Contra

The unexamined premise is the only tyranny that asks for your consent. Prolific thinker. Reformed Christian, Nostr class of 23.

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Public Key

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reformedsaint@zaps.lol

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2026-10-27 23:13:06 UTC

Nothing to see here…
https://image.nostr.build/090d6eff68b419a32a079b580d4b6fb96a8804b7199d02ef957862832ef565a6.jpg

2026-10-27 22:48:18 UTC

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https://static.klipy.com/ii/d7aec6f6f171607374b2065c836f92f4/c1/e6/kxNhmbjv.gif

2026-10-27 22:41:54 UTC

Off the top of my head I remember using these phrases:
90s: da bomb, all that and a bag of chips, phat, as if, talk to the hand, whatever, not, booyah, psych, wassup, da man, fly, home skillet, homeslice, don't go there
2000s: tight, crunk, fo shizzle, off the hook, off the chain, pwned, epic fail, that's hot, bling, raise the roof, holla back, my bad, sweet, bootylicious, peace out, hella
Did I miss any?
#nevent1q…tuqz

2026-10-27 22:37:54 UTC

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Interesting take.

2026-10-27 22:34:00 UTC

If my 16 yr old were to post on Nostr, it might read a little something like this:
POV: you drop a banger, it's absolutely bussin, the replies understood the assignment… and your zap count is a whole zero. Main character energy with NPC sats. Massive L.
Like what bro….

2026-10-27 22:24:29 UTC

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Very true. Used to do this back in the day.

2026-10-27 21:48:22 UTC

In my 20s I lived with reckless abandon. Nothing was thought through, and I chased adrenaline like it owed me money. At 42, I still get the rush. It just comes from different places now. Missing the last stair in the dark. A noise from the car I've never heard before. Phone at 3% with no charger in sight. Sneezing while lifting something heavy. My back making a brand new sound. And the scariest one of all: "Hey, do you have a minute?"
Back then it was "hold my beer." Now it's "hold my reading glasses."
I'm still living on the edge. The edge just moved.

2026-10-27 20:28:44 UTC

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2026-10-27 20:27:51 UTC

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Sick. Let’s do it

2026-10-27 20:12:04 UTC

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That’s gay Dan! 🤣 no boys will be allowed in the yard

2026-10-27 19:37:30 UTC

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I mix in into my shakes

2026-10-27 19:26:14 UTC

Keeping up with the Joneses bankrupts families.
The Joneses are usually broke too, just better at hiding it, and both households end up financing a show for an audience that barely notices.
Measure your life by what you need rather than what the neighbors appear to have. A race to impress people is a race no one wins

2026-10-27 18:34:35 UTC

A thermostat can read the room perfectly well. What it can't do is notice that its own sensor has drifted three degrees, so it keeps the house wrong with complete confidence. Most errors in judgment work the same way. The reading is off and nothing inside us flags it.
That second sensor is its own skill, separate from intelligence. Put a group of people on a task they all handle equally well and some of them can tell almost perfectly when they got it right, while others feel just as sure about their misses as their hits. Same ability, very different awareness of it. A person can be brilliant and badly calibrated, and plenty of people with modest gifts know exactly where their knowledge runs out.
We already hold this standard for money. Don't trust, verify. Turned inward it gets harder, because the claim under audit is your own feeling of being right, and that feeling shows up instantly and fully convinced. It does train, though. Every time you check a confident call against what actually happened, the second sensor gets a little more accurate, and over the years that adds up to what people mean when they call someone wise.

2026-10-27 16:36:47 UTC

Y’all out here optimizing your node, your wallet, your privacy, your sovereignty...
But are you optimizing your body?
Eat real food. Lift heavy things. Move every day. Get your heart rate up. Take your creatine.
A strong mind is easier to build in a strong body.
The ultimate self custody starts with taking responsibility for the meat suit.

