Thomas Forsyth

I’m super excited to announce that Thomas Forsyth Limited is now fully set up to start accepting Bitcoin (BTC) payments in exchange for services in; 3D design, fabrication and artisan craftsmanship. This includes both: on-chain (Layer 1) payments and also faster/cheaper transactions via the Lightning network (Layer 2). It’s something that I’ve had in the pipeline for a long time now, so after many years of study and careful experimentation with the technology behind the scenes, I’ve finally put in place some sensible infrastructure to make it easy, secure and smooth for accounting in the business, so that I can offer this new option for local and global customers. A rapidly growing number of businesses, institutions and even nation-states are currently adopting Bitcoin, because it helps them to solve a vast range of challenges and new opportunities, such as: 🟠 Protecting purchasing-power against inflation and expansion of currency/monetary supply 🟠 Cheaper, faster, more secure, global, peer-to-peer transactions, 24/7, whether you’re sending a fraction of a penny or £100M+ 🟠 Incentivising and supporting green/sustainable energy technologies and use of wasted-energy (no seriously; check out the work of Daniel Batten nostr:nprofile1qqsglmzzvfrcgk7aymek4e8hxaggc9wmasrag08p37xpx64euddvyyspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpremhxue69uhkvet9v3ejumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtmsdac82mrpwgzt4dvj ) 🟠 Layers of institutional-grade security options that (if used) make hacking, theft or extortion near impossible 🟠 Balancing electrical grid infrastructure and making it viable to provide electricity in isolated geographic locations for the first time ever 🟠 Financial protection against political discrimination, de-banking and even war, in an increasingly turbulent era (Alex Gladstein will help you to get your head around this) 🟠 As well as giving some of the poorest and most remote people in the world the ability to create their own micro-economies, to independently bank and save, and the ability to access a fair and global capital network (nostr:nprofile1qqs034ppyjnjakycjcj84kgj737aw6kxkmxazrlp0r67qjk0atgdfgspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uuzmtx5 creates some incredible documentaries around this kind of adoption) For me and my small business; I'm passionate about helping people make things, I’m very cautious and conservative by nature, and I'm certainly not aiming to be a ‘Bitcoin Bro’ who's rolling in millions and buying their fleet of Lamborghini's; but that’s exactly the point. Studying Bitcoin changed my understanding and relationship with money; it gives warranted hope through changes and rainy days to come, and it gives a glimpse at a brighter tomorrow for our future generations. Whatever your current understanding is of Bitcoin, it’s well worth taking a much closer look at this fascinating and exponential paradigm-shift, because it’s taking place in our time and is very likely here to stay, regardless of the short-term volatility. And, if someday you decide that you want to do business together using Bitcoin… now we can! https://blossom.primal.net/0b962964ffa14017f0b6599592e8c2191b5278807fbb3630599512df92f790a8.mov

