Yes, that’s another great meditation technique for sure, but not the one I’m advocating for in this post. This post is an intermediate exercise for people who can’t get there as easily as you.

Rather, in *this* exercise, the goal is to bring your focus directly onto the thinking process itself, examining it in the moment that it arises. The next step, which I didn’t write (because I didn’t want to write too much this morning), is to draw your attention sharply on onto the thought and then momentarily turn your attention onto the source of the thinking, if you can find one.

Is there a source, or is there just an experience of thinking?  If you think you found a source, isn’t that just  another creation of your thoughts? There’s actually nothing there.

By bringing your focus directly onto thoughts, you watch them unravel into nothing. Metaphorically, thoughts are just the running programs of your body-mind’s operating system.

The idea here is to see, first hand, that the mind is just a functioning organ like any other. The liver makes bile, the body-mind makes thoughts. Acknowledge this, and you don’t need to take them as seriously.  You don’t need to indulge them. They aren’t necessarily real or true. They are just a process and you are experiencing them.


Often people have difficulty meditating because they find themselves “lost in thought.”

First, realize that the very act of noticing that you are lost in thought is literally the first step to coming back to the present moment. Noticing that you are caught up in thinking is not a sign of failure; it’s the opposite.

Second, here’s a strategy you can try: close your eyes, let your body relax into a cloud of sensations, and listen to whatever sounds you hear. You cannot fail to hear them. You simply notice whatever you notice.

The same is true for thoughts.   The simply arise out of nowhere.

Now…attempt to notice your next thought AS SOON AS IT ARISES.  Be alert. Remain vigilant.

Thoughts will generate, that’s out of your control, but you can surf the wave of the ocean of thoughts, riding in front of them, rather than drowning in the turbulent swash after the wave has crashed against the shore.

#Meditate
#MeditationTips


Can confirm


First time I flew into NYC, I saw this view and I *knew* it would be my destiny. The following year, I moved and spent 8 years in MH.
Amazing city.


Checking ‘em off and right and schedule.


Like I was just saying:

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#LowTimePreference


Can confirm.
Be a gentleman.
Therein lives nobility, chivalry, romance, respect, and love.


Google abandons its promise to block third-party cookies in Chrome, leaving billions vulnerable to online surveillance. We need strong privacy legislation to fight back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/google-breaks-promise-block-third-party-cookies
#chrome #privacy


There are some very bad objections to the idea of a strategic bitcoin reserve on the part of the US Federal Government. For example:

1. Bitcoin is bad for the world (false; our best science shows that, on net, bitcoin is good)
2. Bitcoin isn't valuable (false; bitcoin is precious, and useful)
3. Buying or holding bitcoin undermines American values and empowers foreign adversaries (false; bitcoin embodies American values, and a huge chunk of bitcoin is held by Americans)
4. Buying or holding bitcoin weakens the American dollar (this one is complicated, and depends on what it means to 'weaken' the dollar, and how the reserve strategy is actually implemented)
5. People only like the strategic reserve idea because it pumps their bitcoin bags (this one is very psychologically important -- but irrelevant to the merits of the policy as such)

Following are some other objections that strike me as more sensible. What do you think? What are the best replies to these objections? Are there other sensible objections I'm missing?

6. A bitcoin-stockpiling strategy gives the state more incentive to seize bitcoin
7. The state should be neutral between asset classes and assets within them; to hold or buy bitcoin is to pick a winner
8. Massive state holdings confer powers in contentious fork wars that the state shouldn't have (e.g., to massively sell off the more freedom- or privacy-oriented side of a hard fork, and thus move markets in that direction)
9. A sovereign wealth fund should aim at yield-bearing assets to displace taxes or debt, but bitcoin doesn't offer any yield
10. Policy should be neutral about a 'number go up' thesis; but stockpiling bitcoin is pretty plainly a bet on that thesis
11. Impoverished and indebted governments should pay down debts rather than acquire assets


unrivaled


“It’s just a ride.”

~Bill Hicks


#ProofOfHat


It’s funny, except when you realize *she’s* the one who now holds the world record title and is actually a badass with a pistol and a stuffed elephant that belongs to her daughter.

So, the meme breaks down.
But, of course, never let the truth get in the way of a good joke!


Holy hell, I just realized why I couldn’t search his tweets… it’s because I had blocked his account.  Thus, even if I clicked “view tweets” the search function wouldn’t work. I had to unblock him first. LOL.
Whatever, it’s not like I even use that app anymore.


Sometimes you just have to let people go. I agree it sucks to say “I dropped people out of my social life who weren’t providing value…”

A gentler perspective I once heard was, “I invited these people out of my lives, and they didn’t put up any resistance.”


Wow. Just wow. nostr:note1f8spr4a9f2a6dx9tuu4mlks7sq59wdzvfwdy4pstez970yx7rjrq2cyk60


Just threw up in my mouth a little.


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Bill Miller IV mic drop on CNBC

https://twitter.com/sthenc/status/1818326178047897918


If you are practicing free journalism in one of the oppressed countries and have a timeline to prove it, please DM me for a free nostr.build account. We’d like to support you and not limit your uploads of videos and pictures! 🐶🐾🫡☮🕊
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You may be right.

The image got community noted when used in another tweet.  But you know what’s interesting? If you search his tweets for the word “weird” or the word “slur,” nothing comes up.
He’s *never* used either of those words?

Or is it that that NONE of his tweets are searchable anymore??

https://image.nostr.build/9b351605a5fff917c4aa62a8e6eeb09840311e669c860f4d379e8ae13293bf25.jpg


LOL. The “fuck your feelings” people are upset they are being called weird, and daddy Elon has stepped in the punish the meanies.


Elon is all about free speech.

https://image.nostr.build/6ed1774445d9512bf45f84815828b9f1f6e70325e254b8c54900745dcd337614.jpg

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You cannot choose your next thought, or the next thing you’ll pay attention to.

Drop back, and watch it all play out.

#Meditate


Just weird


Do you even decentralize, Bro?


Yuto Horigome

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/japan-defends-gold-americans-eaton-and-huston-win-silver-and-bronze-215916101739


Bro.

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


"You will allow BlackRock to build the panopticon of Tokenized EarthTM with Americans’ retirement money under the dialectic pretext of owning the liberals, unknowingly connecting all aspects of ownership to centralized databases, walled identity gardens, and fractionalized reserve assets transmitted and issued on the private blockchains of Wall Street banks. The warring factions within the Davos socialites squabble over the spoils, but never against the plan." 🔥 🔥 🔥

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tokenized-inc-blackrocks-plan-to-own-the-fractionalized-world-


Errrbody’s a critique


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A short story about centralized social media. https://image.nostr.build/903a01d54806fd977cc17e6ccb8975e68656ffe8183e2d5e411201dbbf5e5b3f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e82bab1dcc315e5b11ea43423a95d82613b489329ff01d67cbfd5b9687420f3c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/dfd1aa39c8a00936d367544c791ae9d168f2127d0a74ad3387e0bdbd855ada4c.jpg


I don’t give a shit about either party either way; I don’t ascribe to any specific political and especially religious ideology in terms of left or right or center or upside down and sideways.

The only thing that I pledge to move towards and fight for in my life is Liberty FOR ALL. That is what I grew up in the United States of America, knowing that we had the privilege of that special kind of freedom that my grandfather, and a long line of men in my family before him, fought and died for.

I will always intuitively lean towards the party or candidate that IMHO will sustain the most amount of Liberty for ALL the people.

I’ll be honest with you; that candidate that most espouses American tradition and values and Freedom SURE AS FUCK IS NOT Trump and maga.


Sun Dog, aka Solar Halo.

Ice crystals suspended high up in the atmosphere.


ANNOUNCEMENT: The University of Wyoming has established the UW Bitcoin Research Institute. uwyo.edu/bitcoin

The BRI aims to produce high-quality peer-reviewed publications about bitcoin from all academic disciplines.

First act: hiring nostr:npub1yezu4atsdgchvlyjz5efwks8n7ze2rssq674qe04m5pp8e5y32tqfdawc7!

Much academic bitcoin research is quite poor, because it's done by people who don't understand bitcoin.

Mora et al predicted "bitcoin alone could push emissions 2 degrees".

They failed to account for the difficulty adjustment *and* didn't know there was a block size cap!

Others like Taleb’s infamous "Bitcoin Black Paper" are unaware of Layer 2s like Lightning, and others are unaware of the supply cap -- perhaps bitcoin's most distinctive feature. Others make faulty assumptions about bitcoin user demographics.

These mistakes make their way into journalism, and policy. Bitcoin is multi-faceted in theory, and even more so in practice. Journalists can't be experts, so they rely on academics. Too many of those academics have let them down.

The good news is that there is good academic research on bitcoin. Work by Will Luther, nostr:npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn , nostr:npub12lzwey2hjc2ce0stwa3ldhg04h93wj263lvdhrf87qfzz9jsggeqwuntw2 , nostr:npub10afr060h0g3vf2ykynr6cvw2u7ta3tzpgjczfyufp420aeeen0xszf0xj0 , Matthew Ferranti, nostr:npub1ws69pst0kcaqa9cgm85l3xzkqrfuphldu5dv6r5cp8tjjzfyv82s5vxzeg and others understands and explains bitcoin very well.

But for academics interested in bitcoin, the incentives often don't line up. Few advisors will let their advisees focus on bitcoin, so bitcoin projects must be side projects. And without advisor or community support, these projects are rarely taken on.

The Bitcoin Research Institute fixes the incentives. We provide a community who can support scholars and give critical feedback on their projects, and we provide funds for travel and lodging.

We're removing barriers for scholars who want to work on bitcoin.

More academic work on bitcoin should be done by people who understand bitcoin. The BRI aims to produce that work, which will filter up to journalists and policymakers.

The University of Wyoming is the perfect place for this, with Sen Lummis, nostr:npub1uyz4w2w4rcphk0q5arzkutrecgscxwzajj4dkvh9mjyqjtxslm6qea8632 , State Sen Rothfuss, Law School Dean Julie Hill, Steve Lupien, bitcoin miners using all kinds of energy like nostr:npub1k7tcreyu0w970fxsht8ccw54az2yh27agf4x2s92crwam9mw9cws558edl , a School of Energy Resources, School of Environment and Natural Resources...

