Last Notes
I watched it all when it came out. The first few seasons are gripping, but then it gets a little boring towards the end.
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Capisco perfettamente cosa intendi.
La parte più difficile non è scoprire qualcosa di nuovo, ma convivere con il fatto che molti non sono ancora pronti a vederlo.
La caverna di Platone è una metafora potente proprio per questo: quando qualcuno cresce guardando solo ombre, la luce all’inizio sembra una menzogna. E spesso chi prova a mostrarla viene visto come strano o ingenuo.
Bitcoin e NOSTR, al di là della tecnologia, per me rappresentano soprattutto questo: la possibilità di riprendersi tempo, pensiero e sovranità. Non risolvono tutto, ma aprono una porta.
E forse non possiamo “convincere” gli altri. Possiamo solo vivere in modo coerente con ciò che abbiamo capito, aspettando che qualcuno inizi a farsi domande da solo.
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Gulf Coast Silhouettes
8”x8” Oil on cradled wood panel
- Chris Long #art
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THE BREACH
50x25cm Oil on board - April, 2026
I started this painting knowing exactly what I wanted.
That orange light forcing its way through the arch in the rock.
Splashing on the waves. Reflecting on the stones.
The sea is rough. The rocks are dark.
But the light finds a way through anyway.
That's what this painting is about.
Not the storm. The breach in it.
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50x25cm Oil on board - April, 2026
I started this painting knowing exactly what I wanted.
That orange light forcing its way through the arch in the rock.
Splashing on the waves. Reflecting on the stones.
The sea is rough. The rocks are dark.
But the light finds a way through anyway.
That's what this painting is about.
Not the storm. The breach in it.
Available now!👇
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Being early is heavy.
I sell my paintings only for Bitcoin.
Not because I have absolute certainty, but because I can no longer ignore what I’ve seen.
Those who understand the importance of Bitcoin often don’t feel privileged: they feel out of time.
Understanding Bitcoin does not mean having arrived. It means having arrived early. And arriving early is uncomfortable: it makes you lonely, exposes you to doubt, and forces you to question rules many still believe are eternal.
Bitcoin is not a religion, nor a shortcut.
It is a hard tool that demands study, discipline, and responsibility.
The truth is this:
understanding Bitcoin does not make you special. It makes you responsible.
Responsible for continuing to study.
Responsible for not mythologizing it.
Responsible for accepting that you might also be wrong.
Perhaps the only real privilege is having sensed, before others, that the rules of the game were never immutable.
And once that suspicion is born, you can never return to feeling at ease as before.
#bitcoin #art #nostr
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Inspirations.
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Offline is the new luxury.
Not exactly free. It took years of attempts and failures before I made anything worth hanging on a wall. 🫂🎨
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Looking at some of my latest paintings hanging on the wall at home.
My mind goes back through every doubt, every uncertainty. And then, slowly, they dissolve. What remains is a coherent world — born from different days, different stories, but always the same way of seeing. I didn't look for it. It came on its own.
Maybe that's why letting them go is so hard.
You've come to the right place.
Welcome home 🫂🎨
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REFRAIN - oil on board, 40x40cm
This is the moment I love and hate at the same time.
Every new painting is falling in love.
The sketch is the courtship — patches of colour, shadows barely suggested, everything still open.
I'd want to rush to the end, the way you want to skip ahead when you're caught up in something.
But you can't.
The paint would muddy, the next strokes need the base to shine.
You have to wait.
So I wait, and I look.
This is "REFRAIN" — a view from the beach of Chiavari, just beginning.
Those who seem to have nothing to say, often have a lot to say.
In a world where algorithms dictate a relentless logic and efficiency is the top priority, being human becomes a source of disruption.
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Sunset across St Ives Bay
Oil on board 50cm x 50cm
- Andrew Barrowman #art
Use your bloody Bitcoins and buy something that makes you happy!
You're right, a coin only comes to life when it's in circulation.
This is a note that doesn’t need any zaps; I’ve just written it to let you know that I’m reading your posts and that I’m working on my next painting, which will be inspired by this photo of the seaside town where I work, Chiavari in Liguria, Italy.
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I run a Bitcoin node, a Nostr relay, a Blossom relay for my content, a website on my own Mac mini.
I've been painting for many years, and it's only since joining Nostr that I sell them for Bitcoin.
It took months. Study, attempts, failures, starting over.
Sometimes I don't even think about it.
Then I stop for a second and I can't quite believe I got here.
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I know what you mean, it’s really frustrating.
But Wisp on iOS is a good thing: it’s more accessible, there are more users, and it’s livelier. And anyone who wants Tor can easily use a VPN.
Sometimes it seems like people just want to make everything more complicated.
Gm
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DESPITE
Oil on board - May, 2026
40×40 cm
Outside it was raining.
Inside, jazz.
DESPITE painted itself.
That day when the colors were there but nothing worked, I put everything away and came back another time.
Today it spoke.
Sometimes a painting needs rain and jazz to find its way.
The fruit of good labour. Painted with care. Sold for the only real money.
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Legend has it that Salvador Dalí paid for dinners by drawing on the back of his checks.
Nobody knows if it's entirely true. Maybe it was Picasso. Maybe the details grew over time, as beautiful stories tend to do.
But the mechanism it describes is real:
Dalí had turned his name into a currency.
The check wasn't worth the money written on it, it was worth something because he had touched it.
The restaurateur didn't cash it because he understood something fundamental:
value doesn't live in the object, it lives in the consensus around it.
This isn't some quirky principle of contemporary art.
It's the principle behind every currency in history.
Gold is valuable because enough of us decided it was.
The dollar is valuable because we trust whoever issues it.
Bitcoin is valuable because a sufficient number of people chose to believe in it, with no one forcing them to.
The difference between a banknote and a random piece of paper isn't the material.
It's the shared story we build around it.
Dalí may have known this. Or maybe he didn't.
But the legend knows it on his behalf.
GM 🫂🎨
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BOE NEL LAGO
Oil on board canvas - August, 2023
Dimensions: 30 × 30 cm
The fruit of good labour.
Painted with care.
Sold for the only real money.
Available here 👇
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Møns Klint in Denmark
Yes, but you unfollowed me.
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Compliments don’t put food on the table.
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To paint it or not to paint it?
GM
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My Instagram profile, visible anonymously 👇
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Completely agree — these bridges are what turn freedom tech from a niche experiment into something people actually use daily.
I'd add one more to your list: a Nostr client with read-only follows of Instagram accounts. Services like imginn.com already let you browse Instagram anonymously — imagine that built into a Nostr feed, so you could follow your favorite painters or artists without needing an account or feeding the algorithm. That's the kind of onramp that makes people stay.
The daily usage numbers you're seeing are the proof.
More bridge-builders needed! 💪
GM
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