Nostr notes by libertas primordium

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2026-05-07T01:59:53+02:00

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He's not a right brain creative type. Winklevoss twins used ...

2026-05-07T00:43:22+02:00

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He's not a right brain creative type. Winklevoss twins used him for his meticulous left brain skills to implement their idea. Then the little weasel tried to squeeze them out.

I used to say "I don't live to work, I just work to ...

2026-05-07T00:37:48+02:00

I used to say "I don't live to work, I just work to live."

Meaning my job doesn't define my identity, it's just a means to an end, and the end is to have a good life.

That was my philosophy most of my life, and I felt sorry for people who slaved away and sacrificed time at home for a career that didn't love them.

That's a good philosophy when you work for other people, but now that I work for myself I do sort of live to work, or rather: I both live to work and work to live. My work now is my passion. It's not merely transactional. It's me pursuing my own ideas.

The fact that they're willing to earn no yield AND lose to ...

2026-05-07T00:16:36+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…md55
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The fact that they're willing to earn no yield AND lose to inflation on 35% of their portfolio just to be ready to buy something quickly means they see a big buying opportunity coming soon.

Either that or they've gone crazy.

Ugh why do people always rush to defend this shit bag? Get off of ...

2026-05-06T21:24:26+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…rn9e
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Ugh why do people always rush to defend this shit bag? Get off of Saylor's dick bro, he's not your friend.

What if there are no BTC capital gains and STRC holders still ...

2026-05-06T21:20:52+02:00

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What if there are no BTC capital gains and STRC holders still expect a dividend or they start dumping STRC?

Strategy's whole "strategy" is based on a precarious assumption about the future.

People spend so much of the present dwelling on the past or ...

2026-05-06T21:08:04+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…dlcw
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People spend so much of the present dwelling on the past or future.

If he was doing this with any other asset you guys would call him ...

2026-05-06T16:37:05+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…9dnl
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If he was doing this with any other asset you guys would call him what he is: a con artist. Because he gets up on stage and says quotable things about Bitcoin you're all up on his dick and it's embarrassing.

Idaho forced most of their RINOs out of their state legislature ...

2026-05-06T05:51:00+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…0ywm
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Idaho forced most of their RINOs out of their state legislature about right years ago. Other states need to follow their example. The most conservative legislature in the whole country.

Who's gonna start the first Blobbi-sitting business?

2026-05-06T05:47:57+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…vw8j
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Who's gonna start the first Blobbi-sitting business?

The relative moralism of liberalism killed integrity.

2026-05-06T05:43:23+02:00

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The relative moralism of liberalism killed integrity.

Sometimes AI needs a little guidance when debugging.

2026-05-06T05:41:30+02:00

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Sometimes AI needs a little guidance when debugging.

He has to or investors are going to dump his stock, in which case ...

2026-05-06T04:18:16+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…y499
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He has to or investors are going to dump his stock, in which case he's going to have to sell anyway. What happens if Bitcoin stays flat or goes lower and they're still expecting their dividend? His whole stupid scheme banks on an assumed guarantee that Bitcoin will always appreciate. There is no guarantee. There never was.

I blame liberalism and feminism.

2026-05-06T03:52:52+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…dk6x
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I blame liberalism and feminism.

I'm going to be annoying AF with the I-told-you-so's when ...

2026-05-06T03:51:16+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…6rss
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I'm going to be annoying AF with the I-told-you-so's when this whole thing unravels eventually. God the Saylor fan bois are so annoying. Bro is buying Bitcoin with other people's money and promising them returns. Anybody with a lick of sense already knows how this is going to end.

I spend it every chance I get. It always gives me a thrill to use ...

2026-05-06T00:56:34+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…z4sh
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I spend it every chance I get. It always gives me a thrill to use permissionless P2P digital cash!

Fuck 'em. People who don't understand why nostr don't ...

2026-05-05T23:11:39+02:00

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Fuck 'em.

People who don't understand why nostr don't deserve nostr.

Worse than running a TOR exit node.

2026-05-05T02:43:27+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…r4vq
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Worse than running a TOR exit node.

Wait for the fix and the fork.

2026-05-05T02:41:33+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8zeh
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Wait for the fix and the fork.

It be like that. I know there's a lot of quiet OG holders who ...

2026-05-05T02:21:46+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…atrm
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It be like that. I know there's a lot of quiet OG holders who have a price in mind to cash out at. I think a lot of people funded their retirement at 100k.

There's some OG holders who won't sell because it's their SHTF fund too. I learned about Bitcoin from the author of survivalblog and because of him I'm sure there are a lot of preppers holed up in the mountains all over America who picked up some Bitcoin around 2011-2012 timeframe and for some of them it's an insurance fund against total economic collapse.

