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Buy the Invasion

By Chris Fisher

Aired Oct 2, 2024 · 57m · Last boosted Oct 9, 2024

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How world events impact Bitcoin, why investors are turning cynical, and the one Bitcoin metric that's right 83% of the time. Plus, some FUD busting and how Visa banned Apple from integrating Bitcoin and more into Apple Pay. Affiliate LINKS: 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling Links: Bitcoin: A Global Liquidity Barometer...

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wartimeMar 18, 2026
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🎯 help you bring ideas into reality That's one thing I've struggled with, I've got lots of good ideas but I need assistance and assistants 🤭 to help me move forward to completion
wartimeMar 18, 2026
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What I would like to see more Nostr apps doing is hiding the fact that they are Nostr apps. Just obscure it away so normal people think it's a normal app, and not a power app. And let the features and usability make them a fan without them realizing it
wartimeMar 18, 2026
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Custom scripts for everybody! 🥳🥳
wartimeMar 18, 2026
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Ya there's definitely nothing wrong with waiting. 6 to 12 months from now it will be much more capable, and in order of magnitude easier to set up
wartimeMar 18, 2026
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I've been setting up mine to automatically log conversations. I've been feeding it all of my notes and business ideas. Everything gets automatically cataloged into obsidian. That obsidian vault is included in the QMD database for vector memory search. My agents have excellent short and long-term memory with minimal token usage. To set it up right, you really need to spend quite a while setting it up - or buy the files from somewhere. I've been setting up going on 3 weeks. It has already made me more productive. Soon my calendar will be synchronized. Client leads with automatically be filtered and surfaced front and center to me. The more you use something like this, the more you will start to understand how you can compound little abilities on top of each other. One cron job can trigger a cascade of events and work. I have used simplistic bots for many years. I used to have one that would pay my child support for me. That ran with no issues for about 5 years before they updated the site and broke my bot. I used to use another one for automatically populating descriptions and titles for an online store. At that time, I was replacing an employee with a simple bot. These things have been providing real value for people, for longer than people assume. Again it all comes down to how you use it and what you're doing with it. 6 to 12 months from now the landscape will be much different. Right now it's very hard to set up correctly and easy to burn money if you don't know what you're doing. But soon a lot of these things will be ironed out and much more normal people will be able to get higher value from it. On top of that, every time the models get better or cheaper, that means you can also upgrade your system to be smarter or cheaper.
wartimeMar 18, 2026
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I don't know who's spending $1,000 but you doing it wrong. I spent $15 in the past 3 weeks with more usage than I've ever had. It all depends on the model. But If they are also using it to do scraping and analyzing, it's not exactly simple work. And if you compare that to a human being doing the same work - that $1,000 is probably much cheaper than a human spending the time manually scraping and analyzing. I think I saw a graph recently saying that Claude opus outputs - in one prompt - between 5 and 15 hours of human work. Obviously that's not on every prompt, but that's pretty substantial even if it's expensive at a 30 cent API call, then maybe it's an extremely good deal. It's all very relative to what you're using it for and what your accomplishing in the end. Some of us have been playing with AI models for years already so we already know how to prompt better and we get better results. You've got to keep playing with different models - talk to them in different ways - and be explicit, try to remove ambiguity. And if you're having problems writing prompts - ask one AI to write a prompt for you to give to the other.. and that will often increase your chance of a one shot successful prompt
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hybridsarcasmSep 27, 2024
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I noticed that the “Activate Linux” project has a NixOS flake: https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux
genebeanSep 24, 2024
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Wanna change perception of Linux? Get younger people, or influencers of younger people, to talk openly about non-niche topics and how they personally **prefer** using Linux to do them.
genebeanSep 24, 2024
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As of September 24, there’s an open PR for nextcloud30 … I’m just itching for some of the new features.
genebeanSep 24, 2024
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We’ve been using a Zero Water pitcher for a long time and am really happy with it Chris.
genebeanSep 23, 2024
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Let’s get Jeff on to the show! Question wise, @npub1awyzkzakt… mentioned an AirTag alternative… what options are there in this regard? Also, is there an easy way to see this alternative’s location on a map?
