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Menno Reitse Bouma

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2026-04-02 14:55:10 UTC

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Or if your brain works more like mine (only circled the first 3 out of 16):
https://blossom.primal.net/3964d84adf34a1932292657aceb9f36e86f127b6d29bab698f6f838b58c022dc.jpg

2026-04-02 14:53:41 UTC

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Wtf, thats not at all where I see them 😂 But for some reason that outline did cause me to see them here (only circled the first 3 out of 16).
https://blossom.primal.net/3964d84adf34a1932292657aceb9f36e86f127b6d29bab698f6f838b58c022dc.jpg

2026-04-02 08:14:19 UTC

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Oh ffs please tell me this wasnt some April Fools shizzle 😂

2026-04-02 05:19:01 UTC

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I wanna see the circles but dont. Can someone describe where they at, or is that not how this works 😂

2026-03-23 15:46:57 UTC

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Not nice to see 😟 There was probably a lot of less urgent testing / early-stage treatment that got delayed because of the decreased hospital capacity due to COVID. Which would unfortunately lead to higher death rates in later years 😟 Let's hope we can get back on the downtrend.

2026-03-21 07:54:52 UTC

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That guy looks surprisingly unimpressed 😱 Guess it waant his first time using the client

2026-03-16 18:01:55 UTC

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Autoing must be insane now with AI 😂

2026-03-15 09:30:35 UTC

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Those first 2 sentences should be the subtitle to a reprint of Carnegies "How to Win Friends and Influence People (2026 BTC / Nostr edition)" 😂
Surprisingly few & mild replies to this thread haha. Though I guess its only been 14 hours.

2026-03-15 09:24:14 UTC

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What do you mean when you say "believe in God" / "having faith" etc? Literally thinking and/or feeling there is an almighty entity out there that has your destiny mapped out for you, so no need to worry about yourself any longer?
I was raised religiously, wouldnt say I "believe in God" in that sense (although that depends on how we define it of course) but still the older I get, the easier I find it to not worry about myself or live for myself.
Not trying to be a dick or start a religious argument here btw, just curious what it means for you when you say that 🧐

2026-03-11 06:58:55 UTC

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Did he ever apologize or at least acknowledge he messed up? That was some embarrassingly unnuanced 'research' if you ask me.
Anyway, thanks for continuously trying to counter that stuff with nuance, I really appreciate it 🫶

2026-03-05 17:43:43 UTC

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Nice 😂 What is the chipmunk/beaver tech stack representative top left?

2026-03-05 08:30:13 UTC

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I made a Spotify playlist for this, contains 11 (imo) great episodes covering various important aspects, ordered in a way that I think makes sense for people to get started.
Its not perfect yet, but best I've got atm. Gonna take some time off work to write my own (hopefully very easy to understand) "why bitcoin" article soon, so I can just send that to people 🤩
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6l7vpmYYvGILIviUGevZ8C?si=MrXJXQ_-TBihJwREZEsPmQ&pt=569a535876283c0f715e54aa7f5b2cce&pi=L-kDCkXvRqCkZ

2026-02-23 11:42:00 UTC

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Awesome 👏 Can you ask one of em to make you zappable? Wanted to send some appreciation for this cool note but that does not seem to work 😬

2026-02-22 07:45:48 UTC

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I'll do 2: "Fairer money". Or if it has to be 3 and a little wordplay: "Money fair all"

2026-02-20 00:06:11 UTC

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Nuance, love it 🫶

2026-02-15 05:51:48 UTC

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I like Perplexity for that reason. Links to the source sites included in the AI output. So far pretty decent imo 🥸

2026-01-24 16:54:35 UTC

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Looks cool 🤩

2026-01-23 08:04:41 UTC

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*individual, answer. Man an edit button would be good 😂

2026-01-23 07:51:01 UTC

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We'll see how it goes! Personally I would like a tax system mostly based on:
1) Consumption tax (VAT / energy tax / tolls for roads etc)
2) Combined with wealth tax, since you cant fully control your consumption patterns yourself, sometimes life just happens and it would be unfair to fully punish the individual for that imo, so having the most fortunate members of the group pay a higher group contribution via a wealth tax (incl. a decent exemption for low levels of wealth) seems fine to me and I'd gladly pay that wealth tax myself if it comes to it
3) A lower income tax to stimulate working, I get that we need investments (= wealth) to make it possible to work efficiently and innovate, but I feel like the balance between capital and labor has become kinda skewed. Probably something to do with fiat 🤪
1-3 above is just the way I would like it to be structured. There will then of course be a lot of details to decide on such as how much tax income should all of this generate and how can we minimize that amount, but still arrange all the things we want to arrange collectively. Not easy and every individuals will have a different answee. Definitely interesting to think about though, we'll see how it goes!

2026-01-23 07:28:08 UTC

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No, my bad, I should not have used the word "realize" there. If you have a loss in year 1 (whether realized or not) and a gain in year 2 (again, whether realized or not), you can carry forward the loss from year 1 to year 2.

