Patrick

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2026-07-06 23:04:33 CEST

Great essay: https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/606-the-good-end-of-pleasant-street
Favorite quote: 'I’d once thought desires lived on a spectrum from good to bad, like a street in a beautiful, struggling Vermont town. A good desire: advocating for your child. A bad desire: wanting to run away for a week. Now I know that desires are like nesting dolls—the big, loud, surface-level ones containing the small, vital ones. You can split the big ones open, toss aside your hunger for new pants or better furniture, and find inside them a singular longing that can look many ways but is always the same and never to blame: You want more life.'

2026-07-06 23:02:57 CEST

2026-05-25 02:05:37 CEST

The truth is being laid bare: I have only myself to turn to. Teachers need not be stagnant. They may now come and go with the wind.

2026-04-25 21:55:33 CEST

May the whole world realize the truth that we are all one living body

2026-04-01 18:20:33 CEST

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Beautiful! I would love to join. I’ve been into meditation for a long time, and when I first got into bitcoin, some of the links you are making are part of what kept me intrigued. And now I think all of the connections you mention and more are true and uncanny 🙏

2026-03-16 01:17:50 CET

War - the only way that some people have to communicate. The final accounting. I imagine them thinking “eventually someone has to pay up.”

2026-03-05 14:26:10 CET

I’m visiting my elderly dad. Figured it was a good time to see what CNN is like these days. Holy shit. Framing the narrative was masterful and the fake dissent was hilarious. Manufacturing consent is horrific.

2026-03-03 16:03:08 CET

This is why I got into bitcoin, every dollar held is supporting this insanity

2026-02-28 14:20:34 CET

War

2026-02-22 15:54:56 CET

FUD = Samsara?

2026-02-21 17:18:22 CET

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The cat feet moments rule!

2026-02-15 23:49:21 CET

It’s all about clarity. Because the root of everything is right here, right now.
The thought is that simple. The practice of this is always fresh and never ends.

2026-02-10 02:27:50 CET

Excerpt from Nemik’s Manifesto that reminded me of Bitcoin and Buddhism:
“Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy.”
Something about the spontaneously without instruction particularly reminds me of the core of what all religion is working towards. And I also feel Bitcoin has this essence. Yes it has a protocol and rules, but the way it functions and flows feels spontaneous, uncontrollable, almost random in how it has a “life of its own”

2026-02-10 02:24:52 CET

Manifesto - by Nemik
There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.
Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause.
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.
Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.
Remember this: Try.
From Andor season 1

2026-02-02 21:08:40 CET

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Great clarification. Makes a lot of sense.

2026-02-01 22:23:08 CET

Bitcoin has taught me:
What we are experiencing is not capitalism. It’s not a free market. It’s crony capitalism.
Socialism and communism sound nice on paper and many utopias can be dreamed. However they centralize power. And inevitably that power corrupts.

2026-01-25 21:40:17 CET

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That’s incredible!

2026-01-24 21:04:03 CET

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Andor (especially now)
Star Trek TNG
Cowboy bebop

2026-01-14 22:22:04 CET

Long time preference feels counter to our current culture. How do we lengthen it?
1. Not feel like I’m about to get financially strangled down into serfdom.
— solution: education, work ethic, discipline, clear mind, ethics, BTC
2. Have a lifestyle worth living
— love family, spirituality, community, wonder
I could’ve smithed this for much longer. Sometimes more fun to just let it out!

2026-01-03 18:46:13 CET

The USA is a machination that turns the work of good people into means for evil people.

2025-12-05 16:41:46 CET

Just finished watching Barry Lyndon. Absolutely loved it. I had no idea Kubrick was so hot on the trail. Would he have been a bitcoiner?
- Kubrick believed the private creation of the Fed handed the U.S. money supply to the same European banking dynasties (Warburg, Rothschild, Rockefeller-Morgan interests) that had already captured the Bank of England generations earlier.
- He underlined in his copy of G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature from Jekyll Island the passage claiming the Act was drafted in secret on Jekyll Island by seven men who controlled one-fourth of the world’s wealth.
- Quote he repeated to Herr: “Once you let private bankers issue the nation’s currency and charge interest on it forever, the politicians become employees and the voters become extras.”

2025-11-30 16:35:01 CET

When engaged with what is (right in front of us), we are engaged with all that is.

