nycatx
Nym States

If you live in a large city, this becomes something glaringly obvious, yet no one ever talks about it. We are mimetic creatures, but you have to fight that instinct to find authentic uniqueness (source of the trend)
#nevent1q…kykj

2026-10-10 14:48:05 UTC

Why are they called “casualties” of war?
Because the humans who perpetuate war casually don’t give a fuck about victims of their actions

2026-10-09 16:22:43 UTC

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This isn’t unpopular. It is just an honest observation

2026-10-09 14:48:56 UTC

The irony of a society filled with people who are seeking individuality & uniqueness by conforming to traditions & societal norms

2026-10-08 15:16:26 UTC

A million suns won’t fill you up if you can’t see the wine flowing over your cup

2026-10-07 19:19:36 UTC

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Interesting.
Impossible to define would mean that humans do not have any construct for understanding. Greater good, in this scenario is an effect/result. Quite a defined result. Greater, meaning more than n=1. Good, meaning positive impact. Greater good, meaning positive impact for more than 1. You claiming, "the reason I keep those words in quotes is because they are impossible to define", is your personal opinion or could represent an unwillingness to define the phrase to justify your original stance.
>therefore ripe for abuse by so called altruistic actors
Why is altruism looked at as a pejorative here? Altruism really just means taking an action without thinking of how you'd individually gain something from the action. Actions can be benign. Actions can be benevolent & lead to the individual gaining nothing. Actions can be benevolent AND also lead to the individual gaining something in the end. Taking this last scenario & using that end result as plausible deniability to shoehorn speculated motive is how society wants you to see altruism. Correlation is not causation. Not every interaction between humans needs to be transactional & zero sum
Appeal to the societal norms or authorities at your own peril.
I appreciate your discourse Source. Would love to talk in person about some of this some day...

2026-10-06 16:29:15 UTC

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I’m confused how you conclude that self interest can align with “greater good”. Self interest as a motive, definitionally is the opposite of the greater good

2026-10-06 14:39:47 UTC

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I understand you are trying to address a particular deplorable act, but I will say more generally, yet concisely:
All human suffering is perpetrated by other humans who don’t respect the fact that:
possibility of an action =/= obligation to carry out said action

2026-10-06 14:29:03 UTC

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I’m assuming you meant ‘self interest and “greater good” can’t* align’. And if this is the case, I’d say this is another case of boiling decision making into a false dichotomy
Is it not altruism for bitcoin core (or any other implementation) maintainers to sacrifice higher salaries to work on bitcoin? Who are they virtue signaling to? For example, the whole time where knots proponents were saying “core maintainers don’t even hold/own bitcoin”, it showed me that many can’t fathom that a person could bring themselves to work on something because it truly interests them (rather than enriches them). Maintainers care about the longevity of the network health with the goal to have bitcoin recognized as the best human construct we can use as immutable information (aka hard money standard)
Austrian economics is nice to understand, but it was also established over 100 years ago & relies on a specific set of assumptions that no longer apply today given our globalized reliance on other humans that don’t “align” ideologically

2026-10-05 19:47:55 UTC

You can tell the integrity of someone in the bitcoin ecosystem by listening to how they talk about bitcoin:
Those who primarily talk about the price or maximum stacking of sats are selfish & generally lack integrity. Why? Because they only care about a comfortable future for them & their families (Primary driver is comfort [financial] )
Those who primarily talk about the network are altruistic & generally have strong integrity. Why? Because they personally sacrifice to bring a better freedom of information medium that cannot be compromised (Primary driver is agency [freedom] )

2026-10-03 14:46:57 UTC

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The most entertaining/ironic outcome is the most likely

2026-10-03 14:45:25 UTC

The things that give us hope can also take it away

2026-10-02 14:58:07 UTC

If every inter-personal relationship experience you encounter is treated as a transaction, you will never understand the meaning of life

2026-10-02 14:46:32 UTC

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GM! Love this folk-scape. A world within a world 🤙🏼

2026-10-01 14:22:39 UTC

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If anyone knows who maintains the Aaronsw (dot) com domain, please let me know so I can send them bitcoin to keep the site alive & public facing
Maybe @nprofile…nj96 or @nprofile…zsjp know?
#asknostr #aaronsw
#nevent1q…4drg

2026-10-01 14:19:36 UTC

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I didn’t know about the print version, thank you for letting me know! I’m going to pick up a copy.
I still want to see if anyone on NOSTR knows who maintains the domain, so I can donate to keep it running/public. I periodically send friends & family specific blog posts, which I can stick the waybackmachine url in front of, but would rather just have the official domain to send them to