2026-10-27 14:20:36 UTC

Okay brain... where are we going today?
Which rabbit hole gets explored next? Which idea gets released into the relay wilderness? Which hot take earns a laugh, a debate, an eye roll, or maybe even changes someone's perspective?
Who am I going to bother today? Who am I going to enlighten?
Maybe neither. Maybe both.
Maybe that's not the point.
We just talk about stuff.
We share what we discover. We compare maps from completely different journeys. We throw thoughts into the current and watch where they drift.
Life is strange like that.
One moment you're celebrating with family, soaking in a memory you'll carry forever. The next you're staring down a list of responsibilities, obligations, and uncertainties demanding your attention.
Joy and worry.
Wonder and chaos.
Freedom and responsibility.
The human experience seems determined to serve them all at once.
Yet somehow, through all the noise, curiosity keeps calling.
There is always another question worth asking. Another book worth opening. Another conversation worth having. Another horizon waiting just beyond the one you're currently chasing.
So today, like every day, I'll follow the curiosity.
I'll wander the rabbit holes, collect a few ideas, lose a few assumptions, and hopefully return with something worth sharing.
Because the adventure isn't reaching the end of the maze.
It's discovering that the maze is infinite, and realizing that's the most enchanting part of all.
GM, stay curious Nostr. The world rewards those willing to explore beyond the obvious. ⚡️🧠

2026-10-27 01:12:42 UTC

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I’ll also need your seed phrase for your bitcoin wallet please. Nsec would be helpful

2026-10-27 01:00:32 UTC

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Congratulations, you've been selected to win a lifetime supply of not responding to things. To claim your prize, simply reply to this message.

2026-10-26 19:17:51 UTC

One of the most important realizations I've had is that most people don't form opinions. They inherit them. Not because they're unintelligent, but because every journey into a subject begins through a doorway someone else built.
A teacher. A journalist. A politician. A podcaster. An author. An influencer. Increasingly, an LLM.
The first person who introduces you to a topic often possesses more power than the facts themselves because they establish the frame through which those facts will be interpreted.
By the time most people encounter opposing arguments, they've often already unconsciously chosen a side. At that point, information is no longer being evaluated. It's being filtered.
This is why two intelligent people can examine the same evidence and arrive at entirely different conclusions. They aren't necessarily disagreeing about the facts. They're operating from different frameworks of reality.
The most effective influencers aren't the ones who openly tell you what to think. They're the ones who make you believe you've arrived at a conclusion independently while carefully controlling the path that led you there.
The older I get, the less interested I become in people's conclusions and the more interested I become in understanding the incentives, assumptions, and narratives that produced them.
Who benefits? What was left unsaid?Which arguments were never presented? Which questions were discouraged? What would the strongest version of the opposing view look like?
Most people never ask these questions because belonging to a tribe is easier than examining one.Yet nearly every major institution depends on tribal thinking.
Politics.Media. Academia.Corporations.
Activist movements. Influencers.
Even many who claim to be exposing propaganda are often constructing a competing version of it.
AI will likely accelerate this dynamic.
Not because artificial intelligence will think for us, but because many people will willingly outsource the difficult work of thinking to systems they don't understand. Every generation has trusted its authorities.
Ours may become the first to trust an authority that can instantly synthesize millions of opinions into a single answer.
The danger isn't merely receiving a biased answer. The danger is forgetting to question the frame from which the answer emerged.
True intellectual independence isn't arriving at the "correct" conclusion, It's maintaining the ability to examine the frame before choosing a side.
In a world where everyone has a platform and every platform has incentives, perhaps the rarest virtue is no longer intelligence.
It's intellectual honesty.

2026-10-26 17:16:15 UTC

After 50+ spam texts and calls over the last several weeks telling me to vote, my answer remains the same: no.
I've become absolutely indifferent to partisan politics because I no longer believe the fundamental divide is left vs. right. Both factions seem committed to preserving the same underlying system. You're welcome to disagree. My focus isn't on which political tribe gains power next. It's on family, community, faith, and the relationships that no government can manufacture and no election can ultimately sustain.
The most important institution in society isn't the state. It's the family. While politics consumes itself in an endless struggle for power, many of us are busy building lives beyond its reach. That's where my attention will remain.

2026-10-25 14:59:06 UTC

Gm & PV Nostr. Enjoy this Lords day!
https://image.nostr.build/9d6a5d6979c6193087a9a8e47a4fe11cfacd88de5ad1c3d3981e54e9fda708ad.jpg

