About Liquid, Cashu and Fedimint.

As you may know I have recommended the use of these solutions to gain privacy, especially Liquid versus the expensive and inefficient coinjoin, but this does not mean that I am not aware of the risks.

My point of view is strictly pragmatic, I use these solutions for my own benefit being aware of the risks.

The example to follow is eMule, which in many ways I have always considered the precursor of Bitcoin. eMule has been around for more than 25 years and has not been able to close down, why?

- Open source
- Distributed

Any layer that is applied to Bitcoin to gain privacy and be able to resist state censorship will have to be.

- Open source
- Distributed
- Its creators must be anonymous.

All centralized and federated solutions will be closed and if their creators are known, they will be jailed unless it is a honeypot. In the same way for decentralized solutions, if their creators are not anonymous, they will also be imprisoned.

You have already seen with Samourai that for the USA there are no jurisdictions, wherever you are from you will be arrested, so both Liquid, as Cashu, as Fedimint are temporary solutions that will end up closed in one way or another.

If you can use them to your benefit then use them, but be aware, I hope that now you understand my defense of Joinmarket against other alternatives and my hope with Joinstr.


Always appreciate your nuance and voice of reason, 100% using base chain comes at a cost, but everything else has the possible costs of a 100% loss so use it wisely.

I do think as we move to a multipolar world, applying jursticitional arbitrage to a federation is looking a lot more attractive, are Russia, China, BRICS countries going to play ball with the US/Est?

Probably not, sure its an enemy of my enemy is my friend situation but its all you really have if you can't be totally decentralised and anonymous.

I like Joinmarket, joinstr, statechain and payjoins too, they can even help mixing things up moving between other layers


#zapathon #inflation https://image.nostr.build/9789c446329983125d136e66a6bbbe1788f8d8fa337639e7afdc4dd9f022198f.jpg


New attack on your freedom to transact just dropped, first they came for your mixers, and now they're coming for your KYC trades.

If you're running jam markets and robosats on your node, you are a filthy criminal

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2024/PSA240425


Lol whats next? Employing tax loopholes drives a higher chance of heart attack and boils the oceans?


Criminalise all the coins, mix it up kids and don't forget to lick the spoon


RIP to whirly

https://media.tenor.com/pfd3ov2DcoMAAAAM/coffin-dance-dancing-pallbearers.gif


Wouldn't know I'm running it on my own node :P


Lol because meta products weren't enough of a shit shwo


Home girl is making moves, you love to see it


Introducing Top Zaps

We just released an update to all Primal clients. You’ll notice that we now render several top zaps at the bottom of each note. The top zapper gets their zap message displayed. Brevity is enforced: we only allow room for 4-5 short words. Anyone can zap any note and include any message. Note author can mute abusive users and keep their sats. Let’s see how this goes!

https://m.primal.net/HzmQ.mp4


Damn now you just juiced zaps to a whole new level


Bitcoin is a trillion dollar asset class, its now starting become a big boy and so the attacks are going to be of a higher calibre, just one of many boss battles to come


Lol rug pulling the rug puller


If you were a Samourai Wallet user and confused about how to restore your funds elsewhere, we've got you covered:

https://freedom.tech/samourai-to-sparrow/

https://v.nostr.build/4oMGr.mp4


The government is going after privacy wallets, PayPal is trying to push some stupid ass green mining incentive for miners who can't hash with everyone else and feel they are entitled to some kind of subsidy, fees are pumping because of Runes

Meanwhile, someone is either wash trading or the biggest sucker at the table paying 33.3 BTC for 1 Satoshi

Then you wonder why we can't have nice things

https://m.primal.net/HzoZ.jpg


I'm with you, I think plug and play nodes are improving and in Bitcoin terms get cheaper and cheaper, along with something like Validating Lightning Signer, your node isn't a total single point of failure to in person attacks.

I'm here for the long ride, but sometimes I get annoyed by just use LN as a response, because most examples  on social media of it is just custodian to custodian its kind of silly


https://m.primal.net/Hziy.jpg

nostr:note1g7k0v0yerq9g07y5lc70m6y2mu4m8zghlexva8vfla3vv4hceyrqyly7s8


Lol here we call them runaways

https://taste.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Chicken-necks-gizzards-and-feet.jpg


Thanks for the break down, clearly a massive can of worms about to be opened here


The indictment against the alleged Samourai Wallet (SW) operators was unsealed today. A few friends have been asking for my opinion on it and my channels are blowing up. I used to serve in law enforcement as a detective that specialized in cybercrime and blockchain analysis. The following information may be useful or interesting to some.

Reading through the Department of Justice’s press release and the indictment itself, here are my initial thoughts:

There are plenty of examples of past investigations resulting in arrests/convictions related to the operation of custodial mixing services, with Bitcoin Fog being the one in recent news. With a service taking custody of funds and moving funds between other people/users, they are likely going to be considered a money service business. And if a money service business doesn’t block Americans from using the service, the US Department of Treasury will require the operators of that service to register with them and follow their compliance regulations. Many foreigners have been arrested in foreign jurisdictions in order to be prosecuted in the US with an American judge and jury for allegedly violating federal American laws (read that sentence twice).

With these sorts of cases, you are typically dealing with the idea that a service didn’t register correctly and follow compliance regulations. And then the other idea is that the operator of the service knew and allowed funds to move through it that would be considered “illicit” or “sanctioned.”

Examples of illicit funds may be proceeds from illegal drug sales or funds stolen from someone. The sanction piece can involve entities, such as particular Bitcoin addresses, individuals, companies, or countries, using the service or receiving from the service. The US federal government maintains a sanction list.

The above summary has been an on-going fight on privacy, censorship, and regulatory overreach for a while. It isn’t new (and Roman Sterlingov should be free). SW’s indictment is different from the situation I summarized above though.

SW was a non-custodial service. This means that users controlled (their private keys to) their funds themselves and the service provider (SW) allowed the coordination between users through its infrastructure, such as the app, the server, the continued development, etc. This makes this case much more interesting and more concerning to me.

Regarding the first count against the men: Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering. The SW indictment alleges that SW was a service that provided “large-scale money laundering and sanctions evasion.” So we are talking about users using illicit funds with the service and sanctioned entities using or receiving from the service. And we are talking about the SW coordinators “conspiring” with the relevant users to do this.

The indictment is constantly referring to SW as an “application” that is conducting or facilitating the mixing through a “centralized coordinator server.” Who controls the application and server? Allegedly the two men named in the indictment.

When it comes to SW’s Whirlpool service: Through their server, their application is selecting the inputs. Their application is communicating information between all users necessary for the mixing to occur. Their application is using the private keys on behalf of the users. Their application is broadcasting the mixing transactions to the Bitcoin network. The picture the indictment is painting is that the application and server are essentially doing the money laundering, as opposed to the users using the service. Similar verbiage and logic are used to describe SW’s Ricochet service too (adding hops to a send you intend to do).

The above summary is the most shocking piece of the indictment, in my opinion. The implications of this reach beyond Bitcoin-related apps and services. Think of the apps and services, just in general, that a user could use to engage in criminal behavior. Now think of arresting the developers/creators for what the user did.

Regarding the second indictment against the men: Conspiracy to Operate an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business. The indictment says the SW operators were “involved in the transportation and transmission of funds intended to be used to promote and support unlawful activity.” There isn’t any mention or consideration of custody of funds in this. The logic of the indictment: Some users may have used SW’s application and server for “unlawful activity” and therefore, SW was involved in the unlawful activity. Again, this is a scary precedent. Think of the applications and servers out there right now that users may be using for unlawful activity.

There are many mentions apparently from the coordinators themselves that address the knowledge and intent element (important for a criminal trial). The SW operators were obviously passionate about financial privacy and resisting compliance regulations. Their messages (especially with their style of messaging) will be easy to spin/take literally, even if the coordinators were just trying to be edgy with their marketing/brand. The SW coordinators did not help themselves in this regard.

I think the government will focus a lot on the coordinator’s knowledge and intent of the service being used for illegal activity. I believe this is how the government will “limit” the scope of the precedence and how it will try to differentiate the SW service from others.

Regarding the illicit funds/sanctions piece: The blockchain analysis showing funds from Dark Web markets that sell illegal drugs flowing into SW’s Whirlpool will be easy for the prosecution. The same goes with sanctioned entities sending to or receiving from SW’s Whirlpool. It will also be easy to show funds flowing from known hacks, exploits, and/or thefts flowing into SW’s Whirlpool. The government will need to prove the men knew this was happening and that they facilitated it by providing the SW application and server. Their mouths may be their downfall on this one, but I think it is pretty clear that the SW operators’ intent was to provide a neutral financial privacy tool that didn’t control user funds, leaving the responsibility of the use of those funds on the users themselves.

With the logic in this case, I wonder if it will be argued that blockchain analysis companies are also culpable since they surely had their own funds being mixed in SW’s Whirlpool to collect data points. Were their funds facilitating illegal activity? Or were their funds facilitating financial privacy in general? (Maybe facilitating privacy was just the byproduct of having the chance to trace through exclusions.)

Overall, the case leads to some interesting questions.

Is a wallet software and developer a money service business now? How about a full node? These both facilitate the transmission of funds too. The implications of this case are not good for privacy or code. I’m ready to donate to the defense.


Lol for real its dynamic and we're all just making our best guesses on how the network changes and people react based on what we've seen so far

I am still super bullish on LN, its got plenty of runway before we really see it stretched to its maximum


My node has performed actions the government doesn't like and will continue to do so


For sure, I agree there are people that will just always trust a company or someone to do it for them, thats never going to change, but I don't think that even if 1% of the worlds daily transactions moved to LN that the network would be able to cope

Yes there are proposals that can improve LN

But I'm basing it on today, LN is not a set and forget, for example for me, I had problems because locally we have power outrages, if my power is out too long and my UPS can't run everything for the lets say 6 hour stint, my LN node was down, and I had to do a back up and it was a pain in the arse and cost me a fair bit

It can be more complicated than that, what if the person needs that liquidity for something else and has to close? What if someone physically grabs your node and runs off with it?

I think if businesses alone would adopt LN it would be enough to traffic to start making plenty of transaction sizes obsolete, never mind compounding of individual users


In its current form yes you are right, once you have your channel up and funded you're golden

But I am thinking about what if we're billions of people trying to get in and out of LN, rebalancing channels based on what we have now, some users won't be able to afford to move in and out

They would have to use custodians of some kind, because closing into a dust transaction/closing a transaction that miners would take up all the fees would be pointless


Lightning has indeed carved out quite the user base for itself, but it's by no means ready to adopt the entire worlds coffee payments, time to be realistic about scaling kids

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/lightning-bottle/


As I have said for a long time, money is superordinate to laws. In other words, when money is broken, laws are changed to protect the winners of the  manipulation of money, rather than citizens.