2026-09-30 18:46:00 UTC

Anyone else see that Aaron Swartz's blog domain seems to have expired? [aaronsw(dot)com]
I loved revisiting his writings & now fear they are gone from public viewing forever....
#asknostr

2026-09-30 18:24:30 UTC

Let's all go play Nagasaki, what a lovely way to die
The final show; where we all go, so no one has to say goodbye

2026-09-29 19:38:34 UTC

Most of the world's suffering initiates from other humans ignoring the phrase "Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should"

2026-09-29 15:32:29 UTC

Unpopular opinion: “get married & have kids” is not the great universal advice most parents think it is

2026-09-28 15:13:29 UTC

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This.
Ideas are just a sequence of words (human concepts & iterations). It is absurd for someone to claim they own a sequence of words just as it would be absurd for someone to claim they own the days of the week.
This absurdity is rooted in tribalism/ego & is straight up selfish. I’d argue that humans would flourish beyond our wildest imaginations if we shared EVERY idea as open source, since everyone benefits at the same rate with efficiencies gained from good ideas (and conversely, everyone learns the same lessons from bad ideas)
#nevent1q…r3v4

2026-09-25 15:45:07 UTC

The joys of life reside toward the fulcrum of the sane/delusional see-saw 〰️ 〰️ 〰️

2026-09-24 17:59:25 UTC

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Could be true; but many people never lived in the great empire so they don’t know what that feels like living in one, only what they think it SHOULD feel like

2026-09-24 16:32:49 UTC

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I used to scan physical stock certificates for a large custodian over a decade ago. This is simply another administrative (paper pushing) task invented by financial institutions to pretend that that stock market isn’t legalized gambling

2026-09-24 16:27:46 UTC

Most people are depressed these days because they outsourced their thinking and take advice from strangers on the internet.
Conversely, the happiest individuals are extremely present in their physical environment and do things for experiences rather than rely on someone else’s advice

2026-09-22 15:17:27 UTC

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I’d argue adults take everything too seriously, and thus are constantly looking to return to their youth because they know child’s play is the default “IDGAF”

2026-09-21 14:20:41 UTC

🎵 Sonny - New Found Glory
RIP Chad. Your music will always be part of my youth 🙏
Life is good, but it’s also fragile.. hug your loved ones folks 🫂

2026-09-19 17:41:54 UTC

They told me “you can just do things”, so I put my phone on ‘Do Not Disturb’ indefinitely
It’s wonderful

2026-09-17 15:16:45 UTC

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Same 🫂

2026-09-17 15:01:03 UTC

You’re either born into money or you’re born into reality

2026-09-16 15:05:15 UTC

Coffee shop I frequent increased their prices AGAIN..no less people in line. I seem to be the only person so far to notice or mention it, per the barista.
Is “discretionary spending” even a thing anymore? I speculate the answer is ‘No’

2026-09-16 14:53:10 UTC

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I appreciate it! I have enough sats, so I urge you to send that V4V to other posts that deserve it. A like is more than enough when I share my life here 🫂

2026-09-14 16:26:32 UTC

Red Snapper Tostada // Cevicheria Nais \\ Tijuana, MX
This restaurant serves 100s of thousands of these tostadas per year across their locations in Mexico. Insanely fresh, great tasting & costs ~5k sats each
https://blossom.primal.net/f1eb1a6f470a655c5bda6df3e04eb1fe46bf05095b9b45e399e487139699ce3d.jpg

2026-09-11 15:32:41 UTC

The irony of saying “Happy Friday” to the barista on the 25th anniversary of 9/11

2026-09-10 15:13:32 UTC

Beware of people who have opinions on every nuanced topic. A wise person knows when to stay silent, especially when they are out of their depth of knowledge about a given topic.
Conversely, beware of “experts” also. Their ego feeds on “correcting the record”, since in their mind they are the authority on the given topic.

2026-08-07 01:00:46 UTC

Born too late to have paper money backed by a hard asset like gold.
Born too early to have resource abundance render money obsolete.
Born just in time to lose your bitcoin because of low entropy Coldcard bug.

