Nostr notes by TheBitcoinBattery

Just tried @nprofile…j33t and I'm getting errors. I ...

2026-10-12T15:35:02Z

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Just tried routstr (nprofile…j33t) and I'm getting errors. I connected with nwc and deposited 2000 sats before withdrawing them again in frustration. Here's some screenshots of what I'm seeing. No provider selected for model, no options to select a provider it just says "all providers". Frustrating.

This is HUGE news. I can't wait to see the button in the ...

2026-06-05T13:45:14Z

This is HUGE news. I can't wait to see the button in the wild.

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Square update. Huge?

Not just savings, self custody is even more foreign to slugs.

2026-05-30T13:03:10Z

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Not just savings, self custody is even more foreign to slugs.

Artist: Aurenza Titles: Breath In, Let Go (Reimagined) Shadows ...

2026-05-28T23:58:35Z

Artist: Aurenza

Titles:
Breath In, Let Go (Reimagined)
Shadows Leaning

Okay, here's a prediction, that number will continue to go up ...

2026-05-18T13:45:38Z

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Okay, here's a prediction, that number will continue to go up forever.

Another prediction, in a decade the debt will be 80 Trillion...

Ah yes, to ensure "stable" prices. AKA, stealing the ...

2026-05-18T13:44:36Z

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Ah yes, to ensure "stable" prices. AKA, stealing the benefits of the entire planets efforts by weakening the savings of everyone else in order to pay for the bombs that kill civilians.

What a wild experience. Appreciate your sharing it!

2026-04-28T13:37:20Z

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What a wild experience. Appreciate your sharing it!

Bitcoin or slavery. #naddr1qq…u3ua

2026-04-22T12:41:33Z

Bitcoin or slavery.

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New technologies often arrive riding a wave of "hopium," where its gains are exaggerated and its risks are glossed over. Reflecting on the internet's emergence in the mid-1990s, many visionaries predicted a digital utopia of free information, dominant e-commerce and a borderless world. However, they failed to foresee the return of censorship, the actual pace of global adoption, or the deep psychological impact it would have on society.

We are currently witnessing a similar cycle with artificial intelligence, as its advantages are grossly exaggerated while its potential hazards remain largely ignored. Elon Musk recently ignited a firestorm of debate across the internet when he proposed a controversial solution to the anticipated economic upheaval caused by artificial intelligence. He tweeted:

“Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.”

In short, Elon is asking you to trust the state’s judgement as the chief allocator of productivity gains from AI adoption. This is the same government that he unsuccessfully tried to repair with DOGE before throwing in the towel and declaring it to be “basically unfixable”. That’s the same group of people that he believes will do a stellar job of issuing UHI responsibly and wants you to put your trust in their hands? How’s that for a contradiction! He further asserts, with characteristic bravado, that there will be "no inflation." Framing it as liberation since the machines will do all the work; while the citizen receives the dividend. Who could object?

I object. I do so not merely on the grounds of economics (we all know there is no free lunch) but simply because this is a blueprint for serfdom. It is the most elegant form of subjugation yet devised; servitude dressed in the language of abundance.

The False Binary

Musk presents a false binary: either the machine replaces you and you receive a government cheque, or the machine replaces you and you starve. This framing conceals the actual question, which is not whether machines will augment human productive capacity, but who will own the machines, who will benefit from their output, and in what monetary system the gains will be denominated?

Furthermore this idea is based on a chain of heroic assumptions that the AI industry will rake in tens of trillions in revenue; that a functional state will tax those revenues honestly and that the state will simply distribute the cheques to citizens, equally, without using its distribution as leverage in any way. That’s also assuming the AI agents themselves don’t “rebel” against the “useless eaters” that are benefitting from all their hard work.

Given how companies like Palantir are already using AI and have been integrated into the defence infrastructure of the US, as well as other key parts of the economy; over time as their power grows what’s to stop them from becoming the new unelected government? Perhaps this is the real plan, that is being sold to us under the guise of “everyone will have a penthouse” utopian propaganda. That’s before we even consider the fact that the state would probably use a CBDC for such a program. A government that can give you everything can take everything away. A citizenry that depends on the state for its subsistence is not free; it is domesticated.

We saw this during the plandemic when vaccine passports became the gateway to participating in normal life, and the same government that Elon wants you to trust created a two-tiered society where you had less rights as an unvaccinated person. With this in mind, what’s to stop a government that now has that kind of power from abusing it by targeting dissidents or settling political scores? What of people living under repressive governments, what happens to them when this kind of power is handed over to the state?

The inflation illusion

Musk’s most audacious claim is that a Federal program issuing "high income" cheques to tens of millions of displaced workers will produce no inflation. That is definitely untrue.

