2026-10-26T06:05:13Z https://nostr.now alanbwt https://nostr.now/npub1r0fj5wr200n0dz9nm37ysrhuy8xeg66ratq5hf960q62caaz8e5sqpuzz3 https://image.nostr.build/3196b237890c30f51df848de6d0ab0f096a23c6aa7106420be5f5e00f20b2da3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3196b237890c30f51df848de6d0ab0f096a23c6aa7106420be5f5e00f20b2da3.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszzhctjvcut0fxanuhdgyx4m9vm3kq8c5mpc22c98qr8ltc69hhxgzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxj2tjg3r “To try and explain life is really as clumsy an operation as trying to drink water with a fork.”<br/><br/>— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: The Discipline of Zen<br/><br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://post.noblegrowth.co/uploads/2026/10/18/186b5105c501bbc414a2dd8e82b26552b.mp4"></video> 2026-10-27T18:01:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9wnfg34nmu79n8a855ukjn54k4xdcyxvtq67x0guvase099czpfgzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjyjetzs Not only do you have what it takes.<br/><br/>You are it.<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/c89ce8fd4ed384a79f83acc1ec2a611708ce775ad250525a4d942180d4b5036d.jpg"> 2026-10-27T01:10:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfq4n2fhznpc60cjsnyu66vznrqya9lnfsxxll5npalyyad6pwzlczyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjgqx35w Gratitude will open you up. 2026-10-26T23:53:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrtdng5yx2wpejrh46ju2y3qzlerdnpykgr62z9j809k5vcz7jghgzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjdkaz07 The year is 2130.<br/><br/>After cobbling together a Bitcoin signing device from e-waste, I sign a transaction to order replacements for my drone batallion before the device self descructs into a thousand pieces.<br/><br/>My op-sec has never been stronger.<br/><br/>This is my story.<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/0da2e6434635fdb9b996ff5a183955e8b765942d0a60a0f040a173e2fc612807.jpg"> 2026-10-26T22:06:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8ywg2ztd69enxja9zl5qqw9ssakl0j9ajkqt9w2fmvjgnrst7qrqzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjuqzkeg “We are whitehats” feels like a cover in case the hackers get caught eventually <br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/ecf64ffcc63d8ade7da5e232b567d011fe9a24b214a6745510b4428d40f2651a.jpg"> 2026-09-06T23:10:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszkwpgsnf52u9pyv5pqshfakhn4gf9w67qqk4p9wj9skxe84urs7gzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjrlvltk Stay humble. Stack sats.<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/13772fa107c99c55438a3d7e79f4652c83b30adc08d2dd881fce0c054eccfaf5.jpg"> 2026-08-11T02:03:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszeymgafsywuh2e4faq8xcmjcnwurgk8w8qmjcgmedf3c6wwq6evszyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjnphkzu Well, after this week, nobody thinks Bitcoin is boring. 2026-08-07T17:26:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyungswqhslje5exehrj84k4h7g8jy7l0rmhr3w52qlrs2p8auzdczyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjzwjyuz Saylor: You’re not regulated enough, anon. You’re a paranoid crypto anarchist. Better let trusted third parties like Strategy hold your coins<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://blossom.primal.net/497b8034028f746f5b7ff1050e02b1c032fd9cb3e89ac2fb3a34c2dab8b547e2.mov"></video> 2026-07-22T14:39:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy9hcyvhqtnjd0f3608l7682ar8ydcjetapqxuggfj2rrmqq0vavgzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjpannjl Alan Watts often spoke about how there are two different flavours of Christianity:<br/><br/>“a religion about Jesus” and “the religion of Jesus.”<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqsze02v5anvjzuhq68qgnca3aafnqkhd0gvvj4k7crvx34whgezu6gwy04zd" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…04zd</a></span> </div> Did Jesus trust his own judgement or did he defer to someone else? </blockquote> 2026-07-18T21:34:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswu8pegmwhp63j6usy9zuf56ma3utlmdtf9wxc2t8c8juut3pzl6szyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjjp2lwx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyugaqezn0d3ynqhaa5qtmujeq9ffytrermrfd072shxyh4crfdds8z8wmg'>nevent1q…8wmg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Zen is a dialogue, not a religion. Christians need not feel threatened by it. 2026-07-18T12:49:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs25afsvf9j2nt4chk45uyhnwvta07729ztcpgn43q2pgc5gk6tgpgzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjl8nf5e “Zen is a process, if you like, of dehypnotization.”