The UW Bitcoin Research Institute is a 501c(3) nonprofit. Because of nostr:npub1uyz4w2w4rcphk0q5arzkutrecgscxwzajj4dkvh9mjyqjtxslm6qea8632 , the University -- and by extension the BRI -- can accept bitcoin directly. And UW allocates 4% of our investments to bitcoin, so if you donate bitcoin to the BRI, we will NOT sell it.

If you're a scholar and you want to be involved, my DMs are open!

If you're a journalist and you want to learn more, my DMs are open!

If you want to support our work, you can do so here: https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/49172/donations/new


2013
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=306952.0

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Bitcoin doesn't need governments to win. It doesn't need governments to stack it. It doesn't need to ask for help.

Instead, the bar is much lower. Bitcoiners, in their preferred jurisdiction, would benefit by not being hassled by their government. They'd like to be able to buy it without problems. They'd like to be able to pay for energy and equipment and mine it in peace. They'd like be able to write open source code without facing legal problems. They'd like to be able to operate reputable businesses related to it. If they can't, then some of them will move as necessary.

It's helpful for the ecosystem to have non-hostile jurisdictions in the world. And for those that can't move without great sacrifice (i.e. most people), it's helpful for them that whatever jurisdiction they are in, is non-hostile.

So it's good that bitcoin is getting into the Overton window. The industry has some power now. Bitcoin benefits from builders and educators and advocates. It benefits from those who do their best to prevent the worst legislative outcomes against self-custody, against privacy, against running a business, against mining, etc.

But Bitcoin doesn't need to pander to them to proactively support us, and bitcoiners should recognize the sliminess of politician incentives when they come to pander to us. While it's in their best interest to build national reserves if they actually figure this thing out, we don't need them to build reserves.

I think that's the helpful line. That's where the signal is. To the extent that we minimize how much we are tread on, and build multi-national accepting footholds to pivot around, we gradually build what we want to exist.

We ask to be treated fairly, we use our resources to help ensure that we are, and to the extent that we are not then we adjust as necessary.


Nashville crowd is different group of people than 2019’s event in SF.


“Some”


😭😂
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What proof do you have?

I mean, look at, like, all the businesses he’s, um, run.


Fixed it for ya:

https://pfp.nostr.build/fe8adb6a3c5e2de87136dccce10ce3a19bec3771b8cb5dd927703500cee67093.jpg


Privacy tech


nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu again, sliding little lies into what was otherwise a great presentation today.

“Bitcoin is helping places where no one is willing to help, where no one is able to reach like North Korea and Gaza.”

Bro, what??

The US sends *hundreds of millions of dollars* of aid into Gaza, and so do other countries.  Why don’t you examine how much of it gets intercepted by Hamas militants before reaching civilians?

Or maybe that’s your point?

Are you comparing Kim Jong Un to Yahya Sinwar or Ismail Haniyeh?   These leaders are ruling over their populations, denying them food and human rights.  You know this. I don’t understand why you don’t explicitly say so.


To feel affection for people even when they make mistakes is uniquely human. You can do it, if you simply recognize: that they're human too, that they act out of ignorance, against their will, and that you'll both be dead before long. And, above all, that they haven't really hurt you. They haven't diminished your ability to choose.

– Marcus Aurelius

Gm


The current version of Keychat uses a seed phrase instead of nsec. This has caused a lot of controversy, with many people believing that Keychat does not understand the spirit of Nostr: having a single Nostr ID that is universally used across all Nostr apps.

In fact, the first version of Keychat used nsec. Later, we intentionally switched to seed phrases. Why?

Just like when we use Bitcoin wallets, we now more often use seed phrases rather than private keys. Using a seed phrase is an improvement in user experience. Moreover, NIP-6 defines the basic key derivation from mnemonic seed phrases. A single seed phrase can derive countless Nostr IDs.

Using a single Nostr ID across various Nostr apps focused on public notes is reasonable because users are sending public messages, and they can better accumulate reputation.

However, for Nostr apps focused on private notes, users should use multiple IDs to achieve better privacy. For example, you could use ID1 for close friends and ID2 for work colleagues. Current chat applications provided by internet giants do not encourage users to use multiple IDs simultaneously because multiple IDs affect data mining, reducing the accuracy of user profiling and, consequently, advertising revenue. In this context, using only one ID is a bug, not a feature.

If you use your Damus ID to chat with others on a Nostr app that focuses on private messaging, do you want all those people to see the public notes you have posted?

A seed phrase that is universally applicable to all Nostr apps allows users to choose which ID to use in a particular app, with the ID generated from the seed phrase. This is far better than using a single Nostr ID across all Nostr apps.

Don't forget, there are not only Nostr apps focused on public notes but also those focused on private notes.

A reasonable chat app allows users to use multiple IDs simultaneously, whereas a microblogging app’s DM often has only one ID. This is just one of the differences between the two. When we say, "Designing a DM for a microblogging app is not the same as designing a chat app," we are not playing with words; we are not that bored.


Way to change the subject, Alex. I was calling you out on your lie that they aren’t receiving any support. That’s simply not true.

Regardless, if you want to talk about weapons, why don’t you talk about who is providing them to Hamas?


nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu on stage now in Nashville, “No one is helping the Palestinians.”

You know this isn’t true.

How much money does UNRWA receive annually, Alex?  The United States, alone, gives hundreds of millions of dollars every year.


focus on bitcoin OR cry about shitcoins.

🤙🏽


This explains a lot


There are so many awesome nostr apps already, and it's gonna get better still. https://www.nostrapps.com/


In the U.S., Bitcoin needs a broad and diverse coalition of support before proposing something like a Bitcoin Strategic reserve.

Otherwise it runs the risk of being seen as a “silly right wing stunt” by media, elected officials, and normal everyday people.

I fear that’s what’s happening this week. I think it’s too soon, and we have more work to do to build a broad diverse coalition.

I think some bitcoiners have given up on that, pretending “they tried.” Some actually have tried and are still trying. Doubling down on a super polarizing political figure and some fringe support for certain bitcoin policies (like the Bitcoin reserve) will be viewed the same as the End the Fed bill. A dud, stunt, side show.

Will this send a message to get people thinking more? Maybe, best case. Worse case it remains a partisan, divided, side-show issue rather than a neutral, nonpartisan, smart investment in technology, our future, energy, and beyond.

Pursue nonpartisan rhetoric, meetings, education, and good faith conversation. Don’t lead with feelings, emotion, and anger with impatience. This is a long game we’re playing!


Make Bitcoin Nonpartisan Again


THIS IS A BIG ONE FAM.

SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH THEIR TEAM DURING DEVELOPMENT. PRIORITIES ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACES. FOCUSED AND DELIBERATE.

https://proton.me/blog/proton-wallet-launch


Imagine you had to verify your social media profiles in order to get a bank account. This is what the world's biggest banks are proposing in order to combat the complete ineffectiveness of their own AML programs as found in a statement by the AML/CFT consortium Wolfsberg Group.

Full story: https://www.therage.co/banks-aml-inefficient-access-to-social-media/


Fortunately, the EU attempts at “chat control” failed.

By nostr:npub1q40jtk09x6mdmmlw09qracctqpgsr9zl2hcc7wzf8vuwasqsncwsxgaa27

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/now-eu-council-should-finally-understand-no-one-wants-chat-control


Going Dark: The war on #encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.

By @Mullvad VPN

https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/going-dark


Our study can be downloaded at nakamotoproject.org.


This post belongs here

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Buen dia
https://m.primal.net/JaSu.mov


I watched Idiocracy.

This really isn’t too far off.


With those prices, it seems like adding ₿ to the treasury was… a recent decision?


Relatable


Interesting audio analysis. (I do not know the source):

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Make Hester Pierce the SEC Chair.


A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.


#bitcoin

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Kamala Harris can take the wind out of Donald Trump’s sails, endorse common sense bitcoin/crypto policy with help from Ro Khanna

Make Bitcoin nonpartisan again! 🇺🇸


Surely, the HRF recognizes that Gazans are not living under a free and liberal democracy, right?  Where is the condemnation against the Hamas government?

This is how Hamas treats Gazans who dissent:

https://twitter.com/amjadt25/status/1814960782209077463


Anyway, I’m going to go read a book about Kilgore Trout.


Vonnegut. BOC.


Right, but can’t you see that’s precisely the point I’m making with the second question?


USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

The postal service took action to ‘remediate’ the issue following a TechCrunch investigation

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/18/usps-shared-customer-postal-addresses-with-meta-linkedin-and-snap/


Nice. Switzerland will now require government agencies to use open source software.

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland


Perhaps they should reconsider voting Hamas into power.  🤔

But… would Hamas even allow free & fair elections at this point?

#TheProblemWithGazaIsHamas


Link?


What’s old is new again, with an ecash twist. Love to see it. nostr:note1gw2ncw72frrt0s8ukzneust682y9z3kguat7kje2j8wjsfq5jruq430s8e


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LOL

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good summary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yDm6xNeYas


Similar incident and description at Schwab:

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Something like that


GM https://image.nostr.build/cb32d90fab1fbd6a1926527df79a9458b21b6b914b1465a23e33b37b2db8a3a5.jpg


#JamieDimon

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I don’t fully understand it, and yet, it feels like a big deal. nostr:note12vy8lmphxyfd7np7t503k8fzs3em2h6szfwad0fkgr6prjkjuhxsddyprj


I already quoted Richie Torres. Pasting again here for you convenience.

“There is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, brought on by a wretched war that Hamas began, but there is nothing remotely resembling genocide.

The only party in the conflict with genocidal intent is Hamas.”


Sure, *some* parts of it were. Some parts of Mumbai, Mexico City, or Accra could easily be deemed “unlivable” as well.

At the same time, *before* the war, I’d seen videos on Instagram from happy Gazans who were shopping in malls, eating in restaurants, and some even showing off their nice homes.  Perhaps you didn’t see that when you visited there?

Even now, are you familiar with Chef Hamada? He built a reputation as “a passionate food blogger, sharing cafes and restaurants in Gaza and highlighting the rich culinary heritage of the region.”

https://www.instagram.com/p/CvpH3XjAley/

Look at his earlier posts.  Is this what “unlivable” looks like?


