Narwhal Tacos

This is my Bitcoin Nostr account. There are others like it, but this one is mine.
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2026-04-15 07:46:23 CEST

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I’ve watched your work for awhile.
This is a breakthrough. Really amazing.
You’ve got a voice.
I don’t know if it’s up for bid, but let everyone know if so.
Again, this is breakthrough work.
Stay humble, you’re on your path.

2026-04-10 06:51:05 CEST

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The boy was a legend from the start.

2026-04-10 06:46:45 CEST

What is a favored Nostr app for ipad?
Damus is really comfortably, but way too clunky, I tried Primal but not iPad friendly.
Any iPa-centric Noster’ers?

2026-04-10 06:42:29 CEST

“Arm ole enuff to remember when 1 sat - 1 SAT - was a…shiit fuggin inow geddafuk like farmagindle you craaakin slarmy craghooooles…you can EAT. MY.”
https://image.nostr.build/5438e460c713afb3d6fbc44c296af1f61d0be1abfa0165f7ceade053693503c7.jpg

2026-04-10 05:54:49 CEST

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Appreciate you giving us in the US the heads up about this.

2026-04-10 05:46:35 CEST

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at first i was like whaat? then i thought well YEAH sailor would like pup or pulp or whatevs so liiiittttt!!!!! <- (1 moar then foar malakaaaaaa!!!!)

2026-04-05 02:05:33 CEST

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Because airlines don’t make any money, and are subsidized by the Gov’t to manifest incentive-driven humiliation rituals.

2026-04-03 06:07:54 CEST

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There’s a really important spiritual parable:
A Mom brings her son to the Guru, says “he won’t stop eating sugar! Tell him to stop eating sugar.”
The Guru thinks, says “very well, come back next week.”
They come back next week, Mom says “Tell him to stop eating sugar!”
The Guru considers, says “please, I need one more week”.
Mom comes back a week later, “tell my Boy to stop eating sugar.”
Guru says “I can’t. Because I can’t do it myself yet.”.

2026-04-03 05:54:02 CEST

Dopamine is a thing, but it’s a small thing.
Interest is more important than dopamine.
Meaning is still greater.
Let’s not demonetize our Human Nature with fiat currencies.

2026-04-02 05:06:45 CEST

How is the quantum computing thing STILL a meme?
Nobody but NOBODY who is actually working on it is capable of talking about it.
So the people talking about it are NOT working on it.
It is an invisible enemy being utilized to scare the NPC’s.
Quantum computing is the Y2K of everyone who was too young to experience Y2K.

2026-04-02 04:52:45 CEST

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It really appreciates that you know what it does for you.

2026-04-01 06:26:36 CEST

Life is hard.
And if your life isn’t hard at the moment, look around at how many other people are having a hard time of life right now.
We all need to remember that there’s always just one single thing we can do to make the world a little brighter for one other person.
https://image.nostr.build/99ee07bdce749798753675c9b86d397c81ef35658dffc2cdad66c73794a9fa17.jpg

2026-04-01 06:11:24 CEST

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I believe you’re very close to recognizing something fundamental, although I’ll admit it’s strange to hear it from a “gamer” pov.
If I’m not mistaken, are you questioning why a seemingly immortal, omniscient, omnipotent, all-powerful being would create a dramatic universe in which it had to involve and experience the absolute most heartbreaking and inhuman blood and loss for Itself…for, what? What reason?
But also experience anew the fruits which could only be bitterly won from those same experiences?
Or maybe I’m over-reading your post.

2026-04-01 05:54:47 CEST

We’re in a time where heroes and models are being sacrificed.
Rosa Parks was an influencer,
Anne Franke’s uncle wrote most of her journal.
Helen Keller may have been the OG Greta Thunberg. A hand-puppet for a Harvard-educated socialist narrative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_th1EszK34
Never trust anyone the media promotes.

2026-03-31 06:56:40 CEST

The definition of “artificial” is basically “that which is created by humans”.
That’s something to ponder on, or about.
In the meantime, here’s what real, IRL Intelligence looks like.
Cringe-worthy, yes, but even more important to ponder on…or about.
https://image.nostr.build/85d8470d516a823b3c15de44f24abb677c104208702d75637315d17d32b752aa.jpg

2026-03-31 06:29:36 CEST

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This is a great question and I believe an unhelpful answer:
Don’t try to help anyone else.
Just be you, and if anyone asks you a question, be ready to answer that question.

2026-03-30 06:28:40 CEST

Meaning deep-Gov’t officials would have been wargaming the close of the Strait of Hormuz, just as they wargamed Covid?
Maybe? I don’t know, but it seems right to me.
And if so that means it isn’t “macro”.
We can’t invest if we’re simply second-guessing what insiders are doing.
#nevent1q…ypzq

2026-03-29 09:18:45 CEST

The Yin-Yang symbol is ancient, and important.
But a key to understanding it is recognizing that it doesn’t actually represent “harmony”.
The two are engaged in eternal conflict.

