Glamorous Friday night. Prepping for pressure canning tomorrow. I feel like that poor sap in the navy trapped below deck peeling a mountain of potatoes in a small room. This will be 14 quarts of shelf stable garlic and Montreal seasoned cubes by tomorrow afternoon. I pulled out a quart from 2023 to sample a few weeks ago and fried them in a pan with beef tallow. Great hash browns. Despite not being a carb fan, potatoes have gotten millions of people through harsh times over the course of the last 1000 years. #prepstr #grownostr

It’s interesting listening to analysts measuring “the short term for Bitcoin” as being a period of 5-20 years. A period that is longer than the life of the protocol itself, and longer than the remaining years of life for many current Bitcoiners. So early.

I found a picture of what $1000 looks like in 2027.

No New Year’s Resolution. A New Year’s REVOLUTION. #bitcoin #grownostr #albertasovereignty

Great recap of lessons learned over 100 episodes.

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The Jake Woodhouse Podcast • 100 Lessons from 100 Episodes (JWP100) • Watch on Fountain

To celebrate 100 episodes of the Jake Woodhouse Podcast, I share 100 hard-won lessons from the journey so far: the mistakes, the breakthroughs, and...

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Good tips on property selection in particular.

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The Jake Woodhouse Podcast • I Sold My Home for Bitcoin and Made 500% — Here's Why I'm Buying Real Estate in 2025 (JWP92) • Listen on Fountain

I sold my house for Bitcoin. Three years later, I’ve done a 5x return, yet the hidden cost was constant stress of moving with my wife, three kids...

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More baked spaghetti squash laid up. One more session to go. The more food I grow and preserve the more I understand why people remain on the teat of big farm and big food. It’s time consuming and quite boring work, but I’d rather learn these skills now rather than in a pinch. Tomorrow, it’s pressure canning potatoes. At least I have hours of awesome podcast and audio book content to listen to while I’m at it. Today’s thanks for that goes to The @npub1ltz3...k4fh Podcast. Boosts incoming. https://fountain.fm/show/Q66mRn47Puyf5qIlhkgj #prepstr #grownostr

It’s interesting that Nick Shirley’s exposure of government fraud has likely had a broader impact on peoples’ trust in government and their awareness of the ills of fiat money printing and theft through taxation than a couple years worth of sound money advocacy on the part of the entire Bitcoin movement. There might be a lesson here. #grownostr

2026. Year of the new denominator.

Happy New Year Nostr 👊🏽⚡️

@Contra This is one pretty rough concept recording I did in 2004 with direct line input from an overdriven Peavey practice amp into the single line input on the sound card on my Pentium 2 PC. The chorus parts are very repetitive and skippable, but I liked the way the solo that starts at 1:59 worked out. I used free click track and drum-on-keyboard software. Free mixdown software. The only hitch was that all three guitar parts had to be played in a single take from the beginning of the song to the end, playing in sync by ear in real time. I couldn’t splice anything with the software I was using so I had to do it all long hand including the small drum fills. Took quite a few takes. I wish I had some more source audio of the solo.

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The Martyr (Instrumental)

My first multitrack recording about 20 years ago. Free drum software for the drum part (played manually on PC keyboard with the fills played and mi...