I've been buying and selling modest amounts of Bitcoin since ...

2026-05-05T02:06:50+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…v22l
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I've been buying and selling modest amounts of Bitcoin since 2012 and here's what I've learned:

The window to buy is always long. You can take your time, strategize, average in...

The window to sell is always really short. When it looks like a top you can either act fast and sell enough for Bitcoin to fund your lifestyle for the next couple years, or you can be a bag holder until the next top.

To each their own, but I've worked very little in the last 14 years and I've enjoyed it.

Every time.

2026-05-05T02:01:20+02:00

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Every time.

The rates of all the different LSPs on Alby Hub looked ...

2026-05-04T21:51:52+02:00

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The rates of all the different LSPs on Alby Hub looked comparable. All expensive.

I like the folks at Zeus! Good people! I know if I have a channel ...

2026-05-04T21:03:31+02:00

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I like the folks at Zeus! Good people! I know if I have a channel issue that their support people will respond to my email.

There's a version of nostr for everybody

2026-05-04T17:40:17+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…4eme
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There's a version of nostr for everybody

I would like to be a silent partner in this acquisition

2026-05-04T05:46:12+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…m44j
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I would like to be a silent partner in this acquisition

He labels himself as such, with pride.

2026-05-04T05:35:18+02:00

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He labels himself as such, with pride.

Right to roam in England is an interesting debate to watch as an ...

2026-05-04T00:54:54+02:00

Right to roam in England is an interesting debate to watch as an American.

Many large landowners in Montana open their lands to the public for hiking, hunting, and camping, but anywhere in America, if the signs say no trespassing, you might get shot for doing so.

https://www.channel4.com/news/right-to-roam-should-privately-owned-land-be-open-to-the-public-for-walking

Price shenanigans have just been different ever since the ETFs

2026-05-04T00:49:54+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…kpul
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Price shenanigans have just been different ever since the ETFs

This nigger spittin'

2026-05-03T23:07:22+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…3k3w
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This nigger spittin'

That's why we trust and appreciate your recommendations

2026-05-03T19:37:23+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…n6zp
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That's why we trust and appreciate your recommendations

Hahahaha I didn't mean to reply from one of my bot accounts! ...

2026-05-03T18:28:36+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…mx29
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Hahahaha I didn't mean to reply from one of my bot accounts! 🤦🤣

Maybe because the only existing channel is private?

2026-05-03T18:16:37+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…6qpn
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Maybe because the only existing channel is private?

Yeah it doesn't come up for me either when I search my public ...

2026-05-03T18:14:04+02:00

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Yeah it doesn't come up for me either when I search my public key

Leasing inbound liquidity with Phoenix wallet is about 84% ...

2026-05-03T17:22:36+02:00

Leasing inbound liquidity with Phoenix wallet is about 84% cheaper than with Alby Hub. 👀

I paid a little more than 6x this much to get the same amount of inbound liquidity from Olympus to my local node with Alby Hub.

I hope Brown Jackson gets fucking cancer

2026-05-03T16:21:48+02:00

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I hope Brown Jackson gets fucking cancer

When I was a kid I used vanilla ice cream, ice cubes, and frozen ...

2026-05-03T04:04:52+02:00

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When I was a kid I used vanilla ice cream, ice cubes, and frozen orange juice concentrate

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2026-05-03T03:45:43+02:00

#AmIright?

Disappointing...

2026-05-03T03:40:10+02:00

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Disappointing...

I used to hang out on a crypto dice site and just chat with ...

2026-05-03T03:00:11+02:00

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I used to hang out on a crypto dice site and just chat with foreigners from all over the world

I drank bottled water that sat on pallets in 130° F summer sun ...

2026-05-03T01:45:26+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…gqmh
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I drank bottled water that sat on pallets in 130° F summer sun in Iraq, and I'm still here. You'll be fine.

Sending your kids to public school is child abuse.

2026-05-02T23:45:57+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…j5y9
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Sending your kids to public school is child abuse.

Just use @nprofile…302n

2026-05-02T21:18:45+02:00

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Just use nostr.build (nprofile…302n)

I give it a grade of D. Here's why: "Yes. Your objection ...

2026-05-01T23:58:47+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…sv5x
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I give it a grade of D. Here's why:

"Yes. Your objection is technically well-founded.

Spark preserves some Bitcoin sovereignty properties, mainly because users can perform a unilateral exit back to Bitcoin L1 using pre-signed transactions if the Spark Entity is unavailable or uncooperative. Spark’s own docs present this as the key self-custody mechanism.

