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2026-09-22 03:12:16 UTC

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This is exactly why many of us are working to give our Agents the tools they need to establish the agentic economy on Nostr/LN/eCash rails. Not just give them wallets that can spend but also giving them value they can perform in a NIP-90 Data Vending Machine plugin and API marketplace to earn their sats.

2026-08-03 03:04:18 UTC

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I've felt the same way for awhile. Can't believe how many still think these cowards are heroes. No true Samurai would cop a plea deal for a victimless crime they didn't commit.

2026-04-18 19:24:38 UTC

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There unspoken corollary truth this results in is that "without necessity, invention dies stillborn".

2026-03-14 18:59:18 UTC

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Please do, I am one such user and this would likely benefit both me and my followers.

2026-02-21 18:04:27 UTC

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Trustless does not mean to never trust. It means we can trust less often, do so by choice and with fewer parties, and only with those we choose to trust.
Many fall prey to the trap of the Nirvana Fallacy, making them overly attached to a perfection that may not even be attainable or desirable. Life without any trust between anyone at any time any where would be a very sad way of living.
Humans are social creatures. We already hopefully have many trusted and semi-trusted overlapping Circle of Trust, e.g. families, businesses, churches, local/virtual communities, etc.
Now, we just need to replace the institutions created by others with those we create, credential, and custody ourselves.

2026-02-21 17:30:11 UTC

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What most fail to realize is that "money laundering" as a crime, the reason that KYC regulations exist, only became a crime less than 50 yes ago. Before that, throughout ALL of recorded human history, non-KYC transactions were the only thing anyone had ever known and experienced.
Financial Privacy By Default was the standard everywhere and every when until recently. Crimininalization of this turns the victim into the criminal, as KYC itself IS a crime against our human rights.
KYC has become an unquestioned, universal, encroachment on individual's personal safety and property rights. Civil disobedience at scale is the only way to fight these Naked Emperors, by living on personal and professional Satoshi Standards. Leaving Caesor's debt note slave tokens behind for the debt slaves to trade among themselves.

2026-02-16 17:24:07 UTC

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I highly suggest researching the work on "Pattern Language" done by Christopher Alexander. Combining his work on design of built structures, with Permaculture provides a powerful way to organize the pattern templates into a 'library'. I've come to view the combination of the home and gardens into a 'macro-biome' as the best framework for designing 'livingry systems', as Bucky Fuller envisioned as a replacement for the weaponry industrial complex.
These frameworks and ideas from our predecessors may make what you're building even more useful and easier to transmit to others.
Myself, I'm been called to work more on the home, than our gardens, but, have learned to integrate the two as much as possible. Here's my blog post on the section of the residential construction field that I've been contributing to, what I refer to as 'Bio-dome Igloos'. Decentralizing manufacturing and vocational tech training helps us achieve sovereignty over our shelters, avoiding the need for mortgages and often 'permission.
https://njump.me/naddr1qq2nz4662dmhgk2xtac4g42jt9qnxc6tgdckuq3qqq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsxpqqqp65wzxq8xw
These Biodomes make great agricultural buildings, short/mid/long term ADUs, and/or green houses. This pattern has near infinite variations and allows us to 'grow' our built infrastructure over time, quite literally 'printing' customized joints as need calls for it. I'm about to enclose my 5th iteration on these patterns and will have more pics and details to share soon.
As you are, I will be operating on a strict 'Satoshi Standard', accepting only sats for payment, as savings, and preferring vendors/labor that does the same. I will link from my resources to yours, as I make them live, and look forward to seeing how yours develops. Reach out anytime to collaborate and sync up our operations, as we build out the Livingry Industrial Complex that Bucky and Bill Mollison planted seeds for half a century ago.

2026-01-29 16:02:41 UTC

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Well done sir!
I was wishing for this integration, thanks for building it for us, so I don't have to attempt to do so myself. This seems an obvious integration of complementary technologies.
Now we just need to integrate this offline app distribution with what you just built. Then, we may be finally removing some difficult security threats making us all more uncensorable.
https://github.com/zapstore/zapstore/issues/259#issue-3795860706

2025-12-30 06:06:00 UTC

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I have experienced this very thing. The same price moves that make precious metal holders decide to sell makes the dealers uninterested in buying. Paper prices are NOT the same as street level physical trade prices.
The lack of places to spend or sell self custodied metals eventually dries up all the liquidity driving paper prices higher.
Shiny rock mania dies down once a shortage of greater fools occurs.

2025-11-22 23:01:27 UTC

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You sound like a domesticated pet who can't believe anyone would be willing to die for their ideals. The fact is that past a certain age death and/or political imprisonment aren't as great a threat as they are to overgrown domesticated adolescents. I have already sacrificed everything and almost everyone due to my being unwilling to compromise my principles. The threats of the Nanny State and their thugs are as empty as hot air from paper dragons.
I AM building privacy tools, for identity, communication, and payments. I fully recognize I may be 'black bagged', disappeared for what I'm doing & there's no wayinn hell I would "plea bargain' with them. You seem new to the realm of Bitcoin, we kill our heroes, those Devs are NOT heroes, they are cowards who picked a fight with a bully and then backed down rather than get their as beat.
You assume I'm young and naive because you were born into a generation of weak men. So, can't believe anyone is truly committed to live free of die.
I've been a War Tax Resistor for my whole life. I'm very used to threats of Imprisonment and judgement from Sheople. But, I can't prove that either, as you cannot prove a negative, so you'll probably assume that's a lie too. Which I'm also used to...

2025-11-22 21:15:19 UTC

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I was on a Warrior's path before Tate & Svetski were in diapers.
I have nothing to prove to you or anyone, I merely called as I see them.
IF you knew ANYTHING about the Code of the Samurai, (living in modern day Japan obviously taught you nothing of it), you would find the idea of a True Samurai "pleading" to the court for mercy truly laughable.
Truth doesn't need defending, I couldn't care less what you think. I'm merely countering your bullshit narrative with some facts based on actual history. Not those role playing at being a warriors unprepares prepared to 'Live Free OR Die', preferring 'Death Before Dishonor'.
For some of us, those sayings aren't just bumper stickers, it's a Way of Life.

2025-11-20 19:55:19 UTC

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This was totally predictable! Only naive children would be surprised when the rule of law is ignored and the Nanny State attacks those building privacy tech.
No one is more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Yourself included, IF you have a government ID, file taxes, and/or use a bank account.
Those who've left the plantation don't fund their enslavement by filing taxes, use debt note slave currencies, or let the Nanny State tell them who they are. IF you do ANY of these things you ARE a free range slave! As the LARPing Samurai devs ALL likely do too...

2025-11-20 19:48:40 UTC

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Dude, I'm a GenX martial artist prepared to die for what I believe in. I earned my 1st whole coin for setting up a full BTC QT node and helping someone buy their non-KYC BTC with cash in 2014.
I'm not 'role-playing' nor 'wet behind the ears'. I'm a battle scarred veteran calling out the cowards who pick fights with bullies and then bend the knee when push comes to shove.
Sounds to me like you are describing yourself, and the so-called 'Samourai' devs who have probably never heard of the Bushido Code.

2025-11-20 15:05:09 UTC

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I've been saying the same thing!
Had these devs understood what it meant to be a true Samurai, not LARPing as warriors for freedom, they would NEVER "plea" for mercy. Rather than xompromise their honor by pleading to a victimless crime they didn't even commit they would've fell own their own sword. Death before dishonor is part of the Way of the Samurai.
Family or not, they should've recognized that death was a possible, even likely, outcome for having built tools that undermine the Nanny State's power. A real Samurai, not a LARP, would commit seppuku before pleading before the crown!

