Johntoshi Nashimoto

Norway: Bitcoin Mining Facility Shutdown Leads to 20% Higher Energy Bills for Town Residents https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/norway-bitcoin-mining-facility-shutdown-leads-to-20-higher-energy-bills-for-town-residents/

I’ve had the good fortune to meet two local Bitcoiners in my city this week via Cody Ellingham’s Transformation of Value podcast. Hank and I spent two hours at a cafe discussing our journeys to Bitcoin, what we’ve learnt and are keen to learn. Both of us thoroughly enjoyed being able to hold an intelligent conversation about the many aspects of this most fascinating and optimistic subject. Today, another gent visited me at my showroom, not for furniture, but to introduce himself and to hopefully meet another Bitcoiner. He had heard me on a recent ToV episode. He has a fledgling business he’s keen to introduce lightning payments into and even mining generated heating. We can both share information on implementing these technologies. Like us, he’s keen to establish a regular Bitcoin meet up. I’m excited to see what we can achieve in a year from now. Good times.

This is both fascinating and very reassuring for our future and an open decentralised internet. I’d not heard about Web5 until listening to this WIM episode. https://fountain.fm/episode/8hEpIaS2BdDhsn8gy11t

GN.

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.