Hard to describe just how bad things have gotten in Germany

Oh the irony of this being on the last page of your passport

Earlier this year I was at a farmers market and someone was selling beef tallow moisturizer. I asked if they take bitcoin. She looked at me like I was crazy and said “no we only take real money.” Real money. She has no idea how absurd that statement is. Glad I found @SoapMiner.

Times like these are where the people who have real businesses that generate real profits are pumped and the people sitting on their hands waiting for bitcoin to go up are miserable. Build something.

“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.” ‭‭ Psalm‬ ‭19‬:‭1‬

Every nostr user should sign this. There’s only 5k signatures. We can do better than that. This conviction is an appalling injustice.

Supporting Keonne and Bill, the Samourai Wallet developers and their loved ones

Bill and Keonne aren

Story time: Took the fam to the local Steak ‘n Shake tonight for supper. Asked to pay in Bitcoin. The waitress didn’t know how. She went and asked the manager. They said I couldn’t pay in bitcoin because the iPad was out of battery… I paid in dirty fiat via Apple Pay. Miserable.

Pump my bags JPOW

It isn’t working to ask cashiers to ask the owner to turn on bitcoin payments. The only local shop that has done it for me is because I know the owner personally. We need some solutions to make it easier. @jack @miles 🌞

Bitcoin is money and the best products are being purchased directly from producers with Bitcoin on nostr. Welcome to the new economy.

Great chart from @Lyn Alden's December newsletter:

“Only through regulation could monopolies be made permanent.” - @Saifedean Ammous in The Gold Standard I’ve often been asked what I think about monopolies and whether the government should step in to break them up. I’ve never heard this argument before that only regulation can make them permanent.

I’ve told many rich boomers that Trump is one of the worst presidents ever. I point to the fact that he is setting tariffs all over the world on a whim and abusing EOs. They often say something like “well if other countries would play fair we wouldn’t tariff them.” I simply respond by saying “fair? how is it fair that we can literally print the world reserve currency?” They have no answer for that. There are layers to this (and negatives to being WRC) but what I find fascinating is that they haven’t even thought about that.

Since joining nostr 😳 I hadn’t checked in a while. And I always try to zap myself instead of liking posts. This is thanks to big zaps and reposts from the big accounts on here, but still. Pretty cool.

Look what just came. Looking forward to this one @Saifedean Ammous!