Does bitcoin country own any bitcoin?

After 1.5 years, I shutdown my LN. I feel sad, humbled, like I let bitcoin down. In short, my time was becoming limited and I was unable to keep up with the maintenance. I spent 6 hours yesterday trying to understand why LNbITS, running on a remote machine, all of sudden failed to communicate with LND, running locally. I tried everything….new certs, new macaroons, IP checks, updates, restarts. After 6 hours, I gave up. LNBITS was the (only) way I could use my node for payments on the go. And if I’m not doing that, it’s not worth it to me. I don’t like tails. It’s a long story. If I ever decide to run another node, it will be a core lightning node. I still run my bitcoin nodes at home and the office. Those are easy in comparison.

CNN is disgusted and repulsed by this kid referring to himself as “Big Balls” and starting a company with “another unfortunate name, Tesla.Sexy LLC.” Interestingly, they had no problem giving Jeffrey Toobin his job back after he decided to pleasure himself (masturbate) while on a live, work related, zoom call. Female colleagues were present on the call. A better, more nuanced approach, would be good for our country and our people: 1) Admit that DOGE has discovered unbelievable amounts of government waste. “Fraud and Abuse.” 2) Admit that our spending must be reigned in or we will lose all of the programs that matter to you (and me). 3) Then, express concern about the degree to which Elon has been able to access government systems and begin rewriting code. Perhaps even mention some of the good things deep state agencies like USAID do for humanity. 4) Then explain how Congress has destroyed the legislative branch and those powers have been usurped by the executive. 5) Then describe how the judicial branch has been politicized and castrated such that we are effectively left with 1.25 branches of government. Instead, CNN hasn’t made one mention of the abhorrent waste being uncovered by DOGE. CNN, as is FOX, and all of the others, are simply the propaganda arm of the deep state. A representation of the executive. The slope is slippery, but there is blame to go around. For me, I have accepted the entire system has already been destroyed. Protect and Love your family, friends, church group, yoga group, professional group, and buy bitcoin. The government isn’t coming to save us. DOGE it.

I put this together a long time ago, just updated it a bit. If you find it helpful, share it with your friends and colleagues. Print it out. Put it in your office. If you find it valuable and would like to show your appreciation, there is an address at the bottom.

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Part of me wants to close my medical practice. The other part wants to keep building.

Sent by taking a picture of my screen with Damus, because primal is “we are trying to connect to your relays.”

Who needs a central bank when you have Ripple?

Good Morning! 🫂☕️ My thoughts this morning, because you asked: Ripple/XRP is a distraction. Brad Garlinghouse is a bad player. He is an enemy of freedom. XRP aims to empower central banks. BTC aims to obsolete them. I am blessed with a beautiful family. Ross is free, thank you DJT for keeping your promise. Quit worrying about a SBR and buy as many bitcoin as you can possibly afford. Quit being weak and scared. Buy, Study, Run a Node. Regardless of price, protect bitcoin. I hope I can hire another partner, 2nd interview today. Happy Friday.

I want to embrace ecash. I am using PWA cashu.me But the problem persists, I need a mint ran by somebody I can trust, that has users/network to make it worth my time. If there are only 10 people in the mint, it doesn’t make sense. Point me in the right direction.

Kash Patel needs to be confirmed as head of the FBI.

XRP has always been a shit coin.

@jack I use the square terminal for POS at my medical practice. When will I be able to seamlessly accept bitcoin via the terminal? At this time, I have a good solution simply using my Lightning Node.

I figured this cycle would be remembered as the one where another shit coin surpassed ETH, but that doesn’t matter anymore. 1/21/2025 - Ross was set free.

Ross is free. 😭❤️🫂🙌👑 Thank you all so much for being here and building bitcoin and NOSTR. I feel so much joy this morning.

Free Ross!

I just got in from doing a case at the hospital, The job has taken so much from me. I was on call for the week of Christmas. I’m on call today, my son’s 10th birthday. I have missed so many important moments. It didn’t bother me so much in the past, but now it causes pain. A bitcoin gathering in Naples, I can’t go. Despite the bad, I walked in tonight and my two dogs greeted me. So happy to see me. My son is playing Xbox, my 5 yo is asleep on the couch, and my 12 yo is asleep in her room. Wife is asleep. I went around and gave everybody hugs and kisses. I love them so much and they fill the house with joy. Coming home tonight to a loving family is worth more than all 21 million bitcoin.

Bitcoin is designed to dismantle the control of central banks and empower individuals. XRP is a shit coin built to uphold and strengthen the banking system that exploits and enslaves. Good Morning. ☕️