2026-03-29 07:42:39 CEST

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I’m a few years behind you, but came from cypherpunk material and think I can appreciate what you’re saying.
I also have long fiat investment background.
I agree with you.
The central problem now is that “if” there is a new generation of Bitcoin Maxis, they realized the OGs are selling out.
And since that selling is clearly going to Govt entities, they aren’t inspired that there’s any “Bitcoin Revolution” still being led by revolutionaries.
In other words: “OGs” have left the building, conferences are cringe, “cypherpunk” isn’t front and center anymore, and Wall St has completely pwned price.
We’re at a make or break year, right now.
Gov’t will capsize Bitcoin in a year or so, guaranteed.
Because they’ve overwhelmed “Retail” markets, and thereby underwhelmed “pleb” culture, thus rug-pulling self-custody, and all the while the original Bitcoiners have gone awol to sell their stacks to Bukele in El Salvador or Dubai or wherever.
It’s hard to stay optimistic. Fiat has fully recognized the need to subsume Bitcoin into its system. And the sociopaths have all the time and all the money in the world to do so.
We had a good run, but what I’m seeing is that the people who understood Bitcoin best are cut-and-running. Bitcoin is now a global asset, and that means it will perform as a portfolio savings-asset for the rest of Fiat’s life.

2026-03-27 07:04:06 CET

I may have broken Google’s Banana Pro AI with the following prompt, which it can’t seem to return an image for…
“If you don’t take Bitcoin into self-custody, you’ve traded your children’s future for someone else’s.”

2026-03-24 04:41:45 CET

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I’m sincerely sorry your fam is going through such a hard time.
Didn’t you also have a box elder infestation? Maybe I should not have brought that up…
Hey, there are only two things Nostr has to offer - a Zap and a Kitten….so…incoming…
https://image.nostr.build/97fdef34cacf6e22ef1d2b08a0744aec3ba9a7408c3fc7efedac15609d49e1ed.jpg

2026-03-24 04:29:16 CET

Cuz I can just say things on Nostr:
I gave Vince Gilligan’s show “Plur1bus” a very good shot.
But eventually it just became a show about how an abrasive liberal lesbian was right, and the literal entire rest of the world was wrong.
Open to critiques?

2026-03-19 03:52:54 CET

Respectfully, no.
Politics is a social-structure that is necessary at first, then inevitably attracts the Psycho-/Sociopaths.
Psycho-/Sociopaths represent <5% of society, but they seem to have an Evolutionary imperative to persist. In fact, the accepted definition is that Psychopaths are born, Sociopaths are made.
They represent a tiny number of people who do not understand emotional bonding and connection. As such, they only see their social culture as a NEED to control other people. So they are drawn to positions of power - i.e. positions of central authority or control.
It’s important to understand they’re drawn to political positions not just for the control, but because they increasingly feel themselves among “their tribe” - in other words, no longer around “those” people they don’t understand.
Politics is where Sociopaths feel most “at home”.
[They feel they’re in their element, as sadistic as it is ( I use the word sadistic intentionally). It’s exactly similar to how pedophiles are drawn together in positions of power over children, in fact the Venn diagram between the two psychologies is almost unified…which explains so much of what has been coming to light of late.]
The desire to control is the desire for Power. Normal people do not feel this. Normal people will achieve success, and then long to retire asap and “spend time with friends and family”. Sociopaths do not, because they don’t understand their family. They never bonded, they don’t “get” the need for people to be together for any reason other than “networking” or gaining access. This is why people in higher Politics never seem to leave. They have nowhere safe to go any longer.
What Sociopaths fear the most is being disrespected. THIS is the leverage they use over each other.
Sociopaths DO NOT care whether you like them or hate them. They need you to be in their control, to play their game.
What they CANNOT allow is for you to walk away and ignore them.
#nevent1q…7ff4

2026-03-17 03:23:40 CET

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make sure you’re not taking B-vitamins late in the day. Messed me up for a couple weeks before I figured it out.

2026-03-17 03:17:04 CET

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true dat…on twitx at least 12 young asian women so far have really appreciated my thoughts…

2026-03-17 03:14:07 CET

Me with heretical Biblical history lately.
https://image.nostr.build/8266ba9c1bffbf214648c37acfd667c6c334c1286f4e2fdec2d4d144120689f9.jpg
#nevent1q…vvln

2026-03-16 05:25:14 CET

4h Turning Breaking News:
Live theatre and performance art will emerge like the Lady of the Lake from the attention-deficit swamp its been submerged in the past couple decades…
…as AI saturates online media and non-NPCs re-discover an interest for real people doing real things.
https://image.nostr.build/3363bfc268ac3cd8392350079bbb92c0976e560ca62254f47cbc16e40c441a00.jpg

2026-03-16 05:07:57 CET

I’m really tired of Bitcoin, but I like you Bitcoiners a lot, so’s it ok if I just mental-health/kitten-post for a while, no judgement?
https://image.nostr.build/978e66221e8aaaf193732f8a73f09b4499dc6d6dc9248fc0accdaa91c19ba4f6.jpg

2026-03-11 05:07:53 CET

I’m old enough to remember when Gen X watched the Iraq war on TV, and it didn’t actually matter to them.
Because they were the first generation to realize the US was run by people they never voted for, doing things they had no interest in.
https://image.nostr.build/f110e39929efd43f18b4d2cae6932682bc3d6f9600bbbf6ee86ea8f05a0809f0.jpg