US Government Agreed to Release Samourai's TDev on Bail

Hill's defense requests that he be released to his home in Lisbon, Portugal, pending trial, while the US Government wants him extradited to the United States.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/us-government-agreed-to-release-tdev-on-bail/


Over 1.2 billion pounds of food have been delivered to Gaza, flatly contradicting the false narrative of genocide.

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“Over 1.2 billion pounds of food have been delivered to Gaza, flatly contradicting the false narrative of genocide.

There is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, brought on by a wretched war that Hamas began, but there is nothing remotely resembling genocide.

The only party in the conflict with genocidal intent is Hamas, which seeks to annihilate every Jew in Israel until the Jewish State itself is annihilated.”

~Richie Torres

https://image.nostr.build/e19da4f8631321e2c70c21ccf4cdde9c736f60fdcd29cba051f1bcd621b0db5c.jpg


And you ship a good product, too!


Co-authored a piece in Newsweek urging Dems to pivot on bitcoin. We also plug “censorship-resistant publishing protocols” and link to a story on Nostr.

https://www.newsweek.com/bitcoin-can-protect-freedom-help-win-elections-opinion-1925491


Loving Craig’s website right now.

And it stays like this for 3 months.

https://craigwright.net/
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"In the event of a repressive Trump regime, you will wish you had money that resists censorship—money that an authoritarian cannot control. You will wish you had bitcoin".

https://www.newsweek.com/bitcoin-can-protect-freedom-help-win-elections-opinion-1925491


Excellent work from nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g at nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j

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Trump's most enthusiastic critics predict political repression if he wins. If they're right, the thing to do now is to prepare. That means mastering freedom technologies that protect civil liberties: bitcoin, encrypted messaging, and censorship-resistant publication protocols.

We have an op-ed coming out tomorrow with Newsweek that argues this point, among others. Stay tuned, and be prepared to share it widely!


Very plainly, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, reduced the confirmed number down 50% from what the Hamas-run Government Media Office (GMO) had previously reported.

When I said, “Hamas revised its numbers down by half,” THIS IS WHAT I AM REFERRING TO.


Hamas is quoted in the WSJ that they rely on the media for  some of their numbers, while the media also relies on Hamas for the numbers.

“Yet in a series of lengthy reports, the ministry admits that the figures the media treat as authoritative rely in part on reporting from . . . the media.“ https://www.wsj.com/articles/hamass-numbers-games-civilian-death-counts-casualty-data-b99140eb

It’s simply circular.

But, since you seem to be completely stuck on my statement that “Hamas revised its numbers down by half,” let’s look at what the UN said.

The UN says it is now relying on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, rather than from the Hamas-run Government Media Office (GMO).

This is based on missing information and dubious reporting.

"It's not logically impossible... but it really strains credibility," says Prof Michael Spagat, who specialises in examining death tolls in conflicts around the world.


GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO FAIL & TAKE RISKS


Notable that #Project2025, #Trump's playbook which he has called "our plan" wants to send you to prison for watching porn among other rollbacks of your rights. They also want to have checkpoints between states to stop women from seeking abortions. If they want to ban porn and shred the first amendment, how safe are people who develop technology which challenges the state? Learn more at defeatproject2025.org. https://njump.me/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqyzk32zdtpasv7rvpucc79h7t8thqqlms307wpy9l5rydlhxrm2mqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qg4waehxw309a3kzunvdaej6cmyvgh8gmms9uqzqqpmtegk30t9hlhza8r2f9lwer78rxgwas05prnuhc2a8lfy7tlalfsl8m


I mean, did you thoroughly read the article you just linked? It proves MY point about duplicate entries.
“The data provided to AP was imperfect in other ways. Among those people fully identified, some were listed twice by the ministry.“ Over 500 people in March, alone.

Okay, let’s try it another way. If I provide a number to the media and then later say that 50% of those records are, well, incomplete, you’re saying that’s not the same as revising the number down by half. You saying it’s okay to provide incomplete data because of the fog of war.

That’s NOT how fatality reporting works.

I’ve already shown you the implausibility of their figures,  the impossibility of arriving at accurate numbers so quickly, and at least one actual example of a number (500 in a hospital) that was blamed on Israel, which was revised down (to 100-300), and later found to be the responsibility of Hamas’ own rockets hitting it’s own armaments depot in the parking lot of said hospital.  And yet you continue to swallow their numbers as gospel?

I shudder to imagine the double standards that would be applied to Israel if they claimed a higher number of casualties and then said their records were “incomplete” when examined.
To wit, Hamas sympathizers deny the *actual* atrocities committed on 10/7 (murders, rapes, beheadings, and immolations) even as they were live streaming and celebrating them.

This whole this is just so twisted.


I have a question  👋

We are now being told that the bullet whizzed by his ear, missing it by “one or two inches,” which is contrary to him releasing a statement yesterday that his ear was “pierced.”

Can someone with firearms experience or medical expertise tell me whether a bulltet that DOES NOT graze or actually make contact would cause the skin break and bleed?  For example, is it true that the shock wave from a bullet fired 150 meters away can cause skin to rupture as it passes by?


I’m not changing the argument.  I’m enhancing it for you. You think you have me in some gotcha because I made a claim that I can’t back up. I’m explaining what I mean by “Hamas revised their numbers down by half” by showing HOW they admitted half their data is incomplete, often using duplicate entries, and WHY they have motivation to do so including providing one incident where they inflated the numbers by far more than half — an incident it later turned out was perpetrated by Hamas’ own fighters which they blamed on Israel.  You know it took Israel MONTHS to confirm the number of dead from 10/7?  Hamas frequently  claims hundreds of people died within minutes/hours?

If you can’t see this, I don’t know what to tell you.


Polynesians sailed to South America and back hundreds of years before the Europeans crossed the Atlantic. They traded, intermarried, and left without genocide or colonization.

https://www.science.org/content/article/polynesians-steering-stars-met-native-americans-long-europeans-arrived


Built different


Dehumanization is the first step towards mass violence


As an actuary, you must look at details, right?  The analysts who reviewed the Hamas Health ministry “complete” numbers found that the same exact names were used dozens of times sometimes for males, sometimes for females. Further, again, the numbers place NO distinctions between combatants and civilians.

Let’s say, for the sake of morbid argument, it’s 50%.  If so, that’s a 1:1 ratio of combatant to innocent ratio. Maybe if Hamas wasn’t intentionally fighting among its own civilian population, operating in (and firing rockets from) schools, hospitals, and refugee camps, that number might be different. Interesting, no?

And yet, that would still be a civilian death rate far lower than the armed conflicts and wars in Korea, Persian Gulf, or Iraq which were 74%, 88%, and 67%, respectively.

Thus, is it your position that ALL 38,000 of the reported dead are noncombatants?
If not, what percentage would YOU ascribe?

I’ll wait.


From your bio, you appear to be proficient examining data. Let’s back up a second.

If I provide you a set of data, and you have reason to believe I’m motivated to provide inflated numbers and, further, I HAVE provided demonstrably incorrect numbers in the past (see link provided above re: Al Ahli Arab Hospital parking lot and screenshot below in case you can’t read carefully), why would you wholeheartedly accept a new set when I, later, admit to a revision of it as being “incomplete” for almost 50% of the numbers provided? https://image.nostr.build/4b6221b1ec90f94c1a61f1b6867995eebcdd7c04cb51f66e973724ad0d07b467.jpg


Screenshot from the article: https://image.nostr.build/437562fa92b13dcbb0de5771e5017436610258126f7c7a2566020b2fe0bb099b.jpg


Yes, they do.
The links provided in those articles even lead you to Hamas Media’s Telegram for direct sourcing!

See also:
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/06/03/how-the-un-got-away-with-wildly-inflating-the-casualty-numbers-in-gaza-and-the-media-bought-it/


“Didn’t happen?”
Start here:
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/04/09/hamas-run-gaza-health-ministry-admits-to-flaws-in-casualty-data/

Then see here:
https://www.cfr.org/blog/un-halves-its-estimate-women-and-children-killed-gaza

It’s gotten so bad that, two weeks ago, the US Congress voted to prohibit the State Dept. from relying on the Hamas Health Ministry as the primary source for counting fatalities.

The numbers are simply not accurate.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable

Or consider the following, from a 30-year veteran of the United States Navy and of the U.S. intelligence community who says that to even call the numbers “unreliable” is to given them too much credit: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/the_folly_of_basing_american_gaza_policy_on_false_hamas_reported_casualties.html


https://twitter.com/coladoggxxx/status/1812285847921910241

The secret service snipers appear to be aiming at the gunman, waiting for him to shoot first?


If this man’s eye-witness report is true, it seems like a a pretty big failure of the Secret Service, given, um, history.

Something still doesn’t feel right about all this, and I’m waiting for more information.

Is that tin foil hat?

https://twitter.com/sharpfootball/status/1812265909727396107


Okay, but I’m not denying bombs or starvation.

I’m asking for data that separate Hamas combatants from innocent civilians to substantiate the numbers being reported and revised.  I won’t ask to to speak on behalf of the HRF unless you want to, but is it your position that all Hamas’ numbers can be relied upon, especially given that they just revised their own numbers down by 50%?  I guess you don’t trust their numbers if you are, instead, saying that the numbers are far higher?

You can see my confusion here, right?


His own official statement says it, “pierced the upper part of my right ear.”

Does anyone have a photo actually showing a piece of ear missing?

I would sincerely appreciate having my suspicions proven wrong.


I’m not one, but would definitely like to hear from a real one.


I’m happy to be proven wrong, but will reserve my suspicions until we learn how this rifle made it through security and was fired from the crowd. Also would like to hear from a ballistics expert about why the ear appears completely intact, if it was grazed.

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Based on what though, Alex?

I would like to see data that separate combatants from civilians, but Hamas explicitly does not make that distinction.
Further, the numbers they did provided (later corrected) were enumerated in steady weekly increases regardless of IDF actions during each interval. There is obvious human suffering, but these sloppy calculations *from* Hamas are clearly suspect.


That’s interesting because I heard multiple shots.  Was anyone else injured?
How did the gun get passed event security? nostr:note1uz3q7xs024trw68lemz705u36qp9axkme0vwu9f2qcde2xh6s5sq4hmtu0


Probably all fake wwe blood pack no worries


Look at his ear. It’s clearly intact.

