The strategic supply is growing. This is just mainly intended to have on hand as emergency rations until we start cycling the older goods out. So there is some conspicuous, packaged, “fiat food” on the upper shelves. But if the grocery stores ever close or we get debanked, or they try springing bullshit digital ID’s and CBDC’s on us, we won’t be picky. It has taken two and a half years, but between this and the contents of two freezers, the fridge, stored water, the contents of the water heater, another 5000 gallons of slow filtration capability, a generator, stored fuel, 200lb of propane bottles, boxes of ammo and three months’ worth of split firewood, I’ve basically achieved the goal of accumulating a three month reserve for our family if shit goes sideways. Now all we have to do is let Bitcoin rip for another 5 years and get it all recreated outside of the village onto a modest homestead. Or better yet, out of this country. I’m sure Trudeau is trying to figure out a way to take a third of this too. Capital gains on stored assets or some shit like that lol. Our government’s and the banks’ conduct over the last 4 years has just made us dig in harder. We will not fucking comply. #prepping #foodstr #grownostr #proofofwork

It really creeps the fuck out of me that every time I spend 12 hours of run time imaging all the drives on my Windows PC using the same utility that I’ve used forever, Windows delivers an update within a day. I am extremely mistrustful of Windows already and I’m not even running 11. Nor will I. I can’t wait to ditch Microsoft for good. #microsoftsucks #windowsisspyware #security

Another pressure canning project complete. This one stands to be a little more of a treat than just squash or potatoes….Beef Stew! Seven ready made meals on the shelf, ready to heat and serve, up to two years from now. And no consumption of fridge/freezer space. Amazing what you can learn online from all those homesteaders that came before us, and from the Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving. #canning #prepping #foodstr #grownostr

Coinbase whales rn

Hey fellow Nostriches. I’ve got a community website aimed at serving my small part of the world, so I have a place to point locals that I run into that want to learn about Bitcoin. Here is my bio story on the front page, and my reason for starting the website. First person to send me a link to the actual site via reply to this post gets 1000 sats from my @Alby hosted node. #albyhub My name is ________. I have been a Bitcoin researcher and enthusiast since 2021. Throughout my working career I have been interested in investing and finance, and really started delving into topics relating to money and the economy in 2001. Having noticed a staggering decline in the purchasing power of the dollar since the mid 1970’s I, like other workers, investors and people interested in finance, started exploring the reasons why this was happening. I knew surely there must be a reason why employee wages and salaries (including mine) were noticeably decreasing in their effectiveness at purchasing goods, services and assets over time. Once I learned how our monetary system works and the reason why prices are continually going up despite technological advances making things cheaper and easier to produce, I began looking for an alternative to dollars to save my work and life energy into. Something that could not steal my purchasing power like the government was by continually printing more money. Unfortunately, the economic climate and income level that I was operating at through the first 25 years of my working career didn’t afford me access to traditional assets like land or real estate as a means of storing my work energy. Back then, it was all about just working to pay bills and keeping a roof over mine and eventually my family’s heads, without much left over every month to acquire assets or accumulate down payments on property. Also, through much of that time, there just simply didn’t seem to exist an asset that could be acquired in small pieces that I saw as a reliable store of value. Even precious metals were just out of my reach, and not really practical for me to acquire, hold, and move around the country with. Through my interest in computing, information technology, cryptography, and finance that began in the early 90’s, I first took note of the 2009 advent of Bitcoin by about 2015. At first, I dismissed this new electronic peer to peer cash system as a fad, and struggled to understand how a purely electronic form of money could ever have any underlying value. As I continued to dive down the Bitcoin rabbit hole, I came to understand that Bitcoin actually represents the single best asymmetrical upside potential of any asset or investment in existence today, with the benefits of portability, divisibility, inconfiscatability, and the ability to acquire it in small portions over time. Then the question simply became “how do I acquire some Bitcoin and safely store it?”. The contents of this website, and the information I share with others in person and online is the result of the answers I have found to that question. It is an ever changing landscape that requires continual updating of skills and knowledge. Lakeland Bitcoin provides face to face and online Bitcoin education, acquisition, self custody, security, inheritance, and point of sale resources for businesses, institutions and individual investors in the Lakeland Area of Alberta. I hope you can benefit from my research, knowledge and expertise to begin your Bitcoin journey, and learn how to stand on your own two feet to operate in this space on your own. My consulting is aimed at getting people there, and helping them overcome some of the technical and knowledge hurdles they will encounter along the way. I suggest that you take the time to really delve into the many resources that I’ve provided on this site, designed to help educate you on this amazing asset: how to acquire it, how to protect it, how to receive Bitcoin payments for your goods and services, and how to ensure that your wealth stored in Bitcoin can be securely transferred to your next of kin in the event that should ever be required. Lakeland Bitcoin doesn’t provide any specific investment advice, but once you understand the technology and the value proposition that this monetary technology represents, my goal is to assist you in doing it right. With national currencies being heavily devalued and people’s purchasing power being rapidly diminished through inflation of the money supply by governments worldwide, there’s never been a better time to start learning about an unconfiscatable, portable asset that doesn’t steal your time, money, and energy like government issued currency. Bitcoin is superior savings technology. Fix the money, fix the world! ₿ #hodl #btcmentorship

