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Eva J Tompkins, Esq.
@revelation1317cbdcwatch
New York lawyer, trader and follower of Christ, interested in pursuing truth and preserving freedom.
https://youtu.be/DBzxVIiRk1k

2025-07-05 19:27:42 UTC

Eva J Tompkins, Esq.
@revelation1317cbdcwatch
New York lawyer, trader and follower of Christ, interested in pursuing truth and preserving freedom.
Little Light Studios LED Live video premiere on YouTube titled,
"No Buy or Sell Coming Soon; This is How They’ll Enforce the Mark of the Beast.”
https://substack.com/@revelation1317cbdcwatch/note/c-132068850?utm_source=notes-share-action

2025-07-05 05:20:51 UTC

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Why?

2025-07-03 19:41:24 UTC

When in doubt…
When your ideals challenged…
When you’re not knowledgeable on the subject matter being discussed/debated…
When you have no facts…
When you have no sensible talking points…
When all your talking points are derived from your favorite media outlet…
When all else fails…
Blame it on the opposing political party that you do not identify with. This will save you from being a critical, independent, free thinker.

2025-07-03 12:22:09 UTC

FDIC-Insured - Backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government
...

2025-07-02 12:17:21 UTC

Please share your experience with Bitrefill. I’d like to know your thoughts.
https://www.bitrefill.com/signup/?hl=en

2025-06-25 20:11:05 UTC

This is interesting…
Order Issuing Directive to Consider Cryptocurrency as an Asset for Single-Family Loans Delivered to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
WHEREAS, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) maintain a pivotal role in the U.S. housing finance system by providing stability and liquidity to the secondary market for residential mortgages through prudent standards to help ensure sustainable, long-term homeownership.
WHEREAS, cryptocurrency is an emerging asset class that may offer an opportunity to build wealth outside of the stock and bond markets.
WHEREAS, cryptocurrency has not typically been considered in the mortgage risk assessment process for mortgage loans delivered to the Enterprises, without converting the cryptocurrency to U.S. dollars prior to loan closing.
WHEREAS, U.S. Federal Housing FHFA has now determined that the consideration of additional borrower assets in the Enterprises' single-family mortgage loan risk assessments may enable the Enterprises to assess the full spectrum of asset information available for reserves and to facilitate sustainable homeownership to creditworthy borrowers.
NOW THEREFORE, U.S. Federal Housing FHFA, as conservator, hereby directs each Enterprise to prepare a proposal for consideration of cryptocurrency as an asset for reserves in their respective single-family mortgage loan risk assessments, without conversion of said cryptocurrency to U.S. dollars. Each Enterprise is directed to consider only cryptocurrency assets that can be evidenced and stored on a U.S.-regulated centralized exchange subject to all applicable laws. Additionally, each Enterprise is directed to consider additional risk mitigants per their own assessment, including adjustments for market volatility and ensuring sufficient risk-based adjustments to the share of reserves comprised of cryptocurrency. Prior to implementing any changes, each Enterprise must submit and receive approval from its Board of Directors prior to submitting to U.S. Federal Housing FHFA for review.
This Order is effective immediately and should be implemented as soon as reasonably practical.
https://x.com/pulte/status/1937944964656152800

2025-06-25 20:04:59 UTC

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What do you believe this acquisition will do?

2025-06-23 06:26:47 UTC

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I use Albygo which of course is connected to my node. How was your buddy able to open a wallet on his phone via albygo that was connected to your node?

2025-06-23 06:22:29 UTC

Twitter has finally broke.

2025-06-22 04:11:01 UTC

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“…Want to win in this game? Work hard. Live below your means. Stack the excess. Cold store it. Repeat.
Not sexy. Just sovereign.”
#nevent1q…l9qp

2025-06-19 19:30:35 UTC

Those that stay healthy and fit into late stages of life are the true winners.
You can have 1000 problems until you get sick. Then you have only 1 problem!
You would trade almost anything in the world to be healthy again.