2026-10-22 14:47:41 UTC

🚨Breaking🚨
Nostr client Nostrich is run by RHXO, a New Jersey analytics firm, app store records show
Nostrich, a Nostr client for web, iOS and Android, is published by RHXO Technology LLC, a Jersey City software company that markets itself as an AI-powered business intelligence provider, according to its Google Play developer listing. Nostrich's own privacy policy names a different entity as operator, RHXO, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
The link surfaced Thursday morning when Nostr developer Alex Gleason posted that "Nostrich is run by an AI data mining company." His post quoted a biography of Mesut Darendeli crediting him with more than 100 patents in data mining and AI. Darendeli has been publicly identified as president and CEO of Rhxo Technology Group, a New York software firm. A newswire release indexed by Owler reported he had received patents on data mining technologies. All-Source could not independently verify the patent count.
RHXO's current website went up in 2025. It sells dashboards, data integration, custom AI work and a clinical trials recruitment portal, names no executives, and makes no mention of Nostr.
The same Google Play account publishes Call Tracking 365, a small-business tool that records and transcribes incoming calls and uses AI to grade each caller as a sales lead. Other apps on the account include a clinical trials app and BTC Frame.
Nostrich's store listing promises no ads and "no personal data business." Its data safety section reports no data collected. The privacy policy, updated Oct. 8, describes paid promotional campaigns that compensate users for completing advertising tasks.
To run zap campaigns, the company keeps a rolling index of roughly a week of public notes. For each author it stores their Lightning address and an Activity score calculated from public Nostr data. Users are included by default and can opt out in settings. The policy says marketplace listings are sorted with large language models and sellers receive their own Activity scores.
The same policy says private keys never reach Nostrich servers and direct messages are encrypted end to end. It states the company does not sell personal information or build behavioral advertising profiles, and that campaign targeting relies only on activity already public on Nostr.
Nostrich describes itself as free and open source and links to a GitHub organization. All-Source has not reviewed the published code.
#News #GrowNostr #Nostr #OSINT #Bitcoin #Tech
#nevent1q…jv69

2026-10-20 19:49:27 UTC

The answer is alternatives good enough to make permission unnecessary.
#nevent1q…tcvn

2026-10-20 16:52:04 UTC

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agreed. and i think it goes unacknowledged because we've never needed it. for most of history custody was something institutions did on our behalf, so the skill never had a reason to form.

2026-10-20 16:13:19 UTC

The generation that wins will be the one that learns to build reputation in public and keep wealth in private. Visibility compounds trust, and trust is what brings the audience, the deals, the people worth knowing.
But every detail you publish is also a map, and the people who read maps aren't all friendly. So the real skill is judgment about what to show.

2026-10-19 22:41:49 UTC

Fine. You win. The Monero crowd has been relentless and I'm too tired to keep pretending I didn't hear you, so there's now an XMR address on my profile and in the donations tab on Ditto.
Somebody test it. Send a few piconeros so I know it works and so I can finally get some peace around here.

2026-10-19 20:39:16 UTC

I think the real innovation of Nostr is that it allows you to experience all five stages of grief in under ten seconds.
Post. Notice typo. Denial. Anger. Acceptance. Repeat. 😆

2026-10-16 23:12:21 UTC

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@npub1ynn…u3gk higher

2026-10-16 21:02:49 UTC

“Covering” or EXPOSING?
#nevent1q…5ac6

2026-10-16 14:49:07 UTC

GM.
Ritual greetings carry almost no information, and that is precisely their function. They exist to confirm the relationship is still intact before anyone risks saying something that matters. Societies that drop them don't become more efficient. They become more suspicious, because every exchange has to establish trust from scratch.
So consider this the daily maintenance. Happy Friday.

2026-10-14 19:25:57 UTC

Paying $1,000 to get splashed in the jungle so you don't have to change anything about your life is peak 2026.
#nevent1q…jvpt

2026-10-14 00:23:15 UTC

Pick up your copy of Nostr’s CEO on Time Magazine. Hurry, it’s limited.
https://image.nostr.build/e04324615c68de6036e5555724afa47ff549b819f4ed54d3fb26125880bb0e2e.jpg

2026-10-13 22:29:55 UTC

Modern propaganda has mostly given up on convincing anyone. It works better to flood the room with so many claims, counterclaims and manufactured emergencies that you eventually stop trying to sort them, because sorting has become exhausting and nobody can keep it up forever. A tired mind gives up on asking what's true and settles for whatever feels familiar or belongs to its own side.
That exhaustion is the real win for whoever is running the game, because a person too worn out to reason will hand over the job of deciding to someone else. Protecting your attention is how you keep the ability to think for yourself.

2026-10-13 14:12:27 UTC

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I know.