2025-11-17 17:27:32 CET

Trust more, micromanage less
Observe more, react less

2025-11-15 11:16:48 CET

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I agree the Bitcoin content gets repetitive after a bit. I think the spiritual layer is closer to the roots (though spiritual content can also get repetitive)

2025-11-15 11:04:32 CET

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It requires some deep poise at times like these

2025-11-12 06:44:45 CET

I just watched the Big Short for the first time. I absolutely fucking loved it. Also, what the fuck?

2025-11-10 22:12:08 CET

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This rules

2025-11-03 15:46:38 CET

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How so?

2025-10-15 14:25:54 CEST

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Our sensations and intuitions are “dying” constantly. Slipping away moment by moment

2025-10-07 23:42:27 CEST

Some thoughts on the below Lyn Alden passage on price as information compression.
Growing up in Massachusetts, I was taught to be suspicious of anything that sounded like “free markets.” The phrase carried a whiff of greed and exploitation. But what Alden points to here is simple: ten million people making everyday choices process far more real-time truth than a handful of planners ever could.
From a Buddhist perspective, this is akin to dependent origination. Reality itself is a web of conditions — no central controller could ever grasp it all. The ego that tries to run the show limited, rigid, and eventually corrupt. When you let go, the interdependence of things takes care of itself.
It’s scary to trust that — just as it was scary for me to leave an aikido teacher who had turned a bit cultish, or to question the state’s role in money. But the lesson keeps repeating: liberation isn’t in handing power to a central authority, it’s in seeing that no authority is needed. The ten million small decisions — or the ten thousand things (Lao Tzu) — are wiser than any ruler or guru could ever be.
The passage from Broken Money p. 230:
"Suppose that ten million people in a country make economic decisions, and they each buy five things per day. That’s 50 million transactions per day, or 18.25 billion transactions per year, nationwide. Can a central committee of elders allocate prices better than those ten million decentralized people can?
Most evidence suggests no; ten million people can incorporate real-time information, and allocate prices better than a detached central committee of a handful of individuals. That is why politburos are not the most efficient form of economic planning; regardless of how wise and intelligent those individuals may be, they are incapable of processing and organizing the amount of information that ten million everyday people can with their various specific expertise."

2025-10-01 17:03:47 CEST

Last night I was at a book bar in the east village and reading “broken money” by Lyn Alden. Some Indian dude and I started talking and we ended up talking about bitcoin for 3 hours…
I then dreamt about an infinite money glitch where all I had to do was go into a zoom and it would print $…
Bitcoin is worming its way deeper into my psyche 🤷‍♂️

2025-09-16 00:05:15 CEST

Time is so fleeting. Try too hard to take advantage of it and it slips away even faster.

2025-09-06 15:14:50 CEST

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This rips

2025-09-05 22:44:37 CEST

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Yup!

2025-09-05 18:00:12 CEST

“Never Attained Anything” mini-rendition. Fully fleshed version on Spotify and @nprofile…wly6
https://blossom.primal.net/688eb3e2167e6bd8d0ca402edd9399210834d3f35e95d82095c243ba8409e45c.mov

2025-09-01 18:11:36 CEST

Another glorious 1-2 punch about how abstract money gives government overnight access to citizen’s savings from page 102 of Broken Money:
Inness (1914):
“What is a monetary unit? What is a dollar? We do not know. All we do know for certain — and I wish to reiterate and emphasize the fact that on this point the evidence which in these articles I have only been able briefly to indicate, is clear and conclusive — all, I say, that we do know is that the dollar is a measure of the value of all commodities, but is not itself a commodity, nor can it be embodied in any commodity. It is intangible, immaterial, abstract. It is a measure in terms of credit and debt.”
Lyn Alden, Broken Money:
“Some economists such as Saifedean Ammous have argued that from a monetary perspective, World War I never really ended once it began in 1914. In prior wars throughout history, wars had to be funded with savings of taxes or very slow debasement of coinage. Physical coinage held by citizens could usually only be debased by their government gradually rather than diluted instantaneously, because a government couldn’t just magically change the properties of the coins that were held by households; it could only debase them over time by taxing purer coins, issuing various decrees to try to pull some of those purer coins in, and spending debased coins back out into the economy (and convincing initial recipients to accept them at the same prior value, despite the lesser precious metal content, which would only work for a time and might not even be noticed at first).
However, with the widespread holding of centrally issued banknotes and bank deposits that were redeemable for specific amounts of gold, governments could change the redemptive value with the stroke of a pen or eliminate redemption all together. This gave governments the power to instantaneously devalue a substantial part of their citizens’ savings, literally overnight, and funnel that purchasing power toward war or other government expenditures whenever they determine that the situation calls for it.”