2026-07-27 00:33:29 UTC

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The crash outs will continue until difficulty adjusts

2026-07-24 20:57:43 UTC

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Aaaah, so that’s how they’re funding that high speed rail in California….through sushi royalties

2026-07-24 15:59:39 UTC

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Of course they support the bill that normalizes a pseudo-CBDC. They probably also support the erosion of our 4th amendment rights by installing Flock/Axom surveillance everywhere…sigh

2026-07-15 20:39:26 UTC

We’re constantly at the mercy of Mother Nature
[many times she shares her beauty with us, even though we constantly abuse her]
https://blossom.primal.net/b753ae6aecf860e9a7ca65c0c12cde3209a914023722b36cd2d80efe6f691912.jpg

2026-07-15 12:26:01 UTC

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Sending condolences & love brother 🙏 🌺 🫂

2026-07-09 17:48:35 UTC

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🙏

2026-07-09 15:35:11 UTC

Got an extra latte today because my friend was taking photos for the shop’s new menu. Thursday starting off on a good note

2026-07-05 13:52:42 UTC

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The GFC & the pandemic were an attempt to change the human connectivity and drive individuals to individualism. A docile population is a population that won't revolt

2026-07-05 13:49:57 UTC

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Ah Justin Bechler...the poster boy for useful idiocy
>Be Justin Bechler
>Sensationally criticize everyone actually doing work to progress bitcoin forward, when you yourself have no technical knowledge of how the protocol works
>Become loudspeaker for a moral crusade centered around bitcoin being money, creating the fallacy that spam must & will be defeated with a BIP you don't fully understand
>Block everyone who disagrees with you (and apparently also block people you've never engaged with ever) along the way & attack people with wildly speculative theories concocted by "Bitcoin University" professor Matthew Kratter ( who is completely unbiased /s )
>Go on a podcast called "What is Money" to shill your arguments about a widely overblown, nonsensical "war" over bitcoin's future as money
>When asked on said podcast "What is Money?", respond with "I am unprepared to answer that"
>Return to your echo chamber with smugness & great sense of ::insert im_doing_my_part.gif::
Sincerely,
A fellow blocked individual

2026-07-04 15:44:49 UTC

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness”
- Declaration of Independence
When said government uses safety as a means to rob you of happiness, it is imperative to resist that government in all aspects to defend your unalienable rights. After 250 years, we must ask ourselves if we still retain Life [Right to coexist with your neighbors], Liberty [Right to express your God given agency] & any shred of the pursuit of Happiness [Right to seek purpose & meaning in living] given what the US government has morphed into…
I’m sure as hell establishing a death grip on mine, so thank you NOSTR, thank you NOSTR users, thank you bitcoin & long live open source protocols 🙏

2026-07-03 18:55:11 UTC

Screening for “To Be Seen”, a documentary by David Liu about Austin restaurants & their battle to make it through COVID-19
Check it out & more privately funded cinema at www.narriforge.com
https://blossom.primal.net/d5dce7c6a3976b9cc34fb492fe8f8161c88f59a40f061fa84afae989b80bc310.jpg

2026-06-27 23:59:43 UTC

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Thank you for the beautiful film! Can’t wait to get others involved & spread this movement like wildfire

2026-06-27 15:27:10 UTC

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I’m excited to be a part of this movement. You cannot fix a broken system from within that broken system. Thus, we must route around that system & blaze a new path forward. Will you join us?
#nevent1q…0lsl

2026-06-26 15:18:21 UTC

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Please help those affected in Venezuela with what you can. This is the power of the NOSTR network in action 🙏
#nevent1q…xjra

2026-06-20 15:02:24 UTC

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Ask him if he can receive money from a stranger halfway around the world (Austin, Texas)..
Keep up the good work my friend!

2026-06-20 03:22:16 UTC

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😂

2026-06-20 03:21:47 UTC

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😂

2026-06-19 16:23:13 UTC

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I use bitcoin as a medium of exchange when I can. The owner of this company wants the bitcoin it’s just more efficient

2026-06-19 15:49:40 UTC

21,000 sats well spent
Austin TX, go refresh yourselves at Wonky Blends (Bitcoin Accepted). The perfect cure for this humidity 🥶
https://blossom.primal.net/df93cfd7968db377a928ba057554bcae6048aa87d356690fb4b398ce5e72b31e.jpg

2026-06-18 00:49:07 UTC

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Praying for you and your family Gigi…stay strong & keep your faith 🫂 🙏

2026-06-16 19:54:15 UTC

I just finished "The Square and The Tower" by Niall Ferguson. It is a great book, thanks for the recommendation @nprofile…hs8c !
I think many bitcoiners (and even just NOSTR proponents) would do themselves a great justice reading this book. It proves, through history, the importance of organized networks of individuals to combat the insatiable control of tyrannical government structures. If bitcoin (and NOSTR) are to be successful movements for human freedom, we must not focus on our differences, but rather coalesce around the common goal. Onward! https://blossom.primal.net/6567e2169e3ae8514f54cb1734cc18dcf311adc3e5103f341b8f78576cfd3b96.jpg