During the 2025 fiscal year, the U.S. government recorded expenditures of $7 trillion against $5.23 trillion in revenue. This shortfall was financed through borrowing, contributing to a massive national debt that has now climbed to $39 trillion. AI is incapable of resolving the problem of a state that habitually outspends its income. This lack of fiscal discipline, rather than a shortfall in productivity, is what ultimately fuels inflation. Inflation is not primarily a function of supply chains or price indices but it is the inevitable consequence of increasing the money supply faster than the production of real goods and services. Call it what you will: "printing," "deficit spending," "quantitative easing," or "Universal High Income."

Musk's retort, presumably, is that AI will so dramatically increase productivity that output will keep pace with the new money. Perhaps, but this argument contains a fatal contradiction. If AI produces such abundance that inflation is impossible, then the displaced worker needs no government cheque as the abundance itself will drive prices toward zero. Should the abundance be insufficient to prevent inflation, then the program destroys the very purchasing power it claims to provide. You cannot have it both ways.

Furthermore, the other problematic assumption with this is that governments will be fiscally responsible and will only print money at a constant rate; thus implying that they will curb their spending. Anyone that has been merely observing government spending, even for a short period of time, knows that the general tendency of government is always to spend more not less. Do you honestly foresee a scenario where the Pentagon will cut its budget in half every year simply because they have more efficient AI systems? I highly doubt it.

The argument isn’t against the use of AI per se but with a failure to closely examine actions and their consequences in an economy. The biggest threat to the abundance narrative will be the fiat system and the fact that it’s inflationary by design. If the fiat financial system requires continuous credit expansion to grow, how can such a system be sustainable in a world where there is no inflation?

Sovereign debt, which underpins the entire system of reserve currency issuance, is viable only in an environment where the future units in which it will be repaid are worth less than the units borrowed today. Governments and central banks are, in a deep sense, inflation merchants. They must sell the currency to fund the state, and the currency is only worth holding if it depreciates slowly enough to retain confidence, yet fast enough to service the debt loads states have accumulated across decades of deficit spending.The bigger threat is to the solvency of the fiat system itself.

The debt loads that major governments have accumulated are viable only under specific assumptions; that growth will continue, that inflation will persist, and that debt servicing costs remain manageable relative to tax revenues. AI disrupts all three simultaneously. It threatens to deliver such profound deflationary pressure that central banks lose control of the inflation signal entirely. In a world where governments must inflate or default, the failure to inflate is fatal for the fiat system.The deflationary world that Musk envisions as being the outcome of AI driven productivity is a mathematical impossibility under a fiat regime because deflation is an existential threat to the entire fiat ponzi scheme.

Power without accountability: the new feudalism

The Roman annona, the grain ration that fed the urban poor of the Empire, began as emergency relief and became the instrument by which emperors secured quiescence. Panem et circenses: bread and spectacle. The population that might have organized, that might have demanded political accountability, was pacified by the dole. The Emperors understood, as Musk surely understands, that a population fed by the state is a population controlled by the state.

The enslaved worker of the antebellum South received food, shelter, clothing; subsistence, guaranteed, in exchange for the surrender of agency. The master's power was not exercised primarily through violence, though violence was always available. It was exercised through the structure of dependency itself: the knowledge that outside the plantation there was no food, no shelter, no position. The “cheque” in this system was not cash but corn.

Now scale this dynamic to the present. Artificial intelligence, as currently developing, is not a distributed technology. It is extraordinarily capital-intensive, concentrated in the hands of a very small number of corporations among them, the enterprises of Elon Musk and his peers. In this AI dominated world, these men who control the machines that replace your labour, while simultaneously lobbying for the government program that sustains you in your idleness, have achieved something the feudal lord could only dream of; total economic enslavement without a sword drawn. To have 8 billion people dependent on the benevolence of the tech bros who will have all the capital and the power, while the citizen owns nothing but his own idleness, is a destiny that no free man should find tolerable.

In this chain of causation, the technology oligarch who proposes UHI is not a philanthropist. He is the architect of a closed loop, his machines displace your labour, his lobbying and a portion of the company’s revenues secure your government cheque, your government cheque makes you politically docile, your political docility secures the regulatory environment his machines require. He has privatized the gains and socialized the dependency.

Once the state is established as the universal income distributor, the question of how much to distribute becomes permanently political. Every election becomes a bidding war over UHI levels, every fiscal crisis becomes a justification for expanding the conditions attached to payment and every social problem becomes a candidate for behavioral modification through the threat of payment suspension.

The AI infrastructure that makes UHI administratively feasible also makes it the most powerful behavioral surveillance and control system ever built. Citizens will not be required to do anything overtly but they will simply find that certain behaviors, associations, speech acts, and consumption choices are quietly incompatible with continued receipt of their government cheque. The state does not need malicious intent to arrive at total economic control through UHI. It needs only the ordinary operational logic of a bureaucratic institution with unlimited financial leverage over the population it administers.

What is to be done: the Bitcoin standard and the free machine

We have spent considerable time discussing what we oppose. It is time to speak plainly about what we would like to see and to do so without the wan equivocation that passes for policy analysis in this diminished age. The status quo of the fiat rot that makes Musk's proposal seem plausible by comparison must be immediately abolished. This is why I am advocating for something genuinely radical, genuinely liberating, and grounded in the same tradition of distributed sovereignty. A hard money standard, anchored in Bitcoin, in which artificial intelligence and robotics serve as tools wielded by free individuals rather than instruments of control operated by concentrated power.

