The Central Feature of all false, misleading Spiritual Philosophies: “If you don’t embrace, you are against.” This is unerring. Truth never demands commitment.

Bitcoin always exposes true incentives. Bitcoin always exposes the dumb money.

Bitcoin History: The Slaying of the Bear Whale (2014)

lol A Whale-Wall of shorts at $100K. Wall Street remains the dumb-money in Bitcoin. Asian markets will eat this up over the weekend. $110K coming in hot and fast…

Weekend pump to $100k territory incoming. I can feel it in my coins. 100k by Monday.

It’s like if Stephen Colbert was a conference with a magazine shop in it’s garage…

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Saturday night in the US, when fiat markets are closed. Bitcoin is surging more rn than during most of the year’s “phenomenal” ETF-accumulation hours. This is Nation-State adoption front-running. imo. And if so…it has barely begun. In that light I want to say that I appreciate all who read this, and hope you’re happy and grounded and warmly loved. I have a feeling things are going to move very, very quickly from here on out.

Good morning Nostr! Anyone on iPad know a Nostr app that seamlessly allows Zaps yet? I’ve been here for more than 2 years and still can’t Zap. I don’t want a multi-party workaround. I want a single client I can plug any lightning wallet into and zap away. Not to nag, just wondering if I’ve missed anything yet. Peace be with y’all!

When I was young I thought Life was a thing. And as I grew older the thing became complicated. So I concentrated, incorporated, coordinated, consolidated, orchestrated and Centralized. And as I grew older the thing became simplicated. Which isn’t a word in any dictionary or thesaurus. Things are funny that way. #Bitcoin

This is a pivotal story, imo, pre-dating Ross Ulbricht and the Samorai Wallet devs, about how the Deep State/US Gov’t has been targeting and building an “off the books” case against Bitcoin. This fascinating interview (skip about 20mins in to get to the meat) outlines the early steps in the (then) soft-war to build a straw-man legal basis for extra-legal activities. Arrest first, compile a case after. This first tactic was to freeze-out independent developers of the burgeoning Bitcoin ecosystem, and create a controlled firewall around it that only “officially approved” developers can interact with it. They didn’t recognize Bitcoin for the threat it was to them, now they’re treating Bitcoin like they treated every errant country in the World…the standard CIA playbook. The secondary tactic btw is “taxation”, esp unrealized gains taxes on Bitcoin. The goal now is to force all us Plebs who front-ran, to sell it to them for freely-printed Fiat paper money. They won’t come to our houses, they’ll send us a bill. And if you didn’t buy on exchange, you’ll be sent to IRS court for an interview. The Deep State doesn’t hate Bitcoin. They WANT the Bitcoin. Which means they have to get it from us. The War against Bitcoin has not even begun. They will turn us all into Saylors. This is the Tea Party the gun-toting Libertarians never had the huevos to take on. https://rumble.com/v5k0get-targeted-for-bitcoin-inside-ian-freemans-unjust-conviction-by-the-governmen.html?e9s=src_v1_mfp

Worth a read, imo: “Regardless of who wins the presidency, the result of the 2024 elections is likely to be the most pro-crypto Congress ever — and one that could deliver the industry’s long-held lobbying priority of removing regulatory roadblocks…. “When it comes to new players on the scene, there has not been something to just explode like this — to go from an industry that spent very little to being arguably the biggest spender of the election cycle,” said Jordan Libowitz, vice president for communications at the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, an ethics watchdog that tracks campaign finance issues.” https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/21/crypto-super-pac-spending-industry-friendly-lawmakers-00183754

As we come into elections in the US & elsewhere, a couple handy sites for determining politicians’ stances on #Bitcoin:

Stand With Crypto

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I have to say what’s fun and funny is watching Wall St simps learn that Bitcoin is actually super-fucking boring. I’ve straddle both “streets”, I’ve been there. I’m fully in the maxi camp trying to keep things interesting, and will continue to do so… …but the swirling drain of truly Sound Money will inevitably become very uninteresting to talk about for Men and Women who don’t have anything else going on in their lives. When productivity and resources become slowly cheaper and cheaper, what becomes valuable is human ingenuity, competence, and happiness.

Is it possible to send/accept Zaps using Nostr on iPad?

I’m so ready for the Fourth Turning. All I want now is Bitcoin surety and entertainment purity. So here’s what I’m listening to for the fourth time straight: https://fountain.fm/show/nLrxCQpB9gGN8QgjsRVx I don’t like candy, but I love these women!

Probably only for the O’Dell’s in the Nostr Nest, but worth noting:

cryptogon.com » Google Will Track Your Location ‘Every 15 Minutes’ — ‘Even With GPS Disabled’

12. Words. https://rumble.com/v5hwjyk-six-uzbek-women-arrested-for-smuggling-gold-up-there.html?e9s=src_v1_mfp

Well, there’s something you don’t see every day… https://rumble.com/v5gkyka-giant-poo-volcano-explodes-under-chinese-highway.html?e9s=src_v1_mfp

To think that all our lives have been dematerialized and re-envisioned within the digital realm within a mere few fucking years… …so seemingly seamlessly… …so objectively objectively… …so brutally gracefully… Yet we worry whether Bitcoin will god-candle?

“The Fourth Turning” outlines that the seeds of change are planted before the Turning, then are nurtured and grow because of the Turning, so they arise fully formed at the time when Society craves new leadership based on the authentic demands of the transformant, dawning era. Bitcoin is certainly this. But many seeds are planted so that whatever is needed will flourish.