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wartimeSep 21, 2025
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Ente is "en tay" ✔️
wartimeSep 21, 2025
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Top notch recommendations all around
wartimeSep 21, 2025
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I recently verified a sock puppet Google account using Jmp too. They are an excellent anonymous Google Voice/esim/sms alternative
wartimeSep 21, 2025
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Cheogram aka https://Jmp.chat Gajim on Windows too It's basically a complete alternative to Google voice and how that works. I have been using it for years at this point and it's excellent
wartimeSep 21, 2025
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DerivationDingusOct 6, 2024
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Put some Mac and cheese on this one for me, plz! By the way, have you guys seen https://github.com/anotherhadi/nixy? It appears to be a mostly pre-configured Hyprland config. I haven’t personally tried it yet, but Chris has mentioned wanting something like this in the past. I am running my own Hyprland config but it's far from perfect. I’m looking to try out Nixy soon.
DerivationDingusOct 6, 2024
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This zip code where I started listening. I’m a full-blow Nix junkie because of this show. Everything in my house is slowly becoming a NixOS box. I love the technical content. I’d happily do a survey if you guys asked. I run my own Nextcloud, Nostr relay, and nix-bitcoin node. First boost from my own lightning node! All route thru a cheap Linode (thanks for that $100 code =P). My first episode was the Shufflecake episode where the audience was invited to SSH in and find a secret. I love the audience “interactive” content. I was also as the Olympia meet up and the suicide linux challenge was insanely fun. Keep up the amazing work!
DerivationDingusOct 6, 2024
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Hey guys! First LUP boost and first boost funded with my own node! I’m a member and I love all of the shows. I’m SO down for Jefftastic meet up. This is a zipcode boost. Wes and his map will be able to tell you, I wouldn’t have too far to travel, so I’m happy to help if there’s anything I can do. I don’t have any meshtastic nodes up and running at this moment, but I have a lot stuff left over from my experiments. Mostly Heltecs and RAK. The antennas my Heltec’s came with were trash. After improving the antenna, my distances went way up. I have 2 large antennas and have permission to permenantly affix a node on the roof of my work.
hybridsarcasmOct 5, 2024
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No message. Just felt wrong missing a week to BOOST.
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genebeanApr 8, 2025
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Test for Wes: A little coin for the headsets 🎧🎙️Regarding the gaming episode, I am interested in the state of thi ngs and experiences, but had no interest in listeni ng to y'all play. The non-gameplay bits were good and will be helpful when I'm chatting with others or thinking about what I can setup for my kiddo.
DerivationDingusApr 8, 2025
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Also, a while back you guys were talking about network equipment for the studio in the post show. I’m not a big fan of going Ubiquiti for everything. I think you guys might find it to be restrictive and expensive. It’s pretty cost-effective to go with pfSense or opnsense on the firewall, spin up the unifi controller software on a VM, and then you manage Unifi APs with their nice UI without buying any cloud gateway devices, saving you hundreds. I have less experience with the cameras, so someone else will have to chime in about how those could be used in a more “tinkerer-friendly” way. Wes, during that same post show conversation you brought up potentially having problems using pfSense or opnsense on your home (fiber) network. I used to live quite close to you and sent you some specific info about how to do it, including a link to a pfSense guide specific the ISP. The guide works for opnsense too. It’s nothing too crazy, you just have to set up PPPoE and deal with the management VLAN. If you spoof the MAC address of the ISP router, it’ll just work and you don’t have to let them know you changed anything.
DerivationDingusApr 8, 2025
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Headphone boost! As someone who has boosted in about thoroughly enjoying highly technical content, I also very much enjoyed the gaming content. Maybe it’s the ADD, but I personally think the wide variety is a feature, and keeps the show feeling fresh. Regarding the Saturday live stream, I absolutely would listen to that, if I wasn’t already planning to attending in-person! See ya’ll at what will be my first LFNW! P.S. Am I supposed to sign up for talks somewhere? I marked several “favorites” in the web app, but that’s all I’ve done so far.