Consider the carpenter, who for a century, the power saw has made the carpenter more productive than his predecessor who worked only by hand. The power saw did not make the carpenter obsolete. It liberated him from the most tedious portion of his labour and freed his attention for joinery, for design, for the judgment that distinguishes craft from mere cutting.

The carpenter did not receive a government cheque in compensation for the power saw's existence. He purchased the saw, and his increased productivity generated the income to accumulate capital for the next tool. The machine served the man. The machine is not the enemy of meaningful work. Cheap money is the enemy of meaningful work. The machine is merely the latest tool; the monetary system is the operating environment in which that tool is either liberating or enslaving.

The question, then, is not the machine. The question is the money and this is where the Bitcoin standard becomes not merely relevant but essential. In a Bitcoin-denominated economy, when AI reduces the cost of producing legal services, medical care, software, or education, the price of those services falls in bitcoin terms, and the purchasing power of every bitcoin holder rises proportionally. There is no monetary authority to counteract this signal, no need to “stimulate demand” and no debt overhang to service through currency debasement. Bitcoin is the only monetary system in which the deflationary gains of AI can be fully and fairly harvested by the population rather than captured by the financial system.

The Bitcoin network also possesses a property uniquely suited to an AI economy: it is natively digital and natively programmable. As AI agents become economic actors in their own right, capable of entering contracts, rendering services, receiving payment, and managing resources; they require a monetary system they can interact with directly, without banking relationships, without identity verification tied to human legal personhood, without the friction and censorship potential of fiat correspondent banking. Bitcoin's open protocol, accessible to any computation that can speak its language, provides exactly this. It is the first monetary system that a machine can use as easily as a human.

If history is a guide, whenever a new wave of automation arrives; the market does not simply destroy jobs but it dissolves old categories of work and, through the restless operation of the price system, surfaces new ones that no central planner could have designed or foreseen. The hand-loom weavers displaced by the power loom did not need government handouts, but they needed the freedom to enter new industries at market wages. The same dynamic, operating at AI scale and speed, will produce new forms of productive human activity, provided the price system is allowed to function. Universal High Income would corrode that process at the root, replacing the hunger that drives adaptation with the sedation of a government stipend

Eudaimonia vs. the Digital Serf.

The distinction that Musk's proposal erases, which the Bitcoin standard restores, is the distinction between toiling for sustenance and working for purpose. These are not the same thing, and the conflation of them is the deepest error in the technocratic imagination. Toiling for sustenance is what the serf did, labour extracted by necessity, directed by another's will, producing no accumulation of capital, no development of personal mastery, no expression of individual judgment. The serf plowed because he had no alternative; he received subsistence in return; he built nothing of his own. The UHI recipient is the digital serf: his sustenance is guaranteed, his labour is unnecessary, and the development of personal mastery, the accumulation of capital, the exercise of economic agency, all of these are rendered irrelevant.

Working for purpose is something categorically different. It is the craftsman who chooses her specialty because it aligns with her aptitude and her vision of a life well-lived. It is the farmer who knows his land intimately and directs the robotic harvester not as a passive recipient of technology but as a sovereign producer deploying a tool. It is the physician who uses the diagnostic AI as a second opinion rather than a replacement for clinical judgment. It is, in the deepest sense, the Aristotelian concept of eudaimonia (flourishing) which is not a passive state of contentment but an active condition of excellence: the exercise of distinctively human capacities in pursuit of genuinely chosen ends. No algorithm can choose your ends for you.

The Bitcoin standard creates the material preconditions for this kind of work by doing one thing that no government program can do, it lowers time preference. In a fiat system, high time preference is the default; inflation punishes patience, debt rewards consumption, and the quarterly earnings report governs corporate behaviour with a tyranny that destroys long-term investment. In a hard money system, the future is properly weighted.

The craftsman can afford to spend three years mastering a skill before it pays off, because her savings will be worth more in three years, not less. The entrepreneur can build a business with a ten-year horizon, because patient capital is not being eroded from below. The worker displaced by automation can afford the two years of retraining that transforms his obsolete skill into a new one, because the money he saved last decade has not been quietly redistributed, via inflation, to the balance sheets of institutions too large and too connected to fail.

This, then, is the genuine counter-vision: not the passive receipt of government checks, which extinguishes the motivation to adapt and surrenders economic agency to the state; not the resentful rejection of technology, which is as futile as opposing the power saw; but the active deployment of powerful tools (AI, robotics, the entire apparatus of automated production) by individuals who own sound money, whose savings are protected across time, whose capital accumulates at the pace of their own discipline and not at the discretion of any central authority. In such a world, the arrival of a more powerful machine is not a threat to be compensated for. It is an inheritance to be claimed; another instrument added to the workshop of a free people who own their labour, own their money, and bow to no sovereign for the disposition of either.