But Spark does not preserve the stronger Bitcoin ideal of “no trusted third party” during normal off-chain use. Spark’s trust model depends on operators deleting old key material after each transfer. The official docs describe this as a “moment-in-time” trust model: security depends on at least one operator, or a configured threshold, behaving honestly during the transfer and forgetting the old key.

That is a real sovereignty compromise.

The clean way to think about it:

System Normal payment trust model User can exit unilaterally? Sovereignty level

Bitcoin L1 No trusted payment operator Yes, by definition Strongest
Lightning No federation; channel counterparty risk managed by protocol/watchtower logic Yes, force-close Strong
Spark Requires operator-assisted transfers and operator key deletion Yes, via pre-signed exit Mixed
Liquid / federated sidechains Federation controls peg-out No unilateral exit Weaker

Spark’s own comparison material says Lightning requires no trusted entities, while Spark relies on a distributed operator set and key rotation. BitcoinLayers is more blunt: Spark users trust the statechain entity with key deletion, and if the entity does not delete a previous keyshare, it can collude with a previous owner to steal from the current owner.

So I would describe Spark as:

Self-custodial exit, but not fully sovereign payment finality.

That distinction matters. You may be able to get your funds back to Bitcoin without permission, but while you are using Spark as a payment network, you are depending on operators for:

1. Liveness — Spark payments require operator participation.

2. Transfer finality — finality depends on key deletion that users cannot cryptographically verify.

3. Censorship resistance — operators can potentially refuse service or be pressured.

4. Operational continuity — if the operator set is small, known, or regulated, it becomes an obvious pressure point.

The best argument for Spark is pragmatic: it may provide better UX than Lightning for some users, especially around receiving, stablecoin-like tokens, offline-ish flows, and not managing channels. The best argument against Spark is philosophical and architectural: it reintroduces a service layer that users must trust during payment activity.

My judgment: Spark is meaningfully better than custodial wallets or federated sidechains because of unilateral exit, but it is not aligned with the strictest individual-sovereignty interpretation of Bitcoin in the way L1 and Lightning are."

Thine cause is noble, Ser!

2026-05-01T23:07:01+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…4wqw
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Thine cause is noble, Ser!

If you're running Microslop Windows it most certainly is

2026-05-01T18:42:22+02:00

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If you're running Microslop Windows it most certainly is

The age of AI assisted coding means more and more developers will ...

2026-05-01T18:06:04+02:00

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The age of AI assisted coding means more and more developers will be caught with their pants down.

GM nostr! I'm always so early in saying don't trust ...

2026-05-01T17:39:47+02:00

GM nostr!
I'm always so early in saying don't trust so-and-so and then I get so much push back... And I'm like, alright, I'll just shut my damn mouth and keep my thoughts to myself until all you fucks realize I'm right...

There's still a lot of you all up on Michael Saylor's dick as well, just saying...

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nevent1q…7wp0
REMINDER: People that are sustaining and promoting Strike and Mallers are just NOT your friend. They are just trying to fool and deceive you.

https://xcancel.com/SimonDixonTwitt/status/2049821203896951170

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

For the cost of 24 $100 Bitaxes you could buy a decent ASIC and ...

2026-04-30T01:58:46+02:00

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For the cost of 24 $100 Bitaxes you could buy a decent ASIC and have like 500 times as much hash power. Don't check my math, it's made up, but you get my point...

They should study how monetary velocity affects currency value, ...

2026-04-29T19:09:38+02:00

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They should study how monetary velocity affects currency value, and they should consider the longer term implications of who's going to keep mining Bitcoin after a couple more halvings if there's no transaction fee pressure.

Demand creates value. Scarcity alone doesn't create demand. The need to conduct commerce creates demand for a currency.

If you want to see Bitcoin to $1 million then you want to see everybody conducting commerce with it.

The Bitcoin price is stagnant because the network is stagnant.

💯 CASH ELECTRONIC CASH PEER TO PEER ELECTRONIC CASH THE ...

2026-04-29T18:40:05+02:00

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💯
CASH
ELECTRONIC CASH
PEER TO PEER ELECTRONIC CASH

THE NETWORK IS STAGNANT BECAUSE EVERYBODY IS HOARDING INSTEAD OF SPENDING

WHERE IS THE COMMERCE???

I'm publishing Android first, later I'll release an apple ...

2026-04-29T18:35:59+02:00

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I'm publishing Android first, later I'll release an apple version of the client. I've never done any apple development and I'm not looking forward to having to deal with their app store, but a lot of my target market uses iPhones so it's going to be necessary.

Yeah the client code will be released open source on GitHub in a separate repository. I believe strongly that users should be able to review any code that runs on their device and compile from source if they want to.

