It's time for Lightning⚡ and it's time for BOLT12🔩
 https://image.nostr.build/a1432b1a98f5b8b541b4fcf13cc3f38e8fc6b4f93ba1fec9d7da3ce636c707c7.jpg

As of today, OCEAN miners can attach a BOLT12 offer to their #Bitcoin address and get paid out over Lightning!

BOLT12 offers allow us to request multiple invoices for any amount while only requiring the miner to set things up once.

Miners simply sign a message containing the offer using the private key associated with their Bitcoin address.

Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us.

This means we can continue to offer fully transparent and verifiable pooled mining while no longer being restricted by the base layer!

Using the Bitcoin stack to its fullest is how we eliminate the need for trust and bring sovereignty to mining.

https://ocean.xyz/docs/lightning

https://newsdirect.com/news/ocean-innovates-bitcoin-miners-offered-first-ever-lightning-payouts-using-bolt12-946331135


E2EE DMs are coming to Nostr 🔒

After being nerd sniped by hearing  nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 mention OTR for the millionth time on the Bitcoin Review podcast, I spent the last few weeks digging into OTR, the Signal protocol, and a grab-bag of other cryptography.

The end result is that I (am pretty sure at least) that I found a way to do E2EE (end-to-end encrypted) DMs on Nostr in a way that is both forward and post-compromise secure AND doesn't require any centralized servers.

Demo video: https://share.cleanshot.com/nMKk6cn0

Live demo app: https://drdm-demo.vercel.app

And finally, the NIP (for those of you with bikes in need of a shed): https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1206

Huge thanks to  nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt and  nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft for the chats while I worked out the details.


To ban permission less money transmitters is to ban the freedom to transact


Lotta consolidations coming home to cold storage rn. https://image.nostr.build/3ddb00fb059af3e14d6d401c24f7d63a41e46334b79d24cbc62337b8e4688759.jpg


S9 is the 'Gateway drug'. Last day of this free shipping EU/UK offer from 21energy.io https://image.nostr.build/29cd87ebd67ad8b4a8ff636773bd4be661f78881e337ee6a807893a3e3ea3f37.jpg


Pure 🔥


Why is #Prague The Bitcoin Capital? 👑

Freedom is never a given, and Czechs have been fighting for it for 600 years. Their #bitcoin space & #BTCPrague are the continuation of that fight.

"From defenestration to hyperbitcoinization" by @reelrichard (excerpt by Tomer Strolight).

https://x.com/BTCPrague/status/1784613545784516710


FROM THE ARCHIVES - JUNE 2022
https://m.primal.net/HSkd.mp4


Found an unlicensed money transmitter in my home. Not sure how it got there. https://image.nostr.build/c1e92ed1c4feeefd7f30a5b766573d8617438b548469f3a1a6cec85e29cf899d.jpg


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


Our next meetup will be presented by nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5 for a Q&A about the history of Bitcoin! You don't want to miss it!

Join us at Holborn on Wednesday 1st May!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMG_AUmWwAAA4-L?format=jpg

https://meetup.com/bitcoinology/events/300661120


It's going to be a battle, that's for god damn sure.


Have some magical memories of this place as a child.


Some essential characteristics of Mutiny Wallet.

Non-custodial:
- You are in control of your keys
- The node runs on your device
- Any critical data that exists is saved on your device and encrypted remotely for backups

Not an LSP:
- We do not run a node or LSP, we interface with others
- You may open channels to any node
- We never process any lightning channel, payments, on-chain txs, UTXOs, etc.
- Our lightning address server is built with blinded auth, and we can't link payments to your node

Open-source:
- MIT
- The web app is available in case app stores go down
- Self-hostable, already bundled with start9

We strongly believe in building software that gives users the most control and least dependence upon us. It's not easy; centralization brings a much better user experience. However, for the longevity of ourselves, our product, and our users, this is what we believe is the correct path to take.


The road ahead is rocky. Keep building. Build your apps, build your stack, build your notes, build your memes, build your community.


Only just posted but very few.


Am I gonna get Epsteined for this? https://image.nostr.build/59cdc6d527882d1f5dae82960595924a46f49669040500976b41490b49280a27.jpg https://image.nostr.build/df2ac998cf02fd020523ea9960b0ed1421ceb518b23fbdc3d28f74fd044a191d.jpg


SIGNAL ALERT 👇
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Perfection.


📣Henry Herbert's Supper Club accepts #bitcoin & #LightningNetwork payments!🙌😋

🥩Feast With Henry Herbert
📍4 George St, Nailsworth, Stroud GL6 0AG
🔗https://www.henryherbert.co.uk

Every 6 weeks Henry hosts 6 courses of delicious food ... 👀 a Bitcoin feast coming soon!!🍖🦐🍇🍯😁🚀

Henry & his brother Tom were "The Fabulous Baker Brothers" on Channel 4 and available on Amazon Prime Video! Now, as well as food makeovers, he's a Bitcoiner implementing a money makeover at his Supper Club!

Bookings open. Support the #BTC circular economy. Show Henry some🧡& sats: populartadpole30@walletofsatoshi.com

We set them up with Swiss Bitcoin Pay, 👀👇 how easy it is to get up & running

🧡 Super quick set up process
🧡 No KYC
🧡 Worldwide operability
🧡 Fiat conversion
🧡 Multi-employee ready

🔗 https://swiss-bitcoin-pay.ch/?refCode=BRIDGE2BITCOIN

Use referral code BRIDGE2BITCOIN to support us 🤙⚡🔥🚀

👀 more merchants that accept #Bitcoin payments

🇬🇧 In the UK on our map:
🔗 https://bridge2bitcoin.com/spending/

🌍 Globally nostr:npub1864jglrrhv6alguwql9pqtmd5296nww5dpcewapmmcazk8vq4mks0tt2tq:
🔗 https://btcmap.org

Contact us if you’d also like your business to benefit and increase footfall & revenue, by accepting Bitcoin payments https://image.nostr.build/d860dfc7dda413c5929e7bdfa3f2c74ae8a3e1efb17ed244c3b175403518392a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ad92eebbb3bf454f7133427640f7b1af293f96372a464187670574d51be0e4c0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/32496d3cff2bee17a9ff5ea7eed3da692e9b61ba54e42e35cbfc454ebbb294f0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/406250728e4803a18c1dbf03ba6cc7fa5e3d98cfb815a741c217d04152cbe63b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2f7377a06425c3fc2161ec5866a8f82706c32377a777970032230cf6fc661c16.jpg https://image.nostr.build/52b303664804e2ccc939decfcfd03b68e51eea3e60dda3998c2d67981e9f4bd2.jpg https://video.nostr.build/0b9ecf25fee27adcd16d9aada724db4388f55780d58b49c92306fc6d5281fb9e.mp4 https://image.nostr.build/9c1b4f0255e371877f87e8456d87c6dcbf0bb88d226b9b6576bd8a4d39dc1248.jpg


People are thinking about the Samourai situation the wrong way IMO.

They’re worried about hiding (KYC vs non-KYC) like it matters.

"Oh, I see you’ve bought a house, but we have no idea where you got the money for it and can’t trace it back to a sats purchase you made through your bank. We do see you paid taxes on $60K per year and have a $5M house, but we will leave you alone in this citadel since we can’t trace the specific sats to your bank account!”

FFS, if they’re coming after your property, they’re coming after your property. They don’t give a fuck about your rights, and they don’t really care how you got what you have. You think it matters they can’t *prove* you got it through sats appreciation? They can’t prove someone else didn’t lose his keys, either. They don’t care.

The beauty of the technology is they literally cannot seize this one asset unless you volunteer the keys. They can jail you, they can murder you, but they can’t take it from you, and more importantly they can’t do so remotely. They need to expend resources and be on camera, in person. This is a very big handicap and a huge advertisement to others to store their wealth out of their reach.

You have the strongest hand in the history of humanity. Stand up to the bully.


RHR AT 1800 UTC TOMORROW.

https://rhr.tv

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Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.

Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.

Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.

We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.

Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.

The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.

Onward.

Eric Hughes

9 March 1993


a useful rebelion to this samurai injustice would be to use JAM, or Joinmarket. Maybe they can crush one of us, but they can't touch an army in it's thousands 🤙

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbyjG2upGO8&ab_channel=BTCSessions


IMPORT YOUR EXISTING SAMOURAI WALLET INTO SPARROW WALLET

Read entire post before attempting at home!

You will need:
1. Your Samourai Wallet seed phrase (12 words)
2. Your passphrase
3. Sparrow Wallet downloaded and installed on to your computer. (https://www.sparrowwallet.com)

Configure your server. This could be your own node, or a public electrum server. I have selected Blocksteam's electrum server here.
https://void.cat/d/tepSUYuDJZwEZtwNmuf6C.webp

Toggle on your server using the switch on the bottom right. It should turn yellow, green or blue depending on what you've selected.

Go to File -> New Wallet, or click on New Wallet.
https://void.cat/d/77w9Z2qJVWRw8hqKjgrU54.webp

Name your wallet.
https://void.cat/d/Mpjvk4PUpaMbUW8TQDXZdy.webp

Click on New or Imported Software Wallet.
https://void.cat/d/Qe3dUWMpXikRabdrwYU95u.webp

On the dropdown menu besides the Mnemonic Words (BIP39), select 12 words. Type your seed into the fields displayed in the correct order from 1 to 12.

Check the "Use passphrase?" option. Insert your passphrase and click Create Keystore.
https://void.cat/d/RwGXKENhUxDop61gmFEsZZ.webp

Click on Import Keystore.
https://void.cat/d/6gnrC8FAYy1LqFTqJHL2V8.webp

Reenter your passphrase as prompted
https://void.cat/d/EF2cnjoDQ1sAiqwMYqW3wV.webp

Click on Apply on the bottom right.
https://void.cat/d/GBzT1GXF14YMTSTtTWo5FB.webp

If you want to add a password to open up your wallet with, enter one, otherwise click No Password.
https://void.cat/d/RRGNKKmpQikdUJKxbFccXJ.webp

In the bottom of the settings page, you will see "Add Account..." button. Click on it.
https://void.cat/d/SzPC67pcdjZPQe7imFn3An.webp

From the dropdown menu, select Whirlpool Accounts
https://void.cat/d/JZn4zB5Zj2xXxR9maDuhny.webp

Your wallet will be scanned by the server you have selected. You should also be able to see your respective deposit, premix, postmix and bad bank accounts.
https://void.cat/d/XnAkV8pYvReFbqmKCPiXg8.webp

You should now be able to send your bitcoin to another wallet/address of your choosing. I would recommend sending this out to a hardware wallet.

Notes:
- Be sure you obtain sparrow wallet from sparrowwallet dot com. Get it right!
- Because you are inputing seed words into a computer, ensure no keyloggers are installed. Be wary of dodgy browser extensions.
- Dojo users need not worry. This is for those who used SW backend.
- Beware of scammers on the Sparrow Telegram chat. They're out in full force today. Nobody will ask you for your seed words. Do not give them out to anyone.


Totally agree. Best alternative? I guess nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5


We are all Samourai. https://image.nostr.build/7be91ca00f6eec66e3be8495ad2647ac6ef6543251a31b9b52319efc20d93443.jpg


The point is to stay solvent in the next few years without needing to rely on your bitcoin stash.