Bitcoin is mathematically enforced scarcity relative to time and ...

2026-04-12T19:11:25Z

Bitcoin is mathematically enforced scarcity relative to time and energy and whatever value society gives those things at the time.

Over time energy prices tend to go down, but the amount of energy competing for Bitcoin goes up on average more than the value falls, coupled with a programmed reduction of block subsidy output against time every 210k blocks, and you get near certainty that over the decades the value of Bitcoin will grow against everything else humanity produces.

As you begin to truly understand this and find you have enough sats to live slowly, meaningfully, frugally, uncompromised on the hardest and most honest money, I would suggest stacking silver coins from your largest local mint. For those of us in the United States this means old silver coins from pre-1965 and new Silver Proof coins minted from 1992 onward.

These coins often have no premium, if you pay attention you'll often be able to find them at or even below their current silver melt value meaning they are treated as nothing but the raw metal in terms of market value. Become familiar with the various methods of verifying the coins you receive for true silver content, understand the look of copper-clad vs silver coins by checking the edge, understand the difference in how they sound when dropped, and how they feel when held.

To have savings that bring true peace of mind, you have to make your savings real. Holding real physical silver coins, and even gold for those stackers with truly substantial holdings, truly feels magical and connecting to a time in history when society used quality money in everyday commerce.

Silver and Gold would be good to have in this scenario, as a ...

2026-04-12T15:24:23Z

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Silver and Gold would be good to have in this scenario, as a backup.

Are these images real? With all the corruption, conspiracies, ...

2026-04-04T15:28:18Z

Are these images real? With all the corruption, conspiracies, photoshop, and now AI capabilities... IDK. But they're beautiful images none the less.

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Super cool high res images from the Artemis 2 mission that at least 30% of the people in the comments will tell me are fake lol 😂 enjoy!

Cloud Atlas. Bicentennial Man. Past Lives. Rental Family.

2026-04-02T22:15:56Z

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Cloud Atlas.
Bicentennial Man.
Past Lives.
Rental Family.

Glad you're okay. 🫂

2026-04-01T14:15:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…vghc
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Glad you're okay. 🫂

"Oh man, I hope other people do something about this!" - ...

2026-03-30T21:35:07Z

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"Oh man, I hope other people do something about this!"

- Normies

This is 🔥 #nevent1q…msr4

2026-03-17T01:00:50Z

This is 🔥

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Merchants have no idea what I’m talking about when I ask them to turn on bitcoin payments. So I made these.

Would you hand these out?

Very well put. 💯

2026-03-16T13:47:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…s3dv
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Very well put. 💯

It was declared illegal to refuse to pay taxes to Caesar, but ...

2026-03-14T15:58:00Z

It was declared illegal to refuse to pay taxes to Caesar, but where is Caesar now and when was the last time you paid taxes to him? When was the last time that declaration was able to be enforced?

At another time it was declared illegal to refuse to pay taxes/tithes to the Holy See, but when was the last time that was able to be enforced?

Those who proclaim authority over others will always declare it illegal to refuse them the rent they seek from you, but if they cannot enforce it then is it really something worth worrying about?

Call their bluff, make them work for their theft, do not become your own tax collector. They have no authority over you, the only power they have is the power people let them have. Even the smallest delay is a form of effective resistance to tyranny, and time is on our side.

Both. The mental shift occurs gradually in everyone, but it will ...

2026-03-14T15:03:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…fdl2
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Both. The mental shift occurs gradually in everyone, but it will happen to everyone given enough time. I think the Satoshi will be the unit of account for a time, before it too becomes too valuable to be used in that way practically. I think one day Bitcoin will evolve increased divisibility, perhaps the halving will be modified to be endlessly occurring and alongside each new halving a decimal will be added to increase division.

Every halving causes the cost of Bitcoin to double in terms of time, given this it's only a matter of time until the increased value from each halving adds up and makes increased division necessary. The Bitcoin network of today may one day look antiquated to Bitcoiners of the future, in the same way the Turing Bombe computer looks antiquated to us today.

It will change in ways we can't predict, it will evolve organically into new forms and perhaps it will experience hard forks that spawn children that are not shitcoins but instead symbolize different generations of Bitcoin that if successful will be able to coexist. I don't know what will happen for certain, but I know Bitcoin is still a baby that has yet to mature. When fully mature everything will be different, the world will look alien, and Bitcoin will become humanities economic foundation for centuries if not millennia.

Guess I just felt like posting more than I have the last few ...

2026-03-06T04:41:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…kp0g
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Guess I just felt like posting more than I have the last few years (average of less than 1 post a year the last few years). But the post being censored quickly reminded me what Facebook is, I'm back to not using it again 😂.

Shared this video on Facebook only to have the post not even show ...

2026-03-06T02:12:32Z

Shared this video on Facebook only to have the post not even show up on my timeline when I went to look at it.

Being censored for posting this felt so surreal.

