Best song about Tom Selleck ever.

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Sara Jade - Lip Service (Mustache Ride) - Lip Service (Mustache Ride)

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I’m pretty excited about my DIY rubber stamp business cards. Hope to hand a few out at the Boostagram Ball Live event in Austin on Monday

Here's why I built Music Side Project.

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for the full version. Excerpt below. "As a Bitcoiner, you know the adage, “Not your keys, not your coins”. Well, the same applies to your RSS feed. I understand many of you think a podcast is something complicated, and you need a dedicated podcast hosting company to handle all the complicated stuff for you. And if you're a musician, you may not be the most tech savvy, because you were too busy learning the guitar and dating beautiful people and never messed around much with computers. The reality though, is RSS is simple, Really Simple. It allows you to Syndicate your content Simply, Really Simply, sort of like a Really Simple Syndication (RSS). I think we've forgotten that, and have offloaded our digital sovereignty to tech nerds and are willing to pay them $10 a month or 10% of what our fans send us for doing something we can do ourselves."

Just installed Start9 and AlbyHub on this guy. It was surprisingly fast and easy. I also heard back from @Alby and they said Alby was designed to run on a device with a third of the resources, and they're hoping to get devices for a third of the price. For a $30 device, (and I would argue even $80) there's really no reason for even a podcast listener to not have their own wallet other than it's 'too complicated'. Which it's not, it just means you're too lazy or too stupid to figure it out. It really was quite simple. Building a Wordpress website was considerably more confusing than creating a brand new wallet.

I'm thankful to the PC2.0 community for getting me interested in BTC. I first heard about it from an acquaintance in Jan. 2018. After watching the bull/bear cycle, I thought, nope, not for me, too speculative. PC2.0 using the lightning network is what got me looking deeper into it. This is one of those rare times in my life that I feel like a blind pig stumbling across a truffle, and I'm thankful to have been part of it.

Got this little beauty in today. It’s called a kolrosing knife, and it’s used to carve designs into wood. I’m very excited to start learning a new skill to add more handcrafted beauty to my life.

I love bluegrass and the banjo. If you do too, this song is one of my favorites.

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Sir TJ The Wrathful - Beware of Banjo - Morristown Blues

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I suspect a lot of early adopters of BTC don’t actually care about freedom, they just see it as a way to get rich, like it’s finally their opportunity to invest in the next big thing like Apple or Google or Amazon before they became household names. I figure this to be true because when you talk about other technologies that would free them, they talk about how hard it is instead of how exciting it is to actually be free.

Some people putting and infinitely reproducible digital commodity (song, audiobook, pdf, podcast) and expecting their audience to pay for it are practicing v4v. I would argue they're actually practicing a form of Marxism. Maybe I'm wrong in my assessment of what it is they're saying, but it sounds a whole lot like "Labor is the fundamental source of economic value." There seems to be this idea that "I made an album or podcast, and my listeners should support me." Maybe... if what you're providing is valuable enough to them. Maybe giving some of their very precious time to understand your ideas is all the value they derive from your work. Maybe it's no more valuable than that to them, and they owe you nothing else. They've already given you their most precious resource, which is their time. Anything else is icing. If I was to make a mud pie and an apple pie, I could've spent the same amount of time and energy creating both. It could be the most impressive mud pie in the world, the best ever created. I could've spent hours crafting it, many more hours than I spent on my apple pie. I can value my time at $50/hr, and spent 4 hours on this pie, and say it's worth $200. But that doesn't mean the mud pie is more valuable than the apple pie. Only you, the consumer gets to decide it's actual value. Only you get to decide if that mud pie is worth $200, or $2, or nothing. So what do we do with infinitely reproducible digital commodities that I build once and put out in the world. I give it away for free. I expect nothing in return and I ask people to pay me what they think it's worth, which may just be a listen and nothing more. And I hone my craft to a point that people want what it is I'm building, and would be sad to see me stop creating, and are willing to pay me to continue doing what it is I'm doing because they value my creations. My creations enrich their lives in a way that their day would be less bright if I wasn't creating, they love being part of the community I'm part of and want to grow that community, so they contribute their time, talent, and treasure. v4v requires faith. Faith that want I'm building is valuable (and for me, my creations are like the Velveteen rabbit. They're real because I love them, it doesn't matter if someone else does, ultimately, they're for me and my enjoyment, your enjoyment is icing), and faith that you'll value what it is I'm putting in the world enough to freely give me some of your very precious time, talent, and treasure. v4v is not for the faint of heart, it's for those with a tremendous amount of faith and courage.

You think someone pulling up your song on LNBeats and playing it for a friend is somehow less valuable than them sending you a 21 sat zap. That exposure is infinitely more valuable. Value is way more than sats.

v4v isn't Field of Dreams. Shoeless Joe ain't going to rescue your farm. If you think putting your song on Wavlake is going to mean automatic passive riches, you're a damn fool, and lazy. v4v is proof of work, and you have to put in the work. That means creating something that's valuable to others, then asking for them to return value; time, talent, treasure. v4v is a grind, and you have to put in the continual work of connecting with your fans.

The LN in LNBeats stands for Lightning Network. lnbeats.com Or for you DeGeneres degenerates ellenbeats.com

You're not stupid, you're lazy. Creating and hosting your own RSS feed is no more difficult doing it yourself than it is doing it with a host. You think it's complicated and that you need to outsource it, but there are tools available that do all the heavy lifting for you, you just don't want to take the 30 minutes to learn how to use them... maybe you are stupid... and lazy.