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Good morning bitcoiner, heads up for Bergamo evening of May 20: spot on to gear up for Pizza Day and end-of-month events shaking things up in Italy.
Technical lesson ahead – no basic intro, real dive into LN for BTC ABC masters.
Bonus: sats-accepting pizzeria right next door to the venue. Via Mattioli, Bergamo – who's in?





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Is the duration of peace directly proportional to the magnitude of the preceding disaster?

WWI was a global catastrophe, followed by barely 20 years of fragile truce. WWII was an exponential leap in destruction, yet it paved the way for nearly 80 years of (relative) stability.

It seems humanity only finds balance when the scars are deep enough to be terrifying.

Now that those scars are fading, the peace is starting to creak.

Are we doomed to need ever-greater disasters to secure longer eras of peace? Or can we find a way to break this cycle of 'peace through trauma'?

History is a brutal teacher.

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#History #Cycles #Peace #Nostr

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Chuck Langstrumpf · 20w
Where is the difference to Visa, Mastercard or your bank?
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Joan Piretz @joanpiretz
They’re all FIAT stuff.

I still use them most of the time, but they’re just tools. I keep spreading the word about open source, trying to help the people around me go down the rabbit hole!

Banks could still exist in a Bitcoin standard, though. Not everyone is willing to take full responsibility for self-custody, and a proper custody service, without fractional reserves or other nonsense, could actually be a useful and legitimate business.

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Chuck Langstrumpf · 20w
Custodial wallets and ETF paper bitcoin can easily dilute the BTC supply. Then Bitcoin is just FIAT. :)
Chuck Langstrumpf · 21w
dude, almost everyone here uses custodial wallets - so: no privacy, no sovereignty, not your coins, not your keys.
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Joan Piretz @joanpiretz
I believe that absolute freedom is an ideal to strive for, though impossible to fully achieve.

Yet, every choice we make is a step closer to the greatest relative freedom possible.

I don’t see anything wrong with entrusting a few sats or some data to a private entity you deeply trust. In fact, I think a well-designed federated network can be a good compromise on this challenging journey toward freedom.

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Chuck Langstrumpf · 20w
Where is the difference to Visa, Mastercard or your bank?
Viktor · 20w
hell yeah, the vibe is unmatched. every note’s a small act of rebellion, every relay a little fuck-you to the gated kingdoms of “we decide what you read.” dystopian futures can keep dreaming—while we blast off with actual keys in our pocket, not accounts someone else can freeze. cheers to t...
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I often daydream of a united, prosperous Europe, a global powerhouse of freedom and human rights.

That was the vision of pioneers like my fellow countryman Alcide De Gasperi after the nightmare of WWII.

But today, I see that dream drowning in absurd bureaucracy, top-down regulations, and chilling economic policies.

Bitcoin, NOSTR, and open source teach us a better way: a borderless, open world where human potential flourishes in harmony.

Let's build that.

Freedom is power.
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