The recent news is only one more step in the inevitable fight to centralize everything…..”in the name of protecting you”

A dystopian control structure preying on you by pretending to be the free market.

PS - Been expecting this and a lot more.
I stand ready.

Game on!


So this op went across the US, Portugal and Iceland, so much for justification arbitrage


First they made coinjoins expensive and we said nothing, then they took down mixing servers and we said nothing....


Damn life is coming at us fast


Too soon

https://media.tenor.com/mU4uk7_rVE8AAAAC/its-too-soon-linda-martin.gif


New attack on your privacy just dropped, I guess you'll have to run Join Markets on your own node and be a happy criminal.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering


I am in need of some liquidity


Lol fire your social media manager


Damn, so many opportunities just waiting for Bitcoin, how people can look paste its obvious incentives is beyond me


*slow


Lol I don't know why my YouTube feed recommended this to me but its the multi-verse cross over I never thought I needed but now I want more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQyHhFLDDM


At least she was a whole coiner once upon a time, I guess stacking debt free feels better for some people


Don't look now but bitcoin mining pools are critically centralized and it could be existential to the network if miners don't act.

https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-mining-pool-centralization/


This worries me 10x more than token fads 'spamming' Bitcoin.

 https://image.nostr.build/8813cc3eac5eafc7f76fddcdd3cbf7422d537418efcb8c599b97a6a9b16346c5.jpg


#Rune minters who paid 1000 sats per vbyte to etch their #shitcoin or claim a mint allocation, now trying to sell their allocation on secondary markets and the all of 2 CEX's that have made markets for it

The race for liquidity on!

https://m.primal.net/HzQt.mp4


Lol even your source says its yet to be verified on chivos end, the plot thickens


Overpaying miners for meta data embedded on-chain is so peak fiat


It sure is enjoyable to watch at times, but we've got plenty of downside to enjoy still..so grab the popcorn


I love that we have wallet diversity (and this is by far not exhaustive list).

Personally, I by default recommend @PhoenixWallet because I'm very reluctant to recommend custodial wallets, that's not what Bitcoin is about.

Many people think that they'll recommend custodial to hook them up and then they'll switch to non custodial. But usually there's no real strategy to when to do it and you meet them months later with the same custodial wallet and if you ask them about it, they have no idea what you're talking about.

If we want low fees and ability to receive, @AquaBitcoin might be a good option, so is Helm (new project, the Mutiny of liquid lightning swaps).

There's a long way to improve the user experience though, my suggestion is:

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2023/05/07/expanding-the-lightning-network-to-serve-billions-a-quick-win-strategy/

https://m.primal.net/HzOP.png


I remember when the Zim hyperinflation happened, people would hold up signs like Starving billionaire, and they would have stacks of cash infront of them it was funny but also sad


Bored Apes will be the basis of the economy, countries will pledge their Apes as collateral to get loans from the IMF


Sparrow v1.8.6 released with:

Wallet search improvements
All open wallets summary
Mix from Postmix
Import Samourai backup file

And more: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.8.6

https://sparrowwallet.com/download/


Lol official song has to be this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgPJSBd18MU


Lol these girls are just saying what a lot of normies are thinking


Welcome to the real internet


Fees are still elevated, not nearly as bad on day 1 of the halving, but looking at #Runes 24 hour volume on trading, not looking all that good, hopefully this boom is going bust sooner rather than later

https://protos.com/prices-of-bitcoin-runes-dip-two-days-after-launch/


I think there are a bunch of companies involved I remember Ibex was also part the wallet stuff too and the ATM stuff seems to be run by Athena Bitcoin Global


Who knows? Lol


Yes you could use any wallet you like, I guess many people just used the government wallet out of ease and to claim the initial airdrop


Major Oef just dropped!

https://atlas21.com/el-salvador-group-of-hackers-publishes-chivo-wallet-atm-code/


NEW INTEGRATION

⚡ Mutiny Wallet

You can now connect your  nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg to your Zaprite account, enabling direct lightning address payments on your Checkouts.

https://blog.zaprite.com/introducing-the-mutiny-connection/


Those that don't pay rent need to be evicted


What would we do without their advice?


lol, Old Grandpa


Maybe a basket of doge and tesla debt that will be paid back once the charging stations network and robotaxis that will never happen go live


Where do money markets get the yield from?


No need to worry about unfunded liabilities and the retirement crisis when we will all be able to live and work until we're 120

https://image.nostr.build/6f6215a8c40e8461563794c3128bb9c52427a5cd9d625936bdbf1e1a14719e12.jpg


LOL where does the yield come from?


Lol and that kids is how you lose 24 BTC


Lol Worth the risk, have you tried cheese? It's amazing


I like reminding myself that most of the world cannot entertain the idea of #Bitcoin.

If it's not point the inflation in my direction, then it's reduce other programs I don't benefit from or reduce my taxes so I can consume and drive up inflation and so this cope goes round and round and round

But keep the governments ability to spend willy nilly, sigh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3oWfVF-31E


Future Treasury Secretary anna_grace_643 has a solution to the United States $34.6 Trillion debt problem https://v.nostr.build/LerZn.mp4


LOL Young Yellen just needs a blue blazer and she's all set for a successful career in finance


Looking to use eCash for your zapping needs or simply don't want to choose between an LN custodian or running LN yourself?

Well, we've got community mints by the dozen, check em out

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/find-btc-ecash-mints/


LOL Lisk is the future, we will tokenise everything


Lol next halving and i'll be soo back


5 more days of clicking buttons to keep clients happy and I'll get to click the buy button that will make me happy

https://image.nostr.build/e7e1f94ef37f6a691ab80f9a3a51c0cbd208e24781ccdcc74a4816b64390dec5.jpg


Oef, i don't want to my neck alone is paining as it is just watching it, can't imagine the impact


Lol 🤣 🤣 🤣
https://media.tenor.com/St8KXr1L2jQAAAAC/beach-man.gif


Good morning 🫶🫶 https://video.nostr.build/52bda85a43d7fdb3e90f4dc065f5c172698e00c6d18b1b5ab138c3f31fd7a30d.mp4


I didn't say that it was, I was saying theres always a response to something that goes the other way and most of us live in the middle, but the extreme cases get the views and talking points


🎙Separate Money & State
“The institution's biggest fear are the citizens. They are afraid of us because they understand the mechanism. They know how the system is designed. They know that fiat lives on trust. They know that without our trust, there is nothing.
And so they have to keep perpetuating this lie and this matrix system that we live in, in order for us to buy it and continue to give them that trust. Once people understand how the monetary system works, they don't need to trust anymore and the system will collapse. And yeah, it will hurt in the short term, but it will be so great and liberating in the longer term.”
https://video.nostr.build/0fd274d5a2da118cd70934960d6e127bf4b846c08c290917d23f8e2edcb04631.mp4

>>


lol you don't do 24 words? it would be a lot cooler if you did


Lol only we can spy on our citizens, we don't need competition


Lol how big your booty hole needs to stretch to get that deal


Lol YouTubers care about it too because it gets clicks, Alpha, gamma, sigma the list goes on, its so cringe! I guess its just response to the gender fluid thing like now the other side just goes more extreme


200 million a month, lol thats a lot of liquidity
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/09/costco-selling-up-to-200-million-in-gold-bars-a-month-wells-fargo-estimates.html


Lol nostr has a scarcity of cute asian girl bots, and I am upset about it


Lol 100% this cycle seems so hell bent on finding ways to hide their premine, they will throw anything at the wall and see if it sticks


I apologize for the brain rot, I just thought I'd document this nonsense for plebs to just send a link when normies ask about this or that shitcoin


The gigabrains behind token creation on Bitcoin are really starting to take some liberties with their way they issue their make believe assets, NATs are just another level of silly gamification

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/nats/


My 10 sat per vbyte transaction waiting it out in the mempool


Lol likewise, its so weird, like knowing I have to feed my own feed, ah the responsibility of finding things to look at is so refreshing


LOL 🤣 🤣 It's an epic sat okay? You wouldn't understand halving blocks don't come around everyday


Good time to explore the off-chain options, marina wallet also has LN to LQ swaps on the fly, I've been messing around with Greenlight in green wallet too, but get a lot of failed payment issues so wouldn't recommend just yet


It's the same game it always was, VCs funding this stuff they're just pretending that free/fair mints are not premines and then paying for marketing from the shill army and dumping their liquidity on exchanges

It will pass, and there will be cycles of crazy minting/etching in between, that drive up fees like crazy, its all part of the distribution of bitcoin i suppose and your stack will reflect that


Lol true, yet we have so many KYC pools now, its nuts


🤣 🤣 🤣 dude was dropping mad bars on that one


🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 , thats a banger along with

Track 9: Poke that hoe


I always say an honest man doesn't need a good memory, lol


Lol shouldn't they be focusing on building more roads? We want more roads for our taxes


This week’s newsletter is out. Check your email or read it online.
https://newsletter.unlimitedhangout.com/2024-04-19-newsletter/


Lil Zucky Drops his new album F**K Yo Privacy, what's you're favourite track? Drop the name below

https://m.primal.net/HyIO.jpg


Lol thats how good dudes opsec was


We're thirsty


Lol price of spreading the good news I suppose


That plate is stuffed like all blocks since the halving damn


They sure are dropping some serious coin, every block fees are beating out the subsidy, wonder how long they can keep this up


Aaaaand the queue the return of the Tiktokers to nostr


Lol they're getting rid of sats by the bucket load, and many are underwater on their trade, they just don't know it yet


Who is going to tell her?


Lol whose hash rate is higher?