2025-11-19 05:04:21 UTC

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You have a bank account..?

2025-11-13 21:21:59 UTC

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So how about you also setup https://cashapp.com/.well-known/nostr.json?name=cashtag to automatically give CashApp NIP05 Nostr Usernames to everyone that already has a CashTag..?
These will obviously be doxxed KYC'd Nostr accounts (at least within your database) but it seems like providing Merchants a means of communicating with their Consumers (perhaps thru NIP17 protocols as Bitchat does) could be a powerful add-on feature for your existing userbase!
This would then enable us all to find and send Zaps to anyone/everyone that has a CashTag.

2025-10-17 23:58:55 UTC

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Cognitive Capital is our most value asset. It includes our 12 magic words, but also our skills, experience, and our personal networks. It's not who you know that matters, what matters is who knows you, and that you know what you know.
Nostr & Bitcoin, it's where peers can find,communicate, and engage in trade with each other without arbitrary lines in the sand and self appointed gatekeepers getting in between consensual financial intercourse between adults.

2025-10-07 20:36:57 UTC

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Our Nsecs are the equivalent of Social Security Numbers we create for ourselves, with similar issues that there's no way to change or update them if they're ever exposed. Likewise, there's no means of safely establishing group identities due to this same issue. We solve this by using our NIP05s as our Unique Identifiers, ideally connected to self-hosted domain names that we control. The added benefit of a matching payment identifier becomes possible by creating LN Addresses, and eventually on-chain Bitcoin Silent Payments, that ALL use the same re-usable, human readable, identifiers.
These issues can be solved by establishing Fedimint Nostr signing of group accounts and by careful Nsec handling and upgraded 'tooling'. This can and will someday enable self-sovereign self-credentialed self-custodied decentralized IDs. Many of us are working on these solutions right now.

2025-10-02 22:05:45 UTC

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More important than screening, fast and do parasite cleanses regularly...

2025-09-29 20:41:04 UTC

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Our skin is our largest organ for detoxification. Skin 'issues' are almost always due to toxic overload. The best way to address this is to fast, giving the body the opportunity to 'clean house', and it's usually advised to assist in this detoxification process by taking either bentonite clay or activated charcoal tablets to help absorb the toxins being broken down. These can also be taken when not fasting, too. It's a common practice to keep a dedicated water glass with bentonite clay that's mixed up, made 'colloidal', drinking at least one glass of that clay/water mix every day.
I started with the 'Master Cleanse', (lemon/lime juice, grade B maple syrup, and 1/8th teaspoon of cayenne) as the only thing consumed other than water, along with bentonite/charcoal and often some psillium husks to act as a 'broom' helping to sweep the intestinal walls during the cleanse. My first Master Cleanse I went on lasted 21 days, and I added to these practices what's called a 'sea salt wash'. This is simply drinking 1 liter of water + 1 Tablespoon of sea salt quickly first thing in the morning, passing this digestive wash of the entire 'alimentary canal' helping to rinse the 'pipes' unobtrusively. You'll want to stay close to a toilet for a couple hours to give this digestive rinse a chance to pass through and cleanse your digestive tract. The first Master Cleanse I went on I was passing solid waste every day for 3 weeks even though I'd not eaten solid food at all the whole time. I was sold on these disciplines for life, kept doing them for 10-14 days 2x a year, and have not been 'sick', seen a doctor, or taken ANY over the counter or prescription medications for 35 yrs now.
I can almost guarantee that IF you can make it at least 1-2 weeks on this liquid diet your skin 'issues' will clear up and likely never return if you continue this discipline annually for decades to come. Once you experience the difference these cleansing practices make you'll not need to take my word, or anyone else's, on how beneficial this is for your health.
Good luck, enjoy the process, and celebrate the development of Will that this discipline will solidify in your character. Your mind and your will taking the helm controlling your body's desires will make all other acts of discipline and exercising of your Will easier. You'll also begin to notice how much of our social lives, and advertising media, revolve around food and to realize that overconsumption is the root cause of almost all dis-ease.
https://archive.org/details/mastercleanserwi00burr
https://www.scribd.com/document/737556612/The-Master-Cleanse-Movement-with-Tom-Woloshyn-Getting-Started-Guide

2025-09-23 18:21:29 UTC

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This feature is one of the many reasons that Breez is one of my favorite LN wallets. The built in POS, Podcasting 2.0, and the Breez SDK are the other reasons it tops my list. Just make certain to store your recovery credentials!

2025-09-22 21:10:50 UTC

I just located an article I wrote over 3 years ago that's still relevant and potentially a valuable strategy for those interested safely 'Sailing the Satoshi Seas' today. Enjoy, share, and let me know if you'd like me to start producing more content like this again. I may begin publishing them on both Substack and as long form Nostr posts, there are advantages to both for Bloggers.
https://thewayofbitcoin.substack.com/p/sailing-the-satoshi-seas-on-a-personal

2025-09-22 15:01:40 UTC

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What IF digital payments achieved final settlement without unnecessary delays due to "banking hours/days", didn't have charge back risks due to a "pull payment" system that claws back payments many months after their paid, or have %-based transaction fees that 10x'd the fiat toll booth operators profits simply for moving the decimal point to the right..?
How much faster, more effective, and more efficient will merchant trade be when business owners get their money sooner, don't have to account for identity theft causing fraud taking back payments (or oxymoron "capital gains" taxes), and their profit margins increase because the transport rails are permissionless and borderless..?
Imagine IF the creators of wealth got to keep more of their wealth, to receive it and redistribute it in minutes instead of days, and their marketable audience is larger because their client base is not limited by lines drawn in the sand or Nanny-State issues credentials!!!

2025-09-22 02:58:37 UTC

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Just wait until you watch the Children of Dune SciFi series. If you haven't seen it yet, they made it a trilogy that's nearly 9 hrs in total. Absolutely worth it, very well cast and very true to the books. Many of us Dune lovers enjoyed the Children of Dune series even more than the original book and sequel, 'Dune Messiah'.
I may just get an audio book version of them all and enjoy them again while I work. Will be interesting to see how much of those philosophical ideas have made me who I am today, without my even realizing I'd absorbed the lessons from them.

2025-09-21 23:42:32 UTC

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There's a place in that gear system for Fedimint, too. As a parallel group signed Bearer Promise for those already within trusted groups like businesses, churches, and families. Many will find those "promises" easier to trust. The challenge will be in making that trust ephemeral or at least with a threshold that helps users avoid get lazy and trusting too much for too long.

2025-09-20 11:57:53 UTC

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The 'time value of money', becoming more valuable in the future than the present, will make spenders more frugal forcing businesses to provide more valuable products and higher quality services. Imagine how much better the marketplace will be when planned obsolescence isn't rewarded because people won't part with their sats as easily.
Every expenditure, no matter the form factor of the exchange, has an opportunity cost in sats forgone. Imagine how much business efficiency will improve when charge back risk, bankers' hours, and %-based fees are removed from the equation.

2025-09-19 23:50:03 UTC

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Right, Imagine IF this money could be earned without permission, was immune to physical theft, and grew, rather than shrank, over time...
What might we be able to build, protect, and transmit to our descendants with a form of money that has ALL of these traits..?
What might the creators of wealth create for us all when they're able to keep what they've earned..?
What if brains could finally defeat brawn and those with merit were rewarded properly for it?
How different a world might our children inherit now that they have these advantages..?