2025-06-19 15:34:26 UTC

@nprofile…5m0r I subscribe to your email list. Your recent eulogy of your father, Dr. Hisham Ammous is absolutely beautiful! It’s no wonder why you are so passionate about your work.
You may not remember me but my wife and our children had the privilege of meeting you in 2024 at bitcoin beach on your last day in El Salvador. You went out to take a quick swim before your flight. You were gracious and kind to my family.
Thanks again for all your hard work. My condolences to you and your family during this time of your Father’s recent passing.
Peace and Love
“Dr. Hisham Ammous: Life as Clinical Surgery
Sept 1, 1944 - June 6, 2025
Hisham Saifedean Rashid Ammous was born in the village of Atteel in Palestine on September 1, 1944. After finishing high school in nearby Fadiliya school in Tulkarem, he moved to Saudi Arabia to work as a school teacher, then to Kuwait to work in the electric company. Unsatisfied with his career, he decided to become a doctor, and applied for a scholarship from the Jordanian government to the University of Madrid in Spain, through the Spanish embassy in Jordan. He moved to Madrid without speaking a word of Spanish, but graduated as a surgeon with distinction in 1976. After that scholarship, he practically never needed, asked for, or took anything from anyone until his last day.
In his five decades as a surgeon, Dr. Ammous must have performed over 20,000 surgeries across Spain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Palestine, Brazil, Lebanon, and Libya. He relished his work as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. To his profession and mission, he was the most devoutly dedicated man. He lived for surgery. Come rain, shine, snow, checkpoints, military invasions, cranky kids, genocide, or regional war, he found a way to make it to Al Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem almost every day, braving countless Israeli occupation checkpoints and dealing with the young criminals manning them and getting all of their life's meaning from the impunity they have to make the lives of innocent Palestinians hell. He became a regular traveler to wars and refugee camps to perform surgeries. He worked nonstop all day for days on end in warzones. He went to Gaza for surgeries after every Israeli mass slaughter over the years, and was desperate for the current genocide to end so he could return. His favorite 'vacation' was to visit me in Lebanon and perform dozens of free surgeries for destitute refugees.
His discipline was supernatural. He was never late for anything in his life, and was never disorganized. No matter what life threw at him, he relentlessly pursued his mission and was always prepared. His doggedness, determination, focus, and obsession will sound insane to most people, which is why most people will never perform 20,000 surgeries or do anything remotely as important with their lives. In his wake, hundreds of messages have poured in from people remembering how he helped them with his kind generosity, healed them with his skilled hands, and made them laugh with his legendary searing wit. Among the most amazing stories I heard was that he gave his patients’ families the keys to his hospital office so they could sleep in it and not have to drive through hours of checkpoints every day.
His supreme motivation in life, and the thing that gave life meaning for him, was to give his children a life better than the one he had, and he dedicated himself to it until the very end. He never ceased repeating this lesson to me, and he exemplified it every day. All his time, attention, and interests revolved around improving the lives of his children. He understood the whole of our human civilization rests on the foundation of people investing in giving their children a better life, and this was also the most profound lesson I learned from years of studying economics, and the central theme and most important lesson of my third and best book, Principles of Economics. For teaching me this lesson before I could read, that book was dedicated to him.
He is survived by his two sons, Ahmad and me, his daughter Dana, and three loving grandchildren who lit up his last ten years. Nothing can compare with the joy his grandchildren brought him. No money or accomplishment by him or me could have made him happier than my 2 year old making ever more outrageous demands for gifts as she tries to discover if there is anything he won't get her. His joy around her convinced me that the best thing you can do for your parents is to give them grandchildren. It seems offensive that life could be this simple and banal, that mere reproduction is the secret to its satisfaction, but he showed me it was true, and far from banal. We humans are wired to spend our lives seeking reproduction, and having it shape our happiness and satisfaction, because we wouldn't exist otherwise.
In my 44 years of life, I never recall seeing him bedridden with illness, and after five decades of caring for patients and children, he must have dreaded the thought of being on the receiving end of the care of others.
Dr. Ammous passed on the first day of Eid Al Adha, while taking a nap, after having called his friends and family to exchange Eid greetings. He died suddenly and immediately, and almost certainly felt nothing, and never had to suffer any serious illness or confront his impending mortality.
He lived blissfully immersed in his life's mission until its very last second. And he succeeded in it completely and perfectly. He gave his children everything they needed until they needed nothing more from him. The only consolation in his passing is that until his last minute he was strong, cheerful, healthy, sharply-dressed, and eagerly looking forward to seeing his grandchildren in a few days and giving them the many gifts he bought for them, and looking forward to vacationing this summer with his family in his beloved Madrid.
In his passing, he deprived his loving children of the chance to provide him a tiny fraction of the love and care he provided them for decades. This was a man determined to contribute more to this world than take from it, and to give his children everything. And he accomplished his life's mission clinically, like his surgeries.”

