I had hope. I was fooled. But now the war continues. I buy bitcoin as a fuck you to this paradigm that imprisons so many. I won’t comply and I won’t be part of their system at all anymore.

Every time I post here on Nostr I seem to get at least 1 sat zapped to me, sometimes as much as a few hundred sats. I also own this data, it’s cryptographically tied to me, and I make instant, real money off of stupid content spewed directly from my brain. Why would I post anywhere else??

This is probably the part where everyone starts buying the dips. Everyone knows on some level that it’s not only possible, but extremely probable that we’ll see Bitcoin go to $1 million/coin.

I still think the greatest casualty in the whole FTX scandal was the loss of our beloved Blockfolio app. If I ever meet SBF, I’m putting my foot right in his ass. We’ll be best friends all the way to the hospital to have it surgically removed. I want blockfolio back.

This book was written in 1975. It chronicles the history of what happened to German’s currency after WW1. I’m only 69 pages in. It’s all happening again. It is absolutely insane that you can currently take a $1 bill, a worthless piece of paper that they can PRINT, and you can trade that shit piece of paper that doesn’t even work well for toilet paper and trade it for 950 satoshis. NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FUCKING SATOSHIS. For ONE PIECE OF SHIT DOLLAR?! Before you know it, a dollar will only buy you 500 satoshis. Then only 100 satoshis. Then only 10 satoshis. Then only 1 satoshi. If we’re really lucky, we may still be able to trade $100 bills for a single Satoshi in the future. But the reality is that somewhere in between all these price points, there may likely be a scenario where people aren’t willing to trade their satoshis for dollars anymore. Because dollars can be printed. They’re worthless. We’re sitting on a major opportunity right now where we can still get almost 1,000 sats for a single worthless dollar. It would be a shame to piss that opportunity away as the dollar collapses over the next few years.

I had a guy start renting one of my rooms a few months ago and he’s with a small startup trying to build some kind of “Hope and Kindness” blockchain as a smart contract into Solana where companies like Publix would participate and hand these tokens out to their customers for their loyalty rewards programs and it’s beneficial because then customers own their own data. I don’t really understand the whole pitch yet but the questions I’ve been asking lead me to believe that whatever they’re building doesn’t need a blockchain, it can be built into Nostr and instead of their bullshit 170 billion “Hope and kindness” tokens that will be pre-mined, they can introduce Bitcoin rewards, which will interest a lot more customers like me. It’s starting to irritate me how committed he seems to be to this project that I’m 95% sure is going to go nowhere and end up stealing a lot of his time and energy. But I think I also just see things very differently because I have adopted the Bitcoin standard and no longer have any care in the world for what fiat does. Maybe I’m missing something and I’m just being an asshole but on the other hand I don’t see how a shitcoin like Solana is even going to be around in 10-20 years so to be building an application on that platform seems like a stupid idea to me.

Been a while since I’ve been on Nostr. I keep thinking about how much better this product is than any other form of social media but unfortunately X and Facebook do a much better job of keeping my attention. BUT, if I just make a commitment to form a new habit of posting here every day and engaging for 30-60 minutes, this platform will be keeping my attention a lot better. Not to mention the raw power of actually owning my data here and being able to send and receive sats is an opportunity I’m sick of missing out on.

What a wonderful world

Normally when I get into the #gym like this, I get sick at some point and get knocked off track. So far, I’m 128 days in, only missed 9 workouts and still haven’t gotten sick. That’s definitely a new record.