2026-03-11 04:59:28 CET

Bret Weinstein is more brilliant than his widely recognized brilliant older brother.
He envisioned what I still view as the single most game-changing concept for a political party, the UNITY2020 party.
Americans would nominate leaders who DIDN’T want to run for President, guaranteeing them votes if they “should accept this assignment”. It was and still is a “reality TV” concept in how to invigorate American Democracy.
Alas fallen by the wayside….so sadly….
Anyway here, just spend 10 minutes and listen to this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM0YXRBk248

2026-03-09 05:55:43 CET

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Good question.
I spent so much of my life trying to rocket-jet myself into success. In various fields. So when I mention how it’s important to learn about “red flags” I speak from a place that learned to do that the hard way, and learned to appreciate my aptitude to do so.
But basically, I was fortunate enough to find enough success to realize that what I do has to be fun and enjoyable, otherwise it’s just servitude.
When we’re young - ALL of us - we think we have to do what we’re told to do by, and to become, Adults.
That’s not true.
Young people need to - first and foremost - learn to recognize who are actual Authentic Adults? Then just ask them for jobs. To learn.
Never in history have people worked “McJobs”. Never. They only exist in a Fiat monetary system.
For thousands of years, “Farmer” used to be a very high-class occupation.

2026-03-09 05:40:03 CET

Fiat money eventually creates jobs for people that are thankless.
Life is lived by recognizing “red flags”. Having a thankless job is a red flag. True jobs should be thankful, more or less.
A thankless job is a signal in both your Life, and your culture, that You as an Individual Human Being are going down a bad road to sorrow.

2026-03-09 03:49:31 CET

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I wish I remember the comedian who brilliantly said:
“Dating over Forty is like shopping at a consignment store.”

2026-03-09 03:45:09 CET

“Conscience is the gatekeeper for keeping the shitty things out.”
#nevent1q…pca2

2026-03-09 03:39:46 CET

Just a gentle reminder, pleb:
The Markets can stay retarded a lot longer than you can stay solvent - if you borrow or use leverage.
DCA has always been the way.
Unless you’re living on Bitcoin, in which case these Wall Street motherfuckers absolutely have your number and want you to feel so much pain you’ll sell your family-line out just to keep living the retired life…
https://image.nostr.build/a0e9d702466c027dba0617d675a5f997cf135500148bb352df016699b2c528d2.jpg

2026-03-08 08:31:52 CET

I use AI almost exclusively now as a replacement for websearching.
What I’m experimenting with now is including my boring websearch with something that might be more spicy.
So, for instance, if I’m wondering whether the ‘60’s band The Seekers was connected to the ‘70’s band The New Seekers, I might ask:
“Was the band The Seekers affiliated with the later band The New Seekers, and how were they related to the US abdicating from the Gold Standard in 1971?”
It’s fun. And harmless. As harmless as anything we’ve had inserted into our education, at any rate.

2026-03-06 06:22:56 CET

If the US Dollar continues to outlive all other fiat currencies, as is reasonable to assume…
…and Bitcoin continues to abide along-side it in a Bi-Lateral currency system…
…then is it fair to asses that this may explain why Bitcoin has broken cycle, and no longer excels vs US Dollar?
If so then is $1million Bitcoin/USD is out of the question in any investible timeframe?

2026-03-06 05:45:36 CET

If you live in a major metropolitan area, would you say it is because “Your Job” and/or “Shopping” are your top priorities in life?

2026-03-06 05:35:17 CET

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I’m recognized as weird in that I don’t care about sweet foods, and so I appreciate fruits but tend to prefer more sour-y ones like blueberries and grapefruit….
But that said, mango has to be the sovereign fruit, right? Like, when drinks or whatever have fake-flavor, none of the fruits actually translate well, except mango. It always tastes like mango.

2026-03-06 05:23:47 CET

Once you realize how to identify Psycho/Sociopaths,
it makes so, so many things in your life fall into perspective.
For the record, they’re the same, but medical psychiatry says “Psychopaths are born, Sociopaths are made.”
But recognizing the characteristics leads to seeing you whole life differently. And to understanding how people with this brain disfunction have been perpetuated by Evolution, and more importantly, how they are drawn like moths to a flame to positions of power over other people.
People in positions of Central Authority are almost inevitably Sociopaths. The need to have power is the tell.

2026-03-06 05:11:24 CET

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but
who
would
build
the
roads?
(that the trilateral of Firestone/Ford/Standard Oil lobbied the American Government to build and maintain so they could sell their cars and that many States now privatize)

2026-03-06 05:08:09 CET

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I think what you’re saying is how I feel about orzo/risoni. It’s just pasta-rice. You can flavor it, but it’s just cheap filler. I’ll eat it, but not if you offer it at more than $13 a plate…
Don’t feed me cat food and gaslight me, amirite?

2026-03-05 05:47:12 CET

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Can I sincerely ask Why?
There’s no reason I know of that ammo has not already been stocked here in America, and no reason I know that Americans need to fear that they need MORE ammo?
Wondering why you posted this.

2026-03-05 05:41:50 CET

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I know, right!?!
Who the fuck BUYS a tamago sando?

2026-03-05 05:39:56 CET

The Dollar is the Empire that is invading the planet.
Countries and Cultures don’t matter.
Having control of the US Gov’t and the Fed is the End Game.
Let that statement sink in.
Stop identifying with countries and currencies, and you can open the door to understand what’s happening…and maybe when you are next.

