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GM from a rainy GC. Today is for reading. Currently plowing through American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Might read a bitcoin book after that... What are y'all reading?

Yesterday, I was pooping my pants with food poisoning and fight my cat to take him to the vet. Today, I won a @BitBox in a competition on Twitter. Take THAT, universe!

21 prime dad jokes about bitcoin. Prepare to cringe! 1. Why did Satoshi Nakamoto fail mechanic school? He kept standing back and saying ‘bitcoin fixes this’. 2. What is Bitcoiner’s favourite horror movie? Scare City. (Courtesy of @Detective Deft Defector) 3. A bitcoiner walks into a bar and orders a glass of Macallan 12-year-old. He offers to pay 10,000 sats for the whisky. ‘This time tomorrow, it could be worth two hundred dollars!’ The barman switches the glass for water and says ‘Tomorrow, this might be a glass of single malt’. 4. My wife says that my obsession with Bitcoin has made our relationship impossible to continue with. I've suggested we give it two weeks to see if the difficulty adjusts. (Courtesy of @Andy Scott) 5. What did Michael Saylor say when asked if he would make different inheritance plans for his will? THERE IS NO SECOND BEQUEST! 6. How many bitcoins does it take to change a lightbulb? Fewer than 21 million. 7.Knock knock Who's there Orange Orange who? Orange you glad I didn't say crypto? (Courtesy of @Ben's BTC stories). 8. What do bitcoiners eat for breakfast? Hashrate browns, a stack of pancakes, and a couple of UT-eggs-Os. (Courtesy of @🥚) 9. Snoop Dogg recently invested in 100 new Bitcoin mining rigs. He heard about the high hash rate and could resist. 10.A daughter shows her banker father her work on Bitcoin's lightning network to speed up transactions, in response he ask's her if she would like to hear his opinion on Bitcoin. She replies yes. "It's worthless" her father says "I know" She replies "But let's hear it anyway" (Courtesy of @Liam) 11. The new movie about the life of Satoshi boast an all start cast of Dwayne ‘The Block’ Johnson, Anne Hashaway, Leonardo Decryption-o, Brad Bit, Ryan Renodes, Florence Pugh-of-work, Paul FUD, Jake Gyllenhodl, Jessica Alby, and Harrison Fork. 12. I once knew a very introverted founder in the bitcoin space. He mined his own business. 13. Bitcoin has brought my family closer together over the years … we live in 1-bedroom now. (Courtesy of @corndalorian) 14. Why did the Bitcoin go to therapy? It had too many emotional blocks. (Courtesy of @npub1wkh8...h00j) 15. Why did the Bitcoiner have to sleep on the couch? His wife said he Schnorrs too much. 16. Did you know, Bitcoiners don’t care about poor customer call centers? They love getting put on hodl. 17. Why do musicians love getting paid in sats? Because it’s sound money. 18. I called my mongoose ‘Bitcoin’ because he has massive mood swings on a daily basis. The guy at the pet store warned me about volatile meerkats, but I didn't listen. 19. Donald Trump has banned Bitcoin miners from adopting children. He’s calling the initiative ‘Operation Orphan Block’. 20. Why did the bitcoiner fire one of his accountants? He realized he had a double spending problem. 21. My mom asked if I was still unemployed. I said I’m not jobless; I’m just early! (Courtesy of @Hablemos de Bitcoin ⚡️) Got any to add? Make me cringe. I dare ya. #asknostr #jokes

GM. I'm sick with a virus today. What remedies can the healthy nostr community suggest? #asknostr

Real talk - How do you stay positive as a bitcoiner? Within 4 years of understanding bitcoin, I've gone from dipping my toe in the water to full-on rabid maxi with 0 fiat who lives, breathes, and works in bitcoin. I would also eat it if I could (but I prefer crisps). However, my low time preference and my knowledge of the impending soverign debt crisis leads me to feel down on a daily basis. I'm not dedicating my life to this to get rich. Hell, I don't even really want to buy anything (apart from crisps). When the monetary crisis ramps up, people won't thank me. They will think I'm a smug asshole because I waxed lyrical about bitcoin. I'm not sure I'll live to see the world prospering on a bitcoin standard. And most days, I dedicate my hours to writing into the void. This is perhaps why I, like many bitcoiners, enjoy the echo chamber a little too much. Still, I'm interested to know. What keeps you grounded and positive? #asknostr

GM. Time for a cookout. 🔥🍻🌽

How to combat the most 3 common bitcoin FUDs. 👌 1. "It's a Ponzi scheme." Response: Your mum is a Ponzi scheme. 2. "The government will shut it down." Response: The government should shut your mum down. 3. "Too volatile!" Response: Your mum is too volatile. Hope this helps!