I checked 1 block was like 4.3 Exahash, so a fuck tonne of nerd miners


Lol you can delete it but we all keeping receipts on our relays


Frankie never returned our messages, but we got nostr:npub1mk6c63cawxh9epshcvz7y2k0w6f9qu2zeat5jw77aelaxx4y7jfqncawap for ya. #bitcoin
https://video.nostr.build/c6e7ce7bfa8a3728ace2e57fef71248c6f085c91ebec0d901de6f0181b1d54c2.mp4


Nerdminer pool hash rate is on the rise, keep getting at it

https://pool.nerdminers.org/


Red laser eyes check, and I am higher than fees right now

https://m.primal.net/Hxmo.jpg


LOL and jalapeños


Lol I spent real sats on this, therefore it has value


Lol Italians screaming internally


Lol good luck to the exchanges, arb traders and ETFs having to use on-chain to get their funds moving around and competing with these nutters, i'll stick to L2s until they run out of money


Happy halfadays 🎄
https://image.nostr.build/5a48a20794aace85c4d9d5ea5db7f640f0445bc44e7445bb125b9a9e2a5db2bb.jpg


Oh you want to take it a little more seriously but also not too seriously, fine nerd miner pool and bit axes pool, fall back to nerd miner pool during load shedding but we just keep hashing


Lol I just look at mine from time to time and it allows me to dream, like what if, what if the next block is mine


I think that would cause even more problems, lol don't give them any more bad ideas


Lol we want 1 000 000 nerd miners, our cost basis is way lower than the big boys, once the governments come for them, we' will be the network


Lol that black pill reminder normies shill out can be stronger than my morning coffee sometimes


If the #Runetards and #Ordinoobs want to run up fees, maybe it's time we start to profit from these nutters, hear me out okay?

We all run nerd miners, we make a nerd miner only pool, mine 1 block, profit, retire

https://m.primal.net/HxkQ.jpg


Lol while stacking 1 BTC now is a dream long dead for lil old me I am happy to be part of this change and getting in when I did, I've learned so much over the last few years, and has changed my mind on so many things

Long live the Bitcoin, breaker of brains, repairer of balance sheets


Runetards are doing their part to compensate for the slashing in block subsidy, good luck to them


You can buy it on an exchange, if you don't want to KYC,

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/buying-btc/liquid/

You can go to a P2P market like Robosats and see if there is a seller using Liquid or purchase LN Btc with fiat and swap to Liquid in Robosats, there is a swap option available or you can use

https://boltz.exchange/

My preffered route is a side-shift,

https://sideshift.ai/

I get stablecoins and then swap them into Liquid BTC and has ben working great for me for many years now


You can purchase directly from an exchange if one in your country supports it,

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/buying-btc/liquid/

Alternatively like me in South Africa where I can't get direct access on an exchange, I normally purchase stablecoins/get paid in stables and then use sideshift to swap out

Also there are sellers on Robosats that do Liquid, or you can buy on LN from a robosats and swap it into Liquid either with robo sellers or bolt exchange.


100% with you and yes custodial LN for sure is low on my trust tier and don't keep too much in the old alby,

Liquid is not perfect I get it, but I find it so funny how people who crap on Liquid and at the same time sit with a single custodian either on their LN setup or using an exchange, like bro, what you talking about?

I use liquid mostly if I get paid in stablecoins, swap to L-BTC and when I have a UTXO I think is worth holding on-chain swap out and I pay very little fees

I really appreciate the confidential transactions after trying coinjoins


Likley but when? Lol can't wait for Runetards to run out of money


Lol I always get a lot of stick when I mention Liquid, but shit works, and has been clutch everytime ordinoobs spam the chain


GM everyone, welcome to the thunderdome! I'll be stacking on Liquid if anyone is looking for me

https://m.primal.net/Hxjl.png


Wishing everyone a happy halving

Get ready to trade sideways for the next few months, boys and girls!

https://m.primal.net/HxNh.jpg


Half the incoming supply, double the fun


Lol you can't make teeth out of bitcoin, but you can make it out of gold, end of discussion


lol for sure, and thats your vibe others have a different goal in mind


PV and get ready for some fun price discovery shenanigans


Tonight be all like: https://i.nostr.build/Aa9xG.jpg


Lol the same people who watch TV


Lol I can't help I am susceptible to the odd motor boating accident


Lol you are a man of strong conviction to notice


Lol I'm down, willing to be the second commentor as long as I get my daily dose of likes, I need it


You will earn less Bitcoin for the hash rate you produce and you will be happy

https://m.primal.net/HxGp.jpg


Watermarking ain't all bad, it helps people find out who made them and maybe they want to follow for more


LOL but that's all Twitter is used for, you either farming engagement through memes, outrage or wasting your life on spaces, or just becoming an elon reply guy and hoping for some play


Lol I'm just trying to keep my coffee cup filled


Lol do boobs really feel like a bag of sand?


Blockchain is really about taking old ideas that didn't work and bringing them back each cycle with a brand new name.

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/rwa/


Lol bye felicia


Lol I like the term runetard but that's just me


It hasn't launched yet, will be released after the halving


Lol this is going to my anthem for this week as I hate on Runetards


Thats that big brain attitude, my node is for robosats and knots, thats it, sometimes I F around with coinmixing


Its a new way to create tokens and transfer them via Outputs when you transfer UTXOs

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/runes/


Looks like we're seeing a gang of new people running full nodes

https://m.primal.net/HwkZ.jpg


Using nostr zaps to pay for things IRL 🤯

@primal_app is a game changer 🤙 #RealLifeBitcoin #bitcoin
https://m.primal.net/HwQx.mov


Lol can't you just save up and go to thailand and buy a gf like the boomers do?


Wake up babe, supertestnet drops a new L2 on us and its a prickly customer

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/hedgehog/


Lol no you can't just cut supply and make it known to the entire world and think the price is going to go up, I love these comments it reminds me how early we are


Lol Wise was the cleanest dirty shirt but we're all ready to dress differently


Jut upgraded now, really loving the work you're putting in, the UI is a delight


Introducing umbrelOS 1.1 with Terminal, the umbrelOS Beta Program, several enhancements, and bug fixes.

Terminal allows you to run custom commands in umbrelOS or within a specific app.

And with the umbrelOS Beta Program, you can opt in to receiving beta updates to gain early access to new features, and help us refine them.

Also new:
- Start, stop, and troubleshoot apps by right-clicking them.
- View an app’s update progress on its app icon on the home screen.

This update is rolling out now to Umbrel Home and Raspberry Pi users. Users on other devices - stay tuned! We’re on track to transition you from umbrelOS 0.5.x to the latest version this month.

https://video.nostr.build/3410eae9ddbcda00b9de9c2018d981bcca879b81d739ffe44bb2a56c5b11f6b8.mp4


💥 EXCLUSIVE NOSTR EARLY RELEASE 💥

I got 15 of the biggest psychopaths in Bitcoin (& NOSTR) to tell the entire history of our favorite orange coin.

Viewer discretion is advised.

https://v.nostr.build/lLRzM.mp4

**All zaps will be split evenly among all 15+ creators in this video. **

Starring (in order of collab submission):

Paco De La India - nostr:npub1v67clmf4jrezn8hsz28434nc0y5fu65e5esws04djnl2kasxl5tskjmjjk
Max DeMarco - nostr:npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz
BTC Sessions - nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8
Reelrichard - nostr:npub1e2wk36e9vg8uw40phrrkkhc4tax8a9ken3fjcyy63vmdyz9aee2sk9el27
Laura & Rikki - nostr:npub1qy2tkywa36ufh76qv62snv4953eayufxufav4evz2le06lxe2amqpxavna
Isabella Santos  - nostr:npub1aftmyhm62lrp6lwsha3yzyjy5kqdvuy7g23qg28a8q0cnmudv0ds0sdcke
Julian Figueroa - nostr:npub1h882a66p0zj5n69s2u8nfzev4f97lzfnlcej84z78p6uqxge5tpqlupz20
Huck the Sock - nostr:npub154wwrhvqpyvj3yntu90zeggc2ccz43ee4t5w5z45xuyc524cph7qmne6d5
Joe Nakamoto - nostr:npub1lr2zzf989mvf393y0tv39ara6a4vddkd6y87z784up9vl6ks6j3qtudl6a
Bit intelligence - nostr:npub1qwtvplce8tzlrydqtlq777sgnq46l9tnns42nts7ak3mlpmrw9lsnf76ur
Robbie P / Bitcoin Slang
Cole / Southern Bitcoiner
Nico Moran - nostr:npub1gu47n7fxfm4py48jktmu6tdqcvva4e87fntynuzzf62zxnw2e7tsc6907g
Ben Cote
Carla & Walker - nostr:npub1hu3hdctm5nkzd8gslnyedfr5ddz3z547jqcl5j88g4fame2jd08qh6h8nh nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u
Adam O'Brien - nostr:npub1k763esjjzm2vzz7gtt38q4wf49zlua72l4rreu3myzghuwwwdqtq2mcg5x


Lol but we need the government to help, I mean who will build the runways?


Tick Tock, we're going to be getting 50% less Bitcoin in those next blocks, who is having a Friday halving party?

https://m.primal.net/HwMD.jpg


Google starts pulling in some on-chain data so you can easily check out user balances, the drama that will unfold is going to be epic, normies clearly don't know block explorers exist

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/google-chain-analysis/


You're going to get to a state where countries realize they're bankrupt. And that point is dangerous for honeypot like ETFs. This is a non-counter party risk asset, until you introduce counter party risk.

Your government today preys on you; it's extractive: inflation = wage deflation. If your money is in someone else's honey pot, the rules will change for it. So self custody your Bitcoin!
https://image.nostr.build/b270fe15d44734fd884b85b51f1bf32e5a29749936a74e2d33cefa0eb5b68fc6.jpg
nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe nostr:npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3


Welcome 😉


Are you starting to accept Bitcoin for bookings? 😉


It's unbelievable Jeff

https://www.shortlist.com/media/imager/202106/52228-posts.article_md.jpg


100% ETFs are just another product that allows them to convert you into exit liquidity if they need it


Looks like your subscription to Canada Red+ just went up, lol loving the marketing spin "Tax Fairness"

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2024/04/tax-fairness-for-every-generation.html


So grateful to nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f for the opportunity to work on nostr full time. I could have never imagined this a year ago when I was working a normal desk job.
This nostr journey has truly been life changing.
But we are not done yet, we have so much left to build and experiment with in nostr and I'm so excited that ill be here to see it all and help out

Although the best part of this is probably the picture of a purple strudel 😀
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq7rn8p6hlsjavhxe9yu56hnhz085xcuw35jearw0t3emsd8ts50jqqsyxn2hg49kzhlu3emfnr0mexztk0224yktzhs62fxjt9lvafs0kpq97nue2


Oh no, those poor equities, what are we going to do?


In a FPPS pool miners don’t actually interact with #Bitcoin but rather they are treated like employees of the pool. nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze takes a different approach by giving sovereignty back to the miners. #MineWithOCEAN
 https://image.nostr.build/2755f05ef1ce2f9a4bf74b3e5569690609c05744c41925d0f1e32b4143520127.jpg


Lol I was just being silly,

I am with you, I don't want to deal with converting and all that nonsense, I have money I want to spend, if you don't want to accept my money thats fine, i'll wait till you do and you;ll likley get less of it, or ill find someone who does want to accept it


Yeah ofcourse, but if miners propose the block construction instead of the mining pool, block art does get considerably harder to pull off


Lol you want less sats for your product or service fine by me!


