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Relays (4)
- wss://nostr.wine – read & write
- wss://relay.damus.io – read & write
- wss://nos.lol – read & write
- wss://eden.nostr.land – read & write
Recent Notes
To the ones affected, the ones who might be next, and even the ones out there trying to hit us again.
This one hurts different. A lot of you did everything right. No phishing link, no pasted seed, just a proper air gapped setup following the guide. And it still might not have been enough.
That’s the hard truth. Doing everything right doesn’t guarantee you walk away clean. Security isn’t a checklist you finish once. Hardware fails, firmware hides bugs for years, entropy that’s supposed to be random sometimes isn’t. None of that is your fault, and it doesn’t mean self custody was the wrong call. It means the standard has to keep moving, because the people coming for your coins never stop.
This is why only the paranoid survive here. Not scared paranoid, disciplined paranoid. Passphrase everything. Verify twice. Never fully trust one point of failure, not a vendor, not a chip, not even your old setup.
To whoever’s hunting for the next flaw, you’ll find more. That’s not a reason to panic or leave. It’s the tax we pay for holding our own keys. We patch, we migrate, we get sharper.
If this touched you, don’t spiral. Migrate calmly, verify every step, then get back to building. This space rewards the ones who stay paranoid and keep stacking anyway.
Stay safe. Stay sovereign. Multi Sig your stack.
#Bitcoin
This one hurts different. A lot of you did everything right. No phishing link, no pasted seed, just a proper air gapped setup following the guide. And it still might not have been enough.
That’s the hard truth. Doing everything right doesn’t guarantee you walk away clean. Security isn’t a checklist you finish once. Hardware fails, firmware hides bugs for years, entropy that’s supposed to be random sometimes isn’t. None of that is your fault, and it doesn’t mean self custody was the wrong call. It means the standard has to keep moving, because the people coming for your coins never stop.
This is why only the paranoid survive here. Not scared paranoid, disciplined paranoid. Passphrase everything. Verify twice. Never fully trust one point of failure, not a vendor, not a chip, not even your old setup.
To whoever’s hunting for the next flaw, you’ll find more. That’s not a reason to panic or leave. It’s the tax we pay for holding our own keys. We patch, we migrate, we get sharper.
If this touched you, don’t spiral. Migrate calmly, verify every step, then get back to building. This space rewards the ones who stay paranoid and keep stacking anyway.
Stay safe. Stay sovereign. Multi Sig your stack.
#Bitcoin
Two systems. One needs inflation to survive. One gets stronger the more people build on it.
Fiat forces companies to chase short term survival. Debt only works if the currency keeps losing value.
Bitcoin is the opposite. Priced in sats, prices fall over time. Same goods, different money, different outcome.
Ego Death Capital's new venture, Orange Juice, buys real cash flowing small businesses, runs them lean with AI, and stacks the profit into Bitcoin. No leverage. No fragile balance sheet game. Just real businesses compounding into sound money.
Build for the world that's coming. Stop optimizing for the one that's ending.
Fiat forces companies to chase short term survival. Debt only works if the currency keeps losing value.
Bitcoin is the opposite. Priced in sats, prices fall over time. Same goods, different money, different outcome.
Ego Death Capital's new venture, Orange Juice, buys real cash flowing small businesses, runs them lean with AI, and stacks the profit into Bitcoin. No leverage. No fragile balance sheet game. Just real businesses compounding into sound money.
Build for the world that's coming. Stop optimizing for the one that's ending.
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If a 50% drawdown from the top scares you, Bitcoin probably isn't your game.
This is the part everyone says they want and almost nobody acts on.
Prices like this don't show up often. Roughly once every four years. The rest of the time you're paying a premium for conviction you could have built right now.
The people who look back wishing they bought aren't waiting for confirmation. They're already buying.
Down 50% isn't the risk. Missing the window is.
Be greedy when the timeline is fearful.