Here's the clip:
https://youtu.be/tN-aTVkI5W0

Lately I spend more time with real people in the real world. I ...

2026-02-22T19:08:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…kmnd
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Lately I spend more time with real people in the real world. I spend less time on the platforms of doom and more more time on Nostr for algorithm-free and ad-free independant social media enabled with Bitcoin. I'm much happier as a result. ❤️

I've been a heavy user of the app Podcast Republic for years. ...

2026-02-22T19:05:22Z

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I've been a heavy user of the app Podcast Republic for years. Tons of customization options, fine speed variability control, able to download episodes ahead of time automatically and other stuff. I enjoy fountain too though, I use both at this point. I want to support the Bitcoin/Nostr ecosystem!

I've been working on doing so, I'll post something ...

2026-02-16T19:29:33Z

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I've been working on doing so, I'll post something eventually. Energy is the hardest one to quantify, all the others are very easy, hashrate is close but we get better at making hashes more efficiently over time so it's not all that precise.

Very well written. I think I'll read a book today.

2026-02-15T12:49:43Z

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Very well written. I think I'll read a book today.

Hey cool, did someone pay you in Goldbacks? I really like them as ...

2026-02-13T13:05:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…hvuh
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Hey cool, did someone pay you in Goldbacks? I really like them as a physical cash alternative. They're technically very thin note shaped coins. Excited for the launch of the 1/4 Goldback next month.

Love it. The Bitcoin Battery preserves and provides usable ...

2026-02-08T17:18:49Z

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Love it. The Bitcoin Battery preserves and provides usable economic energy like nothing else.

Bitcoin is a digital organism, feed it electricity and it bears ...

2026-02-08T16:12:40Z

Bitcoin is a digital organism, feed it electricity and it bears new fruit while increasing the value of old fruit at the same time.

The fruit of Bitcoin is the rich soil in which we can grow in and on a better world.

The world would be a much better place if everyone was just more ...

2026-02-08T16:10:45Z

The world would be a much better place if everyone was just more patient and reflective of what they focus on.

Capitalism is the natural state of an open and honest market. All ...

2026-02-08T16:09:17Z

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Capitalism is the natural state of an open and honest market. All other forms of economic coordination stem from a desire to control, the exact opposite of a free market.

I am not political, I am a Bitcoin Capitalist.

We're losing battles, but we're not losing the war. The ...

2026-02-08T15:43:11Z

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We're losing battles, but we're not losing the war.

The war is growing Bitcoin to a valuation that can support everyone on earth. That is happening, but it's a bumpy ride.

To use Bitcoin the world needs Bitcoin to be distributed to it, the primary group that drives that growth in distribution is the mining network. They are the issuers of new Bitcoin that sell most of what they receive to the open market.

Old Bitcoin can be convinced to come into the market when the price rises, and the price rises more than it falls. As long as new Bitcoin is being made in a decentralized way, and sold to plebs around the world, eventually it will become the defacto mode of payment.

"Bitcoin isn't money if you don't spend it!" The ...

2026-02-08T15:37:27Z

"Bitcoin isn't money if you don't spend it!"

The primary and most important function of money is as a store of value.

If your money doesn't preserve your value from the time you receive it until the time you spend it then it's not good money. It doesn't matter if the amount of time is 5 seconds or 5 centuries. Preservation of value is the most important function of good money, and provides the foundation for a growing and stable society.

Everything else comes second. If it doesn't preserve value in the short term then it cannot be a medium of exchange. If it doesn't store value over the long term then it cannot support a growing society over that time period. If it doesn't preserve value then it doesn't matter if people accept it, doesn't matter if it's fungible, doesn't matter if it's divisible, doesn't matter if it's physical or digital.

If you stack sats and nothing else, you are using Bitcoin as money without doing anything else. All the rest comes later, when you spend the value that has been preserved until you need it.

I am Bitcoin.

2026-02-08T15:27:30Z

I am Bitcoin.

Thank you Satoshi.

2026-02-08T15:26:57Z

Thank you Satoshi.

The ancient greek philosopher's views, that the world would ...

2026-02-08T15:26:18Z

The ancient greek philosopher's views, that the world would be a better place with philosopher kings, are accurate. With the arrival and growth of Bitcoin, that world is almost here.

A king is not the same as an authoritarian. Throughout history kings have traditionally been tied to a monopoly on the issuance of local money. In capturing the most important good in the free market (the hub of the wheel of the economy) and becoming corrupt gluttons on the backs of the people, kings became authoritarians so we associate them as one in the same.

What is a king at their core if not a guardian and distributor of value for and to the people? What is a philosopher king if not a patient and wise person, living in the present with a low time preference.
A philosopher king is capable of respecting that the market is more capable of problem solving than any individual or group.

Bitcoin eventually turns everyone who's capable of being so into philosopher kings. This is a decentralized universal kingdom of freedom, prosperity, and fairness that runs in parallel to the other systems.

