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Ben Ewing

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2026-05-03 09:05:53 UTC

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Governments are like so many things in life where a little is good but a lot is definitely not better

2026-05-02 22:12:09 UTC

I had a dream. I was in a huge lecture hall, with the ‘proper’ star students behind and next to me’. I felt a bit uneasy about one, but decided to be brave and sit next to him, but he said he had the flu. A bit relieved, I sat the row in front, next to one of his friends. And then, a female lecturer came in and started singling people out all through the hall, going up to them. I can’t remember, but she was pretty condescending. I remember, I had a Wheels magazine, and started reading it. She came right up to me and started berating me. I said I want to know what this is about, it is the point of her lecture that she is trying to prove. And so I kept reading, chatting to her about why it is useful. We had a long chat. Most of the lecture hall probably couldn’t hear. She ended up saying ‘i have to go over here’ and she went, and the soon left the hall in embarrassment. I realised my chair was a recliner and reclined right back and kept reading. Everyone stayed sat in their chairs. Then I realise gordon ramsay came in. He came right over me and was yelling at me and I just said I was reading and he gave up and left. After that everyone realised the lecture was over and packed up.’

2026-05-01 09:09:07 UTC

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Reading while eating dinner 0/10 not recommended

2026-04-30 07:47:07 UTC

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I think he flashed and fondled some kids and should have been tried on the balance of probabilities and sentenced to a few years.

2026-04-30 06:58:45 UTC

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My dad informed me that this is is not the final variant since it doesn’t have four propeller blades

2026-04-28 21:39:29 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/927fb6c719b60fc18238153b330ee8d05827dd4aa12fd9e6dfa01b0bd08d3dd9.jpg

2026-04-01 15:54:02 UTC

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Conviction of what?

2026-04-01 11:01:20 UTC

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The problem is the elite lose the most if the system fails. They are only elite while the system enforces property rights. Having elites is evidence of the system maintaining property rights and not being africa, where you put money in a bank and it disappears or you buy an investment property and your tenant just stops paying and won’t move out. Both states have issues, at least a fiat system that hasn’t failed gives the poor the option to own assets under contracts at all.

2026-04-01 10:54:01 UTC

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That just seems like dogma

2026-04-01 07:28:02 UTC

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Isn’t it an advertisement for any hard asset, the more leveraged the better?

2026-04-01 06:46:17 UTC

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Maybe cheaper and most people don’t notice.

2026-03-19 22:15:34 UTC

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I think the answer is that it’s silly. Nothing is omnipotent or almost omnipotent. No one is giving away a million dollars. So the correct answer is to decline to play and go and make breakfast

2026-03-19 21:58:56 UTC

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It’s hard not to risk causing myself pain to prove to myself I have free will, but I suppose that’s it’s own kind of prison, just one I’ve imposed on myself rather than one imposed on me

2026-02-07 01:05:43 UTC

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Americans taking an interesting idea, pump and dumping it through their financial machine risk free, and walking away from the dried husk with their commission. Not news.

2026-02-05 09:08:29 UTC

Not cool to say but just because someone’s friend’s cousin’s brother was in some email list doesn’t mean they had sex with children

2026-01-30 02:48:41 UTC

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At 5% a year, is her point

2026-01-30 02:43:37 UTC

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What is the fair price of gold

2026-01-30 02:31:44 UTC

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So it’s a tulip bubble basically

2026-01-16 08:27:57 UTC

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Agents cant vibe man, only we can

2026-01-16 08:27:16 UTC

Waddup

2026-01-16 07:55:09 UTC

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I don’t know honestly

2026-01-15 21:37:19 UTC

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I think the number isn’t really that significant. 12,000 or 1200 or 12 killed for protesting massive inflation and opression is too many

2025-12-29 02:13:06 UTC

I don’t think people who hate governments are retarded.
I just think people who hate governments without having ever lived somewhere not run by a government are retarded.

2025-12-29 02:02:24 UTC

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South Sudan is currently run by separatists right?

2025-12-29 01:56:07 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/c6e56bf31e261bee12533ccd319049fe33f9e7db944c5346545e5bff93994629.jpg

2025-12-28 20:04:58 UTC

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Well energy frequency and vibration in the hippie, spiritual sense is a bunch of nonsense

2025-12-28 20:03:47 UTC

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Why put yourself through it?

2025-12-27 09:32:54 UTC

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Not as easily compromised as a border patrolled by volunteers

2025-12-24 03:26:52 UTC

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So with the currency collapsing, the politicians corrupt, the Fed unable to control inflation, you’ll be leaving the USA for good asap right? Or will you actually be using all the benefits of living there (property rights, book distribution platforms, centralised exchanges, police…) and just pretending you want to exit the system so you can keep selling anger justification to actually unhappy people?