If you manage that, you'll emerge as a sovereign individual with generational wealth, and have a chance to integrate with or shape the new economic paradigm.

If not, then your stash will get you through, and you'll start over with zero instead of negative, which is still something I guess.

It's likely that will be a similar paradigm shift to post WWII, with widespread poverty, rationing, and other challenges. I don't think it will be a dystopian apocalypse but it will feel pretty rubbish in the western world not used to such a rapid drop in comfort levels.

I'm thinking about how sovereign individuals helped to build society in previous generations, in particular the landed gentry and the new industrialists on both sides of the atlantic in the 19th century. It's Andrew Carnegie's "gospel of wealth" and the Lord Shaftesbury types in Britain.

Bitcoiners are already getting started with these kind of projects, but it's something to think about as we enter an era where food, clothing, and shelter will be far more pressing concerns that yachts and lambos. We're having to grow up fast, the age of 69,420 memes is passing and the age of bearing responsbility for the future of humanity is almost here.

PS - Generational wealth may not mean a dragon's hoard, but simply having something in your hand to pass on to the next generation, which they in turn can build on, care for, and pass on again. Generational wealth itself implies training the next generation on the responsibilty that comes with holding, but that's a whole nother story for another time.

#Bitcoin


Now you know why Satoshi had to be anon


Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. https://image.nostr.build/dffdadc00479318d476cdbaa7508800388e33d3f819c792cdb03db87083ffb43.jpg


BREAKING: Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested & Charged with Money Laundering, Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses

- The charges include conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmitting business.
- The Samurai Wallet website has been confiscated, and a seizure warrant for Samurai's mobile application has been submitted to the Google Play Store.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/samourai-wallet-founders-arrested-and-charged-with-money-laundering/


Announcing Strike Europe

Today, we're launching Strike Europe, expanding our full suite of products to all eligible European customers

Buy #bitcoin, free on-chain withdrawals, a full-featured Lightning wallet and more. Get the best of #Bitcoin with Strike.

We also have our Strike Business, Strike Private, Strike OTC, and Strike API products available for Europe as well.

When EU?!? Now 🫡

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cboYEHuXwbc&ab_channel=JackMallers


I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be.

I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral.

I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone.

That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.


The founders of Samourai Wallet have been indicted for "conspiracy to commit money laundering." We know why it's "conspiracy to commit" as opposed to just "money laundering."

It's because what they did was provide a privacy tool that some people could use for money laundering.

It is part of the government's ongoing war on privacy, specifically financial privacy. Those in power yearn for every transaction to be tracked, taxed and, if need be, frozen. The action against the Canadian truckers was the template, and CBDCs (programmable, instantly manipulated money) are the tool of control that they ultimately want.

First, they must dismantle the privacy-centric alternatives so there's no viable exit ramp once CBDCs and the like are implemented. That's what we've been witnessing with the attacks on coin tumblers like Tornado Cash and today's attack on Samourai.

They will point to bad people using these tools, just as they pointed out that Hamas raised some funds in various cryptocurrencies, without noting that a vast amount of money laundering happens with government-issued currency.

It's the same kind of bad-faith argument the FBI made in the '90s when they tried to kill end-to-end encryption altogether. "Sometimes terrorists might use it." Ok, and? They also use pressure cookers. The internet as we know it today would not exist if they had succeeded.

They are unlikely to succeed this time either, but unfortunately there will be casualties in the war on privacy, and those casualties will be those who openly thwart their ambitions of total surveillance.

My 2022 video including an interview with a Samourai Wallet founder here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIYiXbLRy1c


The Samourai guys don't deserve this. A dark day for Bitcoin privacy indeed. Expecting to see Joinmarket liquidity go up.


clCould custodial lightning providers be targeted like Samorai, as they obfuscate money transfer between individuals & add in a measure of privacy, in effect acting as a mixing service?


Privacy is normal and good.

There has been an effort among authorities to make “money laundering” and “financial privacy” the same thing. That is, the mere act of moving money privately itself becomes a crime. That’s not okay.

Money laundering is when money that is obtained through crime is concealed by obfuscating it with clean money. The actual crime is the initial non-financial crime (say, mob stuff), and historically money laundering involves manual activity to work with the criminals.

Now that open source tech can make certain transactions private, authorities increasingly equate all private money transfer with money laundering, even if the developer of the open source tech had no direct involvement with criminals. Authorities target them regardless, and sanction the technology itself. Financial privacy becomes synonymous with crime in their minds, and in the minds of the public.


No data currently on that ;)


Bitaxe Supra v401: A Closer Look at the Open-Source Bitcoin Miner

The Bitaxe Supra v401 is an open-source Bitcoin miner that features the BM1368 chip from the Bitmain S21 series. It delivers a hash rate of up to 750 GH/s, demonstrating notable power and efficiency. This miner includes an integrated ESP32 Controller, which facilitates wireless networking and allows for configuration directly through a local webpage, eliminating the need for an external computer. Tailored for efficiency and user-friendliness, the Bitaxe Supra v401 is suited for DIY enthusiasts, budget-conscious miners, and those new to Bitcoin mining.

#Bitcoin #BitcoinMining #Bitaxe #OpenSource

https://thesolomining.co/product-page/bitaxe-supra-v401-bm1368-bithalo-hardwired-stand


ZEUS v0.9.0-alpha1 is now rolling out to community sponsors!

This build includes:
- Watch-only account import (xpub)
- Hardware wallet / signing device support (Coldcard Q, Seedsigner, Passport Foundation etc.)
- Batch channel opens
- Batch on-chain txs
- Close channels to external addresses
- Improved payment path view

More features will be released throughout the closed alpha program.

Already a community sponsor? Please reach out to us through the account you linked to get access to the program, if you have not received it already.

Want to become a community sponsor? Check out our sponsor board here: https://zeusln.com/about

Sponsors also get their Nostr or X profile displayed on our website and in the app.

Thanks for your support! https://image.nostr.build/6ca7fc992216c73c22917bac9a8e83d8d89574b3afc8ee483fc1c9b8d3c5d847.jpg


Glad to be out of that. Took a few hits and haircuts but could have been way worse. Still running a self custodial spending Lighting node but goals are different now.


Dark man. Dark.


Since the fee spike, it feels a bit like the real-world economic capacity of Bitcoin has dropped from 21M to whatever is left in Lightning channels.


Fuck Runes. Fuck Ordinals.  https://image.nostr.build/6d98292c7edfcd57f80c5ac9a39c55f6213290b1d246833be0fc2c5f9bee0f8b.jpg


May 22nd 2010 was #Bitcoin Pizza Day, the first time anyone (Laszlo Hanyecz) used bitcoin to buy physical goods (a 🍕 for 10,000 BTC). Celebrate this historic event with us Wednesday May 22nd at The Bristol Stable on the Harbourside from 6.15 BitcoinBristol.org
https://image.nostr.build/2925773cb0219f9ffa47751f611a8d2d07fa1ae6b574f57230f01e53edf31449.jpg


Wen APK download pls Ser? UK Plebs still thirsty here.


A work colleague collapsed in theatre today after experiencing dizziness, blurred vision and weakness. Had to transfer them for a CT brain. Results pending. Hoping it's normal like this one. https://image.nostr.build/97e739c3c4fd2329f89f9aa5bb3c27cd08315042b3e07ca53dc4df405c62e45a.jpg


* a super shitty one


The epitome of degenerate.


Block Announces 3nm Bitcoin Mining Chip & Development of Full Bitcoin Mining System

"We are pleased to announce that we have finished development of our three-nanometer (nm) bitcoin mining chip and are in the process of completing a full tapeout of the design with a leading global semiconductor foundry. Additionally, with our chip design complete, we are excited to share that we are developing a full bitcoin mining system."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/block-announces-3nm-bitcoin-mining-chip-development-of-full-bitcoin-mining-system/


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Think about it this way. I want to go to Dubai, and pick a restaurant to eat at. When I look at the reviews, I should see those from my direct or indirect social circle first! In fact, the closer the reviewer is to me (both in terms of social graph/relevance and interest graph) then the more their rating should influence the overall rating of the venue I see!


I've never had any faith in pensions - one of the reasons I got into Bitcoin I guess. I've a modest NHS Pension I've not touched, plus an super shitty one through the company I've worked for over past seven years.

Today I completed the transfer of this current pension to a SIPP with AJBell and aped everything into MicroStrategy. Feels good man. https://image.nostr.build/d554b3d69efcd14281d9ff88a7bc41fb2902885fe124e4e62bb14004d5f82336.jpg


Love Giacomo Zucco's commentary.😄 nostr:npub1au23c73cpaq2whtazjf6cdrmvam6nkd4lg928nwmgl78374kn29sq9t53j

https://image.nostr.build/88cf490d268464779e4ca79db7301d20731592cd98885eecfe4f22f2dcacca02.jpg

#CO2 #Climate #Change #ClimateChange #ClimateAlarmism #GlobalWarming #NetZero #Agenda21 #Agenda2030 #Propaganda


I guess. Shame they didn't develop that part of the story more.


Yup


The Reynolds Foundation is supporting OpenSats with a generous $1M donation, noting that they "warmly invite fellow philanthropists to join [them] in supporting this groundbreaking endeavor"
 https://opensats.org/blog/opensats-receives-one-million-from-reynolds-foundation


My immediate Civil War 2024 movie reaction. Graphic and arresting depiction of what a US government collapse may look like, through the eyes of photojournalists chasing their big story and witnessing civil society losing its mind and morality. Killer nihilistic soundtrack juxtaposition and artsy cinematography.

Pretty much zero meat on the bone in terms of why or how this situation manifests though, which to be honest was what I was looking for. https://image.nostr.build/970a5a86ba88df75f341ae917855f1460c6bc87a04176260d5fb9638939dc7e0.jpg


"You will hear of wars and rumours of wars. Do not be alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet." Matthew 24, 6-7
https://image.nostr.build/c8a87e35ff98d38efcfc37ba00ace65bb62c5e283d40f0ad3dde42094b15b9cf.jpg


Runes summarised by https://image.nostr.build/3bf476b33b48fb5b96e873ec649d4a39d30d5c43222d65733eac8e79aed8bb48.jpg nostr:npub1dsceql0sl6u6g22jztrz6q0rxguhumvg4amh9nltvrkl0y48krnqgakgr3


Subbed. Tbh I didn't even consider how much money you must put into your videos Joe. Makes sense. It's consistently great work. Thanks so much for following your passion and taking risks. Fortune favours the brave.


nostr:npub1j60p5k46d32tv4zcxe5wxs4fueke70g8emsm85yqd8xwf4yym24qdgw8zk nailed this one.
https://video.nostr.build/237902944456468dc53612d6fd4f610480965abd602e898f11f270702577c25c.mp4


This is the coolest nostr signing device I've ever seen. A wireless Nsecbunker for your pocket. Beautiful work by nostr:npub1dqepr0g4t3ahvnjtnxazvws4rkqjpxl854n29wcew8wph0fmw90qlsmmgt
 https://image.nostr.build/eb69cd81794c4c49cb5df5adcfa351e7f75926be146d4f8a3771096f634ba215.jpg


Fixing block subsidy at 3.125 seems absurd. Good luck with that one.


