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Jeremy M. Boles
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I enjoy a wide variety of interests. I particularly like the summer sun, listening to music, attending concerts, engaging in just enough gardening to harvest a few organic vegetables, spending time with my dog Bella, canoeing, target shooting, exploring new places and capturing them in photos and / or short video clips, alternatively just hanging out at or completing work at home, philosophy, theology, reading and research, road trips, decentralized finance / Bitcoin, decentralized social media / NOSTR, discussing and / or supporting human and Constitutional rights, displaying and maintaining indoor plants, relaxing while fishing, and riding my motorcycle. I regularly enjoy listening to The Survival Podcast, Bitcoin Breakout, and The Tom Woods Show. I also sometimes listen to The Eric Metaxas Show.
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jboles 3 months ago
Evil leftists strike yet again. image
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jboles 1 year ago
Details are often important: Individual county results throughout America. Also, an excellent reminder why the electoral college was such a brilliant implementation. image
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jboles 1 year ago
"'We searched everywhere. Nothing but chicks and homos,' said campaign aide Dawn Harding. 'We asked Tim Walz if he had any straight friends, but he just laughed and did jazz hands. The media team had no choice but to just pay the gays.'"
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jboles 1 year ago
Oh, wow. Another related great one. Two in a row.image
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jboles 1 year ago
This would be the only "halloween" decoration I would put up. Good one, somber reminder.image
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jboles 1 year ago
Oh, wow. That is a bit crazy. This was a cool area. I was there two summers ago. Cool place. That's horrible that this area was just about completely devastated. With that being said, now that the horrible has already happened, I'm a bit undecided and torn though. He says, "where the river is supposed to be"... Well, unless the hurricane was assisted by human weather modification, where the river is now would now be natural and where the rive is now supposed to be. Lol. Maybe they could instead build around the "new" river placement? Hmm…
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jboles 1 year ago
I couldn't agree more. While the majority probably have and will vote Trump, many areas indeed cheat. And even if the cheating is overcome, and Trump even officially wins again, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, etc., should definitely still separate from the losing leftists. The U.S. clearly needs to be more than one nation. OR, simply revert back to completely separate states. Each state could be a nation / country. Quit trying to make so many people live under one "rule".
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jboles 1 year ago
"Recognize that every time a dollar is sold for bitcoin, the exact same number of dollars and bitcoin exist in the world. All that changes is the relative preference of holding one currency versus another. As the value of bitcoin rises, it is an indication that market participants increasingly prefer holding bitcoin over dollars [or euro, yen, etc.]. A higher price of bitcoin (in dollar terms) means more dollars must be sold to acquire an equivalent amount of bitcoin. In aggregate, it is an evaluation by the market of the relative strength of monetary properties. Price is the output. Monetary properties are the input. As individuals evaluate the monetary properties of bitcoin, the natural question becomes: which possesses more credible monetary properties? Bitcoin or the dollar? Well, what backs the dollar (or euro or yen, etc.) in the first place? When attempting to answer this question, the retort is most often that the dollar is backed by the government, the military (guys with guns), or taxes. However, the dollar is backed by none of these. Not the government, not the military and not taxes. Governments tax what is valuable; a good is not valuable because it is taxed. Similarly, militaries secure what is valuable, not the other way around. And a government cannot dictate the value of its currency; it can only dictate the supply of its currency." This is a phenomenal article. Excellent read. Perfectly logical:
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jboles 1 year ago
"How the bitcoin lightning network works: Think of Bitcoin’s main blockchain as a highway, and the Lightning Network as a series of side streets that reduce the highway's congestion from smaller transactions. First, two parties who wish to transact with each other set up a multi-signature wallet (which requires more than one signature to enact a transaction). The wallet holds some amount of bitcoin. The wallet address is then saved to the Bitcoin blockchain, setting up the bidirectional payment channel. The two parties can now conduct an unlimited number of transactions without ever touching the information stored on the blockchain. With each transaction, both parties sign an updated balance sheet to reflect how much of the bitcoin is stored in the two wallets. Once both parties finish transacting and close out the channel, the resulting balance is registered on the blockchain. In the event of a dispute, both parties can use the most recently signed balance sheet to recover their share of the funds. It is not necessary to set up a direct channel to transact on the Lightning Network – you can send payments to someone via channels with people with whom you are connected. The network automatically finds the shortest route. The network's goal is to allow users to make smaller payments without transaction fees or delays."
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jboles 1 year ago
Where does your money go? I'll have to work on eating Chipotle less often. "The average consumer funds Politicians and PACs about 3x more through their purchasing decisions as compared to their direct political contributions." image