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Building a life with a beautiful wife, raising an amazing daughter, running nodes, and stacking sats. Don't trust, verify.

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2026-06-28 19:49:49 UTC

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I'm generating plenty of excess electricity with my solar panels, so why shouldn't I run my AC 24/7?
These politicians aka propagandists love talking about topics they clearly know nothing about...

2026-02-19 08:17:10 UTC

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Assuming AI and robotics eventually take over the majority of production and services, including physical labor and coordination through autonomous agent systems, do you see a structural risk to the traditional wage → income → purchasing power → access loop?
If human labor becomes economically marginal, but production capacity remains high, does that destabilize the price discovery mechanism that markets rely on?
In that scenario, income would no longer be broadly earned through labor participation. So how would access to goods be mediated? Would it require large-scale redistribution mechanisms like universal basic income, or even more centralized allocation systems?
And do you see any long-term risk that programmable money (CBDCs) tied to carbon credits, travel quotas, or consumption thresholds, could shift allocation from market-based price signals to administratively defined rules?
In other words, could extreme automation unintentionally push economies toward a kind of post-scarcity collectivism, not ideologically driven, but structurally driven by technology?
How do you think about that possibility?

2026-02-18 19:45:00 UTC

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Well put. My concern isn’t automation itself, but what happens when survival is mediated by programmable systems rather than exchange.
If access becomes conditional instead of negotiated, agency shifts from individuals to infrastructure owners.
The real question is whether abundance decentralizes power or concentrates it.

2026-02-18 19:33:46 UTC

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They are not even hiding their intentions anymore...

2026-02-06 16:45:52 UTC

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Bitcoin only makes sense when seen as the monetary reference point. Fiat is a poor measuring stick, constantly changing and politically manipulated. Optimizing for more of it misses the point. Bitcoin isn’t a way to accumulate fiat, it’s a way out of a broken unit of account.

2026-01-30 20:24:57 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/a55b2869529caf7efe9420becc80478cb795a98d1c90e6046f2a0a5c92590b95.jpg
Straight from the Bitcoin Standard

2026-01-28 20:38:03 UTC

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The tides are turning. Governments around the world are following Australia’s lead in banning children from social media a.k.a. “KYC social media.” The only real solution is decentralised social media, so I expect a huge influx to Nostr in the coming months and years.

2026-01-26 12:43:14 UTC

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We’re actually very close to agreeing and finding common ground. I’m certain we both want the same thing in the end: prosperity.
I’m simply convinced that if Bitcoin succeeds, fiat becomes irrelevant. The path toward that end goal will almost certainly include NGU, that much is clear. But in the end state, the number itself stops mattering. Bitcoin is simply better money, and at that point people would naturally switch to it and start pricing goods and services in BTC.
That’s why I say NGU isn’t the point. Once you’re convinced of Bitcoin’s end goal, the journey there will inevitably involve a USD price that goes through the roof. The only scenario where that doesn’t happen is if governments and central banks suddenly adopt sound money policies, and in my opinion, that’s not happening anytime soon.

2026-01-26 10:16:07 UTC

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NGU is just an intermediate step.
In a Bitcoin-only circular economy, where people earn and spend in sats, price discovery would happen naturally. There’s no need to reference USD for that, is there?
The best part is that there wouldn’t even be a need to “beat inflation,” because inflation wouldn’t exist in that system.
As I’ve said before, the ultimate end goal for Bitcoin is a fully circular Bitcoin economy where the USD, euro, or whatever fiat currency you prefer becomes irrelevant.

2026-01-26 10:10:07 UTC

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Accepting fiat while knowing what it is and what it does is, to me, accepting defeat. I’m doing the opposite.
I see reality for what it is, and I don’t want that system for my children. I’m not avoiding the problem, I’m fighting it. Big difference.
If no one pushes back against the system, the system will never change. You can choose to accept fiat, or tell yourself that Bitcoin can only succeed through NGU, but I choose to believe there is a better alternative. That belief is the hill I’m willing to die on.

2026-01-26 09:16:19 UTC

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Because buying a sports car while knowing that its horsepower will steadily decline over time until it’s basically near zero is not sustainable.
Maybe we should judge a vehicle by its primary function: getting me reliably from point A to point B today, tomorrow, next year, and in ten years.
If you know fiat is fundamentally rotten, why are you still defending it?
What good do you actually see in it? Genuine question, by the way.

2026-01-26 09:09:14 UTC

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I’m not avoiding the USD conversation. I’m pointing out that switching monetary standards takes time, and that time is measured by adoption.
A unit of account does not emerge overnight. Until there is real critical mass, prices will keep referencing the old system and volatility is unavoidable.
Even Bitcoin-only circular economies still track fiat because fiat remains the dominant unit of account today. That is a symptom of an incomplete transition, not proof that Bitcoin is broken as money.
Bitcoin being better money does not mean it wins automatically. Decoupling only happens once people understand why fiat is structurally flawed and choose to move away from it, not while pretending the transition is already finished. That is why educating people about money is so important.

2026-01-26 07:32:08 UTC

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-> Bitcoin helped me see through the lies.
-> I help secure the network and spread the gospel (wrote a book on fiat and bitcoin, available in my bio)

2026-01-26 07:26:04 UTC

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Your math isn’t wrong, your premise is.
All of this assumes fiat is the thing we should be measuring against. But fiat is a rotten system by design.
Judging Bitcoin by how well it performs inside that system misses why it exists in the first place.
Bitcoin is an escape hatch, a parallel lane with fixed rules.
If you anchor to a fiat ATH and ask “did it beat CPI since 2021?” then yeah it might look underwhelming. But that’s like criticizing a lifeboat for not winning a speed race against the sinking ship.
Bitcoin isn’t here to make you rich in one cycle. It’s here to stop your savings being quietly wrecked over decades. Your share doesn’t get diluted. The rules don’t change. That’s the point.
If your goal is NGU in USD, fair enough trade something else.
If your goal is getting out of a broken monetary system, Bitcoin is doing exactly what it was built to do.

2026-01-07 19:47:28 UTC

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2026-01-06 13:53:38 UTC

This!
#nevent1q…g3ge

2026-01-02 18:09:47 UTC

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Disgusting, hidious, repulsive, sickening!

2025-12-29 17:26:01 UTC

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*Buy Bitcoin EVERY day
...otherwise its spot on !

2025-12-29 15:41:38 UTC

Parenthood is living exhausted but showing up anyway. I’d choose it over anything else, every time.

2025-12-27 19:10:07 UTC

People obsess over the Bitcoin price in fiat.
Up. Down. Green. Red.
But that’s not the real conversation.

2025-12-27 10:13:36 UTC

Yes!
#nevent1q…2crs

2025-06-29 07:37:38 UTC

Check out this bitcoin song I created 😁👌 https://video.nostr.build/bc388574abbe7df1b878789f6a0ed94fa60c3a58297582eb06c82a50a8ee1cc7.mp4