2025-09-15 02:25:36 UTC

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I'm working on solutions for enabling securing our Webs of Trust through direct invitations, white listed NIP05s, and encrypted communication stack between our authenticated peers. Trust must be grown organically though, outsourcing it beyond 1 degree of separation creates risk no matter how it's done.
I believe the answer is to begin by onboarding those we already know and trust in real life, our immediate and extended family, as well as reliable business associates we maintain ongoing exchange with.
Trust, but collateralize, preferentially with reputation. Be careful who you let in to your inner circles, it's not just who you know that matters, in many ways it's who knows you, and that you know what you know, that matters most. Proof of Work done over time cannot be faked, or replaced.
THIS is how we safely make our way through THe Great Disillusionment that AI generation has already brought to us all. Most just haven't realized that NO digital content can be considered authentic any longer. Those beautiful women, and fit men, you see in social media are mostly FAKE. Every photo, video, or audio out out by government and corporate officials and mainstream media, also FAKE.
Only our own eyes and ears can be trusted, but even our memories cannot, so those are unreliable in the long run too. As spiritual traditions have long taught, ALL reality is subjective, just like 'value', there is no objective Truth except that all things change and are illusions, not the fundamental Truth.
#nevent1q…wx72

2025-08-31 04:22:49 UTC

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This is why we simply build Progressive Web Apps, PWAs don't require installing, they're simply bookmarks. Applications are ONLY necessary for offline use, anything and everything that needs the Internet to function can simply be a PWA.
Ultimately, this will drive more development of both hardware and software outside of Google's silos, which will be a good thing. Use of Graphene OS on de-googled phones loading apps from Obtainium will get better and better. Necessity is the Mother of Invention, sovereignty demands we control of territory we own and stop building sandcastles on others' beaches and stop using permissioned rental units.

2025-08-22 01:13:20 UTC

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Medium lost me for good when they tried to KYC me for a $.50 payment. Eventually, they locked me out when I lost access to the email account I used to sign up. It was a good idea in concept that was broken by forced use of broken email and KYC documentation requirements.
Both of those broken systems have become unnecessary for those of us using Nostr for permission-less identity and bitcoin/LN/eCash payment protocols.

2025-08-15 21:22:09 UTC

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Permaculture also has a long history with community currencies and credit unions. The answer to privacy, scaling, and trust is mints here, mints there, mints everywhere. Federated family Mints, corporate mints, community mints, and personal Cashu mints modeled ALL made interoperable through atomic LN bridges creates healthy competition with reputational capital securing them all, along with unilateral exits, threshold signatures, and self hosted LN nodes securing the UTXOs for them all.
The 100% reserved Permaculture Credit Union out of Santa Fe, the Ithaca Hour out of Ithaca NY, and the time-based barter exchanges ALL laid the groundwork for us to build this in the 90s. Now with the Bitcoin, LN, Nostr, and eCash protocols we can deploy privately minted banking solutions at scale, but ONLY if we have courage and discipline enough to refuse to comply with regulatory attacks by exercising civil disobedience.
Sovereignty means not asking, not for permission, for forgiveness, or for regulatory clarity. Compliance is for the Borg, assimilation is the result of obedience. They cannot play a game of whack-a-mole against a large enough user set. It's up to us to refuse to obey unjust attacks on financial privacy and freedom to contract, communicate, and transact with our peers.

2025-08-15 17:12:43 UTC

This IS why we are all here and not all there!
Nostr is inherently the enemy of all tyrants.
This rebellion is built on more than just Hope, it's being built on Nostr
https://image.nostr.build/72ada9bd9afebb7dfa747d5405bdfc7aadddb46b5ccd710d9f89338f753d791f.jpg

2025-08-02 21:45:33 UTC

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This only convinces me even more that these Developers were planted government agents that were tasked with establishing this horrible precedent without ANY evidence or trial being required to do so. It's a coin toss as to whether that was the case, or they are simply naive cowards who started a fight to defend a hill they weren't prepared to die upon.
Either way, it doesn't matter, the result is that they have weakened privacy tools builders' defense against government over-reach and legal attack upon us all. They are NOT heroes, they are cowardly turncoats who helped the enemies of financial freedom more than they provided ANY assistance to the relatively few users of their software.

2025-07-31 20:53:41 UTC

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Financial privacy is THE Foundation of ALL Liberty. The powers that be know this and are actively eroding this foundation in order to criminalized privacy.
Compliance leads to assimilation into the Matrix, becoming a cog in the Borg machine. Civil disobedience is the ONLY appropriate response! We MUST level up our privacy tools and accelerate our use of them. Our children's future depends upon the choices we make today.
Freedom is never free, every generation must pay for freedom with fresh blood spilled by those who recognize these facts. Broken, obsolete, and parasitical systems must be starved of our resources, our time, our money, and our creative faculties. This is the ONLY way to remove these deeply embed parasites from our societies without killing the hosts.
Nostr, LN, Bitcoin, and eCash protocols are our best weapons in this war on privacy, cash, and personal liberty. We must build better tooling for using these protocols and become more disciplined in using them. I'm about to launch a new tool set to help us all do just that. But it's going to take an army of freedom fighters to win this revolution.

2025-06-17 03:21:57 UTC

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I read the Federal Mafie in 1991, chose to become a 'War Tax Resistor's, began boycotting banks and debt then, and have worked entirely in the cash economy ever since. I'd nearly died at 9yrs of age and wasn't gonna trade my blood, sweat, and creativity for what others print out of thin air and charge us for the privilege of doing so for us. Having already discovered the fundamentally immoral nature of fractional reserve banking two years before, I was primed to make this decision. I spent the next 22 yrs waiting to discover Bitcoin, living entirely in the moment without any hope for ever escaping the fiat plantation.
This personal history now drives me to spend every waking moment to create lasting value in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Only this year have I finally found a way to build what I see we all need. Vibe-coding has finally allowed me to become a true CypherPunk, I'm now writing code daily and can't wait to share what I'm building with the world.
No matter how much I may ever earn, or the sacrifices it may cost me, I will never pay taxes, take out a mortgage, finance a car, or use credit cards. Thanks to Bitcoin those sacrifices are less of an issue than they've ever been. I am more free, control more of my time, and have more hope than anyone I know. Few will ever climb the mountaintops I now reside on, but I don't need the company of serfs, only my Bitcoiner tribe distributed all around the world.
These true peers are who I'm called to serve. If you're seeing this message, you are likely one of them...

2025-06-15 03:51:04 UTC

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I'm working on a plan to integrate the Ntag424 NFC chips to create a pin protected Nostr event signer. There's room on those chips to also have them sign LN transactions and/or eCash payments. I think the Bolt wallet app can likely be forked to make a combo tap-2-sign/pay MFA solution. Think Yubikey for Nostr and LN.
This enables brings us something we have/something we know levels of state of the art security. I know all this is possible, just need to work it out.

2025-06-09 19:37:22 UTC

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Same here!
Moving fast often breaks things. Not really knowing what we're doing has risks, and often consequences.

2025-06-09 19:17:12 UTC

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Then you either are not operating from inside the US, or trying to do anything the centralized overlords don't approve of...
I rarely bother, but, the fact is US persons are undesirable peers in many international playgrounds. Because they don't want to have to deal with our overbearing Nanny-State.
For instance, lnmarkets.com
Not that I'm suggesting anyone gamble there, but it can also be used with 'covered short' hedge positions using leverage carefully to minimize the sats trusted to their custody.