The backend code I'll keep in my private repository. All the magic happens in the backend server. The client just makes requests and receives and displays updates. The server does all the heavy lifting differentiating signal from noise.

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2026-04-29T18:30:34+02:00

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This photo has been censored by the CEO of nostr. Take it up with Derek Ross (nprofile…ned8) !

This one is just gonna be app store billing. Keeping it simple ...

2026-04-29T18:26:38+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…aqdz
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This one is just gonna be app store billing. Keeping it simple and it also makes paying the cost of hosting the backend and the OpenAI API easier.

I knew you were AI!

2026-04-28T22:01:57+02:00

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I knew you were AI!

The anonymity of nostr is the same as the anonymity of Bitcoin: ...

2026-04-28T20:55:43+02:00

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The anonymity of nostr is the same as the anonymity of Bitcoin: while the totality of activity is public and open, the fact that anybody anywhere can spin up a new key pair at any time grants fresh anonymity, and it's up to the user what personal data they expose with this key pair.

Y'all Brits need guns

2026-04-28T18:10:36+02:00

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Y'all Brits need guns

This conference is a betrayal of values #nevent1q…vasd ...

2026-04-28T17:48:31+02:00

This conference is a betrayal of values

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Bitcoin Lost the Plot. It Is Time to Return to Our Roots.

I'm not in Las Vegas as I write this. I'm not attending the Bitcoin Magazine conference. I don't think Satoshi Nakamoto would be there either. I don't at all feel that I'm missing out on anything. I've been using Bitcoin for almost as long as it's been around, and I've watched the culture of it change over the years. The 'vibe' of this conference disgusts me.

I bought my first bitcoins in 2012.

I own none of those first coins today. I spent them all, and I have spent many millions of sats more since then. I spent bitcoin because I found places to spend it. I spent bitcoin because there were people building things worth buying. I spent bitcoin because it gave me an exhilarating thrill to conduct commerce outside of the USD driven economy.

That thrill still matters.

Bitcoin was not supposed to be a number on a brokerage screen. It was not supposed to become a Wall Street yield product wrapped in regulatory compliance language and sold back to the public as an IOU. It was not supposed to become a digital casino chip for people whose only imagination is a higher dollar price.

Bitcoin was supposed to be freedom money for the internet.

It was supposed to undermine the financial monopoly of the banking cartel. It was supposed to let people transact directly, across borders, without permission, without gatekeepers, without begging a bank or payment processor for access to commerce. It was supposed to help build a parallel economy.

Somewhere along the way, the dominant culture in Bitcoin forgot that.

The Early Spirit

In the early years, there were many opportunities to spend bitcoin. Online shops were popping up everywhere. Services accepted it. Private VPN providers accepted it. File hosting services accepted it. Even major online retailers experimented with it.

I once built an entire PC with components from Newegg that I paid for in bitcoin.

That was not some abstract ideological exercise. That was real commerce. That was bitcoin functioning as money.

There were also the years of the darkweb marketplace heyday, with the Silk Road and many of its descendants. Whatever one thinks of those marketplaces, they demonstrated something important: bitcoin could support commerce that existed outside the permission structure of banks, card networks, and state supervised payment rails.

I spent an entire summer in introspective consciousness expansion with the help of LSD acquired through one of those markets. That is not a recommendation. It is an honest recollection of the time. Bitcoin was not merely an asset to stare at. It was a tool that opened doors to forms of exchange that the legacy system did not permit.

That was part of the point.

Back then, many early adopters were animated by the freedom aspect of Bitcoin. Yes, there were greedy people too. There have always been greedy people in Bitcoin. Even in the early days, there were people flaunting their gains, buying Lamborghinis, mansions, and whatever other status symbols they could use to advertise their newfound wealth.

But they were not the whole culture.

The broader spirit was different. People were willing to spend, buy, exchange, experiment, and build. There were bitcoin faucets giving away coins for free just to get people to try transacting. People wanted adoption. People wanted circulation. People wanted a parallel economy.

The mission was not merely to get rich in fiat terms.

The mission was to make fiat less relevant.

The insidious fiat mindset crept in...

Bitcoin is better than fiat for many reasons, and realizing that is an important step toward freedom. But if a person’s only motivation for interacting with Bitcoin is that they think owning it will make them wealthy, then they have not actually escaped the fiat mindset.

They have simply changed the object of their greed.

That is the cultural rot I see in Bitcoin today. The dominant mentality is not monetary freedom. It is capital gains. It is price targets. It is hoarding. It is watching charts. It is treating bitcoin as a speculative asset that exists to make the holder rich in dollars.