Lol I can hardly manage a 4 day workout week, how are you surviving?


Don't make me make another account and give my card details to another payment provider FFS, you just don't want to do business, thats it, thats your problem not mine, fine I'm not spending these sats anyway I'll just hodl till you come to your senses

https://m.primal.net/Hvry.jpg


Its a sign we need to give individual miners more power, these mining pools and large miners are just trying to flex on chain


Its all so tiresome, but what can we do?


Just when you thought we had enough graffiti artists coming in to tag on the Bitcoin blockchain another one drops, sigh this is really becoming tiresome

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/btc-block-art/


The WeChat of the West is slowly starting to take shape, just put in your credit card and fully KYC to flatten the curve


Lol so its just going to be influnecers talking to each other, thats going to be fun


🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣  Bluecheck Grindset


I doubt mine will allow me bitcoin ever, we are pretty arse backwards here, so i've already considered that money will be going to zero by the time I retire


Looks like Hong Kong is all aboard the ETF train, paper bitcoin for paper hands and you get what you pay for, I guess when your stonk market is trading at year 2000 levels, cucked sats it's better than no sats

https://www.tradingview.com/news/newsbtc:4f5986c3c094b:0-breaking-spot-bitcoin-and-ethereum-etfs-approved-in-hong-kong/


Lol every liquidation is a gift, I mean 1 Bitcoin is out of reach for most people so I guess whatever cheap sats I can get, I take


Saw it this weekend, won't spoil it for you :)


Lol the flippening is coming


Lol, lets settle for no pants thursdays and call it evensies?


I thought we're zapping open source devs


Mune?


Who hurt you EU? You're not too late, you can still buy #Bitcoin

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/eu-chokehold-btc-wallets/


To not get black pilled


Will need to kick some of that revenue up to users, no?


Lol well that escalated quickly


When I see the shithousery happening on Testnet these last few days it's only radicalising me even more, ain't no #runes surviving on my node

https://m.primal.net/HvJW.jpg


Lol the cyberhornets are ready for a good argument


💯  Staying solvent and take the sats from the weak hands and those using leverage


- Open terminal on your mac or pc
- Type in the command - ssh -t umbrel@umbrel.local
- Type in your password
- Type in ~/umbrel/scripts/app restart bitcoin

Some resources to check out

https://community.umbrel.com/t/official-umbrel-troubleshooting-guide-and-faq/9873
https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/issues/1544


Damn is this what I'm missing out on while avoiding Txitter? Gosh, people are treating wars like they're arguing about their favourite sports teams


lol tender love and care


Lol, i'm as selfish as they come, and I doubt i'd get 100k followers either, I was imagining someone else could get there


The Pi 4 is fine for now, umbrel does sometimes need some TLC, if your node just keeps hanging, might need to ssh in and reset it

No reason lol, core is fine, Knots runs ordisrespector by default, if you're keen on showing your disdain for ordinals


Shitposting your way to generational wealth one note at a time


I'm still holding out hope for hoverboards, where I'm going I don't need roads

https://media.tenor.com/4MCd8JWd5jsAAAAC/hoverboard-back-to-the-future.gif


Maybe your device is underpowered what are you running it on? And why aren' you running knots?


Okay, hear me out!

What if you could build up an audience of 100 000 followers on Nostr, post everyday and roughly 3.5% of your audience zap you 21 sats per post each day

In 4 years (one cycle), that's 1 Bitcoin

Can this be done?

https://i.imgflip.com/7hilou.jpg


I think zapvertising can form part of the ecosystem and carve out its own niche the same way influencer marketing did, but the auction model remains the most attractive for advertisers and the most lucrative for platforms.

Its why services like Google Ads, GDN/programmatic, Meta and YouTube pull in the big bucks, they offer loads of inventory for nearly any scale budget and give brands the baseline cost to reach a customer so they can compare it to other avenues for CPA/CPC

If this place gets cranking with a large enough user base, i'm sure advertisers will be willing to seed it with sats to get users attention


lol well you're not going to be welcome on our bicycle lanes or our rainbow painted crossings


Lol but think of the road and bridges


Yes I follow the Caspian report and the Duran for like quick updates, This poddy looks good, I'm definately checking it out for my next workout or dry work day lol been listening to the rest is history podcast and really enjoying it


You are doing great work, keep funneling as many as you can into the freedom tech, most won't like the taste its bitter medicine, but those that do will add value to this place 😉  Strike rates will be low and tension will be high, its because they know we can win


Lol none of us do, we're just here for the vibes
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/021/665/DpQ9YJl.jpg


Glad I'm not the only one that fell on my head down this rabbit hole man the different interest groups involved, is nuts and in the end it all boils down to control of resources


It's a pleasure, if you have any other videos drop them in the thread, always keen to learn so i don't sound like a total NPC when talking about these topics


I don't disagree with you there, we could be way further ahead with less noise that fiat brings, it would same with extraction of energy resources, we have so much untapped gas, oil and nuclear that would bring energy costs down and unleash more productivity but we have fiat funded climate campaigns fighting against it


4.6 BTC for a days work i'd be planning my retirement lol


Lol I need more salary ASAP


As always, Jeff just sending out high 📡

Appreciate it, its easy to get distracted from the goal with all the noise and emotions running high


The more you reinforce a system based on theft, the more it steals from you, divides you, and then controls you.

From that system, war is inevitable because it is a requirement that you believe it is someone else’s fault to retain its power over you.

With the chaos from the existing system bound to expand over the next number of years, it will be easy to get pulled back in.

The more you reinforce a system based on truth, the faster the world changes to hope and abundance. We are early, but our actions matter more than we realize. Every node (we) matters.

Keep the higher ground, and help others see it.

#Bitcoin
#Nostr
And soon….#Fedi


Found this video to explain what is going on with Iran like I am 5, and man I didn't know it was so complicated, honestly I'll just stick to Bitcoin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzSRMzb_2jE


I guess its all about perspective, some things have improved for sure, but I wouldn't say it's all thanks to the system, but rather thanks to people who wanted better for themselves and gave up their time, skills and resources to produce things we all benefit from and improve society.

I'd say the world is better inspite of the system we have today for value exchange and distribution of resources


Lol Just post yourself in a Bikini but have like the Bitcoin price on screen somewhere behind you or #asknostr and post some question like hey guys how do I plugin this ASIC


I used to only buy Adidas for my soccer boots because they lasted way longer than Nikes, but the pricing is insane now, i've moved to Lottos, really got my value for money loving them


Yeah, its all our taxes and all our inflated savings diverted towards it, you might not be interested in funding war, but war is still extracting funding from you


and make some friends along the way 😃


I am pretty sure X is unusable right now, more so than normal, I couldn't take it either, i'd rather hang out here with you swell people who seem to understand that playing the algo is playing yourself


Time for a holiday perhaps?


But open source development is not? Make it make sense Mike


If you're not going to skimp on price Cold card would be option number 1, but if you can't get one of those id say Jade is a good starter option or Bitbox

Here's a list of hardware signing devices

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/security/cold-wallet/


I legit just woke up and saw Bitcoin dropping alerts on my phone and I was wondering what was up, damn, not the reason I thought, I really hope this doesn't become a wider conflict

I also wonder how many leveraged traders were blind sided by this, and got liquidated apparently its 700 million but this article has no sources

https://cryptopotato.com/another-700-million-in-liquidations-as-bitcoin-btc-dumps-to-61k-altcoins-bleed-out/


‘I love private property, and let me tell you something, if you care about your fucking country, read Ludwig Von Mises and the 6 lessons of the Austrian Economic School, motherfuckers!’ - Renato Moicano

HOLY FUU THIS DUDE IS BASED AF

#UFC300 https://v.nostr.build/WGgYL.mp4


Please bro don't make the network better bro, i've got 1% of the supply bro, I like it the way it is bro


He's beginning to believe


The book is pretty indepth and complex and people just want spectacle, the movie wasn't bad but its always going to be a dilution of the book


Lol maybe they went back and waiting for Tik Tok notes to launch


Lol gotta get passive aggressive with these hoes


I'm just here for the vibes


It's amazingly cringe arguing with non-developers about why ceasing work on the base Bitcoin protocol is retarded rather than a genius way to eliminate risk.


Do we not have enough social apps? Pretty sure instagrammers who were not getting much play will flock to this app to try and play the algo games

Just moving from one hamster wheel to another, and having to start over with your account, nah i'm not about that life, i'll take my data and followers with me, thank you!

https://www.today.com/news/tiktok-notes-rcna147215


LOL WTF? Why not just make my screen saver an ad too


Knot your node, knot your rules


I'm just a smol brain maxi

https://media1.tenor.com/m/S4n3LcgW9v4AAAAC/smol-brain.gif


Greed is a crazy emotion, you had 1 million you were set just stack sats and he would be fine, but no, it can't be that simple, you need to take maximum risk, man the nihilism of crypto peeps is nuts


Running Knots

https://m.primal.net/HuaC.png


Lol people are going to be roiting when they see how much their chocies are going to cost or how much shrinkflation they're going to experience


Lol once I was at the police station and a lady came in to lay a charge against her boyfriend who stole her gold teeth dentures, she was very upset about it


If that was me, i'd b like

https://media.tenor.com/vrIalogYRwMAAAAC/dune-sandworm-ride-sandworm-riding-ride.gif


If the Raspberri PI4 and 5 are starting to baulk as the go-to for running a Bitcoin node and maybe do a few other things, like LN, mixing coins and running your nostr relay, what are the go-to mini PCs to look at?

- HP Micro 800 G3
- Lenovo ThinkCentre M700
- LattePanda 3 Delta

 #asknostr


I'm all for self custody, there is no second best, but nirvana is not for this world, there's no way everyone can self-custody when we're in the billion-user range, not even with scaling solutions we have now

Let's not make progress the enemy, there will be good ideas, bad ideas, trade-offs and people will have to make some allowances for trust with some of their funds.

I'm just enjoying learning and watching the ecosystem solve problems one at a time, happy to be part of the ride and for sure, as we bring more people onto the island we get to enjoy tap into their skills and make things better


LOL, so what are the choices? Going poly so you have more rent payers in the home or going commie

I mean any solution that isn't bitcoin, no matter how nuts has to be entertained right?


Lol if she's pulling in enough to go halfzies on the house, and if not, then shes not the one, shes part of several who all have to pitch in and pay the ponzi so we can poop indoors


Lazer nips still 100k rips!