2025-06-19 12:46:19 UTC

Happy Juneteenth!
If you don’t know what this day is all about…do your own research.
#FreedomDay
#Juneteenth

2025-06-19 12:29:01 UTC

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#peaceandlove
#nevent1q…858j

2025-06-18 01:47:18 UTC

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Is Tucker on #nostr ?

2025-06-12 06:11:26 UTC

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👀
#nevent1q…gv9x

2025-06-11 01:14:18 UTC

#HFSP

2025-06-07 17:56:58 UTC

Bitcoin is audited every 10 minutes….
The Federal Reserve…the U.S. Gold reserves, not so much.

2025-06-07 17:54:35 UTC

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BitKey is a very good product. With the correct marketing I see it becoming the most user friendly bitcoin hardware wallet offering in its class.
Very smooth, robust, and solid feeling device in hand I might add.

2025-06-07 17:49:22 UTC

H.R.3795 - To provide for the first true audit of gold owned by the United States in more than 65 years and to conduct subsequent audits every 5 years.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3795/cosponsors

2025-06-06 01:54:09 UTC

“Better to be silent and thought to be a fool, rather than open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”

2025-06-03 22:52:19 UTC

Nothing stops this train…
When people or a society do not understand scarcity….
No need to make a choice on how to spend your time (wisely or unwisely) or what you exchange your time for (money/fiat) when you have a limitless amount of both. It’s only when you have scarcity when you’re able to make the best choice possible.
A government or an individual with the the ability to print money limitlessly cannot, will not ever behave efficiently. It’s not scientifically possible.

2025-06-01 10:58:31 UTC

“If you look over the record of the Federal Reserve over the whole history, it’s done harm more often than it’s done good.”
-Milton Friedman
https://www.hoover.org/research/economys-new-clothes-milton-friedman-new-economy

2025-06-01 10:11:01 UTC

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2025-05-31 19:39:25 UTC

If you’re not pleased with something, stop supporting it economically….if possible.

2025-05-31 02:01:54 UTC

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🎯💯
#nevent1q…jtrn

2025-05-31 00:05:13 UTC

I work in a blue collar profession where you can advance into highly specialized niche areas of emergency services. What I've noticed in and outside of my profession is that at times those that have become highly skilled in their areas of specialty become less and less skilled, patient and or willing to teach and or exchanging critical team building information with less experienced members of the group.
With my experience and seniority I have levereged this observation and capitolized on it. I take all my education, training, and experience and I position myself close to the less experienced members who exhibit high levels of motivation to learn, grow and excel in our trade. I share and exchange critical training points in a way that an inexperienced member of service can absorb. The way you deliver training and education makes a huge difference on how the information lands and sticks with an individual. If you deliver in a way that resonates, you have potentially uplifted someone that in the future could have a tremendous positive impact on my life or that of many others.
It's underrated how influential one can be by establishing a simple, straightforward, patient means of relaying critical education and training points to subordinates or less experienced members of your team. If you master this, you become the go to person even though you may not have all the knowledge on a particular subject. There may be others who have more experience, education, and or training than you. However, if you position yourself with a means of exchanging information that resonates, you become that special, invaluable, irreplaceable member of the team that everyone depends on to get tasks, and goals accomplished.
Be the person folks want to learn from, even though you may not know it all....
Be humble, be patient, and be willing to exchange information with those who are eager to learn, grow and excel towards excellence. This is the way.

2025-05-30 18:24:52 UTC

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LMAO!!! I agree

2025-05-29 01:27:59 UTC

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Please provide reference to this quoted claim.

2025-05-27 02:57:01 UTC

#MiltonFriedman
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/milton-friedman.asp#toc-the-university-of-chicago-and-hoover-lnstitution-1946-to-2006

2025-05-23 13:38:33 UTC

“Once you have knowledge, well what are you going to do with it? How are you going to change?”
https://youtu.be/LaPYNycHfcs

2025-05-20 17:54:15 UTC

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Based on what data? Please provide references.