Very few things in life scare me: I find the prospect of our people sleepwalking into a Digital ID system utterly terrifying (regardless of whether it’s state or corporate controlled). If you pair this Digital ID, with the Online Safety Act (new powers that have already been rushed into place in the UK), a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC’s are very much in development and are already in effect in some places), and a Social Credit Score system in the near future (again, some countries are already grading their citizens); you are giving away your rights and the freedom to be able to meaningfully disagree with your government on any topic ever again (and also to every other even more nightmarish government that may enjoy having these powers in the future). If at some point you also add an ‘unrealised gains tax’ (that wipes out any form of property you own), a bank bail-in (that wipes out your savings like Cyprus or Lebanon did) or an exit-tax for the UK; then at this point most people won’t feasibly be able to leave even if they eventually decide that they want to. A modern-day mass form of subtle slavery, from a series of small changes that sound so harmless. Think this all sounds kooky? Just take a look around our current world and its history books. Then take a look at manifestos from influential groups like the World Economic Forum (WEF) - who suggest that: “you will own nothing and you will be happy”. Notice how it’s not: “we will all own nothing and we will all be happy”. People are distracted and caught up in polarised in-fighting, pointing to each other and pointing to symptoms of the problem; this party/that party, housing, immigration, crime, healthcare, inflation, yet another boogyman; when as usual the root causes are generally to be found much further upstream and effect all of these things. Call it whatever you want; money printing, coin clipping, quantitive easing, diluting purchasing power, expansion of the monetary supply, counterfeiting. Every time in history that elites have figured out a new way to break the technology that we use to store and exchange energy/value with each other (also known as money); basic living becomes increasingly unaffordable to the average person, and society begins to break down. Our time is sadly no different. This time it started to break preceding WW1 with the Bank of England and with the creation of the Federal Reserve in America. It accelerated in 1971 when Nixon ‘temporarily’ and permanently de-coupled the world reserve currency (the dollar) from the gold standard (sound-money that is difficult to counterfeit). And then every time afterwards when there was another ‘big print’ enabled by these previous changes (such as 2008, 2020…). If you want a simple illustration of what happened and how it affects you; then just look at a graph comparing the average house price, to the average wage over the last 100yrs. No prizes for guessing that asset prices have skyrocketed away from wages to unaffordable levels for the average person, especially after 1971. We have significant issues to solve in the UK; Digital ID isn’t a solution to any problem that you or I are experiencing in our lives. It’s a transfer of what little independence, power and freedom we all have left; handing it directly to the exact same various elites that figured out how to break our money again. If a small group of humans can expand the monetary supply and create for free the things that most humans have to work tirelessly for to acquire; then the ‘money’ that you hold will rapidly loose its purchasing power and will afford you less goods, services and quality over time. Those closest to the money printing will benefit disproportionately from it (funnelling those counterfeit monetary units into any thing, cause or atrocity that they want). And if we let it happen, once again society will continue to fray and crumble as it has before. History often rhymes, even if it doesn’t exactly repeat. Follow the money. Stay curious, stay grounded and openly question those that attempt to rapidly force change (I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember voting for this). I choose: freedom, integrity, fairness, kindness, compassion, love. And no, no Digital ID here thank you; regardless of what utter nonsense they try and pin it to: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194 Tx

Any idea what’s going on with the UK geohash? nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg

Has anyone else here noticed their Bitcoin related comments on YouTube disappearing? Is this a thing or am I going mad? Even when the video creator liked your initial comments…

Bitcoiners have a phrase “fix the money, fix the world”… It seems to me that what we’re looking at is actually the beginnings of an entirely new, parallel global civilisation emerging. I’m certainly not alone in this thought. Religions or languages are also examples of protocols for flourishing, though history and current examples show that humans have often managed to corrupt them. While people squabble with each other over ideologies (capitalism, socialism, communism etc); Bitcoin seems to be laying the foundations for a fairer, more democratic, less corruptible, better world; where you get rewarded for your individual efforts and contributions, while the tide simultaneously helps all ships to rise. You can become part of this paradigm shift any time you want, for a fraction of a penny… or even a single free post of merit on Nostr… You don’t have to be nostr:nprofile1qqsqyredyxhqn0e4ln0mvh0v79rchpr0taeg4vcvt64te4kssx5pc0spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwfjkccte9emkcann9eehqctrv52em09e or nostr:nprofile1qqs2xs05tluhtr6hpgsmqqxp04898gayjlyrjlexcrndv8j6el784xqpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuugg6za to start building wealth and transforming your outlook on the world (though I do greatly respect visionaries and humans like this). All you have to do is; take the time to learn what this thing is, then to verify what you learn by carefully applying it and experimenting with Bitcoin as a part of your life’s toolkit. As a designer, a maker and someone who is very used to deep-diving and learning to apply new tools and technologies; I have never in my life come across anything so mind-blowing, with so much potential for positive global impact as Bitcoin. If it continues to evolve the way it has been, I suspect we are looking at one of the greatest human stories to touch this earth. What an exciting time to be alive… live a good life friends.

What would my Nostr/Bitcoiner people like to design/make? Maybe I can help… #maker #bitcoiner #art #design #fabrication #creative #bitcoin https://blossom.primal.net/98459d68488ecb5d0fe078060dcacfb955a448a5dc14c7533ecabf0da4df90ca.mov