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Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
I get an email with my password.. IN PLAIN TEXT!!! so they store the password unhashed 😫
I dont understand how @Eskom_SA's customer portal can be so useless.. 🧵
I reset my password using my account number; it displays the email address I registered with (anyone can use this to discover the email address from an account num!)
I log in, and get a warning: "your password is not secure".. yeah I wonder why?! Because its stored by @Eskom_SA!
Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
If you’re interested in social media that is harder to censor, take a look at Nostr.
Unlike Facebook or X, Nostr is not owned or controlled by one company. You control your identity, and your posts can be shared through many independent servers.
If one server blocks you or shuts down, you can simply use another - without losing your identity or followers.
It’s a simple idea that could have huge implications for freedom online: nostr.how/en/get-started
Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
Day trading destroys wealth as reliably as any casino, and the mechanism is identical: the house takes a cut of every transaction regardless of who wins.
Every time you open and close a position, you pay spreads, commissions, and in the United States, short-term capital gains tax at ordinary income rates, currently topping out at 37%. The market has to move in your favor just to get you back to even. This is a negative-sum game before you place a single bet on direction.
Then comes the chart. Technical analysts sell the fantasy that a triangle pattern forming on a 15-minute candlestick chart of Tesla stock reveals something about the future price. It reveals nothing. Prices coordinate dispersed, real-time information held by millions of actors simultaneously, and that information changes constantly. No chart captures what Elon Musk will tweet in four minutes, what a pension fund in Oslo decides to liquidate this afternoon, or what a crop report does to energy futures overnight. The chart shows you the past. Only the past.
The brokerages profit from your activity, not your success. TD Ameritrade, Robinhood, every platform selling you the dream: they earn on volume. Your losing trade is as profitable to them as your winning one. Retail day traders as a group underperform a simple index fund over any ten-year period studied, losing to both the market and inflation simultaneously.
Capital deployed in a productive business compounds. Capital churned through a trading terminal evaporates, steadily, into fees and taxes and the inevitable bad week you did not model for. Stop staring at the chart. Buy the business.
Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
Coded a funny thing today while we were having some burgers and beers, see how low your flyover can go
flappylink.com
Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
Nostr stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays. The Other Stuff is the point: blogs, live audio, communities, git repos, calendars, marketplaces, team workspaces. One key unlocks all of it, and no single app decides what the network is for.
Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
3.5 years ago I deleted this account thinking my absence would send a message.
It just removed my voice from the conversation.
I'm back because the mission hasn't changed and I realized I made a mistake. Bitcoin and Nostr still need to reach the people who haven't heard.
You don't purple and orange pill people by leaving. You meet them where they are.
The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.
Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
I deleted YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X from my phone.
Within 48 hours, I noticed myself picking up my phone out of habit and having nothing to do.
All those hours scrolling are really spent consuming other people’s ideas and building someone else’s business.
Attention is scarce capital.
Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
1/ The Comrades Marathon Centenary Race is on Sunday 13 June 2027, and entries open on Tuesday 25 August.
28 000 places, 4 entry windows and a general entry ballot. Here's how it actually works.
2/ Tuesday 25 August, 10:00 am SAST: Green Number and Yellow Number entries open, first come first served, entry caps apply. They close on Monday 31 August at 16:30 pm SAST, or sooner if caps are reached.
Amabeadibeadi charity entries open the same morning.
3/ Wednesday 2 September, 10:00 am SAST: CMA Member entries open for 72 hours or until the entry cap is reached. First come first served.
4/ Wednesday 9 September, 10:00 am SAST: general entries open by ballot application. Ballot applications close on Tuesday 22 September at 16:30 pm SAST.
The draw happens on Wednesday 23 September and you'll know the outcome the same day.
5/ You still need a qualifier. A 42.2km marathon in under 5 hours. Qualify any time between 15 June 2026 and 3 May 2027.
No qualifier, no start line.
6/ Big news - no increase in race entry fees for 2027 (the last time entry fees were increased was in 2022)
South Africa R1 200
Rest of Africa R2 000
International R4 500
And if you've earned 25+ Comrades finishes, you don't pay a cent.
7/ Part payment option: 50% when you enter, the balance payable by 31 January 2027.