2025-05-20 17:51:53 UTC

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Collect healthy pensions…
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

2025-05-20 17:49:42 UTC

FDIC- Insured - Backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.
What does this mean?

2025-05-20 04:53:58 UTC

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Peace and Love
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2025-05-19 12:36:51 UTC

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Stay….Focused…

2025-05-19 12:26:03 UTC

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Couldn’t stop reading this. “When in doubt, I will go out. I love it!
Did you use highlighter to compose and post this…?

2025-05-19 02:50:55 UTC

Live in love. Live in peace. Grow in freedom

2025-05-19 00:19:19 UTC

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A wonderful story…
naddr1qqmkv6twv35kueedvykkveth94nk7mmy94mkzan9wvkz6ctwvsk79qycv4mx2unew35xjmn8945j6ampde6x2e8zszvsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wspzpqzmxnms3qmalvl87pvpttzhvptyv29434dqe6peejakaumzp7krqvzqqqr4gum6remq

2025-05-19 00:11:47 UTC

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Absolutely beautiful! All the best to you both.
Peace and Love

2025-05-12 20:07:20 UTC

HODL: The bitcoin Strategy of "Hold on for Dear Life" Explained
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hodl.asp
#HODL

2025-05-12 11:15:01 UTC

“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭10‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/eph.2.10.NIV

2025-05-11 20:21:26 UTC

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🎯
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2025-04-29 20:42:06 UTC

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together"

2025-04-23 23:17:47 UTC

I mine bitcoin, nothing can stop me….nuff said!

2025-04-19 23:14:08 UTC

“This isn't about Bitcoin, but rather what Bitcoin will teach us: critical thought, personal responsibility and ultimately self-sovereignty. It teaches us to lower our time preference and look further into the future—and that changes everything. When we have control over our lives and future, it encourages us to build and plan.”
https://myfirstbitcoin.io/the-project/vision/

2025-04-19 21:01:04 UTC

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It is magical! Really special place.

2025-04-19 20:58:34 UTC

In Guatemala during Semana Santa, enjoying Lake Atitlan AKA Bitcoin Lake and other parts of this beautiful country with family. I’ve met wonderful people in this here. Some Bitcoiners some not Bitcoiners.
I highly recommend visiting Guatemala.
https://m.primal.net/QWVj.jpg

2025-04-13 12:22:04 UTC

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Who’s creating these bots?…not normal everyday plebs.
I’ve wondered about this briefly before. It may be the same developers who are engineering all these other BTC applications. Who has the technical skill to make these bots?

2025-04-07 12:55:14 UTC

Ponte la pilas!

2025-04-03 11:44:19 UTC

“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
‭‭
1 Corinthians‬ ‭10‬:‭31‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/1co.10.31.NIV

2025-04-01 14:54:10 UTC

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It's not the church building and what happens in it that matters most. It's the gospel message (God's message of grace, mercy, peace, love, and salvation) that we have been created to share with others that matters.
I do my best to keep things simple and this is the idea I share with you and those I encounter along my journey. Be kind to others, know that God loves you, and Christ has set an example for you to live by...thats it.
Once one gets that idea, one must keep it alive by studying the life of Christ.
Peace and Love

2025-04-01 14:41:32 UTC

Bitcoin Core has been updated to v28.1. See the full Bitcoin Core release notes at:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-28.1.md

2025-04-01 11:30:31 UTC

Part of the reason people don’t learn, grow and continue to educate themselves is because they’re satisfied, comfortable, complacent in believing their own narrative.
It’s challenging, and at times difficult to unlearn and educate yourself. It takes focus and honesty with one’s self to grow into a new understanding about what is happening in the world around you.
Until an individual begins to search for a different perspective or more education on a subject, they will continue to keep believing what they’re told and what aligns with their own narrative (information bias).

2025-03-29 15:56:21 UTC

““This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature. But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.”
‭‭
Luke‬ ‭8‬:‭11‬-‭15‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/luk.8.11-13.NIV

2025-03-29 15:24:35 UTC

“For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval. Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall. So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.”
‭‭
Romans‬ ‭14‬:‭17‬-‭22‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/rom.14.22.NIV

2025-03-28 19:14:58 UTC

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Respectful intellectual debate is necessary. More should practice it.

