John Balkam

In episode 1, I interview the founders of Bitcoin Commons, a new Bitcoin node implementation that is 100% Bitcoin and 0% Core.
Please enjoy!
#nevent1q…lxpn

2026-05-20 11:23:37 UTC

Introducing a new show from @nprofile…9gyu hosted by yours truly.
The Freedom Tech Frontier
https://youtu.be/38Do59tUzlc?si=APbd9Yuz_f5UtvjG

2026-05-09 17:41:53 UTC

Stablecoins are stable in that they pen you in to a digital prison like a farm animal.

2026-05-08 13:58:58 UTC

It's likely the case that most people will not get Bitcoin because they do not want to go through the painful awakening process that accompanies understanding Bitcoin.

2026-04-22 22:14:38 UTC

I watched Finding Satoshi today and it was a really moving documentary.
The conclusion that Hal Finney and Len Sassaman likely collaborated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto to create Bitcoin seems very plausible to me given the evidence presented.
Even more significant to me though was the takeaway about these two men as human beings.
They were brilliant and competent, but they were also kind, thoughtful, humble, and principled. They were good teammates, friends, partners, and in Hal's case, a good father.
All of our lives, we are shown example after example in society that these kinds of men are not valuable. That, in fact, power, cunning, and ruthlessness are the only ways for individuals to make an impact in the world. Might makes right and the strong can do what they want, while the weak suffer what they must.
Bitcoin's origin story is a repudiation of that worldview. It shatters that framework.
Look at how much positive impact Bitcoin has already had on the world. And imagine how much positive impact is yet to come.
If Hal and Len were the creators of Bitcoin, it demonstrates to the world that kind, humble, hardworking, collaborative, and loving individuals are powerful. In fact, they may demonstrate that a dedicated network of those types of individuals are the most powerful force in the world.
We Are All Satoshi. We can be peaceful, loving, and humble (enough) people, and we can also be a force of nature that even powerful tyrants bend to.
Thank you Satoshi. We'll carry the flame from here.

2026-04-03 16:14:53 UTC

I'm launching a new show called "The Freedom Tech Frontier" under the @nprofile…9w6n banner.
Who should I interview first?

2026-04-01 17:25:39 UTC

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Yeah, just learned a bit more about quantum computing today during a presentation Alex from River was giving. I'm just starting to wrap my head around it.
This comment was mostly on the narratives we are being peppered with this year about QC "threats" to Bitcoin. None of those narratives give me concern based on what I've learned so far.

2026-04-01 13:40:41 UTC

I'm sick and tired of folks who use scare tactics to try and profit off of other people's FUD. Enough already.

2026-04-01 13:11:01 UTC

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It'll be a sick joke when Big Pharma gets a new lease on life bc of QC

2026-04-01 13:07:07 UTC

Will quantum computers do anything useful? Or are they solely being created to try and break Bitcoin?
Weird marketing strategy 🤷‍♂️

2026-03-31 23:15:01 UTC

I'm itching to zap right now. Tell me about something you're looking forward to the rest of this year.

2026-03-29 13:13:53 UTC

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Nature is healing.

2026-03-29 13:13:06 UTC

Dollars are only used by pedophiles, sex traffickers, and drug traffickers.
https://news.kagi.com/s/y25x2d

2026-03-28 22:00:37 UTC

Bitcoin in self-custody is the No Kings protest that has real teeth.

2026-03-28 16:26:47 UTC

"You don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems."
- James Clear
What is your Bitcoin accumulation and self-custody system?
It might be worthwhile to forget about a stack size goal and focus on a stacking system.

2026-03-28 01:52:56 UTC

I had an American raised grass fed NY strip for dinner and a swear to you it was medicine

2026-03-27 14:22:26 UTC

The Death Economy Doom Loop
Debt -> Lies -> War -> Money Printing -> Inflation -> Death and Despair
Over and over again until the parasites have destroyed the host and seek a new one.

2026-03-25 15:18:56 UTC

Down with the Scam Economy

2026-03-24 23:09:45 UTC

Maybe this isn't true for absolutely everyone, but I believe it's important to go through experiences that absolutely crush you.
I'm talking hard times that break you down and force you to wake up and re-examine everything.
Those are the times that you learn the most about yourself. Whether it be a breakup or a professional failure or health event. The pain forces you to take stock and make necessary changes.
Everyone deserves the opportunity to strive and fail as it's those experiences that gives us the strength and wisdom that we need.