2026-03-03 05:57:55 CET

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The true humility test is seeing ourselves on video, from the outside. It’s crazy to imagine that all of humanity has led a Life never actually feeling Alien to itself before video. Then video comes along, and people become literally obsessed with how they look on video…thinking the rest of us just can’t get enough of this new Self they’ve discovered.

2026-03-03 05:51:36 CET

I’ve never really understood “binge-watching”, but a few days ago I began binge-ing (binging???) “Severance”. And I’ve now spent the weekend obsessing the whole two Seasons.
It’s really just a show about how Artists feel trying to handle Normie-life, but it’s so heartening the show has attacted held its own.
It seems a tiny beacon of Hope in a Media-World of worthless quantity.

2026-03-03 02:21:07 CET

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Bots and NPCs attack with no reason.
For instance, those are both the same thing.

2026-03-01 06:03:52 CET

Let me offer, from long experience.
If You are reacting and thinking “shit’s happening, I have to trade”.
Buy. Never Sell.

2026-03-01 05:59:34 CET

I’m not sure what is happening right now,
or if it actually affects the life of Me and My Loved Ones,
but what I do know is that when sociopaths who run countries get their panties in a wad, it’s precisely the time to bet against them.
Because they ain’t us. And they are a very tiny Club afraid of us awakening.

2026-02-27 07:48:19 CET

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It’s gotten crazy now, but I believe it’s worth remembering that many years ago, early/clumsy AI was implicated in something that became known as “Elsagate”.
tl;dr “Youtube Kids” began to support thousands of videos for children that parents began to complain were “very off”. They exhibited cartoon characters, superheros, and nominallly “Elsa” from frozen…but in situations that increasingly became weird and disturbing.
As I understand it, it turned out low-rent AI was farming income by auto-generating countless videos and posting specifically to Youtube Kids - knowing that parents weren’t monitoring and the kids would just click on whatever was engaging. The videos started as bland, but mission-creep gradually led them to generate strangely as the engagement warranted.
Many of these can still be found, I believe, on Youtube still….by searching “Elsagate”. It’s not a boring endeavor, and quite instructive in understanding how the Uncanny Valley still perpetuates in contemporary AI.

2026-02-27 07:33:06 CET

old-core is an option. always has been.
#nevent1q…42h8

2026-02-27 07:30:18 CET

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COMMUNITY NOTE:
This video has been scanned and reported as “possibly AI generated”.
Expert analysis reveals the bag in the video might be counterfeit.

2026-02-26 04:27:47 CET

I mean, are you TRYING to create a fake magazine I actually really want to read? Because this is funny on levels I openly admit I don’t understand.
#nevent1q…8jhq

2026-02-25 22:28:03 CET

My favorite most recommendy podcast interview this week is @npub1cj8…rz4u on WalkerAmerica interviewing Isabel Foxen-Duke on quantum computing, bitcoin, and how the two can live happily together.
I found this fascinating all the way through, and I’d thought I’d lost interest in the quantum computing fud over the past few years…
https://rumble.com/v767ulk-happening-now-walker-america-live.html?start=7633

2026-02-25 06:04:08 CET

Btw, late night thought.
I don’t think much about the Bitcoin mining world, even though I run multiple miners at home.
But large Bitcoin Mining co’s pivoting to AI signals to me only that they were lost at sea, scared, and uncommitted to Bitcoin mining.
If I ran a large BTC mining op and understood my business, pivoting to some new upstart model is not something I’d even consider. And if I did, I’d dip toes only and not talk about it.
Mark my words: the co’s doing this will suck just as bad in AI as they did in Bitcoin.

2026-02-25 05:40:38 CET

All “building” on Bitcoin is Ego.
If it doesn’t affect the core network, then let bygones be.
But if building on Bitcoin requires Bitcoin to change,
it’s inherently destructive.
This is literally written in great Spiritual texts.

2026-02-25 05:31:06 CET

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Appreciate this

2026-02-25 05:30:24 CET

It’s often noted that there is only 1 reason to Buy
but there are 1,000 reasons to Sell.
If you haven’t just Bought or about to Sell,
THERE ARE 0 REASONS NOT TO TAKE SELF-CUSTODY.

2026-02-24 05:43:04 CET

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‘ceptin it heps hide the gamey taste o’ squirrrl.

2026-02-24 05:41:35 CET

This is a great question.
#nevent1q…jfr8

2026-02-24 05:28:11 CET

“Editing” is one of the most important developments in Human civilization. Across all communications, EXCEPT when your loved one needs to tell you about their day.
I’ve spent decades defending the need to edit Shakespeare’s plays. Audiences overwhelmingly love it, only the poet-autists piss and moan.
#nevent1q…rnyf

2026-02-23 08:26:05 CET

I continually want to do this, so I welcome all reminders.
#nevent1q…8fhl

2026-02-23 08:20:40 CET

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False flags were to steamroll or avoid Congressional approval.
The Corporate State doesn’t care about Congress anymore, so they don’t have to put on a show.

2026-02-23 08:18:54 CET

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No. But roughly 20 years ago I went to a campground in southern Minnesota and was told it was full. Being surprised at this, I asked why. The ranger said, “it’s squirrel hunting season, so the Asians all come out.”
Just leaving this as a real thing that I experienced.