2025-03-28 19:07:43 UTC

nostr is a space where you can get “value for value”.
This means that you receive something of value by providing something that others see as valuable.
bitcoin will continually increase in value because of its absolute pre-programmed, predictable scarcity. This is one of the reasons it operates as an excellent medium of exchange.
If you want to get some of this value you must provide something to a space that others are willing to exchange their bitcoin (value) for what you’re offering.
nostr is an permission-less space where NOONE and NOTHING can stop the exchange of value (bitcoin). bitcoin can be used by anyone/anything without permission by anyone/anything (government).
You are truly free here. This is why nostr and the implementation of bitcoin as a medium to exchange value here is so powerful. Get it…?

2025-03-24 19:44:02 UTC

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Nice Avocado toast!

2025-03-24 02:46:48 UTC

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🎯
#nevent1q…t84s

2025-03-23 17:28:25 UTC

I just left my accountant. My 2024 income tax preparation is complete.
I become more and more confident in Bitcoin every time I consider the amount of taxes and the way in which I’m taxed by the government.
#StudyBitcoin

2025-03-23 13:07:00 UTC

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No. When you move a “large” amount for the first time it’s a bit nerve racking. But after you understand how it works you get more comfortable.

2025-03-23 13:04:02 UTC

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I too used to be very much involved in my local politics. I thought I could “make change” and provide better solutions for the people who were seemingly getting crushed by the government.
My perspective has done a 180. Learning about Bitcoin is an education about how money works, among other things. That leads you down the rabbit hole of understanding incentives and why humans behave the way they do. My goal now is more educational in nature. Once individuals get educated their world view changes and their behavior changes soon thereafter.
Educating young people is a critical part of what will impact entire societies.

2025-03-23 12:56:20 UTC

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@nprofile…p7nu's book Principles Of Economics is an excellent follow up read to the Bitcoin standard. The Fiat Standard also will give you a very good perspective on human behavior.

2025-03-23 02:27:53 UTC

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The book I’m asking if you’ve read yet you’re posing with it here in this picture you’ve posted.

2025-03-21 02:05:33 UTC

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Have you read @nprofile…n50k's book yet? If so, what is the favorite take away?
https://thesaifhouse.com/

2025-03-19 14:32:44 UTC

You get what you vote for…

2025-03-18 11:42:57 UTC

“Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.””
‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭3‬:‭8‬-‭12‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/1pe.3.8-10.NIV

2025-03-17 02:30:19 UTC

Support @nprofile…nw9u
Director - Producer
Forging A Country 2024
Death Athletic 2023
No Control 2015
https://www.encodeproductions.com/dontate

2025-03-17 01:31:03 UTC

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👀
#nevent1q…65ec

2025-03-17 01:27:59 UTC

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👀
#nevent1q…f6h8

2025-03-15 23:39:15 UTC

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Exactly…

2025-03-10 05:46:40 UTC

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It appears the minister of education has created node nation. From what I’ve read it appears this node nation is a good start to educating young people. What are your thoughts?
https://elsalvadorinenglish.com/2024/02/09/node-nation-el-salvadors-innovative-approach-to-teaching-bitcoin-in-public-schools/

2025-03-04 13:20:31 UTC

“It is easier to build strong children, than to repair broken men”
– Frederick Douglass

2025-03-03 12:11:11 UTC

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.7.13-14.NIV

2025-03-03 02:48:54 UTC

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Take responsibility.
#nevent1q…mn5t
#naddr1qq…gpfk

2025-03-02 19:49:14 UTC

👀🎯
#nevent1q…3ahz

2025-02-27 22:08:58 UTC

“It is the Division’s view that transactions in the types of meme coins described in this statement, do not involve the offer and sale of securities under the federal securities laws. As such, persons who participate in the offer and sale of meme coins do not need to register their transactions with the Commission under the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”) or fall within one of the Securities Act’s exemptions from registration. Accordingly, neither meme coin purchasers nor holders are protected by the federal securities laws.”
https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/staff-statement-meme-coins

2025-02-27 22:05:51 UTC

💯🎯
#nevent1q…z4g8

2025-02-27 21:42:41 UTC

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The food in the grocery store is the worst toxin in any environment.
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2025-02-27 21:40:43 UTC

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The worst toxin in our environment I’d say is the food in the grocery store.