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DerivationDingusOct 12, 2025
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I’ve been using Hyprland on NixOS for years at this point, and imo, it’s a match made in heaven. Hyprland has really come a long way since the early days and has had first-class NixOS support the whole time I’ve been using it. It’s really cool to see more people appreciating all the work being done over there, they really deserve the attention. I feel like it made my computers fun and exciting again.
wartimeOct 11, 2025
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genebeanOct 2, 2025
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Regarding keeping fake boosts… I see zaprite has an api and can send webhooks… what if you fire a webhook on payment that triggers boostcli or similar for the same amount. That would get the funds from zaprite into the splits and the regular boosting ecosystem. This is assuming that @npub1getal6ykt… Hub doesn’t have an api you could use to send the boost instead. Also, I bet the code that allows for boosting from podcastindex.org could be reused as the boost sender after the webhook is received… Lastly, I bet you could poll the wallet that’s receiving from zaprite and use that to track what payments have been forwarded as boosts…
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hybridsarcasmSep 28, 2024
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Nevermind. Found the answer to my question. The key is the ‘spread’ that an exchange uses. Paying 2 fees with Strike or Cash could end up being cheaper than 1 fee from an exchange that doesn’t force me to use their custodial wallet.
hashraidSep 27, 2024
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hybridsarcasmSep 26, 2024
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Just got my hardware wallet. Is there a way to purchase bitcoin/sats directly to the device. If I purchase with Strike/Cash/etc., then transfer to the hardware wallet address, won’t I pay 2 transfer fees? If there’s a way to avoid one of those fees, I’d love to know.
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Jan 12, 2026
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genebeanJan 13, 2026
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Regarding your question, I love UniFi.
genebeanJan 12, 2026
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Chris - stay nostalgic and put your BlueVault disks in here: https://amzn.to/45BWovK :)
genebeanJan 12, 2026
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Backblaze B2 of backups is the way, imo.
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wartimeAug 12, 2025
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I will make a correction - bitchat was mentioned. I overheard somebody asking somebody else if they want to try it. It sounded like a group of two or three people were going to try it at Lake Satoshi
wartimeAug 12, 2025
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Rev.Hodl da man, we need more people like him 🧨🧨🧨
wartimeAug 12, 2025
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Karl is the real Rev 😏
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wartimeMay 13, 2025
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Ok I didn't realize the front end of OwnTracks will work in conjunction. That is pretty cool 🧨
wartimeMay 13, 2025
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Dawarich is brand new and for iOS only? Solid pass. Use OwnTracks for self-hosted location tracking.
wartimeMay 12, 2025
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wartimeMay 12, 2025
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You self-censor yourself on the word ass? That's extremely gay
wartimeMay 12, 2025
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Leave your routers alone. People need those proxies. 😉
wartimeMay 12, 2025
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EU can suck a dick and they will HFSP
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wartimeApr 16, 2025
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Sorry for my hieroglyphics 😆 It's my way of being lazy, and saying "hello" 🧨 Isn't firecracker... Dye-no-mite https://c.tenor.com/9MLz1UBPxq0AAAAd/tenor.gif
wartimeApr 15, 2025
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Phoenix was always still usable in the USA, using the APK, no VPN needed It was only removed from the Google app store in the United states. It was still available in Aurora, Github, Obtainium
wartimeApr 15, 2025
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wartimeMar 25, 2025
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Obsidian is 🔥🔥
wartimeMar 25, 2025
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Join the people on de-googled phones
wartimeMar 25, 2025
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YahoooOoooooo
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wartimeJan 8, 2025
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Ftr btcpayserver has had payjoin for years - anyone with a btcpayserver should turn it on!
wartimeJan 8, 2025
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I got a bunch of the original Jades for $20/ea New ones look good, old ones sucked
wartimeJan 8, 2025
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LFG 🔥
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wartimeNov 3, 2025
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wartimeNov 3, 2025
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Ope you got it😁🧨
wartimeNov 3, 2025
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A sawzall is a trademark by Milwaukee. Nothing but heavy duty tm The other name people would know is a "reciprocating saw"
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Oct 24, 2025
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wartimeOct 28, 2025
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Nostr Relay Tray maxi 🧨 Excellent easy local relay
wartimeOct 28, 2025
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I would like some little nostr gnomes
wartimeOct 27, 2025
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Oct 19, 2025
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wartimeOct 21, 2025
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Keep the secretaries general salute jingle! What the hell is wrong with you guys!?
