It is curious to me that so many of those apoplectic about the supposed "grooming gangs" in the UK, are also staunch defenders of Israel, a state that explicitly advocates for the rape of Palestinian hostages.

Israeli lawmaker defends alleged rape of Hamas prisoner as far-right protesters rage over IDF troops

Far-right Israelis try to storm military base and lawmaker defends rape of Hamas suspects as 9 IDF reservists face questioning over alleged prisone...

The NZD is like one of those shitcoins that doesn't even make the first page of Coinmarketcap.

For some reason YT decided to feed this up to me today 😂 Mike is one of those guys who is ideologically such a Statist that bitcoin's success is both a repudiation of everything he believes, and deeply threatening to the "reasonable, centrist, adult-in-the-room" soft authoritarianism he yearns to see enacted across the world. Mike is the man for whom the "Have Fun Staying Poor" meme was invented. He is poor in the sense that really matters: intellectually bereft and morally bankrupt... And I can only hope bitcoin's continued rise will make him reputationally destitute as well. @npub1d3f4...r4xv

Just having fun playing with my bitcoin

It's generally not my kind of art, but I swear all I want for Christmas is a @M A D E X painting of some babe and a machine gun.

I can imagine how many eth folks are looking at this lovely little series of higher lows and higher highs and embodying that dude with the butterfly meme. If it rolls over, max pain.

You can't convince me this is healthy

Am I the only one feeling a bit depressed by the resurgence in shitcoins?

Great, non-technical overview of the Ark protocol by @npub1jusf...hr2e:

For those looking for the best independent reporting and commentary on the US security state and Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, I highly recommend The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/live/PgDHJyaSCjY?si=faZcB8M5lyAxicM6 They come from a really principled anti-war progressive viewpoint. And even though I am in the free market anarchist camp (the the extent there's enough ancaps to comprise a camp), I have deep admiration for their intellectual honesty and rigor.

This painting by @🟠 isolabellart has quickly become one my prized possessions 💜 It isn't just the beauty of the art, and incredible expressivity in the brushstrokes, but the fact that I purchased it on Nostr, with bitcoin. Every time walk through my entryway and see it, it makes me smile. I think of how this nascent, censorship-resistant communications protocol connected me in New Zealand with an incredible artist in Italy. And using unstoppable money I was able to instantly transfer value across the globe. No middle-men. No "platforms" taking a cut and manipulating me with their ads and perverse incentives. Just two people, trading value for value. The best money in the world, for some the best art.

This is the least important election of our lifetime

Did Coracle go down?

Is anyone else finding their zaps only intermittently work on Primal? On Coracale and Iris they send every time, but on Primal I get maybe a 30% success rate.

It's interesting how two people can look at the same data point and take away diametrically opposed signals. To me, the fact the market has absorbed so much sell-side pressure over the past six months, and the most we got a 32% drawdown (and even that lasted for 48hrs), is bullish. TX believes that this cycle is going to be more muted than in the past. And that the fact that bitcoin could not even break $70k last cycle, even with all the covid stimulus, it would be unrealistic to expect bitcoin to perform anywhere near as well in tighter monetary conditions. My view is that the covid stimulus actually hurt bitcoin's performance last cycle. It turned the entire market into a casino. Pokemon cards, NFTs, rare watches, memecoins...every piece of shit asset mooned. It encouraged gambling, which actually drove liquidity out of bitcoin and into things way farther down the risk curve. What we are seeing this cycle is bitcoin decoupling as the market sobers up and has to actually work out what has fundamental value: What is real and what is fake. Long the real (bitcoin, gold, energy). Fade the fake (shitcoins, unprofitable tech).