2026-06-16 16:48:36 UTC

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I'd say this is a financial barometer for how broken the money system is. 'Investing' has become so disconnected from fundamental reality that IPO lottery tickets are sold like a hunt for "golden tickets" to Willy Wonka's Factory

2026-06-14 00:11:07 UTC

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Gardening is the OG “just build things”

2026-06-13 18:28:24 UTC

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Prioritizing self interest over humility

2026-06-13 18:22:14 UTC

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Are you willing to break that streak & part with .01 BTC to be part of the "fuck Hollywood" movement? It's the most effective way to increase the value of BTC going forward. It's a shame too many wont realize it

2026-06-13 02:05:55 UTC

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My algo is all the europeans experiencing America for the World Cup & it's awesome, but I agree the KA/AM stuff sucks

2026-06-12 16:34:03 UTC

The SpaceX IPO today is living proof that people can no longer look at anything fundamentally. They are forced to ride hype waves/trends in order to fulfill their own self interest. The Library of Babel incarnate rears its ugly head

2026-06-11 20:45:40 UTC

Trump's 'negotiations' with Iran is the Byzantine General's Problem playing out in real time. It moves the markets wildly, and we all know who makes the most money during volatile markets...
[*Hint* - It's the hedge funds]

2026-06-10 15:55:10 UTC

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"Because we are bypassing traditional corporate platforms, the global premiere on June 27th is a completely sovereign, Bitcoin-only paid screening. It’s an intentional space for those ready to actively support independent truth."
Will You Support Independent Truth? Join us!
thesixbilliondollarman.com
#nevent1q…rwtm

2026-06-10 15:49:49 UTC

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Sick K9 Flip

2026-06-10 02:14:39 UTC

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Very true

2026-06-09 18:05:23 UTC

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Travel doesn’t require you to physically go somewhere. True artists transport you there with their amazing skills…
#nevent1q…w53e

2026-06-08 20:49:27 UTC

Do you miss the blend of color she left in your black and white field? Do you feel condemned, just being there?
https://blossom.primal.net/6c00eaf48e7baf834b5254573ba2bccb37efd24fc6149d4a566872f2f3d2dd40.jpg

2026-06-02 22:24:06 UTC

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I read on top of a mountain & then talked with a good friend on the phone until my phone signal cut out
https://blossom.primal.net/36961f3a072b78199ec3a1d7ece12b0fee4c367a9cc1e3a2d092ed99174c3cc0.jpg

2026-06-01 11:29:54 UTC

Seems like the tribalism is alive and well on NOSTR

2026-05-21 22:47:35 UTC

We’re so small
https://blossom.primal.net/85358850e4d66900fd941bb637ad760c79f709cea3bce933a4da2960147a2f7d.jpg

2026-05-19 14:44:42 UTC

Driver’s seats & overlooks are in my near future

2026-05-19 14:40:30 UTC

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If “trust the experts” were a suitor
Sorry for your loss 🙏

2026-05-18 18:56:27 UTC

Make road trips great again..
US Government & Airline Industry: "OK"

2026-05-16 18:57:39 UTC

...it's just another Saturday
#DXVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImIpGwdvuqs&list=RDImIpGwdvuqs&start_radio=1

2026-05-15 18:55:49 UTC

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Nas was an early investor in Coinbase (and yeah, I know they shitcoin heavily, but he’s still a visionary on bitcoin)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/invested-1000-bitcoin-rap-legend-213042131.html
https://blossom.primal.net/0224fe0d9d3c923c08993a4ab679a40ad27a2436c055b655c82df569ae20c54a.jpg

2026-05-15 16:01:36 UTC

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Drake isn’t a BTC big timer, he’s a small timer. Nas is the OG BTC big timer

2026-05-14 14:46:32 UTC

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Eliza, the Phoenix
..has a nice ring to it.

2026-05-13 14:09:07 UTC

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People conveniently forget that Jack is not the reason for censorship on Twitter. He legitimately went on JRE and told Rogan he’d love to have another convo with Vijaya Gadde (then-head of legal, policy, and trust and safety at Twitter) present. Rogan made this happen & the episode was (more or less) a debate between Tim Pool and Gadde.
People like to drag Jack because he was CEO at the time of said censorship. Truth is, he was busy building Sqaure/Block. He was also trying to build a new social media network. Realizing the mistakes he made with Twitter, he created bluesky and ultimately ended up supporting fiatjaf with NOSTR.
In fact, time and resources are limited. Jack was extremely happy Elon took Twitter off his mind/hands.
Fun fact: Jack is the only person in history who simultaneously served as CEO of two S&P 500 companies. (Let’s ask ourselves why he wanted out of Twitter in late 2021)

2026-05-13 13:01:49 UTC

I finally got around to downloading @nprofile…zjpe to redeem some ecash @nprofile…ls58 gave me at beefsteak in Vegas. Very intuitive and feature rich. Great work brother!