Let’s wait to find out about the shooter. How many shots were heard?  No one else was injured?  What firearm has been recovered?  Did the shooter attempt to use a handgun from that distance *in the crowd*?  Or was it a rifle, again *in the crowd*? How was it passed in through security?


LOL.  You and I are on exactly the same page today:

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Got it. So “target” in front of the word abortion means ban it. But that same word in front of contraception *directly after it in the same sentence* is… ambiguous?  Get real.


Ain’t no way they would allow him him expose that much skin after a real assassination attempt.
How could they know the shooter was already down?
How could they know there weren’t multiple shooters?


WWE performance theater.


Yup.  I just thought the same thing.  It’s all a show.

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LOL.
What do you think “target” means?


Are you sure?  Ear appears fine.  Looks more like a blood pack to me. Used all the time in the WWE.

https://image.nostr.build/d82c191e45fa3c8797bdf45165bca3eb4b2e8091aa589ed409bcd295bc515aee.jpg


Clearly, you are not good at reading:

https://image.nostr.build/6b5762fe8275ce9d88ac9b2b5923100054e756beeb70122aa1df7958e7b2d4a8.jpg


He’s distancing himself from the leaders/members of Project 2025, many of whom he has know directly and continuously for years. It’s not surprise since he says a lot of things that aren’t true. That’s evident at this point.

Let’s set “Trans sports” aside.

Are you saying that banning contraception is a “moderate” position?


HFSP https://video.nostr.build/45cae3c440db3e3f0bf8be7a802320f660a12ee94abbd7e923afabb1c2740278.mp4


Okay, so based on what the article says, can you properly explain why you think the Heritage Foundation is “not affiliated with Trump in anyway”?


Did you read the article?
Yes or no.


What’s there to lol about? Unless, do you think the Heritage Foundation is simply “Center Right”?

Did you read the article, or are you just shitposting based on the headline?


While some high time preference people are cheering for Trump to pump their bags, People Magazine is out here doing actual journalism about what a second term will look like.

For anyone who doesn’t subscribe to Christian Nationalism, it’s bleak:

https://people.com/what-is-project-2025-inside-far-right-plan-trump-presidency-8622964

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Okay, hold on. It’s certainly not great when a someone is cut off from using a service/tool they rely on, and points to the necessity of decentralized communication options.

It is also POSSIBLE that these people WERE violating Microsoft’s TOS in a variety of ways.  But, more importantly, do we even know how many people have been allegedly cut off? How many people has the BBC interviewed for this story?  I read the article  (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cger582weplo) and it doesn’t even say how many people are affected!  It could be 3 people making an accusation for all we know, and the BBC is running with it because it’ll get engagement.

To jump with both feet into accusing (((them))) of working in the background to pressure the corporation is simply conspiratorial, brain worm bullshit.  Don’t do it.

Also note, from this article, “The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 38,000 people have been killed in the war.” Why are they still publishing that number when Hamas, itself, has revised that number  down by 50% last month?

You guys, seriously.  The tragedy of this conflict is already bad enough without spreading lies and making shit up.


THE MONEY IS IN THE NOSTR!

👉 Create a new npub AND DOING NOTHING ELSE, no WoS, no nostr-wallet-connect pairing,... NOTHING

☑ receive zaps
☑ send zaps
☑ and most importantly ACCESS MY WALLET FROM ANY CLIENT ON ANY DEVICE

these zaps are verifiable, way faster -- they are immediate (since the sending of the ecash is the zap, instead of waiting for a LN node to, maybe, publish a zap receipt)

Just like our contact lists follows us around, just like our profile data and our shitposts pops up in any nostr application, now so does our sats.

the money is in the nostr!

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


Curious about this new BIP 353/Human Readable Names thing but don’t have a wallet that supports it yet? Want to see if you set it up right?

Head over to https://satsto.me/ to resolve them to legacy addresses!

It’s not just BOLT12, either, any reusable bitcoin addresses can go in there (but preferably ones that don’t cause on-chain address reuse)!


Homosexuality is older than the bible,the guy writing it had to know about
such a thing before complaining about it.
	-gloryworks, Jun 2016


Painting of Vincent Van Gogh becoming alive. "Cafe terrace at Night".
#painting #vangogh
https://video.nostr.build/24f08811e652e97426a6e3417bd090c4cd7a6ae8efc352f1dae4a1c066316d6b.mp4


Masterpiece 😂
https://m.primal.net/JLom.mp4


It’s hard to calculate how much I fucking love Nostr-version-Lyn.

Normal-version-Lyn is also quite awesome, too.


https://image.nostr.build/ca62043061e64a9567c70c8da77a434a6958c56a9a43f03b6d24594074c3cc3a.jpg  nostr:note1pr8agz62040ruw42xcgs4gdzurm3ly3l2k4fwrq8rpww45465nyq0wfq89


My kingdom for a type of popcorn that does not get stuck in one’s teeth and gums.


In everyday life, people hate to be the exception. They want to fit in.

And yet, legends are told about the exceptions. Legends are born from the extraordinary.

Men who led extraordinary military campaigns. Men who were born poor but built a dynasty. Women who fulfilled a man’s role out of necessity and became an outlier success. Men who created timeless art but were likely gay at a time when it was not allowed.

The woke view tries to pull everything up or down to the average, regardless of merit.

The fascistic view tries to suppress the exceptions and keep them down, while propping up those who haven’t earned it but who support the leader.

The truly based view, however, invites everyone up toward excellence. Especially the exceptions.


GM Nostr ☕

ICMYI - Don't forget to uninstall Signal desktop and remove related 'encrypted' data until they fix this gaping hole in their security architecture. Pretty embarrassing.

https://x.com/mysk_co/status/1809287118235070662


Delete Facebook


Did you know that “normal” social media is so hopelessly toxic that companies like Meta outsource their content moderation to contractors because of the intense psychological damage it inflicts on them? There are buildings around the world full of people who are subjected to the worst humanity has to offer every single day in order to sanitize the feed enough for your aunt to post pictures of her cat and for Friskies to advertise to her.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona


YOU ARE NOT ME AND I AM NOT YOU

BUT YOU AND I ARE THE SAME THING


Few understand this.


Are you attending a builder’s collective currently, or are you just living somewhere that has a work hard / play hard lifestyle?


Good morning. Today is a good day. The US Government has agreed to release TDev on bail according to a letter filed on July 3rd.

TDev's defense makes incredibly smart arguments, stating that the US Government's prosecution is as "aggressive as it is expansive, akin to charging Apple for  cybercrimes commited with MacBooks. And like such a charge, it impermissibly uses criminal law to affect policy change. He is facing  charges he can, should, and will contest at trial."

Putting the charges in context, the defense states that "to stop Bitcoin wallet providers from providing privacy and security services, or to  force them to police their customers as banks must, the government has not sought to change the law, or even FinCEN’s guidance on it."

The letter states that the US Government "has prosecuted individuals operating a service they had every reason to  believe was legal, and stretched to decorate the charges with  decontextualized quotes that attempt to sketch out their agreement to  criminal transactions the government does not allege they knew about in  advance or explicitly agreed to".

Full article:
https://www.therage.co/william-hill-release-on-bail/


BofA is truly one of the most miserable financial institutions. I pity anyone who works there, and anyone who uses their services.


Pain is inevitable. Suffering is a choice.


Hidden messages on circuit boards, known as „silkscreen Easter eggs," are intentional inscriptions or images concealed within the printed circuit board's silkscreen layer.

Engineers and designers sometimes incorporate these elements for personal or team recognition, offering a unique touch to the hardware. https://image.nostr.build/3ada6648c83985fe669b31fe110534b36334471f15cfa3b834a8fb7c234044d1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/84b1b9b1ad98a9c1d67332a97949cf046e99e0b77875cd38f0d91d44cf69507c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/33dd5f2b0f03c492ed47135c3e966eb1c48de7eac3438f4344fa624e447551d9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2661282de52e1dbaa08d3f3b1914196f4920ca8d2180f6b3434f1eb7017d17ef.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ee700ebb6adf1aa068593d0ecb436f87fd228913ad4eaddfd67c560248c0995c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/39a040703ed6a6d8b434bcc72738b5912a48a951a1f9212469d08fd7f0a06f0d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d503e22223727de0b34a7a60446090c9c54908951051c782238b6eb728d2ee40.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4097cd28235d6d5a427fa4e3711375003aafe1a59829e93992607f35d11925f5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f85191c190e8deb42e1985d0ca737580f87b027232cf64de487f4569d9496e2a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2b6c93054bad68a46a5281fc4e9ed702c3cefbd0eea6659f6a138deaea2cd00a.jpg


🚨 Banger alert 🚨 https://image.nostr.build/8d4c804da399fa3f3304803fbcfc07febea725a58cac4411d229a99d01209330.jpg


An academic philosopher who shall remain nameless — someone who has no connection to bitcoin, or philosophy of money, or any of that stuff, really — read our book and had this to say. Wow! https://image.nostr.build/97245025832a277e2e1653546bf42dd8e056a3e80c581433e0af89549a79fc77.jpg


I embrace the entertainment value, sure… but beyond that, it doesn’t alter anything.

Routine DCA, regardless.


4th of July price drop, just continues dropping.


👀
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resonates:
https://twitter.com/realdansadan/status/1808299429180686587%E2%80%AC


The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
-Glenn Gould
https://m.primal.net/JHTp.mov


Wow.  Who the F is “Bob”?


Can Bitcoin help end wars and bring world peace?

This investigation into the petrodollar system is the best evidence I've seen for why this might be the case

Read this conclusion, at least, and start to think about what the world would look like if the reserve currency and currency needed to buy oil wasn't owned by one country but rather was an open, neutral, decentralized currency

This would be good for the world and, critically, good for America as we would focus our incredible potential and resources on progress instead of blowing people up

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

https://capitalaspower.com/2024/06/noble-follow-the-money-the-political-economy-of-petrodollar-accumulation-and-recycling/


HRF is a proud supporter of free and open source Nostr development and we are happy to be here!


