This is probably been discussed a billion times. I am spending more time over here and I like to be using Chrome and Alby. In the past I was using various browsers and nos2x. I was struggling with sites using Alby/Chrome with NIP-07 logins, specifically Habla, Coracle, and Swarmstr. It is an easy fix, you can't assume the check on 'all sites' work and I had to add them in specific to the Alby Chrome extension. 1) Cut and past this into Chrome: chrome://extensions/ 2) Click 'Details' 3) "On Specific Sites" (screenshot) 4) Add sites Tip: You have to do all this via a webpage with the chrome://extensions/ as I could not figure out how to do it directly manipulating the actual installed extension.

All, This is a personal level post for me on NOSTR. I am motivated to post this based on just listening to my favorite podcast this year, it helps the Bitcoin SPOT ETF development is my favorite subject so far in 2023. This post dedicated to Joe Carlasare's efforts and expert communication skills. In this post, I am using a fake scenario that I report to Gary Gensler at the SEC. The incredible Stephan Livera podcast that went live yesterday. SLP495 JOE CARLASARE – BITCOIN ETF? LAWSUITS AND BITCOIN

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SLP495 Joe Carlasare – Bitcoin ETF? Lawsuits and Bitcoin

Wondering what happens with the Bitcoin Spot ETF? Joe Carlasare joins us to explain why it’s not so likely soon, as well as share his thought...

People crave to belong, it is hard to go against the mantra, the mainstream, the status quo, it is uncomfortable outside personal comfort zones. This is especially true in the Bitcoin Maxi inner circle. I love to write on Bitcoin. It used to only be about cancer, I am successful on the latter as I am a National Level Patient Advocate. I am a hack with Bitcoin/Economics. I haven’t earned my badge, it may take years. I love how with Bitcoin, this is anonymous, not to hide but Bitcoin is the coolest thing that is way bigger and transcends all of us, including anonymous Satoshi. In the past, like with cancer, I have carefully put together posts, using transcripts/PubMed/Journals or typing verbatim what I was hearing. It isn’t easy. I haven’t connected with Bitcoiners online, or offline, and maybe never will. In my large circle, my 75 year old cabin neighbor friend from Wisconsin is the only one as I explained to Matt McCall/Stansberry Research

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@Stansberry @MatthewMcCall Matt, my 75 year old cabin neighbor (Northwest WI), Bob, who happens to be one of my best friends talks about Stansberry...