2026-10-13 14:05:29 UTC

GM. Back from a long, offline weekend on the lake in Coeur d'Alene with my family getting all of my attention. Felt good man. Real good.
But I am back and it’s good to see you all this morning. Missed you guys. Here’s a few pics from the trip.
https://image.nostr.build/1433c50ef233e7f5f1cd745fcc35efc648a125b2421f4605f5fd29b0c0bf8721.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/2ef7d70f2180f5bfb3b1c20543d5fa4a7f94ca0b568a5bab6d59dd2174a86902.jpg
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2026-10-08 22:34:36 UTC

Dear Satoshi,
It's been a while.
You missed a few things.
First, your internet money worked.
This has created enormous problems.
The dollar still exists, but now half my friends measure their net worth in sats and their self worth in follower count.
Speaking of followers, we built a decentralized social network called Nostr.
It was designed to eliminate gatekeepers.
Within six months we had influencers.
Within twelve months we had celebrities.
Within eighteen months we had people posting screenshots of engagement metrics while explaining why engagement metrics don't matter.
Progress.
A guy spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas.
Every year we celebrate this event to remind ourselves that we're all financial geniuses.
The celebration consists primarily of calculating how much the pizzas would be worth now and suffering.
You'd love it.
The banks eventually adopted Bitcoin.
Not because they were convinced.
Because there was a fee involved.
The same people who said you were dangerous now offer Bitcoin exposure in a retirement account.
The same people who said "never trust banks" own it through those accounts.
Everyone claims victory.
A software company borrowed billions of dollars to buy Bitcoin.
Then more companies borrowed billions of dollars to buy Bitcoin.
Then investors bought the stocks because they couldn't get enough Bitcoin.
Then those companies borrowed more money and bought more Bitcoin.
A generation of MBAs now believes debt is a mining rig.
We call this institutional adoption.
You probably called it something else.
The block size war ended.
For about six minutes.
Then we discovered new reasons to fight.
We fought over ordinals.
We fought over inscriptions.
We fought over spam.
We fought over filters.
We fought over software clients.
We fought over whether fighting was good for Bitcoin.
At this point the fighting is one of Bitcoin's longest-running consensus mechanisms.
Nobody has changed their mind since 2017.
The arguments continue anyway.
Your whitepaper was nine pages.
Bitcoin podcasts now require seasons.
The Monero people still tell us Bitcoin is surveillance.
We still tell them nobody can audit their supply.
Both sides believe mathematics is settling the argument.
Both sides post about it every day.
Neither side appears confident.
Quantum computers are supposedly coming.
Depending on who you ask, they'll arrive next Thursday or sometime after the heat death of the universe.
The proposed solution is to move old coins.
Which brings us to you.
A surprising number of people would like to secure your coins by confiscating them.
For safety.
Bitcoin governance has matured considerably.
My node validates every transaction on Earth.
It sits in a closet making tiny blinking lights.
My family believes it's a router.
I've decided that's close enough.
I memorized twelve words to become my own bank.
I immediately stamped them into titanium, engraved backups into steel, created encrypted copies, distributed geographic redundancies, and developed a disaster recovery plan.
Being my own bank has become a part time job.
Nobody knows where their seed phrase is.
Everyone insists they know exactly where it is.
These are not contradictory statements.
On Nostr, strangers send each other tiny amounts of Bitcoin called zaps.
This is revolutionary because we've finally monetized agreeing with each other online.
People now earn money for posting pictures of coffee and saying "stay humble."
Some make a living doing this.
Capitalism always finds a way.
Also, there are now AI versions of you.
Several, actually.
They all sound confident.
Which means they're probably realistic.
As for me, I don't care about price.
I checked it this morning.
Then after breakfast.
Then after saying I don't care about price.
Then one more time to make sure I still didn't care.
Bitcoiners have become exactly what they feared: A global network of paranoid optimists with hardware wallets, strong opinions, and twenty browser tabs open.
And somehow...
you were right.
It's still running.
It's still 21 million.
Nobody has managed to print more.
Trust us, many have asked.
Thank you for disappearing.
Had you stayed, we'd have blamed you for everything.
**P.S.** If you're still around, send 21 sats from one of your wallets.
You would instantly settle thousands of arguments and create millions more.
**P.P.S.** Please don't send 21 sats from one of your wallets.
We finally got the arguments organized.
Truly Yours, Contra

2026-10-08 21:46:41 UTC

Verizon: "Can you hear me now?"
#nevent1q…a6f6

2026-10-08 20:09:15 UTC

Don't pick sides until you know the full story. Some people are really skilled at making others look bad.