#Bitcoin
This is the part everyone says they want and almost nobody acts on.
Prices like this don't show up often. Roughly once every four years. The rest of the time you're paying a premium for conviction you could have built right now.
The people who look back wishing they bought aren't waiting for confirmation. They're already buying.
Down 50% isn't the risk. Missing the window is.
Be greedy when the timeline is fearful.
#Bitcoin
Your Bitcoin isn’t yours until you’ve done this one thing:
Move it off the exchange.
If someone else holds the keys, you don’t own Bitcoin. You own a promise. An IOU that’s only as good as the company behind it, and we’ve watched plenty of those companies vanish overnight with everyone’s coins inside.
Self custody is the whole point. Your keys, your wallet, your rules. No permission slips, no withdrawal limits, no counterparty praying it stays solvent.
Take it off the exchange. Then it’s yours.
Move it off the exchange.
If someone else holds the keys, you don’t own Bitcoin. You own a promise. An IOU that’s only as good as the company behind it, and we’ve watched plenty of those companies vanish overnight with everyone’s coins inside.
Self custody is the whole point. Your keys, your wallet, your rules. No permission slips, no withdrawal limits, no counterparty praying it stays solvent.
Take it off the exchange. Then it’s yours.
Travel is about the experience, not the photos.
Get out of your comfort zone and try the local spots. Get out of your head and meet the locals. Do the things you skip out on at home.
You are not on vacation to do what you always be doing.
Get out of your comfort zone and try the local spots. Get out of your head and meet the locals. Do the things you skip out on at home.
You are not on vacation to do what you always be doing.
How to avoid getting your Bitcoin hacked:
•Never download wallet apps from app stores by searching, always go directly to the official website
•Buy hardware wallet from official sources only. Never buy from Amazon, eBay, or third parties
•Download software/updates from official site
•Don’t store seed phrase on phone, computer, paper, or anything digital
⚡️MOST IMPORTANTLY⚡️
•NEVER share your seed phrase or private keys
Stay dangerous, only the paranoid survive.
#Bitcoin #Nostr
•Never download wallet apps from app stores by searching, always go directly to the official website
•Buy hardware wallet from official sources only. Never buy from Amazon, eBay, or third parties
•Download software/updates from official site
•Don’t store seed phrase on phone, computer, paper, or anything digital
⚡️MOST IMPORTANTLY⚡️
•NEVER share your seed phrase or private keys
Stay dangerous, only the paranoid survive.
#Bitcoin #Nostr
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•Non KYC Bitcoin
•Bitcoin in cold storage
•Run a node
•Mine Bitcoin
Enjoy your life.
•Bitcoin in cold storage
•Run a node
•Mine Bitcoin
Enjoy your life.
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Changing your mind is a skill. Most people never learn it.
You can hold a belief for ten years. Does not make it true.
You can defend it with passion, with logic, with everything you have. Still does not make it true.
The strongest people are not the ones who never change. They are the ones who update the moment the facts do.
New information is a gift. Most people treat it like an insult.
The person who can say “I was wrong” will always grow faster than the one who needs to be right.
You are not weak for changing your mind. You are weak for refusing to.
Stay curious. Stay willing.
Facts over feelings.
You can hold a belief for ten years. Does not make it true.
You can defend it with passion, with logic, with everything you have. Still does not make it true.
The strongest people are not the ones who never change. They are the ones who update the moment the facts do.
New information is a gift. Most people treat it like an insult.
The person who can say “I was wrong” will always grow faster than the one who needs to be right.
You are not weak for changing your mind. You are weak for refusing to.
Stay curious. Stay willing.
Facts over feelings.
What’s your favorite thing about #Bitcoin ?
#asknostr
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#asknostr
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Health, wealth, and freedom
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky
📕 what are you currently reading?
#bookstr #readstr
-Joseph Brodsky
📕 what are you currently reading?
#bookstr #readstr
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Your actions reveal your priorities, and your priorities become your habits.