:49:21 CEST

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2023-08-16 18:12:17 CEST

Bitcoin is a truth machine https://cdn.nostr.build/i/aee16ff69c4a260eab8c1207f5ade0d67481639a92a95ec7e0555236a5ce6ce4.jpg

2023-08-07 22:33:13 CEST

Bitcoin makes us all so weird. Here I am reading a Scottish economist from 200 years ago. AND agreeing completely.
Thanks @npub1rtl…jtfs https://cdn.nostr.build/i/2c3a5ec7ecd0decaec49307fec34f5c3782363143c13537d26400b2da4e77a20.jpg

2023-08-07 20:33:06 CEST

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2023-07-07 04:22:03 CEST

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⚡️21

2023-07-07 04:21:31 CEST

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⚡️⚡️21

2023-07-03 04:26:36 CEST

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Would like to zap you for this.
Appreciate all your hard work. What you’re doing is important. Keep it up. I think you are doing something that will make a huge impact on the decentralized world.

2023-06-27 09:54:45 CEST

Proof of Work https://nostr.build/i/974a29d5071f23593901b292ee3fd9af7a392de9b4af6dd69cd6127fd477fb1b.jpg

2023-05-26 17:01:03 CEST

My definition of woke =
Projecting faith without deeds https://nostr.build/i/a9c52f464589e7418077e3352be93b461e8c4135f5ec5672f61aab52fc92e251.jpg

2023-05-10 21:11:39 CEST

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2023-04-21 03:26:06 CEST

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2023-04-13 15:22:45 CEST

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Credit @SallyMayweather

2023-04-03 02:41:29 CEST

As an American - I have no common ground with Elizabeth Warren. I see her as an enemy of free people.

2023-03-31 21:17:36 CEST

Prove innocence???? What an anti-American monster. https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_7524fac608b325706ea919a416dda2d29c22bb7f46f61574dc9ec265e3b1ce5a.jpg

2023-03-31 00:44:48 CEST

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2023-03-25 01:16:13 CET

https://twitter.com/bitcoinaz/status/1639368289435484162?s=46&t=bDfMf9a-_yo8LwW0qX2PfQ

2023-03-24 20:42:59 CET

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2023-03-22 12:53:44 CET

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2023-03-21 14:17:28 CET

#Bitcoin doesn’t know how to lie

2023-03-19 13:16:24 CET

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Sunday news gonna be way more important than Friday afternoon news dump this weekend.
No telling what happens between Sunday morning and close of business Monday.

2023-03-17 20:16:13 CET

45 minutes until Friday news dump. Wonder what will be announced.
Whatever it is, it will be good for bitcoin

2023-03-15 14:31:23 CET

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#[0]

2023-03-15 14:18:03 CET

NOSTR is evolution.

2023-03-13 18:36:25 CET

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I’m a single issue voter
#bitcoin

2023-03-12 03:41:30 CET

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I wonder what the chancellor is doing this weekend?

2023-03-11 19:38:25 CET

It’s Saturday around 1pm est. I have a very small amount of bitcoin on Coinbase that I have saved to pay income taxes and plan to liquidate before 4/15.
I just read a tweet about USDC and Coinbase that made me feel uncomfortable. So, from my phone while at a kids soccer game, I just sent that bitcoin back to my cold storage.
Cost - $0.95
Time - my wallet was notified in less than 30 seconds. Will confirm within 30 minutes.
Comparison- all those poor bastards with real money stuck in a bank that might be gone Monday morning.
Bitcoin is inevitable

2023-03-10 17:47:41 CET

Great thread. This is a big deal. Way to save the banks is to Pivot!!!
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
@compound248
https://twitter.com/compound248/status/1634105371198644224?s=42&t=bDfMf9a-_yo8LwW0qX2PfQ

2023-03-10 01:21:01 CET

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Listening to the Twitter Files Congressional Hearing today. Terrifying how little respect for freedom 1/2 of that committee holds.
Very Mandibles

2023-03-10 00:50:54 CET

Twitter Files Congressional Hearing
All bitcoiners should watch this start to finish. Half the country doesn’t understand freedom. It’s all politics to the anti-freedom crowd.
https://www.youtube.com/live/NtREsmJdeDw?feature=share

2023-03-08 01:03:04 CET

https://twitter.com/bitcoinclip/status/1633213344449437702?s=46&t=9FG1n8EKmZLP1Tt5KzH4DQ
Just incredible. Reason and productivity are going to win.

2023-03-07 18:06:51 CET

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2023-03-07 14:39:52 CET

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When is it all going to matter??!!!

2023-03-07 13:54:38 CET

https://twitter.com/farrellbruce2/status/1632940884797816838
https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1632932415550177280

2023-03-07 01:00:12 CET

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2023-03-05 22:41:35 CET

I would like to send sats by zapp to @RudyHavenstein

2023-03-02 23:27:13 CET

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2023-03-02 22:03:15 CET

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2023-03-02 13:33:35 CET

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