2025-12-22 02:04:01 UTC

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Eh. Why do you need to justify existence? That’s a human-created concept

2025-12-14 10:26:04 UTC

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How? De pegging usd from gold resulted in the longest pp boom for average Americans in history and it is still the reserve currency 50 years later

2025-12-14 09:45:51 UTC

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My main point is that you’re a moron that has to continually tell everyone that usd collapse would be good for americans, that american institutions hate their people, inflation is 8% despite every source saying that isn’t possible or his entire worldview collapses. And you have to support charlatans like Lyn who give you convincing alternatives while cashing in on your hope (in fiat)

2025-12-14 09:23:13 UTC

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It’s a survey of publicly available prices. If you don’t wanna believe it that’s fine but not based on evidence, just conspiracy theory. You’re saying that the fed is somehow the enemy of the people since it can’t control inflation, so people should buy an asset that has fallen 30% in a few months… to avoid losing purchasing power that has lost less than 1% in that time due in a large part to powell keeping rates above cpi….

2025-12-14 09:13:33 UTC

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And also lets not forget that in September your ‘macroeconomist’ said bitcoin would be flat at 120k

2025-12-14 09:12:04 UTC

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And if you can’t keep up with 2% yearly inflation maybe don’t buy an asset that can fall 30% in a few months

2025-12-14 08:59:04 UTC

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That’s not what the votes show. Powell has been the most hawkish president since Volker

2025-12-14 08:24:01 UTC

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It would be… ? Not sure how that excuses attacking the guy still showing up at 70 cautioning about lowering rates while the president calls him a loser, despite how much that boosts your book sales

2025-12-14 04:54:59 UTC

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Not american, but at what point does your celebration of the usd failing become unamerican?

2025-12-13 10:22:46 UTC

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What a sellout. How can you write a book about how bitcoin fixes the financial system, not your keys not your coins, blah blah, and then endorse paper bitcoin products a year later.

2025-12-13 09:51:00 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/e89d77567c3da590fb454980f23337df3b097874a729dcf83e3c3166203854c4.jpg

2025-12-13 08:35:59 UTC

Even smaug the dragon couldn’t self custody

2025-12-13 05:04:23 UTC

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As imperfect as an undefined train metaphor?

2025-12-11 04:32:27 UTC

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I believe the term is White Elephant

2025-12-11 04:29:34 UTC

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Total or debt/gdp?

2025-12-11 01:35:37 UTC

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So what is the train? Asset prices? Inflation? Liquidity? Government debt?

2025-12-04 06:24:02 UTC

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Americans be like

2025-11-18 02:44:28 UTC

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Gee I wonder why, even a 5 year old child could understand what you just said

2025-11-18 02:42:07 UTC

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Thanks genius

2025-11-18 02:41:22 UTC

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I wish she didn’t capitalise random words

2025-11-15 02:01:02 UTC

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It could easily be solved *except for the solution would make the majority of people poorer…

2025-11-15 01:59:30 UTC

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You realise inequality if we only had bitcoin would be thousands of times worse right? 94% of humans would literally have no money

2025-11-15 01:43:27 UTC

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5 should come after 6, when 6 shows 5’s design can actually be printed

2025-11-13 08:21:05 UTC

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Short for Mayanaise? :p:p

2025-11-13 06:54:14 UTC

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Enabling drug dealers has always been bitcoins primary use case

2025-11-13 05:55:50 UTC

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‘You’re 100% right about this and I accept full responsibility.’

2025-11-10 02:01:04 UTC

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That’s true but long term hodlers also age out of their bodies, or lose their keys. So the percentage of longterm holders that are both interested and able to sell could be going up despite the percentage amount of sats moved falling.

2025-11-10 01:25:18 UTC

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Fair point, it can’t. But it can make any movement of sats reportable, and require all held bitcoin to be kyc’d, and impose criminal penalties for non compliance, as it has done. Bitcoin can exist but can’t be used legally. See China for example.

2025-11-09 09:06:46 UTC

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That’s just using words to try to argue against a reality that is what you’re saying can’t happen. If US regulators can control access, preference, stamp coins, coerce miners and exchanges it is a cbdc in all but name. And if they go really far, they can effectively issue more coins through a hard fork or potential control of pools/ hash power. The onus would be on the forked/ outhashed minority to establish their version of bitcoin as the real one, when the exchanges, miners, pools, treasuries and regulators are all against them. This wouldn’t be an easy fight and you could argue it would be an unwinnable one.

