I always chuckle a bit at the thought of a goldbug leaving a war zone with 3 duffel bags of gold in like a farmer's carry Sue me, I'm human

Which historical figures do you think would be self-custody Bitcoiners? I'll push a couple: Mikhail Bakunin, Liu Xiaobo I'm thinking (1) periods of exile and need for financing with strong financial powers chasing after them (2) ideological affinity with anti-state philosophy

I have celebrated Bitcoin ATH day by buying coconut water with the lowest amount of sats yet

The best, and scariest movies actually ask us questions we'd rather not even think about. Oldboy (2003) asks if vengeance is worth death and the torture of knowing the truth, in all its unvarnished majesty? Pan's Labyrinth (2006) asks - is it better to die in a fairytale then to live in a dark reality? The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) asks what happens when only the mind, and the mind alone remains?

For those of you who want to sharpen your Linux/Terminal skills (essential for a bunch of things including running Nostr relays, and Bitcoin/Lightning nodes in a self-sovereign way), check out

OverTheWire: Wargames

What are everybody’s favorite projects to support on @Geyser?

Bitcoin is money, and Bitcoin is medium of exchange. My article on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/09/16/the-rise-of-bitcoin-as-money-continues-becoming-a-medium-of-exchange/ If you prefer it without the paywall (though consider zapping here on Nostr): https://archive.is/led3c

After China's Cultural Revolution: 1- 20 members of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music lost their lives. There was not a single playable piano in Shanghai for violinist Issac Stern's concerts. 2- China's most famous French-Mandarin translator, Fu Lei ended his life. China's "Victor Hugo", Lao She, was either murdered or drowned himself after the Red Guards condemned him. Writer Ba Jin watched his wife die after she was denied medical treatment for cancer. 3- Millions died, and millions more were persecuted and forced to labour - including Ai Qing, Ai Weiwei's father and one of China's most famous poets.

On April 6th, 1994, the plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi was shot down suddenly. Both died - and it became the spark of something horrible. Only one day later, the killings began, and Hutu moderates as well as the Tutsi ethnic minority were hunted down by Hutu military forces and a militia known as the Interahamwe. In 3 months and a half, more than a million people would die - representing about 10,000 murders a day. Even to this day, the conflict smolders on - with revenge and consolidation of power a constant theme, as a Rwanda ruled by the Tutsi rebel force that stopped the genocide, grown increasingly authoritarian, invades Congo. The events were described by UN commander, General Roméo Dallaire, in his book "Shake Hands with the Devil" - where he describes shaking hands with three Interahamwe leaders.

ranting about child porn to try to take down your digital enemies is essentially a fed tactic

we failed to bring Bitcoin to politics, instead we brought politics to Bitcoin

Things I've bought with sats recently: Cocoa beans Magnets Ice cream Books Tea Bitcoin is money

Age verification is the beginning of the government trying to understand and control everything you do online, just like taxation and the Bank Secrecy Act was the same for every time you spend something.

Curious if Nostriches think there are some books they’d love to see built in the world. I’ve got 1-2 in the hopper, but would love to see if there’s a blind spot (I’ve already had the idea of making a book on Nostr itself!)

Two German writers, united by their pen and their language, but sworn enemies in all other aspects. Carl Schmitt wrote The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy in 1923 - then The Concept of the Political in 1932. Both were fierce attacks on parliamentary politics and presaged the rise of a new order in Germany from the ruins of the Weimar Republic. The Concept of the Political would be the Weimar Republic’s tombstone - the next year, Schmitt would join the Nazi Party and he would end up providing the legal and philosophical underpinnings for Hitler’s rise. Thomas Mann was the “European man of ideas”. After criticizing Wagner (one of Hitler’s favorite composers) in his talk "The Sorrows and Grandeur of Richard Wagner", he was soon exiled in Los Angeles and served as the focal point of German culture outside of Nazi Germany. In Mann's Magic Mountain, there is an oddly prophetic character - Naphta - who rants that humanity will desire terror and not liberation for this era. Naphta’s "love of extremes and contempt for all forms of compromise make him defend the Inquisition and the authoritarian aspects of Catholicism and communism." At the end of World War II, Mann would write Doctor Faustus, which told the tale of a composer who bargained his soul to the Devil for twenty-four years of creative genius (and a lifetime otherwise spent in neuro-syphilitic madness). Of course, Nietzsche is the original inspiration, but it is not hard to discern a common trend in Mann’s writing: the rise and downfall of Nazi Germany and the bargain with nihilism it took to get there. Perhaps he was thinking of Schmitt and certainly his emanations when Mann spoke in Germany and the Germans: “this story should convince us of one thing: that there are not two Germanys, a good one and a bad one, but only one, whose best turned into evil through devilish cunning.”