2026-03-22 13:57:56 UTC

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WAR IS PEACE
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2026-03-21 20:21:25 UTC

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Lol he's an old high school buddy

2026-03-21 19:47:09 UTC

My buddy sent this to the group chat and said, "these targeted ads are getting out of control."
I gave him a hard time, "the next ad you're gonna get is gonna be for an AI sex robot."
He says, "its already ordered. Her name is OpenClawdia."
😂😂😂
https://blossom.primal.net/6f5daae3a4c75469959fca1c510be186ee22676879ec6c9e70a887bfb1b813b8.png

2026-03-17 13:52:23 UTC

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The Economy = The Stock Market + It's Owners
Consumers = Slaves

2026-03-16 19:39:42 UTC

Individuals MUST maintain sovereignty over their consciousness if they ever wish to experience liberty during their lives on Earth.
Freedom tech is a means to the end of liberating human consciousness.
Keep fighting.

2026-03-14 14:05:15 UTC

So it seems that half of American politicians have been captured by Israel and the other half have been captured by China. Either that or they've been captured by transnational capital interests that have no loyalty to the United States whatsoever.
You can probably count on one hand the number of federal politicians who have Americans' best interests at heart.
It's a sad state of affairs and a core reason to focus on freedom tech and more or less ignore politics.

2026-03-14 12:28:54 UTC

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Here's Erik's presentation at Plan B for those who'd prefer to watch and listen.
https://rumble.com/v75tz1q-not-your-keys-not-your-mind-bitcoiners-and-the-future-of-ai-plan-forum.html
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2026-03-14 12:27:30 UTC

I cannot recommend this article by @nprofile…ough.
The battlefield for the rest of this century is our minds and our consciousness. Centralized AI is incentivized to consume our consciousness for profit. Sovereign individuals, families, and companies must utilize sovereign AI or risk losing everything.
https://coindork.github.io/vora/blog/nyknym/

2026-03-13 23:05:15 UTC

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This week The Economist also posted a video claiming that Bitcoin isn't "cool anymore" because it's available in tradfi wrappers like ETFs now.
Let it rip.
#nevent1q…m7lu

2026-03-13 23:01:26 UTC

The clownish former Prime Minister of the UK comparing Satoahi to Charizard and Pikachu is a major bottom signal

2026-03-09 16:17:24 UTC

Best interview I've done so far 🫡
https://youtu.be/ivUHlod-yPI?si=eqtzx24pqo9dR9nj

2026-03-07 20:59:40 UTC

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Welcome

2026-03-05 17:15:57 UTC

After twenty years of living with them, I believe it is safe to conclude that centralized social media platforms were in fact SURVEILLANCE media platforms all along.
I predict that reasonable people will revive their grandmothers' old practice of documenting their families' lives: physical scrapbooks.
Your life and my life is NOT entertainment for the world. It is NOT designed to be consumed by strangers the world over or by the authorities. It is meant to be lived and shared with the loved ones we hold dearest.

2026-03-05 17:08:25 UTC

I jump on IG and X every once in a while to see how our @nprofile…9w6n accounts are doing and my goodness are those platforms trash. Post and ghost is the only way to survive there.

2026-03-04 21:15:53 UTC

Monitoring the situation

2026-03-04 18:15:38 UTC

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👀

2026-03-04 13:41:49 UTC

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GM
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2026-03-04 13:40:26 UTC

China is stockpoling gold because it is easy to centralize. The CCP regime requires extreme centralization.
Bitcoin is the perfect weapon to counter. Harder than gold. More decentralized than gold. Easier to transact.
It may take a long time but we can defeat communism once and for all with Bitcoin ✌️

2026-03-03 15:58:21 UTC

@nprofile…tkhj really nails it when says, "There is no us versus them. There is only us."
It's a devastating truth that through the fiat system, we are all paying for our own destruction.
Epstein network? We paid for it.
Forever wars? We paid for it.
Technocractic dystopia? We paid for it.
It's all on us. We allowed it to go on and paid for it through taxation and inflation over decades.
The only thing we can do is take responsibility and remove our time, energy, and resources from the extractive Death Economy. No more finger pointing unless it is at the mirror.
Opt out. I know most if not all of you on here are with me.

2026-03-02 18:47:22 UTC

Things have been really weird since March 2020. Six years of accelerating weirdness.
🫨😵‍💫🤯

2026-02-28 22:40:26 UTC

The Trump Admin has done two regime changes in two months so far this year.
What have YOU gotten done in 2026?!