Systems of value distribution are in their own competition against each other, in this way though they try as they might to control everything they are still a part of the free market. In this free market competition Bitcoin will win, in doing so it will cause every other archaic and dishonest method of value distribution to become irrelevant and ignored.

In my view the privacy issues in Bitcoin are only a problem in ...

2026-02-08T15:04:13Z

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In my view the privacy issues in Bitcoin are only a problem in the Fiat world where Bitcoin is a minor player, that's the world we're leaving behind. In a world on a Bitcoin standard the lack of privacy on layer one means the bigger the wallet the more eyes are on it and any activity.

In the new world of a Bitcoin standard, those who are the most wise and patient will be the most wealthy as they outlast those with high time preference who spend what they accumulated.

I'll take 20 years of questionable privacy for thousands of years of honesty.

True contributions to society are rarely remembered. That's ...

2026-02-08T14:56:01Z

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True contributions to society are rarely remembered. That's okay, I honestly don't want to be well known or remembered.

It's a megacivilizational level reboot. Humanity has never ...

2026-02-06T14:33:49Z

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It's a megacivilizational level reboot. Humanity has never experienced something as significant as Bitcoin in it's history.

It will likely take a decade more to really see the world start to understand, but it's coming and it cannot be stopped.

With all the drama about the elite and their inconceivably awful ...

2026-02-05T14:30:38Z

With all the drama about the elite and their inconceivably awful actions, it's never been more clear than ever.

Bitcoin's traceability is a feature, not a bug.

Once the network gets dominant, and Bitcoin is the money most people want the most, the biggest addresses will have the most scrutiny. The average pleb won't have much to fear.

Plus, it's a lot easier to increase privacy for small transactions than it is for big ones.

The world will be a better place on a Bitcoin standard, it can't come soon enough for me.

There are 2 types of people. Those who believe in authority, and ...

2025-12-22T05:10:49Z

There are 2 types of people. Those who believe in authority, and those that don't. If you come across someone who believes they have authority over you, and they're supported by a system of other people that says they have authority over you, treat them like you would a gorilla.

You can't reason with a gorilla, talk to a gorilla, or fight a gorilla and win. A gorilla is a dangerous animal, they have no actual authority over you but they believe they do and they have the ability to kill you if you disagree.

You bow down, you make the gorilla believe they're in charge and you are not. If you make the gorilla believe you are subservient to them, they are more likely to leave you alone largely intact.

Like it or not might makes right, "he who has the Gold makes the rules", and those who command the most economic energy are in charge until they aren't. Unfortunately for us, it is authoritarians who in today's world have near total control of the most important good required for a truly free market: money.

Governments every year spend more value, acquired through theft and devaluation, than the value of the entire Bitcoin network combined. But as they do that balance is shifting little by little every day, the more they devalue their networks the weaker they become. It won't be much longer until Bitcoin's exponential growth and the Dollar's exponential devaluation reach a major tipping point and everything changes exponentially fast. Until then, bow to the gorillas in public while fighting them in private.

Understand that there is little point to open conflict, we have already won! We won't win by conflict with them, we win by outcompeting them. Bitcoin is spreading across the world like an out of control wildfire and it cannot be stopped. The world needs better money and while Gold and Silver are great physical trade units, they those and fell on that backs of the authorities that made them too many times in history to be trusted again. Bitcoin fixes everything wrong with money, it's literally just sovereign tokens of values of time (average block time divided by block reward) and energy (average hashrate divided by block reward) and both values are constantly growing.

Imagine Bitcoin powered hospitals, Bitcoin powered food kitchens, Bitcoin powered fire departments, Bitcoin powered schools, Bitcoin powered factories, Bitcoin powered everything. With Bitcoin, just acquire a critical mass of Satoshis and spend them slower than they grow and you'll never run out of money. No obedience to arbitrary rules given by authoritarians needed.

The world doesn't get better out of nowhere, the world gets better when Bitcoin grows big enough that Bitcoiners spend more money and build more services that provide more value to society than the fiat money printers do.

That day is closer than you think.

#NOSTR more and more is becoming my most trusted and frequently ...

2025-12-18T05:11:43Z

#NOSTR more and more is becoming my most trusted and frequently used app.

I love it. I love you guys (meaning all y'all reading this), and I'm excited for the future we're building.

It will over the long term. For those who don't understand ...

2025-12-13T15:29:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…5ty9
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It will over the long term.

For those who don't understand why:
The Bitcoin of 4+ years from now will always be worth more mining cost in time than the Bitcoin of today. This fact will always be true due to the halving.

The fact that it's programmed to be worth more time later, gives incentive to get more NOW while it's easier. This drives up competition, which increases hashrate faster than it would if the halving wasn't a thing.

Hashrate is simply an increase in the effort of mining equipment, which don't get more efficient faster than the difficulty adjustment makes it harder. The increased hashrate means increased energy input. Energy has value and, coupled with the increased time required, this increase in the value input leads to an increase in the value of the output.

Regardless of how many Satoshis that value is divided into. The less Satoshis in the output, the higher the value per Satoshi.