Is this satire?


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

# Halving Fee Chaos

The Bitcoin halving is an anticipated event, one of those Bitcoin holidays that happen every once in a while. Along with Soft Fork Activation and various financial instrument introduction days, it's one of those not-quite-predictable days that occur every few years which give Bitcoiners reason to pay attention and mainstream media to speculate.

This year's halving was much anticipated, as halvings usually are, but we had a bit of an incident that requires some further explanation. The block subsidy decreased from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC on block 840,000 as expected, but what wasn't expected was the 37.626 BTC in fees that came along with it. To give some context, that's easily the highest ratio of fees to block subsidy that Bitcoin has *ever* had. [One transaction](https://mempool.space/tx/152b928e97bb9e874da1bd4abdf766ae0cdc7a2f260dad5542967cb414c58489) paid nearly 8 BTC in fees by itself.

## More Fees

It wasn't just block 840,000 that had high fees, over the next 5 blocks, we had fees of 4.486, 6.99, 16.068, 24.008 and 29.821 BTC respectively. The fees are the highest it's ever been. This situation in Bitcoin is unprecedented.

Up to this point in Bitcoin's history a block whose fees were higher than block subsidy were pretty rare. There were a few in the 50 and 25 BTC eras, but these were mistakes by the user (usually forgetting to put in a change address) and almost all of the fee came from a single error transaction. In the 12.5 BTC subsidy era, there were a few transactions toward the end of 2017 when the cumulative fees exceeded the 12.5 subsidy. In the just-ended 6.25 BTC subsidy era, there were many blocks during the ordinals craze which exceeded the 6.25 BTC subsidy.

Still, these were relatively rare, and most blocks even in the most recently completed era mostly didn't exceeded 1.5 BTC. Yet in this new era of 3.125 BTC subsidy, every single block as of this writing (block 840018) has had fees exceed the subsidy, some by many multiples. So what happened? Why was the halving block getting so much in fees?

## Runes

The reason has to do with a new protocol called Runes. It's yet another colored coins protocol on top of Bitcoin that Casey Rodarmor designed back in [September of 2023](https://rodarmor.com/blog/runes/). The main idea is to allow coin issuance on Bitcoin that uses the UTXO set natively.

Now to back up a bit, colored coins have been around for a long time. The main idea is that you can "color" certain Bitcoin transaction outputs as meaning something in addition to the Bitcoin amount in the output. It could be another "asset" and issued as a token. The first implementation of such a protocol happened 11 *years* ago in 2013 and there have been many attempts since, including MasterCoin (renamed Omni), CounterParty, and more recently, RGB, Taro Assets and BRC-20.

As Rodarmor states in his blog, his motivation for making another protocol is to bring some of the asset issuing from other chains to Bitcoin. To make the launch of this protocol more interesting, Rodarmor decided to start the issuance on block 840,000, leading to the chaos we saw.

## Simplification vs Game Theory

Casey Rodarmor is also the creator of ordinals, and he took one of the concepts, which was to name assets using the capital latin alphabet on Runes. This is a normal fine choice, but what happens when there's a conflict? If two assets have the same name, how do we distinguish between them?

To simplify things, the protocol just looks up what assets exist already and if the name conflicts with something that exists, then the new asset isn't issued. This indeed simplifies the client and gives a global unique name to each asset. Unfortunately, it also makes for some terrible incentives.

## Sniping Asset Issuance

The first incentive problem is that if the transaction issuing the asset is sent out to the Bitcoin mempool, then as that transaction is gossiped to nodes around the network, other observers can snipe the name by getting the transaction in earlier.

Now "earlier" in Bitcoin is a strict concept. Blocks are ordered and transactions within a block are ordered. Whichever comes first gets the symbol and the asset issuance. But if you want to squat on a good symbol name, you can just look for mempool transactions that are attempting to create a new asset and create your own with a bigger fee. That's the essence of sniping.

What's really terrible about a situation like this is that *both* transactions will likely go into the block, but only the first will successfully issue the asset. The second will not issue the asset but *still pay the fee*.

Miners generally order transactions by fee rate, so a higher fee likely means that they'll get to issue the asset. I say likely, because there's a second incentive problem here I'll discuss later. But game-theoretically, both participants are incentivized to increase fees continually to one-up each other. The dynamic is similar to the [One Dollar Auction](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction), where participants end up making rational choices, but end up with an irrational result (like paying $1.50 for $1). Every loser pays lots in fees for nothing.

## Second order Game Theory

Now given this first-order incentive playing out, it's not a surprise that a lot of issuers purposefully put in a very high fee initially to discourage anyone from trying to snipe the symbol. After all, if your sniping attempt fails, then you lose out on the fees you tried to snipe with. There's also a significant uptick in the usage of RBF for this reason, so that you have the option to one-up the sniper and the sniper to do the same to the issuer.

Note that RBF isn't useful here to *get out* of paying the fee, as a replacement transaction has to pay more than the previous transaction in fees. Either way, the miner ends up with the fees.

Now back to the miner's role. The miner can, if it so desires, give preference to the *lower* fee transaction by including it earlier in the block. Indeed, the incentive is to give miners off-band fees if possible to order transactions in such a way as to win by not revealing how much you've paid. Miners in this protocol have a lot of leverage.

## Conclusion

Runes have resulted in some really high fees, though it's hard to know if the design was intentional or unintentional. What we do know is that Runes have been hyped up for the last few months and have been anticipated for a while, and certainly being one of the first assets issued under the protocol has some marketing value for the eventual goal of getting them listed on an exchange.

Sadly, in addition to the normal scamming of altcoins being completely centralized, there is a deeper cost in terms of block space congestion, where fees of 1000 sats/vbyte are currently not enough to get into certain blocks. The Runes asset issuance has overridden almost every other use case at the moment.

That said, the current rate of Runes issuance is completely unsustainable. Just in the first 18 blocks, there's been over $20M in fees spent, most of that in Runes issuance. At this rate, Runes issuers would be spending $150M a day or $1B a week. I honestly can't see them doing this for much longer than a month or two. In the meantime, it must be great to be a miner finding these blocks.


It's true.


Y'all gotta buy some sats or $69,420 wont happen at 840,000 o'block. #BitcoinHalving

This is not up for debate. Sell your car, house, wife, drugs... whatever it takes.


Yup, but people are retarded.


This is how it's done.


The official PubKey Halvening Pleb Party 🌗 starts tomorrow, 4/20 at 4:20 PM 🔥

Good Vibes 🪩 Drink Specials 🍸

Half off all food and drink if paid in #bitcoin (Lightning only) for 210 minutes.* ⚡🌭🍻

+ More fun stuff we'll probably just scrap together at the last possible moment.

* Whale excluded 🐳
https://image.nostr.build/ec6ddc80522bc9ed753daf7e73694777d663284893a2d9915d018a8dc56b92a1.jpg


You already know how this ends ... https://video.nostr.build/f8cfc33aff6e311659e236cf781153e178a9669c5fc26e0f674438f43143fba6.mp4


A welcome move indeed; will it pan out in the end?

https://news.itsfoss.com/german-state-ditches-microsoft/


Sure but these guys know what they're doing and with shipping included, there seems little in it and reasonable time/efficiency gains through buying through them.


FREE shipping on a £196 S9 Silent + other great deals at 21energy.io No brainer IMHO. Why use a dumb heater? Get an extra 5% off with code LOVEISBITCOIN Especially cool now Braiins has Lightning payouts.
 https://image.nostr.build/29cd87ebd67ad8b4a8ff636773bd4be661f78881e337ee6a807893a3e3ea3f37.jpg

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Now that's a deal.


KcCattleCompany.com/pages/halving

21% or more off of a half cow when you pay in #Bitcoin


I feel a HUGE sense of happiness & security when # https://image.nostr.build/31e41d2028bdd08133a9d092161ab0eef74628807b76038169e74f3905a73c1d.jpg Bitcoin dips because it means I continue to have the possibility to NOT FUCK UP the undeserved opportunity to improve my & my family's station in life by simply stacking sats, improving my security & privacy through coinjoins.


What will be the next group of people onboarded to nostr? #asknostr


JUST IN: 🇨🇭 Pro-#Bitcoin  mayor wins election in Lugano, Switzerland after making Bitcoin legal tender in 2022.
https://m.primal.net/HvTm.jpg


Bristol picked up too. https://image.nostr.build/63bda5b5e5c7393cd5a85c98067fafe7a2c52b33f3b00ffe9e7903a593792aa2.jpg


Checks out. Horizontal rain in Bristol this morning.


Save the Devs. https://video.nostr.build/83069ca8fcee397832ff900315033b9ec63199bc16dd33ef562c715822710096.mp4


Me at every #Bitcoin Conference v2 https://image.nostr.build/79e53827205acfbac6345b90e133e0505736814b199087b9e01bb22495434414.jpg


Me at every #Bitcoin Conference. https://image.nostr.build/2f711692e998054a1eea86e030c243ca87f291e1d58bf829a737cff1afb5cfe8.jpg


LN Address?


This baby looks like we're about to blow up the financial system.
https://image.nostr.build/d51fb671b0f9928041a10b85b765e8bdbfc82fbe07761fc78f29b82dbe1a6d1b.jpg


What should a local Bitcoin Meetup website be like? IDK but BitcoinBristol.org v0.1 is now live. Wanted it to appeal to precoiner ₿it-curious normies as well as Bitcoiners. It's a work in progress and easy to edit so please, any suggestions, don't hold back. https://image.nostr.build/10077210eb635086c67471e3e11b98454c7e2a8923b1df42ab942d8acebb2edb.jpg


2012 BTC Halving:
Price: $182
After a year: $510

2016 BTC Halving:
Price: $661
After a year: $2,600

2020 BTC Halving:
Price: $8,600
After a year: $58,000”

2024 BTC Halving:
Price: $69,420???
After a year: $WAGMI


Was nice whilst it lasted.


In my latest piece for Forbes Crypto, I cover the great work by nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg in standardising the Lightning Network payment experience for Bitcoin conferences, with case studies from nostr:npub1yul83qxn35u607er3m7039t6rddj06qezfagfqlfw4qk5z5slrfqu8ncdu’s Baltic HoneyBadger 2023 conference and the nostr:npub1h493d0qgwhu95s82zd9sxrt3ckn3ttgvaf04z02neckadxw5fkvqte4cwz 2024 conference.

"[...] BTCPay Server is building, iterating, and rolling out what is becoming the standard for Bitcoin payment experience over the Lightning Network, all through the power of open-source code and a talented group of global volunteers and developers."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/04/12/btcpay-server-is-reshaping-the-bitcoin-conference-payment-experience/?sh=191bfd5de269


call to action and link 🐉🏴☠

thank you all for the support here

please zap / acquire a print/original art

https://madex.art/collections/in-stock https://video.nostr.build/72b74a5e9e3fb65c10910d22cb2e7248b8c7c9668aa6057535c8a48a8c2365b5.mp4


Nice nostr:npub12z5nym0qkxhdrvmyhup2llzp98lryr38gw8ywxktkps9eqdts7asjj9k9c


Yep. It be like that.