2025-09-01 17:21:20 CEST

Another beauty from Lyn:
In 1970, Congress passed the Bank Secrecy Act, which made banks file reports to the government whenever their customers do more than $10,000 in transactions within a day. Back then, this dollar amount was worth more than the median annual income, and reporting therefore happened rather infrequently. However, the Bank Secrecy Act was not adjusted for inflation, and so over the course of five decades the government has automatically reduced the threshold for necessary reporting and has therefore continually expanded their surveillance mandate each year without further legislation.
The combination of restricting the number of physical banknotes in circulation, making it undesirable to hold physical banknotes for long periods of time due to inflation without interest, and surveilling bank deposits, has been an effective surveillance and control combination.

2025-08-31 03:43:34 CEST

A beautifully put foundational insight by Lyn Alden at the end of chapter 6 in Broken Money:
“Overall, it’s the combination of the banks and the government that have power over the ledger that most people use as money in any banking system. For a gold-backed banking system, the only part of the ledger that individual users have control of is the precious metal coins that they retain in their own custody, and for that they rely on the properties of nature to maintain the integrity of the ledger. Once they surrender coins over to the banking system, they have begun to rely on a hierarchy of other people to control their money.”

2025-08-26 19:00:30 CEST

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$131,050

2025-08-26 18:58:43 CEST

A mini rendition of a song from the album ‘Cranky’ I released last month. This one is called Ride My Steed.
(You can find in Wavlake, bandcamp and lots of other places)
https://blossom.primal.net/e8d7d7a947d8195addb393d5719b3e88e0fdf1a402b05694a15b98e8e09d4422.mov

2025-08-18 14:03:14 CEST

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I LOVE boardwalks!

2025-08-16 20:21:11 CEST

Reading Broken Money by Lyn Alden for the first time. This passage that links inflation and war’s likelihood is so important and close to the heart of why I care about Bitcoin.
“The ability to debase money contributes to the likelihood of war and several other forms of damaged productivity occurring in the first place. The temptation for a ruler to debase coinage is too great to overcome, because it’s usually the path of least resistance when faced with a problem. If the king knows that paying for a war by outright raising taxes would likely lead to revolution, but that paying for the war via gradual debasement of coinage will not, he can justify paying for his war by relying on that second method. If he and his potential war opponent were both stuck with the first method of paying for a war with extra taxes rather than debasement, the war might not happen because their subjects might revolt if it did. The costs of the war would be more transparent and unpopular right away. In contrast to this, the ability to debase coinage to pay for a war allows the war to happen first and the costs to be partially delayed, which increases the probability of war happening and increases the scale to which it may occur. If debasement can occur, it eventually will occur for any number of reasons. The possibility for debasement exists, always and everywhere and invitingly so, as something a government can turn to whenever it can’t spend transparently on what it wants to.
Aside from examples of unusually corrupt or mentally ill rulers, a king does not generally wake up one day and whimsically decide to devalue his realm’s coinage with cheaper metal for no reason. War, plagues, and other destroyers of productivity are indeed at the root of why kings usually end up debasing their money. To remain in power, rulers seek to strengthen their political position, placate their subjects, and smooth over problems that inevitably arise throughout their reign. Currency devaluation is a method that a king can resort to so that he can make increased payments without having to increase taxes for those payments, and therefore the cost instead gets pushed, over time, onto those who accept the newly devalued coins at their old face value despite not having the same metal content or supply scarcity that they used to have.”
It is a bit long and taken out of its full context. I seek ways to make this easier to understand. Currently it requires a fair bit of explaining to communicate it well enough.
#philosophy

2025-08-12 01:40:55 CEST

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This is fantastic. I love it. I would be curious to flesh it out. I’ve wondered if there is some way to quantify the benefit of storing in bitcoin versus fiat?

2025-08-05 14:56:08 CEST

GM! I don’t care what form the future takes, only what spirit imbues it.

