Johntoshi Nashimoto

GE. I’ve got something to confess about that’s both embarrassing and very frustrating. Last week I posted on a telegram home mining page about wanting to buy 2 x S19 XP’s to immersion mining and heat our pool and asking if anyone hade feedback about buying directly from Bitamain or their Chinese reseller Beacontek. Someone called Sats4me replied I could buy them locally (I’m in New Zealand) for a sharper price through Rich at Used ASICs and said he good to deal with. I was immediately DM’d by Rich at UsedASICs, (in retrospect a red flag) who said he has 6 month old S19 XP’s at the sharp price of $1300 AUD each. I was cautious of not getting scammed, said I needed to conduct some due diligence, asking for his mob no and npub, but he asked if I’d like referee and gave me a telegram contact to message (probably him too) who said all he’d bought arrived as stated. He didn’t provide me with his mob no or npub though. (Once again, another red flag.) In retrospect I should have pushed for those, especially the npub, and a website. The social proof of the npub would have been valuable, but I felt I was being difficult and rude and he ‘seemed’ to be politely accommodating my due diligence checks. I paid him the $2600 AUD, and emailed him the next day asking for the tracking. I then checked my telegram chat with him only to find all messages wiped. It was then that the penny dropped. I was naive to have not been more suspicious. Lessons learnt (the hard way.) 🙄 Not that it will probably stop his shitbag behaviour, but I text him: Really? Is this how you make a living? Ripping people off. Going through the motions of building trust when you’re really a fraudulent thief. The fact that with Bitcoin, Nostr, Fedi etc, we’re trying to make a better, fairer, more harmonious world, but then there’s you, a lying fraudster scamming people rather than work towards a better future and trying to be the best person you can be. You’re obviously intelligent, you should have more faith and self respect of yourself and aim higher. I know humans can justify anything. How do you justify this cuntfuckery? I’ll recover from this theft of yours and will let my wife know I’ve been scammed, while you have to live with your conscience that you’re a thieving, lying piece of shit. Sleep well scumbag. Anyway. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes. Be careful out there people.

Hey peeps. What Nostr signing app can I use for signing into Nostr clients without having to enter my nsec when using new client for the first time, (for better nsec security)?

GA! I know am preaching to the choir, but here's link to my Telegram channel I created: The Case for Bitcoin and Financial Freedom. I made this as a repository for all the stats, videos, presentations on inflation and Bitcoin that are both profound and undeniable. Like most here, Bitcoin along with Fedi and Nostr gives me great hope for the future for myself, my family, friends and for a free, fairer, more prosperous world for all. If the content is valuable to you, please feel free to share this with people you’d like to orange pill. If anyone has a suggestion of how I can create this repository on Nostr instead of Telegram, please let me know. 😉

GA. Yesterday was Father’s Day in New Zealand and I spent fantastic day being doted on by my loving daughters and my wife. My daughters eleven and nine years old both wrote me cards. My oldest daughter Leo had some wonderful sentiment written on her card: “1Happy Father’s Day to the best daddy in the world! You bring me so much joy and love into our lives every day. Selflessness, wisdom and unwavering support make you an amazing father. We are forever grateful for everything you do. Love Leo x x x” She then cracked me up when she told me she had used Venice.ai to help her improve the sentiment she hard written on the card. I thought that’s awesome. She’s 11 years old and she’s already learnt to use AI to improve her communication. Embracing the future. She’s already got more Bitcoin than all our friends. Smart girl.

GA, I’ll just leave this here. Make of it what you will. “Binance has seized all funds from all Palestinians as per the request of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). They refuse to return the funds. All appeals denied," reported Ray Youssef, CEO of NoOnes trading platform. https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/binance-admits-to-freezing-palestinian-accounts-at-israels-request/

My wife Karin was complaining to me about how much Airbnb charges guests booking our accommodation. A $75 apartment charge and $50 cleaning fee becomes a $200 total charge once Airbnb adds their frankly extortionate $75 booking fee. I told her Uber takes over 80% from each fare booked via the Uber app, leaving the poor Uber drivers with less than 20% of which they need to pay for fuel and associated vehicle costs, leaving them with fuck all. Then I started thinking about Amazon which has been described as a private fiefdom, levying large fees upon their merchants and cancelling any items and or merchants they do not approve of. I started wondering if apps similar to Airbnb, Uber or Amazon could be built on Nostr? I don’t know if it’s possible to build an app similar to Airbnb or Uber, but if any developers could do it, I’m sure the mighty and enlightened Nostr could. An Amazon equivalent marketplace can’t be too hard. We’ve already got the payments platform sorted. It would be appropriate devs should apply a fair V4V royalty for their efforts, but nothing like the rapacious fees charged by these obscene corporations. Few things would give me greater satisfaction than seeing these parasitic rent-seeking corporations market share ebb away to nothing. I’m sure I’m not alone in this sentiment. Any takers, devs?

OpenSats Announces Support for The Tor Project "OpenSats is pleased to announce a support grant for The Tor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to privacy and internet freedom since 2006." https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/opensats-announces-support-for-the-tor-project/

GE wonderful people. My lovely wife Karin and I saw Electric Six at the Tuning Fork in Auckland last night. Great band! Little dusty today. “I want to take you to a Gay Bar!”