But I don't mind dating women with kids. Love all the good mothers out there.

https://i.nostr.build/POxx7.jpg


Truth.


Bitcoin is a marathon, not a sprint. Most ppl ever involved in btc have already capitulated. It’s not easy to hodl. Well it is now with Wall Street buying, but in the pre etf era it was insanely difficult. That’s why we all still see the same faces on BT and nostr. It’s a small network. It’s like that thread I made a while ago that nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs brought to bt, ppl wouldn’t have held in their delusions that they wish they bought sooner. They would have capitulated, turned bitter, and have zero btc rn. Just be grateful you understand it now and grasp that conviction is everything


SmackOS.


Retards on the timechain again.


Girl's got taste.


I gave my girl the option of any HWW (I have all of em) & she chose the Foundation Passport because of its look & feel.

She knows nothing about this stuff, like zero - she's only heard me talking about how awesome the SeedSigner was.

I included every HWW, even the ones I disagree with & she doesn't know what is what brand anyways.

She had a truly objective decision based on nothing but look & feel.

Moral of the story, get your girl something she wants - not what you think is the best if you actually want her to be excited about it 🫠🫡.


Bingo.


Masks freaking rule. That's the note.
https://image.nostr.build/f47670fd2ebb896ba1a9a278b57cb6a7957e44a0d753849b3da74dd713af6ca1.jpg


Going to CheatCode Conf in Bedford?
Come to our Nostr meetup (530pm-7pm in the hackspace room), for panels,
talks and workshops!
See you there 💜💜💜
(hugely cool thing to be unveiled) https://image.nostr.build/618803b4c6815821d54bc17711bb44160a72cf780721931fabb4746037164468.jpg


Retards on the timechain again. https://image.nostr.build/15fa533ac1885250225a061d95c78e97fabca2efa0dd1b65cdb45e21bb049fee.jpg


The people will eventually demand Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/d61ababf715b4e1b3e3b13f706ea6d747747d9669757c2375afea571d4a30346.jpg


Fuck the fucking fuckers.


The Bank of England is currently running ‘working groups’ on aspects of their #CBDC proposals.

Bitcoin Policy UK have submitted the paper in the link below, giving detailed feedback on our privacy concerns.

TLDR: While we remain opposed to the creation of a #CBDC in its entirety, our view is that the ‘least worst’ option would be a form of anonymous Chaumian e-cash, which no third party can monitor, control or censor - namely, a digital bearer equivalent to physical cash.

To quote Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch, “Anonymous, private, low threshold e-cash could have a future - but Western Countries like Britain won’t accept anything that looks like a ‘spycoin’.”

Key points from our paper:

1. We remain opposed in principle to the creation of a digital pound or CBDC, and our policy position is unchanged - that it is a solution in search of a problem; one that will serve no useful purpose not already served by existing forms of digital money.

2. The proposals to give ‘tiered’ access to the #CBDC in return for the surrender of more and more personal data should be abandoned.

3. These proposals effectively treat personal and transaction data as a form of currency themselves - the digital pound would become more useful the more personal data is surrendered by its users, who would pay for increased usability with the currency of their personal data. It is therefore an unfair and exclusionary model of money.

4. There is little to no sense in expending time, personnel, money and other resources in replicating a system that will be broadly identical to the modern system of commercial bank accounts, while having none of the advantages of the physical cash system. If a CBDC has to exist at all, then better privacy may be afforded by the implementation of Chaumian e-cash.

5. For the Bank’s CBDC truly to replace physical cash, or to offer a genuine digital alternative, it needs to mirror the key features of physical cash. These include being a bearer instrument, offering strong anonymity for transactions and ownership, (the former two characteristics being of particular relevance to this privacy consultation) and must also allow direct claims against the central bank by the public.

6. Without these characteristics, the CBDC is unlikely to be attractive enough to compete with existing digital payment options, leading to public mistrust, low adoption, high running costs, and eventually the failure of the entire enterprise - which is not an outcome with which we as an organisation would be disappointed.

#NoSpycoin #NoToCBDCs

https://www.bitcoinpolicy.uk/post/privacy-and-the-digital-pound-resisting-threats-to-privacy-and-financial-freedom


What should a local Bitcoin Meetup website be like? IDK but BitcoinBristol.org v0.1 is now live. Wanted it to appeal to precoiner ₿it-curious normies as well as Bitcoiners. It's easy to edit so please, any suggestions, don't hold back. I will credit the artwork by the way. https://image.nostr.build/24fbd465a2a137df74c116c5d2af45fa5a5ccf758c9a44c470f761e8cf27eb15.jpg


You would have thought so. The woke virus is strong here. Quietly confident Bristol will wake up to Bitcoin. We're upping our game too.


Come celebrate the #Bitcoin Halving with us in Bristol, Saturday April 20th from 6.15pm at Left Handed Giant Brewpub. Meet some plebs, have a few beers. Tick tock MF. https://image.nostr.build/e46cdda43cc970cf7b8fb020f72d29aa4b24e01682f3685c2deef781ce2ea292.jpg


Remember your OPSEC when transacting on a public ledger and with what you share in public #plebs. If you don't practice good OPSEC, much can be known about you and your finances from OSINT and on-chain analysis.

#cybersecgirl #btc #opsec

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Wow 🤡
https://image.nostr.build/ab8095c97d50c2e085436ea3c57a32e2087d2e47d6941e8be4728e8e1f1f59d2.jpg


TPB82 - A Snapshot of Hyperinflation in Lebanon with nostr:npub17xu3rtcu0ftqw03mswa8a2ngz3nsgrs0h0wjv4z942qwvhp8fs3qzcadls is out now wherever you get your podcasts 🗣🎧

In this episode we discuss:
- Upbringing and history of Lebanon and currency collapse
- #Bitcoin use-cases
- Design in #Bitcoin & more

tinyurl.com/3hckaps5
https://m.primal.net/HstU.jpg


Artist Andrew Scott brings art to life by making the frame part of the art

📹 andrewscott_art
 https://t.co/2ef5DjK5xk https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1742860311642755072/pu/vid/avc1/576x1024/VSHFbMhaaqQo4x54.mp4?tag=12


Amethyst & Primal.


Could go to 1ml.com and search for the best connected nodes. I normally go for Tor nodes. Tbh, most big nodes have crazy big minimal channel open limits which are not necessarily explicit. Whatever channel size you're happy with, just go down the list and try opening channels to them. They'll simply refuse if you're not meeting threshold so nothing to lose trying optimal choices first. I found the boltz node to be a good bet, enables me to connect to pretty much everywhere on the network I've tried so far.


hola NOSTR 🤙 What is the "deflation myth" and why do economists lie to you about it?

https://v.nostr.build/9z267.mp4


gm NOSTR 🔥 Is unemployment really *that* low, or is it being masked by the Welfare Industrial Complex?

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


“This is a Bitcoin renaissance.”

Our feature story in the New York Post with nostr:npub1xy6exlg37pw84cpyj05c2pdgv86hr25cxn0g7aa8g8a6v97mhduqeuhgpl, nostr:npub1zuwa6s76kxhs68a3gq5jsu2j5nyf995fpcrq0n670wnncula7xjspf0u37, nostr:npub1fn2rvhmc3r8p7stpj20qcnk8em3wcqyz5cu0r5rmnh9ear76a4us3wedt9, and more friends of the pub just dropped. 💥

https://nypost.com/2024/03/19/tech/were-back-inside-nycs-bullish-crypto-party-scene-after-bitcoin-hit-new-all-time-70k-high/


Idk if people are ready for this, but I believe the world is. First tests of USD Ecash. Backed by BTC.

Everyone can run a mint. Everyone can make a wallet. USD can be spent everywhere BTC is accepted. Open protocols all the way down. No gatekeepers. This is only possible because of the permissionless nature of Bitcoin.

You'll zap USD on Nostr and you'll be happy. It's going to be so insane.
 https://video.nostr.build/2bd2bd63fbd4c77d64d5f8a2a1cab6ccbea48c541c96be2f28fa5e57276be872.mp4


Read this

https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Ethics%20of%20Money%20Production_2.pdf

Yes, you. https://image.nostr.build/a28faf27a2aed2af499e3e3b2d2e4bb1b2741555040e09efa3bc39a12f9d4db9.jpg


Agreed.


$72k #Bitcoin  and the sentiment feels almost bearish. This is how far we have come.


Under appreciated amazing FOSS DIY hardware wallet https://selfcustody.github.io/krux/


Incredible. They foresaw nut zaps 30 years ago.

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What fiat did.


KYC regulations in crypto compromise privacy, undermine decentralization, and deter innovation by imposing traditional financial barriers in a space designed for openness.

Always avoid KYC.

#privacy #freedom #nokyc


Currently happening before our eyes.

nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx called this a long time ago.
https://m.primal.net/HheO.jpg


GM


I like my social media like I like my churches…
small, decentralized, diverse communities, organized around a single core idea, connected to a larger continually morphing global network…


Why?


No.


Unleashed.chat can scrape Nostr now. Impressive uncensored AI.

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


NEW DISPATCH ART THANKS TO ABSOLUTE LEGEND  nostr:npub12hcytyr8fumy3axde8wgeced523gyp6v6zczqktwuqeaztfc2xzsz3rdp4

GOING LIVE WITH PIERRE-MARIE - CEO OF PHOENIX WALLET AND ACINQ - IN TWO HOURS.

JOIN US IN THE INTERACTIVE LIVE CHAT 🫡

https://citadeldispatch.com

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


I like it. Gives it the potential to be as complex as the real world. No filters.


I'm a free speech extremist. Each individual must accept responsibility to curate the online experience they desire and protect their Self. Value for value rewards quality and establishes a truly free market for art and ideas.

Just my two sats.


WEF Chief Advisor Yuval Harari:
“Covid is critical because this is what convinces people to accept/legitimatize TOTAL bio-metric surveillance... Exactly the same technology can be used to determine what you THINK about the Government.”

https://m.primal.net/HqVf.mov


#GrapheneOS Version 2024040200 released.

See the changes:

- full 2024-04-01 security patch level (early release based on AOSP 14 April security backports since the official April AOSP and stock Pixel OS monthly releases aren't available yet)

- fix race condition for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth auto-turn-off leading to the first auto-turn-off timer after the first Wi-Fi or Bluetooth state update potentially not being scheduled

- fix Wi-Fi auto-turn-off no longer handling Wi-Fi state change events not involving a Wi-Fi network
DocumentsUI (Files): do not delegate handling of downloaded APKs to DownloadProvider to avoid confusing install permission prompt

- flash-all: raise minimum fastboot version to 34.0.5

- kernel (Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro): sign vendor modules after building them instead of only signing generic (GKI) modules

- kernel (6.1): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision

- fix upstream bug breaking pressing power button 5 times to make an emergency call

- fix upstream bug causing 5 second delay to start the emergency dialer for the first time

- CarrierConfig2 (app created by GrapheneOS to replace Google CarrierSettings): add stub implementation of VendorConfigProvider

- Setup Wizard: use new API for emergency calls

- Setup Wizard: add prompt for unlocked bootloader triggering reboot to fastboot mode to lock

- Setup Wizard: add prompt for disabling OEM unlocking after the device is locked (will be disabled by default)

- GmsCompatConfig: update to version 100

- GmsCompatConfig: update to version 101

- Vanadium: update to version 123.0.6312.80.0

- Vanadium: update to version 123.0.6312.80.1


A paid Nostr.build account is absolutely worth it. Highly recommend. Support a cool dude and his fishcake dog.

nostr:nevent1qqs2pjjl8ykx3ua7kg4wvw95kpxyjk3uf7gtzrv2qpm0n2exswwhn4spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzpxvf2qzp87m4dkzr0yfvcv47qucdhcdlc66a9mhht8s52mprn7g9qvzqqqqqqya6krx5


Buying gas with #bitcoin in El Salvador.