<br/><br/>— Alan Watts, Out of Your Mind<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/28c26334ab190fbb66a3514d51b40a11526cfc3d0f8971f458464a8badd43bd7.jpg"> 2026-07-18T12:19:31Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgts0t52jn43ulzphpztqedj5xfsd84fhngn0h52qk6673s7raw6czyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjp4kfw6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdgv6r8n8ejwacxapqel2hhlkz86wr7508dx0yn2exhm77rznw7rqp7d0rm'>nevent1q…d0rm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you do nothing after Core v30 opened up the floodgates to spam, you are essentially giving up on fighting spam. It will always be a cat and mouse game, just like spam in your email inbox. BRC-20 spam bloats the UTXO set more than ordinals, though the most malicious type of all is CSAM. Yes Bitcoin is decentralized. Run whatever node software you like. I run Knots with RDTS. 2026-07-15T23:04:26Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp2jzmgslzsm073vuvmcyjpfe5942xwdph7k4g5ne28v06fy7ttsgzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjlzyp49 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2k7s07qnscpatuzrg0dqd29cz8n328c9snlearrhp3as88fkchwsks26r9'>nevent1q…26r9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Spam filters are omnipresent on the internet including Nostr. Your email has spam filters. High risk websites get filtered from your browser. Nostr relays can decide what to include or not include. Nostr users can mute other users they don’t wish to see.<br/><br/>Bitcoin has always had filters as well. It wasn’t until Core v30 got released that the gates to vast spam were opened.<br/><br/>By doing nothing, you are tacitly agreeing to this spam. You are free to succumb to defeatism, but don’t act like it is some noble deed.<br/><br/>My node is not your Dropbox. I will disallow the content that is negative for Bitcoin as a monetary network as I see fit. <br/><br/>You can keep transmitting the most repugnant imagery if you like. The choice is yours. 2026-07-07T19:12:36Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqw8d4z5te47ak0s738zrj68wn9q0pc4nzlwfhcvjwxuvx0fqd2cszyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjzrwrks Spam wars discourse<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/050c4de574216df2285502f1529c6cf910f50bdca30ff6cbeb2f8ecb01e42552.jpg"> 2026-06-29T18:29:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsttwpkf7qnnclzag78hhj2lvr9j4x045ktu3t6skqyssyv9kwyhxszyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxj43m02f Bear markets are an excellent time to learn how to run a node if you aren’t already. <br/><br/>And it’s easier than you might think, particularly if you use Start9, Umbrel, or Parmanode.<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/6f54ff5f737a4b0cf2cf981f958b2470b45f8c8274cf3fbf47ea0f11a4a18b27.jpg"> 2026-06-26T16:15:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrx9k9s8mgvsaphgnhlp843v4gx2wk5qkkummjfycqfesst86p3lczyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjw6w785 <br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/bf7c741c2113f8b8e93da187a33bd2180b44d874cc9dde2d02245a142e5635be.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/8b70581ffb6376c03585ac0f44ffe9dc50a19f6e7c92b764bf9356ad2399cdb6.png"> 2026-06-05T17:31:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx7nt63qjfhxgft8783t6v2q3rwupucdtvu2fenv450y5v8qas7pqzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxj52af8y Going on a long flight soon. Any film rec’s? Haven’t seen anything recent but have seen most of the classics 2026-04-02T02:01:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgw048lmxaep9cg73nlr9yshk58hr287345h2x62ewlj400qkqlggzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjzruh56 “The only zen you’ll find on mountaintops is the zen you bring up there with you.”<br/><br/>— Alan Watts quoting Robert Pirsig<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/538b0f8326ef07b1e776e82a715a064365b65a529dae96fb11f19ec1a1caea9f.jpg"> 2026-02-05T01:54:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsran4z2rzu0gg96pyyrk8tumy68znntyn2kurumn43gkvzcu5xvkqzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjdfytal “If you were told that you were going to be given half an hour’s interview with God, and you had the privilege of asking one question, I wonder what you would ask.”<br/><br/>— Alan Watts, Individual and the World<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/7ed7664c864505ea84414facfb453f9ca997d3705e2a4dedaef278266b2047ea.jpg"> 2026-01-24T01:06:44Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd9ed79dlvhywndx42ydlvhz3l0j7mf43e9ef5dmkxufk2q443hkgzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjz2w3x2 Your based core dev, sir.