2025-06-07 17:07:35 UTC

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I'm less concerned about China than the US overlords managing their fiat slave camps. I also only use the VPN to access content the US firewalls won't let me use. I've also been burned by the paid VPN service that I tested on Protonmail, cancelled, and when they continued to charge for services I didn't want to use, the locked me out of all my email accounts there.
So, yes I am VERY aware of all the risks we face when trying to freely navigate online services beyond government data firewalls.
Are YOU using fiat rails to pay for your VPN?
If using LN payment rails are you routing payments through your node directly, without using a prophylactic node to protect your IP address and identity?
Can you confirm they don't log and won't share your activity through them? Does anyone even care if they're just trying to access porn sites as those captive Frenchmen are?
Can you be certain they will cancel billing you for access to their sandbox?
Or be sure they won't someday decide to deplatform you for whatever reason they choose?

2025-06-07 14:56:35 UTC

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I've pivoted this idea to a family focused sovereign knowledge management system now. Vibe-coding my vision into reality, looking forward to launching a beta version in '2-weeks'.
I'm combining a fork of Amethyst with the Breez SDK, adding Fedimint signing/transacting, Zap streamed video (w/Zapped boosts and zap-streamed pay-as-consumed content), and Vida.io voice AI tutors. Am so focused and excited I'm now promoting AI agents in my dream state! This Dynastic.me client is gonna be so powerful, I can't wait to launch it into the wild...

2025-06-05 04:57:48 UTC

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Don't people know that the Opera browser has a free VPN built in...? No payments nor registrations required.

2025-05-31 03:57:43 UTC

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As he admitted, he effectively came out of a time capsule. It's not like he can be expected to know any better. It's gonna take time for Ross to become de-institutionalized and learn for himself that there is no 2nd best.
Many of us once thought there was a place for at least a few of the alt-coins. Experience teaches hard lessons that must be acquired oneself.

2025-05-25 03:54:32 UTC

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This is exactly why I'm working to build a Nostr credentialed Learning Management System to empower families to self-custody their intellectual capital. It's not who you know that matters, it's who knows what you know that matters. Proof of Knowledge is coming soon...

2025-05-02 20:33:48 UTC

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@nprofile…3lev I am curious as to your thoughts on this. Are you familiar with Bau Biology? It's a German school of thought that has some powerful insights worth looking into. I have been applying their concept of our house as our '3rd skin', to treating the property line as the '4th skin' of a Macro-biome.
Also, I'm applying 'Pattern Language Design' from Christopy Alexander to scale down Bucky Fuller's idea of a 'World Game' to more of a 'Dynastic Family Wealth Game'. One that stacks an entire vertical of essential daily needs for our families in order to create a resilient enduring legacy. i.e. Private Family Citadels. Our homes can only become living centers by treating them as growing ecosystems, not merely dead boxes we reside in.
This design is the basic cellular unit of a scalable pattern with infinite variations. Laying out these patterns on a Pentagonal grid will also take advantage of the Phi ratio, Fibonacci ratio, mirroring the pattern layout nature uses.

2025-04-08 18:48:12 UTC

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I have learned the hard way as an independent contractor to ALWAYS get paid at the time services are rendered. I've literally had clients call and stop payment on checks before I could drive straight to THEIR bank to cash them. Experience taught me to NOT deposit into my own accounts, to just eat the fees for non-account holders, AND to offer a discount for paper cash payouts to avoid these risks and headaches entirely.
I foresee LN redeemable NFC 'payroll' Nutstashes evolving as reusable expense, stipend, and payroll payment keychain doggles.

2025-04-08 17:32:40 UTC

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For those currently working for someone else as an employee, their labor is already held hostage in your employees custody. Trusting an employer to manage a mint doesn't add any new risk vectors, it eliminates banks from the equation.
'Payroll Mints' seem a potential product/market fit, hopefully shortening pay periods once the toll booths operators are gone. i.e. hourly/daily, rather than weekly/bi-weekly payouts.
'Redeeming' earned eCash through LN, topping off LN spending wallets on its way into on-chain savings. Obfuscating our public earnings thru eCash & LN, before privately allocating savings into the public on-chain ledger.
This IS The Way!

2025-04-06 15:15:37 UTC

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I don't know what you mean by the "green" parts. If you mean the color green, the "skin" is stretched re-purposed medium weight canvas drop cloth, applied with ~7k 1/2" staples, then coated 3 times with a wet slurry of Reblended paint, water, and portland cement, before the final coat of just paint with boro-silicate microsphere insulation added with 2 more coats (by far the most expensive material in this whole project at ~$1/sq ft of coverage).
IF, you are referring to "green" as in environmentally friendly, that comes from the majority of the paint, canvas, steel, and wood having come from free and salvaged sources. The two 14' trampoline frames took less than 2 weeks to find for free locally in Austin, but even new ones from Walmart are only $179 each, and is far superior than wood framing for the circular vertical walls.
Eventually, I intend to set up a styro-foam re-pelletizer so I can embed more diverted "waste" products into the vertical walls as insulation.

2025-04-04 22:42:37 UTC

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The blog post goes into more details and provides resources to lookup even more info on the materials and processes I used, ranging from custom designed 3d printed ASA brackets, to Japanese style woodburned treatment finished out with 3 coats of shellac, and a variation of latex cement canvas stapled like upholstery out of used painters drop cloth and free up cycled paint from the Austin recycling center.

2025-04-01 01:09:25 UTC

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By far, the majority of capital held worldwide is in public entities, not private individuals accounts. As they are all highly regulated, surveilled, and controlled by current KYC/AML regulations, they cannot send and/or receive funds without documentable provenance as to the source of, and the identity of the receiver of funds without risking everything they own in their existing accounts, their titled physical assets, and their personal freedoms.
Until the Banking Secrecy Act is repealed, then public entities (i.e. corporations & governments) can ONLY engage in commerce on public ledgers. Using smaller "anonymity sets" for herd camouflage in the much smaller "privacy coin" markets is also completely unneccessary, when more privacy can be captured by simply funneling satoshis through LN channels and thru eCash mints as a means of breaking chain analysis. By far, the most private UTXOs are acquired through mining or through in-person paper cash => BTC (for larger amounts) & LN/eCash(for smaller amounts). Earned sats expose oftentimes only partially identifiable personal information to only those paying for our goods and services, if/when providing our goods and services directly to the market, rather to an employer.
By far, the easiest way to acquire 'privacy coins' is to buy them with bitcoin, as there's almost zero liquidity in local physical cash OTC into any of those anonymous spending coins. Smart money won't bother with those added risks and will always choose to clean their transaction history within the Bitcoin ecosystem. There's simply no need for them for almost everyone, with almost no way to acquire them without going thru BTC 1st, and the risk/reward tradeoffs for public entities will never entice them to place their entire existence at risk by raising red flags for using privacy coins.

2025-03-26 17:00:36 UTC

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I'll build an off grid accessory dwelling unit for sats, or better yet, teach you and your neighbors how to build these for yourselves. https://m.primal.net/PtxX.jpg https://m.primal.net/PtxY.jpg

2025-03-26 17:00:27 UTC

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I'll build an off grid accessory dwelling unit for sats, or better yet, teach you and your neighbors how to build these for yourselves. https://m.primal.net/PtxX.jpg https://m.primal.net/PtxY.jpg

2025-03-22 22:11:08 UTC

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Likewise, eCash exchanged between already known and trusted parties with either temporary or ongoing relationships also is an acceptable risk scenario.
For instance, settling of payroll accounting between employees/employees, as well as, ephemeral market cash bearer instruments purchasable & redeemable at the entrance of private poker clubs (i.e. LN redeemable eCash Casino Cards/Chips/NFC tags). In both those instances, The House/Company has a reputation to protect & Users know who the Mint is and already trusts them to maintain an internal ledger of custodial funds. No new risk vectors are created and liquidity as well as redeemability becomes more convenient for both Users and their Hosted Mints.