#RealLifeBitcoin

https://m.primal.net/Hqhl.mov


Bitcoin proves we don't need central planning and government for money.

No bailouts, no money printing, no socializing losses. Tough lessons, self-responsibility, and free market dynamics are all we need.

Open-source software does a better job than the Fed and our government 🤷♂

New Mailbag Monday just dropped.

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


"A taste of freedom can make you unemployable." —Naval #Bitcoin


In retrospect, it was inevitable.


NEW: #Bitcoin miners are flocking to 🇪🇹 Ethiopia for their cheap hydro power currently priced at $0.03 per kilowatt hour 👀 video from Jaran Mellerud https://video.nostr.build/db8462508b0192b19dac91a88c75fc161d28341aaeae2fbfa415b6e276a5803c.mp4


Party on dude.


This is bullish.


I'm experimenting with a new podcast where we discuss a host of intriguing ideas from the edge.

Here's the first episode with satellite.earth founder  nostr:npub1lunaq893u4hmtpvqxpk8hfmtkqmm7ggutdtnc4hyuux2skr4ttcqr827lj!
https://fountain.fm/episode/E8PW5z2yVPzNBN2b44Kr

We discuss a wide range of topics including: Terence McKenna, the world of language, evolution, Web of Trust, and the future of Nostr. At least two big ideas really clicked for me: 1) Nostr as the substrate for digital evolution (i.e. forking with checkpoints) and 2) Nostr as an API for market intelligence.

This was a ton of fun to make! I hope to do this regularly with Stu and many other interesting folks. Feedback and ideas for future episodes welcome 🙏 ⚡


Can you pay for any of these other VPNs anonymously via Lightning? Are their servers run RAM only so they don't store any use data in the event of being seized by the police? Do these companies have the same positive track record of refusing police searches of their server sites? https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23692580/mullvad-vpn-raid-sweden-police


Christ is risen.


KO of the president of Guyana to the journalist

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


⛏~~Stats~~⛏

Since launching in November, OCEAN has mined 28 blocks consisting of 175 newly generated coins and 9.29785518 BTC in transaction fees - a total of 184.29785518 BTC.

Those mining with OCEAN since launch are sitting at around 112% of the rewards they could expect from the well known alternatives.

Prior to OCEAN, almost all block rewards went to the same dozen addresses under the control of just a handful.

OCEAN added 33 more addresses to this as miners started choosing to get paid directly by the Bitcoin network in OCEAN blocks.

OCEAN's overall luck is 101% and 106.5% since the start of the year.🎰

Happy mining everyone💪


Fuck the haters Roya. Nostr needs you.


Sick AF.


Brought my eighty year old stepfather and my Mum a Bitkey. They set it up on their own in a few minutes. Bullish.

Afternoon Freaks! Fwd>Freedom!


I've not noticed those issues. What do you prefer using?


Mullvad VPN
https://image.nostr.build/8aad19ecb39c876d88710488195dfc36c20a4a4fc39eebd3cb7e8df3d65985d2.jpg


Sorry these are all reserved.


Picked up a few nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j Passports from nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h NYC last night. Hand delivery to UK Plebs wanting to get their hands on probably the best hardware wallet available right now. https://image.nostr.build/70e6735bcec0d9ac3fd3eb806879e3277254d2579a7726b119128eac701807d4.jpg


Christ is King. Peace and love to all. https://image.nostr.build/9d5c9685109e00c12a8609087adec3d755a6279a17147940c645ef852945a0ad.jpg


£70/£75(16GB RAM all the rest of 8),£60,£60


What's he done now?


FUN FACT: 🇺🇸 Bitwise publishes the #BTC  addresses for their spot #Bitcoin  ETF holdings so anyone can view them. https://image.nostr.build/8f10cddcfd807782403e9e39baa46408f136972cf7faeb621b39492fda74bca1.jpg


Offered 10-15% below asking.


Got a little tipsy last night and put in lowball offers for some classic Thinkpads on eBay - 2x T430s, an X230 and modded X220 with X230 motherboard. Awoke to find them all accepted. Eeeeek. Four more Corebooted nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll laptops in the pipeline. https://image.nostr.build/125351a5ef77ef291d5f901f269246fe499fd929429ae58b39e2d2f7d0b3855c.jpg


Would buy but UK based.


A sublime Nostr based business idea with unified branding and a smart "...dr" name hit me earlier today. Tried to recall it this evening and it's all completely gone ... vaporised in my subconscious. https://image.nostr.build/17ef4218282bc7658ec3f7963e12ce287222458456e212512af6f1e28b1248a8.jpg


Dafuq did I just see?


Turned off zaps to save your last bollock I see.


I miss dem old skool Stonewall gays too.


Nolita's Fiat Cafe was a hard pass.
https://image.nostr.build/2fcc3108ff89a343c0b61e429a12666da52efb0cfcb36e60cfc585d1a433d0e1.jpg


Christ is King motherfucker.


It's funny cos it's true.


Controversial Opinion #1: Transgenderism is on an individual level an intelligence test and on a corporate level a last ditch, late stage fiat capitalism, struggling business rebranding opportunity. On a governmental level it's pure bread and circus.

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


Through fatherhood I've observed certain primeval evolutionary fears to be https://image.nostr.build/87f1fad2cb7c3ca96948222e708f76f96c575b4106ccdc61a0a12185e81d3b3c.jpg strongly imprinted in the DNA of kids: snakes, spiders, lizards and hand dryers.


GM https://image.nostr.build/49b1629ba82047e4e4fb3f4b01923e27de89f40b0a0fc9bfdd200615f9de602c.jpg


Thanks for that. It's impressive to see attempts at integrating such important applications into StartOS. I look forward to seeing progress being made here. I'm fine with using StartOS as a server only + separate Sparrow laptop to coordinate signing device transactions but integrating things more would make it an easier sell to new users.


Amethyst good


LFG


It's a shame QR camera scanning isn't available for this webtop version of Sparrow. Was keen to use with nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j Passport. Specter running on StartOS does have camera QR scanning however and seems to work well. Is there any way this could be integrated nostr:npub14mgq3zmg7wc4g5exw6yztlfaypapcvee06quc5msdqujpa6e5d4sztw00t?


Incredible. Most excellent news.


🎉 Exciting news for Start9 Beta testers! The Sparrow Wallet for StartOS has just touched down on the Community Beta Marketplace. 🚀

Get ready to manage your bitcoin with ease and security. 🌟

#Sparrow on @Start9 #StartOS

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


A glimmer of hope.

#FreeAssangeNOW

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


Confused Paraguay & Uruguay. Not for the first time I guess.


In a strange way, yes. Should have built more of course but survived. They become like seasons.


0xchat might be the most underrated client in #nostr.

Love to see the integration of Cashu payments!

nostr:note1w4knzm5jzgnvwx0jmqvfyl657jugcj48dpz4u34wegk0jksvyt9sr6p82z


GM! Keep building.. weird!

(AUDIO ON 🔊)
https://v.nostr.build/nWPed.mp4
When you start on #Nostr it's like entering a small empty room with some weird folks.. then you start to explore, knowing more people, getting the vibes.. you get involved and open up to all the #weirdstr there is and the party starts!
.. more waves are coming, it is gonna be insane! 🎇💥🤯🪅🤹♂🕺🪩🪇🤹♂📢💃🎊🎆🍾🍻👯♂🥳🍺🍷🎊🎇💃💃🕺🕺🥂🤯🤯🎇🎊
#growNostr #plebchain #nostriches #introductions


#Money has always flowed to those who create value in the economy, and this principle also holds true for #Bitcoin. The true Bitcoin millionaires of the future will not be those who simply bought early, but rather it will be individuals that generate more value within the economy. For these people, Bitcoin will simply serve as a valuable store of wealth- an asset that represents their hard work, creativity and ingenuity as they contribute positively to society! 🚀 #btc #crypto


Bitcoin is my savings account. https://image.nostr.build/110bf154837111be02346d37f57a1e41af3863916b16caace03a0fd3048baee0.jpg


Bitcoin fixes commies

Few
https://m.primal.net/HoJA.jpg


Made a quick tutorial on moving videos from #tiktok to nostr. Hopefully it makes sense?
nostr:npub1r8wdfruydenz84fxfespcswuhcvyatx6umtd5xguexup49u500xskf50hn what do you think?
Let's #grownostr :)
https://cdn.satellite.earth/b03231b1648cff8f62070b034abf5ad3d5dc43b91c81fe13e465614ba741b8dc.mp4


The case for VPNs

#nyc #subway #ad #privacy #CommercialSurveillance #vpn

https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/112/151/737/410/779/336/original/39c82c7ce7db32d8.jpg


I dropped a GFY this morning.


A more adversarial experience makes it strangely more fulfilling.


Get Coinjoin FOMO any given Sunday. https://image.nostr.build/c34c703b80238667b9ad521186d518230259c3ee76321ea3449699c2f017bb2a.jpg


Is it me or did Nostr just take a big leap forward in engagement? Ideology aside, purely based on enjoyment, it's flipping the dead bird app regularly for me.


Remi, del proyecto Sato₿oat nostr:npub1kez90k9xs90f8p5u8h55cvq0cgac6q2y04uyg3qyccqfvtacayesfxtzza , nos comparte su historia y filosofía navegando por el mundo con #Bitcoin :
https://m.primal.net/HnfN.mov


Check your financial privilege.


CNBC coverage of Austin, Bitcoin Commons and the halving 🔥

https://v.nostr.build/8GolW.mp4


Monero Maxis everywhere rn.


Censorship is the ultimate weapon against truth these days.
https://m.primal.net/Hnsx.jpg


Fiat is a lie #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/9a08c0e3f75d0c49f3aa348ae0694be2a8388d7b3353cb763097314f059a418c.jpg


GOOD MORNIG
27 days left till halving


Inside the CIA's plot to assassinate Julian Assange
This begins with: "I'm not for the death penalty so, illegally shoot this son of a b...."
https://cdn.satellite.earth/862a8337d78321015745f2286c7a1a6b09c9d084586207cf5b41df2b00aff361.mp4
Source: Wikileaks, X. #FreeAssange


GM GFY


Great article mate. Thinking about a European winter visit already.


Says the shitcoiner ;)


Our struggle is the source of our power. https://image.nostr.build/4ffc0b14bf6d728460f8cf3091fbc7a9678e6060cedc67e6ca48fa9f2589727f.jpg


We agree. We disagree.


What's the cheapest way to get a clearnet nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg instance host? Is Lunanode still competitive? Any alternatives? Keen to get one, plug in nostr:npub13ljnkd633c7maxatymv3y2fqq8vt3qk7j3tt0vytv90eztwgha9qmfcfhw APIs and have a yardsale.