Lol learn to Istinja


I'm amazed this chain keeps going, I mean they only thing they did was those city coins, is there anything people actually use this for, surely you would just ponzi on eth and sol, why bother with stx?


I agree with you; the finance aspect is the tip of the spear; it dilutes everything into something simple: the price and where it's going, and that's where the vast majority hang out, and very few have ventured further.

If you listen to the tech-focused people, they are very nuanced in their opinions, and there's more indepth debate on the problems Bitcoin has to deal with.

I think it's important that more people come in with different world experiences; money and tech came first, but we need more perspectives so we can see where the shortcomings are and see how the tech and money people can come in and solve those issues.

For example, shared custody is big in Africa, and community savings are pretty normal we call it "Stokvels" in South Africa, but we don't yet have a Bitcoin product/service/protocol that can support this type of custody model; Fedimint is going after this market now, and keen to see how it plays out.


Lol Ms Bitcoin is wearing red, we're due for a dump!!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/66/52/cc/6652cca89db04c2c5c2383222c9b7188.jpg


Tell them you only respond on nostr


Maybe in the early days before it established a price but the moment it hit the public markets and exposed to the world it just became a tool and people will use it in ways they find fit

I don't think there is a true scottsman, doubt I would make it as a bitcoiner either, I see all these sillyness about what is bitcoin culture, like bro its just a legder wtf? Is there excel culture? Quick books?

Like oh eat meat, okay cool yes thats healthy I get it I do it, but am I going to deny myself chocolate for the sake of being an idiolog?

No I love chocolate, make your own lane!


Lol Bitcoin CEO is a tyrant, all he cares about his hoarding his million coins


A whole new generation ready and willing to line up and become exit liquidity for wall street, teach your kids what money is and don't condemn them to heading off to the casino to make their fortunes

https://www.wsj.com/story/teenagers-are-pouring-into-the-stock-market-2d9f9fc3


Lol they're number go uppers, the definition of bitcoiner means nothing anymore


Well how often are you deep frying/frying stuff? If its a regular part of your diet sure it makes things easier and faster, but if its something you eat now and then, its a waste of sats


Lol code is no longer squeeky


lol because Uwabaki has yet to take off, maybe make ones with US flags on it


Lol from Toyota you start and to Toyota you shall return


Over a long enough time frame, we find out who is all talk and who are the ones that will fight for Bitcoin


Pricing is part of the signal a business has to put out on how it remains profitable, it signals who your customer is, and who is not, people who don't want to use a service thats fine but no need to bitch about it

I think big tech really sold people on the idea that digital products can be free, and the way they subsidise these users is either unsustainable or has borked incentives


Lol the economy is strong, 0.1% growth is still growth

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e2/a5/37/e2a537f03525b4bdd9ec6f2366c200b6.jpg


Lol the rug pull is complete, Erdoğan exit scammed


We're excited to announce a new initiative to get creators and journalists on to Nostr. This is a project organized by nos.social with   nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg,  nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x,  nostr:npub13myx4j0pp9uenpjjq68wdvqzywuwxfj64welu28mdvaku222mjtqzqv3qk,  nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955, and  nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q. The goal is to get a diversity of content on to nostr and show those creators and journalists that the nostr model of zaps and the new subscription content over nostr is a better alternative to centralized advertising driven platforms. #value4value

Please share this with creators and journalists you know who are already on Nostr and also those who might want to join. This will include both getting these folks on to the nostr apps which make sense for them, setting them up with a wallet, teaching them how to be successful on nostr, and importantly promoting them through a bunch of channels on nostr so they can build and audience.

We don't have the deep pockets of meta and tiktok, nor their powerful AI driven algorithms, but we've got something that can be more powerful, people.

Creators and Journalists know they're stuck sharecropping on centralized platforms that can demonetize or delete or just shadow ban their accounts. One day their content gets broadcast to the world, the next the algorithm doesn't even show it to their followers. Their revenue is dependent on getting a cut from an opaque and arbitrary advertising system.

So, share these links, if you're a creator or journalist sign up, and when we start promoting these folks on nostr, check out what they're doing and if you like it, send them zaps. This is open to both existing nostr creators and journalists and new ones we'll onboard.

https://www.nos.social/creator-residency

https://www.nos.social/journalism-accelerator


If you're using altcoin chains just know that your data is being farmed in ways you might not have thought of, and marketers are loving it

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/altcoin-chain-data-monetised/


He who should not be named


Them: Wow this is your third Bitcoin halving, you must be up a bunch and should be able to retire soon

Me:

https://m.primal.net/HtnG.mp4


We have a generation of renters who never thought they can own something, its going to take a while for it to click


Did someone say cobbee?

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/bd/a8/7e/bda87ec3e78052eea1ed3b13659b15ff.jpg


Lol Fiat around and find out


Lol Damn the thais know how to bring in the halving


🤣 🤣 🤣  GMs getting pricy


LOL from my experience no, I would love to use a circle by the book, but If I did I'd smash every car, so you just have to deal with the madness and anticipate what others are going to do


Lol I came for the NGU don't mess with my NGU, thank goodness Bitcoin Twitter is only there for drama farming and to generate things for coindesk to write about


Lol you're not going to make any nocoiner friends telling the truth like that


The orange coin will change your life like it or not


Lol those girlfriends don't come cheap i tell you


+1 to walkability

https://f005.backblazeb2.com/file/gabe-dat/mk/d1885e6f-9e28-48c2-9710-aca25e815d08.mp4


LOL You're goddan right
https://media.tenor.com/vtC0C_NzM2oAAAAC/youre-goddamn-right-breaking-bad.gif


El Salvador dropped their public addy on Twitter and it's been quiet the statement in national self custody, here's how the internet reacted

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/el-salvador-btc-holdings/


GM 😌🧡 https://image.nostr.build/ca3702ae823e869af239573c2257c20a18991b208f9e2aa9aa11ecd491c99fc3.png


Dan disapproves lol unless we're ready to kill it

https://media.tenor.com/XrWudK1bBlEAAAAC/nope-no.gif


We're playing Danablo 2, you in?

https://m.primal.net/HtTz.jpg


Lol You're free to reject the pump from your life, but some of us are long the ponzi


Lol yes, feel free to use as your PFP or use it as collateral to buy more bitcoin,, its yours, you own it!


Lol if you dan't understand, I dan't have time to explain it to you


LOL Joe Bi-DAN!


I am excited to announce my new project for breaking nostr, its called #Ordanils, the floor price is 1 Zap, and I would suggest you mint yours now before the relaypool gets stuffed and fees spike!

Get your #DAN now

https://m.primal.net/HtTS.jpg


Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My own Dan!
https://media.tenor.com/7z8U2UUUcDsAAAAC/joe-biden-eating-ice-cream.gif


Lol the Danception continues

https://media.tenor.com/SqUWAtnKqJsAAAAC/really-wow.gif


🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://video.nostr.build/cccda4165e2187638f48dde17b9f15156c4c958d57eb67d87c5c7e1f446124ce.mp4


Damn daniel!
https://media.tenor.com/d6im5rM1gGwAAAAC/damn-daniel.gif


Don't we all feel a little empty if we don't have our GM reply guy squad putting in the work?

https://image.nostr.build/59b614ab7c3bd05236d13fea1ab49e61c6bd7395de6e613eddcd50a462ca6e03.jpg


CADameda research here we come


The Danny boys are coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3E7kIYtR0


Lol poor sammie about to get her whole world blown

https://media.tenor.com/3eIvVsG3yPYAAAAC/the-universe-tim-and-eric-mind-blown.gif


Lol tell me you don't know basic arithmetic without telling me


Can we setup a counsel of Dans so we can get consensus on this?


Lol but then who will I share this with?

https://m.primal.net/HtIv.png


I thought I was the F'd up one, trying to clean up my feed there, but long gave up on it, i just kept seeing fighting videos for some reason and I couldn't get rid of it, so I just stopped logging in


Lol glad you still feel the pressure, I didn't want to be alone in this feeling


EVERYBODY IS GETTING A GF AND SPEAKING IN ALL CAPS, NO CAP


LOL when we hit 100k, they'll come back right? Riiiiiight?


The sats must flow


That's right boys, this cycle even your girlfriend will be getting a girlfriend

https://image.nostr.build/9c79251807e956c254ec4c89aa52e03f2808052d937dee66fdb17111ee5d4e77.jpg


Sweet I heard that a new series came out on Netflix, would love to see it get a Godzilla minus one treatment though, its been a while since we've seen the flying turtle


oEF!

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/032/425/Screen_Shot_2020-01-14_at_10.34.57_AM.jpg


GM!!

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a8/7a/d4/a87ad4df9d92fdf9d1ffc5003301b6cc.jpg


Isn't that Gamera?


I think people are valuing reach and engagement over privacy and don't really think the trade off is all that bad, let them find out the hard way


TL;DR There is no safe way to use TikTok, and our strong recommendation is to delete the app from all your devices.

Learn more here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/is-tiktok-safe/

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/241/834/130/314/704/original/93545b8b62d326f2.png


GM!!! I'm not F'n Leebin


Research shows that taking self custody and performing Bitcoin transactions can lead to profuse sweating and underwear skidmarks

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/stress-self-custody/


Lol what would a bull market be without Tether fud, bring on the USDT ban or will they be brave enough to take on someone who is willing to buy treasuries by the boat load


Lol only people who are tards or selling private blockchains or are blockchain consultants would shill this nonsense


With THAT attitude, you're def...
https://image.nostr.build/a2b7c409f70a2d6ba6bfb4ff80356c58eb26355a51ec676f0d799903f96344c2.gif

Gnocchi is delicious. Come at me, bruh


Someones about to catch hands

https://media.tenor.com/9RwsHj3tVzYAAAAC/hit-the-woah-catch-the-woah.gif


LOL turns out Amazon was using an AI, just not the type you're thinking of it was An Indian. Explain to me again how 1000 people sitting behind a computer watching you shop on camera is the future of retail?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/amazon-ends-ai-powered-store-checkout-which-needed-1000-video-reviewers/


When you don't feel like arguing with nocoiner or shitcoiner

https://image.nostr.build/ca1791e8a2c4f86432c7b2279b6e1f43bdd54df414d9f9c357300c7c3bf26c33.jpg


How do i get my hands on several of those


Bitcoin has been ripping in 2024, and it's been a joy to watch but that doesn't mean we won't see some fireworks and some crazy dips along the way, ask the folks at Bitmex 🤔

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/what-are-local-flash-crashes/


Lol I often flex on my friends on the macros I have on my plate, they can't afford


Lol give the normies the unit of account they understand, wonder how it would make client front ends more appealing to users who see a dollar amount on zaps under posts


Lol how do i secure some big mac futures?