One of those countries has the ability to print anything they ...

2025-12-09T19:43:41Z

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One of those countries has the ability to print anything they need without much trouble due to the market adoption of their local Shitcoin. The other Shitcoins don't have near enough market size to be able to support the same level of money printing. So, I'm not surprised.

Where can I order one of these?

2025-11-13T19:59:18Z

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Where can I order one of these?

Cool. Fig Pizza...

2025-10-22T14:06:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…5d08
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Cool. Fig Pizza...

I love pineapple pizza! Here's my favorite meme about it. ...

2025-10-21T13:24:11Z

I love pineapple pizza! Here's my favorite meme about it.

quoting
nevent1q…9l02

No more fucking around. No more sitting on the sideline. I will fight any of you fucks to the death.

Pineapple does belong on pizza. 😂

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2025-10-21T13:22:48Z

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Increasing the fiat supply is directly destroying it's value. ...

2025-10-15T14:12:37Z

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Increasing the fiat supply is directly destroying it's value. This hurts fiat in the long term.

The world has been taught that governments are the authority, ...

2025-10-13T18:27:45Z

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The world has been taught that governments are the authority, that money is what they say it is. They have no concept of value outside of fiat, but they will soon learn the difference between real value and Fiat declared value.

Definitely possible.

2025-10-12T13:05:18Z

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Definitely possible.

I'm happy about it but it does worry me. The military ...

2025-10-02T12:34:55Z

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I'm happy about it but it does worry me. The military doesn't get paid but they're required to keep working. That can only last so long before shit starts going south...

I think Bitcoin will go up 50 - 100% over Q4. Target range of ...

2025-09-28T22:06:13Z

I think Bitcoin will go up 50 - 100% over Q4.

Target range of $165k - $220k. Possibly higher.

No AI was used, it's all my personal thoughts and ...

2025-09-28T14:57:25Z

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No AI was used, it's all my personal thoughts and cancellations made from my observations of the network over time. Personally I'm fully living on a Bitcoin standard using this system, paying bills and converting some value into precious metals as well as spending FIAT, and am teaching others to do the same.

Appreciate your comment and zap!

It's fun to offer people Solver as payment. Helps break the ...

2025-09-26T12:58:03Z

It's fun to offer people Solver as payment.

Helps break the ice to talk about Sound Money and the problems of FIAT, and how Bitcoin is Sound Money which can fix it all.

In the last month I paid for 3 breakfasts and 10% of a used car with Silver coins and rounds, totalling over $300.

The economy needs sound money in any form, carry silver with you along with cash. If people don't accept Bitcoin yet, offer silver and see what happens. 🙂

Part of good journalism is vetting what you're sharing is ...

2025-09-21T13:06:43Z

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Part of good journalism is vetting what you're sharing is actually true. You present this video as a real police action in England when you admit you haven't confirmed it isn't a skit, which it feels like. That information should've been included in the OP, disappointing.

quoting
nevent1q…42ya
I am not with them, all I can confirm is the virality of this video without any confirmation at this time that the information is false.

My way of telling her welcome to the freedom protocol: ...

2025-09-17T11:19:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…pjv4
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My way of telling her welcome to the freedom protocol:

Instead of seeing the person at the face value of their ...

2025-09-14T13:27:26Z

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Instead of seeing the person at the face value of their despicable beliefs, try to see what's really going on in their minds and find within it a bridge towards commonality.

Those who believe in genocide see those they wish to kill as dehumanized vermin, why? Because they don't know them, because they've never had a conversation with them, because they feel threatened by them.

Make someone feel safe, and enable them to communicate with each other, make them see the shared humanity, and I believe the vast majority would change their minds.

Good morning. 🌅😊 Whoever reads this, you are loved, you are ...

2025-09-14T13:04:34Z

Good morning. 🌅😊 Whoever reads this, you are loved, you are valued, you are beautiful.

I don't care where you're from, what you believe in (as long as you don't want to hurt me or mine for any disagreements), what your biological variations are, or what your political beliefs are. I love you, and I would gladly share a meal and have a conversation with you.

The world is too full of hate and division, we need more love and understanding. We all just want to feel safe, loved, and welcomed, well rested, well fed, and helpful towards things greater than ourselves.

Work to make the world a better place, for everyone in it. ❤️

Murdering innocent people, victims of the FIAT systems ...

2025-09-14T12:54:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…ejy9
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Murdering innocent people, victims of the FIAT systems destruction of upward mobility, that you find unsightly is better than letting them live on the streets?

Where is your humanity and compassion?

Shame on you.

Then stop using language that divides, use language that brings ...

2025-09-14T04:02:48Z

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Then stop using language that divides, use language that brings people together.

Claiming one group has blood on their hands only turns people who identify with that group away from hearing anything else you may have to say. Which is the exact opposite of what the world needs. We need more open dialogue, not more division.