It helps you spend what was recently Bitcoin privately. Period. No one in their right mind would hold significant funds in Cashu but use it as a spend through mechanism equates to "fuck EU".


https://image.nostr.build/368040e1d11b039223ea73346ca025c42d7aac923431536f7c29af291137d142.jpg
Even the competition agree. Got a node? Install nostr:npub1jamj9l9vsrra9m58y6syyjvfcf85wvev7pm3vvwqkr0e8vzdyhsqvhw852 and improve your privacy. No brainer. 2min read article worth it's weight in sats. https://twitter.com/wasabiwallet/status/1745110262980501592?t=gazl-aIaYSt--QU2Qy7agw&s=19


#Bitcoin is music, everything else is noise.
https://nostr.build/av/nostr.build_461502af8478f1a4114e5c7c6df4d59be8ff64229eda8e13c7af98448f237a11.mov


Totally agree. I didn't make those claims. It does provide help with spending Bitcoin over Lightning more privately though.


What happens if bitcoin doesn’t work?

Then I have no savings and have to work until I'm 70...

My worst case scenario is what is normal for most people. Think about that


With all respect, I hope you're wrong too. Bitcoin will provide my family a better future. Considering giving more of my life to that very objective in fact.


Sure, Bitcoin has privacy issues. Check out what Cashu is doing to help here. Monero has some positives but good luck maintaining SOV with it. Expecting more FUD from you nonetheless, seems to be your thing, good luck with that too brother.


Self-sovereignty is not out of reach for the average person.

You can download an app, create a “profile” and start doing the thing 🤙🏻 nostr:note1sfdk3f8nhxggttkz3ftau4utk6preynnu9gdpjv5qwm0xmt4ytrqmra3g7


Very important nostr:npub1fpcd25q2zg09rp65fglxuhp0acws5qlphpg88un7mdcskygdvgyqfv4sld dropping next week with nostr:npub13ajk3hhvqys2ev4y68jwxywgs8fsdsuk4y5gkzs874jdyrccvf5qak2yd9 on these laws and what citizens around the world can do.

But yes, deeply concerning trajectories, particularly in the EU right now, that sends messages to nations, and authoritarian regimes around the world saying “feel free to use total control against your people, we won’t bat an eye.” nostr:note1zw09c2tlsar0au8xcm2z66nes52f036mmnp8l5z6u6cqgtpkvmrse8lmkz


EuroCommies gonna Commie.


Gm fellow unhosted wallet enjoyers 👨💻


So they're encouraging fully self-custodial Bitcoin usage? Gotta make these solutions as easy as possible then I guess.

But seriously, would be great to understand the implications of these new EuroCommie Politburo censorship dictats.


Dear EU Legislators,

I wrote this in 2021 for a reason.

Love,
A concerned citizen.
https://dergigi.com/2021/08/02/implications-of-outlawing-bitcoin/


GM Nostriches & fellow ''on the go" coffee bag Maxis. https://image.nostr.build/3b0ce706d2a214387cb04b4773f7e4c53d33ac00e0afa1ab55a2dab6b6a05d1a.jpg


“The Pandemic showed me that most of my neighbors are nazis who are simply awaiting instructions from a Führer & that's a lesson I can never unsee.”

@americanhodl8 https://video.nostr.build/d2dbaba22e0de5642aca80b03988b1e90d923eb93a10f9553f70ac59343f13f1.mp4


CBDC is the closed, gated, "intranet" of money.
Bitcoin is the open internet of money.

nostr:npub1cf3zeytdnwgwzz5pk2ax0vvmmlzad03xcft4d50ejrfhsh8pxcdsefx7gk on episode 22 of “You’re The Voice” podcast.
https://m.primal.net/HmhN.mov


NEW: HRF Q1 2024 Bitcoin Development Fund grants

$500,000 to 14 projects targeting global education, Lightning Network innovation, decentralized communication, and easing access to financial freedom tools for nonprofits

🌍🌏🌎🎁

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/human-rights-foundation-grants-500000-to-14-bitcoin-projects-worldwide

Grant #1: USD E-Cash by Dr. Calle, leveraging the Cashu protocol for a secure USD-based Chaumian e-cash system that respects your privacy. Funding will support the full development of this project 🔒💸

Grant #2: BTC Pay Server provides free open source software for organizations that rely on Bitcoin, it is a critical tool for nonprofits operating in challenging environments. Funding will support enhancing the platform's user experience and extend its capabilities 🌐

Grant #3: BOB Space, for its Builders Residency Program in Thailand. Funding will help launch a new cohort, to be dedicated to identifying weak spots in Bitcoin’s decentralization, and making those into strengths 🌱 📡

Grant #4: YiBao, a non-profit that advocates for democracy and human rights within the Chinese-speaking world. Funding will enable translating key Bitcoin educational materials into Chinese and promoting financial freedom inside the world’s biggest Communist country 🇨🇳

Grant #5: The Bitcoin Innovation Hub, led by Noble Nyangoma in Uganda, offers a range of vocational training and financial literacy to women and men, centered around using and earning Bitcoin. Funding will support the addition of classes such as carpentry, baking, and valuable digital skills.

Grant #6: Bitcoin Dada, founded by Lorraine Marcel, is on a mission to empower African women with Bitcoin knowledge. Funds will support expansion across Africa, the creation of multilingual educational resources, and promote women-led businesses adopting Bitcoin 💪

The grants in this round to both Bitcoin Dada and The Bitcoin Innovation Hub are generously supported by Strike’s nonprofit initiative. Big shout out to Strike and everyone else that makes our work possible! ⚡

Grant #7: The Bitcoin Design Foundation contributes essential user research, aiding Bitcoin wallets and companies in enhancing UX to guarantee Bitcoin's accessibility for all 🎨📲

Grant #8: Bitcoin Optech is a vital resource for the Bitcoin developer community, offering insights into the most important Bitcoin technical conversations. Funds will be allocated towards operational expenses and growth strategies.

Grant #9: Damus, the first #NOSTR client on iOS, is expanding to Android! Funding enables this critical initiative which makes this open source client available to millions of new users in authoritarian countries and the developing world.

Grant #10: Bitcoin Core Developer Pablo Martin's contributions help maintain Bitcoin as a secure digital currency, pivotal for activists and individuals in high-risk environments. HRF is proud to support Pablo! 🛡👨💻

Grant #11: LNbits aims to decentralize custodianship and provides users with a robust suite of Bitcoin tools they can run for themselves. Funding will support the core contributors’ salaries, bounties, and educational outreach efforts through workshops and video tutorials ⚡

Grant #12: The Bitcoin Policy Summit 2024, organized by Bitcoin Policy Institute, is a critical platform for discussing how Bitcoin can play a role in protecting human rights. Funding will support event logistics, speaker travel, and attendance by human rights advocates 🏛🗣

Grant #13: Video series "Bitcoin for Billions" by #Bitcoin educator Paco de la India, is making Bitcoin accessible to millions in India, in a variety of local languages. Funding will be used for research, content creation, translation, and promotion 🎥🇮🇳

Grant #14: Scalar School in Brazil, established by Luciana, is nurturing a new wave of Bitcoin and Lightning developers across South America. The grant will go towards teachers’ salaries, training workshops, and university outreach 🌎🇧🇷

The Bitcoin Development Fund is committed to facilitating $2 million of grants in 2024, aiming to bolster innovative technical, educational, and community-driven Bitcoin initiatives worldwide

Submit your application at hrf.org/bdfapply


Free Assange.


Fight For Truth - Free Julian Assange - Melbourne Laneway https://image.nostr.build/ee26c6180d7e4e654c0f5a3e8f0cd17611bf9b5eb446faf566416ade8fe12558.jpg


Fuck yeah.


https://image.nostr.build/7e3f0e26f6a4592fdf9c25bb71a8c45e829bf67a84f4420aad1951c9a3c1a1d5.jpg

Remember when Buffett called Bitcoin ‘Rat poison squared’? Yeah, we took that as a compliment. See, we wear his disapproval like a badge of honour. It’s our way of telling the world we don’t care what some senile old F*!ck and his friends think about freedom money!

For more info check out
https://ungovernablemisfits.com/shop/rat-poison-hoodie/


gm and pv nostr 🤙 #coffeechain #FreeAssange

https://i.nostr.build/Yj2P.jpg


Argentines are buying #bitcoin instead of US #dollars to fight runaway #inflation

#plebchain #nostrplebs #grownostr #nostriches #nostr #zbdsocial #plebstr #btc #nostrich #inflacion #argentina #milei #news
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/argentina-bitcoin-inflation-rally-dollar-greenback-dollarization-inflation-milei-peso-2024-3


https://image.nostr.build/830e61748c699e41f3bcf5fedef29f0b0c4ac18e9b6b11ad607a5ad7f9ea8fdd.jpg What a time to be alive. "Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need 3 things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually industry transformation into a publicly funded system." Jacobin

https://jacobin.com/2024/02/us-media-journalism-layoffs-policy


Fall of Rome.


FUCK YOU MONEY IS NOT AN AMOUNT.

IT IS A QUALITY OF THE MONEY YOU SAVE COMBINED WITH THE MINDSET YOU HAVE ON LIFE.

THERE ARE PLENTY OF 'RICH' PEOPLE THAT ARE SLAVES. LIFE LIVE WITHOUT PERMISSION.


Welcome to the party pal.


The freedom to question everything.

#Nostr #Bitcoin

https://i.imgur.com/qLpowTz.jpg


When you're more excited about weekday 8sat/vbyte transaction fees than price. https://image.nostr.build/9e076b6b9714c4888d7d68cc15c68f2cc871413eef46f3fb41a7042546579e6d.gif


When I was a junior lawyer at a Big Law firm, my peers and I often used to wonder how the partners could treat us as they did. Sometimes, I’d arrive at the office on Monday, and not leave the building till Thursday, sleeping one or two hours a night on the floor under my desk, or not at all. We had people in our team fainting in the corridors, and falling downstairs from exhaustion, cracking ribs. Once, I worked for 48 hours without a break, and with no sleep at all. I would have done anything, and told anyone whatever they wanted to hear, if they'd just told me I could go to bed.

We used to think the partners couldn’t possibly treat us like this if they thought we were human; and of course, we were right. We were looking at the question entirely the wrong way round. To the partners, we were not human; we were revenue-generating assets with a fixed cost base (our salaries), and we generated that revenue with our time. So the more revenue they got us to generate over time, the better for them. Only once we came to this realisation did it all make sense.

In the same way, we tend to look at journalism the wrong way round. If we are labouring under the misconception that journalism is a search for truth, then articles like this from Jemima Kelly in the Financial Times can be hard to comprehend. But when we realise that journalism is, fundamentally, no longer a search for truth, but for attention, then it becomes much easier to understand. We have also been looking at this question the wrong way round. Jemima is certainly winning attention for the FT ; witness this post. QED!

Jemima does ask “Is it time for the likes of me to admit we were wrong” about #Bitcoin   . Although you can probably guess my answer to this, I actually wanted to address her conclusion, which is that in relation to #Bitcoin, “there is still no there there.”