wartimeOct 20, 2025
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67 🍻
wartimeOct 20, 2025
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ITM 🍻
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wartimeOct 11, 2025
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Raspberry Pis are little pieces of shit, but they are fantastic for some use cases. I have some that have been running for many years consistently with no problems. It really depends on what you're trying to do with it. For always on, lightweight servers, they are fantastic. I think I currently have six that are on in another six that are currently powered off
wartimeOct 11, 2025
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I really like the format of this show and how it is listener-driven. Tons of great information in these shows. Zigbee is something I need to look into more. Home Assistant has been on my automation to do list for a while. One of these years I'll get around to playing with it LOL
wartimeOct 11, 2025
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wartimeOct 10, 2025
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All hail, to the Secretary of Bitcoin 🫡🫡🫡🫡
wartimeOct 10, 2025
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Mucho retardo still cracking me up 😂
wartimeOct 9, 2025
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ITM 💪🚀
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wartimeSep 29, 2025
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Haven't heard Simon in a while, good to hear him. Should have him on more often
wartimeSep 29, 2025
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Max out your credit cards and buy Bitcoin. Rinse and repeat every 7 years
wartimeSep 29, 2025
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wartimeSep 28, 2025
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Zap this man!
wartimeSep 28, 2025
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Good rant🧨🧨🧨
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wartimeSep 27, 2025
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I was listening to you back in 2017 LOL. It's good to see you crazy fuckers are still around and doing the same thing
wartimeSep 27, 2025
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Congrats on the wedding plans! 🧨🧨🧨🧨
wartimeSep 27, 2025
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Holy shit you guys are still around! Nice!
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wartimeSep 27, 2025
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wartimeSep 27, 2025
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wartimeSep 26, 2025
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wartimeSep 24, 2025
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A degen birdie told me a little secret. Use Liquid if you are swing trading usdt. Atomic swap. Self-custody. No exchange risk.
wartimeSep 23, 2025
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A lot of people used TO If I had anything there it was some shit coins from years ago that I don't care about LOL
wartimeSep 23, 2025
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Frens🍻
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wartimeSep 22, 2025
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The animated eagle was pretty sweet!
wartimeSep 22, 2025
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The moon landing hoax perpetuated by ham radio users is an interesting theory, I like it
wartimeSep 21, 2025
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ITM 🫡
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wartimeSep 21, 2025
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Underpin my Technicals, Daddy 🤭
wartimeSep 21, 2025
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Good to hear this guy again, hopefully he does more podcasts or something
wartimeSep 21, 2025
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Wow! Trace!
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wartimeSep 21, 2025
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wartimeSep 20, 2025
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... That's fine ...
wartimeSep 20, 2025
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Pip pip and cheerio 🎩
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wartimeSep 20, 2025
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My wife and I may have been the first couple to meet on #Nostr and get #married 7/7 (@Woman blessed by God) I'm curious to know if anybody knows of a different couple other than us? #asknostr
wartimeSep 20, 2025
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Definitely looking forward to homeschooling my youngest
wartimeSep 20, 2025
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wartimeAug 29, 2025
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This podcast has the most functioning knees in history!
wartimeAug 29, 2025
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Joey's legs rug pulled him
wartimeAug 29, 2025
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Werd 🍻
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wartimeAug 18, 2025
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What happened was they put a new model out in front. That model reads your question and makes a judgment call based on whatever they set it up for - and then routes it to whatever sub model it feels like. I'm sure you have already seen that you do have access to the older models once again, buried in the settings out of sight
wartimeAug 18, 2025
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Check out some of the Pay per Use sites, privacy focused, no sign up necessary. Bitcoin Lightning or Monero https://ppq.ai https://nano-gpt.com Access to old and new models. They have pros and cons compared to the subscription model directly through the providers
wartimeAug 18, 2025
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Bro, man, dude
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Nostr Community

Everyone who has boosted Buy the Invasion on Nostr, ranked by sats sent, all time.

