HUGE news. I've been contacted by a key member of the White House administration! Can't wait to see where this conversation leads...

GM New treadmill for Betty 😺 and Balthazar😿 (who really needs to lose a lb or 2 ) Only took me 3 hours to assemble! My forearms are killing from tightening 100+ screws by hand. Oh, and I joined a gym today. Now we all just have to keep each other accountable. 🤝💪

So great to see more well crafted stories here on nostr. Loved it! Please submit work to 21futures.com. we pay contributors and also publish here with zap splits.

Just got 2100 sats from @primal at @BTC Prague. Thanks! Funniest joke about Prague or Czechia wins them all. Ends at 10pm CET tonight (19.06). Make me laugh. #btcprague #joke

Seeing lots of posts about how nostr offers the freedom to provide value and earn for artists and many other freelancers. Probably only 1-5% of bitcoiners use nostr. Imagine when it is 1-5% of the world... GM from GC. Have a blessed SATurday.

Me, ignoring all my work this week. Motivate me, nostriches! #procrastination

The Spanish dream is to be a 9-5 public servant doing paperwork you don't give a shit about. Chatting to a Canarian friend at the weekend. She's smart, educated, mid 30s with no kids. She's worked on and off in various professions because few private companies hire permanent employees. She came to the same conclusion as many Spanish have. Get a job any job, as a civil servant. She is applying to work at the airport because you don't have to study much for the test. "Who knows?" she said, "the benefits and hours might be decent, and I won't worry about getting laid off." I bit my tongue. It's so sad she is going for any old job, not following her interests and using her best skills. Many countries are trapped in this cycle, employing more and more citizens who just want a modicum of stability. Once employed they are incentivized to make the governmental system less efficient, employing others too. Taxes rise. Benefits fall. The money printer whirrs. Corporations take advantage and offer zero-hours contracts. More people work for cash under the table. It's sad. There are lots of ambitious, smart, driven young Spanish, but within 5 years of finishing their studies, they are begging to become government paper pushers. The country has the lowest birthrate in Europe. People are more under pressure with bills than ever. Inflation is drastically underreported. Houses are sold to 50+s But hey, in 2024 GDP went up 1% because of more tourism, so the coutnry is now heralded as Europe's golden child. I'm not saying this to shit on Spain. I choose to live and work here, and I love it. People are cool (apart from all those miserable civil servants). Just trying to spread a little truth based on my experience. Isn't that what nostr is for?

Great work. Hope to bump into you and chat about the future of nostr in Prague!

Me on my way to zap the fuck out of some HQ nostr reads. GM!

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Wrote a bitcoin humour piece especially for a pleb publication. (Unpaid. Just for fun). Submitted it to the magazine in November. Enquired with the editors in February. Told it would be published. Waited until June. Today I learned I am not included in the listed contributors for the issue. It won't be published. This is so disappointing after 6+ months of waiting. Not the way to run things. They lost a contributor, customer and advocate. Sometimes writing sucks. On the plus side, I'll just publish it on nostr. Fuck publications. I don't need anyone's permission to be funny. Article coming soon...

Join the very first Bitcoin Walk in Gran Canaria. SATurday June 7th. We'll be checking out this volcanic crater. And if we find any shitcoiners along the way, we can throw them in! 😁

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BitcoinWalk in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - every SATurday

Join the BitcoinWalk Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - a monthly meetup to discuss Bitcoin while enjoying nature walks. Connect with passionate enthusia...

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GM to the whole nostr team!

Some light meal prep (banana for scale). Guess the dish to win 200 sats #foodstr

GM, nostriches. How much would you pay for this sweet tracksuit? #gm #fashion #nostrich

Balthazar is in the banana zone 🍌 #catstr

Bitcoin plotting to take over the global monetary system... tomorrow.

When I was a kid, a paperback book cost about £10. Now? You can buy a No. 1 bestseller for £4.50. What changed? You’d expect the price of a book to increase. £10 in 1993 is equivalent to £21.20 today (even using the Bank of England’s laughably low inflation calculator). Books are not cheaper to write. Quite the opposite. Bigger teams are required to ensure a high-quality product. Authors need computers, digital tools and subscriptions. Paper and distribution costs are higher. So why are holiday paperbacks so cheap? The publishing industry ate itself. Amazon ran bookshops off the highstreet. Publishers could only turn a profit through mergers and acquisitions. They bought up indie publishers and fired the staff. Now, the Big Five publishers squeeze every drop of value from authors. Most new novelists receive no advance and around 7.5% royalties (34 pence per book before agent’s fees, taxes and other costs) The Big Five (just like the big Hollywood studios) focus on a few major releases. These books receive almost all of the marketing budget. Publishers beg retailers to buy copies at costs so cheap they are making virtually 0 profit. Prominent display in Tesco or Sainsbury’s means the book might become a best-seller. (Yes, supermarkets are the biggest physical retailers of books in the UK). Even the 0.01% of superstar authors are making a pittance on each book sold because of a broken system. Not to mention that most writers face years of rejections before even signing a deal. If you are a film-maker, an artist, or a musician, you’ll recognise this broken model. Creative people have been corralled into the walled gardens of big tech (even worse than the Big Five publishers). I used to dream of seeing my book in a bookstore with the Penguin logo on the cover. Now, that thought disgusts me. There are still some indie presses fighting the good fight, but they won’t last. If you write, the value you offer is linked directly to the audience you build, not just the content you create. I’m not saying this to tell you where to buy books or whom to support. Just trying to explain the book industry and my place in it. I’ve self-published books and had wonderful support from three indie publishers. Writing careers are never linear. Who knows what the future holds for my words? With that said, I won’t be begging agents to read my manuscript. I’m not aiming to be on the shelf in Tesco for £4.50. I’ll focus on building an audience and delivering value to them. And I'll be doing it here on nostr.

GM from GC (Gran Canaria). Have a coffeetastic morning. #coffeechain

Who has a detailed list of ALL the bitcoin podcasts? (not just the top 5 🙄) Drop them below. Zapping the best one 1,000 sats! #zapalert #podcast