Today marks 3 years since I told my FIAT job to SHOVE IT. I am below retirement age and the Rule of 55 and Bitcoin saved me. Hang in there people in cubicle world, with your seemingly soul sucking existence. The Meetings. The Office Politics. Cost of Living adjustments that don't even come close to helping. Coworkers who do nothing but kiss butt and get promoted. Let me know if you need some comic relief, tell me about your situation and try me and I am not an AI bot. I saw it all and made sarcastic comments for 35 years.

This post for all the data nerds out there:

One of my best buddies called me a "homo" and sent me this:

How Bitcoiners are forced to live online and IRL amongst the 30,000,000 shitcoins.

I am laughing almost 24 hours later, last night, billions of people were watching the Academy Awards and at one point to introduce Amy Poehler the announcer pronounced it, "Amy PO-ELLER" clearly wrong. It turned out it was Nick Offerman, Amy and Nick have worked for years together and he did it on purpose. Awesome, she is going to rewatch it and go, "Really? Really Nick?" Classic good humor.

Epstein Files: A slightly different take Entourage walking into Trump's office the other day, about to release the Epstein Files. Them: "We are all set boss, it's a green light if you give the okay." Trump: "Fantastic, one last question, was I mentioned in there at all?" Them: "Yes." Trump: "How many times?" Them: "5,367 times, in fact at one point Melania and you took Ivanka?" Trump: "Oh...okay, here's the deal. I am good with it but one condition, go back in and redact my name and anyone who I have associated with and release it. EOD, okay?" Them: "Sure."

Is it just me or does weather.com totally suck on it's load time. No matter what computer I am on with a WiFi connection of 1Gig/Sec it is SO SLOW. Literally for 20 years, I used to think it was because so much bad weather is happening but it can be blue sky around the globe and it's freakin' slow. Just me?

My entire life I have loved British humor: Thank you Britain for making us laugh on the other side of the pond. Our world desperately needs more humor, it's free and open sourced to share with all. LAUGHING is good for the soul in a ridiculously serious world, online and offline. p.s. Bitcoin isn't funny enough

Thanks to this idea to the person who posted the chess meme today on here.

Bitcoin: "I am doing just fine" "Now I understand, everyone's sh*t is emotional right now." - President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. To me, it's always been Bitcoin is logical in an illogical world. Bitcoin is math in a human all emotional world. You can't get upset at addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division or numbers strung together but you can get upset at language, any language, via words strung together. Try to logically think through this. Nothing is making sense. Governments (e.g. the USA) print dollars/value gold out of thin air. We may or may not have any gold in Fort Knox, someone may or may not have stolen the 200K Bitcoin that was the basis for Trump's speeches on Bitcoin. Meaning he would keep it but 'starting from scratch' wasn't on his "Art of the Deal" Buzzword Bingo Card. The problem isn't with Bitcoin, once again it is with 'We the people.' Just like it was with FTX. Before FTX I told myself, "I am not going to be greedy, I am done stacking sats." Then FTX, I then doubled what I had. In early November 2024, I told myself, "I am not going to be greedy, I am done stacking sats." Since November: - We had the President, Commander in Chief of the the United States of America, launch a Memecoin called $TRUMP, alongside his wife's version called $MELANIA. They are both garbage. (translate as you must, it's all emotion and it's HUGE business.) - His second in command, Musk, loves a memecoin called $DOGE , even tongue in cheek named his department after it. It's garbage. - The guy his second in command admires, Javier Milei, Argentina's supposed Bitcoiner who was in a viral video showing how he'd dismantle all the government agencies if elected by pulling them off a whiteboard. In public he wielded a chainsaw. Milei goes on to give Musk a chainsaw. Connect the dots. Then Milei goes and launches a meme/scam coin called $LIBRA (garbage) via the same people who for sure launched $MELANIA and it will come out it was $TRUMP too. - Then the armpit of the world, North Korea, hacks Dubai and steals $1.4B of Ethereum (garbage). And Ethereum apparently rolled it back, so ridiculous. How can Bitcoin (logic based) make it in such an illogical world with scammer polticians from the United States Memecoin President to Argentina's Memecoin President? "Crypto" has an image problem and rightfully so, but Bitcoin does not, but the Crypto scammers have funded the politicians. You can't fault people for being confused and throwing Bitcoin into the garbage. Bitcoin is totally superior to the 21,000,000 other alt/memecoins, and we have a massive problem with 160 currencies around the world. Starting with the US Dollar being "the best looking horse in the glue factory." Like it always has been, after FTX, all the other drama, it's all emotion and illogical but guess what, like a few years back, I am now not done stacking Bitcoin. Putting some real estate up this time. It is going to take me longer but this is all nonsense. Today, I thought I was done but: "I am going to be greedy, I am not done stacking sats." This is for the next generation, hopefully in 500 years we are not getting dumber as a society and turning into "Idiocracy." For now, I am simply, "Not Sure." Logic and Bitcoin will prevail.

Lavrov has said since almost day one "Russia didn't invade Ukraine" but called it their "Special Operation." How can the US buy in to this BS going on, don't give in to Lavrov, Don Don, or Putin.

In life, moderation is key. From religion to eating.

