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A non-technical deep dive into NOSTR with onboarding for beginners based on an in-person presentation and workshop ran tonight with @CriptoPanas a fellow Bitcoin educator ⚡️ We onboarded a few new Nostriches 🙌🏼✨ Would love for this video to become a reference in the space, if you can help make that happen thank you! I open-sourced the slides, you can use them at your own meetup!

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This resource includes: - What NOSTR is, how it works, and why it is unstoppable - Why Bitcoin is a key component to freeing the internet - Why you own your account (messages, followers, content...) entirely - How to see only see the content you want and with no ads - How to "program" your own algorithm - How to move your content history from one platform to another - Discover what is being built on NOSTR and how you can participate - What Bitcoin has to do with this (zaps) - Why NOSTR is already changing monetization strategies (v4v) - Steps to onboarding and so much more! :) About the presenters: Cripto Panas For more than four years, Cripto Panas has been creating educational content about Bitcoin through his videos, focusing on security, privacy, and practical use cases. His mission has always been to help people understand and safely adopt Bitcoin as a tool for financial freedom. https://www.youtube.com/@criptopanas Daniella Daniella is an interdisciplinary Bitcoin educator and facilitator with a background in Economics (HSD), Corporate Law (LLB), English (BA), Teaching (MA), and has spent over fifteen years of her career in Technology and Digital Marketing. She recently published the non-fiction book "Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity" about where Bitcoin could be taking humanity ✨

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Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity

Inner work alone isn't enough. Beyond Money bridges personal development and systemic programming to reveal what is keeping you in scarcity.

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I'm working on a video and in-person presentation about #Nostr for non-Bitcoiners. Been digging into the numbers ( let me know if you spot any errors) and it's pretty fascinating to see: #YouTube Creator: - 30% cut to YouTube - 20–30% Income tax Leaves about $25 for every $50 earned. If you save that $25, after 8 years at 10% inflation YoY, it would be worth about $12 in today’s purchasing power. #v4v Model: - No middlemen - 20–30% Income tax - No capital gains taxes if you don’t convert to fiat (most places) - +45% CAGR if you hold it long term If held for 8 years, $25 of sats would be worth ~$553 at a 45% CAGR. Considering 10% inflation YoY it could buy $258 of goods in today’s purchasing power in 8 years. It’s clear v4v isn't sustainable short-term without savings or another form of income, but it operates on a completely different timeline. YouTube ads and other mainstream monetization models are firmly rooted in the fiat world while v4v is about manifesting the reality in which we wish to live; a higher timeline ⚡️✨

Tired of #YouTubeAds and fiat incentives? I was too - but haven't paid for Premium or seen a mainstream ad online in the last 2 years. I also broke the fiat incentive by de-monetizing my channel #v4vOnly Find out how to never see a YouTube ad again without AdBlock, Premium, giving up privacy, or wasting any time or money. And please share this video, because YouTube probably wont lol

I just went to the post office in Portugal to ship a parcel to the US. Tracked at 700g it usually costs 25€. The postal agent told me I'm not allowed to send products to the US, only documents, and that if the parcel contains documents, the cost is 100€. She told me the new pricing has been in place since Monday. I don't watch the news..

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Portugal's CTT suspends postal service of goods to the US

The Portuguese company said the measure comes into force Tuesday 26 August.

That's not a 20 or 30% tariff, that's a 300% increase which clearly affects SMBs directly (once again) and is a deterrent to commerce altogether. Also looks like another excuse to print money, just 11 billion ya'know lol. Part of me is surprised at 100€ to ship less than a kilo of paper in the mail, another is like 'to be expected;' it's just fiat being fiat... https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/portugal-rolls-out-11-billion-package-help-economy-weather-us-tariffs-2025-04-10/ Looking forward to figuring out teleportation, in the meantime, this system is such a deterrent to human progress... 😑 Grateful for Bitcoin.

Testing @Plebeian Market Already like that I didn't get banned for external links

In a world increasingly defined by centralized control and eroding property rights (e.g. "You will own nothing and be happy"), owning your digital content is more important than ever. This is one reason why I have decided to offer the DRM-free .ePub of Beyond Money on my website. Here's what you get: - No DRM: You can upload the #eBook to any device you own - Reflowable .ePub optimized for all readers and devices - Discount in Bitcoin, Lightning accepted ⚡️ - Exclusive discounts on the physical and audio copies Read more & grab your copy:

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Beyond Money is a journey into the hidden systemic forces that influence our thoughts, emotions, actions, and ultimately, our collective destiny. It dives deep into the crossroads of personal development, #spirituality, and #Bitcoin. Foreword by @Jeff Booth Feedback from readers Matt and J.B.: “Daniella may have found the bottom of the rabbit hole with this one” “Reads like a rebellious manifesto, wrapped in an Alan Watts lecture” Digital Rights Management (#DRM) is a is a technology designed to prevent unauthorized copying, sharing, distribution, or modification of digital media like software, music, videos, and ebooks, but can also lead to overreach. DRM is considered detrimental to ownership and property rights as it fundamentally alters the nature of what it means to “own” a digital product. Unlike a physical book, DRM can keep you from transferring your book between personal devices and can allow providers to remotely delete or disable your book. It may also require a persistent internet connection tied to a specific online account, which can lead to loss of access if the service shuts down or the user’s account is suspended. Bitcoiners are building a present/future where individuals have control over their property and I am also here for it. While my goal is not to encourage pirating (the book is still protected by copyright) I hope this offer provides the freedom we expect when it comes to monetary value exchange and personal ownership of digital books. You can also order it WITH DRM from Amazon which means it will be stuck in your Kindle account. Beyond Money is only on Amazon to reach a broader, non-Bitcoiner, general audience. Keep in mind that using this link does not support the author or the Bitcoin ecosystem:

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I’m in the process of editing the author-recorded audiobook to ensure it captures the same energy and passion that went into writing the book (no AI or voice generation). It should be ready before the end of the Fall and will also be #DRM-Free ✨ My only source of income is the book and #Nostr zaps, so if you like my work feel free to support scaling Bitcoin education with a few sats, appreciate it ⚡️

Made my post into a video, hopefully it's better than a wall of text ^^

Been thinking about the Core/#Knots debate. Going back to first principles and Satoshi's Bitcoin Whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf - First Principle 1: Bitcoin is a monetary network "peer-to-peer electronic cash" - First Principle 2: "Honest" nodes secure the network "The system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes." - First Principle 3: Nodes keep the network decentralized "peer-to-peer" - First Principle 4: Bitcoin must remain decentralized and secure to function as a monetary network Bitcoin, as it was originally intended ("peer-to-peer electronic cash"), dissolves the false illusion of fiat by imposing Universal Laws in service to humanity and thus transforms the world. Bitcoin Core v30 Related to: - First Principle 1: Violates Bitcoin as a monetary network by welcoming larger non-monetary data on to the blockchain - First Principle 2: Compromises Bitcoin's security when nodes become public data storage forced to hold and relay illegal content uploaded to the blockchain by bad actors - First Principle 3: Compromises decentralization when it becomes too expensive, too complex, or illegal for regular individuals to run a node because the blockchain is bloated with non-monetary / illegal data - First Principle 4: Bitcoin is no longer a decentralized or secure monetary network if the previous first principles are violated Bitcoin, as storage for .jpegs and other non-monetary content, becomes a shitcoin. Core is not Bitcoin; we are Bitcoin. There is a thin line between "Bitcoin will be fine" and "we need to act to keep Bitcoin fine." The simple solution is to vote with your node 🧡 On a positive note: - This debate is strengthening Bitcoin as a monetary network; it is getting more plebs involved, running and actively managing their nodes. - It has made the issue of centralized mining more visible to the community and invited more plebs to run solominers. - It has also provided excellent signal! I'm grateful to be connecting with a lot more nodes who deeply care about this protocol for humanity and know what Bitcoin entails far beyond "1s and 0s"⚡️✨ For more info, would recommend these videos:

I was listening to a discussion about #cults, indoctrination, and human action but couldn’t help but see how the broader system creates the incentives. I wanted to work through my thoughts so I wrote this article, “Fiat Money: The Cult of All Cults?”:

Fiat Money: The Cult of All Cults?

Cult leaders share a common goal: power and control over members. What fundamentally enables these things is money; fiat money. So what if the fiat...

Maybe this is another reason why the cognitive dissonance Bitcoin creates is so deep: most of us do not want to hear or accept that were born into, and still actively partake, in a cult that enforces division, control, and our own slavery. But once you leave the cult of fiat money, there is no going back. Note: I’m still working on the third article in the series on cognitive dissonance, I hope to finish it in September; still working through my own limiting beliefs in the process. Just had to share this one in the meantime.

Running Linux 🙌🏼 :D Been an avid MacOS user for over a decade but could not stick around for 'Apple Intelligence' and relentless surveillance tech. This is such an exciting and welcome change to #FOSS. Just the initial install not having a bunch of bloat apps you can't uninstall is so 😘👌🏼 Feels empowering ⚡️✨