2025-02-27 21:22:12 UTC

Bitkey is creating a very nice transfer of wealth plan. Nice job @nprofile…3r3l and all the developers over at Block working on the Bitkey project.
https://support.bitkey.world/hc/en-us/articles/32141067207444-What-is-Inheritance-and-how-does-it-work

2025-02-27 00:39:58 UTC

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John. What is the status of Mi Primer Bitcoin educating the teachers in El Salvador and the implementation of a Bitcoin curriculum in the school system there?

2025-02-23 19:36:31 UTC

We have to teach our children how to critically think and formulate independent ideas in a world where everyone is following and being controlled by “whatever goes”, “everything goes” and “whatever is trending” in popular culture.
We have to be intentional about showing and teaching our children how to be independent, critical thinkers. Adults, young adults, and children are not thinking these days. They are “Googleing” and using their findings as the foundation/core and or starting point of their talking points and ideology/philosophy on life. This is pathetic and dangerous!

2025-02-23 04:19:47 UTC

The view from the front seat of the rig are always breathtaking!
#fireservice
https://m.primal.net/PHfb.jpg

2025-02-22 00:17:31 UTC

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Opt out.
#bitcoin

2025-02-12 05:29:36 UTC

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Get one…or two.

2025-02-09 18:20:20 UTC

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Please share any government issued order that BTC as legal tender in El Salvador has been rescinded.

2025-02-09 18:16:21 UTC

👀
#note16f2…qtfc

2025-02-08 20:23:40 UTC

“Not being allowed to work in Harlem angered Williams, but work conditions at Engine 55 improved as time went by. The new men who entered the company included several probationary firemen who took over his previous duties, such as spittoon and bathroom cleaning. Also, while many of his company-mates remained hostile and dismissive, several began to converse with him. As an avid reader of history and an intellectual within a highly anti-intellectual workplace culture, Williams was ironically called upon to settle an interethnic dispute regarding the whiteness of Italians. When asked by an Irish fireman if Italians could be considered white, Williams told the predominantly Irish men in the company “that he didn’t know whether or not Italians were White, but he did know that when Ancient Rome was conquering the world people in Ireland were living in caves.””
— Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City (Justice, Power, and Politics) by David Goldberg
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2025-02-08 20:21:03 UTC

“Discrimination in the assignment of firehouse tasks, vicious practical jokes, or in-house physical threats, while demeaning, disgusting, and dangerous, paled in comparison with the danger that Williams was subjected to while on duty. “The story they put out to the community,” he later recalled, “was that they ‘would burn the nigger up,’ and that I couldn’t take smoke because my nostrils were too wide.” In his first major firefighting duty, Williams and his company responded to a dangerous cellar fire in the Bowery district. Ordered to take the nozzle to prove his “courage and staying ability” to the rest of the company, Williams led while the others followed. He directed the nozzle’s stream at the heart of the fire, but a backdraft sparked a gas explosion. Williams’s company-mates, including his lieutenant, ran from the building into the street, leaving Williams for dead. Knocked on his back during the explosion, he somehow managed to maintain control of the hose, right himself, and quell the blaze by himself. Other fire companies on the scene snickered at the pack of cowards who had abandoned him, while Battalion Chief Ben Parker mocked Williams’s white company-mates, snidely remarking, “You were gonna burn him up? It looks like he burnt you fellas up.” FDNY officials later conceded that Williams had single-handedly “saved the building and probably the block.””
— Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City (Justice, Power, and Politics) by David Goldberg
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2025-02-08 20:12:18 UTC

“Williams’s career as a firefighter began on January 10, 1919. His credentials and connections did little to shield him from the onslaught of hate and discrimination he faced upon joining the department. Williams was assigned to Engine 55 on Broome Street, the Italian section of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. On Williams’s first day, the captain of the firehouse retired at roll call, and every fireman in the house, refusing “to work with a nigger,” requested transfers. Recognizing that no one would work with Williams if FDNY brass caved to these demands, the FDNY’s fire chief and fire commissioner (the two highest positions in the department) froze all transfers for one year so they could maintain full manpower at Engine 55 as well as any other company that Williams or another African American might be appointed or transferred to in the future.”
— Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City (Justice, Power, and Politics) by David Goldberg
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2025-02-08 20:11:01 UTC

