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 Two hours until wires can clear US banks for the first time since November 8th. 

Price was way l... 
 YES

#YESTR 
 GM  
 GM sir 
 Time to stay off Nostr for a while, maybe months. 

Have fun y’all! 
 Be well 🤙 
 how much are the mega relays paying for hosting & bandwidth? 
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 🔥🔥🔥

Looking forward to the audio version with @TheGuySwann 😂 

Can you point to a specific time when these ideas clicked?  Or did it just happen gradually after so many discussions with Bitcoiners et al 
 I listened to your recent interview with him, but had to stop halfway through when he kept interrupting you with “f’ing this, f’ing that”.

I agree with the sentiment of the quote.  But my sense was a lot of Mike’s arguments against libertarianism can be boiled down to “who will build the roads?” 
 There were sections where he was arguing against there being widespread corruption in govt, and against “draining the swamp”.  I think he also directly critiqued libertarianism at some point. 
 peepee poopoo #test 
 Hmm… psss pffftt 
 nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a in my city, I knew I felt s... 
 Go meet the people you look up to!  It isn’t any more complicated than that. 
 Very surprised that no one has named a wallet “Deez” so far… taking the nut joke to its logical conclusion. 
 BREAKFAST IS A PSYOP

nostr:nevent1qqs2ec936y3q63kq4p6e2dultsewdcw5t06j84s6s4pwycym526qpzspzemhxu... 
 Roller coasters.

First car or last car? 
 None of the above 
 Roller coasters are shitcoins

… unless we’re talking about Roller Coaster Tycoon 🤙 
 Haha no, but sounds awesome.

Is it a clone or just ‘inspired by’?  There is something similar out there for Age of Empires, but multiplayer RTS is obviously much harder to get right. 
 Cool!  Will put it in the backlog 🤣 
 Gm.

I wrote 60,000 words of (rough) fiction in the month of September. About half a novel. It’... 
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 Which mobile browser would you recommend for a balanced best privacy / performance experience? 

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 +1 
 Mining pool centralization is fundamentally caused by capital centralization.

Miners use pools t... 
 Pools would prefer to rid themselves of the regulatory risk of block templating… but not at the cost of reduced profitability for their customers.  So they need some guarantees that miners will create good templates, or a way to penalize them if they don’t.

The reality is SV2 still allows the pool an opportunity to veto templates from miners anyway.  So if pressured by authorities, they could still censor enough to be “OFAC compliant”. 
 Any idea what’s up with the state prison one?  Did the prison have its own money printer?  lol 
 Noooooooooo!!!!! 

(I think I’m getting sick)

😕 
 Eat raw ginger 🤙 
 10 reasons why Nostr and Bitcoin will change the world as we know it….

(A Thread 🧵👇🏻) 
 Got ‘em 
 What’s the best *custodial* lightning solution these days for US users - just for low value zaps?

Fees and balance/tx size limits are fine, KYC is not. 
 Ideally, it should be easy to transfer in/out from another Bitcoin wallet 
 Makes sense… and it auto converts to lightning sats when you zap? 
 So when you recommended Minibits, Cashu.me, are these both mobile apps or just web apps?

Is there any solution which is cross platform and generally good UX?  Or we’re not there yet?

🤙 
 Thanks, is there a particular Cashu mobile wallet that makes it easy for end users?  (Myself included) 
 Thank you, and i can configure this as my zaps wallet for nostr clients? MiniBits was also recommended.

I primarily use Damus 
 Cool!  Lmk if you do, otherwise I’m sure I can figure it out.  Just need to spend some time getting it hooked up and funding the wallet 
 I wish I could combine the main feed UX of Primal with everything Damus has 😂. Media especiall... 
 One thing I love about Primal is it’s extremely easy to copy a url to a note, which you can send to anyone and it will render in the browser.

I use Damus almost exclusively, but I always have to switch to Primal to grab those urls. 
 I’m not sure I understand… so maybe? 😂

I just want to quickly copy a url that will render a nostr post in the browser, for anyone who doesn’t have a nostr app or account. 
 Wow thanks!!  I’ll check this out 🤙 
 lol yooo good to hear from you 🤙

I’ll hit you up from the other account 
 @NotBiebs how do I get here?  ‘Share’ is not an option for me from a note in Damus 
 Never mind!  I found it just after posting 🤙

Thanks again it works 
 Now nostr:note1jfphfsx9jz4vujxnsmugw99r0xd5nz25ar7ruzv9u2xswf873fdqjtmkju 
 I’m still using Damus relay and have no spam issue.  All my spam was coming from Primal relay 🤷‍♂️ 
 I’m gonna try the same. 

This post is a test to smoke out reply guys. 

SHOW YOURSELVES COWARD... 
 Weird… I still have Damus relay.  By removing Primal relay, I removed my own “reply guy” problem 
 Maybe it depends on where your notes originate from?

I primarily use Damus, so perhaps the client sends to that relay first?

No idea honestly.  I’m still using Damus client and relay, and spam is gone (for now) 
 nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 is the real hero. I’m jus... 
 fwiw I think YouTube is pretty incredible considering the scale and the free tier… AND I think nostr.build kicks ass 🤙 
 frustrated enough with nostr clients that i want to create my own 
 Wow I don’t think I’ve ever seen that.  I have had the app crash completely, but then I do run the TestFlight version 
 I think it’s great that everyone is saying “who cares if Trump talked about Bitcoin. Nothing ... 
 What is “Trump derangement syndrome”?

Do you think he is the best fit person for the job?  Or do you just think he will pump your bags the highest?

I didn’t vote for Trump or Harris, so no hard feelings either way. 
 My view is he is a highly volatile and unpredictable human, which greatly increases the likelihood of nuclear war.  That’s not worth pumping my bags.

But I’m just one humble pleb and non-voter / 3rd party voter. 
 That assumes the man with the launch keys is a rational actor, which I do not believe him to be.  Nuclear war is just one obvious example, there are many ways he could create instability through personal revenge or some ego trip.

I’m definitely not arguing pro Kamala 🤣, just anti Trump on the basis of him not being mentally sound or rational.