Impromptu push up contest with the @BTC Prague Honey Badger at the nostr booth, the most happening spot at the conference 🔥 @paul keating @npub1zach...5dy5

I guess were doing this again at @BTC Prague

Great meeting @George Manolov at the @Botev Plovdiv FC booth at @BTC Prague Wen live Botev games on zap.stream? 👀

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It’s @BTC Prague time

Dobré ráno, Praha!

Programming update for today’s show: @Alekandar Svetski is sadly ill and instead, @npub1wyr6...zxsh will be represented by @Robert Allen Looking forward to the show! View quoted note →

The Last Time I Counted Sheep tl;dr: counting sheep leads to ego death “To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: … For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?” The first sheep jumped over the fence. Then a second. Mid-jump, the third one sprouted angel wings and hovered ponderously on the other side of the fence. There was now an icy still lake on the other side of the fence. The winged sheep was gliding gently above its surface. A few more sheep sprouted wings and followed the first winged one in gliding across the now frozen lake. Soon, all sheep were on the other side of the fence, dancing in synchronized unison, like levitating ice ballerinas. Tchaikovsky’s ‘Valse in A-Flat Major’ from Swan Lake played in the background. The perspective shifted to a bird’s eye view of the lake. The sheep were rotating in concentric circles. Clockwise in the first one, counterclockwise in the next, clockwise in the one after that, and so on. The view shifted further out, until the sheep became little dots. Further out, the dots connected and became full circles, rotating now at high speed. The pure white color of the circles flickered and changed gently into purple. Swan Lake gave way to Radiohead’s “rain down … from a great height”. The spaces between the purple circles turned black. The circles merged and flickers of yellow and orange emerged through the purple. It was now a large, furious, orange orb. The music stopped. The orb throbbed, arrhythmically, to the heartbeat of the timechain. At first terror, then giving way to a disquieting peace. A soft whisper, mostly unspoken, dissolved the deafening silence: You are nothing. You are no one. You are everything. You are everyone.

Join @QW and me for episode 64 of @Plebchain Radio this Friday, June 7th at 5:30pm ET (UTC -4) Our guest this week is @Alekandar Svetski, who joins us to talk about the upcoming reveal of his new nostr client, @npub1wyr6...zxsh and what else to look forward to at @BTC Prague You don’t want to miss this one. Set your blockclocks!

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An incredible day of nostr content right here at DevHackDay on June 12th in Prague 🔥🔥 And as luck would have it, code NOSTR gets you 10% off tickets! View quoted note →

Second Nostr Village panel now cooking at @PUBKEY Value for Value and Community: @The Daniel 🖖 @Derek Ross @Erik @boston wine

Tag #24 secured at Nostr Village 👀

🔥 first panel at Nostr Village @PUBKEY Design and Code: @Lebanese Hodl @Terry Yiu @JeffG @npub1zach...5dy5

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Genuinely enjoyed this conversation with @npub1fdye...4tdv in which we spent most of the second half picking apart a lion meme on nostr 👀

The first *long* review of my book, 24 from a non-bitcoiner 🥹 In my opinion, this book is our “Matrix” for the 2020’s era. I could easily see it becoming a movie for the current generation. In the original movie the matrix was a 3-D world created by a computer program, in this book the Matrix is the financial system we are all used to, based on nothing and beneficial mainly to those at the top of the money food chain. The book opens as Oliver Battolo, a 23 year old with a Masters Degree in Computer Science living in New York City, is experiencing a frightening dream. In the dream he is surrounded by blackness. A distant voice in German states “And now you are almost ready to understand the true meaning.” But Oliver does not understand German. Again, the voice he now recognizes as a woman friend of his late father, urges “Your time has come.” But Oliver does not understand and cries out for help. The dream fades. And so begins the story of 24. We next see Oliver at a memorial service for his father who was lost at sea under mysterious circumstances just three weeks prior. Oliver is in shock, so much so that he is not even able to speak at the service and for all intents and purposes he appears to be drowning in his own sea of grief. Interestingly, the book is divided into five sections: Disbelief, Entropy, Anger, Uncertainty and Acceptance, closely matching the now familiar 5 stages of grief outlined by Elizabeth Kubler Ross: Denial, Bargaining, Anger, Depression and Acceptance. After the memorial service the woman, whose voice he heard in the dream, comes up to him and tells him that he much visit her so that she can tell him something her father wants him to know. He does and learns that his father wanted him to learn from her a mystical technique for “time projection” that he himself had practiced. After initially rejecting the idea he eventually agrees and the next day in a session with the woman he sees a room with a television displaying a video of his father. In the video his father tells him that there “are twenty four words he needs to find.” How do I find them? asks Oliver. “This is how. Doing just what you’re doing right now. One word at a time.” And so begins Oliver’s quest for the 24 words. There are 24 chapters in the book, the title of each chapter is the word that is found and I found it kind of fun to see how the author would work each word into the chapter. Eventually we find that the 24 words are the codewords needed to open a fortune in BitCoin and although I had of course heard of Bitcoin, I knew absolutely nothing about it or that there was any kind of a philosophy associated with it. Each of the code words must come from a library of accepted codewords, 2048 in total, that were approved in the year 2013. It was interesting learning about some of the history of Bitcoin and I even found myself doing so of my own research into the subject out of curiosity. One tidbit that I uncovered is that the main developer of Bitcoin, Santoshi Nakamoto, may for may not actually exist. He, or someone claiming to be him, created and deployed the original reference implementation and developed the first Blockchain database, then disappeared off the face of the earth. If you look him up in Wikipedia you can learn about all the people that are thought to be him. But 24 is not just a book about money. Along the way we learn about Oliver’s father’s early days in India where he was a genius computer programmer and how he came to America. We get to see Oliver grow as a person, find love, become an art thief (for good reason) and learn some of the secrets of the Universe. There is a character named The Nose Smiter that keeps showing up during Oliver’s Time Projection experiences to offer advice and keep him of the path. Like his own personal Yoda, he teaches Oliver that “when he jumps a net will appear,” that life is “happening FOR him, not TO him” and that he is a “creator within his own creation.” All in all, I found 24 to be a very enjoyable book and full of interesting information. When I decided that I was going to write a review of the book I realized that to do it justice I would need to re-read it and take some notes so that I could keep my facts straight. I ended up with over 30 pages of handwritten notes! I’m so glad I read the book a second time because I think a lot of stuff went right over my head on the first time through.

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