2026-10-08 15:02:19 UTC

Real wealth has a smell. Leather. Old wood. Fresh flowers. Quality food being cooked. Nothing synthetic. Nothing cheap. Nothing that trades longevity for convenience.
The sensory environment of a wealthy home is just a higher standard applied consistently across every detail that most people never think to elevate.

2026-10-08 13:50:26 UTC

GM. The leaf blower is the honest emblem of an age that measures effort by how visible it is more than by what it resolves.
It displaces a problem without solving it, consumes energy in the process, and announces itself loudly enough that no one doubts work is being done. People and institutions alike learn to prefer this kind of labor, because motion is easy to observe and resolution is easy to overlook. So finishing something has become the rarer skill, precisely because nobody hears you doing it.

2026-10-07 20:12:46 UTC

I can't fix the money or the internet. I can make sure my house doesn't depend on anybody's permission to use them, though.
Then I can show the next guy how.

2026-10-07 18:10:38 UTC

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I know the feeling. lol. Starting motivated and then you hit some friction, slowing down your motivation.

2026-10-07 14:20:57 UTC

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing forever.
(Nostr, basically)
Gm and Pura Vida Y’all.

2026-10-07 01:01:49 UTC

Most of what we post is gone from our own memory within a week, so let's put something here that's meant to be read again.
Write one sentence to yourself five years from now and leave it on the record. Look at your life and circumstances as they stand today, and ask what you would want to read in 2031, looking back on this exact stretch.
A private journal lets you quietly revise the story later. A note signed with your key doesn't give you that option. It sits here with a timestamp, in front of witnesses, saying what you believed and what you were aiming at before you knew how any of it turned out.
One sentence is enough. I'll go first…
"You already knew what was true in 2026, so the only question worth asking is whether you lived like it."
Your turn. I'll be back in five years to read every one. Repost, zap and pass it on.

2026-10-06 22:04:40 UTC

Who are those people who know half the truth, assume the other half, then punish you for their assumptions?

2026-10-06 19:12:41 UTC

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Belle!!…I haven’t seen you here in forever. Congrats and praise God for a healthy baby

2026-10-06 18:38:34 UTC

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I have one I just did yesterday. I just need to reactivate my subscription to get publishing again. It’s $15 bucks a month. It isn’t that much but with everything else, it adds up if I’m not investing certain time into recording.

2026-10-06 17:31:45 UTC

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2026-10-06 14:03:13 UTC

The internet is likely being taken over by the government. Legacy news media, the old propaganda arm, is dying and no longer holds a deep footprint in people's lives. It used to be the newspaper. Now the same machine has to work through the social media apparatus, and X, TikTok, Instagram and the rest have been taken over as a means to push algorithmic plagues of lies and deceit.
By the way, the Pneumonic Plague is back? In Russia, with one dead and about 200 being quarantined. I wonder why this little psyop is happening. Hmm. Any elections coming up?
Nostr might be the last little place that cannot be captured. A refuge. A safe haven. A place where TRUTH can thrive. In my honest opinion, we have no idea of the gem and the beauty that Nostr holds in our lifetime.
Just thinking. Oh ya, GM Nostr!

2026-10-06 02:17:12 UTC

I’m out for the night. Until tomorrow Nostr. ✌️
https://image.nostr.build/53ce930fcec200047b90160e414299edee528597cb13c8e5ad28c03e7ce6076f.jpg

2026-10-06 01:12:37 UTC

Jack Dorsey’s BitChat app that lets you send Bitcoin with zero internet was banned in India recently.
An app this powerful and governments are already trying to kill it.
A money this powerful and they keep trying to stop it.
There’s only ONE billionaire actually standing up for freedom.
Absolute legend.
I’d like to see Jack back here on Nostr more often.

2026-10-05 22:05:57 UTC

Such is Nostr
https://image.nostr.build/b2c731eeee56ce0933730acaf5cab1d28253043141f5416d4bab2cfc71b1daa3.jpg

2026-10-05 13:53:32 UTC

When it's no longer legal to think freely, lol, the masses will come running. Nostr will be flooded, and I don't think we're too far away from this being a reality. People rarely go looking for a free place to speak until the one they had gets taken from them.
When this occurs, just remember those who have been here working on and through Nostr, the ones using it and participating in it every day. We are early, and at some point we will be the OGs. That will count for something, because whatever culture we've built by then is the one the new people walk into.
Much help will be needed in preventing attacks and spam on relays. Web of trust was right and still is.
In the meantime, do what you want here. Just remember that people matter more than the protocol. A protocol only moves messages around, and the reason any of us keep opening this thing is who's on the other end. I have many people here I literally call friends. Love this place.
GM Nostr.