<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/f5e89d61cd40979f68f8ea1f268c6fcb63840b418cab2adc39c2386fe5c570f7.jpg"> 2026-01-20T21:08:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst3vxx0tjw2fn3mzf2jxaak8ndeda3qm3kfws4xxxct2x8flmtavczyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjmjsdnm “The ad men have persuaded you that if you could get this kind of car, this kind of yacht, this kind of house, this kind of scene, whatever it may be, you should. That’s the thing in life. That’s what’s important. And it doesn’t make people happy at all. And then they wonder why it doesn’t, and feel cheated. And they have to go to psychoanalysts, and churches, and things like that, to be persuaded that it’s coming sometime. Somehow, the thing that is always seems to be missing. And there’s nothing missing at all. Except, I mean, supposing you’re absolutely starved, and you just don’t have the normal flow of energy through your organism. Then, of course, you need food. Or if you’re freezing, you need shelter. But in the ordinary way, when you are fed and sheltered, there isn’t anything missing. It’s all here. But nobody is here to see it. Everybody is wandering after something else in the distance.”<br/><br/>— Alan Watts, Ecological Awarness<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/ae85fb9833618da4ab3e73ea517b9e8e576332ab55c613d08446cc7ae5c37066.jpg"> 2025-12-18T17:47:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqs96xjzzejtvkpy634hvt0h3vpfze6hwsrtmrsdw3wf9a87kg8pszyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjlqxk8v To be sufficiently bullish on gold/silver over Bitcoin, one must imagine a bleak mad-max style future where the internet goes out forever, armed men trade heavy rocks with one another to buy cans of tuna, and civilization as we know it ceases to exist.<br/><br/>Reject doomerism. Embrace Bitcoin.<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/3f84ff696ed0cebbb09603d71e8c0f8fe7cc6aaee129ebd66491976a31a178cf.jpg"> 2025-12-15T16:20:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsypq0eqfq3cug0tjm680weyfscl0jgsg0e7j5amyev7sdk2danhhqzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjdmupn9 The term “pleb slop” goes hard if deep down you despise plebs and don’t want them to escape fiat debt slavery. 2025-11-04T17:34:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgc559vhxytrevvywzmnsm8jjn9t3wgrxuefrdsanfcnvnlzkpzmqzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjcm4g6y Drone show in Lugano<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://blossom.primal.net/f72c300c4d57fec8add4cf85f4205e16966f60b79917a6bf4d4157c4b9364bd5.mov"></video> 2025-10-25T21:50:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8qvq09ss47tea7wra834x60txnc84lsn8sngf2t2mnzksr9svrpqzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjxw26xn Being a leftist in your teens and twenties is forgivable idealism.<br/><br/>Continuing to be a leftist in your thirties and beyond is historical and psychological illiteracy. 2025-10-25T15:28:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstuqa8gpawtlgrs03ksl8phuafk8e62x0dlf9hsu6x6wmclgncc6qzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxj9zvpmm The fanfare around gold shows people have properly diagnosed the problem.<br/><br/>But gold doesn’t solve the problem of unsound digital money. Bitcoin does.<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/d4bfcfed28e1b534b20dd7108cbc004dfef7837c1ab7c96c6d4675a5738a5024.jpg"> 2025-10-17T03:02:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszqpuw40xfjk5tqepq97tt2h9f7ed0vy5q306f4vtl8qka9daqc8szyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxj80ldqz This person is not a Bitcoiner.<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://blossom.primal.net/5e55751c00b58cd2cacdb831944a8d0c19cb135239be340e9d9a85cb3ae7a106.mov"></video> 2025-09-30T13:59:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg03vgcsqs03e27p50xt6tvw5x5uskeqe09yd83cvpz7342qng94szyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxja3gjpq Wild fact.<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/f20be63ecd2acd871314aae8d4cbf366237ace7880d82a23076bb693831dd16a.jpg"> 2025-09-06T21:36:44Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz68c7njw8c9ttsq9e3f0gvjt5m8lt98ewlmmnvm9u2a3gfcy7xeczyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxj4es4rg I vibe, therefore, I am. <img src="https://image.nostr.build/8807b0c960f3c687c55d809e5984f972b1253ec6b0b924ff84964d1458c3ac20.jpg"> 2024-07-16T04:31:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2v7erww34g6w3kfva206a47eqk02nkya6exrx045735c9re2rk4gzyqdax23cdfa7da5gk0w8cjqwlssum9rtg04vzjayhfurftrh5glxjs0am2k Most underestimate the massive productivity boost that working for #BTC rather than USD gives you. 2023-08-04T19:24:58Z