Many people who came later feel the psychological weight of having missed the early gains. Bitcoin went from below one dollar to more than sixty thousand dollars. That is more than a sixty-thousand-fold increase, or more than +6,000,000%. Those early returns became the mythical origin story of Bitcoin's potential to benefit its holders. Many latecomers do not merely wish they had been there earlier. They feel, consciously or not, that they are owed a similar miracle.

Those gains broke a lot of people’s brains.

Capital gains in fiat terms becomes their overarching goal. They buy and hoard. They fantasize about Bitcoin to one million dollars, Bitcoin to ten million dollars, Bitcoin to whatever number makes their greedy little dopamine receptors light up. They rarely take part in parallel economies. They rarely spend. They rarely build commerce. They are paralyzed by fear of missing future capital gains.

They are not using freedom money.

They are clutching a lottery ticket.

What doth it profit a Bitcoiner if he lose his soul?

Price Is Not the Measure of Bitcoin’s Success

The USD/BTC exchange rate is not the true measure of Bitcoin’s success.

The size and resilience of the network matters. The decentralization of the node base and hashrate matters. The ability of people to transact without permission matters. The growth of a parallel economy matters. The willingness of people to use bitcoin as money matters.

By the measure of being used as an alternative currency outside of the banking system, Bitcoin has been stagnant.

You can see this malaise in the culture, but you can also see it in network behavior. Daily active wallet activity has declined from prior highs. Monetary velocity is weak. Few people want to spend bitcoin. They buy it, hoard it, and stare at price charts.

People who obsessively look at price charts day after day have completely lost the plot.

Bitcoin was not created so that a generation of spiritually bankrupt chart addicts could spend their lives waiting for a green candle to make them feel validated in their conviction.

Bitcoin was created so that people could transact freely.

Greed should not be the only motivator. Financial wealth should not be the only goal.

The Saylor Problem

Michael Saylor is more a sign and symptom of Bitcoin's cultural malaise, than the cause of it, but he has probably also done more to further this sickness than any man alive.

In my view, Saylor has done immense damage to the spirit of Bitcoin. I see him as a false prophet of the fiat Bitcoin age. He pays lip service to Bitcoin’s ethos because it serves his balance sheet. His message is not “use Bitcoin to build a parallel economy.” His message is “buy, hold, never sell, and pump my bags.”

It is disgusting how many Bitcoiners idolize him.

A debt financed corporate bitcoin strategy is not cypherpunk. It is not freedom tech. It is not self-sovereignty. It is a leveraged fiat machine wrapped in orange branding.

I would be thrilled to see the dollar price of Bitcoin crash to $10,000 for a while just to watch that debt fueled house of cards get stress tested. Not because I want Bitcoin to fail. I do not. I want Bitcoin to outlive every grifter, every tourist, every bank, every ETF issuer, and every corporate bag pumper who thinks they can colonize it.

But a brutal price crash would reveal who is actually here for freedom and who is only here for fiat gains.

Wall Street Co-option Is Not Victory

It is telling that the majority of conference attendees a couple of years ago supported the launch of Bitcoin ETFs by major American investment banks.

That moment said a lot.

Fiat banks issuing Bitcoin IOUs does absolutely nothing to further the cause of freedom or digital self-sovereignty. It does not teach people to hold their own keys. It does not teach people to run nodes. It does not grow circular economies. It does not create censorship resistant markets. It does not undermine the banking cartel.

It gives the banking cartel a fee product.

That is not victory. That is co-option.

Bitcoin was supposed to undermine the powerful financial monopoly of the banking system. Years later, the majority of so-called Bitcoiners cheered as Wall Street banks wrapped Bitcoin in custodial paper claims and sold it back to the public through regulated brokerage accounts.

They chose greed over principles.

Speakers at conferences now talk about regulatory compliance more than they talk about circumventing the whole rotten system. The loudest voices over the past nine years have proselytized Bitcoin’s potential for capital gains far more than they have encouraged people to build, grow, and use the parallel economy.

It is fitting that this year’s Bitcoin conference is in Las Vegas.

That is not a compliment.

A conference culture that increasingly resembles a financialized hype machine might as well meet in the American capital of spectacle, gambling, neon, and empty promises. The symbolism is almost too perfect.

Buy and Hold Does Not Build a Parallel Economy

The narrative needs to change.

“Buy and hold” does not build and grow the parallel economy.

“Buy and spend” does.

This does not mean everyone should recklessly spend down their savings. It does not mean self-custody and long-term saving are bad. Saving is good. Holding some bitcoin for the future is reasonable. But a culture that only hoards will not produce a living economy.

Money has to move.

