GM @fiatjaf
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pietre@primal.net
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₿TC pleb, dad and tennis player 🎾
How many of you are you already living in a Bitcoin Standard? For me it has been almost 6 months. #asknostr
Every night, without fail, a single bottle appears in front of my house (more exactly, in one corner of the public garden). A humble offering from the city itself—worth exactly 8 cents, or in our preferred currency, around 80 satoshis.
To understand why this happens, you need to know about Germany’s Pfand system. Here, bottles and cans aren’t just trash; they’re money. When you buy a drink in a plastic or glass bottle, you pay a deposit—usually between 8 and 25 cents—on top of the price. Once you return the empty bottle to a supermarket, a machine scans it, recognizes it, and spits out a receipt you can redeem for cash. It’s an efficient recycling system, but it also means that lost or abandoned bottles are like tiny coins scattered across the streets, waiting to be picked up.
And so, every morning, I wake up to find my own little deposit refund sitting outside. I don’t know who leaves it there or why. Maybe someone always finishes their drink on the way home and forgets to take the bottle with them. Maybe it's a secret benefactor, unknowingly sending me a daily micro-payment.
8 cents might not seem like much, but in the world of Bitcoin, that’s 80 satoshis—a few drops of digital gold. Every day, without lifting a finger, I receive a tiny stream of sats, courtesy of the Pfand system. Free sats, gifted by the habits of an unknown passerby and the German obsession with recycling.
At this rate, I’m stacking 2,400 sats a month. Not enough to retire, but in Bitcoin terms, every sat counts. And who knows? Maybe one day, that bottle will be worth a whole lot more.
Anyway, GM.


Is @Club Orange worth it? #asknostr
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