  1. DerivationDingus 63k sats
  2. Satsquatch 50k sats
  3. HybridSarcasm 10k sats
  4. Structural Malaise 5k sats
  5. Geek 4.4k sats
  1. m00ninite 2.5k sats
  2. GeneBean 2.2k sats
  3. Hashraid 2k sats
  4. Hayekian 1k sats
  5. Wartime 666 sats
  6. BTC Mana 337 sats

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  • 49,609 via Fountain
    Chris, thanks to you, I got AlbiyHub up and running and in other news I’m switching my mining Pool over to ocean. For some reason, I can’t move sats over from STRIKE to my Alby wallet yet, but will persist until I find a way. Thanks for another stellar show. The secret Thousand Oaks bitcoin meet up sends cryptic greetings!
  • 31,337 via Fountain
    Just noticed I received errors on earlier boosts. I’ll boost extra later. No biggie.
  • 11,337 via Fountain
    On a different note, my nix-Bitcoin node is working out great! I love how intense the security defaults are. I even have it routing through a tiny linode! That was a challenge all by itself but we got there. Is the JB server Jupiter01? I enabled tor and stuff but kept getting connection errors when I tried to open a channel. I’m trying to do my part and provide some of that sweet sweet liquidity.
  • 10,000 via Fountain
    For some reason River’s KYC rejected me and wouldn’t let me try again for 30 days. I ended up just going with Swan and never tried again. I’ve never had a KYC issue with any other company, before or since, but I’d really rather be a River customer than a Swan customer right now.
  • 10,000 via Fountain
    Chris, your timing is hilarious. Despite nearly constant reminders from my wife, I put off dealing with old retirement accounts for TWO YEARS, and finally got around to it last week. I decided open 401k and Roth IRA accounts with Swan Bitcoin. I use Swan to DCA, so it was convenient, and it allowed me to put this money in Bitcoin without taking a big tax hit. I’d heard some of the drama, but didn’t think much of it until hearing this episode. I agree with your analysis though, all these little turd nuggets are adding up, and it’s starting to smell like a full-blown shitstorm. As I type this boost, I’m looking at two checks made out to a Ripple-owned crypto bank, per Swan’s instructions. I have to admit, I’m starting to have second thoughts.
  • 2,222 via Fountain
    The sats per USD is truly interesting, especially if you include trends. Overall, I say include the stats. Regarding retirement, I suck at traditional savings and am starting to look at bitcoin as a better way to accomplish that actual goal of long term growth
  • 1,000 via Fountain
    Great show, just tunning in…
  • 2,000 via Fountain
    I’d love to hear some Bitcoin stats each episode. Also, yes, I’m stacking for retirement. Each paycheck I set aside some money for my brokerage, my IRA, and Bitcoin. I’m pretty sure I’ll regret not putting everything in Bitcoin in the future, but I currently sleep soundly at night.
  • 10,000 via Fountain
    +1 for the newbie video. Would love to see it too! My spending sats are held like this: streaming sats go to Alby (because I listen in Castamatic); boosting sats are in Fountain. Still working on my holding workflow. For now, I’m just stacking them in Cash.app and Strike.
  • 337 via Fountain
    Love the boost sound effects! Good show 😀
  • 2,500 via Fountain
    Just as you were reading off the boost from this episode talking about fountain's crashiness, mine crashed! It seems to only happen if I listen while I'm charging my phone. Wonder what could be going on there?
  • 4,444 via Fountain
    If 2222 is a row of ducks, then I think this is an "all wheel drive" aka a 4x4. For stats: I like the idea of you tagging your podcasts with the blockheight. Maybe also include the last 4-6 digits of the block hash as a way timestamp your episode to the timechain. Honestly though I don't know what tangible benefit this provides other than being kinda cool. Is Bitcoin part of my retirement plan? Of course! Saving money is part of my retirement plan. Why wouldn't that include an undebasable money?
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