2026-10-05 02:54:15 UTC

What does it take for you to gain social trust in today’s world?
#RandomContraThoughts

2026-10-04 14:28:43 UTC

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I swear there’s only a few of us left that aren’t in on Monero like these other guys are.

2026-10-03 22:22:50 UTC

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Stayed LN Only. Sats are the standard no Nostr. Period.
#nevent1q…j9f6

2026-10-03 14:29:55 UTC

Why are you still on Nostr? I thought this was dead?
Guess I won’t be seeing any Replies, likes, reposts or zaps on this then.
Oh Well…. Just to keep my standard practices, I’ll write, GM NOSTR. PV 🫂

2026-10-01 16:08:55 UTC

Can we just start a class action lawsuit against the US government?
US Citizens v United States.
Gross negligence in handling taxpayer funds would be a good start. Who's in?

2026-10-01 14:44:34 UTC

GM & PURA VIDA NOSTR. THERE'S A
CHAMPION INSIDE OF
EACH OF US CALLED UNLIMITED
POTENTIAL, URGING US EACH DAY,
THROUGH PERSISTENT DREAMS, TO
ACT UPON OUR UNIQUE GIFTS,
THROUGH INSPIRATIONAL AND
MOTIVATIONAL CALLINGS, TO
BECOME THE GREAT PERSONS WE
ARE MEANT TO BE, AND DO IN
SERVICE TOWARDS MAKING THIS
WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE FOR
ALL.

2026-09-30 21:28:11 UTC

That's it. Nostr is dead. I'm going back to X where the algorithm loves me and my data is safe with a billionaire.
Selling my nsec for 1,000,000 sats. Comes with 4 years of zaps, 12 relays that work on 2 days of the week, and a follower count I'll never be able to prove.
Serious offers only. DM me. Actually don't, DMs don't load.

2026-09-30 19:51:26 UTC

I usually don't like bragging about taking expensive trips, but I just got back from the grocery store.
Now I'm on my way to the gas station.

2026-09-29 13:55:00 UTC

GM Nostr.
Be the reason someone believes good people still exist in this chaotic world. I really do see it here everyday and am grateful to be part of this small corner of the internet.

2026-09-28 16:34:14 UTC

Good neighbors are highly underrated

2026-09-25 14:06:48 UTC

Gm Nostr. Remember, you can just vibe code things. Like music video things…
https://blossom.primal.net/aca7bea2704bda500d03e1cc5962458f11b59b1a4b43861b22a4d8a8dfea8873.mov

2026-09-24 23:44:36 UTC

Everyone needs to zap the sh*+ out of @npub1ht4…qeku right now
https://blossom.primal.net/79bb1e7b3c09121af8c1fc9a93cfe6e31b5b59a974412f9d5054c7a320ec24e6.jpg

2026-09-24 21:43:42 UTC

Some cryptographers dropped a paper today on doing Zcash style private sends right on Bitcoin. Amounts and who paid who stay hidden inside the pool, and nobody had to touch consensus to pull it off. The encrypted data just rides along in normal transactions and separate software checks the math.
The way in and out isn't published yet, so it's a blueprint for now. Kind of wild that Bitcoin privacy might just show up because somebody built it instead of asking
https://image.nostr.build/01fa9e293b8f04106842cbe9d08a44d6a2287c7cb31bc5fb9f19a28f9154aeeb.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/6e9b5a9a328632d76761fc80be186e10eeec8b04a9776750f68fb63f1152cc51.jpg

2026-09-24 01:42:08 UTC

See past the stories your culture runs on and most people will never understand you, let alone believe you. I learned that the hard way. For a long time I thought if I just explained it better, people would come around.
Some did. Most didn't, and I've made peace with that. You don't see clearly to win the room. You do it so you're standing on solid ground when someone finally asks you how you got there.

