Blows my mind that there are still so many “it’s going to zero” Bitcoin haters out there for absolutely no reason Next time someone says this to me I want to scream in their face. Why is it going to zero? What is the basis for your claim? What will that look like? Describe to me the events that will set in motion to trigger nearly $2 trillion to flee bitcoin and move somewhere else. Elaborate on the scenario in which the 9th most valuable asset by market cap on existence somehow goes from number 9 to zero. Go on! How long does that take? Do we all somehow wake up tomorrow and find it’s nuked to 0 overnight? Do you know something I don’t know? Do you know something that some of the smartest minds on the planet somehow haven’t realized? For sake of argument, let’s say it somehow does hit zero. How long does it stay there? Forever? It never goes above $0.00 ever again? What happens to the miners across the globe? How will they react? Will they just shrug their shoulders, turn off the miners, and walk away forever? What happens to the transactions currently awaiting the next block? What happens to the small businesses using as money right at this moment? What happens if bitcoin is worth $0, and I decide to go out and buy as many as I can for $0.01? Let me take a guess as to what lead you to believe that moronic idea; Your ego is hurt. You are jealous. You see thousands of people buying bitcoin, holding it for years, and seeing their net worth skyrocket, with seemingly no effort involved. Meanwhile , you stick to what you thought was good investment advice you for 20 , maybe 30 years ago, and avoid anything that’s perceived as marginally “risky”. Maybe you even heard about bitcoin when it was only a few hundred dollars. “Not for me” , you thought, “too risky. Too complicated.” You think you missed the proverbial boat. Hearing the word “bitcoin” reminds you of all the other times you ‘failed’ in life; all the other risks you didn’t take, all the other adventures you missed out on, all because you were too afraid. You have almost a gut reaction when you hear it come up. Minimize it. Deny it. Criticize it , without basis or any relevant knowledge. Don’t let others jump on the boat you missed out on. If you can’t get on it, why should they? I think THAT scenario is 10,000x more likely than Bitcoin suddenly going to “zero”.

I need an app that I can give my parents as a method of encrypted messaging in the event that AI is trying to spoof me and phish them for money Any Nostr based apps that fit that use case?

Does this mean I am no longer an average pleb? And I going to make it one day because I just did things? @walker

I literally have no more cash available to buy more bitcoin Dammit

The normies are starting to notice, you guys

“So your average bitcoin cost basis is over $120k?” “Yes Dave” “And now you want to sell all your bitcoin because the price is in the 90s?” “That is correct Dave” “And you’re asking me when is a good time to buy back in?” “When 58k?”

This is genuinely how some people buy bitcoin and it’s hilarious

Got tickets to see the Rush reunion tour, I’m fucking hyped

Knowledge is sometimes a curse. I often find myself at the supermarket contemplating the “old world” that no longer exists , but we still live in, and the “new world” that is being born , of which we have yet to witness the full scope. Nowhere is this stark difference in realities more evident than a supermarket or grocery store Just today I saw: -An elderly women (in her 70s easily) working as a cashier. Likely a prosperous career path when she was a teenager, I wonder if she works today out of boredom in retirement and a desire to leave the house, or out of necessity for survival, unable to live solely off her savings any longer, and without enough viable skills to compete in today’s job market -A woman with young children clipping coupons for basic necessities. She battles fiat debasement every single day without knowing it, and may be just barely scraping by as it is, possibly unaware of just how much worse it could get -An elderly man, also in his 70s , feeding a stack of tickets into a lottery machine. Perhaps living off a fixed income, this man is literally feeding his lifeblood into a gambling addiction. Maybe he’s a multi millionaire and can afford to do so, but is it more likely he’s also barely scraping by, and is feeding his limited and dwindling savings back to the beast that has already taken so much from him? When I see these people, day after day, week after week, in my local store alone, I am reminded of the hundreds of millions of people just like them in my country, not to mention the billions like them around the world. I don’t look upon these people with pity, or with disdain , thinking they are “uneducated” or “misinformed”. Quite the opposite . My heart goes out to them. I fear in my souls for them. As the world sheds its skin of the old systems and institutions these people grew up in, and as technology beyond comprehension unveils itself daily , how will these people be affected? Their jobs, their loved ones, their safety, their mental sanity, their sense of meaning; all of these things will be on the table of uncertainty in the coming decades. As bitcoiners , we find truth and purpose in our convictions through study and critical thinking . Even if we are dead wrong about the thesis of Bitcoin, the conditions from which it was born still exist; They are history, They already happened. So even if bitcoin as we know it fails, the endgame of the conditions of its creation will still happen, one way or another. Not to mention AI, robotics , super computing , drone technology , and the digital panopticon of government surveillance; all breaking down our doors and barging their way into our society as we speak. So when I’m at the store checking out with Apple Pay, using a credit card that rewards me with bitcoin and automatically withdraws to my ColdCard at a certain threshold, I no longer take pride in knowing that I am ahead of the curve. A small part of me feels shame in knowing so many people are at risk of being left so far behind.

Who’s ready for the Dennis Porter nothing burger today? I’ll take a double nothing patty with a side of nothing sauce , please

Anyone else at Riot Fest on Nostr or am I the only one?

I hate when I’m sick and have to skip out on lifting heavy at the gym Lifting is a great source of mental clarity for me and it always makes me feel accomplished and better for the day, even if it’s a mediocre session However it’s also good to listen to my body and give it the rest it needs This is me just coping with skipping the gym because I’m congested and have a splitting headache, by the way😂

Only on Nostr do you get the very best in the latest music New Fleshwater album is out today and it is an absolute ripper

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A must read article about the state of the Knots vs. Core debate. Both sides are right, but each are missing the full context. We need less infighting, and more collaboration and teamwork to resolve this problem. Instead of asking “how do we destroy the other side?” We need to ask “how do we work together to achieve our common goal of worldwide bitcoin adoption?”

Core vs Knots

... and how large software organizations avoid infighting

If you’re looking for extra conviction, watch interviews/new segments/documentaries of the internet from the 1990s. The parallels between then and now (with Bitcoin adoption) are almost uncanny “Why would I send an email when I have the post office?” “Why would I listen to a baseball game on the internet when I have the radio?” The adoption of the internet represented the most modern case of framework shifting in recent memory. If you’re thinking of bitcoin in terms of fiat money, you’re missing the point entirely. You have to radically shift your entire perception of everything that money touches. It’s a whole new framework. Never been more bullish.

#Nostr feels like what Twitter felt like in 2009