First active: 12/17/2022, 09:30:34 AM nostr:note1u5z930kyhzxkw7duse96q9j0z5f52n0zhvmhxswe8jj0demmmjhsvfm5gp


First active: 12/17/2022, 09:30:34 AM


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Someone just sent me this as a DM

Beautiful! And true. The others will find their way ✌

“I use Primal as a #bitcoin wallet for my 10-year-old son. He’s too young to sign up for Strike (or any KYC platform). He’s too young to open a bank account. He’s not interested in paper money. He wants digital money so he can buy game stuff online. I pay him his allowance in bitcoin to his Primal account. He doesn’t have to send me an invoice, I just zap him $50 or whatever. Then if he wants to spend on a game, he can request a purchase through the apple App Store, i get a notification first from apple, then i get a notification from Strike saying that he zapped me $5 to cover the cost of the purchase. It’s perfect for someone his age. I couldn’t do this with cash app, PayPal, a credit card, a bank account. NOSTR + Bitcoin is the future. Some of us are living here now. The others will find their way.”


Gm. Trust the process.
https://m.primal.net/JDVJ.mov


This is the unsolicited life advice I needed, from the man I needed to give it, in the manner provided.


Stay progressive. Don’t let these lunatics make that mean something else.


any app that integrates the gify keyboard is required to let them harvest data from your app, including search history, clicks, scrolls, etc. https://i.nostr.build/BRWvn.jpg


If you are using the following relays, beware that many clients will not connect, upload or download data from them. Amethyst Push Notifications will also not connect to them.

- wss://relay.orangepill.dev certificate has expired
- wss://ca.relayable.org certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.btcmp.com certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.delo.software certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.drss.io Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames: Host: nostr.drss.io. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:nostr.io, DNS:www.nostr.io
- wss://nostr.libreleaf.com certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.mikedilger.com Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames: Host: nostr.mikedilger.com. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:chorus.mikedilger.com
- wss://nostr.onsats.org Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames: Host: nostr.onsats.org. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:onsats.org
- wss://nostr.openordex.org certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.orangepill.dev certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.plebchain.org certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.unknown.place self-signed certificate
- wss://nostr.walletofsatoshi.com certificate has expired
- wss://nostr.zaprite.io Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames: Host: nostr.zaprite.io. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:examplewalk.com, DNS:www.examplewalk.com
- wss://nostr.zebedee.cloud Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames: Host: nostr.zebedee.cloud. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:names-hub.com, DNS:www.names-hub.com
- wss://private.red.gn.net certificate has expired
- wss://relay.nostr.ro certificate has expired
- wss://relay.orangepill.dev certificate has expired
- wss://relayable.org certificate has expired


What an incredible compilation. Thank you.


Julian Assange in 2014 on Bitcoin.

Incredible.

H/t nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu
https://m.primal.net/Ixbu.mov


#FreeRoss


Spam account, pretending to be Jack Dorsey


This is nonsense


On Saturday I took a lady for skydive.. As we’re walking out to the plane i was doing a short interview and asking why she wanted to go skydiving.

She replied “I’m celebrating my freedom”.

She went on to explain to me that she had been in a Chinese prison for over 3 years and was only released 8 months ago.

She is a news reporter/journalist and was working in China at the time, but is an Australian citizen and lived in Australia the majority of her life.

She explained she was detained by the Chinese government after the Australian government wanted to formally investigate into the origins of covid and the potential of it originating from China.

Presumably the Chinese government didn’t like that idea, so they responded by gathering this lady, an Australian citizen, and tossing her into a jail cell as some kind of retaliation. She referred to it as hostage diplomacy, which is a WILD term and an insane strategy.

She remained in a cell for the following 3 years and 2months where she was only able to leave ONCE A MONTH to engage with the Embassy.

Her name is Cheng Lei.

It was an honour to take Cheng Lei for her first skydive - she absolutely loved it.

It’s impossible to not see the universe at work with meetings of this kind.
I will onboard her to bitcoin and nostr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Lei_(journalist) https://image.nostr.build/941fdd0f72e1ea490fd338e533faaca1717c0b608af9a57ace27e06bc7927197.jpg


*not to scale


1 year later:

BTC: $61,000 (+103%)
GOLD: $2,325 (+16.25%)
SILVER: $29.5 (+18%)
OIL: $81 (+1.25%) nostr:note1pkdu6f4zeryfywys8x48kd8m7luw9stvnhjf7567zpar02lzspsqqcdcwa


Can confirm.


Just published another Passport tutorial. This one covers how to create a 2-of-3 vault in BlueWallet, using 2x nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j Passports and 1x nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl

QR based signers plus a simple mobile app makes multisig very approachable. Setup, receive, send and backups in 12 minutes.

Enjoy!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ndS_B8myXPs


CCC calls for ban on biometric surveillance in public spaces.

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/bdsg-biometrie-verbot


no words.
https://m.primal.net/IuVn.jpg


Some people have grown cynical with democracy (and various types of representative government broadly, e.g. including constitutional democratic republics that enshrine certain rights to protect liberty against the masses), viewing this method as promoting short-term leadership with bad incentives.

I have a different take.

Prior to the printing press and then the telegraph and radio, running a democratic society over long distances wasn’t even feasible. The concept of having people democratically participate in their government relies on people being relatively connected information-wise so that they can use their access to information to know what’s happening and to then select between different options, which you couldn’t do across the entirety of a country before people were literate and election materials or other publications could be mass produced. In the pre-press age of handwritten books, making written documents was expensive, and so literacy was a niche skill.

So, that era was ruled by kings and queens, council oligopolies, and so forth. Representative government, to the extent that it existed, only applied to small city states where people could literally gather in a town square, or to “elites” in a capital. There was literally no way to run an election over very broad distances on a regular basis. The printing press helped change that, and then the telegraph, radio, and other tech further reinforced it.

But ironically, as I discuss in Broken Money, those technologies also started to break our money. The printing press and telegraph allowed the transaction layer (the movement of IOUs between individuals and entities) to grow exponentially more efficient both domestically and globally, while our settlement layer (gold) remained basically unchanged. This broadening gap between fast transactions and slow settlements was increasingly bridged with centralization and credit, and the gap eventually became so wide that every nation dropped the settlement layer of gold almost entirely, except as a reserve asset.

So the same technologies that enabled widespread representative government also enabled the proliferation of softer money. Prior to these technologies, broad democracy wasn’t possible. And after these technologies, sound money was too slow to keep up. Oof.

But over a long enough timeframe, our technology became good enough that we finally figured out how to do fast settlements as well. Bitcoin. People can send value to each other quickly over long distances, in ways that no central entity can prevent or reverse, and with a unit that no central entity can debase. The first sound money of the Information Age.

If Bitcoin is successful over the coming decades and becomes a much larger and less volatile money, than it is now, fully entrenched in society, then that would be the first era where technology is at such a state where broad democracy and fast sound money can coexist. Or put more universally, it will be the first era where information spreads quickly without breaking the money, and thus both fast information and good money could coexist.

I, for one, would be curious to see how that develops.


🎊 Introducing Envoy 1.7! - Buy Bitcoin directly into self-custody with a few taps!

Today we release the biggest update yet, and mark a new chapter for our Bitcoin mobile wallet Envoy.

Including:
 ➡ Buy Bitcoin
 ➡ Redeem Vouchers
 ➡ Discover p2p exchanges & ATMs

For a detailed look at all the exciting updates in this release, explore the full release notes here:
https://foundation.xyz/2024/06/envoy-version-1-7-0-is-now-live/

If you haven't experienced Bitcoin, Simplified yet. Download Enovy here today.
https://foundation.xyz/envoy/
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RESISTANCE MONEY.
https://m.primal.net/IrTY.jpg


VeniceAI is good. Solid UX like ChatGPT, improved privacy. https://venice.ai. I’m going to use it instead of ChatGPT from now on. I also use other self-hosted AI tools and things like nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 AI Studio. https://i.nostr.build/POQ7r.jpg


It’s a long climb back to profitability.  But we’ll get there.


Sparrow Multisig Tutorial is now live. Enjoy 🧡

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zaJS1TVGDeQ


Consider this: nostr:note1t957x8vmk90wsssnsvcyjc6tcwslkdetr8nhllu0m4lp67nw6d6scycpwf


#DeathBeforeDecaf


You dropped this 👑


nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc https://image.nostr.build/2d06a2fde6bc1eca07dfdbb06c03451c9093672e6d28decbb2e5c89132a7a2de.jpg


What cashless really means:
https://m.primal.net/IoxK.png


Deep gratitude for all your participation and effort, Daniel.


📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.

Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/112/633/659/313/566/843/original/0269937372fbc99f.png


Lyn Alden

🧠🧠🧠

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tip638-gold-w-lyn-alden/id928933489?i=1000659135353


Simple actions you can take to help prevent a bad law from being passed:
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo #ChatControl


The EU's latest mass-surveillance initiative Going Dark is taking aim at the Lightning Network, 'mixers' and self-custody in its latest encryption report, but still lacks fundamental data to back up its claims that more surveillance does equal more security.

The EU's apparent regulatory strategy of "we'll just say things and hope no one notices" now seems to continue to manifest in its evaluation of financial privacy services.

https://www.therage.co/eus-going-dark-takes-aim-at-self-custody-mixers-and-the-lightning-network/

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


“Liquidity providers, atomic bridges, and ecash mints. A novel financial network all sharing the same settlement layer.

Nostr’s arrival provides the social abstraction that ties it all together. A social network based on similar principles as Bitcoin, it provides a simple set of rules engineered to maximize interoperability. By avoiding being prescriptive about the functions it enables, Nostr is unleashing a Cambrian explosion of open innovation.”

via nostr:npub16fhh3ev4gytmt3jn3gkkez9z99kxtspcwupen4cxn2tcym4sd22surn62p

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/the-emerging-bitcoin-modular-ecosystem


Please, no more Bitcoin merch with a giant orange ₿. We look ridiculous walking around with that. We have the best designed electronic cash protocol in history but the worst merch imaginable.


Corporate wants you to find the differences between OpenAI and NSA
https://m.primal.net/IkaA.jpg


#Meditation may be the most important thing I’ve ever done for myself, by myself.

Different techniques produce different results.  Some can bring calm to an emotional circumstance.  Some can bring insight into the nature of consciousness, and free will (or lack thereof).

It’s astonishing.

It costs nothing and is available to anyone willing to sit still.