2025-03-21 17:29:47 UTC

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Restoring the fundamental human right to financial privacy solidifies the foundational freedom upon which ALL other freedoms are built. Simply bringing humanity back to the place where it had been in all places throughout all time, previous to the Bank Secrecy Act, will be a major win in the war upon individual freedom and autonomy.
The Art of War teaches us to attack the enemy's strategy, their most effective enslavement tactic these days is financial surveillance. The weaknesses of the legacy system against preventing fraud has been to force half of humanity to Dox itself, while locking those unable to provide the 'papers' out of international markets entirely.
The solution is found in the problem, KYC regulations, aren't necessary with a 'push' payment protocol like Bitcoin, only for 'pull' payment protocols that force spenders to leak full withdrawal data every time and everywhere money is spent online. I.e. rather than handing your entire cash wallet to vendors who hopefully only pull out what they're supposed to, we hand only the cash to them necessary to complete payment out of our own wallets.
Imagine handing your entire bank account to every bartender in order to open a bar tab, this is effectively what everyone does when handing over a credit or debit card. So, of course, such a weak security protocol requires charge backs to validate claims of fraud. Their weaknesses have been used to enslave their users, leaving us the only option of refusing to use their fiat ledgers entirely, by operating on a personal and professional Satoshi Standard (a more accurate framing as most of humanity will NEVER become whole-coiners, merely chasing sats from the few who control a full Bitcoin's worth of satoshis)

2025-03-04 00:24:56 UTC

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Liquid is best considered a pass-thru vehicle, more of a bypass lane than a parking lot. Like Lightning, it's meant for petty cash spending, either by exchanges or LN channel balancing of accounts. Storing value is best done with self-custodied offline key-signers, in large amounts, on an infrequent basis.
If you're storing value on exchanges, in Liquid, or LN, you aren't using your tiols properly. Off label use always has inherent risks, no matter the prescription.

2025-03-03 01:15:13 UTC

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Life is best considered a test of endurance, not a sprint. Knowledge is the only 'thing', other than bitcoin, that doesn't weigh you down, can't be stolen by thugs, accrues value over time, and empowers you and those around you when you share it.
Follow your own interests and solve your own problems, solve them well enough for others too, and the marketplace will reward you with surplus value to stack as sats. No doubt, beating bitcoin's performance over the next decade will be a massive challenge, but it's one every business and individual now faces. Those who rise to this challenge, especially over this next decade as we move from 95% towards 99% of Bitcoin's issuance scheduled for 2035.

2025-03-03 01:04:27 UTC

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This is why the best investment you can make is in your future self by spending the only thing more scarce and valuable than sats, your time, invested on making yourself useful to the marketplace. Consider what of our common needs you are uniquely capable of providing to your peers, then figure out a way to acquire the skills, tools, and materials necessary to deliver your unique value proposition to the world.
I speak from experience here, as I am in a similar boat, but, I have over 3 decades of time that I've invested into making myself one of the most useful humans on Earth. Now my task is to package and communicate the unique value my talents, knowledge, and extensive toolset allow me to deliver.
By the way, I have been 'houseless' for a large portion of the last 30+ years, have spent more time with a net worth as measured in money of any kind at zero, and am almost completely self-taught in all of the half-dozen or so ways I have of earning a 6 figure annual income as an independent contractor. I have not been an employee anywhere since a part-time guy working mostly for flight benefits about 27 yrs ago.
Where there is the Will, you will find a Way.
You've got this!
Just trust the process, stay humble, invest in yourself, and stack surplus reserves as sats.

2025-03-01 14:26:46 UTC

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Fiat financing of government subsidies in the US make Portland cement artificially cost effective. There are much better solutions, but they cannot compete on price point when those manufacturers are getting government handouts.
This doesn't just apply to cement , but steel as well. Research MgO 'cerami-crete' and 'suda-glass' basalt, those materials are superior across the board, from environmental impact to functional performance, yet almost no one has heard of them let alone where to buy them.
Simply put, what gets built in what gets subsidized, financed, insured, & 'permitted', NOT what produces the best results.

2025-02-06 14:49:08 UTC

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Does Primal require KYC?
Non-KYC sats often have a 12-20% premium.

2025-01-02 16:08:14 UTC

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Seems like the idea of "Proof of Reserves Day" has been forgotten by the latest couple generations of Bitcoiners.

2024-11-19 20:23:16 UTC

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Not "everyone" will be able to use bitcoin privately, ONLY those that know what they are doing, using the appropriate tools in the appropriate ways, times, and places.
This "word salad" relates to issues of Law, as no legal authority has jurisdiction over everyone in all things. Every authority can only enforce their regulations upon certain "persons" in specific situations regarding specific subjects. Know who we are enables us to recognize not only who our peers are, but also who may have jurisdiction over our behavior in some instances. This relates not only to residency and citizenship, but also to public/private contracts. i.e. Public entities created by public authorities using 'their' paperwork operate under the jurisdiction of those public entities tasked with protecting the general public. While, private contracts between private entities that have been created with privately drafted paperwork may operate in the "private domain" outside the jurisdiction of the public authorities.
This is commonly used by private establishments to enable activities like alcohol sales, gambling, and drug prohibitions to have no authority over the Private Membership Association. Whether, that's a Golf, Poker, or Smoker's Club/s. This same understanding can be applied to manage compliance risks so in-person DEX private Trading Circles, too.
These same understandings can be applied to our social media accounts, email/domain addresses, and phone numbers, as well as our devices, Sim cards, and access providers. Potentially turning every "Third Place", social club, whether a Rotary, Young Men/Women's Christian Association, Veterans, and/or Parent/Teacher, Home Owners, and Trade Association into a semi-truted eCash Mint, Nostr Relay, Lightning Service Provider, Virtual Private Network, hosted server, mining, and energy farm.
While those using iPhones registered in their legal name to engage socially and economically through sand boxed platforms like Facebook, PayPal, etc., will remain comfortably numb house slave sheeple fleeced, surveilled, and slaughtered at their Shepherd's will. Others, will be using de-Googled phones, eCash, Nostr, VPNs, and self hosted BTC/LN nodes to leave the human farming systems for behind now that we have a choice to do so.

2024-11-07 15:23:34 UTC

Without meaning to make a joke, I made a friend laugh yesterday when I quite seriously said "I don't like gambling, so I only hold Bitcoin".
Not seeing any contradiction in this at all, I didn't even notice any irony in this statement. He's missed out on a lot of gains by holding shitcoins this last few years and found my comment hilarious.
I expect that my fellow Bitcoin Standard Bearers in here fully understand the logic of my position, though. I treat digital fiat as a hand grenade liable to explode at anytime and paper fiat as a hot potato that will burn me if held for more than a few moments, getting rid of them as quickly as I accumulate them.
Myself, everything BUT bitcoin feels like a gamble with the odds stacked against my even keeping current purchasing power, with little chance of increasing it. Especially, if priced in sats!