Great paid holiday day. Eating protein and preserving garden veggies. And prepping for tomorrow’s canning. I cooked and tried the first Spaghetti Squash I’ve ever grown (amazing), preserved some vac sealed bags of that, and had some left for dinner this week. I cut all the veggies and defrosted the packs of prime stewing beef cubes for pressure canning stew tomorrow. Complete with home cured salt pork fat to add some fat. It was also nice watching BTC gains outpace what I would have made at the fiat mine this week, while updating nodes, updating wallet firmware, stamping seeds, imaging hard drives, and dreaming of the next halving. And laughing my ass off at my follows’ Nostr posts. #grownostr #canning #preserving #realhumandiet

Hey fam. I’ve been thinking a lot over the past five days that I’ve had off from the fiat mines about how I can add value to the Nostr community. The most obvious answer is related to where my greatest areas of expertise lie. If anyone that sees my posts ever needs some experienced input on the following, I can help. - hazard tree assessment or specific individual tree management advice - dealing with tree/power utility conflicts in the safest and most economical way and how to get the power company to cover the work in some situations. - proper tree pruning principles - how to run or start a tree care business - how to assess trees and costs for their care or removal on properties prior to purchase - how to estimate tree trimming, removal and larger land clearing jobs and save money doing it. - how to do inspections at every level of residential new home builds to make sure it’s ready for the next trade - how to deal with floods, sewer backups, fires and weather related damage claims and how to deal with restoration companies - how to manage relationships with insurance companies on residential damage claims - redundant, easy to maintain self custody models for BTC including physical security. - models for maintaining security and accessibility for sensitive data including basic encryption and backup regimes - tips for turning space in your home into growing space - food preservation methods and building a strategic food supply - how to eat p*ssy. (Just seeing who has read this far. But I digress) #treecare #pruning #landclearing #prepping #restoration #floods #contracting #building #construction #insuranceclaims #security #growing

Good show. And great point about the US government telegraphing the shit out of their intentions towards Bitcoin. Their inability to move swiftly on anything other than siezures is something to consider. https://fountain.fm/episode/bZ2ELOkJ1TeJNCnaFVvu View quoted note →

Pressure canning squash for the prepper pantry. I’m not expecting it to be any amazing delicacy or anything, but it’s pre oven-cooked, well seasoned and easy to strain and empty into a mixing bowl for mixing with butter and salt in lean times. I figured I sank the time into watering and feeding them for 3 1/2 months, so I might as well make the most of it. #prepping #preserving #canning

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