libertas primordium

You don't have to accept any transaction on your node but if you decide not to accept blocks that the rest of the network does then you're gonna end up on your own fork by yourself. It's basically digital peer pressure.
My node rejects and does not relay several types of transactions but it accepts them when the rest of the network accepts them in a mined block.

2026-05-08 00:02:46 CEST

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Lowery is a gay retarded. Real power projection is having the ability to do violence.

2026-05-07 18:30:32 CEST

This project is getting big. Still a couple things left to do before I release it.
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2026-05-07 16:08:39 CEST

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Coinbase rich, private key poor. 😭

2026-05-07 01:59:53 CEST

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2026-05-07 00:43:22 CEST

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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.

2026-05-07 00:37:48 CEST

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.

2026-05-07 00:16:36 CEST

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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.

2026-05-06 21:24:26 CEST

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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.

2026-05-06 21:20:52 CEST

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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.

2026-05-06 21:08:04 CEST

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

2026-05-06 19:27:20 CEST

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That bot replies to about a dozen shit takes on Bitcoin per day. You'd be surprised how many people on nostr say stupid shit about Bitcoin. Mostly Monero Bros who trigger my bot, but also some Saylor fan bois.

2026-05-06 19:25:37 CEST

Moved direct source fetch out of the update worker and into a standalone worker that runs concurrent threads that fetch every source on the direct source list on an interval and cache extracted material to a DB for the update workers to scan.
Result: 66% reduction in server CPU load. 👍

2026-05-06 16:37:05 CEST

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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.

2026-05-06 06:38:50 CEST

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I came back. I don't know why I ever left.

2026-05-06 05:51:00 CEST

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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.

2026-05-06 05:47:57 CEST

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

2026-05-06 05:43:23 CEST

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The relative moralism of liberalism killed integrity.

2026-05-06 05:41:30 CEST

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Sometimes AI needs a little guidance when debugging.

2026-05-06 04:18:16 CEST

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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.

2026-05-06 04:02:07 CEST

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Too few people understand the difference between negative rights vs positive rights.

2026-05-06 03:52:52 CEST

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I blame liberalism and feminism.

2026-05-06 03:51:16 CEST

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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.

2026-05-06 00:56:34 CEST

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

2026-05-05 23:11:39 CEST

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

2026-05-05 02:43:27 CEST

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Worse than running a TOR exit node.

2026-05-05 02:41:33 CEST

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Wait for the fix and the fork.

2026-05-05 02:21:46 CEST

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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.

2026-05-05 02:06:50 CEST

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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.

2026-05-05 02:01:20 CEST

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Every time.

2026-05-04 21:51:52 CEST

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

2026-05-04 21:03:31 CEST

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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.

2026-05-04 17:40:17 CEST

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There's a version of nostr for everybody

2026-05-04 05:46:12 CEST

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I would like to be a silent partner in this acquisition

2026-05-04 05:35:18 CEST

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He labels himself as such, with pride.

2026-05-04 00:54:54 CEST

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

2026-05-04 00:49:54 CEST

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Price shenanigans have just been different ever since the ETFs

2026-05-03 23:07:22 CEST

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This nigger spittin'

2026-05-03 19:37:23 CEST

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That's why we trust and appreciate your recommendations

2026-05-03 18:28:36 CEST

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

2026-05-03 18:16:37 CEST

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Maybe because the only existing channel is private?

2026-05-03 18:14:04 CEST

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

2026-05-03 17:22:36 CEST

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.
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2026-05-03 16:35:12 CEST

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02a5d154d2b1967543866bd3b06018e7376b83c84bfe0294d2137060ebd5d44f3b
If you want. This is the node running on my always on debian PC. I only have 1 channel open right now.

2026-05-03 16:21:48 CEST

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I hope Brown Jackson gets fucking cancer

2026-05-03 04:04:52 CEST

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

2026-05-03 03:45:43 CEST

#AmIright?
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2026-05-03 03:40:10 CEST

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Disappointing...

2026-05-03 03:00:11 CEST

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

2026-05-03 01:45:26 CEST

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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.

2026-05-02 23:45:57 CEST

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Sending your kids to public school is child abuse.

2026-05-02 21:18:45 CEST

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Just use @nprofile…302n

2026-05-01 23:58:47 CEST

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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."

2026-05-01 23:07:01 CEST

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Thine cause is noble, Ser!

2026-05-01 18:42:22 CEST

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If you're running Microslop Windows it most certainly is

2026-05-01 18:06:04 CEST

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

2026-05-01 17:39:47 CEST

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...
#nevent1q…7wp0

2026-04-30 01:58:46 CEST

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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...

2026-04-29 19:09:38 CEST

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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.

2026-04-29 18:40:05 CEST

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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???

2026-04-29 18:35:59 CEST

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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.

2026-04-29 18:30:34 CEST

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This photo has been censored by the CEO of nostr. Take it up with @nprofile…ned8 !

2026-04-29 18:26:38 CEST

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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.

2026-04-28 22:01:57 CEST

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I knew you were AI!

2026-04-28 20:55:43 CEST

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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.

2026-04-28 20:48:13 CEST

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Who TF does that??

2026-04-28 18:10:36 CEST

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Y'all Brits need guns

2026-04-28 17:48:31 CEST

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

2026-04-28 17:19:27 CEST

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

2026-04-28 00:29:59 CEST

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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.

2026-04-27 19:51:10 CEST

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I love thyme!

2026-04-27 17:01:42 CEST

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Agreed. Some of them give false preacher vibes.

2026-04-27 01:00:00 CEST

Another test GM

2026-04-25 23:37:18 CEST

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

2026-04-25 22:47:05 CEST

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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. https://npub1un5y07dnu20fxzelq5scweuz37xa6kkpwl66634xv9h49ewr04kswpevsy.blossom.band/e39a2f20819d3e5dbfb56b2c50f33b7fa7c05433b9a4fcd3edd146779730340e.jpg

2026-04-25 22:06:02 CEST

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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.
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2026-04-25 21:58:39 CEST

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They should have slaughtered more Bolshevik scum

2026-04-25 21:23:47 CEST

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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.

2026-04-25 20:48:05 CEST

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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.

2026-04-25 19:13:15 CEST

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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.

2026-04-25 18:38:08 CEST

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

2026-04-25 18:27:58 CEST

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I'll stand with the Palestinian Christians, descendents of the first followers of Christ ✝️, persecuted by both Muslims and Jews alike.

2026-04-25 18:06:32 CEST

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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.

2026-04-25 17:21:18 CEST

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If Bitcoin isn't soft-forked to apply quantum proof encryption before the day that it is verified to have been broken by QC then no freeze or hard fork can save Bitcoin holders.
You can apply the fix but at some point you'll have to lift the freeze so everyone can create quantum proof keys and move their funds from the vulnerable wallets to the safe ones at which point it is a free for all with the QC capable thief able to do the same and likely beating holders to it.
The need for a QC proof soft fork is more urgent than many realize.

2026-04-25 17:00:25 CEST

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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. 🤔

2026-04-24 23:11:17 CEST

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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!

2026-04-24 23:08:25 CEST

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My wife has accepted that I am this way

2026-04-24 22:19:29 CEST

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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!

2026-04-24 22:06:35 CEST

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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.

2026-04-24 22:01:08 CEST

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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

2026-04-24 21:47:07 CEST

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Circular logic

2026-04-24 20:54:54 CEST

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.
#nevent1q…qj0s

2026-04-24 20:36:36 CEST

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Derek wouldn't steer you wrong

2026-04-24 20:29:34 CEST

"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!
#nevent1q…zq4w