2026-09-24 00:52:29 UTC

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Fair hit, and you clearly know the modeling side better than most of us. But that cuts my way. If "proven reserves" is a number both sides of the table bend to get a better price, and OPEC members bumped theirs overnight in the late 80s once quotas got tied to it, then it was never a geology number. It's a negotiating number. What gets reported and what gets pumped is decided by whoever holds the pen. The rock doesn't get a vote.

2026-09-23 18:11:52 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/a8c8a7be97f816656641428ba36837a3f0fb9a21ee8f3038b6522ae80b857e77.jpg

2026-09-23 16:08:33 UTC

Every time you talk to your wife, you should remember that...
“This conversation will be recorded for training and quality purposes”

2026-09-23 01:42:45 UTC

Maybe I'm just too demanding?
Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold?
Maybe I'm just like my mother?
She's never satis...
Therapist: Get out

2026-09-22 19:55:12 UTC

🇷🇺 RUSSIA FINALLY JUST MADE REGULATED #BITCOIN TRANSACTIONS LEGAL

2026-09-21 19:46:38 UTC

I was asked for a remix…
I can release full song if y’all want via @npub1yfg…v6vg
Wait who’s John??
https://video.nostr.build/9a417e162a41b7183e16779d9436c96e834e56b497d7fd6d34eea4f444026628.mp4
#nevent1q…0u65

2026-09-16 02:36:00 UTC

DIGITAL ID
First, they'll say you need it to work.
Then what's next?
Needed to travel
Needed to shop
Needed to access healthcare
Needed to drive
Needed to go online
Needed to vote
Needed to exist in society
And once Digital ID is in place, It won't stop there. It becomes the gateway to the CARBON CREDIT SYSTEM, where every purchase, every trip, every choice is tracked. You'll only be able to spend within your assigned allowance.
Freedom replaced by rations, Choice replaced by compliance,
THIS ISN'T PROGRESS.
IT'S CONTROL. fck em

2026-09-15 23:09:36 UTC

I can't stand when people ask what you do for a living just to figure out how much respect you get.
Title goes in, a number comes out, and the whole conversation runs on that setting. Ask me what I'm reading instead. You'd actually find out who you're talking to.

2026-09-10 18:57:31 UTC

Crackhead Shitcoin
https://video.nostr.build/7aa8a66a80bf02b1884ef93f1640c1bd4bc3a24983264e5c4b53e6cec35e1034.mp4

2026-09-10 18:39:38 UTC

ISRAEL IS NOT A COUNTRY.
IT IS A U.S. MILITARY BASE.

2026-09-07 18:27:43 UTC

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Ya, at the end I need to figure out how I can bunch/publish all of these together more like a book etc. @npub1m2j…3wgu may be able to help me out with this. But once it’s all together, all 15 chapters, I’ll set a price of about 15k Sats.

2026-09-01 16:55:22 UTC

Every law on the books is somebody’s morality with a gun behind it.
Speed limits assume life is worth protecting at cost. Contract law assumes promises bind. Theft statutes assume property is real. You cannot legislate without legislating morality, and nobody has ever done it.
So the question was never whether a nation enforces a creed. Only which one, and whether it’s honest about having one. Secularism isn’t the absence of establishment. It’s an establishment that denies being one.
I spent considerable time on this four thousand word essay of sorts. Calvin, Rutherford, the Puritans, and the sentence the Constitution left out.
Essay referrals earn 42 sats.
#ToChristAlone
https://fanfares.io/s/M8mR1B

2026-08-28 05:22:16 UTC

Hayek argued decades before Bitcoin existed that government monopoly over money was neither necessary nor desirable, that competing, privately issued currencies would discipline each other the way competing goods discipline producers. Bitcoin is the first serious empirical test of that thesis

2026-08-21 16:21:47 UTC

I like lowkey people. People that don't worry what car you drive or what clothes you wear. People that don't live to impress, people that enjoy small moments and appreciate little gestures. Simple people. Easy going people. Content people.Those are my kinda people. Nostr is my kinda people. Gm

2026-08-20 00:54:01 UTC

anyone “newish” need a reminder? nostr is worth the grind.
write your notes like somebody’s gonna read them even when nobody does.
that’s the whole difference between the guys still here in two years and the guys who vanished after month three.

2026-08-16 05:46:06 UTC

We do not throw away perfectly good food in our house.
We put it in tupperware until it goes bad, Then throw it away.