“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”


Clearly, whoever is advising him on Bitcoin doesn’t understand that decentralization (including across jurisdictions) is meaningfully important.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-wants-all-remaining-bitcoin-be-made-us-2024-06-12/


Karma is a b


Beauty


New nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j docs site is live. Proud of this one 🧡

docs.foundation.xyz

https://image.nostr.build/e0a18089e6e562c9f45509bf7cf31a6b28be66fe635ee041492fd032b680dc75.jpg


The Progressive Left should start accumulating Bitcoin NOW, in preparation for an authoritarian-right presidency.

Few understand this.


After 20 years of forever wars, growing social decline and exacerbating economic demise, it seems that we are still immune to learning that politicians lie.

Most politicians run from responsibility like a fat kid from a diet plan, and electing an overweight billionaire won’t lessen the White House’s appetite for cake.

Voting for Trump may temporarily muffle the echo haunting that empty space between your ears as you convince yourself to at least have done _something_ to fulfill your imaginary patriotic duties, but it can’t change the moral corruption inherent to US politics – and it sure won’t change anything for Bitcoin.

When your morals can be bought, you are not a patriot – you are a sell out.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/orange-man-good-selling-out-on-the-campaign-trail-

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


Not for nothing, but I don’t want to see all the remaining #bitcoin be “MADE IN THE USA!!!”

Literally the last thing we need is more centralization of mining. It needs to be spread across time zones and national borders for a reason.


Studies have shown side effects include addiction.


Every bitcoiner excited about trump is just following the trail of candy into a trap.


GM Nostr ☕

This fight is bigger than just them. Please consider donating with whatever you can.

FREE SAMOURAI 🧡

https://x.com/FOUNDATIONdvcs/status/1800166090351301057


We've arguably never had a chart that tells such an important story about Bitcoin mining and emissions.

This new chart, the result of 12 months research from the Digital Assets Research Institute (DARI) says: “Over 4 years, Bitcoin price and hashrate quadrupled, but emissions didn't grow", effectively ending the speculation that Bitcoin emissions will rise unsustainably in the future as the network expands.

www.batcoinz.com/p/issue-013-5-pretty-pictures-that https://image.nostr.build/2126cdc69b404f8b98a4091dd820d182cc1564e7bd3af8bcbda7f10a54fb8400.png


There’s one guy batmaning on a guy planking. That one gets high marks.
Same with the group of guys in the kitchen. The fridge guy gets it. Good form!


I’ve been out of grad school for decades and I still sometimes have nightmares about not being prepared for classes/exams.

It’s part of life, but you can always do a reality check. Ask yourself whether you *are* letting anyone down.  If dreams are a window into your subconscious, bring them into view. You can either use this fear as motivation to be more supportive of the people you love, or you can recognize that it’s simply a fear that has no current basis in reality.  An irrational fear is something you can safely ignore.

❤


Consider that airlines originally only made money off the ticket price in exchange for transportation.
Then came extra fees for baggage, seat assignment, priority boarding, etc.
Now, they are selling your eyeballs to the highest bidder based on information they have collected & purchased about you.


Today’s Wall Street Journal.
Consider what this means about how data brokers collect and sell your information. https://image.nostr.build/f5a668823b2c4f4eb90a6725b7637cd77ebdd9eb90de81d30e6d9e7fbf0afe30.jpg


Yup. And all Google products’ TOS have been like this for at least a decade.


This is true self-sovereignty.

Learn to #meditate.


What sort of coordinated activity is currently happening (for the last 8hrs or so) such that the mempool is completely filled up with consolidations? nostr:npub15c88nc8d44gsp4658dnfu5fahswzzu8gaxm5lkuwjud068swdqfspxssvx


Facing a government-mandated click-through agreement before you can engage in basic internet use sounds like a dystopian novel. But it's an actual proposal before the EU Council. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/eu-council-presidents-last-ditch-effort-mass-scanning-must-be-rejected


#DeathBeforeDecaf


Robinhood agrees to buy Bitstamp crypto exchange for $200mn

https://www.ft.com/content/c427bdfa-61a9-449a-a9ae-b2749b6db8de


Cull and curate


Here’s to the Freedom Fighters.

Remembering the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989, and all those who daily fight for freedom, human rights, and democracy around the world and advocate for freedom tech, like #Bitcoin ✊

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliviaenos/2024/06/04/remembering-tiananmen-35-years-later/?sh=2dd2e99b6e7f


I don’t know who needs to hear this, but JAMES ALTUCHER is a fucking scammer.

This is financial advice.


D’oh!

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/03/nyse-technical-issue-impacting-some-stock-prices-incorrectly-showing-berkshire-hathaway-down-99percent.html


Ah, I see you found my magnum opus.


On the bright side, they’re only inconvenient on days that end in “Y”.


When I was younger, I could do NYC to Bangalore with barely a day of recovery.

Have you tried getting younger?

🤪


TELEGRAM IS SPYWARE.

DELETE IT.


I feel seen.


The amount of lost time and productivity due to dealing with income taxes nationwide is insanely high.

The number of accountants, lawyers, and auditors that work full time on it, plus the percent of time that small business owners and individual taxpayers have to dedicate to it each year, costs an uncountable total number of lost hours per year. And just as bad, it requires a ubiquitous massive surveillance apparatus on all sorts of income to enforce itself.

No taxes are enjoyable, but income taxes are really the most counter-productive and onerous ones. Taxes on properties, imports, and retail sales have so much of a lighter touch to track and collect than income taxes.


Daily reminder that financial institutions surveil our every move to *checks notes* confiscate 1.1% of criminal proceeds

https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/criminal_asset_recovery_in_the_eu_web_version.pdf

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I miss the days of Let’s Talk Bitcoin (later called Speaking of Bitcoin).


TRUMP CONVICTION

- Manhattan jury found him guilty on all 34 charges in hush-money case

- Prosecutors accused him of falsifying business records and conspiracy to undermine integrity of 2016 election

- First president in US history to be convicted of a felony

- Sentencing set for the 11th of July


Ana de Armas is the bees knees


Theism is a fantasy for children and adults with childish minds.
Organized religion is a pablum for cowards unable to face natural truth.


Announcing: Harbor, an ecash desktop wallet for better bitcoin privacy.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/harbor/

Privacy for the common person is a value worth fighting for. When we see a lack of freedom tools, we must build them into existence. They don't appear on their own.

Much has been said about privacy at the Bitcoin protocol level. For now, we build it on higher layers where we can be more nimble.

Ecash is a tool available today that combines with Bitcoin to bring new levels of common privacy. Cashu and Fedimint are two existing implementations we're interested in.

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

Harbor Privacy: All communication runs over Tor. Mutiny is not in the middle of any connections or transactions. Funds in the wallet get a Privacy Score to show how the mints provide privacy over time. More to come on this in the future.

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

Harbor Multi-mint: Instead of relying on a single mint with your funds, spread the risk over dozens or more. Harbor manages this for you, showing you a single balance while connecting with mints for you. A mint can go offline with minimal impact on you.

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

Harbor Automation: Running as a desktop app unlocks ability to do long running processes in the background. Move money in and out of mints on your preferred schedule to maximize your desired level of privacy. Harbor makes suggestions, but you are in control.

Move money in and out of Harbor using Lightning or on-chain. We love Bitcoin, and we love privacy. We hope Harbor gives everyday people more privacy and peace of mind.


Hear me out: what if you turned your phone off every once in a while 😳


I recently learned that legislation has been drafted on Capitol Hill to classify *not re-using Bitcoin addresses* as "mixing"

There are also efforts to force "unhosted wallet providers" to collect user info for taxes

As well as to give power to Treasury to sanction any address (even Americans)

And a whole lot more bad stuff

IMO Coin Center does vital work to fight this and to protect privacy tech

They are a compact team and do a lot with the resources they have

They sue the OFAC and Treasury

They consider the Bank Secrecy Act unconstitutional and act accordingly

I just spent some time with their leadership team, asking questions, and came away impressed, I would strongly suggest a donation today

coincenter.org


I'm not trying to make you guys wrap yourself in tinfoil— almost nobody needs to be as paranoid as I am, and even I am tremendously lazy about opsec these days. The key is *awareness*: to simply be cognizant of what kind of records you're generating as you go about your life, so you can make informed, reasoned judgments about how much of it you can leave hanging out, and what parts of it you'd rather pay an effort-tax to shield from appearing in somebody's (or everybody's) database.


nostr:npub1gvlgps2077uwzmshnn8vxh64sv7l0h26tgrr6gc30d9srdhew9cqxcnhgv reminds me of Tumblr accounts I used to follow circa 2010, and I’m grateful to see it someone still using the Internet that way.

Well done.


GN https://image.nostr.build/dab12a389e16149ac4b12ab2b95fb5ffd5d46ae420ea9218fd38f70bb4bcf7fa.jpg


GM https://image.nostr.build/0205bd4a4b54c5b74c74877111043742d5f8aa3ac6942ee009263e5d535bde1d.jpg


We should stop making fun of Google's AI for occasional inaccuracies. In general it's been a highly reliable source of quality information ever since it was invented in 1953 by the astronaut Keanu Reeves in Tokyo, Belgium.


oh, je vois, c'est à ce moment-là que tu penses que les impôts ont commencé ?  Tu es un mec bizarre.  Au revoir.


Praising Nazis.


MDR.  Quel âge as-tu, exactement ?


pas mal ton histoire mec.  Qui paie les ponts, les installations sanitaires, les ondes radio, le contrôle du trafic aérien et tout le reste dans The Commons ?  Peut-être ne vous souciez-vous pas de la sécurité des consommateurs ou des biens sociaux ?  Ou peut-être ignorez-vous simplement comment le gouvernement est censé fonctionner pour le bénéfice des citoyens ?


Religious institutions just pay taxes. https://image.nostr.build/5613999e6cd2164962451edb0ed19c3319513551758f21270b98e74c4badbd66.jpg


Since we seem to be suffering from early onset dementia

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


In my view, the IRS *should* have treated it like a digital currency. That would have been fairer for miners.

But since but the CFTC (and now the SEC) both say it’s a commodity. The IRS should do the same so there’s agreement and consistency.

And the IRS should remove the double taxation that miners pay: currently once at the time Sats are mined, and then again when exchanged for fiat. That’s crazy. You don’t tax a gold miner for every scoop of earth they excavate, and then again when they sell the refined metal at market prices.


The delete button is one of the greatest lies by every big tech company. None of your data is ever deleted by any of them, they just flag it as deleted in their database so that it doesn't show up on client applications.


