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Egg in a hole

This roasted cabbage recipe features the perfect crispy, charred edges and tender interiors, bringing out the sweetness in the cabbage.

When journalist Scott Ritter woke up to a $0.00 bank balance after 26 years with Citizens Bank; no charges, no crime, no explanation, his response revealed everything wrong with how we think about financial freedom. Instead of recognizing the brutal truth that fiat banking is permission-based control, he begged the very system that destroyed him for mercy: letters to Congressmen, appeals to the FBI, pleas to bank executives. The system isn't broken, it's working exactly as designed to transform...

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Holding money does not defer gratification but consumes the opportunity cost of lending, making hoarding a present expense rather than proof of low time preference.

This essay traces a quiet continuity from mineral to machine to money. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner, ancient philosophy, and modern computation, it explores how form emerges from formlessness through lawful constraint, and how Bitcoin, built on silicon, reintroduces structure, consequence, and meaning into a world long ruled by abstraction.

Scrolling Through the Wreckage

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Unlike dedicated mobile coding apps that have failed to gain traction, Shakespeare is a Progressive Web App that delivers a full development experience on mobile with Nostr Git sync.

Join the Shakespeare Community to connect with builders, attend workshops and events, become an ambassador, and get help with your AI-powered web development projects.

In diesem tiefgründigen Essay wird das Ego nicht als Gegner, sondern als uralter Hüter unserer inneren Welt dargestellt. Der Text führt den Leser auf eine philosophische Reise zu den Wurzeln des menschlichen Selbst – dorthin, wo Schutzmechanismen, alte Muster und überlebenswichtige Instinkte entstanden sind. Das Essay beleuchtet, warum das Ego über Jahrtausende hinweg zu einem Wächter wurde, der uns schützen, warnen und stabilisieren will – gleichzeitig aber auch verhindert, dass wir über unser...

I built a Nostr blog publishing tool while waiting for new tires. When existing apps failed me, Shakespeare helped me solve my own problem for about $3.

Gold's traditional role is rapidly passing away... Energy-based Proof of Work, introduced by visionary thinkers, now carries the day... Don't miss out!

The collapse of the modern family isn't cultural—it's monetary: fiat money punishes the long-term thinking required to raise children (inflation destroys savings, forces both parents to work, and outsources kids to state institutions), creates generational trauma through financial stress and absent parenting, and even bankrupts families nutritionally by pricing them out of real food while gaslighting them into eating industrial sludge. This article explains how Bitcoin restores the economic foun...

We live in a civilization built on broken promises, where politicians lie, institutions gaslight, and the entire architecture of trust has revealed itself to be a trap. The solution isn't to find more trustworthy rulers; it's to build systems that don't require trust at all. Bitcoin and Nostr aren't just technologies, they're proof that in the 21st century, we can replace the fragility of human promises with the certainty of mathematical proof, and make the age-old game of "choosing between evil...

THIS VERSION WAS PUBLISHED AT https://write.nostr.com/ NOTES: I'm trying to evaluate and understand how different nostr clients interpret Markdown syntax. Please reply to this article with any observations you may have about how it appears and is formatted in the nostr client you are using to view it; Thank You. Click here for the [SOURCE](https://github.com/mxstbr/markdown-test-file) of everything above the line. ![image](https://image.nostr.build/479996654aa31560a1a27a5cd2b261fc1351ac9beaa...

paul slop about the state of nostr as a social network.

It has been a little while since my last update. After implementing several UI changes and various bug fixes to **NostrFeedz**, I wanted to share my vision for where the project is headed. ### Curren...

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This may look like ordinary chicken, but it's not.

A father reflects on the importance of family during the holiday season, particularly the constant presence of his parents and the time spent with his own children. He explores his unique approach to raising his daughter with the same tough love and lessons he gave his sons, teaching her to be strong-minded and unafraid to challenge authority. Drawing parallels to his own relationship with his father—where debates and arguments were a form of sparring that built critical thinking and resilience—...

Heart Words #27 – Ein Gespräch, das Türen öffnet

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Most people who disagree with me on end times theology, attack motives more than what the Bible says, so I am addressing those accusations.

本文聚焦以下问题： (1) 中国反诈体系是否具有治理电信诈骗以外的社会控制功能（如隐私监控、“远洋捕捞”等）； (2) 中国在柬埔寨、缅北、老挝等地的基础设施建设是否参与了诈骗园区的建立或运营（通信、物流、人力、医院、机房等）； (3) 诈骗园区出现了“生命科学”等衍生犯罪形态，其中是否有中资背景和中方医疗资源参与； (4) 多国（如泰国、东盟）打击诈骗园区的国际行动及态度如何，中国在这些行动中扮演积极、被动或缺席的角色。

They haven't joined a cult. They stumbled onto questions they couldn't stop asking, and they love you too much to keep them to themselves.

Austrian economists theorize but cannot build. Cypherpunks build but lack theory. This book synthesizes both to make the state irrelevant.

A new event casting system for easily building interfaces and some breaking changes to core interfaces

The internet leaks metadata. VPNs help locally. Tor distributes trust through relays. Mixnets defeat global adversaries. Choose tools matching your threat model.

Why it is philosophically significant, that Bitcoin is a clock.