2026-05-13 12:58:23 UTC

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I'm sorry you thought "almost perfect money" could be established in under 20 years.
Bitcoin is software; a messaging network. Networks evolve and need time to grow. Your fear of mortality won't change this. Your fear of not being able to control how others use a network won't change this. It does no good blaming others for the fact that you've made the grave mistake of basing your identity/existence on an emergent form of money
#nevent1q…yw5r

2026-05-11 15:00:17 UTC

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Beautiful words about an ugly truth 🙏
Thank you @npub1csa…z4x9
#nevent1q…5sqd

2026-05-10 19:20:22 UTC

A Day To Remember - Flowers
..a great Mother's Day song

2026-05-10 00:27:20 UTC

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You met me at a very ‘flow state’ time of my life

2026-05-08 15:57:42 UTC

GM Austin! Get your day/weekend started with a delicious smoothie or açaí bowl from Wonky Blends. Paid for in bitcoin!
This is the May special —“Strawberry Siren”
https://blossom.primal.net/5d4a084b1f43d21c9ae66908f189c40e561e4ccaf7f7076e54a0edc94c71e100.jpg

2026-05-05 21:36:18 UTC

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You just gave them further reach. I’d say their marketing team is doing just fine

2026-05-05 15:10:44 UTC

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GM from the great outdoors! #teastr #hojicha
https://blossom.primal.net/baac11c2f9c1ca10a457956a4ddb0b092c4353ba181954e67f35c898bd181294.jpg

2026-05-05 15:08:01 UTC

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Congrats to Trey! That’s awesome
It’s also funny to me that the state known for hold ‘em is OK hosting this event when they can take their share, all the while actively attacking card rooms locally operating according to the law

2026-05-04 13:53:13 UTC

Apple juice + hojicha matcha diet. Don’t sleep on it

2026-05-02 01:34:14 UTC

I still think about the fact that 6 months ago, the Northern Lights were visible all the way as far south as Texas/Florida. I think about this A LOT!

2026-05-01 21:08:49 UTC

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That's fair. At the end of the day, all companies who interface with legacy finance world are just tools for bitcoiners to build & grow their "true" bitcoin companies.
I view companies like CashApp & Square as the reeaaalllll long trojan horse. Truly necessary in the grand scheme of hyper-bitcoinization. Without Block Inc. & its subsidiaries, Chester has to use other financial rails closer to the money printer than Jack & Co.
Appreciate your perspective on the situation tho. We need to keep these companies honest

2026-05-01 21:01:35 UTC

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I hope you didn't close you cashapp account in haste. Normally there is some nuance to this & also I've seen that the account for Chester has already been reinstated.
If you think about it logically, Block started using AI to reduce human capital expenditure. This looks like automated process that obviously makes mistakes. It just took Chester using the bitcoin community to get a human to override the mistake. Bitcoiners have this wild tendency to grant no grace/leeway to bitcoin companies. I get it, but it sure as heck makes the whole industry look bad in the end

2026-05-01 15:41:51 UTC

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Mini conFEWcius

2026-04-30 21:55:14 UTC

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@nprofile…zkaf I was hoping to run into you in Vegas this week, but the universe had different plans. I am curious to know if you saw my post below? Any thoughts?
#nevent1q…jlm2

2026-04-30 20:24:36 UTC

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If that’s what you took from my response, wonderful

2026-04-30 20:02:20 UTC

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My words: We are constantly at the mercy of Mother Nature around us
Ultimately, you can be unconcerned. That’s fine. But, when you are returned to the earth, Mother Nature won’t have given a shit if “deeznuts” was concerned about anything at all

2026-04-30 15:51:50 UTC

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I like my Hershel ‘little America’ dual strap. It’s got a padded pocket for your laptop. It does age/wear pretty easily but after 12 years, it’s still holding up well after daily use in various conditions.
If I didn’t have this one, I’d probably look at the @nprofile…8pzt faraday backpacks. I have their duffle and it’s great

2026-04-25 16:41:58 UTC

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This is exactly what @nprofile…zu5d was trying to convey at bitcoin2025. Such a powerful message