I’ve been thinking a lot about it.

I know nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m thinks about this sort of thing, and hope he will adjust his language.


Yes, obviously. But according to GAAP, durable property (e.g. PP&E) is depreciated/amortized over its useful life, as prescribed by U.S. tax code. nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m's description  of #bitcoin as “digital property in cyberspace” is a reference to real property and an eager regulator is going to interpret it, accordingly.

Better to use words (and analogies) carefully. Commodities are not taxed or depreciated during holding periods — though they sometimes do erode.  Additional bookkeeping (and thus taxation) only happens when they are bought, sold, leveraged, or exchanged. That’s what we want for Bitcoin.


Nice job.  Yes, I was going to ask you whether you had RTL installed.
🧡


Peter, please ask nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m  why he continues to repeat that Bitcoin is “digital property.”
This is problematic because, as he surely knows, property is taxed annually.

Bitcoin is a digital COMMODITY.


Ignoring expert consensus, feeling no shame following exposés showing tech lobbyists shaping these EU surveillance proposals, EU politicians are at it again

So, we'll reiterate: Signal would rather leave the EU market than subject our users to mass gov surveillance. FULL STOP

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/internes-protokoll-belgien-will-nutzer-verpflichten-chatkontrolle-zuzustimmen/

https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/112/495/921/158/967/226/original/8b0d0983f03a5849.png


I appreciate how fair they tried to be with Terrence’s perspective.
“Beautiful nonsense” is exactly what it sounded like to me.


Nailed it.


SilentPayments.xyz: What Are Silent Payments, Bounties & More

"I've built out a website with all of that info and more to do what I can to speed up Silent Payments adoption," announced  nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/silentpayments-xyz/


Another Bitcoin company pulling out of the USA isn't good. Land of the free, except finances.
nostr:nevent1qqsy0plu8h855vuzy8mj0tpy45x0fhrdg0gwu49nk509tt6pwne67kqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygp88eugp5ud8xnlkguwlnuf27smtvn7sxgj02zg86t4g94q4y8c6gpsgqqqqqqsp7zp6d


Umbrel is nice, but updates can crash the whole damn thing.
Never had a problem with nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll #start9


Hey, #Bitcoiner.
You think you’re self-sovereign, independent, and in control?

How long can you sit in silence, without reaching for your phone, without making plans, without thinking, with being dragged by a worry or memory, or a fantasy?

Do you know what your next thought will be? Do you know when it will come?

It may be uncomfortable to realize but, what control do you really have?  Is your mood dependent on circumstance?
To be truly self-sovereign, learn to #meditate.

#Meditation #Bitcoin


YES https://image.nostr.build/97f067bc1915a2e6483f462bc45dc93bd65daf094d92466cbf5709327d943880.jpg


Yes, and I would say that again.

Join us.

#Bitcoin
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Most people spend their lives lost in thought. An endless stream of thinking: judgments, fears, dislikes, desires, approvals, memories, worries, stories.

With #meditation, you train yourself to see when this is happening, perhaps even *as* this is happening.

You realize you are lost in thought, and you watch it unravel.

Where does the thought go?
From where did it come?
Is there anyone *doing* thinking, or is it just happening?

Consciousness is the silent, open space in which thoughts come and go. It’s there before, during, and after the thought.

Ego is simply a creation of the mind.


A legal defense fund for non-custodial tools. Very cool:
https://p2prights.org/


Shredded


GM America, would you like some LOLz with your morning brew? ☕

 https://image.nostr.build/305be739aa14313c069e8169b5cc1214aa1e6a4f5ee81577d3f385da80eb77ce.jpg


All aboard!


Inflation destroys the individual.
https://m.primal.net/IIBy.jpg


Few.  But Nipsey Hustle knew.

Now, evidently TI does too.


You are not the chooser of your thoughts.
You do not create them.
They come and go on their own.
They are not “you.”
Rather, they are part of a process you are able to observe, sometimes, if you are paying attention.

Pay attention.
#meditation


Who radicalized you 👧?

The FU*#I!G ice cream guy!!! 😅

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


Do not underestimate the power of the nym.

Keep it safe, Uncle. ✊


"Open-source devs building non-custodial tools can be held responsible for criminal activity when crim. actors cannot be stopped or deanonymized"

https://x.com/L0laL33tz/status/1790385855556698448


Same. It was awesome.


LOL. The new Vanguard CEO, who is the first to be hired from outside the company, is Samil Ramji!!

He’s the guy who launched BlackRock’s $IBIT.

Let’s see if Vanguard remains anti-bitcoin. Doubtful.


Be mindful traveling to Sydney. Bring a decoy phone.

https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/14/australian-man-says-border-force-made-him-hand-over-phone-passcode-by-threatening-to-keep-device-indefinitely


+1 for streaming music just like a podcast recording. Would totally support deep house DJs by streaming Sats for a good set.


Tor Browser 13.0.15 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. It includes important security updates to Firefox. 🔽📰 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-13015/


Dutch prosectors in Alexey Pertsev's trial consider deploying open source code actionable if it subsequently is used to commit crimes, despite the developers' inability to control its use after release.

https://image.nostr.build/48d71074fb53ba908ae54a2b3a615f35039df4befe8af9d2d5b22c3a460c64c1.jpg

https://www.wired.com/story/tornado-cash-money-laundering-case-crypto-privacy/


Find someone who loves you as much as Roger loves lying.


This is not okay. nostr:note1n8zxgp0p0kfk9uqjxcqc9gaeu6ugzs8p0j6xu3s8qr5yh5v6flpqhwr49y


✨ Announcing the release of Cashu.me – a Cashu wallet for the web! ✨

Cashu.me is a Chaumian Ecash wallet for Bitcoin built as a progressive web app (PWA). Today, we're excited to announce its first release and would like to thank all developers and users who have helped to build and improve this wallet. Cashu.me is free and open-source software released under the MIT license.

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

To get started, open Cashu.me in your browser and install it to add it to your home screen. We recommend to use your device's native browser for the best experience. Beware that Ecash is a bearer asset which means that if you delete your browser data or lose access to your device without a proper backup (see below), you will lose your funds. Use this wallet only for small spending amounts.

New Features

Countless new features for this release give you the best possible Ecash experience. We're bringing this ancient crypto technology back into the 21st century and present you a modern interpretation of the original cypherpunk vision - built on Bitcoin.

At a glance

- Modern UI
- Support for Bitcoin and USD
- Seed phrase backups
- Animated QR codes
- Intelligent coin selection
- Send Ecash offline
- Receive Ecash offline
- Lock Ecash with P2PK
- Discover mints via Nostr
- Swap Ecash between mints
- Remote control with NWC

https://m.primal.net/IFMh.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IFMi.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IFMj.jpg

Read the full release notes here: https://gist.github.com/callebtc/67da3f586ef273df80bf679e464bc3f3

You can host the wallet on your own server. Find the images on Dockerhub or build it yourself with the GitHub repository
https://github.com/cashubtc/cashu.me


I, for one, loved your 500 page book.

The best book on money I have ever read. (Taking the top spot over Graeber’s Debt.) https://image.nostr.build/0596a7f1cbcdce289d73df9b832a01138c09aab164aeea5dc3be34c7033b9a15.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b49fdde2d45cc867be3ddccd81a57e00987d94fafabf0734c90fdd47c5b477d0.jpg


Lush Bunny
3 hr set:

https://on.soundcloud.com/9S1K2FjFzXBoi5Pa9


You don’t know it, but you’re working for Facebook. For free. In 2023 Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/Threads made >$130 billion off of sharing your private information, pictures, and videos for advertising purposes. Given that greater than 80% of Americans use Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/Threads they have a monopoly on user data and should be broken up by the FTC.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/22/you-dont-know-it-but-youre-working-for-facebook-for-free/


✨ Everything you need for secure, approachable self-custody in one box ✨

🔐 Passport
💾 8GB industrial-grade microSD card
🔌 USB-C to USB-C cable
📱 Micro-SD to Android & iPhone adapters
📜 "Getting started" guide
🔑 Essential seed phrase & backup card
🎉 Foundation stickers
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Self-custody is a beautiful thing. 🤩

nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j Passports are available at PubKey for $199 in #bitcoin or dirty fiat.

Either way, there’s no KYC required.
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Have a great Sunday
https://video.nostr.build/971c3acd4d7108835b428b0909185720c9fa508fc2ab757e0acdb8197d2f0208.mp4
#birds #amazing #love #nature #respect #wild #life #songs #animals


Time is a flat circle.
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Both taxes and money-printing redistribute capital, but the difference is that money-printing does it less transparently.

With money-printing, the effect works behind the scenes in ways that are harder to quantify. That's why when a government can't find a solution between hard spending choices, they print money. It's the easier method.

People know their personal tax rate, they will riot if their taxes are too high, and they know exactly who is responsible for tax levels.

But inflation is a more complex beast. It comes with a lag, for starters, since it takes time for printed money to work its way through the system. And when it comes, propaganda built on grains of truth is effective at making it unclear to people who is responsible. "It's the greedy corporations that are responsible for raising prices, not the fact that we increased the money supply 40% over the past two years!"

And so money-printing effects people not directly based on their income, their need, or other things, but based on their level of awareness of what's happening. It rewards people who are aware of it, and are borrowing the devalued currency, owning scarcer assets, and denominating contracts in harder currency. It harms people who are not aware of it, who are earning wages in and keeping their savings in cash or bonds. Many of them are led to believe that CPI is the target to beat, which is a false low target. The real target is the money supply growth rate.

And capital gains taxes, if the cost basis is unadjusted for the rate of money supply growth, further recoup some of that value from the various harder assets that aware people try to protect themselves with.

A lot of MMT advocates act as though they found some grand formula. But really what they have re-identified is nothing new: it's that the less transparent that government spending is, the bigger it can be before people will complain. People will complain about taxes right away, but currency debasement is the sneakier method for which the consequences come with a lag. So it sidesteps hard decisions this year, and leads to bigger issues a year or two from now, when someone else can be blamed and the whole ordeal can be obfuscated.

And it's not new, despite how some MMT advocates would spin it. Currency debasement has been occurring since the adoption of coinage. And even MMT-scale currency debasement has been occurring since World War I. It is turned to so frequently because its lack of transparency allows it to occur at times and magnitudes when more transparent taxes would not.