A reminder of why we can't have nice things, it couldn't just be a nice halving celebration, someone needs to drop a shitcoin protocol to try and profit off of the hype, #Runes  are for Rubes
https://protos.com/ordinals-founder-casey-rodarmor-to-launch-runes-at-bitcoin-halving/


I think i'm starting to come around on a little inflation isn't all that bad 🤣🤣

https://image.nostr.build/e55ce980bf01544036cd0f95b695bb20f53a5fd2122c36d2125609dfa1316118.jpg


Lol for real, Google searches for Bitcoin are down, at what price point does the normie want to F around and find out? Do we really need to put up 100k on the board before they get in the game again?


The migration game is on, people just want to get closer to the money printer or to a relatively stronger currency and they're willing to cross seas and desserts for a shot at it, its crazy, I see people leaving my home country for G7 nations regularly, and I don't blame them

I just think its less friction to migrate your purchasing power out of a failing monetary network first, then if things still dont improve for you, you have the resources to move somewhere else where you feel you get a better deal

But I'm confident that many people would benefit from an improved store of value and it would make chasing the dollar less appealing with time


Lol this and if only we had smart competent leaders is such fiat cope


Is this a review from a real person, or am I talking to the entity?


LOL AU housing makes me feel ridiculously poor, like I have to multiply these figures by 12, i'd have to take out a 100 year mortgage and sign over the first born to complete the payments upon my working till death in my 80s to make that work and even then I think that debt would pass down 3 generations


According to the Greta Index, the climate is inflationary

https://m.primal.net/HsXn.jpg


My wife still doesn't want to GM me! No, no, no, no no!

https://media.tenor.com/4LBhD95OlG4AAAAC/carlos-matos-crypto.gif


Lol they're going to meet a tough reality on nostr and I am so here for it


Welcome Stace, nice to have you back 😃  hope you're well and enjoying bitcoin land


If they will rug a nation you can be sure everyone elses wealth is fair game, people complain about inflation and taxes but each year refuse to seek out any protection


Just when I thought the mempool was clear and the #ordinals noise had disappeared, some clowns decided that the blockchain was a good place to flex storing an MP3 🤦♂🤦🤦♀

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/songs-as-ordinals-a-new-pr-stunt/


You can't have your own eggs, you might spread the bird flu, use our caged chickens that crap on each other instead


Sparrow is don't show, don't tell


Lol ofcourse we're nostr girls, we're getting chased off every client and relay


Welcome to our little piece of internet, hope you like the neighbourhood


Just extending a friendly and warm welcome to all the Brazilians who should be arriving soon

https://media.tenor.com/SpXWQo0Mq7EAAAAC/welcome-michael-scott.gif


Lol definitely a popcorn film you won't remember after walking out, some cool fighting scenes here and there, but no real character development or boobies getting flashed like the original


Ontop of the great Chinese firewall


Watched Road House today, lol Hollywood is really grabbing at anything that had moderate success, and this remake was totally not needed and added nothing to the story

Oh and Conor Mcgregor's acting is so bad I almost wish the original Dalton would rip my throat out to save me from watching that performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0ZsLudtfjI


Welcome and I hope you enjoy your time here, make it your own 😃


With the dollar losing 22% off its value since 2020 you need 1,222,000 to be a dollar millionaire from just 4 years ago. Why play those crazy fiat games when holding sats elevates your savings, purchasing power and enables your ability to move to bitcoin circular economy friendly places . Stack sats, spend sats, live a good life 🤙


I'm still amazed at how people can ignore the reality, especially for those of us who aren't on a dollar standard, getting out of my local currency with anything I don't need to live is my default, more power to those who can stomach the pain, but I can't


Lol, I'd throw the BlockFi team along with Genesis too, I wonder who will be this cycles reason for cheap sats


lol one way to bootstrap the circular economy


Has anyone checked out their local areas stripper index for economic research of course?

Would like to know how this rate cycle is being priced in

https://businessreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/the-stripper-index-decoding-the-economic-signals-of-sex-work/


I am a mango maxi


🤣 🤣 🤣 I expect 5 tours before you roll over and play dead


LOL and for the bridges, don't forget the bridges


So many of these videos are trending, if they're not moaning about direct taxes, then its inflation, yet no one is talking about a solution, like they just want the government to lift the boot off their neck slightly and it will all be okay and some of them even ask for more spending like bro give me a subsidy lol

I doubt we're close to any kind of tipping point


My shoes have holes in them and I am okay with that


📠

#cybersecgirl

https://i.nostr.build/Z5x79.jpg


I'm calling it now before this gets out of hand but restaking is going to be one of the biggest blow ups this cycle, we're going to get people chasing yield like crazy, mispricing the risk, building massive honeypots with borked incentives and it's going to blow up in their faces

Will be ready for the fireworks

https://blockworks.co/news/restaking-ticking-time-bomb-eth


Lol earning 5 figure satoshis salary will be the flex


Bring the brazilians to nostr


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Lol a short story of Kwontitative easing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGqWR-o_H8E


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"This African Town is living in the year 2030"

French, spanish, portuguese and hindi subs available—but plz ask for more!

#BitcoinCircularEconomy #BTC

Please share the crap out of this! And Zap! 💜 ⚡

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All rugs and no rug pulls


That sounds like a total pain in the arse, adding all that friction makes zero sense, I guess they all think they can outlast the other and as providers die it will centralise around one, like you said IPTV and pirating is coming back in a big way only further reducing revenue, its just so silly and needless


Hectic, I am sure streaming services are either going to have to combine or make really crappy ad tiers and push up prices, debt for funding tech companies isn't cheap anymore so they have to come up with revenue drivers now

Personally I just think they push people to pirating, as for social media they still have a network effect since the content is created by people who have tied themselves to a certain platform so they're a bit stickier


Welcome, looking forward to seeing what you got cooking


Welcome welcome!


Indeed, and advertisers won't take it lying down, they will bid up costs for influencers ad placements and even the so called organic content will be even more ad filled to try and reach those who on premium

I already see plugins built to hide posts that are tagged as brand deals or detect and skip ad reads on YouTube. I mean if i'm paying for an ad free experience that mens your video sponsor too lol

Here you have more control over your feed, well all the control, I think some clients will have ads eventually but they'll need to do something to encourage ad views or use the zapvertising method of paying people to view their messaging


It's interesting to see how social media is starting to change as it's now the main stream platform of choice for content distribution.

Ads are clearly not driving enough revenue for these services to drive growth

#YouTube has long offered a paid ad free version, #Twitter has their paid ad free version and Meta is testing paid subscription for ad free #Facebook and #Instagram in the EU

Paid versions also allow these platforms to make their free version near unusable, spamming users with ads to encourage them to upgrade, while advertisers will pay less for that ad spam since they're not reaching high LSM users as often as they do now

This is giving me major streaming wars vibes, and people who do opt for ad free versions will pick their favourite platform and pay for it and just become power users of that platform and spend less time on others.


This is how I use nostr

 https://video.nostr.build/01cfc1c897b5cc223aff04142faa12e8f46889ee2b8c0dc0863bb29c673c38d3.mp4


LOL thats proper funny


#Zimbabwe is famed for its hyperinflation, but never gave up on having a fiat currency, its tried to relaunch it several times and the latest iteration of the Zim Dollar has once again failed at having a bond/debt backed currency with inflation hitting %55

So before the shite really hits the fan they're going to try and move to a gold standard with its #ZIG currency which will trade at 13 ZIG to the USD, but with gold ripping at the moment, will be interesting to see how they market values this shitcoin

I do hope this buys the citizens some time so they can get into Bitcoin, because knowing the Zanu PF/Zim government, they won't honour conversions and it will all go tits up eventually

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/economy/zimbabwe-replaces-battered-dollar-with-unit-linked-to-gold-fx/


The sats will flow to those who know who to manage their cash flow and hash flow


Lol there are a lot of people on Linkedin that will die on that hill of fancy job title, they're not going to let it go


The job market is strong, just look at the amount of hiring going on the economy is doing great.

Then you deep dive into the numbers and you see its mostly part time workers as people look for side jobs to supliment their income, the greatest increase in jobs is in low pay/low skill jobs and foreign born hiring hits an all time high

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/behind-todays-stellar-jobs-print-it-was-literally-all-part-time-jobs-and-illegals


How many times do people need to learn the lesson that governments don't know how to make economic decisions or understand consequences


It's a slippery slope when you start to let the government influence what a UTXO's should interact with and which LN payments are permissible

https://m.primal.net/HrXa.jpg


Lol when I am on my death bed I will think of all the excel sheets I completed to help organise data and provide value to upper management


Lol, I have those moments too, then I remember that no one reads my notes anyway and I sack up and move on


L2's and opendimes have shown us that bitcoin transactions don't always require an on-chain transaction to transfer funds and pathcoin aims to offer another option

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/pathcoin/


Lol so you're telling me theres a chance I'm not boring and no one wants to talk to me?


LOL if you're too scummy for the Binance team you know you're well shit


According to a new survey from Northwestern Mutual, Americans feel they need $1.46 million to retire yet the average retirement account of the study participants was $88,400, making up that short fall is going to be a tough task

I guess scale down, move into a multi-generational home, move to a cheaper country, yolo into equities and hope the government continues to pay entitlements is all you've got

Anything but Bitcoin right?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retirement-savings-how-much-americans-need-1-46-million/


I only recently learned about mewing and have managed to make that a pretty easy transition, but definitely the neck and too much sitting is a WIP


Lol Love seeing my local politician laying down asphalt when I come home from work, oh wait that never happened

Whats crazy are those people who live in the country side and they have private roads, how do they do it?


Lol dude has to pick the shortest time frame to prove a point hilarious, gold has for sure pumped the last year, a baby pump in bitcoin terms but hey a pamp is a pamp, boomers cant handle big swings or they'll get a heart attack before they can spend their savings


GM Nostr ☕ https://image.nostr.build/f51b42ab33ec6b0132c59042ad2826132ba7ac2969f1fc68ecdd36092d216e2c.jpg


Lol things people are willing to give up for this complex piece of infrastructure is crazy

https://m.primal.net/HrGP.webp


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A reminder that a storing media isn’t cheap, especially with video, backups, reviews, maintenance, global CDN, DBs, growing usage, no ad sales, etc. nostr:npub137c5pd8gmhhe0njtsgwjgunc5xjr2vmzvglkgqs5sjeh972gqqxqjak37w did an incredible job optimizing everything but we still have expenses and every Account makes a difference!