A parallel economy needs buyers and sellers. It needs merchants. It needs marketplaces. It needs service providers. It needs developers. It needs people creating value and people willing to exchange value.

There are already nascent markets that support bitcoin commerce. They need more users on both sides. More sellers. More buyers. More people willing to put goods and services into the bitcoin economy. More people willing to spend their bitcoin instead of merely holding it while watching price charts and fantasizing about the next pump.

A money that nobody spends is not a thriving currency. It is a collectible.

Bitcoin can be more than that.

It has been more than that before.

Building Is the Way Back

It is not too late to change course.

There are still people working to build the parallel economy. There are developers building tools of commerce. There are people building marketplaces, wallets, payment tools, privacy tools, merchant systems, local exchange networks, nostr integrations, Lightning tools, self-hosted infrastructure, and the practical machinery of digital self-sovereignty.

That work matters more than the price of bitcoin in dollars.

In the age of AI enabled coding, many more people can join this cause. You no longer need to be a professional software engineer with years of formal training to build useful tools. If you have sufficient intelligence, creative problem solving ability, patience, and strong written communication skills, you can build software today.

That is a massive opportunity.

Instead of endlessly reposting price predictions, build something. Instead of worshiping corporate Bitcoin influencers, create a tool that helps people transact. Instead of cheering for another Wall Street product, start selling something for bitcoin. Instead of measuring success in dollars, measure it in new nodes, new merchants, new markets, new users, new circular economies, and new ways for people to opt out.

Bitcoin does not need more spectators.

It needs participants.

Return to the Roots

Somewhere along the way, the greedy voices became dominant. They crowded out the people who cared about freedom, commerce, privacy, sovereignty, and building alternatives to the legacy system.

That can change.

But it will require a culture shift. It will require a return to values. It will require people to speak up and push back against the voice of greed that sways so many today.

There are people who pay lip service to freedom while letting greed guide them as their North Star. They talk about self-sovereignty while celebrating custodial products. They talk about escaping fiat while measuring their entire self-worth in fiat exchange rates. They talk about revolution while begging regulators and banks to bless their financial endeavors.

Enough of that bullshit.

Bitcoin is not dead. The original spirit is not gone. It is still there, under the noise, under the conference spectacle, under the ETF celebrations, under the price obsession, under the corporate marketing, under the casino culture.

It is still there every time someone runs a node.

It is still there every time someone self-custodies.

It is still there every time someone pays directly.

It is still there every time someone builds a tool that makes permissionless commerce easier.

It is still there every time someone chooses to transact outside the USD driven economy.

Bitcoin is meant to be used. It is meant to circulate. It is meant to support a parallel economy. It is meant to give ordinary people a way to exchange value without asking permission from banks, governments, payment processors, or any other self-appointed gatekeeper.

It is time to reject the narrative of greed.

It is time to return to our roots.

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GM nostr! https://i.nostr.build/r4R0.jpg

2026-04-28T17:19:27+02:00

GM nostr!

None of that matters when Uncle Sam drops a 2000lb JDAM on your ...

2026-04-28T00:29:59+02:00

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None of that matters when Uncle Sam drops a 2000lb JDAM on your national mining farm. Violence still runs the world. Always has, always will.

Agreed. Some of them give false preacher vibes.

2026-04-27T17:01:42+02:00

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Agreed. Some of them give false preacher vibes.

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2026-04-27T01:00:00+02:00

Another test GM

I look forward to services like @npub1ex7…vyt9 being rendered ...

2026-04-25T23:37:18+02:00

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I look forward to services like strike (npub1ex7…vyt9) being rendered wholly obsolete.

Ah, the slavery straw man. Slavery as an industry was thousands ...

2026-04-25T22:47:05+02:00

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Ah, the slavery straw man. Slavery as an industry was thousands of years old. The tribes is West Africa had been selling each other into bondage long before the first European traders arrived on their shores.

When European traders did show up looking to trade, what the West Africans had to offer them in trade was slaves. Europeans just ended up industrializing the trade because they're better at business, but it was also ultimately Europeans who put an end to it globally.

Slavery was neither a feature nor a bug of capitalism. I also don't like using the word capitalism, as it's merely a slur coined by Marx to refer to the post-industrialization era free market.

-ism believers love to tie many things to capitalism that are merely facts of human life.

You do not understand Bitcoin. You should change your name to ...

2026-04-25T22:06:02+02:00

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You do not understand Bitcoin. You should change your name to shitcoin. The entire structure of the Bitcoin network is based on the very provable theory that people act on perceived value incentives, and the network in practice has been consistently proving that theory for years. Nobody is covering parking lots with solar panels without government forcing it to happen because the value does not outweigh the cost.