By attacking specific groups or ideologies you are triggering millennia old survival mechanisms within human brains that makes them see you and your beliefs as a threat to their survival, as disagreement with the group a human currently resides historically leads to higher likelihood of exile or death as the group rejects them for their new beliefs, this drives them to further align with their current social groups views and shuts off the pathway between your mind and theirs.

You may have other posts in the future that may make someone drop their adherence to dogmas within their group and drive them towards more independent sovereign thinking, but they're only going to hear it if use language that appeals to them and their humanity instead of pushes them away.

Can't wait for the drama about OP_Return, especially the ...

2025-09-14T03:36:09Z

Can't wait for the drama about OP_Return, especially the hateful name calling, to be over.

Bitcoin can't fail, because even if one iteration of it does we'll just fork it and resume where we left off.

Just stack sats and chill, ain't nobody stopping this train.

No individual has any right to authority over any other.

2025-09-13T18:36:02Z

No individual has any right to authority over any other.

That's not wine! That's grape juice. So that's ...

2025-09-11T04:12:50Z

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That's not wine! That's grape juice. So that's actually a grape juicer...

One day we will. 🤟

2025-09-02T14:02:12Z

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One day we will. 🤟

I would also like to know this, I have a high end Motorola with ...

2025-09-02T03:41:17Z

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I would also like to know this, I have a high end Motorola with 8gb of RAM and all my apps close when I switch out for even a few seconds. They always have to reload when I come back.

Maybe in a few years. 🤟

2025-09-02T02:06:15Z

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Maybe in a few years. 🤟

Help the people around you, not strangers on the Internet. ...

2025-08-07T04:52:40Z

Help the people around you, not strangers on the Internet.

quoting
nevent1q…2am4
Guys PLEASE PLEASE be careful who you help on the internet, I was skeptical to begin with and it turns out I was right.

Thanks to Pitufo (npub1pef…tv2p) for finding these photos, as soon as this account Tina’s Fight against cancer was caught, they instantly deleted it and stopped replying.

But they had managed to take almost 1M sats from hard working and trusting plebs here!

This is NOT ok. This is the most sick and twisted scam ever, not only because they are exposing a real little girl who probably was dealing with cancer, but also deceiving and stealing from plebs.

There are many more accounts like this, like this other one that is very similar!

I talked to this account a few days ago and was suspicious how they were replying, they didn’t seem like a grieving mother like they should be.

BE CAREFUL!

Casualties of the FIAT monetary system. FIAT is a crime against ...

2025-08-06T18:11:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…tw43
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Casualties of the FIAT monetary system.

FIAT is a crime against humanity.

I would genuinely, and respectfully, like to start a discussion ...

2025-08-06T17:43:48Z

I would genuinely, and respectfully, like to start a discussion on this kind of thinking.

Of all the people on earth Bitcoiners espousing "Don't trust, verify", claiming to value verification of truth over trust of arbitrary claims, should be in alignment with athiestic views. Views that are simply stating that without actual verifiable proof of existence any and all theological beliefs should be viewed as mythological and nothing more.

Atheism is literally the absence of belief in the supernatural. To claim atheism is a religion is nonsensical, religions make claims and atheists decline to agree with those claims until they are provided with sufficient reasoning to adopt them as their own.

Everyone is an atheist to an extent, throughout history humanity has developed countless numbers of supernatural beings and theologies surrounding them.

When it comes to Norse, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, or other "dead" theologies almost everyone is athiestic and declines the existence of their pantheons of gods.

Some of us just go a step further and apply the same thinking to all living theologies with large numbers of believers as well.

It is surprising to me how so many Bitcoiners are still heavily religious and speak hateful rhetoric towards a group that simply asks for proof of religion, in addition to proof of work for value.

Religions in general are more like FIAT money than they are like Bitcoin, there are many and they all eventually go to zero (believers). Viewing the world through a lense of the scientific method, verifying claims before adopting them as true knowledge, is in alignment with Bitcoin's ethos of Don't Trust, Verify. All religions should be discarded without proof of the claims that are made.

I'm open to counter arguments that you personally find compelling, my beliefs are ever evolving based on things I learn and to which I am exposed.

quoting
nevent1q…gjdy
Once you see atheism for what it is as a new retarded religion you can never unsee it.

If the red line happens this seems fine to me. Same growth, just ...

2025-07-25T16:53:55Z

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If the red line happens this seems fine to me. Same growth, just more stable.

This is good for the network.

Starting to think we won't have a breakout top bull run ...

2025-07-25T14:23:20Z

Starting to think we won't have a breakout top bull run followed by a correction bear market. We're 3 months over due for the start of one compared to 2017's cycle, and even more overdue compared to 2020/21's cycle.

Then again, the longer it takes to start the higher the top will be...

Only time will tell.

Either way I expect $250k+ by Q4 26.

Wow. Followed. 😁

2025-07-23T11:51:10Z

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Wow. Followed. 😁

Try using a different app? @npub12vk…pugg Shows it properly.

2024-12-10T14:55:21Z

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Try using a different app? primal (npub12vk…pugg) Shows it properly.