2026-02-23 08:04:47 CET

If you do not think, feel and sense that a fundamental shock is about to happen to the human race, you are an IDIOT.
If you have intuited a shock is coming, but substantially pin your hopes on Political action, you are a SOCIOPATH.
If you are not making basic, practical plans for a disruption of your way of life that may last months [maybe more maybe less] you are a DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS.
Life is not about what actually happens. For that we depend on family & community. Life is about work and forebearance.
“Hope for the best, Prepare for the worst, Accept what comes.”
Will you provide for your loved ones tomorrow, will you provide for your loved ones next week, will you provide for your loved ones next month, will you provide for your loved ones next year….
This is what we know it means to be a grown-up human being.

2026-02-22 16:32:32 CET

There are a few uncertainties that ardent Bitcoiners are arguing over at this time.
Continuing the course with the current majority of very unserious of Core maintainers is not even up for discussion, imo.
#nevent1q…aj7c

2026-02-22 08:22:41 CET

A shout out to Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band fans.
And tangentially, Death Cab For Cutie fans, I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXsrWrmbAg

2026-02-21 07:33:21 CET

what about a tool that simply scums & cross-references Bitcoin UTXO, open source?
It wouldn’t have to be dynamic, but would community-check CryptoQuant, et al.
#nevent1q…eh3s

2026-02-21 07:21:24 CET

I saw this recently, saved it, and cannot do justice to the OP.
https://image.nostr.build/abbd7d63b0137e3e18dc3eda238d71cf78e2c6d7c9780a4d76e82d36b7f4e788.jpg

2026-02-21 06:12:39 CET

Modern media Politics is porn for people who want to control the world.
It is nothing more.

2026-02-20 07:52:55 CET

Just got a response from:
@npub1yhx…7sv4
fully feeling it wasn’t a bot.
Then the feed-wash came in, none of which seemed AI until I read them back to back.
Social media is broken.
OSSIFY

2026-02-20 05:57:28 CET

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I can only imagine I know where you’re coming from, but I think I share the disheartenment.
Fiat is the retardation that just…keeps…going. It should disappear overnight. For so many reasons.
Yet the most important change in multiple generations of lifetimes - which is in EVERYONE’s face now - is somehow still just an investment sideshow.
A large part of it (in your world, if I can mind-read you) is that people who are intelligent and dynamic are continually profoundly stupid.
My only rationale is to remember that Bitcoin was created by Cypherpunks. It ONLY EXISTS because of that ethos. Anyone who doesn’t walk that walk (i.e. so many Saylors and OGs) I simply listen to, but don’t vouch.

2026-02-20 05:33:13 CET

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Srsly!?!
I’ve never split a tab with a woman and rounded my portion down, but I think with you I might.

2026-02-20 05:29:42 CET

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Fear & Greed is an upside-down “index”.
It solely tracks Retail, so it’s a dangerous metric, since Retail is people who are emotionally attached to high time preference.
As opposed to people who get a paycheck whether they make money or not, or whose lives don’t change whether they invest well or whether they wait.
So basically (imo) Fear is simply when Retail has no money to spend, and Greed is when they have it. And that said, when Retail is gutted, Institutions have done their job and will soon step up and start buying. But probably not too soon, unless there’s nothing else.

2026-02-20 05:21:07 CET

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Chives and peppermint are at least two of the plants I thought I needed to plant, but found out the hard way I was just better off buying from a store (i.e. invasive and underused, for me).

2026-02-18 06:13:19 CET

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Can’t disagree…but do you mean being IN a relationship as a brutal romantic is a constant hell, or being NOT in a relationship because you’re a brutal romantic is a constant hell?

2026-02-18 05:15:06 CET

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This is a very timely and important post Marty, and I appreciate it because I am also seeing and becoming briefly disheartened by how Institutions are clearly - in my view - demoralizing and “fleecing” retail in the Bitcoin space so that they can acquire their/our Bitcoin.
The price-suppression can continue for a long, long time now, imo. Because they know we are only people, not jobs, so we are the weak hands. It’s sad, but if anyone is living off Bitcoin at this point, you are a seller of last resort…and no longer an OG.

2026-02-18 05:03:46 CET

Eric Weinstein was asked, years ago, that if he could magically make everyone understand one single idea what would it be, and he answered he wished people could understand the concept of “kayfabe”.
Kayfabe was almost unknown then outside of wrestling circles, which he fully acknowledged, and in Eric fashion he described how it was a concept worthy of worldwide regard.
I’m noting this because, happily, what seemed then to be such a fringely specific prescription for societal healing is now being more fully recognized - at least to the extent it’s easy to talk about in intelligent conversation.
So super-fucking kudos to Eric Weinstein for genuinely identifying and predicting an important meme. That the people in power only pretend to fight.
To fleece the peanut gallery.
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2026-02-18 04:18:13 CET

Does anyone have real-world experience dealing with corporate American health-care on a cash basis?
I often hear that you can offer cash and get greatly discounted rates/fees, but that seems really sus. Is it worth me calling my local hospital billing dept about that?
I’m aware of CrowdHealth, but it’s not considered insurance so it’s my belief I’ll still be required to have additional “real” health insurance…?
My goal is to not have to rely on a job (or AMA) to provide my insurance, but since I’ve never actually had to deal with health insurance I don’t have experience in the IRL of saying “how much will this be if I pay cash?”
I appreciate any guidance in this regard.

