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Only three weeks until Bush Bash Japan! bushbashjapan.fyi

I met a couple in my neighbourhood in the countryside of Japan. In their 70s. As I was walking by they were working in a large garden. We had a chat and they said they moved from the city four years ago to start farming. In their 70s. The husband said each day is hard and I asked what he had did before - he said he worked in semiconductors. The guy retired from what was likely a lucrative career and he and his wife decided to take up farming. In their 70s. I can't stop thinking about it. No one decides to take up farming when they retire. Most people probably just watch some TV, read a few books and travel. These two decided to try their hand at farming & they seemed happy to be out working the land. In their 70s. Incredible.

nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll OS update - Bitcoin Core installed and synced. The first 24 hours I made it to 66% so thought I'd be done in a day and a half, but the last third took another 36 hours for a total of about 60 hours. Not bad. I now have ever one of your transactions on my SSD! Electrum installed and syncing. After that I'll connect and test Sparrow.

Aso, Japan - one of the largest calderas in the world. It was formed by multiple volcanic eruptions over thousands of years. Hard to capture the feeling of seeing it in person.

I'm falling behind - there's so much going on that it's impossible to keep up with everything. I just started playing with nostr:npub1kvaln6tm0re4d99q9e4ma788wpvnw0jzkz595cljtfgwhldd75xsj9tkzv and watched nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 tutorial. ecash looks cool - I can see why it improves custodial payments. And now nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg is talking about sending ecash over Signal and https connections over nostr and it sounds like it's pretty big. Where does this go? Do we end up with a completely decentalized internet that's similar to Bitcoin infrastructure where each node can join as they please? Run whatever rules they want? Censor (or not) as they see fit? What infrastructure is being made obsolete right now?

Looking forward to Bitcoin 2024 - come say hi at the OpenSats booth!

At #Nostrasia there was an app doing on the fly translation from English for the Japanese audience. Does anyone remember what it's called? I am starting a Bitcoin Meetup in Kyushu and would like to use it for presentations. My conversational Japanese is reasonably good but I'm not confident I can explain Bitcoin!

Another day surrounded by beauty. #nature #photography

#nature #photography for today.

田舎はすごく綺麗になっている。紅葉！#nature #photography