For today, thanks to inspiration from Lyn Alden in being my true self, here I am. Keep in mind, decades in Corporate America, challenging my bosses, promoted only twice, no traction. Similar time in the volunteer cancer arena, same approach. Traction. Bitcoin world? No clue and validation is not needed and it is not my motivation. Scenario for this post: I (BR) work at the SEC, Gary Gensler is my boss. It’s time for our weekly, dreaded on both sides, 1on1. BR: “Hey Boss, super excited to talk to you today.” Gary: (not looking up, acting busy, writing down something.) “Have a seat, BR. As you know, I have an ‘open door’ policy and this is your time to talk to me about anything you want, concerns, what is going right etc.” BR: I have heard that a bunch of times, not sure it is sincere? I want to talk to you about Bitcoin and the BlackRock ETF. But I want to do this ‘off the record, gloves off, human to human.’” (Gary finally looks up in dismay, adjusts his glasses, sighs. I am his least favorite employee.) Gary: “Off the record, like every one of our 1on1s? You are a piece of work. Okay, we have 23 minutes as I have to circle back and dialogue and get to done. ” BR: “What are you thinking about BlackRock and the Spot ETF? But first, may I tell you how I am thinking? I always look at people’s motivation. What is yours? Are you looking to be the next Janet Yellen and are managing up to your bosses only? Or is it about your legacy? You know, you are a smart guy, you know Bitcoin is great, you literally taught a course on it at MIT? However, you were right in line with MIT wonder boy SBF? To me, do you have to go to weekly sessions to keep getting the crusted on egg on your face scraped off as you carry around that gallon water bottle to keep washing down the feathers of the crow you can’t stop eating? Gary: “Stop the personal attacks…but that is impossible for you…” BR: “Noted but tell me the truth. This is my time. What is going on with the ARK.BlackRock SPOT ETFs? The SEC is currently in court over Grayscale’s future Bitcoin ETF you rejected. What makes these SPOT ETFs any different? You already pushed back on the original applications saying they needed a ‘surveillance sharing partner’ and some came back with Coinbase. You hate Coinbase and there are SEC lawsuits/allegations against them..emotions still high after FTX? Further, most liquidity of Bitcoin is outside the United States. How could you approve a Bitcoin Spot ETF if you think Bitcoin sucks and the enlisted actors are bad apples as you have yet to officially deem Bitcoin a commodity or a security based on your old school Howey Test?” Gary: “You are out of line…” BR: “You are sideways on the line, blocking progress, refusing to take a stand. Look, I have worked in jobs where ‘time solves all problems’ wait long enough and the problem dies, or wait long enough and bosses like you move on, inaction can be a wonderful thing for the incompetent. Let’s say you did approve the ARK/BlackRock spot BTC ETFs? (you have to approve them all.) Is that more work for your team with ‘limited resources’ and more headaches?” Gary: “Are you willing to put in overtime and work weekends?” BR: “No, I spent decades doing that but never was rewarded. Are you willing to explain this? You know Bitcoin is the ultimate square peg in the round hole and people are saying, BlackRock has an 575-1 approval record when filing with the SEC. You, however, know Bitcoin is different, it has very little adoption, about 1%. Is it easier to piss off the 1% and appease the 99% or is best to do what is right? What’s it going to be boss? Is this where you say you are ‘transparent?’” Gary: “We are done here…if you weren’t such a great coder we would have fired you long ago.” BR: “Thanks a lot Boss even though I have 13 minutes left (big shit ass grin, finger guns pointing at him) be sure to read this one page from Saifedean’s ‘The Bitcoin Standard’ and I will ask if you understand it to your core like I do. See you next week unless you reward me for my bad behavior and cancel my 1on1s which is my motivation. There it is.” ===== I truly hope ARK/Cathie Wood have their Bitcoin SPOT ETF approved first and I know: “Honeybadger(/Bitcoin) don’t care” “Number go up” Bitcoin Fortune Cookie sayings are plentiful and these elicit the most claps in the audience.

Logic question. The cofounder and current CEO of OpenAI sounds the alarm on AI, yet introduces Worldcoin as if that is a good thing? #asknostr

Podcast Share, I just listened to a really good podcast on Blue Collar Bitcoin: "BCB117_MAURICIO DI BARTOLOMEO: BlackRock ETF & The Next Phase of Bitcoin" This one had Mauricio Di Bartolomeo (co-founder & CSO of Ledn) and he really resonated with me especially this part about 'being your own bank' and the friction that happens with that approach. Mauricio: <snip> "If you were worried about your Bitcoin and your self-custody and you have a fear that your custodian May Fail or that your country might go Rogue you take your steps “become your own bank.” But you know what's really difficult? Telling somebody that they have to become their own bank when they never have, almost impossible. It's like me all of a sudden. it's like me telling my daughter tomorrow “hey sweetie the cops are gone so I'm gonna need you to be you the police so start strapping or even if you don't have these self-defense things there's a pistol protect yourself” or or I went and told my wife “sorry honey the doctors are on strike so as of tomorrow we're all gonna have to start learning these things about how to be a doctor how to heal ourselves and I'm sorry like it's very difficult now.” If you come from Venezuela where you've always had to be your own bank..." ====

I am trying to be on NOSTR more often, just started clicking 'follow' on the 'Follow Suggestions' on Iris. Then I noticed how many were 'OnlyFans' accounts and am manually unfollowing. I am not a prude, this is just not my demographic, married 31 years to someone I am a huge only fan of in that way. Wink. (I still chase her around the house, much to her dismay.)

Probably painfully obvious. NOSTR is incredible, there is one thing I wish was built into the UIs though, links to the NOSTR projects without having to bookmark or worse, text/email myself links? I can't keep up and the NOSTR FAQ/Resources sites change so fast. Examples: Best current places for NOSTR Blogs (I want to move from lame Google) e.g. Habla ? NOSTR Podcasts, music, marketplace\classifieds? What killer apps, outside of Damus/Iris/Snort am I missing that people are using? (e.g. NOSTR Fountain app is one I really like) Finally Swarmstr/ #asknostr ? (i.e. I am doing this wrong, with this post I should have gone to some - unknown to me - Swarmstr link to ask specific questions like this?)