In her defence, Jemima has, like many of us, grown up in a world where digital scarcity is an oxymoron. Our whole lives, up to the invention of Bitcoin, have been filled with digital abundance, where anything digital can be endlessly replicated without cost. In such a world, it might be forgivable to think that everything digital or intangible behaves in the same way. Most intangible things do – if I send you an email, we both have the same copy, and other copies exist on servers across the internet. If I tell you an idea, we both have the same idea afterwards.

But Bitcoin is not like this.

If I have a Bitcoin, and send it to you, I cannot reverse that transaction, and I lose control of that Bitcoin forever. It cannot be replicated, and it cannot be copied. It is utterly unique, and in sending it, I have lost it.

This is a poor analogy, but Bitcoin can be thought of as an email I can only send once, and a copy of which I cannot retain once sent. It is an idea that vanishes forever from my mind once I tell it to someone else. It is the discovery of digital scarcity in a world of endlessly copiable digital abundance, and we have never seen anything like it before.

If your job, in any sense, involves the pursuit of truth and the exploration of new ideas, then you should seize the chance to explore and understand something like this with both hands. You should not let the chance slip away, or go on repeating the same facile points for more than a decade after the facts have proven you comprehensively and thoroughly wrong.

https://www.ft.com/content/c4fd2c69-c69a-49e4-9e93-d687aa801e87?sharetype=blocked
https://image.nostr.build/7860b8520047d742c387b9a3ab0f517f2c45db8a1efe0245c7c570afe524bcf3.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x664&blurhash=rAMbGYpJH%3Dx%5Eo%7EZ%7EyYMc%25h.TDNyEMws%3Ax%5ER3tnMdDi%25iIAtSf%2BROtSROt8%25NRjofWAj%3Foef%2Bo0bINGaJo%7EWAjFo%23emg4V%3F.9SiV%40ozWVjEX8nhbc&x=b48893738dcb8b98e462ca6881143c8b7ac4cac71195ddbca872dc317dc6f5bc


May have just bought a MADEX or two off the back of this video. Fuck jpegs. https://image.nostr.build/4a8ddf39461b308729cbaf1309c10684ac0f5b6d312c7a6a64670f4549eb078f.jpg


thank you for the offer

https://video.nostr.build/8b227e4a30d2a97ca65eaa9409cee8c62c387fb476ef995dfbf94e1f2b56dde6.mp4


https://twitter.com/SPACEBULL/status/1770213476125790687?t=aaE8PC3iyAo74dlWFH3UDA&s=19
 https://image.nostr.build/c3d84541b52eb10eab070c92702a048725a1303d147e8b786652da559f65320c.jpg


#keepnostrweird collection ✍🔥 #artstr #nostr https://i.nostr.build/0jjzE.png https://i.nostr.build/2RRnR.png https://i.nostr.build/Lee8Q.png https://i.nostr.build/q66JB.png


THERE IS JUST NOW
https://m.primal.net/HmVt.jpg


https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24194006.police-scotland-hate-crime-training-leaked/?ref=rss https://image.nostr.build/2df6182bd3b9bd33c1adcdc9b0e26f9d740eff514b45018291af6262e4770509.jpg


BREAKING. World’s largest pension fund explores diversifying into #Bitcoin

https://cointelegraph.com/news/japan-gpif-state-pension-fund-bitcoin


The mempool cycle
https://m.primal.net/HUXD.jpg


Hey Nostr, we are working on improving the onboarding experience within Primal, and could use your help. Please shill us the best accounts to follow in the following categories:

art
bitcoin
finance
fitness
food
fun & memes
gaming
human rights
music
news
nostr
photography
sports
tech
travel

Also shill us any categories we didn’t cover that already have good content.

Our criteria for suggested accounts to follow: the account needs to be actively posting high signal content on nostr. Our current working list is available below. Please tell us who we missed:

https://listr.lol/npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg


3.125  -  nostr:npub1fnn2h0tgm2mwnl0kar5ez25wztum2w0q0rrrf326n0ljn999znwsqf4xnx x  nostr:npub1e2wk36e9vg8uw40phrrkkhc4tax8a9ken3fjcyy63vmdyz9aee2sk9el27

#Bitcoin #tunestr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELUYV9Gf4Gs

Support '3.125' on  nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg here:
https://wavlake.com/track/ea5bc656-463c-470b-9d75-48c2dfcd4bf2


We've got a lot of new plebs on here, so how about a crash course in  nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg for the newbies?

I thought you'd never ask!

https://zine.wavlake.com/how-to-discover-music-on-wavlake/


Novak is not only the tennis 🐐, but also a freedom advocate who was willing to sacrifice his career to stand up for what is right.

We have a lot to learn from him. Hope to see him on nostr soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgGI0QCqrLU


Great rip nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx today on https://citadeldispatch.com with nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg about #cashu protocol & how #Bitcoin is using #ecash today. Amazing project, out and available to use right now.
Please go to CashuBTC github and contribute however you can, whether you're a developer with coding skills, or just a user giving feedback. Amazing Rip!

Contribute
https://github.com/cashubtc

nostr:naddr1qqjxvce48pnxgdmz95unqcf4956xxcn995un2e3594jnsv338yer2vnrxe3ryq3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxwpta9tv


TY Sers.


Make every Lightning transaction a Cashu transaction.


https://image.nostr.build/5b56f526517542507b6a7fc38a347fb198126ddc36da03c854c1e7f863c02d25.jpg

Found this security spectrum graphic by Francis P interesting. Be good to hear about the perceived pros/cons of Cashu mints vs FEDI.


Hello new folks!

Why are we here and why are we building this? Here is a list of some things of some of the reasons I am building on #nostr instead of other protocols like mastodon, bluesky, etc.

👇 nostr:note1q378dxn83zlcrrkz25jtwnp0jmxc6qzvx8v7fqntfgsdavmn7rys5553zw


Sleep Walk 💤🚶♂

https://v.nostr.build/Aax6j.mp4


Obtainium really helps with updates.


GM


Loving the UTXO Mempool Art by nostr:npub1yp7wfa7msdpusf4vupzttttu2mx3cns7whx5cgkt4yr9pkpvujus2mzys7 What would a Joinmarket nostr:npub1jamj9l9vsrra9m58y6syyjvfcf85wvev7pm3vvwqkr0e8vzdyhsqvhw852 sweep/tumble through all mixdepths look like? Something like this maybe? https://image.nostr.build/45ab6c59de2c19c3b74ac3feda2a07bdcb084e2d047398f086a39438155431eb.jpg


Weak 3x15 CoinJoin, 30 x 50cm, fluorescent acrylic.

https://image.nostr.build/4a2ace94fddca4b67612b21c535a8391602de952198f869dd0ec3fcebdb0b778.jpg


It's beautiful.


nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj what a chad
 https://i.nostr.build/q69jv.jpg


It’s the first #Bitcoin transaction to be sent to the published address of the country of El Salvador.

Wood, 30 x 40 cm. Single piece.

https://kanuto.io/product/1st-el-salvador-transaction

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mempool_wood-art-06.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mempool_wood-art-07.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mempool_wood-art-08.jpg


#Nostr.. 🌆🫂💜
https://v.nostr.build/dwWOO.mp4
#growNostr #sunset


In honor of TikTok muting all our vids and people being bearish at $69k✨🪓 https://video.nostr.build/a1182bc09678c05942fb3952f9eb3bec21de4f10f469967b0bb6827c49c2955e.mp4


It's not merely Emily’s “celebrity” status that has provoked us to reach out to her; Emily is actively searching for a platform/protocol that empowers people to express themselves freely. She seeks genuine freedom, and unfortunately TikTok is all she was able to find. She is now convincing her 2.7 million TickTok followers to stay there while leading her 30 million instagram followers & 1.4 million twitter/x followers to TickTok, because she feels it’s a place with more “freedom”. Let’s save her and her following, let’s bring them to #nostr ✊

She literally told her followers that because Tiktok isn’t “completely” controlled by the US government, “We have been able to see stories and points of views that we would not have access to otherwise. TickTok is being banned because the US government is legitimately scared by the influence it is having on the American People and the general population. WHITCH TO ME INDICATES THAT TICKTOCK IS A VERY POWERFUL TOOL FOR ORGANIZATION, FOR ALTERNATIVE THINKING, AND FOR ACTIVISM.” - https://www.tiktok.com/@emrata/video/7346205391006485803

It's incumbent upon us to guide and support individuals who advocate for a place where authentic freedom of speech reigns. Regardless of fame, gender, or any other factor, if we aspire to shape the future we envision, it’s incumbent upon us to stand by these advocates—they’re just like us, the only difference is that not everyone like us has found #Nostr and or #Bitcoin.

Emily is to promoting TickTok as Freedom, let her promote Nostr, where there is real freedom.

Let’s get together and boost nostr:npub1r8wdfruydenz84fxfespcswuhcvyatx6umtd5xguexup49u500xskf50hn ‘s comment on TickTok under this vid: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTFmfJo/

Emily’s IG:
https://www.instagram.com/emrata

Emily’s Twitter:
https://x.com/emrata

#asknostr #plebchain #EmilyRatajkowski

Thanks nostr:npub1c0mpgcqpvffz4wmd0cmx8dzxtm9fukyz5yugx0n73fzzptlusnfqrns0qs  for bringing all of this to our attention 🙏✊ #grownostr

nostr:npub1hu3hdctm5nkzd8gslnyedfr5ddz3z547jqcl5j88g4fame2jd08qh6h8nh, nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a and any other girls that still have #Instagram, #Twitter / #X, #SnapChat, #TickTok   👯♀✊💜🧡 Emily is all about female empowerment, so let’s help her!

Boys, I know many of you still have X, you can help too! nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 , nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m , @jackmallers , nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m , nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc , nostr:npub1pyp9fqq60689ppds9ec3vghsm7s6s4grfya0y342g2hs3a0y6t0segc0qq , nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev , nostr:npub1ac8qr6chl3ktfnfdjvqd97y5tdgs2eg579tvd0rdfydhgjtdzcdqnr657s , nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y , nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 , nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 , nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx , nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak , nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z , I can’t think of everyone, but I’m talking to all guys with X, IG, SC or TT.

Failing to offer her a path to real freedom is akin to witnessing someone struggle in the ocean while you're aboard a boat with life vests at hand, yet lacking the compassion to extend one. While it's their prerogative whether or not to accept the life vest, we can't idly remain bystanders when someone publicly voices their need for help. nostr:note1gt433d7ft5dyclehxedhkcrtczr8n67x4hpxqfq0jgm3s5xq89qs2ektgz


Here is the Tik Tok video that might of unboarded some new people to Nostr. Welcome them all 🫂
https://v.nostr.build/Rm72A.mp4

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Loving the slow u-turn. https://video.nostr.build/35e66db777048a6d2b4d28e77690befca392772905eb90b1d5d1406b42a9cce7.mp4


alt Secret to happiness is to not argue with fools.