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As the boomer funds, passive flows and suit money flow into paper #Bitcoin, the issuers are battling it out to get a piece of the allocation and chipping away at the fees gradually then suddenly

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/btc-etf-fees-zero/


Damn this is some bleak reading, if you consider that Gen X's will be the next inline as part of the political class as the #boomers phase out, they're going to put out some sort of program to cover their arses and push the pain to the other generations, that or let equities go buck wild

Anything but #Bitcoin right?

https://m.primal.net/HqzG.jpg


Gotta keep jawboning the market, dudes really in a pickle, can't push another raise and if he eases its game on for risk assets


Lol for real slouching just feels so natural its weird how being upright can feel taxing. I try to remind myself all the time, but I fail everyday


I've long given up, its all for the greater good, you don't want the banks to fail, you don't want the ATMs to run out of money, you don't want job losses, they will always fear monger the normies into compliance

When was the last time we saw real anger at the banks? Probably the occupy wall street movement


Lol your country needs you, you can't be sitting on savings, get off the sidelines and into the game


Riksbank sitting on a major hole in their balance sheet,  you'd think their book was run by 3AC or Alameda Research. Someone blew a 43.7 billion Swedish kronor ($4.05 billion) hole with large losses coming from its bond portfolio.

Steady Swedish lads, Parliament will be deploying tax payer capital

https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/202404025033/swedens-riksbank-asks-parliament-for-4-billion-to-cover-bond-losses


I guess they're prepping for tap ass tokens


I like my GMs straight off the factory flow, this is top level GMs


Give it to us raw


Smell it, like it, now taste it and get used to it, GM peeps!

https://m.primal.net/HqtR.jpg


🚨 🚨 🚨  We ooh wee ooh wee oooh, non-anon woman on nostr! This is the nostr police, stick em up and hand over the npub


Lol yeah I'm with you, I am all for new features if they really drive value but we're no longer dealing with a few million dollars in the network, its trillions now so don't F this up


OP_CAT was removed by Satoshi as being too much of a headache, but there's discussion to bring sexy back as the appeal for covenants heats up

So what's new pussycat?

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/op-cat/


I have been enjoying dark net diaries and the rest is history


Lol 🍒 🍒 🍒  winner winner chicken dinner


Lol the douche of all streets at it again


Lol go ahead suppress the price, don't let me stop you


Lol isn't that why they built friends.tech so they can pump and dump on each other without the distraction of elon ads


Silk Road coins move, Bitcoin price pukes, 30 000 BTC up for grabs before the halving, don't mind if we do!

Steady lads, deploying capital.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/04/02/silk-road-bitcoin-worth-2b-moved-by-us-government-on-chain-data/


Release time!

In our biggest update yet, we've completely redesigned the home screen, added a nostr-based profile setup walkthrough, and have finished our initial fedimint integrations by adding a federation discovery & recommendations!

https://m.primal.net/HqfS.jpg

Most lightning wallets these days are what we call "invoice-oriented." We want to go back to the basics to solve what people are really trying to do: paying a person. We've added a new wallet creation flow to make the wallet about you!

https://m.primal.net/HqfT.jpg

The new version of Mutiny now allows you to create a new nostr profile, or import a nostr private key from an existing profile. From there, you can now DM other mutiny & nostr users to send or request money directly from the app. No more copy / pasting invoices!

https://m.primal.net/HqfV.jpg

To double down on social, we've redesigned our home screen to put people first. We now include a row of recent profiles for quick access. We also now have tabs on the home screen for looking at your payment activity, your friend's zap activity on nostr, and your payment requests.

Next up, better fedimint support!

Mutiny has had beta support for the fedimint protocol for a couple of months now. Instead of opening a lightning channel on your first receive, with a minimum of 100k sats, you can get started on a fedimint with just a few sats.

This new update adds a way to discover available fedimints to join. Naturally, the discovery process is powered by an open protocol built on nostr. You can see who recommends a federation, and add it with one click.

https://m.primal.net/HqfW.png

You'll automatically receive funds to that fedimint, as long as the amount is smaller than 200,000 sats, and you'll automatically spend out of that fedimint, with a fallback to your regular lightning balance. You can also swap from fedimint to your lightning balance at any time.

Coming up shortly after this release, we'll be adding federated lightning addresses that lock incoming payments to your key, which you may redeem at any point by coming back online. We'll be rolling this out to Mutiny+ users first, stay tuned!

Let us know what you think! We're excited about this new direction and need feedback to help us continue driving forward.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-new-design-people-oriented/


We can make a client to list dead nostr accounts if that makes you feel better, here lies npub 2023-2024


PVs to all who see this on time


lol I logged in today saw costco hot dog token trending, and I logged back out


Depending on the client, there are default relays connected already, you can from there remove or add your own for initial broadcasting in your clients settings

From there it gets a bit complicated as you interact with others your notes can get picked up by other relays like indexers and caching relays


Indeed, savouring every cheap sat I can my hand on


I'd feel way to overwhelmed to cook anything lol


Me taking my mid day poo and then walk in the sun be like:

https://m.primal.net/HqcK.jpg

I can't be the only one with these thoughts can I?


Lol But its a chart bro, its got data points bro, ignore the fact that theres a giant ass star in the middle of the galaxy that radiates heat and the factors involved in distributing energy over light years


Lol the bene gesserit on their way to huff some spice


Time to earn them future fiat that will be stored away in sats, you got this!


16 days and counting

Who needs OZEMPIC to lose weight, all I need to do is increase your DCA to keep stacking the same amount of sats, and sadly its coming out your snack budget

I don't make the rules, okay? Don't shoot the messenger

https://m.primal.net/HqZx.jpg


While we cannot predict where the markets are going, we can look at the data we have right now and make some assumptions, here's a look at how inflation rates could fair around the world in 2024

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/inflation-outlook-2024/


Gm 👋

I'm Sarah- a sign language interpreter, teacher and Bitcoiner!

YOUR first ASL lesson starts now! Your First sign is...

₿

https://video.nostr.build/425c4d5d6126330d4f65c9d097ff8ad920d6a950f0a84b6494f038067fd9a74d.mp4


Today was a good day


what a larp 🤣 🤣


For sure, different strokes and some folks prefer to stroke it alone


Welcome grant!


Lol, I don't kink shame, and its only a matter of time before people find each other and bump uglies, there is no site that people won't use for a hookup


Lol You don't become a rizz god without getting rug-jected by enough women, its the name of the game


Reject KYC, Embrace NYM


Hey girl, I like your notes, but I'm interested in the other stuff you don't transmit via relay

Baby, whats your sign?

https://media.tenor.com/6aejTZnDDxQAAAAC/rizz-face-rizzler.gif


Make a github request and zap a dev to do it


If you're going to get a gf this bull market anon, you're going to need to learn to talk to them 🤣 🤣 🤣

https://m.primal.net/HqVs.jpg


The gap

https://media.tenor.com/E_ppt4-a2coAAAAC/gap-kid.gif


Dude gives it to you raw


Lol No dogwif hat updates today? Damn I was looking forward to hearing about the dogcoin index and how it's performing against core CPI


Sooo $60 an hour or you live under a bridge? Damn thats harsh


Bitcoin history month make it happen


LOL sorry my english is no good today, wahta malone is also legit


Lol Aquaman loves his bubbles


Lol then he become an open mouth Youtube thumbnail shitcoin shill


Lol if you're going to treat yo self, spare no expense, whats your favourite flavour of bubbles? I'm a mint maxi


I wonder when a Bitcoin ETF issuer decides to hop on board and pocket some yield on LN and offer it as an incentive to try and capture capital flows, the game of lowering fees eventually hits the zero bound so this could be the next step

nostr:note1cpesky7qs55zj2jm5ghujr9pqr7rtaknvnwwcrjxrtqzc5hu2g9s9fus9j


Someones got to serve the market needs and provide value, there's no wealth without work


Aussie Karens are elite at speaking to the manager lol


100%, as the network scales you'll need better hardware or pay for external hosting, I do wonder especially with the next bull market how this place will handle an influx of people


I feel you, last nights workout was exactly that I was dreading it, its a Sunday, I was feeling lazy, everyone else eating cake, and i'm like gotta haul my ass through this, but I am glad I did

Its a public holiday today but I'm sitting here catching up on reporting for clients, I don't want to but its going to make my week a lot easier

Hope you're fighting the good fight on your end :)


Show up everyday and do the business, success is the result of small achievements compounding over time


Get a bitcoin and nostr job!!

nostr:note1nd8a65nrrzxf3qu037ylqmck2q8rp7pg92ux65aakeqeq7v3w89qfgf9gh


Big Jojo energy

https://media.tenor.com/eAC___rv-VoAAAAC/jojo-get-out.gif


Using a free platform always comes at a cost, this is what Reddit had to do to generate income as for relays I guess nothing, even if you had a private relay or a paid relay and info is broadcast to a relay or relay indexer that is selling data, not much you can do


#KuCoin has announced a US$10 million airdrop for its users, featuring Bitcoin and its native KuCoin Token (KCS), amidst allegations of illegal operations and money laundering.

https://m.primal.net/HqNK.gif

A week after two of its founders were charged with violating anti-money laundering laws which drove over $1 billion in user outflows

If they're airdropping and offering crazy yields, you should know its only a matter of time before the rug gets pulled


I see you are a person of fine taste


Lol Hera-thereum wallet dropping soon


100% guilty of being a #1 but my 4 folders are 2 by 2 in the top right hand corner, anything else would be pure and utter chaos and that computer would be unusable and I would sooner lay it into this barren earth than try to use it

https://m.primal.net/HqMS.jpg


For sure, I use Alby and Marina, I don't really have use for an on-chain wallet in my browser really, unless maybe it had auth-47 which could be a cool feature for brave to add


Someone paying $389 to move $1.94.

547,000 sats to move 2730 sats.

Why?

Because this has nothing to do with Bitcoin and doesn't make any sense from the network's perspective.

People who take comfort that behaviour will remain predictable thanks to economically rational decision making need to know it goes both ways when you start taking in external factors.

You have to do it with miners too.

If a miner can make more money in ways that have nothing to do with bitcoin then you can no longer rely on simple assumptions like "miners will do X because if they don't then they will make less than a miner who does"

The simple example I've used many times is compliance.

If you have a choice between expensive legal battles and exclusion informed by government blacklists (i.e censorship) then it's economically rational to do what's economically irrational.

"You left $500 in TX fees on the table! Why?"