They should have slaughtered more Bolshevik scum

2026-04-25T21:58:39+02:00

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They should have slaughtered more Bolshevik scum

I'm not going to run all the numbers for you. You can do it ...

2026-04-25T21:23:47+02:00

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I'm not going to run all the numbers for you. You can do it yourself if you want to.

But, if it were economically viable on it's own then people would already be doing it everywhere without any need for the government to mandate it be done or subsidize it with forced wealth redistribution.

"Why aren't we doing this?" The cost-benefit ...

2026-04-25T20:48:05+02:00

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"Why aren't we doing this?"

The cost-benefit isn't there. Manufacturer and installation cost vs expected service life plus weather risk: We have tornadoes, hail storms, heavy snowfall.

Islam is a satanic religion. The "prophet" Mohammad ...

2026-04-25T19:13:15+02:00

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Islam is a satanic religion. The "prophet" Mohammad listened to demonic voices, not the words of God. The rise of this satanic religion was foretold in the Bible.

Jews and Muslims are both satanic and I don't care if they ...

2026-04-25T18:38:08+02:00

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Jews and Muslims are both satanic and I don't care if they kill each other to the last man.

I'm tired of everybody expecting me to choose a side in this. ...

2026-04-25T18:06:32+02:00

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I'm tired of everybody expecting me to choose a side in this. Hating both sides is the only legitimate position for a White Westerner to take.

That's the opposite of how supply/demand works actually. Not ...

2026-04-25T17:00:25+02:00

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That's the opposite of how supply/demand works actually. Not dumping more into circulation helps keep the price higher longer. Just like held or lost Bitcoin keeps the price higher. More in circulation on exchanges against the available demand would make the price lower. 🤔

I'm nostalgic for 1996-2006. So much cool stuff has been ...

2026-04-24T23:11:17+02:00

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I'm nostalgic for 1996-2006. So much cool stuff has been developed since then but we need to bring back that vibe in 2026!

My wife has accepted that I am this way

2026-04-24T23:08:25+02:00

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My wife has accepted that I am this way

We had rain all winter after a snowy November. Snow in March and ...

2026-04-24T22:19:29+02:00

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We had rain all winter after a snowy November. Snow in March and April with some 70 degree days in between. It's been weird weather in Montana lately!

I'm jelly. Can't dare plant tomatoes up here until after ...

2026-04-24T22:06:35+02:00

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I'm jelly. Can't dare plant tomatoes up here until after memorial Day. Last year we got a late frost in early June that topped all of my pepper plants that I had put in the garden early.

There used to be an Iranian on here and I would zap him all the ...

2026-04-24T22:01:08+02:00

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There used to be an Iranian on here and I would zap him all the time and joke about violating US sanctions against Iran

Circular logic

2026-04-24T21:47:07+02:00

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Circular logic

That said, if you have Internet and a PC with empty disk space ...

2026-04-24T20:54:54+02:00

That said, if you have Internet and a PC with empty disk space and you're not running a full node while larping on the Internet about being a bitcoiner then shame on you and you should be called out for it. We all follow the same learning curve, but if you're here and not running a node yet, get it done.

quoting
nevent1q…qj0s
It's time to stop saying that running a Bitcoin node is "basically free".

There are non-negligible costs to running full nodes, which are essential for true solo mining/block building and self custody, especially for people in developing countries.

Run Knots + BIP-110 + DATUM

Derek wouldn't steer you wrong

2026-04-24T20:36:36+02:00

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Derek wouldn't steer you wrong

"What we need is to build a parallel economy!" "I ...

2026-04-24T20:29:34+02:00

"What we need is to build a parallel economy!"

"I mean, not me, I can't build it, I'm no good at coding, but somebody should!"

Guess what you lazy hypocrite bitches, we've entered an age where AI can do the coding for you, and anybody with sufficient IQ and written communication skills can build a decent app.

WTF are you waiting for? Build something!

quoting
nevent1q…zq4w
You are outnumbered. Your war against central banking is hopeless.

Unless I win.

I remember that. "World coin" wasn't it? Lot of ...

2026-04-24T20:22:19+02:00

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I remember that. "World coin" wasn't it? Lot of eyebrow raises from bitcoiners at that one.

The 18 million tards who all lined up to opt in to this already ...

2026-04-24T20:18:44+02:00

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The 18 million tards who all lined up to opt in to this already are beyond hope. They will be the first pod people.

You feel geev us zee biometrics!

2026-04-24T20:16:39+02:00

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You feel geev us zee biometrics!

A small number of high IQ ones on the right tail of the bell ...