A key observation here is that on Twitter we're seeing a "bunch of people I remember there who haven't changed much." That's probably the biggest reason I'm here rn.
nostr:nevent1qqstknr72gcgmxkdcgnq4mzgn8dvp8xvuxqa3k8fjdzxuwtnplhwk3gpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzpmnw5yatnljuff5w47d35d87q99xddqpzlzsac4xzn6vm22ekmn5qvzqqqqqqymd72xr


There will be signs ... https://image.nostr.build/54e5d23ad47cc1905f688d00ccb879d195b9ddf0a952599820b9cd3b3af27e53.jpg


nostr:npub13fz04jej7nktvtvg24dj926a5ctcmaw6ekp9028eux3pz3csxdrqgd77yu
Cerra un poco los ojos
#negr0art
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our latest vlog was reported by YouTube because it documents the world of betting related to cockfights on the bitcoin island of the philippines.

note that everything is perfectly legal in that country. here is another blatant example of the abuse of power of centralized platforms.

you, who are reading from a decentralized platform, watch it to support us  🙏👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7xrjuZig10&rco=1


Gonna consciously elect to spend less time on Twitter and more on Nostr going forward. The grassroots feeling here is genuinely uplifting. I feel there could be noticeable psychological benefits from it. In retrospect, it was inevitable.

#jacksright


Welcome Jackie.


Day at the races. #21 didn't come home. You gotta live a little though.

https://m.primal.net/HkwG.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HkwD.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HkwC.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HkwF.jpg


SHEEP WILL CONTINUE TO USE TWITTER WHILE LIONS BUILD OUT NOSTR 🫡


Everyone has their own reasons why they are here. Me? I'm sick of feeding the machine with my soul.


JUST IN: 🇿🇦 South Africa will license ~60 #Bitcoin  and crypto platforms by the end of the month, Bloomberg reports.


You are truly one crazy bastard Erik but I kinda love you. Zapped.


Definitely. I show newbs WoS first, then explain the benefits of self custody with Aqua plus HWW >$1K. It's a useful self custody progression.


Some poor bugger from local Meetup just shared he installed a dodgy metamask and his ETH gone bye bye. Tried to get him on the Bitcoin Only, Cold Storage train plenty of times. Sadly, heard similar stories before, still heartbreaking though. Mind boggles how people can think keeping private keys in a browser extension is secure enough.


#foodstr 🥩 prompt https://image.nostr.build/dee62beb2ea9ef9ef80f76bc3bfa71dfabb34230e867deff733b8b36b0060a2a.jpg


I hope so.


This sounds awesome. An open mass gathering of Bitcoiners could be historic. Phenomenal vision Erik. Manifest destiny.


THE BITCOIN MEETUP

Berlin, 7-9 June. The world's longest and largest Bitcoin meetup. Book your stay now and read to the end to sign up and support.
 https://video.nostr.build/07f57be8b7408f14f9a4f04813f677279213ca6c538157c3d23ac691980eaae5.mp4

All free people, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. "Ich bin ein Berliner" was long the proudest boats in the world of freedom.

Today, it is "Ich bin ein Bitcoiner."

We therefore invite all bitcoiners and the bitcurious to come to this city of Berlin and join us in a summer celebration of freedom 7-9 June.

The original Room 77 remains closed until the last block is mined, but Berlin has new bars, restaurants and clubs that accept Bitcoin.

The event will be focused on bonding new and old bitcoiners through socials, activities and experiences. This is NOT a conference, but you are invited to offer seminars and workshops at our venue.

After the event ends, we will organise joint travel from Berlin to Prague, where @BTCprague (code ERIK for discount) kicks off on 13 June.

There will not be a website or regular ticket sales, as we want to keep this event word of mouth. If you didn't hear about it, you probably shouldn't come. So please pass this on to someone who should.

If you or your organisation would like to support or contribute to the event, please reach out by DM. We are open sourcing everything.

To sign up or support, simply send or zap 42k sats or more to kongeriket@getalby.com including your preferred email (must be valid for info) in the note.

If you don't know how to do that, you should probably learn before you decide to come 😉

Welcome to Berlin, plebs.


💥 NEW VIDEO - The Anarchists of Costa Rica's Bitcoin Jungle

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

Full video posted below EXCLUSIVELY 6 hours for early for NOSTR (but I have a small ask of you!)


In the digital age, owning #Bitcoin  is like having a seat at the table of the future. Don't let fear of the unknown hold you back. https://image.nostr.build/8c076fbc36390582f2b79e496fb36839ef8938c03fe522e34949d4e25e86041e.jpg


I will no longer participate in your scam. https://image.nostr.build/9ad935963d23f909f71588765d49351fc3940051964bc4d2f2a14aa036f23813.jpg


The biggest threat to me stacking more sats is my wife. Period.


Best answer.


Try finding this Gaspar Noé movie on ThePirateBay. No chance. https://image.nostr.build/e1ec8bc8041714c9d9461807694771a7673ea59db681d3482b0ce3af83914af4.jpg


Any advice for weaning/going cold turkey off the castrated dead bird dopamine circus? Real feel I'd benefit from this in so many ways.


That's funny man.


It seems like the markets are still in disbelief, even though we have set new ATHs. Euphoria might be right around the corner, or it might wait until $100k, maybe both.

Each week ~6,300 #Bitcoin are mined, last week 56,954 #Bitcoin were accumulated by the ETFs.

This isn’t sustainable at current prices. Current price would have to 9x to balance supply and demand.

The current average weekly acquisition by the #BTC ETFs is 40,000. I’m bullish on this number. https://image.nostr.build/dda44858c8c72f2265a51bbb48af9665ed8fe735ec983923afe37b0b96b3dd33.jpg


“If you’re new here, just start stacking your heart out… get as much #bitcoin as you fucking can. This thing is a runaway freight train & you’re not going to be able to catch it… if people in your life are not showing active disdain, YOU’RE NOT STACKING HARD ENOUGH.” — nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8
#AnotherFuckingBitcoinPodcast #Titcoin https://v.nostr.build/nQGd.mp4


Yo bruv.


TY nostr:npub14tq8m9ggnnn2muytj9tdg0q6f26ef3snpd7ukyhvrxgq33vpnghs8shy62


We're jammin' (Jammin', jammin', jammin'). I wanna jam it with you. nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc https://image.nostr.build/69eb8e7ac9b3c4df0c9d8cc9696726100679d9aba77f48386f6a981093c85a75.jpg


There's a fuck tonne of inscription BS being dumped on the timechain rn. https://image.nostr.build/b9c10a1f68681a9b3a09dcce0a3079526c04843e3b46fddb2f97639193a463dc.jpg


Thinking it’s “too late” for you to get into bitcoin is an illusion of the ego.

Sure you didn’t get in at $6 or even $6,000 and others who did are higher status than you. Put that aside. That’s your ego fucking with you.

This isn’t about pride, it’s just about money.

We are still early in bitcoins story.

$66,000 is still cheap believe it or not.

We have 100x left to go at a minimum.

Your ego is not your amigo, it’s trying to keep you from riches.

Do not listen to it.


Can confirm. Carried our 1yo around for three days straight. Bitcoin builds stronger families.


My early thoughts on the Madeira conference: the growth in the presence of families was absolutely the most tangible difference. We saw wives, dads, babies, and even a couple of dogs! Michael Saylor singled out families as a class of Bitcoin users, and highlighted preserving family businesses and VALUES with Bitcoin. Bitcoin is becoming a family affair.


When you do an onchain transaction, checking mempool fees religiously, broadcast and then realise fees just doubled. Shite.


So early.


Five companies (AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, and META) are hoarding a combined $517B of cash.

A mere 1.67% of that is equivalent to the $8.5B of total net inflows into the #Bitcoin  ETFs, so far.


Paywalled, but German Magazine "Zeit" reporting on Bitcoin Atlantis on Madeira.
https://www.zeit.de/2024/11/madeira-bitcoin-atlantis-kryptowaehrung-konferenz


New video!

I don’t have good enough data to do a #NostrFirst post 😢

Please go check out my latest video a day before @bitcoinatlantis nostr:npub1etgqcj9gc6yaxttuwu9eqgs3ynt2dzaudvwnrssrn2zdt2useaasfj8n6e

💟

Zap and share you legends!

https://youtu.be/PbSu0zMYiTg?si=qhouHP7-0e9TVz5y


Hell yeah MF.


Great seeing you again Joe and awesome set. Such a privilege to be there.


Kinda hard to describe how magical this week has been. Bitcoin Atlantis was everything I'd dreamed of and more. Congratulations to André Loja and the whole team for putting on a stellar conference and thank you for having me and my band be a part of it. Meeting so many awesome bitcoiners and listening to the talks has fortified my conviction of bitcoin changing the world for the better. And in the world of music, that means value for value. It's time to step things up a gear and bring this message to the masses as this technology matures. I'm truly grateful to all the developers building this tech and I will make it my mission to show other artists there is a better way to monetize their work. Open source ideas and value flow, fan to creator, peer to peer. The future is bright 🧡

https://image.nostr.build/a09eac6beba72db54e27f25a9f93ef5adbb9f21e6bf2d6e44b6cc82e8e6642e7.jpg

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Nice rack Vanessa.


The Egyptian Pound has devalued 60% in the last 24 hours
https://m.primal.net/HiWA.jpg


Posted this on my personal Facebook page in Feb 2020

Price ~$9,000

Number of friends who asked me for more info?

Zero 😂 https://image.nostr.build/85e47fead09355de6abca6dea3bbc1c7c0d3485a90c65fb8b8fbf23c380bd952.jpg


Sparrow v1.8.3 released with:

PGP download file verifier
Coldcard Q1 support
Trezor Safe 3 support
Improved QR reading

And more: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.8.3

https://sparrowwallet.com/download/ https://image.nostr.build/dd9ad8e9ad16b81e4b1638d76cad23e7c094d6314e9773605188297a375f524f.png


nostr suddenly feels a lot deeper and a bit broader


Signal Rolls Out Phone Number Privacy and Usernames for Everyone in v7.0

"Phone number privacy and usernames are now rolling out to everyone using Signal version 7.0! Update your app to take advantage of these new features."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/signal-v7-0/


Not sure if I’m ready for the WEF to be shilling Bitcoin this hard https://image.nostr.build/c29c5d776a40fca495122b63477f1fcc671bcb5f00aa166b0430df96ea7d0ceb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d65f7131bd358d36443b67c5f29474d9784ffae5468a051fa9f60a8c3c7a5167.jpg


My talk at #Bitcoin Atlantis and my sincere thanks to everyone in this community.

What a ride!

https://youtu.be/u6rdlkN-r6k?feature=shared


An important question that almost none of bitcoiners are asking.
Instead many want compliance and regulation for Bitcoin...

https://m.primal.net/HiIE.mp4
#bitcoin


In case you do not know, Garry is one of us

nostr:note195rs4qhremdrz73kxg895mds3d069c3yf3tj7gzf83j4hvvunhwqu06236 https://i.nostr.build/6kdO.jpg


Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp are down. #CyberAttack

Nostr OK. https://image.nostr.build/37bd33773cc952b3fe27a1b16ca96054242368340c2aada3b2fbfa154f3d8db7.jpg


Let's go.
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#bitcoin
The UNO.
https://m.primal.net/HhzI.jpg


Just mobile number rn.


Take it daily #Bitcoin #nostr https://image.nostr.build/9c05bcc30dcd8749d64686d60cfec1e47337e4099ec1b13093ef9fa758715c11.jpg