2026-02-16 14:45:12 CET

How close were we to Satoshi Nakamoto settling on the name Bytecoin?

2026-02-16 05:29:54 CET

The sole purpose of Fiat Money is to make goddamn sure You cannot swing for the fences and quit your job.
You need to take this hard lesson in. You are Fiat’s Bitch, Bitcoin or no.
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2026-02-16 05:11:13 CET

It is.
I have come to believe that maybe that IS the purpose of God putting tiny fractions of His consciousness into Us in this material world that seems to just grind and separate us into “tried as hard as She/He could” - or - “couldn’t do it anymore and gave up”.
It helps to seek out for other people to help keep you keeping on in the grind. If you can read the right people. And eventually you may have to abandon those who only take you so far.
I’ve come to believe none of us were put here to “Succeed”, which I did, for so long. Now I believe I was put here to learn how to find Humility, Community, and Peace as well as I can. Which is an epic journey, and even typing that out now feels dishonest somehow, but that’s the best way I can express my response to your post…which I felt was so simple and worthy of a response.
Anyway…Here’s a kitten pic:
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#nevent1q…9sju

2026-02-14 07:08:51 CET

It’s the Invisible Boogeyman playbook. They use concepts you can know nothing about, against you.
Let that sink in: If YOU can know nothing about the boogeymen you need to be afraid of - which they feed you - then its likely those boogeymen don’t exist.
Anything invisible to Everyone but magically affecting Everyone is a Media Asset.
That’s Mindwarping, Mindscaping, whatever the term is now.
It probably started with the “Red Scare”, but it’s been on replay all our lives: Russia/Red Scare, Y2K, Terrorists, Covid, Antifa, all the minor leagues of Devil worship, “ICE” the drug, Killer Bees, Murder Hornets…
It’s scare-porn. And if you’re following financial news it’s scare-porn on steroids, because scare-porn is MOST effective in financial markets. So it’s tested there first.
Financial “Professionals” are always the quickest to be duped by Media Propaganda. They’re not stupid, by any means, but they’re the most influenceable, so the ring pulls tightest in their nostrils. And they are castrates in how they react.
Fade the noise, follow Signal. That has always been the mantra of the class above you.

2026-02-14 06:07:00 CET

I have an aging cat right now that just suddenly cuddled up to be close to me, and now whatever I came online to post about all the problems of the world seems kinda meh.
Appreciate you.

2026-02-11 08:11:08 CET

Looking back we will always realize we had to see Gold re-gain the crown. Then Bitcoin the true heir-apparent.

2026-02-06 08:11:02 CET

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I feel the same questions and concerns. And I won’t pretend I know, because literally no one person knows. There are so many decades of consortiums acting together and against ad infinitum over a century or more becoming a non-virtual World Wide Web of power that it’s incomprehensible to any singular one of us or even of them.
So naturally we just choose not to care…except we seem to be experiencing the end-game. Maybe. In which only a handful of them are now exercising inordinate control worldwide, having garnered and incorporated vast UNINCORPORATED military and non-military divisions beyond outline or trace.
At any rate, forget all that. I doesn’t matter and is only disheartening…my only point is that WE very real human beings have been born into this very unhuman bureaucratic hellscape solely because the US Dollar introduced Fiat Money like a shitcoin cryptocurrency into the world. The “discovery” of Fiat money devaluation was like jet-fuel for centuries of shitty power-struggling psychopaths.
Learning and grasping and understanding that really sucks.
Yet we’re living in the end-times of it. And what can we do?
We’re here, now. This is me, as best I can be. I’m living in the end-times of jet-fueled psychopathy, and it won’t end without all of us suffering, even Bitcoiners evidently. Why would I want to come to grips with that? Why am I even reading this post at this point, if I this guy posting this shit can’t give me actionable advice to make my life better right away, tomorrow???
Yeah. Been there. All I can say is that we are Hopeful. With Bitcoin. Because we were given Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is a test. It’s Excalibur. It’s just there.
It’s a call, your call only. No goal, no judgement, no win or a fail. You just take it, or you don’t. Maybe come back later.
But
Like Humility, or Self-esteem, or Conscience, or Presence, or Being
It IS an achievement.
When you are ready.

2026-02-06 06:48:20 CET

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I hate/don’t hate this view. But if we entertain it, that means we need to see that the proverbial Bitcoin-meme “Money Printer” has not stopped but only changed hands. [Which won’t surprise TFTC viewers & Luongo lovers - but I’m dubious they can pull this off….THIS time (despite having watched Fed/Dollar money manager work magic for decades).]
As I see it, what your interviewee is saying (in this clip) is that money printing is no longer a shotgun, but a paid tactical team. I doubt that hasn’t always been the case, but I’m totally open to the fact that instead of US banks being the bailouts it’s now dozens of worldwide agents…
sigh. As Marty says, “it’s all so tiresome”.
I just don’t believe they can weaponize the Dollar back into non-“Eurodollar/foreigndollar” hands. But in truth I had given something like a 25% chance that they could reign-in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, and they fucking did it. In spades.
And also, I’ve learned and would love to say Bitcoin fixes this, but alas Bitcoin is still clearly not just a young person’s dream, but a Hope for the next and younger generation. Fiat just keeps on scorching everyone’s Earth.