Spoke to a friend of mine who is a professional comedian. Tried to get him on Nostr and failed miserably. As well as touring, he makes 'jokes on the street' videos which get millions of views on TikTok, Facebook etc. He probably makes a little money from the videos, but it's not his main income. I mentioned that we need more non-bitcoin content and that his videos would be well received. Lots of people would tip him directly with Bitcoin. "I don't have any bitcoin," he said. "You don't need any. Download Primal, and it comes with a wallet. Start posting and getting zaps right away." Silence. He is not dumb. He knows social media is exploitative and algorithms are an awful game to play. He knows the pound is fucked. But this shows how hard it is to fight the systems that have their hooks so deep into us. What's a better way to purple-pill him? We need more great comedy on Nostr!

Need to write 100+ dad jokes about bitcoin for a client. One liners / jokes, rather than memes. Please share your best and allow me to steal. 😄 I will zap the my top ten jokes 210 sats (and will credit you). #asknostr #jokes #dadjoke

GM

Them: how is the writing going? Me: well, I made a fort for my cats. ... What shoukd I add? Any ideas for names for the fort?

Chapter 3 - Good Airs The quarter-life crisis arrives a few years into your career. ‘Is this it?’ You think. ‘I’m supposed to do this for the next 40-45 years? Maybe if I redouble my efforts, forgo avocado toast forever, and marry a countess, we might be able to afford a two-bedroom flat above a betting shop in a commuter town called something like Wallythorpe or Pynchbottom-on-Thames.’ I left for South America. Travel makes you live in the moment. The only looking back you do is to organise your experiences into a coherent blog for your family and friends — you know, so they remember to be jealous. My site was called Tall Travels. I wrote weekly. Raw, sarcastic, and poorly edited posts. I had all the tools I needed to create something great — a sharp observer’s eye, creativity, unlimited time and energy, inspiring people, and formative experiences. I particularly fell in love with Argentine culture in Buenos Aires — midnight dinners, literary discussions, film festivals, rock music, street art — I drank it all in… especially ‘yerba mate’, which I drank before the Hollywood celebrities. I learned Spanish, played 5-a-side football with locals, and wrote songs on a faulty steel-stringed guitar. Tall Travels was self-expression. I still believe that your primary audience should be yourself. However, that does confuse potential readers of your travel blog. They expect ‘10 Cozy Cafes in Buenos Aires’s Upmarket Palermo Neighborhood’, not ‘A Conversation Between Overweight Farmers on a 14-Hour Bus Journey’. My travel blog never looked attractive. In fact, I’ve always been against taking pictures. It feels like an alternate version of reality, and pressing your face to an SLR eyepiece and clicking the shutter means you are not really looking at life. You’re not really experiencing your trip. I took a few shots on a clunky digital camera — Machu Picchu, the expansive Bolivian Salt Flats, the grassy Pampas of the Andean foothills — but they never felt like mine. One time, I watched hundreds of tourists scramble to take the same photo at Iguazu Falls, then I wrote about it in the hostel. The posts were rants. I needed to process why everyone seemed to act so differently. This formed part of my ‘write a million words of garbage’ training. Writing comes easy when you are feeding your soul with so many new experiences. When everything is the same, you have to trick yourself to draw the words out. Like many forms of writing, travel blogs aren’t very honest. But, I captured the landscapes in the camera of my mind. The characters of Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina told the kinds of stories I’d never heard before. I wrote those stories later, after I processed what they meant. Mexico would be the next place to feed my writing journey. And luckily, I like spicy food. #unphiltered

GM. Does anybody know the number of people who asked for the Digitsl Euro?

GM from GC. Question to thise who organise bitcoin meetups and communities - where do you advertise? @Club Orange, Telegram groups, Facebook... anywhere else?

10 things I do at bitcoin conferences as a serious introvert: 1. Take notes with a pen amd paper. 2. Give out physical business cards. 3. Eat far too much from the breakfast buffet, including rich food that makes me fart. 4. Half-hourly trips to the bathroom to fart. 5. Make extremely bad jokes to break the ice (normally, my jokes are just bad). 6. Threaten crypto shills with pepper spray. 7. Carry around a bag of books, then forget to talk about them. 8. Become confident enough to fart in the presence of others, then look around and pull faces when the smell hits. 9. Wear smart shoes. 10. Begrudgingily pay €5+for airport coffee. How do you all fair at conferences?

GM. Airport vibes. Vitamin Prague. Let's go. ✈️✈️✈️