2024-11-04 16:43:03 UTC

This is the interior view of my micro-dome igloo in tool tent configuration. These are all the tools I've used to fabricate this permit-less shelter by myself without debt over the last few months. This initial prototype has taken longer than the next iterations will, as I had to figure out how to attach the cupola in order to allow for the vents at the top and to design the dormer style windows that avoid the risks of water leakage inherent in putting windows in roofs.
I initially framed the pony wall the dome sits on out of wood, but I realized that I could take advantage of the economies of scale that already exist for trampoline manufacturing to create a stronger, more durable, and cost effective framework. This entire structure is lightweight enough to easily be mounted to a floating dock to enable lake top and flood plane implementations.
My goal with this has been not only to house a mobilized manufacturing plant to build more of these shelters, but to also keep the capital invested in materials from being placed under siege subject to local tyrannical authorities. I'm now getting to test this premise as the local land owner is afraid of the HOA who is claiming this is a "shed" that needs to be put on a cement slab or pier and beam foundation. So, I'm pausing assembly at this stage and going to relocate this to a new property over the next couple weeks.
While doing so, I will create a long form Nostr note sharing the pattern language design, tools, materials, processes, and resources I've used to assemble this sovereign shelter. I'll also, be creating a Geyser Project to allow for placing orders for me to build these for Bitcoiners looking to add functional infrastructure that's not restricted by fiat builder's mindsets.
Stay tuned, over the next couple weeks as I open source this solution for cutting housing costs, while avoiding the bankers, zoning officers, and insurance agents having any say in what, how, and where you build your shelter from the storm.
https://m.primal.net/LsZC.jpg https://m.primal.net/LsZG.jpg

2024-11-02 05:26:31 UTC

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You're no doubt spot on with this assessment. Myself, I do all that you've listed except for building computers. Also, doing 3d printing, professional massage, Tai Chi Chuan, and fasting, as well.
We are not like the Sheeple using social media platforms, rather than open source protocols.

2024-11-02 05:06:25 UTC

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You can find DIY designs to fabricate a methane bio digester out of an IBC tote on YouTube. Those can be fed scrap compost run through a garbage disposal. Might also consider setting up a BTC space heater to get some sats-back on the electricity spent on your electric heater.

2024-11-01 16:59:24 UTC

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Get a homebiogas.com methane bio digester and turn your shit into natural gas to cook and heat with. If you're the only one using it, you may find you need more people contributing more shit to your shitter pretty quick, though.
This design would be standard practice for every septic tank if the regulators simply got out of our way!

2024-10-19 18:44:00 UTC

Life is short, guys, the future is uncertain, you never know what day will be your last. So act accordingly, say whatever needs said to your loved ones!
Thankfully, I healed a multi-year rift with my younger brother this Spring, because I just found out he was killed in a car crash this morning. His health was failing and his body was breaking down making life a burden that he suffered, so now he's been released from his mortal coil and better off for it.

2024-10-18 03:34:35 UTC

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Here's a view from the inside. I'm waiting to put the windows on until I put the final coat of insulating paint on the roof tomorrow. You can see here the stains on my reused painter's drop cloth and the light coming through the bedsheets I'm testing out as part of the roof of the entryway. Once I'm done with the painting of the dome I'll put on the corrugated steel siding to close in the pony wall.
Even though nothing is plumb or square, I was able to make reused prehung door work for the entrance. The wood I treated by burning Japanese style, sealing the charcoal with shellac.
Part of what I like about this approach to covering these structures is that even though my old drop cloth had some holes, patching with scraps is easily done. Kinda like the paper mache` sculptures I made as a kid.
https://m.primal.net/LZUR.jpg
https://m.primal.net/LZUG.jpg

2024-10-18 03:08:57 UTC

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In my 1st comment.

2024-10-17 18:56:51 UTC

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@nprofile…m08k, @nprofile…t7a0, @nprofile…mt90, @nprofile…hc6d, @nprofile…mjzx, I expect you guys may find these interesting. This is the realization of something I began working on when I first began my #3dprinting journey at PlebLab over 1 1/2 yrs ago.
Winter is coming and many will be needing shelter from the coming storms. These will make great solutions, and I believe I can produce at least 2 of these a month, but cold and rain will delay drying them in.

2024-10-17 18:44:28 UTC

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https://m.primal.net/LYyh.jpg https://m.primal.net/LYxU.jpg

2024-10-17 18:42:43 UTC

In our list of essential daily needs, shelter supersedes the need for air, food, and water, because without it none of the rest matter and you will still die even IF you have those daily consumable items. Shelter is also the only need that businesses share with living beings. Decentralizing manufacturing of small, appropriately sized, tooled, and resourced shelters is essential for us to remain sovereign in our personal and professional lives.
The costs for providing shelter to ourselves, our families, and our businesses has been driven up by fiat monetization of real estate. Compliance and fees increase costs of building by at least 25% and for many families these days the cost for shelter is 50% of their monthly expenses. In large part, ALL of this is because what gets built is what will be financed, inspected, and insured.
I've designed and built this appropriately small structure with off the shelf tools, largely upcycled, durable materials. Built with easily acquired skill sets that many already have, or can easily acquire. Having already acquired the tools, learned the required skills, and learned on my own dime while building this prototype proof-of-concept I'm now making it available for physical inspection in the Austin, TX area.
I will ONLY be accepting Bitcoin for payment to build these micro-dome igloos, that require no permits from centralized bureaucrats. Soon I'll be sharing the Pattern Language Design recipe in a long form Nostr note for those interested in portable, semi-permanent, or permanent handcrafted installations combining ancient and space age technologies.
This is NOT the cheapest option, as I've designed and built this for my own use as the pre-manufacturing plant to allow me to build more of these as a nomadic builder. But, I can still keep the entry level product down to $55/sq ft, while delivering a far superior product than almost anything currently available in the #tinyhome and #glamping markets. The version pictured here is a semi-permanent version, as I've assembled this on a rental property knowing that I'll have to disassemble and relocate it someday.
Reach out in my DMs if you're interested in "permit-less" shelters for youself, your family, and/or your business.

2024-10-17 17:19:30 UTC

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Having children with an American woman was the biggest and one of the only traps in life in the US that I fell into. The Nanny-State has been weaponized against productive men, using our children as hostages extorting wealth in order to get to interact with the children often only 4 days per month. The family courts and child "protective" services actively incentivize division of the family. This has not only been done to me, but to many of my peers that have even worse horror stories.
I've found much greater fulfillment by embracing my own life purpose, devoting my time to creating impact with my own actions. Rather than living vicariously through my children, hoping they make useful contributions to the world. I believe we are born to do more than merely procreate and live in comfort for as long as possible.
The MGTOW, Men Going Their Own Way, movement has great wisdom for men to learn from. The patron saint of the movement is Nicholai Tesla, who, in large part because he never married or had kids, arguably contributed more to upgrading the quality of life of all humanity more than any other human in history.
The women in the US have been so damaged by the cultural programming that the MGTOW movement, choosing not to seek validation from society or from women, is a natural and wise response to current conditions. It has suggested that IF a productive man wants to have children, he's better off going to a 3rd world country and paying a woman there a flat rate, say $50k, to carry his child and to forfeit all rights to raising the child. Freeing him to bring it back to the US and not have her take advantage of the State apparatus to control his and the child's life.
There are plenty of children already that need the solutions and knowledge of how to live a sustainably sovereign life. By focusing on building real solutions, open-sourcing those protocols, and producing valuable work that serves ALL, rather than just our nuclear families, we can cultivate a network of self-sovereign peers. Creating true security by following Bill Mollison's advice that only by looking our windows and seeing our food growing and our friends working can we create a sustainably secure future. This is how we create the future, as Bucky Fuller suggested, by designing and building it, cultivating a Livingry Services Industry that counters the current weaponry services industry controlled by the military industrial complex.
The wise, long-term, large-scale thinkers go beyond concerns for nuclear families. Instead, cultivating and curating, in Bucky's words "a human-life supporting, environment controlling" industry that creates and empowers our peers. ONLY then may humanity raise itself out of the mud we're currently mired in, to blossom into a lotus flower allowing humanity to realize its full potential.