8/ The Comrades Marathon Runners’ Relief Fund assists 1500 South African runners who are unemployed or earn under R30 000 a year by offering a reduced entry fee of up to 50%. T’s and C’s apply.
10/ Entries are online only, on comrades.com or the Comrades Marathon app.
298 days to go.
#ComradesMarathon #Comrades2027
#ComradesMarathon #TheUltimateHumanRace #Comrades2027 #Centenary #ComradesEntries #RoadToComrades #UltraMarathon #RunningSA #GreenNumberClub
Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
An email address belongs to Google. A phone number belongs to Verizon. A bank account belongs to the bank.
Your npub belongs to you.
Keys, not accounts. No password resets. No bans. No terms of service.
That's the revolution. 🟣
You can just run your own race! 💪
BREAKING NEWS: Comrades Marathon Association Chooses Freedom
Resolution 1: CMA Strategic Approach
229 for KZNA & ASA Accommodative / 873 CMA First
Resolution 2: Whether to reaffiliate with KZNA
338 In favour / 694 against
#secessionsaturday #CMA #KZNA #ASA
Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
BREAKING NEWS: Comrades Marathon Association Chooses Freedom
Resolution 1: CMA Strategic Approach
229 for KZNA & ASA Accommodative / 873 CMA First
Resolution 2: Whether to reaffiliate with KZNA
338 In favour / 694 against
#secessionsaturday #CMA #KZNA #ASA
Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
Quick demo of some cool Blink Terminal features
- Item Cart with custom items
- Calculator layout numpad with addition
- Boltcard NFC support
- Receipt printing
The Blink Terminal is here. It replaces the Cash Register.
Open it in any browser, enter a username, and start collecting Lightning payments.
Nothing to install. Share the link with staff — they can receive, never see the balance or move funds.
Works with your custodial and non-custodial accounts.
blink.sv/blog/meet-the-blink…
Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
Yes, they are NFC cards. Makes tapping to pay with Bitcoin as easy as a regular debit card—no phone needed.
Tim 🇿🇦⚡️🌋🪙 retweeted
Had the same problem! How am I supposed to "work" if Claude isnt available to do everything for me?!?!
PSA from the past..
It's nice that politicians are pandering to bitcoiners, but promises are cheap. There is a major insurmountable obstacle to the US govt buying bitcoin: The US govt does NOT own or control the US Federal Reserve, which is a cartel of private banks. The US President can't just tell this cartel what to do with their reserves. The US dollar is the sacred cow of this cartel, and it's how they rob the entire planet. They're not about to give up this racket because some politician made a promise whose implications he doesn't understand. They're not going to buy a million bitcoins, because a commitment to purchase bitcoin will just encourage everyone to dump their dollars and buy bitcoin, and destroy the value of the dollar and their ability to rob the world with it. If you think they managed to build this century-old cartel while being stupid enough to fall for this or powerless enough to stop it, you're going to be disappointed to find out they're actually just evil.
But can't the US government buy bitcoin itself, without the Fed? With whose money exactly? The US government is fiscally irresponsible and its biggest expense is debt servicing. There are good reasons your irresponsible debt slave friends never get bitcoin and keep laughing at you when you bring it up. Irresponsible high time preference people and institutions don't understand the concept of long term savings. More importantly, the US government needs the Fed to buy its debt and keep its Treasury ponzi going. Buying bitcoin in spite of the Fed's opposition is a full-on declaration of war by the US government against the Fed and the fiat dollar, and that's just not something that Trump, or Kennedy, is up for. Trump has repeatedly praised the Fed. Kennedy wants to implement some ridiculous low interest rate subsidized home lending scheme only possible with the Fed creating cheap money. These men are not Andrew Jackson, nor are they even trying to be him.
The real enemy of bitcoin, and humanity, is the Fed. The US government is just its tool, and politicians are interchangeable actors that haven't mattered in decades. You're not going to destroy the Fed by promising to vote for one actor over another. Your only chance of destroying it is for bitcoin to grow larger than the dollar and Treasury bonds, and for dollar users to continue to get impoverished into oblivion while bitcoiners thrive with their superior technology. I humbly suggest you not waste time and sats on the politics circus, and work hard to stack sats instead.