2025-07-24 18:48:54 CEST

https://wavlake.com/album/59ff22c4-f907-4259-aeff-5f2ec5df7759
Dear Ear Dreamers,
I'm reading Lord of the Rings again... (fuck, its good). Apparently Hobbits give presents to other people on their own birthdays. Bilbo calls it "not a bad system."
So today, on this bizarre national holiday that shares my birthday, I’m following suit—and giving you a gift:
An album called Cranky.
I conceived it in 2023 after a few years growing desert dough, though a handful of these songs go back a decade. A handful are 'city', some are more 'folk'.
I don't know if this is a genre, but I keep thinking of these tunes as headphone music — one-on-one, emotional, raw, genre-jumping and far from perfect. In a day when AI is soon to top the charts, I don't expect this to be playing in any clubs. It veers towards solitude and a long stare at the ceiling.
P.S. I have many people to thank for this coming to be.
Andrew Stevens (drummer for more projects than I can find) for playing the drums on all the songs and engineering machinations out in the high desert.
Joe Ulmer (Rann drummer) for mixing the city ones with proper super fund slime.
Tim Walsh (Jimbo Norman / Stepkids drummer) for mixing the country ones with proper twang.
Ivan Anderson (Cyberattack/Sweet Fix) for Peace and Quiet picking.
Jeff Manian (MSU/Sweet Fix/Jimbo Norman) for B3 magicals on Tired Along.
Dan Manian (MSU/Jimbo Norman, WWB) for laying down (too) many good bass takes on Lost my Way.
Hannah Gentiles for making my photo likeness crisp.
Happy listening! May you find some old memories and enjoy some new feelings.
P.S.S. I'll call out the 3rd song. It's a quirky one that keeps creeping closer to my heart. It has to do with the Buddhist notion of 'attainment' After all these years, how good it feels to realize I'll never attain anything!
P.S.S.S. The USA, a monastery I am quite fond of in the Catskills and I all 'began' today. It's always been a confusing day to me. The disparate forces of hot dogs, fireworks, long silences, peace, pain and my desire for ice cream cake all seem swirl together — especially the way America is going these days. And yet, there is hope, because in at least some sense, we are all free — even when we're Cranky.
Happy 4th of July.
P.S.S.S.S. This was originally sent via email to a listserv on July 4th
#music

2025-07-22 17:46:15 CEST

I’m pretty sure the response would be “a wizard is never late!”
https://blossom.primal.net/9e1c41dfe9708f4a1e58f2e5d8b96142fafae676341cec161e2fcad8551090c1.mov

2025-06-30 17:03:04 CEST

Decrepit bogs
Forgotten logs
Make for a hell of a night
Were I a frog

2025-06-30 17:02:38 CEST

Retirement home Bingo
Enthralling
To those in the know

2025-06-26 16:48:54 CEST

This is my favorite song of the new batch. The joy of being a total newbie at all times. Tossing away any ideas of knowing better. Whimsical... just feels like me these days. Especially after leaving behind an overly serious aikido dojo.
https://wavlake.com/album/2bd64cd4-76b2-413e-b38d-441e2b8fea4f
#music #wavlake

2025-06-20 20:56:02 CEST

What do you think of this statement?
Philosophizing at its core is to help guide our rational mind back towards intuition and sensation
#philosophy

2025-06-20 20:51:15 CEST

I trust the world to put us where we are needed.

2025-06-18 17:30:26 CEST

People think of “doing good” as volunteering or donating. But where your money sleeps is a hidden force — shaping war, surveillance, and ecology.

2025-06-18 02:17:47 CEST

“Something very simple happens when you answer the question “who are you?” When you are describing or explaining or even just inwardly feeling your “self.” What you are actually doing is drawing a mental line or boundary across the whole field of your experience. Everything on the inside you are feeling or calling your “self,” while everything outside that boundary you feel to be “not-self.” Your self-identity depends entirely upon where you draw that boundary line.” - Ken Wilber from No Boundary
#philosophy

2025-06-08 14:46:20 CEST

Beautiful fantasies
Interweave horrific realities
Creating rich tapestries
This dance never ends
Be careful when you take a stance
For where is ever shifting
And now is no sure footing

2025-06-02 00:45:39 CEST

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I rewatched the first one recently too. It’s beyond good. I didn’t remember how ridiculous the hallway scene was compared to the rest of the movie 😂

2025-06-01 02:59:34 CEST

Wisdom is truly self-sovereign and decentralized. No teacher can give it to a student, they can only help others to recognize it. Is it the same for everyone? That doesn’t make it centralized. We all have our own tunnel down to source.