2026-02-26 17:18:59 UTC

We're building a Life Economy.
https://blossom.primal.net/f0f7bc410192396bb232c5bf90aab1babb6fed35dc84d84c45478610eb627f04.mp4

2026-02-25 20:16:24 UTC

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I think any individual or small group of individuals that believes they need to "fix" Bitcoin or "save" Bitcoin has been wrong in the past and will continue to be wrong in the future.
Also, check out Bitcoin Commons, a new implementation that is in the works:
https://thebitcoincommons.org/

2026-02-25 19:47:54 UTC

The fiat system is optimized for the extreme taker.
Bitcoin is optimized for the extreme giver.
For the giver, the world seemed completely upside down until they discovered Bitcoin.
For the taker, they scream at the top of their lungs that Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme because they cannot afford for Fiat to be exposed as the real scam.

2026-02-25 19:27:50 UTC

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You could say that a Bitcoiner is someone who caught the banks and governments in the middle of their heist and got the hell out of dodge.
#nevent1q…n38l

2026-02-25 19:18:43 UTC

I don't think you really get Bitcoin until you realize the banksters are complete criminal fraudsters, aided and abetted by criminals in the government.
Its a very tough pill to swallow, and most aren't willing to take it. Yet.

2026-02-22 21:45:48 UTC

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You know what, maybe America is all the way back 🇺🇲

2026-02-22 16:55:37 UTC

Hughes and Hellebuyck will never have to pay for a beer at PubKey
🇺🇲🥇

2026-02-20 19:15:15 UTC

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It may be fake, but anecdotally it's true

2026-02-20 16:26:43 UTC

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Topped you up a bit homie

2026-02-18 13:20:17 UTC

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GM and PV. It feels much better on here, thank you 🌞

2026-02-13 15:05:32 UTC

What could go wrong
https://blossom.primal.net/1af54573b628511277bf0b40175f791f74c4355ed103e163d4098868fe044d11.jpg

2026-02-13 00:10:28 UTC

Time is not a river. Time is a heartbeat.
🤯

2026-02-06 12:45:07 UTC

Couldn't have said it better myself.
https://image.nostr.build/71cdb0758cd3a9cac9f6f6de549d9ceb46c7ae75797c40f0559aa868951b2558.jpg

2026-02-06 01:31:06 UTC

Saylor said something on the MSTR earnings call that was hilarious and that sounded like something Yogi Berra would say:
"It's a good thing we have time, otherwise everything would happen all at once."

2026-02-06 01:20:11 UTC

If you're too afraid of a little contact, get off the fucking field and sit on the bench. Let the real dogs play and tear each other apart to see who wins.
#Bitcoin
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2026-02-04 22:04:11 UTC

We don't need to make the world "smarter."
We need to make the world more beautiful. We need to make the world more peaceful. We need to make the world more just.
That's why I'm dedicating my professional life to driving Bitcoin adoption and not very interested in AI adoption.
Intelligence without wisdom is dangerous. Wisdom says stick to Bitcoin 🧡

2026-01-31 01:22:12 UTC

People will wake up one day and ask themselves:
Why did I pretend to work for that fake company just to earn fake money to impress fake people that I pretended to care about?

2026-01-31 01:11:06 UTC

Epstein really was Pandora's Box.
Everyone in "elite" circles. And I mean EVERYONE was exposed. Government. Finance. Banking. Technology. Business. Hollywood.
They are all criminals. Clintons. Trumps. Musk. Thiel. Hoffman. Dimon. Etc. Republicans and Democrats. They're going to try and build AI dystopia to cover it all up, but it's too late.
They are FUCKED.

2026-01-31 00:08:15 UTC

Volatility does not change the fact that the banks are insolvent and the governments are insolvent.
There's too much debt and too few dollars.
Hold scarce assets in self-custody. Survive.

2026-01-30 22:04:56 UTC

It's hard to orange pill people because it's hard to get them to accept the fact that the biggest institutions in the world, that are supposed to be protecting them, are in fact stealing from them.
That said, I think as every day goes by, more and more people are waking up to the corruption and fuckery. The zeitgeist is shifting towards the narrative Bitcoiners have been yelling into the void about for years.
Patience everyone. The world is waking up, gradually then suddenly. Our time is coming.