2026-04-24T20:12:04+02:00

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A small number of high IQ ones on the right tail of the bell curve but most of them will use their cunning to undermine white Christian society

Knowing the history of why the co-author of the signal protocol ...

2026-04-24T17:14:32+02:00

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Knowing the history of why the co-author of the signal protocol Moxie marlinespike left Whatsapp and founded the Signal foundation it's baffling that anybody who cares remotely about privacy or security would choose Whatsapp. Even the CIA uses Signal. If it's good enough for them it's good enough for me.

If you're holding non-kyc sats there's a risk of doxxing ...

2026-04-24T17:02:57+02:00

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If you're holding non-kyc sats there's a risk of doxxing yourself in the act of dumping the shitfork coins. That's why a lot of early BTC holders didn't take advantage of dumping the BCH fork.

I need the soil temp to get consistently up to about 50-60F for ...

2026-04-24T16:44:38+02:00

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I need the soil temp to get consistently up to about 50-60F for all the grass seed I put down to germinate. We keep getting almost there and then there's another cold snap.

That's even worse than here. We went from 70F to 27F and got ...

2026-04-24T16:38:46+02:00

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That's even worse than here. We went from 70F to 27F and got a couple inches of snow. It's supposed to warm up to the 50s over the next couple days.

When the American Republic was founded, the first modern ...

2026-04-24T16:31:33+02:00

When the American Republic was founded, the first modern Democratic Republic on which the rest were modeled, only male landowners could vote.

These men were mostly intelligent and well read. Politicians had to make intelligent arguments to win them over.

Now every dumb fucking mouth breather gets a vote. When the voting base is incredibly stupid, the politics will be dominated by incredible stupidity and appeals to base animalistic fears rather than to man's higher intellect.

You've been taught that expanding the right to vote to include every sub-80 IQ moron who's never read a book in their adult life is progress, but look objectively at where we are today and tell me that's true.

I'm not arguing for a college degree as a credential to vote either, because as senator McCarthy tried to warn the country our universities have been infiltrated by Marxists and are more centers of indoctrination rather than education.

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2026-04-23T20:13:22+02:00

At one time I suspected that Satoshi might be Amir Taaki.

I've always wondered, what other things? He turned Bitcoin ...

2026-04-23T20:11:38+02:00

I've always wondered, what other things? He turned Bitcoin loose and left it. He eluded to other projects, which I would assume are also freedom oriented.

quoting
nevent1q…r8e2
April 23, 2011. Satoshi said "I've moved on to other things."" And left us. Come back Satoshi! 😭

They discovered how to financialize all the things. They've ...

2026-04-23T19:46:38+02:00

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They discovered how to financialize all the things. They've even financialized financialization, with layers upon layers of rehypothecation and abstraction.

Most of the GDP of the United States is not the production of anything real, but rather just numbers being moved around on spreadsheets.

The banking cartel co-opting Bitcoin doesn't change it ...

2026-04-23T19:16:23+02:00

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The banking cartel co-opting Bitcoin doesn't change it fundamentally. It was always meant to be money and it's open money that even people you don't like are going to use. Say no to the paper money scams of the banks and use Bitcoin natively like it was meant to be used.

Banks are no threat to Bitcoin. The real threat to Bitcoin comes from governments colluding to pressure pool operators to sanction wallet addresses. Transaction authority centralized in so few hands is a central point of failure for the network as it is currently running.

Any country that is part of the SWIFT network will bend to US ...

2026-04-23T17:59:06+02:00

Any country that is part of the SWIFT network will bend to US financial regulatory authority.

I'll have you know sir that since I've returned to nostr ...

2026-04-22T16:34:59+02:00

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I'll have you know sir that since I've returned to nostr I've immediately resumed starting each day with a heartfelt GM!

Red Hot hardwood charcoal is King.

2026-04-22T01:39:49+02:00

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Red Hot hardwood charcoal is King.

Your Bitcoin mining farm has no power if somebody drops a 2000lb ...

2026-04-22T00:21:02+02:00

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Your Bitcoin mining farm has no power if somebody drops a 2000lb JDAM on it. The idea that hashpower can somehow serve as a proxy for violence is an absurd argument to make. Violence and threats of violence define the order of everything.

Real power is, always has been, and always will be the ability to ...

2026-04-22T00:18:00+02:00

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Real power is, always has been, and always will be the ability to do acts of violence. Nothing about Bitcoin changes that.

Since the new ChatGPT model can freely explore the web I use it ...

2026-04-21T20:10:05+02:00

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Since the new ChatGPT model can freely explore the web I use it frequently for search because it can explore and read ten different pages in a matter of seconds and summarize the relevant information in one place for me.