The average American spends 4 hours every day scrolling on their phone. For the younger generations its almost 6. If you don't include the time you have to sleep, that's between 90-130 days out of the year... spent just looking at our phones. If you could get that time back what would you do with it?

2007 US govt debt was $9T Today its $38T In 20 years it'll be ~$140-180T This is by merely extending a stable, non-partisan exponential trend that has held since the 70s. Are you hedging this or will you just watch living standards collapse & blame whatever scapegoat politicians throw at you?

They scammed us out of sound money that we can just save independently, and then forced us to hand our life savings over to giant corporations just to match the c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶e̶r̶f̶e̶i̶t̶ inflation rate. Then we complain about how big corporations are.

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Most people think the future of banking will come from Silicon Valley or Wall Street. They’re wrong, it’s being built right now on throw away laptops, bitcoin nodes, and the personal computers of random nerds undermining the very structure of the banking system, one line of code at a time. Let’s talk ecash, multinut payments, and the new cypherpunk stack. Read_888 - The Cypherpunk Banking Stack Is Coming (article by nostr:nprofile1qqsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3kamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvf5hgcm0d9h8qctjdvhxxmmdsxtn6f ) 🔗 https://fountain.fm/episode/he2qkjsdRTlgF11JbCiQ

The Bitcoin bull market feels like it's gonna kick off soon.

As society becomes more productive and technologically advanced, money is *supposed* to grow in value. This is literally the mechanism by which the fruits of all our labor are shared. By all the things we need and want becoming more affordable. If everything is getting more expensive while technology is advancing, someone is stealing from you.

Pretty soon the whole world is going to be talking about Bitcoin non stop. It’s going to be infuriating, btw. Most will have no clue what they’re talking about and they’ll have very strong, angry opinions. 😅

Dave Smith: “I was 8 years old when the US invaded Iraq for the first time. I have vague memories of the celebration afterwards. War hawks were bragging about the overwhelming success and how easy the whole thing was. We went on to fighting in Iraq for most of the next 30 years taking thousands of casualties and costing us trillions of dollars. I remember vividly the “mission accomplished” celebration two months into the 20 year catastrophe that was George W Bush’s invasion of Iraq. What followed was a wide consensus that it was one of, if not, the worst foreign policy blunders in modern American history. I remember Hillary Clinton boasting that “we came, we saw, he’s dead” immediately after overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi. A few years later when she was running for President, she wouldn’t dare bring it up because it was such an obvious, colossal failure. They told us that the Afghan army would hold the nation together. They told us that sanctions alone would defeat the Russians. They always lie but especially at the beginning of a war. I’ve seen a lot of people celebrating the Israel/Iran war for the last 48 hours. Talking about how it’s going exactly according to plan, and how easy it will be to overthrow the Iranian regime and improve life for Iranians as well as stability in the region. Maybe they are finally right this time, and for the first time. But, they are definitely celebrating way, way too prematurely, and I see no indication that it won’t be a catastrophe just like the rest.”

Watching states commit financial suicide is very interesting 😂 nevent1qqszhh2dr6xr4vamacwu4lu9409rg5jwgm3wd6rverhkg7fexc85ymcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgvcq8lf

The problem is finding the content though. I ask this because I interacted with someone the other day who said they’d been up here for a while but nobody saw their stuff. This would be a way for them to get the eyeballs that would make their good content spread further. Then also I could see myself wanting to “boost” an episode of the show or a video. And it would be cool to pay to get into the feeds of people close to my circles, but who don’t follow me. I think it probably feels dirty just because it’s advertising. But there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with advertising itself, it’s just generally been a really dirty environment because is non-organic and run by central parties. Something like this could just end up being crap and abused for garbage, but then the user could cut it off and/or increase their price. But it wouldn’t change anything else about the experience. Somebody brought up that this might have some serious technical limitations anyway, but it was just a thought.

Holy Shit!!! 9.7% REAL yield on a payment network while holding the keys to their BTC the entire time!! Holy shitballs that is absolutely insane! This has to be the craziest thing to come out of the conference this year. I don’t think people will get how big of a deal this is. Things are about to change big time. This is fucking nuts.

Ah man I hadn’t watched that series in a while and really liked it. Especially for an open collection of short stories. What sucked about it? Did it feel rushed or just the quality of the short stories ran dry, or something else?

A truth I was surprised to discover: Most people want slavery. They just want to be comfortable. And the moment a little bit of freedom causes discomfort, they rush back to their cage. Then to delude themselves because they can’t accept that reality, they label all things uncomfortable as “slavery” and all things comfortable as “freedom.” Convincing themselves that because their cage is “nice and safe,” this means they are actually free.

Yeah tried that already too. Just not showing up. I “requested the desktop site” also but it didn’t change (not sure if it’s any different)

Its half a gig, so maybe its too big?

How would you force someone to receive handouts? This works specifically because you sign over the choice to vote during the receiving of the benefit. The incentives are 1000x better aligned than the current cluster fuck we have. There’s no possible way it could be worse than people voting themselves other peoples stuff.

Am I reading this translation correctly or is this the most absurd explanation ever? 😆 nostr:note1c78nsxm5zyrpyn7azypdgxtkpfgrr0ex4fxwfkn3kyhkpqpysgts2rlwfe

Sweet! Already have one but I’ve been wanting to try out cloaked but had forgotten about it. Good idea for a duo 😆 GUY gets 10% off of you are grabbing something 👇🏻 nostr:nevent1qqsgx0fpfs0p04s9arxk70l5setpykv3fhdgz7qpxvhuhhxy4mxhzncpzemhxw309ucnjv3wxymrst338qhrww3hxumnwjmrcd2

Hey nostr:nprofile1q9n8wumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99ah8qatzx96r2amr8p5rxdm4dp4kzafew3ehwwpjwd48smnywycrgepndcu8qd3nx36hguryvem8xdr5d56hsmt5xfehzemtxejxkeflvfex7ctyvdshxapaw3e82egprpmhxue69uhkc6t8dp6xu6twvaex2mrp0yhxxmmdqqsfnz2sqsflkatdssmeztxr90s8xrd7r07xkhfwaa6eu9zkcguljpg0va3vj stats on videos seem to be gone again.

How I was recording the Bushido of Bitcoin today… 😆

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What's your tactic for when you have one of those days where your energy is just completely shot and you feel up for nothing? Having one of those days for some reason.

Oh that's a great idea

Whur my 88.888K gang at!? nostr:note1vrl96aa4l7e353wcy99ck5c3d7huq4syll08rje0ypz55hvxands39f283

I found a lightweight model that can determine with pretty solid accuracy whether an image is NSFW or not. Would be cool to have a SFW relay that did this for you and auto-blurred posts from people you follow that might have nudity.