2026-01-30 13:24:26 UTC

*Fourth Turning intensifies*

2026-01-30 02:30:23 UTC

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Nations or tribes often go to war to get what they want. Bitcoiners will fight in unique ways that the world has never seen. If we can find a way to stop fighting ourselves, that is 😂

2026-01-30 02:20:24 UTC

It's weird to say this, but I think Bitcoiners are forming a new nation. The first ever digitally native nation.
I mean that in the sense that the United States of America used to be a nation. England used to be a nation, etc. Globalization essentially dissolved those nations of people. The States still exist but the nations are going extinct.
In the internet age, people don't believe in the old idea of belonging to a nation based on blood and soil. Why sacrifice for the people in my country if they don't share my values? Why sacrifice for the people in my country if they aren't reciprocating my efforts? They are just taking from me. This sucks.
Ironically, the answer to globalization was to form the first truly global nation based on internet protocols, not geography.
Bitcoiners can meet each other all over the world and click almost immediately. It is like you are meeting someone you've known for a long time when you meet a fellow Bitcoiner. Because you know you've had shared experiences and you have shared values. You've been reading and watching the same things. That's what a nation of people is supposed to feel like. A big family.
This is not to say that Bitcoiners will create a state a la Balaji's Network State thesis. Bitcoiners tend to despise government. I find it hard to imagine that we would voluntarily build a Networked Nation State.
It is a remarkable story, nevertheless. A tribe, a nation, that is forming across the globe, connected by a single open source software program. (And now a second one, in Nostr).
Perhaps other nations will form digitally in the coming decades. But I find it hard to believe that they will be as strong and as powerful as Bitcoin Nation.

2026-01-29 19:41:20 UTC

My game theoritic mind thinks that the US will ultimately rug pull the world on gold, and pivot to Bitcoin.
Why go to all this trouble with the SBR, with the close relationship with Tether? Why go to the trouble of doing GENIUS & CLARITY?
The US knows it's in deep shit. The US knows it's rivals have a shit ton of gold.
Everyone is rushing out of paper into commodities. Those gotdam commies in China are heavy on gold but light on Bitcoin.
Why not stick it to those bastards and say, 'hey, nice shiny rock you got there. We're about to play checkmate on you assholes with digital gold. Fuck you."
🙏🇺🇸

2026-01-28 19:07:58 UTC

Government = criminal gangsters
Banking + Finance = criminal fraudsters
With their powers combined, they are Captain Fiat! Here to take everything from you and make you their slave but try to make you believe you should say thank you.

2026-01-27 18:56:02 UTC

The Paper Chasers are not gonna have a good time over the next five years.
Physical commodity holders will likely do very well.
Bitcoin self-custodians will do best.

2026-01-27 17:44:18 UTC

People talk a big game about resisting the government, and yet they still use the government's money.
Until you opt out of fiat currencies, you are all talk and zero action. Your words carry no weight.
Put your money where your mouth is.
#Bitcoin

2026-01-27 17:34:53 UTC

Gold and silver ripping are evidence that the boomer institutions know that fiat currencies are fucked.
Bitcoin ripping (soon) will be evidence that Millennials and Gen Z know that fiat currencies are fucked.
We will outlive the precious metals camp. Just give it time 🫡

2026-01-26 15:09:22 UTC

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Thanks for joining us on the show @nprofile…2pcv 🙏
#nevent1q…haww

2026-01-25 22:19:16 UTC

We have been living through the hard times for quite a while now. There are likely more hard times in front of us.
Not to worry.
If you're still here, that means you are becoming a strong man or woman. My hat's off to you. We will create the good times together.

2026-01-25 22:12:57 UTC

Nature is healing
#nevent1q…uf25

2026-01-23 22:01:48 UTC

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You're so money and you don't even know it
#nevent1q…e4ht

2026-01-22 16:21:53 UTC

At the bottom of the rabbit hole is a massive white pill.
The self proclaimed "elite" of this world are, in fact, the lowest of the low. They are extreme takers, they lack empathy, and they are incapable of feeling love. And that's putting it lightly.
The white pill is realizing that you win by simply not being like them.
Don't bother playing their games. Chasing wealth, status, and power will force you into the "elite" world and you will be approached to compromise yourself and your integrity in order to win their games.
Their games are rigged and stupid. There is no point in playing and debasing yourself. Don't stoop to their level.
Win by being loving, being a giver, being a creator.
So what if you don't achieve high status? So what if you don't become wealthy?
You will feel good about yourself and you will maintain your honor and integrity. That makes you a winner. That makes you elite.