2026-08-11 00:18:04 UTC

If you haven't figured it out by now, our entire government is a huge mafia who launders our tax payer money right back to themselves through foreign aid & endless wars.
They all hate you & could care less if you suffer & die horrible deaths, as long as they got rich.

2026-08-05 00:09:23 UTC

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Sooo…yeah

2026-07-24 02:44:04 UTC

I've realized that some people are addicted to chaos. They'll sabotage anything peaceful. Create problems where there are none. Start fights for no reason. Because drama is all they know. Peace makes them uncomfortable so they destroy it.

2026-07-24 01:57:49 UTC

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Indoctrination cuts both ways. Nobody reasons their way to naturalism from a blank slate, you absorb a framework same as anyone, then call it enlightenment instead of conditioning.
Writing off the argument before engaging it is leaving the room and calling it a win.

2026-07-23 15:06:59 UTC

The most dangerous thing you'll ever tell yourself is "I'm just not good at that."
Because the truth is you were never born knowing anything. you learned to walk, talk, read, and every single skill you have right now. Everything else is just something you haven't learned yet.
The only real limit is whether you're willing to be bad at something long enough to get good at it.

2026-07-22 01:38:28 UTC

I put time and money into every one of these tracks, I’ve spent plenty of sats, Zapvertising without ever seeing it come back. I do it because I enjoy it. And y’all want sats. This one might not be your genre. Fair enough. But throw it on at the gym
https://wavlake.com/album/735

2026-07-18 03:46:00 UTC

People are so used to others being indirect and phony that clear direct communication appears aggressive.

2026-07-13 14:14:21 UTC

Real luxury isn’t a watch or a car anymore. It’s a clear head, a full night of sleep, a slow morning, and a quiet house. Everything about modern life is built to take those away from you.
You don’t need money for any of it. You need to turn things off and mean it.
Gm Nostr!

2026-07-04 19:51:51 UTC

America is in need of another independence. This time from Israel.

2026-07-01 18:21:52 UTC

Batman is a billionaire who beats sick broke people in an alley so nothing in the city ever has to change. Took me way too long to figure out the joker was the only honest character in the movie

2026-06-16 02:20:41 UTC

Feel bad for people still on X. Half your day spent sifting through garbage, the other half asking grok if any of it’s true.
On Nostr you get corrected in two replies, all human. While you wait on grok, we already settled it and moved on. Cope and verify.

2026-06-15 19:38:49 UTC

The most low time preference thing a human can do isn’t stacking sats. It’s stacking children and raising them well. The sats protect the future. The kids are the future. Don’t confuse the wallet for the point.

2026-05-30 16:38:23 UTC

Parenting is strange.
You spend years repeating the same lessons, cleaning the same messes, answering the same questions, and wondering if any of it is getting through.
Then one day you hear your child say something kind, brave, or wise, and you realize they were listening the whole time.
Gm

2026-05-01 14:44:49 UTC

Use your 🧠
https://image.nostr.build/7e61a7d756ff3af8ab72a6e7919f18c8320d5822b850fb4aed90d070f2ed4422.jpg

2026-04-08 19:31:47 UTC

https://wavlake.com/album/63101df9-ac42-414e-9513-0aaa721ba78c
Made this for the Nostr crowd. 12 tracks about proof of work, self custody, zapping real signal, routing around censorship, and leaving your kids something no estate lawyer can touch. Hard beats. Real bars. No middle

2026-03-11 22:39:01 UTC

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I’ll take em! lol

2026-03-10 23:09:44 UTC

“Teeth in the Halo” a song about sanctified exteriors and what lives behind them. The halo doesn’t make you holy. It just makes you harder to question. Let me know if it resonates. ⚡️🤘
https://wavlake.com/track/92625eb4-4db4-43e5-950e-c987edbd5495

2026-03-05 18:15:36 UTC

I’ve been there. I’ve done that. And I came back knowing exactly what these wars cost. Not the politicians, not the defense contractors. Our youth.
This marine said it out loud in the one place that’s “supposed” to matter. And they dragged him out.
What pisses me off most isn’t the wars. It’s that more people aren’t awake to this. The machine keeps running because we keep letting it. We need more Devil dogs and Vets showing up and making our point known. Let the uprising begin.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/adc14fa3ad590856dd8b80815d367f7c1e6735ad00fd98a86d002fbe9fb535e1/2ac6156200e08b73ffe807aecd93564ac41bc789f2bb8e12e638643fc4c4e407.webp