I made a new account called @satsraiser. You can post any ideas you might have about future donation ideas over there. I made a bio post which explains what I'm trying to do (sort of).
Today, I decided to embark on a 21-day challenge in which I did something related to Bitcoin every day. I would also record my progress on Stacker News.
Day 1 - I used my sats from my Muun wallet to buy a gift card (my country’s version of UberEats) from Bitrefill. Smooth process. Made me motivated to buy more gift cards in future so that I could unlock my referral code!
On another note: I had a discussion with @shurikencutter about AI generated content
One conclusion of our conversation was that we both write TG bots so our bots can speak to each other and there will be an infinite loop of bots prompting each other, lol
Just a few seconds after you posted this, @supratic posted these items, lol
And all these requests are fine. I am just not sure how I should respond sometimes. Since I don't want to say "I love this idea, let's do this!" just for @k00b to show up later and say "no, let's NOT do this", lol. Basically, would it look bad if we disagree in public? But @k00b is a very transparent person, so I don't think he does mind :) (@k00b disagreeing in 3, 2, 1 ... lol)
I have also noticed how I have gotten more conservative over time with feature requests. I try to look for reasons why we should not do something more now.
Thanks. I have taken a lot of inspiration from the FIRE community, but substitute index funds for BTC (which they hate, haha).
There isn't much else I can do at this point to stack harder aside from changing jobs, but I really like my current workplace and it still pays pretty good.
Thanks for the share. I’ll look into them. If you can tolerate your job and stack why not stick it out?
In another life I followed financial markets pretty closely and the advice of a group on an investment forum called ‘The Motley Fool’. Put what you can into a tax efficient - in the UK at that time there were some good options - but most importantly a low cost fund; index trackers being preferred. Reinvest your dividends until you need them and then drawdown. I did very well off this advice although the compounding is missing from BTC, somewhat replaced by the exponential growth. Sadly for me I suffered a personal tragedy and have had to start again.
These days I work minimum wage and save $1 a day into my BTC pot. Will it give me enough to retire early? Probably not at this rate lol! But I’m studying and I have some skills so I will get back into a decent job and invest again - only BTC this time. Small steps.
Was it you who said they were studying Economics, Philosophy and Politics? You always struck me as a pretty switched-on guy, I'm sure you can turn things around.
Kind of you to say. That’s my subject. I’m assuming we are in a similar geographic location in the world so you may appreciate there are opportunities out there, but you really have to work for them.
Yeah! MMM has written some great articles (my favourites are about bikes).
He's rather against Bitcoin and has unfortunately written some pretty braindead takes on it, and I feel like he's gotten way softer in frugality over recent years. But his older articles are gems.
Good morning everyone!!! The weekend has begun, another week goes by and time to get recharged for the next one, today feels like a treat day, perhaps a BBQ with family, a walk with some ice cream or perhaps a nice glass of wine with a great convo, anything you like, just get a treat, I wish you an incredible day and may it have lots of love and joy. You're important my friend and thank you for being!! Be well and stay frosty!!
Today I'm gonna make me a fully-collapsible metal retro-VW-Kombi grill / firepit... I will post it on my Nostr for anyone who wants to see it... will be available for sale if anyone is interested 😜
Tsundoku (積ん読) refers to the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them. It is also used to refer to books ready for reading later when they are on a bookshelves
Reading an extract from "The Broken Money" by Lyn Alden.
"There are over 160 different currencies in the world, each with a local monopoly over its own jurisdiction. But aside from the top handful of them, most currencies rapidly devalue over time and have little acceptance outside of their own borders." ... "How did we get here? Why isn’t our money better than this in the 21st century?"
It's my new favorite book in the space. I had assumed the pending one from the btc philosophers would be my favorite, but Lyn's will be hard to unseat.
This one -- announced a long time ago, but takes a long time to do a book to an academic standard put out by an academic press. They're being super rigorous about it, which I love.
The guys have been on a number of podcasts, if you want to get a sense for how they think and how they approach the space. What Bitcoin Did has a number of go-rounds with them, highly recommended if you dig podcasts.
I have spent the last two days visiting with very old friends. I barely picked up my phone. Sometimes a break is necessary, but I do miss the snail interaction. Gotta get up earlier.
Watched the movie Mr. Nobody last night, it was quite nice @nemo
I haven't read any reviews from others yet, but my understand that Nemo ( the one in the movie ) uses his imagination to see different possibilities with different choices, and he figured out what he truly wants at the end after going through all these.
I think the movie is trying to say that the start and ending are the same for everyone, so it is up to each individual to discover their own possibilities and figure out the one he/she wants the most.
The ones around me - yes, but I mostly hang around with craftsmen these days to learn & make my own stuff, sharing one of the most beautiful things I had made this year!
One thing I didn't mention during this post is Bitcoin also changed me from a consumer to maker - it is so much fun and freedom making your own stuff! now I am in full mode of stacking Bitcoin, skills, and fun.
Spending time here is part of the fun! I think browsing daily discussions is more fun than on nostr, but I am not sure if these comments would reach 1000+ as SN grows, then might be a headache to read? 🤣
I am coming and going like the btc price on exchanges 😂 until October, when I expect bad weather so I can't work well anymore on my citadel.
I have to finish it until halvening day next year.