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Sparrow
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Relays (26)
  • wss://nos.lol – read & write
  • wss://nostr.mom – read & write
  • wss://soloco.nl – read & write
  • wss://relay.primal.net – read & write
  • wss://relay.damus.io – read & write
  • wss://relay.nostr.band – read & write
  • wss://mastodon.cloud/api/v1/streaming – read & write
  • wss://relay.mostr.pub – read & write
  • wss://nostr.xmr.rocks – read & write
  • wss://slick.mjex.me – read & write
  • wss://relay2.angor.io – read & write
  • wss://relay.snort.social – read & write
  • wss://purplepag.es – read & write
  • wss://premium.primal.net – read & write
  • wss://nwc.primal.net/ayvjleilmx0al7j2pqt24qed1z7a8s – read & write
  • wss://xmr.ithurtswhenip.ee – read & write
  • wss://relay.mostr.pub/%20 – read & write
  • wss://nerostr.xmr.rocks – read & write
  • wss://strfry.openhoofd.nl – read & write
  • wss://relay.nostr.net – read & write
  • wss://offchain.pub – read & write
  • wss://relay.nsec.app – read & write
  • wss://relay.utxo.one/outbox – read & write
  • wss://xmr.usenostr.org – read & write
  • wss://relay.ditto.pub – read & write
  • wss://nwc.primal.net/4j0vckx6o8rhg22i1t2uknf4k8l5oh – read & write

Recent Notes

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There are more bitcoin than monero coins, and there will continue to be much more bitcoin than monero for decades.

You don’t understand monero.
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It would be nice if welcomed more decentralization social dialog, self hosting, home labs, computer security, local LLM AI models running locally instead of the cloud, homesteading, home schooling, less government control, and various other uncontrolled items dealing with decentralization. It could exist on this platform. But it is only an in your face bitcoin maxi or leave place. Bitcoin, bitcoin, bitcoin, bitcoin. I came here in early 2023 because Snowden promoted it. I would not have came just for bitcoin.
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Congress spent three years asking if America should buy Bitcoin.

Delta Force answered in one weekend.

US Strategic Reserve: 327,000 BTC

Venezuela’s alleged shadow reserve: 600,000 BTC

Combined: 927,000 BTC

The Senate proposed buying 1 million BTC. Stalled in committee. Budget gridlock. Political theater.

Delta Force just delivered 93% of the target through extraction. Not legislation.

How Venezuela built it:

2018: 73 tons of gold exported through Turkey and UAE. Converted to BTC at $3,000-$10,000.

2023-2025: 80% of oil revenue collected in Tether. Washed into Bitcoin to avoid freeze risk.

2024: Private mining banned. Thousands of ASICs seized. State accumulated.

The reference class:

Germany sold 50,000 BTC in July 2024. Market crashed 15-20%.

Venezuela’s alleged stash is 12x larger.

But Germany sold. The US holds.

Executive Order March 2025: “The United States will not sell bitcoin deposited into this Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.”

3% of total supply. Locked in legal limbo for 5-10 years. Synthetic halving.

The problem nobody’s discussing:

Maduro is in a New York jail cell.

The man who controls the keys isn’t.

Alex Saab. Maduro’s financial architect. Multi-signature cold wallets designed by Swiss lawyers. Keys dispersed across operatives in multiple jurisdictions.

Welcome to seed phrase diplomacy.

The new great game isn’t fought with aircraft carriers.

It’s fought with cryptographic keys.

Every scenario except “holdings don’t exist” is bullish.

Seized and held: Supply shock.

Keys lost forever: Permanently dormant. Same effect.

Oil is the headline every network is running.

Bitcoin is the trade nobody is discussing.
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Last year Monero was approx $101.95
In February 2024.
Currently Monero is now over $450.00 each Dec 2025.

BTC belongs to institutions now, much easier to trace, often easier to trace than fiat cash.

People are waking up to the only currency that keeps people anonymous.

People are switching to real safety and anonymous Monero. Nothing compares to it.