2026-02-06 06:03:08 CET

Unpopular Nostr Opinion:
I’m old enough to remember that when rich folk start losing money the Fed always, ALWAYS steps in to make them rich again - overnight. After they bagged their game…which they telegraphed beforehand.
I suspect only a handful of people I know are spotting the telegraph, so I’m not confident about anything rn. But currencies, bonds, and sound money are all spinning so very fucking askew that whatever the target is it’s serious and the globe is going to pay for it when they execute it.
When the blood they seek is in their hands…the refunding will be Spectacular. Game-changing.
But Do not try to second-guess this, Bitcoiner. Because this is not simply a falling knife. We know nothing about the game being played.
Now - IMHO - is the time to go underground, like the proverbial shrew before the asteroid. Now is the time when stay Humble matters most. Now - again, my stupid-ass Internet rando opinion - is when you need to prepare for Fourth Turning, full Prepper, hodl your family close, learn and love to make beans and bread and rice, abandon the cities and find a rural lifeboat, et al.
Because the global, primal signals that have been ignored, then laughed at, then fought, are crazy clear about to win. And we may be wrong again, no doubt. But you won’t miss out, so don’t try to catch the bottom of a falling knife.
I, personally, am going underground. Keeping mine what is mine. This is bigger than a COVID event. PEOPLE are an expendable resource to those who exist for Fiat money.
No, this is a Fiat money epidemic.

2026-02-06 05:25:29 CET

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fyi, its unavailable for me on Damus on iPad.

2026-02-06 05:23:15 CET

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5% of trades are worthy.
Spend years and your net worth figuring them out.

2026-02-05 21:10:16 CET

I just saw a Reuters title and the powers that be are attempting to re-name “Bitcoin Treasury Cos” as “Crypto Hoarding Cos”.
Makes me wonder about recent speculation that Wall St has indeed been orchestrating this decline specifically to bankrupt Michael Saylor et all and buy their stack at fire-sale discount…

2026-02-05 07:25:06 CET

No clue, but is this why LN Markets has seemed far more active recently?
Also…all trading is futures, just saying. If we could trade the past we’d all own Gold right now.
#note1dyh…lzxk

2026-02-04 21:31:54 CET

I’ve been avoiding TwitX lately.
Is Luke Gromen doing victory laps yet?

2026-02-04 16:03:30 CET

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I like to keep my distance from federal-scale politics, and view much of it as Kabuki theatre/Kayfabe for the mass-audience.
But (and in that light) I find the pov interesting that Trump orchestrated his “falling out” with Elon Musk at least partly so he could ask Musk to post that famous tweet about Trump being a major figure in the Epstein files.
Trump clearly uses Trump Derangement Syndrome as a ring-in-the-nose for millions of people (much like other such issues like Abortion have been used by both parties for decades). The Epstein files were being continually stonewalled, especially by liberals - UNTIL Musk hinted that Trump would be damned in them. And like clockwork suddenly Dems cannot get them posted fast enough.
If Trump was actually indicted in, why weren’t at least the specific references posted years ago? Plus, Trump has repeatedly said early on that he wasn’t dumb enough to get caught-up in the whole Epstein honey-pot. So I personally can’t believe theres anything substantial in the files about him, or insiders would have used that info to destroy him years ago.
So I like to toy with the idea that Trump worked with Musk to re-vitalize the drive for disclosure by simply tweeting that exposing those files would be damning to Trump. It’s an elegant stroke (much like how Trump subjugated the entire globe by simply Tweeting tariffs into existence, and inciting every world leader to bend the knee to him to avoid such).
At any rate, what is inarguable is that now, suddenly, all the people who pointedly ignored those files for years have bent the knee and are screaming loudly for their disclosure. And only and solely because Musk promised them that disclosure would destroy Trump.