2026-01-21 21:55:17 UTC

I want Greenland so bad now they seem fun 😂
#nevent1q…p3zm

2026-01-21 17:03:06 UTC

Have fun playing with your shiny gold bars

2026-01-19 17:40:56 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd1liN7HKIY

2026-01-16 01:04:45 UTC

I have a little Juliet balcony in my apartment and sometimes I just open the door, stand in it, and take it all in like Batman perched over Gotham. It's the best.
https://media4.giphy.com/media/B4jfJqiIxvU08/200w.webp

2026-01-15 16:03:05 UTC

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Thanks lemme investigate

2026-01-15 16:00:45 UTC

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Shout out to BK @nprofile…keuq who did an excellent job carrying the flag for Sovreign and Bitcoin in this interview 🫡
#nevent1q…49l0

2026-01-15 15:57:52 UTC

I realized in 2022 that Bitcoin was a weapon built to go to war with the banking cartel.
Seems that the banking cartel is doing everything it can to lobby the Congress to strangle and box in Bitcoin as much as possible.
They can only extend and pretend for so long.
Tens of millions understand the fiat game now. What happens when it's hundreds of millions? What happens when a billion people realize the banking cartel is an international crime syndicate?
Con men rely on confidence. The central banking long con is losing humanity's confidence.

2026-01-14 14:29:57 UTC

The Two Realms > The Network State
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2026-01-11 17:19:56 UTC

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GM I walked to work at PKDC this morning and it was glorious

2026-01-09 20:26:27 UTC

We need Canada and Greenland so that the NHL can expand to 36 teams

2026-01-09 17:33:40 UTC

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Well said. Thanks for the perspective.

2026-01-09 14:03:16 UTC

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Sorry to hear that. Sounds like a wonderful person.

2026-01-09 13:58:58 UTC

While the whole Somali daycare fraud scandal in Minnesota is brutal, it seems like a shiny object to distract people from the deeper problems our country faces.
The amount of fraud at the Fed, on Wall Street, at the Pentagon, etc is exponentially higher and more damaging. The amount of criminality and violence perpetuated by Intelligence is far more negative than the illegal immigrant fraud schemes.
My guess is that Trump and Co will use the Federal government to bully the State governments and create division based on race, religion and politics. You will start to see the Red Feds attack the Blue States and create a civil war atmosphere. Meanwhile the Fed and Wall Street will continue to asset strip our country. Intelligence run media will narrate the whole thing and pit us against each other.
God be with us. These people are brilliant with their deceptions and there is no bottom to their treachery.

2026-01-09 11:35:50 UTC

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This is the way 🤝

2026-01-08 00:13:25 UTC

In a fiat dominated world, having integrity becomes a major liability.
Look at the fraud, deceit, lies, war, and violence around the world that props up the fiat ponzi scheme.
Bitcoin's promise is that it enables honest and hardworking individuals to live a decent life without abandoning their dignity.

2026-01-07 23:38:30 UTC

Bitcoin is a way of life suitable for creative, high agency, high integrity people.

2026-01-03 14:42:44 UTC

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GM
#nevent1q…ehnn

2026-01-02 20:05:54 UTC

2026 resolution: Nostr only.

2026-01-02 15:47:24 UTC

This is the Victims of Communism Memorial.
Most people visit Washington, DC and never see it. It's easy to miss because it's small and tucked away on New Jersey Ave next to Georgetown Law, several blocks away from The Mall.
It is dedicated "To the more than one hundred million victims of communism and to those who love liberty."
Yesterday, a new mayor was inaugurated in New York City who promised to "replace rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism."
Collectivist ideology is un-American and leads to totalitarian dictatorship. It is easy to paint "individualism" as selfish. But what the new mayor fails to understand is that individualism is about liberty. And liberty is what America is all about. It always has been and it always will be.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
It is time for Americans to remember that we have inalienable rights, endowed upon us by God. Among them, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
God bless America.
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2025-12-31 17:46:07 UTC

Hell yeah
#nevent1q…djnk

2025-12-30 23:18:47 UTC

At least 90% of government operates like the State of Minnesota, that's why 90% of people are feeling the squeeze right now
https://blossom.primal.net/a85f9ce785d58086b6ab58f43f6f07e6d278bc863f9d9c7e95b5c6e71b8b609c.jpg

2025-12-30 03:43:22 UTC

If this doesn't wake up the masses, I don't know what will.
https://blossom.primal.net/edcf3a41a3713dc53a761b1590e622e0b3b2f93391937a03311a1510903d411f.jpg

2025-12-30 03:09:10 UTC

It's is very easy to get people using Bitcoin if you offer them delicious burgers, dogs, fries, wings and beers, then offer them a 21% discount if they pay with Bitcoin.
I think we cracked the code @nprofile…rsqx

2025-12-29 22:04:48 UTC

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Read that one via eBook 🤝

2025-12-24 17:31:13 UTC

Working for and with Bitcoiners is a huge competitive advantage and an easy way to improve your quality of life.
2026 is going to be an incredible year @nprofile…9w6n @nprofile…rsqx