2025-05-25 18:04:11 CEST

How did we get here?
Where do we go?
Silly to think
We run the show
- popped in my head on a recent zen retreat

2025-05-20 18:34:30 CEST

What really matters to me?
That when I sit down to make new music, whatever comes out is free to be what it is.
Same goes for meditating, writing and talking.
Same goes for planning, at least parts of, my day.
Should I choose a certain direction, that’s cool as long as I am not forced because of identity or fiscal responsibility.
Rituals, schedules, or practices may seem antithetical, but they create space and ability without confining it. Rhythm without rigidity.
#freedom #creativity #philosophy

2025-05-14 16:28:10 CEST

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Ok curious

2025-04-29 15:52:15 CEST

Is nostalgia a trap?
“All those years ago
All those years ago
We used to sing and dance and laugh and feel free
But now I’m old enough to know
Those feelings come and go
Older now is old enough
Now there’s somewhere I’d rather be”
https://wavlake.com/track/125fcf37-9d15-4651-bf92-189bb69681dc
#wavlake #newmusic

2025-04-27 21:36:53 CEST

Sporty is a masterpiece filmed in a vile apartment based on a huge jacket and a timeless truth: sports.
https://youtu.be/gdwchohlMjI
#sports

2025-04-27 20:43:51 CEST

“The mind is vast and creative. Teachings can be helpful, but the way [of Zen] is still guided by experiment.” - Robert Aitken
This is why centralized authority is never sufficient and should be minimized in the grand scheme of things.
#zen #buddhism #philosohy

2025-04-21 14:04:17 CEST

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I think you are right. The piece that still feels murky in my mind is that it is a new form of government. I think a new form would arise if everyone adopted Bitcoin because government would not be able to print money - is that what you are getting at? Or do you mean actually using Bitcoin as a way to govern?

2025-04-18 20:23:03 CEST

“O Kalamas, do not be satisfied with hearsay or tradition, or any teachings, however they may come to you. Only when you know in yourself when things are wholesome, blameless, commended by the wise, and when adopted and practiced lead to welfare and happiness, should you practice them.” - Gautama Buddha in the Kalama Sutra
Stepping stones along the path of a theory linking Buddhism and Bitcoin. Curious if this resonates with anyone else?
#buddhism #philosophy #decentralization

2025-04-17 00:33:10 CEST

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Especially when it’s dry

2025-04-16 15:47:07 CEST

What really appeals to me about Nostr is that regardless of interactions, or current events, messages live on like time capsules. Curious if this was the appeal for others?
#TimeCapsuleTech #grownostr #plebchain #introductions

2025-04-11 17:40:48 CEST

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Yes

2025-04-11 15:42:51 CEST

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I think it’s kind of hilarious actually. I mean at least he doesn’t take himself toooo seriously. Cause in his interviews, he’s pretty much a brilliant bitcoin philosopher robot

2025-04-11 15:37:45 CEST

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Teaaaa yessss

2025-04-11 14:14:52 CEST

Chichi says GM
#introductions
https://m.primal.net/QLpu.mov

2025-04-10 14:15:30 CEST

Truth is fundamentally scarce but infinitely divisible

2025-04-09 23:06:48 CEST

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Beautiful - I spent a few years out in the chihuahuan desert near the Mexican border in tejas. I miss it!

2025-04-09 21:16:00 CEST

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Nice ocotillo- Which desert?

2025-04-08 14:17:27 CEST

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So true. Where is this not the case?

2025-04-07 14:56:39 CEST

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I feel like there is a link between happiness and truth. This clip seems to suggest that following our gut is the way to follow truth - our gut is more aligned with truth than our minds. I have found when I can let go of my attachment to thought, happiness tends to emerge in mysterious ways.

2025-04-04 18:00:47 CEST

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My uncle gave me a copy of “zen in the art of archery” and I didn’t stop reading till I finally went to live in a Zen monastery for a bit after college. I also was raised catholic and around the time I got that book, I had recently told my mom I am not going to church anymore 😱. (She forced me to go up until confirmation 🤢)

2025-04-04 14:01:48 CEST

Recently it dawned on me how fascinating the intersection of Buddhism and Bitcoin is. I’ve been practicing Buddhism since my teens. ‘Practicing bitcoin’ for a while now I can’t help but start to notice. I’ll be sharing these connections here on NOSTR - it feels like the right place.
My thought this morning - riding out the stormy waves of price & politics reminds me of sitting through long retreats feeling like I’m holding on for dear life through the (often illusory) difficulties.
HODLing = meditation
#bitcoin #buddhism #philosophy #HODL #meditation #introductions

2025-04-04 13:40:02 CEST

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GM - I got the Dali king of coins this morning :)
https://m.primal.net/QDua.jpg

2025-04-03 01:24:53 CEST

Hello! This is my first post. I hope to share in the wonders of permissionless decentralization, joy of life, and witness to the wildness. My passions include Buddhism, making music, and Mother Nature. I am intrigued by this place so far :)
#introductions