“Williams’s composite test scores placed him at the top of a list of hundreds of applicants, but his appointment remained uncertain due to his race. All candidates were required to present three letters of recommendation and were then subjected to the department’s “selection process.” While almost all Blacks lacked the political clout to move beyond this point, Williams’s father managed to secure reference letters for his son from former president Theodore Roosevelt as well as Cardinal Patrick Hayes. Yet in the world of Tammany-controlled patronage politics, perhaps his most crucial letter of support might have come from florist and real estate mogul Charles Thorley. Thorley owned and operated the famed Thorley’s House of Flowers, served as J. P. Morgan’s personal florist, and provided extremely expensive arrangements for the city’s elite. Thorley, for many years, employed a number of African Americans in his shop, including Williams’s father during the 1890s and Langston Hughes for a brief period in 1922. Thorley bought and sold a number of real estate holdings in Manhattan, including the parcel of land that the New York Times purchased to build its headquarters. As a millionaire and active member of Tammany Hall, Thorley made frequent and substantial donations to the machine, which gave him tremendous power and sway. “It was Thorley,” Williams recalled, who “let the fire commission of the City of New York understand that regardless of how they felt about it, I was going to stay in the fire department.”
— Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City (Justice, Power, and Politics) by David Goldberg
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2025-02-08 20:08:07 UTC

“In 1918, Williams, who studied on his own because he was not allowed to take the Tammany-backed prep course, took the civil service examination for the FDNY and placed thirteenth out of 2,700 applicants. As an avid weightlifter, athlete, and bodybuilder whose physique was later described by sportswriters of the 1920s as comparable to that of Jim Thorpe, Williams had little problem with the physical examination and became only the second man in the department’s history to earn a perfect score on the physical exam.”
— Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City (Justice, Power, and Politics) by David Goldberg
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2025-02-08 19:49:24 UTC

“Years after retiring from a storied career with the Fire Department of New York City, Wesley Williams, the most celebrated Black fireman in the nation’s history, occasionally made the journey to the graveyard. Williams had entered the FDNY in 1919 and eventually rose to the rank of battalion chief before retiring from the force in 1952. His ascent up the promotional ladder of the ethnically and culturally insular FDNY had not been an easy task. As one chronicler of his early career remarked, the struggles he faced “made Jackie Robinson’s stormy entrance into the Big Leagues look like a cap-pistol skirmish.” Still, “the Chief,” as Williams affectionately came to be known by Black firefighters across the country, always sought to turn the negative treatment he received into a positive. If anything, Williams’s resolve was fortified by his white company-mates’ racist bullying, intimidation, and attempts on his life. These staunchly racist firemen, from his earliest days on the job, as Williams later explained, “helped to make me a Superman in the fire department because of their prejudice.” It was these firefighters whose graves Williams visited. Well into his seventies, the Chief came not to pay his respects or to thank his antagonists for motivating him to become a better firefighter, but to urinate on them.”
— Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City (Justice, Power, and Politics) by David Goldberg
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2025-02-08 19:45:42 UTC

“With patronage jobs under the control of the Irish bosses of the Tammany political machine, Blacks were largely excluded from civil defense positions just as the public sector grew rapidly in the early twentieth century. New York’s fire department, for example, grew from a force of 1,000 firemen in 1888 to 7,500 men by 1930. And while the FDNY employed several different generations of firefighters during this forty-two-year period, only 5 African Americans managed to secure firefighting positions. 4”
— Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City (Justice, Power, and Politics) by David Goldberg
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2025-02-08 19:43:50 UTC

“Civil service represented one of the few areas where Blacks, in theory, were allowed to compete fairly. Yet in practice, the civil service reform of the late nineteenth century was used as a tool to prevent Blacks and political outsiders from gaining access to municipal jobs, particularly in the fire department. The FDNY had structured this reform to its advantage, consolidating departmental autonomy, solidifying Tammany control, and increasing racial and ethnic exclusion. What resulted was an even more insular, closed, and Irish-dominated department precisely at the moment when European immigration and Black migration had increased potential competition. By embracing the reform movement while bending it to their interests, the FDNY institutionalized patronage while simultaneously promoting the false notion that hiring was merit-based and open to all.”
— Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City (Justice, Power, and Politics) by David Goldberg
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