'We've reached the point in the Ireland where working full time doesn't actually mean anything anymore.
It used to mean stability. It used to mean you could afford a home, eat properly, maybe go away once a year and not panic if your car made a weird noise.
Now it just means nothing.
You wake up early, work all day, come home tired, and still somehow sit there wondering how you're going afford everything.
Rent is ridiculous. Bills are constant. Food prices change depending on the mood of the supermarket.
And wages?
Basically frozen in time.
You're not lazy. You're not bad with money. You're just trying to survive in a system where everything goes up except what you get paid.'
@SimonDixonTwitt How do you recommend balance investing vs mortgage? Mortgage overpayment is emotionally satisfying and guaranteed return to me. Safety net of home ownership speaks much more to me than future + risk. Paid 50%+ deposit recently on a super nice house thank you Bitcoin!
Europa is a new decentralized VPN marketplace built on Nostr and paid exclusively with Bitcoin.
It launched this week from @callebtc, the developer behind the Cashu ecash protocol.
The concept is simple but the implications are significant. Instead of trusting a single VPN company with a global server fleet, one privacy policy, and one monthly subscription, Europa lets independent VPN operators list their servers on an open directory.
Each operator runs their own infrastructure in their own jurisdiction, writes their own no-log policy, and sets their own price. Users browse the directory, pick an operator, and pay them directly over Lightning or Cashu ecash. The marketplace never touches the money and takes no cut.
After payment, the operator delivers a standard WireGuard or OpenVPN config file. No proprietary app, no custom client. Users import it into the same open-source VPN software they would use anywhere else and connect. When the bundle runs out, the tunnel goes quiet. No auto-renewal, no card on file, no surprise charges.
The reputation system runs on Nostr. Instead of editorial ratings or paid placements, recommendations and complaints come from people in your social graph. Sign in with a Nostr identity and the directory weights endorsements from accounts you already follow. If Nostr is not your thing, ignore the feature entirely and start with the smallest bundle from an unfamiliar operator to limit your risk.
The entire protocol is built on public Nostr events. Operator listings, reputation data, and payment coordination all live on the Nostr network. The Europa website is just one viewer of that data, not the source. Other directories can exist. If Europa makes bad editorial choices, users can leave without losing access to the underlying marketplace. The protocol spec is CC0 (public domain) and the code is MIT licensed.
What makes this meaningful is the architecture. Traditional VPN providers consolidate trust into one company in one jurisdiction. If that company gets acquired, served with a warrant, or breached, every customer is exposed at once. Europa distributes that trust across independent operators. Users can spread their traffic across multiple operators they actually chose rather than trusting a single brand to make every decision for them.
Anyone with a server can become an operator. Anyone with a Lightning wallet can become a customer. No accounts required for either side.
By design.
Mass immigration can be used by FIC & MIC as a political and economic tool to manufacture social fragmentation, suppress wages, strain public services, and redirect public anger away from monetary policy, corruption, and financial engineering.
Instead of blaming central banking, debt expansion, inflation, deindustrialization, or foreign policy, populations are encouraged to blame the most visible “other”.
The immigrant.
Create economic decline.
Create cultural tension.
Amplify fear.
Then manufacture a false enemy.
Classic divide-and-rule politics.
I pray for you to escape the grips of the MIC.
Go through different parts of the North West, and it is genuinely like being transported to a foreign country.
This has not happened by accident - this was a wilful decision to import millions of low-skilled migrants from the third world by Labour, Reform and Conservative politicians.
This is an increasing problem. It is getting worse, not better. Quickly.
Men walking around with two, three, four women in burqas - this is NOT normal. I detest it.
Some of the high streets in different suburbs of Manchester? It is Islamic. British family run businesses driven away, and it's a takeover. Colonisation. Ratcliffe was right.
These streets are all quite outwardly and deliberately designed to demonstrate it. A show of strength.
British women do not feel comfortable walking down these streets any more. Once their streets. Can you blame them? Men from cultures and societies that treat women like shit are now the majority in these places.
The vast majority, and growing.
Demographic reality is hitting, hard. These people have more children. Lots more children, very often at taxpayer expense. This is just a fact. One that nobody else in Parliament will even touch.
I'll get attacked for stating the obvious, but guess what? The people of Manchester can use their eyes. They can see what has happened, and is happening.
It hasn't reached Ashton, Hindley, Winstanley, Orrell, Abram, Worsley Mesnes, Bryn, Hindley Green, Platt Bridge and the rest of Makerfield to the same extent. But it will.
There is one route out. There is one political party with the courage to do what is necessary.
Restore Britain.
Ban the burqa, sharia courts, cousin marriage, halal slaughter, dominating public prayer. Reverse mass immigration. Deport foreign islamists. End political islam.
We're told to shut up, and just accept it - even embrace it.
No longer. We refuse.
Restore Britain will do what needs to be done. I promise you that.
@robertocomer Pension is tax free saving 20% on top of compound investments
Overall my bitcoin portfolio is up orders of magnitude more but since starting tenneraday value has gone down
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My pension is outperforming my bitcoin portfolio since I started tenneraday
Not a great result for bitcoin
Still bullish long term but a hard sell for family and friends
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Nicholas Dickinson has owned 13 hotels over 40 years. Nine months ago, he barely knew what Bitcoin was.
This is the rabbit hole from a business owner's perspective, and it's one of my favourite conversations on the podcast so far.
On the low voter turnout:
If you look across at groups like Restore Britain in England, whatever you think of them politically, one thing is obvious: people will come out in huge numbers when they feel somebody is offering an actual future vision, not just pointing out failure, managerial decline and endless damage control.
And I’m not saying Ireland should copy them or become them. The point is deeper than that.
People are tired of simply being told to accept whatever plans are put in front of them, with no alternative vision for what Ireland could become. A beautiful, aspirational, harmonious country that people actually want to build towards again.
Until somebody assembles capable people, maps out a serious alternative future, and presents it clearly to the public, many people will continue feeling there is nothing meaningful to vote for, only different versions of the same trajectory.
AGENDA '29.
Irish citizens who learn to calmly, repeatedly and constantly ask precise questions in public about language and the definition of seemingly innocuous words, while interfacing with institutions and local authorities, will become some of the most consequential people in Ireland in the years ahead.
Community. Wellbeing. Support. Vulnerable. Inclusion. Integration. Participation. Stakeholder. Far-right. The list is endless.
The moment these citizens begin asking, in front of everybody else in the room, what these words actually mean in operational, measurable and administrative terms, the atmosphere will change and little light bulbs will start going off in the heads of everyone around them.
The power of many institutional actors depends heavily on these words remaining emotionally persuasive but structurally vague.