2026-01-22 17:27:22 UTC

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Carry forward to later years, so you can offset gains then. See the English version of this post:
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvhvu6d7kfksynmx05tm0fnyljyvpmlxpy4rjr2qv3twj2nwt4l0gk9equn

2026-01-22 17:26:44 UTC

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Carry forward to later years, so you can offset gains then. See the English version of this post > https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvhvu6d7kfksynmx05tm0fnyljyvpmlxpy4rjr2qv3twj2nwt4l0gk9equn

2026-01-22 07:50:58 UTC

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In the current system: no. But in the proposed new system which the original post is about, you will be able to carry forward losses to future tax years. So if you realize a loss in year 1 and a gain in year 2, you can carry the loss forward and pay less or no taxes (depending on the exact amounts of loss & gain) in year 2.

2026-01-21 19:41:28 UTC

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I havent studied the new proposal (apparently its for 2028 but still needs to be approved into law). Under the current system, you declare your assets in your yearly tax filing. You can of course try to leave certain assets out, but that would be illegal and the tax filing program is pre-filled more and more each year (so they have data links to banks etc).
If you go for the standard route, you are taxed based on the assumed return per asset class that you have invested in. So if you have 1K of savings, you declare that amount and that 1K in savings is assumed to have returned 1.44%, so you get taxed on 14,40 of assumed savings income.
Similarly, if you have 10K of equity or other assets (BTC falls in that category), you declare that amount and that is assumed to have earned 5.88%, so you get taxed on 588 of assumed income.
They then add up the assumed income from all asset categories and subtract the assumed interest on certain types of debt. That is the 'assumed net return' on which you are taxed 36% (this is all based on the 2025 rules). Oh and I cant forget to mention, the first 58K (single) or 115K (couple) of net assets (you can again subtract certain types of debt) is untaxed.
There is also a second option next to this 'assumed return approach'. If your actual return is lower than those assumed returns, you can opt out of the standard approach and have them tax you based on your actual returns.
Havent tried that myself yet though, so I dont know the full details there. There's not that much to tax on my end, so havent felt the need to dive into it 🥸 And I even think they are planning to automatically use this approach if your actual returns are lower than the assumed ones from 2025 or 2026 onwards.

2026-01-21 19:20:53 UTC

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Its a good thing we dont live together then 😂 I dont consider taxes thievery, just a contribution to pay for things we arrange collectively as a society. Sure we can debate what that contribution is spent on and how high it should be, but the principle is fine with me. But hey we can agree to disagree, no worries 🫶

2026-01-01 10:43:13 UTC

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Nvm, gotta stop trying to rely on AI for quick answers. For whoever is interested, source straight from the Fed > https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPONTSYD/#

2026-01-01 10:39:59 UTC

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Source? 🧐

2025-11-08 08:54:59 UTC

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I dont know you or Calle but have listened to quite some cashu / ecash podcasts over the years. Literal quote from Calle, Citadel Dispatch #120 March 2024, around the 1h35min mark: "ecash is not bitcoin, it just works with bitcoin".
That quote is part of a larger and quite nuanced answer in response to the question "Do you consider ecash a scaling solution for bitcoin". He very clearly says he does not and repeats the need to be "extremely pedantic" with these definitions several times, to prevent people from getting wrecked/rekt.
Again, I dont know him or you, but this feels like an unfair representation of what hes saying about cashu and tbh, just feels like internet fighting for the sake of internet fighting. Which I guess I'm now contributing to via this reply, but whatever.

2025-10-21 15:34:52 UTC

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If AI & robotics really end up taking all our jobs then they will have a lot of competition for the few remaining human jobs though right? 😱

2025-10-07 18:29:05 UTC

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Interesting, guess I should start basing my opinion of Americans on their elite circles rather than South Park. Won't be nearly as much fun though 😑

2025-09-19 13:59:01 UTC

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Beautiful animal 🤩 I'm sure there was an opportunity for some kind of a 'small pecker' joke in there as well, but meh, good stuff 🫶

2025-08-26 21:02:23 UTC

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Not to be a dick and hijack your note, but it reminded me of one of my favourites, figured I'd share 😇 Taken quite some time ago, RIP to 2 of them 😟
https://blossom.primal.net/d11fffb644462fc4ec4d9014bd9120ef9d1e2658c12b61a5fd50d3f2924799bd.jpg

2025-05-09 06:05:22 UTC

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Nice to follow, thanks for sharing! Out of curiosity: "as long as it stays decentralized and secure (which means it must be used as a medium of exchange)" is a pretty important assumption. What makes you confident that will actually happen?
Perhaps the faith that in the end, most people are not stupid and will eventually stop accepting that their time is stolen via fiat printing and switch to the better money? I.e. you have faith in the majority of individual decisions slowly trending towards BTC? 🤩

2024-03-20 16:06:50 UTC

New here, first post! #introductions
Gonna take my time to figure out which profiles & feeds I want to follow and zap around a bit. For now I wanna share two ego-checking lessons learned from joining Primal & Nostr, that I just wanna put out there in case it helps anyone:
1) When you create an account, dont forget to store the private key somehow, before signing out of the app! I incorrectly assumed the key was stored on my phone and/or I'd be able to sign back in to the app via a passcode or something. Locked myself out of account #1 that way 😂
2) When you create an account, dont forget to follow at least some profiles during the creation process! If you dont, you wont be able to (easily) follow accounts afterwards. This caused me to end up with account #2 from which I could not follow people.
Fortunately the Primal team was very helpful and explained what I was doing wrong along the way.
So here I am, on account #3, ready to read, zap & write 🤩💪