Bootstrapping Vicious Circle 💀 No one offers products/services for sats → because no one accepts sats for products/services → because no one offers products/services for sats. The goal is to break it. Start offering your products or services for sats even if: • there seems to be no market yet • it costs you something • it feels inconvenient right now Play the long game. Bitcoin is here to stay. Those who build the Bitcoin economy early will be rewarded later. ⚡

⚡ To all Bitcoin book authors Too many of your books are only available for fiat on Amazon. This is disappointing. You expect people to adopt Bitcoin, yet you don’t make it easy for them to pay you directly in sats. Keep Amazon for no-coiners. That’s fine. But why not offer both? Your Bitcoin readers want to pay you in sats without feeding the big tech behemoths. Make it possible. Practice what you preach. ⚠️ Please SHARE this post with a Bitcoin book author if you happen to know one.

Bottom of the bear and Warsaw still walking. Great talk as always. @BitcoinWalk #proofofwalk

Writing is a form of thinking. If you want to learn to write, start by learning to think with a pen in your hand.

The Network Theory of Ethics Here is the thesis I’ve been working on for some time. It deserves a treatise, and I am currently working on one. Still, I am posting it here on NOSTR because I know many of you will challenge it. And that is exactly what I need. I’ve dubbed it "The Network Theory of Ethics". It claims the following: 1. Morality can be derived from physics. 2. More specifically, it is an emergent property of the social network structures that exist within a reality governed by the laws of thermodynamics. 3. Moral values arise when individuals (nodes within a social network) create and maintain the social fabric in a reality in which energy dissipates and in which the expenditure of energy is required to temporarily reduce entropy within the network. More to come. Please share this with anyone you think may contribute to the discussion.

Our CWO is on leave, but the show must go on… @BitcoinWalk Warsaw keeps walking #proofofwalk

Everything is happening on its own, including your perception of you. #meditaton

@Umbrel ☂️ LND Recovery from Backup (exact UI flow) I’ve analysed the LND recovery process on Umbrel step by step, based on the Lightning seed + Static Channel Backup (SCB) recovery model used by Umbrel. I’m attaching notes covering the two main scenarios: 1. recovery on an existing Umbrel install, and 2. recovery after a full reinstall or sudden, unplanned hardware retirement. If your Umbrel decides to stop cooperating one day, this is exactly what will happen during recovery — including the intentionally force‑closed channels and the wait for funds to reappear on‑chain after timelocks. Knowing this in advance should make it much easier to prepare properly and spare some unnecessary stress. View article →

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First media reaction... #BitcoinStandardPL #BitcoinWSejmie

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Standard Bitcoina w polskim Parlamencie. Polscy posłowie dostali książkę o BTC

Społeczność Bitcoin wysyła "Standard Bitcoina" do każdego posła i senatora. Oddolna kampania edukacyjna przed kluczowymi regulacjami. - Aktua...

Bitcoin Standard for the President of Poland 🇵🇱 As a follow‑up to the "Bitcoin Standard in the Polish Parliament" project, Polish Bitcoin community @Dwadzieścia Jeden has sent an open letter — and a copy of The Bitcoin Standard by @Saifedean Ammous — straight to the President of Poland. 📎 Open letter attached (EN translation included). More signal coming. Stay tuned. 🔥 #BitcoinStandardPL #BitcoinWSejmie

Warsaw @BitcoinWalk 10.01.2025 Proof‑of‑Walk 🫡 –10°C in beautiful Warsaw. Cold air, warm company, and even warmer Bitcoin conversations.

GRAND FINALE! The Bitcoin Standard Arrives at the Polish Parliament 🫡 560 copies of The Bitcoin Standard were delivered today to the Sejm and Senate, together with an open letter from the Bitcoin community. On behalf of the OC, huge thanks to the Polish and global Bitcoin community for making this happen 🧡 Shout‑out to Freedom Publishing for helping us scale this with a solid discount, and massive respect to @Saifedean Ammous for writing a book that has orange‑pilled millions. This isn’t the end. More coming. Stay tuned. 🚀 #BitcoinStandardPL #BitcoinWSejmie

UPDATE: Bitcoin Standard in Polish Parliament 🇵🇱 560 copies of #TheBitcoinStandard by @saifedean — packed and ready to ship! 📦📚 They’re heading to every MP in the Polish Parliament next week when the new session begins. Each book includes an open letter from the Twenty-One Community highlighting Bitcoin as the first inflation-resistant, censorship-resistant monetary network of the digital age, outlining Poland’s growing Bitcoin ecosystem, and calling for thoughtful regulation. (Polish original and English translation of the open letter attached.) #BitcoinStandardPL #BitcoinWSejmie

UPDATE: Bitcoin Standard in Parliament Remember? We’re bringing Bitcoin education to Polish lawmakers! Each of the 625 copies of “The Bitcoin Standard” by Dr. Saifedean Ammous will carry a unique seal of the Polish Bitcoin community (Dwadzieścia Jeden) and the note: “This copy has been purchased with bitcoin.” Who knows – these might become collector’s items someday. 😉 Tomorrow: printing, stamping, labeling, packing. Next week: delivery to the Polish Parliament. Stay tuned – big steps ahead for Bitcoin education in Poland! #BitcoinStandardPL #BitcoinWSejmie

I played around with @profilestr. It allows you to: • Browse profile information, including stats like the number and amounts of zaps received and sent, • Recover followed profiles (requires signing an event – on mobile, you can do this via the @Keychat browser if you’re already using it), • Find out how many reactions, reposts, and replies you’ve received. Each profile also gets a ranking based on data from several sources. Nice 👍

Profilestr - Discover Nostr User Profiles

Explore and discover Nostr user profiles on Profilestr. Find influential creators, developers, and community members in the decentralized social ne...

Cultivate a bias toward heresies, but never forget about evidence and falsifiability.

Desire is a misery factory. Clinging to money, status, power, pleasure, possessions. Learning to let go of it is the deepest act of self-compassion. It’s how true peace emerges. #meditation

Hey Nostriches, We’re almost there! 🔥 Our mission to fund 560 copies of The Bitcoin Standard—one for every Polish MP—is nearly complete. We’re just a couple hundred thousand sats away from the finish line. # Why now? Right now, Poland is in the middle of a heated debate about a new law on “cryptoassets.” Most of the political class is still clueless about Bitcoin. That’s where we step in—with education, not speculation. # Here’s the plan: ✅ Books funded by the Bitcoin community via Geyser ✅ Purchased directly with bitcoin (no selling bitcoin to make the purchase) ✅ Each copy will include an open letter stressing the importance of understanding Bitcoin ✅ We’ll promote the project in Polish media to spark a public discussion about Bitcoin 📌 Project details:

Bitcoin Crowdfunding for New Ideas and Humanitarian Causes | Geyser

Geyser helps people launch new Bitcoin project ideas and fund humanitarian causes worldwide, accelerating adoption through transparent crowdfunding.

🫵 Ways to contribute: ➡️ Zap the project’s nostr profile: @npub1jmfc...8t5a ➡️ Send sats anonymously to LN address: bitcoinparliamentpl@geyser.fund (Note: Geyser requires a minimum of 1,000 sats per contribution.) 💡 Let’s help educate Poland’s lawmakers about Bitcoin. Every sat counts! #BitcoinStandardPL #BitcoinWSejmie

The ego is a stubborn illusion that can relentlessly defend itself and even fight back. #meditation