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Check it:
https://twitter.com/childrenlife2/status/1668931880891338752


The photo of the young lady doing her lipstick in the reflection of a riot shield?

That’s from Georgia. As in Tbilisi.

And she’s protesting Russia.


Do not run from your thoughts.
Do not try to chase after them, either.

Instead, simply sit there and see what happens. Pay attention.

What happens when the current thought unravels and disappears? Where does it go? Can you predict your next thought? Where does it come from?  Is there a thinker, thinking?  Or are there just thoughts spontaneously appearing in consciousness?

#meditation
(Thanks for the inspiration nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc) https://image.nostr.build/7e956c77928ea051289ff8037370d2fcd182a452fba2a2969c7d4c68639afa53.jpg


we're dca'ing bitcoin https://block.xyz/documents/bitcoin-blueprint.pdf


Oops.  Looks like you were already aware. LOL.

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Hey Jeff, while this man in the clip is clearly a buffoon, this clip is lifted from the documentary, Finding the Money, which is a completely  bullshit-propaganda movie by Stephanie Kelton, highlighting the nonsensical “advantages” of Modern Monetary Theory.


GM https://image.nostr.build/4d88ccb69ff513e8d2775621c86a815874ddfb8e61827ff731a4831bdb3c30a0.jpg


I don't like the term "FUD", meaning "fear uncertainty and doubt".

Or more broadly, I think it's over-used. When people criticize something, a common response is "that's just FUD".

But, you *should* feel fear, uncertainty, and doubt sometimes about any given thing. That's healthy. That's what makes you not in a cult. And addressing that fear, uncertainty, and doubt in an honest way, and constructing a sense of probabilities from that, is what builds conviction to move forward and invest time or money into that thing.


Same. I hit 0 in January.
Congratulations.


Democracy is a sham when you don’t get to vote on the things that actually matter.

Global Entry also quietly switched to automatic facial recognition in the last year or so without any discussion or pushback.

You’ll have a facial recognition surveillance state and you will be happy.
https://m.primal.net/IBdq.mov


Stratum Fact No. 6:

If you just installed SV2 firmware on your device (your ASIC) and *nothing* else, Braiins estimates a ~35% efficiency gain compared to the SV1 firmware that the manufacturer initially puts on the device (OEM)!

Miners that switch their firmware to SV2 are rewareded with smaller SV2 message sizes and added security.

Source: page 16 of this doc  https://docsend.com/view/szk48syby33q28zq


Stop scrolling for the next 90 seconds.

Just close your eyes and listen to your surroundings.

Notice how the sounds come and go. You are not in control of what consciousness receives. You cannot prevent your ear drum from picking up the sound. You cannot extend the sound for longer than it occurs. It just comes and goes.

You cannot *stop* listening, but you are not *doing* listening, either.

You are simply the condition in which all of these sounds appear.

The same is true for your thoughts and emotions.

#meditate


nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u made Forbes. Bravo ser, very well said 💜🤙💯

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/04/26/doj-arrests-over-cash-like-privacy-concerns-and-fbi-wallet-alert/


This was from nostr:npub1c9j346tpd7rnwwaqptcdjlwydyp9vnslc8jmd3qgxwpaj85r2p4sera4vf. You know, nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle’s mom.
https://image.nostr.build/669a1060dbd51943773713cd8c2d5e77797a2143d51ddf3e244e622f7b732a39.jpg


I want to be left alone: https://image.nostr.build/dbbc2762842c61472ae40a5de452d887c35cc490cef8c49219c77c0d87b17245.jpg


Meanwhile, on Twitter, things seem to be going well: https://image.nostr.build/d096466e7b63499b79f607a310def5713dff27021fcf410ac3c127e7ba9604ce.jpg


Somebody’s getting desperate:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-advisers-discuss-penalties-nations-213042538.html


In interviews with more than a dozen residents of Gaza, people said they resent Hamas for the attacks in Israel and — war-weary and desperate to fulfill their basic needs — just want to see peace as soon as possible.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/27/gaza-hamas-public-support-israel/


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Right, but since they have the XPUBs, it’s possible that in the future they will require merchants and exchanges (and perhaps services like nostr:npub1casacasahesdrpu6npfth2t0ae37a2cdwwg3c4fkt30v7gzffx3q7wtzdc) to trace history and block funds that were previously involved in a CJ implementation.  It seems it has always been their goal — to reduce fungibility by inventing a pretext like “taint.”  They don’t have to seize funds if they make them unacceptable.


Nah. That book is good for adolescent minds who don’t know better, not mature adults who should.


I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you have something like this in your signature, it says a lot about you: https://image.nostr.build/a6b4c9ef4dd8b539e8ae504ca201a200b79cb21bbf3affce0211cbb5700f070b.png


I agree it’s not as great as it’s made out to be. But, as a beach read? Sure, it was sufficiently entertaining.

What are your favorites for near-future fiction?


No matter how hard Odell tried to orange-pill her.


Many bitcoiners think establishment powers are now in the "and then they join you" phase of the struggle.

I don't. I think they're more entering the earlier "and then they fight you" phase.

Or more specifically, they are happy to join in on the price exposure side (i.e. ETFs), but they are fighting against privacy (especially) and self-custody (to some extent). The struggle for financial privacy, custody, and overall self-autonomy is just heating up.

The gradual shift of critics from "bitcoin is a useless speculative asset with no intrinsic value" to "bitcoin is so powerful that direct usage of it must be curtailed" can be dangerous.

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“You grant us and our subsidiaries, affiliates, and successors a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid, transferable, irrevocable, perpetual, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your Content throughout the world in any media for any reason…”

This language has now been normalized in most Terms of Service, and we all just click “I agree.”


Civil disobedience has never been easier.


For your consideration:

If you have funds that were in SW that you’ve now moved to Sparrow, it’s best to set up a new seed and move the funds there.

HOWEVER, if you move all the funds over together, you’ve now consolidated all the UTXOs which lets *the party* who now has your XPUBs know that you also control the new address that you sent to.

So, what’s the best strategy here, nostr:npub15c88nc8d44gsp4658dnfu5fahswzzu8gaxm5lkuwjud068swdqfspxssvx?  Wait for a low fee environment and move the funds in randomized, non-whole number amounts, at different times of the day over the course of the next few months?


They are coming for self custody
#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/dfbe9040f5b551889939af430d727ae7c1ae6c11049c299e55c84604d351dac8.jpg


As I said yesterday, samourai is just the first domino to fall. Non-KYC exchanges are next. After that, new 2025 IRS regs and form 1099-DA will seek to acquire identifying info on *every single transaction* made by *every single wallet*. This is a coordinated effort by all agencies to eliminate privacy in Bitcoin. nostr:note1l5s3k09tlhxne0qhdxjfad23c8c95nhkw6ley4gjgy0qfkupts5s64ycuy


I wonder what local business owners think about this sentiment. The hotels. And restaurants. And cafes. And museums. And car/bike/scooter rental agencies. And tour guides. And all the people who earn a living, employed in those jobs.  And all the sales taxes, property taxes, and income taxes that go towards maintaining Barcelona, or any other tourist destination. Tourism, in mainly popular destinations makes a significant contribution to a country’s finances.

Look, I hate crowds, too, and have certainly cringed at tourists behaving badly but, saying a tourists are an invading occupier who should be killed is a violently demented thing to spray paint on a wall.

Have people lost their damn minds??


People need privacy for different reasons.  Some people need to hide their transactions from an oppressive government.  Others need a way to transact in politically disfavored industries or jurisdictions.  Others desire to simply not link their KYC identity (from an exchange like nostr:npub1tftc33ttam85wraffce62cgtvvjrmttquqlv6a0agtfm5nl4vues82xar5)
with future purchases at a legitimate retailer.  Personally, I fall into that latter category.  Using #Bitcoin primarily as a savings technology and Store of Value with nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j, I have been reluctant to spend any of it on things like coffee.  When I have spent it, I wanted a cash-like instrument that kept my purchases private.  That was the whole point of using it for privacy-enhancing technologies like nostr:npub168euw93e4cam59llcmydav0akwjk2p4nfy3p85pn22xv9y2jxuzq4s9uaw and nostr:npub1vr2nva0s0hhfulthjy8053rg9kruk5erzwaxdw85gjwkfytj994sgudzvx etc., or supporting non-profits, as nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu points out.

Since the DOJ now has the whirlpooled XPUBs, they can probably link my UTXOs to those transactions… if they really wanted to.  Will they?  I never bought illegal drugs or laundered illicit activities or supported child pornography.  Should I personally be worried that my only “crime” here was using #Samourai to break the link between a KYC exchange so that data brokers and advertisers would not be able to track and monetize my purchase history?  Probably not. But what about other people around the world whose privacy requirements are greater than mine?  There are people for whom this event may cause life-altering consequences.

I’ll be okay though. But, perhaps I’m just attempting to cope with the fact that the privacy I spent *considerable* time, effort, and Sats for is now for naught.

#Privacy is not a crime.  It is a fundamental human right that must be defended, globally, and the only reason I’m  hopeful is because people like nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx , nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg,  nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe, nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g and nostr:npub15c88nc8d44gsp4658dnfu5fahswzzu8gaxm5lkuwjud068swdqfspxssvx are working on projects that will help.


Agreed. This is a fair point. But it still seems like you’re giving Wasabi a pass for cooperating with Chainalysis and censoring addresses.

Anyways, the OP from nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs was simply noting that while acknowledging Samourai’s mostly dick-ish behavior, it hasn’t stopped the community from supporting them against these charges brought by the government.


Oh, I’m sorry. Did you not just say that Wasabi was better than Samourai in the same way that Graphene was better than Calyx?

1.   I’m not a samourai shill
2.  this isn’t a misdirection/distraction
3.  I’m not simping

Settle the F down, Snowflake.


In light of recent developments, Sparrow v1.9.0 has been released which removes the Whirlpool client and other Soroban related features. All wallets and accounts are still accessible.

https://sparrowwallet.com/download/


I haven’t read through your notes, in case you’ve already covered this, but you seem to be holding Wasabi in a very favorable light. Are you not concerned that Wasabi is expressly sharing data with Chainalysis and actively censoring addresses?


What’s wrong with CalyxOS now?