GM! The UK is a great indicator of where democracies could end up in the near future if they aren’t vigilant about defending individual rights and rejecting a Chinese style surveillance panopticon. There is no freedom without both privacy and the ability to actually use your freedom.

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 https://fountain.fm/episode/xGO96wI8AfGJVgTQZAhH

Damn, that is shockingly compelling. I’m feeling positively towards Coinbase 🤣🤣

Great soap

💯💯 been telling my wife I’ll be lucky if I have 5-10 more years left in my finance career

😭😭

❤️🤙👍🏻 https://fountain.fm/episode/EWulOf71rvNKZ473Gurd

I have mixed feelings on zerohedge but this is fucking fire, great to see normies waking up https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/feds-fafo-moment-here

My wild guess is on any given platform without consistent and strong direction from the top otherwise, censorship will always tend to increase over time. All organizations tend towards general bureaucracy plus the kind of people who want roles in censorship are likely to be censorious busybodies

GM! Proof of coffee with a beautiful cup #coffee

I feel bad about doxxing people. Still messaging in hopes it can be resolved privately.

My experience with Nostr commerce: and have awesome products and ship quickly, but I’ve had two merchants just ghost me - Accepted payment and never sent the items I purchased. Disappointing.

GM! Popeye was wrong. Don’t eat too much spinach, they’re high in oxalate. Currently working on a 6mm kidney stone.

GM! I will die on the hill that Bitcoin is money.

GM! Needed to send a wire. Bank said no. They’re down for system upgrades for 4 days. BTC is the way to go

Yeah the entering it on a smartphone app is super worrisome. I’d definitely do for a password manager backup but not a seed phrase.

At least an idea worth investigating. AFAIK in the USA and some other countries jewelry and personal effects worn on your body have greater legal protection and are harder (though never impossible) to confiscate.

You can just live in the Nostr circular economy 🫂

I think the quantum threat is wildly overstated by all objective evidence, e.g. they can’t even factor a number higher than a smart 5th grader. But I think we should get a quantum safe address going just so people with STFU about it.

The emptiness of the mempool and number of less than 1 sats/vb transactions is fucking wild

GM! The story of a family getting scammed out of 7.4 BTC is a tragic but powerful lesson. IMHO these are the key takeaways: 1) NEVER put your seed phrase into a phone or a computer. Only put a seed phrase into a reputable hardware wallet whose firmware you’ve verified. 2) never immediately YOLO your whole stack into a new wallet or app. Take your time, test, and verify. Delay and time are always the enemy of scammers. Feeling urgency is a common indicator of a scam. 3) mainstream app stores are constantly full of fraudulent apps and probably always will be. You must make the extra effort to verify which app is authentic. Personally I only do large transactions on desktop because verification is much easier on a big screen with full keyboard and mouse. 4) if you’ve accumulated multiple coins, consider Anchorwatch by for a portion of your stack that you couldn’t live without and pony up for the insurance and peace of mind. 5) attend your local BitDevs or meet ups and develop a local network who can help you out 6) there is no mobile sparrow app, and fake ones pop up all the time. Sparrow is desktop only

Can’t let the truth get in the way of your psyop

Same for eating my cherries and apples

aren’t they already banned in NYC?

Toddlers are rough, best of luck