"Because our lawyers advised us that this would save us several million dollars."

We have a case-study of this exact scenario with Wasabi Wallet.

So if this is true, what does it have to do with spam? From a miner's perspective, spam is simply a free lunch.

What's the downside?

The issue is we've been standing on shaky ground when it comes to the assumptions we've made about the choices of miners. Myself included.

It turns out there are instances when economic rationality works *against* the interests of the wider network. It's obvious, but apparently we're all surprised that this it the case, or straight up in denial about it.

Spam is that exact scenario. Blocks are far larger than was ever supposed to be possible with the introduction of witness-discounted data. We see block after block at what was meant to be a theoretical maximum of just under 4MB.

There is no room for interpretation. This is simply harmful and the result of a nasty attack.

The entire basis on which the blocksize wars were fought was that encumbering nodes with way more data would lead to centralization. (Along with a host of other issues, like centralization of mining & pools).

The simple solution is that it needs to stop. Blocks cannot be stuffed with arbitrary data placed there by ambivalent miners.

The way this stops is as a natural extension of a bitcoin community that recognizes attacks and responds accordingly.

It means using node software that isn't designed to hurt its users which is already happening with migration away from Core to Knots. The most popular plug-n-play nodes have all begun offering this.

They did not this time last year.

It means miners choosing pools that at least give them the option of not participating in the attack -> currently well under 1% of the hashrate, 6 months ago not even an option. Hard for me to talk about because obviously I'm employed by the pool in question.

It means people who never mined doing it for the first time.

And mostly it means maintaining an understanding of what makes bitcoin bitcoin. That in itself has always been enough to evict crypto scammers to something other than Bitcoin. Those who wanted to turn it into "paypal 2.0" with the same disregard and contempt for nodes that the spam apologists display now forked themselves off to bcash and craigcoin.

The one thing that will *not* solve this problem is high transaction fees. This is an argument made by those who at least understand an attack when they see it, but are in denial about what surviving it actually involves.

Throughout the last few months the conversation has rapidly progressed and the tide has been turning.

I am under no illusions that this is an easy fix, but that is because of the nature of politics and how much larger the ecosystem is now.

But it's also just history repeating itself.

Bitcoin keeps having to fight the same battles again and again. Always in service of importance of being able to run *and use* a node, affordably and trivially, by complete noobs.

To maintain decentralization.

To resist the corrupting of what we have.

Bitcoin is money. Other features cannot come at the expense of that.

OP RETURN wars, bcash, segwit2x, shitcoins, coloredcoins, hostile BIPs, malicious devs....

We've done it a million times before. Every single time the "laser-eyed toxic maxis" win.


Lol not.interested


Lol you can run you can hide but you can't escape


Mutli-sig with a rollup that runs the EVM, sigh its all so tiresome


I vote we call it the dank web!


Welcome to the team, now to bring along your crew, lets get this place popping, reach one teach one


A little too light for me, give it to us dark and bitter


🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Diddy do it doe?


Most important #inflation metric just dropped and choccies are up over 12% YOY,  well below what you're getting compensated for in cash/T-bills

Only Bitcoin, Gold and NVIDIA stock is really keeping  you eating chocolate right now

Have fun eating more

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/easter-eggs-price-expensive-inflation-chocolate-cocoa-b2520144.html


Me when i see women on nostr, i'm not crying you're crying

https://media.tenor.com/6kE2JmVq6l4AAAAC/leave-me-alone-get-out-of-here.gif


Lol don't they know they can have a sausage relay and play tummy sticks with each other?


Welcome to this place, i'll show you everything

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/25/e5/fa25e574d3b97a39d1aa305fe29c25d0.jpg


Lol tell me you don't know how the internet works without telling me


The remix we didn't know we needed

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#Brave were finally brave enough to give you a working on-chain Bitcoin wallet in their browser, now when support for Lightning?

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/brave-wallet-btc-support/


What ever happened to the impervious project weren't they doing something simliar?


How people feel when they call someone bub
https://media.tenor.com/62dwEIwo_g8AAAAC/wolverine-xmen.gif


I'm happy to sell EU bros bitcoin, just set some sweet premiums and the rest of the world will come to your support


Lol you must really believe in hyperbitcoinisation to entertain v4v so early on in, I guess time will tell if we are all just suckers


Deadmau5 was in 2011, and and Skrillex was 2013 when they were both at the peak of their powers


Lol if you can't get rid of the checkmark get rid of the account


LOL whoever created this meme should get a beer everytime I see them


I was fortunate enough to see both deadmau5 and skrillix perform when they were in Cape Town, both are nights I will never forget, I still jam faxing berlin every so often when i'm driving but I definately couldn't handle a rager like that as I've gotten older lol


🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 papa was a rollin' stone


Fiat incentives trying to get me to break my #hodl and "take profits"

https://m.primal.net/Hpzk.mp4


I've been mulling over this one myself for sure, the upside in holding bitcoin curbs spending and curbs investing but is that a bad thing? I think for a fiat system velocity of money dropping is bad because you have to service debt

In a Bitcoin system, if feel like you spend because you are a net consumer and thats the most liquid thing you have to acquire goods and services or you invest when the market is screaming with a massive premium.

Right now, that's unlikely but maybe when the market is sitting at multi-trillion trillions and becomes harder to move, you might see Bitcoiners put up some sats to drive deflation in certain markets


I hope not, but I wouldn't put it past the degens to rehash all this nonsense as the noobs flock in to get rekt


Lol I love this, the best way to prove that you're not a robot is to play #doom!

https://vivirenremoto.github.io/doomcaptcha/

https://media.tenor.com/faX7R2BlKhUAAAAC/chaingunner-doom.gif


People are tripping over themselves to underperform bitcoin and I am so here for it, its only going to get worse as the price goes higher, people will think theres less upside let me go look for something with more alpha


Altcoiners remind me of Facebook users, they find a 6 month old meme that trended on Reddit or Twitter and then it makes the rounds over there and people think they're so funny.

How many times are they going to drag out this joke? First doge, then Shiba, now WIF? Combined its a $50 bn market cap doing $3.5 bn in daily volume

Geez just let it go already, let the meme die

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dogwifhat-becomes-third-largest-meme-085133217.html


GM everyone 🫡
I wanted to share on Nostr my study on Bitcoin adoption in Iran 🇮🇷

🔗 https://www.adoptblock.com/bitcoin-revolution-iran-en

Please take the time to read it, to share it, and to talk about it.
Everybody should be aware of what’s happening there!


Lol but its a moist butthole, is that you Paul Asstradies?


We appreciate the gift of your liquidity, but we will not be selling for any price or any amount of spice

https://m.primal.net/Hpqn.jpg


lol we're cardano girls ofcourse none of us know what we're talking about, can't verify jack because we don't run a node and we were paid by IOHK to make these cringe videos

Send it all to zero


But guys babies are dying


This is madness, you cannot offer patronage to others without paying credit card and 3rd party payment processing fees


Eminem before he shilled NFTs was great


Lol surprised we haven't done this for ID and passport numbers, maybe slap a blue check on it while you're at it


Lol thats everyday as a South African, welcome to the club


I just posted an article about why I have closed my very old #lightning #bitcoin node.

Main reasons are:

- Too much work and time spent maintaining the node.
- Meager earnings.
- High technical knowledge requirements if you really want to have more than 5 or 10 channels and resolve technical issues that will undoubtedly arise in the years to come.
- Limited mobile options (forces you to set up a reverse proxy with a VPS in some datacenter if you want to use clearnet).
- Excessive risk, money is at stake and hardware can fail, or a bug in the software could arise.
- Limited automation options (the only one that works well is CLBOSS and it's only available for CLIGHTNING).
- Periodic headaches.

Have a look at the article:

https://stacker.news/items/486283


Lol some really need time and a lot of pain before it clicks and I think most never get it, none of my family touch the stuff, i've even tried gifting them some, but they just sold it for fiat.

When i see people tripping over themselves to devalue their savings, I step back and let them do it now


Lol been seeing this cope since it was 5k and it never gets old, who has 5k lying around? Who has 15k lying around? Who has 150k lying around?

People who make excuses will always find another, because excuses like fiat they are easy to reproduce

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Most creators careers are brief, and very few can survive a trend shift


Do halvings really matter if you don't have consistent and growing demand? Chart priced in sats says NO, even chart priced in USD says NO!

https://m.primal.net/Hpid.jpg


I've already seen media pushing out about their halving happening in 4 days lol, like who even cares? Dog tokens have been a better prospect if you're going to waste your time on shitcoins


Lol they can try and sell that BSV but they'll tank the market 🤣 🤣 🤣


Little Precoiner comic collection https://image.nostr.build/edca115d281f7c37f38b249c6a90bd9c015f4845f790c786a2d6699cbf934468.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b225414bcfd8ec16fb74da9834301f920fd25a16544e24d66ae3beaa7f03ba7e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c58666171a1d3e1c4d7cd9f3f95cd971ddfa6dbef7e064707e1b5e9a658651a1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/176299642351f87e554b2d96ac6945e815f07a69bf893540b4b69c7462cc56fc.jpg


There should be a 3 month lock up yes, but maybe the board allowed for a certain allowance for key members to dump, but yeah isn't a good look especially when the path to profitability is still up in the air


First came the pump and right on time comes the dump, #Reddit CEO sells 500k stonks and COO liquidates 514k shares, bagging a cool $16 mill for his troubles, probably had to click the sell button with his own hands what a burden

Time to ride this sucker down

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/28/reddit-shares-on-a-two-day-tumble-after-post-ipo-high.html


Stay humble, stay paranoid


Well that boat chao'd through that bridge


Bring on the carnage! I'm in desperate need of my low ball limit orders to be filled, these nose bleed prices have me hurting


I'm off to waste some sats on The New Empire movie, and overpriced popcorn and a slushie that seems to be getting smaller with every passing year

It's probably going to be total rubbish, the Legendary Goji series has gotten progressively worse with time, still way better than that Roland Emmerich lizard movie, but that's not a very high bar

Maybe I'll be surprised, who knows? I feel like Minus One got me so amped, so I'm due for a let down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU5A3grDgUs


Lol so whats the point of it then? Might aswell just eat straight sugar out the bowl


Bitcoin scaling has become a hot topic this cycle with so many proposed layers making the rounds. And #Marathon are throwing out their version of a BTC L2 with #Anduro

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/anduro/


Since we stopped cooking and started engineering


Lol F your auth, give me npub sign in or LN-auth


Lol so the strategy is to keep em higher than inflation


They fuck with our choccies, we riot, simple as!