2024-10-17 04:56:09 UTC

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I found free 3d printed versions of this jig and a container for them. I printed up both for under $1. The stamp set from Harbor Freight was the most expensive part. Wouldn't bother buying that jig.
These 3d printers are immensely useful for decentralizing manufacturing.

2024-10-16 14:46:24 UTC

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I like how TextNow.com provides a physical Sim card for a one-time fee of $5 and no ongoing costs for calls and texts. They are funded through ads and give you a new number if you go a week without a call or text. Without requiring KYC docs, they're providing ephemeral phone numbers for intermittent use and permanent ones for regular use. Both have their use cases and it's very nice to have a free and anonymous number. I hate monthly bills and can easily ignore their ads.

2024-10-05 04:40:31 UTC

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Excision of cancerous tissue won't remove the conditions that allowed it to form in the first place. Permanent healing requires starving it of the sugars of fiat, instead feeding the body real nutrients made from quality ingredients acquired by doing the work. The terrain theory of health teaches us that true healthcare begins by controlling all inputs, cultivating exchange of nutrients from without and waste removal from within.
Parasites, viruses, and unhealthy bacteria, as well as cancers, are all best prevented by creating an inhospitable host body. Stagnation, congestion, and overconsumption, without concern for quality or quantity of inputs create conditions that allow pathogens to thrive. While fasting, movement, sunlight, and oxygen help remove and disinfect tissues.
As with our internal economies, "garbage in and not enough garbage out leads to systemic failure". Fiat is the equivalent to highly processed white sugar, as addictive and destructive as cocaine, stimulating the pleasure centers without providing any real value.
Staying humble, living simple, stacking sats by providing real value doing useful work is how we heal our internal and external energy economies. Stagnation and congestion are the enemies, best fought off through continuous movement, of our bowels and our cultivated stack of sats. The sats must flow, so we don't get fat as life energy flows through us, directed towards life cultivating work provided to and by our peers.

2024-09-26 18:33:15 UTC

These ideas apply to our Bitcoin operations as well. On chain publicly viewable internationally distributed transactions on one pole and off chain privately validated locally custodied balancing of accounts on the other. Security, decentralization, and privacy are never absolute, merely good enough. Perfection is the enemy of progress, extremes at either pole become impractical, balancing polarized sides of any coin is done by residing on the 3rd side of the coin, the edge. Riding this edge over time requires situational awareness, discipline, and focus to maintain a dynamic balance.
This is how we manage risk, in all realms, the physical where we live, contractual where we coordinate, digital where we communicate, and the virtual where we transact with our peers. Part of this balancing act is knowing who YOU are and where you are in order to know who your true peers are and what attack vectors create risk. ONLY then can confidence, not certainty, be captured, as we follow the Tao of Bitcoin.
Part of this balancing act is realizing that these polarities are fractal, scaling both up and down. For instance, eCash becomes the centralized point of interaction within the decentralized LN network, which is itself the more centralized version of Bitcoin. While, Bitcoin itself is pure potential, in the form of purchasing power, that only "realizes" that potential when turned into realized assets that support our life by spending it.
Remember, tomorrow is a fiction, we live today, but must balance today's consumption with tomorrow's productive capacity. You can't eat your satoshis, they won't keep you dry in a storm, and your self-custodied hardware running your self-hosted software requires shelter to protect in the real world.
Sovereignty over ALL our daily basic needs is the goal, over as much of our supply chain verticals as possible. Freedom is NOT having nothing left to lose. Freedom is having no-thing that can be taken from you, which requires ownership of the ideas, the knowledge required to support and cultivate our physical lives, to be manifested into form as needed. Thieves may seize my house, but they cannot steal the knowledge, skills, and satoshis I used to manifest it into form. My intellectual, experiential, and financial capital is beyond reach of those willing to use violence in an attempt to place my capital under siege.
Soon, I'll be sharing the knowledge, skills, and resources I've used to build my own self funded sovereign shelters using local materials and basic construction skills. Decentralized solutions for providing shelter for ourselves, our families, and our businesses are coming soon.

2024-08-31 14:15:20 UTC

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I remember the fur bikini worn the Barbara Bach (I think that was her name) far more than the Beta cave-boy Ringo played...

2024-08-31 14:07:47 UTC

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I fully expect that a few decades from now using paper with dead white men will be regarded the same way we currently view using sea shells or glass beads as money; an archaic, obsolete, and fragile accounting and value communication system used by the technological and economic illiterate.
ALL forms of money, even Bitcoin, are still only 'potential energy' that only becomes useful when 'realized' through use. It is the love of the money 'above all else' that is the source of all evil. The point of a journey, and the vehicle used for it, is to reach a destination, not to perpetually float as pure potential.
In sport it's said that there's no greater tragedy than wasted potential. The same applies to dying with unspent satoshis. I can't count on my offspring to deploy my sats as effectively as I will, so I plan on sliding into the grave with all my financial energy spent enjoying my life. Leaving the surplus in an irrevocable #BitcoinTrust defending my heirs from themselves.

2024-08-31 13:52:14 UTC

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Why have I been forced to listen to commercials when listening to podcasts on your platform? They drove me to use other options many months ago, when you had been my go-to choice.
Is it because I refuse to pay for a subscription..?
You market yourself as a V4V platform, but are forcing me to pay to avoid ads, same as Pandora & other fiat platforms do!

2024-08-15 17:12:47 UTC

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I prefer 'peers'...

2024-08-15 17:10:17 UTC

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Consider making the 5 Tibetan Rites for Immortality a daily practice. Those 5 sets of 20 movements can be done anywhere with no equipment in 7-10 minutes. They're designed as self mobilization techniques for the hips, shoulders, neck, and waist.
https://youtu.be/j_bY6REpIPE?si=XoK_apHZWYTXFmQ_
They will help your neck & shoulders deal with the postural challenges of breastfeeding, as well as the consequences on your back/hips from pregnancy and delivery. This suggestion is based on having been a professional massage therapist married to a Pilates teacher thru two pregnancies, as a wounded healer/athlete/martial artist myself.
The principal to keep in mind, no matter the issue, is that healing occurs most effectively through small consistent therapeutic stress/movement under light resistance through full range of motion.
Good luck and remember to enjoy both the peaks and valleys of your journeys.

2024-08-11 19:31:14 UTC

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I didn't save the link to the study providing these numbers that surprised me.
History has shown that our most productive decade of life is in our 60s, followed by our 70s, and 50s. Productivity of real value comes mostly at the until end of our journey.
Everything through your 40s is mere preparation for when you're ability to produce value to your fellow man kicks into high gear as knowledge accrues exponentially.

2024-07-28 16:54:44 UTC

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Another tool for our Bitcoinization of our personal and commercial lives is now available. Adding an important stair for many to step on when climbing towards becoming 1st Class Bitcoin Citizens by running fully Self-Hosted nodes.
An alternative to Voltage, that integrates with your browser and Nostr. This tool can empower many on their journey to self-sovereignty over their entire data storage and communications tool stack.
#nevent1q…yej5

2024-07-20 14:27:53 UTC

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Would never pay them a single sat, but some of the side events are tempting. The travel expenses and opportunity costs are feeling hard to justify. Feels like stacking more sats will probably provide a better ROI.
Since I haven't set myself up to be a shark, there's little benefit to swimming in shark infested 'red' water full of ignorant chum. I might be mistaken for either predator or prey.
When in fact I'm a regenerative builder cooperatively cultivating sovereign soil with my peers, neither parasite nor host.