January 24th, 1848. That is when the California Gold Rush started. Bitcoin is the modern day Digital Gold and the Great Worldwide Bitcoin Rush hasn't even started with a one percent adoption as of today. Bitcoin Fever. When will your loved ones catch it? "I have a fever, and the only cure is more Bitcoin." Can someone change this from cowbell to Bitcoin?

NOSTR, I am just a little mini boxer named Odesa. I feel right at home here but am trying to lose my Twitter Bones. It's a tough addiction even if it is a crappy product and mostly terrible experience. I have never made any good connections over there. I look forward to cutting ties altogether and helping put out great content.

It is pretty interesting how the MIT soldier guy's book is not selling on Amazon anywhere. Of course no one on the Internet would speculate on plagiarism, using a school's name to make Money, etc. If he goes down, that means of the three MIT guys SBF, JL, and Saylor, only Saylor's Bitcoin Sails are Flags are still flying high.

Back in March there was a ditch Twitter for NOSTR and it was great. Why can't I stop scrolling on Twitter. I need to be over here. @Gigi is my inspiration but I a much weaker I guess.

Bitcoin is FIRST BEST: "Second best refers to the solution of a decision maker's optimization problem when the feasible choices are constrained by an economic friction that does not allow the first best to be reached." May 1, 2018 https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1057/978-1-137-00772-8_445#:~:text=Second%20best%20refers%20to%20the,first%20best%20to%20be%20reached.

Have you, or a close loved one, ever been diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer? We spend our life trying to find a trusted mechanic, but we get sick and go to the nearest doctor? You get humbled really fast working with world renowned specialists in a particular cancer. You find out, what you think you really know is so far from reality you look like an idiot. When lives are on the line, it is way more than just a bruised ego, your stupidity or arrogance can kill. My point, when you get sick, get at least a second opinion and with Bitcoin get 100 opinions or ask AI and get a million opinions at once on Bitcoin and cancer but talk to specialists. In Medicine and Bitcoin Finance.

Apparently, according to our US media, Janet Yellen was able to instill some confidence with the Chinese. Her ability to instill confidence on any subject is deeply troubling. We are in trouble.

NOSTR + AI + Bitcoin + L2 Lightning = Government Nightmare/People Dream

Humans have IQ, EQ, Social Q, Adversity Q, and some say Muscle Quotient or any Specific Body Part Quotients, etc. AI doesn't have to have any of that. Bitcoin doesn't care about whether you are human or a computer, as long as you have a Key you can use Bitcoin and reap the same benefits. Question, will you, a smart human, with a smart phone, tap into your IQ/EQ/AQ/SQ etc. and get into Bitcoin before a stupid computer does?

NOSTR is brilliant, this is just outstanding. I have been chuckling all day. ZapplePay. What a total cock punch to AAPL.

As Gigi taught us, Bitcoin is all about the Timechain/Time. There is just so much of people's time and energy and focus on trying to sway people to adopt or learn about Bitcoin. What if that is all wrong? Since the beginning of time, people's mindsets have been difficult if not impossible to change. Ask any of the greatest people in advertising how hard it is to change a person, who is brand loyal, to another brand. No different than Bitcoin, but Bitcoin is just so vastly different and as a CEO, appropriately named Fink, said Bitcoin has the ability to 'transform Finance.' Again, does he realize how much effort and time and resources it takes to change people's mindsets let alone individual minds? What if that approach is a waste of time? Where am I going with this? There are two horses in the race to simply understand Bitcoin. One is human, one is machine. Ask AI models about Bitcoin, incredible answers, I send people there first instead of arguing with animate humans argue with an inanimate computer. One that is backed by 1,000,000 opinions instead of one. Two horses. One clock. Bitcoin uses energy. AI needs energy to survive and will need micropayments on already built Level 2 Bitcoin rails (think Lightning/Money over IP) to get what AI needs to continue autonomously without humans. Impossible on legacy FIAT and 3% anything is laughably unrealistic. Machines using the same 'keys' a human would on an immutable network with almost perfect uptime, on an open source ledger, with 14 years of experience moving trillions of dollars, worldwide, at the speed of light for fractions of a penny at times. Bottom line, you need to be into Bitcoin not only before it connects with humans but also before it connects via AI computers. Tick-Tock, next Timechain Block. Study Bitcoin but kick up the speed in which you do it since you may be running out of precious time.