I'm working on a video and in-person presentation about #Nostr for non-Bitcoiners. Been digging into the numbers ( let me know if you spot any errors) and it's pretty fascinating to see: #YouTube Creator: - 30% cut to YouTube - 20–30% Income tax Leaves about $25 for every $50 earned. If you save that $25, after 8 years at 10% inflation YoY, it would be worth about $12 in today’s purchasing power. #v4v Model: - No middlemen - 20–30% Income tax - No capital gains taxes if you don’t convert to fiat (most places) - +45% CAGR if you hold it long term If held for 8 years, $25 of sats would be worth ~$553 at a 45% CAGR. Considering 10% inflation YoY it could buy $258 of goods in today’s purchasing power in 8 years. It’s clear v4v isn't sustainable short-term without savings or another form of income, but it operates on a completely different timeline. YouTube ads and other mainstream monetization models are firmly rooted in the fiat world while v4v is about manifesting the reality in which we wish to live; a higher timeline ⚡️✨

Tired of #YouTubeAds and fiat incentives? I was too - but haven't paid for Premium or seen a mainstream ad online in the last 2 years. I also broke the fiat incentive by de-monetizing my channel #v4vOnly Find out how to never see a YouTube ad again without AdBlock, Premium, giving up privacy, or wasting any time or money. And please share this video, because YouTube probably wont lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULQCk09eqDw

Thank you 🙌🏼 ⚡️ Excited to get the audiobook to you once it's ready. If you would like a teaser, the first 2h are already public: https://daniella.io/extracts. Definitely curious to hear your perspective on Bitcoin / spirituality / personal development as well 🙏🏼 I truly believe Bitcoin changes everything 🧡 All the best

💯 Really cool, I'm glad I gave it a try. After spending years doing PPC/SEO can say this is very powerful, like early Google Adwords but better ⚡️✨

💯 Never seen anything like it. I was trying to calculate UPS shipping for 4 books to the US today, it's a small parcel, about 3kg. I thought there was a bug and gave up but it makes sense now, the shipping cost was 500€ lol

I just went to the post office in Portugal to ship a parcel to the US. Tracked at 700g it usually costs 25€. The postal agent told me I'm not allowed to send products to the US, only documents, and that if the parcel contains documents, the cost is 100€. She told me the new pricing has been in place since Monday. I don't watch the news.. https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/08/26/portuguese-postal-service-joins-list-of-european-companies-suspending-goods-deliveries-to- That's not a 20 or 30% tariff, that's a 300% increase which clearly affects SMBs directly (once again) and is a deterrent to commerce altogether. Also looks like another excuse to print money, just 11 billion ya'know lol. Part of me is surprised at 100€ to ship less than a kilo of paper in the mail, another is like 'to be expected;' it's just fiat being fiat... https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/portugal-rolls-out-11-billion-package-help-economy-weather-us-tariffs-2025-04-10/ Looking forward to figuring out teleportation, in the meantime, this system is such a deterrent to human progress... 😑 Grateful for Bitcoin.

My pleasure, looks like it's working well ⚡️✨

Made my post into a video, hopefully it's better than a wall of text ^^ https://youtu.be/mDTfEr2gYWo

Same, we are the aglo so it's just a matter of curating our feed/follows, no spam or ads in mine either ;)

Been thinking about the Core/#Knots debate. Going back to first principles and Satoshi's Bitcoin Whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf - First Principle 1: Bitcoin is a monetary network "peer-to-peer electronic cash" - First Principle 2: "Honest" nodes secure the network "The system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes." - First Principle 3: Nodes keep the network decentralized "peer-to-peer" - First Principle 4: Bitcoin must remain decentralized and secure to function as a monetary network Bitcoin, as it was originally intended ("peer-to-peer electronic cash"), dissolves the false illusion of fiat by imposing Universal Laws in service to humanity and thus transforms the world. Bitcoin Core v30 Related to: - First Principle 1: Violates Bitcoin as a monetary network by welcoming larger non-monetary data on to the blockchain - First Principle 2: Compromises Bitcoin's security when nodes become public data storage forced to hold and relay illegal content uploaded to the blockchain by bad actors - First Principle 3: Compromises decentralization when it becomes too expensive, too complex, or illegal for regular individuals to run a node because the blockchain is bloated with non-monetary / illegal data - First Principle 4: Bitcoin is no longer a decentralized or secure monetary network if the previous first principles are violated Bitcoin, as storage for .jpegs and other non-monetary content, becomes a shitcoin. Core is not Bitcoin; we are Bitcoin. There is a thin line between "Bitcoin will be fine" and "we need to act to keep Bitcoin fine." The simple solution is to vote with your node 🧡 On a positive note: - This debate is strengthening Bitcoin as a monetary network; it is getting more plebs involved, running and actively managing their nodes. - It has made the issue of centralized mining more visible to the community and invited more plebs to run solominers. - It has also provided excellent signal! I'm grateful to be connecting with a lot more nodes who deeply care about this protocol for humanity and know what Bitcoin entails far beyond "1s and 0s"⚡️✨ For more info, would recommend these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t0J9jq5q_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMvpRVHr8Lc

Building the world you want to live in 🧡

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