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Man on carnivore diet has cholesterol of 1,000, sees shocking symptom appear on hands

A man who ate the carnivore diet had cholesterol of 1,000 and developed yellow lumps on his hands, deposits of excess cholesterol under his skin.

One thing holding me back on NOSTR is the search. I spent my entire career in data/reporting so I view all posts as database entries to go back and 'mine' words, Dorsey's, yours, and mine. For instance, I painstakingly wrote up notes on Saylor explaining the 5 types of investors in Bitcoin. Going to the transcript, reformatting it, etc. I remember it had Denier and Skeptic in it but I can't find it using any client search inside NOSTR or using "The Google." For 2025, I would like to not renew my blue check on Twitter but it is impossible for me to be limited on my posts (TLDR) and some of us need the search. I know, I know, everyone likes to think what they post today is earth shattering but I really, really like to go back to what has been said the past almost 16 years in Bitcoin and last almost 4(?) on NOSTR. Huge Fan of NOSTR and I am patient as Hell. Some of us were around when the Internet was being built: "404 Page Not Found - Site Under Construction"

"UnBank you Very Much" Yesterday I walked into a US Bank branch because I wanted someone to verify something that is completely unclear. Never mind the 'Make an Appointment' button went to a dead link online with my desktop and confirmed on my cellphone app (same site.) The situation: Our daughter is in France for 2 years and because of French law/rules/regulations, she has to have a French Bank Account in order for her to function over there. So she can get a French phone, deal with locals/cash for housing and some food. (People like cash everywhere, hmmmm.) Regardless, I simply need to move money, transfer from our US Bank Account to hers or from her US Bank account to the French account. I explained this to the US Bank employee and she confirmed what I already knew without attaching the price (not clear anywhere on their site.) US Bank: "In order to do this, you have to do a wire transfer." Me: "That is the only way? I need this to be ongoing for two years, sporadically but probably frequently." US Bank: "Yes, the only way." Me: "How much is each transfer?" US Bank: "$50" Me: "$50, regardless of denomination?" US Bank: "Yes." Me: "That's ridiculous...(me turning my back and walking out with the still unresolved issue.)" From a previous note, I can't us Strike (they require my daughter bring in a utility bill with her name on it for part of the KYC process.) Does anyone know if Venmo or PayPal or CashApp or any other 'mainstream' POS Fiat based online system can beat the 1950s Bank technology with a US to France simple transaction? Bathtub Section of Extraneous I am showing you how there are 6-7 hops in a Venmo transaction. ====== While he was in front of Congress (2020) to Brian Brooks, one of my favorite Bitcoin voices. Brooks gets drowned out online by Bitcoin Maxis sometimes because he talks about Web3/Blockchain but he is freakin' smart and his Bitcoin analysis is incredible. I am going to repost more on him later. For now, when Binance's nuts were in the vice, the Binance filing, Sam explains the previous two CEOs at Binance to CZ (Slea-Zy), known as Hostile CEO A and Hostile CEO B CEO A is: Catherine Coley who is presumably still missing. CEO B is: Brian Brooks (Former Head of Crypto for Trump/CEO of Bitfury) Mr. Kustoff: (03:31:56) Thank you, Ms. Haas. Mr. Brooks, if I could, to you, thank you also for being here. If I could, I think obviously there are people who believe that cryptocurrency is difficult, maybe even impossible to track. Can you talk about that as it relates to the blockchain? And we talk about illicit activities, alleged illicit activities, oftentimes will be investigated by federal authorities. Could you explain maybe the fallacy in that as if you were talking to our local police chiefs or local sheriffs? Mr. Brooks: (03:32:37) Sure. Well, thank you for the question, Mr. Kustoff. I actually do this talk at local rotary clubs and things around the country all the time. So I think I can do that pretty well. I think the easiest way to understand it is let’s contrast blockchain transactions with normal banking transactions to see how much easier it is to trace them on a blockchain than it is in a banking transaction. So let’s imagine for a moment that… I would never do this because this would be flagrantly illegal, but let’s say I bought you lunch. Okay? And let’s say that afterwards you wanted to Venmo me your payment back, right? So you hit your Venmo button on your iPhone and you sent me money. What many people don’t understand is that there’s seven or eight different steps in the Venmo transaction. So all Venmo does is send an instruction to your bank. Your bank then receives that instruction, they write it down in their books and records, and then they then send an instruction to an underlying transfer network. It could be the automated clearing house, it could be the Fedwire system or something else. That system then contacts my bank. It inquires whether my bank has enough money to pay you. Once that’s been done, then there’s a debit from my account. It’s very complicated. And in any one of those steps, information could be lost. There could be a breach, something bad could happen. Versus in a blockchain, there are no intermediaries. I’m not sending instructions to a third party to send instructions to another third party, to eventually send you money. I’ve sent you money. And when the block is validated, I can see that my wallet address transferred that value to your wallet address, simple as that. The easiest way for people to understand how easy this is, because we’ve had a lot of talk of hacking and cyber security issues, the reason that we found the bad guys in the Colonial Pipeline hack, was because they asked for Bitcoin. If they had asked for diamonds, if they had asked for cash, if they’d asked for almost any other thing, we’d never have caught the bad guys. We caught the bad guys because, not in spite of, because they used Bitcoin and we could tell exactly where the money went.