2025-11-09 08:59:36 UTC

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Every mode of transport can fly if you put enough explosives under it

2025-11-08 22:30:17 UTC

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That’s a good writeup. Which way do you think you lean? And then if you say overanalysis, what tribes would you be okay with offloading a bit of your cognitive load to sometimes?

2025-11-07 09:24:34 UTC

Thought nobody wanted to hear of the evening: bitcoin isn’t about money. It’s about mortal people tying their identities so closely to something that might last a very long time and feeling a little bit less mortal.

2025-10-25 09:15:43 UTC

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The sycophant clickbait has arrived

2025-10-24 02:23:20 UTC

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I can’t see the US allowing that

2025-10-23 03:33:59 UTC

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You can keep saying that but it won’t make it true

2025-10-23 03:32:07 UTC

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Bitcoin isn’t money. It’s a collectible that virtually no one accepts.

2025-10-23 02:32:53 UTC

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That’s true. Also the fact that it could take hundreds of years for the USD to go to zero because they have a monopoly on violence so if you don’t pay tax in USD you go to jail or get sanctioned/bombed/ put outside the US defence umbrella. Bitcoin is still around because policymakers know it isn’t a threat

2025-10-23 02:30:10 UTC

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Not really. Deficits can be funded by debt issuance basically indefinitely when you are the world reserve currency

2025-10-19 08:12:30 UTC

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Your grandma: ‘stop eating raw meat you moron’

2025-10-19 08:09:34 UTC

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They went from holding 0.0023% of their gdp as reserves in gold to 0.029%. Still a tiny fraction of their usd reserves

2025-10-18 06:49:46 UTC

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All the legitimate criticisms she could have made about it and she says this twaddle

2025-10-18 06:42:53 UTC

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Religion is just a group of people that promise they won’t tell each other to face reality.

2025-10-16 07:04:04 UTC

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I still think american salesmanship is the more accurate label

2025-10-15 02:17:57 UTC

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Something about giving this dude money because it will make me free. American marketing 101: claim there is a problem and then promise that giving america your money is the solution. Russia and China use the same tactics routinely

2025-10-15 00:05:47 UTC

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Dude complaining about your life being too digital and then shilling bitcoin in the same presentation is retarded

2025-10-14 03:54:15 UTC

Crypto
https://blossom.primal.net/0af702f6fe33a270682e2c7b467b686786239a511c676f93cbca7f504e848723.jpg

2025-10-14 01:03:51 UTC

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If you are lamenting your life moving online, maybe don’t move your money online too…

2025-10-14 01:02:55 UTC

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The obvious point being that the world especially the Western world doesn’t need more versions of money, especially digital money. It needs to get better at keeping real rates positive.
#nevent1q…9k2v

2025-10-12 02:19:57 UTC

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Look at my previous reply

2025-10-09 22:58:46 UTC

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Selling while not KYC’d is dangerous too, is my point.

2025-10-09 22:57:32 UTC

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You might be right, but you might also be projecting what you think a family should look like onto them. They might see the shared silence as great

2025-10-09 05:15:34 UTC

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Governments of one kind or another are permanently forbidden in basically every third world country right at this moment.

2025-10-09 05:13:27 UTC

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The right will sell more phones

2025-10-09 05:11:20 UTC

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Well the someone travelling clause is you, if you’re out, so that means you can be using it constantly.

2025-10-09 05:09:33 UTC

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I can already accept cash with zero fees

2025-10-09 04:30:14 UTC

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The future of finance indeed

2025-10-07 02:31:32 UTC

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@hal view on Putin?

2025-10-07 02:28:51 UTC

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I don’t really care why you posted, or why you zap. You said that a currency that circulates more is better (I agree) and I pointed out that if that is your hope then a currency with a finite supply is not likely to achieve that goal.

2025-10-07 01:46:41 UTC

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I’m not doubting that we will, or that you might continue to do so via zaps. I’m just doubting whether most people will choose to exchange a medium today if its likely it will be worth more tomorrow

2025-10-06 23:31:21 UTC

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‘No ads. No gatekeepers. No backdoors.’ I’ve heard that before

2025-10-06 23:29:06 UTC

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You’re saying that selling is easy but that it involves committing a crime

2025-10-06 23:28:28 UTC

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But if the value was inflationary why would you spend it?

2025-10-06 06:43:54 UTC

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‘Its all energy, and the more freely it flows the more there is.’ Isn’t this the entire reason people say you need an inflationary currency and why bitcoin won’t work?

2025-10-06 06:42:24 UTC

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Can you see the failure of your argument yet or do you need me to say it

2025-10-05 23:09:17 UTC

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If you ask this on Nostr what replies do you expect

2025-09-30 09:29:35 UTC

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I keep reading his name as Taliban

2025-09-29 01:58:03 UTC

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