2026-02-04 09:38:22 CET

Bitcoin cycles are a thing of the past, they broke, no argument.
And do you think mining halving-protocol matters still? Do you?
And do you think your fav OG’s still hold more Bitcoin than you do?
Do you?
I’m asking a question?
Do you think Max Keiser still holds more than, say, 10 Bitcoin still? Or any at all? And if so…why? What would be the reason, really?
Do you think Adam Back, Andreas Antonopoulos, yadda yadda et al…any of the original Bitcoiners are still holding more Bitcoin than you? Instead of having upgraded their life in fiat, and dispersed to heirs? Keep in mind that for them, taxes aren’t a thing…so what incentive to hodl instead of trade for real estate, prominence, access via largesse, et al et al et al in El Salvador, Hong Kong, et al et al et al?
That’s what I would have done. If I’d been a 1000+ Bitcoiner from pre-KYC days. And incentives will out.
So:
Cycles are broken. Because Cycles were “Retail”, and Retail is and was Bitcoin’s history, but is now done. Fuck the famous people of Bitcoin anymore, because they have substantially sodl’d and have nothing more to offer. Not to me, imo.
Bitcoin is no longer a person thing, so personally, I don’t care about the “people” of Bitcoin. I encourage you to stop listening to them as well.
It’s an institutional thing now. Individuals have and are being fleeced by Retail. And that “fleecing” is a long game, because institutions aren’t “people”, and are very, very good at causing long-term suffering, titillation, suffering, titillation, et all until Retail gives it’s fleece up to them. They can do this ad infinitum because they aren’t people, they live their greatest lives on a fiat paycheck, not caring how the markets perform, so long as they don’t personally lose their job.
So the situation for Bitcoin right now sucks. And it sucks hard. And it won’t end soon. None of us will get rich and quit our jobs in the next few years. The era for that is over, so get that potential out of your mind.
Bitcoin is unique. So very unique that less than 1% of people on this planet understand how important it will be for our lives, and for Human history. It uniquely matters, for so many reasons I won’t go into for the inexperienced, in this post.
The only goal now is to make Bitcoin the chief investment for your family, and MOST ESPECIALLY to take it into Self-Custody. Do this, consistently and persistently, and do it with no expectation that you will achieve anything more than a comfortable retirement.
We can’t beat Wall Street. We simply don’t have the “fiat” to 10x Bitcoin in a few years like individuals did in the past. We aren’t players now. We are the hodler sheep they need to fleece.
So forget getting rich, unless getting rich is a 3x by 2030. And if you think you can shitcoin riches, go fuck yourself and your family, Wall St traders will fleece shitcoins even faster than Bitcoin. We NEED to accept that the bitcoin millionaires were made, and they are not us. Maybe our children will be, and we absolutely should invest for that future since there is no other asset worth investing for our children. But we need to be clear that WE will not be quitting our jobs in the next few years. Even though we’re investing in the best asset that exists.
Bitcoiners are legion, and we are humble. That is a powerful, powerful quality of Tribe. It should be embraced and we should expect that it may be the very thing that most changes the World in the next decade or so. The world needs this quality, is yearning for this quality of tribe, and nothing but Bitcoin is offering it. The riches of being a Bitcoiner may truly be the friends we make along the way…
Yet the global money-printers want Bitcoin itself, and they never fomo, because they don’t care about fiat-price / market forces. They’ll buy and suppress the price of the most important and constant asset on the planet for as long as they must. For 100’s of years if need be. To take our Bitcoins away from us. Because their petty human lives won’t change one way or the other so long as they’re already rich in fiat.
So long as the Fiat tide stays level, they can hodl their breath for a looooong time.
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2026-02-04 06:00:25 CET

I’m just proposing this:
It’s time Men stopped building Bitcoin
And Women started “nestiing” Bitcoin.
It won’t happen. And that’s our problem.
And it’s a huge problem, because Bitcoin isn’t “technology”.
It’s a whole different Culture. Which is why we Men are lacking Leadership right now.
We need practical, family-oriented voices. Not Wall St, Numbers Go Up bullshit.
We need Nesting energy. And we don’t have it.
Simple, practical energy.

2026-02-04 05:25:14 CET

The reality of Bitcoin is this - and it’s lost on everyone who hasn’t understood Bitcoin yet:
Don’t change.
Hodlers have always known Time was on their side.
So forget the Developers. They’re playing a different game. Always have, in all your softwares.

2026-02-04 04:49:43 CET

Via Perplexity AI, a reminder about USDC when it was discovered that it was insolvent. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I remember this as completely wrong. Private crypto/clearance companies were mobilized in the middle of the night.
When a stable-trust breaks peg, it’s because they never pegged in the first place
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“USDC’s main “bailout” when it broke below its peg was effectively provided by the U.S. government, via the decision to protect all uninsured deposits at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, not by a consortium of private crypto firms. [protos](https://protos.com/how-the-us-govt-bailed-out-usdc-stablecoin/)
What happened
- In March 2023 (not 2021), USDC fell as low as about 0.81–0.87 dollars after Circle disclosed that 3.3 billion dollars of the cash backing USDC was stuck at the failed SVB, roughly 8% of USDC’s reserves at the time. [bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-11/usd-coin-stablecoin-falls-further-from-peg-on-svb-exposure-risk)
- Over the same weekend, regulators (U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, FDIC) invoked a “systemic risk” exception and guaranteed that all SVB and Signature depositors, including Circle, would be made whole, even above the normal FDIC insurance cap. [ineteconomics](https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/time-bomb-how-uninsured-stablecoins-and-crypto-derivatives-threaten-financial-and-economic-stability)
- Once markets understood Circle’s reserves would be fully recoverable, traders bid USDC back up to around 1 dollar and the peg was restored. [moodys](https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/insights/data-stories/stablecoins-instability.html)
So who “bailed out” USDC?
- The decisive support came from:
- **U.S. federal authorities** (Treasury, Federal Reserve, FDIC), by guaranteeing uninsured deposits at SVB and Signature. [protos](https://protos.com/how-the-us-govt-bailed-out-usdc-stablecoin/)
- Circle itself stated that, if needed, it would use corporate resources to cover any shortfall, but this backstop ultimately wasn’t tested because regulators made all deposits whole. [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/14hddk6/usdc_stablecoin_issuer_circle_had_33_billion_at/)
There is no evidence of a named group of private crypto firms stepping in with capital specifically to rescue USDC’s peg in that episode; the critical relief was the U.S. government’s decision to backstop the failed banks’ depositors, which indirectly stabilized USDC.”
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2026-02-04 02:04:23 CET

Hollywood is retarded.
They honor and respect every culture on the globe,
except 100+million white people in middle America,
which they regularly portray with every racist stereotype a foreigner to America might imagine.
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