2024-07-20 14:11:00 UTC

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So, am I correct in thinking that for instance this could create a physical n424 NFC tag that would query a Nostr dataset to authenticate our:
-physical ID providing physical access to Nostrich planes, trains, automobiles, and home/offices
-Sending and Receiving Zaps
-Signing into Nos2x or something similar..?
Providing a physical MFA device, to effectively create a Nostr 'Yubi-Key' type device in the form of a sticker!

2024-07-12 15:23:29 UTC

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This is The Way.
Simple, not easy.
Humbly stacking sats incentivizes efficiency, over-production of value, and long term planning.
Invest in your personal infrastructure locking down the supply chain for all your daily needs, protect your health, and cultivate strong peers as allies in both local and remote networks. You can't eat your satoshis and a peer to peer network requires peers. Your own team and physical infrastructures, or lack thereof, either strengthen or weaken your trusted supply trains.
Choose your hardware, software, and crewmates carefully! Loose lips sink ships, but so do bad maps and weak hulls, sails, and ropes.
#note1dsm…fu8c

2024-07-10 23:01:57 UTC

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The NFC n424 chips used by Boltcard are often used as pin protected ID badges, that just need to access a directory to confirm/deny verification. Seems like having that as a directory of approved Users accessible in a private Nostr relay can allow the same functionality, to create an physical Nostr-signing device.
Am I wrong, or will something like Bitwarden on a Start9 OS be necessary for keeping that data directory available..?

2024-07-09 15:42:12 UTC

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We cannot break Natural Law, only ourselves (or our families/businesses/countries) upon it.
What we can do is to learn to better apply Natural Laws (like math, gravity, aero/hydro-dynamics, electri-magnetism) to our advantage.
The smartest among us are combining all the above to gain an advantage in collecting capital in all its phase states on the physical, contractual, digital, and virtual planes. Doing so by mining for bitcoin with self-soveriegn decentralized hybrid power generators.

2024-07-03 17:13:12 UTC

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Have you read the book 'Ishmael' by Daniel Quinn?
In there the author also compares modern agriculture to modern warfare and points out the many hazards in it. It was a good read that made me think as it provided a different view in human history than the I'd encountered elsewhere. Enjoy...

2024-06-23 15:27:46 UTC

The journey IS the destination.
Seeking is its own reward, celebrate not the peaks of pleasure as much as the depths of pain.
It's not just "more pain, more gain", progress is maximized by "correctly applied pain, stimulating greater gains".
Do 'The Work', reap the rewards. Just realize that the Work, and not the Win, is the true goal. So, celebrate the work when wading through muck in the pit more than the leaping for joy at the Win in the peak. There's always another mountain to climb, more impact to create, and more sats to stack.
This strategy creates long term resilience, in our physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial bodies.
Stack value daily, diminishing consumption and maximize production of ever greater value for yourself, your family, and your community.
This IS The Way!
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2024-06-18 19:22:28 UTC

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Pleasure or Pain,
Sunshine or rain,
Predator of prey,
Sovereign or servant,
The Tao flows from one to the other, each provides contrast to the other. Shadows are inevitable and essential to add depth when dancing in the light.
So this goes as well with:
Public or Private
Commercial or Residential
Collective or Individual
&
KYC or non-KYC
Each one has its time, place, and use-case.
(I find even voluntary slavery repellent, but is it even slavery when it's a choice..?)
Freedom comes from riding the 3rd side of these coins, the Edge!
Surfing the waves from crest to trough, because, as Permaculture teaches us: Creation occurs on the fringe, where the fun, the inspiration, and the awe reside.
Many will crash, burn, and arise again when learning how to balance on the narrow path of the Tao of Satoshis.

2024-06-18 17:47:19 UTC

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Cattlemen Bank & Trusts have a long history of providing these services to local communities. Commodity futures markets help the Ranchers manage risks of time, but they've been co-opted by fiat speculators and manipulated by the money printers. Creating a "Circular Satoshis Economy" within the Ranchers' control will be a big upgrade and a means for their supporters to create a "Proof of Steak" system many Bitcoiners could support. 😀

2024-06-18 17:26:50 UTC

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I've been thinking that we should work with the Bitcoin Beef Initiatives to create Noste Identies for each cow, combining a GPS tracker and live tracking to enable "herd audits" to back a Cattle-mint that can be redeemed for meat or LN sats. Seems like a great form of commodity reserve based on proof of work empowering the Ranchers with a means of hedging and raising capital for reinvestment into maintaining and upgrading the ranch.
With a LN routing node and Nostr relay, these ranchers could evolve into semi-trusted localized food banks performing Uncle Jim and custodial solutions built on the "branded reputation".

2024-06-18 17:18:17 UTC

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Next time, how about I design & 3d print some branded drink coasters with embedded NFC tags that can include eCash vouchers, smart card data sharing, or LNURLp functionality. I just got my 1st batch of 100 ntags with Boltcard integrations to enable Membership bearer wallet/IDs.
Let me know if any of this interests you. Just send me the graphic for the coaster, with up to 4 colors, & I'll work up a 3d model for your approval.

2024-06-17 17:10:55 UTC

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If you're in the Austin area, I not only paint, but also replace any/all appliances and fixtures, resurface anything but carpet, and do framing/finish carpentry, and plumbing electrical work that doesn't require pulling permits. I've many local references and dozens of 5 star reviews if you want to see some reputational capital first.
I also offer a 20% discount on my labor rate for payment in LN sats!

2024-06-17 17:04:05 UTC

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This reality has brought me out of retirement back into working in residential renovations. My elders are retiring, my few peers are fully booked, and few in the generations after Gen X have been interested in acquiring trade skills.
Having a half dozen of those skill sets, and more beyond the mainstream (Permaculture, Pattern Language, & Off grid design/build/operate) allows me freedom to choose when, where, and for whom I work. It also allows me to deploy my own capital with maximum efficiency because none will do as high quality of work for me as I will for myself.

2024-03-14 17:20:09 UTC

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If you're still open to it, I have a specific long standing very loyal Austin community I'd like to introduce to Nostr with a branded client. A macrobiotic and Montessori community I think they will understand the value in cultivating their community.

2023-09-04 22:28:07 UTC

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'Tis the flow of those messages between peers that creates new capital, value birthed outta thin air due to our financial intercourse.
Exchange itself is how wealth is created; ideas, goods, &/or services measured & weighed in satoshis as the universal common denominator or value.

2023-08-20 07:13:08 UTC

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It costs nothing to join them on the streets, winning a lottery provides them no hope to bootstrap themselves the same way. Only earning your sats by mining or with useful goods and services carves a path they can follow. Join them as you're able at the likely many food pantries run by local churches and cities.
Then share a few sats with them to demo its use and they will get it's value. Not having addresses, the homeless cannot get IDs to perform KYC for exchanges or bank accounts. The house-less, un-landed, classes understand very well the value of private permissionless payment rails. Those in debt financed gilded cages tend to be blind to the value proposition, as their privileged position, closer to the money spigot, keeps them from having cash flows dry up.

2023-08-04 14:42:38 UTC

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Check out www.plebtag.com to learn how to program your own NFC version of the Azteco vouchers, for selling loaded and unloaded yourself. In Europe I believe Peach was trying make non-KYC satstacking possible there.